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Snowmachines: How It Started
Number of Words: 877 / Number of Pages: 4
... should focuse on in project it was the loaltiy to a brand I thought that
this is true for so many different things such as cars skiies and just
about any thing eles. After the first observation the reat were very clear
to how it was going to be and then I did a interview. This is how it went.
Finding Out More
What brand of snowmachine do you ride and why this brand?
I ride a skidoo summit 670 the reason is that I got a very good
deal on this machine and so far it has been very good.
Why do you snowmachine?
The reasone that I snowmachine is that I work in the summer and do
not have much time ...
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The History Of The Airship
Number of Words: 1098 / Number of Pages: 4
... engine propeller.
The first successful airship was that of the French engineer and inventor Henri
Giffard, who constructed in 1852 a cigar-shaped, non-rigid gas bag 44 m (143 ft)
long, driven by a screw propeller rotated by a 2.2-kw (3-hp) steam engine. He
flew over Paris at a speed of about 10 km/hr (about 6 mph). Giffard's airship
could be steered only in calm or nearly calm weather. The first airship to
demonstrate its ability to return to its starting place in a light wind was the
La France, developed in 1884 by the French inventors Charles Renard and Arthur
Krebs. It was driven by an electrically ...
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Laws Must Be Passed To Address The Increase In The Number And Types Of Computer Crimes
Number of Words: 1340 / Number of Pages: 5
... to accept technical
challenges."(Shannon, 16:2)
"It is tempting to liken computer criminals to other criminals, ascribing
characteristics somehow different from
'normal' individuals, but that is not the case."(Sharp, 18:3) It is
believed that the computer criminal "often marches to the same drum as the
potential victim but follows and unanticipated path."(Blumenthal, 1:2)
There is no actual profile of a computer criminal because they range from
young teens to elders, from black to white, from short to tall.
Definitions of computer crime has changed over the years as the users and
misusers of comput ...
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History Of The Propeller
Number of Words: 1516 / Number of Pages: 6
... and hardly fulfilled their purpose of actually propelling the balloon. The basic propeller had evolved from the simple concepts of da Vinci, and was slowly becoming an effective means of aerial propulsion. To reach the next plateau of flight an increased knowledge of the propeller would be needed, and the mysteries of the propeller and mechanical power would need to be solved. These substantial tasks remained for aviation’s pioneers to tackle during the 19th century.
Throughout the 19th century, aviation pioneers explored and tinkered with the concepts of flight to design a viable airship. Some ...
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Computer Programmer
Number of Words: 777 / Number of Pages: 3
... computer would not be able to execute this command. A simple misspelling of one word, can make a program worthless. Errors such as these must be identified and corrected before a program can successfully accomplish its assigned task.
There are many types of jobs a can do. One is designing programs, or portions of programs. The primary job here is to analyse what the program is supposed to do, and write the code for it. Some problems need to be creatively solved. Most times, a program is so large, that you must work in teams, and divide the work. Working as a team, programs are designed with the end ...
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Regulating The Internet: Who's In Charge
Number of Words: 2062 / Number of Pages: 8
... is inconceivable.
But with all its potential the internet is surrounded by questions of its usage.
The intemet was named the global village by McLuhan and Fiore in 1968, but
recently the internet has been more properly renamed the global metropolis.
Robert Fortner defines the internet as a place where people from all different
cultures and backgrounds come together to share ideas and information.
"Communication in a metropolis also reflects the ethnic, racial, and sexual
inequalities that exist generally in the society. '' (Fortner, p25)
When a person enters into a global metropolis to e ...
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How Magnets Affect Computer Disks
Number of Words: 1142 / Number of Pages: 5
... sliding shield, the disk
must always be within the temperature of 50° to 140° Fahrenheit and the disk
must never be bought near a magnet! (3M Diskettes)
There are many such hazards to computer disks. Problems caused by
magnets are very common. A floppy can be damaged unknowingly if it is kept near
a magnet, that may be in the open or inside any device, such as a speaker phone
in computer speakers or stereo or a telephone. And becuase of the common use of
magnets in everyday life, more and more floppies are damaged everyday.
Even though protective coverings against magnets and other electrical ...
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Problems Of Modernization In Developing Nations
Number of Words: 628 / Number of Pages: 3
... living than do industrialized nations. Both individuals are
supporting each other in such a way that if one is removed, the other will fall.
Without resources to use, industry would not be able to maintain its existence.
Likewise, without a market for their resources, or the products of industry, the
developing world would not be able to maintain its existence.
Two current problems which exist in the developing world today are political
instability, and rapid urbanization. Political instability causes economic
problems in places such as Africa, and South America, where many governments are
being o ...
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Internet Access: Flat Fee Vs. Pay-Per-Use
Number of Words: 1687 / Number of Pages: 7
... the most interesting things we learn about or find come from
following unknown routes, bumping into things we weren't looking for. (Indeed,
Thomas Kuhn makes the claim that, even in the hard sciences, real breakthroughs
and interesting discoveries only come from following these unconventional routes
[Kuhn, Thomas, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1962]).
And people who have to pay each time they use a piece of information are
likely to increasingly rely upon specialists and experts. For example, in a
situation where the reader will have to pay to read ea ...
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Modems
Number of Words: 2432 / Number of Pages: 9
... standards are emerging, reaching speeds of up to
56Kbps. Unlike the 33.6Kbps modems being sold today, 56Kbps is a significant
improvement over 28.8Kbps modems. Viewing complex graphics or downloading sound
files improves significantly with 56Kbps. The modem experts keep telling us that
we are about maxed out. For instance when the 28.8 modems where first introduced
they said that we've reached our maximum speed, and the same thing was said
about the 33.6 and now again for the 56K, but how true is this? The experts say
that the next major improvement will have to come from the telephone companie ...
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