Colour of Bits

Bits may not have colour in a computer, but I think it does matter once those bits are used for something outside the computer. People like to be given credit for something that they come up with, and people need to know where someone got their ideas and arguements. I had not heard of monolith before I read this article, and the idea that you can get around copyright laws by scrambling the copyrighted material and then unscrambling it just doesn't make any sense. I think it is just a way to avoid royalties and giving someone credit for what they did.

non-obvious enough for a patent

I don't think its fair to ask this question by looking back. It would seem obvious to us now, and I don't think there is a good way to tell if the process was obvious or not when the patent was taken out. Other people have come up with proccesses of creating photomosaics since then. I think that the process may have been non-obvious enough for a patent, but that doesn't mean I think he should have patented the process.

project plan

I was thinking that I wanted to show a reflection of something in water in my project. Then I thought about showing fire as the reflection in the water. I want to try to show show some sort of ruined settlement or village near water, and have a reflection of that same place burning down in the water, to show how the ruins got to be the way they are.

1/11/12

Today we learned about one of the tools I had been looking forward to the most, which is putting part of a picture in another picture. I put johnny depp's face on a butterfly wing. I reflected and rotated a polar bear picture. I think I might put these in my project somewhere.

project thoughts 1

At first I thought I would do something with sepia. Then I finally got the separateColors and the blends to work, and I like those. I think I'll use those in there somewhere. I want to try and see if I can put Johnny Depp's face on a butterfly wing, or put president Roush in a flower vase.

response to carr

Being able to edit puclications makes sense for reference books and encyclopedias, just like the essay says it does. Reference materials should only be able to be edited by those who published them, in order to ensure that they are accurate. If everyone could edit every reference material, nobody would trust refences anymore. I do not think novels will be edited as much as the author claims they weill be. Authors of novels will not want to keep meddling with the same story their whole lives, and audiences won't want to reread the story to see what minute detail was changed this time. Audiences will continue to want new stories to be published, just as they always have.
I can see that many other forms of literature may be constantly revised, but at some point it would be more organized to write a new essay or argument including everything, to make it more cohesive.
The author says that e-books will make it easier for dictatoral governments and school boards to control what their audiences view. I can see a dicatator doing that, but I'm not sure a school board would bother.I've always seen parents fighting to restrict what their kids read, with the school boards against the parents.
I do agree that with the specific knowledge of what pages are skimmed spikked that some authors will begin to tailor their stories more toward their audiences intrests, if that isn't too tedious.