...OUTLOOK FOR COMPUTER SUPPORT SPECIALIST WITHIN THE NEXT 5-10 YEARS Introduction Ever since I was a child I have always enjoyed working with computers and finding ways to solve problems. Whenever my family and I had computer problems we would hire computer specialists to fix our computers. Among those specialists was a busboy who worked at my family’s Thai restaurant; and on the side he operated a computer support store. Another specialist is a good friend of mine who works at Volkswagen as a computer support specialist; he has stopped by my house several times to retrieve corrupted files, reformat computers, in addition to adding more memory storage. I was always fascinated by his techniques. For example, he was able to fix my computer from his office while I was at home. Up until then I didn’t know that it was possible to view another person’s desktop from your own desktop. I am interested in becoming a computer support specialist also due to the fact that my parents’ Dearborn restaurant is still being operated in the old fashion way with a traditional cash register. The most irritating thing about operating a popular restaurant without advance technology is making mistakes on orders because they are hand written. In addition, calculating profit by hand is very tedious for the owner. In the past we have had employees steal money and throw away checks that were to be accounted by the end of the day. I feel that if my parents had the up to date advance technology equipment...
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...Lenovo Inc. Income Statement Analysis In most Chinese people’s minds, Lenovo is the most famous computer brand. In the past few decades, Lenovo computer has become a lot of Chinese families’ first computer. Lenovo Inc. is a Chinese multinational computer technology company with headquarters in Beijing, China, and Morrisville, North Carolina, United States. It designs, develops, manufactures and sells personal computers, tablet computers, smartphones, workstations, servers, electronic storage devices, IT management software and smart televisions. In 2014, Lenovo was the world's largest personal computer vendor by unit sales. Since Lenovo acquired IBM’s personal computing division, Lenovo's influence becoming larger and larger. With the popularity of tablet devices, Lenovo is facing more opportunities and challenges. Lenovo also faces big security and integration challenges as it moves to integrate IBM's x86 server business now that it has finalized the $2.1 blockbuster deal. There are lots of questions that need to be answered to keep companies comfortable from migrating off the IBM platform. 1.1) Trend Percent Lines of Revenue and Expenses of Lenovo | | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | Revenue | 179.2% | 156.9% | 137.0% | 100.0% | Cost of sales | 174.9% | 153.1% | 135.9% | 100.0% | 1.2) 2.1) 2.2) 2.3) 2.4) 3.1) 3.2) 3.3) 3.4) Analysis: In trend analysis...
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...millions of Americans that became victim’s, or just ask me. The thief that I am talking about is identity theft. Identity theft is a crime that is affecting many Americans, the costs are well in the millions every year, but with a little bit of knowledge and adaptive common practices, you can help fight back and minimize your chances of becoming the next victim of Identity theft. Identity theft is as predictable as a giant storm; you really don’t know what the damage will be until it passes and many victims don’t even see it coming until its already too late. So what is identity theft? According to the webpage article “about identity theft,” the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) (2007) writes that “identity theft occurs when someone uses your personal identifying information, like your name, SSN… without your permission to commit fraud or other crimes.” (para 1) All it takes is critical personal information so that a thief can make a wide range or criminal activities. Items such as ATM cards, drivers license numbers, or credit card numbers in the hands of another person is as dangerous as giving a stranger the keys to your most valuable processions. Identity theft is taking various shapes and evolving into a common crime, but getting educated today can increase...
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...outside home. Telephone was a rarity; so people used to travel or spend time in neighborhood in their spare times. There were no computers, laptops, iPods or cell phones; so the major sources of entertainment were evening get together, park walks, bicycle rides and skating were our favorite activities. This era was the peak of childhood amusements like jacks, hide and seek and kick ball. Bicycle was the most preferred medium for almost everywhere I had to go. My times were pleasurably more inclined towards physical activities, and amusements were limited to physical outreach. Today, children of new generations are surrounded by most technically equipped gadgets that have completely revolutionized the way they spend their childhood. Sitting at home, over the LCDs, they can play games that are truly addictive. Moreover, they can have access to almost everything they want to know. Cell phone is the biggest addiction of new generation. Computers and laptops have become a necessity rather than a luxury. Today’s child is technically more informed than our generation. But the cost this generation is bearing could be attributed to their physical appearances where glasses and obesity have become a common problem in America. Since computer games have obsessed the new generation, the trend of street games is essentially disappearing. We cannot simply blame computer games for limiting the physical activity. There are other social aspects as well that are restricting children from physical...
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...the start of the home and office based PC’s given that it had a 1mb address limit making a more efficient machine. 2. Who is credited with the patent of the first computer? John V. Atanasoff was the first person accredited for the invention of the computer due to his use of modern digital switching techniques. 3. In the Von Neumann architecture, what two make up the CPU? In Von Neumann’s model of the CPU there are three components, only two are listed in this review and they are the control unit and the arithmetic unit. 4. What technology alleviates the problem of the “Von Neumann bottleneck”? in this chapter they explain the issue of bottlenecking like a highway, where the information sent and received traveled through a narrow highway on the original architecture. The solution to the problem was creating what is now referred to as Cache memory. 5. Which of the following are groups within the Von Neumann architecture? There are four groups to the basic architecture Working Storage, Permanent Storage, Output and Input devices. 6. What are the three main connections in a transistor. Transistors are made using the same architecture as a vacuum tube just in a much smaller and safer manner, these connections are called the “Gate” the “Drain” and the “conductor”. 7. MOSSFET is the most common type of what electronic component? MOSSFET (standing for Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors) is most known for their electric component the transistor. ...
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...College Student". The Real-World Effects of Online Gaming: Socially Inept Colin Andrew, Yahoo! Contributor Network http://voices.yahoo.com/the-real-world-effects-online-gaming-socially-inept-3255207.html With the technology of a civilization becoming more and more advanced, the people demand that their entertainment become more advanced as well. After a long hard day at work or school, people like to come home to relax and just lose their mind in meaningless entertainment, be it television or even a video game. Video games provide an escape into a virtual world, where you can forget about everything that is happening in real life and just enjoy yourself, even play with your friends in a multiplayer game. In the past, for a group of video game players to play multiplayer games, it was necessary for them to all be together and all their computers or Xboxes connected to one another. Not only were they just playing a game, they were interacting on a personal level. Now with online gaming becoming a component of most every video game on the market today, it is possible for gamers to have this same multiplayer action in the privacy of their own home. This anonymity comes with a cost however, and it is becoming increasingly common that both the social aspect of gaming and the gamers' social skills themselves are degrading as online gaming becomes more prevalent. One of the dangers that society faces from video games is their anti-social ability to suck players in and not let...
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...cell phones, PSPs, computers, PlayStations etc. Humans over the years have been so inventive of ways to preoccupy themselves to avoid dull and null moments; thus the creation of video games. Kramer (2002) summarizes that these games are “objects which consist of components and rules and have certain criteria: rules, a goal, always changing course; chance; competition; common experience; equality; freedom; activity; diving into the world of the game; and no impact on reality”. “THE ORIGIN OF GAMES has been vaguely assigned to the inborn tendency of the mankind to amuse itself. Games have no geographical boundaries and game playing is found in all parts of the world whether it is in the underdeveloped areas of Africa or in a plush New York apartment penthouse.“(Spencer 1968, 3) According to researchers from Stanford school of medicine, a recent brain imaging study suggests that men have a higher percentage of activity in the *Mesocorticolimbic center (the region of the brain associated with rewards and addiction) compared to women when engaging in video games. These findings explain why males are more likely to be addicted to video games in comparison to female gamers. This addiction is just one of the several effects it may have on game console users. Should we overlook these effects of such modern technologies on people today? One very relevant conclusion made by Liwag (2007) is that due to recent studies, about 25 to 30 percent of children who use computers wear a corrective...
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...One common health risk is certain types of cancer. Most people don't realize that inactivity and being overweight can put risk factors on developing certain cancers. Obesity is tied to at least thirteen cancers. Breast, colon, endometrial, and kidney cancer are just a few of the high risk cancers for someone who is overweight or obese. A women with a healthy and normal body mass index (B.M.I) has a fifty percent of developing a certain type of cancer, but if her B.M.I were to rise to between thirty five and thirty nine than her risk of developing that cancer would...
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...Introduction to Microprocessor A microprocessor is a single chip integrating all the functions of a central processing unit (CPU) of a computer. It includes all the logical functions, data storage, timing functions and interaction with other peripheral devices. In some cases, the terms 'CPU' and 'microprocessor' are used interchangeably to denote the same device. Like every genuine engineering marvel, the microprocessor too has evolved through a series of improvements throughout the 20th century. A brief history of the device along with its functioning is described below. Its Working It is the central processing unit which coordinates all the functions of a computer. It generates timing signals, sends and receives data to and from every peripheral used inside or outside the computer. The commands required to do this are fed into the device in the form of current variations which are converted into meaningful instructions by the use of a Boolean Logic System. It divides its functions in two categories, logical functions and processing functions. The arithmetic and logical unit and the control unit handle these functions respectively. The information is communicated through a bunch of wires called buses. The address bus carries the 'address' of the location with which communication is desired while the data bus carries the data that is being exchanged. Arithmetic & Logic Unit (ALU) This part of the central processing unit deals with operations such as addition, subtraction...
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...Introduction Why software paradigms? Be able to choose the right software technique right from the beginning. Ability to design complex systems. The attention is now toward software paradigms since programming languages are becoming more mature. Software Development Characteristics: Software is "soft"; Complexity Human intensive Software developers did not have adequate tools to estimate the exact amount of time required for the development of an application, therefore they were most of time wrong in their estimates of time, effort, and costs Still up until today we are not able to achieve high software reliability and maintainability: is buying a software product the same as buying a TV? Abdelghani Bellaachia, Advanced Software Paradigms Page: 1 Estimation Dimensions and Corresponding Project Factors (Software development cost estimation approaches – A survey (2000), by by Barry Boehm , Chris Abts , Sunita Chulani) Estimation Dimension Effort Hours Project Factors Customer Complexity Customer Geography Developer Familiarity Business Function Size Target System Sophistication Target System Complexity Effort Hours Staff Productivity Skill Level Development Rate at Each Skill Level System Category Generic System Type Operating Window Transaction Volume System Size Project Structure Target Technology Resource Needs of Concurrent Projects Relative Project Risks Page: 2 Staff/Cost Hardware Risk Portfolio Abdelghani Bellaachia...
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...Internet Operating Systems For years I thought that operating systems were little programs (lines of code) placed inside my personal computer to help it run smoothly and efficiently. Which it is. But not until recently did I discover that operating systems must also be used in larger mainframes and servers as well. After all, servers are computers too! And any computer, regardless of its size or purpose, needs internal instructions. It needs a set of executable code that makes the thing come alive. Operating systems are the soul of all computers everywhere. This begs a question or two: what types of OS’s are out there? And how do they differ from the one in my Mac? Also, if I wanted to swap out my current operating system for a different one (my friends keep telling me about all of the great things they’re doing with Linux), how easy of a task would that be? The most common OS for a desktop (or a laptop) in use today is Windows 7 ("Os Platform Statistics", 2012). But what about the operating systems which are used by small and large companies that host web pages? Or store hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of large data files in a centralized data center? Or provide search engine services? Companies like Google, facebook, and Yahoo!, maintain their own, internal OS’s, which are designed to serve, store and manipulate data according to the needs of the public. (Consider how Google started out as nothing more than a search engine with fancier algorithms...
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...race has made enormous bounds in advancements in the last century. From developments in technology which affect society, how we communicate, the field of medicine and education. Technology has not left any aspects of our lives untouched. There will be no shortage of people who would argue that the technological advancements of the 21st century have been beneficial to society. While beneficial, we believe that, as a society, we must realise the magnitude of our dependence on technology and the ramifications if it were to be taken away from us. This paper argues that humans have formed a detrimental symbiotic relationship with technology in its many forms. This paper will investigate the changes that technology has affected, and show that we are becoming less dependent on ourselves and more detrimentally dependent on our technological accomplishments. 2 Commerce and Reliability The way society does business and commerce is very dependent on the reliability on technology and thus, technology failures will cause markets to stop and bring the whole economy to a halt. Vital banking transactions and services may stop and cause...
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...media will spread the word of the inferior product far and wide. Social media provides consumers with knowledge. Type in the name of a product on a search engine you are interested in purchasing and opinions are widespread on the internet. Between mainstream social media outlets like Facebook, blogs, magazines, newspapers, and other outlets, product reviews are common place in today’s society. In the past, consumers needing a new product were limited to the local stores in their area. You went in the store, made a choice based on the guidance of the sales person in the store. Today, consumers can purchase the same item with the click of a button on their computer, with knowledge about the product and the ability to order the product from the most cost effective supplier, even if that supplier happens to be located across the globe. Environmentally, we choose to think social media has increased our ability to live “greener”. In many ways, this may be true. Our mail, bills, and personal correspondence is conducted on line with no need for paper copies. However, the electricity required to run the computers we use in our daily lives maybe much higher environmentally than the historic way. Coal fired energy...
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...Analysis Of Dell Junjie Yu 100573775 1.introduction Dell is an American privately owned multinational computer technology company based in Round Rock, Texas, United States, that develops, sells, repairs, and supports computers, printers and other related products and services. Eponymously named after its founder, Michael Dell, the company is one of the largest technological corporations and one of the top 500 companies in the world, employing more than 103,300 people worldwide. This article will analyze Dell to find out its success and what it needs to improve. 2.Business mission & objectives The mission statement of Dell is very simple. “Listen. Learn. Deliver. That’s what we’re about.” Dell empowers countries, communities, customers and people everywhere to use technology to realize their dreams. Customers trust us to deliver technology solutions that help them do and achieve more, whether they’re at home, work, school or anywhere in their world. 3.Situation analysis (SWOT) This part is the SWOT analysis of Dell, showing the strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats of Dell. (1) Strengths Firstly, it is one of the best-known brands in the world and it is actually the largest PC makers. That means it has millions of loyal customer that can help it prevent from many competition. The brands are also the valuable assets that can help it improve itself and facilitate the purchase. Secondly, Dell’s main marketing strategy is operational excellence. In fact...
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...Social Networking Danielle Morris Professor Virginia Booth INF 103: Computer Literacy April 16, 2014 Communication is an inevitable occurrence in life and is vital to building and maintaining relationships. Individuals typically interact with family, friends, and colleagues regularly. Previously, landline phones and postal mail were popular methods of communication that individuals and businesses relied on. These venues were used to relay information, engage in transactions, and keep in touch with friends and family. As technology advanced, new and innovate ways of communication emerged. Today, one popular means of communication is that of social networking. A social network can be a group of friends, colleagues, or other personal contacts that a person interacts with. While many benefits of social networking have been identified, there are also consequences that have emerged. Individuals of social networking groups typically share commonalities that create a bond between them. One of the most popular social networks is a site called Facebook. Here, individuals can stay in contact with friends, family, and even create business pages where they can advertise products and services. Individuals typically use Facebook as a means to stay in touch with friends and family, and update others on the changes and happenings of their life. Originally, Facebook was created with the intent of allowing college students the ability to interact with one another. It was a site where...
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