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Austin Texas!!!

corriececilia — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:00:07 +0000

Five facts:

-Almost one year ago the population of Austin, Texas was 757,688 people.

-1.2% of the population in Austin is Chinese.

-Only 2.5 percent of the population comes from Italy.

-39.4% of the population has never been married.

-The Austin area code is (512)

TAKS

corriececilia — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:00:45 +0000

Taks – has a list of formulas and whatnot to help

Taks 2 – Has TAKS reviews for every grade level, oriented for kids aswell so it’s easier to handle.

Taks 3 – Has different TAKS reviews from several different years, old test questions, etc.

Robots!

corriececilia — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:25:20 +0000

If NASA is sending humanoid robots to space to do our work for us there, it seems as if it’s only a short amount of time until they are here on Earth performing simple tasks for us. Maybe at first as a small feature in a store, then eventually maybe evolving to being able to assist in such situations. It doesn’t seem that out of the question if our technology is already this advanced.

Nobel Prize

corriececilia — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:05:56 +0000

The Nobel Prize is “an annual award for outstanding contributions to chemistry or physics or physiology and medicine or literature or economics or peace.” People get Nobel Prizes for doing something outstanding in either Chemistry, Physics, Physiology, Medicine, Literature, Economics, or Peace, and being nominated by a well known scientist or professional in one of the above fields.

Winners:

(1906) Theodore Roosevelt- Drew up the 1905 peace treaty between Russia and Japan.

(1919) Thomas Woodrow Wilson – Founder of the Société des Nations (League of Nations)

(1964) Martin Luther King Jr. – Campaigner for civil rights.

Evironment Post

corriececilia — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:00:40 +0000

100 Ways to Save the Environment is a website that lists 100 practical ways that we can all change our behaviors to better the environment that we live in.

Ways to Help the Environment is a website that gives ideas to how small children can manage to help save the environment, so it’s not just up to the adults.

50 Ways to Help the Planet is another website that lists 50 practical ways to help the environment by changing simple things around the household or in your every day life, things such as not preheating the oven, and changing your light bulbs to cheap but energy efficient light bulbs.

Google Labs

corriececilia — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:02:37 +0000

“Google Transliteration” – This website allows you to type in phonetically what you hear from someone speaking another language and if you have identified the language it is, Google will translate it into English for you. This seems pretty convenient seeing as how, for most translators, if you know how to spell it in the language, you probably speak it, thus negating the need for a translator… unless you’re just really good at guessing.

Aardvark – Aardvark is like Ask.com, but SO much better. Ask.com used to be this awesome site where you could type in any question and it would give you an “instant answer,” but really it was just a cleverly disguised search engine. Aardvark sends your question out onto the internet so that another person can answer it for you; kind of like a more efficient version of yahoo answers.

Gesture Search – This application is for anything that has a touch screen from what I can tell. It seems fairly efficient seeing as how most people have trouble scrolling down some screens or making their fingers fit the touch screen buttons. What Gesture Search does is it lets you draw a letter anywhere on your screen and it will bring up a search list of everything that includes that letter, making it much more efficient to find everything.

Questions

corriececilia — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:36:57 +0000

What is a CPU? What does it do? — central processing unit: (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing
What is RAM? What does it do? — random-access memory: the most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on; an integrated circuit memory chip allows information to be stored or accessed in any order and all storage locations are equally accessible
What is a heat sink? What does it do? — a metal conductor specially designed to conduct (and radiate) heat
What is an optical drive? What does it do? — In computing, an optical disc drive (ODD) is a disk drive that uses laser light or electromagnetic waves near the light spectrum
What is a hard drive? What does it do? — also known as a Hard Disc Drive or HDD. Normally located inside your PC and often labelled C:, a hard drive is capable of storing a large number of files.
What is a computer power supply? What does it do? — Power supply is a reference to a source of electrical power. A device or system that supplies electrical or other types of energy to an output
What is a motherboard? What does it do? — A motherboard is the central printed circuit board (PCB) in many modern computers and holds many of the crucial components of the system
What is a computer case? What does it do? — A computer case (also known as a computer chassis, cabinet, box, tower, enclosure, housing or simply case) is the enclosure that contains the main components of a computer.
What is a computer monitor? What does it do? — a device that displays signals on a computer screen
When your turn a computer monitor off, does it turn the computer off? — No.
What is a keyboard? Is it an input or output device? — input
What is an optical mouse? What does it do? — An optical mouse uses a light-emitting diode and photodiodes to detect movement relative to the underlying surface, rather than moving some of its parts – as in a mechanical mouse.
What is a DVD? How much data does it hold? — a digital recording (as of a movie) on an optical disk that can be played on a computer or a television set, can hold up to 15.90 GB
What is a CD? How much data does it hold? — A Compact Disc (also known as a CD) is an optical disc used to store digital data. Can hold up to 80 minutes of uncompressed audio (700 MB of data).
What is a surge protector? What does it do? Why do you need one to plug in a computer? — A surge protector (or surge suppressor) is an appliance designed to protect electrical devices from voltage spikes. If you plug into a computer, will protect it if the power source unexpectedly gives out.
What is a computer network? — is two or more computers connected so that they can communicate with each other and share information, software, peripheral devices, etc.
What is WiFi? — wireless local area network, WLAN, wireless fidelity, WiFi (a local area network that uses high frequency radio signals to transmit and receive data over distances of a few hundred feet; uses ethernet protocol)
What is 3G? — 3rd Generation (cellular phone commmunication standard)
What is an LCD monitor? How does it work? — A thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) is a variant of liquid crystal display (LCD) which uses thin-film transistor
What is streaming audio? — Streaming media are multimedia that are constantly received by, and normally presented to, an end-user while being delivered by a streaming provider (the term “presented” is used in this article in a general sense that includes audio or video playback).
What is streaming video? — Streaming video is a sequence of “moving images” that are sent in compressed form over the Internet and displayed by the viewer as they arrive.
Are you allowed to listen to streaming audio in this computer lab? — No
Are you allowed to listen to streaming video in this computer lab? — No
Are you supposed to play games on school computers? — No
Are you supposed to visit MySpace or Facebook at school? — No
What is a proxy? — A firewall mechanism that replaces the IP address of a host on the internal (protected) network with its own IP address for all traffic passing
Are you supposed to use proxies in school? — No
What “game” site are you allowed to use in this lab? — sporcle.com
What’s the easiest thing to try if your computer isn’t working right? — Task Manager? (Ctrl + Alt +Del)