Sunday, August 31, 2008

Week 2

It looks like I was one of the confused students who didn't quite get through the whole video in time to realize I'm posting this late... lo siento.

I enjoyed the Week 2 readings much more than Week 1. Wikipedia's explanation of the Computer Hardware will be really helpful as we delve further into technology information. As I was reading through all the definitions and examples, it reminded me of when I was researching my laptop. You go through the site and are able to pick exactly how you want your computer built, but you have to go searching for explanations of what everything means before knowing what you really need and what you'd just be paying extra for (i.e. RAM size, gaming features, etc.).

For the Moore's Law wikipedia page, I liked being able to watch the video clip along with it. Reading through how far we've come and that within the next 10 years (by the articles predictions) we'll be coming up on seeing how far is to far... does anyone know more about this to have any ideas of what might happen?

I also really liked navigating through the Computer History Museums site. There exhibits are just so neat to be able to see how gargantuan the first computers were (lol!) I also really liked the layman layout of the site. The first thing I clicked on was the history of the Internet and Danny Cohen's quote of the creation of the Internet in the same layout as the creation of the world was great!!!

Muddiest Point: Where is Moore's Law taking us?

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