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- 2901: Battle of the Bytes: Macintosh vs. Windows 95
- ... help if you needed to know what kind to buy so your would be compatible with someone else's. This entry tells that I am one that is around computers a lot and have an interest in them.
- 2902: The History of Computers
- ... computer was never finished for many reasons. Some of the reasons were not having precision mechanics and could solve problems not needed to be solved at that time.9 After Babbage's computer people lost interest in this type of inventions.10 Eventually inventions afterwards would cause a demand for calculations capability that computers like Babbage's would capable of doing. In 1890 an new era of business computing had evolved ...
- 2903: The Y2K Problem
- ... firmware) in any one of these systems is not working properly it can cause problems anywhere in the network. These problems could range from money not being added and deducted from accounts properly, problems with interest and financial forecast situations, or even a complete crash of the network. Compounding this - 2000 is a leap year. Some programs (Including Lotus and Lotus-Compatible worksheets) do not recognize Feb 29th, 2000. (Datamation Magazine ...
- 2904: Virtual Reality Technology and Society
- ... is still a very young field. The level of sophistication of the systems involved is high, but progress is still being made in the quality of the visual images-- higher resolution, more colors, faster display rates. As soon as the technology arrives, each of us will be like explorers. As Jaron Lanier once said, "Sometimes I think we've uncovered a new planet, but one that we are inventing instead of ...
- 2905: The Bulgarian and Soviet Virus Factories
- ... get infected by it was to copy an infected file from one computer to another. When the puzzle of creating a virus which is able to infect EXE files was solved, V.B. lost his interest in this field and didn't write any other viruses. As far as I know, he currently works in real--time signal processing. 2.2) The T.P. case. ------------------- The second Bulgarian virus--writer, T ...
- 2906: New Eye Tracking Techniques Improve Realism of Aircraft Simulators
- ... an enormous amount of addi to improve image quality significantly throughout the whole viewed scene. However, based on the visual properties of the eye, realism can be obtained by providing a high-resolution 'area of interest' insert within a large, low-resolution field of view. If the image-generating computer 'knows' where the pilot's fixation is, it mage there. The technology to make this possible was developed by a research ...
- 2907: The vast cyber-frontier is being threatend with censorship from the government
- ... 15% saying none should, then lastly 6% believe the government is the right system for the job.29 The MIT media Lab's Webhound project allows World Wide Web users to assign a number which rates each Web page seen. Webhound can then point someone toward Web pages of their own interests. The Home Net project which started February and goes until June 1997, gave computers to 50 Pittsburgh families and ...
- 2908: Computer Simulation
- ... wind direction and speed, temperature, relative humidity, altimeter setting, and solar and lunar light data. These weather elements must be allowed to range from tropical to arctic regions, to vary over the geographic area of interest, and to change as often as hourly. In addition, wind direction and speed and temperature in a vertical profile up to 70,000 feet must be allowed to impact Nuclear Biological and Chemical NBC) weapons ...
- 2909: The Computer Underground.
- ... activities are so closely related, with phreakers learning hacking skills and hackers breaking into "telco" computers, reference is usually made to phreak/hacking or p/hackers." Those who have a deeper and more technically oriented interest in the "telco" (telephone company) are known as phreakers. They, like the hackers discussed earlier, desire to master and explore a system that few outsiders really understand: The phone system is the most interesting, fascinating ...
- 2910: Regulating The Internet: Who's In Charge
- ... test to see if something is obscene or not. The test is listed here: 1. Would the average person, applying contemporary community standards' find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest? 2. Does the work depict or describe, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law? 3. Does the work, taken as a whole, lack serious literary, artistic, political, or ...
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