Greetings all, and welcome to post #2 of "A Mouse In Every Hand"! Thank you to those who are supporting this site by visiting the advertisers posted around this blog!! I really appreciate it, and it's helping the Bible College fund!! Amen!
So we now know what a computer is, and we can begin to examine the other components attached to your computer. Starting with the monitor....
We measure monitors diagonally, i.e. the size of an approximately rectangular display is usually given as the distance between two opposite screen corners, that is, the diagonal of the rectangle. One problem with this method is that it does take into account the fact that when a rectangle with a given length to its diagonal, becomes more rectangular, and less square (its aspect ratio increases), and at the same time its diagonal remains the same, then the area of the rectangle decreases. Most DVD movies today will say the aspect ratio on the back of the box. We also call different aspect ratios "widescreen", or "letterbox", because it displays a picture similar to an envelope you send mail in.
I don't know what kind of system you're using, and more specifically, what type of monitor you're staring at as you read this, but computer monitors have changed drastically over the years. The used to be HUGE, CRT monitors. CRT stands for "Cathode Ray Tube".
The cathode ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube containing an electron gun (a source of electrons) and a fluorescent screen, with internal or external means to accelerate and deflect the electron beam, used to create images in the form of light emitted from the fluorescent screen. The image may represent electrical waveforms (oscilloscope), pictures (television, computer monitor), radar targets and others. The CRT uses an evacuated glass envelope which is large, deep, heavy, and relatively fragile. Thankfully, we don't see many of these anymore.
Most of you are probably using a much thinner display, called a "flat-screen".
These newer, flat-screen monitors are usually either LCD, Plasma, (or they now even come in LED, which are very bright and vivid, although because they are so new, they are still quite expensive.) LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) and Plasma are much lighter, thinner, and are capable of hi-def (high definition) viewing, which, for those of you who have a hi-def tv know, is pretty awesome when watching movies. I have included the link for LCD monitors here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCD_monitor
...and the one for plasma here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_display
There are some great definitions for those type of monitors there, and not wanting to bore some people I decided to post the links so if you are interested in learning more about them you may.
So we can see that monitors have evolved over the years, and I expect even more changes as time passes, resulting in greater viewing pleasure and ease of use and functionality as well.
I thank God, that I was born in a time of such great technology as this. I don't think that the next generation will be as appreciative as us because they will have grown up with this type of technology from birth. I remember when TV shows were strictly in black and white. It was a little before my time, but only about 10 or 15 years before I was born.
So I am grateful to my Lord Jesus Christ, because I am very appreciative that I was born to see all this. I very much enjoy computers, gadgets, technology as a whole. Like anything else in creation, it can be used for good or for evil. I choose to use it for good.
And speaking of choosing, I am eternally grateful that God chose me to be His child. No where in Scripture do we see man exercising his "free will" towards God in salvation. I do not see where people that believe that they "made a decision to follow Christ", can back up that claim scripturally. I welcome all comments on this topic.
May the Lord bless all who read this, and thank you for your support.
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