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The Microsoft House
Number of Words: 1077 / Number of Pages: 4
... that enables users to play music and videos, or display family photographs anywhere they want on any intelligent device.
· Windows Media™ Audio Player, which downloads twice as fast as MP3 and has double the music storage, plus powerful anti-privacy protection.
· The evolution of WebTV Network™ service with on-demand programming, personalized viewing, Web-enhanced content and powerful communications built in.
· The next generation of gaming, offering online competition with voice interaction, immersive audio, unmatched 3-D graphics and the option of parental control.
Gates has also stated that “Micr ...
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“Technology And The Library Perfect Together”
Number of Words: 305 / Number of Pages: 2
... and friends you don’t get to see very often. It also
helps people who are not comfortable with computers become aware of how
easy and helpful they really are. You can do virtually anything on the
computer.
I can’t remember when we didn’t have a computer at home. A computer is a
part of our everyday lives, but it s also nice to turn it off and a read a
magazine or book and put your imagination to work instead of your fingers. ...
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Technology Spontaneously Approaching `Humanity' With The Passage Of Time
Number of Words: 2045 / Number of Pages: 8
... 2, the T800 is a multipurpose cyborg assigned to
save John Connor, given a series of “mission parameters,” initially
characterized by his computer logic. He often advises John based on permutations
of the T1000's next move, similar to the way a chess computer decides what move
to make next. Just as the T800 is designed to perform solely as a unemotional
computer, the ‘replicants' in Blade Runner are designed to work in slavery
without protest. Since it's remarked in Blade Runner that humans develop
emotions by existing for a period of time, it is predicted that replicants could
not develop emotio ...
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Computers Not The Greatest Invention Of The 20 Th Century
Number of Words: 3455 / Number of Pages: 13
... Europe, the abacus lost its importance. It took nearly 12 centuries, however, for the next significant advance in computing devices to emerge. In 1642, Blaise Pascal, the 18-year-old son of a French tax collector invented what he called a numerical wheel calculator to help his father with his duties. This brass rectangular box, also called a Pascaline, used eight movable dials to add sums up to eight figures long. Pascal's device used a base of ten to accomplish this. For example, as one dial moved ten notches, or one complete revolution, it moved the next dial - which represented the ten's colu ...
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BlueTooth
Number of Words: 745 / Number of Pages: 3
... opens us up to a new level of data communications. By making it possible to communicate wirelessly to any device equipped with a chip. Mobile phones can communicate with lap top computers, digital daily planners can be linked to personal computers and have e-mail down loaded to them the moment it is sent a multitude of possibilities are born. works on a 24.5 GHz ISM "free band" which means that there is no restrictions for travelers using enabled equipment. For transmission of information between enabled devices there is no necessary "line of sight," which means that these devices do not work in th ...
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Computer Crimes
Number of Words: 1152 / Number of Pages: 5
... United States in 1986, according to the National Center for Computer Crime Data in Santa Cruz, Calif. By 1989, that number jumped to 500 prosecutions. that year cost businesses and banks and, ultimately, consumers about $500 million. "As the use of computers has increased, so has their criminal misuse" (Parker 54:G13). Computers are used to obtain credit card numbers, which are then used to order thousands of dollars worth of whatever the hackers want.
"In recent years, individual outlaws and entire "gangs" have broken into computers all over the U.S., using their wits and wiles to pilfer and de ...
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Polymorphic & Cloning Computer Viruses
Number of Words: 1865 / Number of Pages: 7
... spreads, first
one must understand some basics about computers, specifically pertaining to the
way it stores data. Because of the severity of the damage that these viruses may
cause, it is important to understand how anti-virus programs go about detecting
them and how the virus itself adapts to meet the ever changing conditions of a
computer. In much the same way as animals, computer viruses live in complex
environments. In this case, the computer acts as a form of ecosystem in which
the virus functions. In order for someone to adequately understand how and why
the virus adapts itself, it must first b ...
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Computing Machinery And Intelligence
Number of Words: 515 / Number of Pages: 2
... are based on those of a human, the computer only generates information, without the authority to change the process in which it functions. The computer is only following instructions that “make it possible for a sequence of operations to be repeated over and over again until some condition is fulfilled, but in doing so to obey, not to fresh instructions on each repetition, but the same ones over and over again”(p.438). He then asserts that digital computers can be built and have been built that “in fact mimic the actions of the human computer very closely”(p.438). He also further proposes that a ...
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Carburetion Versus Fuel Injection
Number of Words: 1764 / Number of Pages: 7
... the benefits of carburetors and fuel injectors, one must understand what they do. The carburetor is quite simply a fuel-metering device that operates under the logical and straightforward laws of physics. It has evolved over the years from a very simple and basic design to the complex and intricate models that are available today. Liquid fuel will not burn; it has to become vaporized by the carburetor before combustion can occur. If fuel is not vaporized then the liquid will travel through the car and out the exhaust. Once vaporized the correct fuel/air ratio must be obtained to burn properly. ...
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Anti-government Censorship On The Internet
Number of Words: 1301 / Number of Pages: 5
... 3rd cover issue. this in a sense sent Washington into an uproar. Thinking that young children could get uncensored porn pictures off the Internet created chaos among the politicians. the Time cover story looked very convincing for many Americans who are uneducated about the Internet access. It suggested there was a sincere problem with uncensored material on the Internet. According to Time article 917,410 sexually explicit pictures, descriptions, short stories and film clips were studied on an 18 month period. Along with porn there are more concerns on the Internet with images that cannot be ...
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