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- 601: The Internet: How it Works and How it Effects the World
- ... 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 computer on an IP network is compatible. That means any machine can communicate with any other machine. The Internet, also called the Net, is the world's largest computer network. The Internet is the "network of all networks." (Levine 7) The networks are connected to big companies like AT&T, as well as to home computers. About 1,000 networks join each month. Every computer that is attached to the Internet is called a host. Hosts can be super computers with thousands of users, regular PC's with only a couple of users, or specialized computers, like routers that ...
- 602: Computers: Productive Tools In Our Lives
- Computers: Productive Tools In Our Lives Have you ever seen a computer in a store and said, "Whoa! What a chick!"? I am sure you would have, if you were familiar with the new 16xCD-ROM and extra wide SCSI-2 9.0 GB hard drive it features, or if you knew about the dual 225 MHz Pentium pro MMX chips blazing up its performance. To tell you all about computers, it takes a total computer nut like me. After working with computers almost all my life, I can tell you that a computer is an electrical device, without which a guy like me probably cannot survive. If you have no idea of what I am beeping about, read on. Experts, I report no error in reading further. ...
- 603: Y2K: A Problem Or Not?
- ... and other types of checks. Also, you might not be able to use your bank card. This is also a main problem for many large companies. They might not be able to use the many computer databases they have created. Somehow this problem needs to be fixed before the turn of the century. A computer genius named Herbio, prepared for this dreadful situation. He designed a woman who could protect the world using her powers. Her name was Mother Nature and her powers consist of wind, water, earth, fire, and mind combined. She was to find out who started this problem and tell Herbio so he could fix it using his computer skills. On the other side of the world lived the cause of the problem, Morpheus. Morpheus could change into different people but for only two hours. Morpheus knew Herbio and they had been enemies ...
- 604: The Terminal Man By Crichton
- ... Harry Benson. Harry had psychomotor epilepsy because he hit his head in a car accident and it resulted in brain damage. Harry was a good subject for the operation because he was brilliant, being a computer programmer with top level government security clearance. The type of epilepsy that he had caused him to black out for periods of time and during his blackouts he would become extremely violent and when he ... apartment. After the investigation of the murder of Angela Black Dr. Ross went home to take a shower. When Dr. Ross got out of the shower she found Harry standing in her living room. The computer in Harry's neck was somehow malfunctioning and shocking him every few minuites. When the computer shocked him enough times it would cause a siezure. After a few minuites of talking to Dr. Ross, Harry had a siezure and attacked her. While Harry was choking her she reached and turned ...
- 605: The Death Penalty Just Or Inju
- ... find someone guilty of murder and sentence him to death, does that not make murderers out of ourselves? Can justice justify our acts? Those who assist in the death penalty are they not partners in crime? Is the death penalty a "Cruel and Unusual" punishment or is it now a necessary tool in the war on crime? With the increase in crime and violence in our society, how does the death penalty affect a North American family. History of the Death Penalty: Use of the death penalty has declined throughout the industrial Western World since the ...
- 606: The Terminal Man By Crichton
- ... Harry Benson. Harry had psychomotor epilepsy because he hit his head in a car accident and it resulted in brain damage. Harry was a good subject for the operation because he was brilliant, being a computer programmer with top level government security clearance. The type of epilepsy that he had caused him to black out for periods of time and during his blackouts he would become extremely violent and when he ... apartment. After the investigation of the murder of Angela Black Dr. Ross went home to take a shower. When Dr. Ross got out of the shower she found Harry standing in her living room. The computer in Harry's neck was somehow malfunctioning and shocking him every few minuites. When the computer shocked him enough times it would cause a siezure. After a few minuites of talking to Dr. Ross, Harry had a siezure and attacked her. While Harry was choking her she reached and turned ...
- 607: How The Availability Of The Weapons With Fire Can Affect The Rates Of Crime Of Violence?
- How The Availability Of The Weapons With Fire Can Affect The Rates Of Crime Of Violence? The data collected on this subject are unambiguous and they seem to indicate that the number of people having a weapon with fire in an area or a given country affects the rates of crime of violence, and particularly on the rates of homicide. How is it made that such a report/ratio seems to exist? The answer is perhaps that the weapons with fire are quite simply the most ...
- 608: The Mafia
- The Mafia The Mafia, Americas most organized crime group, has dominated the crime scene for centuries. Its largest profits come from drugs and gambling. Other forms of illegal profit come from loan-sharking, labor racketeering, hijacking, pornography, and prostitution. The Mafia is a secret criminal organization that ... such as, cattle theft, extortion, and kidnapping. By the turn of the century, the Sicilian Mafia was the most powerful and well organized of all Italian criminal groups. Like a cancer, the Sicilian approach to crime was metastasizing, sending out its aberrant cells to colonize social tissues elsewhere, especially in the United States (True Crime). Immigration to the United States, from Italy, began around 1870. Of the approximately 5.3 ...
- 609: Bill Gates
- Bill Gates When one thinks of computer software, one must think of Microsoft. In fact if you use a computer, chances are that you will have some type of program on there that is developed by Microsoft. The CEO, chairman, cofounder, and owner of 147 billion shares of Microsoft is Bill Gates. William Henry Gates ... 1968, Bill Gates was entering the 8th grade at lakeside School, and his best friend Paul Allen, entered the 10th grade. Lakeside invested $3,000 into a Teletype machine which could connect to the business computer via a phone line. When the computer courses began in January 1969, both Gates and Allen discovered their passion for programming. Since very few teachers knew anything about computers, the boys taught themselves with ...
- 610: Dealers Of Lighting, Michael H
- ... who convinced the corporation to sink tens of millions of dollars into PARC, while acknowledging that it may never pay off; Alan Kay PARC s philosophical soul, who was ridiculed for many years envisioning a computer that could be tucked under the arm yet would contain the power to store books, letters, and drawings until he arrived at Palo Alto and met the people who would build it. Finally Steve Jobs ... staged a daring raid to obtain the technology that would end up at the heart of the Macintosh. In the late 1960s, Xerox founded a PARC, California. Eventually, that facility, became ground zero of the computer revolution. the dinosaur era of computing, a typical machine filled a large room and was shared by dozens of researchers. Hiltzik credits Robert W. Taylor, who assembled the PARC team, with changing that. A psychologist, rather than an engineer, Taylor s vision of the computer as a communications device proved to be a revolutionary idea. He found his chance to realize it when Xerox s chief scientist Jacob Goldman persuaded his superiors to launch a basic research facility along ...
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