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- 4541: The Evolution of Apple - January 1976 to May 1995
- ... of memory and a new auto-start ROM for easier startup and screen editing for $1,195. Apple II Pascal is also released. In 1980 Apple FORTRAN introduced and proves to be a catalyst for high- level technical and educational applications. Apple III announced at the National Computer Conference. It has a new operating system, a built-in disk controller and four peripheral slots priced at $3,495, the Apple III ... IIx computer, priced at $7,769. It is the first Macintosh II computer to use Motorolas 68030 microprocessor and 68882 math co-processor. It is also the first Macintosh to incorporate FDHD, Floppy Drive High Density, Apples new 1.44MB floppy disk drive that can read and write to MS-DOS, OS/2 and ProDOS formats. Also a new configuration is announced for the Macintosh SE. The new unit ... Worldwide Developers Conference. AT&T and Apple sign multimedia communications agreement to provide video conferencing and desktop collaboration capabilities using QuickTime Conferencing technology and WorldWorx Network Services. Apple Petitions FCC once again to create unlicensed high-speed wireless "National Information Infrastructure Band." I hope you change the way you think about Apple computers since you know a little bit of history on the company. When I say a little bit. ...
- 4542: P. T. Barnum
- ... swamp just east of Bethel. Barnum then learned that he was the unknowing butt of jokes for ten years. Barnum learned from this, although a bit angry, that people loved being humbugged. He would attend school just long enough to maser basic reading, writing and arithmetic skills. At the age of eight Barnum became an apprentice for his father's dried good store. Although, sadly, in 1826 Barnum's father died ... Thumb won her and they were married December 10th 1863 with a private lavish wedding paid by Barnum. In 1865 Barnum was elected to the Connecticut legislator and wanted to abolish slavery. It was a high point in his political career. Two years later he started the Barnum Museum circus and Menagerie, which was his first traveling circus. The circus had finally come to town. In 1867 he started bringing exotic ...
- 4543: Great Gatsby
- The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel about several people's lives in high society, told from the point of view of a rather normal man. The theme of the withering of the American dream shows itself in the book through many of its characters. Most of these people ... he is rich and can buy anything he wants, Gatsby remains restless and indecisive about his own needs. For months, he has parties almost every week, which are attended by much of New York's high society. However, he never seems to enjoy these parties, because he rarely attends them himself, and when he sees that Daisy does not like them, he calls them off. This shows that although he is ... story is Nick Carraway, the narrator. He is not artificial or truly immoral. When he moves to West Egg, he is pursuing the American dream, but he finds that he does not fit in with 'high society', who has supposedly achieved the American dream. Since Nick, the only 'good' and 'stable' character in the book, does not fit in with those who seem to be living the American dream, this ...
- 4544: Organic Molecules Challenge
- ... in two optical states: one state absorbs green light, the other orange. Shinning green light on the green-absorbing state converts it into the orange state and vice versa. Birge and his coworkers have developed high density memory drives using bacteriorhodopsin. Although the idea of using organic molecules may seem far-fetched, it happens every day throughout nature. "Electron transport in photosynthesis one of the most important energy generating systems in ... based on inorganic semiconductors, namely silicon and gallium arsenide, giving way to electronics based on organic compounds," said Scott E. Rickert, associate professor of macromolecular science, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, and head of the school's Polymer Microdevice Laboratory. "As a result," added Rickert, "we could see memory chips store billions of bytes of information and computers that are thousands times faster. The science of molecular electronics could revolutionize computer ...
- 4545: Which Computer Is The Fastest
- ... has cornered the market in education, and remains number one in this U.S. market. Apple Macintosh computers account for 60% of the 5.9 million machines in U.S. schools for the 1995-96 school year. Only 29% of schools use the Microsoft/Intel platform, and DOS only accounts for a measly 11%. Also it was reported that 18.4% of 4 year college students own the Macintosh. 55% of ... in MPEG hardware playback for full-screen, full-motion video. Apple's Power Macintosh 7500/100, and 8500/120 computers include nearly everything a user needs to quickly and easily begin videoconferencing. QuickTime Conferencing software, high-speed communications capability, and video/sound input are all included. Users need only connect a video camera to the Macintosh video-in connector. With Apple's QuickTime Conferencing software, users can call other videoconference participants ...
- 4546: George Orwell
- ... class system.("Orwell " Compton n.pag.) Orwell was born into a lower middle class family that struggled to provide him with an education("George" Discovering 1). In 1911, his family returned to England. He attended school in Sussex, where he was known for his poverty and intelligence. He then attended Eton College but decided not to continue and went to Burma in 1922, as a member of the British Imperial Police ... mid-thirties("George" Discovering 2). Orwell died at the age of 46 from complications from tuberculosis("Orwell" Twentieth 745). Throughout Orwell's educational process, he had build up a sense of bitterness. St. Cyrian Prep. School, in which Orwell had attended, provided him with his first glimpse of misused power.("George" Discovering 6+) In 1922, he became an officer for the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. After five years with the ... related to his experiences as a child, in the Spanish Civil War, and in World War II. As a child he saw his first glimpses of power being misused, while attending the St. Cyrian Prep. School. In the Spanish Civil War, Orwell saw the threats that a totalitarian government, such as communism, can possesses. He also observed all of the destruction of humanity that totalitarianism is capable of doing. During ...
- 4547: Oprah Winfrey
- ... research makes her able to answer any kind of controversial issues. And she is always able to support both sides of the issue and never makes the audience unsatisfied or misleaded. Second, she has a high self esteem. She always has confidence and are full of energy. Loosing many weights gave her more confidence and higher self-esteem and made her show even better than before. Third, she shows respects to ... make the country better. People not only praise her intelligence but her efforts to deal with these social issues. Today Oprah is using her philantrophic efforts to establish educational scholarship for hundreds of students in school and Universities throughout country, including 100 men at Morehouse University in Atlanta, Georgia.(Oprah Winfrey talk show bio P.2) By September 15th, she is obligated to inform whether she will continue for another two ...
- 4548: Knowledge is Power: How To Buy A Computer
- ... the consumer pays a large premium for the fastest possible system, he may not see a corresponding increase in performance. Buying the latest computer system is like buying a fancy new car. One pays a high premium just to get the newest model. When the consumer drives the car out of the showroom, it becomes a used car, and its value goes down several thousand dollars. Similarly, when a new computer ... bracket of an expansion slot. The more individual components a computer has, the easier it is to upgrade and replace them. Computer technology changes so quickly that it does not make sense to pay a high premium for the fastest system on the market. Today's speed demon is tomorrow's has been. If one is looking to get the best value for his money, look to the middle of the pack. Today, for example, Pentium systems go from the 75MHz systems on the low end to 133 MHz systems on the high end. The middle systems, the 100 MHz and 120 MHz systems, are where he will find his best buys. This situation will no doubt change as 150 MHz and 166 MHz systems are introduced, ...
- 4549: History of The Internet
- ... is uncensored. The Internet belongs to everyone and to no one. The Internet is structured in a hierarchy. At the top, each country has at least one public backbone network. Backbone networks are made of high speed lines that connect to other backbones. There are thousands of service providers and networks that connect home or college users to the backbone networks. Today, there are more than fifty-thousand networks in more ... network could not have a center because it would be a primary target for enemies. In 1969, ARPANET was created, named after its original Pentagon sponsor. There were four supercomputer stations, called nodes, on this high speed network. ARPANET grew during the 1970's as more and more supercomputer stations were added. The users of ARPANET had changed the high speed network to an electronic post office. Scientists and researchers used ARPANET to collaborate on projects and to trade notes. Eventually, people used ARPANET for leisure activities such as chatting. Soon after, the mailing ...
- 4550: Hacking to Peaces
- ... laws there are to impede a hacker's right to say and do what they want, the better they feel. Most people that do hack follow a certain profile. Most of them are disappointed with school, feeling "I'm smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me" (Mentor, 1986, p. 70). Computers are these hackers only refuge, and the Internet gives them a way to ... laws have to be extremely specific, and hackers find loopholes in these laws, ultimately getting around them. Another problem with the laws is the people that make the laws. Legislators have to be familiar with high-tech materials that these hackers are using, but most of them know very little about computer systems. The current law system is unfair; it tramples over the rights of the individual, and is not productive ...
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