1. a) define operating system:
The software that supports a computer's basic functions, such as scheduling tasks, executing applications, and controlling peripherals
b)Describe two utilities provided by an operating system that would be helpful in enabling the author to use his computer effectively despite his injury.
two utilities provided by an operating system that would be help enabling the author to use his computer effectively dispite his injury are voice recognition software, that allows him to speak the rest of his article and the computer will type put the words into the word document.
4.
a) computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages
b) clippy tells the user how to right a letter by recalling information previously programed into his program which is recalled through the user typing in keywords that would lead to the recalled information; keywords such as "letter" or "how to write a letter"
2. a) two technical reasons why the quality of videos viewed from web sites can be limited are resolution, becuae the low it is the lower the quality of the video and the amount of bandwidth being filled, for if the bandwidth is filled with other information it will pause the video because it needs to buffer
b) Two reason why some web based videos do not play at all on a home computer is because the video is too long. Another reason is because the video is not produced enough so the video can not play.
c) There may be a great amount of audiences for opera, ballet, and plays because the web is does not have the same web-based materials as the real picture does in real life. A person can listen to plays and operas online but it is hard to get the real experience out of them. There may be a result of the availability of web-based materials because there are so many people at the art galleries, operas, ballets, and plays because there are no seats and they are expensive.
3. a) is a kind of computer file that is structured as a sequence of lines. A text file exists within a computer file system.
b) A OCR can convert handwriting to a text file through the computer file. The OCR can convert the handwriting and plates to text files which then can be edited as if they had been typed. The software can sort numbers which then can be read. The information needs to be scanned in order to get onto the computer.
c) The conversion process may not be accurate using OCR techniques because when being converted the files may be confused due to inacurate information, for example if there are scratches or discoloration. The conversion process may be inaccurate using OCR as well if there is a lower case l, L, and a 1, one.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
1. a) Two tasks performed by a network server apart from the storage of users' files is gives information to all of the other computers in the company. Also, a network server can send and receive emails.
b) One advantage of schools providing their students with USB drives is that they know the students have the right amount of storage. A disadvantage is that if a student loses the usb the school will have to replace them.
c) Two precautions that a student should take when using USB drives for saving important work would be that they need to make sure that they do not take out the USB drive to quickly because the information won't save. Also, they should make sure not to break the USB.
4. a) i) The software that has provided this wizard is database
ii) one other task that may be performed by this wizard is query’s
b) Two other IT methods that can help them to use the application software successfully are going onto the internet and looking up a tutorial to help them understand. Also, databases.
c) It is the responsibility of the company, rather than the employee, to pay for the training because the company is the one who wants these people to train and the employees are only told what to do making it so that the company is the one in charge to pay for the training. If, for an instance, employees want to learn additional skills to improve their work and potentially earn a raise the company should not pay for this. The company shouldn't pay for this because this is their own personal training for more money that they want/need which is not up to the company. The employee should pay for their own training if they want a raise because it is the money they are raising for themselves not the company.
5. a) i) terabyte- A terabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.
ii) GPS, which stands for Global Positioning System, is a radio navigation system that allows land, sea, and airborne users to determine their exact location, velocity, and time 24 hours a day, in all weather conditions, anywhere in the world
b) The steps involved in capturing and storing the satellite image data that will be used to create the maps in google earth are that the camera needs to be involved in order to take the picture. Then all of the pictures must be uploaded to the software and then shared.
c) GPS technology and mapping software work together to allow the operator to find the way to a destination, by working together like on a mobile phone by have the information installed into the phone. The phone will need internet service of course but the satellite can pick up the phone signal and that is how they work together.
d) To a great extent is this decision to alter the maps at users' requests acceptable because people may feel uncomfortable with their houses on the internet and on other peoples phones. This is an issue of security for them because viewing houses is acceptable. If the decision to alter the maps at users requests becomes acceptable this would allow more people to use google maps because they will feel comfortable. Also, this may be a disadvantage because people will see blurred out thing and not know the actual directions.
b) One advantage of schools providing their students with USB drives is that they know the students have the right amount of storage. A disadvantage is that if a student loses the usb the school will have to replace them.
c) Two precautions that a student should take when using USB drives for saving important work would be that they need to make sure that they do not take out the USB drive to quickly because the information won't save. Also, they should make sure not to break the USB.
4. a) i) The software that has provided this wizard is database
ii) one other task that may be performed by this wizard is query’s
b) Two other IT methods that can help them to use the application software successfully are going onto the internet and looking up a tutorial to help them understand. Also, databases.
c) It is the responsibility of the company, rather than the employee, to pay for the training because the company is the one who wants these people to train and the employees are only told what to do making it so that the company is the one in charge to pay for the training. If, for an instance, employees want to learn additional skills to improve their work and potentially earn a raise the company should not pay for this. The company shouldn't pay for this because this is their own personal training for more money that they want/need which is not up to the company. The employee should pay for their own training if they want a raise because it is the money they are raising for themselves not the company.
5. a) i) terabyte- A terabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.
ii) GPS, which stands for Global Positioning System, is a radio navigation system that allows land, sea, and airborne users to determine their exact location, velocity, and time 24 hours a day, in all weather conditions, anywhere in the world
b) The steps involved in capturing and storing the satellite image data that will be used to create the maps in google earth are that the camera needs to be involved in order to take the picture. Then all of the pictures must be uploaded to the software and then shared.
c) GPS technology and mapping software work together to allow the operator to find the way to a destination, by working together like on a mobile phone by have the information installed into the phone. The phone will need internet service of course but the satellite can pick up the phone signal and that is how they work together.
d) To a great extent is this decision to alter the maps at users' requests acceptable because people may feel uncomfortable with their houses on the internet and on other peoples phones. This is an issue of security for them because viewing houses is acceptable. If the decision to alter the maps at users requests becomes acceptable this would allow more people to use google maps because they will feel comfortable. Also, this may be a disadvantage because people will see blurred out thing and not know the actual directions.
Monday, April 4, 2011
Bike rentals
a) Identify two IT features of a smart card.
Two features of a smart card would be that it has the information of the person for example, credit card number and contact information. The second feature of a smart card would be there is a specific PIN to access this smart card so that the information on the smart card would not be accessed.
b) Describe the process to authenticate the cyclist when collecting a bike.
The process to authenticate the cyclist when collecting a bike would be to get all of the information of the person onto a database. Some information would be credit card number, license, contact information to make sure that this person is in possession of the bike that they are renting. When they give all of the information they are then given a PIN number to secure that the bike they had rented was theres and not another person.
c) When a bike is rented, information about the bike and cyclist are sent to the central database, With reference to the diagram below, explain the benefits of using a relational database instead of a flate-file database.
The benefits of using a relational database is to stay more organized, which would allow you to place information into every catagory, i.e. bikes, rentals and cyclists, and to make records easy to access, meaning that oone can view the database at anytime with comprehensibly categories.
d) Discuss the privacy and security concerns that could arise through the use of a database to record bike rentals.
The privacy and security concerns that could arise through the use of a database to record bike rentals through alot of possibilities. Some possibilities for security concerns are loss of pin card, theft of the card, and if the customer were to show up with out their card. Some privacy concerns are the fact if the thieve were to claim the identity of the actual customer. When listing the concerns of both security and privacy, security seems to put weigh privacy, because the possibilities to loose the card and in turn the customer's entire access to their account at the business. The biggest privacy concerns were pin card theft because the pin card has all of the customers information on it that is vital to their security.
Two features of a smart card would be that it has the information of the person for example, credit card number and contact information. The second feature of a smart card would be there is a specific PIN to access this smart card so that the information on the smart card would not be accessed.
b) Describe the process to authenticate the cyclist when collecting a bike.
The process to authenticate the cyclist when collecting a bike would be to get all of the information of the person onto a database. Some information would be credit card number, license, contact information to make sure that this person is in possession of the bike that they are renting. When they give all of the information they are then given a PIN number to secure that the bike they had rented was theres and not another person.
c) When a bike is rented, information about the bike and cyclist are sent to the central database, With reference to the diagram below, explain the benefits of using a relational database instead of a flate-file database.
The benefits of using a relational database is to stay more organized, which would allow you to place information into every catagory, i.e. bikes, rentals and cyclists, and to make records easy to access, meaning that oone can view the database at anytime with comprehensibly categories.
d) Discuss the privacy and security concerns that could arise through the use of a database to record bike rentals.
The privacy and security concerns that could arise through the use of a database to record bike rentals through alot of possibilities. Some possibilities for security concerns are loss of pin card, theft of the card, and if the customer were to show up with out their card. Some privacy concerns are the fact if the thieve were to claim the identity of the actual customer. When listing the concerns of both security and privacy, security seems to put weigh privacy, because the possibilities to loose the card and in turn the customer's entire access to their account at the business. The biggest privacy concerns were pin card theft because the pin card has all of the customers information on it that is vital to their security.
Friday, April 1, 2011
Politics and government
a) intellectual property is when someone claims ownership to and idea or theory that they invented.
b) Two services that an ISP provides the service of lease server space for smaller businesses and host other people servers, which allows then a separate server for custom uses, and to provide cable and internet to a house hold, i.e. version fios
C) Two ways a home computer network could be adversely affected by the use of file sharing services is that the network is not secure. This means that the home computer network does not have a safe password. Another way which home computer network could be adversely affected by the use of file sharing services is that the website that the file sharing is going on in, example sending emails, posting on social networking sites, are not secure and this information could easily be broken into because it is not secured. There are viruses as well and the quality is not as great.
D) If the government starts to regulate the use of P2P sites for file sharing this would have a great effect on the music industry. For one, jobs in the music industry could decrease because the government would have control on file sharing because music would not be bought. Another possible implication would be that some people would start to download music for free instead of file sharing, which is illegal, but they have no other options. If the government starts to regulate P2P file sharing that would mean that people would not be able to download music meaning that the music industry would get more money. If the government regulates the use of P2P files being shares this would help the music industry get more money.
b) Two services that an ISP provides the service of lease server space for smaller businesses and host other people servers, which allows then a separate server for custom uses, and to provide cable and internet to a house hold, i.e. version fios
C) Two ways a home computer network could be adversely affected by the use of file sharing services is that the network is not secure. This means that the home computer network does not have a safe password. Another way which home computer network could be adversely affected by the use of file sharing services is that the website that the file sharing is going on in, example sending emails, posting on social networking sites, are not secure and this information could easily be broken into because it is not secured. There are viruses as well and the quality is not as great.
D) If the government starts to regulate the use of P2P sites for file sharing this would have a great effect on the music industry. For one, jobs in the music industry could decrease because the government would have control on file sharing because music would not be bought. Another possible implication would be that some people would start to download music for free instead of file sharing, which is illegal, but they have no other options. If the government starts to regulate P2P file sharing that would mean that people would not be able to download music meaning that the music industry would get more money. If the government regulates the use of P2P files being shares this would help the music industry get more money.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Area of Impact: Science and the Environment
5. A) two possible ways to detect a vehicle are motion sensors and speed guns
B) two ways in which the active traffic management system could help decrease journey time is the diffusion of traffic, meaning that cars would instead take alternate routes in order to get to their destination, and in decreasing jams, meaning if the drivers are alerted ahead of time of what lanes are closed, there will be no last minute chaos to merge into the non-closed lanes.
C) The images from the digital speed cameras can be used to send penalty notices to speeding drivers automatically by using databases and cameras. The camera would get a picture of the car, with the license plate, and go through the database and send a penalty notice to the information that was found. Since the camera is higher then the car, the person driving would be able to be seen, the license plate, and it would show how fast that the person was going compared to the speed limit.
D) The active traffic management system could be abused by the authorities because they could see the person driving, how fast they were going, and if they have been speeding before. Also, the authorities could keep these people that get tickets a lot in mind and use this to their advantage for the future. Seeing the person driving would be helpful towards the authorities because they would be able to recognize this person when the ticket is being sent. How fast they are going could be used to their advantage because they would easily be able to tell if they were speeding or not and whether or not they need a ticket. The authorities would be able to look back in the databases and see if this person has had previous tickets. All of these possibilities could be bad for the authorities because they could easily take advantage of these possibilities and use the data and information that they got against this person. Since they have all of this persons information on the database this could be potentially abused because all of the information on the person speeding would be able to be seen. I believe that looking through the database and seeing if this person has had other incidents of speeding isn't as bad as looking at the person driving and getting all of their information. Using thee traffic management systems are not sufficient and are invasive unlike when people are regularly pulled over for speeding in front of an actual cop. Using these systems on the highway is very invasive and a great amount of people speed on the highway and they are being caught on camera and not by an actual police which is wrong.
B) two ways in which the active traffic management system could help decrease journey time is the diffusion of traffic, meaning that cars would instead take alternate routes in order to get to their destination, and in decreasing jams, meaning if the drivers are alerted ahead of time of what lanes are closed, there will be no last minute chaos to merge into the non-closed lanes.
C) The images from the digital speed cameras can be used to send penalty notices to speeding drivers automatically by using databases and cameras. The camera would get a picture of the car, with the license plate, and go through the database and send a penalty notice to the information that was found. Since the camera is higher then the car, the person driving would be able to be seen, the license plate, and it would show how fast that the person was going compared to the speed limit.
D) The active traffic management system could be abused by the authorities because they could see the person driving, how fast they were going, and if they have been speeding before. Also, the authorities could keep these people that get tickets a lot in mind and use this to their advantage for the future. Seeing the person driving would be helpful towards the authorities because they would be able to recognize this person when the ticket is being sent. How fast they are going could be used to their advantage because they would easily be able to tell if they were speeding or not and whether or not they need a ticket. The authorities would be able to look back in the databases and see if this person has had previous tickets. All of these possibilities could be bad for the authorities because they could easily take advantage of these possibilities and use the data and information that they got against this person. Since they have all of this persons information on the database this could be potentially abused because all of the information on the person speeding would be able to be seen. I believe that looking through the database and seeing if this person has had other incidents of speeding isn't as bad as looking at the person driving and getting all of their information. Using thee traffic management systems are not sufficient and are invasive unlike when people are regularly pulled over for speeding in front of an actual cop. Using these systems on the highway is very invasive and a great amount of people speed on the highway and they are being caught on camera and not by an actual police which is wrong.
expert system
Expert System- An expert system is software that uses a knowledge base of human expertise for problem solving, or clarify uncertainties where normally one or more human experts would need to be consulted.
Examples:
1. http://classic.mapquest.com/
2. http://www.webmd.com/
3. http://ask.com/
Artificial Intelligence- Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it.
Examples:
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TOPIO_3.0.jpg
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_robot
3. WII
4. KINECT
Examples:
1. http://classic.mapquest.com/
2. http://www.webmd.com/
3. http://ask.com/
Artificial Intelligence- Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it.
Examples:
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TOPIO_3.0.jpg
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_robot
3. WII
4. KINECT
Monday, March 28, 2011
tutorials
2. a) multimedia- multimedia is the integration of multiple forms of media. This includes text, graphics, audio, video, etc.
b) Two methods that can be used to reduce the amount of disk space occupied by a multimedia training package would be having the CD-ROM have more space so that more information could be stored. Another would be putting the information onto a press file, or compress the training package, into a zipped folder. To do this you would create the compressed folder and then cut and paste the information.
c) Some organizations prefer to train their staff using a multimedia training package instead of providing face to face training with a human instructor because the online multimedia training package would let the trainee learn on their own time. Face to face training might also be harder to have an appointment to actually train. having the multimedia training package online would be easier because there would be no need for an appointment because the internet is free all the time. Also, the trainee wouldn't have to use a car in order to meet face to face to train and neither would the trainer.
b) Two methods that can be used to reduce the amount of disk space occupied by a multimedia training package would be having the CD-ROM have more space so that more information could be stored. Another would be putting the information onto a press file, or compress the training package, into a zipped folder. To do this you would create the compressed folder and then cut and paste the information.
c) Some organizations prefer to train their staff using a multimedia training package instead of providing face to face training with a human instructor because the online multimedia training package would let the trainee learn on their own time. Face to face training might also be harder to have an appointment to actually train. having the multimedia training package online would be easier because there would be no need for an appointment because the internet is free all the time. Also, the trainee wouldn't have to use a car in order to meet face to face to train and neither would the trainer.
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