Desktops Obsolete?

In a presentation in Dublin, Ireland in March 2010, Google sales chief Jim Haley stated that desktops would be irrelevant in three years (SiliconRepublic.com). Smartphones, notebooks, and the amount of information available online will converge to create a different kind of future than what we’ve known, according to Haley. Do you agree? Why or why not? What impact would that have on the types of hardware and software that are the most in demand? I believe it won't be irrevlevant, but I do believe smartphones and labtops will be in higher demand. You can rebuild and add on a lot to a desktop, that you can't necessarly do on a laptop or a tablet. For people who do a lot of gaming, or major networking computers used in businesses need a lot of space and speed on a computer that can always be added on to like a desktop. A laptop may be fast but it can't have as much space added to it as a desktop can. Smartphones are in high demand and a lot of people use them for work, but I think a desktop is more reliable. A phone and a notebook are easy to lose but a desktop and kind of hard to misplace. Notebooks and smartphones make working and networking a lot more mobile and convient, but I feel a desktop is a lot more reliable.

Using System Software

Page 206 1) There are two basic types of software on your computer, which are the Operating system and utility programs. 2) The different kinds of Operating Systems for different devices such as robots and specialized equipment, mainframes and network computers, mobile devices, and personal computers. There are real-time operating systems; there's operating systems for networks called multiuser operating system aka a network operating system such as UNIX. Mac OS is for apple computers, while Microsoft Windows are used for different computers and game consoles. 3) Three of the most common operating systems are Mac OS, Microsoft Windows OS, and Linx. What is Jing? Jing is a software that aallows you to take pictures of your computer screen with your computer and put it on the web, or save it to your computer. With Jing you can also record screenshots up to five mintues. Jing can be used with Macintosh and Microsoft Windows.

Media Player Power Point

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Windows Media Player

One application software I use often is windows media player. In windows media player you can play your dvds, listen to music, download music and videos, and burn CDs. Often when I'm at work or somewhere where I can't have a TV I can bring DVDs and watch them on my laptop. I also use windows media player when I want to listen to my cds or music I downloaded. Then if I need to make a copy of a cd or burn music from my computer, I can put it onto a CD and listen to it in the car. If you have a radio in your car or don't have an aux plug to listen to your music Windows Media Player is a good way to make portable CDs to listen too.

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#1 Social Network and Society

The advantage a social network can bring to your life is that it can help you stay connected with your friends in family. For companies it can also bring you in new business and keep them up to date with whats going on and whats popular. It's an easy and fast why to talk to other people global and is most of  the time free. It's good advertisement, however it can bring down business as well. It can change people's minds about shopping in your store or doing any business with you, due to customer complaint comments. People also cyber bully each other online which has lead to suicides and provoked fights. Society has now became use to social networking and it's becoming more popular by the second which brings people together, but may bring down productivity while at work. People also go on social networks and become stalkers and also steal peoples' identity making false profiles. Bounty hunters use social networks such as facebook to follow people and see if they're around a fugitive they may be looking for, or where a fugitive may be hanging around. Businesses are sending coupons through social networking. I believe in the next few years social networking will take over classes in schools and will also cause more cases when it comes to the negatives of social networking, such as the craiglist killer. So as social networking grows, online security will also have to become tighter as well.

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