Article #2

• What has changed with the book search? "Now when you search you'll get both digitized book results as well as records for millions of other books that still just exist in the analog world."
• Do you think people will still be reading books in 10 years? Why or why not? I think that books will still be read in 10 years but not as much. As long as there are schools and colleges there most likely will be people reading books. Also, it depends on how many authors there are in the next ten years.
  
• How long do you currently read online per day (in hours)? How long do you currently read offline per day (in hours)? I guess if you counts sport articles and emails as readin, then maybe 2 hours a day Online. Offline i read maybe an hour a day.
  

Article 1

• What is 'product placement'? Its when a person slips a product on television.
  
• How much does Martha Stewart charge to mention a product on the air? $10,000
• Do you think her use of this is hurting her ratings? No.
  
• What do you think of product placement? I thinks its a way for companies to get a chance to share their product and get an oppurtunity to make money.
  

article #3

-According to this obviously biased site, when should people stick with Windows?
If your a "hard core gamer, if it has software you can't live without, if you work in a book/printing industry, or if your hardware is not yet supported."

-Which are the three most compelling reasons to migrate to Linux, according to the web site ? Elaborate on each. Money- its for free, you can download things for free and it legal, and linux protects your computer from viruses.


-Create a hyperlink to the above website on your blog. A hyperlink is able to be clicked and doesn't need to be copied and pasted into the address bar.
Link to thing

article 2

-Do boys and girls think differently according to the article? How?
Boys performed, on average, better on perceptual analysis, whereas girls earned higher marks on tasks involving physical dexterity and processing speed. Girls were also slightly better at verbal tasks involving learning and reciting groups of nouns—however, beyond the age of 11, boys caught up to them.


-When do most people develop most of their cognitive abilities? Is this new information for scientists? Around age 11 or 12. Yes it is


-Does income relate to intelligence according to this article?
Yes it does. high-income children outperformed their less wealthy peers on both IQ tests and an exam designed to replicate achievement in various academic subjects. Lower income kids performed at a lower level than others in reading comprehension and mathematical calculations but were competitive in basic cognition, memory and reading skills, indicating that poverty may affect development at the level where different abilities must be combined, such as verbal skills and memory, in the case of reading comprehension.

Library of Alexandria article

-How does the situation today compare with what happened at the library of Alexandria?
Because of the fact that 44% of websites that existed vanished in 1998.

-Give a summary of the article and your own feelings as to whether the American government should invest money in this project.
This article is about the fact that the government wants to spend money on a project to keep data of websites that are important. I really have no intrest in this article cause what ever i say has no importance to the government so i guess i dont care much about this article.

3rd part to final quest.

1. What are Internet cookies? Internet cookies are short pieces of data used by web servers to help identify web users.

2. What are packets? Packets are bytes that carry information to their destination.

3. What route do packets take over the Internet? They are sent to the best available route, which might be taken by all the other packets in the message to make the network more efficient.

4. What is a 404 error on the web? It is an HTTP standard response code indicating that the client was able to communicate with the server, but the server could not find what was requested, or it was configured not to fulfill the request and not reveal the reason why.

5. What is 'e-commerce'? Electronic commerce consists primarily of the distributing, buying, selling, marketing and servicing of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks.

6. What is the difference between ebay and craigslist? When you search for craigslist, you type in an area and it shows different products available in that area. When you look for something on ebay, you don't know where it is coming from.

7. What is SSL? Secure Sockets Layer

8. What are the two major ways for home users to connect to the Internet via a high speed connection? DSL and Broadband are the ways to connect to the Internet via a high speed connection.

9. What is a T-1 line? A T-1 line means that the phone company has brought a fiber optic line into your office.

2nd part to fina thing

1- Who edits Wikipedia? The community

2- What is Web 2.0? "Refers to a perceived second generation of Web based communities and hosted services— such as social networking sites, wikis and folksonomies— that facilitate collaboration and sharing between users."

3- What is a social network? "A social network is a social structure made of nodes"

4- Which corporation owns Myspace.com? "Fox Interactive Media"

5- How do Digg.com and Reddit.com work? "In digg.com users submitte news stories and websites to share. Reddit.com is a website where users can post links to content on the web. Other users may then vote the posted links up or down, causing them to appear more or less prominently on the reddit home page."

6- Why do people visit Monster.com? to find jobs

7- What does FTP stand for? File Transfer Protocol

8- What does HTTP mean? "HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol and is used for browsing web site pages on the Internet."

9- What is the file extension for Flash media that is available to see online? swf

10- What is the file extension for Microsoft Word files? doc

11- What is the file extension for Microsoft Excel files? xls

12- What is the difference between Excel and Word? Excel is a spread sheet program and microsoft word is a word processing program.

13- What is the file extension for Microsoft PowerPoint? ppt

14- How is Google Documents different from Microsoft Word and Excel? Google documents combines both word and excel meaning that it does spreadsheets and is a word processor and also uploads documents.

15- What is Linux? "Linux is a computer operating system. It is one of the most prominent examples of free software and of open source development."

17- How does Linux differ from Microsoft Windows? Linux is used as an operating system for a wider variety of computer hardware than any other operating system.

18- What is Adwords? "Adwords is Google's advertising product, and main source of revenue. AdWords offers pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, and site-targeted advertising for both text and banner ads. The AdWords program includes local, national, and international distribution."

Final questions

Today's questions for the midterm:

Day 1 Questions -

1. When were the following companies founded? (a) Google, (b) Microsoft, (c) Yahoo? A)Google-1996, B)Microsoft- 1975, C)Yahoo- 1994

2. Who were the founders of each of those companies? Google founder(s)- "Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Microsoft founder(s)- Bill Gates, Yahoo founder(s)- Jerry Yang and David Filo"

3. Last year (2006), what did the following companies make in revenue (a) Google, (b) Microsoft, (c) Yahoo? "Google- 10,604.92 , Microsoft- 44,282.00 , Yahoo- 6,425.68"

4. What is .NET? ".Net is a generic top-level domain used on the internet's domain name system."

5. What is the Google Page Rank Algorithm? Basically, how are the placements of searches made? It ranks certain websites by how popular they are.

6. Which company purchased Flickr.com? "Yahoo"

7. Which company very recently purchased Chrysler? "Cerberus Capital Management."

8. What is the difference between a private equity company and a public corporation? Private equity company means certain people can see it, and public corporation everyone cane see it.

9. What is money coming in to a company? [Erase the incorrect answers.] (d) Revenue.

10. What is a share of stock? "A share of stock is a claim on the current and future dividends (or other cash flows, such as stock buybacks) to be paid by a company."

11. What does Alcoa do? [Erase the incorrect answers.] (c) Mine aluminum

12. What does the abbreviation GE stand for? "genetically engineered"

13. What does the CEO do in a company? "Chief Executive Officer. The executive who is responsible for a company's operations"

14. What does the CFO do in a company? "The definition of "chief executive officer" (almost always) depends on whether a business is a corporation or not, that is, whether it (usually) has a board of directors or not. In an organization that has a board of directors, the "chief executive officer" is (usually) the singular organizational position that is primarily responsible to carry out the strategic plans and policies as established by the board of directors. In this case, the chief executive reports to the board of directors. In a form of business that is usually without a board of directors (sole proprietorship, partnership, etc.), the "chief executive officer" is (usually) the singular organizational position (other than partnerships, etc.) that sets the direction and oversees the operations of an organization."

15. What is the NYSE? NASDAQ? "NYSE is the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ is an American electronic stock exchange."

16. What does the board of directors do in a corporation? "The board's key purpose is to ensure the company's prosperity by collectively directing the company's affairs, whilst meeting the appropriate interests of its shareholders and stakeholders."

17. What is an IPO? "IPO stands for initial public offering and occurs when a company first sells its shares to the public."

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