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- 871: Application Software
- ... for personal computers are word processors, electronic spreadsheets, and database management systems (Little and Benson 10-42). A word processing program allows a user to efficiently and economically create professional looking documents such as memoranda, letters, reports, and resumes. With a word processor, one can easily revise a document. To improve the accuracy of one's writing, word processors can check the spelling and the grammar in a document. They also ...
- 872: The Arrival of Email
- ... come back to haunt you-in court." Just ask Bill Gates. ("When the Devil is in the E-Mails," BusinessWeek, June 8, 1998, pp. 72-74) In the past it was handwritten memos, file documents, letters and tape recorded conversations-for example President Nixon's Watergate related tapes-that have sometimes been used by external parties to take companies to task in court. With the digital communication methods of the Information ...
- 873: Modems
- ... bits per second is a measure of the number of data bits (digital 0's and 1's) transmitted each second in a communications channel. This is sometimes referred to as "bit rate." Individual characters (letters, numbers, spaces, etc.), also referred to as bytes, are composed of 8 bits. Technically, baud is the number of times per second that the carrier signal shifts value, for example a 1200 bit-per-second ...
- 874: Journalism on the Internet
- ... Prodigy Setback", Toronto Computes, November, (1995), p. 9 Doug Bennet, "Confessions of an online publisher", Toronto Computes, November (1995), p. 35 "The Internet Comes of Age" PC Magazine, May 30, (1995), P. 19 Casey Abell, "Letters", PC Magazine, May 30, (1995), P. 19 Rick Ayre and Don Willmott, "The Internet Means Business", Pc Magazine, May 16, (1995), p. 197 Bill Kempthorne, "Internet, So What?", The Computer Paper, September, (1995), p. 20 ...
- 875: Investigative Report Of Internet Addiction
- ... are for organizations and some are simply networks that provide Internet services. All these different kind of networks can be identified on the Internet by their domain extension, or in other words the last three letters in the address -e.g. http://www.arabia.com is a commercial site because of the .com- in figure 2 the percentage of all four major domains is shown, and it is obvious that the ...
- 876: Internet Censorship
- ... In Usenet there are many newsgroups which center their conversations on varied topics. For example, rec.music.beatles would focus the discussion on the Beetles. This would be done through posts or articles, almost like letters sent into a large pot where everyone can read and reply. Many controversial newsgroups exist and they are created easily. It is possible to transfer obscene and pornographic material through these newsgroups. There is no ...
- 877: Internet Inventions
- ... destination almost instantly. This provides people with a way to communicate with people anywhere in the world quickly without the costs of other forms of communicating such as telephone calls or postage for letters. The savings to be gained from e-mail were enough of an inducement for many businesses to invest heavily in equipment and network connections in the early 1990s. The employees of a large corporation may ...
- 878: Internet Security
- ... most basic of security measures. The user should avoid easily guessable passwords such as a child's name, birthdate, or initials. Instead, he should use cryptic phrases and combine the use of small and capitalized letters such as "THE crow flys AT midnight". Another easy way to avoid problems is to change the password or phrase at least once a month (Rothfeder, "November 1996 Feature" 5). Just in case an intruder ...
- 879: The Internet
- ... collection of resources (or databases) of the World Wide Web. Electronic mail (e-mail) brings a unique perception into the way of communication. Although, it did not replace the traditional means of communication such as letters and telephone calls, it has created a new method of transmitting information in a more efficient way. E-mail saves time between the interval of sending and receiving a message. Sending an e-mail message ...
- 880: Heart of Darkness; by Joseph Conrad
- ... his pocket....[it] was like tearing myself away from an old and solid friendship." Kurtz's diary, another grail-like object, was given to Marlow for safe-keeping. Even though the contents of the diary/letters are not known, kurtz's cousin eventually informed Marlow of Kurtz's extremist. This leading into another falsehood picture of Kurtz's image, even though he was again described as "...electirfi[ng] large meetings...he ...
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