Scavenger Hunt Discussion
– Teacher strike: will find any article with the words teacher and strike
– “Teacher strike”: will only find articles that have the specific quoted phrase
– By using more search options, it is easier to narrow down the search depending on what type of piece is being searched for
– Command-Shift-4 for screen shot on Mac; Print Screen on Windows
– Plural will result in different results than the singular
– Consistency is a good criteria to base accurateness off of
– Site:.edu will search just for sites under the .edu domain (can be used for other domains)
Audio
– Only certain amount of gradients a digital audio copy can have
– Can get faithful reproductions, but never exact
– Every point has to be a 0 or a 1, cannot be a 0.5.
– MP3 encoding standard is meant to compress file (~ 5MB)… MP3 converts 0.8’s to 1’s, etc.
Video
– When digitized, everything is converted to 1’s and 0’s… like audio
– Chopped up into pixels; use of differential
– Evolution of video has caused quality issues nowadays with the use of High-Definition
– Faithful reproduction of video is difficult to come about; Titanic produced earlier is not the same as the new 3D/HD Titanic nowadays
Text
Images