-According to this obviously biased site, when should people stick with Windows? If your a hardcore gamer, you cant live without a certain software, you work in the book/printing industry, your software isnt supported.

-Which are the three most compelling reasons to migrate to Linux, according to the web site ? Elaborate on each.
-Windows become slow. - Windows has a number of design flaws, resulting in it becoming slower and slower and not lasting very long. You've probably heard more than once someone say "My computer is getting sluggish, I'm gonna reinstall". Reinstalling Windows solves the problem... until next time. Well, try Linux and you'll be surprised. Five years from now, your system will be just as fast and responsive as the day you installed it, not to mention that you won't have any viruses, adwares, trojans, worms, etc., that would force you reinstall anyway.
-Viruses, trojans, adwares, spywares... Windows lets all these enter your computer pretty easily. The average period of time before a Windows PC (connected to the Internet and with a default "Service Pack 2" installation) gets infected is 40 minutes (and it sometimes takes as little time as 30 seconds).

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-How does the situation today compare with what happened at the library of Alexandria?
An estimated 44 percent of Web sites that existed in 1998 vanished without a trace within just one year.

-Give a summary of the article and your own feelings as to whether the American government should invest money in this project.
the destruction of the ancient Library of Alexandria in Egypt was one of the most devastating losses of knowledge in all of civilization. The digital information that drives our world and powers our economy is in many ways more susceptible to loss than the papyrus and parchment at Alexandria. The challenges underlying digital preservation led Congress in 2000 to appropriate $100 million for the Library of Congress to lead the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, a growing partnership of 67 organizations charged with preserving and making accessible "born digital" information for current and future generations.
In February, Congress passed and the president signed legislation rescinding $47 million of the program's approved funding. This jeopardizes an additional $37 million in matching, non-federal funds that partners would contribute as in-kind donations. the original, raw data from the 1960 Census were stored on a state-of-the-art UNIVAC computer. When the Census Bureau turned the data over to the National Archives in the mid-1970s, UNIVAC computers were long obsolete. Much of the information was eventually recovered, but at a huge cost. Raw data from early satellite probes, including the Viking mission to Mars, pre-1979 Landsat images of Earth and high-resolution images of the moon, have been lost for similar reasons.

1. What are Internet cookies?
parcels of text sent by a server to a web browser and then sent back unchanged by the browser each time it accesses that server.

2. What are packets?
a packet is a formatted block of information carried by a computer network.

3. What route do packets take over the Internet?
the entire Internet is often regarded as a "network cloud" where data pumped in one side mysteriously emerges from the other.

4. What is a 404 error on the web?
The 404 or Not Found error message is an HTTP standard response code indicating that the client was able to communicate with the server, but either the server could not find what was requested, or it was configured not to fulfill the request and not reveal the reason why.

5. What is 'e-commerce'?
Commerce that is transacted electronically, as over the Internet.

6. What is the difference between ebay and craigslist?
On ebay, you just buy things off of the internet. On craiglist you just see ads to buy things.

7. What is SSL?
Secure Sockets Layer.

8. What are the two major ways for home users to connect to the Internet via a high speed connection?
Internet Explorer and Firefox.

9. What is a T-1 line?
Digital signal 1 is a T-carrier signaling scheme devised by Bell Labs.

# Who edits Wikipedia?
we the people edit wikipedia.

# What is Web 2.0?
eb 2.0, a phrase coined by O'Reilly Media in 2004, refers to a perceived second- generation of Web based communities and such as social networking sites, wikis and folksonomies - that facilitate collaboration and sharing between users.

# What is a social network?
A social network is a social struct made of nodes (which are generally individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of relations, such as financial exchange, friends, kinship, dislike, trade, web links, sexual relations, disease transmission (epidemiology), or airline routes.

# Which corporation owns Myspace.com?
news corporation

# How do Digg.com and Reddit.com work?
Digg is all about user powered content. Everything is submitted and voted on by the Digg community. Share, discover, bookmark, and promote stuff that's important to you!

# Why do people visit Monster.com? Reddit is about researching things and is totally oposite from digg.com

# What does FTP stand for?
File Transfer Protocol

# What does HTTP mean?
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.

# What is the file extension for Flash media that is available to see online?
the most top one is flash 6.0 and that is the extension you can recieve.

# What is the file extension for Microsoft Word files?
Office Word 2007 Office Word 2007 XML document.docx
The default Office Word 2007 file format. Cannot store VBA macro code.

# What is the file extension for Microsoft Excel files?
Office Excel 2007 Office Excel 2007 XML workbook.xlsx
The default Office Excel 2007 file format. Cannot store VBA macro code or Microsoft Excel 4.0 macro sheets (.xlm files in Excel 4.0).

# What is the difference between Excel and Word?
Word is for documents and excel is for spreadsheets.

# What is the file extension for Microsoft PowerPoint?
Office PowerPoint 2007 Office PowerPoint 2007 XML presentation.pptx
The default PowerPoint XML format. Cannot contain a VBAProject part (the part that stores VBA macro code) or Action settings.

# How is Google Documents different from Microsoft Word and Excel?
You can save your work on the internet so you can access it whenever where ever, and don't have to use the same computer you saved it on unlike microsoft word and excel.

# What is Linux?
Linux is a free open-source operating system based on Unix. Linux was originally created by Linus Torvalds with the assistance of developers from around the globe.

# How does Linux differ from Microsoft Windows?
Linux is free to any one with a computer and you don't have to buy or download it onto your computer.

# What is Adwords?
AdWords is Google's flagship advertising product, and main source of revenue. AdWords offers pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, and site-targeted advertising for both text and banner ads.

# How would one profit from Adsense?
By investing money and stock in it.

1. When were the following companies founded? (a) Google, (b) Microsoft, (c) Yahoo?
Google- 1998. Microsoft- 1975. Yahoo- 1994.

2. Who were the founders of each of those companies?
Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Microsoft - Bill Gates
Yahoo - David Filo and Jerry Yang

3. Last year (2006), what did the following companies make in revenue (a) Google, (b) Microsoft, (c) Yahoo?
(a) Google - 10,604.92
(b) Microsoft - 44,282.00
(c) Yahoo - 6,425.68

4. What is .NET?
A non profit website.

5. What is the Google Page Rank Algorithm? Basically, how are the placements of searches made?
PageRank is a link analysis algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of "measuring" its relative importance within the set. They are made by the most popular site to the one people look at the least, the sites with the most information.

6. Which company purchased Flickr.com?
yahoo.com

7. Which company very recently purchased Chrysler?
Cerberus Capital Management

8. What is the difference between a private equity company and a public corporation?
Private equity is a broad term that commonly refers to any type of equity investment in an asset in which the equity is not freely tradeable on a public stock marke. Public corporation is that it is open to the public and anyone can use it and invest money in it if they want to.

9. What is money coming in to a company? [Erase the incorrect answers.]
(d) Revenue.

10. What is a share of stock?
to share owner ship in a company, because of stocks you own within the company.

11. What does Alcoa do? [Erase the incorrect answers.]
(c) Mine aluminum.

12. What does the abbreviation GE stand for?
General Electric Company

13. What does the CEO do in a company?
A CEO’s responsibilities: everything, especially in a startup. The CEO is responsible for the success or failure of the company. Operations, marketing, strategy, financing, creation of company culture, human resources, hiring, firing, compliance with safety regulations, sales, PR, etc.—it all falls on the CEO’s shoulders.

14. What does the CFO do in a company?
Controllership duties hold the CFO responsible for presenting and reporting accurate and timely historical financial information of the company he or she works for. Treasury duties – The CFO is also responsible for the company's present financial condition, so he or she must decide how to invest the company's money, taking into consideration risk and liquidity. Economic strategy and forecasting - Not only is a CFO responsible for a company's past and present financial situation, he or she is also an integral part of a company's financial future.

15. What is the NYSE? NASDAQ?
New York Stock Exchange, it is the largest stock exchange in the world by dollar volume and the second largest by number of companies listed. National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations it is an American electronic stock market.

16. What does the board of directors do in a corporation?
In relation to a company, a director is an officer of the company charged with the conduct and management of its affairs. A director may be an inside director (a director who is also an officer) or an outside, or independent, director. The directors collectively are referred to as a board of directors.

17. What is an IPO?
An initial public offering (IPO) is the first sale of a corporation's common shares to investors on a public stock exchange. The main purpose of an IPO is to raise capital for the corporation.

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1. Alcoa, the world's largest aluminum company, said on Monday it would make a hostile bid for Canada's Alcan Inc., estimated at $27 billion, after talks between the rivals failed to lead to a deal. The bid of $73.25 per share in cash and stock would create the world's largest producer of the metal that is used for products ranging from beverage cans to airplanes, cars and heavy machinery parts.
http://money.cnn.com/2007/05/07/news/companies/alcoa.reut/index.htm?postversion=2007050710


2. The price of gasoline has hit a new record high, averaging $3.07 for a gallon of self-serve regular in the United States, a survey reported Sunday. When inflation is factored in, the new price trails the all-time high in March 1981. At the time, gasoline cost $1.35 a gallon -- in today's dollars, that's $3.13 a gallon, said Trilby Lundberg, publisher of the Lundberg Survey.
http://money.cnn.com/2007/05/06/news/economy/gasoline/index.htm?postversion=2007050706

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