Serial Numbers And Bar Codes On USB Flash Drives

Typically, when it comes to USB flash drives, companies imprint or engraves them for promotional purposes, to endorse their business and increase their customers’ awareness or loyalty or even both. Also more and more companies use the preloaded digital data services as it is a convenient and cost friendly method to present their new products, services, prices or other promotional materials. This method of promoting is not new, but it still grows in popularity, as millions of branded USB flash drives are used as giveaways every year. Also, memory drives have become the default way to store, save or carry digital data for most of the market segments, from education or work to the regular home use. But all this popularity has a cost. It creates new opportunities, but it also creates new challenges.

Computing

Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computers. For example, computing includes designing, developing and building hardware and software systems; processing, structuring, and managing various kinds of information; doing scientific research on and with computers; making computer systems behave intelligently; and creating and using communications and entertainment media. Sub-disciplines of computing include computer engineering, software engineering, computer science, information systems, and information technology.

Computer software and hardware

Computer software or just "software", is a collection of computer programs and related data that provides the instructions for telling acomputer what to do and how to do it. Software refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of the computer for some purposes. In other words, software is a set of programs, procedures, algorithms and its documentation concerned with the operation of a data processing system. Program software performs the function of the program it implements, either by directly providinginstructions to the computer hardware or by serving as input to another piece of software. The term was coined to contrast with the old term hardware (meaning physical devices). In contrast to hardware, software "cannot be touched".^[4] Software is also sometimes used in a more narrow sense, meaning application software only.

Application software

Application software, also known as an "application" or an "app", is computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks. Examples include enterprise software, accounting software, office suites, graphics software and media players. Many application programs deal principally with documents. Apps may be bundled with the computer and its system software, or may be published separately. Some users are satisfied with the bundled apps and need never install one.

Application software is contrasted with system software and middleware, which manage and integrate a computer's capabilities, but typically do not directly apply them in the performance of tasks that benefit the user. The system software serves the application, which in turn serves the user.^[5]

Application software applies the power of a particular computing platform or system software to a particular purpose. Some apps such as Microsoft Office are available in versions for several different platforms; others have narrower requirements and are thus called, for example, a Geography application for Windows or an Android application for education or Linux gaming. Sometimes a new and popular application arises that only runs on one platform, increasing the desirability of that platform. This is called a killer application.

System software

System software, or systems software, is computer software designed to operate and control the computer hardware and to provide a platform for running application software. System software includes operating systems, utility software, device drivers, window systems, and firmware. Frequently development tools such as compilers, linkers, and debuggers are classified as system software.

Computer network

A computer network, often simply referred to as a network, is a collection of hardware components and computers interconnected by communication channels that allow sharing of resources and information.^[6] Where at least one process in one device is able to send/receive data to/from at least one process residing in a remote device, then the two devices are said to be in a network.

Networks may be classified according to a wide variety of characteristics such as the medium used to transport the data,communications protocol used, scale, topology, and organizational scope.

Communications protocols define the rules and data formats for exchanging information in a computer network, and provide the basis fornetwork programming. Well-known communications protocols are Ethernet, a hardware and Link Layer standard that is ubiquitous inlocal area networks, and the Internet Protocol Suite, which defines a set of protocols for internetworking, i.e. for data communication between multiple networks, as well as host-to-host data transfer, and application-specific data transmission formats.

Computer networking is sometimes considered a sub-discipline of electrical engineering, telecommunications, computer science,information technology or computer engineering, since it relies upon the theoretical and practical application of these disciplines.

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support email.

Computer user

A user is an agent, either a human agent (end-user) or software agent, who uses a computer or network service. A user often has a user account and is identified by a username (also user name), screen name (also screenname), nickname (also nick), or handle, which derives from the identical Citizen's Band radio term.

In hacker-related terminology, users are divided into "lusers" and "power users"^{[citation needed]}.

In projects where the system actor is another system or a software agent, there may be no end-user. In that case, the end-users for the system is indirect end-users.

End-user

The term end-user refers to the ultimate operator of a piece of software, but it is also a concept in software engineering, referring to anabstraction of that group of end-users of computers (i.e. the expected user or target-user). The term is used to distinguish those who only operate the software from the developer of the system, who knows a programming language and uses it to create new functions for end-users.

Has Technology Simplified Modern Life?

Our world today is changing fast due to the introduction and upgrading of technology. Most people say technology has brought positive results because of the improving social well being in our societies, whereas there are skeptics about that. Nevertheless if there was no technology you wouldn’t have been able to read this document.

Technology has enhanced modern life in many ways two of them being communication and transportation. Before the invention of telegram and telephones, moving information from one place to another for long distances was quite challenging and unmanageable. If we look at it today, information can be conveyed from one end to another swiftly within an instant. The global news networks have helped people all over the world through informing them. For instance, news can be presented on what is happening on the other side of the world instantly, weather forecast and natural disasters are foretold before they occur.

Transportation means have improved significantly. Goods and people can be transported from one destination to another reliably and efficiently resulting in building up of the economy and social well being of a country. Technology has cut distance between people and brought the world together making our lives quite easy and convenient.

Medical institutions have improved in terms of examinations, treatments, and researches all over the world, leading in improvements in life expectancy and mortality rates of many countries. Treatments for many diseases which are too many to outline, are being discovered. Furthermore, preventive treatments are improving for previously deadly diseases like HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and cancer. The introduction of new technology as well as upgrading of medical equipment has reduced the spread of these infectious diseases.                                                                                                                                                           

Due to new medical technology, the majority of the people in the world now have better knowledge of some of the world’s common killer diseases.

Technology has simplified our lives but in some ways it has also brought up some negative impacts. Although technology has improved medical treatment, it has brought danger to people’s lives. For example the creation of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s) which are claimed to have contributed to the development of some cancerous infections. Technology also has harmed the environment in many ways. . Oils and fumes from vehicles and factories has caused air and water pollution causing the destruction of plants and animal life. Most people do not know that chemicals used in refrigerators contain fluorocarbons that contribute to global warming. 

School children these days are spending more time on media than on their academic work or talking to their siblings or parents. David Volpi an Otolaryngology surgeon said ‘’heavy technology use is linked to fatigue, stress and depression in young adults’’ Although he does not explain how but I would like to believe it istrue. Technology has improved the search of information; students now just go online rather than physically going to the field or library.                                                                                                                                                        

Most things are now being done through the internet; that is shopping, school work, banking and work assignments. Because people do not move their bodies due to technology, it is literally killing our social behavior.

Some people have become overly dependent on technology as a result making them lazy and ignorant of other aspects of life. Technology has simplified our lives but we should use it wisely knowing what can occur in the future as a result of its use. Has technology simplified our lives or it has destroyed it?  It’s now up to you to decide. But I urge you to think twice before you use it.

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