April, 2021 | Mrsocialguru

Career PC Home-Based Online Certification Training For CompTIA Network Technical Support – Updated

April 27, 2021 Comments Off

If it weren’t for a continuous flood of trained network and PC support staff, commercial enterprise in the United Kingdom (and indeed in most countries) would inevitably be brought to its knees. Consequently, there’s an ever growing requirement for men and women with technical ability to support both the systems and the users themselves. With the increasingly multifaceted levels of technology, many more qualified workers are being looked for to run the smooth operation of functions we’ve become dependent on.
Remember: the actual training or a qualification isn’t what this is about; the job or career you’re training for is. Many trainers unfortunately completely prioritise the qualification itself. Imagine training for just one year and then end up doing the job for 20 years. Ensure you avoid the fatal error of taking what may be a program of interest to you only to waste your life away with something you don’t even enjoy!
Be honest with yourself about what you want to earn and the level of your ambition. This will influence what exams you will need and what industry will expect from you in return. Your likely to need help from a professional that can explain the sector you’re considering, and is able to give you ‘A typical day in the life of’ explanation for each job considered. These things are absolutely essential as you’ll need to know if you’re barking up the wrong tree.
Most people don’t even think to ask about a vitally important element – how their company breaks up the physical training materials, and into what particular chunks. Typically, you will join a program staged over 2 or 3 years and receive one element at a time until graduation. It seems to make sense on one level, but consider these issues: Maybe the order of study offered by the provider doesn’t suit. It may be difficult to get through each and every section inside of their particular timetable?
To be honest, the perfect answer is to get an idea of what they recommend as an ideal study order, but to receive all the materials up-front. You’re then in possession of everything should you not complete it quite as quick as they’d want.
At times people don’t understand what information technology is all about. It is ground-breaking, exciting, and means you’re a part of the huge progress of technology that will affect us all over the next generation. We are really only just starting to get to grips with how all this will mould and change our lives. How we interrelate with the rest of the world will be profoundly affected by computers and the internet.
Should receiving a good salary be around the top on your goal sheet, you’ll be happy to know that the regular income for a typical IT worker is considerably greater than salaries in much of the rest of industry. The good news is there is no end in sight for IT industry development in the UK. The sector continues to develop rapidly, and we don’t have anywhere near enough qualified skilled IT professionals to fill current job vacancies, so it’s not showing any signs that it will even slow down for years to come.…

Engaging Today’s Students in Active Learning (Part 4)

April 24, 2021 Comments Off

In Part 2 of this series we discussed barriers to active learning – various causes that impact students’ ability or willingness to learn. In Part 3 we looked at strategies to grab students’ interest and get them involved in their own learning. Now we’ll examine teacher behaviors that impact learning.
Excellence in the Classroom: Modeling excellence increases the likelihood of teachers receiving excellence from their students. This generation of students displays a heightened sense of intolerance for mediocrity. They possess a greater ability than previous generations to discern genuine concern and ability (in other words, they are hyper-sensitive to phonies). Many teachers perpetuate a double standard; they expect more from students than they exhibit in the classroom themselves. Students take offense at this behavior and ultimately demand more of teachers. In fact, this inconsistency is rarely forgotten, and most often becomes a rift in the trust relationship between student and teacher. Students need to see teachers perform in the classroom to the same high standard students are expected to perform. By the same token, teachers are not expected to be experts in every subject; in fact, students respond well in reverse-mentoring situations where teachers learn from students-providing a reciprocal relationship. Teacher attitudes significantly affect their relationship with students.
The current student culture demonstrates short attention spans, a powerful need for immediate gratification, and a thirst for technology. Boring rooms lead to bored students. Teachers are tasked with stimulating energy and enthusiasm in even the most mundane subjects and students are very conscious of the effort teachers exhibit-or more often, did not exhibit.
One of the most challenging yet exciting additions to curriculum in today’s culture is multimedia technology. Teachers and administration are called upon to manage change amidst the turmoil of adolescence, while they maintain standardized test scores, as well as classroom composure.
The use of computers demonstrates an increase in student motivation to learn. Both teachers and students report a greater interest and motivation by the students when multimedia is incorporated into the curriculum. Research shows that students are able to remain on task longer when technology is involved in the learning process. Furthermore, the use of technology increases students’ skills in note taking, information gathering, collaboration, documentation, and presentation design. It appears that from a behavioral perspective, today’s students are often expected to perform in the same manner as students 30 years ago rather than as students of the current technological era.
Through the use of computers, this generation’s students are able to achieve greater quantity and quality in a day’s study. When students and teachers both have a basic grasp of technology, students show greater motivation through interest and time spent engaged in learning activities, as well as students’ ability to maintain and incorporate what they learn.
Students of this generation already embrace technology. Greater than 90 percent of the teen population (ages 9 to 17) access the internet; approximately 84 percent of those log into social media. Although the current trend in the work place is moving toward social media use on the job, it is more the younger crowd that embraces the technology. Teachers and students benefit through the use of social media since teachers could control when they log onto a service (better control than students having the teachers’ phone numbers) and students experience a deeper sense of trust and genuine concern from the teachers. Students are able to request extra help or gain a deeper explanation to an assignment without the added social consequences of their peers’ observation. However, the majority of school districts prohibit teachers and students from connecting through social media at any time; in fact, teachers caught in such situations are immediately fired.
Allowing students to email assignments as an alternative to handing in a hard copy reduces their need for printers, paper, and ink cartridges. Adding email as an option eliminates or reduces many excuses for late assignments.
Regularly posting and updating class web pages allows students to be independent and proactive about double-checking assignments, reviewing class notes or syllabi, and preparing for upcoming classes. Students feel more satisfied with their learning experience when they can participate through technology. Some theorists believe that students will not develop responsibility if assignments are posted on the school website where they can easily be retrieved; however, such a practice is far more consistent with this generation’s use of technology to access assignments, information, research, and other tools via the web than any previous generation. Social media, internet use, email, and other forms of technology are part of this generation’s toolbox. Their skilled use of these tools is essential to their future success. Teachers who guide this current generation would be wise to accept their unique abilities and guide them in using those abilities in a productive way.
When teachers show a concerted …

Manufacturing Is Not THE Answer to Increasing US Economic Competitiveness for Reducing the US Debt

April 18, 2021 Comments Off

There is an old an adage in the halls of the Pentagon that goes “Defense is always fighting the last war”. In other words, after a military engagement is finished DoD attempts to restructure itself so that its capabilities are more effective for the last engagement. This is an adage that is very true in the history of DoD and today many in DoD work very diligently to ensure that it is no longer true.
In many ways when it comes to rebuilding America’s economic competitiveness, many have fallen prey to this time old adage. And as DoD has found on repeated occasions, fighting the last war can be very deadly for the military and the country.
The US has divested itself, both by design and by default, of its manufacturing base creating a weakness that China and others have exploited for a competitive advantage. This weakness has now been exploited to the level that its adverse impact on the economic health of the US is so pronounced, that it can no longer be denied by anyone except the most nave or out of touch pundits.
In response, there is a growing call-to-arms across the US private and public sector to rebuild the US manufacturing base to its past glory. The strongly inferred, but not always stated premise is that rebuilding the US manufacturing base is guaranteed to rebuild America’s economic health– in other words the manufacturing base of a country is the foundation of a country’s economic competitiveness.
It is the case that the Chinese saw and exploited the weakness presented by America’s declining manufacturing base but by just removing this US weakness does not equate to a US strength–it just eliminates a US weakness that could be exploited by China and others for a competitive advantage. In effect, removing the US weakness by rebuilding the US manufacturing base is just fighting the last war.
With this US weakness eliminated, China and others will just shift the fight to another battlefield.
To rebuild the economic health of the US we must acquire and maintain a competitive advantage, not just eliminate a US weakness that provides China with the opportunity to acquire a competitive advantage relative to the US. Rebuilding the US manufacturing base can eliminate the US weaknesses so that it can no longer be exploited by China or others to the detriment of the economic health of the US, and it is the case that the US manufacturing base could be rebuilt in a manner that provides the US with a competitive advantage and thereby increase the economic health of the US. But, contrary to what is being maintained in the press and by a growing number of experts, the US manufacturing base is not the foundation of America’s economic competitiveness–the exploitation of technology is the foundation of America’s economic competitiveness as well as the foundation of all of our competitors’ economic competitiveness.
To rebuild America’s economic competitiveness, and thereby the country’s economic health, and not just eliminate a weakness or build a limited fleeting competitive advantage in one area, we must out maneuver our competitors in the exploitation of the worldwide technology which is the foundation of all competitive advantage.
The problem is that at the end of World War II, decision-making in the US for the most part, abandoned technology-based planning and adopted economic-based planning. In economic-based planning the foundation of all decision-making is the effective utilization of the funds to accomplish a function where, within a company in most cases, the function is to maximize profits. In other words, the funds are what are being manipulated and the measure of success is how efficiently the funds have been manipulated. Adoption of economic-based planning is the root cause of America’s loss of its manufacturing base.
In contrast, in technology-based planning the foundation of all decision-making is the effective acquisition and utilization of the technology to generate a competitive advantage. It is the technology not the funds that are being manipulated as the foundation of decisions. Keeping in mind that technology is correctly defined as any application of science to accomplish a function.
The problem is that after the US adopted economic-based planning after WWII, the rest of the world continued using and refining technology-based planning. China and India have been using highly refined, very aggressive technology-based planning to rapidly transform their perspective countries into economic superpowers.
Within the US intelligence community under the Reagan administration, I directed a program the Socrates Project, that determined that the underlying cause of America’s declining economic competitiveness was the country’s switch from technology-based planning to economic-based planning. The Socrates Project also developed a highly advanced form of tech-based planning–automated innovation–that would enable the US and all its private and public organizations to consistently out maneuver all competitors worldwide in the …

Modern Technology – Connecting Or Hurting Humanity?

April 15, 2021 Comments Off

Over the past few decades, technology has grown at an exponential rate providing modern society with many of it’s creature comforts. All these gadgets and devices have developed the standard of living for humanity so much that we simply cannot live without them. These gadgets and devices include cell phones, television, the internet, computers, iPhones, iPods, consoles like the Wii and many more. It is possible to live without them however. For all it’s wonders, technology also has a downside, which is that fact that as it progresses; people will become and will continue to turn more lazy.
As mentioned already, modern technology has become ingrained the in fiber of all of human society but it has brought a terrible condition with it. Modern technology can make people lazy, selecting to sit on their butts looking at an electron screen for hours rather than doing something outside or exercising. The internet is a fountain of information but it has become more obvious over the last few years that people tend to go to communities that have similar ideologies and views and avoid those with differing opinions. What is created is homogeneous online communities with no discrepancy and a big subverting of the foundations of democracy.
Traveling by vehicles like cars or buses are a necessity in the modern world, but these habits are what makes the world appear so bone-lazy nowadays. Many people now are too lazy to even commit themselves to taking a walk around the block to your destination. Now a days everyone possesses a car that they can and do take everywhere, even if it’s just a teensy walking distance down the street or around the corner. I am not trying to appear as a luddite as technology has evidently made cars and almost everything in life much safer to be in or around. Car companies love to brag about how their newest vehicle have high crash test ratings, and numerous of air bags which is something to be proud of. So while the new innovations in cars may make people more aloof, cars are essential in life so maybe the innovations in safety are more important then the lazy factor.
One of the great innovations, cell phones have connected humanity closer than ever before. Cellphones have allowed anybody, anywhere to call anyone, anywhere with a touch of a few buttons (assuming the signal is well and you are willing the pay additional fees). Cellphones have however led to the growth of the ‘texting’ culture and it’s execrations of our language and conversation skills but it’s just a small price to pay for the networking of the human race.
Video games have congealed themselves in modern culture as a great outlet for entertainment, learning and refreshment. Despite what you listen from soccer moms about how video games develop kids to become terrorists, video games actually have an result like to those movies you see in theaters. They allow you to become someone else and feel things from a brand new perspective which is great for personal maturation. Video games are also great for social gatherings and encountering people.
Technology is impressive, it has changed humanity for the better and bettered the standards of living for everyone in ways that we couldn’t even believe were possible. Modern technology has some faults but for all the good it has done, it is more than worth it. Tools for social networking, better safety for everything, entertainment and a great deal more, technology is wonderful as long as you maintain a level of self-command.…

History of Flight Similator

April 10, 2021 Comments Off

History of Flight Similator

It was 1982 when Microsoft bought the rights to the IBM version of Flight Simulator SubLOGIC, the mortgage company’s first developer Bruce Artwick, who had created in 1976. That same year, Microsoft launched the title of that after more than two decades has become much more than a game. Even then the flight model could be considered quite realistic and the setting was left much to the imagination, being in monochrome vector graphics.

Version 2.0 (introduced in 1985) added the possibility of using the joystick, and had a wide circulation, being developed for many platforms.

Version 3.0 of 1988 introduced the first multiple windows and 3D effects, making the first version to have some commercial success, but version 4.0 began the trend for the development of additional products by individuals and companies outside Microsoft.

To be able to enjoy a graphically appealing version will have to wait until 1993 with the release of version 5, which united with accurate flight models of some graphic scenes that took care of both the exterior and interior of the cockpits of airplanes, in this version options were introduced as the management of weather or the shadows created by the rising and setting sun. Also introduced in this version is the use of realistic scenarios (although according to parameters different from those present).

From version 5 onwards, the database of airports are adding more and more versions are appropriate to the speed of hardware evolution by introducing more and more airports, navaids, weather can be downloaded online to be able to fly virtually the same with real weather conditions, turning more more than a game into a tool that allows you to learn the basics of flight with functions including teaching. These later versions took the second name given by the operating system (or year) in which they were designed.

To date, the latest version X is published October 13, 2006, where, thanks to artificial intelligence, a new graphic to the skies, the scenery, animals (which move and are new to Flight Simulator) and the thousands of these airports (operated by a realistic ATC), have reached unsurpassed heights of realism. But it requires at least Windows XP, it does not work with Windows 2000 and earlier.

Following the economic crisis in January 2009 during a restructuring of the company’s Aces Studios (responsible for the development of the product) are closed. In 2010 Microsoft announced the arrival of a new flight simulator, inspired by the famous series of Microsoft Flight Simulator and Microsoft Flight called.…

Blu Ray Player Technology

April 6, 2021 Comments Off

The BD-P1600’s connectivity is standard. The main connection is the HDMI output, which is capable of handling 1080p HD video and high-resolution multichannel audio. There’s also a component-video output that can output Blu-ray at 1080i and standard DVDs at 480p. Audio connections are basic, including an optical digital-audio output and an analog-stereo output. There’s also an Ethernet port on the back, plus a USB port that can be used with the Wi-Fi adapter. There’s an additional USB port on the front panel as well.
While we appreciate the fact that the BD-P1600 is Wi-Fi ready, the benefit isn’t that practical. The USB Wi-Fi dongle carries a list price of $80, bringing the overall cost of the BD-P1600 close to the step-up BD-P3600, which includes the Wi-Fi adapter in the box. Considering that the BD-P3600 has additional step-up features–like 7.1 analog outputs, onboard memory, and PC streaming–we’d suggest stepping up to the BD-P3600 if you want Wi-Fi access. Alternatively, you can implement your own solution using a PowerLine network for about $80 as well.
Blu-ray performance Image quality on entry-level Blu-ray players isn’t always up to par, so we were interested in how the BD-P1600 would handle our tests. We started off with Silicon Optix’s HQV test suite, with the BD-P1600 connected to a Sony KDL-52XB7 via HDMI.
The BD-P1600 outperformed our expectations on the test disc. It aced the Video Resolution Test, showing the full detail of Blu-ray without any jaggies showing up on the rotating white line. Next up were two video-based jaggies tests and the BD-P1600 performed well again, with crisp image quality free of jaggies. It passed the Film Resolution Test as well, depicting both the initial test pattern and the long panning shot of Raymond James Stadium without major image defects.
We switched over to actual program material, and the BD-P1600 didn’t let up. We fired up “Mission: Impossible III” and the panning sequence at the beginning of chapter eight looked perfect, lacking any moire visible in the stairs. It also handled Chapter 16 well, with the trimming of the limo looking jaggy-free as it approaches Tom Cruise. Next we looked at “Ghost Rider” and the end of Chapter six was properly rendered, with the BD-P1600 showing no moire in the grille of the RV as the camera pans away. Last up was the video-based “Tony Bennett: An American Classic” and the BD-P1600 did an acceptable job, with only a few jaggies visible in the striped shirts of the dancers. It’s worth pointing out that we got nearly identical performance on all these scenes from the step-up BD-P3600, as well the Panasonic DMP-BD60.
One of the biggest letdowns of Blu-ray compared with DVD so far has been how much slower and less responsive standalone Blu-ray players are at loading and navigating discs. Samsung’s new 2009 players, including the BD-P1600, have made a lot of progress in this regard. For example, the BD-P1600 loaded “Mission: Impossible III” in just 16 seconds, compared with 21 seconds on the Panasonic DMP-BD60. The differences are even greater on discs with elaborate menus; the Samsung loaded “Spiderman 3” in a minute and 3 seconds, compared with a minute and 27 seconds on the DMP-BD60. Beside just disc loading, we found the BD-P1600 to be considerably more responsive than most Blu-ray players–and nearly as speedy as the PS3–although just a tad slower than the step-up BD-P3600. If you like to demo your favorite action scenes for friends, the quick navigation is a blessing.
Standard DVD performance There are still many more movies available on standard DVD than Blu-ray, so standard-def performance still matters. We started off looking at test patterns from Silicon Optix’s HQV test suite, with the BD-P1600 upscaling to 1080p.
The BD-P1600 started off strong, resolving all the detail of the initial resolution pattern without any image instability that we sometimes see on lesser players. Next up were two video-based jaggies tests, and the BD-P1600 stumbled, failing both tests, as jaggies were visible on both the rotating white line and three pivoting lines. On the other hand, it had no problems with the 2:3 pulldown test, as we couldn’t see any moire in the grandstands as the race car drove by.
We moved onto program material, starting with “Star Trek: Insurrection,” and the BD-P1600 deftly handled the introduction, rendering both the hulls of the boats and the curved bridge railings smoothly. We flipped over to the difficult introduction of “Seabiscuit” and the BD-P1600 performed well again, lacking the jaggies and other image distortions that so frequently show up on this disc. That being said, we had the Panasonic DMP-BD60 on hand to directly compare, and we’d give the nod to the Panasonic for DVD playback, as it had a slightly cleaner and sharper look to it.…

Microsoft Professional Services: Guidelines Help Professionals Offer More to Clients

April 3, 2021 Comments Off

Microsoft Professional Services: Guidelines Help Professionals Offer More to Clients

Selecting the right Microsoft technology solutions for a business can be a rigorous task due to the vast array of products the company offers. Professional firms often use infrastructure planning tactics to help an organization choose the most effective solutions to meet defined technology objectives. These services are beneficial to companies lacking expertise in a certain IT area or in situations where a company is working with minimal staff numbers. Most companies choose Microsoft products to create a standardized technology infrastructure. Knowing how these items work together can be very difficult because the selected tools communicate between servers, workstations, and various devices. One wrong choice may cause a business to struggle with failed processing, increased downtime, and data issues. Microsoft professional services can help ensure all components of an infrastructure work harmoniously throughout daily company operations.

IT Professional ServicesFollow Certain Principles When Providing Assistance

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library Service Lifestyle framework is a common tool applied by IT professional services. It is a set of best practices used to appropriately align certain IT needs with the goals specified by a business. This framework provides procedure guidelines for establishing service competency. An organization uses it as a baseline for planning, solution implementation and measuring success. This library actually originated as a series of books designed to cover individual aspects of technology service management. Many factors are part of this framework including strategy, design, transition, operation, and continual improvement tactics. Providers offer the most cost effective solution available for meeting business specifications based upon these set principles.

Business relationship, demand, and service portfolio management are all included in the strategic approach of this framework. Design aspects include ensuring availability of particular components as well as each utilized system. IT resource capacity is best matched to the demands of a business. All provided services are continually monitored based on the set agreement. Recovery aspects ensure the set solution can continue to operate after a catastrophic incident. This portion of design not only applies to how the system will be recovered but also includes measures to reduce the chances of this type of occurrence. The framework is highly detailed, meaning all portions cannot be covered here, but is a vital part of IT professional services because it allows a firm to provide the most optimal solutions to any company through defined strategies.

Software must meet the demands of defined business processes meaning that the rollout of new applications or releases has to be planned. A new install may drastically affect the performance of systems within any IT infrastructure. The above framework recommends pre-planning before installation, along with creating set procedures for this type of infrastructure change. The goal is to protect all live processes being run during an update or change. Minor fixes can be expected any time an application is added with a vast amount of new functionality or when a component upgrade is performed. Firms attempt to make this process efficient in order to prevent any severe down time or process complications. Microsoft professional services use this framework to assist with both the selection and management of applications or tools being implemented by a business.…

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Month: April 2021

Career PC Home-Based Online Certification Training For CompTIA Network Technical Support – Updated

Engaging Today’s Students in Active Learning (Part 4)

Manufacturing Is Not THE Answer to Increasing US Economic Competitiveness for Reducing the US Debt

Modern Technology – Connecting Or Hurting Humanity?

History of Flight Similator

Blu Ray Player Technology

Microsoft Professional Services: Guidelines Help Professionals Offer More to Clients

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