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MGIS 301 Class Notes and Miscellaneous Files for DL : FEBRUARY 2008

To print handouts from PowerPoint files: Open the file, from the Menu, choose File, then choose Print. In the print dialog box that appears,
choose handout (6 slides per page) in the print what area. Or you could print the outline view in the print what area.

12^th Feb 2008, Tuesday

Scirus (www.Scrius.com) is the freely available, science-specific search engine provided by Elsevier. Scirus empowers you to get an overview of the universe of scientific material by carefully indexing a combination of scientific journals, theses, dissertations, patents and science-only web pages. Over 450 million science-specific web pages are indexed in Scirus, and of these pages, over 26 million correspond to journal articles. Scirus is indisputably the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Please visit http://www.info.scirus.com/librarypartnersdemo/ to watch a short multimedia presentation explaining Scirus and its benefits.

Chapter 5 [956 KB] :: IT Infrastructure and Emerging Technologies (10^th edition of Laudon & Laudon - MIS: Managing the Digital Firm.)

Chapter 6 [1.19 MB]: IT Infrastructure and Platforms (9^th edition of Laudon & Laudon - MIS: Managing the Digital Firm.)

19^th Feb 2008, Tuesday

	Moores-Law-Picture-1: What happens when Moore's Law fails?, Moore's Law for the number of transistors between 1970 and 2000
	Moores-Law-Picture-2: The Unreasonable Man: November 2004, Moore's Law for the number of transistors between 1970 and 2003
	Moores-Law-Picture-3: Moore's Law, The Future - Technology & Research at Intel, Moore's Law for the number of transistors between 1970 and 2006
	If IT had a constitution, Moore's Law would be one of the most important articles of it. Please open the graph to see the relation of Moore's Law and CPU performance in terms of the # of transistors fit onto the CPUs.

	Moores-Law-Picture-4: Moore's Law undershoots hard disk prices in the USA back in the mid 1980s.
	Moores-Law-Picture-5: A historical witness of Moore's Law in Turkey by the end of 1980s. Once upon a time in the computer marketplace of Ankara.
	Result-of-Wrong-Investment-in-IT-Hardwaree: This is what you would end up with if you invest in the wrong IT technology for your firm.
	Gordon E. Moore's original paper titled "Cramming more components onto integrated circuits" as it had appeared in Electronics, Vol.38, No.8, April 19, 1965.
	The first computer in Turkey... IBM-650 Data Processing Machine... It was put in service back in 1960 at the General Directorate of Highways of Turkey, and was used there for 12 years... (Courtesy of Gökhan Isparta)

Retail Prices of Contemporary External Storage Media and Devices (by Gökçe Yıldırım in Spring 2003)

DRIVE

DISK

CD-R

$16 - 253

¢19 - ¢79

CD-RW

$55.99 - 105.99

¢95 - $1.95

DVD-R

$35 - 223

¢75 - $1.39

DVD-RW

$200 - 299

$1.39 - $1.80

DVD-ROM/CD-RW COMBO DRIVES

$59 - 381

IOMEGA ZIP DRIVES (100 MB) $ 39 - 77 ~ $10

IOMEGA ZIP DRIVES (250 MB) $ 94 - 165 ~ $12 - 15

IOMEGA ZIP DRIVES (750 MB) $ 110 - 200 ~ $15 - 20

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14^th Feb 2008, Thursday

Lycos, Inc. against Lycos Ltd. [300 KB]: Dispute over a ccTLD and the fight between an American Internet giant and a Turkish organic tea company. (Courtesy of Efe Tunalıoğlu)

6^th Feb 2008, Thursday

Prices and service levels of various hosting plans from four full web service providers in October 2007 (Courtesy of Mustafa Can Gürsoy)

Hosting Plans of MeridyenHosting.com :: Spring 2007

15^th Feb 2007, Thursday

Pricing of ccTLDs in Turkey (Courtesy of Serdar Şen) :: Fall 2006

	Probably the longest TLD name in the world is this (we Young Turks did it again!) http://www.aloiyigunlerbenvahitoglumubulupgetirenetam100binlira.com/ (Courtesy of Izzet Safer* in Fall 2004)*
	Notice the gTLD of the base corporate portal website address of TAV Tepe Akfen Group :: http://www.tav.aero/

A new TLD ".int" is becoming more popular among international organizations. These are some examples of the well-known international organizations:

http://www.interpol.int :: Interpol official site - International Criminal Police Organization

http://www.itu.int :: International Telecommunication Union

http://www.nato.int :: NATO Official Homepage

http://www.coe.int :: Council of Europe

http://www.wmo.int :: World Meteorological Organization

27^thFeb 2007, Tuesday



       Featured Research

A year ago, in December 2003, LearnE-Commerce website showed a must-read study for lovers of factoids and strange and wonderful findings. Professors Peter Lyman and Hal R. Varian (UC Berkeley) took on the mind boggling task of determining how much information there is in the world! Read the complete story here. For a comprehensive executive summary of this study visit its webpage at the University of California and see how many bytes / kilobytes / megabytes / gigabytes / terabytes / petabytes / exabytes of informations is out there!
(URL: http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/execsum.htm)

Your instructor's entire (animated / nonanimated) image and icon collection (RAR file) :: Version Fall 2007.

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