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- 3511: Airbags - Pop em' or Keep em'
- ... crash, the airbag could deploy with more or less force, resulting in less overall injuries. These "smart sensors" are still on the drawing board. It will be years before they are being put into full effect. Until that time, drivers will have to continue to use good driving skills. According to Automotive News, the advent of "smart sensors" will accompany "smarter airbags." These airbags will not only be located in the ...
- 3512: Virtual Reality: What it is and How it Works
- ... to move more than distant objects. This is called motion parallax. Lenticular screens can show users the proper stereo images when moving their heads well when a head-motion sensor is used to adjust the effect. Sound is another important part of daily life, and thus must be simulated well in order to create artificial reality. Many scientists including Dr. Elizabeth Wenzel, a researcher at NASA, are convinced the 3D audio ...
- 3513: Airplanes
- ... occupants. The firewall also serves as a mounting point for the engine. During flight, the four forces acting on the airplane are lift, weight, thrust, and drag. Lift is the upward force created by the effect of airflow as it passes over and under the wings. It supports the airplane in flight. Weight opposes lift. It is caused by the downward pull of gravity. Thrust is the forward force which propels ...
- 3514: BBS Piracy And The Copyright
- ... the advancements, or find the errors in the beta (or commercial) versions. Like all laws, The Canadian Copyright Act needs to be modified with the changing society. The act as of now is having little effect. The Copyright Act needs to be changed so it reflects, without distortion, the views of individuals and corporations. A law is made to keep order, and if it doesn't do that, then certainly it ...
- 3515: Economic Consequences of Software Crime
- ... term up to five years for the first offense and ten years for a second offense. When software is counterfeit or copied, the software developer loses their revenue and the whole software industry feels the effect of piracy. All software developers spend a lot of time and money in developing software for public use. A portion of every dollar spent in purchasing original softwar! e is funneled back into research and ...
- 3516: Government Censorship would damage the atmosphere of the freedom to express ideas on the Internet; therefore, government should not encourage censorship
- ... classification of materials has already been done by Internet users for years. Parents can then censor the Net for their children, and adults can continue to enjoy their Internet freedom. This will provide the same effect as government censorship, but will not damage the atmosphere of free idea expression and freedom on the Net. Moreover, indecorous materials are not only on the Net, minors can obtain such materials without accessing the ...
- 3517: As A Technology, It Is Called Multimedia
- ... multimedia craze was not hard to do. Teachers and Professors alike share in this technology to plan out their curricular schedules and school calendar. Most will agree that classroom computers seem to have a positive effect on students of the 90's. As schools and universities become more technology driven, there will be an even bigger plea for more multimedia enhancements. The 1980's witnessed the introduction and widespread use of ...
- 3518: Computer Simulation
- ... provide a level of resolution of terrain such that tactical considerations of terrain analysis and the dynamic effects of man-made or natural occurrences (e.g. bomb craters, minefields, battle damage on roads, the obstacle effect of rivers, hydrography, and weather) as considered during Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IPB) will affect the battle. The minimum acceptable tactical considerations include the following areas: the impact of line-of- sight (to include ...
- 3519: Regulating The Internet: Who's In Charge
- Regulating The Internet: Who's In Charge The internet was started by the military in the late forties, and has since grown to an incredibly large and complex web, which will no doubt effect all of us in the years to come. The press has recently taken it upon themselves to educate the public to the dark side of this web, a network which should be veiwed as a ...
- 3520: Piracy
- ... not charge people that are linked to computer piracy, because the pirated software offers valuable opportunity to programmers and users. Also, revenue lost to the large software companies is such a small amount that the effect won't be greatly felt by them and so it is not worth the policing effort required to track down the pirates. When pirates distribute the illegal software, one could say that they are helping ...
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