PIRATES
OF SILICON VALLEY
(1999)
(Director:
Martyn Burke)
This
assignment must be completed by 11:59 PM, Monday, October 6, 2008.
Print this document and carefully read
and complete the following information and instructions.
This assignment must be completed by 11:59 PM, Monday, October 6, 2008.
Lateness or non-submission will result in a grade of zero for this assignment.
This assignment assumes that you have completed the previous website and email assignments
through which you established a website, index.html page, and an email account.
Although the instructions are for the Microsoft Windows operating system, this
assignment can be done with any operating system and a text editor.
The title of the film is: PIRATES OF SILICON VALLEY.
There are many sources of information available on the Internet about the film
PIRATES OF SILICON
VALLEY. To find them,
type 'film 1999 Pirates Of Silicon Valley' (no quotes)
into a search engine such as Google: PIRATES
OF SILICON VALLEY Google search
To be eligible to submit this assignment for evaluation, you must have been
present for the duration of the film: PIRATES OF SILICON VALLEY.
Attendance was taken.
If you were not present in class for the duration of the film, you may still do
this assignment and submit it for evaluation if you borrow, rent, or purchase
the film, PIRATES OF SILICON
VALLEY, and view it.
There is no copy of the film, PIRATES OF SILICON VALLEY,
at the St. James campus library. You may
be able to view it at the following website: http://www.searchles.com/channels/show/4556 I have found the VHS version of film
available for borrowing at the Toronto Public Library (many branches: Toronto
Public Library Search for: Pirates Of Silicon Valley), and for rent at
various video rental stores such as Blockbuster and Queen Video. Although it
used to be available in VHS for sale, the VHS version is now out-of-print and
it is not for sale at stores such as HMV and Future Shop. I have seen a
recently released DVD of it for sale online through Amazon.ca.
If you borrow, rent, or purchase the film and view it, you must provide proof
that you borrowed, rented, or purchased the film by submitting the original
borrowing, rental, or purchase receipt to Mr. Richmond on Tuesday, October 7,
2008, in class.
This assignment is comprised of 4 parts.
This assignment is worth 20% of your final mark.
PLAGIARISM WILL RESULT IN A GRADE OF F (FAILURE) FOR THE COURSE.
Part 1:
While using a text editor, such as Notepad, create a text file named posv.txt
and, within that text file, answer the questions contained in this assignment
about the film PIRATES OF SILICON
VALLEY and save your
posv.txt file.
Make sure that your writing is well organized, coherent, grammatically correct,
and typographical and spelling errors are corrected.
Part 2:
Create a new web page named posv.html in your own CFADW website and copy the
text you wrote in part 1 and paste it into the new web page.
You will also format the content of your posv.html webpage into paragraphs by
using HTML paragraph tags.
Part 3:
Create a working link on your CFADW course website's index.html page, to the
posv.html web page you created in part 2.
Part 4:
Send an email notification to the CFADW course website (cfadw14880@yahoo.ca)
which will contain a hyperlink to your own course website's home page and your
email will also contain the content of your posv.txt file included in the body
of the email (EMAIL WITH ATTACHMENTS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED).
Part 1:
(1) Put a formatted floppy disk into the floppy disk drive
or use other portable media such as a flash drive (uses USB port).
If you are using your own computer and don't need to have the file available
for use on portable media, you won't need the floppy disk or flash drive.
(2) To start up the Notepad text editor in Windows:
Click on the the 'Start' menu
Click on: 'Run'
In the 'Open' textbox type: notepad
Click on: 'OK'.
The Notepad text editor window should appear.
(3) At the top left of the Notepad window:
Click on: 'File'
Click on: 'Save As'
Give your file the following name: posv.txt
'Save' it to your floppy disk or the flash drive or your own computer's hard
drive.
(4) In the Notepad text editor, at the top of the page:
On the first line, type your first name then your last name.
On the next line, type your student number.
Below this, on the next line, type the title: 'PIRATES OF SILICON VALLEY' (no
quotes).
Insert two blank lines below the title (press Enter/Return three times).
Write, in paragraphs according to the list below, about what you observed,
found interesting, and learned from watching the film PIRATES OF SILICON
VALLEY.
Make sure that your writing is well organized into paragraphs, coherent,
grammatically correct, and typographical and spelling errors are corrected.
Although the instructions specify Notepad as the text editor, you may use a
different text editor such as WordPad, etc.
(If you don't use Notepad, you will have to make sure that the file is saved as
a '.txt' type of file.)
If you want to write more, that's OK.
Save your work often to prevent losing it due to a crash, etc.
The completeness and quality of your work
will affect the evaluation you receive.
Superficial and/or incomplete and/or incorrect answers will result in a
very/extremely low mark for this assignment. Put serious thought and effort
into your answers and comments. A sentence or two for each item is totally
inadequate.
Readability is also very important. Readability includes: correct spelling,
grammar, sentence structure, logical flow, formatting. If you need assistance
with writing, it is available from the College through student services.
YOU ARE TO WRITE YOUR
OWN ANSWERS AND COMMENTS. PLAGIARISM
WILL RESULT IN A GRADE OF F (FAILURE) FOR THE COURSE.
The format to be
used to answer the questions is:
1. Question 1
Answer to question 1
Specific evidence from the film and/or reference(s) (as
required) used to support your answer to question 1
2. Question 2
Answer to question 2
Specific evidence from the film and/or reference(s) (as
required) used to support your answer to question 2
And so forth...
QUESTIONS:
- Who did Steve Jobs think
was the "enemy" and who was the real enemy? Support your
answer with direct evidence from the film.
- At the beginning of the
film, Steve Jobs thanks Bill Gates for "standing with us",
why? Support your answer with references to sources of information from
the internet.
- Who is Captain Crunch,
what did he discover, and what was the frequency in Hertz of the device
he used? Support your answer with references to sources of information
from the internet.
- Steve Jobs considered
himself to be spiritually enlightened. Considering his portrayal in the
film, is that true? Support your answer with direct evidence from the
film.
- Steve Jobs and Steve
Wozniak built "Blue Boxes". What is a "Blue Box" and
how did making and selling "Blue Boxes" contravene Steve Jobs'
views about intellectual property theft? Support your answer with direct
evidence from the film.
- Bill Gates quit Harvard
before finishing his undergraduate degree in order to pursue his
computer business but he did not know if he would be successful - he
gambled. What in his personal history prepared him to be a gambler?
Support your answer with references to sources of information from the
internet.
- What was it about the
Microsoft deal with IBM that led to Microsoft's phenomenol
success? Support your answer with direct evidence from the film.
- Where did Apple get the
ideas for the Lisa and Macintosh computers and was the use of those
ideas ethical? Support your answer with direct evidence from the film
and, additionally, from at least one source of information from the
internet.
- Who would you rather work
for: Bill Gates or Steve Jobs? Explain why and support your answer with
direct evidence from the film.
- What did you find
interesting in the film PIRATES OF SILICON VALLEY? Explain/Discuss.
(5) When you have finished your answers and comments, make sure you have saved
the file to the floppy disk, flash drive or hard drive.
(6) You are going to use your posv.txt file in the following parts of this
assignment.
(7) If you are not going to immediately continue to the next part of this
assignment, remove your floppy disk or flash drive and take it with you.
Part 2:
(1) Access http://ca.geocities.yahoo.com/home
(2) Sign into your own course website.
(3) On the webpage that appears, click on: 'Advanced HTML Editor'
A new webpage should appear which has the following html code located in the
HTML Editor:
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<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
</body>
</html>
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The
html code you see is the barebones code for a webpage.
(4) In the 'Filename' textbox, enter: posv.html
(5) Click on: 'Save and Continue Editing'
(6) In the HTML Editor window, in the html code,
<title>Untitled</title> , replace 'Untitled' with: PIRATES OF
SILICON VALLEY Assignment
You are now going to add more html formatting tags.
All html formatting tags include left and right angle brackets, <> , as you can see in the HTML Editor window.
(7) Below the code '<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
text="#000000">', type: <P>
(8) Enter two blank lines below '<P>'
(9) On the second blank line, type: </P>
(10) Click on: 'Save and Continue Editing'
The html code should now be as shown below:
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<html>
<head>
<title>PIRATES OF SILICON VALLEY Assignment</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
<P>
<---- This is where the first paragraph of the text you wrote in Part 1 will go.
</P>
</body>
</html>
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As
indicated above, the first paragraph of your own content will be copied from
the posv.txt file you typed and pasted between the two html formatting tags you
typed.
The first html tag, <P> , is the 'opening' tag
and it is interpreted by the web browser to indicate that the text which
follows it is a paragraph.
The second html tag, </P> , is the 'closing' tag
and it is interpreted by the web browser to indicate that the paragraph text is
finished.
(11) Highlight the first paragraph of text you typed in Notepad and copy it
(Ctrl C).
(The first paragraph is the one of three consecutive lines which contain: your last name, your student number, PIRATES OF SILICON VALLEY.)
(12) Place the cursor at the beginning of the blank line between the html tags
you entered:
<P>
<---- Place the cursor here.
</P>
(13)
Paste (Ctrl V) the text you copied.
(14) Click on: 'Save and Continue Editing'
(15) Click on: 'Preview'
The web page you are working on should appear.
(16) Scroll down the web page and see if the text you pasted appears. All of
the text you copied should appear.
If it doesn't appear, you may not have properly copied or pasted the text from
Notepad which will require that you recopy, paste, etc.
If it partially appears, you may have to scroll down to see it all or, if it
really is only partially there, you will have to 'cut' the text you pasted and
recopy, paste, etc.
(17) Below the </P> tag, add another pair of paragraph tags <P>
</P> for the next paragraph of text you will add to your web page.
(18) Copy the next paragraph of text from Notepad and paste it between the
additional paragraph tags.
(19) Repeat steps 14,15,16,17 and 18, for each additional paragraph of text,
until you have finished your whole document.
(20) When you have finished composing the whole document, click on: Save
(This will ensure that everything you have done is saved and it will also cause
the directory of your website to appear.)
(21) Logout/sign out of your email and website. If you don't logout, your email
and website will be open for others to use.
(22) If you are not going to immediately continue to the next part of this
assignment, remove your floppy disk or flash drive and take it with you.
Part
3:
The
following instructions apply to a Yahoo! Geocities website homepage
(index.html) which can be edited through the use of the Yahoo! Geocities
PageWizard (template editor).
If you created your Yahoo! Geocities website home page (index.html) with the
PageWizard, you should be able to use the PageWizard again to complete this
part (part 4) of the assignment in accordance with the instructions.
If you have previously manually edited your Yahoo! Geocities website homepage
(index.html) with the 'Advanced HTML Editor', you will not be able to use PageWizards,
you will have to manually edit the hyperlink into your index.html page.
(1) Access http://ca.geocities.yahoo.com/home
(2) Sign into your CFADW course website.
(3) On the webpage that appears, under 'Build Web Pages', click on: 'Yahoo! PageWizards'
A new webpage should appear.
(4) Click on: 'Personal Page'
(5) On the webpage that appears, click on: 'Launch Yahoo! PageWizard'
A new window should appear.
(6) Click on: 'Edit existing page'
(7) Where it indicates '[choose]', click on the scroll arrow and select:
'index'
(8) Continue clicking on 'next' until '4 Enter your favourtite links' appears.
(9) In one of the 'Link Name' textboxes which you haven't used for an
assignment, replace the text with: PIRATES OF SILICON VALLEY
(10) In the 'Web Address' textbox, opposite, replace the text with:
ca.oocities.com/yourlastname_yourstudentnumber/posv.html
(Replace yourlastname_yourstudentnumber with your
actual Yahoo!GeoCities ID,
i.e. yourlastname_yourstudentnumber such as:
chan_100123456)
(11) Keep clicking on 'next' until 'Congratulations' appears.
(12) Click on: 'Done'
A new webpage appears titled: 'Now that you have finished...'
(13) Logout/sign out of your email and website. If you don't logout, your email
and website will be open for others to use.
(14) Type the URL of your own cfadw course website
into the web browser's 'Address' textbox to access your website and test the
link to your 'posv.html' webpage.
Part
4:
(1)
Access http://ca.geocities.yahoo.com/home
(2) Sign into your Yahoo!GeoCities
website.
(3) Scroll down to the bottom of the page where there is a box filled with
underlined words and click on: 'mail'.
(4) At the left of your email account web page, click on: 'Compose'.
(5) Enter the recipient's email address in To: cfadw14880@yahoo.ca
(6) Enter the email Subject: First name, Last name, PIRATES OF SILICON VALLEY
web page and link completed
(Replace First name, Last name with your own name.)
(7) Enter your own CFADW email address in Cc:
yourlastname_yourstudentnumber@yahoo.ca
(To make the Cc: textbox appear, you may have to click on 'Add CC' which is
located above the 'To' textbox.)
(Replace yourlastname_yourstudentnumber with your
actual Yahoo!GeoCities ID,
i.e. yourlastname_yourstudentnumber such as:
chan_100123456)
(8) In the textbox where the message goes, type the complete URL (internet
address) of your website:
http://ca.oocities.com/yourlastname_yourstudentnumber
followed by pressing the 'Enter' key on the keyboard (very important!).
(Replace yourlastname_yourstudentnumber with your
actual Yahoo!GeoCities ID,
i.e. yourlastname_yourstudentnumber such as:
chan_100123456
Make sure the URL is correct!
(9) Press the 'Enter' key on the keyboard twice (2 times).
(10) Copy all the text from your 'posv.txt' file and, a few lines below
the URL (internet address) of your website you previously entered, paste the
copied text into your email.
(Be careful not to eliminate the URL (internet address) of your website).
(11) In the Yahoo email composer page, click on: 'Send'.
You should receive the Cc: of your email in your course email account(eventually).
(12) Logout/sign out of your email and website. If you don't logout, your email
and website will be open for others to use.
(13) Remove your floppy disk or flash drive and take it with you.