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

Keeping up with LOR 101

Lor 101 was is and will forever always be awesome. i could end it their but i prob. wont get points for this blog so i will go more in depth. I beleive this class was well thought out by Mrs. Robinson and the course load was just on par with what we were covering and trying to accomplish. The lectures than the discussion were great ideas that mixed well together. The classroom atmosphere was not there AND THIS WAS GOOD! It made people really come out of their shells and make the class that much better.

Course load like i said was great. we had 3 blog posts a week to do and the occational paper or assignment which made up for the 1 day a week meeting(wish it was more) I will greatly miss this class and the Great teacher~Nickel

Information Seeking Behavior LOR

This class(LOR 101) is probobly the best class i have taken all year and i will tell you why. First i will start off with how we are shown to retreive information from accredited sources, unlike wikipedia. Then we must cite the sources and blah blah blah......you get the point. This has made finding information and writing papers SOOOO much easier than before. I know know how to find information and discuss it in class.

The discussions in class are also very helpful and make it seem not like a classroom but like we are all friends just talking and having fun yet learning. I will say it again i have learned more in this class than any other that i have taken. At least real world information i will use everyday~Nickel

Dont Steal work or Plagerize!!!

Plagerising is wrong. i remember back in my grade school and high school days everyone would copy and paste all kinds of papers, even the whole thing. most teachers didnt use the online program where you enter it through the internet. but when that came along people STILL copied works. i couldnt beleive it. I remember one time in high school our teacher left his projection screen up on the wall and he was in his office and it showed all the people who copied papers most were green,which ment good. Some were yellow, which ment eh. and a few were in the deep red which ment they copied. And they got in trouble for it. Now in college I don't even think about copying anything without citeing anything. So don't copy!~NICKEL

Copyright and Ethics

Copyright and Ethics don't really seem to go together. Copyright is what is keeping greedy people with NO ethics from stealing your work. Copyright is a good thing! Like the clip we watched in class about the person taking small clips from multiple disney movies and using them to make a long movie, but he would only use small pieces so it falls under a law where you can use very small short segments.
 Copyrighting is a great idea and a great law.

The Future of Ideas

The Internet revolution has produced a counterrevolution of devastating power and effect. The explosion of innovation we have seen in the environment of the Internet was not conjured from some new, previously unimagined technological magic; instead, it came from an ideal as old as the nation.(Lessig)

This is a small sample of Lessigs article which states that the internet is somewhat making mankind go backards. i agree with him somewhat but everyone can't agree fully. The part i agree with is that people are relying on the internet for their answers when they should be making their own decisions. I disagree with him in the point he makes that it is "counterrevolution" i beleive that this is making our human race "move along or ahead" and im sticking to it and not beleiving all of what he is saying~Nickel 

Where is Rap headed?

I just recently had the oppurtunity to listen to the radio the whole way from Louisville to Murray since my car stereo is under construction and while i mostly got bombarded with christmas music and christian rock there was the occational rap station that came in clearly and was it ever HORRiBLE! If you look back into the old school GOOD rappers like Beastie Boys, Run DMC some of Tupac etc. it is like a completly diffrent genre of music. When i listent to the lyrics about things i can't type without getting in trouble i get disgusted or laugh, since i am 22 yrs old, and when they talk about stupid dances and doing unspeacable things to hoes....haha Ok but the worst thing is that all of these teen and now pre teen girls are listening to this thinking its good when the whole some is completly making women look like trash and calling women unspeakable things. i dont know if i just grew out of it and started listening to the lyrics and not the beat or what but its giving guys a bad name. Drugs, Hoes, Money, Cars and smackin hoes yeah thats what everyone wants to hear about.NOT NICKEL!!!~Nickel

Evaluating Information on the Internet

Ok this is an easy one that we discussed in class. Its easy because all you really have to do is use your brain(if you have one) and weed out the good from the bad. For example; if your looking for information about a TV you might buy let's say reviews. you wouldn't want to go onto the manufacturers website for reviews because most likely they all will have POSITIVE reviews. you may want to go onto a second or third party like bestbuy or tvreviews.com(i just made that up) this way you will have many different sources to EVALUATE your product before making the final step of purchasing it.
This is the same for information for papers. You dont want to go onto google and find the first website you click on and take all of that information and copy it onto your paper without taking other sources for a test drive, if that makes sense.~Nickel

Information cocoons and Wikis'

Information cacoons? sounds funny doesn't it? well its not it is abused by millions of innocent people a day. Information cacoons are, to me, a hermit like state that a person stays in and only watches reads and hears what he or she wants too. Its like a person sitting in their home on the computer on the same website everyday eatting the same thing everyday and watching the same news cast every day just because SOMEONE TOLD THEM TOO. which is bad mmkay. You should always be a leader and not a follower, this informational blog can also be as a life lesson also,Nickel has many gifts to give, and you should and can take the inforation that anyone gives you and mold it like clay to your liking.
If you do not go out and do your own research and pick out your own "things" than someone else will and you will be stuck in a dreaded INFORMATION COCOON!!!!~Nickel

Everyone be so crazy about the debates.

Ok so i was watching the Republican debates the past month or so and have seen enough! Now i am a Conservative and will be voting for a republican in the upcoming election in 2012. My question is since the very first presidential election it has always been about the other person doing something bad in the past or making your opponents look like total asses. Im 22yrs old and i myself am getting fed up with all of hoopla. Its getting ridiculous its who can make the other person look like more of an ass and whoever that is gets to be president. I just want a good old fashioned debate. maybe arm wrestling or checkers and if you win you get to be president. It wouldnt matter anyways all government are crookss anyways~Nickel Kurnik

What we Can find on the internet

Or better yet what we dont want to find on the internet. Now a days when you go into a job interview they may ask if you have a facebook or "Google" search your name. This can be good or bad very bad. For example I worked at a car dealership the past summer and we googled a employees name and came to find out that he had been caught taking money from a local bank that he worked at and putting it in his own bank accounts. So he got fired. BAD INTERNET! But this is a good thing because if we hadnt typed the persons name in do you think it was a possiblility that he could have tried to steal money from our work? Yes thats a possibility so we can find alot on the internet.
Everything from maps to cooking recipes is on the internet to fake virtual worlds that let you be a diffrent person and live another life. have we strained to far away from P2P contact? Is the internet taking us over because we CAN FIND everything on it? You can get a degree online,work online and everything else in between. You dont even have to leave the house just order grocerys or a pizza online. and im sure you can find a drug dealer online to. So yes we can find anything online holy crap that's kind of scary!~Nickel

A World Wide Web of Change

Since Al Gore "invented the internet" im sure he would have never imagined it would be like this today. With the internet just being used for military to now it being in almost every home in the united states, us Americans are kind of co dependent on the internet. We seem to be getting away from books and hard copies of information i.e maps, stories, library catalogs etc and putting it all on-line or at least be accessable from a computer. This is both good and bad. We have evolved "technologically" over the past 20 years or so when the internet was known. We can all remember the dial up sound, need i not say the tune, to high speed internet where you can stream movies in a click or watch a live football game. The only question left is what next?~Nickel

New MSU Library

Ok this article in the newspaper got me really heated. it was about 9:30 in the morning and i see a new building photo on the front of msu's paper. its the new library, Im like "cool we need that" but then i read on and it says that the CURRENT students should have to pay for it. now that got me so mad it was not even funny. Now you tell me why in the hell I should pay for a library that is not even going to be near completion when i graduate? their response is that "students will come back to use it" or some other crock of bull. i dont want to come back to murray i want to move on with my my life and not look back. dont get me wrong this has and continues to be the time of my life but why should i have to pay for a library if im not going to use it???~Nickel is pissed!!!