Mobile phones

Mobile phones are phones that you can take anywhere you want so basically they are mobile. It’s another way of communicating and very commonly used around world. In today’s society nearly everyone has they own personal mobile phone. In Australia over half the people have mobile phones; in a wide variety of settings – at works, at home, out and about, for convenience and security, Mobile Phones has become part of our way of life. However, In terms of service control, mobile communications has inherent advantages and disadvantage.

 

Mobiles are used for their purpose, to communicate; mobiles are there to keep in touch with friends and family and in case of an emergency if you need a phone. I personally have a phone and I found it’s really useful in my life, I can call anyone at anytime from anywhere to bulid up the good realtionship with all of my friends. A great advantage of the mobile telephone is that people are always in touch, always reachable; and a great disadvantage is that people are always in touch, always reachable. The age newspaper has pointed out the mobile phone help people not fall in sleep after 8hours working on the publice transpot. People can send message or chating with friends on the way to home. Because mobile phone can always be on and accessible to receive information. Now the mobile phones and computer are starting to merge, with handsets offering the ability to process, send and receive data. The upshot is that many mobile phones can now play games, send and receive email, instant messages, digital photos and even video. Nine in 10 people in the Australia now own one and also it add $6 billion a year to the Australian economy.

 

Since the Mobile Broadband has appeared, these devices that mix phone and computer it helped simplify our lives.  For example, mostly with 3G connections and with digital cameras built in, there are increasing number being able to shoot short videos; It offers downloads at speeds high enough to make it possible to download news and sport clips, make video calls to friends or family…etc; and also we can take photo and share photos with online sites such as Flickr or mail them to friends as messaging service, or to an email account for storage.  As for myself, I will always use this sort of service send my photo to my mum from Australia to China.

 

In addition, Mobile phones have large advantages for businesses. The biggest advantage of having a business mobile phone is that it becomes much easier to contact you. For example, Mr. Smith is away from the office, a colleague or customer can be put straight through to your mobile phone. Even if they can only speak to you briefly, it is better than turning them away with no contact. Mobile phones can allow a whole network of employees or offices to communicate with each other no matter where they are. Even if each employee has their own land telephone number, when they are away from that location they normally become unreachable. Effective use of mobile phones can help improve both employer to employee, and employee-to-employee communications. No matter what type of business you run, it is almost certain that telephone communication plays a vital role in communication with customers and business partners. It allows you to be accessible at all times, wherever you are. It can help improve communication between staff and customers, particularly business to business customers that may involve traveling.

 

The mobile telephone has quickly, profoundly, and unexpectedly altered many aspects of human life — social, economic, cultural and political. Thus for every advantage a new technology offers, there is always a corresponding disadvantage.

 

Firstly, People are not always in an opportune place, time, or frame-of-mind to pick up the phone. Mobile phone being accessible from anywhere in the country is that people who try to sell you things and waste your time or racketeer via the mobile phones. For example, in UK there are increasing people experienced the problem of incessant and unwanted mobile phone calls telling them has won a prize. “There has been a recent explosion in the number of people receiving unwanted automated phone calls telling them they have won a prize if they return the call in UK”, the BBC news in UK have also pointed out. The Office of Fair Trading believes the practice is netting fraudsters up to £150million a year. As we see, the mobile phone also will bring some serious problem to us.

 

In recent years, another big issue is mobile phone’s health. “…Mobile might wrecking your brain and other health effects…”, some health researchers have pointed out.

Anyhow, although research on mobile phones has proven that they have the possibility to cause cancer or other health problem, in my opinion they are still a main part of our lives. Some of us need mobiles to contact family members to organize when we shall get picked up from different places. If there is someone in trouble a mobile phone could be used to call different places. If there is someone in trouble a mobile phone could be used to call an emergency number to either save a life or call the police and arrest a criminal. Some people might say that we could just use public phone to do all these things. Fine. If the circumstance arrives and there is a public phone on offer then if they want they can use that, but the point is there are not public phones on every street corner and mobile phones are easier to use and much more accessible. Due today, the results of the studies to prove that mobiles can cause cancer are inconclusive and the chance of getting cancer from mobiles is much less than getting cancer from smoking or the sun.

 

However, mobile phone solves problems and makes our life better, it allowing instant communication with friends and family, downloading of maps, or just staying entertained with music and games…etc. Mobiles have become a part of our everyday life and they have benefits that far outweigh any possible risks that they may have on users.

 

 

Conclusion

 

In brief, as with every new high level of electronic connectedness products invention, there have been unforeseen consequences. It is up to us to find the solutions to the problems as well as to enjoy the conveniences of this new tool. I cannot help taking position that technology creates new problems that damage the quality of life; this does not deny great benefit of technology. In my opinion, new high level of electronic connectedness products today has some accompanying problems with itself, but whether you like it or not, these products are here to stay; because there are so many beneficial so that many people rely on it!

Television

Does TV educate or stimulate? Or is it a drug or tranquilizer used to control the population? As many people know, we can divide watching TV to situations when it is useful and helpful for us and at times harmful.

 

How do people usually answer the question: “what are you going to do tonight?” or “what are you going to do at the weekend?” some 20 or 30years ago the usual answers used to be “we are going the theatre” or “we are going to the party” or “we are having some friends round”, but now we are very often hear “we are going to stay at home and watch television”. A good serial can keep the whole family in front of the TV for days. Modern TV offers viewers several programmers on different channels. In addition to regular newscasts you see lays and films, operas and balers and watch all kinds of contests, quizzes and sporting events. People also can get a lot of useful information from the education channels.

 

Besides, television gives people unlimited sources of various news and knowledge showing aspects of our lives. The manager from Taiwan TVBS channel Qunsai Li suggested that,” Television can brings you to dream of journey around the world to see many countries with a lots of attractions, I suggest taking your remote control and press an appropriate button. You can watch animals and the greatest monuments; it will take you wherever you want to go. If you have enough money, throw away your TV set after watching and take a plane to visit you want to go. ” He also pointed out, “Television is a powerful medium that communicates with both sight and sound…” Therefore if you dream of journey around the world to see many countries with a lot of attractions; I suggest watching the world travel program is the best choice.

 

Another major advantage is the digital television has appeared, because digital television will provide clear, sharper pictures. The public TV website has issued that, “Digital technology allows public television stations to broadcast programs in much higher resolution and clarity than current analog television. Viewers will be able to receive visually stunning high quality, crystal clear pictures displayed in a wide-screen format”. Beside the ‘Digital Home Magazine’ has issued that “analog TV signals we watch today are made up of 525 interlaced lines, which are subject to screen flickering, ghost-shadows, and blurring. Digital televisions are dramatically different in that they receive signals digitally in the form of zeros and ones, so problems with ghost-shadows and blurring are not factors. Digital signals also produce a higher quality TV picture, displaying crisp, sharp, and vivid images using up to 1080 lines instead of 525 lines.” Additionally, from my personal experience within watching the digital TV at home (when I come back china), I felt watch digital television as in the private cinema; because it can deliver cinema-quality sound and picture and gave me the enjoyable moment.

 

TV brings fun to us, it has music, it’s full of color and up-close and personal. You can share TV viewing at home with family and friends, or you can catch it in a club, sports bar or restaurant. But there are some costs inside of the television.

 

Children who grow up with TV in their bedroom will cause the ‘Lower Test Scores’. The HealthDay Reporter Steven Reinberg pointed out, “if children too much tube time can lower test scores, retard learning and even predict college performance”. According to his report –a child who has a TV in his or her bedroom is likely to have a score that is eight points lower on a mathematics test compared to a child who doesn’t have a TV in the bedroom; and these children also scored lower on the reading and language arts tests. “…Regardless of your intelligence or social background, if you watch a lot of TV during childhood, you are a lot less likely to have a college degree by your mid-20s”, Dr. Robert J. Hancox the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand have pointed out. When there’s TV in the bedroom, parents are less likely to have control over the content and the amount watched; and also unable to know how early or how late the set is on. Hour after hour, day after day, children will be bombarded by sordid, violent images and they get obtain a various programming that glamorizes casual sex, crime, substance abuse, and occultist practices from the television. The TV programs may not to tell us what to think, but it have strong influence people’s mind.

 

Though there are lots of harmful Television programs but TV still plays the most definitely and very important art in people’s life. I can only say that I usually derive beneficial information from this kind of mass media. People can share TV viewing at home with family and friends, or we can catch it in a club, sports bar or restaurants. Television programs really deserve our attention. In the end, I would like to add, that nowadays TV is indispensable.

To being with, commutation by computer has caused some problems. We can easily receive a message; both wanted and unwanted, in just few minutes. The researcher Paul Hasenrader has found out a line manager received between 300-400 messages a day.  Manager has to read though them, because he doesn’t want to miss anything important for a story his working on. It took him several hours to read them. But most of them were junk mail, just few important. “People spend all day shuffling these bloody messages back and forth,” George Jones a chairman of Portman Mining pointed out. Our expanded ability to communicate means, that anyone with a computer can communicate anything to anyone on any subject at any time. In addition to problems in computer have also caused problems in business. The computer via Internet access has created excellent opportunities for computerized crime. Computer hackers use their skills to obtain secret business information and to steal money. For example, Yueqing Zhang a computer hacker from Hong Kong obtained twenty thousand usable credit card numbers by breaking into the computer files of a credit card company. He also erased the accounting records of another big company before he was caught and arrested. Banks worry that hackers will learn how to transfer money out of customers’ accounts into their own. “So far, we have been able to stay one step ahead of the hackers in this particular game,” said by bank spokesperson Qiongxi Wong. Anyhow the security is never one hundred percent in any business, especial via the Internet access.

 

These examples show that the computer has created problems as well as benefits in

the area of communication. A computer-literate child can receive pornographic photos and listen to chat room conversations about sex; but it also can help people to get various useful data and information just by few seconds. All in all, it is clear that computers and Internet access have made our lives easier, but they have done at a cost.

 

Computers and Internet Access

We live in the age of technology. New technology appears everyday, ranging from mini-CD that contain entire encyclopedias to giant space telescopes that can send photographs of distant stars back to earth. Of all the new technological wonders, in Australia there are increasing people enjoying the high level of electronic connectedness and these products had the greatest influence on the daily lives of many people. This assignment will describe the high level of electronic products (Computers; Internet Access; Television; Fixed Line Phone and Mobiles) affect the people’s daily life, through causing both positive and negative factum.

 

Computers and Internet Access

 

Personal computers have especially revolutionized communication and business practices in the past twenty years. Perhaps the most important effect of personal computers has been to expand our ability to communicate with the outside world. The university students in Darwin can obtain statistics for a history paper via the net from a library in Sydney; a lonely people in Melbourne can talk can talk with a similarly house bound person in Brisbane; a computer user can send an email message to millions of people all over the world with one keystroke; or they can get together in an online chat room to discuss their interests and problems with others who have similar interests and problems, also they can share the information with others.

 

For example, Kenjun Wu who is planning a vacation, he is in Taiwan and he wants to know the names of the best beaches in Australia.  Via the Internet access he login to chat-room and ask others who have already been there for suggestion and also he meet a someone who is in gold coast on the net, and they become a very good friend when he visit there. He said he the Internet access is really benefit to him because the possibilities of computerized communication are unlimited. Besides improving communication, personal computer have made it possible to do business from home to take care of personal business. For example, you can buy airline tickets and send flowers to a friend; you can pay your bills, buy and sell stocks via Internet access from home computer at any time of the day. As myself, I used to sell my clothes and shoes via the Vogue forum and also I have brought a pair of shoes and some clothes in Taiwan Yahoo sale space. I think this is a great convenience for people who are busy during the day and for physically disabled people who find it hard to leave their homes. Furthermore, telecommuting – working at home instead of going to the office has become a choice for thousands of business people. Susan Carreiro, a financial manager for a large company in Brisbane. She goes to her office only once a week. Another four days, she works at home and communicates with her staff by computer. She say, “I am much more productive when I work at home because there are no interruptions. I also don’t have to spend three hours traveling to and from the office everyday.” She saved time and saved company money by telecommuting.

 

In brief, the computer and Internet Access age has arrived and starting changing our lives. It has made communicating and doing business faster and more convenient; it has greatly increased our access to information. Along with the computers have become common in home, school and business, it also has caused some problems via the computer communication.

Communications in the 21st Century

Most Australians enjoy a high level of electronic connectedness (fixed line phones, mobiles, computers, internet access etc.) and this has an impact on the ways we work, play sustain relationships, and so forth.

There are lots of benefits we’ve considered from those technology. But we’ve also considered some costs associated with living in what some have called the “information age”. so I am start to think their benfits and cost.

My following bolg will deals with how the high level of electronic connectedness products influences people’s daily life in nowadays. It will written with the combination of knowledge that I learnt from school and other material/journals in order to create better understanding within the electronic products development –computer, internet, television, and mobile phone. Due to the interactions of these products, there are some benefits and costs would not only affect just one, but all of them. I will investigate why these products occur various benefits and costs at the moment.

 

Medals

The Medals for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games were unveiled in March, 27, 2007. The medals are 70mm in dia Olymeter and 6 mm think. On their frong side, the medals bear the standard design prescribed by the international Olympic Committee. On their back, the medal is inlaid with jade with the Beijing Games emblem engraved in the metal centrepiece. A jade “Huang”, a semicircular, ceremonial piece of jade, inspired the design of the medal’s bail that is decorated with a double dragon and a pu (ingterwoven reed) pattern.

Noble and elegant, the Beijing Olympic Games medals skilfully incorporate traditional Chinese culture and Olympism and will fully recognize and honour the great achievements of successful athletes at the 2008 Games.

Mascots – Fuwa / Fu Niu Lele

Mascots – Fuwa

 

Like the five Olympic Rings from which they draw their colours and inspiration, the Fuwa serve as the official mascots of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, carrying a message of friendship and peace and blessings from China – to children all over the world. Expressing the plauful qualities of five little children who form an intimate circle of friends, the Fuwa also embody the natural characteristics of four of China’s most popular animals: the fish, the panda, the Tibetan antelope, the swallow and the Olympic flame.

  Each of the Fuwa (as you can see the pic below) has a rhyming two-syllable name, and when you put their names together – Bei, Jing, Huan, Ying and Ni – they say Beijing huanying ni! Or “Welcome to Beijing.” It symbolizes a the warm invitation to the people of the world that reflects the mission of the Five Fuwa as playful young ambassadors for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

 

 

The Fuwa also embody the landscape, the dreams and aspirations of people from every part of the vast nation of China. In their origin and from their headpieces, you can see the five elements of natural – the sea, forest, fire, earth and sky – all stylistically rendered in ways that represent the deep traditional influences of Chinese folk art and ornamentation.

-       Beibei, a fish who carries the blessing of prosperity, is strong in water sports and reflects the blue Olympic ring.

-       Jingjing, a giant Panda, is charmingly naïve and optimistic. He is an athlete noted for strength who represents the black Olympic ring.

-       Huanhuan is a child of fire, symbolizing the Olympic flame and the passion of sport expressed in the Olympic motto:”Citius, Altius, Fortius.”

-       Like all antelopes, Yingying is fast and agile. Yingying, strong in track and field events, represents the yellow Olympic ring.

-       Nini is as innocent and joyful as a swallow. She is strong in gymnastics and represents the green Olympic ring.

 

 

Mascots – Fu Niu Lele

 

The mascot for the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games is Funiu Lele. The design of Funiu Lele derives its inspiration from the farming cultivation culture of ancient Chinese civilization.

 

The cow, symbolic of a down-to-earth, diligent, staunch and unyielding spirt, was used to portray the unremitting spirit of athletes with a disability in being the best they can be. It dovetails with the upbest spirit of Paralympians and the concepts of “Transcendence, Equality, Integration” of the Beijing Paralympic Games.

 

Fu Niu Lele’s image, with its strong Chinese style, combines the virtues of benevolence, hard world and striving for excellence. Fu Niu Lele, together with the emblem featuring the elements of the sky, earth and human beings, integrates the fine Chinese tradition of “striving to become stronger and great virtues carrying great responsibilities” with the theme of the Beijing Paralympic Games: One World One Dream. It will also send the best wishes of the Chinese people to people with a disability in all parts of the world for happiness, peace and good luck.

 

Beijing 2008 Olympic/Paralympic Emblem

Today would like to introduce Beijing 2008 Olympic/Paralympic Emblem.

“Chinese Seal – Dancing Beijing” is the emblem of the Beijing Olypic Games. The original design of the emblem was selected from nearly 2000 entries that BOCOG received from around the world.

The emblem delicately incorporates a seal, Chinese characters and the Olympic rings. With a running figure waving its hands to embrace victory, the emblem stands for a vigorous Beijing opening her arms to welcome friends from all over the world. It is a perfect blend of the Olympic spirit abd traditional Chinese culture and it is a treasure dedicated by the Chinese people to the Olympic Movement.

“Sky, Earth and Human Beings”, the emblem of the Beijing Paralympic Games, is a stylized figure of an athlete in motion, illustrating the tremendous efforts people with a dis ability have to exert in sports and throughout their daily lives. With the unity and the harmony of “Sky Earth and Human Being,” the emblem organically incorporates Chinese characters, calligraphy and the Paralympic spirit. It embodies the ture Paralympic motto of “Spirit in Motion” and reflects the integration of mind, body and spirit in human beings, the core philosophy of Chinese culture. The three colours in the emblem represent the Sun(red), the Sky(bule) and the Earth(green).

Beijing 2008 Olympics Games

Hi, My name is Dolly (Dian Wang). I am a Chines student of the Transient spaces subject.

In here I would like to introduce Beijing 2008 Olympics games to all of you.

The topic will include:
1. Beijing 2008 Olympic/Paralympic Emblem;
2. Beijing 2008 Olympic/Paralympic Mascots – Fuwa / Fu Niu Lele;
3. Beijing 2008 Olympic Medals;
4. Communications, Cultural Events and Media Services;
5. Beijing – an Olympic City.

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