Saturday, November 12, 2016

3 things I wouldn't buy on the internet who let me think about that

After my first experience of buying a used car kind of sight unseen I definitely wouldn't buy a used car over the internet and just have it delivered. Actually play gracious driver just reminded me that my first wheelchair van was purchased back east in Minnesota and my father flew back and drove it home and it was a good one. However my second one I should have had checked out a little better because it's got some issues but the sales guy is making it right.

As the son of a smart dentist from the middle of Montana who didn't clean up his bedroom well when he was about 15, I definitely wouldn't purchase like antiques or sports memorabilia. And as for my dad my grandma threw away ft bags full of football cards and Hot Wheels because he didn't clean his bedroom.

And it's a toss-up for the third one between prescription drugs or a pet especially if it was a registered breed. The prescription drugs are pretty self-explanatory if you know much about China in their country the government does not police the factories or regulate them and that scares me. And I have to meet a dog but I was going to spend more than a rescue fee off of for me Humane Society. They offered me a helper dog but you'd have to go to California for like 2 months to get trained with it and now you can train it yourself, so I plan to get a Newfoundland Elkhound or a Burmese mountain dog.

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

What are the differences between email or snail mail?

Email short for electronic mail, as we all know still uses an address and it doesn't physically cost you the money of a stamp to send a letter or pictures to someone, but it's not free. Snail mail could take a couple weeks to get across the country back in the day and now an email can go to 70 people in 40 countries instantly. In certain situations a handwritten letter is way more personal and still done by some people, but if I'm not mistaken I believe electronic Christmas cards, have even surpassed traditional ones. The information I found just says the eCards have hurt the greeting card industry they don't have exact numbers, because no real research has been done I'm assuming.
If we had invented computers and not come up with a system to communicate quicker than phoning everyone in a development teamm one person at a time, I couldn't imagine how hard it would have been to write a program or maintain a network. My first college degree in 1994 was in computer science. I learned programming when C++ was brand new and we converted the 386 PC lab to a 486 lab with ethernet cable replacing the coax cable for our Summer project. The largest group I worked on during a project was 5 and without email for communicating ideas after class hours I would've personally been divorced before I was married, because my girlfriend thought I was cheating on her just from the emails from a group member named Pepper.

Monday, October 10, 2016

What I Want Out of This Class

I originally signed up for this class just for the extra 3 credits, however now that class has started I find it really interesting how the internet has advanced and can't wait to see what else the class has to offer. My original degree was in computer science and instead of going into programming I chose networking and ever since then security and the lack of it on the internet and networks has always intrigued me. The idea behind Microsoft Cloud scares me no one should save so much information to the web and I can't believe that you can just right click on a web page and get their source code for the page.
The history of the computer is very interesting to me also just in the way that it has advanced over the decades and especially in the last few years. I personally think that we've only scratched the surface of the ability of computers and I'm really curious to see just how advanced we can make them. My family's first computer was a Tandy 1000 and I can remember playing just the simplest games on it and thinking how cool it was and now those games would be so boring in comparison. Advancements like driverless cars and virtual reality are on the horizon and when I got my degree in computer science in 1994 I'd have told you you were crazy that they were going to exist by now. I also hope to learn how to secure my own identity better especially with everything that's happened to me recently.