Assignment update

heyy there
wellz.... i have finishd 3 topics
and the group is doing a gud progress
we are gettting are work done in time
so thats gudd!

Bits and Bytes

A digit is a single place that can hold numerical values between 0 and 9.

The reason computers use the base-2 system is because it makes it a lot easier to implement them with current electronic technology. You could wire up and build computers that operate in base-10, but they would be fiendishly expensive right now. On the other hand, base-2 computers are relatively cheap.

So computers use binary numbers, and therefore use binary digits in place of decimal digits. The word bit is a shortening of the words "Binary digIT." Whereas decimal digits have 10 possible values ranging from 0 to 9, bits have only two possible values: 0 and 1. Therefore, a binary number is composed of only 0s and 1s, like this: 1011. How do you figure out what the value of the binary number 1011 is? You do it in the same way we did it above for 6357, but you use a base of 2 instead of a base of 10. So:

CPU!

A CPU's is a complete computation engine thats is fabricated on a single chip.
The first CPU was the Intel 4004 introduced in 1971.
As the speed increases the Microns get less providing the transitiors to work fast.
MIPS stands for "millions of instructions per second" and is a rough measure of the performance of a CPU. Modern CPUs can do so many different things that MIPS ratings lose a lot of their meaning, but you can get a general sense of the relative power of the CPUs from this column.
Multitasking is a method by which multiple tasks, also known as processes, share common processing resources such as a CPU. In the case of a computer with a single CPU, only one task is said to be running at any point in time, meaning that the CPU is actively executing instructions for that task. Multitasking solves the problem by scheduling which task may be the one running at any given time, and when another waiting task gets a turn. The act of reassigning a CPU from one task to another one is called a context switch. When context switches occur frequently enough the illusion of parallelism is achieved. Even on computers with more than one CPU (called multiprocessor machines), multitasking allows many more tasks to be run than there are CPUs.
Second-Generation AMD Opteron™ processors with DDR2 memory extend the industry-leading performance trajectory established by first-generation AMD Opteron processors while offering a seamless upgrade path to quad-core performance and leading-edge solutions to help run your business applications.

Assignment

hello
i have decided to work as a group
in my group are jess, adriana, tiara and me
we have also decided wat we want to do and we are using piczo.
we are all doing 3 topics each....so it is even!!!!!

What tool to use?

hello
today i have actually last lesson i decided to use sprouts for my assignment
it is very useful
has a lot of applications to use
Sprout is the quick and easy way for anyone to build, publish, and manage widgets, mini-sites, mashups, banners and more. Any size, any number of pages. Include video, audio, images and newsfeeds and choose from dozens of pre-built components and web services.


If u want to look at it
the website is below

Planning

Today i am going to decide which multimedia tool to use for my assignment
as i am doing this, i am going to research which topics i want to choose.

Multimedia Tools

links:
www.piczo.com
www.sproutbuilder.com

Multimedia tools

Today we looked at 2 new multimedia tools
they were piczo and sprout.
Piczo is an online free website builder. It is very cool and smart because it has a lot of different tools and very colourful backgrounds.
In Sprouts you can creat widgets, banners, mini-sites, mash-ups for your websites, MySpace, Facebook and more for free