Eisenhower

The military-industrial complex have been getting close to the Military. This power is dangerous to the country as it will give speed to choices for going to war. When too much war materials are being made, it only makes scene that we have to use them somehow. Eisenhower's farewell address was a warning to this issue stating that when these two forces combine, their will be a massive confrontation possibly leading to the starting of world war three. This warning was indeed spoken in 1961, but this conflict is still going on today.
On that day of Eisenhower's farewell address to his fellow Americans, he gives out a warning of imminent danger for whomever takes his his place, in this case the next president was John F Kennedy. Within his statement to the nation, he addressed that “American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions.” In this statement he has brought in the argument of the “threats, new in kind or degree”. These threats are indeed the new industrial military complex, which at the time is pretty new as the united states felt the need to enforce permanent war factories from the past experiences that have proved fatal on December seventh.
With these new factories, we have fixed the national security matter with a surprise attack, but it also creates a reverse affect in the long run where as professor Randell Scherer said that its like “If I buy paints at the beginning of the semester, we are going to have a painting project.” The constant access of war supplies have not just protected us, but it is also a big reason why many theorists call this war profiteering as an endless market of war supplies will always be in business as the united states has been in constant conflict since world war two. That's a major marketing advantage since they see the trend going higher and higher, they can safely assume that their market is still going to be there.
With that said, Eisenhower's warning indeed was a very wise warning to send out to the American people that is still being referenced today. Although that speech was spoken in 1961, the military industrial complex have been a profiteering company in the eyes in multiple theorists. The theories might be a little far fetched to grasp but a lot of it makes sense, wither it is real or not.


[sorry for before]

Its time for US to evolve into the Obamanation!

As he went through one of his epic speeches, I heard the line "We do not look at what you can destroy, but what you can create." This line resonated to me simply because it was funny on how simple it was but yet it was true. We should not look at what other countries can destroy, but what they can create is a good point, the moral outcome for war is usually attempting to gain additional peace. When we try to ally with other counties, we might look at what they can destroy, but unless it is a wartime, we mostly look at what the country can create. If the country is very destructive and very ill-equipped with building, then the odds of being in the alliance is very low.

This comment applies to everyday life as we see at least something about the war in iraq and how destructive it is. So when we look at iraq now and see its potential, it is a lot less likly to be one of our allies. Especially now that we are at war with them. But there is always a chance for a country to regain their grounds, look at Germany. Germany suffered from a great depression where bread cost 1 billion German Marks, they went to war with us too, but still fifty years later we are allies with them. And that is because they have put more production to builing instead of demolition.

artists statement outline

1. My thesis statement will be somewhat along the lines of "The blood and gore of today reality has been mixed in with games to morph into a different perspective." the connection with the WW2 icon and the twisted reality of the "boom, head shot" quote from Halo to show what a twisted reality games have made events.

2. evidence will be easy to get for this one, as I have ALWAYS forgotten to put that in. And there are a lot of citations and possible interviews of people from this battle. The body will explain how far games have gone that have warped sense of the real battlefield.

3. Conclusion, there are some games that are realistic. Believe it or not, Call of Duty 4 realistically layed out the entire city of Chernobyl, down to the fairs wheel. But other games such as Halo and Eagle Eye are not real.

Future Internship Goals

1. I plan on finding out what the work environment really like, since there are a lot of stories of good and bad jobs (especially showed on "dirty jobs") it sure would be good to know what my programming type internship will be. I doubt that i would change my mind either way, but it is still good to know what your getting into for when I do apply for such a job.

2. I hope to find out that I can explore more sectors of my ability. Not just in programming, but in organizational skills in balancing my workload with a consistent method getting my work done with up-most quality as well as being on-time or even early for testing/critiques.

3. My goals for internship is to get tips on what to do or do things better for when I get a job, or in my academic life. There might not be life lessons, but their will defiantly be trial and error with things to do and not to do in the business world. And also as important as doing good, making it good for me is almost as important; making projects interesting is what makes customers more interested in the product. And it also makes the experience like it is feel less of a burden, but instead a fun activity.

My best work!

In first, the hardest simple code I have ever programmed, the tide calendar. So why is this in first and not something else? Well, what else would be in first, this is the big project that I did this this year, I stood after school more than four times for this as well as countless hours at home. So how long did this take? Well when I first got this project I went to work right away trying to find the equation that would make a tidal graph. For a week I looked up how to make tidal graphs, I found a few equations, tried working them out with Darren but dropped the idea because of the time restraint and the lack of resources including the supercomputer used to graph each day. So after that was done, I realized that I needed to cut to the chase and just get it done. So I found a website, http://www.almanac.com, where I copied the set of points from each date into a file, where the program will use those and graph using several attempts as I tested my way through. Making a graph is simple, making it curve was the whole point that make this project so hard.  The tidal data I received had a range of mostly 4 points, sometimes 3; in which each point had to curve nicely and accurately to the next. Unless you want to type in 1460+ numbers for 53+ weeks (there is a plus for the runoffs into the next month) into excel, I doubt it would get done. Yet all of the points need to be graphed and labeled and oh the numbers.

So after that program was there, I needed a way to efficiently write all the numbers into those crazy files. So what I did was I MADE ANOTHER PROGRAM!!! YES, I did it, made another program, and this is only HUMANITIES!!! (Darren still is wondering why I am using harder math in humanities than I am doing for his class). So what this does is it:

• Gets all the data off the Internet and saves it as files on the computer

• Goes through each file and does the following:

  • Looks though each line in search of “PST” or “PDT” (or time zone)

  • once found, it de-html codes the file so it can be read

  • place markers are set

  • values are determined by place markers

• Saves all the files and reopens all of them to:

  • open up the previous day and saves the last point in it's structure as the starting of this day

  • opens up the next day and saves the first point as the last point of this day

• Looks through each file and make sure the data is not too far off from what I would expect

  • makes sure there are:

  • at least 2 points

  • next day's point is set

  • previous day's point is set

  • the timezones are messed up from the next/previous day

That $12 is looking quite generous for this calendar yes? As if that is not enough major revision with debugging were needed to make it look better. The “curve-i-ness” of the tides needed to resemble that of an actual tide which needed to have a lot of revisions. Text needed to be added in able to read the points of the graph, while the lines in the background were removed so that it looked nicer. Only highest and lowest text would appear. And the worst of all, they needed to connect and continue their curvy pattern. So what really killed me is when I was updating my graphing program and I needed to solve three things:

• connecting graphs

• fix graph ratio from 4:3 to 4:2

• fix text to not block text

And the top ones messed me up as I tried to fix my code failure as it just went from worse to worse, and eventually the lines started appearing from the top as well as lines going in circles. The text problem from blocking out the date number was fixed on the first try (it was that easy). I soon after reported into Randy that a Photoshop job with my backup graphs would be a lot better to handle than doing this to who knows when. It took us quite a long time to do it by hand when a graph took 40 min to complete and there were 12 months (8 hours) of making lines in Photoshop. As well as the tidal highest and lows had to be redone because of the size ratio.

And in second, will be my website page in flash. Starting from ver 1.0 and going to 2.0 in a day as my second flash project I made, it looks very nice. And it works too! So if you have seen the website around when I actually posted this message, you would say, “Why no photo essays show anything yet besides empty boxes”. And I would like to assure you that my flash does work, but just separately, and that is because of security issues built into flash programs to help make the computer be more secure. So what do I mean by these “Security measures? I never see any thing pop-up on you-tube about this stuff?”, and the reason is just simply explained how Paul explained it to me when he told me why it wasn't working.

“If you invite someone over to your house, you would not like it if they were to invite another person with them.” Well in this case, the website has invited a friend over, my flash site, and my flash site is trying to call another person over (in this case call over pictures and text from the Internet). So really, if they were seen separately, they would be able to run as smoothly as intended. He has said before school ended today that he knows how to fix it, so with 16 other thins I sent him in an email to fix eventually, this is got to be done.Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000168 EndHTML:0000012873 StartFragment:0000000489 EndFragment:0000012856

In first, the hardest simple code I have ever programmed, the tide calendar. So why is this in first and not something else? Well, what else would be in first, this is the big project that I did this this year, I stood after school more than four times for this as well as countless hours at home. So how long did this take? Well when I first got this project I went to work right away trying to find the equation that would make a tidal graph. For a week I looked up how to make tidal graphs, I found a few equations, tried working them out with Darren but dropped the idea because of the time restraint and the lack of resources including the supercomputer used to graph each day. So after that was done, I realized that I needed to cut to the chase and just get it done. So I found a website, http://www.almanac.com, where I copied the set of points from each date into a file, where the program will use those and graph using several attempts as I tested my way through. Making a graph is simple, making it curve was the whole point that make this project so hard.  The tidal data I received had a range of mostly 4 points, sometimes 3; in which each point had to curve nicely and accurately to the next. Unless you want to type in 1460+ numbers for 53+ weeks (there is a plus for the runoffs into the next month) into excel, I doubt it would get done. Yet all of the points need to be graphed and labeled and oh the numbers.

So after that program was there, I needed a way to efficiently write all the numbers into those crazy files. So what I did was I MADE ANOTHER PROGRAM!!! YES, I did it, made another program, and this is only HUMANITIES!!! (Darren still is wondering why I am using harder math in humanities than I am doing for his class). So what this does is it:

• Gets all the data off the Internet and saves it as files on the computer

• Goes through each file and does the following:

  • Looks though each line in search of “PST” or “PDT” (or time zone)

  • once found, it de-html codes the file so it can be read

  • place markers are set

  • values are determined by place markers

• Saves all the files and reopens all of them to:

  • open up the previous day and saves the last point in it's structure as the starting of this day

  • opens up the next day and saves the first point as the last point of this day

• Looks through each file and make sure the data is not too far off from what I would expect

  • makes sure there are:

  • at least 2 points

  • next day's point is set

  • previous day's point is set

  • the timezones are messed up from the next/previous day

That $12 is looking quite generous for this calendar yes? As if that is not enough major revision with debugging were needed to make it look better. The “curve-i-ness” of the tides needed to resemble that of an actual tide which needed to have a lot of revisions. Text needed to be added in able to read the points of the graph, while the lines in the background were removed so that it looked nicer. Only highest and lowest text would appear. And the worst of all, they needed to connect and continue their curvy pattern. So what really killed me is when I was updating my graphing program and I needed to solve three things:

• connecting graphs

• fix graph ratio from 4:3 to 4:2

• fix text to not block text

And the top ones messed me up as I tried to fix my code failure as it just went from worse to worse, and eventually the lines started appearing from the top as well as lines going in circles. The text problem from blocking out the date number was fixed on the first try (it was that easy). I soon after reported into Randy that a Photoshop job with my backup graphs would be a lot better to handle than doing this to who knows when. It took us quite a long time to do it by hand when a graph took 40 min to complete and there were 12 months (8 hours) of making lines in Photoshop. As well as the tidal highest and lows had to be redone because of the size ratio.

And in second, will be my website page in flash. Starting from ver 1.0 and going to 2.0 in a day as my second flash project I made, it looks very nice. And it works too! So if you have seen the website around when I actually posted this message, you would say, “Why no photo essays show anything yet besides empty boxes”. And I would like to assure you that my flash does work, but just separately, and that is because of security issues built into flash programs to help make the computer be more secure. So what do I mean by these “Security measures? I never see any thing pop-up on you-tube about this stuff?”, and the reason is just simply explained how Paul explained it to me when he told me why it wasn't working.

“If you invite someone over to your house, you would not like it if they were to invite another person with them.” Well in this case, the website has invited a friend over, my flash site, and my flash site is trying to call another person over (in this case call over pictures and text from the Internet). So really, if they were seen separately, they would be able to run as smoothly as intended. He has said before school ended today that he knows how to fix it, so with 16 other thins I sent him in an email to fix eventually, this is got to be done.

Sorry if this seemed like my life story, I just like electronics...........

Marie Arana's Washington Post

Her article was very well made as she introduced alot of good points in their, as well as being funny at the same time. But I do not neccisarily like the wording of the underlined of her conclusion:

"In other words, the color of a president-elect's skin doesn't tell you much. It's an unreliable marker, a deceptive form of packaging. Isn't it time we stopped using labels that validate the separation of races? Isn't it time for the language to move on?"

I do not think that our languagge has anything to do with this, just the people using it. People can use language to both sides of this fight, and with that statment sshe is claiming that it is mostly against her. I think it more fit traditional customs better since that is where the statments "one-drop rule" and "Part-black is all black" came from, so why not get rid of that, trying to block out the words only makes them stronger. But with that aside, the statment is very good, explaining that we need to get rid of the root of the problem before it becomes a weed.

If their goals as a race are set low, then their life expectations may reflct that, minorities are usually kicked in the mud so that when they are being made fun of, even in a joking mannor, it may slowly eat away at their expectations in life. Even though the person may know its joking, if they hear it enough, they start to consider it. And which concidering it, loweres goals within itself. Its just not good to do it anyway.

Turky break!

This year (and probably every year) I am most thankful for computers! Not surprising huh? Well, lets see into more detail. All of my projects are on the computer! For math, I made my binary space game, for humanities I made the tides, and for biology I use excel. So really computers have been keeping my projects going. And they also say that you don't realize how important something is until you lose it, so it would be incredibly bad if the computer went bye bye, since I already know the importance of it.

So for my math project, I wouldn't even be able to do my project if computers weren't there.

Humanities, you thought it was bad to do one graph in 3 minutes? Well what about 15 without the computer (at minimum)? And how would we get the tide information?

Biology, those graphs we made for the analysis would take longer to get done without a computer.

And its also my hobby, so it would be very sad if computers would go away, that would mean:

electronic cameras,

electronic copiers

electronic printers,

cell phones,

MP3 players (iPod),

TV,

street lights,

ATM machines,

sliding glass doors,

Auto-pilot and massive planes,

Wii/ PS3/ Xbox360,

AND MORE!

We will hope to get a lot done over the thanksgiving break. Firstly will be the layout and laying out the tide information for the calendar. Also leaving blank spots for the pictures essays and more. I will try to make it look nice so that when we get everything, putting in everything will be the last thing we will have to do, then getting it critiqued and fixed to the peoples expectations.