Thursday, April 26, 2007

What is family.

What's your idea of what a family can be?

A group of people related through blood, like your siblings or your parents.

Who is in your family circle?

Just my direct family.

What is your family like?

My family is kind of separated; my sister is in France, most of my mom's family is in Wisconsin, and dad's family is in Southern California. We're all very different people, and don't have very many similar interests. My

Does your family circle involve a variety of people?

Yes. My mom loves being occupied, My sister really "charismatic", and my dad loves playing guitars and some video games. My grandma's slightly obsessive about some things, and my grandpa is very serious most of the time.

Different generations?

Yes, my grandparents and my cousins' children.

Explain the following quote:
"Families evolve from a patchwork of possibilities"

Every family can be attached to others through marriage, making hundreds of thousands of possibilities of people.

Monday, April 23, 2007

Copyright laws.

Copyright is the confirmation that you made something, or that credit has been taken for something. Copyrighting is here so that people cant take credit for something they didn’t do, or have someone steal an product idea and give it a different name, and try selling it, saying it’s original. Copyright law protects the ownership of ideas. There are copyright laws to make sure no one steals ideas from others. Fair use is an act that doesn’t infringe upon copyrights. It completely covers what you want to do. A man, Harrison was accused of copying a song through his subconcious. If he did it subconciously, it doesnt make sense to punish him, even if he did steal it. School websites cant have copyrighted material because it’s still public. Nearly all things on the internet are copyrighted. Creative commons means some rights reserved. It allows the product to be edited under certain situations.

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Logic gone Fuzzy

Fuzzy logic is a simpler way of doing computer action, rather than binary logic. A good example is a light turning on and off. A binary light has 1 and 0, on and off. A fuzzy light could be 20% on and 80% off, and rise or fall each way. Binary is very rigid in structure, but fuzzy logic is more loose. I'm not sure if it will affect many products, but more of how they work in a small scale. Then robots will come and destroy us all in the Armageddon.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Blo3g about Families

As part of a school project, we have to blog about our families. I'm going to answer the following questions in order of however I feel like it.

What's your idea of what a family can be?
Who is in your family circle? <-- I don't understand the question.
What is your family like?
Does your family circle involve a variety of people? <-- Again, what is a family circle?
Different generations?
Explain the following quote:"Families evolve from a patchwork of possibilities" <-- don't understand the quote...

A family to me is a group of people who are related through blood and physical (and sometimes mental) attributes. To many they mean the world, to others, not so much. They accept each other into other families through marriage to make even larger families, though most don't think of the relatives of in laws as direct family too often, if at all. If you trace lines back far enough, everyone is related some way or another.

My family is kind of separated right now. My sister, Kendra, is in France, studying abroad, my Dad's family lives in Southern California, and my Mom's family lives mostly in Wisconsin. The only other relatives that within an hour from here is my dad's twin and my grandparents. My sister has an "attraction" to winning games and being the best, my mother finds entertainment in feeling accomplished and working, and my dad plays video games and plays guitar most of the time.

I have all four of my grandparents, though one of them has altheimer's. My Dad's parent's live in Southern California like the rest of his family, and My Mom's parents live a little more near here. One of my grandmas is really Greek, and as a result we celebrate Greek Easter.