Typical Office Setting.

Typical Office Setting.

From this picture, it looks like that this office is for a business because there are many portables in the room with a computer in everyone. It could be any sort of business really. You see many of these types of offices in movies.

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PIRATED SOFTWARE

Do not buy pirated copies of software, movies and music!

The difference between the lives of two business people in the computer industry now and 20 years ago.

The difference between the lives of two business people in the computer industry now and 20 years ago.

There is a big difference between these 2 lives. Obviously back 20 years ago, the computers were not as high tech as what we have now. They didn’t have windows back then to use where now we have Windows XP and Vista etc. They didn’t even have the internet to use and browse. So they only used computers to type up documents.


In this picture, you can see that this computer is not as high tech as what we use today. It doesn’t even have a mouse and the screen is so small!


Where as……
Computers nowadays are so much better! We have flat widescreen monitors, graphic cards, speakers, hard-drives, motherboards, and DVD burners etc.

Technology is so important these days with most people on our planet using computers everyday.



Computers are used everyday in life. You see them everywhere at work, schools, home and shops. They are not only used for typing up documents like 20 years ago, they are used for internet browsing, researching, gaming and networking etc.

Back 20 years ago, the computing industry would have been progressing pretty slow but now it’s progressing so fast that scientist say that a super computer will be invented.

Complete the following reasons…

Complete the following reasons…

Copyright is…a set of rights granted by government for a limited time to protect the particular form, way or manner in which an idea or information is expressed. Copyright may exist in a wide range of creative or artistic form or work, including fictional works, movies, musical works, sound recordings, paintings, photographs, software, and industrial designs. Copyright is a type of logical property.

Computer crime has…decreased over the past year due to strict laws by the government. Computer crime can be hacking, stealing money from credit cards/debit cards over the internet, software piracy and any other misuse of a computer system. Software piracy is a big issue because many people around the world have illegal copies of software that hasn’t been sold in the area yet. Internet banking nowadays is a risk because there is always a chance that your account has been hacked.

Equality is…the principle by which all persons or things under consideration are treated in the same way.

An example of privacy in computers is…showing your personal details and not having others looking at them over the internet.

Suggest 5 reasons why you think copyright laws were introduced.

Suggest 5 reasons why you think copyright laws were introduced.

So people can’t make money by selling something they haven’t copied.

So people don’t buy pirated copies of movies or software when they are not in stores/cinemas.

So that people can see a movie at the right time or buy the software at the right time, not earlier.

So the artist/maker of the song, movie or software makes money through selling.

To protect the fine and economic interests arising from their creative works.

A-Z Computer Terms

List From A-Z, Terms used in computers in the last 20 years.

A – Adobe – American software company. Includes Photoshop etc.
B – Broadband - High-speed transmission over the internet.
C – Connection - A connection between two peer applications or higher layer protocols mapped onto a channel.
D – Disk - A magnetic storage medium on which data is digitally stored.
E – Email - Electronic mail. Mail composed and transmitted on a computer system or network.
F – Formatting - Formatting is organising and marking the surface of a disk into tracks, sectors and cylinders. It is also sometimes a term used to signify the action of writing a file system to a disk
G – Graphic Card - Designed to convert a logical representation of an image stored in memory to a signal that can be used as input for a display medium.
H – Hard drive - A rigid non-removable disk in a computer and the drive that houses it.
I – Internet - A network of computer networks which operates world-wide using a common set of communications protocols.
J – Joystick - An input device used for video games and for some graphics applications.
K – Keyboard - An input device similar to a typewriter, for the entry of text, numbers and punctuation.
L – Laptop - Small portable computer.
M - Motherboard – The heart of the PC, it handles system resources as well as core components like the CPU and all system memory.
N – Networking - Network occurs any time you connect two or more computers together so that they can share resources.
O – Online – Connected to a network.
P – Processor - The part of the computer that controls the execution of program instructions.
Q – Quicktime – A media player
R – RAM – Stands for Random Access Memory. Type of computer storage whose contents can be accessed in any order.
S – Software - Coded instructions (programs) that make a computer do useful work.
T – Troubleshooting - Strategies used to define and solve problems encountered while using information technology tools.
U – Upgrades - This represents a large change to a program.
V – Virus - A dangerous computer program with the characteristic feature of being able to generate copies of itself, and thereby spreading.
W – Windows - An operating system with a graphical user interface
X – XP – A version of Windows.
Y – Yahoo – A popular search engine on the internet.
Z – Zip – A file to compress it into an archive so that it occupies less disk space.

Computer Crime Poster

Computer Crime poster!

Computer crime is a really bad thing to have around! Computer crime like hacking and money stealing from credit cards over the internet! IT’S JUST NOT ON!!!

How computers can predict natural disasters

How computers can predict natural disasters

An example of how computers can predict natural disasters is using satellite images of earth from space. Storm chasers use this to see where tornado’s are going to hit so they can send a tornado warning to let the people who are living around there to have a chance to escape.

A Significant Person in the Computer Industry.

BILL GATES

Bill Gates is the chairman of the Microsoft Corporation, the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. Microsoft had profits of US$44.28 billion for the financial year ending June 2006, and employs more than 71,000 people in 103 countries and regions.

William H Gates III commonly known as Bill Gates was born on 28th October 1955 and raised in Seattle along with his two sisters. Bill became interested in programming at an early age while attending one of Seattle’s most exclusive schools. Gates soon befriended a student named Paul Allen and together using the schools minicomputer they practiced their skills.

They turned to a computing company, in exchange for free use of a more powerful computer they searched for bugs in the computers system while also learning new languages. Bill went on to Harvard University and while there teamed up with Paul to write a new version of Basic programming language for the first personnel computer the Altair 8800.

Microsoft announced Windows 1.0 in 1983, which promised a graphical user interface (GUI) better graphics and multitasking. However the final product was not released for another 2 years until 1985, with very few compatible applications Windows did not sell well.

Over the next five years Microsoft released a number of upgraded windows 2.0 versions which added many programs, flexibility and features. As Microsoft grew, its share price sky rocketed, and at the age of 31 Bill Gates became the youngest self-made billionaire in American history.

In 1990 Microsoft headed by Bill Gates created a new version of Windows called Windows 3.0 with a much improved GUI and features which sold more than 10 million copies, quickly followed by Windows 3.1, 3.11 and workgroups which added networking support. Building on their success Microsoft developed Windows 95 followed by windows 98, 2000, Millennium Edition and The current version Windows XP. Each new windows release has seen Microsoft gain more market share and along with their popular applications such as Office, games etc has seen Bill Gates become the richest man in the world worth an estimated
$46 billion US dollars.