Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Will CDs die..or not??

Today, we talked about the music industry at the first half of the class.
And Professor asked us if the music industry will disappear or not.

My answer is..
I guess at least in Japan, it won't die for couple of decades.
The reason why I think this way is that Japan has so many CD rental shops.
The main CD rental shops are TSUTAYA and GEO.


They lend us CDs, Albums, and DVDs for limited duration (one day, two day, a week, two weeks and so on).
Therefore, many Japanese use these shops so that they can get higher quality sound than just download from the Internet, and the price of lending is also cheap.
I don't know if the U.S. has these kind of rental shops a lot, but if there are, I think CDs won't die.

Nowadays, TSUTAYA and GEO started delivery service of CDs and DVDs.
We can purchase on online so that we don't need to go to the store.
It's more convenient than before!
This service uses the Internet, but it doesn't harm the music industry or the rental shops.
Isn't it an awesome thing? :)

Personally, I hope the music industry won't die.
I want the high quality of the sound to remain...

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Firefox

Couples of weeks ago, we talked about the browser in class.
Actually, before we talked in class, I had no idea the difference between browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, and so on.
So I was just using the Internet Explorer as my browser because if I double click the image of the Internet, it will take me to the Internet.
However, after I listened to the discussion in class that the Internet Explorer is bad, I felt guilty using it. Then I started to search about the Firefox because they said it's faster and NCC recommends it.
Since I do not know anything about browser, I was a little bit scary changing my browser.
What will happen to my bookmarks? What are the merits and demerits?
The official website of the Firefox solved my problems!
It has explanation videos of the Firefox for the beginners about the features or the convinient way of using it.
Therefore, I decided to use the Firefox as my browser.
It is similar to the Internet Explorer, but it is faster and the addons are so convinient!

I regret that I didn't know such a good browser for a long time!
I can say that I can't go back and use the Internet Explorer again! :)

I wonder if the user of the Firefox will exceed that of the Internet Explorer...

Saturday, February 5, 2011

The Net Generation

We, born around 1990's, are in the middle of transforming of media.
When I think of my early childhood, I watched TV programs for kids or other stuff, but mostly, I was playing outside with my friends and family (mainly my dad and 3 years older brother).
However, the big desktop came to my house when I was 3rd grade in elementary school.
This was a big change for my family. Although the time we spend outside didn't quite change, we started to spend time with our computer a lot.
My dad and I competed which can type faster on certain things, or my brother and I played with online game.
When I was 5th grade, I got a cellphone because my brother got one, too.
I begged my mom to buy it because if I have one, it seems cool!
She was convinced due to the security things.
After that, I became not to be able to live without a phone.
YES, I was addicted to a phone.
Besides, I bought MP3 player by myself and started to play video game with my brother so that my life was surrounded with new media.
However, I don't think the new media has a bad influence on young children.
It can give us educational things and more information.
Many parents are worried about violation and indecent stuff, but now there are many security on online so that children will be protected.

I have just one concern. That is, young kids no longer play in outside. They don't know how to play sports or they luck of ability to play.
This is becoming a serious concern among Japanese people.

If they would know the balance between outside activity and inside one, that might work the best for younger digital generation.