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December 14, 2007

Commercial Awnsers

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1. What are some other names for commercial?

For example T.V. Spot

2. When was the first commercial broadcast in the United States?

The first television advertisement was advertised in the United States at 14:29 on July 1, 1941.

3. How much did this first commercial cost and how long was it aired for?

It had a cost of 9 dollars and it lasted for about 20-second before a baseball game.

4. What features do most commercials have to make them successful?

Some features are catch-phrases that will stay in the mind of the viewers for a long time after the campaign.

5. How long did the typical television program run in the 1960s compared to today?

In the 1960s a typical hour-long American show would run for 51 minutes excluding advertisements. Today, a similar program would only be 42 minutes long; a typical 30-minute block of time includes 22 minutes of programming with 6 minutes of national advertising and 2 minutes of local.

6. Over the course of 10 hours how much commercial time is there in the US?

Over the course of 10 hours, American viewers will see approximately 3 hours of advertisements.

7. How much does a 30 second commercial cost during the Superbowl?

The average cost of a single 30-second TV spot during the Superbowl (seen by 90 million viewers) has reached $2.6 million dollars.

8. Are commercials for cigarettes and alcohol permitted in the US, when did this change occur?

Since the 1970s, advertisements about cigarettes have been banned from American TV and advertisements for alcohol products are allowed, but during the commercial no consumption of any alcohol is allowed.

9. How does commercial advertising in Europe differ from the United States?

In many European countries television advertisements appear in longer, but less frequent advertising breaks.

10. In three sentences suggest what the future holds for television advertisements.

In the future advertisements would be much more fun and clearer. With the advertisements, they would try to make a better society by selling us their products.

December 5, 2007

The Bermudas Triangle.

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The bermudas triangle is in the east coast of florida, touching puerto rico, and reaching virginia of hight. As people know, a lot of people have been lost when they enter that zone. More than 50 naves and 20 airplaines have been lost in the triangle. 19.ooo of tons of naves have been removed from the crest of the earth. Other boats have been found in perfect state, but with no tripulation on it. This misteries have made people think more than 6 time to pass by there.

People that have investigated have dived inside the sea. One day, one of this explorers founded one of the boats that were missing, and he told the USARMY, and they went the next day, but nothing was there.

November 12, 2007

Plugin Awnsers

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1. An add-on for the visitors browser that allows the browser to display additional types of content.

2. WYSI-Wordpress This plugin adds a WYSIWYG editor to the advanced editing screen of Wordpress, it allows you to edit posts as you would in any word processor application.

3. No, because there are many different authors for many different plugins.

4. Plugins do not usually work by themselves.

5. The main difference is that plugins generally rely on the host application’s user interface and have a well-defined boundary to their possible set of actions.

6. Plugins can be traced back as far as the mid 1970s.

7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plugin

Identity Deft

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1. Identity Theft: The stealing of a person’s financial information, esp. credit cards and Social Security number, with the intention of using that data to commit fraud and create a phony persona.

 

2. Some identity thieves look through trash bins looking for bank account and credit card statements; other more high technology methods involve accessing corporate databases to steal lists of customer information.

 

3. They can transfer all all money of your bank account to theirs.

 

4. The total loss to business and individual victims for all types of reported identity theft–both new account and existing account frauds is almost $53 billion dollars annually. More specifically, business victims experienced a total loss of $47.5 billion or an average of $4,800 per business victim per year. Individual victims account for a total loss of $5 billion and $500 per victim annually.

 

5. It depends on how careful you are with the information you give.

 

6. After an identity theft, the one who stole the personal information will try to use his identity to buy.

 

7. The surname, given names, date of birth, Social Security number, Social Insurance Number, current and former addresses are some common data taken in a theft.

 

8. This information can be obtained by:
1. Dumpster Diving: They rummage through trash looking for bills or other paper with your personal information on it.
2. Skimming: They steal credit/debit card numbers by using a special storage device when processing your card.
3. Phishing: They pretend to be financial institutions or companies and send spam or pop-up messages to get you to reveal your personal information.
4. Changing Your Address: They divert your billing statements to another location by completing a change of address form.
5. Old-Fashioned Stealing: They steal wallets and purses; mail, including bank and credit card statements; pre-approved credit offers; and new checks or tax information. They steal personnel records, or bribe employees who have access.
6. Pretexting: They use false pretenses to obtain your personal information from financial institutions, telephone companies, and other sources. For more information about pretexting, click here.

 

9. Some ways to prevent yourself from being a victim is that people are careless with their personal information. indentity theft should not be a problem if you dont give out information over the internet.

 

10. If you have been a victim of identity theft you should File a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, close the accounts that you know, call the police. An once it is solved, try not to make the same mistake.

 

INFORMATION TAKEN FROM:
(http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/idtheft/consumers/about-identity-theft.
html)
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/identity%20theft)

BLOG EVALUATION OF A STUDENT OF ANOTHER CLASS

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Each category is worth one mark and half marks may be give.

1/1 1. An original theme

1/1 2. Unique header

1/1 3. A personalized background

1/1 4. A Youtube video post

1/1 5. A Picture post

1/1 6. Links to all other classmates

1/1 7. Posted answers to Plugin Questions

1/1 8. Allows comments to be made

1/1 9. Counter

1/1 10. Pictures in sidebar

1/1 11. Animation in sidebar

1/1 12. Music Player

0.5/1 13. Proper formatting: pics fit nicely

0.5/1 14. Artistic touch: colour and appearance

1/1 15. Identity Theft Questions

0/1 16. Evaluation Post on your blog of another student’s blog

1/1 17. Evaluation Post on your blog of a student in another class

1/1 18. The History of Computers Questions

1/1 19. Separate Pages with your choice of information

1/1 20. Personalized Categories made for Posts

18/20 TOTAL MARK

November 5, 2007

Computer History Lesson 4.

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1. Computers store temporary information and long-term information.2. Random Access Memory (RAM)3. Read Only Memory (ROM)

4. Is RAM stored once the computer is shut off?

5. No, it erases.

6. Hard drives, CD-ROM’s and Floppy Disk drives.7. Of rigid aluminum or glass disks coated with ferromagnetic material and rotate around a central axle

8. From 650 to 680 megabytes.9. Because the disk is flexible and the read and write head is in physical contact with the surface of the disk.

10. Finished

11. Floppy disk – 337 Pages

     CD – 150.000 Pages

     DVD – 3.984.000 Pages

     Hard drive – 18.750.000 Pages

7. Of

Computer History Lesson 3.

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1. It means that you can use them to access and change info. like numbers, text, pictures, and even music.

2.

3. Input is the data that is entered into a computer

4. Mouse, Keyboard, Microphone, Video camara…

5. How was information entered in the early stages of computers around 1945?

6.  The electronic Homeric integrated and calculator or ENIAC.

Computer History lesson 2.

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1. The physical parts of a computer are called hardware.

2.

3. The microprocessor is the device in the computer that performs most of the tasks we ask the computer to do; from playing computer games to graphing the number of people who prefer cricket to curling. The microprocessor reads and performs different tasks according to the software that instructs it. This ability is what makes the computer such a versatile machine.

4. The four components of a computer are the input, output, processing and storage.

5. I have already seen it.

Computer History Lesson 1.

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1. The name of the oldest calculation machine the abacus. It’s about 5,000 years old.

2. Mechanical calculators that could add and multiply but could not subtract, were invented in the 1600s.

3. It was Charles Babbage in the early 1800s, who designed mechanical calculating machines that were the true

ancestor of today’s computers. It didn’t work because the moving parts they relied on were slow and subject to
breakdown.

4. Not done

5. It could have been possibly built like a religious temple, a funeral monument or an astronomical observatory
that was used to predict seasons.

6. These components are input, storage, processing and output.

October 9, 2007

2pac- Life Goes on

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September 26, 2007

Paul Rodriguez 360flip

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September 25, 2007

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