Thursday, 14 June 2012

Lithium privatization




Today I will write about a contingently topic, the privatization of the lithium on Chile, Chile has one of the largest reserves of lithium in the world, and today, we have a big social confrontation because this reserves are being concessioned to international companies.

The “small print” says that the different taxation left to Chile the 66% of the earnings, and it’s important to say that the risk in this investment (lithium exploitation) is very high for two reasons:

First, the use of lithium is in the technological industry (made of batteries), and technology advance, is replaceable, could happen that a Asian man invent a better way to made batteries and the inversion is lost.

Second, lithium reserves exist in the sea, could happen to someone find a way to remove it from the sea, and the inversion is lost to.

Third, in Chile doesn’t exist the capacity to extract the mineral itself, we don’t have man power or processing industry to exploit this mineral.

For this reasons, I think that the privatization is not soooo bad, but logically would be better process the mineral by ourselves, but for this we need to strengthen the industry and universities, I think that’s the north that Chile must to walk.

That’s it, thanks for reading! =D

Thursday, 7 June 2012

RTS use as a tool in careers that involve teamwork and resource management

Well, that’s is a topic that i learn time before, and i think it is really interesting because is a relation between my hobby (video games) and my university studies, the teamwork and the resources management are skills that the public administrators must domain to do they work, and the RTS games help to develop those skills, but ¿what is a RTS game?, basically, is a genre of video games that consist in strategy, RTS means "Real Time Strategy" and in this games the players must manage resources to complete objectives, many of this games are in teams (team vs team), and the coordination of a team is fundamental to win the game. Many of RTS games are about war, the players administrate cities, bases, buildings, miner camps, etc to do troops and defenses to destroy the enemy team, playing they develop the teamwork and resources management. In many universities around the world the teachers do RTS courses to their students, and inclusive, are obligatory branches on some universities of USA.

I leave you photos of RTS games and people playing them!





thanks you for reading =D!


My favourite piece of technology

Hello All again! =D

Today, i must write about my favourite piece of technology, almost for me, i'ts a difficult choice because i love the technological thinks, im very nerd, so, im going to talk about one of my favorites, my router (this little machine that share internet with wifi)

I'ts funny, my router is not the most technologically advanced object that I have, in fact, is one of the most basic and many of us have routers in our homes, so ¿why is one of my favorites?, because i know how can use it well and I take great benefit of this knowledge, most of the people use they routers to share internet for their computers, cellphones, macs, ipads, etc trough cables or wifi and that's all, but me... I use to many other things, i know how to do my own home multimedia and filesharing lan using a router and with it, i'll transfer files between different computers both my family and my friends and i make lan parties, a lan party is a party of games, my friends come to my house with their computers, they join to the lan and we play day and night without a break, and logically, the connection between our computers is through my router.

There is a photo of my router in action during a lan party at my house, the little grey and cyan machine, is the router.



Well, that's all about my router, thanks for reading =p