Check My Work (1 remaining)Get the technical specifications of the computer on which you are working (either from a technical manual or from your computer center staff). Determine its cost, its processing speed (in GIPS, billions of instructions per second), its computational speed (in GFlops, billions of floating point operations per second), and the size of its primary memory. Compare those values with what was typically available on first-, second-, and third-generation computer systems, and calculate the percentage improvement between your computer and the first commercial machines of the early 1950s.

Read this excerpt from helen keller’s autobiography, the story of my life. have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? i was like that ship before my education began, only i was without compass or sounding-line, and had no way of knowing how near the harbour was. "light! give me light! " was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour. . the morning after my teacher came she led me into her room and gave me a doll. the little blind children at the perkins institution had sent it and laura bridgman had dressed it; but i did not know this until afterward. when i had played with it a little while, miss sullivan slowly spelled into my hand the word "d-o-l-l." i was at once interested in this finger play and tried to imitate it. when i finally succeeded in making the letters correctly i was flushed with childish pleasure and pride. running downstairs to my mother i held up my hand and made the letters for doll. i did not know that i was spelling a word or even that words existed; i was simply making my fingers go in monkey-like imitation. in the days that followed i learned to spell in this uncomprehending way a great many words, among them pin, hat, cup and a few verbs like sit, stand and walk. based on this excerpt, which words best describe helen keller?

Suppose you are an ad-serving company and you maintain a log of cookie data for ads you serve to the web pages for a particular vendor (say amazon). a. how can you use this data to determine which are the best ads? b. how can you use this data to determine which are the best ad formats? c. how could you records of past ads and ad clicks to determine which ads to send to a given ip address? d. how could you use this data to determine how well the technique you used in your answer to part c was working? e. how could you use this data to determine that a given ip address is used by more than one person? f. how does having this data give you a competitive advantage vis-à-vis other ad-serving companies?

Following are uses of spreadsheets. for each use, choose whether the use is a business use, consumer use, or student use. family budget: sales data: recording research data for science class: