1. Do you think the results are 100% accurate? Why or why not?

 

no my results are not accurate because the class dident take my polls seriously.

1. How much of an impact do you think the wording of the questions has on the answers you recieved?

 

I don't think that there was a very big impact on the questions based on the words.

1. Did you get the results you expected from your online polls? Why?

 

yess I did. the polls were mostly correct because they were very simple questions.

1. If you wanted to do an online poll with the students of Technologico de Montorrey asking them how much time and effort they spent doing homework this year, what are the steps you would take to complete that online poll?

 

I would follow all instructions and properly answer any or all questions asked about school related work.

1. Do you think online polling could help the administration of Tech de Montorrey find out more about their students? Or do you think that the results would not be accurate? Why or why not?

 

I don't the results or polls would help because there are too many dishonest kids here at tech de monterrey.

1. How do you think the results of your polls would be different if you asked your classmates the questions in person?

 

because they would be under pressure soo they would be more honest and direct.

 

1. In what ways do you think online polling using Google Spreadsheets can be improved? Or was it easier to create an online poll than you originally thought? Explain.

it was a lot easier to make these polls and they were also very easy to reach and answer

 

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assignment 5

1. In your own words describe how the workplace culture at Google encourages innovation and unique creations for the company? How does working at Google and the environment there affect its workers?

the google company encourages people to get better because of all the funn things and creative things to do. the google company not only allows you to be a better innovater but it allows you to create things and make things better.


2. How does employee freedom, like the 20% of free time Google encourages its employees to spend on any project they want, deliver better business?

it allows you to better ypour ideas and make them bigger and brighter. it also allows them to do it while they have fun and when you do someething that you lave and is fun you always do a better job.

  

3. What are the requirements to work for Google? And what is different about the way they hire employees at Google?

they require top innovater and creative thinkers. the google company hires and allows people to work for them by giving them different and weird tasks to do., for example they give people rubix cubes and who ever solves it fastest gets the job.



4. How many search queries does Google handle a day?

google handels about 15,000,000 to 20,000,000 quieries a day.


5. In your own words discuss how Google's constantly refined search algorithm changed the way we all access and even think about information.


There are many components to the search process and the results page, and we’re constantly updating our technologies and systems to deliver better results. Many of these changes involve exciting new innovations, such as the Knowledge Graph or Google Instant. There are other important systems that we constantly tune and refine. This list of projects provides a glimpse into the many different aspects of search.


6. Take a look at the following story about Google's top secret data center. Now why would Google want to keep its server room as a secret?

Engineering prowess famously catapulted the 14-year-old search giant into its place as one of the world’s most successful, influential, and frighteningly powerful companies. Its constantly refined search algorithm changed the way we all access and even think about information. Its equally complex ad-auction platform is a perpetual money-minting machine. But other, less well-known engineering and strategic breakthroughs are arguably just as crucial to Google’s success: its ability to build, organize, and operate a huge network of servers and fiber-optic cables with an efficiency and speed that rocks physics on its heels. Google has spread its infrastructure across a global archipelago of massive buildings—a dozen or so information palaces in locales as diverse as Council Bluffs, Iowa; St. Ghislain, Belgium; and soon Hong Kong and Singapore—where an unspecified but huge number of machines process and deliver the continuing chronicle of human experience.

This is what makes Google Google: its physical network, its thousands of fiber miles, and those many thousands of servers that, in aggregate, add up to the mother of all clouds. This multibillion-dollar infrastructure allows the company to index 20 billion web pages a day. To handle more than 3 billion daily search queries. To conduct millions of ad auctions in real time. To offer free email storage to 425 million Gmail users. To zip millions of YouTube videos to users every day. To deliver search results before the user has finished typing the query. In the near future, when Google releases the wearable computing platform called Glass, this infrastructure will power its visual search results.

The problem for would-be bards attempting to sing of these data centers has been that, because Google sees its network as the ultimate competitive advantage, only critical employees have been permitted even a peek inside, a prohibition that has most certainly included bards. Until now.

7. What are the benefits of working as a Google employee? 

While providing free food and drinks is getting more "normal" for start-ups these days, it was definitely my favorite and most-used perk at Google. I would start my morning at one building that had a coffee bar with full-time barista who would make whatever drink requested, for free. I would then head over to the building I worked in for free breakfast and take it to my desk. Lunchtime would come around and I'd head to one of Googles 25+ cafes for food. At Google you're never further than 150 ft. (or so) away from food, so micro kitchens with coffee, drinks and snacks are close by. If you stay to work late, you can grab dinner at Google too. Because Google's campus is not close to many restaurants, having food saves their employees lots of time while still providing plenty of variety and options.

8. Name at least 5 different positions at Google (ex: software engineer, Google tester, interaction designer) and describe what they do?

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  • Engineering & Design

    Take on technology’s greatest challenges and make an impact on millions.
    
    

  • Operations & Support

    Work on the cutting-edge of Internet technology at unprecedented speed and scale.
    
    

  • Product Management

    Drive product development - from conception to launch - while working at Google speed.
    
    

  • Developer Relations & Technical Solutions

    Be the bridge between our business and technology.Sell cool stuff

• • Sales & Account Management

    Transform the way companies interact with customers and help businesses grow.
    
    

9. Talk about at least 3 projects that Google is currently working on. What do they want to accomplish? How long will they take to complete?

RE<C

We developed the Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal (RE<C) initiative to drive down the cost of renewable energy. We’ve published our results to help others in the field continue to advance the state of concentrating solar technologies.

Google Earth Engine

Google Earth Engine, now part of Google Geo, makes decades of satellite imagery archives, data and tools available to scientists and governments around the world so they can monitor and measure changes in the Earth’s environment.

RechargeIT

RechargeIT was launched to demonstrate plug-in electric vehicle (EV) technology and accelerate its adoption. With several new EVs now available in the marketplace, we have transitioned our employee car sharing fleet to include 30 of the newest plug-in vehicles, with over 200 EV chargers currently in place.

PowerMeter

We developed Google PowerMeter as a free energy monitoring tool to raise awareness about the importance of giving people access to their energy information.

Investments and grants

Google.org has invested $45 million in a range of renewable energy research and emerging technologies including solar, wind, and geothermal to help determine which ones can scale to meet the world’s energy needs. Several of our early investments have proven so successful that renewable energy investing is now managed within our corporate investment portfolio, which continues to seek out technologies with breakthrough potential.

10. Look at the following story about why recent college graduates should not work for Google. Why does the writer argue recent graduates should not work at Google?

he argues because they dont need cocky preppy kids with degrees. they need kids with inovative and new thoughts.


11. How is Google the same or different than other search engines, like Yahoo or Bing?

Despite having worked within online marketing for quite some time now, I struggle immensely to come to grips with other search engines– most importantly, Bing. Now don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with Bing, it is a perfectly viable search engine. Unfortunately, I have become a creature of habit and prefer to “Google it” rather than “Bing it”… that doesn’t quite have the same ring to it, does it?

There is no doubt that the average user will wonder what the differences are between the two. After all, they are both search engines. Google is the senior of the lot, holds a stronger market share and effectively offers more results, but Bing isn’t all that bad.

I think it might be time to start being fair. I’ll take off my Team Google t-shirt (I’m not getting paid commission for this, whatever you think!) and look at this practically because when they’re compared side by side, Bing stands in a relatively strong position.

assignment 4

In at least 3-5 sentences answer the following questions.
1. Discuss what the main idea of the video is?

the main idea of this video was to determine weather or not people were present or past or future oriented. this would altar by were you live and were you were born. the idea was that by being one of these 3 characteristics you would act or plan things differently than other people in the world.

 2. Do you see yourself as past oriented or future oriented? Why?
I see myself as a future oriented person. why? because I always plan ahead of time and always have to determine what I will have to de for the next day. I think this is the most common or the most appropriate because you need to plan for the future.

 3. Do you agree or disagree with the speaker in the video? Explain why?
I agree, because all the facts that he was talking about were all true.  I also agree because all people need to have some sort attitude in a sense to wear they have to go and what they have to do.

 4. Do you agree with the speaker's view that young adults' minds are being "digitally rewired"? Explain your answer.
yes I agree. why? well all teens and young kids play videogames and interact in a wireless world. this means that they learn and focus on inter dimensional worlds and social media.


 5. Why does the narrator in the video argue that young people dislike a single-function device such as a wristwatch? 

young kids don't like single function devices because they like doing more than one thing at once. they like to have things to do with they're minds in challenging and dimensional objects.


de Web free when he created it at CERN?
Tim Berners lee decided too create the www because he wanted computers to interact with each other through an inter dimensional world or fictional universe of information.

 2. What are the benefits of having "web addresses," an idea that Sir Tim Berner's Lee created?
the benefit was that you could receive and send information. this meant that you could access the cyber world and interact with other computers and people.

 3. How does the World Wide Web allow people from all over the world to communicate?
the world wide web allows people to communicate through codes and algorithms through a parallel universe with computers. this meant that you would communicate through your computer to another computer meaning another human.

 4. Why is it important to link information? What are the benefits of having instant access to information?

it is important to link information because you could be led to another useful pieces f information regarding the subject of choice. the benefits of having this information at your fingertips is immense because you could access the world and all the information in the world.

assignment 3

information processing cycle

assignment 2

1. What are the pros and cons of using Google Drive to complete a project like the one you just did for your  Technology Presentation.
Pros: because you can post and share the information you have answered or found out with another person that is in the same document.
Cons: some people don't know how to use it, and is not as good as other programs.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

 2. What did you learn about your technology that you didn't know before? Explain.
We learned that this is were all the information in the world of technology is processed. the www is the largest of the processors in the technology  world. Also we learned other types of technology like how Facebook was created.

 3. Create a test question using the information you researched from your project. You must come up with a question and at least 4 responses or answers to choose from. 

Question?: what can you open in pages from www?

A. text
B.images
C.documents
D.videos

4. What does URL stand for?

Uniform Resource Locator

5. What is the URL for Mr. Fierro's Blogg

http://principlestechnology.blogspot.com/

6. What is your URL for your Blogger created for Principles of Technology class?

http://uranga1912.blogspot.com/

7. Using the notes from the Parts of a Computer System, identify and define the four parts of a complete computer system.

1. Processor
2. Memory
3. Input and output
4. Storage

8. Name 3 input devices and 3 output devices.

INPUT

Memory
CD's
USB

OUTPUT
Printer
Mouse
Keyboard

9. Write about the most interesting software you have ever used on a computer. Explain why it was your favorite or what you liked about the software you have chosen to write about.

the most interesting software is facebook. why? because you can connect with all of your family and friends. you can also share all the information you may have like photos, videos, URL's of pages you like, and many other things.


10. Why do you think important technology corporations like Apple, Microsoft, and Sony create new versions of their product often? Think about why every few months to a year a new iPad or iPhone is released... Explain.

I think that apple releases new technology every six moths because they want to keep on selling products, for that they have to create new things like the ipod and iphone 5, the ipad, the mini ipad, mac books, and other products.

11. For question 10 you will research on the World Wide Web. What are the units of measure for a computer memory storage? Fill in this table with your answers. Must fill in unit abbreviation, and approximate value.

UNIT	Abbreviation	Approximate Value (bytes)
megabyte	mb	1048576
kilobyte	kb	1024
gigabyte	gb	1073741824
Terabyte	TB	1,000,000,000,000 (1 trillion)

 

Assignment 1

Sunday, August 4, 2013

Assignment 1

You must write in complete sentences.
Responses for questions 2 and 8 should be between 3-5 sentences long.

1.  Create an acrostic poem using your first name. So what you are going to do is use each letter in your name to create an adjective that describes you or use each letter to write something you like to do.

S. sports

A. athletic 

N. nike

T. tall

I. too school for school

A. adorable

G. straight up G

O. omnipotent 

2. What technologies do you use in your everyday life? Describe how and why you use the technologies you do.
i often go on face book to stay connected to all the people around me. and to post all of my favorite things to do.
facebook is also a helpful tool for school

3. The _____system unit________ is a case that holds the computer's critical components.


4. A(n) ___work station_________ is a specialized, single-user computer that typically has more power than a standard PC.

5. A(n) _____network server_______ is usually a powerful personal computer that functions as the primary computer in a network.

6. _______super computer________ are the most powerful computers made.


7. What does "PC" stand for?
past commander/personal computer

8. Research how computers play a crucial part in nearly every government agency. Pick an agency and discuss how that agency uses computers and why computers make their jobs easier. Some examples of government agencies that use technology frequently are the U.S. Census Bureau, IRS, Military, and Police.
police keep computers to keep track of crimes, files, registrations, and worck.
they are also helpful for searching records.