September 22

1. What numbers represent the binary system used to store data?
2. What is a hard drive disk made from?
3. What does your computer need to read HTML?
4. What is a program?
5. What does CPU stand for?
6. What is RAM?
7. What is an application?
8. What is a GUI?
9. Is the web always reliable?
10. What is an operating system?
11. What does an operating system operate?
12. Are all of the computers on the web connected by wires to every other computer on the web?
13. What is an input device?
14. What is another name for the internet?
15. What do you call the speed at which computers send and receive information?
16. What are the other two common types of home internet service besides dial-up and optical fiber?
17. What is the web?
18. What is email?
19. Are all email messages secure?
20. Is the transmission of an email instantaneous?
21. Can the government see your email?
22. What is FORTRAN, Perl, Java and Pascal?
23. How does a computer work? (include the terms: data, application, operating system, GUI and input devices)

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Computers (History)

Bill Gates is a famous entrepreneur for computers.

Steve Wozniak was a co-founder of apple computers.

Xerox is a global document management company

Douglas Engelbart invented the computer mouse.

Ted Hoff invented is the inventor of the microprocessor.

Kilby and Noyce invented the integrated circuit.

IBM is a major computer company.

John Von Neumann was a mathematician.

Mauchley and Eckert invented the first robot.

Colossus was a code breaking machine used in WWII.

Herman Hollerith invented a quicker way to take statistics.

Charles Babbage originated the idea of a programmable computer.

ASCII is a computer coding based on the English alphabet.

In 1890, the U.S. government was still tallying the census from ten years ago. It was taking them so long because of the immigrant rush from Europe, and because they were doing it by hand. This inspired scientists to invent a mechanical way of tallying the census – therefore producing one of the first computers.

Early computers communicated by printing out numerical patterns and by lighting up certain bulbs.

Most computers communicate through monitors and screens.

You create a solution-Second stage

Each unit will cost approximately $ 4,000, more if professional installation is required. One unit in every home would be sufficient to cost and water saving. A private company who patents the idea will produce and distribute the units. The units will need to be on a roof or high surface near homes, and a ladder will be needed to access the surface. The units will be available in hardware stores disassembled. You can assemble it yourself with the provided instructions or pay a professional to assemble it for you. The project will be sponsored by ecological organizations. We will communicate the success of the project via online updates. The clean environment will verify that our money was spent wisely. The reports will be posted online, for low cost. Our model takes $3,000 to produce and customers buy the unit from us, so profit is actually made.

You Create a Solution

Our problem is the improving hygiene methods in a more energy efficient way. The problem is caused by the plethora of bacteria that floats through our air and objects we come in contact with. We have products that promote hygiene, but they lack energy awareness. This effects people because of the expenses that come with most hygienic needs, such as access to clean water. This problem came from humanity, the constant contact we are in with other people has subjected us to the dangers of lack of hygiene.
The problem of wasting water on hygiene has been around for a century or so, but society did not become aware of it until the 90’s. Humans particularly the United States contribute to the water waste. The only solution currently offered is water conservation, i.e. taking short showers vs. long showers; don’t leave the water running. During droughts many cities choose to ration water; like you can only water your lawn on certain days in ordinance to your zip code. I want to solve this problem because it is relevant to environmentalism and should be cost efficient for cities.

Blog Review

1) My first blog was about what I know.

2) autobloggreen is a website covering environmentally friendly technology.

slashgear is a website covering new technology.

treehugger is a website covering eco-friendly technology.

3) A blog is (a contraction of the term “Web log“) is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual ^[1], with regular entries of commentary according to wikipedia.

4) You should re-over an email you wrote while upset before you send it to make sure you don’t say anything you will regret.

5)You shouldn’t large fonts, colors, or all caps when you send an email because they are distracting from the writing purpose.

6) Advertising e-mail is called spam.

7)You do not need to have something in the subject line when you send an email, although it is helpful and polite to do so.

8 ) Tabs are the best way to view many websites without using many windows.

9) Dogpile.com is all the best search engines piled into one.

10) Progress reports go out on Friday, September 12th.

What is a search engine?

1) Google.com, yahoo.com and ask.com

2) For all three: www.kimyadawson.com was listed.

3) I think Google is the best search engine because it has a wide variety of content in several languages.

4) Ask.com, google.com, and yahoo.com : Barack Obama, his offical website.

Google and yahoo both list Sarah Palin as a wikipedia article about her. Ask.com lists john mccain’s offical website.

Google and yahoo list The Rolling Stones as their official website. Ask.com lists abc.com/player

Yahoo lists for britney spears: worldofbritney.com. Google lists www.britneyspears.com.

Ask.com lists news results of Britney Spears spottings.

5)done

6) Yahoo, dogpile and google all go to wikipedia.com.

first blog-What I know

My knowledge of computers started at a very young age. Ever since I can remember my schools had a computer lab, even my elementary school. In about 2nd or 3rd grade I recall taking a weekly trip to the lab and playing KidPix on the computer. I would rate that as the funnest computer game ever and probably the only one I have ever played.

On a more related subject, as early as 6th grade at Kealing, I was expected to write, edit and print all sorts of papers and projects on a computer. I was expected to use most programs on a computer from excel to the internet to photo shop.  And I did what I was assigned fairly well. Since middle school, my computer skills have only improved. I’m pretty sure I can already do everything that is expected of my in BCIS.

Sincerely,

Arianna Haradon