Final Exam Questions 4

1.) What are Internet cookies?
HTTP cookies, sometimes known as web cookies or just cookies, are parcels of text sent by a server to a web browser and then sent back unchanged by the browser each time it accesses that server.
2.) What are packets?
In information technology, a packet is a formatted block of data carried by a computer network. Computer communications links that do not support packets, such as traditional point-to-point telecommunications links, simply transmit data as a series of bytes, characters, or bits alone.
3.) What route do packets take over the Internet?
A VOIP
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 (also referred to as EC, e-commerce eCommerce or ecommerce) 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?
e-bay: eBay Inc. is an American Internet company that manages ebay.com, an online auction and shopping website where people and businesses buy and sell goods and services worldwide.
craigslist: Craigslist is a centralized network of online urban communities, featuring free classified advertisements (with jobs, internships, housing, personals, for sale/barter/wanted, services, community, gigs and resumes categories) and forums sorted by various topics.
7.) What is SSL?
Server-side scripting is a web server technology in which a user's request is fulfilled by running a script directly on the web server to generate dynamic HTML pages.
8.) What are the two major ways for home users to connect to the Internet via a high speed connection?
DSL and Dail-Up
9.) What is a T-1 line?
Digital signal 1 (DS1, also known as T1, sometimes "DS-1") is a T-carrier signaling scheme devised by Bell Labs. DS1 is a widely used standard in telecommunications in North America and Japan to transmit voice and data between devices.

The Apocalypse isn't as bad as you think

This article is about how grim the future looks for theses students that are graduating this year. She says that even though they worked so hard to get their degrees they will most likely end up in a low paying job that they wont like. Also, they will destroy the environment and hand down a planet that is a waste land to their children.

My Much Better Speech:
Graduates, it with the utmost honor that I stand here before you, with the privilege of announcing your graduation! It has been a long road filled with trying events that have no doubt, influenced your character and have improved you both academically and personally.

As most of you are probably aware, I didn't graduate from Harvard. In fact, I never even got a call back from Admissions. Damn you, Harvard! Damn you! I told myself I would not get emotional today. But damn it, I'm here, and sometimes it's just good to cry.
I'm not one of you. Okay? I can't relate to who you are and what you've been through. I graduated from the University of Life. All right? I received a degree from the School of Hard Knocks. And our colors were black and blue, baby. I had office hours with the Dean of Bloody Noses. All right? I borrowed my class notes from Professor Knuckle Sandwich and his Teaching Assistant, Ms. Fat Lip Thon Nyun. That's the kind of school I went to for real, okay?
So my gift to you, Class of 2003, is to tell you about the real world through my eyes, through my experiences. And I'm sorry, but I refuse to sugarcoat it. I ain't gonna do it. And I probably shouldn't use the word "ain't" during this day in which we celebrate education. But that's just the way I play it, Homes.
Graduates, if you will indulge me for a moment, let me paint a picture of what it's like out there. The last four or, for some of you, five years you've been living in a fantasyland, running around, talking about Hemingway, or Clancy, or, I don't know, I mean whatever you read here at Harvard. The Novelization of the Matrix, I don't know. I don't know what you do here.
Have Fun, Kick Ass, and Take Names!

Is digital history being tossed into oblivion?

1.) This is similar to the situation of the Library of Alexandria because the library kept very important and historical documents that were one of a kind. This information can never be salvaged. Now a days, the online information as well as documents on computers is constantly being deleted forever. Some of this information may be important in determining the progression of man kind.
2.) Information that seems worthless to some may actually be very important to others. It is not so much the information its self but collectively it allows historians to determine how the U.S. and the world was doing; what it was doing; and how fast. I believe that there should be some "really big trash can" where deleted documents are sorted and then recorded. Only certain ones would be recorded and there should be no way to trace it back to the source. This would allow the keeping of records as well as protecting our basic rights to privacy.

Linux guy PWNES Windows

1.) The author claims that you should use Microsoft only if: there is propretary software you cant live without, your a hardcore gamer, you work in the book/printing industry, your hardware is not yet supported.
2.) Forget about viruses: Hackers can only get in if they know your password, which is less than likely. It's free: You can get it for free where as Windows costs $300 No restarting: You don't have to restart the computer once you've installed something making it less of a hassel
3.) PWNED!

Linux guy PWNES Windows

1.) The author claims that you should use Microsoft only if: there is propretary software you cant live without, your a hardcore gamer, you work in the book/printing industry, your hardware is not yet supported.
2.) Forget about viruses: Hackers can only get in if they know your password, which is less than likely. It's free: You can get it for free where as Windows costs $300
3.) PWNED!

Final Exam Review #2

1. Who edits Wikipedia?a group of volunteers
2. What is Web 2.0?a perceived second-generation of Web based communities and hosted services — such as social networking sites and wikis, that facilitate collaboration and sharing between users.
3. 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, trade, sexual relations, etc.
4. Which corporation owns Myspace.com?Fox.
5. How do Digg.com and Reddit.com work?Digg-Digg is a community-based popularity website with an emphasis on technology and science articles, recently expanding to a broader range of categories such as politics and entertainment. It combines social bookmarking and bloggingwith a form of non-hierarchical editorial control. News stories and websites are submitted by users, and then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system.Reddit- reddit is also a social bookmarking 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?HyperText Transfer Protocol9. 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?Exvel is a spreadsheetprogram and 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 is a word processer and a spread sheet and can also upload the documents to the internet while word and excel cannot.
15. What is Linux?Linux is a computer operating system family. It is one of the most prominent examples of free software and of open source development; its underlying source code is available for anyone to use, modify, and redistribute freely.
16. 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.
17. 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.

Midterm Review (Day 1)

1. When were the following companies founded? (a) Google, (b) Microsoft, (c) Yahoo?
a.) 1998
b.)1975
c.)1994
2. Who were the founders of each of those companies?
a.) Larry page and Sergey Brin
b.) Bill Gates
c.) David Filo and Jerry Yang
3. Last year (2006), what did the following companies make in revenue (a) Google, (b) Microsoft, (c) Yahoo?
a.) 10.604 billion
b.) 4.3 billion
c.) 6.43 billion
4. What is .NET?
"net (network) is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) used on the Internet's Domain Name System." wikipedia.com
5. What is the Google Page Rank Algorithm? Basically, how are the placements of searches made?
"Google search algorithm runs on a unique combination of hardware and an advanced script in software called an algorithm. The speed of a google can be attributed in part to the efficiency of this search algorithm and partly to the thousands of low cost PCs Google have networked together to create with their bandwidth a superfast search engine.
In its early years Google introduced a new search technique known as PageRank where by top results are determined partly by how many other sites link to them with the specified query. But over the years the algorithm has become one of the most advanced and complex scripts in deciphering search relevancy, traffic count, hit threads and search duration timing and even penalising unscrupulous search optimisation efforts. Whilst the exact factors are undisclosed, the function of the Google search algorithm provides browsers and searchers fast timing and results sorted according to relevancy based a user trends and hit counts."
wikipedia.com
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?
a.) 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.
b.) A public company usually refers to a company which is permitted to offer its securities (stock, bonds, etc.) for sale to the general public, typically through a stock exchange.
9. What is money coming in to a company?
(d) Revenue
10. What is a share of stock?
In financial markets, stock is the capital raised by a corporation through the issuance and distribution of shares. A person or organization which holds at least a partial share of stocks is called a shareholder.
11. What does Alcoa do?
(c) Mine aluminum
12. What does the abbreviation GE stand for?
General Electric
13. What does the CEO do in a company?
A Chief Executive Officer (CEO), or Chief Executive, is the highest-ranking corporate officer, administrator, corporate administrator, executive, or executive officer, in charge of total management of a corporation, company, organization or agency.
14. What does the CFO do in a company?
The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of a company or public agency is the corporate officer primarily responsible for managing the financial risks of the business or agency.
15. What is the NYSE? NASDAQ?
a.) The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), nicknamed the "Big Board," is a New York City-based stock exchange.
b.) NASDAQ (originally an acronym for National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations system) is an American electronic 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.
17. What is an IPO?
An initial public offering (IPO) is the first sale of a corporation's common shares to investors on a public stock exchange.

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Dream House

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