SPEAIT2021K Carlos Rodriguez

This week I will talk about 1 design failure and 1 design that succeeded in the technology field particularly cell phones.  First, as a failure I will talk about the GALAXY NOTE 7. It was released in 2016 and was meant to be a revolution and a direct competitor of iPhone. It had several and gorgeous innovations such as a curved display, a long battery life, and a camera that could rival the iPhone.  For example talking about the screen, It had a 5.7-inch AMOLED display with curved edges that wrap to the side of the phone, and a slightly rounded back, giving it a surprisingly good feel. Some other interesting features were to be water resistant and incorporate iris scanning too. Talking about HCI The icons were softer and more rounded, and a lot of the settings seemed easier to access, and so on.  It is proven that they put a lot of effort in the phone and the expectations of success were at the highest. It was actually for many reviewers the best phone Samsung ever made. ...

 I will talk about a typical IT professional in Spain and all the things around that has evolved alongside it. First of all, and something remarkable that has not changed over the years is that most of the students and “professionals” are men. In contrast with other areas that have shifted from a predominant male workforce to female as for example medicine. IT remains a male stronghold for some reason even though it may be changing slightly. I have to say that I have never had an insider vision of an IT guy since any of my close family or friends were attached to it, so I have actually had to look for references to know what it was like, 20 years ago. Something is sure, the range of possibilities was narrower than it is today. As I said previously the range of things available to work with, was limited compared to nowadays. For instance, it was not evident that so many languages  will appear 20 or 30 years ago and the object oriented language didn’t exist at all. In the 90s ma...

Firstly I think it is important to point out what is copyleft and why it came out. It appeared as a response to the use of a public domain version of a Lisp interpreter, which is later used by other interest part and improved to serve a particular purpose and then becoming proprietary software for the only interest of the late part involved.  The original creator of this interpreter was Richard Stallman and he was refused the right to access to the new version of the Lisp interpreter he had created. As a pragmatic person, instead of fighting against the copyright laws, he decided to put his efforts to use it in his own benefits, so he pioneered the use of copyleft by creating his own copyright license, the Emacs General Public License, the first copyleft license. This later evolved into the GNU General Public License, which is now one of the most popular free-software licenses.  The copyleft is a general method for making a program or other work free, which doesn’t mean “grati...

For this week I will give my opinion about the book  The Case for Copyright Reform . The book and particularly chapter 2 is trying to convince readers that the copyright as it’s been conceived, it is not good for society because if it is going to be applied effectively, it will collide with fundamental rights and they are advocating for a modification. When the author say that this copyright law is endangering fundamental rights, it means that if you really want to avoid people sharing digital files, you need to sniff the communication between them and see what kind of information they are exchanging which of course lead you to know everything else if you want to.   That is a difficult debate. If you think that you are harming an author you admire,  most of the people will be in favour of a tough copyright law. By other side, If you think that this law is attempting against your fundamental rights and that it is not protecting the author but the industry and all the ...