This is the first article I submitted for News Matters.
I believe it matters because we are living in the technological world (E Century)
So, enjoy~
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News Article: (Technology) Apple’s Shadow Hangs Over Game Console Makers
Summary:
In the current market, gaming applications are more and more popular on cell phones. An evidence is that 168 games out of the 758 new game shown in the Tokyo Game Show last week are of Cellphone platforms. “We are going to be moving to an era when different software stores fight against each other,” Mr. Hanamura, the chef executive of Capcom, said. In addition, the executive of Konami Digital Entertainment also told the reporter: “As a platform, the cellphone has the biggest potential, because everybody owns one.”
Thus, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony are all making tremendous amounts of price cuts and coming up with eye-catching innovations. Nintendo introduced new device to download digital contents such as music, photos, video, and games. Microsoft is developing "a motion system that combines cameras with voice and face-recognition software" so people can play using natural body movements rather than hand-held controllers. The last but not the least is SONY, who promised a 3-D video game using a new controller similar to that of wii.
Despite all the changes, however, analysts believe the major evolution will come with gaming applications for computers. “After all," as Mr. Yoshida had said, "we’re talking about the kind of games people make sitting in a cafe with a laptop.”
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Monday, September 28, 2009
What to publish and what not to publish? Can anyone answer that perfectly?
This is the response I made to our school blog post. The post focused on a recent debate "at the Associated Press and other news agencies over the use of a graphic photo of an American Marine being tended to after being wounded by a rocket-propelled grenade. The Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, asked the AP not to run the photo out of deference to the family’s wish for privacy, but the AP published the photo anyway, citing a need to show 'the sacrifice and the brutality of war.' "
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Relating Articles:
Behind the Scenes: To Publish or Not?
"A Grieving Father's Plea For Out Troops" by John Bernard
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My response:
I'm sorry to disagree with most of the responses above, but I do agree with AP's decision to publish the photo. Personally, the photo didn't have a great impact on me until I read the whole story. And at that instant I remembered The Falling Man from 9/11. The photo was really conterversial across the U.S. continent; many parents had called in the publication office to tell them how wrong they were in making that decision. But I think what they did is correct. As the AP had said: "[...] the value of that image was to show the complexity, the sacrifice and the brutality of the war.”
To me the parents are angry and dismay at this kind of story because they feel like they are not doing enough for their child, that something should have been done but wasn't. I would scorn at the publication and tear up the newspaper article if the person was very close to me. But years later I will be treasuring that same torn piece of article, just because it was the reality. As one of the reader, John Doe, said: "This picture is evidence of the truth and the truth is bitter." Corporal Bernard's squad crew understood this, and that is why they asked Ms. Jacobson for all the photos she had taken on the squad. “None of them complained or grew angry about it” when they came across the dying image.
In addition, in response to the article, a mother of two active servicemen, Corina Silva, had said: "Living with the heartache of an extended deployment or worse is hard. Very hard." But in my opinion, rather than honoring and memorizing someone I love and died with all the glorious achievements he had made, I'd rather remember him as who he really is and what he had really went through, even if that process will torn my heart into pieces.
I don't know if many have followed up on Bloviating Hammerhead's blog, but in it there is the father's thoughts on the current U.S. military: "A Grieving Father's Plea For Our Troops." I'm really bad at inferring ideas, but I believe the father acknowledged AP's decision on publish the photo at the end.
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Relating Articles:
Behind the Scenes: To Publish or Not?
"A Grieving Father's Plea For Out Troops" by John Bernard
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My response:
I'm sorry to disagree with most of the responses above, but I do agree with AP's decision to publish the photo. Personally, the photo didn't have a great impact on me until I read the whole story. And at that instant I remembered The Falling Man from 9/11. The photo was really conterversial across the U.S. continent; many parents had called in the publication office to tell them how wrong they were in making that decision. But I think what they did is correct. As the AP had said: "[...] the value of that image was to show the complexity, the sacrifice and the brutality of the war.”
To me the parents are angry and dismay at this kind of story because they feel like they are not doing enough for their child, that something should have been done but wasn't. I would scorn at the publication and tear up the newspaper article if the person was very close to me. But years later I will be treasuring that same torn piece of article, just because it was the reality. As one of the reader, John Doe, said: "This picture is evidence of the truth and the truth is bitter." Corporal Bernard's squad crew understood this, and that is why they asked Ms. Jacobson for all the photos she had taken on the squad. “None of them complained or grew angry about it” when they came across the dying image.
In addition, in response to the article, a mother of two active servicemen, Corina Silva, had said: "Living with the heartache of an extended deployment or worse is hard. Very hard." But in my opinion, rather than honoring and memorizing someone I love and died with all the glorious achievements he had made, I'd rather remember him as who he really is and what he had really went through, even if that process will torn my heart into pieces.
I don't know if many have followed up on Bloviating Hammerhead's blog, but in it there is the father's thoughts on the current U.S. military: "A Grieving Father's Plea For Our Troops." I'm really bad at inferring ideas, but I believe the father acknowledged AP's decision on publish the photo at the end.
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Saturday, September 12, 2009
"Join Free The Children!"
幫 Judy 做的海報～ 不知道她喜不喜歡哪～～～
那黑黑的東西其實是圍牆喔，不是螢幕。Q____Q
然後愛心裡面還有很多個愛心～ 大家都在笑啊！︿＋＋＋＋︿
"Join Free The Children! Help us build a school!" --> FreeTheChildren.com
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Monday, September 7, 2009
電腦 v.s. 電子 機械
姊姊說一個部落格就該中文與英文分開，版面才會清晰，所以我來試試看中文英文穿插的感覺會是如何。=D
大學第二年開始了，好開心～ 今年也想試好多好多不同的事情、認識好多好多不同想法的人。可惜興趣太廣闊讓我的主修感到危機；是要轉成 Computer Engineering，然後拿Master 的Electrical Engineering 呢，還是五年都拿Electrical Engineering，期間再自己學程式呢？
禮拜三就要去找電機系主管，到時候就會知道答案了，耶！
希望大家也能追求自己的興趣唷！
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大學第二年開始了，好開心～ 今年也想試好多好多不同的事情、認識好多好多不同想法的人。可惜興趣太廣闊讓我的主修感到危機；是要轉成 Computer Engineering，然後拿Master 的Electrical Engineering 呢，還是五年都拿Electrical Engineering，期間再自己學程式呢？
禮拜三就要去找電機系主管，到時候就會知道答案了，耶！
希望大家也能追求自己的興趣唷！
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