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- 1281: The Power On Self Test
- ... initialize system components, including the video system. (This is self-evident when the screen first flicks before the Video Card header is displayed). This is commonly referred as POST (Power-On Self Test). Afterwards, the computer will proceed its final boot-up stage by calling the operating system. Just before that, the user may interrupt to have access to SETUP. To allow the user to alter the CMOS settings, the BIOS ... Some BIOSes allow you to enter setup at any time by pressing CTRL-ALT-ESC). The AMI BIOS is mostly entered by pressing the DEL key after resetting (CTRL-ALT-DEL) or powering up the computer. You can bypass the extended CMOS settings by holding the key down during boot-up. This is really helpful, especially if you bend the CMOS settings right out of shape and the computer won't boot properly anymore. This is also a handy tip for people who play with the older AMI BIOSes with the XCMOS setup. It allows changes directly to the chip registers with very ...
- 1282: JFK: Was His Assassination Inevitable?
- ... the truth. Instead, it was the result of a complex combination of domestic and foreign events. When President Kennedy was in office, he had to deal with many issues, ranging from business and finance to crime-fighting and war issues. Perhaps it is not as important to decide who it was that killed him, but why. President Kennedy's decisions and courses of action were not popular with everybody, and thus it is not surprising that his assassination was inevitable. The people who might have wanted John F. Kennedy dead can be classified into the following groups: Russians, Cubans, Mobsters (Organized Crime/Mafia), Special Agents (CIA), G-men (J. Edgar Hoover's FBI), Rednecks and Oilmen (Right-wing Extremists), and the MIC (Military Industrial Complex). Each group had its own motives for killing John F. Kennedy. Many ... into Kennedy's assassination. While there is no definitive proof that the FBI conspired to kill Kennedy, it would have been real easy for them to get away with it if they did commit the crime. This, coupled with Hoover's and Johnson's well-known hate for the Kennedys, causes most researchers today to consider the FBI as prime suspects. As if President Kennedy didn't have enough foreign ...
- 1283: Intel Vs. Amd The True Story (intel Bias)
- ... until the K6. These problems hurt AMD because nobody wanted a CPU that could not run 15% of the programs out. People wanted a processor that had programs optimized specifically for it, people wanted a computer with a sticker that said "Intel Inside" because they knew every program would run on it. If people wanted a cheap solution then they went with the low-cost AMD CPU and faced incompatibility problems ... processor. Ever since the days of the 286 Intel has had the processor that performed the best and had no compatibility problems which made it the choice of almost everyone. Since most people buying a computer were buying an Intel processor instead of an AMD Intel became the major supplier in the consumer market. Realizing that their K6 was falling behind in FPU performance, AMD toddled along back to the drawing ... its Pentium III with KNI instructions. They did a fairly good job in getting 3DNOW! supported but only time will tell if they have enough support because Intel has lots of sway in the personal computer market and if needed I am sure they would use it to promote KNI. While AMD does indeed make good processors, which will satisfy even the hard-core gamer, they are still about 30 ...
- 1284: Star Wars Vs. Star Trek
- ... only to believe in death and taxes. Dreams do not come true. Well, George Lucas is a living testament that they do. An independent filmmaker that is a one man industry. With Lucasarts involved with computer effects, toys, and computer software
George Lucas is going into the new millenium with the next three Star Wars movies. Episode one the Phantom Menace has as many critics as it does fans but it will change filmmaking
Film ... made by first time directors for $250, 000 USA, barely. For the next two Star Wars movies Lucas will shoot digitally, everything will be shot with the equivalent of home video cameras, and edited on computer
Already the technology is being adapted by independent filmmakers. Hollywood has always been an exclusive club because developing and cutting celluloid film is expensive, lab costs regularly bankrupt first time directors and small production ...
- 1285: Capital Punishment
- ... During his presidential gain, President Clinton rushed home for the Arkansas execution of Rickey Ray Rector, a mentally retarded, black man. Clinton couldn't take the chance of being seen by voters as "soft on crime." Political Analysts believe that when the death penalty becomes an issue in a campaign, the candidate favoring capital punishment almost inevitably will benefit. Capital punishment discriminates against the poor. Although murderers come from all classes ... the cost of state killing is up to three times the cost of lifetime imprisonment." Juveniles are subject to the death penalty. New laws state that juveniles are subject to the death penalty if the crime they have committed is great enough. Innocent people can-and have been-executed. According to a 1987 study, 23 people who were innocent of the crimes for which they were convicted were executed between 1900 ... society believes that we are modern and humane, yet we find ourselves torturing another human being just as King Louis did during the French Revolution. King Louis believed that if one were to commit a crime against his ideas or laws that he should strike down on them with vengeance, for they deserved it. Is that what we are trying to teach our society? By the use of capital punishment ...
- 1286: John Gotti
- If ever there was an incubator for crime it was the Italian Harlem tenements of the South Bronx. In one of those crowded dirty apartments, a young John Gotti seeked an impoverished existence with his parents and eleven sisters and brothers. His father ... able to get the charge reduced to manslaughter. While Gotti was in jail in 1976, Carlo Gambino had a heart attack and was dying. Carlo made a decision that was to create problems for the crime family for almost a decade-he named his brother-in-law Paul Castellano as his successor. Castellano was not respected and admired like Carlo. Perhaps his insecurity caused him to keep Neil as his under ... favorites. The assassination of Paul Castellano was a brilliant coup on the part of Gotti, not just in the way the ambush was executed, but also in the preparation of the Gambino family and other crime families for the event itself. When John Gotti made his decision that he was going to eliminate Paul, he determined who he would recruit to join him in the conspiracy that was ultimately called ...
- 1287: Home Shopping
- ... the translation table is known, the code is broken. Further, such a method is relatively straightforward for code breakers to decipher - such code methods have been used for years, even before the advent of the computer. Still, for general "unreadability" of encoded data, without adverse effects on performance, the 'translation table' method lends itself well. A modification to the 'translation table' uses 2 or more tables, based on the position of ... knows that there are exactly 2 tables, even with both source and encrypted data available the deciphering process is relatively difficult. Similar to using a translation table, 'data repositioning' lends itself to use by a computer, but takes considerably more time to accomplish. A buffer of data is read from the input, then the order of the bytes (or other 'chunk' size) is rearranged, and written 'out of order'. The decryption ... of the need to ensure that only those eyes intended to view sensitive information can ever see this information, and to ensure that the information arrives un-altered, security systems have often been employed in computer systems for governments, corporations, and even individuals. Encryption schemes can be broken, but making them as hard as possible to break is the job of a good cipher designer. All you can really do ...
- 1288: The Impact of AI on Warfare.
- ... image of the battlefield for the pilot, with flashing symbols for enemy planes. What is more, if a pilot passes out for various reasons such as the "G" force from a tight turn, then a computer system can automatically take over while the pilot is disabled. A recent example of the use of Al in warfare is the Gulf War. In operation Desert Storm, many weapons such as 'smart' Bombs were ... any expert systems or neural networks. The development of weapons which use highly complex systems has drastically reduced the number of human casualties in wartime. The bloodshed is minimised because of the accuracy of the computer systems used. This has been an advantage that has brought a lot of praise to the development of such sophisticated (not to mention expensive) weapons. More and more taxpayer's money is invested into research ... may never be used. This is because the weapons are mostly for deterrent uses only and no country really wants to use them because of the power which they hold. The problem with using sophisticated computer systems in warfare is that the technology being used may fall into the wrong hands. But who is to say what are the wrong hands? Most people tend to think that if the technology ...
- 1289: Adult Punishments For Children
- ... life, or even the death penalty. Should juveniles, as young as this little boy be tried as adults? Are children of this age capable of committing such heinous crimes and understanding why they committed the crime? These young people don't have the mental capacity to distinguish between right and wrong. Some of these young people haven't even attended school, and here they are, being tried as adults. A person ... types of correctional facilities made for adults. When that little boy shot his sister, did he really know what he was doing? Did he really have emotions strong enough, like hate to commit such a crime? I don't think someone of that age, has develop the emotions to kill someone in cold blood. Like gaining morals in childhood, people form emotions throughout childhood. This little boy probably just saw the ... the Arkansas Democrat Gazette in March of 1998. The United States Constitution states that no children under the age of 16 are to receive the death penalty. This is a very serious punishment for a crime. If our government sets a limit like this, shouldn't a limit be set for an age at which children can be tried as adults? Recently, a first grader in our country brought a ...
- 1290: Humans Vs. Technology
- ... a century ago, computers were born. These new toys were created so that life would be made simpler for human kind. Yet, scientists and engineers refused to stop at such a simple creation as the computer. They sought the extreme boundaries of what circuits and wires could produce. Faster was better and scientists came up with machines that could do 2-3 times the work of a normal person given the ... millions of jobs are being replaced by bits of technology that can do the same amount of work for little, if any, cost. Jobs such a hydro, banking, even baking have been taken over by computer chips. Very soon, people will realize that the very thing they created to make life easier is creating a life of its own. Computers have become a species. They inhabit a great majority of the ... and even to write the words that have just been read. It is obvious that technology has taken over society. However, this is not a publicized headline because no one would ever think that a computer could take over a planet. It would be an outrageous theory and no one would fall for it. Yet, a professional business could not function without the aid of at least one computer. A ...
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