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- 1681: The Next Revolution in Music Technology: Make or Break?
- ... beginning of a complicated argument. Now that it is possible for consumers to download copyrighted material free of charge, major record labels have a great fear. Tons of people use it [MP3] online, but most big record labels have not embraced it for fear of privacy, since the format also allows for widespread copying of illegal files. (Sullivan 1999). On the other hand, MP3 technology has given the unsigned artist an ... ban the distribution of copyrighted material. The emergence of MP3 has tremendously excited unsigned musical artists. Many believe this is the beginning of a musical revolution where the little guys are going to conquer the big guys. ZDNet, an online magazine, recently interviewed Michael Robertson, CEO of MP3.com which is an web site devoted to the distribution of MP3 files created by independent/unsigned musicians. People keep asking me, When ...
- 1682: Data Warehousing
- ... against data in the data warehouse or against data in the transaction processing systems. This can be quite perplexing to organizations where there is not agreement as to what the data warehouse is for. How Big Is The Data Warehousing Batch Processing Window Often there is need for a time period where transaction processing systems are kept stable so changes made to the systems can be captured and fed into the ... Data quality is not a one time concern to many firms that implement data warehouses. In a firm with complex feeder systems, it is not uncommon for previously undiscovered data quality problems occur after the big push to clean data for the initial load of the data warehouse is done. Firms find it necessary to install procedures to regularly audit data quality. And in most firms it is unclear who should ...
- 1683: Understanding Computers
- ... a data storage unit instead of having the instructions hard wired into the system. 1st generation computers All early computers are known as 1st generation computers(FGC). All FGC used vacuum tubes and were extremely big and got very hot so large A/C units were required to keep them from over heating. These machines were very slow and had to mantinaced constantly. 2nd generation computers 2nd generation computers relay only ... TV every time you turn on your car and when ever you need to get money out of the bank. Todays society is so dependent on computers that if this whole Y2K thing is as big as some say it will be, most of us wont have a clue on where to start to fix all the problems we will face. Careers related to computers No matter what you do your ...
- 1684: A Rose For Emily
- ... Emily had been through much and has seen many generations grow before and around her. This brings reason to her strong Confederate beliefs. Homer on the other hand was quite the opposite, "A Yankee--a big, dark, ready man, with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face," (43). Homer described himself as a man who couldn't be tied down. This had to be a terrible opposition for Miss Emily. Towards the end of the ...
- 1685: How Technology Has Hurt Us
- ... we would have been better without is weapons. Although weapons were made to protect our country and keep freedom it seems to have done the opposite. Drive by shootings are a daily occurence in our big cities. More people are turning the guns on themselves. Kids bring guns to school with them for protection against people who may use a gun on them for retaliation. Politically its divided the nation on whether private citizens should be able to carry guns. Disposable items have caused a big garbage problem. We use everything from disposable pens to disposable diapers. We can stop some of the garbage problem by recycling. Air conditioners are using up allot of our electricity. There are times in the ...
- 1686: Emily Dickinson 6
- ... poems at an early age. She had several inspirations in her poem writing. Emily Bronte was a poet, and after her brother's death she stayed home until her death. Bronte's book became a big success after her death. Emily Dickinson life was similar to hers. Ralph Waldo Emerson was an essayist and a poet. These two people's work help inspired her to write poems. A person with a big impact on Dickinson's life was Reverend Charles Wadsworth. She met him in Philadelphia on a road trip she took to see her father with her sister. They became very close friends, and they wrote ...
- 1687: Gangs
- ... being commended. A young child sees this a perfectly acceptable because he knows that the "bad guy" was wrong but has no idea of what acceptable apprehension techniques are. Gore in television also takes a big part in influencing young minds. Children see gory scenes and are fascinated by these things that they have not seen before. Older viewers see gore and are not concerned with the blood but rather with ... importantly, race. This often results in an attitude that motivates the person to base his/her life on doing what the system that oppresses them doesn't want. Although this accomplishes little it is a big factor in gang enrollment. So, as you have seen gangs are a product of the environment we have created for ourselves. Some of these factors include: oppression, the media, greed, violence and other gangs. There ...
- 1688: Study on Juvenile Psychopaths
- ... there were in 1995, there will be at least 30,000 more youth criminals on the streets. Between 1990 and 2010, there will be 4.5 million more boys, yielding 270,000 young criminals. "The big destruction happens early," Heritage Foundation fellow Pat Fagan says. "By the age of 4 or 5, the kid is really warped. Psychologists can predict by the age of 6 who'll be the super-predators ... NOW FOR THE BAD NEWS: A TEENAGE TIME BOMB., TIME, 01-15-1996, pp 52+. 7-NINA J. EASTON, The Crime Doctor Is In; But Not Everyone Likes Prof. JohnDiIulio's Message: There Is No Big Fix; Home Edition., Los Angeles Times, 05-02-1995, pp E-1. 8-Paul Kaihla, NO CONSCIENCE, NO REMORSE. MACLEAN's 1/22/96 9- William J. Bennett, John J. DiIulio, Jr., and John P ...
- 1689: Knowledge is Power: How To Buy A Computer
- ... buying a 75MHz Pentium system with 16MB of RAM than a 133 MHz system with 8MB. Even if buying the top machine did double a machine's performance, however, it still might not make as big a difference as a person might think. If his software performs any given task in under a second, doubling its speed saves the consumer less than half a second. No products change as quickly as ... drive, floppy drive, and memory modules as the original machine. The result was a unit identical to the previous one, only ten times as fast. Unfortunately, upgrading is not always so easy. Many systems from "big-name" manufacturers such as Compaq, IBM, and Packard Bell, use proprietary motherboards and slim-line cases. The small size of these units makes them fit easily on a desktop, but does not leave much room ...
- 1690: Underground Railroad
- ... also songgs that ave directions to slaves that were taught to everyone so that they might memorize the way. One such, was "Follow the Drinking Gourd" The drinking gourd was the slaves' terminology for the big dipper. The Big Dipper's "handle" points to the north star, which they could use to find their way north. The song gave landmarks along the way to follow and a verse from it says " the dead trees ...
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