Pipe 2

This is my 2nd pipe. It gives me news pertaining to UGA and Athens.



Pipe 2

Movie

Inglorious Basterds

Inglorious Basterds, is a movie directed by Quentin Tarantino. The film takes place in Europe during World War II. A group of Jewish- American soldiers enter battle with the goal of killing every Nazi they find. While in Europe, the group kills many Nazi before being assigned to Operation Keno. In the mission, the group goes under cover as Nazis and attend a Nazi film premier which all the German leaders are attending. Their mission is to blow up the building, killing all inside. They set dynamite in place, but then are detected by a Nazi leader. He holds them captive, but then tells them he will let the operation continue if given American citizenship.They agree, and the theather is destroyed killing Hitler and the rest of the Nazi regime.

For more Information

IMDB- Inglorious Basterds

Presidential Pipe

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/mist5600pipe1rivalsi

Using yahoo pipes, I created a pipe which filters CNN's RSS feed. I want to keep up to date with all news pertaining to the upcoming Presidential election. I used the fetch site and filter modules. The filter only shows news feeds from CNN's RSS feed that contain one of the following tags in the description: Republican Primaries, Obama, Presidential election.

 

 

The Big Switch

 

1850: In this year Henry Burden built the largest water wheel in the world. With his new water wheel, he was able to generate more power which helped his business. With the increased power from this water wheel, Burden's company became the largest supplier of horseshoes to the United States Army.

1920: This is a picture of a dilapidated and out of use water wheel. Why was the world’s biggest waterwheel now out of commission? During those times, every business built and generated their own power. However, this stared to change. In 10 years 40 percent of power will be generated by centralized units, while 60% will be generated by traditional private generators. This trend will continue, with 95% of power today being generated by centralized generators. IT in businesses appears to be following the same pattern.

1960’s: Companies use mainframe computing. Takes a huge amount of space and capital with very low capabilities. Few employees work with mainframe computers. Not used for day-to-day work.

1990s:  PC is introduced. Every employee has their own computer which has its own software. This is extremely inefficient because every company has its own data centers. Data centers have huge amounts of overcapacity to handle times of heavy usage. 

Today: Companies begin to consider or already using cloud computing. 52% are already using it, the rest are considering it in some capacity. The biggest inefficiency in IT today is labor. 70% of IT labor is doing routine or maintenance work. The consumer side is already predominately using the cloud. Once, people would go out and buy new software and install it via a disc. Now, most people find data and applications on the Internet. Broadband and bandwidth speeds are catching up to the speed of computers. Due to this, companies can “virtualize” software rather than installing it and maintaining it on every single computer. With cloud computing, small businesses can utilize IT without hosting their own server or having their own IT staff. Some companies are centralizing their own data centers, while others outsource it.  The cloud allows more computing power to reach more people. This leads to innovation. It also frees up capital, which changes the business models of companies.

Electric Telegraph vs. The Internet

Similarities to the Internet

Both the Electric Telegraph and the Internet connected the world. They both allow people to receive information quickly from far-away places.
Both the Internet and the Telegraph are affected by the amount of people using them at once. When there is a high amount of traffic, both can take no longer to send and receive information.
3) Both the Telegraph and the Internet are used in business. The Telegraph was often often as important to businesses as the Internet is today.


Different from the Internet
The Telegraph was more controllable and easily censored than the Internet. Telegraph services were typically owned by the government.
 Users of the Telegraph paid by the amount of words in the Telegram they sent. Users of the Internet typically pay a set amount each month no matter how much they use it. Also, the Internet is free in many places   
The Telegraph was used to send and receive text messages while the Internet can send more than just words. Via the Internet, videos, recordings, and more can be sent to others.   



I was most surprised to discover that communication was much more regulated with the Telegraph than the Internet.