Harry Styles

Harry Styles

 

 

 

Born on  February 1, 1994 in  Evesham, United Kingdom.

 

 

 

 

As a sixteen-year-old he worked part-time at the W. Mandeville Bakery in Holmes Chapel.

 

 

 

 

 

As a child, Styles loved singing, noting Elvis Presley and The Beatles as his influences. While at Holmes Chapel Comprehensive, Styles was the lead singer for the band White Eskimo, which won a local Battle of the Bands competition.

 

 

 

 

In 2010, Styles auditioned as a solo candidate for the seventh series of the British televised singing competition The X Factor.

 

 

 

 

 

In London, England, in July 2010, during the "boot camp" stage of the competition, thus qualifying for the "Groups" category. Subsequently, the group got together for two weeks to get to know each other and to practice. Styles came up with the name One Direction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Following The X Factor, One Direction were signed to Simon Cowell's Syco Entertainment in 2010. 

 

 

 

Assignment 8

1. Go to http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/new-fantasyland/ and look around it a little bit. Now go to http://www.byteland.org/angeloflife. Now why do you think the .com website is more exciting than the .org website? 
I think that the .com website is more exciting than the .org. I think this because when visiting the Disney webpage, I found it more exciting because of all the things it has. It's that type of webpage that has many things that entertain you just by opening it because of all the animation it has. On the other hand, the .org, is very simple and really boring.


 
2. Why do you think the Disney website has more hyperlinks, advertisements, and other distracting options to click on?
I think that the Disney website has more hyperlinks, advertisements, and other distracting options because Disney is something known all around the world and it is easier to put advertisements for people to click on when visiting this webpage. And this helps Disney to get more and more visitors.  


3. If you had to construct/create your own webpage from the beginning, what would you want it to be about and why?
If I wanted to create my own webpage it would be of fashion. I would create a webpage of this because I really like fashion and it's something that will catch my attention if I ever visit a fashion webpage.


4. How many programmers do you think would have to work with you to make your website possible? Would it seem impossible to construct/create a webpage by yourself? Why? 
I think that for me to be able to create my webpage I'm going to need a lot of help. Since my webpage is going to be about fashion, I will need many programmers to construct it because of all the advertisements. I think that it will not be easy to create the webpage by my own.


5. What would you want to name your website? Type that name into the web-address bar, is it taken already?
The name that I would like to name my website is www.majofashion.com. Since this name isn't taken I have an advantage of creating the webpage faster and in an easier way.



6. Explain why webpages with flash videos, images, and color take longer to load than pages with only text?
Webpages with flash videos, images, and color take longer to load because it has more mega pixels and also because it has more data to load than if just loading text.

Minions

Minions

Minions are giant looking yellow beans that I consider my best friends!

Not only are they cute, but they LOVE bananas. They help Gru to be the best villain of all on Despicable me. Whenever someone has a problem, Minions are there to help you with anything! Not only do they help you, but they make you laugh like nobody else. They're  a perfect best fiend. 

To know more about minions, you can visit some of these pages: 
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Assignment 7

Assignment 7

1. What problems does the article mention that children run into when they use search engines?
    The problems that the article mentions that children run into when they use search engines is that children are exposed to many webpages that they're not suppose to look up. Also that when children search something up, there can be inappropriate pages and they can either accidentally click on them. Another problem that children face when using search engines is that since there are many pages that contain either inappropriate material or pages that are to "meet" new people around the world. The problem here is that children are exposed to talking to strangers which puts them in danger.  

2. What suggestions have been offered for how search engines can improve their product to lessen children’s problems searching?
  One suggestion that have been offered for how search engines can improve their product to lessen children's problems is by expanding the concept of keywords. Instead of typing a word into a search box, children could click on an image or video, which would turn up results. Ms. Druin said that parents played a big role in helping children search. She then proposed that search engines imitate that role by adding technology aids, like prominent suggestions for related content or an automated chat system, to help children when they get stuck. Also to prevent that children are exposed to many dangers while using search engines. 

3. Do you search using keywords or questions? How does the article characterize these two types of searching?
When using search engines, most of the time i use questions so that i can find the accurate answer that i want. Sometimes i also use key words when is something really short that i have to look up. It really depends on what i have to look up information for. The way that the article characterize these two types of searching is that sometimes Google has long known that it can be difficult for users to formulate the right keywords to call up their desired results. Also that when formulating questions when looking something up, it makes it difficult for the children to really understand what they're looking up. 

4. Have you tried using images or videos to search? How does the article characterize this type of searching?
I've never tried using images or videos to search something up. When i use search engines i most likely use key words or questions. This article characterize this type of searching by explaining how when someone searches something in Google either using key words or questions, videos and images appear depending on what you searched up. Also that when you search something up, not all the time does videos or images of the same topic you are searching appear.

5. What advice would you give to Internet search engine developers (like Google or Bing) for how they should improve their product? Do you think any of the improvements mentioned in the article are particularly promising? Why?
What i recommend Internet search engines like Google or Bing is that since today children use search engines for homework or just to search something up, they should make something that nothing appears when they search something up. For example if a kid needs to look up information on cars, i think that children have to finish up what they want to search up. Not letting Google or any other search engine finishing their search for them. I think that the improvements mentioned in the article will work in the future because they mention something similar to my opinion and this will prevent children to be in danger when using search engines in the Internet.

Online Polls questions

1. Do you think the results are 100% accurate? Why or why not? I think that the results are 100% accurate because the questions were really simple and most of them were based on personal opinions. There was just only one question that was based on vocabulary and that wasn't 100% accurate because not all of them got it right.
2. How much of an impact do you think the wording of the questions has on the answers you received? I think that the wording of the questions didn't make a great impact. The questions were asked really straight forward and bases on opinions.
3. Did you get the results you expected from your online polls? Why? In most of the questions I did expect the results. Most of the questions were questions that I already knew the opinions of most of the students that answered my questions.
4. If you wanted to do an online poll with the students of Tecnologico de Montorrey asking them how much time and effort they spent doing homework this year, what are the steps you would take to complete that online poll? To complete an online poll for students at Tec de Monterrey, i would first open my blogger then click on Principles of Technology. Then I will click on Google docs where they will create a form by clicking tools. Once ready to create the new form, I rather chose the scale type poll for them to answer how much effort they put while doing homework. After creating the poll, you link your poll by highlighting the text then by clicking link. Finally your poll is ready to be answered.
5. Do you think online polling could help the administration of Tec de Montorrey find out more about their students? Or do you think that the results would not be accurate? Why or why not? I think that the online polls could help the administration of Tec because it's something that helps them know things about the school. I think that the results will be accurate because the questions will be about how the school is and things that have to do with Tec.
6. How do you think the results of your polls would be different if you asked your classmates the questions in person? I think that if I would of have asked my classmates the questions I made, in person, we would of discuss more about the answers. We would of go more over just an answer.
7. In what ways do you think online polling using Google Spreadsheets can be improved? Or was it easier to create an online poll than you originally thought? Explain. I thought that creating online polls was easier than what I thought. It was very simple to follow the steps that the teacher explained. After creating one poll, the rest of them were a piece of cake.

Online Polls Mariajose

Multiple choice

Scale Type

List Type

Checkbox

 

Assignment 5

Assignment 5

1. In your own words describe how the workplace culture at Google encourages innovation and unique creations for the company? How does working at Google and the environment there affect its workers?
The workplace culture at google encourages innovation and unique creations for the company by motivating employees to create more things for google. Also by motivating them to become more creative because that's what google needs. What google needs is really smart and creative people for the company to succeed even more.

 2. How does employee freedom, like the 20% of free time Google encourages its employees to spend on any project they want, deliver better business?
Employee freedom encourages employees by them wanting to go everyday to work and to come up with new ideas that will make google grow even more. Also that the freedom that google gives to the employees makes the company grow even more because this helps the employees to increase their capability of doing things that google wants their employees to do, such as being smart and creative.
 
3. What are the requirements to work for Google? And what is different about the way they hire employees at Google?
The requirements to work for google are that you have to be very smart but not only that, also that you have to be very creative because of the way that google works. The difference between how normal jobs hire people and how google hires people is that for google, they hire you by how creative of a person you are. For example, a way that google can hire you is by giving you a Rubik's Cube and put you with other people in the same room and the first one to solve it gets to work for google.

4. How many search queries does Google handle a day?
Google handles 3 billion daily search queries a day.

5. In your own words discuss how Google's constantly refined search algorithm changed the way we all access and even think about information.
The way we all access information is very impressive. We can look something up and in less than a second we have in our hands what we need. It's amazing how just by clicking something, we have the information that we were looking for. The way we think about information is that it is very easy to find whatever type of information online.  

6. Take a look at the following story about Google's top secret data center. Now why would Google want to keep its server room as a secret?
Google would like to keep the server room as a secret because the noise is a high-pitched thrum from fans that control airflow. It is necessary for people to enter that room with hearing protection since the noise is a high-pitched.  

7. What are the benefits of working as a Google employee?
The benefits of working as a google employee is that the employees get a lot of things free. For example, they get really good food that is for free. They also get to wash their clothes there and the amazing part is that everything is free. The most amazing part is that they also lend employees a car for them to be able to go to work everyday.

8. Name at least 5 different positions at Google (ex: software engineer, Google tester, interaction designer) and describe what they do?

• field engineering-Provide input from the field on revisions to proposed construction, Review and understand network designs
• network engineer- Rack and stack, install, commission and test routers, transport (DWDM) equipment, and other network devices in new and existing network nodes across Google's global network (travel domestically up to 50%).
• sofware engineer in test- Analyze and decompose a complicated software system and design a strategy to test this system
• product manager- Identify market opportunities and define product vision and strategy
• interaction designer- Help to define the user model and user interface for new and existing Google products and features

9. Talk about at least 3 projects that Google is currently working on. What do they want to accomplish? How long will they take to complete?

• risis response- develop tools like google public alerts, google person finder and google crisis map.
• google flu and dengue trends- used to show disease activity in near real-time  and calculates level of dengue activity for that area
• google for nonprofits- program offers approved nonprofit organizations access to exclusive google products and resources to expand their  impact.

10. Look at the following story about why recent college graduates should not work for Google. Why does the writer argue recent graduates should not work at Google?
Recent graduates should not work at google because it's a huge company that has 33,077 employees worldwide. Previous recent graduates that have worked for google recommend that recent graduates should apply to a small company where they will have bigger responsibilities day one rather than just following the crowd and the well known path of joining a giant organization. It is better to actually be someone in your company than just one more number like in google. 

11. How is Google the same or different than other search engines, like Yahoo or Bing?
The difference between google and other search engines such as Yahoo or Bing is that google is a very simple format to use. Similarities between these search engines are that the three of them are three different types of search engines that helps you look up information in a very fast way.

Review

The difference between analog and digital:
The main difference between analog and digital is that an analog signal is continuous and a digital signal is discrete.  Analog technologies record waveforms as they are, while digital technologies convert analog signals into numbers.

 Random Access Memory (RAM)-
Random Access Memory is the most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on.
  Read-Only Memory (ROM) -
Read-Only Memory is a memory read at high speed but not capable of being changed by program instructions.
  World Wide Web –
World Wide Web is an information system on the Internet that allows documents to be connected to other documents by links, enabling the user to search for information by moving from one document to another.
  Data (computer) – 
Data could mean large quantities of standard information used for reference. For example, the information you're reading now is considered data. On a computer is stored in binary or a series of 0's and 1's.

Program - A computer program (also a software program, or just a program) is a sequence of instructions written to perform a specified task for a computer.

Hypertext – Hypertext is a software system that links topics on the screen to related information and graphics, which are typically accessed by a point-and-click method.

Hardware – Hardware is a device that is physically connected to your computer or something that can be physically touched.
  Software – 
Software is a collection of instructions that enable a user to interact with the computer or have the computer perform specific tasks for them.

Title (resource) –


Creator (resource) – 


Subject (resource) -
  Publisher (resource) -

 Contributor (webpage) – 


 Format (resource) -
Format is the overall layout of a document.
  MP3 – 
A file extension and compression method utilizing the MPEG compression standard to reduce the size of a file often down by a factor of 12 and still have a CD-like quality.
  Cyber bully - 
 A cyber bully is often an adolescent who posts inappropriate or rude things about a specific person or otherwise harasses that person on the Internet, in e-mails, through IM' , or though other digital formats such as text messages (SMS) on a cell phone.
 Database - A database is a large quantity of information that can be searched, referenced, compared, changed or otherwise manipulated without a lot of work.

Desktop - The Desktop is a system of organization of icons on a screen (home).
 E-mail - E-mail is text messages that may contain files, images, or other attachments sent through a network to a specified individual or group of individuals.

 Home page - Home page is the name of the main page of a website where visitors can find hyperlinks to other pages in the site.
 Keyword -  Keyword is a word or group of words that help the search locate a better match for their search.

 Password -  A password is a set of secret characters or words utilized to gain access to a computer, web page, network resource, or data. Passwords help ensure that computers or data can only be accessed by those who have been granted the right to view or access them.

Paste -  Paste is an operating systems and programs action that allows a user to copy or cut an object or text from one location and move it into another location.

Search Engines - 


 URL Address - 
 

User name - 


 File format –

Hacker -

 

 

Keyboard -

Retrieve (document) -

 

 

Assignment 4

                                                                Assignment 4



1. Discuss what the main idea of the video is?
The main idea of the video was to show us how much the world has change over time with technology. Also that technology can affect people both positively and negatively. It also shows how technology was growing over time and how is nowadays.

 2. Do you see yourself as past oriented or future oriented? Why?
I think I'm both future oriented and past oriented because I loos a lot at my past and things that I've done but I can also be a future oriented person because I sometimes look up to what I'm doing the next couple of days.

 3. Do you agree or disagree with the speaker in the video? Explain why?
I agree because he mentions that people look more to the future since technology is growing more each and every day. Also that since technology is growing, people depend more on it.


 4. Do you agree with the speaker's view that young adults' minds are being "digitally rewired"? Explain your answer.
Yes, I agree because young adults don't only use technology for their benefit but also use it for many other things that affect them as persons. For example spending a lot of time in the computer or playing a video game.

 5. Why does the narrator in the video argue that young people dislike a single-function device such as a wristwatch? 
Because now, young people are used to the technology that we have and watching a wristwatch can be something "old" since we have the most advanced technology nowadays.


1. Why did Sir Tim Berner's Lee decide to make the World Wide Web free when he created it at CERN?
He decided to make the World Wide Web free because he figured out that if it was free, more and more users would be able to use it and the internet would become something of our daily thing.

 2. What are the benefits of having "web addresses," an idea that Sir Tim Berner's Lee created?
 It is a great idea because there are so many web pages on the internet that each site has its own address. If all websites had the same address, you would not be able to find something that you are looking for. Also that it is a very easy and fast way to look up information.


 3. How does the World Wide Web allow people from all over the world to communicate?
We can communicate through blogs, social networks. We also communicate by using e-mails, and other methods thanks to the World Wide Web.


 4. Why is it important to link information? What are the benefits of having instant access to information?
It is important to link information because it makes it easier for us to open a web page automatically. Also because instead of typing all the link down, with just a click it takes you right away to the web page you want to visit.

Assignment 3

Information Processing Cycle

Assignment 2

Assignment 2

1. What are the pros and cons of using Google Drive to complete a project like the one you just did for your Technology Presentation
Using Google Drive can have both its ups and downs. Some of its pros can be that it's easy to use, the work saves automatically, and sharing is not a difficult task. However, the cons can be that you need to have a Google Account and it can be confusing if you don't know how to use it.

 2. What did you learn about your technology that you didn't know before? Explain.
I learned that the Facebook population is 3 times that of the United States. Statistics say that 56% of women and 44% of men use Facebook. To this day, Facebook has over 600 million active users.
Answering the information you researched from your project. You must come up with a question and at least 4 responses or answers to choose from. 

Question?: When was Facebook launched?

A. October of 2004
B. February of 2004
C. February 2005
D. October of 2005

4. What does URL stand for?
Uniform Resource Locator


 5. What is the URL for Mr. Fierro's Blogger?
http://principlestechnology.blogspot.com/


 6. What is your URL for your Blogger created for Principles of Technology class?

http://majoarellano.blogspot.com/

 7. Using the notes from the Parts of a Computer System, identify and define the four parts of a complete computer system.

Hardware - Any part of the computer you can touch. A computer's hardware consists of interconnected electronic devices that you can use to control the computer's operation, input, and output. (The everyday term device refers to any piece of hardware.)

Software - A set of instructions that makes the computer perform tasks. In other words , software tells the computer what to do. (The term program refers to any piece of software.) Some programs exist primarily for the computer's use to help it perform tasks and manage its own resources. Other types of programs exist for the user, enabling him or her to perform tasks such as creating documents.

Data - consist of individual facts or pieces of information that by themselves may not make much sense to a person. A computer's primary job is to process these tiny pieces of data in various ways, converting them into useful information.

Users - People are the computer operators, also known as users.


 8. Name 3 input devices and 3 output devices.
Input: keyboard, mouse, and stylus
Output: headphones, speakers, and printers

 9. Write about the most interesting software you have ever used on a computer. Explain why it was your favorite or what you liked about the software you have chosen to write about.
The most interesting software I've used on a computer has to be PowerPoint. I like the fact that you can decorate and put as many slides as you want. Also, it's very easy to use once you learn how to, and I love how it doesn't limit the amount of pictures.

 10. Why do you think important technology corporations like Apple, Microsoft, and Sony create new versions of their product often? Think about why every few months to a year a new iPad or iPhone is released... Explain.
I think they create new versions of things, because each company creates new products to have the newest available. Also, technology keeps on growing and renewing. That means that each company comes out with new products frequently.

 11. For question 10 you will research on the World Wide Web. What are the units of measure for a computer memory storage? Fill in this table with your answers. Must fill in unit abbreviation, and approximate value.

UNIT	Abbreviation	Approximate Value (bytes)
Kilobyte	KB	1,000 (1 thousand)
Megabyte	MB	1,000,000 (1 million)
Gigabyte	GB	1,000,000,000 (1 billion)
Terabyte	TB	1,000,000,000,000 (1 trillion)

 

Assignment 1

You must write in complete sentences.
Responses for questions 2 and 8 should be between 3-5 sentences long.

1.  Create an acrostic poem using your first name. So what you are going to do is use each letter in your name to create an adjective that describes you or use each letter to write something you like to do.

M - agical

  A -mazing

        R - emarcable

      I -ncredible

A - wesome

  J - oyful

O- ut of this world  

S-pecial

E-xellent 

2. What technologies do you use in your everyday life? Describe how and why you use the technologies you do.
I use my computer to do school work and to contact friends. I also use it to listen to music. But I mostly use it for school.

3. The _____system unit________ is a case that holds the computer's critical components.


4. A(n) _____work station_______ is a specialized, single-user computer that typically has more power than a standard PC.

5. A(n) ______network server______ is usually a powerful personal computer that functions as the primary computer in a network.

6. _____super computer__________ are the most powerful computers made.


7. What does "PC" stand for?
PC stand for personal computer.

8. Research how computers play a crucial part in nearly every government agency. Pick an agency and discuss how that agency uses computers and why computers make their jobs easier. Some examples of government agencies that use technology frequently are the U.S. Census Bureau, IRS, Military, and Police. 
-They play a crucial part in police because they use it to record any crime, investigation, information from people. They also use it to make reports about previews people they've been around with. Also to keep all their documents in place.