• 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?

No because in a few years you will be able to read all your books off the internet and there would be no reason to buy the books. I think a lot of people don' t like to read books as it is so i don't think they would even exist for classes anymore and then there would be computers instead.

• How long do you currently read online per day (in hours)? How long do you currently read offline per day (in hours)?

maybe about 2 or 3 hours, not at all unless it is in school so maybe about an 1 hour in total.

• What is 'product placement'?

when companies arrange to have a specific brand used in a particular TV show or film, or by a specific actor.

• How much does Martha Stewart charge to mention a product on the air?

$10,000 for a 30-second spot, as opposed to $18,000 for The View

• Do you think her use of this is hurting her ratings?

No it is just helping her company and housewives at home who need help with this things and don't know what to buy. She is like michael jordon but for home needs.

• What do you think of product placement?

I think as long as it helps promote their business good for them it is not my problem because i am not the one spending the money or investing it even though it would be nice to invest in it. But if you look at it at if i buy the product then i am investing money in it and i am spending money. this is what i think about product placement.

-How does the situation today compare with what happened at the library of Alexandria?
Well we are losing a lot of important software that hold information that we might need and that happened to the library of Alexandria when it was destroyed and now it is no longer. Now it is happening again and they want to figure out better ways to perserve our historic information.

-Give a summary of the article and your own feelings as to whether the American government should invest money in this project.
They want to spend millions and i mean millions of dollars trying to perserve this important artifacts and information. i personally like the idea, because i don't think what happened to the alexandria library should happen again. but i think we shouldn't be spending all that money when we could use it for more important stuff like diseases. My opinion is they need to focus on stuff that is going to better us and the world. they need to ask themselves are the perserved things going to give us information to saving our world, or saving the economic system, etc. There are so many reasons why we you should support this and why we shouldn't support it.

-According to this obviously biased site, when should people stick with Windows?
The few reasons why people should stick to windows is there is propreitary software you can't live without, you are a hardcore gamer, you work in the book and printing industry, and your hardware is not yet supported. These are the couple of reasons why you might want to stick to windows.

-Which are the three most compelling reasons to migrate to Linux, according to the web site ? Elaborate on each.
The first reason is there are no viruses, you don't have to worry about losing any important information and your computer getting missed up right before a huge essay you have to write to pass a class. This is a really good reason to switch to Linux. The second reason is you can save money and don't have to pay $300 for your operating system. A lot of people my not be able to afford an operating system each month because of the money income so linux might help them save money. The third reason is the freedom which is Linux and "Open Source" software are "free". This means their license is a "free license", and the most common is the GPL . This license states that anyone is allowed to copy the software, see the source code, modify it, and redistribute it as long as it remains licensed with the GPL.

-Here is a link to the site
http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/

Final Exam Questions.3

1. What are Internet cookies?
Most Internet cookies are incredibly simple, but they are one of those things that have taken on a life of their own. Cookies started receiving tremendous media attention back in 2000 because of Internet privacy concerns, and the debate still rages.

2. What are packets?
A piece of a message transmitted over a packet-switching network. See under packet switching. One of the key features of a packet is that it contains the destination address in addition to the data. In IP networks, packets are often called datagrams.

3. What route do packets take over the Internet?
The diagrams we saw on the previous page are so complex, and the specific details of how data packets travel from one machine to another are generally so unimportant, that the entire Internet is often regarded as a "network cloud" where data pumped in one side mysteriously emerges from the other.

4. What is a 404 error on the web?
The 404 or Not Found error message is an HTTP standard response code indicating that the client was able to communicate with the server, but either 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 is exactly analogous to a marketplace on the Internet. 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?
you can get every thing cheaper i believe on craigslist, but the difference is that on ebay you need an acount unlike on craigslist. also on craigslist it tells you if it is a spam or not unlike ebay craigslist is better.

7. What is SSL?
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), are croptographic protocols which provide secure communications on the internet for such things as web browsing, e-mail, internet faxing, instant messaging, and other data transfers.

8. What are the two major ways for home users to connect to the Internet via a high speed connection?
with firefox and with a google account.

9. What is a T-1 line?
Digital signal 1 is a T-carrier signaling scheme devised by Bell labs 1. DS1 is a widely used standard in telecomunications in north america and japan to transmit voice and data between devices. E1 is used in place of T1 outside of North America and Japan. Technically, DS1 is the transmission protocol used over a physical T1 line; however, the terms "DS1" and "T1" are often used interchangeably.

Final Exam Questions.2

# Who edits Wikipedia?
we the people edit wikipedia.

# What is Web 2.0?
eb 2.0, a phrase coined by O'Reilly Media in 2004, refers to a perceived second-generation of Web based communities and hosted services — such as networking sites, wikis and folksonomies — that facilitate collaboration and sharing between users

# What is a social network?
A social network is a social structure made of nodes (which are generally individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of relations, such as financial exchange, friends, kinship, dislike, trade, web links, sexual relations disease transmissions, or airline routes.

# Which corporation owns Myspace.com?
news corporation

# How do Digg.com and Reddit.com work?
Digg is all about user powered content. Everything is submitted and voted on by the Digg community. Share, discover, bookmark, and promote stuff that's important to you!
# Why do people visit Monster.com? Reddit is about researching things and is totally oposite from digg.com

# What does FTP stand for?
File Transfer Protocol

# What does HTTP mean?
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.

# What is the file extension for Flash media that is available to see online?
the most top one is flash 6.0 and that is the extension you can recieve.

# What is the file extension for Microsoft Word files?
Office Word 2007 Office Word 2007 XML document.docx
The default Office Word 2007 file format. Cannot store VBA macro code.

# What is the file extension for Microsoft Excel files?
Office Excel 2007 Office Excel 2007 XML workbook.xlsx
The default Office Excel 2007 file format. Cannot store VBA macro code or Microsoft Excel 4.0 macro sheets (.xlm files in Excel 4.0).

# What is the difference between Excel and Word?
Word is for documents and excel is for spreadsheets.

# What is the file extension for Microsoft PowerPoint?
Office PowerPoint 2007 Office PowerPoint 2007 XML presentation.pptx
The default PowerPoint XML format. Cannot contain a VBAProject part (the part that stores VBA macro code) or Action settings.

# How is Google Documents different from Microsoft Word and Excel?
You can save your work on the internet so you can access it whenever where ever, and don't have to use the same computer you saved it on unlike microsoft word and excel.

# What is Linux?
Linux is a free open-source operating system based on Unix. Linux was originally created by Linus Torvalds with the assistance of developers from around the globe.

# How does Linux differ from Microsoft Windows?
Linux is free to any one with a computer and you don't have to buy or download it onto your computer.

# What is Adwords?
AdWords is Google's flagship advertising product, and main source of revenue. AdWords offers payper click (PPC) advertising, and site-targeted advertising for both text and banner ads.

# How would one profit from Adsense?
By investing money and stock in it.

Final Exam Questions.

1. When were the following companies founded?
(a) Google - 1998
(b) Microsoft - 1975
(c) Yahoo - 1994

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

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

4. What is .NET?
The internet, net is a short name for it.

5. What is the Google Page Rank Algorithm? Basically, how are the placements of searches made?
PageRank is a link anaylasis algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the world wide web, with the purpose of "measuring" its relative importance within the set. They are made by the most popular site to the one people look at the least, the sites with the most information.

6. Which company purchased Flickr.com?
yahoo.com

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 is a broad term that commonly refers to any type of equity investment in an asset in which the equity is not freely tradeable on a public stock market. Public corporation is that it is open to the public and anyone can use it and invest money in it if they want to.

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

10. What is a share of stock?
to share owner ship in a company, because of stocks you own within the company.

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

12. What does the abbreviation GE stand for?
General Electric Company

13. What does the CEO do in a company?
A CEO’s responsibilities: everything, especially in a startup. The CEO is responsible for the success or failure of the company. Operations, marketing, strategy, financing, creation of company culture, human resources, hiring, firing, compliance with safety regulations, sales, PR, etc.—it all falls on the CEO’s shoulders..

14. What does the CFO do in a company?
Controllership duties hold the CFO responsible for presenting and reporting accurate and timely historical financial information of the company he or she works for. Treasury duties – The CFO is also responsible for the company's present financial condition, so he or she must decide how to invest the company's money, taking into consideration risk and liquidity. Economic strategy and forecasting - Not only is a CFO responsible for a company's past and present financial situation, he or she is also an integral part of a company's financial future.

15. What is the NYSE? NASDAQ?
New York Stock Exchange, it is the largest stock exchange in the world by dollar volume and the second largest by number of companies listed. National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations it is an american electonic stock market.

16. What does the board of directors do in a corporation?
In relation to a company, a director is an officer of the company charged with the conduct and management of its affairs. A director may be an inside director (a director who is also an officer) or an outside, or independent, director. The directors collectively are referred to as a board of directors.

17. What is an IPO?
An initial public offering (IPO) is the first sale of a coroporations to investors on a public stock exchange. The main purpose of an IPO is to raise capital for the corporation.

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Gas prices hit record high
gas prices has hit a new personal record of $3.07 per gallon, i think that is a ridiculous amount of money for gas and we should go on strike to lower it. Just within a few months the gas price rised again and the $3.07 is only for regular not even the other types of gas. Basically the article is letting us know what is going on with the gas and we need to figure out a way to lower the prices before we become bankrupt.

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