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America And The Computer Industry
Number of Words: 2608 / Number of Pages: 10
... 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 were failur ...
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A Hacker
Number of Words: 266 / Number of Pages: 1
... vandalism.
Great description of Hackers: Bright young men of disheveled
apperance,Often with sunken, glowing eyes.Seen sitting at computer consoles,
their arms tense and waitingTo fire their fingers which are already posed to
strike at the buttons and keys on which their attention seems to dice.They work
until they nearly drop,twenty or thirty hours at a time if possible.They sleep
on cots near the computer,but only a few hours-then back to the console, or
printouts.Their crumpled clothes, their unwashed, unsheven faces, and uncombed
hair, testify that they are oblivious to their bodi ...
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Computer Ergonomics In The Work Place
Number of Words: 3244 / Number of Pages: 12
... systems,
tasks, jobs, and environments for safe, comfortable and effective human
use."(BCPE, 1993) In the average computer workstation, employees are prone to
over a dozen hazards. There exist two factors that can prevent this: forming
good work habits and ergonomically designed computer workstations. We will
discuss these preventions throughout the paper.
First, a few terms may need defining. Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSI) takes
place from the repeated physical movements of certain body parts which results
in damage to tendons, nerves, muscles, and other soft body tissues. If these
inju ...
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Computers
Number of Words: 1120 / Number of Pages: 5
... of
modern technology. Two main types of computers are in use today, analog and
digital, although the term computer is often used to mean only the digital type.
Everything that a digital computer does is based on one operation the ability to
determine if a switch, or gate is open or closed. That is, the computer can
recognize only two states in any of its microscopic circuits on or off, high
voltage or low voltage, or—in the case of numbers—0 or 1. The speed at which the
computer performs this simple act, however, is what makes it a marvel of modern
technology. Computer speeds are measured in m ...
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Creating WebPages By Using HTML
Number of Words: 687 / Number of Pages: 3
... first thing you need to put into your HTML document is a tag, it identifies the entire document as an HTML document. The next thing you will do is to create a header. An HTML document can be roughly divided into two sections: header and body. Header is where you display information about your web page, like its title. In a basic HTML document, header has two kinds of tags. First is the tag, it identifies this section as a header section. Inside the head is the tag, which identifies the following text as a title. Then you can begin with the most important part of you web page ˇV the body. ...
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Electronics
Number of Words: 500 / Number of Pages: 2
... new project
has opened a limitless number of doors for our society. Now anyone can use
the Internet to communicate with anybody else in the world a lot faster and
cheaper. Cellular phones have also appeared recently in the electronic
world. These devices allow a person to be reached from practically
anywhere. With cellular phones a person can, from then on, be in
communication with the world no matter where they go.
For the next generation, electronics will certainly offer new yet
simpler technology available to the general public. Home addresses and
phone numbers will be replaced with Interne ...
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The Birth Of Fiber Optics-To It's Popularity
Number of Words: 1034 / Number of Pages: 4
... David Smith applied for a patent on a bent glass rod device to be used as a surgical lamp.
In the 1920's, Englishmen John Logie Baird and American Clarence W. Hansell patented the idea of using arrays of transparent rods to transmit images for television and facsimiles respectively.
In 1930, German medical student, Heinrich Lamm was the first person to assemble a bundle of optical fibers to carry an image. Lamm's goal was to look inside inaccessible parts of the body, during his experiments he reported transmitting the image of a light bulb. However the image was of poor quality. His effor ...
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The History Of Computers
Number of Words: 1650 / Number of Pages: 6
... Oughtred who was an
English mathematician. This slid ruler was a mechanical device made of two rules,
one sliding inside the other, and marked with many number scales. This slide
ruler could do such calculations as division, multiplication, roots, and
logarithms.
Soon after came some more advanced computers. In 1642 came Blaise
Pascal's computer, the Pascaline. It was considered to be the first automatic
calculator. It consisted of gears and interlocking cogs. It was so that you
entered the numbers with dials. It was originally made for his father, a tax
collector.2 Then he went on to build 50 mo ...
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Power Generation In The Future What We Should Do In Australi
Number of Words: 319 / Number of Pages: 2
... power required the nuclear plant/s can fluctuate to cope with the power needs of the general population. Solar power uses an infinite resource so it is worthwhile making use of.
Wind
Wind “farms” should be used in conjunction with Solar plants as more power will be generated with the wind and sun combined. It is an environmentally friendly power source however it is very costly to set up therefore it should only produce 10% of the power needed. Depending on the farm’s location it can be quite reliable. It they are placed in the South Western corner of Australia (and off shore in that area) it wi ...
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Save The Internet
Number of Words: 1578 / Number of Pages: 6
... human dignity and often stimulates the user to violent acts (Beahm
295). Therefore, pornography and violence are correlated. It trivializes the
human beauty and converts it into commercialized slime (Beahm 295). Moreover,
the consumption of pornography can lead to a detrimental addiction and the
consumer can become a slave to it (Beahm 297). In short, pornography is a very
addictive drug; which has an equal or more potency to hard-core drugs like
heroin and cocaine. Can you imagine a ten year-old innocently surfing the
Internet and suddenly bumps into a pornographic site depicting explicit images
of n ...
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