A great innovator

As you saw in the background image, my role model is Steve Jobs, who died 4 months ago. In his 56 years, he changed the world, our way of thinking, he had a vision of the world that no one ever had. Everything he invents has to be expedient. In 1971, Steve Jobs met Steve Wozniak and they invented the Apple I that had no mouse, which they did in Steve's parents' garage to sell it. Jobs was the first to see the Xerox commercial which had a mouse driven graphical user interface. It then led to the creation of the Apple Lisa. One year later, an Apple employee invented the Macintosh. In 1985, after leaving Apple, Steve founded NeXT Computers. He was then running out of money but it attracted the attention Ross Perot who invested in this invention. In 1996, Apple bought NeXT for $429 million which bought jobs back to the company he co-founded. 

This purchase led to the invention of the first Mac OS X. Steve jobs resigned as CEO in August 2011, and became chairman of the board. I chose him to be my role model because he didn't give up when he left Apple, he came back and continued on, he also had a great vision of the future. 

That is the reason that his death was really tragic to the world, because we knew that we lost a great innovator, but although he left this world, his hard work will remain forever.

Steve Jobs 1955-2011

What is SOPA

I am extremely happy that we are doing this post, it's a way of knowing what's happening all over the world at the moment. Especially that it concerns many of us, as it concerns the internet and a way to fight online trafficking in copyrighted materiel, in way or another, it's legalizing the internet, no more taking what's not rightfully ours. But don't tell me you never downloaded a song or a movie from the internet, well, this bill is what it's all about, it's here to stop all this. SOPA stands for Stopping Online Piracy Acts, it was a U.S bill introduced by Lamar Smith. Its main goal was to protect the theoretical property of its creators and to give the profits won from American innovations to its innovators. Let's take an example on jailbreak, jail breaking let's you get the paid apps on the App Store for free, that way, the developers that made those apps will not win, and their effort would be useless because everyone-in a symbolical way- stole the app. Personally I'm happy that jail breaking will end, because I was worried that people would go buy the app for free knowing that I made the effort to put, and the developers pay in order to publish it on the App Store. The impact that SOPA will do on web-browsing software is really clear. In a specified case, the web browser "Firefox", it has an extension called MAFIAAFire Redirector, that would redirect users to another location with domains that were banned from the U.S government. Then in May 2011, Mozilla were asked to remove this extension questioning whether this was illegal or not. A lot of companies support this bill, because they feel that they have a chance to gain their rights and not getting robbed. Me, I think it's a great act and I hope it works and stays this way.

A Turning Point

Everyone should deserve a chance to change themselves, I say New Year is the best moment to do that. It is a turning point to your personality, to all the acts you've made, good and bad. And if you don't change yourself, you can start at the beginning of the month, you can even start next week, there's no disparity, no one will judge you, you're the one to judge yourself. This year, you should start fresh, a whole new year with no one stop you from accomplishing your dreams you were incapable of reaching or achieving, it's a top priority for you to think out your acts and improve, and if you have nothing to improve, then try to positively change your friends. New Year's Resolution doesn't have to concern yourself, someone might even improve better than me by just reading this post I'm writing, how ironic is that.

Everyone has negative sides, no one is always positive and perfect, to the point that he doesn't need this assignment. He just has to look harder to find his negative sides, even if it turns out to be only one, he could fix it and wonder, what should he do next, he put a goal this year to fix this mistake, should he then leave and never try to change anything else. No, he should improve more, there are no limits in changing yourself, you just have to look!

So, what will you improve this year, your ethics in class, at home, with your friends. Or is it in sports. Anything you change is a resolution, even the tiniest thing that you change at first, could a huge part of your life in five to ten years. So I decided that 2012 should be my turning point, and this can give you the opportunity to change yourself and the people around you, don't just neglect and leave behind this great opportunity, a great chance for change. My turning point will be 2012, what will be yours?