Software patents

The issue of software patents is very controversial, since while patents protect the ideas of "inventors", they are widely believed to hinder software development.

4. "Parts of the computer”

Choosing from the words in'the box, write the numbers of the items in the labels.

II display 12 modem

I keyboard 2 monitor 3 disk drive 4 screen 5 printer 6 mouse 7 printout 8 operator 9 disk

10 disk storage box

keyboard fki.tad] клавіатура monitor ['monite] монитор disk drive ['disk'draivj дисковід screen skn:n] екран printer 'pnnta] принтер mouse maus] "мишка

манипулятор) printout ['printout] вивід на

друкарський пристрій operator Г'орвгеїіз] оператор disk [disk] диск disk storage box ^з.ткіз] бокс

для дискет

Display fdis'pleij дисплей modem [mo'dem] модем figure Пир] 'Цифра number [ плтЬэ] номер

to load [loud] завантажувати file [fail] файл chip [tjip] складові схеми RAM Random Access Memory

оперативная память ROM Read Only Memory

память, що зчитується WYSIWYG ['wisiwigj What You See

Is What You Get graphics ['grasfiksj графік bug [bAg] технічний дефект controls [kan'troulz] програми

контролю to scroll [skroul] "прокручувати"

переглядати

to cause \\ai\ спричиняти silicon ['silikanj кремнійto contain [kan'tein] вміщати set [set] набір . ..

integrated circuit ['intigratd sakit]

інтегральна схема _ reduced [r'djust] зменшений to obtain <Wteinj одержувати data pi від datum ['delta] дані software fsoftwea] профамне

забезпечення image fimicia зображення top [top] верхній

«%Fi!l in the words in the sentences. The figures in

^brackets ( ) show the number of tetters in the word,

information chips WYSIWYG control processing

1. RAM graphics systetns load ROM bugs -scroll Problems In programs are caused by .... P.Hff?. .... (4).

2. Silicon . . . * (5) contain a set of integrated

circuits, reduced to a very small size.

3 Obtaining _c (11) is done

by Г (10) data.

4 Software produces Images which can appear on the

screen as (8).

5 Memory that Is permanent, cannot be written to, and

can only be read, Is (3).

6 Memory Into which information can be loaded and from

which data can be read. Is . . (3).

7 Operators (4) Into the computer's

memory a program that they want to use.

8 Analysing ways of doing things, and of improving them,

Is done by (7) analysts.

9 "What you see Is what you get" explains

' (7). 10 A single disk can contain a large number of different '■ .:.:... (5). ¹¹ (8) can carry out instructions or

operations when certain conditions occur.

12 The operators ₍₆₎ ,_{ines of text up the}

screen, so that a new line appears at the bottom and the top line disappears.

Computer mouse

A mouse is a handheld pointing device for computers, involving a small object fitted with one or more buttons and shaped to sit naturally under the hand. The underside of the mouse houses a device that detects the mouse's motion relative to the flat surface on which it sits. The mouse's 2D motion is typically translated into the motion of a cursor on the display.

It is called a mouse primarily because the cord on early models resembled the rodent's tail, and also because the motion of the pointer on the screen can be mouselike. In popular usage, the plural can be either mice or mouses.