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How Guns Work
Number of Words: 951 / Number of Pages: 4
... surface it encounters, including the bullet in
front of it and the base of the gun barrel behind it. The increase in pressure
caused by the gases causes the bullet to be forced into the barrel hence causing
the bullet to come out the muzzle at very high speeds. Once the bullet is fired,
it remains in motion from its momentum. The momentum will carry the bullet
until it strikes an object or gravity pulls the bullet towards the earth.
Firearms change potential chemical energy into kinetic energy in the actual
firing of the gun. Many people do not realise that the force imparted by
accelerating the ...
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Censorship On The Internet
Number of Words: 881 / Number of Pages: 4
... that are prohibited in a country.
For instant, some countries, such as Germany, have considered taking measures
against the U.S. and other companies or individuals that have created or
distributed offensive material on the Internet. If the United States government
really wanted to censor the net, there is only one solution - shut down all
network links of other countries. But of course that would mean no Internet
access for the whole country and that is disgust by the whole nation.
Secondly, everyone has their personal judgment values. The decision of some
people cannot represent the whole population ...
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The Telephone
Number of Words: 1495 / Number of Pages: 6
... you to talk to and listen to. This device is called the handset. The
handset is usually made out of plastic and inside it are two main components:
the transmitter and the receiver.
THE TRANSMITTER
It is the job of the transmitter to turn the air pressure created by
your sound waves to electrical signals so they can be sent to the other
telephone. The waves hit a thin skin called the diaphragm that is physically
connected to a reservoir of carbon granules. When the pressure hits the
diaphragm, it shakes up the carbon granules. Then the carbon expands and
contracts, depending on what force is e ...
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Click Vs. Brick: An Exploration Of Mp3 File Sharing And Mp3
Number of Words: 3826 / Number of Pages: 14
... to offer file-sharing facilities and provide free access to copyrighted music.
There are numerous arguments originating from all sides of the debate. Many of these are mutually exclusive and, therefore, cannot all be substantiated. McDougall (2000) published an article online, in which he summates the main arguments listed below:
Copying is fair use
Copying is theft
Music wants to be free
Napster users buy more CDs
Music companies make too much money
Music companies will make more money with Internet distribution
Musicians cant make money with Internet distribution
Musicians w ...
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Videoconferencing
Number of Words: 1456 / Number of Pages: 6
... are in the same building or are directly adjacent to one another, a communications network run through the telephone system is the most cost-effective approach. A T1 line (the equivalent of 24 standard voice-grade telephone circuits) or a portion of a T1 is required to run high-quality video and audio in two directions. The fiber optic cabling now being installed by telephone companies in many parts of the country has a very high capacity compared to more traditional copper wiring. Videoconferencing will eventually be as practical as placing a telephone call.
Wiring used to connect personal comput ...
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Quality Issues In System Development
Number of Words: 1631 / Number of Pages: 6
... and correlate internal and external
information, the ability to integrate and facilitate streamlined business
processes. Unfortunately, not every system that information workers develop are
well implemented; this means that the computer system which was originally
intended to make a company more efficient, productive and cost-effective, is in
the end doing the exact opposite - namely, wasting time, money and valuable
manpower. So even with all the lessons learned from the 70's and 80's, our
vastly superior methodologies and knowledge of the 90's is still proving to be
fallible, as suggested in th ...
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The History Of The Internet
Number of Words: 851 / Number of Pages: 4
... of a communication network that could survive a nuclear attack. It continued simply because the DOD, DOD's contractors, and the universities found that it provided a very convenient way to communicate (Wendell). The ARPANET was a success from the very beginning. Although originally designed to allow scientists to share data and access remote computers, e-mail quickly becomes the most popular application. The ARPANET became a high-speed digital post-office as people used it to collaborate on research projects and discuss topics of various interests. By 1971 the ARPANET grew to 23 hosts connecting ...
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Global Positioning System
Number of Words: 974 / Number of Pages: 4
... The SPS accuracy is 100-meter horizontal, 156-meter vertical, and 340 nanoseconds time, and in total the SPS is ninety-five percent accurate. (Utexas) The Department of Defense also degrades this service so those consumers can use this service.
Secondly, the Precise Positioning Service or PPS " is a highly accurate military positioning, velocity and timing service which is available on a continuous, worldwide basis to users authorized by the U.S. PPS is the data transmitted on GPS L2 frequency. Precise Positioning Service was designed primarily for U.S. military use. It is denied to unauth ...
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Victims In Progress Of Technology
Number of Words: 301 / Number of Pages: 2
... Technological cultures are ones of mass
consumption. As we have learned over the past few decades, are resources
are limited and must be conserved properly. Tribal societies are a shining
example of how to manage these resources, because they only use and eat
what they need without wasting valuable resources. To demonstrate let us
examine Bodley's study of the Maori tribe. The Maori tribe, settled in New
Zealand during the age of expansion, allowed and even aided settlers in
colonizing on the island. As the number of white settlers grew, they began
to seek and take more and more land from the Mao ...
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Speech Recognition Technology
Number of Words: 2718 / Number of Pages: 10
... Schwab & Co., American Express, United Airlines, NationsBank, United Parcel Service, British Airways, and Sears Roebuck and Co. These companies focus on the fastest growing parts of the speech market, where the caller's voice replaces punching in letters and numbers on the telephone keypad. The other applications of speech technology are for the use of consumers. The users' voice can give computer commands as well as dictate speech into text.
All operating systems used today are Graphic User Interfaces (GUI's), but "future computers will have Speech User Interfaces, or (SUI's)" (Iversen, 3).
Th ...
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