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Internet Pornography: Freedom Of Press Or Dangerous Influence?
Number of Words: 2083 / Number of Pages: 8
... laws governing the global world of the Internet. Paul F. Burton,
an Information Science professor and researcher, gives many statistics showing
that presence of pornography on the Internet is not necessarily a bad thing. He
gives one example that shows that "47% of the 11,000" most popular searches on
the Internet are targeted to pornography. This fact shows that pornography has
given the Internet approximately half of its clientele (2). Without this, the
Internet would hardly be the global market that it is today. Most on the
Internet are not merely the for pornography either. It is just a par ...
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Computer Programming
Number of Words: 880 / Number of Pages: 4
... step-by-step development process:
(1) Define the scope of the program by outlining exactly what the program
will do.
(2) Plan the sequence of computer operations, usually by developing a
flowchart (a diagram showing the order of computer actions and
data flow).
(3) Write the code--the program instructions encoded in a particular
programming language.
(4) Test the program.
(5) Debug the program (eliminate problems in program logic and correct
incorrect usage of the programming language).
(6) Submit the program for beta testing, in w ...
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Virtual Reality - What It Is And How It Works
Number of Words: 752 / Number of Pages: 3
... need to find ways to
create the illusion of reality with a piece of machinery known as the computer.
This is done with several computer-user interfaces used to simulate the senses.
Among these, are stereoscopic glasses to make the simulated world look real, a
3D auditory display to give depth to sound, sensor lined gloves to simulate
tactile feedback, and head-trackers to follow the orientation of the head.
Since the technology is fairly young, these interfaces have not been perfected,
making for a somewhat cartoonish simulated reality.
Stereoscopic vision is probably the most important feature ...
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Windows 95 Or NT
Number of Words: 684 / Number of Pages: 3
... the home. Windows 95 carries an average
price of ninety-five dollars in stores. Which makes it an expensive system
worth the money. On the other hand Windows NT 3.51 carries a price tag of
three-hundred and forty nine dollars. Making this software very expensive but
also worth every penny.
Windows 95 is much easier to use then Windows NT. It was designed to
make the PC user have more of an easier time navigating through its complex
tasks. This is one of the main reasons why people would rather buy the more
less expensive operating system. Rather then the more expensive system Windows
NT. Anot ...
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History Of Computers
Number of Words: 2603 / Number of Pages: 10
... the first “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 “punchcards”. His inventions ...
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Cyberspace And The American Dream: A Magna Carta For The Knowledge Age
Number of Words: 4350 / Number of Pages: 16
... and significance. The powers of mind are
everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.
In a First Wave economy, land and farm labor are the main "factors of
production." In a Second Wave economy, the land remains valuable while the
"labor" becomes massified around machines and larger industries. In a Third Wave
economy, the central resource -- a single word broadly encompassing data,
information, images, symbols, culture, ideology, and values -- is actionable
knowledge.
The industrial age is not fully over. In fact, classic Second Wave sectors (oil,
steel, auto-production) have learned how to ...
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Technology
Number of Words: 1903 / Number of Pages: 7
... handle at these high speeds. The latest computer is an on-board navigational computer that will direct the driver into using the fastest and most efficient way to get to the destination. It will plan your route around any construction, traffic jams, and even inclement weather. If and when these cars break down, a mechanic will simply ask the car's on-board computer what is wrong, rather than having to go through a series of complicated troubleshooting tests. As I have clearly stated, computers have greatly improved something that most of us use every day.
Another advantage of the computer th ...
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Netscape’s Gecko: The Next-Generation Layout Engine
Number of Words: 560 / Number of Pages: 3
... and even a full Document Object Model level-1 implementation. Gecko also supports both HTML and XML documents. Gecko has been developed entirely under the Open source model at Mozilla.org. Developers are free advantage of the Gecko source code. The Open Source approach is used to encourage developers and anyone else for that matter to contribute their own strategies. The Article incorporates the idea that Gecko would be enjoyed by not only web browsers, but by application developers, web content developers and consumer electronic device manufacturers.
The engineering side of Gecko is quite ...
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History Of Computers
Number of Words: 1829 / Number of Pages: 7
... perform another mathematical function to translate binary to
decimal to make it readable to the user.
One of the first computers was called ENIAC. It was a huge, monstrous
size nearly that of a standard railroad car. It contained electronic tubes,
heavy gauge wiring, angle-iron, and knife switches just to name a few of the
components. It has become difficult to believe that computers have evolved into
suitcase sized micro-computers of the 1990's.
Computers eventually evolved into less archaic looking devices near the
end of the 1960's. Their size had been reduced to that of a small automobile and ...
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The Y2k Issue
Number of Words: 1450 / Number of Pages: 6
... "some" is largely unknown. Water treatment facilities, food & farming, defense, transportation, hospitals & emergency service, power, banking, law enforcement, communications, fuel, and government are all things in question.
Experts have testified before banking subcommittees that any major firm that has not already completed its assessment can not hope to become Y2K compliant by January 1, 2000. None of the utilities that were surveyed were assured after making inquiries that their suppliers, venders, and servicers would be Y2K compliant. Utilities are highly dependent on servicers, suppliers, and ot ...
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