Only 150 extra miles and an hour longer of your time

It has been all over the news, the plane that flew 150 miles past their destination of Minneapolis airport. According to the MSN article, Richard Cole and Timothy Cheney were the two pilots who claim to have been on their laptops and became distracted by looking at their schedules. They made it perfectly clear that they did not fall asleep.
It is hard to believe that they lost track of time for a whole hour, even if they were distracted an hour is a long time. It is very scary that they were out of contact for more than an hour with the airline. It is kind of sad that they did not even realize it until a flight attendant mentioned something. How long do you think it would have taken them to realize that they had past their destination? At least the people traveling got their money’s worth. I think it is always nice when the pilots come on the intercom system of the plane and give updates, but obviously that was not a top priority for these pilots. Riders on the plane you think would be wondering what was taking so long, because if you were planning on getting to your destination at a certain time and it was an hour later you would be wondering what was wrong.
Both pilots seem to have a clear record as of flying in the past and are said to be experienced according to their experiences. They were obviously caught not doing their job and it makes you wonder how many times they have been on their laptops on previous flights to this one. It is hard to determine how harsh of a punishment to give them. They were not doing their job, but they were flying the plane just fine to keep it going about 150 miles past their destination landing. The pilots should be punished in some way for not monitoring any of the messages sent from the airlines or other aircrafts. There should be no reason for flying over a city of destination. If I were a passenger on that flight, I would be very thankful to be alive and kind of mad for what happened. I am sure the pilots were very sorry and did not have much to say because they knew they were in the wrong. What are your thoughts about this situation? Do you think the pilots should remain suspended for a longer period of time or have their license taken away?

Online Videos

Videos online have come a long way in the world of the web. Who would have every thought we would be able to watch television shows, movies, and other videos people post online? These videos may have a point of some sort or may be totally random.
YouTube is a site that shares millions of video clips of all sorts. There are videos that include educational information, which is very helpful towards learning. Also, students are able to create their own videos and post them for others to learn from their creation. In that way, YouTube is an excellent source.
There are also many businesses and others using this site to advertise. The video clips act as commercials that are linked to other videos, so people click on them. They are able to put their product in a video that attracts viewers. Viewers get hooked on clicking the different videos that are connected to each other in some way, whether it would be by their name or some other way.
So many people become “addicted” to watching these videos clips online. Most of the videos are not very long, maybe ten minutes at the most. People will go on to look up one video and the next thing they know, two hours has gone by. The smallest clip can turn into clicking another one and then another and so on. It is not necessarily horrible for people to be watching these multiple videos over and over and not doing anything productive with their life. Staring at the screen for hours upon hours can be harmful. Others stare at computer screens for hours of a day for their jobs, but doing it for hours and not being productive will haunt you later on in life, in such a way of ruining your eyesight or other ways. According to this site, http://webvideouniversity.com/blog/2009/03/27/people-spend-85-hours-a-day-staring-at-screens/, the age group 35-44 spends more time on the internet and in front of screens than younger generations. This fact surprised me very much so. I would have totally guessed that younger people spend more time on the web. I still think that it just depends on the person as to how much time they spend in front of computer screens. I know friends who can literally sit for hours on end watching YouTube videos and others who it kills them to sit on a computer for a half hour.

Videos Can Help You Study

Studying is one thing that most people do not appreciate doing. Taking the time to go over topics you have already learned and engraving them into your brain. Somehow most people make it through their high school years of studying, whether it is on the bus ride for a sports game or staying home from the basketball game to do it. Then, there are college years, which you may have to stay home from going out with your friends for a night just to finish that project or cram all night for a test.
Universities require students to take the ACT or SAT tests in order to be accepted. Everyone dreads taking these tests, even though you can take them as many times as you want. There are ways you can study for them and multiple online “quizzes” to take to prepare yourself. Nobody wants to study everything they have learned throughout all of their previous school years just for this one test, because it would take forever. Kids do not want to take time away from their daily lives of watching funny youtube videos or others online to study for the SAT.
Now, higher score insight has a video that helps students prepare for the SAT. They call it suck-free learning. There are multiple crazy things to keep you entertained in this video such as a bear that swills energy drinks and also refreshes your memory in multiple areas. The video on the higher score insight site is all about introduction of the SAT and eliminating distractions. Instead of this boring website: http://www.satexamprep.com/, which provides a boring way to prepare for the SAT test.
The video is broken down into eight different episodes, with each being about 14 minutes long. Having the information broken up and organized makes it so much easier for viewers to comprehend. I think it would be a lot easier to keep clicking and watching these videos over and over again like youtube videos to refresh your brain on information. Episodes 1 and 2 are currently released and other episodes are in the making.
It will be interesting to look back ten years from now and see how the scores have changed from students who decide to use these videos to help them study for the SAT. There is a fee of $29 for all eight episodes of the prep SAT. If you think about it that is pretty cheap because in the end they will pay off and you can always sell them when you are done taking the test.

Photo Sharing

Photo sharing website is becoming more popular than ever. It is a great and easy way to store and share photos. There are advantages and disadvantages to photo sharing sites, just like everything else. There are many things to think about before putting your photos on these sites. Whatever you put on the internet can come back and haunt you, because even if you delete it someone else might have saved it before you deleted it. Another thing to think about is being careful when people are taking pictures of you. You never know who might have a picture of you or what they will do with it. If they put it on a photo sharing site and you may not want it on there you might be out of luck, because they may be friends with your boss on this photo sharing site and then your boss will be able to see all of their photos. So one thing to think about is, who’s getting pictures of you and make sure you are not doing something you wouldn’t want others to see. Some examples of photo sharing sites consist of Flickr and Photobucket are two of the top ones.
Disadvantages of photo sharing include, once you have published your photos anyone can access them. Most sites have privacy settings, but you can never be too sure. People can take your photos from your site and then they are out of your hands as to what they do with them. There are risks of putting photos online as with everything else in the world. Just because you have your photos saved on your sharing site, does not mean that you should not have a back up to those photos if they are precious to you. You never know with technology, they could be wiped out in a second and never retrieved back again. Advantages of having a photo sharing account are many photos can be shared at one time. The photos can be organized so each photo can be found very easily and quickly. Also, you can easily share photos with friends, family, and even for your job. It is great for those who live far away from each other and never get to see each other face to face.
Since photo sharing is becoming so popular, it’ll be interesting to see if people will ever quit printing photos and go all digital photos. Will one day everyone have those digital photo frames all over their houses playing instead of pictures in frames? It seems like that will never happen or be a long time from now, and that might be.