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Advancement Of The Computer
Number of Words: 604 / Number of Pages: 3
... new machines were big news to the public. The media became very interested in them. They wrote about them in newspapers and magazines calling them “electronic brains” That will change the world. In 1953 IBM realized that a market existed for business computers. They introduced a total of 19 of these computers for businesses. The computers were very large, expensive, and needed a large staff of professional people just to run them. Punch cards were used to give the first generation computer data and instructions.
The second generation of computers existed from 1959-1963. The second generation of c ...
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Software Piracy
Number of Words: 1389 / Number of Pages: 6
... industry
loses more than $15.2 billion annually worldwide due to software piracy.
Software piracy costs the industry:
$482 every second
$28,900 every minute
$1.7 million every hour
$41.6 million every day
$291.5 million every week
To understand software piracy, one must get inside the mind of the
pirate. People, who wouldn't think of sneaking merchandise out of a store or
robbing a house, regularly obtain copies of computer ...
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Contrasting The Two Forms Of Mail
Number of Words: 847 / Number of Pages: 4
... On the other hand, the postal service can send any kind of physical package, from a magazine to a pool table, for a price proportional to its size. In addition, the postal service can also transfer data if it is placed on a disk or a CD-ROM. However, speed is a problem, thus origin of the term snail-mail. For example, The smallest letter can take from two days to two weeks to deliver, depending on the locations of the sender and the receiver. Even sending a letter to the house across the street takes time due to unnecessary movement. The mail is taken to the nearest large post office, sorted there, th ...
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Will Computers Control Humans In The Future?
Number of Words: 866 / Number of Pages: 4
... to study, they would only want to be educated by computer tapes.
Putting in knowledge would take less time than reading books and memorizing
something that would take almost no time using a computer in the futuristic
world that Asimov describes. Humans might began to rely on computers and
allow them to control themselves by letting computers educate people.
Computers would start teaching humans what computers tell them without
having any choice of creativity. Computer ould start to control humans'
lives and make humans become too dependent on the computers.
Another point that is criticized ...
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Telecommuting
Number of Words: 1062 / Number of Pages: 4
... not only in the operation of
the highway construction and repair equipment, but also in the manufacture and
transportation of the required materials. An increase in the percentage of
people telecommuting to work will decrease the need for expanded highways and
associated road maintenance. The first two areas related to getting to work.
Once a person arrives at a central office working location, he or she represents
another energy consumer, often times magnified many times over what would be
required at home. The office building has heating, cooling, and lighting needs,
and the materials to build it ...
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Computer Science
Number of Words: 791 / Number of Pages: 3
... One of the first computer storage devices was the magnetic tape drive. Magnetic tape is a sequential data storage medium. To read data, a tape drive must wind through the spool of tape to the exact location of the desired information. To write, the tape drive encodes data sequentially on the tape. Because tape drives cannot randomly access or write data like disk drives, and are thus much slower, they have been replaced as the primary storage device with the hard drive. The hard drive is composed of thin layers of rigid magnetic platters stacked on top of one another like records in a jukebox, an ...
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The Pentium Computer
Number of Words: 901 / Number of Pages: 4
... movie theatre on Macleod Trail, entertainment has been an integral part of human existence. With the development of the computer, the creation of a vast number of entertaining opportunities has materialized. Games, for example, serve as a powerful mind entrancing form of entertainment. Civilization, Leisure Suit Larry, Warcraft, Quake, Doom95 and Command & Conquer are just a few games that bring hours of entertainment to the magician. With use of a sound blaster and quality speakers, music can be played through your computer's CD-ROM. This enables you to listen to music while you spend time ...
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Bulletproof Vests
Number of Words: 366 / Number of Pages: 2
... armor.
The function of steel or hard plastic armor is to be impervious to
a bullet. The function of ceramic armor is to slow the bullet abruptly by
the hardness of the ceramic and to dissipate the bullet's energy as it
destroys the armor at the point of impact; the tiles or plates of ceramic
bulletproof vest thus have to be replaced once they have stopped a bullet.
The textile vest deforms the bullet and then dissipates its energy,
entangling it in the vest's many layers.
A textile bulletproof vest is fashioned of sixteen to twenty-four
layers of nylon cloth of a heavy weave, the lay ...
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Freedom Of Speech On The Internet
Number of Words: 1262 / Number of Pages: 5
... prohibit texts of classic fiction such as the Catcher in the Ryer, Ulysees, “Seven Dirty Words” by George Carlin, and other materials which, although offensive to some, enjoy the full protection of the First Amendment if published in a newspaper, magazine, or a book, or in the public square”(CIEC).
Hot-Wired, a very popular and prestigious Internet magazine, now famous for rallying one of the most infamous protests against Internet censorship, published an article describing the protest. “Within minutes of last Tuesday’s news that a House committee had voted to incorporate an “indecency” clause into t ...
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The Future Of Fiber Optics On The Internet
Number of Words: 653 / Number of Pages: 3
... carry the equivalent of 24,000 telephone calls at one time. With the introduction of fiber optics into our daily lives, it will greatly improve the quality and speed of the information we receive.
With the growth of television and telephone traffic, bandwidth has become a large issue that is seemingly solved with the advent of fiber. Fiber Optics has enormous bandwidth and distance coverage as compared to copper wire. Commercial phone systems carry more conversations on fiber optics than copper could on thousand wires. As demand for more bandwidth increases, so does the demand for more fiber opti ...
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