What More I Would Like to Learn

As I take this CPS100 course, I have learned a lot of unknown information such as short-cut keys, hardware, and HTML. I think I got various and valuable knowledge from this class. However, I have more things I want to learn about computer.

I want to know how to make music by computer. Actually I know some ways to make simple music, but I do not have any knowledge to make music by using guitar, bass, and microphone. Since my hobby is playing the guitar, I want to create my own music in the future. Therefore, I would like to know how to collect and edit the sound of instruments through computer.

In addition, as I said in the first post of this blog, I want to know how to make a cool site. I learned basic points to make web sites, but I still don't know special effects of web making like in Feel The Power. Even though I perhaps need some expensive soft to make such effects, I'd like to learn and try it! Besides the special effects of web sites, I would like to know the way to make and post Internet radio and postcasting. I listen to Internet radio every day and every night, so I want to make Internet radio station like Kojima Productions Radio Station.

I have many things I'd like to learn more, so my journey to find new world of computer never end.
I want to end this blog with one of my favorite lines by Motoko Kusanagi in a Japanese animation, Ghost in the Shell, "The net is vast and infinite."

What Is "Viral Video"?

The term, "Viral Video," seems like some computer virus by using video. However, the truth is different.

Viral Video is the video that people can watch on the Net, usually by using e-mail, web sites, blogs, and so forth. Typically, it is for free. There are various types of Viral Videos such as video for advertisement, for fun, for private, and etc.

Recently, Viral Video has been advanced immediately. Why? It is because it is usually for free and easy-to-watch. In addition to these reasons, the arrival of reasonable video equipments and the sensational debut of YouTube led to the spread of Viral Video.

I think the term "Viral Video" was named because it spreads very rapidly in broad ways. Some people, who you do not know, "post their videos" on the Net without any limitations, and the videos are showed publicly. Then Internet users "receive" them as enjoyable purpose. It's like a VIRUS!!

Finally, I'd like to show some video clips as examples of viral video.

1. This is really funny!!
The Man of 100 Voices


2. Super-High Voice By Vitas



3. "Here It Goes Again" by OK GO. The band made its music clip by themselves and showed on YouTube, then became famous because of this video!!!

Computer Gifts I Would Buy For My Family

If I would present something for my family, I'd like to give my parents a skype. Since I am going to California this summer and we will not contact so often, a skype is the excellent product to solve the loss of contact. My parents especially my father often call me, and if I or my parents use regular telephone to talk with each others, money will rapidly 'escape' from me!! In terms of cost, there is none for a skype. Therefore, I think it is best product to buy for my family now.

Actually, I have been viewing some web sites that have many skype camera and microphone types, so I will probably buy a skype for my parents in May before I will go to the United States.

What Is "Net Neutrality"?

Net Neutrality, or Network Neutrality, is the concept that every Internet users should have equal right to access any services on the Net. There should be no exception according to racial, religious, aging, and gender reasons. In other words, no one should control or limit the networks on the Internet. According to Google,

"Network neutrality is the principle that Internet users should be in control of what content they view and what applications they use on the Internet."

Therefore, Internet users, not providers or companies, should direct the Internet by themselves consciously.
Net Neutrality is the fundamental idea of the Internet. However, actually there IS a difference. For instance, some sites like Yahoo or a streaming video cite provide extremely high quality movies; in this case, people with high speed Internet connection can watch them easily but people with slow speed Internet connection may take two hours to watch thirty-minute films. There IS a difference. Consequently, net neutrality has become commonly accepted, yet the real situation on the Internet is something different from the hoped outcome.
Net Neutrality has been the topic of hot debates especially in the US in the recent years because of the REAL situation that most companies try to get better service by suggesting customers to pay more money, which is quite different from net neutrality. In this year, 2007, Windows Vista came out, so the debates about network neutrality are probably going to be hotter. I'd like to look the debates in the long terms and see if what the Internet is going to be like.