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A Quantum Computer
Number of Words: 1627 / Number of Pages: 6
... it way through long strings of 1’s and 0’s until it arrives at the answer. But what if instead of having to search by yourself, you could instantly create as many copies of yourself as there were rooms in the building all the copies could simultaneously peek in all the offices, and the one that finds the briefcase becomes the real you, the rest just disappear. – (David Freeman, discover )
David Deutsch, a physicist at Oxford University, argued that it may be possible to build an extremely powerful computer based on this peculiar reality. In 1994, Peter Shor, a mathematician at AT&T Bell Laboratori ...
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Understanding Computers
Number of Words: 1491 / Number of Pages: 6
... the credit has been
given to them.
Another invention that comes from the abacus and was used in a
similar fashion was the soraban. The soraban comes from the Japanese who
perfected it to there use. The soraban is slightly different in the fact
that it has one bead on the top part or each place value, and has only five
beads in each place value on the bottom part. Even though we now have
calculators and computers to make our computations, in some of the less
developed countries these two inventions that were made nearly three
thousand years ago are still used today, and when in the right hands, ca ...
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The Arrival Of The Internet
Number of Words: 2978 / Number of Pages: 11
... If one computer goes down the others are linked together to bypass the defective/destroyed computer and get the information to its destination. It's much like a spider web. You can cut many of the strands and it still hold together. This is how the phrase "World Wide Web" came into existence. The Internet has grown and improved over the years; from a cold war project, to a medium for exchanging ideas and information worldwide.
As a cold War project, the Internet was developed to provide reliable communication during a nuclear attack. The Internet doesn't have a failure point.(Lloyd, 11) E ...
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As A Technology, It Is Called Multimedia
Number of Words: 1635 / Number of Pages: 6
... into anything, anywhere, anytime. The most extraordinary thing about the multimedia 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, audio, or text, into ones and ...
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Making Utilities For MS-DOS
Number of Words: 4348 / Number of Pages: 16
... is confidential and available only to the company that developed it?
Obviously, only the company that has developed that operating system will be
able to develop software for it. And this is a violation of the Antitrust Law.
And now I start having a suspicion that this is happening with Microsoft's
operating systems. It should be no secret to anyone that MS-DOS contains a lot
of undocumented system calls, data structures and other features. Numerous books
have been written on this subject (see bibliography). Many of them are vital to
system programming. There is no way to write a piece of s ...
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History Of Telecommunications
Number of Words: 2827 / Number of Pages: 11
... In similar state, the old China used a sort of drum telegraph which was that of the "Tamtam". This was a big, free hanging, circular metal plate. The keystroking, as it is called, of this plate would create a far-reaching audible tone. This is the drum telegraph and the start of telecommunication.
Fire Signaling
Fire signaling is another part of the telecommunication family. Also, the old Greece and the
Roman Empire already posses a good organized telegraph system. Fire signaling was sited from mountain to mountain or from tower to tower. Especially sensible was a torch telegraph, ...
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Hacking To Peaces
Number of Words: 1293 / Number of Pages: 5
... crime, [so] computer network users and law
enforcement officials must distinguish between illegal or deliberate network
abuse versus behavior that is merely annoying. Legal systems everywhere are
busily studying ways of dealing with crimes and criminals on the Internet"
(Voss, 1996, p. 2).
There are ultimately three different views on the hacker controversy. The
first is that hacking or any intrusion on a computer is just like trespassing.
Any electric medium should be treated just like it were tangible, and all laws
should be followed as such. On the other extreme are the people that see ...
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Virtual Reality Technology And Society
Number of Words: 3875 / Number of Pages: 15
... Reality in the Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Virtual Reality in the Present. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Virtual Reality in the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
THE SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF VIRTUAL REALITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
New Rules of Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Adverse Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
CONCLUSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
REFERENCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 ...
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Protocols And Interfaces
Number of Words: 604 / Number of Pages: 3
... interleaving and other techniques to mitigate the effects of interference and weak signals that can produce high-bit-error rates.
Link layer Usually a specialized radio protocol that employs a form of medium access optimized for the radio environment. Most link protocols involve interactions between the wireless modem and a base station, and mobile units do not communicate directly with each other.
Network layer Some wireless WANs, such as RAM Mobile Data and ARDIS, use network-layer protocols designed specifically for that network, however the trend is toward using IP. This is the case with C ...
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Definition Of An IP Address
Number of Words: 213 / Number of Pages: 1
... your address with InterNIC as both a name , which is
referred to as the domain name , and a number ( 198.137.240.100 ) , which
is generally referred to as the IP address or IP number. Most likely, the
InterNIC will assign you a Class C address, which consists of 255 unique IP
numbers for you to assign to your employees.
If you need more than 255 IP address, you can apply for a Class B
address, which will give you over 65,000 unique IP addresses. Class A
addresses are for very large companies. Both Class A and Class B addresses
are very hard, if not impossible, to get. Usually, companies will ...
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