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Which retailers have the best discounts on laptops?

Almost all online computer venders offer discounts on laptops for college students, specifically in the fall. Two of the larger computer manufacturers who offer such discounts are Dell and Lenovo.

Where can one find used computer accessories online?

The best places are places such as PC world or even the internet you could also try local computer shops in your area, should you require help picking a laptop check online for reviews about one you see.

Why does your computer think you are in a different country?

Probably because the computer settings are that way, but it could be automatic detection. That happened to me when I traveled to Israel once. Suddenly I was trying to set my browser back to English because the default there is different. If you go back into your computer settings and tell it where you are, that should solve the problem.

What is designed to be small enough to be used on the desktop?

All i know is it has 8 letters in it and the last letter is a k

How do you make Vindictus run faster on your PC?

If you want to make vindictus faster on your computer, you can shut down all back ground processes, just be careful not to shut down anything important to your system. You can do this in task manager. You can also right click on the vindictus process, and select set priority, and then High, or on Vista, You can select Realtime.

In 1983 did computers have Internet?

Mention the history of the Internet to a group of people, and chances are someone will make a snarky comment about Al Gore claiming to have invented it. Gore actually said that he "took the initiative in creating the Internet" [source: CNN]. He promoted the Internet's development both as a senator and as vice president of the United States. So how did the Internet really get started? Believe it or not, it all began with a satellite.

It was 1957 when the then Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first man-made satellite. Americans were shocked by the news. The Cold War was at its peak, and the United States and the Soviet Union considered each other enemies. If the Soviet Union could launch a satellite into space, it was possible it could launch a missile at North America.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower created the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in 1958 as a direct response to Sputnik's launch. ARPA's purpose was to give the United States a technological edge over other countries. One important part of ARPA's mission was computer science.

In the 1950s, computers were enormous devices that filled entire rooms. They had a fraction of the power and processing ability you can find in a modern PC. Many computers could only read magnetic tape or punch cards, and there was no way to network computers together.

When checking to see if a particular name is registered on the Internet your computer consults a database that is maintained on what server?

The Domain Name System (DNS) server is consulted to check to see if a name is registered on the internet. This server translates domain names to IP addresses, to locate computer devices and services.

Where can one find information on monitor servers?

A site called server check provides customers with complete and accurate information on monitor servers. They also give you the chance to download the monitor server and experiment with it for a limited time for free.

Where can one find a computer alarm clock?

One could go to purchase an alarm clock with a built in light from many different places. Buying one from a company online is a good choice because one could surf the web to find the right alarm clock/light of their liking.

Where might one go online to purchase cheap houses?

Cheap houses online are not typical nor easy to find. Many homeowners post homes on sites such as Craigslist or Kijiji, but one must be wary of finding a home so cheap, as there could be problems with the home that are not mentioned.

What do pastors use computers for?

Churches use computers for the normal routine office functions you would see in a small business. There should be an office suite such as Open Office, Libre Office, or Microsoft Office (if running Windows). Some small business accounting program is needed to track contributions and pledges. The church would normally have a board of directors and a budget. There are vertical market applications specifically for the faith community.

Another vital function is producing and distributing the church bulletin. Most often you would see Adobe Acrobat or equivalent for this. The church might have a website or blog so you might see blogging software like WordPress or Blogger. For keeping track of schedules you would see the same type of day planner / scheduler as you would see in a business.

Why is there more input than output devices?

Because there are only a limited amount of ways that we need to get information from a computer but a wide variety of ways are needed to get data into a computer because of the amount of things they are used for. Output is generally in the form of visuals, print, sounds and things like robotic movement. That covers the majority of our needs. For input there are many ways we want to get information in, and new ones are being invented all the time, so there are many more of them.

How do you transfer audio recordings to computer?

There are audio conversion and clean up programs you can purchase online (cheap 15 to 25 dollars. This software will record clean up and inhance old records and convert to CD format which you can then burn onto a CD. The connection is standard cables from your amplifier to back of computer and that's it.

What is the meaning of computer programming?

Computer Programming is a way of creating computer programs. There are different languages which can be sorted basically into two different groups: High Level, or those that are almost English, and Low Level, which are machine code, and may not resemble English. Computer programming is often called "coding". It is the adaptation of a computer language (code) as instructions that the computer can read and follow.

An example of Programming language follows:

Dim starsign1 As String Dim prediction As String

Private Sub cmdcalculate_Click() Call getvalue Call calculate Call display End Sub

Sub getvalue() starsign1 = lststarsign.Text End Sub

The above is an example of computer code called "Visual Basic" This bit of programming, when compiled* would provide the users starsign prediction. This is one of the beginning programming languages taught in most colleges and some high schools. Computer programs are generally designed for specific purposes, such as mathematics, decision making, form filling, writing format, and others, including entertainment such as games, the internet, music, video, etc.

Different computer languages are designed for different uses. Languages such as C++ and BASIC are for general uses, and the DarkBASIC language is primarily used for video-games, while the APL Language is used for mathematical programs.

Computer programming is the process of writing computer code, a specific computer language, to produce a functional program that, used on a computer makes a persons work easier or provides something in seconds that might take a person weeks to do without a computer.

For most programs to function, they must first be compiled. The programming code is entered into a "compiler", a computer program that reads the programmers code, changing it into a language that the computer can read.

Not all computer code needs to be complied. An example would be batch language, also called batch files, an operating system's internal language that can be read directly by the computer's operating system. As example is this batch file that is used to rename all files in the current directory and move them to another directory. Batch files are intended to be easily learned and used, but to the neophyte, batch language, and all computer languages, may appear difficult at first.

(This is a batch file)

@echo off .....................................................Turns the display off

cls .................................................................clears the screen

e: .................................................................changes to drive e:

cd\ music-1 ...................................................changes to directory Music-1

for %%N in (1 2) do ( ...................................renames and moves files

ren e:\music-1%%N\*.cap *.mp3 ................. " "

move e:\music-1%%N\*.mp3 e:\music-2 ...... " "

) .................................................................... " "

exit ................................................................exits the program

Another example of simple code would be:

(This is C# code)

string text = "Hello, User"; (This creates a new variable with text inside of it.)

MessageBox.Show(text); (This displays the text "Hello, User" in a box)

Another Answer

Computer programming allows users (programmers) to modify the behaviour of a computer, thus allowing the same machine to perform more than one task, depending upon the currently executing program. Modern computers can actually run several programs at once (known as multi-tasking), however each task must be programmed separately. But the operating system is the only program that is actually running at any one time. All it's really doing is switching rapidly between all the other programs to make them appear as though they are running all at once, as well as carrying out its own "house-keeping" duties.

How computers are programmed

Every binary computer has a small set of instructions that can be executed by supplying the appropriate instruction code, in binary. All instruction codes are the same length (in bits), and each is mapped directly to an unique binary sequence. For instance, an 8086 machine has around 100 separate instructions, each of which does something very simple, such as moving a memory address or an immediate value into a CPU register, comparing the values of two CPU registers, shifting bits in a CPU register, adding or subtracting the values of two registers, or jumping to another point entirely in the binary sequence. There are only a small number of registers available to the CPU and many of the instructions will simply modify one or more of those registers depending on the content of other registers. The next instruction can then inspect the state of those registers in order to determine how to proceed, such as whether it is to continue to the next instruction or to jump to another point in the sequence where it will find the next instruction. Thus the machine can make decisions based upon the result of a previous instruction.

Entering these binary sequences by hand is a time-consuming process and is extremely prone to error; entering just one bit incorrectly can dramatically alter the way the code, and therefore the machine, will operate. To simplify and speed up the process, computer programmers use a human-readable language known as Assembler Language, where each instruction code is mapped to an easy-to-identify mnemonic (such as ADD, MOV, CMP and JMP) and the operands can be symbolised using a choice binary (base 2), octal (base 8), decimal (base 10) or hexadecimal (base 16) notation. However, Assembler code must be translated into machine code in order to actually execute, thus the programmer must write a simple machine code program, an Assembler, in order to achieve this. The Assembler takes the Assembly Language source code as input and outputs the appropriate machine code, which can then be executed.

Because Assembler has a one-to-one relationship with the resulting machine-specific code, it is known as a low-level language. Every machine has its own version of Assembler thus code that is specific to one machine cannot be translated on another machine unless that machine has the exact same set of instructions and registers -- the same underlying architecture. In other words, the code is platform-specific.

However, Assembler Language allows programmers to create compilers and interpreters which can translate high-level languages such as C++ or BASIC into machine code. High-level languages are much less reliant upon the underlying architecture of the machine, thus code written in a high-level language is far more portable. So long as a suitable compiler or interpreter exists, high-level machine-independent code can be translated into the required machine-specific code. Moreover, high-level compilers in conjunction with the low-level Assembler can be used to create more compact and efficient Assemblers and compilers.

What are uses of computers in telecom sector?

As a telecommunication engineer this is my opinion. There are no any significant use of supercomputing in telecommunication reported yet but the telecom hardware are themselves like supercomputers. Apart from vast amount of high end computing hardware used in telecom generally for processing of subscriber related data, we have dedicated hardware which is able to connect multiple moving subscribers across the globe, all connected to a single point in a switch and the switch is able to handle multiple such cases at the same time. Just imagine 5 person are talking to a conference call, two from North America, one from India, one from Sweden and one from Africa and they all are moving at the same time so handover of their signals should also be taken care of at the same time from one cell to another and the switch is handling multiple such conversation simultaneously. This example indicates the complexity of telecom switches. Complexity and processing capacity of these devices is no way less than any supercomputer. they use dedicated processors generally designed from FPGAs and RISC arch is popular.

The differences between peer to peer network and client server network?

With client to server, many people are downloading data from one central location - a one to many relationship.

With peer to peer, many people are downloading data from many locations - a many to many relationship.

Will humans eat computers?

Only by junk-yard crushers and such salvage machinery. ;-)

Elements of computer graphics?

In traditional computing terms, the basic element of computer graphics is a pixel, the atomic (not divisible) unit of display. It can be "Off" (=of background color) or "On" in any other color out o the supported set of colors, but it can't be halved.

In modern computers, pixels still exist, and all the above is still true. However, with today's very high resolution screens, the dimensions of an individual pixel hardly matter any more. Therefore, the basic elements of computer graphics of a modern computer system are points, straight and arced lines, and basic geometric shapes such as ellipses, rectangles, triangles and trapezes.

To proof my point, I refer to modern 3D animation software, software which was used to create popular and (technically) awe-inspiring movies such as Monsters, Inc or Toy Story, to name just two. In these tools, shapes as complex as the entire body of a hairy monster are composed of (many) points, straight lines, and triangles.

Therefore, the basic elements of modern computer graphics are points, straight lines and triangles.

What is seeding in piratebay?

You burn in hell. HAHAHA! JK

You first go on to Pirate Bay (Obviously!)

Then you seed, the end!

Is a computer with antivirus software protected from viruses why or why not?

yes.

every computer has anti virus installed on it.

EDIT: Not EVERY computer has anti-virus installed on it. They may/may not have a demo but not every computer has anti-virus. You must buy the software and install it yourself.