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Manual Labor To Industrial Automation
Number of Words: 399 / Number of Pages: 2
... to millions of hard working people. One concern is what the people as a whole going to do about losing their jobs. The only real answer to this problem may not be determined for years to come. As automation continues to grow, many people will be negatively affected.
My feeling on the entire picture is spit both ways. On the one side, many applications for a machine exist, which man cannot perform. I know that I would not want to be the person that has to tell the people that they are going to lose their jobs to automation. I am in favor of manual labor because it is the job of a person w ...
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The Vast Cyber-frontier Is Being Threatend With Censorship From The Government
Number of Words: 2556 / Number of Pages: 10
... the bill with a landslide 414-16 House
vote and a 91-5 Senate vote.2 It seems now that the wide bill might not be
what it cracked up to be, as it stands now, anyone who might upload James
Joyce's Ulysses could be placed in jail for two years and have up to a
$250,000 fine.3 Representatives of on-line services industries were
concerned about the bill, and feared they could be held criminally
responsible for Internet conversations.4
"We face a unique disturbing and urgent circumstance, because it is
children who are the computer experts in our nations families," remarked a
concerned Rep. Senator of ...
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The Evolution Of The Computer
Number of Words: 2607 / Number of Pages: 10
... "digital calculating machine". It could only add numbers and they had to be entered by turning dials. It was designed to help Pascal's father who was a tax collector (Soma, 32).
In the early 1800's, a mathematics professor named Charles Babbage designed an automatic calculation machine. It was steam powered and could store up to 1000 50-digit numbers. Built in to his machine were operations that included everything a modern general-purpose computer would need. It was programmed by--and stored data on--cards with holes punched in them, appropriately called "punch cards". His inventions were failures ...
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History Of The Internet
Number of Words: 1398 / Number of Pages: 6
... of the document. This is a major problem and the obvious solution is to
“chop” the information up into smaller pieces and then transmit the smaller
pieces2. Then another problem was realized, how does the computer know
where to put these small bits of information? The solution to that was what has
come to be known as packet-switching (PS). In PS, the entire document is sent
in a bunch of tiny “packets,” these packets contain the information of the
document “wrapped” in its placement on the page. The receiving computer then
sends a message back to the transmitting computer telling it whi ...
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The Utilities Confront Y2K
Number of Words: 1524 / Number of Pages: 6
... Y2K compliant. These devices very nearlyd waste) are very much affected by Y2K. Problemed areas are found throughout the water infrastructure. Most obviously water utilities' computer systems will be affected by Y2K unless compliance is fulfilled. If the computers fail, the main areas affected would include customer service, accounts payable and receivable, databases, and management systems. Problems of this type are usually easily fixed, however the computer systems that crash or stop working may be erased of all memory. In other words, a whole system of customer information such as payment ...
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Books And Technology Is The Future Of Printed Books In Jeopa
Number of Words: 1460 / Number of Pages: 6
... us on the Internet, but is anyone applying it to everyday life? Maybe so, but there is nothing like researching your interests through your own motivation. It is not hard to go to the library and read through books to gather information. The many people who read for leisure probably cannot imagine reading their favorite novel on the computer. One of the joys of reading is that you can be anywhere and still "lose" yourself in a book. You can sit in bed, or on your favorite chair, and thumb through a book. Books are imperative in the process of forming objectives. Books may not exist in the futur ...
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Integrated Software Application
Number of Words: 2676 / Number of Pages: 10
... innovations are covered by patent. These two categories have covered for years many kinds of work with little or no conflict. Unfortunately, it is not that easy when dealing with such a complex matter as computer software. When something is typed on a computer, it is considered writting, as it is all written words and numbers. However, when executed by the computer, it functions like an invention, performing a specific task as instructed by the user.
Thus, software falls into both categories (Del Guercio 22-24). It is generally covered today by copyright laws, for most mass market software at least. ...
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The Information Super Highway
Number of Words: 2772 / Number of Pages: 11
... and even propaganda. Radio was new and was therefore forced to restrict its use of certain ideas and vocabulary. Years went by and a new form of media emerged: the device television, which was used to see pictures. Another new medium of communication except now with sight too. Television too was forced to restrict profanity, ideas that were not to be expressed, and information
that was only for certain individuals. Both radio and television underwent heavy investigation on how they were to broadcast. With the rise of the Internet, a new censorship era has emerged. There have been many ...
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Software Piracy
Number of Words: 2448 / Number of Pages: 9
... A major reason for the use of pirated software is the prices of the
REAL thing. Just walk into a CompUSA, Electronics Boutique, Computer City,
Egghead, etc and you will notice the expensive price tags on copies of the most
commonly used programs and the hottest games. Take the recent Midwest Micro
holiday catalogue for example and notice the prices. Microsoft Windows 95: $94,
Microsoft Office 95: $224, Microsoft Visual C++: $250, Borland C++: $213, Corel
Draw 7: $229, Corel Office Professional 7: $190, Lotus Smartsuite 96: $150,
Microsoft Flight Simulator95: $50, Warcraft 2: $30. The list goes ...
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Object-Oriented Database Management Systems
Number of Words: 3198 / Number of Pages: 12
... object-oriented database
systems that are operational or under development today share a set of
fundamental object-oriented concepts. Therefore the implementation issues
in OODBMSs that arise due to these concepts are universal. The third
characteristic is that of experimental activity. Plenty of prototypes have
been implemented and some of them became commercial products. There is
really a need for applications to handle very complex data and that is why
the interest of people in building such systems is so strong.
Although there is no consensus on what an OODBMS is and which are the
features that ...
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