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- 2881: The Internet, Pornography, and Children
- ... university library resources, current world and business news, and computer programs.10 “Usenet is a worldwide network of UNIX systems that has a decentralized administration and is used as a bulletin board system by special-interest discussion groups… is considered part of the Internet … is composed of thousands of newsgroups, each devoted to a particular topic. Users can post messages and read messages from others in these newsgroups in a manner ...
- 2882: “Technology and the Library Perfect Together”
- ... so much faster and fun to look up a book by computer, But just as much fun to go search for it on the shelf. Sometimes you find other books nearby on the shelf that interest you also and it helps you learn your way around the library. So computers are great to have but it is still a good idea for us to be able to find the information in ...
- 2883: Data Warehousing
- ... about usage patterns, and the "I'll know what I want when I see it" nature of data warehouse development can necessitate table and index changes. Data warehouse developers, concerned about losing the favor and interest of data warehouse users, want changes made quickly and get quite frustrated being put on the DBA backlog. On the other hand, DBAs often have knowledge about how to make database processing industrial safe. Cutting ...
- 2884: Internet Access: Flat Fee vs. Pay-Per-Use
- ... said they would like to receive a customized news report, and about half said they would like some sort of communications service, such as the ability to send messages to others. But only 40% expressed interest in movies-on-demand or in ordering sports programs, and only about a third said they want interactive shopping." A survey commissioned by MacWorld (Charles Piller, "Dreamnet", MacWorld, Oct 1994, pages 96-105) which claims ...
- 2885: What is ISDN?
- ... B channels) occupying a bandwidth of 64 kbit/s each. A delta channel (D channel) handles signalling at 16 kbit/s or 64 kbit/s. H channels are provided for user information at higher bit rates. [Stallings] There are two types of ISDN service: Basic Rate ISDN (BRI) and Primary Rate ISDN (PRI). BRI: consists of two 64 kbit/s B channels and one 16 kbit/s D channel for a ...
- 2886: The Inter(esting)net
- ... The Web makes all of the systems from other countries work together with compatibility. Thus, allowing the Internet to be internationally user-friendly. The United State's stock market has greatly benefited due to sudden interest and popularity in the Internet. Stock holders with share of Internet related companies have noticed a skyrocket in the prices over a short period of time. The Internet holds an endless amount of information. From ...
- 2887: The History of Computers
- ... purpose computer was invented in 1871 by Charles Babbage, just before he died"(Evans 41). It was still a prototype of course, but it was a beginning. Around this time, there was little or no interest in the development of computers. People feared, due to the lack of their knowledge, that computers would take over everything and run their lives (Buchsbaum 9). If only these 18th century Americans, who were ignorant ...
- 2888: Telnet
- ... on the Internet remain accessible today only via the telnet connection. Since telnet is a terminal application, many see it as a mere holdover from the days of mainframe computers and minicomputers. With the recent interest in $500 Internet terminals may foretell a resurgence in this business. Disadvantages include the aforementioned problems that telnet tends to have printing and saving files, and its primitive look and feel when compared to more ...
- 2889: Telecommunication
- ... Networks . Circuit Switched Digital Networks utilize a switching matrix at the central office of a telephone company that connects local calls to long distance services. The Telephone companies now offer dial up circuits with signaling rates of 56, 64, and 384 kilobits per second as well as 1.544 megabits per second. Another type of LAN to LAN connections are packet switching networks. These are services that a network router calls ...
- 2890: Telecommunications
- ... interconnecting most of the world's e-mail systems. E-mail can also be used to create collaborative groups through the use of special e-mail accounts called reflectors, or exploders. Users with a common interest join a mailing list, or alias, and this account automatically distributes mail to all its members. The World Wide Web allows users to create and use point-and-click hypermedia presentations. These documents are linked ...
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