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A New Technology
Number of Words: 365 / Number of Pages: 2
... 3 feet away, and only take two to four seconds to find, photograph and match your iris.
The security benefits are obvious: no two people, not even identical twins, have the same iris. While cards and PINs can be stolen, irises cannot. Van Naarden says iris-scanning is also being used overseas at teller windows, kiosks, vaults, and safety deposit boxes.
Stopping Fraud, Saving Money And in an industry that loses billions each year to various forms of fraud, a near-foolproof identification system might just come in handy. "We will significantly reduce, or even eliminate, fraud with this system," van N ...
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Microsoft
Number of Words: 528 / Number of Pages: 2
... went on sale in 1990 and five years later the complete makeover version named Windows 95 was launched. And now the much debated and controversial program called Windows 98 was launched last June. (Martin, et al., 1995)
Why did the Windows 98 program become so controversial? Due to the fact that Windows program has been used on ninety percent of all the PCs in the world, and utilized such advantage to include Internet Explorer program. Internet Explorer program allows you to surf the Internet, which has very little to do with the operating system, thus, causing an unfair advantage over the comp ...
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Internal Combustion Engines
Number of Words: 3046 / Number of Pages: 12
... are particularly appropriate for
seasonal industries, because of the small standby losses with these engines
during the shutdown period.
History
The first experimental internal combustion engine was made by a Dutch
astronomer, Christian Huygens, who, in 1680, applied a principle advanced by
Jean de Hautefeuille in 1678 for drawing water. This principle was based on the
fact that the explosion of a small amount of gunpowder in a closed chamber
provided with escape valves would create a vacuum when the gases of combustion
cooled. Huygens, using a cylinder containing a piston, was able to m ...
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How Technology Effects Modern America
Number of Words: 1152 / Number of Pages: 5
... for their services,” says L. Mishel, Research Director of
Welfare Reform Network.
In view of these facts, I wonder if these trends are good or bad for society. “
The danger of the information age is that while in the short run it may be
cheaper to replace workers with technology, in the long run it is potentially
self-destructive because there will not be enough purchasing power to grow the
economy,” M. B. Zuckerman. My feeling is that the trend from unskilled labor
to highly technical, skilled labor is a good one! But, political action must
be taken to ensure that this societal evolution is bene ...
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Direct TV And Its Features
Number of Words: 886 / Number of Pages: 4
... inches high by eighteen inches wide, weighed under 10 lb, and had the same capability as the larger models.
Normally your local cable company (Jones Intercable) would set up your cable programming packages for you. You were able to choose from four packages. Your first choice is basic for $11.50 a month. It only has twenty channels. That include most of the normal free channels you already get with your antenna. With cable you receive the broadcast clearer than a regular antenna. Then you have the next step up which is Basic Plus, which has 58 channels, you will pay $32.27 a month. Then there is ...
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What Is ISDN?
Number of Words: 5167 / Number of Pages: 19
... with each other by converting their digital
communications into an analog format to travel through the public phone network.
However, there is a limit to the amount of information that a common analog
telephone line can hold. Currently, it is about 28.8 kbit/s. [Hopkins] ISDN
allows multiple digital channels to be operated simultaneously through the same
regular phone jack in a home or office. The change comes about when the
telephone company's switches are upgraded to handle digital calls. Therefore,
the same wiring can be used, but a different signal is transmitted across the
line. [Hopkins] P ...
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The Four-Stroke Cycle Of An Engine
Number of Words: 797 / Number of Pages: 3
... on a spring that in turn pushes open a valve.
This all happens due to the rotation of the camshaft which is geared to the
crankshaft (which is connected to the pistons) which is all part of the
four stroke cycle.
The four-stroke cycle starts with the intake stroke. On the intake
stroke, the piston moves down from its top dead center or the farthest "up"
position creating a partial vacuum which draws in the fresh air-fuel
mixture from the open intake valve. Think of the vacuum like a syringe
with no needle. "If you put your finger over the end of the tube and pull
back the plunger, then pop your fi ...
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Censorship On The Internet
Number of Words: 3158 / Number of Pages: 12
... then with over a million different sites available to access porn. Now it is not just for adults. Children are accessing the obscene materials. This brings rise to issues of how to protect them from problems that can arise. The materials they view, could influence children. They could also be subjected to cybersex in a chat room full of people that could be three times their age. Worst of all pedophilias could influence children to meet with them outside of the computer. The government and the United States citizens must now figure out how to protect our children from the effects of cyberporn, and y ...
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Overview Of Video On Demand Systems
Number of Words: 4294 / Number of Pages: 16
... multimedia teleconferencing and video server equipment
is poised for explosive growth. The technology for this necessary and much-
anticipated business tool has been in development for years. By the turn of the
century, teleconferences that include any combination of video, audio, data, and
graphics will be standard business practice.
Compliance with teleconferencing standards will create compatible solutions from
competing manufacturers, feeding the market with a variety of products that work
together as smoothly as standard telephone products do today. Specifically, with
the adoption of Inter ...
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Microsoft Corporation
Number of Words: 4570 / Number of Pages: 17
... were the most evident by-products of such raw materials. Use of these
by-products from the earth's raw materials dramatically changed the world of
business and trade. With the subsequent invention of wire communications (i.e.,
tapping out Morse code and speaking over telephone lines), business and trade
grew exponentially. Wireless communications via the inventions of radio,
television, and motion pictures contributed greatly to the advances of the
Industrial Revolution. The need to find better ways of doing business to keep
the marketplace fresh and innovative has driven the human race t ...
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