selection of television for almost any nationality (Dish.com). DISH has expanded their coverage to rural areas in the United States by launching new satellite based broadband service, aiding to the Federal Communications Commission reports that 14 million Americans who live in rural markets cannot receive broadband. This will allow them to target members who in the past were unable to receive satellite internet services or HDTV while providing them with @dishNET.com email accounts (Buckley, 2012). With DISH adding new items like Sling TV streaming service, and Hopper HD, they are staying up to date with the latest technological changes. Sling TV service offers a selection of major cable channels that can be streamed through smartphones, digital media players and other apps. The Hopper 3tm enables more capabilities with fewer conflicts. Hopper is the biggest update with a 16-turner capability facilitating subscribers the ability to record up to 16 movies, sitcoms, games and more at the same time. Added into the feature the subscribers are able to customize six channels at once with the Mosaic feature, and comes with a new remote with a simplified design with advanced voice recognition (Dish.com).…
a ticket and moved to San Francisco. I sold all my stuff, except for my flute, and started over” (PROJECT Trio Flutist). San Francisco was where he learned the art of beatboxing. He sought after a few street performers that he saw, he would watch them very closely and learn. Later on, he became better and better at it with his effort, “Pattillo would practice beatboxing at the 16th and Mission Thursday Night gathering…” (PROJECT Trio Flutist). Without giving up on his passion for the flute, he…
The flute contains small pins that hold the keys in place. On occasion, it is necessary to remove these pins if they become bent or damaged. Since the pins are so small, sometimes they will stick and become difficult to remove. In most cases, a pin can simply be pulled with a small pair of needle-nose pliers and removed from the instrument. If the flute pins are stuck profoundly, then you will need to oil the pins to make it possible for easy removal. [+] Show Editor Comments [-] Hide Editor…
family script. According to Byng-Hall (1995), children learn behaviours and family norms from observing parents, and thus demonstrations of favouring music by parents can act as a script that children follow. The script writing can be both obvious and obscure. The situation that my mother forced my sister to learn the piano would be a typical obvious script writing as Borthwick and Davidson (2002) states that parents who had music education in childhood tend to make children receive the same no…
be easily manipulated depending on how certain information has been acquired. The Conversation, The Lives of Others, and Truth in Numbers all record reality using technology. The Conversation uses tape recorders, The Lives of Others mainly uses a typewriter, and Truth in Numbers uses the internet. Technology and the accuracy derived from this source can be deceiving if the technology is manipulative in any way. In The Conversation, Harry Caul is a paranoid, lonely man whose job is to eavesdrop…
a lot has changed throughout the years. For instance, tape recorders compare to iPhones. A tape recorder is an apparatus for recording sounds on magnetic tape and later reproducing them. An iPhone is a combination of an iPod, a tablet PC and a cellular phone made by Apple Computer that pairs the ease of use of an iPod with robust multimedia, internet browsing, and networking capabilities. Also playing tapes out of a VCR vs. a blue ray player are very different in a lot of ways, a blue ray…
Once a week, I meet up with my friend Michael to talk about some of the bigger ideas that seem to consume the great majority of my thoughts. Our bonfire chats generally last until 9 or 10 PM, just in time for me to catch some of the George Noory show on my way home. How can you not love a talk radio show devoted to aliens and conspiracies? The other night, however, 1290 AM was not coming in too great, so I scanned the dial and stumbled upon a voice that could only be that of a Christian…
INTRODUCTION Interactive learning is a learning system that combines together the effect of social networking and urban computing within the same curriculum. Interactive learning has become dominant from a round 2000 and this is due to the increase in the number of people involved in the digital technology and virtual communication. It is a system where the boundary between the educator and the learner means completely nothing and the educators can no longer be regarded as the keeper of…
My Response to Ritchin and Balsamo. From the four reads of the week by Ritchin and Balsamo, my main takeaway from Ritchin was the advancement of digital photography and how it has made it easier for photographers to tell their story through imagery, plus the added effect that tells a false story and Balsamo the unconscious consequence of technological innovations on culture. “Photography, as we have known it, is both ending and enlarging, with an evolving medium hidden inside it as in a…
OVERVIEW: I AM DIGITAL™ 101 The time to bring “I Am Digital™” literacy in the mainstream of American communities is now. Digital literacy can be defined as the ability to access, analyze and engage in critical thinking about the array of messages they receive and send in order to make informed decisions about the everyday issues they face regarding health, work, politics and leisure. Most American families live in “constantly connected” homes with 500+ TV channels, broadband Internet access, and…