Activity 5 : Discussion

1. Which would you rather have a handheld computer or a tablet computer? Why?

I would rather have the handheld computer (Laptop) rather than a table because, first of all the laptop most of the times have better specs than that of a tablet. Tablet is designed for most of the common people that enjoy some of its nifty features. However with a laptop, since imp a hardcore gamer and an aspiring model designer, I can do almost everything I want. The tablets limited options of software are what make it difficult for me to enjoy it so I’ll stick with quality rather than portability.

2. If cost were not an issue, describe the characteristics of your ideal computer. What would you use it for? Which operating system would you want it to run?

I would DEFINITELY go for high end spec computer, but since I’m not really that picky, here would be the specs for my ideal computer as of now:

Processor

I5 4500 3.60 GHz

Memory

Video Card - 4 GB

Ram - 8 GB

HDD - 1 TB

With these, I already achieved 3 of the most important things I need. Speed, Power and Storage.

The rest doesn't even matter to me as long everything mentioned above are met or better if they go beyond. For now i would go for windows 7 OS since the windows 8 is still quite buggy due to possibly hurried development and takes up more ram than 7 does. The first thing I would use it for is, of course, GAMES! And the second would be to learn designing. It’s just that really, but nothing less than that.

3. Define Software as a Service. Discuss some of the pros and cons of using software as a service.

Software is one of the most common services in the world; some countries even depend solely on software to strive like Japan for instance. There are a lot of pros and cons to having software’s as services. One of the pros is that the work speed is increased dramatically since computers are able to do computations far beyond normal human capabilities. Another is that software is most likely to be less faulty and naturally, manpower required is set to a minimum. However there are also the obvious disadvantages. First of all software is more vulnerable on attackers, there’s also the fact that relying on software’s all the time may reduce or degrade natural human abilities. And this may also be a double-edge sword with the economy, the systems are a lot faster and need little to no man power at all, then most people would have no more jobs. That’s just an example of the pros and cons but I’m pretty sure there’s a lot more.

4. Why is an organization that employs centralized processing likely to have a different management decision-making philosophy than an organization that employs distributed processing?

A centralized process is and a distributed process is different in more than one ways. First of all this affects the process of transactions itself so it may have a difference with each other. One isn’t particularly better than the other since its just based on the scale of the company's transactions and since of course it involves the transactions of the company, naturally it would result in a difference in decision making philosophy where some process are present or not in the other.

5. Social networks are being widely used today. Describe how this technology could be used in a business setting. Are there any drawbacks or limitations to using social networks in a business setting?

Social networks are widely used by everyone nowadays. It’s easy to know about the latest news and updates to almost everything you need to know. Using this technology can lead to several advantages of a company and here is the reason why.

First of all a social network naturally has a steady amount of audience. With this the advantage of market advertising is the most common way to gain in a social network. After all, this is a place where people gather thoughts, actions, products, stories etc. A social network can be a great companion for your company if you ever have one. With one, you can always invite your costumers to just go in this website and visit the company’s profile then increasing the popularity of the shop.

After gaining more popularity then your profile may now be a vessel for other companies and ask you for advertisement and even partnerships. That is one way of exploiting social networks on the business perspective.

6. One of the key issues associated with the development of a Web site is getting people to visit it. If you were developing a Web site, how would you inform others about it and make it interesting enough that they would return and tell others about it?

The natural way to inform is of course through advertising, though it could cost a lot of money but I’m pretty sure that you would gain back the loss ones your web site grows popular. Other is by inviting some companies to do partnership with yours with advertising. You could also make a website or a blog to introduce it or you could simply invite who you know and make them spread the news.