YOU have to socio-economically privileged/english speaking/White/male to read this. OH wait your most likely a american college student !!!

What groups of people seem to be the most technologically adapted? Well obviously people that can afford to own computers, however with efficient production the cost of electronics and computers has gone down drastically over the last 20 years making computers affordable and accessible to almost anyone with the desire to have a computer. Vaidhyanathan believes that “digitally adept young people” are usually socio-economically privileged, English speaking, white and male. Technology has become so affordable and accessible that of all sorts have the opportunities to have access to computers especially in the United States.
The mentioning of people with computers and people without computers is not complete without the concept of “digital divide”. The term digital divide is flexible to count people with computers and Internet and people without computers at all. Vaidhyanathan believes that “digitally adept young people” are rich, English speaking and male. In the technologically changing world, computers have almost become essential for people to remain an asset in the work force. According to a study regarding the digital divide, forty-nine to eighty-nine people in the United States “do” have access to computers. Unless over seventy percent of Americans are male, white, rich the digital divide in the United States is not that bad considering that most of America is middle-class and half and half on gender in respect to the overall population. Vaidhyanathan belief of white/male/rich computer supremacy seems to be off. If Vaidhyanathan was speaking of the digital divide in other parts of the world such Africa and Asia Vaidhyanathan would correct. With new projects to promote technology to narrow the digital divide, the digital divide may some day come a single digit problem.

Technologies that help narrow the digital divide include low-cost laptops. The “One Child One Laptop” project has created laptops that would only cost one hundred dollars. Even in third world countries the digital divide is slowly narrowing. The laptop has the ability to network with other laptops such, like (ad-hoc) but with many computers networking and sharing Internet together. The laptop is very rugged, made for third world countries it has solar panels and crank arm to recharge the laptop when other power is not available. The laptop is not the only combatant of the digital divide.
AMD(advance Micro Devices) is the world leader in computer processers, AMD created the 50X15 project which hopes to have fifty percent of the world population with computers and internet the project was started in 2004. With projects like the 50X15 and the one child one laptop it is clear that the digital divide is slowly breaking down.
The United States, which Vaidhyanathan specifically targets on the users of computers and Internet. The first claim that they digitally adept are white is fading away, the department of commerce reported that almost 40% of African American in the United States use computers and almost thirty-two percent of Hispanics. The most impressive report by the department of commerce is that Internet users that are low income (less then$15,000 per year) increased twenty five percent in one year, if the trend continued the number of “socio-economically underprivileged” would be obsolete.
What Vaidhyanathan forgot to mention was some people simply do not want to use computers; some people tend to be old fashion. The same group of people may also refrain from using voice-mail on cell phones and other “difficult” technologies.
I believe that people have the ability to have access to computers if they wish. It does not matter if they are poor or rich, white or black, English speaking or any other language, male or female, it is all a matter of having desire to use the product. We all know that computers do not discriminate on any bases. Vaidhyanathan claim is invalid, and with projects to fill in the gap of the digital divide Vaidhyanathan argument falls short of being true, especially in the United States. The department of Commerce’s statistics clearly show that technology has a level playing field. In the past Vaidhyanathan claims of possessors of technology may seem valid, but with technologies advances, Internet and computers have become available for anyone with the desire to possess them.

Global warming IS NOT REAL.. well it is but its source may change your mind..

I am usual not one of those people that believe in conspiracy theory, but after taking an physics class,(professor David Matzke of university of Michigan-dearborn) I was starting to question if global warming was man-made or it was a product of natural occurrences.


now I actually spent 80 minutes watching this video I was impressed by a lot of the ideas that were given for example, it states global warming is a process out of the control of human beings. Rather it is caused by “cosmic rays” the graph comparing cosmic rays and earth’s temperature is more relevant the idea of CO2 and earths temperature. I was surprised to learn that the earths stratosphere or atmosphere not sure which one carries the gas, gets the most CO2 from the oceans and volcanoes rather then the “human factors” of industry pollution. Car emission.
I believe that global warming is happening but I no longer believe that humans cause it. I do believe however that the steps needed to prevent man-made global warming should still be taken, such as creating our oil-independence and being more “green” it would be best for the human race to do so. Being efficient and energy conservative is still necessary to extend the use of fossil fuels and other natural resources that are do difficult to recycle. In terms of safety the United States needs to be energy independent, the Middle East which is a major provider of oil can longer be a “Stable” source of energy.
Yes you may think I am crazy for believing something that may seem so crazy to people that are diehard environmentalist, but we can not deny facts, just the same way I look at fundamentalist as being crazy for believing the world is only 5000 years old, and you may believe that the video was created by the oil industry but it was not, also oil companies I believe will welcome alternative fuel sources I am sure they want to supply us with what ever it maybe.
I would just like people to know that there is evidence of an alterative viewpoint from the overwhelming majority of the view “man-made global warming” I understand how difficult it is to picture something other then what we are bombarded with, I can see a parallel with religion, most people that grew up with religion find it difficult to view life without religion, even if overwhelming facts disprove religion from the age of the earth to the creation of the earth down to how old dinosaurs are and weather they lived with humans(there are overwhelming date proving this biblical belief). I am just hoping people view the video and began to question more the environment they live in, be more critical. I do not believe our survival as a human race can afford anymore “blind followers” I mean we do need some since people in numbers have more power, but even so they crowd of advocates of a specific issue should be informed of what they are advocating not having innocent children which may not fully understand what is going on.

MAC & PC comics !!

The debate goes on whether people should invest their money in a PC or MAC? There are many factors effecting the decision. I have created a comic strip with personifications of both a MAC and a PC similar to the advertising campaign that Apple Inc. launched.
In the first three cells of my comic strip I introduce the personifications of both a MAC computer (which oddly looks like the finder icon from MAC operating system) and the windows personification which is a interesting looking character that happens to look unintelligent.
The second and third cell show the windows man is walking in front of a Apple Inc. store and sees the Mac man, the Mac man asks him what he is doing near the Apple Inc. store? The windows man first makes a excuse of why he is there then admits he is curious of the Macs and the apple store. The Mac explains that people are getting sick of PCs and the many problems the carry with them. The Windows responds with a statistic stating, “PC’s own 90% of the computer market share”.
On the forth and fifth cell Mac and PC find themselves in different places, first a college class room and then a office. Mac explains that college students are starting to make the switch from PCs to Macs, the PC’s responds with many malfunctions in its response with unnecessary additions of duplicate letters that it has no worries. A student walks by and praises the Mac telling it how appealing it is. In the fifth cell they find themselves in an office, PC claims that it has a strong foothold in business computers. The Mac reminds the PC that many companies are switching from PCs to Macs. A woman in the background then jumps and claims that PC are more boring then Macs. The sixth cell depicts both of them in England; Mac explains that even British people are starting to use Macs.
The seventh cell shows them walking back to the apple store and PC notices Macs size is getting larger which is a reference to its market share. The eighty cell shows them still walking back to the apple store but with a MAC and a PC above them explaining that a test showed that Mac outperformed the PC in many different areas. The PC then claims it is “initially” cheaper. The final cell shows them as if they have just left the apple store the PC seems to be over zealous about the experience and is afraid that its CPU is going to over heat. PC states that it must return to “circuit city” Mac responds by asking PC if he could check out the Windows store knowing that non exist.
The comic strip is swayed with Apple Inc. being depicted as the better operating system, but it should not be the sole source for a decision for purchasing a computer. Many other factors apply when making a decision.