The Open Window

Technology is the staple of society as we know it. It generally makes our every day life easier, and more accessible than ever before. One of the most prominent and frequently used pieces of technology that society utilizes is the computer. The computer is utilized for a plethora of uses such as: emailing, creating graphs or spreadsheets, using social media, accessing bank accounts, and discovering new articles or pieces of information. So, with the computer being such an important utility in…

When it comes to buying a computer all it really comes down to is Mac or PC. These two products have some common aspects, but the operating system, hardware, and price can really set these two apart. The operating system of a Mac, created by Apple, is very user friendly. It’s very easy to find what you’re looking for quickly. It is also very appealing to the eye. The OS has a very cool and slick look to it, giving it a nice modern look. It’s also very smooth when in use; for example, when…

software, or potential malware. Shareware installed on a client device is a perfect example where network traffic could increase when downloading electric content onto a corporate network that could potentially be infected with malware. Shareware also opens up the device to sharing its data to the outside world potentially leaking propriatry and confidential data. Monitoring network bandwidth, closing firewall ports, and removing local administrator rights are a few ways to remediate shareware…

will be discussing are made up of those supporting ‘classical’ theism and those supporting ‘free will’ or ‘open’ theism. Classical theism, which has been the chief view held by Christians for many years, states that God is immutable, impassable, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient which includes knowing the future perfectly and all of the decisions that…

purchase, due to budget constraints. Kenneth Goldsmith, in his essay “If it Doesn’t Exist on the Internet, It Doesn’t Exist,” bemoans the lack of quality material available to those who need it. He tells the story of how one of the readers of Ubuweb, his open-access website, was surprised at the difference between the amount and quality of the content in her library (which is in a small Texas town) compared to the materials on Ubuweb. This shortage in resources in libraries, he believes, is due…

to have a positive outlook not only on life, but on myself. This essay gives me a chance to explore the parts of myself that I am proud of and examine the people and events that have shaped me. Three words I would use to describe myself are logical, open-minded, and responsible. Everyone is logical to some degree, but I consider it to be part of my identity because I find that I make most decisions using my mind rather than my emotions. I most likely developed this way of thinking from my dad.…

culture, and all are able to reach a wide audience. Springboarding from increased communications between people across the world, open source projects are able to use crowd-sourced labor to produce software, including entire operating systems. In the first video, they lampoon outsourced technical support for items people have become dependent upon. In the world of open source, end users are more often than not encouraged to both seek out answers from the community and tinker with the software…

“The Calm” by Sean O’Brien is a four part metaphor representing the infinite serenity of the ocean and the stars as well as the revolving of a lighthouse in comparison to the people who have fallen from the light. In the first three stanzas we see beautiful metaphors comparing the rolling of the waves to the movement of the stars and, the revolving of the lighthouse to the tilt of the harbor. The poem continues to describe the inhabitants of a nearby bar who have fallen from stardom, sharing a…

Comparative Essay Imagine a strange man, different from any other, happens to show up on your town, brought by the sea. How would you and the other people meet to his sudden appearance? In both “ A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” and The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”, two villages receive a strange visitor from the sea. However, each village is quite different in the ways they treat the men. In “ A very Old Man with Enormous Wings”, a man with decrepit wings crashed into a small…

just to be cool, a gun is dangerous. Gun can cause somebody to be a different way. If I have a gun I would carry around where I go and I will show off, especially, rich kids, they're more likely to own gun when they just turn 18 According to Sage Open “ In 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and 1 teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado”. Because of the weapon…