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Computers In Business
Number of Words: 1011 / Number of Pages: 4
... to understand that they must think years down the road before
spending thousands of dollars on the technology of today. The best way is
to prepare for the future such as making sure your mainframe is upgradeable
and contains at least 8 expansion slots, which should already be loaded
with enhanced graphics cards, the necessary amount of serial ports etc..
Networks are everywhere in the world of business. A network is a
series of computers throughout the company which rely on one or two
fileservers. Or it can be used in long distance communication through
modem. An example would be ...
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The Serious Year 2000 Problem
Number of Words: 423 / Number of Pages: 2
... therefore might show the financial trend for the 1999-2000 period running backwards rather than forwards. Insurance company computers might report a policy running through the year 2001 as having instead expired in 1901.
A bank computer calculating the interest for a financial instrument for the six year period of 1995 through the year 2000 might instead calculate the interest for the period of 1900 through 1995, for a ninety-six year period instead of a six year period.
Given the multitude of computer programming languages in use and the variety of data uses for date fields, computer expert ...
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Knowledge Is Power: How To Buy A Computer
Number of Words: 1563 / Number of Pages: 6
... needs, therefore, a person must first determine which programs he wants
to run. For many buyers, this creates a problem. They cannot buy a computer
until they know what they want to do with it, but they cannot really know all
of the uses there are for a computer until they own one. This problem is not as
tough as it seems, however. The consumer should go to his local computer store,
and look at the software that's available. Most programs explain their minimum
hardware requirements right on the box. After looking at a few packages, it
should be pretty clear to the consumer that any mid-range system ...
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Computers And Marketing
Number of Words: 1766 / Number of Pages: 7
... quests to accomplish these goals. They are the innovative software
products of CAD/CAM and, last but not least, the World Wide Web.
An important program has aided companies all over the world. Computer-
aided design and computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) is the integration of
two technologies. It has often been called the new industrial revolution. In
CAD, engineers and designers use specialized computer software to create models
that represent characteristics of objects. These models are analyzed by computer
and redesigned as necessary. This allows companies needed flexibility in
studyin ...
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Computer Viruses
Number of Words: 1615 / Number of Pages: 6
... to have happened. It is
measured by the amount of time it takes to reverse the damage.
Trivial damage happens when all you have to do is get rid of the virus. There
may be some audio or visual effect; often there is no effect at all.
Minor damage occurs when you have to replace some or all of your executable
files from clean backups, or by re-installing. Remember to run FindVirus again
afterwards.
Moderate damage is done when a virus trashes the hard disk, scrambles the FAT,
or low-level formats the drive. This is recoverable from your last backup. If
you take backups every day you lose, on avera ...
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Technology And The Stock Market
Number of Words: 1260 / Number of Pages: 5
... also helped investors buy stocks in other markets. Markets used to open at standard local times. This would cause an American trader to sleep through the majority of a Japanese trading day. With more online and afterhours trading, investors have more access to markets so that American traders can still trade Japanese stocks. This is also helped by an expansion of most market times. Afterhours trading is available from most online trading firms.
For investing specialists, technology provides operational capability for handling more stocks and greatly increased volumes of trading. Specialists can follo ...
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Being Digital
Number of Words: 484 / Number of Pages: 2
... he talks about the communication medium, and how
information content is so much more important than bandwidth.
If we would only transmit better-labelled bits, we could do so much more with
the bandwidth we have today. More elaborately, on 'Bits are Bits' here, he
reflects on the difference between bits and atoms: how the shift to an economy
based on the transfer o
f bits is affecting the structure of the information industry; how the
transmission of bits is regulated; and how the major players- the
telecommunications industry, cable operators, and electronics and computer
companies- a ...
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Data Storage Devices
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, and ...
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Reality - What It Is And How It Works
Number of Words: 3113 / Number of Pages: 12
... you 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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Stealth Technology
Number of Words: 1859 / Number of Pages: 7
... in a veil of secrecy for almost two
decades, but this entirely new family of aircraft has recently been
announced to the public but the United States Department of Defence. These
aircraft are virtually undetectable to radar, these new aircraft are the
first examples of '' law observable, or stealth technology. Because radar
in the primary means by wich aircraft are detected and tracked, it has
become very important to the military service to make aircraft as invisible
to radar as possible. By building aircraft in certain ways or out or out of
certain materials like exotic plastics, it is possible to ...
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