Joe runs a handyman service. he enjoys writing and keeping up on the latest trends. he wants to share this information with his clients. he decides that he would like to create an online community where he can frequently post information. he'd like his readers to be able to add to and comment on his entries. although joe knows his way around the internet, he is not a programmer by any means, so he is looking for a simple solution. in five to ten sentences, describe the points that joe needs to consider when choosing a telecommunications technology to meet his needs.

The “rule of 72” is used to approximate the time required for prices to double due to inflation. if the inflation rate is r%, then the rule of 72 estimates that prices will double in 72/r years. for instance, at an inflation rate of 6%, prices double in about 72/6 or 12 years. write a program to test the accuracy of this rule. for each interest rate from 1% to 20%, the program should display the rounded value of 72/r and the actual number of years required for prices to double at an r% inflation rate. (assume prices increase at the end of each year.)

When making changes to optimize part of a processor, it is often the case that speeding up one type of instruction comes at the cost of slowing down something else. for example, if we put in a complicated fast floating-point unit, that takes space, and something might have to be moved farther away from the middle to accommodate it, adding an extra cycle in delay to reach that unit. the basic amdahl's law equation does not take into account this trade-off. a. if the new fast floating-point unit speeds up floating-point operations by, on average, 2ă—, and floating-point operations take 20% of the original program's execution time, what is the overall speedup (ignoring the penalty to any other instructions)? b. now assume that speeding up the floating-point unit slowed down data cache accesses, resulting in a 1.5ă— slowdown (or 2/3 speedup). data cache accesses consume 10% of the execution time. what is the overall speedup now? c. after implementing the new floating-point operations, what percentage of execution time is spent on floating-point operations? what percentage is spent on data cache accesses?

22. sata3 allows for data transfer rates of 600 mb/s. explain why you would likely not be able to copy data from one hard drive to another at anywhere close to this speed. also, what could be upgraded on the computer to achieve transfer speeds closer to 600 mb/s