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The Steam Engine
Number of Words: 1974 / Number of Pages: 8
... was the flooding of the mining shafts. (The Penetration of the Industry by Steam Power) The mine owners “worried…that the mines would have to be shut down unless water could be pumped out of the shafts.” “The engine successfully raised water from the bottom of deep mines.” (Siegel, 17) This saved the shutting down of the mines, which were essential to further the economy. Not only did save the mines, it provided a method of mining that proved to be extremely quicker than the traditional techniques. One of the biggest incomes for the British was found in their textile industry. In the te ...
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Multimedia
Number of Words: 1629 / Number of Pages: 6
... media group, letting consumers tune into anything, anywhere, anytime. The most extraordinary thing about the boom, is that so many moguls are spending such vast sums to develop digital technologies, for the delivering of programs and services which are still largely hypothetical. So what is behind such grand prophecies? Primarily, two technological advances known as digitization (including digital compression), and fibre optics. Both are indispensable to the high-speed networks that will deliver dynamic new services to homes and offices. Digitization means translating information, either video, au ...
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CAD/CAM Systems
Number of Words: 881 / Number of Pages: 4
... the solid model. It
is represented in the computer as solid shape, as if it were, for example a
solid piece of steel All data concerning its shape is known by the
computer software, and can be manipulated in more of an automated way
rather than every surface or every wire frame requiring individual shaping
(Unigraphics 1-1).
CAD/CAM software also creates N/C Programs for manufacturing. But, first
let’s define what CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing) is, and how it is used
in the industry. CAM software is generally used for the creation of N/C
(Numerical Controlled) programs. N/C programs control mach ...
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Video Cards
Number of Words: 2882 / Number of Pages: 11
... technology. This paper will discuss why
the video card nowadays can process high resolution three dimensional graphics,
but why the video card in the past could only process low resolution two
dimensional graphics. The explanation will be based on some recently developed
video cards such like Matrox Millenium. This paper will also discuss how the 3D
graphic displays on a 2D monitor. Lastly, the video card, Matrox Millennium,
will also be discussed.
Basic principles
In order to understand the recent development of the video card, let's
take a look on how a video card works.
The video car ...
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Computer Crime Is Increasing
Number of Words: 1410 / Number of Pages: 6
... an employer.
Variety and Extent
Since the first cases were reported in 1958, computers have been used for most
kinds of crime, including fraud, theft, embezzlement, burglary, sabotage,
espionage, murder, and forgery. One study of 1,500 computer crimes established
that most of them were committed by trusted computer users within businesses i.e.
persons with the requisite skills, knowledge, access, and resources. Much of
known computer crime has consisted of entering false data into computers. This
method of computer crime is simpler and safer than the complex process of
writing a program to chang ...
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The History And Development Of Computers
Number of Words: 1942 / Number of Pages: 8
... named Gottfried Wilhem von Leibniz, improved the Pascaline by creating a machine that could also multiply. Leibniz's mechanical multiplier worked by a system of gears and dials. By studying Pascal's original notes and drawings, Leibniz was able to refine his machine. It wasn't until 1820 that mechanical calculators gained widespread use. Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar, a Frenchman, invented a machine that could perform the four basic arithmetic functions. Colmar's mechanical calculator, the arithometer, presented a more practical approach to computing because it could add, subtract, multiply a ...
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Brief History Of Library Automation: 1930-1996
Number of Words: 1647 / Number of Pages: 6
... punch card equipment was implemented for use in library circulation and
acquisitions. During the 30's and early 40's progress on computer systems was
slow which is not surprising, given the Depression and World War II. In 1945,
Vannevar Bush envisioned an automated system that would store information,
including books, personal records and articles. Bush(1945) wrote about a
hypothetical "memex" system which he described as a mechanical library that
would allow a user to view stored information from several different access
points and look at several items simultaneously. His ideas are well know ...
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The Computer Underground
Number of Words: 10572 / Number of Pages: 39
... to unidimensional ones that limit understanding of both the
nature of the acts and their broader relationship to the culture in which
they occur. This has occured with the criminalization of computer
phreaking and hacking. In this paper, we examine the computer underground
as a cultural, rather than a deviant, phe- nomenon. Our data reveal the
computer underground as an invisi- ble community with a complex and
interconnected culture, depen- dent for survival on information sharing,
norms of reciprocity, sophisticated socialization rituals, and an explicit
value sys- tem. We suggest that th ...
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Cable Modems And ADSL
Number of Words: 1447 / Number of Pages: 6
... and integration. Cable modems may offer a less expensive network solution because of its shared architecture, but that differential is more than offset by infrastructure costs required to upgrade existing networks.
The largest advantage of ADSL, and it is a significant one, is the number of telephone lines already installed that can support ADSL, or prospectively available with network upgrades. Today the global ratio is in the order of 400 million to 6 million, or about 60 to 1. Aggressive upgrades will not improve the ratio to better than 10 to 1 in the next five or six years. Even in the Unite ...
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The Basics Of A Hard Drive
Number of Words: 569 / Number of Pages: 3
... tic-tack toe with the
computer, which by the way was the first came ever to be created on the computer.
Now there is one more thing you have to know about this computer, the computer
was half the size of West High Schools gym. And it was thought that when it was
ecomoical for people to own there own computer it would fill a decent size room.
Could you imagine a computer filling up your entire living room, where wolud you
put your TV? But with the invetion of keyboards and nanotechnology they reduced
the size of the computer by nearly 200% and every year the keep getting smaller
and smaller and it i ...
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