2. The most important invention on the 20th century
Gonçalo Duarte
Nº16
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English
Last Edition 09-02-2010 08:28
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3. Please choose your version:
◦ Funny Version with a virus, a danger one *.*
◦ Serious Version
4. What’s an invention?
An invention is a new composition, device, or
process.
An invention may come from a pre-existing model
or idea, or it could be independently conceived.
“Necessity is the mother of invention. ” - Addison Altholz
“ What I cannot create, I do not understand. ” - Richard Feynman
5. The Computer
◦ The reasons that made me choose the computer:
Its a remarkable invention that changed the world of
technology.
It allows us to:
Work
Communicate in many ways (chat, instant messages, email…).
Play a variety of games for every age and person (The Sims
Erotic Dreams, Call of Duty…).
Watch uncensored/dirty content (Films with violent
content…).
6. The benefits:
With a computer, we are able to work from anywhere, do
better gamming and communicate to a person on the
other side of the planet.
Computers make it easier to perform tasks that were
impossible to do, and to perform pre existing tasks with a
bigger precision, like in medicine or in the industry.
We are able to meet new people and to apply our
knowledge in many ways, like learning new languages,
like Bosnian, Croatian or Serbian. With computers we can
communicate with Bosnian girls foreign people to expand
the vocabulary.
7. The disadvantages:
If we don’t know how to protect ourselves we may
be vulnerable to attacks from hackers or crackers.
We are too dependent of the computers. If there's
any problem with the security or with the computer
a lot of information would be lost or stolen, and
that would cause problems with calamitous
proportions.
The computers make unemployment grow.
9. Manufacturer - SGI
Memory
•Type - double data rate
synchronous dynamic
random access memory
(DDR SDRAM)
•Per Processor (core) - 2GB
•Total Memory - 26,624GB
Operating Environment
•Operating system - SUSE
Linux Enterprise
•Job Scheduler - PBS
•Compilers - Intel Its main purpose was to simulate the violent
Fortran, C, SGI MPI collision and merger of spiral galaxies that lead to
the formation of elliptical galaxies. It is connected to
•Was in 2nd place of the the NASA Research and Engineering Network and
fastest computers. Now its was installed at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
in 25nd. 2004 - 2008 facility in 2004. It was named in honor of the crew
who died in the Columbia disaster.
19. Special thanks to my beta testers:
Yoeri Brower
Duarte Soares
20. And a not so special thank you to the others
who saw the PowerPoint before it was
released…
Alexandre Valente
Ana Sofia Pinto
Mike Hawk
Pedro Assis
Rui Brás
