Touch screen computers

I have heard about this new touch screen computers and i do think they are a magnificently sweet new product but i have to wonder, are we throwing down laziness as a past time one activity at a time? before we would sit down after a long day of schooling or work to watch some good ol’ quality T.V. Then for some reason we decided to put in a little wriste action by sitting down at the computer. Now it seams people everywher have started to throw down their opressive and restricting computer mice to use both their hands in a liberating experience of touch screen Euphoria.

But is this a good thing? What happened to the days of expending as little energy as possible? If we continue on this path of Wii fit and touch screen computers will we eventually have a mucle bound and energetic America? What about the people who just like to eat a whole hell of a lot of food? Will they be left the few fat ones to remind us of our past? So we come to the real question, a choice; our traditional flubbery ways or a new future with touch screen this and jog around the corner that with scinny people walking the street? Its your decision people!

Codecs!!!

	Mpeg-1	Mpeg-2	adobe flash video	h.264
advantages	It is widely used	can handle high quality	is good for animation	compresses smaller but same quality
disadvantages	is old and so their are better things out their	takes more horsepower from a computer to decompress	may experience incompatibility with certain web browsers	does not show deformed objects very well

stuff

mpeg 1

Most popular computer software for video playback includes MPEG-1 decoding, in addition to any other supported formats.

The popularity of MP3 audio has established a massive installed base of hardware that can playback MPEG-1 Audio (all 3 layers).

“Virtually all digital audio devices” can playback MPEG-1 Audio.[30] Many millions have been sold to-date.

Before MPEG-2 became widespread, many digital satellite/cable TV services used MPEG-1 exclusively.[9][19]

The widespread popularity of MPEG-2 with broadcasters means MPEG-1 is playable by most digital cable and satellite set-top boxes, and digital disc and tape players, due to backwards compatibility.

MPEG-1 is the exclusive video and audio format used on Video CD (VCD), the first consumer digital video format, and still a very popular format around the world.

mpeg-2 dvd

MPEG-2 video supports a wide range of applications from mobile to high quality HD editing. For many applications, it’s unrealistic and too expensive to support the entire standard. To allow such applications to support only subsets of it, the standard defines profile and level.

The profile defines the subset of features such as compression algorithm, chroma format, etc. The level defines the subset of quantitative capabilities such as maximum bit rate, maximum frame size, etc.

 

OS 7 & Chrome

Google Chrome OS is a project by Google Inc. to develop a lightweight computer operating system devoted to using the web. Announced on July 7, 2009, it will be based on Google’s Chrome web browser and the Linux kernal. It will initially be targeted at netbooks and is set to be released during the second half of 2010. It will run on systems with either x86 or ARM processors. Google has stated that the Google Chrome OS project will be open source by the end of 2009, and that it will use “a new windowing system”, rather than the X Window system used by desktop environments such as GNOME or KDE.

 Windows 7
is the latest version of Microsoft Windows. It includes number of new features, such as advances in touch and handwriting recognition, support for virtual hard disks, improved performanec on heterogeneous graphics cards , a new version of windows media cetner, improved media features, XPS essentials pack and windows powershell,recovery,troubleshooting,workspaces center, location,biometric devices, system icons, and display.
Couple reasons why you should make the switch to windows 7 today. First for Vista haters. Wether you are one of the nearly 19 % of consumers who are actually running windows vista and dont like it, or those who hate purely based on anecdotal stories.Common complaint about vista are poor device driver support and annoyance over UAC pop up alerts. Windows 7 has superior device support. Second XP diehards. secutiy is best reason for windows XP user to make the switch. improvements in the user interface make it simpler and intuitive to work with operating system.Third Home networking.Microsoft is offering windows 7 in family pack with 3 licensed copies to allow families to upgrade all the systems in the home at a discount.four, media sharing.Windows 7 makes it fairly seamless and intuitive to share audio and video media between the various devices on the network. You can access and share libraries, play audio and video files to remote systems on the network, copy recorded shows from one system to another, and more with relative ease.

Google states that Chrome is being designed in a minimalist way, much like its Chrome web browser. In this way, the company hopes to move much of the user interface from the desktop environment to the web. Cloud computing will be a large part of its design. It has stated that, for developers, “the web is the platform”. The Chrome OS is being targeted at users who spend most of their computer time on the internet, and is designed to run on computers ranging from netbooks to desktop computers. Google has stated that the Chrome OS is separate from its Andriod operating system, which was designed primarily for use on smarphones.

Also, Google announced that the Chrome OS will feature a novel security architecture. According to Google’s official announcement, they will be “going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates”

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Very creative advertisement from WWF [Pic] view!

Someone at Microsoft is Taking LSD… [PIC]

Another Reason why Time Warner Sucks

Windows 7 Release Candidate 1’s Best Surprise New Features

Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” officially released

i like the first one because it is extremely effective advertising and the one about windows 7 because it tells us all the new features. the first one seems to have had a lot of thought put into it which makes me happy. I like how we are being updated on the newest updates on windows 7.

Windows Vista

       Windows vista was released on january thirtieth in the year of two thousand seven to the public world. It is a 64 bit that can handle one hundred twenty eight gigabytes of RAM. It is recomended to use NTFS as the filing system but it also supports FAT16 and 32. The larger recomended file size for the NTFS is two terabytes although much more can be stored. This bad boy will cost you anywher from two hundred to three hundred twenty dollers.

Windows XP

     The operating system Windows XP was released for the P.C. by microsoft on the twenty fifth of october in two thousand one. Many versions of this OS have come out and one of them is bound to be atleast close to what you want. A few of thies versions were set up to run on 64 bit. This operating system can handle four to eight gigabytes of RAM. XP uses a FAT32 file system which can hold up to 2 terabytes in data and the cost of such an OS is only going to cost you from around one hundred to four hundred dollers.

Google Latitude

 Google latitude is a program by google which allows you to see wher your friends are at almost any time. thier are concerns about privacy but none so serious as to condem the product (Its free so you cant complain). the images you upload can be used for things you would not want them used for and stockers are possible users of this pogram. facebook is also a possibly hazerdous site (your face may be stolen). I do not think employers should be able to research amployees, I wouldnt want my employer to know what i did on the weekend.

images you post on face book and sites such as that can be used in ways you wouldnt want them to. I have herd of one story wher a young girl went to japan and found her picture on the side of a bus advertising some pop product. that would not be good. i personally have never put my picture on the internet because of theis concerns, although i am being undermind by my friends and their infureating picture posting.

with google latitude people would be able to stalk you which would not be good. although if you had a cool stalker for example a rich guy that would be kind of awsome. he could come and buy you things which would be pretty good. you can turn latitude off if you want incase you go to those discreate places.

NO EMPLOYER SHOULD SEARCH FOR YOU ON THE INTERNET! unless of course you are friends. if they want to know that bad they can ask you. i personally would feel vialated if anyone but my friends new what i was doing.

What happens when i go to a website?

when you type in a web adress such as www.holycross.bc.ca the name goes to a DNS (Domain Name System) which translates that into a binary number or the IP adress which is like the adress of the website.  the information sent back and forth isnt just gibberish it is called HTTP which is like the language it uses. after that its sent to diffirent places and eventually to the server and the server sends the data you want in little tiny chuncks back the way it came