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Intranets
Words: 1511 / Pages: 6 .... consideration that is made when considering this type of network.
Intranets have just started to be implemented throughout the world and already a
big change is being noticed. Companies are keeping track of all of their
important information on web sites, which are restricted to users, unless they
have the security code to access them. Thanks to Internet technology, companies
and other types of organizations are able to keep all of their information
organized and easily accessible with a click of a button.
The Internet, how has it changed the world around us? Government, education,
business is all wrapping around it. Is this because of all of .....
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Optical Storage Mediums
Words: 997 / Pages: 4 .... involves some sort of laser, for laser light does not diverge, so we
can pinpoint it to a specific place on the disk. By moving the laser a little
bit, we can change tracks on a disk, and this movement is very small, usually
less than a hairÕs width. This allows one to store an immense amount of data on
one disk. The light does not touch the disk surface, thereby not creating
friction, which leads to wear, so the life of an average optical disk is far
longer than that of a magnetic medium. Also, it is impossible to ÒcrashÓ an
optical disk (in the same sense as crashing a hard drive), since there is a
protective layer covering th .....
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Society And The Role That Computers Play In USA
Words: 1150 / Pages: 5 .... reports, “recruitment of it's software engineering
students is up this year by over 20%.” All engineering jobs are paying well,
proving that highly skilled labor is what employers want! “There is clear
evidence that the supply of workers in the [unskilled labor] categories already
exceeds the demand for their services,” says L. Mishel, Research Director of
Welfare Reform Network.
In view of these facts, I wonder if these trends are good or bad for society. “
The danger of the information age is that while in the short run it may be
cheaper to replace workers with technology, in the long run it is potentially
self-destructive because .....
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Porn On The Internet
Words: 1492 / Pages: 6 .... that many parents do not think about putting away. It is the computer. Although the computer is mostly used for helpful things such as school work and business work, it can be manipulated to show vulgarity. Sites that contain pornography can be linked to with ease. These sites can be seen whether or not the child is purposely or mistakenly connecting to them. This is why mothers should act immediately if they do not want their children to be exposed to demeaning pictures of complete nudity and explicit sex. They need to monitor Internet use for their children by purchasing and installing a program that filters out pornography.
Surprisingly, t .....
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The Video Game Wars
Words: 908 / Pages: 4 .... system could compare with it. When I entered the store, the walls were
covered with many games for different systems. On one wall, there were
Nintendo's games, on another, were Sega's games, and on the last, were Sony's
games. Surprisingly, Nintendo's new games didn't look much different than the
other two companies'. On three corners of the room, there were television sets
displaying the latest and greatest games for each popular console. While
watching these new games, I was in awe.
When I was younger, I remembered playing what those times considered,
"high tech" video games. During those years, the games had little blocky
character .....
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Can Computers Understand?
Words: 371 / Pages: 2 .... understand. Any actions being performed to simulate
behavior are confined by the programs available to the computer. He presents
the example of a man linking Chinese characters and appearing to know the
language, but in reality the man is just following the instructions given to him
( the program). This example serves well to explain how although a computer can
look like it understands a story, it can do no more than "go through the
motions."
Of course such a definitive standpoint on an issue as controversial as
the capacity of an AI to understand will draw many critics. The criticism of
his theory that I find to be the most credible is .....
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Does Microsoft Have Too Much Power?
Words: 950 / Pages: 4 .... own the computerized world as we know it?
Usually, when we mention Microsoft in any form, we must have the
registered trademark symbol right the word. The name is a well-known word in
virtually everyone's life. Although it is the super-empire it is today,
Microsoft was once a small software business ran by a young Bill Gates in a tiny
office. Consisting of a few young adults, they were not progressing as much as
they would like too. Their competitor, Digital Research, created the first
operating system, known as the CP/M-86 system. Though, not glamorized, CP/M did
exist. Their competitors had it a little worse, working out of their not so
ti .....
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Data Storage Devices
Words: 791 / Pages: 3 .... is not of prime
concern, magnetic medium can retain tremendous amounts of data and consume
less space than a single piece of paper.
The magnetic technology used for computer data storage is the same
technology used in the various forms of magnetic tape from audiocassette to
videocassette recorders. One of the first computer storage devices was the
magnetic tape drive. Magnetic tape is a sequential data storage medium. To
read data, a tape drive must wind through the spool of tape to the exact
location of the desired information. To write, the tape drive encodes data
sequentially on the tape. Because tape drives cannot randomly access or
write data .....
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Time And Technology
Words: 978 / Pages: 4 .... invention in the telecommunications field is the telegraph. It was invented by Samuel Morse and utilizes an electrical current to send signals in the shaped of dot and lines called the Morse Code. It was first used in 1844 and it was mainly reserved for companies which needed information quickly such as banks, this helped them grow and more efficient. With the telegraph one could pass a message across any distance almost effortlessly and it was cheap, so the need for this kind of communication was already there. This new medium also meant that even people which were not rich could send a message very far without having to pay incredible amount of m .....
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Development Of Computers And Technology
Words: 3595 / Pages: 14 .... something to a normal computer user. Just in the last few years,
computers have undergone major changes. PC users came from using MS-DOS and
Windows 3.1, to Windows 95, a whole new operating system. Computer speeds have
taken a huge increase as well, in 1995 when a normal computer was a 486
computer running at 33 MHz, to 1997 where a blazing fast Pentium (AKA 586)
running at 200 MHz plus. The next generation of processors is slated to come
out this year as well, being the next CPU from Intel, code named Merced, running
at 233 MHz, and up. Another major innovation has been the Internet. This is a
massive change to not only the computer wor .....
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