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The Central Processing Unit
Number of Words: 516 / Number of Pages: 2
... by
the name of Intel was formed and they began to produce CPU's shortly thereafter.
Gordon Moore, one of the founders of Intel, predicted that the number of
transistor placed on each CPU would double every 18 months or so. This sounds
almost impossible, however this has been a very accutate estimation of the
evolution of CPUs. Intel introduced their first processor, a 4004, in November
of 1971. This first processor had a clock speed of 108 kilohertz and 2,300
transistors. It was used mainly for simple arithmetic manipulation such as in a
calculator. Ever since this first processor was introduced t ...
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Robotics
Number of Words: 1238 / Number of Pages: 5
... most part quite different from the androids, or humanlike robots, and other
robots of fiction. They rarely take human form, they perform only a limited
number of set tasks, and they do not have minds of their own. In fact, it is
often hard to distinguish between devices called robots and other modern
automated systems.
Although the term robot did not come into use until the 20th century,
the idea of mechanical beings is much older. Ancient myths and tales talked
about walking statues and other marvels in human and animal form. Such objects
were products of the imagination and nothing more, but ...
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Censorship Of The Internet And The Tyranny Of Our Government
Number of Words: 1254 / Number of Pages: 5
... Internet a virtually futile task. Unlike
television or radio, the Internet consists of thousands of individual
computers and networks, with thousands of speakers, information providers
and information users, and no centralized distribution point (ACLU vs. Reno
Brief 1). No guards watch to see who goes where and if that place is
appropriate. The Internet has grown to be a global network. Just because
one country deems something inappropriate does not mean that another will
comply with the decision and follow the ruling. If posting pictures of
bestiality was banned in China, for example, someone in ...
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Amd Vs. Intel
Number of Words: 783 / Number of Pages: 3
... chances at the beginning, but in early 1998 they unveiled their mighty K6-2 processor. The K6-2 Processor was “bigger, better, and cheaper.” The processor ran on a 100mhz bus, while Intel’s chips still ran on a 66mhz bus, this made AMD’s chip faster. It also was nearly 16% cheaper than any Intel based Pentium!! computer.
The gaming community accepted the k6-2 with cautious, but open, arms. With their new SIMD-Enhanced (Single Instruction Multiple Data) 3Dnow! the graphics this processor were able to produce were amazing, for the time, due to the use of floating point int ...
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New Age Of Technology
Number of Words: 1056 / Number of Pages: 4
... if the car moves, the beam will automatically re-calibrate from its new
position, still producing the same measurement results.
Before repairs, Shark provides you with the ability to prove existing
damage. This information is good to the vehicle owner and insurance company
because it not only explains the cost of repair, but eliminates unnecessary work
and surprises.
During the straightening procedure, Shark will monitor selected
underbody and upperbody reference points. Shark then calculates deviations from
the manufactures specifications. You can view the whole pulling process, as it
happens, l ...
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Napster Vs Riaa
Number of Words: 782 / Number of Pages: 3
... scale. Napster contends that they provide the platform, not the actions, and that as the blurb states it’s up to the people. Napster is not at fault because the RIAA has overstepped their boundaries and infringed on first amendment rights online.
Should the owner of the gun shop be charged with murder if a man he sold a gun to decides to shoot another man in cold blood? Of course not, if the shop owner followed all of the laws that govern him. Should the car dealership be charged with vehicular felonies every time one of their vehicles is involved in a crime? Certainly not. So why should software’s o ...
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Is Your Information Safe?
Number of Words: 1521 / Number of Pages: 6
... or other networks. More than a hundred million electronic messages
travel through cyberspace every day, and every piece of information stored in a
computer is vulnerable to attack (Icove-Seger-VonStorch 1). Yesterday's bank
robbers have become today's computer hackers. They can walk away from a computer
crime with millions of virtual dollars (in the form of information they can use
or sell for an enormous profit). Walking away is precisely what they do. The
National Computer Crimes Squad estimates that 85-97 % of the time, theft of
information from computers is not even detected (Icove-Seger-VonStorc ...
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Internet Censorship
Number of Words: 2575 / Number of Pages: 10
... to view. This is where many ethical and moral questions arise regarding the internet. Not every user wants his homepage to deal with the spin rates of atoms or the airspeed of South African swallows. Some users wish to display "objectionable" material on their homepages.
This may have started out as a prank to some, but now net- porn is an offshoot industry on the information superhighway. Companies like Playboy and Hustler run their own servers that are permanent parts of the internet, and on their pages they charge user to view Playboy and Hustler type material. What makes matters worse is evolution ...
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Installing A Car Stereo System
Number of Words: 1923 / Number of Pages: 7
... (voice, trumpet). The internal amplifier in the head
unit must be able to generate enough wattage for the SPL (sound pressure level)
of the higher frequencies to be heard clear in a space the size of the AEROSTAR.
Pre-amp Out RCA Jacks
To allow for low-level amplification without using an in-line power
reducer, the head unit will require low level pre-amplification output jacks.
Head units ordinarily come with either front and rear, or just rear RCA jacks.
This situation will only require rear jacks since the head unit produces enough
wattage sufficient for the front speakers. The sub-woof ...
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Effects Of The Year 2000 Problem
Number of Words: 1661 / Number of Pages: 7
... of most records and information kept in computers causing a major
headache for government agencies and major businesses, not to mention all
home owners and other people. Gina Smith writes in a August 1998 issue of
Popular Science about the fixing of the problem
"You are probably wondering why the problem is so hart to fix. It isn't
It's just that there's so much to be fixed. Updating software to handle the
new century is sometimes a matter of culling through millions of lines of
code, and the finding and fixing every two-digit date reference. One
mistake and the entire operation may be unsuccessfu ...
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