ISM 3011 Test 2 Study Guide Know the following terms and concepts from Chapters 5 - 7 Moore’s Law (and constraints on it) – (Intel co-founder) Chips performance per dollar doubles every 18 months. Data storage will double every 12 months. With an optical cable it can double every 9 months. Microprocessor - The brain of any computing device. Volatile memory - When power goes out‚ all that was not saved is lost. Non-volatile – storage that will retain data even when power goes out (hard disc‚ flash
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govern the languages use. Any language‚ whether natural or artificial has lexemes (symbols) and a grammar. Example : void‚ ; Semantics: what do the lexemes mean? Statically typed languages determine the data types of variables during compilation and don’t allow them to change. Dynamically typed languages determine the data type at run time by looking at how the variable is being used type safe compilation‚ written in a language‚ goes to compiler‚ produces the program into machine code‚ creates
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Urban real estate information systems: the suppression of radical innovation. John S Kirkwood School of Environment & Development‚ Sheffield Hallam University E-mail: j.s.kirkwood@shu.ac.uk ___________________________________________________________________________________ John S Kirkwood Page 1 5/02/2003 Abstract Information and communications technologies are continuing to bring about significant changes in society. These changes may be viewed as the direct consequence of technological
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Information Technology Acts Information Technology Acts Almost every home‚ school‚ and library in the United States‚ has computers and access to the internet. Although computers are vital to children’s success in school‚ the Internet can expose them to inappropriate material and online predators. With the constant advances in technology over the years‚ the increase in Internet use by children and teenagers has resulted in concerns about preventing illegal Internet activities. In an attempt to
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Information Technology and the ‘Going Paperless’ Concept The idea of a company’s business operations venturing into a paperless environment from a paper-filled filing cabinet clutter is not a new concept. The aspiration for a paperless environment was conceived in the minds of management beginning over twenty years ago‚ dating back to manufacturers and the idea of paperless workstations. (Weber) Unfortunately‚ the businesses then were forced to delay paperless environment execution due to a
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*IMPACT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN BUSINESS COMMUNI*CATION We are in the midst of a third major revolution in human civilization. First there was the Agricultural Revolution‚ then the Industrial Revolution‚ and now we are in the Information Revolution. Information and communication technology and a world wide system of information exchange has been building growth for over a hundred years and physical technology and industry is not slowing down in growth - rather it is accelerating. Information
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Stephen Coonts’ "Flight of the Intruder": Summary This week I read Flight of the Intruder by Stephen Coonts. I read from page 1 to page 437 for a total of 437 pages. The book is about an A-6A Intruder (a naval bomber) pilot named Jake Grafton. In the first few pages Jake’s best friend and B/N (Bombardier/Navigator) is killed by a Vietnamese soldier’s rifle. In this mission their target was a "suspected truck park." Jake goes into despondency (depression‚ despair) for a days and tries to
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when its occupants do not live in hunger or fear of starvation. According to the World Resources Institute‚ global per capita food production has been increasing substantially for the past several decades. In 2006‚ MSNBC reported that globally‚ the number of people who are overweight has surpassed the numbers who are undernourished - the world had more than one billion people who were overweight‚ and an estimated 800 million who were undernourished. According to a 2004 article from the BBC‚ China‚ the
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A sensitive period refers to “a special sensibility which a creature acquires in its infantile state" (Montessori‚ 1966‚ p.38). Such sensitive periods were first discovered in insects by the Dutch scientist Hugo de Vries‚ but according to Montessori‚ can also be found in children and are very important to consider in teaching. Each sensitive period is a "transient disposition and is limited to the acquisition of a particular trait" (Montessori‚ 1966‚ p.38). Once the sensitive period is over‚ the
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