Wright Brothers Flight

Wright Brothers Invent Flying Machine by Eddie Carbonneau Kitty Hawk, NC On December 17th, Two brothers from Dayton Ohio invented a flying machine that took off in the skies. Wilbur and Orville Wright demonstrated their world changing invention on Kill Devil Hill in Kitty Hawk NC. The event was witnessed by five people. among the people present was photographer John T. Daniels, who photographed this historic flight. The two brothers are the owners of a bicycle shop called the Wright Cycle Exchange, which is locate in their hometown of Dayton. The flight the brother demonstrated in their flying machine lasted for 59 seconds. They reached the altitude of 10 feet off the ground. Wilbur Orville calls the day "a partial success". The flying machine was totaled due to a gust of wind that caused a crash. The Wright Brothers look forward to improving the design of their flying machine for future use.

Comm 447 Blog 1: Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver is a computer program that lets people create their very own websites. The websites can be about anything that particular person is interested in. I personally don’t get to use Dreamweaver all that often. The laptop I use outside of school does not have that program installed on it. Dreamweaver is a tough program to understand if you do not have enough experience with it. It’s a step by step process where a single mistake can mess things up if you don’t spot it right away. Before using Dreamweaver, you should have some prior knowledge with it. I first learned how to use Dreamweaver in my Comm 352 class with Andrew Gay as my instructor. I made a website about the history of silent movies, but that was a year ago. I feel like I need to go through the process all over again. Dreamweaver is a not an easy program to work with and you need to know what you are doing in order to setup a good website.

Bitcoins

Bitcoin is an online commodity based on a encryption protocol. hey are subdivided into 100 million smaller units called satoshis. They are transferred to a computer or handheld device without an intermediate financial situation. It's purpose is to serve as money, which can be accepted by certain merchants in many parts of the world. It's confusing to understand how they work. Using cash is very easy. Writing a check or using a credit card isn't too hard either. Are bitcoins the same as using a credit card? It's easy to tell how much a dollar bill is worth, but a bitcoin might have a different value. Inflation could happen with this new kind of money. I think our currency should stay the same.

A Computer That Teaches Itself

As a way to pick up the pace in research and development, military researchers are trying to find a way to program computers so they can make easier automatic tools and to have computers teach themselves. The company, DARPA, is not happy with the way machine learning is being done today. Machine learnings makes the computers like humans when it comes to decision making. Machines like that are often seen in science fiction movies. In the movies, machines with a mind of their own can take over the world. It would be intresting to have that kind of technology. If self learning computers do exist, research and development can go faster. the military can get their informaton about the enemy in time to make a move against them. Weapons can be made quicker if needed. Self learning computers can be either a good thing or the beginning of the end.

Entertaining Ads

One of the main things that Advertising does is entertains society using clients products. What makes an ad campaign memorable is to make them look entertaining and creative to audiences. Art and Video showed examples of those kind of advertisements. An example of an entertaining commercial was the Wells Rich Greene Ad of a man with glasses teaching some of the worlds worst people how to drive an automobile. The student drivers drove without paying attention to what they were doing while the drivin instructor was fearful about losing his own life in a possible accident. The accidents went from a woman making a left turn at the wrong place to a man asking to turn on the windshield wipers after crashing into a fire hydrant. Commercials like that often talk about car insurance, which is not a very interesting subject. When people have accidents, their insurance goes up. Someone that's had so many accidents gets a high deductable. In order to talk about insurance, advertisers have to make the topic interesting. Both of the incidents mentioned are funny and entertaining for the people watching the commercials. They make insurance commercials more interesting to watch and maybe gets their message out better. Commercials with the worlds worst drivers tells audiences not to be like those people. If they were showing commercials about the effects of wreckless driving, driving under the influence of alcohol, or showed footage of people that died in car wrecks, these messages would also tell the viewers to not end up like these people too. The main message of all is to drive carefully and that companies want to tell people that in the most memorable ways possible. Another commercial that was shown to be entertaining was the ones showing a new line of airplane flights. The sole purpose of flights are from point A to point B in a quicker way. About once per flight, the stewardess would come by with a can of soda and a ba of pretzels. During the time the commercials were, planes have just gotten out of war and flight travel was pretty dull. The airlines decided to make different color planes and the staff members and beautiful stewardesses would wear fashionable cloths. This kind of flight would give passengers a theatrical experience, which is very entertaining. A theatrical experience doesn't make the flight faster, but the passengers would feel that way when they fly on these colorful airlines. The more fun the passengers have on a flight, the quicker time will pass. When advertisers entertain their audiences, the audiences will remember their product and may consider buying them in the future. If the presentation is not presented in a way that will audiences remember it, the product may be doomed to fail on the market. The message can be reached to the audience. The advertisers just have to find a way to make that possible.

Codes of Gender

In today's world, there are codes that define people as a man or a woman. They are judged by the way that they walk, talk, act, but mostly their appearance. If people send out the wrong signals, a boy or a girl can be harrassed by other people. There was a scene in a showtime movie, The L Word, where a girl was cursed at by another girl for going into the ladies room. The other girl thought she was a boy and called her that and later on a freak. She was later harrassed by a group of people in town and was forced out of a car by one of the guys. People in the movie It's Pat don't know what to make of Pat. They don't know if she is a woman or a man. She acted awkward to other people and didn't act like either gender. The way to fit in normally is to read and give signals. Men would have to learn how to understand the masculine roles and women have to understand the feminine roles. If they can't do that, they should at least keep up the appearance of a man or woman. Appearance makes a huge difference and many people tend to judge the cover before they read the book. Learning how to send out and understand masculine/feminine signals is mainly how people get along with society

Farewell To Arms

The article Farewell To Arms discusses what could happen if people get attacked through the computer. It ranges from a hacker stealin someone's identity to a war. Computers are capable to doing a great deal of damage to someone. People are capable of creating bombs controlled by computers. People can hack into computers to find out information about their targets. Other times, people can be cyber bullied on the internet. Anyone can get access to a computer and do whatever they want on them. Computers can be just as deadly as a gun.