Only if you’re driving though. On Tuesday, all states were urged by the National Transportation Safety Board to ban all cellphone usage while driving except for emergencies and implement stronger enforcement — even hands free devices would be banned if the recommendation was implemented fully. This recommendation was made based on the increased number of serious accidents relating to cell phone usage despite the bans that are already in place for some states for texting while driving or cell phone usage for beginning drivers. Many of the current bans have not really been enforced and thus have continued to cause many problems and accidents. Cell phones have become so integrated into our lives, we often use them even when it may not necessarily be appropriate, like while driving. Personally, I favor this ban. Yes, they are important in keeping us connected to our friends and family, but what’s the use of trying to stay connected when you’re failing in trying to stay alive?
- Vivian
Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
No Cell Phone Usage for You!
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
Technical Skills
Friday, June 24th, 2011
Recently, I was reading a book about Google, and the author started talking about the interviews people have to go through to get a job there. Most of us have read about the paradise that is the Google workplace, with its fancy food, dog daycare, and loose rules. The book described the questions interviewees were asked, and one major one asked the candidate to describe, in detail, any technical process. This seems like it should be easy- in a couple decades, one should learn how to build something tangible, or fix something complicated, or perform an engineering feat of some sort. But thinking about it, I couldn’t identify a really technical thing I’m capable of. As all of our manufacturing processes get more and more machine-driven, I think a lot of us have lost the ability to really make anything. This mechanization may have lowered the prices of goods, but their costs may have risen because of our ever-increasing ignorance of how things are made and how they work. Nobody needs to learn how to make their own computer, but building something yourself, to use for yourself, will be rewarding beyond the final product.
- Will
Teens Need Accessories!
Friday, April 1st, 2011
Teens today love electronic devices. Most students just got to have a cellular phone, iPod, or laptop. Youth say that these material things keep them occupied when there’s nothing else to do. Having a phone, iPod and a lab top is fun and enjoyable to them because you can do varies activities with the items. They can listen to music, play and download games, search the web, and also chat with family and friends. These are all things young teens like to do, and much more too. Also teens not only use these things to keep them happy, but they use them for communication, business, school and safety purposes too. But only to which these listings apply to. Some teenagers like to be show offs. Teens will go buy material things to make them look cool so their friends will like them better and not talk about them because they don’t have nothing or have want they friend have. Or they could just be flashers, which is they just like to have nice things because they just like looking good and or to just impress people because their doing well. It’s very necessary for teens to have these things because they need them in their life especially when it’s the only things keeping them happy when they have nothing else to turn too it’s an alternate for them. They replace the bad with the good.
- Sade
Essential Skills
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
Many of us take for granted our access to information and technology, but we often forget that technology doesn’t equate to texting or using your cell phone, nor does knowing how to open an email account or Facebook make you tech-savvy. We also often forget that, as we move forward to the age of information, knowing computer skills is not geeky any more. It is essential to our daily life and will be even more important once we enter the work force.
Computer skills range from knowing basic word documents, excel and power point to something more complicated like navigating and building websites or editing movies. Those skills are not hard to acquire. You just need to be patient and persevere. And what is more exciting than knowing that you can make a career out of technology? Many of those jobs, like web designers, film editors, bloggers, are exciting and well-paid. Another fantastic motivation to learn those skills!
- Phy