The Internet: How It Works And How It Effects The World
.... had all the military sites, and ARPANET, which had all the nonmilitary sites. "The two networks remained connected, however, thanks to a
technical scheme called IP (Internet Protocol), which enabled traffic to be routed from one net to another as needed. All the networks connected by IP in the Internet speak IP, so they can all exchange messages." (Levine 12)
Even though there were only two networks at that time, IP was made to allow thousands of networks. The IP is designed so that every compute .....
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Exploring The Career Of A Computer Programmer
.... technologies, sophisticated new languages, and programming tools, have cahnged the role of a programmer and elevated much of the programming work done today. It is becoming more difficult to distinguish programmers from other computer specialist since job titles shift so rapidly, reflecting new areas of specialization or changes in technology. Job titles and descriptions also may vary depending on the organization. In this paper, "computer programmer" refers to individuals whose main job function is .....
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The Microsoft House
.... a few highlights of Gates’ presentation, stating that the house will include the following:
· A high-speed wireless home network that enables users to play music and videos, or display family photographs anywhere they want on any intelligent device.
· Windows Media™ Audio Player, which downloads twice as fast as MP3 and has double the music storage, plus powerful anti-privacy protection.
· The evolution of WebTV Network™ service with on-demand programming, personalized viewing, Web-enhanced content .....
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Cable Modems And ADSL
.... 2 Mbps for some time. ADSL offers higher security and reliability profiles. Both technologies are at about the same state of maturity 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 avail .....
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Global Positioning Systems
.... would be two circles whose lines intersected at two points. Even a vague guess of your whereabouts would be enough to discard the bogus point, and you'd be left with a pretty good idea of your position. Better yet, take a cut from a third DME transmitter and draw a third circle on your chart. Now you'd have three intersecting circles and your position would be inside the little triangle formed by the intersection of the three circles. Got the picture? This is basically how GPS triangulates, except th .....
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The Computer And Mass Communication
.... I do my work, I almost always have the radio on, picking a station from dozens of possibilities of broadcast entertainment and news. There is an astonishing electronic information infrastructure surrounding me - surrounding us all.
But the electronic part of the information infrastructure is only a tiny fraction of what's available to me. Every morning the newspaper is thrown into the driveway. The paper is an amazing achievement, more than one hundred pages of news, data, photographs, and advertisemen .....
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MMX Technology
.... a set of 57 new computer instructions that extend the x86 instruction set of approximately 80; it has 32 KB of on-chip cache, verses the non-MMX on-chip cache of 16 KB, which enhances performance of even non-MMX applications, and it makes use of Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) for more efficient data processing. The 57 new and powerful instructions are specifically designed to process and manipulate audio, video, and graphical data much more effectively. Intel, having doubled its on-chip cache .....
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AIBO And Robotics
.... best friend, an entertainment robot dog, is more than a pet project,” said Toshi Doi, of Sony. Having a robot that has instincts and emotions, to most people, is still unimaginable. The AIBO is opening up a new product field, combining software, robotics, computers, sensors, and mechanics. AIBO is only the beginning in the whole scheme of things. Robots are supposedly going to be perfected in the next 40 years. Robots have shaped and changed the way we live today.
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Agricultural Technological Advancements
.... a powerful toxin protein that kills the European corn borer when ingested. In response to this observance, researchers modified the Bt gene that produces the protein in the organism. Then, they inserted the modified gene into corn germplasm. Scientists can even choose which part of the corn plant they want to display the Bt trait: in green tissue and pollen, or even corn leaves, sheath, stalk, ear shank, kernels and silks. As a result, the Bt gene-enhanced corn germplasm is able to kill the corn borer .....
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AirBags
.... into an accident sensors trigger the reaction and the airbag inflates in less than 1/20 of a second. The airbag itself is lubricated with different lubricants such as chalk or talcum powder, the manufactures use these lubricants so that the airbag can expand quickly and smoothly. After the inflation occurs, the airbag must automatically deflate, by venting the gases it built up inside the airbag. The bag must deflate in order for the driver or passenger to resist the impact and so they will not be wedge .....
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An Overview Of Hacking
.... The downside to this technological marvel that we all use, whether we know it or not, is that thieves, disgruntled network administrators, and other unsavory characters can make an easy living off of the Internet, maybe even stealing from you. How? It's all in a day's work for them. One Russian hacker spent a few years bleeding money from the Citibank corporation here in the states from his cozy little house in Russia. His labor was rewarded with $10.4 million dollars in several bank accounts aro .....
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Amd Vs. Intel
.... same format as Intel chips. It needed a different motherboard, a socket-7 motherboard. This hurt AMD’s 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 .....
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Architectural Designs Of Castles Vs. Modern Homes
.... form the castle and limited the amount of people that could surround it. With less people surrounding he castle it made it easier for archers to shoot those who were there.
The architectural design of modern homes includes many characteristics and features designed in defense. Even though homes aren’t built to withstand wars and invaders they do have things about them set up in defense to keep others away form the owner and out of their home. Newer homeowners are building their own homes. Fir .....
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Battle Of Computer Bytes
.... configure your hardware. There is easy access to frequently used files. You can make very long file names on Windows 95 instead of short and strange names that leave you wondering about, such as on Windows 3.x I could not name a folder “This is stuff for school” it would have to be much shorter. The Help system helps you implement its suggestions. A multilevel Undo command for all file operations safeguards your work, something Macintosh does not have.
Something that Windows 95 has, .....
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Being Digital
.... In the first part he talks about the communication medium, and how
information content is so much more important than bandwidth.
If we would only transmit better-labelled bits, we could do so much more with
the bandwidth we have today. More elaborately, on 'Bits are Bits' here, he
reflects on the difference between bits and atoms: how the shift to an economy
based on the transfer o
f bits is affecting the structure of the information industry; how the
transmission of bits is re .....
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