Handwriting Assignment #1 Due to 22nd‚ Sept. 1. What is the role of middleware in a distributed system? 2. Explain what is meant by (distribution) transparency‚ and give examples of different types of transparency. 3. Why is it sometimes so hard to hide the occurrence and recovery from failures in a distributed system? 4. Why is it not always a good idea to aim at implementing the highest degree of transparency possible? 5. What is an open distributed system and what benefits does
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Bùi Ngọc Minh Anh BABAUH11045 Listening AE1 Chapter 4 – Lecture Outline TOPIC: Technology is changing the music industry. I. Democritization of music industry: 1. Making of music: a. Professional tools of recording studio on personal computers. b. No longer needs a recording company to make high-quality recordings. 2. Promotion of music: a. On the internet‚ anyone can be a critic. b. People post preview‚ opion and their music work on music sites‚ blogs or create their own audio blogs
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1. Why does Akamai need to geographically disperse its servers to deliver its costumers’ web content? Akamai allows its costumers to move their web-based products closer to their end users. Meaning that an Akamai website can deliver from 4 to 10 times faster as non-Akamai website‚ due to the 73.000 servers around the world. 2. If you wanted to deliver software content over the Internet‚ would you sign up for Akamai’s service? Why or why not? Yes I would sign up for the Akamai service due to the
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Thanks to the growth of information technology‚ we now live in the ‘Computer Age’. The Internet has many uniquely modern functions. Yet‚ there are risks and bad effects when using it. Four pros are going to fight against four cons below. Widely used in offices‚ research institutes‚ information centers and education‚ the Internet has greatly raised the accuracy and efficiency of work‚ and saved much money and manpower for human beings. This multi-medium assists us in our work in so many ways. It
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1. Why does Akamai need to geographically disperse its servers to deliver its customers’ Web Content? a. This is because of the purpose of Akamai‚ which is to solve the congestion on the Internet crowed. Therefore‚ Akamai’s current products are using this technique that a cloud platform made up of over 150‚000 servers within over 1‚000 networks in 78 countries around the world. These servers allow the platform to identify and block security threats and instant device-level detections‚ etc. So that
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Online sales of celebrity fitness mogul Debbie Drake’s 1964 album titled “How to Keep Your Husband Happy” highlight the vast differences in marketing approaches and writing styles used in selling products on the internet. Although this album is sometimes marketed to a non-specific audience as if it were legitimately useful material‚ in other cases it is sold as a shocking and comedic look back in time. This sharp contrast can be seen in two separate examples of ads on the social selling website‚
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11 Honors Lit 22 February 2012 The Power of Acceptance "But not us! An ’ why? Because... because I got you to look after me‚ and you got me to look after you‚ and that ’s why" (Steinbeck 14). As Lennie Small unveils to be the strongest man on his ranch in Salinas Valley‚ many readers assume his life would be a breeze; however‚ for this shapeless faced man life becomes a challenge when the weaknesses of his character are shown‚ causing many conflicts to arise. Lennie finds motivation in the little
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Diversity is the paint that colors our world‚ creating a complex portrait of humanity. Every person has their own hue to add in the palette. My personal one stems from my history as a professional ballerina. At age 11‚ I was working in entertainment‚ maturing in a distinct world of various ethnic backgrounds‚ religious beliefs‚ and sexual orientations. I understood the impact of diversity rapidly‚ recognizing its existence and accepting varied characteristics amongst people. Describing my own
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Case Study 1.4—The Pirate Bay In 2008‚ The Pirate Bay brought in revenues of about 4 million (Schonfeld‚ 2008). The Pirate Bay business makes their money through advertising‚ using the “advertising revenue” business model. New cloud-based media sites and services make money through subscription fees and use the “subscription revenue” business model. The record industry is attempting to shut down P2P file-sharing sites that make it possible to download copyrighted material. Some consumers
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For Music Sharing 1. Don’t want the whole CD * Sometimes a CD only has a few songs that are good * They are expensive Artists are for music sharing * Many artists support file sharing. Janis Ian -"The premise of all this ballyhoo is that the industry (and its artists) are being harmed by free downloading. Nonsense." Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore -"Trying to control music sharing - by shutting down P2P sites or MP3 blogs or BitTorrent or whatever other technology comes along - is
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