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Tomorrow’s Technology and You Chapter 3 Hardware - Peripherals
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Chapter 3What can we learn from Microsoft?What are the possible health risks of extensive computer use and how can we minimize them?What are the guidelines when shopping for computers?
What are the emerging technologies for storage and display of information, and what might be the effects on society?(From Chapter 1) How can we search the Web safely and effectively, verify the validity of information found, and attribute correctly?
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What can we learn from Bill Gates? (pp 65-66)1980 – Microsoft produces an OS for IBM’s new PC.Bill Gates and Paul Allen
Where did the OS (DOS) come from?IBM license was ‘non-exclusive’
so what?
Microsoft now sells:
OS – Windows – current version?
Office Applications – what are they?
What else?
How do they deal with competition?
What can we learn from this?
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Chapter 3ObjectivesWhat can we learn from Microsoft?What are the possible health risks of extensive computer use and how can we minimize them?What are the guidelines when shopping for computers?
What are the emerging technologies for storage and display of information, and what might be the effects on society?
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Ergonomics (p 86)What does the term mean?What are the results of poor ergonomics?RSI (e.g. CTS)
‘Techno-stress- (e.g. CVS -is Google helpful here?)
How bad is the problem?
Why is the text coverage so limited?
What can we do?
Posture & position
Ergonomic hardware
Eliminate screen flicker!
Other ideas?
What else can we do?
learn to touch type! – how?
lots more in text and on web! -
eg
:
http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/
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Chapter 3ObjectivesWhat can we learn from Microsoft?What are the possible health risks of extensive computer use and how can we minimize them?What are the guidelines when shopping for computers?
What are the emerging technologies for storage and display of information, and what might be the effects on society?
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Shopping for Computers (p 94)Laptop vs desktop?Mac
vs PCWindows
vs ?
XP
vs Vista
RAM size and Processor Speed
How measured? Guidelines?
What other hardware will I need to decide on?
Screen size
Hard drive size
CD-RW/DVD-ROM
vs
CD/DVD+RW
KB, mouse, screen, with laptop?
Printer, cables, ink!
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Shopping for Computers Internet connection costsBackup device Flash drive – why not?
if you must use, use patch cable! – why?External hard drive
N: drive! – why is it better?Can I upgrade?
USB
vs
Firewire Ports, RAM slots, disk bays
Shop the ‘knee of the curve’ – how?
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Shopping for Computers (p94)SoftwareApplications? – MS Office vs ?
Security?
Ergonomic furniture
Vendor – price vs
supportWarranties / Help – what are my options?
‘Avoid becoming a prisoner’
To what?
How?
Other issues
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Chapter 3ObjectivesWhat can we learn from Microsoft?What are the possible health risks of extensive computer use and how can we minimize them?What are the guidelines when shopping for computers?
What are the emerging technologies for storage and display of information, and what might be the effects on society?
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A Look at the Future (p 97,98)Solid state storagewhat is this? so what?LCD displays
flat panels, goggles, ‘heads-up’ displays
pros and cons?Retinal displays
uses? problems?
‘Ambient Information’
What is it? So what?
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