COMPUTER CONCEPTS NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND NEW DELHI Computer Concepts Hardware & software concepts explained for persons with low or no vision for the students of Intel Technology Training Lab at National Association for the Blind‚ New Delhi Produced and Published by National Association for the Blind Sector-5‚ R.K Puram‚ New Delhi E-mail: nab@vsnl.com First Edition October 2001 Reprint: February 2005 TABLE OF CONTENTS
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CHAPTER ONE COMPUTER SYSTEM FUNDAMENTALS 1.1 Computer System as a Universal Tool A computer system is an electronic device that accepts inputs; transform the input through some processes to obtain output or information that can aid effective decision making. Information originated from raw data which by its own simple definition is any raw fact or figure that can be subjected to a form of manipulation before it can be trusted for decision making. Data can originate from various sources depending
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COMPUTER VIRUS AND ITS TYPES COMPUTER VIRUS Computer virus is a software program written with malicious intentions. There are number of computer viruses that can impede the functioning of your computer system. DETAIL ABOUT COMPUTER VIRUS They are replicated by themselves. Viruses are so dangerous and malicious that they can be automatically copied and pasted from memory to memory over and over; the transmitting power is too much quick from network to network that can simply hang smoothly running
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Tips for Good Opinion Paragraphs You will need to be well prepared in order to write a good opinion paragraph. Here are the steps to take before you even start writing: | Pick a controversial issue - something people clearly agree or disagree with it strongly. | | Decide which side you will take - do you agree or disagree with it? This will be your opinion. | | Get as much information as you can in order to defend your point of view - you will need facts to support your point‚ examples
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Computer Crime This type of crime is the illegal exploitation of computer technologies‚ usually involving the Internet‚ to support crimes such as fraud‚ identity theft‚ sharing of information‚ and embezzlement. Exactly what is illegal varies greatly from state to state. Consequently‚ the growth of international data communications and in particular the Internet has made these crimes both more common and more difficult to police. Luckily there are people fighting computer crime and it is taken very
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Shrinking Paragraph Template The Shrinking Paragraph: A Summarization Strategy What is a summary and what does it mean to summarize? Summarizing is how we take larger selections of text and reduce them to the bare essentials. Summarizing means including only the most important information. A summary tells the main idea of the text. Step One: Evaluate the headlines and organizational pattern of the two articles. Article One: Myanmar (formerly Burma) and Human Rights Headline: Burma (officially
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Computer Basics Ty Christian English Allied American University Short Response Discuss where a computer stores its basic hardware settings‚ why it does so‚ and what some of those settings are. A computer is a very complex and complicated piece of equipment that take teams of professional’s to manage. What people seem to forget is even this enigma of hardware also have a very basic system that fires it up. This is called the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System). As the name suggests
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Though many people dismiss the idea of cloning as a way of destroying nature’s diversity‚ cloning techniques can potentially become life savers for many. The ability to clone will allow scientists to duplicate new‚ needed organs for patients thanks to therapeutic cloning. Endangered animals will be able to become striving species overtime due to reproductive cloning. Infertile women will once again be granted the gift of giving birth‚ all creditable to reproductive cloning.
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Jazmin Pettiford February 12‚ 2013 Period 5 Mortell English 10 HN Holden v. Games and Sports It is usually when Holden‚ an iconoclast‚ becomes upset‚ sad‚ happy‚ or just any extreme emotion‚ that we see the motif of a game or sport come up. For example‚ when old Spencer has the talk about life being a game‚ and that “one must play according to the rules” (Salinger‚ J.D. Catcher in the Rye. Page 12‚ Chapter 2)‚ Holden completely rejects him‚ but yet still pays attention to what he has to
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In recent discussion of vegetarianism‚ a controversial issue has been whether we should eat meat or not. On one hand‚ some argue that eating meat is a part of life and the only way to live. On the other hand‚ however‚ others argue that eating meat is morally wrong and we should only eat plants. According to Drew Ramsey‚ author of “Meat Is Brain Food” it is problematic that the “…American diet [consists] of processed foods laden with sugars‚ salt‚ and…fat” (Source A). However‚ eating plants exclusively
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