MY LAST BLOG POST!!!

Well it has been a great semester testing out the waters of blogger. It has shown me that i can write whatever i want on the internet and people can read it. It is my freedom of speech on the internet and it will stay their forever Im not blogging about anything i guess this post but just saying that it has been a fun semester at MSU and it is getting cold outside. Hell week is a little over half way done and my assignments are getting checked of as we speak. I recomend anyone who is reading this to def. take a research class at your college or high school. The rewards are amazing and it will totally help you out in learning how to do CORRECT research and cite things etc. Everyone have a great Christmas and Nickels extra change of the day is HIBERNATING until January Goodbye and have a great Christmas everybody THANKS MRS. ROBINSON!!!~NiCkEl

Forcasting the Future

The future of technology is a scary yet exciting thing. Think about 10 years ago and how computers and phones were like. We all had those Nokia brick phones and the computers could barely do anything besides run a few 16 bit games and the internet haha(remember the phone line ding ding!) I dread that noise. Now in the ending of year 2011 we all have "smart phones" which can do everything a computer can do, call your friends, voice and face talk with people and check your facebook while ordering a pizza whoohoo! Computers are almost being put on the back burner since they are being taken over by ipads and the whole "tablet revolution" I dont see what the big hoopla is about tablets but im sure by this time next year i will end up having one. One can only dream of what the future will hold for the computers and phones. I can only imagine what it will be like 5 years from now. I can still remember seeing a prototype of a phone that had a camera on it saying "yeah right like thats ever gonna catch on"~Nickel

University Students' Perceptions of Plagiarism

Their so cute!!!!

OH MY GOODNESSS another plagerising post. Yes we all know that plagerism is wrong adn that no one should do it yet their are a select few idiotic people who think educated proffessors will not catch a paper that sounds like the duke of ellington wrote it and not you. I mean come on teachers know how college kids or most of us write and talk and if you come off sounding like a news caster than your probobly gonna get caught and slapped with a CHEATING stamp on your Record. i really don't have anything else to say about plagerism because i have said so much about it in my other posts.
1. Dont steal others work
2. Dont act like you didn't know
3. Yes you did it admit it
4. Dont do it
5.~Nickel

MSU Hell Week!!!

Ok this is really getting to me and my friends, Its the last week before the semester ends and well we have finals after so its the second to last BUT WHATEVER! Think about this your a student who is taking 4-5 classes and the last week of REAL school your teachers have you do TONS of assignments and papers. Now im not talking about all teachers but for the most part it just happens and really sucks. I think the last week of school should be a review week where we all go over everything that we have learned throughout the year and review it. im sure eeryone will and would do better on their finals but what do i know im just paying out the but to go here and im a student i have no idea!!! RIGHT? ~Nickel

Citations Citations Citations.....

Citations are the backbone to any good scholarly written paper(i spelled that wrong but its a blog) ok well if you decide to take or borrow someones work or wording from something you must cite them or mention them in your paper somewhere in the text. If you do not then well that is plagirism!!! OH NO. and that is bad. I remember a few years back i was doing an axtra credit assignment and i copied 3 sentences straight off of a website and did not cite them. I was caught and i got in trouble which was bull-ony because it was extra credit and i dont really want to re-live that. But yes citing sources is impirtant and only takes a few seconds. Just find out who the person is who wrote the paper or article make a works cited page and slap their name down DONE~Nickel

The End of Software Ownership

Well i can take this topic and relate it to my family. its kind of a funny one but here it goes. My father worked for *** and they gave him Novell computer server cd's(its a bunch of codes and such) worth about $5,000. He was told only to use the Cd's at work and only for himself. But 17 years has past and he still has the cd's(of course they are far expired.) Now does my dad own those cd's or not? Does Novell, the software company own them or my father? There is a grey area here in software ownership and the same in real world smaller applications like you and I

For example lets say i buy a computer game and decide toburn the game and give it to my friend free of charge. Is that a breach of my contract from wal-mart buying the game? I never signed anything saying i wouldnt burn it or trade it. And whats up with the used book stores reselling cd's and computer games what gives???~Nickel

Cell Phone Plans are Getting Stupid!

Ok here is a rant on cell phone plans and data plans. I currently have tmobile and have had sprint for about a month but we dumped them because of all the extra charges they added, SO i will just do cell phone companies in general. Ok now every carrier has only "smart phones" or phones that YOU MUST buy a $10 data plan for and that only goes up. That deciding on which carrier you go with and what plan, phone etc. you have or get. What gets me is the data plan that you must have thats #1 on my pissy cell phone rant.

#2 You must sign up for a 2 year contract no matter if the service sucks and if you want to breach contract you must pay at least $200

#3 One of the advertising gimmicks they have is that only certein carriers carry certein brands of phones. For example i beleive verizon and at&t are the only carriers who have the iphone while tmobile does not have an iphone but they do have other phones so its a trade off to which phone you want

ITS ALL SO CONFUSING AHHHH~Nickel