Lecture Session 6 - Current applications...Open Source

After a rough week end from moving from my old beautiful place to an unfurnished place in Southport, I am pretty Tiered. As a refresh of the gap this lecture started off with a re-cap of what we have done so far…
1. Technology is used for communication it becomes a medium
2. History of computer and internet the moments that lead to everyday experiences with them
3. The kinds of approaches the inter-related nature or culture.
4. Philosophical – About reality very ancient approach of Steve Stockwell
5. How the things go down the streets of the internet and the capabilities by nelson
6. As of today…

Instant Messaging ICQ was popular. Msn was in the market much later. IRC internet relay chat was popular in the early ages of chatting. They made it huge. I still remember the first time I had the ICQ account and used to communicate with my friends. But I don’t believe that there were so many friends that we could get in touch because internet was just a teenager then growing its abilities and what it can offer. I believe it was not even a big subject to learn about then.
Portable Audio and Pod Casting – well who has the smallest Walkman, or which brad one had was one of the show offs that we friends had amongst ourselves to be cool. The apple made a come back and yes it made it huge from this little application that could carry MP3 songs and was getting so famous it’s called IPOD. The amazing part is that these became so popular every kid wants one. The sales for a recent 6,451,000 iPods during the quarter, representing 48 percent growth in Macs and 220 percent growth in iPods over the year-ago quarter. This is one big impact over the technology trends fashion market. (Debbie Kruger date visited 29 NOV 2006, http://www.apple.com/au/pr/library/2005/oct/11results.html)
There are other Piracy issues of multiplying Mp3 at an amazing rate which is not at all fair for the music developers and publishers. How to stop this is? What can we do about it is a total big mainstream under Piracy prevention ways.
It is not only music we can have even videos running downloads over these cute white pods.
P2P: Peer to peer Networks is main reason for this fuelling of the piracy of music and video. The technique of downloading or transferring files over the internet from another computer using FTP was been around for a while but applications like the then Napster and the now Kazza and Lime wire.
In this name of Piracy little people or kids who are not at all mature enough to understand the effects of Piracy have been fines or sued heavily. People are cry about Censorship to save everyone from these incidents.
It’s about Intellectual Property and copyright laws.
VOIP and voice Chat – old mediums to evolve into new mediums. If we could speak over the internet for as cheap as free than on the old medium like the telephone which is pretty expensive then what would happen to the companies like Telstra. Will it break the monopoly of them or because they have the power they may even restrict their servers that would obviously cut the VOIP conversations.
Free Open Source Software:
Microsoft and other monopolies should be strongly opposed, but how? Imposing special laws for such companies may not be fair but again giving so much power to one company for a service would be threat for the innovation advancements.
The amazing part of the reverse Engineering technique is look at the function or an ability of looking at the way it works and develop your own programs to achieve it. It’s fair according to Australia Copy right Laws.
The other things to cut down monopolies are the free software that is provided by open source developers where you could build on and modify it and use it. The best way is to encourage these for public and private uses, a true form of democracy in the software industry.