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Windows 7 Wins on Netbook PCs: Q&A: Brad Brooks, corporate vice president for Windows C... - 0 views

  • With Windows 7, we’ve matched hardware improvements with some investments of our own. With Windows 7 we are on track to have a smaller OS footprint; an improved user interface that should allow for faster boot-up and shut-down times; improved power management for enhanced battery life; enhanced media capabilities; and increased reliability, stability and security. These engineering investments allow small notebook PCs to run any version of Windows 7, and allow customers complete flexibility to purchase a system which meets their needs. For OEMs that build lower-cost small notebook PCs, Windows 7 Starter will now be available in developed markets. For the most enhanced, full-functioning Windows experience on small notebook PCs, however, consumers will want to go with Windows 7 Home Premium, which lets you get the most out of your digital media and easily connect with other PCs.
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Suspension of Disbelief - 0 views

  • n the world of fiction you are often required to believe a premise which you would never accept in the real world. Especially in genres such as fantasy and science fiction, things happen in the story which you would not believe if they were presented in a newspaper as fact. Even in more real-world genres such as action movies, the action routinely goes beyond the boundaries of what you think could really happen.
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IMAP vs. POP3 - ClickZ - 2 views

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  • [BS offered] "POP3 sucks mail off the mail server and stores it locally: the mail server is simply a way-station on the way to the user's hard disk. IMAP keeps mail on the mail server. Just like a file server provides centralized file storage, an IMAP server provides centralized mail storage."
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The Technium: Major Transitions in Technology - 0 views

  • The invention of writing systems for language and math structured this learning even more. Ideas could be remembered more accurately, and just as importantly, their organization could be examined and analyzed. Ideas could also be indexed, retrieved, and propagated easier. Writing allowed the organization of information to penetrate into many aspects of life and vastly accelerated trade, creation of calendars, and laws – all of which organized information furthe
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      Reading and writing as well as math has become easier to do as technology progresses. Programs such as word and excel make reading and math as simple as clicking the mouse to a computer. Writing information down and using your brain to solve problems were only stepping stones to the future of reading and math. Humans come up with new ways everyday to make math as well as reading an easier task to accomplish, simply by using a computer.
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Idea Lab - Becoming Screen Literate - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Digital technology gives the professional a new language as well. An image stored on a memory disc instead of celluloid film has a plasticity that allows it to be manipulated as if the picture were words rather than a photo.
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      Digital technology makes moviemaking much easier than using filmstrips. An editor can simply copy and paste certain scenes where they want, rather than having to reshoot a scene. Another positive of digital technology is that it can save much more moviemaking progress than on a film strip. An editor can add special effects to their movie using this technology on computers, rather than just using what is shot in the film. Making movies can be as simple as writing an essay.
  • As moving images become easier to create, easier to store, easier to annotate and easier to combine into complex narratives, they also become easier to be remanipulated by the audience. This gives images a liquidity similar to words. Fluid images­ made up of bits flow rapidly onto new screens and can be put to almost any use. Flexible images migrate into new media and seep into the old. Like alphabetic bits, they can be squeezed into links or stretched to fit search engines, indexes and databases. They invite the same satisfying participation in both creation and consumption that the world of text doe
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      Moving images has made life for people much easier. Instead of having to mail an important document or picture, it can be simply attached to an e-mail. Images as well as documents and important information can be put up on web sites as well. All of these images can be manipulated and changed to suite a person's wants or needs. For example, if you are using facebook, a person can tag themselves in a photo and then "photoshop" different designs and words onto the actual picture. Moving images have certainly changed the way the world shares information.
  • t is a formidable task, but in the past decade computers have gotten much better at recognizing objects in a picture than most people realize. Researchers have started training computers to recognize a human face. Specialized software can rapidly inspect a photograph’s pixels searching for the signature of a face: circular eyeballs within a larger oval, shadows that verify it is spherical. Once an algorithm has identified a face, the computer could do many things with this knowledge: search for the same face elsewhere, find similar-looking faces or substitute a happier version.
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      Computers have the ability to recognize human beings in a picture or a motion picture. This becomes very helpful for certain things such as traffic violations, robberies, computer hacking, etc. We can also use this technology to change the appearance of somebody, whether it be for illegal purposes or for just plain fun. If a computer can recognize a human face, this helps a great deal in law enforcement. This will make it much easier to identify a person, simply by looking at different characteristics of the suspects face.
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  • Academic research has produced a few interesting prototypes of video summaries but nothing that works for entire movies. Some popular Web sites with huge selections of movies (like porn sites) have devised a way for users to scan through the content of full movies quickly in a few seconds. When a user clicks the title frame of a movie, the window skips from one key frame to the next, making a rapid slide show, like a flip book of the movie. The abbreviated slide show visually summarizes a few-hour film in a few seconds. Expert software can be used to identify the key frames in a film in order to maximize the effectiveness of the summary.
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      Being allowed to scan through an entire movie in seconds makes watching short films as well as long films much easier. If I want to skip to a certain scene or just watch only certain parts of a film, it is as simple as jumping to that section of the movie. This also makes teaching much easier. Since classes do not go on forever and a teacher would like to show a clip from a movie for teaching purposes, they can do this in an easy manner.
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Google Chrome OS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Google Chrome OS is a project by Google Inc. to develop a lightweight computer operating system devoted to using the World Wide Web.[1] Announced on July 7, 2009, it is based on Google's Chrome web browser and the Linux kernel. It will initially be targeted at netbooks,[2] and is set to be released during the second half of 2010.[3] It will run on systems with either x86 or ARM processors.[4] Google has stated that the Google Chrome OS project will be open source[5] by the end of 2009, and that it will use "a new windowing system",[6] as opposed to the X Window System, which is the standard for Linux.
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Semantic Web - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • he Semantic Web is an evolving development of the World Wide Web in which the meaning (semantics) of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content.[1][2] It derives from World Wide Web Consortium director Sir Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the Web as a universal medium for data, information, and knowledge exchange.[3]
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