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- 531: Software Piracy
- ... software license or the unauthorized use or reproduction of copyrighted software by a person or entity that has not been licensed to use the software. Software piracy has become a household word and a household crime and has had a great affect on the software industry. It is a problem that can only be solved by the choices of each individual. The computer software industry is one of the great business success stories of recent history, with healthy increases in both hardware and software sales around the world. However, software piracy threatens the industry's economic future. According ... every week To understand software piracy, one must get inside the mind of the pirate. People, who wouldn't think of sneaking merchandise out of a store or robbing a house, regularly obtain copies of computer programs which they haven't paid for. The pirate has a set of excuses for his actions: prices are too high; the company doesn't provide decent support; he's only going to use ...
- 532: Telecommunication
- Telecommunication 1. Introduction Computer and telephone networks inflict a gigantic impact on today's society. From letting you call John in Calgary to letting you make a withdraw at your friendly ATM machine they control the flow of information ... of punched cards as a method of storing data. These punched cards held 80 characters each. They dated back to the mechanical vote-counting machine invented by Hermen Hollerith in 1890. But this type of computer was very hard and expensive to operate. They were very slow in computing speed and the punch cards could be very easily lost or destroyed. One of the first VDTs (Video Display Terminal) was the ... on the DTE (Data Terminal Equipment) and a female plug on the DCE (Data Communications Equipment). 3.3. Hello Joshua, Would You Like To Play A Game... In the 1950s a need arose to connect computer terminals across ordinary telephone lines. This need was fulfilled by AT&T's Bell 103 modem. A modem (modulator/demodulator) is used to convert the on-off digital pulses of computer data into on- ...
- 533: Computers Related To Turf Grass Industries
- Computers Related To Turf Grass Industries Computer Science Term paper Turfgrass Science The field of turfgrass science, and golf course management has became very sophisticated in just the few short years that I have been involved. Much of the equipment has gone ... the web". If there is a question concerning a new disease or fertilizer one can log on to Texas A@M home page and hopefully find a solution to the problem. The technology in the computer field has also advanced the irrigation technology in the agriculture field. Irrigation systems can now be turned on with the touch of a button through IBM or MACINTOSH Personal computer. New computer technology will continue to make leaps and bounds for the turfgrass industry. Ransome Industries, maker of fine turgrass mowing equipment, has come out with the first electric mowing machine. I myself am ...
- 534: Lady Lazarus
- ... of real crimes. The crimes in Braddon’s novel are concealed and secret. Like the crimes committed by respected doctors and trusted ladies, the crimes in Lady Audley’s Secret shock because of their unexpectedness. Crime in the melodrama of the fifties and sixties is chilling, because of the implication that dishonesty and violence surround innocent people. A veneer of virtue coats ambitious conniving at respectability. Lady Audley’s Secret concludes ... safe when the most ruthless conniver insinuates herself into the aristocracy? (Kalikoff, 84). In Lady Audley’s Secret, aristocrats are not dangerous, those who intrude into higher social classes are. Because she committed a social crime by marrying Sir Michael, Lady Audley is suspect from the start. Of particular offences in Victorian melodramas, the most popular tends to be bigamy. Many novels of the Victorian time hung their narrative on bigamy in act, bigamy in intention, or on the supposed existence of two wives to the same husband, or two husbands to the same wife. Indeed, so popular has this crime become, as to give rise to an entire sub-class of this branch of literature, which may be distinguished as that of Bigamy Novels (Manse, 6). Lady Audley’s cunning bigamy and eventual murder ...
- 535: Linux Against Microsoft Windows
- ... OS/2 on the same machine.It is an advantage of linux that a user can easily compare Linux with other operating systems. Unlike Windows, Linux is a capable of runnig on large variety of computer systems.One of them is Intel Based PCs.Most of the home users prefer Intel Based PCs.So they can run Linux on their computers(Windows can only run on Intel Based PCs).Digital Alpha systems are used by the huge companies.Linux has the capability of running on the Digital Alpha systems so it can reach the advanced users.Other computer system is Macintosh Power PC that is used by graphical designers,press companies and advertising companies, can be run with Linux. The others are Sun Sparc&Sun Ultra, Amiga, 3Com Palm Pilot which are rarely ... how Linux is secure.Linux is a stable operating system that never fails like Windows.When Bill Gates presented the Windows 98, an error message appeared on the screen that says you must shutdown your computer. In Linux, there are not error messages like that. You can kill a process that is not replying with kill command.Linux has true multitasking property.It is true because it is not like ...
- 536: The Computer Market and Retailers: A Saturated Market
- The Computer Market and Retailers: A Saturated Market Computer dealers are crowding shopping districts, and some analysts think the market is becoming saturated. In Connecticut alone, the two major shopping districts, Buckland and the Berlin Turnpike, for instance, shoppers can compare equipment and costs at Nobody Beats the Wiz, Lechmere, Circut City, Staples, and Office Max - all within minutes in one another. Yet, computer retailers insist that there has been a need for more stores - specifically their own - citing a nearly constant updating of equipment and a growing emphasis on service. They also believe revenue potential remains because ...
- 537: Crime And Punishment
- In the novel Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky portrays the main character, Raskolnikov, in a complex and unique fashion. He could have been portrayed as the good guy, bad guy, or just your average man on the street, but Raskolnikov ... instead of fearing him as he would in real life (Mikhailovski 143). To a certain level, he wants to be found out, in his dream and in real-life. Even though it is a heinous crime he has committed, his own self-absorption blocks any sort of guilt we would assume a murderer should feel. It is a common known fact that most victims or victims’ family members want the perpetrator ... lasts for only about a page and a half of the book, it reveals all of his interior conflicts. Through this dream he battles with his fears of guilt, exposure, and the immorality of the crime he committed. The reader gets a good inside look into how murder has deteriorated his mental state. This dream also dives deep into his subconscious. Because of this, he is forced to deal with ...
- 538: Macbeth: His Downfall Was Due to His Ambition for Power
- ... end, was the cause of his tragic end. Macbeth, once a great hero falls victim of his ambition for power. Although the protagonist initially tries to resist his human urge, he in the end committed crime his country, his friends, and sadly himself. Macbeth's first great crime was the crime against his country. In the beginning, Macbeth was described by his fellow noblemen as a great, loyal soldier, giving all he has for his country. Soon, it becomes evident when the witches foretells Macbeth ...
- 539: Failure of Gun Control Laws
- ... and building new towns on the frontier. Typically, these new towns were far away from the centers of civilization, and the only law they had was dispensed by townsfolk through the barrel of a gun. Crime existed, but could be minimized when the townspeople fought back against the criminals. Eventually, these organized townspeople developed police forces as their towns grew in size. Fewer people carried their firearms on the street, but ... criminals, they work to pass legislation that would take the guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens instead. For this reason the efforts at gun control do not address the real problem of crime. The simple definition of a criminal is someone who does not obey the law. The simple definition of a law-abiding citizen is someone who does obey the law. Therefore, if we pass laws restricting ... gun control laws affect law-abiding citizens only. By their very nature, the criminals will continue to violate these new laws, they will continue to carry their firearms, and they will find their efforts at crime much easier when they know that their victims will be unarmed. The situation is similar to that of the disarmed blacks a century ago. Innocent people are turned into victims when new laws make ...
- 540: Capital Punishment, Should It Or Should It Not Be Used In Today's Criminal Judging System
- ... out of the 220 inmates 106 were electrocuted, 103 by lethal injection, 9 by gas chamber, 1 by firing squad, and 1 by hanging. Abolitionists believe that this society cannot mirror the brutality of the crime committed by the convicted person because it is judicial murder. Capital Punishment is a brutal act that does not enhance respect for human life; it cheapens and degrades it . Abolitionists also believe that "the state ... community services, and jobs, or will it bankrupt itself with more prisons and more victims? The death penalty is no solution to violence. Works Cited "The Case Against Capital Punishment".Prodigy-World Wide Web-Software. Computer Software, Sept.1995.(http://www.bdt.com/home/mwood/ deathpen.html). "The Death Penalty".Prodigy-World Wide Web-Software.Computer Software, Sept.1995.(http://www.peacenet.org/prisons/pubs/out-of-time/sept95/ dp.html). "New Jersey's Racist Death Penalty".Prodigy-World Wide Web-Software. Computer Software,Feb.7,1996.(http://www.cs. ...
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