Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Technology Blog # 4

This Blog is going to start talking about translation and which is better to translate it, humans, or machines. It also started to talk about translations on every day used web sites, like google, face book, ect. And right now their thinking of some ways of getting some translation tools on those web sites for the people that don't know the language. First they start out with Face books translation and how its going to work and how people are going to use it, ect. After making face books translation they move on to google and pretty much do the same thing with google as they did with face book. Finally today they are still trying to decide which is better, A google translation ( machine ) or a every day human that knows many languages.

I like how they are trying to decide it because some day some human will want to know what something says, and should know which to use, a human or machine. Also i think its a good thing that their using known web sites for most of the translations, so it is easier to access when you need a translation. When they were making the Face book, and Google translation, i thought that it would be a good idea to do the most known languages that are commonly used other then every single language. Other then that I think that its good that they're doing this, so that people can translate stuff in seconds, other then asking a human and have them thinking about it, or even looking in a book. I just think technology has expanded and that we should all just use machines ( computers ) ( translators ) for making simple translations in seconds.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Technology blog #3

This article so far talks about how teens are losing sleep by using electronic devices and staying up way late using face book and talking to friends. And then it talked about what the percentage rate was of the teens staying up late to text and talk to friends, and also the percentage of sleep they are losing by doing this. In the next few paragraphs it talks about teens not only losing sleep but also affecting their health. The scientists in this article are just trying to explain the cause and the effect this has a teenagers and how this can effect their lives. Unlimited texting is what makes the teens think that they should stay up all night texting their friends or girl/boy friends, and lose sleep. So scientist are saying that parents are to help or take away the teens phone or electronic device to help them gain more sleep.

I think that the scientists and the article maker have done a good job of finding their facts and putting them in order. I also think that they have done a good job of finding the percentage rates of teens using cell phones and staying up all night. I agree that teens are losing sleep by doing this and should just turn off their phones and get sleep. I'm a person that likes to sleep, so i don't have a problem of doing this but i think its sad that teens out their would waste their time texting someone all night. In my mind I wonder why my parents don't give me a phone, is it the money or staying up texting all night and all day. I'm pretty sure its both, but the important one is getting sleep and not texting all day when you could be doing something healthy. And if taking away cell phones work then do it.