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Computer Mouse
Number of Words: 646 / Number of Pages: 3
... the first working computer that used the . While at the research center Day and other researches developed the first computer that depended on the to point. The next advancement for the came out of the Apple computer. The Apple Lisa computer used a graphical user interface and it helped create the technology used for the . The Macintosh computer used a and it simplified the use of the computer because all you had to do was point and click.
The windows based systems and Macintosh all used the . The growing computer market and its need for easier and faster computers led to the industry to ...
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Agricultural Technological Advancements
Number of Words: 327 / Number of Pages: 2
... of plants can be met without the use of soil or natural sunlight. Plants are rooted (and thus supported) in an inert medium and nutrition is provided by water soluble mineral elements.
The corn borer is devastating for the farmer, costing growers more than $1 billion annually in the United States. Bt stands for Bacillus thuringiensis, which is a naturally occurring soil organism. Bacillus thuringiensis produces a powerful toxin protein that kills the European corn borer when ingested. In response to this observance, researchers modified the Bt gene that produces the protein in the organism ...
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Computer Technology
Number of Words: 1222 / Number of Pages: 5
... computers to make their lives easier. Such advances will benefit us all. People use computers for research, organization, writing, communication for personal or business matters and even to look up stock updates. Whether it is personal or business, computers can help make our daily life easier. Typing is quicker and easier and its also a lot neater than hand writing. When you type on a computer you can look at them and open them a lot faster than having a folder of papers you have to carry around where ever you go. Computers can also help with editing a paper, they can even check spelling and gramma ...
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The Computer Revolution
Number of Words: 588 / Number of Pages: 3
... Most people still felt the cost was too great for a
glorified typewriter.
Several years after they introduction of the BASIC system, Apple
introduced a new line of computers called the Macintosh. These Macintosh
computers were extreme easy to use, and were about the same price of a computer
that used BASIC. Apple's business exploded with the Mac, Macintosh were put in
schools and millions of homes proving that the computer was an extreme useful
tool after all. The Macintosh made such an impact on the computer industry that
IBM and Microsoft joined forces to produce the MS-DOS system. The MS ...
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The Impact Of Computers In Accounting
Number of Words: 866 / Number of Pages: 4
... of Advance Management; the computer equipment they have is quite advances. For example, they own 3 computers of which one is solely for accounting purposes. The system includes a CPU Pentium II with 300 MHz microprocessor, a 64 MB SD Ram on board, a 56 K modem, a 32´CD-ROM, and also a 4.3 GB Hard Disk. This high quality equipment has bought recently and they have already contributed a lot in improving the business' operation by making better works done more quickly.
Advance management also has its own great software to match with its advances computer system. The software is specifically des ...
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Computers, I Don't Like Computers. So Why Can't I Get A Job?
Number of Words: 511 / Number of Pages: 2
... insert cards into to give it
instructions. But my point is that she was not exposed to a computer as everyday
life. Now she is really behind so to speak in the computing world. Computers
back then were huge, they were usually stored in wharehouses. The earlier ones
used paper with holes in them to give it instructions. Later the pre-PC's used
tape cartridges to store data on. Then came along in 1979 the first real
personal computer. Apple came out on the market with the Apple PC. Two years
later IBM came out with their version of the personal computer. When IBM came
out with their computer they were no ...
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Wire Pirates
Number of Words: 1088 / Number of Pages: 4
... international competitiveness, came to this pass, it can be
instructive to look at the security record of other parts of the international
communications infrastructure.
The first, biggest error that designers seem to repeat is adoption of the
"security through obscurity" strategy. Time and again, attempts to keep a system
safe by keeping its vulnerabilities secret have failed.
Consider, for example, the running war between AT&T and the phone phreaks. When
hostilities began in the 1960s, phreaks could manipulate with relative ease the
long-distance network in order to make unpaid telephone calls by ...
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Computer Viruses
Number of Words: 729 / Number of Pages: 3
... There is a cure for
these viruses, though. These "cures" are called vaccines. A vaccine is a
program that watches for typical things viruses do, halts them, and warns the
computer operator.
"Put a kid with the chicken pox together with a bunch of healthy kids and not
all of them will get sick." But that is not the case with computer viruses.
You see when a computer virus passes on a virus it never fails unless the
computer is protected with a vaccine. A typical computer virus spreads faster
than the chicken pox too. Now as I said before when a computer virus attempts
to infect another com ...
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History Of The Internet
Number of Words: 4930 / Number of Pages: 18
... and how the first amendment has blocked many policy attempts trying to regulate the technology.
We can point to the fact that emergence of any new technology is always the contribution of several intertwined social factors over a period of many years. The Internet as we know it today is no exception. We can show that the beginnings of the Internet started in the 1940's and took over in the 50's to be shaped into what we consider is the Internet of today. We can also show that the Internets creation was due to several social impacts that created the design of that technology. That those social i ...
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Catalytic Converters
Number of Words: 591 / Number of Pages: 3
... carbon monoxide
and hydrocarbons with the oxygen inside the converter creating products of
carbon dioxide and water vapor. The reaction which occurs inside the converter
is as follows:
The main compounds involved are carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons
(compounds of hydrogen and carbon), as well as oxygen. When these three are
combined with the provided catalyst, a reaction occurs as above. During the
reaction the oxygen splits apart the carbon monoxide and the hydrocarbons and
allows them to combine with its elements forming the aforementioned products.
The catalytic converter first made an appeara ...
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