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We are a very beautiful island group consisting of nine coral atolls in the South Pacific Ocean, about one-half of the way from Hawaii to Australia. Our population is 12,177 and our budget in revenues is $21.54 million and in
expenditures is $23.05 million. The country has no known mineral resources and few exports. Subsistence farming and fishing are the primary economic activities. Fewer than 1,000 tourists, on average, visit Tuvalu annually. Job opportunities are scarce and public sector workers make up the majority of those employed. About 15% of the adult male population work as seamen on merchant ships abroad and remittances are a vital source of income.The traditional foods eaten in Tuvalu are pulaka, seafood (crab, turtle, some fish), bananas and breadfruit, coconut, and pork. Pulaka is the main source for carbohydrates. It is grown in large pits below the watertable in composted soil. Seafood is the main source of protein. Bananas and breadfruit are supplemental crops. Finally, coconut is used for its juice, making beverages and to make food tastier. Pork is eaten most with fateles (or parties with dance to celebrate certain events). Some of the languages spoken on this island include Tuvaluan, English, Samoan, and Kiribati (on the island of Nui). The school life expectancy for females is 11 years and for males it is the same although there is not much known information on the literacy or education aspects of Tuvalu.

This is my friend Stacy. She was born in Austin along with her brother. Her parents were born in New York and lived there most their lives. The rest of her family, including grandparents and older are from Italy on both her mom’s side and her dad’s side. Her mother works at the D.P.S. doing fingerprinting and her dad lives in San Marcos working and repairing old radios and building speakers. Stacy’s plans for the future are to go to college possible in Hawaii where they have a very good university for marine life and biology which is what she wants to be involved in the most. She eventually wants to become a marine biologist and deep sea diver; that is her passion. She would also like to become an animal caretaker and work with all kinds of animals and learn as much as she can about them. She is currently in her senior year at high school and going to graduate soon. Her accomplishments include: having had two jobs by the time she was 17 (Contest aims to keep young people), doing community service (Teen tout fined and ordered to do community service), doing track & field and cross country all 4 years of high school (Montana State Track & Field/Cross Country Program Holds Annual …), and being a finalist in the swimming section of the 2008 Olympics (USA Swimming National Team features current Longhorns and Beijing …).

1.) The numbers that represent the binary system used to store data are 1’s and 0’s.

2.) A hard drive disk is a metal disk (usually made from aluminum) coated with a metallic powder that can be rearranged with magnets. Drawn onto that disk are small rings which divide areas of the disk called tracks. Within those tracks are sectors, small squarish segments.

3.) Your computer needs an internet browser.

4.) Programs are large groups of bytes, or code, which together form the instructions about how to perform calculations or processing of data.

5.) CPU stands for Central Processing Unit.

6.) RAM is Random Access Memory used to shuffle data in groups. Once you turn off the computer, all of the switches go dormant and no longer hold any information. The RAM acts like a buffer, holding sets of data until the computer or user choose to process them.

7.) Applications are fancy programs. They have a graphical user interface (GUI) which allows you to easily give instructions to the program.

8.) A GUI is a graphical user interface which allows you to easily give instructions to the program.

9.) No, the web is not always reliable.

10.) An operating system is a series of programs and applications that together operate the hardware that is connected together in the computer.

11.) The operating system operates the hardware that is connected together in the computer. The operating system also manages the use of memory that shuffles data through the processor to perform functions. The operating system takes data from the non-volatile memory (memory which does not lose its information when the computer is turned off like the hard drive) or from input from the keyboard and follows the recipe, given in binary code to produce a result.

12.) No.

13.) Input devices are any hardware that is connected to the computer, which gives information to the computer.

14.) Another name for the internet is extranet.

15.) The speed at which any computer sends and receives information is called bandwidth.

16.)

1) ASCII White- American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A character encoding based on the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that work with text. Most modern character encodings—which support many more characters than did the original—have a historical basis in ASCII.

2) Charles Babbage- an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer.

3) Herman Hollerith- a German-American statistician who developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards in order to rapidly tabulate statistics from millions of pieces of data.

4) Colossus- electronic computing devices used by British code breakers to read encrypted German messages during World War 2. These were the world’s first programmable, digital, electronic, computing devices. They used vacuum tubes (thermionic valves) to perform the calculations.

5) Mauchley & Eckert- founded by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, and was incorporated on December 22, 1947. After building the ENIAC computer at the University of Pennsylvania, Eckert and Mauchly formed EMCC to build new computer designs for commercial and military applications. The company was initially called the Electronic Control Company, changing its name to Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation when it was incorporated.

6) John Von Neumann- a Hungarian American mathematician who made major contributions to a vast range of fields including set theory, fundtional analysis, quantum mechanics, ergodic theory, continuous geometry, economics and game theory, computer science, numerical analysis, hydrodynamics (of explosions), and statistics, as well as many other mathematical fields.

7) IBM- International Business Machines Corporation, abbreviated IBM and nicknames “Big Blue”, is a multinational computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, USA. The company is one of the few information technology companies with a continuous history dating back to the 19th century. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and offers infrastructure services, hosting services, and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.

Kilby & Noyce- electrical engineers who in the late 1950’s, working separately, invented the integrated circuit, better known as the microchip.

9) Ted Hoff- one of the inventors of the microprocessor. Hoff, an engineer, joined Intel in 1967 as employee number 12, and is credited with coming up with the idea of a universal processor instead of custom-designed circuits. His insight started the microprocessor revolution in the early 1970s.

10) Douglas Engelbart- an American inventor. He is best known for inventing the computer mouse (in a joint effort with Bill English); as a pioneer of human-computer interaction whose team developed hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to GUIs; and as a committed and vocal proponent of the development and use of computers and networks to help cope with the world’s increasingly urgent and complex problems.

11) Xerox- a global document management company which manufactures and sells a range of color and black-and-white printers, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies.

12) Steve Wozniak & Steve Jobs- In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, created one of the first commercially successful personal computers.

13) Bill Gates- Chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8 percent of the common stock. He has also authored or co-authored several books.

How much will each unit of your solution cost?

Each part of the solution almost cost around 10,000-20,000 dollars. It might sound very costly, however it is better than buying a brand new Hummer H3 which would cost more and will increase your gas bill and your maintenance cost and your down payment/monthly bills.

How many units will be required to solve the problem?

There should be a lot of units that will be required to solve the problem. First of all we need a lot of non- petroleum cars. Then we need factories or products in factories that produce less chemicals into the water and air so it will not effect the echo system as much.

Who will produce the units?

I think all the car companies should make non-fueled cars and other factories should produce less chemicals and then the car companies and factories will produce the units.

How will you get the units to the places they need to be to do their work?

First I think we should bring this to the city or a town where there is a lot of pollution. Then after being introduced by new concept cars people will find the positive sides to the car and no negative sides to the car and they will buy the new non-petroleum car.

How will you make sure that the units get where they are going and get installed or implemented properly?

Just like a showroom we will request all the car companies to make a new car that is purely electric or that purely runs on water. In this way we could stop more air and water pollution. Factories should purify the chemical wastes and then it should have a pH of 7 then they could dump the waste into water only if it is pH7 or just find some other way of getting rid of their waste.
How will you report to the people who give you money? How will you verify that you spent your money wisely?

We will tell them that all the money that they give us will be completely used for the new evolution of cars and the first developed cars will be given to the people who donated us the money for a reason. For the factories we would give the first 2 products of the factories who use produce smoke to the atmosphere and who use pH scale to measure the chemical with water before sending to the ocean or sea.
You should have a simple budget for the entire program from production of your unit to the report – how much will it cost overall?

The overall cost will be less than 5 million. We need 5 million dollars because if we do not have a good starting value our products that we make wont be enough for all the people in the world, and for the factories people will have to make these changes and will cost you more than what you imagine. So we will need a cost of 5 million dollars.

The problems around the world.

There are many problems around the world and the only reason for the problem is that people are caring less about what would happen in the world in the future. They only care about what is happening to them. We should have a habit of conserving.

What is the problem?

The problem in the world is pollution in the air and water.

What is the cause of the problem?

The problem is caused partly by the people using less fuel efficient cars which is bad for the air. The factories send their waste products into the air and liquids into the water. This will make the water and air contaminated.

How does it affect people?

In the air- People breathe the air and many people get asthma and other deadly diseases by breathing the polluted air.

In the water- People dump their waste in the rivers and oceans. The fish in the rivers and oceans get contaminated with the pollution and when people eat them the people get toxins and poisons from the fish in their blood system from the bad wastes people dump.

Which people does it affect?

People who do not care about their future. They buy cars that are less fuel efficient ex: (Hummer H3) and the fuel cost too much but they are still buying. I think people should buy cars that run completely on electricity or hybrid cars. In the water people dump wastes and also the liquid chemicals from the factories come to oceans or lakes. Those should be decreased in our environment.

How long has this problem been around?

This problem has been around from the time when the factories began and when the cars began to be produced. But the environment was not effected as much as it is now because of major population increase.

Who created the problem?

All the people who use the non fuel efficient cars and the factories that produce a lot of toxic wastes and dump them into the water and pollute the air with them.

What solutions have been offered?

Fuel efficient cars like the hybrid. I think all people should be educated about the future and make certain rules and regulations in making cars and producing waste products from the factories. In these methods we could offer some solutions to the pollution in the world.

Have other solutions helped or solved the problem in other places?

We could stop making non-fuel efficient cars, and make hybrid and electric or the new invention; cars that run by pouring water.

Why do you want to solve this problem?

I want to solve this problem because pollution is one of the major problems in almost every single country in the world. If people do not take steps to stop the pollution after a generation the earth could be underwater due to global warming caused by humans and this problem we have.

1.) Our first blog was what we know about computers.

2.) Autobloggreen, slashgear and treehugger are all websites about new technologies.

3.) A blog is an online diary; a personal chronological log of thoughts published on a Web page.

4.) Stop and think about what you’re mad at and what you’re gonna write.

5.) You should not use large fonts, colors or ALL CAPITAL LETTERS when you send email because the person receiving the email might mistake capital letters or certain colors for you being mad or yelling at them.

6.) I would call that spam.

7.) Nope, it can help sometimes though.

8.) By using tabs!

9.) A search engine.

10.) Sometime this week?

I don’t know very much about computers but I was in a typing class at my middle school, Lamar, and because of that class I know how to type really fast without looking. I also know a bit about the internet and different sites and I learn how to use them pretty quick. Now that I’ve been in this class I’ve learned a bit about the insides of a computer and how a mouse works which is pretty cool and I’ve always been interested about the insides of machines like radios and cars so that was fun. I hope so learn a lot more from this class (things I can use in the future too).

~Nicole