Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Why i support to write blog?

Actually, creating this blog is a task given by our Lecturer, Ms. Norhayati or we call her miss Yatt.
I used to write blog before. But the frequency of writing decreased until stop is because of laziness.

For me, writing a blog is like writing a daily. But the different - daily is private. Sometime, it is hard to pour out our unhappiness orally. Therefore, blog is a medium for us to write it out without any obstacle and it can be private or public.

The other purpose to write blog is can express feeling ( love , friendship or so on). My friend use private blog to write their happy memories. Because of this task, i start to write blog again. :)

Watermark

After post an image on internet like blog, facebook and so on, we might worry that the image we posted will be used by others for other purposes. So what we can do in order to let other violate the image copyright? Watermark can help on it. The main function of Watermark on photo is able to track illegal use of your images. When your images are used in non-internet mediums, you will have a hard time keeping track of their use. Therefore a visible watermark that appears on your pictures can avoid to a illegal used in no matter what medium. There are some watermark maker software available. You could google it if you want :)

Below is the example of photo with watermark :- By Leorence Yeoh


You could double click on the image to look clearer.

Monday, March 15, 2010

Are ICT Professionals “Professionals”?

ICT Professionals does not have the same status as medication, the law and other. Computing, with its sub-disciplines, for example, software engineering has not yet emerged as a fully-fledged profession. However, ICT professionals certainly possess some of the proper characteristics.


For example, mastered an esoteric body of knowledge. A professional usually needs to acquire knowledge that is usually obtained at University and it should also keep knowledge up-to-date.

  • ICT professionals have varying degrees of autonomy. Those who own their own consulting practice, managers in industry or decision makers in government departments may have a good deal of autonomy. On the other hand many computer professionals have little autonomy. For example, programmers may simply implement the design of others. Additionally they usually work in teams or on small sections of large projects and thereby are distanced from the effects of their work.

  • ICT professionals face all sorts of ethical dilemmas in their everyday working life. They have four types of obligation to: (1) society, (2) their employers, (3) their clients and (4) co-professionals and their organization. Ethical conflicts may arise through dual obligations but are most likely to occur between the interests of society and employer. Increasingly employed by large organizations, professional employees are less able to pursue the interests of their profession. certainly, they are expected to be loyal first and foremost to their employer.

  • There are some codes of ethics of professional bodies for computer specialists, for example, the British Computer Society (BCS), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). However, in the UK for example, although the BCS possesses a Royal Charter, there is no single organization recognized as the legal body in charge of admission or standards in the field of computing. These organizations are viewed as offering assistance to computer professionals to cope with ethical conflicts that maybe invoked in their everyday working life.
  • As for fulfilling a social function, it seems clear that computing is now a crucial part of society, but computing is not a good in itself in the way health and justice are. Computing is an activity that supports social institutions and professions, which in turn are aimed at fulfilling a variety of social functions.

In conclusion, it seems that computing does not fit in the classic paradigm as do medicine and law. However, computing professionals are much closer to the paradigm than, for example, stockbrokers or carpenters or bus drivers.

Is Computing a “Profession”?

Computing is a profession with a number of sub-disciplines. Computing is actually based on mastery of an esoteric body of knowledge is an argument point. But for Johnson’s standards, computing is not a profession. Some argue that computer science does not yet have its own body of knowledge because mostly it relies on other fields like mathematics, engineering, and physics. Without a body of specialized knowledge there is no profession. Others argue that computing does not really rely on a systematic or abstract body of knowledge and in this sense the body of knowledge on which it draws is not esoteric; rather computing relies on knowing how to do things. It is more application than science. However, often the context of the situation puts computing professionals into morally/ethically significant positions so it has responsibility to follow a code of ethics.