Lecture 6 Ch 5

Question 0

What enables users to complete common tasks

Answer 0

General– purpose applications

Question 1

What is any program that gives you the ability to complete work on the computer

Answer 1

Application software

Question 2

What does not delete information needed to reproduce the image without flaws

Answer 2

Lossless compression

Question 3

What removes some information, but the loss is typically not noticeable

Answer 3

Lossy compression

Question 4

Microsoft – created specification for packaging audio and video data into a file

Answer 4

Audio video Interleave (AVI)

Question 5

What is made up of tiny dots known as pixels

Answer 5

Bitmapped images (Raster graphics)

Question 6

What are the standard paint program file formats

Answer 6

Graphics interchange format (G I F). Joint photography experts group (JPEG). Portable network graphics (PNG). Windows bitmap (CMT). Tag image file format (TIFF).

Question 7

About computer games

Answer 7

Total sales up to $68.4 billion by 2012. Started in the 1970s. Multiplayer online gaming players interact with characters controlled by other people – MUDs (multiuser dungeons or dimensions) -gMUDs(Graphical MUDs) -MMORPGs(massively multiplayer online role-playing games)

Question 8

Gaming trends

Answer 8

Gamers spend an average of 18 hours per week playing games, two of every five gamers are female, members of 65% of US households play video games, age of average gamer is 32