...Monkey Trap A trip back and forth through time. The Monkey Trap story may not be new to you. I first came across it in the 1980’s, when I was learning about goal tracking. It was a recurring metaphor, used by the likes of Zig Ziglar, Dennis Waitely, and Robert Pirzig, who encouraged us to distinguish between what is truly important and what is not. In the 18th and 19th century, so legend has it, the way one would trap a monkey in Africa and India, was by taking a box to the ground. The box had a hole in it just large enough for a monkey’s hand to fit through unless that hand had a banana in it. The captors would put the banana in the box, the monkey would grab the banana, and then the monkey would prioritize the short-term goal of eating “higher” than the long-term goal of “freedom.”...
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...Dorand Xhelili-121019 Paper Publishing vs E-Publishing History of Paper Publishing The introduction of printing created a medium for communication like no other. "Until the advent of radio it was the great means of communication". As paper became more widely available in the thirteenth century writing became more prominent. When the need to reproduce texts became greater, Gutenberg's movable type came about followed by a variety of other printing processes. By 1500 somewhere around 12,000,000 books in 35,000 editions had been printed. The world's first newspaper was published in Germany in 1609. But with such volumes suddenly being distributed, regulations were made to prohibit unrestrained publishing in 1637 when England limited the number of print shops and foundries by decrees. "In the cradle years of printing opposition came chiefly from organized calligraphers and illuminators whose livelihood was threatened. The content of manuscripts was seldom in question; most were classics or ecclesiastical writings and many were in Greek or Latin, which made them inaccessible to all but a few scholars and churchmen. But with the coming of the seventeenth century, printing was being viewed as a threat to established power, both religious and political. Though people like John Milton spoke out in favor of freedom of press and against requiring official censoring before publication of any text, governments' fear of political unrest kept even the first American...
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...multimedia hardware and software exist for personal computers, networks, the internet, interactive kiosks and multimedia presentations are available on CD-ROMs and various other mediums. The use of multimedia in our society has it benefits and it’s drawbacks, most defiantly. Some of the more computer-related uses of multimedia, such as electronic publishing, the internet, and computers in education will be discussed in depth thought this paper. Electronic publishing is the publishing of material in a computer-accessible medium, such as on a CD-ROM or on the Internet. In a broader sense of the term it could also include paper products published with the aid of a desktop publishing program, or any form of printing that involves the use of a computer. Reference works became available in the mid-1980s both in CD-ROM format and online. Increasingly, in the 1990s, magazines, journals, books, and newspapers have become available in an electronic format, and some are appearing in that format only. Companies that publish technical manuals to accompany their other products have also been turning to electronic publishing. Electronic books have been recently introduced to the world as a whole. This new concept is the use of internet or otherwise computer technology to electronically convert books to a digital, readable format viewed on a television...
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...For exclusive use IE Business School, 2014 Harvard Business School 9-197-040 Rev. February 19, 1998 Colorscope, Inc. Introduction Andrew Cha, the founder of Colorscope, Inc., a small, vibrant firm in the graphic arts industry, had seen his business change dramatically over the years. The rapid development of such technologies as desktop publishing and the World Wide Web as well as the consolidation of several major players within the industry had radically altered his company’s relative positioning on the competitive landscape. Preparing to celebrate the company’s twentieth anniversary in March 1996, Cha pondered the issues involved in moving Colorscope ahead. Company History Born in Anhui, China in 1938, Andrew Cha immigrated to the United States in 1967 to seek a better life. Originally planning to settle in New York City, where he would pursue his craft as a painter and his wife would attend New York University, his funds ran out in Los Angeles, forcing him to work as a cook and busboy in a downtown Chinese restaurant. Through fortune and hard work, however, Cha eventually found jobs that took advantage of his artistic skills in draftmanship and photography; a succession of promotions within one graphic arts company convinced him that his abilities would enable him to start his own business. Founded on March 1, 1976, Colorscope Inc. was established as a special-effects photography laboratory serving local advertising agencies in southern California...
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...Chapters 1-15: Study Guide with Working Papers Electronic Business Machines Calculation Gregg College Keyboarding & Document Processing Kit3 Lessons 1-120 Windows Internet Explorer 11: Getting Started TOTAL FOR FIRST SEMESTER 21st Edition 21st Edition 3rd Edition 11th Edition 1st Edition 3rd Edition Copyright 2014 Copyright 2014 Copyright 2014 Miller & Brantley Rutkosky & Roggenkamp Rutkosky & Roggenkamp Rutkosky & Roggenkamp Rutkosky & Roggenkamp Heintz & Parry Heintz & Parry Schneck & Giordano Ober Gaskin & Pritchard 9780538728829 9780763854041 9780763854010 9780763854065 9780763853976 9781285055411 9781285418896 9780135718032 9780077825737 9780133847635 69.90 98.40 98.40 118.20 145.70 206.00 76.00 134.30 209.50 30.60 $1,727.00 EDITION/COPYRIGHT AUTHOR/PUBLISHER ISBN # PRICE 540.00 SECOND SEMESTER TITLE TUITION BOOKS Administrative Professional: Technology & Procedures Advanced Microsoft Word 2013 Desktop Publishing Basics: Business Communication TOTAL FOR SECOND SEMESTER 14th Edition 1st Edition 3rd Edition Fulton-Calkins, Rankin, & Shumack Arford, Roggenkamp, & Rutkosky Merrier 9780538731041 9780763852115 9780538728843 129.70 127.00 67.30 $ 864.00 EDITION/COPYRIGHT AUTHOR/PUBLISHER ISBN # PRICE 540.00 Revised November 20, 2014 Page 2 of 2 Administrative Office Technology Complete List of Tuition and Books Required by Semester SUMMER TERM TITLE TUITION BOOKS Microsoft Publisher 2010:Complete (Shelly Cashman Series) TOTAL FOR SUMMER TERM TOTAL FOR ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE...
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...Technology Analysis Paper: Adobe Creative Cloud University of Denver IT Strategies HR Hegnauer November 9, 2015 Introduction As the industry standard for anything related to digital imaging, layout, or design, the software programs from Adobe Systems Incorporated have lead the way for over three decades. Now headquartered in San Jose, California, Adobe employs roughly 12,500 people nation wide, had sales of $4.22 billion in 2014, and was ranked #74 by Forbes on their list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies (Forbes, 2015). Adobe is most famous for its program Photoshop, which helps it to drive industries in three major business segments: “Digital Media, Digital Marketing, and Print & Publishing” (Forbes, 2015). In the following paper, I will focus on the core Adobe programs for the print and publishing industry, which include Photoshop, Illustrator, and Indesign. Photoshop. Business and investing author and scholar, Peter F. Drucker said, “If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old” (Shore, 2014). In 1987, Thomas Knoll was an engineering PhD student the University of Michigan and wanted to process his photographs on his newly purchased Apple Macintosh Plus to help him with his PhD work. Unfortunately, his Mac computer was unable to translate his images into a grey-scale display, and so, needing something new, Knoll went to work on making something new. As a software engineer, Knoll wrote a program he called Display to properly render...
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...added to a host computer, i.e any hardware except the computer, in order to expand its abilities. More specifically, the term is used to describe those devices that are optional in nature, as opposed to hardware that is either demanded or always required in principle. The term also tends to be applied to devices that are hooked up externally, typically through some form of computer bus like USB. Typical examples include joysticks, printers and scanners. Devices such as monitors and disk drives are not considered peripherals when they are not truly optional. Some people do not consider internal devices such as video capture cards to be peripherals because they are added inside the computer case; for them, the term peripherals is reserved exclusively for devices that are hooked up externally to the computer. It is debatable however whether PCMCIA cards qualify as peripherals under this restrictive definition, because some of them go fully inside the laptop, while some, like WiFi cards, have external appendages. Due to these considerations, the term has somewhat fallen out of modern usage; it was mainly used in the early days of the home computer boom to refer to things like floppy disk drives and modems. Today most devices are integrated inside the computer's case, and external devices typically function on their own such as mp3 players and cell phones. The term is different from computer accessories: Computer peripheral has a narrow meaning that refers only to the input output...
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... It offered a comprehensive product line ranging from simple writing implements (such as pens, pencils, and markers) and fasteners to specialty paper for modern highspeed copiers and printers. MOP had an excellent reputation for customer service and responsiveness. Warehouse personnel at MOP’s distribution center unloaded truckload shipments of products from manufacturers, and moved the cartons into designated storage locations until customers requested the items. Each day, after customer orders had been received, MOP personnel drove forklift trucks around the warehouse to accumulate the cartons of items and prepare them for shipment. MOP ordered supplies from many different manufacturers. It priced products to its end-use customers by first marking up the purchased product cost by 16% to cover the cost of warehousing, order processing, and freight. Then it added another 6% markup to cover the general, selling, and administrative expenses, plus an allowance for profit. The markups were determined at the start of each year, based on actual expenses in prior years and general industry and competitive trends. Midwest adjusted the actual price quoted to a customer based on long-term relationships and competitive situations, but pricing was generally independent of the specific level of service required by that customer, except for desktop deliveries. Typically, MOP shipped products to its customers using...
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...Applied Research Project Course: IS 535 Submitted: 04/14/2011 Introduction HSBC is one of world’s largest banks with electronic commerce, which consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. With HSBC, the amount of trade conducted electronically has grown significantly with widespread Internet usage. ("HSBC" 2009) The use of commerce is conducted in this way, spurring and drawing on innovations in electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems. Modern electronic commerce typically uses the World Wide Web at least at some point in the transaction's lifecycle, although it can encompass a wider range of technologies such as e-mail as well. ("HSBC," 2009) A large percentage of electronic commerce is conducted entirely electronically for virtual items such as access to premium content on a website, but most electronic commerce involves the transportation of physical items in some way. Online retailers are sometimes known as e-tailers and online retail is sometimes known as e-tail. Almost all big retailers have electronic commerce presence on the World Wide Web. Electronic commerce that is conducted between businesses...
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... 11 Industry Life Cycle 13 Products&Markets 13 Supply Chain 13 Products & Services 14 Demand Determinants 15 Major Markets 27 OperatingConditions 27 Capital Intensity 28 Technology & Systems 28 Revenue Volatility 29 Regulation & Policy www.ibisworld.com|1-800-330-3772|info @ibisworld.com WWW.IBISWORLD.COM DocumentPreparationServicesintheUS June 2012 2 AboutthisIndustry IndustryDefinition This industry provides one or more of the following: letter or resume writing; document editing or proofreading; typing, word processing or desktop publishing; and stenographic (except court reporting or stenotype recording), transcription and other secretarial services. This industry does not include document translation services, prepress and postpress services, or document copying services. MainActivities Theprimaryactivitiesofthisindustryare Desktop publishing services (i.e., document...
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...Complete: Your Interactive Guide to the Digital World, Course Technology. 2. O’Leary, TJ & O’Leary, L I 2011, Computing Essentials, McGraw-Hill. Additional references supporting the course 1. Morley, D & Parker, CS 2013, Understanding Computers: Today and Tomorrow, 14th edn, Course Technology, Thomson Learning, United States. 2. Williams, BK, Sawyer, SC 2013, Using Information Technology,10th edn, McGraw-Hill. Chapter 1: Introduction to Computers Objectives Overview: * Define the term, computer, and describe the relationship between data and information * Describe the five components of a computer * Discuss the advantages and disadvantages that users experience when working with computers * Distinguish between system software and application software * Differentiate among types, sizes, and functions of computers in each category * Discuss how society uses computers in education, finance, government, health care, science, publishing, travel, and manufacturing 1.1 What Is a Computer? * A computer is an electronic device, operating under the control of instructions stored in its own memory. 1.2 What Is Data and Information? * Computer process data into information. * Data is a collection of unprocessed...
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...1) What is a system unit? System unit is a case that contains electronic components of the computer used to process data. System units are available in variety of shapes and sizes. The case of the system unit, sometimes called the chassis, is made of metal or plastic and protects the internal electronic components from damage. All computers have a system unit. 2) Give the 5 components of a system unit. i) Processor ii) Memory iii) Adapter cards iv) Drive bays v) The power supply. 3) Explain briefly what a motherboard is. The motherboard, sometimes called a system board, is the main circuit board of the system unit. Many electronic components attach to the motherboard; other are built into it. 4) What do the control unit and arithmetic logic unit do? The control unit is the component that directs and coordinates most of the operations in the computers while the arithmetic logic unit performs arithmetic comparisons and other operations. 5) Explain the 2 types of memories? The 2 types of memory are volatile memory and non-volatile memory. When the computer’s power is turned off, volatile memory loses its contents. Non-volatile memory, by contrast, does not lose its contents when power is removed from the computer. 6) Give one example of component that is installed in an external and internal drive bays. External drive bay: DVD Drives Internal drive bay: Hard disk drives 7) What does RAM and...
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...DESKTOP PUBLISHING Desktop Publishing Software allows you to use your computer (sitting on your desktop) as if it were a publishing house. You can write and edit documents, and print them. With DTP software, you can generally do a much better job, and use the proper typography. Bear in mind that DTP software is designed for you to print something, and give away the printed material. It’s rarely suitable to give away the DTP files, as they’re typically reliant on the configuration of your own personal computer. If you want to exchange fancy document files with people, you’re better off using a format more suited to that sort of thing; like HTML on the world wide web, PDF (Portable Document Format) for more general purpose situations (it’s prime focus is to make documents printable on different systems in a consistent manner), or RTF (Rich Text Format) documents for when you want to exchange electronic documents between different computer systems, and need something a bit better than just plain text. Desktop Publisher is a small-scale equivalent of a printing press on a personal computer. Whereas a word processor is chiefly aimed at being something that can produce a document, “desktop publishing” is about laying out things on pages (it may be a single document, it could be several separate articles in a single publication, and can include images and diagrams). You have full control over what's printed on a page, where it's printed, how it's printed, and how printing is handled...
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...KNEC 2005 Computer Applications Question Paper 1. (a) Outline FIVE advantages of application packages as compared to the in-house programs developed by the organization's programmers. (10 marks) (b) Explain FIVE factors that the buyer intending to acquire an application package should consider. (10 marks) 2. (a) Explain the following functions of an operating system. (i) Job scheduling (ii) Memory allocation and loading of programs (iii) Interface the user or the operator to the system's hardware. (9 marks) (b) Explain any THREE characteristics of an operating system. (6 marks) (c) Define the following service programs (i) Text Editors (ii)Loaders (iii) Language Translators 3. (a) List FIVE controls to prevent computer fraud. (5 marks) (b) Explain the following computer crimes (i) Theft of computer time (ii) Hacking (iii) Sabotage (c) Outline THREE Security measures against each of the following threats to computer security. (i) Terrorist Attack (ii) Fire 4. (a) Explain FOUR benefits from use of the internet. (8 marks) (b) Explain FOUR problems on the internet. (8 marks) (c) Define the following terms. (i) Intranets (ii) Extranets 5. (a) (i) Define the term "Paperless office (ii) Explain two electronic publishing systems. (7 marks) (b) Explain the stand alone word processors. (3 marks) (c) Explain the following word-procesor facilities. (i) Glossary (ii) Text Editing (iii) Line-wrap-around (iv) Ranner (v) Bullet (10 marks) 6. (a)...
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...example link above. Please insert YOUR proper ID number.) 2. If you have previously registered for another CoursePack, log in. If not, click the Register link underneath the Students heading. Complete the registration page and click Continue. 3. Confirm your CoursePack selection and click Continue. 4. Complete your billing information, confirm and click Continue. 5. After completing the purchase pages, you will be taken to your CoursePack. 6. If you have problems, contact XanEdu Customer Service at 1-800-218-5971 (option 4) or email cust.serv@xanedu.com. 7. Each individual student must purchase his/her own access to the CoursePack. Once you have access to your CoursePack, you can print it from your desktop printer. You can also access the coursepack online at any time. Or if you would like to order a printed hardcopy from the publisher, you may do that as well. However, it will cost a bit more. It's up to you. You WILL need these materials to pass this class. The cases and readings are the basis for class discussion and the content will be...
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