5 Revolutionary Things

New Electric Car from Chrysler

  

Chrysler has made a new car called the Volt that is an electric vehicle. This is revolutionary because now sports cars will be using battery power, instead of fossil fuels. This impresses me because a sports car will be able to go very fast without using gasoline. The car is expected to be released in 2010.

 

 

iPhone:

 

 

The apple iPhone is a touch screen cellular telephone that can play music, text message, take pictures and access the internet. You can also you Wi-Fi and a touch screen. This is revolutionary because it is basically all the electronics you need, in one. You have a cell phone, an Ipod and the internet.

 

 

 

Xbox live has many revolutionary features.

Mottos for display on gamer profiles

Game achievements, which are earned during game play.

Reputations rating which is voted on by other players who decide to either prefer or avoid another player.

Gamer scores, which are a total of a player’s achievement points which includes kills, time played, wins, losses and assists stats and many more.

Friends list, which is a list of a player’s chosen friends, up to 100 friends allowed

Recent player list, which lists the last 50 players a user, has played with

Complaint filing system, which allows a user to report another user that has broken the Xbox Live Terms of Use

The Xbox Guide, which opens a window on the left side of the screen at any time for easy access to common features

Windows Live messenger integration

Access to Xbox live Marketplace content, including new game content, games and movies

Voice Chat (wireless or wired headset required)

Video Chat (Live Vision camera required, with headset optional for chatting, this is on Gold membership only)

Multiplayer online game play (Gold only)

Enhanced matchmaking using cumulative gamer score, reputation, location/language profile, and gamer zone

Biography section in which one can list personal interests, URLs, etc.

Parental controls, limiting children’s exposure to other users (“Family Settings”)

Avatars, which are customizable by the user and can be used in specific games.

 

 

 Blu-ray, also known as Blu-ray Disc (BD), is the name of a next-generation optical disc format jointly developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), a group of the world’s leading consumer electronics, personal computer and media manufacturers (including Apple, Dell, Hitachi, HP, JVC, LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Pioneer, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, TDK and Thomson). The format was developed to enable recording, rewriting and playback of high-definition video (HD), as well as storing large amounts of data. Blu-ray is the next generation of reading DVD’s.

Part 2 answers

Turing machines, first described by Alan Turing in (Turing 1937), are simple abstract computational devices intended to help investigate the extent and limitations of what can be computed.

Turing, writing before the invention of the modern digital computer, was interested in the question of what it means to be computable. Intuitively a task is computable if one can specify a sequence of instructions which when followed will result in the completion of the task. Such a set of instructions is called an effective procedure, or algorithm, for the task. This intuition must be made precise by defining the capabilities of the device that is to carry out the instructions. Devices with different capabilities may be able to complete different instruction sets, and therefore may result in different classes of computable tasks (see the entry on computability and complexity).

Turing proposed a class of devices that came to be known as Turing machines. These devices lead to a formal notion of computation that we will call Turing-computability.

The first Apple Computer is the Apple 1

 

Apple was established on April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, to sell the Apple I personal computer kit. They were hand-built by Wozniak and first shown to the public at the Homebrew Computer Club. The Apple I was sold as a motherboard (with CPU, RAM, and basic textual-video chips)—not what is today considered a complete personal computer. The Apple I went on sale in July 1976 and was market-priced at US$666.66.

Bill Gates first product was a version of programming language BASIC for the Altair 8800.  People began to copy Gate’s program’s and sell them to other people so he demanded that they pay him.  He made a liecense saying that if you buy a program from him it may only be used for one computer and is not to be shared.  With this, computer companies could make more money by selling more programs to each individual instead of one buying it and sharing it with everyone else.

November 1985	Windows 1.01	1.01	Unsupported	-
November 1987	Windows 2.03	2.03	Unsupported	-
March 1989	Windows 2.11	2.11	Unsupported	-
May 1990	Windows 3.0	3.0	Unsupported	-
March 1992	Windows 3.1x	3.1	Unsupported	5
October 1992	Windows For Workgroups 3.1	3.1	Unsupported	5
July 1993	Windows NT 3.1	NT 3.1	Unsupported	5
December 1993	Windows For Workgroups 3.11	3.11	Unsupported	5
January 1994	Windows 3.2 (released in Simplified Chinese only)	3.2	Unsupported	5
September 1994	Windows NT 3.5	NT 3.5	Unsupported	5
May 1995	Windows NT 3.51	NT 3.51	Unsupported	5
August 1995	Windows 95	4.0.950	Unsupported	5
July 1996	Windows NT 4.0	NT 4.0.1381	Unsupported	6
June 1998	Windows 98	4.10.1998	Unsupported	6
May 1999	Windows 98 SE	4.10.2222	Unsupported	6
February 2000	Windows 2000	NT 5.0.2195	Extended Support until July 13, 2010[19]	6
September 2000	Windows Me	4.90.3000	Unsupported	6
October 2001	Windows XP	NT 5.1.2600	Current for SP2 and SP3 (RTM and SP1 unsupported).	8
March 2003	Windows XP 64-bit Edition 2003	NT 5.2.3790	Unsupported	6
April 2003	Windows Server 2003	NT 5.2.3790	Current for SP1, R2, SP2 (RTM unsupported).	8
April 2005	Windows XP Professional x64 Edition	NT 5.2.3790	Current	8
July 2006	Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs	NT 5.1.2600	Current	-
November 2006 (volume licensing) January 2007 (retail)	Windows Vista	NT 6.0.6001	Current. Version Changed to NT 6.0.6001 with SP1 (February 4 08)	8
July 2007	Windows Home Server	NT 5.2.4500	Current	8
February 2008	Windows Server 2008

History of Computers

 

 

 

 

ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer. ENIAC was designed and built to calculate artillery firing tables for the U.S. Army’s Ballistic Research Laboratory. ENIAC used ten-position ring counters to store digits; each digit used 36 tubes, 10 of which were the dual triodes making up the flip-flops of the ring counter.

 

 

 

A transistor is a semiconductor device commonly used to amplify or switch electronic signals. A transistor is made of a solid piece of a semiconductor material, with at least three terminals for connection to an external circuit. The first BJTs were made from germanium (Ge) and some high power types still are. Silicon (Si) types currently predominate but certain advanced microwave and high performance versions now employ the compound semiconductor material gallium arsenide (GaAs) and the semiconductor alloy silicon germanium (SiGe). Single element semiconductor material (Ge and Si) is described as elemental. Legal papers from the Bell Labs patent show that William Shockley and Gerald Pearson had built operational versions from Lilienfeld’s patents, yet they never referenced this work in any of their later research papers or historical articles.

The integrated circuit was conceived by a radar scientist, Geoffrey W.A. Dummer (1909-2002), working for the Royal Radar Establishment of the British Ministry of Defence, and published at the Symposium on Progress in Quality Electronic Components in Washington, D.C. on May 7, 1952.[1] He gave many symposiums publicly to propagate his ideas. Dummer unsuccessfully attempted to build such a circuit in 1956. The integrated circuit was independently co-invented by Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments[2] and Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor [3] around the same time. September 12, 1958.[2] Kilby won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for his part of the invention of the integrated circuit.

Timex Sinclair was a joint venture between the British company Sinclair Research and Timex Corporation in an effort to gain an entry into the rapidly-growing early-1980s home computer market in the United States. The choice of partnership was natural as Timex was already the main contractor for manufacture of Sinclair’s ZX81 and ZX Spectrum computers at its Scottish plant in Dundee. It was essentially the first keyboard.

 

The first home computer was the Mark-8 Altair. Then along came Jon Titus. He designed the Mark 8 Minicomputer using the Intel 8008 processor and got Radio Electronics magazine to run a construction article. This was groundbreaking. Complete plans to build a working computer for under $500! Amazing! Unheard of! They were switch based computers, and they came in such flavors as 94, 93, 87, 85, and 65kb versions.

Before christmas xbox will be putting out a blu-ray drive into the xbox 360 console it will dramatically increase the price of the 360.  It will add to the reason of buying an xbox 360 console.  The blu-ray drive is 80 $ more than the dvd drive.  This would add to the add-ons of the xbox and it will be more on the store shelves.  Xbox does not want people to choose the ps3 just because of the blu-ray player.  That is the main reason that xbox wants to get blu-ray add-ons on the xbox 360 console.  It should be out close to christmas time.

Answers to Questions…

What are some of the things that you would like to accomplish this school year?

I would like to accomplish many things. One thing i would like to accomplish it to get to level 55 on call of duty 4 in less than a month. It is going to be very difficult thins year but i hope i can accomplish it. Also, i would like to do well in school.
What types of technology are you interested in? Why?
I am interested in technologies such as Ipod’s. I am interested in Ipod’s because they allow me to watch movies and listen to music. I am also interested in game consoles such as the xbox 360, nintendo wii and playstation 3. They are all awesome. And cell phones are a great form of communication that is very conveinant.

What piece of technology could you not live without? Why?
My ipod because it has all my music on it. Also i love to listen to music because it gets me through the day.

What would you like to learn about this year in this course?

 

 

 

 

 
Computers and computer programs. I have trouble figuring out computer programs on my own because they have so many things to use and it can be confusing. I hope I learn to use multiple programs well.

Definitions

Hard Drive - disk drive containing data

CPU – Central processing unit interprate computer info

Motherboard - a board that all other boards connect to so they can be understood by the computer.

PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect

PCI Express - Peripheral Component Interconnect Express

USB – Universal Serial Bus , 1gb 2 4

Firewire - a serial bus  for high-speed communications

IEEE-1394 -  name for Firewire

LCD – Liquid Crystal Display

Plasma -cells located between two panels of glass has neon and xenon

HDMI – High Definition Multimedia Interface

RAM - Random access memory

Flash Memory -  can be electrically erased and  can be rewritened

AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port

DVD – Digitial Versatile Disc , digital video disk\