The innitiative by one of the American hotel to place a secret alarm chip in all their equipment will paved the way to the decrease of thefs within the hotel. This was due to the increase number of their equipment being stollen in the hotel.Things such as towel and duvets were most stollen property. After reading this story I have realise the importance of technology in ourlives. Before the chip was place about 4000 things were stollen each month but this decrease to 750 after.
This shows that if we can think out of box there is so much we can do with technology. I have just realised one way where technology can come on board. Our technology migth assist us in decreasing the hijacking of cars by programming each and every car to sense it owner and be driven by the only owner too. In this way hijackers can not hijack a car because after all they can not drive it.Though this might reduce the hijacking of car drivers but their kidnaping might goes up but less car would be hijacked.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
The power of information
On my last artictle I wrote about search engines (which are tools we use to search for information). These tools can range from search engines, meta-search engines and subject directories. The problem I have realised is many of us can not use these tools properly thus we end up getting irrelevent information in our searches. Having information lead to having knowledge which as IT Professionals is what we require the most. The society of today is knowledge productivity as compared to the previous one which I think was material productivity.
Every second the new innovation take place in an arround the World therefore as IT Professionals we need to be information sensitive to prevent being outdated. Newspapes, Magazines, Jaurnals and Internet are all sort of media we need to be in touch with.When searching on the Internet you need to be specific to avoid redudent information you don't need. You also need to be ideal with the engine to use so that you for instance you won't find your self using search engine where you were suppose to use meta-search engine or subject directory. When using search engine you need to specify your search within qoutation marks and on meta-search you need to capitise the first letter.
Every second the new innovation take place in an arround the World therefore as IT Professionals we need to be information sensitive to prevent being outdated. Newspapes, Magazines, Jaurnals and Internet are all sort of media we need to be in touch with.When searching on the Internet you need to be specific to avoid redudent information you don't need. You also need to be ideal with the engine to use so that you for instance you won't find your self using search engine where you were suppose to use meta-search engine or subject directory. When using search engine you need to specify your search within qoutation marks and on meta-search you need to capitise the first letter.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Search Engines
Since 1993 when the first search engine started there have been an increase numbers of search engines launched ever since. W3C Catalog was the first search engine though there were tools such as Archie (Archive) developed by three student at MacGill University and Gopher created in 1991 by Mark McCahill. My aim is not to dig history but I thought it would be the good idea to reveal it so that we will be in the same page.
Today there are about more than hundred searching engines in which some have expired domains but do we really need all these numbers. In 2010 the top ten searching engines were Google, Yahoo search, Bing, Ask.com and AOL search. Though one search according to His or Her requirements, I think Google meet all those needs and is eighty percent used globally ( though I have heard that they in the hot water with Chinise Government due to tax issue of companies believed to owned by them).So can't we have these top five rather than these high numbers. Most these engine also act as commercial and that where the argument will begin.
Today there are about more than hundred searching engines in which some have expired domains but do we really need all these numbers. In 2010 the top ten searching engines were Google, Yahoo search, Bing, Ask.com and AOL search. Though one search according to His or Her requirements, I think Google meet all those needs and is eighty percent used globally ( though I have heard that they in the hot water with Chinise Government due to tax issue of companies believed to owned by them).So can't we have these top five rather than these high numbers. Most these engine also act as commercial and that where the argument will begin.
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