Computer Science: An Overview (12th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780133760064
Author: Glenn Brookshear, Dennis Brylow
Publisher: PEARSON
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The benefits of using technologies versus time required to buy technologies and to maintain it:
- According to the question, the speech given by the Henry David Thoreau in Walden in which he argues that the people have become tool of their tools because people are spending their time in obtaining and maintaining their tools instead of benefiting from tools.
- It is true to a very small extent because sometimes people are engaged in the earning money to buy personal computer or mobile devices and then learning how to use the
operating system . - A person has to download the updates to upgrade the software, so that he is able to minimize the bugs and is able to increase the effectiveness of the system...
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