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Apple is paying a Signapore company $100 million dollars for using their piece without permission. Apple has finally agreed to this after 5 lawsuits being filed against them. Apple is also letting them be apart of the "Made for iPod'' program, where companies are allowed to build accessories for the iPod and other Apple items.


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/25/business/media/25aol.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1156508274-/LO3DQMXdUKHZHNzsR1lLQ&oref=slogin


AOL is going to release movies on the internet so people can download them. They say they are going to be selling the downloads in a range from $9.99 to $19.99. In my opinion i really dont think this is a good idea because i know for a fact there are going to be people that are going to be able to hack the system and download for free, and post them up on Lime wire and Ares and such.

about meeee

just a little something about me....


My name is jessica. i was born in BX, NY. For those of you who dont know what that is, its the boogie down BRONX , New York. Thats my hometown. I try my best to go back there as much as possible.. i love it. NY isnt just a big city full of people, its my home && its in my blood. I love being able to walk around the streets at 4 am and nobody saying anything because everybody is outside posted up at every corner. Out here in Miami you step outside to your mailbox past 11 pm youll get caught for curfew if your not 18. In new york, you dont need a car to do anything. Straight subway and bus. Another thing is i LOVEEEEEE kicks (hence the username) i have about 20 somethin diff pairs of sneakers. i treat my sneakers as if they were my kids. they always stay fresh. if someone were ever to step on them. i would go out of my mind.

computer definitions

A. Computer: a combination of related elements (hardware and software) working together to acheaive a common goal.
B. General purpose computers: computers where both coputation and input/output processing capabilities support a wide array of applications.
C. Information: data in a form that humans can understand and use.
D. Information/Data processing: the process of sharing information between two humans and computers. It includes sorting, classifying, calcuating, summarizing and comparing data.
E. Information Utilities : buisnesses or universities that use large computers to store huge amonts of information about many subjects and make it available to the public.
F. Application Program: a program that instrusts the computer to perform a specific user defined task.
G. Computer System: a combination of hardware and software that interacts to accomplish a goal.
H. Hardware: the tangible physical equiptment of a computer which includes input, processing, storage, and output devices.
I. Input: data that enters the computer system via an input or storage device.
J. Input device: a hardware device that enables the computer to accept data.
K. Microminiaturization: the ongoing technical process of size reduction that has enabled an entire micro-processor to occupy the space of a tiny chip.
L. Output: data that leaves the computer system via any output or storage device.
M. Output device: a hardware device that reports information in an understandable form.
N. Processing: activity within the computers processor where detailed instructions, called software programs, tell computers what to do to produce the desired information.
O. Processor: a hardware device that processces data into meaningful information.
P. Program: a series of detailed, step-by-step instructions that tell the computer what to do.
Q. Raw data/Origional data: data fed into the computer for processing.
R. Software: the non physical, electronic instructions that tell a computer what to do; software includes system and application programs.
S. Source documents: paper forms on which data maybe written before being entered into the computer.
T. Storage device: a hardware device that permits storage of data.
U. System Program: a program that controls the computers circuitry and hardware devices.
V. Information superhighway: a global network of computers that provides acces to digital, voice, and video commuication to info resources anywhere in the world.
W. Megahertz: one million cycles or pulses per second; this meausurement is used to state the internal clockspeed of a computer.
X. Local Area Network: cmputer networks limited to a small area such as a school or an office building and generally connected with cables.
Y. Internet: the worlds largest wide area network. Begun by the U.S. Defense Department. it is now world wide and includes governmental, educational, commercial and personal users.