Video Cards
.... in low resolution. However, there has now emerged as a result of high
resolution three dimensional graphics 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 .....
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Video Games: The High Tech Threat To Our Younger Generation
.... dollar business growing at 40 per cent a year from 1987 to 1993
(Palmeri 102). Tetzeli in his article "Videogames: Serious Fun" compares
videogames $ 6.5 billion--a--year business to the Hollywood film industry (110).
He continues to point out that two Japan based conglomerate have put about 64
million videogame machines in US households in total. In addition to that they
also produced and licenced for all their softwares for their machines (110).
Palmery estimates to produce and market a ful f .....
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Overview Of Video On Demand Systems
.... Initiative for Worldwide Multimedia Teleconferencing and Video Server
Standards
The market for multipoint multimedia teleconferencing and video server equipment
is poised for explosive growth. The technology for this necessary and much-
anticipated business tool has been in development for years. By the turn of the
century, teleconferences that include any combination of video, audio, data, and
graphics will be standard business practice.
Compliance with teleconferencing s .....
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Virtual Reality
.... is still under development.
The reason for virtual reality remaining in its development for so long is
mainly due to its complexity. The hardware that has developed so far is unable
to make the large calculations required by a virtual reality based machine.
However, as apparent in recent years, technology is advancing at an extreme rate.
This is another reason why society's hopes for virtual reality should and have
remained unwaivered.
In Orenstein's story, she gives the perspective of the average .....
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Virtual Reality - What It Is And How It Works
.... and entertainment uses among other things.
In order to create this alternate reality, however, you need to find ways to
create the illusion of reality with a piece of machinery known as the computer.
This is done with several computer-user interfaces used to simulate the senses.
Among these, are stereoscopic glasses to make the simulated world look real, a
3D auditory display to give depth to sound, sensor lined gloves to simulate
tactile feedback, and head-trackers to follow the orientation of the he .....
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Virtual Reality
.... waiting for takeoff clearance on a busy day, with the engine turning
and burning expensive gas. This is not a very effective way for students to
spend money. Most students do not have access to expensive flight simulators.
Most have to travel hundreds of miles to take advantage of these amazing
simulators. Flight simulators are much better than an airplane for the simple
reason that in a simulator the learning environment is much safer. Students
are able to avoid the overriding need to keep the airpla .....
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Are "Good" Computer Viruses Still A Bad Idea?
.... replication techniques for
beneficial purposes is proposed and directions are given in which this technique
can be improved further.
The paper also demonstrates that the main reason for the conflict between those
supporting the idea of a "beneficial virus" and those opposing it, is that the
two sides are assuming a different definition of what a computer virus is.
1. What Is a Computer Virus?
The general public usually associates the term "computer virus" with a small,
nasty program, which aims to destr .....
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Computer Viruses
.... The Trojan horse is an innocent seeming program
deliberately infects with a virus and circulated publicly. There is a cure for
these viruses, though. These "cures" are called vaccines. A vaccine is a
program that watches for typical things viruses do, halts them, and warns the
computer operator.
"Put a kid with the chicken pox together with a bunch of healthy kids and not
all of them will get sick." But that is not the case with computer viruses.
You see when a computer virus passes on a virus it ne .....
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An Insight Into Virtual Reality
.... Lycra and is
fitted with 15 sensors that monitor finger flexion, extension, hand position and
orientation. Connected to a computer through fiber optic cables. Sensor inputs
enable the computer to generate an on screen image of the hand that follows the
operator's hand movements. The glove also has miniature vibrators in the finger
tips to provide feedback to the operator from grasped virtual objects.
Therefore, driven by the proper software, the system allows the operator to
interact by grabbing and movi .....
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What Is ISDN?
.... modem was certainly a big breakthrough in computer technology. It allowed
computers to communicate with each other by converting their digital
communications into an analog format to travel through the public phone network.
However, there is a limit to the amount of information that a common analog
telephone line can hold. Currently, it is about 28.8 kbit/s. [Hopkins] ISDN
allows multiple digital channels to be operated simultaneously through the same
regular phone jack in a home or office. The c .....
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What Really Is A Hacker?
.... be able to
use all of a computers resource with no restrictions as to what may be accessed
or viewed. This belief is controversial, it not only could infringe upon
people's right to privacy, but give up trade secrets as well. A deep mistrust
of authority, some hackers consider authority to be a constriction force. Not
all hackers believe in this ethic, but generally authority represents something
that would keep people from being able to have full access and/or free
information.
Along with the "et .....
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What Should And Shouldn't Computer Be Allowed To Run
.... cannot afford the
great lawyers the other guy has. With this system, one single lawyer program
could be provided to everyone so that the process of dispensing justice is much
more fair. What about a judge and jury? Could a computer replace them? Is it
right for a computer to pronounce sentence on an individual?
Because computers don't have any kind of actual thought or will, some
jobs would be perfect for computers. Security would be a good job for a
computer to handle. People like their privacy a .....
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Why We Should Stick To Qwerty
.... who uses the keyboard
for word processing, e-mailing, and internet; there is not much of a need for
them to type extremely fast. They do not type mechanically but rather based on
their thought, and thinking takes time. In other words, faster keyboards are
irrelevant for them because they are not continuously typing. They need to
think what they are going to write, one sentence one after another.
On the other hand, the typists whose job is simply to type, do so continuously.
They also happen to be the .....
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Why You Should Purchase A PC
.... Computers (PC's) were in use by 1995, and one out of
every three homes had a PC (Shelly, Cashman,& Waggoner, 138).
Computers are easy to use when you know how they work and what the parts
are. All computers perform the four basic operations of the information
processing cycle: input, process, output, and storage. Data, any kind of raw
facts, is required for the processing cycle to occur. Data is processed into
useful information by the computer hardware. Most computer systems consist of a
monitor, .....
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Will Computers Control Humans In The Future?
.... to memorize enough to match someone else who knows"
(Nine Tomorrows, Profession 55). People would not chose to study, they would
only want to be educated by computer tapes. Putting in knowledge would take
less time than reading books and memorizing something that would take almost no
time using a computer in the futuristic world that Asimov describes. Humans
might began to rely on computers and allow them to control themselves by letting
computers educate people. Computers would start teaching humans wh .....
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