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- 4651: Business and the Internet
- ... are then directly joined to other computer users at there own will for a small connection fee per month. The connection conveniently includes unlimited access to over a million web sites twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Since the Internet can be accessed by millions of people all time, it would be a great incentive for businesses. The Internet can help businesses in number of extraordinary ways. First ... found, there could be many documents, pictures, small movie flicks, and unique question and answer sections available. All of this can be gathered in the convenience of a person's home, twenty-four hours a day. A business can be very pleased with the amount of information they can readily have available to publish to the entire world. If the consumers are satisfied with a particular product with all the public ... browsers feel very comfortable. If that does not bring connivance to the users, the twenty-four hour service of availability should accommodate them even more. Some consumers could say they would rather stay home all day and do all of their business with the Internet. Well, today all that is possible. No driving around from store to store and no negotiating with pesky salesmen would greatly help some. Technology today ...
- 4652: Nanotechnology: Immortality Or Total Annihilation?
- ... turn of the century."(Roland 30) There are other developments also, that are pushing nanotech in the right direction for as Lipkin pointed out recent developments have lead to possibilities of computers thinking in 3-D (5). Which is a big step towards the processing of information that nanotech requires. Although there are still unanswered questions from some of the scientific community, researchers believe that they are moving forward and will one day be able to produce nanomachines. One such machine is regarded as a replicator. A replicator, as it's name implies, will replicate; much like the way in which genes are able to replicate themselves (Drexler ...
- 4653: Careers In Computer Engineering
- ... or automated teller machine available at many banks, is operated through interlocking computer networks, and a person several thousand miles away from home can obtain quick cash from a machine at any hour of the day or night. A person with a degree in computer engineering has many options for a career. Many colleges offer electrical engineering curricula and computer engineering may be an offshoot. The University of Delaware describes a ... Vol. 123, p. 96. Fernandes, Lorna. "Posse Out for Info Workers: Supply Falls Short of Demand," The Business Journal (1997): August 18, Vol. 15, No. 16, pp. 1-2. Glass, Robert L. "Computer Science Ph.D. Production - More Institutions, Fewer Degrees, More Students," The Journal of Systems and Software (1997): November, Vol. 39, No. 2, p. 91. Gornstein, Leslie. "Engineers Cashing In as High-Tech Firms Face Shortage of Qualified Workers ...
- 4654: The Arrival Of The Internet
- ... people to purchase items without ever leaving their homes. Perishable goods such as groceries are being ordered over the Internet. A customer can order online and those items are shipped via Federal Express in a day. Internet-based electronic commerce sales could reach $3.2 trillion in 2003, representing nearly 5 percent of all global sales, according to new projections from Forrester Research, a Massachusetts-based market research firm.(Taylor, 68 ... be totally safe and secure. There is a certain amount of risk associated with sending your credit card numbers over the phone. The credit card is used over the phone by millions of people every day. The Internet offers more security for your credit card than most places. Credit Card numbers that go through the Internet are encrypted, meaning the numbers are scrambled as they are transferred from your computer to ... Too much of a good thing can turn bad. Moderation is a good way to avoid some of the problems associated with the Internet. One should limit their Internet time to 1-2 hours a day if not less. Moderating the time you spend on the net can prevent many of these problems such as addiction, which may lead to depression. If a child's time on the Internet is ...
- 4655: The History and Development of Computers
- ... business, universities, and government from companies such as Burroughs, Honeywell, IBM, and others. These second generation computers contained transistors in place of vacuum tubes. They also contained all the components we associate with the modern day computer: printers, disk storage, memory, operating systems, and stored programs. One important example was the IBM 1401, which was universally accepted throughout industry, and is considered by many to be the Model T of the ... effective and productive for business use. More sophisticated high-level languages such as COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) and FORTRAN (Formula Translator) came into common use during this time, and have expanded to the current day. These languages replaced cryptic binary machine code with words, sentences, and mathematical formulas, making it much easier to program a computer. New types of careers (programmer, analyst, and computer systems expert) and the entire software ... users to type in a computer address and send messages through networked terminals across the office or across the world. The future outlook of computers looks very positive and new technologies are occurring every other day. Many predict that in a few years, everyone must have a computer to do daily functions.
- 4656: Limitations on Robotic Technology
- ... have given them the intelligence to do it. De Garis sees that soon robots will tire of their human creators and make their own decisions like it or not for the creators (Kelly 2). "The day when robots do not do what we want then to do may already be here," says De Garis (Kelly 2). With limitations some robots can be very beneficial and helpful. These robots help humans perform ... so they can get more work done in an allotted amount of time. Laboratories in Durham, North Carolina are using robots to test sample cures for diseases (Moukheiber 76). The robots work 24 hours a day and seven days a week so that they can get faster results than the old guess and check method. Sometimes society needs to settle for a slower and more human worker to keep society intact ... If limitations on robotic technology are regulated then humans can stay in control of their own creations. If no limitations are regulated then robots could gain enough intelligence and power to overtake their creators. The day of decision is here; technology is at the point for humans to make a decision now. Humans must find a balance between human existence and technology. Humans need robots to do the things that ...
- 4657: Internet Censorship
- ... s students. Meanwhile, some of the researchers listed as part of Rimm's "team" now say their involvement was minimal; at least one of them had asked Rimm to remove his name. Brian Reid Ph.D who is the director of the Network System Laboratory at Digital Equipment Corporation is the author of the network measurement software tools that Rimm used to compile his statistics. He had this to say about ... watchdog group. The very nature of the internet keeps it in a state of dynamic equilibrium. This constant change also works against watchdog groups. Thousands of homepages are moving, going up and going down every day. This makes it logistically impossible for all the pages to be tracked by any agency. In the end, people want most what they cannot have. In the days of prohibition rum-runners smuggled alcohol over ...
- 4658: Installing A Car Stereo System
- ... so that only low range frequencies are output, for an appearance of voices and higher pitched instruments to be in front. The unit is standard size (7"w X 2"h X 5-7/8" d) and uses the standard auto grounding system and power consumption, allowing an installation without cutting or drilling and appearing factory installed. The unit utilizes the face-off anti-theft system, which allows the front panel ... speakers. Speakers The speaker component of this sub system will be self contained speakers in the 8" to 12" range. The maximum dimensions of the speaker system are 10"h x 30"w x 20"d. These dimensions will allow the speaker component to fit under the rear seat. The speaker can consist of either a single mono woofer, or a pair of seperately contained stereo woofers. Subwoofer Speakers The subwoofer ... along the side of the sub- speaker system or in the space along the side of the rear seat anchor. In this space we have a maximum of 10"h x 8"w x 18"d. The signal input connector must be RCA type connectors and have a low- level input switch. The preference here is a set of male jacks on a cord protruding from the unit at least ...
- 4659: Advancement of Technology and Science and Its Influence On Science Fiction Novels
- ... solved -- the meaning of life. The initial recognition by the reader that technology in our time and place is continuously expanding allows for plausibility such a strange and bizarre plot to occur. In Pohl's Day Million the seemingly strange world set one thousand years in the future is so completely different from earth today because of technological changes in virtually everything -- even the act of love, which is at the ... center of the story, has become completely alien to the audience. (Pohl 166) Despite the fact that the technology presented may seem strange and unusual to the audience Pohl draws his ideas directly from modern day science and technology. Gene manipulation and machine interaction with the body are all currently being researched and used in the science labs and hospitals. In the case of Day Million such technology shapes how these people live and interact with one another. Science fiction in many cases attempts to better our understanding of our own world and our surroundings by using technology not ...
- 4660: Morality and Ethics and Computers
- ... for extended lengths of time . They can also have problems with the muscles in their hands from typing so often. They can acquire back problems from sitting in chairs behind desks at computer screens, all day long. Some people say that computers allow humans to cheat. They give us the answers. They allow us to stop thinking. They believe it is unethical for the computers to do the work for us ... that some humans allow computers to do work for them, but then if people did not make use of the new inventions and time-savers, farmers would still be plowing with a horse and we'd still be cooking on an open fire. Until computers exhibit actual artificial intelligence, though, we are still the ones doing the thinking. We program the computers to do what we want them to do. In ...
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