OUTRAGEOUS techer accused me of plagarism

[mousiness]

Guys my teacher was 100 percent sure i copied this from the internet and handed it in to her... she gave me a 94 percent but i did this all myself and my dads calling the school today, it isnt the best project but do you guys think i wrote this? its pretty basic stuff to understand and doesnt show all of my knowledge on computers... quite lame how the teacher thinks im dumb :S many errors about parts but who cares not like the teacher knows

Computers
A Report By ME






Monday, December 11th 2006
For Mrs.Person who accused me






Class SNC1DR
Introduction

Hello ladies and gentlemen, my name is ME and while reading this I hope to teach you a lot about computers that you didn’t know before, that is if you aren’t a computer nerd like I am. I also hope to find out what kind of money it takes to run a PC like mine over the course of a year.

First Computers

The definition of the word “computer” is a machine for manipulating data according to a list of instruction or a program, so really us humans are the first computers ever created, but speaking about modern day digital computers the first computer ever made that we have records of is the CER-10, it is the earliest of digital computers ever built, it’s design was based on transistors and vacuum tubes.It was developed over 3 years by 10 technicians, 10 engineers and many other people. The first ever non-prototype model was released in 1963.

But the first mass produced and mass sold PC to the consumer was the IBM model 5100 PC, introduced in 1975 it was the most technologically advanced electronic that was mass produced and sold to the public at the time; the prices are as follows…
RAM BASIC APL Both
16K $8,975 $9,975 $10,975
32K $11,975 $12,975 $13,975
48K $14,975 $15,975 $16,975
64K $17,975 $18,975 $19,975
Computers Nowadays

Modern day computers of this day and age are quite complex compared to other computers even a few months ago, computer technology is so rapidly changing that it is almost impossible to have “the best” computer out there. They say that if you buy a computer at the top of a year in about 3 months the technology will be far outdated.

Average pricing for computers now can be from $499 from low-cost manufacturers like Dell or Acer with or without monitors depending on the package, to a midrange of about $699-$999 from everyday regular manufacturers and for top-of-the line computers the price could go up to tens of thousands of dollars on fully upgraded Apple PC’s. To get the best for anyones money on a computer it is recommended to custom build it yourself, that is if you have the proper knowledge of course.

Parts Of A Computer

There are many parts which create a computer, the main parts of a computer are quite simple to recognize and identify so I will point out the main parts that will make a PC do what it does best… To start you off I have put a basic diagram of the main parts of an average computer, to fully understand the parts you should read the parts descriptions written after the diagram.


Computer Diagram



The CPU (Processor) controls the messages being sent to and from the computer via any peripheral device like a mouse, keyboard, USB portable drive, iPod etc. and tells the rest of the parts of the computer what to do like when to use more power from the video card for games or using more speed when downloading items. The CPU a computer has is based on what socket the compatible motherboard has in it, for the new Intel processors the motherboard uses LGA775 (775 pins on the socket) connection for the CPU, for the new AMD AM2 line of processors the socket is S940 (940 pins on the socket), there are other CPU manufactures but these 2 manufacturers are the leaders in the technology.

The graphics card ( or video card ) controls the quality of the items you see on your monitor, the better the quality of the video card the nicer the view you see on your display whatever it may be. The kind of graphics card a person may use depends on the kind of PC the consumer has purchased and/or needs for his/her use. The newest graphics connection is PCI-Express which offers enough bandwidth and transfer speed for a high-performance graphics card to be able to process beautiful displays.

The RAM (random access memory) is memory allows random data to be saved quickly and/or deleted quickly at random, unlike what the hard drive does. RAM comes in many different varieties but the main ones used now are DDR and DDR2 which each offer different amounts of bandwidth for a PC to run with.

The HDD (hard disk drive or hard drive for short) is the main part of where vital memory is saved on your computer. Some of these saved items are the settings of your PC, video games, videos, music, word files etc. Anything you save on your computer is stored on the HDD. Again as with many parts of a computer, different kinds of HDDs inside a PC are based upon what kind of connection there is on the motherboard, the newest connection is SATA (Serial ATA) which provides a faster speed for data to be transferred throughout a computer.

The optical drive or a CD drive to common folk, reads and/or creates CD’s, DVD’s that you put into the drive. They have massive storage capacities for the biggest of your files and now the new Blu-Ray disks have even more room for high definition applications. There are few connections for optical drives, some of them include IDE and SATA for maximum speed transfer.

Although floppy disk drives (FDD) are currently being phased out right now, they used to be highly used in the 1980’s to store information before CD’s and DVD’s and now even Blu-Ray disks were created. They have very little capacity but served well during their time. They use very old built-in connections to connect to the motherboard called FDE slots which are very fragile and are damaged easily. This is why this drive is not included in my diagram. But if it was, it would be situated in the optical drive cage.

The PSU (power supply) is perhaps one of the least known parts of a computer that is vital for a PC to run. It converts the power from the 120V socket that the PC is connected to into whatever capacity the power supply can handle (ranging from 200Watts up to 1000Watts for modern day computers) then turns it into electrical energy and pulses of energy to power up the components of a computer.

The motherboard, is the base of every computer, it has connections for the CPU (processor socket), sockets for video cards, sound cards, hard drives, optical drives etc. Just think, anything you connect to the PC externally and any component that is inside a computer is in one way or another connected to the motherboard.

There are many more smaller permanently connected parts inside the computer such as the chipset, resistors, capacitors, MOSFETs and many more pieces that control the messages sent around the computer, there are too many to list so I listed the parts of a computer any average consumer would ever need to know about to purchase or upgrade a computer.

All-in-all, these parts work together sending messages and commands to each other to make the computer do what it does for a person who is using it.

Conclusion
Voltage and wattage varies from PC to PC depending on the components in it. Here is a rough estimate of how much it would cost to run an above average PC like mine for 24 hours a day 7 days a week for a whole year considering the CPU voltage being at 1.4V in and out and considering an overall system wattage being at 300W.

Equation
300W = 0.3k W/h
Ontario electricity cost is $0.1001 kW/h
So in 24 hours the cost of a 300W PSU computer is… $0.1001 x 24 = $2.4024
In 365 days the cost of a 300W PSU computer is… $2.4024 x 365 = $876.76 if the computer is running 24 hours a day for 365 days a year.




Bibiliography
Definition Of What A Computer Is in the Introduction section taken from a Dorling Kinderseley dictionary.
Parts of a Computer section of the essay is all by my own personal knowledge about computers which I have learned over my 10 years loving PC’s.
Computers Nowadays section are based on current prices of computers at local electronics stores (prices are constantly changing in the world of technology therefore making it impossible to give exact numbers).
First Computers section is based on the true facts about the two PC’s in the following web pages…
http://www.blinkenlights.com/pc.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CER-10
Equation Section Ontario electricity cost per kW/h taken from… http://oee.nrcan.gc.ca/equipment/english/page26.cfm?attr=4
Computer case diagram by me based on the average consumer’s PC.

[Schwarz]

Man I hated school.
And if my teacher would ever attempt to do something like yours is doing I would go as far as get her to apalogise in front of everyone.
The principal would be advised and my parents would have gotten involved 100%.
A complaint would be droped at the minister of education (here in quebec thats how we call it) if she would not apologise.
My parents would have brought her to court for whatever reason if she did not apologise for troubling the education of a child.
I'm half american and my teacher would know that, so if my essays were writen in french and I would get this kind of commentary they probably would have played it on racism.(i'm exagerating about the court thing but my parents were overly protective :) )
Anyways these kind of person should not even LIVE.
They are a big problem of our society, (they don't know ****)
The school system was good back in the 70's but we are in 2007 soon and this kind of system is not appropriate for today.
You should confront her with your parents.
Kids nowadays know so much more then us.
Man when I was the age of my girlfriend's 7 year old brother I was playing Nintendo.
Now he's playing the Gamecube wich is far more complexe then in my time and still beats me at Mario Kart (argh)
Don't let yourself down man, laugh at it.
Tell yourself and your friends that your teacher is a retarted F*^* that don't know jack about whats going on.
The only good thing she can do in life is write and thats where it stops.
Useless piece of garbage.
I'm sorry but i'm really outraged.

[mousiness]

my dad is going to talk with the principal ( dont bash me for complaining about a 94 im not ) i want recognition that i know better than the other kids, the teachers are so biasedly opinionated on me its crazy, all ym teachers say the same thing and ive been doing this well for a long time for once that i need my education the most its being under scrutiny, the reason she doesnt believe i wrote it is because im "stupid" (actual quote) and dont talk like that in class or with my friends

[werty316]

Looks like she was discriminating you based on your age and knowledge of said topic.

She probably thought a 14 year kid couldn't manage to write such a paper with this much detail.

[mousiness]

its such basic stuff though, she thinks the fancy LGA775 and S940 are complicated... and she said a 14 year old like me doesnt know what a peripheral device is..:jawdrop:

[werty316]

Its probably not that you don't know what you are talking about, its the fact that she is probably basic ;)

Just tell say: "STFU" but don't say what it actually means :dielaffin:

[mousiness]

shell probably say i plagarised that too!!!!:devildance: :whistler: anyways im over it but if this happens again im gonna be pissed

[DragonMaster]

she thinks the fancy LGA775 and S940 are complicated... and she said a 14 year old like me doesnt know what a peripheral device is.She didn't use those tools to look if you copied the text from somewhere else.

What happens is that a lot of people that don't understand computers think that you need to have studied on this topic for years to understand them, that's why they call computer technicians to install Windows, and would never let someone of our age touch their computer. The thing is that a lot of people will never be able to understand keyboard shortcuts and right-clicks, while you are actually able to build a computer.

[Tyron]

I had the same thing happen to me when I was in high school. Wrote a short story and the teacher accused me of copying it. He had me write another similar in style so he could compare them. I was pissed but I did it. He finally admitted I probably wrote it and gave me a 78%. I looked at the 78, looked him, looked at the 78, then said, just how f*&$ing stupid do you think I am that I can't write a story with a 78% grade? Guy blew his stack and sent me to the principal. We both gave our stories on what happpened and I ended up getting suspended for 1 day instead of 3 and got transferred out of his class. Put me off school from then on.

[borschtBomber[SS]]

I have to say that is just blatantly wrong to accuse someone of plagarism without any proof. That really burns me up that a teacher would do something like that. Funny how now that I have become a parent education is sort of a sticking point with me.

[XJnine]

Is no one else here shocked to see it costs ~$875 a year to run his computer! I have at least 8 of them running in my house right now. Hmm, I might look into getting these things to go into standby.

[Schwarz]

You know what you should do.
Bring your father and your computer to school.
Sit down with that stupid &*(^(*&^ teacher and open it up and show it to her.
Then after your little presentation tell her, now you see if you don't know anything about computers and such it is not your problem.
And that if she needs help with computers you can give her a little easy course for 50 bucks an hour.
DISS her as much as you can, make her look stupid cause she is, but always stay polite.
She really deserves to get HIT by a car.
I know i'm a little aggresive but it really sadens me that teachers nowadays are only there for their paychecks.(In general I cannot generalise)
They don't realise that they can mess up a kid beyond repair.
You have to encourage children not put them down like so many have fun doing.
Its like it doesn't work at home so they have to make the kids pay for it.

We are in this era and nowadays you have 14 year olds creating virus and hacking other peep's computers.
Don't worry man its not your fault if your teacher is a retard keep your head up.
A lot of times teachers will be jealous because kids now know so much more.
I learned everything I know off the internet.
Of course I did get the basic at school but they didn't teach me crap, do it for your diploma since you need to get a job later on.

Point made, your teacher is a stupid (*&(&.

[mousiness]

i actually told her that i would bring in a pc and she would ask me any question and i could answer it in detail that would be suitable for her small brain, she plainly said no, i wonder why. my mom wrote a note and my dad talked with the principal, im not sure of the outcome but it better be a good one, seriously, someone has to write about how a computer works and if everyone blamed eachother for plagarism then who actually wrote the definitions we know of nowadays?!?!? no more respect for her :icon_tiphat:

EDIT: and yes teachers nowadays always say, i dont get payed enough! ill only teach you for the money they pay me! how lame, teaching is about understanding and learning things before actually teaching it, teachers nowadays just take the examples right out of the book and teach nothing, lucky for me my dad is an electrical engineer professor at university of ottawa and he teaches me better than all my teachers with all the subjects combined!! it bugs me teachers dont care about teaching anymore...


i went up to her in class and told her how i felt and she just said, well its not the way you talk and you act like this in class, you copied this, pure jealousy and prejudgement, teahcers are full of sh!t in my classes and they pick favourites, really lame and abnoxious, the fact about 14 year olds hacking pcs and creating viruses is very true also, i should give it a go and find out her adress then her IP and well see whats up.

yes xjnine i was amazed when i saw the money it costs to run a pc also... you could buy a whole other pc! but this is ofcourse if your pc is running every second of every day for 365 days :P

oh and about the technician thing, my friend got the MSN virus cuz hes not the brightest of people and sent it out to a technician for $200 to install XP over again when all he could have done was booted into safe mode and system restored to an earlier date...

[DragonMaster]

and yes teachers nowadays always say, i dont get payed enough!Here it's not the same thing, they say they like to teach no matter how much they're paid. I've only got two harder to follow teachers, but that's because one of them started to teach recently and both don't come from here, so they don't talk and write French clearly. They all want to do as much as they can to help us tho.


Most people never saw how the inside of their PC is made, for them it can't be upgraded, they probably believe it's like any other electronics, one single PCB where everything is soldered and can't be upgraded easily, while the computer is completely modular. She might think writing a text on the VCR is the same thing as what you did.

[mousiness]

and thats how it should be, about loving to teach or in general loving your job whatever it may be, not the pay even though its ncie to have lots of money, your future depends on the education of the kids youre teaching.. quite lame how even adult teachers dont know this:frown: :ahhhhh:

[Xero (1)ne]

small town <3

im known around school for my compy skillz, and my teachers all know it too
but this is mainly because i like in a town of ~2300 people

i like most if not all of my teachers, i like my school but yes there are stupid teachers and stupid people out there in general. there will never be a way to get rid of them so we might as well move somewhere else to start our own colony....we could start in antartica where it would keep our pc's cool:lol:

also, does anyone's teachers have a problem with wikipedia? i dont understand how its not accurate informatino if you need citations for it....

[Null]

Is no one else here shocked to see it costs ~$875 a year to run his computer! I have at least 8 of them running in my house right now. Hmm, I might look into getting these things to go into standby.

My slide ruler is shocked. It's fuzzy math.

[GIBSON]

also, does anyone's teachers have a problem with wikipedia? i dont understand how its not accurate informatino if you need citations for it....

Many people don't trust Wikipedia as anyone with a computer can put something on there. These days however wikipedia is so regulated by the community that the number of mistakes is very low. However some people are still thinking about wikipedia as something that has just started out and thus think it's still full of mistakes.

[Schwarz]

Usualy a teacher will like it if you take your information in a book dated from 1985...

[mousiness]

usually a teacher likes it if the information is exactly copied from a book or internet with a direct link in the bibiliography section... ;)

[DragonMaster]

also, does anyone's teachers have a problem with wikipedia? i dont understand how its not accurate informatino if you need citations for it....
Here they actually recommend you to look there.

[mousiness]

here half recommend it the other half whom of which i agree with are against it

[Schwarz]

You know whats funny.
You make a cheap website that looks real write a few things here and there about whatever and link your teachers there.
Anyways I know it used to work when I was in highschool...
Nowadays they are probably more cautious now.

[pc_man_iac]

ON the wikipedia thing, about 14% of the reports are completely wrong, but that is much better than the Encylopedia Britannica @ 24% wrong, so take your pick....

[mousiness]

here is the actual project page that she wrote that the whole section including the very basic diagram of an average pc is... (the section is about 5 pages long explaining what the main components of a pc do (again, very basic

[Schwarz]

What a *(&*& whore.
I'm sorry for the language but she is quite a *****.
I would spit in her face "you don't deserve my respect you piece of crap teacher"

I really understand where you are coming from I was too being picked on by some
stupid whore teacher that needed sex back in school.

Of course I wasn't an angel but still...

[mousiness]

some teachers still dont get it that kids are smart... and this is a very basic report too which is what aggravates me a lot :naughty: