How to view a website’s source code:
1) Navigate to the website who’s source code you want to see e.g. http://www.geraldbkennedy.c1.biz/
2) Right click
3) Select “view page source”
How to see a website’s source code – when right-click is disabled!
The term open source refers to software whose source code, the medium in which programmers create and modify software, is freely available on the Internet; by contrast, the source code for proprietary commercial software is usually a closely guarded secret.
Whilst “Open Source” software is usually free it is not the same thing as “Free Software”. The fundamental difference between the two is in their values, their ways of looking at the world. For the Open Source movement, the issue of whether software should be open source is a practical question, not an ethical one. “Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.”
How many times have you used the internet? How times have you surfed the web? Did you know that the internet and the web are not the same thing?
Don’t worry, many people use the terms Internet and World Wide Web (aka. the Web) interchangeably, but in fact the two terms are not synonymous, and this usage is technically incorrect. The Internet and the Web are two separate things.
What most of us think of as the Internet—Google, eBay, and all the rest of it—is actually the World Wide Web. The Internet is the underlying telecommunication network that makes the Web possible.
A brief look at the key issues or concepts we read about/discussed in “The History and Theory of Digital Art” class:
The main concept I took from this class is that collaboration is essential to succeed. Our world is heaving with remarkably talented people, each with their own diverse strengths and belief systems. We all have limitations, but when we combine our abilities we’re limitless; we are the dream team! At the beginning of the module Mike asked us, “What is the most important element for learning?” Most, if not all of us, stated people. Interacting with people is vital to our capabilities to learn and develop. Throughout this class I learned from people, not assignments or textbooks. My opinions were questioned, my beliefs were questioned, and my values were questioned. I learned that I was wrong, but that I was also equally right. We all were. There is no right or wrong answer. We are all trying to discover our way through this life and there is no user manual. For many of us, myself included, we do this through self-expression. Art is, for me, what distinguishes us from animals. This innate ability, need almost, to express ourselves is unique to humans. My project is an acknowledgment that my classmates* are the key issue to this semester.
I didn’t care much for school. It was too rigid and formal for me. I always felt that I had more to offer than my teachers would allow. I wanted to express myself visually, intellectually and more importantly, creatively. I did. My vivid imagination allowed me to think outside the box and being a natural rule bender I generated enough ideas to express myself without jeopardizing my education. It seemed the only teachers who understood this need within me was my art teachers. In most classes I could be described as being uninterested, because I mostly was, but in art class I was encouraged to bring that quick thinking awareness to generate innovative solutions to my projects.
“A parody (also called spoof, send-up or lampoon), in current use, is an imitative work created to mock, comment on or trivialize an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of satiric or ironic imitation.” – Wikipedia
The key words here for me are “an original work” and “an imitative work”. I have a lot of respect for artists, and I use the term artists in its widest possible form, and I hold a lot of admiration for their unique talents. It takes skill, dedication and endless hours of one’s life to produce a work of art. It then takes courage to place that art before the world to judge. I am honoured to have the film producer Lord David Puttnam as my Film Studies lecturer and yesterday I asked him if he would be proud if somebody was to re-make one of his movies. He said, “God no. I’d be horrified, especially if they chose ‘Local Hero’s’, no, that film means too much to me”. That was his reaction to a re-make, I did not ask his opinion about a possible parody. Personally I have no problem with re-makes and/or cover versions, I see them as tributes and as long as human kind exists classic songs and movies will be re-interpreted.
Gerald B Kennedy 