Joshua Walker

Prof Jensen

IST 1100

28 March 2015

The story was about how basically computers started to become what we know them as today. Based on how the story went it seemed like the computer eventually gained the ability to start thinking on its own without the help of a human helping it compute any sort of information. Sounds like an issue with many people are potentially worried about happening today. The network that the computer known as Joe, had the malfunction that allowed him to allow circuits and basically like stated before gained the ability to do things on its own. That’s not a good thing as a lot of bad can come out of that. With that happening now the computer has all this access to a lot of things it was thought to be private.

My opinion on that happening is that I feel like something like that could possibly happen. It’s something that more people should be aware of. We see in movies where there are malfunctions with any sort of technology and then everything just goes bad. In this situation in the text it luckily didn’t happen that way but it is something that could have happened.  I can ask exactly what would we as the people do in that sort of situation? How would people react? I know that people who make the products do their best to see that something like that can be avoided at all costs but at the same time you can’t be perfect. I am trying to be reasonable with this point and see that more should be aware and hopefully that something like that does not happen.

In the story how Joe was then able to access information that was normally thought that their was no way of being able to access that sort of information but due to a malfunction the worst was finally realized.

Joshua Walker

Prof. Jensen

IST 1100

21 March 2015

How to build a dell laptop is a very simple one actually. You can have one customized and built just the way that you like it. Knowing that the laptop that I currently have is a dell laptop I had no idea that you could do that. I know that you begin by going on the dell website and you can begin from there. Selecting exactly the laptop that you were looking for and the software that is needed or something that you would like. I want to some day try this and get an updated and customized laptop that meet my needs exactly.

Al qaeda does have a supply chain. They are a movement that works off of a supply chain. They are said to be a suicide chain. Reason why we are up against Iraq to begin with. So al qaeda does have a supply chain. It may not be the one that we may know or one that we may approve of but they have one. It certainly isn’t a positive one.

The curse of oil is when there is an abundance of oil. It is one of those situations where most people would look at it and say how is having too much of something good be a bad thing? In this situation it can be because knowing that you have a lot of oil means you’ll be the place where people will come to for oil. It would make you feel like people are just using you just for your oil. That’s like in other situations having too much food it may be a good thing to begin with but in the long run it may turn out to be a bad thing.

Joshua Walker

Prof. Jensen

IST 1100

5 March 2015

There has been a number of ways in which computers have been relevant and useful in my education. Without the use of  computers some of the assignments for class that I have been asked to do they would not have been able to have been completed. Computers have been there for everyone and makes communicating that much easier for when person to person communicating can not be done. I am sure that many others can agree with me on the ways that computers have been useful in the ways of education.

One way that computers have been useful in my education has been as stated before with communication. Whenever I need to communicate something to maybe another student or a teacher for help on something I can use that as a reference. I may not have their number so I can email them or contact them via social media. If i am having trouble with an assignment or test I can quickly email the teacher and get some clarification on what the teacher may have meant on a certain topic. When it comes to communicating with another student, I could do the same thing when asking the teacher for help on an assignment I can do the same asking a student. There may be time when I didn’t show up to class and if there was an assignment that was due I can ask the other student as to what the assignment was and now I am able to get it done.

Another way that I have used computers in my education is when it comes it researching things. I have been asked to do many research papers and without the use of the internet sometimes that would not have been possible. In some cases I could use a book, or a magazine or even another person but for the most person I could have relied on the internet to give me the answers that I am looking for. You can’t always rely on the internet as everything isn’t always true so when that happens I can refer to a book. When I do find the research that I am looking for and then it is time to actually start the research paper I use word or even powerpoint to mark down all the information that I was able to obtain.

Those have been the two most useful ways that the use of computers has been relevant to me in my education. Without those things I would not be able to do get good grades and complete the tests and homework/projects that I need to do.