What are the Parts of Computer? The Parts of a Desktop Computer are: 1. System unit The system unit is the core of a computer system. Usually it’s a rectangular box placed on or underneath your desk. Inside this box are many electronic components that process information. The most important of these components is the central processing unit (CPU)‚ or microprocessor‚ which acts as the "brain" of your computer. Another component is random access memory (RAM)‚ which temporarily stores
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Computer Programming: Even Driven Programming: This is the process where the flow of the program is determined by certain events such as: * Senor output * User actions i.e. mouse clicks‚ key presses * Messages from other programs * Threads As users we have come across event driven program every day when we use a computer i.e. navigating through our computer user interface‚ also whilst playing computer games. By clicking on the mouse the computer picks up the event that has been
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Computer Packages 11 Graphic Packages: It is important to recall that the early graphics software performed creditably on production of simple bar graphs and funny little people made of squares. However‚ the modern day graphics software and hardware is so advanced such that it is sometimes difficult to tell if computer or trick photograph produced a picture. Computer graphics as often seen in advertisement‚ Logos‚ and sports broadcast on televisions are products of computer graphic applications
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years. The modern computers we are all familiar with can trace their roots back to simple computational machines that seem far removed from what we think of as a computer today. Simple Computers • By definition‚ a computer is any device capable of performing mathematical equations or calculations. Therefore‚ many simple devices such as an abacus (which dates back to at least 300 BCE) or a slide rule (first made in England in the 1630s) are the forerunners of today’s modern computers. The Calculating
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Computer Addiction as a Gendered Phenomenon In the late 1990s‚ a barrage of media reports declared that women were becoming uncontrollably addicted to the Internet and some were neglecting—or even leaving--their husbands and children as a result of their online obsession. Headlines described the strange phenomenon: Internet Blamed for Neglect: Police Say Mother Addicted to Web(Bricking‚ 1997)‚ ‘Net-addicted Mother Loses Custody of Her Children (1997)‚ Mom Web Addict Allegedly Neglected Kids (1997)
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Improvements on common machines Computer- For most of the people‚ computer is a machine used for a calculation or a computation‚ but actually it is much more than that. Precisely Computer is an electronic device for performing arithmetic and logical operation. Or “Computer is a device or a flexible machine to process data and converts it into information.” To know about the complete process that how computer works‚ we will have to come across the various terms such as Data‚ Processing and Information
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a VPU or a visual processing unit‚ is a specialised electronic circuit designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in frame buffer intended for output to a display. GPUs are very efficient at manipulating computer graphics‚ and their highly parallel structure makes them more effective than genera; purpose CPUs for algorithms where processing of large blocks of data is done in parallel. It is a specialized circuit designed to accelerate the image output in
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My speech will be related to an important echo that face technology with is computer threats. I will cover some of important threats that face most of us; I will tell you how to protect your computer from threats‚ how to deal with hackers‚ crackers and what to do if your computer was attacked. The most popular threat that face computers are viruses‚ A virus is a program written intentionally to change the way your computer operates without your permission or knowledge. Their behavior is similar
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Introduction to Computer Viruses It’s Saturday morning. You boot up your Windows 98 computer and lo and behold‚ the graphics on the desktop are a mirror image of what they should be. Congratulations‚ you have a computer virus! According to "Virus Bulletin‚" the Oxfordshire‚ England-based technical journal that tracks viruses‚ this new virus flips any uncompressed bitmaps horizontally‚ but only on Saturdays. This bulletin credits GriYo of the 29A virus-writing group as the author of this 32-bit
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Computer Illiteracy There is a problem out there that haunts many troubled souls in our society. It is powerful. It can strip the pimple-faced class whiz of all his sickening pride. It can make the intelligent person feel like a complete idiot. It can make the confident doubt themselves. To those who have this problem‚ it seeks to make their lives a living hell. This beast is called computer illiteracy. The problems arising from computer literacy are becoming more evident as colleges and
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