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 * Sabrina Melendez**

Will We Pay for our Entertainment in the Future?

"Web-casters will either go out of business trying to pony up the 3 percent to 20 percent pay hikes (up to $110 per online listener each year based on these calculations) or they'll ruin themselves trying. For the user -- who's probably not willing to pay a penny for what's previously been free and doesn't want to suffer through more ads -- that change means less music variety, fewer tool options and far less customization. Yeah, just about everything that makes online radio so great."( Van Buskirk)

"Of course, that's no help to webcasters now. For the most part, they're pooling efforts to fight the Copyright Review Board's ruling that they pay the new fees to SoundExchange, the former RIAA division tasked with collecting and distributing online radio-licensing fees to artists and labels."(Van Buskirk)

This shows that services will not be free, rather they will be gone because their listeners never want to pay for what they consume, so the product can no longer be supplied. It can be said that our entertainment will be free because people can find ways to by pass paying for their entertainment. However, when their entertainment resource finally dies due to lack of funding, there will be no product to pay for, or steal. There fore the future of entertainment is it will be payed for or it will be gone, but it will most assuredly not be free.

Source: Van Buskirk, Eliot. "Webcasters' Doom Could Remix the Future of Music." (2007) 5-14-07 3-5-08 <[|http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/commentary/listeningpost/2007/05/listeningpost_0514>.]

"This court case has long reaching implications for music fans that use the internet to share music and software developers who are creating software that has a number of applications, some of which enter legally uncharted territory."

"Record labels are downright terrified that new technology will rob them of their profits by allowing users to distribute songs as many times as they like, free of charge. The music industry managed to bring down the original free file sharing program, Napster, and forced them to change their business model so that the labels profited from songs distributed by Napster."

"Eventually, a deal was worked out between cassette manufacturers and the industry that a penny from each blank cassette sold would go into the industry pot. Sound familiar? Ditto when recordable CD-Rs became available. The major labels are hard at work developing CDs that will only play in your player, downloads that can only be listened to X number of times and so on."

Our music will never be free if companies that offer free music downloads can be sued. Record companies don't want these internet music sources to take their profits. It's fine if one person buys a song, but then that person can go on a website and share this song with millions of people. That is a loss for the music industry, so the music industry will continue to fight these websites that threaten them.

Source: Heather. "Limewire Lawsuit." (2007) 3-6-08 <[|http://music.lovetoknow.com/limewire_lawsuit>.]

• The law will be forcing Internet Service Providers to take action against those who download pirated entertainment. • People suspected of downloading pirated material will receive an email as a warning, if the person continues his or her use of pirated entertainment they will be suspended from internet service, and a third violation will lead to the termination of their internet contract. • Should an Internet Service Provider fail to enforce the rule that Service Provider will be prosecuted. • This article pertains to the events that occurred in Britain, and this action is a good example that America should follow. • If America did follow this example entertainment would definitely have to be purchased in the future. Source: Eliott, Francis. "Internet users could be banned over illegal downloads." 12 February 2008 1. 10 March 2008 <[|http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article3353387.ece>.]

Project Topic: The Computer Mouse

The computer mouse is often overlooked as a form of technology, never the less it is a form of technology that is evolving and gaining new abilities. Computer mice are being combined with other computer tools based on their purpose, or work field if you will. One such mouse is the motion based mouse. This mouse allows you to control the computer cursor by waving the mouse in the air. The mouse is able to do this due to the miniature gyroscopes (a device consisting of a wheel or disk mounted so that it can spin rapidly about an axis that is itself free to alter in direction) incorporated into the mouse that track the motion of the computer mouse as you are moving the cursor (in other words waving the mouse around). In order to detect rotation in two axes simultaneously the the mouse uses an electromagnetic transducer ( a transducer that converts electromagnetic energy to acoustic energy and/or vise versa) (a transducer is a device that converts variations in a physical quantity into an electrical signal and/ or vise versa) and sensors. These mice include an optical sensor so that they can be used with a desktop.

You can find more information on the different types of computer mice by [|Clicking Here]

The mouse has become incorporated into the laptop to serve its original function, and now much more. In a Mac book you can use the actual trackpad in place of the Trackpad button, it's only a matter of preference. The mac book with leopard has a track pad that can be used to scroll up, down, and side to side when you use two fingers. The trackpad can click and drag, and can preform what would be a right click on a mouse with a two finger tap. The new mac book air introduced a trackpad that can do every thing the mac with leopard can do and more. The mac book air's trackpad can use what's called a pinch to zoom in and out, a swipe to move back and forwards between webpages you've visited, and in iphoto the pinch and turn can be used to rotate a picture. Apparently the features of the iphone have been incorporated into the mac book air.

Pros: The computer is evolving and making working with computers faster with all the short cuts. You no longer have to go to you tool bar to zoom in or move your mouse and click on the side bar to scroll down. All this can be done with your mouse. Josh Goldman says, " it would definitely be a sweet addition. Just having it for flipping though your iTunes Library and for zooming in on photos or docs or sites would be great."

Cons: The only cons that I've found are that clumsy fingers on the trackpad make unwanted commands. A situation that is remedied by trackpad preferences, which enables you to turn some trackpad functions off.

To find out more [|click here]

Dell's new Latitude XT Tablet PC doesn't have a mouse. Instead, this primary component has evolved from being integrated into laptop keyboards, to being integrated into laptop screens.

This screen responds to the touch of a finger without the need of pressing down on the screen. However, the new Dell replaces the mouses right-click function with a pen that is used as a stylus (a writing tool used to write and erase).

Carpal Tunnel and the Computer Mouse: There is a new computer mouse called the Evoluent Vertical Mouse that is designed to help prevent repetitive stress wrist injuries that one would normally get while using a regular computer mouse. The Evoluent Vertical Mouse accomplishes this by turning the hand to a relaxed handshake position that puts no stress on the tendons in the wrists and gets the wrist out of the awkward and harmful position it is forced to assume while working with a normal mouse. This mouse is made for the right and left hand.

To find out more about this beneficial computer mouse [|click here]

Note: A computer mouse refers to the normal mouse that can be attached to a keyboard. A trackpad refers to the built in mouse that appears in laptops.

For the complete history of the computer mouse [|Click here]

For the story of the first computer mouse [|Click here] Citations: Brain, Marshall, and Carmen Carmack. "How Computer Mice Work." How Stuff Works. 10 Feb. 2008 <[|http://computer.howstuffworks.com/mouse9.htm>.] This website taught me a lot about how the computer mouse if evolving and is made for its purpose.

"Mac Book Air." Apple.Com. 10 Feb. 2008 <[|http://www.apple.com/macbookair/guidedtour/index.html?size=medium>.] This website showed me the newest trackpad features and was very informative.

Goldman, Josh. "Multi-Touch on MacBooks in October." CrunchGear. 29 June 2007. 10 Feb. 2008 .] This website showed me how other people felt about evolving trackpad features. It was very helpful.



NEW Sources 2-11-08

Biersdorfer, J.D. A Tablet PC That Is Receptive to a Soft Touch, but Offers a Full Keyboard for Serious Tapping 1. 2-11-08 <[|http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/03/technology/personaltech/03tablet.html>.] This website helped me because it talked about touchscreen which is something that I'd like to go over in my project.

Ward, John. "The Evolution of the Apple Mouse." 2-4-07 1. 2-11-08 <[|http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/macintosh/mouse.html>.] This website goes into detail about how the apple mouse evolved. After going to this website I am thinking about focusing on Apple mice in order to narrow down the amount that I will have to speak about.

"Evoluent™ Vertical Mouse™ ." Ergo Pro.com. 12 Feb 2008 <[|http://www.ergopro.com/index.cfm?obj=proddetails&pid=439>.] This site showed me a new kind of mouse that was modified to remedy a health problem called carpal tunnel syndrome that is associated with using computer mice. This is important to my project because I am trying to show how the computer mouse evolves to fit it user's needs.

Alex, Soojung-Kim Pang. "Mighty Mouse ." Stanford februrary 14 .] Told me about the first mouse. Criteria Descriptors ** || **Student Reviewer Feedback ** || ||  || What are the effects of this on the enviornment? || ||  || ||   || ||   ||
 * **Quality of Content**
 * Does the content (writing) make sense? || Yes the content of the article makes sense, there are few grammatical errors. ||
 * Can you identify any areas which need clarification? || The Health and Enviornment need to be worked on and added to. ||
 * Pose three questions that arise from your reading || What are the effects of this on health?
 * **Communication**
 * Look at the Discussion pages of the wiki pages - effective communication? || There isn't any discussion going on. Two people commented, and none replied. ||
 * Do they need more? || Yes, they need more communication and discussion. ||
 * Are they clear in their messages to each other? || Yes ||
 * Is there a sense of negotiation and collaboration? || There is no collaboriation ocuring. ||
 * **Collaboration**
 * Does the work appear to be equally shared? || Yes the work seems to be equally shared ||
 * Does there appear to be any difficulties by one or more members of the team? || No ||
 * **Presentation - Layout and Design**
 * Amount and relevance of graphics and media - comment on that || There is one image and it is relevant ||
 * Recommendations? || I recomend finishing the Health and enviornment sections. ||
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"Medical Blogs." __Medical Blogs__. Med Worm. 16 May 2008 . "WebMd." __WebMd__. 16 May 2008. WebMD. 16 May 2008 . I learned that doctors are finding a new way to spread information on health and the treatment of illnesses. This new method is fast and effective and can discuss their methods of treatement. This new method also allows people who are not doctors, but need medical treatment, to access the medical information. This could save lives and prevent someone from trying to treat someone through guess work and making a potentially fatal mistake. Websites like WebMd.com provide quick results for a range of symptoms and it could tell how to treat the illness. People can access this information from the comfort of their home and save money and time. There are medical blogs in which doctors discuss illnesses and methods of curing them on medworm.com.