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- 771: The Office of Tomorrow
- ... Wednesday afternoon. Inside the dining room of many nationwide offices, Joe Smith, manager of HR, is downing a sandwich and soda while wading through phone and E-mail messages. In front of him is a computerequipped with a fax-modemis plugged into a special port on the dining table. The contents of his briefcase are spread on the table. As he sifts through a stack of paperwork and types responses into the computer, he periodically picks up a cordless phone and places a call to a colleague or associate. As he talks, he sometimes wanders across the room. To be sure, this isn't your ordinary corporate environment. Smith doesn't have a permanent desk or workspace, nor his own telephone. When he enters the ad agency's building, he checks out a portable Macintosh computer and a cordless phone and heads off to whatever nook or cranny he chooses. It might be the company library, or a common area under a bright window. It could even be the dining ...
- 772: Wire Pirates
- ... the Kid ever drew a six-gun. It is difficult even for those who ply it every day to appreciate how much the Internet depends on collegial trust and mutual forbearance. The 30,000 interconnected computer networks and 2.5 million or more attached computers that make up the system swap gigabytes of information based on nothing more than a digital handshake with a stranger. Electronic impersonators can commit slander or ... Service estimates that stolen calling cards cost long distance carriers and their customers on the order of 2.5 billion dollars a year. During the same years that telephone companies were fighting the phone phreaks, computer scientists were laying the foundations of the Internet. The very nature of Internet transmissions is based on a very collegial attitude. Data packets are forwarded along network links from one computer to another until they reach their destination. A packet may take dozen hops or more, and any of the intermediary machines can read its contents. Only a gentleman's agreement assures the sender that ...
- 773: Is There Any Justification For Regarding Euripedes' Electra As An Inferior Tragedy?
- ... exactly what constitutes a tragedy. The dictionary defines 'tragedy' as "a serious drama in which destructive circumstances result in adversity for and usually deaths of the main characters." The two major characters, or partners in crime, are Electra herself and her excommunicated brother, Orestes. Yet, although they do commit the terrible crime of Matricide they do not really suffer any hugely adverse consequences. The play by no means has a happy ending, but nevertheless, though divine intervention Orestes and Electra escape from the scene of the crime relatively unscathed, not counting for the emotional suffering and guilt they feel over their actions. In my opinion this does not, however, make Electra an inferior tragedy as for the criminals to die would, ...
- 774: What Is A Monopoly
- ... used for the process of a corporation or person trying to innovate and create standards for the success of their business. First of all, Microsoft is a technology corporation headed by Bill Gates that produces computer operating systems and software. It was formed in the 1970's and their objective was to create an operating system so one could run programs on a computer. They began with MS-Dos and eventually developed the Windows line of operating systems. The argument many pose is that Bill Gates created an empire that completely controls the market. However, this is not the whole story. Microsoft has created a standard for the computer software industry. Because of these standards, the world has been brought together. People can use their software and have it transferable without having to worry if it will run on a certain computer. When ...
- 775: The History of The Internet
- ... Corporation working along side the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) devised a plan. The network itself would be considered unreliable at all times; therefore it would never become too dependable and powerful. Each computer on the network or node would have its own authority to originate, pass, and receive messages. The name given to this network was the ARPANET. To fully understand the ARPANET, an understanding of how a ... and finally University of Utah (Cerf 1). The original computers used to connect to the ARPANET were consider super computers of the time. Science Data Systems (SDS) Sigma 7 was the name of the original computer at UCLA (Cerf 1). Each one of the computers connected to each other at a speed of about 400,000 bytes per second or 400 kbps over a dedicated line, which was fast at the ... was not the only network of this time. Companies had their own Local Area Network or LAN and Ethernet. LANs usually have one main server and several computers connected to that server, such as the computer lab at Prep. The server usually has a large hard drive and possibly share a printer. The computers connected to the server generally have a microprocessor and maybe a small hard drive. All the ...
- 776: Global Tales - Stories From Many Cultures
- ... surroundings, attracting the customers like "bees are attracted to cosmos or dahlia stalks". We should not only focus on plot, we should also focus on the setting too. On the other hand, the introduction to "Crime and Punishment" did not have the variety of colours as seen in "An Astrologers Day". "Crime and Punishment", a story about an impatient teacher who slapped his student on impulse, then was exploited by the child, resulting in an unexpected ending later. In "Crime and Punishment", we do not get a detailed description, only a brief description about the boy as " all dimples, smiles and sweetness----only wings lacking". The nursery is mentioned but not in detail as ...
- 777: Abortion: Life or Death Who Chooses?
- ... much less save it." As an opponent to abortion, I will readily agree, as will all those who are against abortion, that pregnancy resulting from rape or incest is a tragedy. Rape is a detestable crime, but no sane reasoning can place the slightest blame on the unborn child it might produce. Incest is, if that is possible, even worse, but for centuries, traditional Jewish law has clearly stated, that if a father sins against his daughter (incest) that does not justify a second crime - the abortion of the product of that sin. The act of rape or incest is the major emotional physical trauma to the young girl or women. Should we compound the psychic scar already inflicted on the mother by her having the guilt of destroying a living being which was at least half her own? Throughout history, pregnant women who for one crime or another were sentenced to death, were given a stay of execution until after the delivery of the child: it being the contention of courts that one could not punish the innocent child for ...
- 778: As A Technology, It Is Called Multimedia
- ... it is the sum of many revolutions wrapped into one: A revolution in communication that combines the audio visual power of television, the publishing power of the printing press, and the interactive power of the computer. Multimedia is the convergence of these different professions, once thought independent of one another, coming together to form a new technological approach to the way information and ideas are shared. What will society look like ... We can expect to see: movies-on-demand, video games, databases, educational programming, home shopping, telephone services, telebanking, teleconferencing, even the complex simulations of virtual reality. This souped-up television will itself be a powerful computer. This, many believe, will be the world's biggest media group, letting consumers tune into anything, anywhere, anytime. The most extraordinary thing about the multimedia boom, is that so many moguls are spending such vast ... network in Florida with a range of interactive services. These two announcements signaled the start of a mad multimedia scramble in America, home market to many of the world's biggest media, publishing, telecoms and computer companies, almost all of which have entered the fray. The reasons are simple: greed and fear: greed for new sources of revenue; fear that profits from current businesses may fall as a result of ...
- 779: Legalization of Drugs
- ... The drug connection is one that continues to resist analysis, both because cause and effect are so difficult to distinguish and because the role of the drug- prohibition laws in causing and labeling "drug-related crime" is so often ignored. There are four possible connections between drugs and crime, at least three of which would be much diminished if the drug-prohibition laws were repealed. "First, producing, selling, buying, and consuming strictly controlled and banned substances is itself a crime that occurs billions of times each year in the United States alone" (Lindsmith Center). In the absence of drug- prohibition laws, these activities would obviously stop being crimes. "Selling drugs to children would continue ...
- 780: Laidlaw
- ... of writing has delivered him prestigious awards for all his high quality novels. "Laidlaw" is set in the urban city of Glasgow in the 90's and delivers a cutting insight to big industries and crime in society. McIlvanney creates a stunning atmosphere and examines the fascinating issues of why people commit murder and the devastating results of violence. One of the reasons I selected this novel wasn't just because ... who requires to be looked at and examined closely. Jack Laidlaw is a universe apart from other examples of detectives , he examines the more intriguing issues of how and why people can commit the reprehensible crime of murder and the harrowing aftermath of crime and violence. Jack Laidlaw can deeply understand people more than anyone could ever imagine. Jack Laidlaw is an odd sort detective, and this is an odd sort of novel. He lives and works in ...
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