Ok I know anyone who is reading this and is not associated with or is in the same course probably won’t care, but I’m going to say this anyway!
I was in my introduction to psychology class today (as any good student should be, hehehe) and the topic of our assessments were brought up, I was aware of having to do a personal reflection on our lectures, thinking that was the only assessment until after Christmas and I was perfectly fine with that. It is the way most of our lectures are working, but I found out today that we also are going to have an in class exam in our last introduction lecture before the break, as I said before AAAAHHHHHH!!!!!
I’m not looking forward to the end of term the way I was before!!!
Monday, November 30, 2009
Bye Bye Boys!
Finally it’s the end of the evil twins, at least for now. On the results show tonight, Sunday 22nd November, John and Edward left X-factor by judges vote, after a sing off with Ollie Myers. John and Edward were in the last two after singing Wham's I'm Your Man on the Saturday night. As Dannii Minogue voted to save Ollie you could simultaneously hear a sigh of relief and a groan of disappointment that the twins were leaving. I personally took part in the sigh of relief, thinking that would be the last I seen of the twins on national television.
But how wrong could I have been, around the same time of Jedward’s X-Factor exit, Katie Price also left the I’m a Celebrity jungle, but by walking out, claiming she couldn’t handle any more bush tucker trials after facing six in a row. This leads to how the twins may stay on national television, ITV bosses say they need to find a replacement for Katie in the jungle and are now hoping John and Edward will take her place. With a promise of thousands for their trouble!
The rest of us will know by tomorrow as they have a deadline of 5.30 pm. I don’t know about you but I so hope they won’t take up the offer!!!
But how wrong could I have been, around the same time of Jedward’s X-Factor exit, Katie Price also left the I’m a Celebrity jungle, but by walking out, claiming she couldn’t handle any more bush tucker trials after facing six in a row. This leads to how the twins may stay on national television, ITV bosses say they need to find a replacement for Katie in the jungle and are now hoping John and Edward will take her place. With a promise of thousands for their trouble!
The rest of us will know by tomorrow as they have a deadline of 5.30 pm. I don’t know about you but I so hope they won’t take up the offer!!!
Innovation: Where next for social networking?
Social networking is the result of the internet revolution, and the experts are now saying there is not all that much left to come and we are now at the end of the social networking history.
At a discussion at the University of Oxford Saïd Business School, it was said “that the computer age culminated in the internet, the internet culminated in social networks, and that we'll have to look extremely far afield for what is next."
It was one person’s opinion that social networking will continue to exist but for true future innovation we will have to look “back to the science fiction of the 1950s.”
Others didn’t share that opinion but did agree that the way social networking has been established will stay the same but will be centered on mobile phones and not be just computer based.
What they think is interesting is how people work social networking into their lives and how we will use the massive amounts of information that is put into them. We may start getting advice on who to meet professionally or what job to go for in the same way that facebook recommends who you should be friends with.
The fascinating thing about the future of social networking is how it will change people and societies. Twitter co-founder believes that “Twitter and other sites that make communication more public can genuinely change human behavior for the better.”
Open people are more engaging, and tend to be more empathetic, becoming a global citizen. Technology that helps us do this will help us "move forward as a species.”
At a discussion at the University of Oxford Saïd Business School, it was said “that the computer age culminated in the internet, the internet culminated in social networks, and that we'll have to look extremely far afield for what is next."
It was one person’s opinion that social networking will continue to exist but for true future innovation we will have to look “back to the science fiction of the 1950s.”
Others didn’t share that opinion but did agree that the way social networking has been established will stay the same but will be centered on mobile phones and not be just computer based.
What they think is interesting is how people work social networking into their lives and how we will use the massive amounts of information that is put into them. We may start getting advice on who to meet professionally or what job to go for in the same way that facebook recommends who you should be friends with.
The fascinating thing about the future of social networking is how it will change people and societies. Twitter co-founder believes that “Twitter and other sites that make communication more public can genuinely change human behavior for the better.”
Open people are more engaging, and tend to be more empathetic, becoming a global citizen. Technology that helps us do this will help us "move forward as a species.”
Guess its sill legal to steal!
But in this case it’s an entire nation that got robbed! Tonight Ireland lost their chance to go to the 2010 world cup in South Africa, and it was all down to a couple of men. I have been on facebook already and seen that the Irish people are gunning for Thierry Henry, but I think you should consider this:
Yes I fully agree that Henry should have stood up and said yes I handled the ball, and in fairness it wasn’t an accident, it really didn’t look like an instinctive action, more a purposive tap, but if an Irish player had done the same and admitted it there would have been uproar from the Irish fans. But should the ref not turned around and asked had he done what every Irish player was accusing? The referee had pulled up other Irish players during the match for doing the same thing. But there is a third person that blame should fall upon, the lines man! He was in plain view of, let’s call it the incident, and if he was watching the game like he is paid to do, he should have seen the hand ball.
So what is going to happen now, do you really think the FIFA is going to let us have a replay and risk France being kicked out of the world cup?! Come on and get a grip, realistically who do they stand to make more money out of a small nation like Ireland, or a country like France.
I personally don’t see it happening, but it isn’t going to stop me giving out about the injustices of it all, or hoping that a replay will happen! Come on Ireland!!!!
Yes I fully agree that Henry should have stood up and said yes I handled the ball, and in fairness it wasn’t an accident, it really didn’t look like an instinctive action, more a purposive tap, but if an Irish player had done the same and admitted it there would have been uproar from the Irish fans. But should the ref not turned around and asked had he done what every Irish player was accusing? The referee had pulled up other Irish players during the match for doing the same thing. But there is a third person that blame should fall upon, the lines man! He was in plain view of, let’s call it the incident, and if he was watching the game like he is paid to do, he should have seen the hand ball.
So what is going to happen now, do you really think the FIFA is going to let us have a replay and risk France being kicked out of the world cup?! Come on and get a grip, realistically who do they stand to make more money out of a small nation like Ireland, or a country like France.
I personally don’t see it happening, but it isn’t going to stop me giving out about the injustices of it all, or hoping that a replay will happen! Come on Ireland!!!!
'Fat fingers' can become dainty for touch screens
It has been presumed that the reason for the lateast touch screen devices being larger than the push-button version, was down to a “fat finger” problem - this is where touch targets are packed too close together and a finger being too wide to hit the right one.
But the real reason for tounch-screen mishits is now believed to be finger orientation and variation between users, suggests a study done at the Institute in Potsdam, Germany. It is now believed that it can be corrected.
The fat finger problem is the reason why icons on touch screen devices are about 10 millimetres apart. Numerous ways around this problem have been explored including combining a touch screen with a touch sensitive pad on the rear of the device.
It was found that the touch screen registered distinct clusters of touch points for different finger orientations, some were just 2 to 3 millimeters across. This precision has gone unappreciated because each precise cluster is located at slightly different region beneath the finger. It is now believed that if the device knew the orientation of the finger as it would be possible to define much smaller targets than previously thought possible.
By taking information gathered in the study they tripled the precision of the touch interaction. Fingerprints can reveal finger orientation, so the researchers adapted a type of fingerprint scanner – called ridgepad – to find the center of the fingerprint for each touch on the screen and compared it with a database that calculates the finger’s orientation. This system gave twice as much accuracy as traditional touch technology.
Although the scanner was such a success it cannot be built into portable devices because the components are too big, but helps provide some guidelines on how to improve accuracy with touch screen devices.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18190-fat-fingers-can-become-dainty-for-touch-screens.html
But the real reason for tounch-screen mishits is now believed to be finger orientation and variation between users, suggests a study done at the Institute in Potsdam, Germany. It is now believed that it can be corrected.
The fat finger problem is the reason why icons on touch screen devices are about 10 millimetres apart. Numerous ways around this problem have been explored including combining a touch screen with a touch sensitive pad on the rear of the device.
It was found that the touch screen registered distinct clusters of touch points for different finger orientations, some were just 2 to 3 millimeters across. This precision has gone unappreciated because each precise cluster is located at slightly different region beneath the finger. It is now believed that if the device knew the orientation of the finger as it would be possible to define much smaller targets than previously thought possible.
By taking information gathered in the study they tripled the precision of the touch interaction. Fingerprints can reveal finger orientation, so the researchers adapted a type of fingerprint scanner – called ridgepad – to find the center of the fingerprint for each touch on the screen and compared it with a database that calculates the finger’s orientation. This system gave twice as much accuracy as traditional touch technology.
Although the scanner was such a success it cannot be built into portable devices because the components are too big, but helps provide some guidelines on how to improve accuracy with touch screen devices.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18190-fat-fingers-can-become-dainty-for-touch-screens.html
Information on my dream laptop
As part of this project we were asked to design a laptop that would be suitable and appropriate to use as part of our course, so this would be my ultimate laptop:
It would have an Intel® Core™ i7-820QM Mobile Processor (1.73GHz, turbo up to 3.06GHz, 6MB L3 Cache), Genuine Windows® 7 Professional, 64bit, English and Microsoft® Office 2007 Professional/English - Microsoft® Office 2007 Small Business and Access. This is so I would have access to not only Microsoft word, but also PowerPoint, excel, outlook and access.
3 years next business day and accidental damage hardware support and McAfee® Security Centre, 36 Month Protection. This course is 4 years long so for at least 3 of those years I will be certain that my computer will be protected.
17.3" Full High Definition (1920x1080) LED screen, because in fairness I will be watching films and playing games along with using the laptop for college work.
It will also have a 8192MB 1333MHz Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM [2x4096] memory, 1TB (7.200rpm) Serial ATA Dual Hard Drive (2x 500GB), 1GB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650 graphic card, Blu-Ray ROM Drive (read/write CD/DVD & read Blu-Ray Disc) optical drive, Primary 9-cell 85 WHr Lithium Ion battery, Dell Wireless 1397 Mini Card (802.11 b/g) for wireless internet connectivity, a 2.0 Mega pixel Integrated Web Camera and of course an internal Irish Qwerty Keyboard.
I would also want Adobe® Photoshop® Elements and Premiere® Elements Bundle, because we use illustrator and Photoshop, in our multimedia lecture and adobe flash in downloading documents in our research.
I would like DataSafe Online Backup for at least one year, and 3 years PC Tune Up and 1 year of standard warranty.
Overall if I could get all that in a laptop I would be pretty happy!!!
It would have an Intel® Core™ i7-820QM Mobile Processor (1.73GHz, turbo up to 3.06GHz, 6MB L3 Cache), Genuine Windows® 7 Professional, 64bit, English and Microsoft® Office 2007 Professional/English - Microsoft® Office 2007 Small Business and Access. This is so I would have access to not only Microsoft word, but also PowerPoint, excel, outlook and access.
3 years next business day and accidental damage hardware support and McAfee® Security Centre, 36 Month Protection. This course is 4 years long so for at least 3 of those years I will be certain that my computer will be protected.
17.3" Full High Definition (1920x1080) LED screen, because in fairness I will be watching films and playing games along with using the laptop for college work.
It will also have a 8192MB 1333MHz Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM [2x4096] memory, 1TB (7.200rpm) Serial ATA Dual Hard Drive (2x 500GB), 1GB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650 graphic card, Blu-Ray ROM Drive (read/write CD/DVD & read Blu-Ray Disc) optical drive, Primary 9-cell 85 WHr Lithium Ion battery, Dell Wireless 1397 Mini Card (802.11 b/g) for wireless internet connectivity, a 2.0 Mega pixel Integrated Web Camera and of course an internal Irish Qwerty Keyboard.
I would also want Adobe® Photoshop® Elements and Premiere® Elements Bundle, because we use illustrator and Photoshop, in our multimedia lecture and adobe flash in downloading documents in our research.
I would like DataSafe Online Backup for at least one year, and 3 years PC Tune Up and 1 year of standard warranty.
Overall if I could get all that in a laptop I would be pretty happy!!!
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Reason for this Blog
Hi all!
My name is Rachel I am a student in Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology, studying applied psychology. As part of this course one of my modules is information and communication technology, which this blog has been set as an assignment. So here I go. . . .
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