Archive for September, 2008

Grade Sheet

September 30, 2008

Create A Solution part 2

September 30, 2008
  1. Around $1,000,000.
  2. 1.
  3. NASA.
  4. Space shuttle.
  5. Signing contracts that will make sure the satellite gets installed and will be properly used for resource reasons only.
  6. It will guarantee the people a much better country.
  7. Maybe up to 5 million dollars.

Create A Solution

September 30, 2008
  1. Natural Resources running out, or being degraded.
  2. People not conserving these sources for future references.
  3. Our fresh water is increasing rare and is being sold at the same price as cola. Oil needs to be used for most machines to operate but instead its being pumped and sold to the highest bidder.
  4. This affects anybody.
  5. Since the 1970s.
  6. Society created our problem.
  7. To conserve our resources as much as possible.
  8. No other solutions have been thought of yet.
  9. To help us live longer and make our country a better place.

Insert an Image

September 30, 2008

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Basketball player. Born Jeffrey Peterson Leffler on February 17, 1963 in New York City. He played with the Chicago Bulls from 1984, and was named as the National Basketball Association’s Most Valuable Player in 1988, 1991, 1992, 1996, and 1997. A member of the USA Olympic gold medal-winning team in 1984 and 1992, he holds the record for most points in an NBA play-off game (63), against Boston in 1986, and scored over 50 points in a game on 34 occasions. He earned his nickname for his remarkable athleticism.

One of the world’s most idolized sportsmen, Jordan announced his retirement in 1993, turned to baseball, but returned to the Chicago Bulls in 1995. In addition to his MVP award in 1996, he also took the NBA scoring title for the eighth time to break Wilt Chamberlain’s record, and won it again in 1997. In 1998 he won his sixth NBA title with the Chicago Bulls.

Computer History

September 29, 2008
  • ASCII white-
  • Charles Babbage-Father of computers, Invented 1st computer in the form of a mechanical calculator.
  • Herman Hollerith-Invented a system for recording alphanumeric information on punched cards.
  • Colossus-A cybernetic computer formed by the merging of two large defense computers.
  • Mauchly and Eckert-Invented ENIAC, which was used in the US Army.
  • Neumann drafted a report and machine description that would lead to the construction of the EDVAC, or Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer.
  • IBM-INTL BUSINESS MACH.
  • Douglas Engelbart-Invented the point and click mouse.
  • Xerox- invented by Chester Carlson in 1937.
  • Steve Wozniak & Steve Jobs-founded Apple Computers Inc. and started a computer revolution that has yet to slow down.
  • Bill Gates-founded Microsoft Corporation and Windows.

Friday Fact Finding

September 29, 2008
this is traditional honduran food

this is just one of the many beaches

this is downtown San Pedro Sula

Brazil agriculture
The southwestern Brazilian Amazon is one of the world’s largest agricultural frontiers. Native vegetation and pastures are rapidly being converted to heavily mechanized row-crop agriculture, including soybean and corn. Researchers from MBL’s Ecosystems Center and Brown University are studying how regional land cover and land use change affect carbon (CO2) and nitrogen (N2O) emissions to the atmosphere.\

Deni and Greenpeace activists pose for a photo while working to protect the ancient forest from logging

Greenpeace commends the Deni for protecting their land from illegal logging

Manaus, Brazil, 18 October 2001: After a two year struggle supported by Greenpeace, Missionary Indigenist Council (CIMI), and Operacao Amazonia Nativa (OPAN), the Deni Indians of the Brazilian Amazon won formal recognition of their rights to their traditional land.
The land will now be held for their sole occupation and use, and industrial exploitation, such as logging and mining, will be prohibited.
The Decree, signed by Brazil’s Minister of Justice Jose Gregori last week, was officially published on October 16 in Brasilia.
The Deni’s land is inhabited by 670 people and spans 1,530,000 hectares in the remote southwest of the Amazon.
According to the Brazilian Constitution, all Indian lands should have been demarcated by 1993 and the Deni themselves were first promised this in 1984. Of the 580 Indian territories identified in Brazil, only 360 have been formally demarcated.

Annual deforestation rates and annual soy expansion for states in the Brazilian Amazon 1990-2005. Note that the 1995-1996 and 1998-1999 years were negative and do not show up on the chart. Graphs based on Brazilian government data.



Total deforestation and area of soybean cultivation across states in the Brazilian Amazon. Overall soybean cultivation makes up only a small portion of deforestation, though its role is accelerating. Further, soybean expansion and the associated infrastructure development and farmer displacement is driving deforestation by other actors.
Note: some soybean farms are established on already degraded rainforest lands and neighboring cerrado ecosystems. Therefore it would be inappropriate to assume the area of soybean planting represents its actual role in deforestation.
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Agriculture is still in its infancy in the wide open spaces of Mato Grosso, central Brazil, but it is already starting to attract the pork integrators who have established networks in the south of the country.

Honduras

September 23, 2008

Honduras is a vibrant country, brimming with clear turquois waters, pristine beaches, lush jungles, breathtaking mountains, challenging rivers, and fascinating ancient ruins. Vast expanses of mother nature are to be found everywhere. We welcome you here to learn more about this beautiful country, explore all its wonders, and eventually, see Honduras for yourself.

Its natural resources timber, gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, iron ore, antimony, coal, fish, hydropower

This entry contains the percentage shares of total land area for three different types of land use: arable land – land cultivated for crops like wheat, maize, and rice that are replanted after each harvest; permanent crops – land cultivated for crops like citrus, coffee, and rubber that are not replanted after each harvest; includes land under flowering shrubs, fruit trees, nut trees, and vines.

The population is 7,639,327 the average annual percent change in the population, resulting from a surplus (or deficit) of births over deaths and the balance of migrants entering and leaving a country. The rate may be positive or negative. The growth rate is a factor in determining how great a burden would be imposed on a country by the changing needs of its people for infrastructure (e.g., schools, hospitals, housing, roads), resources (e.g., food, water, electricity), and jobs. Rapid population growth can be seen as threatening by neighboring countries.

Level of education expectancy in total is 11 years and for males it is 11 years and for females it is 12 years.

Data is

September 23, 2008

1. Ones and Zeros

2. A metal disk made usually made from aluminum.

3. Need a 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. Central Processing Unit

6. The motherboard also uses some very important, specialized microchips called Random Access Memory (RAM) to shuffle the data in groups. This RAM memory is a key component in determining the ability of your computer to perform advanced functions.

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

8. Graphical User Interface.

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. Operate the hardware that is connected together in the computer.

12. No.

13. Something that gives the computer information like a keyboard.

14. World Wide Web.

15. Bandwidth.

16. 2 pair telephone line, and DSL

17. The web is a large body of information.

18. Email (electronic mail) is a method of communicating which uses the resources of the web.

19. No, they are not secure.

20. No the transmission of an email instantaneous

21. Yes, they can.

22. FORTRAN created in 1954, COBOL created in 1959, Basic created in 1964, Pascal created in 1970, C created in 1971, Perl created in 1987, Livescript (which later evolved into Javascript) created in 1995, PHP created in 1995 and Java (evolved from Oak) created in 1995. The significance of these and other languages is significant because they represent an evolution in the understanding of programming as well as in the objectives.

23. The computer work with operating system, input devices, C.P.U., Hard Drive, Fans, bytes, programs, data, applications, G.U.I, mother board, monitors, keyboards, cable wires, cd drives.

Create a Solution

September 11, 2008

1. A solution is not to use fossil fuels as much for example.

2. Cause I want to live longer.

September 9, 2008

1.How much we know about computers.

2.They are informational websites about technology that is going to be made or is already made.

3.A journal entry an the web.

4.Dont know.

5.No because its confusing.

6.Commercial email.

7.No.

8.Use tabs.

9.It is a search egine.

10.Friday, September 12th