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Here is my avatar.  I choose to make him look like this cause it looks somewhat like me maybe a little better.  Back ground is in the outdoors, cause thats my favorite place to be.

Conversion To Digital

Troubles Digitizing Information

                Digitizing information makes for much easier handling.  There are certain tradeoffs though.  In analog information there is an infinite number of samples.  When you go digital, as in the case of music or video, you must choose the sampling rate that will give you the best combination of size and quality.  The sampling rates you choose with define the accuracy of the information.  It will also determine the quality of the playback.  There is also the concern of the size of the file.  You can get great replay with a high sampling rate, but this also increases the size of the file.  As we have also seen what program you are using will also be a factor in the file size.  Some programs include much more information that you don’t even realize is in the file.

                We use digital media everyday in our lives.  I use MP3 audio files every day in my car, at home, and yes at school.  Video files are also part of my life.  You Tube has an abundance of intriguing videos.  I also use digital information when making text documents just like this one I am writing now.

                It would be almost impossible to imagine a world without digital media.  There are many interesting choices when using digital media though.  Some are not so relevant anymore, such as file size.  We will have to make the right choice of conversion to digital media to suit our own needs.

Movies Interview

Interview: Movies

Interviewer: Craig Clemens

Interviewee: Jackie

What’s your favorite type of movie?

                I like comedies, cause they are light hearted, make me laugh, an cheer me up.

What kind of movies don’t you like?

                I don’t like sci-fi movies.  I find them unbelievable and not worth watching.

What is your favorite movie?

                Any of the movies in the Jurassic Park Series are great.  I like them cause they are intriguing and

                Keep you attention the whole way through.

If you don’t like sci-fi movies how van you like Jurassic Park?  That is a sci-fi kind of movie.

                I guess that I am just a kind of walking contradiction. 

Are there any types of movies that you don’t ever like to watch?

                Yes westerns and any movies in black and white.  I just don’t find westerns interesting at all.  I

                Don’t like the black and white movies cause they aren’t as interesting and exciting as movies

                are today.

How often would you say that you go to the movie theatre to watch movies.

                I probably go about once a month, I usually wait until they get into the cheaper theatres before I

                go see them though I rarely go when they first come out.

Do you rent a lot of movies?

                Yeah I like to rent movies about once a week.  It’s really easy to do these days with the renting

                kiosks like Red Box.

Would you say that movies are a big part of your life?

                Yeah I use them to relax, cheer me up, or fall asleep.