Friday, February 26, 2010

Internet Makes Everything Possible

What is the most well-known technology that has been improved and innovated a lot during these days? If we asked this question to anyone on the streets, workplaces or schools, I think the majority of people would say “It is the Internet”. And why would they choose the Internet as the most developed new technology? One obvious point is that the Internet brings us some new choices to do familiar things rapidly. As for the world has been changed quickly by the Internet use, there are three main different ways of doing things from the past: multiple choices of communication to other people, new business models, and ways of getting information promptly.
First of all, the diversity of communication to people is one direct way which they can see the differences from the past few years. One big difference is how people send their messages to contact each other. Nowadays most of the public tend to write a virtual e-mail or e-card on the computers then send a real letter or card through local post offices. Another point of communicational difference is people can use on-line chatting programs to talk to more people at one time. People installed these instant on-line chatting programs such as MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, AOL, Skype and so on, so they could use them to communicate with their friends and not just one by one as old days. In the past, people could only use telephones to talk to a friend one time but now through these programs, they were not able to have a small group of meeting or discussion on-line together. That is why the general populace consider internet chatting are more suitable for them.
The second change is new business models have been created. Take the advertisements for example, ten years ago, if you were looking for a place to live, a car to buy, a place to eat or find a job, people usually look for the advertised pages on the newspaper or some kind of paper advertisements you got from your mailbox. The advertising was very simple and dull which might took us a long time to find out the one we need; it felt like to look for a needle in a haystack. And now, we have a more sufficient way which could save us more time and to sift the exact information we want. Another main point is shopping on-line,

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

The best preparation of Life

What is the most important thing about learning for the best preparation of life? Is it right that people have to learn to be competitive or maybe to be cooperative? Some people consider that learn to be competitive can give themselves more opportunities to become achievement faster than other people; on the other hand, some other people think being competitive will be concerned themselves are not easy to get along with and they will prefer to learn to be more cooperative rather than being competitive. In this case, I will go with learn to be cooperative instead of being competitive for the best preparation of life.
When we were in schools or working, some of assignments required a team work to accomplish, and this was the time people would understand how important for people to learn to be cooperative than competitive. The word “Team Work” is very obvious to understand and tells us it is a group job, which means we need to work with other people. In this situation, we may have to work with the people we don’t like or maybe people who only insists his or her ideas. So how do we solve the conflict in a group discussion? Being competitive is not going to help but only make things even worse. In another words, it is the time to use our cooperative personality and being patient and open-minded to other people’s opinions and combine with others.
In conclusion, I strongly agree that people learn to be cooperative is the best preparation for life or a career then learn to be competitive. Being cooperative can give you happiness if you get along or work well with other people. People are not meant to live by themselves, so learn to be cooperative can provide the self satisfaction for yourself and provide you a better chance to pursued a better lives.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Response: Internet Making Life Easier for Business People

According to the result of the survey “The Internet’s Impact on Business Productivity and Individual Work Habits” shows that most of the respondents use the Internet for a variety of business tasks, and only 13 percent of them prevent or disapprove of the Internet use in their companies. I think this is the interesting part of the result that even the Internet has become ordinary technology nowadays, but there are still some businesses, which abandon web use during work. Does it mean that these companies are just showing that their employees don’t need to use the Internet and still can do their job well or maybe it is because these bosses feel that some of their employees? On the contrary, 68 percent of the survey shows that these companies gain business profit from the Internet. So this makes me wonder what the real reason is for 13 percent of businesses don’t collaborate with the web. Are they really running the companies without any network or intranet help?

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Summary: Internet Making Life Easier for Business People

In his article, “Internet Making Life Easier for Business People”, Michael Pastore reported that the survey “The Internet Impact on Business Productivity and Individual Work Habits ” shows the American companies are promptly combine the Internet with their daily business practices, and they use it as a tool to collaborate with businesses and improve work productivity. Most of the survey respondents use the Internet to do many kinds of works. Mainly they use it to access online maps, obtain flight information, conduct research on other companies and other tasks. There are 68 percent of respondents said the internet help them reduced the costs and 63 percent said it makes customer service becomes much better, and they all consider themselves gain a lot of benefits from the Internet. For business travelers, four out of five respondents use it to connect to network or intranet and more than half of them use it to rearrange their travel plans. More and more business professionals are using the Internet to attend a meeting or work with other coworkers.

Michael Pastore, “ClickZ.” Internet Making Life Easier for Business People. 1999.

Monday, February 8, 2010

Human Activities Make the Earth Even Worse to Live

Many people think that human activities have damage or hurt the Earth so much in this modern society, and some people consider these human activities only bring people a better place to live. In this point, I am completely agree with human activities have damage the Earth too much. The development countries are trying to expand their industry places as large as possible and they try to add more technical facilities in their societies as much as they can do. Their purpose is to make their country a better and modern place for people to live but they ignore the side effects of these human activities bring to the Earth. There are two main seriously damages that the Earth already had.
First one is global warning issue. Global warning problem has become more and more popular in the past few years. There’re many scientists trying to find a way to slow down or even stop this horrible damage to the Earth, but it’s hard to make it because of the developing industries. The global warning has caused the icebergs melting so fast and a lot in every year. This change makes the polar bears has rare place to live and also no fish to catch, furthermore, they died because of hungry and cold weather.
Another serious damage is all kinds of environmental pollutions. These pollutions include such as air, water, noise and so on, and these all because of human activities which are being over-developed. Take air pollution for example, there are more and more new born children have breath and noses care problems based on it. They have to take medicines when they were little and their parents are dying to find a better and health place to live just because of the air pollution.
In conclusion, I believe that human activities not only broke the balance between nature and human society but also make the Earth a worse place to live. The Earth has already being harmed by what we called human development and the governments and companies should take responsibilities to make the Earth become a more health and safe place for populations to live.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Communicational Differences from the Past to the Internet World

Since internet has became more and more popular than 10 years from now, people have been changed their ways of communicating with their friends rapidly. One big difference is how people send their messages to contact each others. Nowadays most of the people tend to write a virtual e-mail or e-card on the computers then send a real letter or card through local post offices. The reason that people choose to do this way because they consider this is a more efficient and quick method to communicate with their families and friends, they don’t have to be restricted by time, places and distances. Another point of communicational difference is people can use on-line chatting programs to talk to more people at one time. People installed these programs such as MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, AOL, Skype and so on then they could use these instant chatting programs to communicate with their friends and not just one by one as old days. In the past, people can only use telephones to talk to a friend one time but now through these programs, they are allowed to have a small group of meeting or discussion on-line together. In conclusion, above all are the biggest changes of the communicational differences from the past to internet world. Communications through internet not only make the world more circulating but a big revolution of technology.

Monday, February 1, 2010

Internet Makes Everything Possible (Final)

The Internet nowadays has been developed to do various things to help the world become more efficient and immediate. There are three main aspects that internet makes everything possible. First of all, internet has sufficient access and access to the world. The Internet makes the worldwide news all in peoples’ hands by just a simple click then you can search the latest news you want to know. It gradually takes the place of the traditional newspaper and TV news. For example, if there’s a country or city suffering from an enormous earthquake now, people from the other side of the world will be able to learn about the latest news and will also know what’s kind of support they might need and then provide them supplies efficiently. The second point is the dynamic possibility of Internet marketing. Internet marketing has opened a new business vision of selling products to the customers. For example, people can easily find their needs on-line and purchase them right away without place and time limitation. The last one is we can use internet to communicate to the world. It’s a much more convenient and fast way to talk to friends. For example, more and more people use on-line chatting programs such as MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Skype and so on to bond with their friends. In conclusion, internet not only makes people to feel they can do almost everything on-line but also gives you a new way to see the world.