So after surfing through this website and figuring out what its purpose was, it was very interesting to find that by typing in a word or phrase in the search box, you can look into the past and see what has been written in TIME Magazine.  I am pretty sure that there are copyright laws that prohibit the use of written articles that were published in TIME Magazine.  This website gives you access to everything that has been written in TIME Magazine from 1923 – 2006.  Just like the videos that we watched about music sampling the phrases and bits and pieces of articles that have been written by TIME Magazine are exposed through this website for anyone to use.  There should be a method of insuring that the words that were written in TIME Magazine are protected.

If this website was used solely for educational use I do not feel that this would be a problem.  If you were looking for something to write about it could be very easy to search through this website and use of its content.  We learn in the process of writing papers that credit must be given if any words from a source are used.  Those words must be cited in some method depending on the style of paper that you are writing.  It is no different using the words or phrases from any other written content and giving credit where it is deserved.  What is interesting is that there is a link provided by this website on how to cite material by this website.

In the case of this website, credit should still be given to TIME Magazine since everything that is shown in this website are words written in TIME Magazine.  Anyone who should stumble upon this website might cite this website as their source but they would be incorrect.  There should be a warning statment that exemplifies that if any content is used from this particular website that TIME Magazine should be given credit for the words that are used.

When you first open this website there is no statement that shows that TIME Magazine has given permission to this website to expose its content.  There is a statement that says that its content has been taken from the TIME Archive (which us freely available online) and that it could not release its full context.  In my opinion this website could be used as a tool to search material that has been written in TIME Magazine but those that are conducting research for a particular type of context should use TIME Magazine’s website to download its full context.  I do not believe that this website is ethically using TIME Magazine’s content and it should have received permission from TIME Magazine to expose its contents in the manner that it has.  I believe that if anyone is going to use this website to conduct research on a particular word or phrase they should properly cite the source even if it is coming from another source that makes reference to the content that is being used.

Unfortunately for TIME there content is accessible through their free online archive and this particular website is taking advantage of the information that TIME is providing.  I do not believe that this website is providing its information legally since their is no way to regulate the information that is used by those that are visiting their website. The least that this website could do to ensure that TIME was cited properly is create a link to generate a cite for the particular magazine that the words or phrase are being used from.

We have learned that the amount of information flow on the internet can be endless.  There are ways to properly give credit to those that deserve credit for writing certain material.  Unfortunately when information is not protected by copyright laws that information is subject to be used however the user pleases.  Just as music can be downloaded from the internet to make new music so can words and phrases from different sources.  It must be more difficult to regulate the words that are being used that were put together by someone else.  With the continuation of digitizing all written material that has ever been written that information becomes susceptible to being used in other context without receiving credit where it is deserved.  Hopefully as technology continues to evolve there will be some sort of software that will have the capability to sift through a data base that will be able to decipher written material and compare it to known written material to ensure its authenticity and originality.

“The Amen Break” is a sample of music that has been used in numerous amounts of music tracks of all sorts.  It is a short bit of music that has withstood the hands of time and used to make current music which has been extremely popular in different genres of music.  It is unfortunate that the creators of this music have not been reaping the rewards from it uses across all types of music.

The problem that is seen in these current days was not an issue when “The Amen Break” was created.  Today we hear all sorts of music that has been created digitally with the use of computer software.  It has become fairly easy to create three to four minutes worth of music with the right tools.  My fourteen year old son has downloaded free software from the internet to piece together sound bits of music to create your own music.  It does take a little bit of time to line up the different sound bits and making them sound as one.

As stated in the video that we had to watch, there has been a lot more copyright laws that have been implemented to safeguard the sounds that are now created.  Gone are the days when musicians are recorded singing or playing their music in its entirety.  In current recording studios the technology exists to correct for mishaps that might occur when recording and in many instances those that are being recorded do it in segments which are later put together by someone who edits the music to sound seamless and crystal clear.  Thanks to technology we hear musicians that are flawless and always in tune.

In the other video that we had to watch, there are artists that create music using sounds of music that has been recorded by other artists.  This is an ongoing controversy that has been going in recent times.  Copyright laws prohibit the use of certain sounds to be used without paying for the license to use those sounds.  There are those that agree that sampling and making the music your own is a form of art and there are those that believe that those sounds should only be used if licenses have been purchased to use those sounds.

In my personal opinion, I believe that sampling is a great way to take music that was created in the past and made modern.  I also believe that credit should be given to those artists that had created the original sounds of music where the sampling was taken from.  Although the sounds that are used to create new music are sounds from the past it does take time and understanding of what is acceptable in current times to make a new song.  Copyrights should be put in place to protect those original sounds so that they are not used in the same form that they were used to make money; but music samples that are used with similar sounds to create new music should not be prohibited as long as credit is given to the original artist that created those original sounds.

It is true that artists that produce new music from old music are not looked upon the same as an artist who is making new original music; but at the same time, that artist that is using sample music from the past is somehow paying tribute to those old sounds by making them new and keeping those sounds alive.  As technology continues to evolve so will the software that is used to create music.  The ability to safeguard sounds will continue to be a challenge for all artists who are in the music industry and as long as music continues to be digital there will always be the possibility of original music to be used to create newer music.

Photography has come a long way.  There is nothing more innocent than looking at photograph and interpreting it how you perceive it.  It is this innocence that is constantly attacked by those that produce images to influence what we see.  Just as discussed in the article, our brains have a method of processing the information that we are seeing and we then use that information to make sense of what we are seeing.  This process takes all but a couple of seconds at most.  We then use the experience and knowledge that we have gained through the years to decipher what we are looking at.  We believe in photographs because we are not trained to detect those that have been altered or those that have been cloned to make us believe in then.  It is always easier to look at a photograph and believe in it than to look at a photograph and look for those visual cues that lead you to believe that it is not true.  We are all creatures of good faith so we are easily fooled by photographs that are faked and made for us to believe in them.

Digital photography is relatively new compared to film photography.  As the digital world continues to evolve so will digital photography.  There are many photo editing softwares out in the market but the one that is the most popular for its enhanced photo editing tools is Photoshop.  Photoshop is a sophisticated photo editing software that can do almost anything to an image.  It is pretty easy to alter an image with the right software.  If there is something that you want to do to an image you can do it in Photoshop and make it look like an original.  It takes a trained eye to reveal where an image might have been edited.  This is one of the many reasons why digital photographs are so believable.

We have all heard of the expression “A picture is worth more than a thousand words”, this catchy phrase puts things into perspective as far as how much a photograph is valued for what it represents.  This is what really makes us vulnerable to the images that are printed in magazines, new papers, and other types of media that we might ponder upon.  We must learn to take a little more time looking at images to find the truth in them.  We can not just look at an image and expect to believe what we see.  I am sure that there are some who do not always believe in what they see in the media but there are those who do not know any better and believe that every image that is printed on magazines, new papers or other medias are true.  Photo editors will do whatever they have to, to have their images printed and if they are getting pressure to edit a photo to make a story that is what they will do.

It is unfortunate that photographs are no longer used as they were shot.  Photographers are always under the pressure to produce an image that is unique and different and using photo editing software has become a method to enhance those photos.  Photo editing has become part of the process of developing photographs in the digital world.  Photography will always be used as a weapon to influence those that are targeted.  We must not always believe in the images that we find in material that is used to tell a story.  There might be more to the story than what the image or photograph is telling you.

The Pyramid of Giza is something that has been studied and researched by many.  I am sure that there are thousands of students across the world that are looking at this exact page that I have added here to get some basic information about the Pyramid of Giza.  A lot of the information that you see on this screen shot is probably pretty accurate.  This is a historical monument that has been studied for a long period of time and there is a lot of information that has been revealed since its existence.

This particular topic may have more accurate information than others because it has so many sources.  Here is a screen shot of the sources that makes up this article.  When looking through the different sources you notice that there are some reliable ones as well as some that might not be so reliable.  The only way that you can really tell if the source is reliable is by going to the link that has been provided and read about where the information was retrieved from.  Usually if there are several sources that are used you can conclude that there might be some pretty good accurate information that is provided.

The discussion that is provided for this topic has to do with the questions that might be the most common when researching this topic.  In my opinion Wikipedia has done a good job of providing good information about the Pyramid of Giza.  If the information that you might be looking for is not in this article there are enough sources provided that you might be able to find the information that you are looking for in one of the sources that has been provided.  If you still can not find the information that you are looking after reading this article and probing around the sources that have been provided, then you will still have a great start in looking for the information that you are looking for.  Here is a list of books that have been written on this particular topic to include multiple links to find more information that might be helpful when researching this topic.

I feel pretty confident that the information that was provided about the Pyramid of Giza is accurate.  Although there is the possibility that there might be some information that is not  accurate because some information that was in this article has been provided from a source that might not be reliable, I would feel comfortable using the information that has been provided by Wikipedia to write a research document on the Pyramid of Giza.

Here is the page that I would not feel comfortable using as a source because of the amount of sources that have been used.  Clearly you are being warned that there is not a reliable source and this site is asking for help to improve this article.

After taking a good look at two different topics with different amounts of information provided it is pretty clear that as long as are using an article that has many sources to justify the information that is provided, you can be comfortable knowing that the article that you are using will have accurate information as long as it has many sources and sources that are reliable.

So the first item in the scavenger hunt took several hours to complete.  One of the reasons that it took me so long to complete was because I did not have a full understanding of what Op-ed was.  I thought that I understood what it was but once I started my search it began to get complicated pretty quick but I was not sure if what I was looking at met the criteria for the first item.  Once I had a better understanding of what the criteria was it did not take that long to find something.  Here is the item that I found.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/20372411

The second item to be found was not as difficult to find.  I did my best to locate something that was older than what I found but I could not find anything that was older than this newspaper clip.

Harness Sun’s Rays to Power Solar Battery

Here is the last item.  This website had the best information about the last item that we were looking for.

http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ballot-measures/history-initiatives-info.htm

This scavenger hunt was a lot of fun and challenging.  It was really interesting to go through the many website and resources available to find the content that we were looking for.  The first item really took my a long time to find but it was my fault for not understanding what was being asked of me.

As we all know, everything is becoming digitize and information continues to become available unlike any time before.  More content at click of a mouse is available for you to find.  One of the biggest advantage of digitizing everything is that as long as you have a computer that can connect to the internet then you have the capability to locate information about almost anything that you can think of.  One of the draw backs about making everything digital is that the everyone is losing the ability to go a library to find a good reference on a certain topic.  No longer do you solely have to rely on paper books for certain references.  The digital world makes all information readily available with ease.

I had previously used ProQuest to look up some old news in old newspapers and just like anything that you try for the first time it was a bit overwhelming.  Depending on the subject that you are looking for you could have thousands of entries that become available after a single search and the difficult part is finding the source that you are going to use. There is so much information about the subject that you are looking for that you do not have the time to decipher through all of the materials that are available.  The best way to search through such a large volume of content is by searching for a more specific topic that will give you less material to look through but this method could also hinder the quality of the sources that you want to use.

One great advantage of having all of these sources available through the internet is that you can save tons of time.  Having all the sources digitize and cataloged for easy access saves a lot of time which can be spent looking for right source.  The ease of looking through all of the sources as fast as you can possibly look through them is an advantage that everyone benefits from.  We should thank those that took the time to digitize all sources that are available.  Another great advantage is that you can search through all of this material from your personal computer and you no longer have to go to a library and hand select certain sources.  The digital world has made almost everyone’s life a lot easier.

A great disadvantage to having everything digitize is that people solely depend on the use of a computer and forget how to search for content without the use of a computer.  What a different world it must be without having a computer?  How can anything get accomplish without a computer?  These are some simple questions that before computers existed would be easy to answer.  Today it becomes a burden to complete any project without the aid of a computer or some form of digital content.  We truly live in a digital world and we expect to have digital content available to us at all times.  When I was in high school and I had to complete projects for certain classes, I had to go to the library and search a card catalog to find resources to use.  Now almost every library that I have been to lately has a digital card catalog which is more efficient and saves the library space and money.

The digital content that is available to us is an asset that sometimes is taken for granted.  All of the hard work that is put into digitizing everything goes unnoticed.  I met a Marine who was part of the team that was scanning references into a huge data base which took well over a year to digitize and he said that it was no small feat.  It was a lot of work and many times they had to re-scan the material to ensure that a readable digital copy was produced.  Many data bases have been created to support the amount of people that are wanting to access them and now that those data bases are digitize everyone can access them at the same time.  No longer do you have to wait for a hard copy of something to be available.  This is another great advantage of having digital copies of everything; by having a digital copy available you make that source accessible to anyone who is looking for it.

Becoming digital has more advantages than disadvantages.  Making a source digital takes a great deal of time and money but once it becomes available for everyone to look up it is  worth every penny spent to make that source digital.  The more information that we seek to find in the digital world the more that we will see become digital.  It is unfortunate that with everything becoming digital we are relying more on the digital world than the actual things around us.  We must not forget that the many things that we find in the digital world come from a real artifact or document.  We will forever expect the help of the digital world to assist us in completing a task now that it has become a part of our daily lives.

The internet is something that we all use for various reasons and what I found to be extremely interesting was when the internet began to take form.  In the video “History of the Internet”, I was intrigued by when the process began.  In 1957 my parents were only a few years old.  They did not have a clue of what was taking place during their early years.  I always thought that the internet was something that was invented by some smart guy.  I had no idea that there was this great process of trial an error that took place over the course of four decades before that internet became a standard which would be recognized by all machines.  The creation of the TCP/IP really made things a whole lot easier for us today.  Without the TCP/IP we would probably take a lot more time trying to get the things done over any network.

After watching the video I felt that there has always been the desire for information flow at the stroke of a key.  I can only image what it must have been like when computers could only process one thing at a time.  The truth is that it probably was not cost effective to run such systems and those that were responsible for up keeping those systems must have pulled out a lot of hair.  There had to be some patience to work with such machines.  When the first networks began to take shape it must have been very time consuming to send and receive information.  There could not have been this expectation that there is now.  We push so much information through the internet now that it is hard to keep up with it.

I purchased my first computer back in 1998 when broadband was not really available.  I had a dial up system that would take a few minutes to connect to the internet and download speeds were horrific compared to today.  I will never forget to tones that I would hear when connecting to the internet.  Many hours were spent waiting for information to get downloaded but it was something that everyone was used to.  Uploading your information on to the internet took twice as much time. I have been fascinated through the years as the technology just continues to get better and faster.  One can only imagine these days what someone could do with such technology a couple of decades ago.

Time sharing was probably the result of all of the frustration that was taking place when dealing with these large and slow computers.  Having to manually input information from one computer to another had to be extremely exhausting, especially if we were to expect to transfer the amount of information that we transfer these days.  Thank you to the developers that figured out how to have one computer that can communicate to several others.  This was really the start of what we know today.

The Cold War really had an impact on everything that had to do with technology and I believe that if it was not for the Cold War we would not have many of the technologies that we have today.  There was an unannounced race to have the best technology in the world to stay on top.  This fueled many researchers and scientist to create and experiment to find answers on many different things especially technology.  Take a look back into our history and when do you see the most technology emerge?  Since the emergence of many technologies there has been a rapid rise to improve what has already been created.  Our technology continues to evolve and it continues to improve.  It will be interesting to see how far our technology will get.

The internet has made our lives connected to one another and it has simplified it in many different ways.  Many people rely on being connected all of the time and they can not imagine living their lives without being connected.  The internet has also put a lot of information at our finger tips.  There is an infinite amount of information that we can access as long as we are connected to the internet and we have the permission to access that information.  At this point in our history I do not believe that we will ever be able to go back to life without the internet. We will always have the desire to connect to the internet for some reason or another.  The internet has become part of who we are and it is probably best if we know more about its origins and how it works.

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As time passes us by, technology continues to advance and with the advancing technology comes new methods of doing things.  When I was in high school almost a couple of of decades ago we were exposed to the very first computers which are nothing compared to the computers that are available today.  Computers have become more compact and faster.  Computers can process more information and they have become part of our daily lives.  Almost every house hold in the United States has some type of device that connects them to the internet which gives them access to an infinite amount of information.  The following three things are the most popular devices to connect to the internet:

1. Computer
2. Cell Phone
3. Tablet

There are many other devices that have built-in network cards to give you the capability to connect to the internet.

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The following is the link to the article that I am discussing.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/?single_page=true

In the following paragraph Bush summarizes the complexity of what is to take place inside a computer and how the use of mechanical aids are able to help in the many different things that we do everyday.

But there are signs of a change as new and powerful instrumentalities come into use. Photocells capable of seeing things in a physical sense, advanced photography which can record what is seen or even what is not, thermionic tubes capable of controlling potent forces under the guidance of less power than a mosquito uses to vibrate his wings, cathode ray tubes rendering visible an occurrence so brief that by comparison a microsecond is a long time, relay combinations which will carry out involved sequences of movements more reliably than any human operator and thousands of times as fast—there are plenty of mechanical aids with which to effect a transformation in scientific records.

Thus science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race.

I found this quote to be very interesting and I believe that it says a lot about what we are trying to do these days.  Science is the reason that we have the technology that we have today and as long as we continue to have scientists asking questions about the things around us then will we always have scientists discovering new things.

Bush looked into the future by discussing technologies that didn’t exist yet and how some day those technologies would help mankind in many different aspects.  I believe that if he were to take a look at how far we have come today he would say that what he sees is what he had envisioned a long time ago.