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Windows 95 Beats Mac
Number of Words: 411 / Number of Pages: 2
... ubt the difference
shows in teh flexibility of the two systems.
Another set of arguments Mac users use in favor of their sysstems over
PCs is in multimedia and networking capabilities. Mac users gloat that the
Mac has networking technology built in the system. Even if a user did not
use it, the network is included with the system. They cited that for the PC
users and Pc users hate the fact that they need to stick a card in their
computers to communicate with any other computer. With Windows 95, the Mac
network gloaters are silenced. Windows 95 included built-in network support.
Any network w ...
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William Gibson And The Internet
Number of Words: 5165 / Number of Pages: 19
... is thus viewed from the persceptive
of a future that is visible from within the experiences and trends of the
current moment, from this perpscetive, cyberpunk can be read as a sort of social
theory.
Chapter 1
Internet history
The Internet is a network of computer networks, the most important of
which was called ARPANET(Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork), a wide area
experimental network connecting hosts and terminal servers together. Rules were
set up to supervise the allocation of addresses and to create voluntary
standards for the network. The ARPANET was built between October and Dec ...
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How Cell Phones Work
Number of Words: 999 / Number of Pages: 4
... transmit perhaps a mile. A CB radio, because it has much higher power, can transmit perhaps 5 miles. Someone using a cell phone, on the other hand, can drive clear across a city and maintain a conversation the entire time. Cells are what give a cell phone its incredible
range (Anonymous #2).
The genius of the cellular system is the realization that a city can be chopped up into small cells, and that the cells allow extensive frequency reuse across a city. Frequency reuse is what lets millions of people own cell phones without problems. It works because the carrier chops up an area to about 10 square ...
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Computers: Nonverbal Communications
Number of Words: 4524 / Number of Pages: 17
... that define and constrain how users can interact with them,"
(Holmes & Dishman, 1994, p. 6). Having been created in their most rudimentary
form nearly two decades ago, the technology that supports MUD interaction is
well developed and has spawned a new variety of communicative environment, one
that thousands if not millions of users have found fiercely compelling.
Since MUDs are generally restricted to text-based interaction (some support ANSI
codes, and the graphical MUDs are gaining popularity), one might expect that the
interactions therein are characterized by a lack of regulating feedback,
drama ...
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The Internet
Number of Words: 1440 / Number of Pages: 6
... find information easier moving threw document to document. Why do I need to know this? Well now that I got threw all the techno-babble, let's get down to it. If you know how to utilize the Net, in just five minutes you could trade information and comments with millions of people all over the world, get a fast answer to any question imaginable on a scientific, computing, technical, business, investment, or any other subject. You could join over 11,000 electronic conferences, anytime, on any subject, you would be broadcasting your views , questions, and information to millions of other partic There has ...
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Usage Of The Internet
Number of Words: 819 / Number of Pages: 3
... Internet. 54% of those surveyed plan to increase their
online advertising budgets in 1997. (Online Marketing Growing
Strong, January 21, 1997) In addition, Advertising Age reported,
"of the 100 Leading National Advertisers, 46 have purchased Web
advertising" through July 1996, and nearly all have corporate Web
sites. Many plan to make online advertising a line-item in their
budgets for the first time this year. (Williamson, October 21,
1996)
However, the survey also revealed that only 11 of the top
advertisers in traditional media placed among Web advertising's top
50 spenders. ...
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Computer Viruses: Infection Vectors, And Feasibility Of Complete Protection
Number of Words: 548 / Number of Pages: 2
... a Wide Area Network, this
entails the connection of computer systems to each other via
modems, and telephone lines. This is the vector most feared
by computer users, with infected files being rapidly passed
along the emerging information super-highway, then downloaded
from public services and then used, thus infecting the new system.
4. Spontaneous Generation: this last vector is at the same time
the least thought of and the least likely. However, because
virus programs tend to be small, the possibility exists that
t ...
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Computer System In The Context Of Retail Business
Number of Words: 1328 / Number of Pages: 5
... and supporting hardware by 15 percent.
Absolut Software provides a training mode for novices and a high-speed mode for
the experienced.
Features: * Complete mailing list management * Promotion tracking * Catalog and
telemarketing * Importing sub-system * On-line order entry * Inventory control
(multi-site, serialized, lot number, decimal quantities, and style-color-size) *
Credit card billing * Computer-driven in-store POS with "Suspend and Hold;"
availability displayed * Wildcard search * User-definable extended search *
Unlimited text and binary (graphics) storage for key fields * A complete
fina ...
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The Millennium Bug
Number of Words: 2136 / Number of Pages: 8
... number to '00'.
The year 2000 problem is unlike any other problem in modern history for
several reasons. William Adams points out some of the most important ones.
"Time is running out- the Year 2000 is inevitable! The problem will occur
simultaneously worldwide, time zones withstanding. It affects all languages
and platforms, hardware & software. The demand for solutions will exceed
the supply. Survivors will survive big, losers will lose big. There is no
'silver bullet' that is going to fix things" (Adams 2). "It is too big and
too overwhelming even for [Bill Gates and] Microsoft" (Widder 3). Sepa ...
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Computer Crimes: Laws Must Be Pass To Address The Increase In Computer Crimes
Number of Words: 1905 / Number of Pages: 7
... adventuresome, and willing to accept technical
challenges."(Shannon, 16:2)
"It is tempting to liken computer criminals to other criminals, ascribing
characteristics somehow different from
'normal' individuals, but that is not the case."(Sharp, 18:3) It is believed
that the computer criminal "often marches to the same drum as the potential
victim but follows and unanticipated path."(Blumenthal, 1:2) There is no actual
profile of a computer criminal because they range from young teens to elders,
from black to white, from short to tall.
Definitions of computer crime has changed over the years as the us ...
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