...3rd party applications such as Anti-viruses, Firewalls, Clean-up utilities etc. to operate at full potential. In fact this was one of the main selling points for all Mac os based products. Not anymore. Over the past couple of years mac users must have become aware of the increasing volume of malicious soft wares floating around that can easily affect all Mac os devices. The sense of security has somewhat started to fade away. With a problem comes its solution. On this occasion the solution was somewhat adopted from the windows camp in the shape of various anti-virus and system maintenance applications. Along with a host of newcomers, a lot of renowned windows software development houses like Norton and Kaspersky have begun shunning out maintenance apps for Mac os. One of these applications is the new Mackeeper for Mac. It promises to outdo its competitors in both performance and bang for buck. Suddenly the playing field has gotten a bit too crowded, and the decision making process for an average Mac user that much difficult. The article will try and delve into some of the main issues that plague the Mac os and will try to determine if either Mackeeper or one of the other soft wares provides the best solution both in the long and short term. Virus protection: There are three major opponents in this category Mackeeper, Norton and Kaspersky. Mackeeper comes out on top in this battle due to its ability to scan and combat both windows and Mac viruses and Trojans. Also subscriptions...
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...Com put er Fundam ent als: Pradeep K. Sinha & Pr it ii Sinha Com put er Fundam ent als: Pradeep K. Sinha & Pr it Sinha Ref Page Chapt er 9: I nput - Out put Dev ices Slide 1/ 58 Com put er Fundam ent als: Pradeep K. Sinha & Pr it ii Sinha Com put er Fundam ent als: Pradeep K. Sinha & Pr it Sinha Le a r n in g Obj e ct ive s I n t h is ch a pt e r you w ill le a r n a bou t : § I nput / Out put ( I / O) devices § Com m only used input devices § Com m only used out put devices § Ot her concept s relat ed t o I / O devices Ref Page 148 Chapt er 9: I nput - Out put Dev ices Slide 2/ 58 Com put er Fundam ent als: Pradeep K. Sinha & Pr it ii Sinha Com put er Fundam ent als: Pradeep K. Sinha & Pr it Sinha I / O D e vice s § Provide m eans of com m unicat ion bet ween a com put er and out er w orld § Also known as peripheral devices because t hey surround t he CPU and m em ory of a com put er syst em § I nput devices are used t o ent er dat a fr om t he out side world int o prim ary st orage § Out put devices supply r esult s of processing from prim ary st orage t o user s Ref Page 148 Chapt er 9: I nput - Out put Dev ices Slide 3/ 58 Com put er Fundam ent als: Pradeep K. Sinha & Pr it ii Sinha Com put er Fundam ent als: Pradeep K. Sinha & Pr it Sinha Role of I / O D e vice s Input data from external world Input Devices CPU and Memory Output Devices Results of processing in human acceptable form Input data coded in internal...
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...rather than a $60,000 Hummer, as seen on the show CSI. But when you’re a movie star you can drive whatever company is paying the advertising bills. In Hollywood’s depicture of real life organizations this type of flashy brand new equipment is expected. Forensic scientists are rarely actually involved in solving cases, as the show depicts. A team of scientists is usually called out once a month to a crime scene to investigate fingerprints, firearms, trace evidence, document blood splatter patterns, collect footprints and tire prints, footwear patterns, and other evidence. My uncle said, “Forensic scientists rarely go to most crime scenes, let alone are on the scene moments after a crime was committed.” Yet, no sooner after the intro music we end up seeing Lieutenant Horatio Caine on the crime scene as the body is being extracted and to top it off the father is on the scene with a typical group of people trying to see the body. Then we see the coroner Dr. Alexx Woods was only wearing gloves. She should have been...
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...Jomon Ware One of Japan's oldest art forms, when the earliest soft earthenware was coil-made, decorated by hand-impressed rope patterns, and baked in the open. Terracotta Warriors Fine art earthenware of Chinese clay warriors. Minoan Pottery A useful tool for dating the mute Minoan civilization. Its restless sequence of rapidly-maturing artistic styles reveal something of Minoan patrons' pleasure in novelty while they assist archaeologists assign relative dates to the strata of their sites. Pots that contained oils and ointments, exported from 18th century BC Crete, have been found at sites through the Aegean islands and mainland Greece, onCyprus, along the coastal Syria and in Egypt, showing the wide trading contacts of the Minoans. The extremely fine palace pottery called Kamares ware, and the Late Minoan all-over patterned "Marine style" are the high points of the Minoan pottery tradition. Greek Vase Painting There are two main styles in Greek vase painting – black figure and red figure. Mostly before about 530 BC people painted in black figure, and after that time people gradually began to paint in red figure. Mayan Vase Painting, Mexico Mayan vase paintings are more akin to the art of the modern period than the art of any other pre-modern people. The principal valuation seems to have been on artistic quality rather than adherence to standardized forms. Mimbres Pottery, American Southwest Contemporary research on the Mimbres culture relies heavily on...
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...bartender is required to take more than 3 steps to get anything then odds are the design is poor. It is also a major OH&S risk to a bars staff if they are constantly forced to walk behind other staff to get ingredients. The first stage when designing a bar or laying out an existing bar is working out what needs to go together, by together I mean without taking more than 1 step. * Beer Taps & Beer Glass's * Cocktail Equipment, Cocktail Glass's, Cocktail garnishes, Ice well, Liquor, soft drink gun & Sink * Ice well, Sprits, Speed well, straws coasters, napkins, soft drink gun & sprite glasses * Wine & Wine Glass's * Bar top & cleaning cloths * It all seems pretty simple but actually achieving this can be tricky and requires lots of planning. A bartender actually needs access to: * Speed well (which holds most popular or house spirits & liqueurs) * Glass Ware * Cash Register * Ice Well * Sink * Beer taps * Soft Drink gun * Juices * Cocktail Equipment (Shakers, Spinal mixer, Hawthorn Strainer, Bar spoon, Sifter, Blender, Knife, Cutting Board, Muddling stick & anything else your bar may use.) * Cocktail & drink garnishes * Bottled Beers * Wines * Spirits &...
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...Cloud Business Intelligence 1 Cloud Business Intelligence A Research Project Submitted as part of Final exam for BMGT531 By Praneeth Pabbaraju (ID # 111-00-3655) Naveen Veeramachaneni (ID # 111-00-2643) Narasimha Naidu Madireddy( ID # 110-00-4194) BMGT 531, Business Intelligence Spring 2012, Section 1260 Professor Paul Jaikaran University of Northern Virginia Cloud Business Intelligence 2 Business Intelligence: The term Business Intelligence was coined by Hans Peter Luhn of IBM wherein he describes the Business Intelligences as ability to find the interrelationships among the available data and guide the set of actions to reach the desired goal. What all an organization needs to be a leader in the market is information. Information can be available in large forms like web resources, text data, graphs and statistics. The more information a firm has the more powerful it is getting on. Firms need to assess the future market condition with the available previous and present data so as to be a leader. The major goal of Business Intelligence is to dwell in all the available information, refine it and organize it in such a way that right information is passed to right people through the right way. Now, data can be in vast amounts, of which some might be useful and some might not be useful. Business intelligence tools like reporting, online analytical processing, analytics, data mining, process mining, complex event processing, business performance management...
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...Republic of ZambiaZAMBIA BASIC EDUCATION COURSEHOME ECONOMICSSYLLABUSGRADE 8 – 9Published by the Curriculum Development CentreP.O. Box 50092Lusaka | ZAMBIA BASIC EDUCATION COURSE HOME ECONOMICS SYLLABUS GRADE 8 – 9 Published by the Curriculum Development Centre P.O. Box 50092 Lusaka (c) All rights Reserved. No parts of this syllabus may be produced, stored in a retrieval manner, transmitted in any means without the prior consent of the copyright owner. Phototypeset and printed by Printpak (Z) Ltd. P R E F A C E This Home Economics Syllabus is proposed in conformity with the Educational Reforms. It incorporates the following components: Food and Nutrition, Home Management, Health Education, Needlework and Crafts. Through this syllabus the learner is taught to prepare well balanced appetizing meals for the family with minimum equipment, limited time and money; to maintain and manage the available resources of the home; to provide clothing for the family; and to maintain the good physical and mental health of the members of the family. The content encourages practical experiences and creativity along with knowledge. The family is the smallest unit of the community. By improving family life, the syllabus aims at improving the community as a whole. Chairman EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL OF ZAMBIA DIRECTOR CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT CENTRE LUSAKA I A C K N O W L E D G E M E N T S The members of the Home Economics Working Committee were: ...
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...rather than using softwares like these because at the end students will follow the path that will guarantee them a better grade .Nowadays, most universities became very reliable on those plagiarism detectors for one reason, academic integrity, but what they do not know is that they use them for the wrong purposes. Professors have become so dependent on these softwares to the extent where they do not even bother to go through the students’ work once it is said to be plagiarized. They just directly give them a low grade. But what if the student had weaknesses like grammatical or structural errors? How will they ever learn from their mistakes and try to improve to be the best they can be in order to feel like they do not need the internet’s help anymore? All these reasons show us that students have no bad intentions like cheating but rather only caring about having good grades and have their teacher’s approval. Even though these plagiarism detectors were able to get all of this recognition, they started causing some conflicts. It was very unfair to students at times. Turnitin started pointing out material as plagiarized when in fact it is really not. Even if these detectors mark material as plagiarized, this is not an indicator that it should be because when it identifies this specific material as stolen, it is usually pointing out a possible act or an attempt of plagiarism. Since professors were overly reliable on those soft wares, it was hard for students to prove their innocence...
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...employing other techniques to hide expenses or losses; shifting current income to a later period and shifting future expenses to an earlier period. Recording Revenue Too Soon In order to shift revenue or gains in future-period to current period or to oversize bonuses and stock options, management may shift revenues or gains from future period to current period through recording revenue before completing any obligations under the contract; recording revenue far in excess of work completed on the contract; recording revenue before the buyer’s final acceptance of the product or recording revenue when the buyer’s payment remains uncertain or unnecessary. To mitigate the risk of such misrepresentation, investors should ware some warning signs of shenanigans: extended end date, sharp jump in accounts receivable, especially long-term and unbilled ones, using percentage-of-completion accounting or aggressive assumptions, inappropriately low discount rate, premature revenue recognition policy, Inappropriate use of mark-to-market or bill-and-hold accounting, consignment arrangements, incorrect shipping or liberalizing customer collection terms. Recording Bogus Revenue To accelerate its revenue, companies may create fake revenue through recording revenue from transactions that lack economic substance, like faking nonexistent transaction; or lack a reasonable arm’s-length process, such as transactions with...
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...What is Sales? Sales is what you do and say during the one moment your product or service is being purchased. It's confirming the payment options. Sales is a one time process (means just selling the product to the customer). It's converting an inquiry or lead into a contract or shipment. Sales is not market research, business development or advertising. Pre-sales, Sales and Post-sales Pre-sales is a process or a set of activities normally carried out before a customer is acquired, though sometimes pre-sales also extends into the period the product or service is delivered to the customer. The task of a pre-sales person starts from the initial contact phase and often ends once the customer is acquired i.e. sale is made. The Pre-Sales Activities can be broken into two areas, planning and preparing for the call. Planning, in the Pre-Sales Activities, can include Prospect/Customer identification, Product/research/customer analysis review, competitor/industry research, creating a call strategy, evaluation of your products and services relative to the competition. To prepare is to put together or make by combining various elements or ingredients. Write an objective, determine the processes you will use to achieve those objectives, set quantifiable goals for each objective and practice for the call. Sales Activities are the execution of all your hard work planning and preparing. These activities may include the sales call/meeting, negotiation or follow-up, closing the deal/order...
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...WEEK 9 Assignment 4 Submitted by: COMP INTERACTION AND DESIGN PROFESSOR MOSES COWAN 8/30/2014 Using technology in any field often causes side effects, strong, emotional states, which arise during computer interactions often, due to the installed applications of the computer. These applications, which initially evolve with a motive of satisfying some user requirements or pre-existing shortcoming of some other applications not only affect the need completion or interaction itself, but also the cause personal discontent and unintentional humility. In computing and information technology, user frustration is a persistent problem arising due to varied masses of users and ambience, workplace, differences. The quality of user experience and feedback is of utmost importance of success for any application. In this paper, we identify reasons for user frustrations and with special emphasis to disabled population suggest ways for better serving theses masses. Average users lose time due to frustrating experiences range from around 31% to approximately 46% of the time they spend on computers and mobile. Hence, we need to develop nomenclature of frustrating experiences, describe methods to identify user experiences as natural ones or due to poor system design and find ways to solve them. Computers and mobiles have beneficial impacts but also cause much unintentional dissatisfaction among the users because of many reasons, exasperation of losing unsaved work in case of a crash,...
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...1 A- Case Summary Apple was by two college drop out students: Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs with the motto of “Think Differently”. In the early 1980s, Steve Wozniak left the company and Steve Jobs hired John Sculley as the President of the company. After facing many failures, Apple launched its Macintosh computers for house hold users. In mid 1980s, Steve Jobs had to leave the company because of his controversial relations with the president. At that time John Sculley rejected the offer of Microsoft‘s CEO, Bill Gates to license the Macintosh operating system to Microsoft. After this refusal, Gates developed DOS operating system and in late 1980s, the competition between DOS and Macintosh decreased Apple’s sale, workforce and resignation of John Sculley. So, Apple’s current CEO planned to purchase NextStep operating system of Jobs in order to improve the Macintosh operating system. In late 90s Jobs again became the CEO of the company and be started surprising relations with Microsoft by developing a Macintosh version of office software. Apple also took cost saving measures like streamlining the product line, production of printers. Steve Jobs brought Apples’ focus on two concepts of consumer series with the prefix “I” for internet like iMac, iBook laptop and professional with prefix “power” such as PowerMac desktop and PowerBook laptop series. Under Jobs, Apple again becomes the innovator of computer market. His leadership leads the company to USB and Firewire ports, introduction...
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...MANAGERIAL RESPONSE TO THREATS Threat of new entrants Barriers to entry: It is very common that the existing company in a industry will set the barrier to the new entrants. Because these new entrants might become the strong potential competitors in the future and take away large profit from the existing company. For these new entrants, they will carry out pretty attractive competition and use better financial strength to seize current and potential market. These moves will lower the benefits of existing business and the return of investment. To prevent this situation happen, Coca-Cola will set different barriers to discourage the potential entrants. I will discuss other enter barriers. Product differentiation One of the most important factors to determine whether a business can be successful is whether they have the compared advantages. It is very important to use the differentiation strategy to make your products known by the customers. Products that easy to remember and recognize by the customers are different from others. This difference can be the service of the company, the high quality, the name of brand. All of these characteristics will set up the customers loyalty in the market. Under the advantage of differentiation strategy, even though the new entrants maybe try their best to attract the customers with lower prices or other things, they may still suffer a loss in profit because the loyalty of the customers. Capital requirement Whenever and wherever people decide...
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...product focus. In the process both input and out put will be clearly defined to achieve the objective. The process will create value by converting the input in to valuable output. To conduct a business activity effectively there are eight business processes that were identified to conduct a business. With in the process there will be a business functions that describes the activity of the firm in producing product, service or achieve objective. In skin care business process the process begins with input procurement and ends with service after sale of the product or service. The eight processes are grouped into two types one is core business process and the other is support business process. Core Business Processes The core business processes includes * procurement, logistics and distribution in this the input will be obtained from various sources and stored it for further production, the finished product will be stored and supplied to the customers for their end use * Operations that is the activities will be transformed in to final product * Product development, here the existed product will be improved based on the feed back of the customer or through research for this the marketer will analyze the market and the new product will be designed. * Sales, Customer accounts and marketing, in this activity to promote the goods in to the market the goods or product will be advertised and through retail management the sales will be done and even customer accounts will...
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...Maybe one of the most common marketing strategies is the promise of lower prices. According to “The American Marketing Association” (2013), marketing is defined as “the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large” (Definitions). The “Merriam Webster” (n.d.) website defines Marketing as “Activities that direct the flow of goods and services from producers to consumers.” * Importance of marketing in organizational success * Without some sort of marketing a business cannot even make the initial connection with potential customers. Unless a business has provided some sort of communication of their wares to either a target audience or the public at large, potential customers cannot complete a producer to consumer transaction. As we see in...
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