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- 941: Nullsoft's Winamp Review
- ... passes through a sound card or speakers. If you are not comfortable with changing the equalizer settings yourself, Winamp has hundreds of preset settings which are categorized by music type. Examples of this include Jazz, Rock, Reggae, and many more. Winamp users even have the ability to create and save song-specific pre-amplifier and equalizer settings. Another important factor in choosing a music program for your computer is customizable features ...
- 942: Reality - What It Is And How It Works
- ... developed successful methods of allowing six degrees of freedom including Polhemus Research, and Shooting Star Technology. Six degrees of freedom refers to a combination cartesian coordinate system and an orientation system with rotation angles called roll, pitch and yaw. The ADL-1 from Shooting Star is a sophisticated and inexpensive (relative to other trackers) 6D tracking system which is mounted on the head, and converts position and orientation information into a ...
- 943: History of Computers
- ... operation is Howard Aiken’s Harvard Mark I (created in 1937), which was made up of 78 adding machines and calculators. Although Howard’s model was automatic, it was controlled by instructions punched into a roll of paper tape. There was a need for an all-electronic machine. This project was taken up by Dr. J. Presper Eckert Jr., and Dr. John W. Mauchly, with help from a few of their ...
- 944: Dell Computer Corporation
- ... approach to manufacturing, selling and servicing personal-computing systems. The company is committed to extending the advantages inherent in what is already the industry’s most efficient business model. Dell Computer Corporation, headquartered in Round Rock, Texas, near Austin, is the world’s leading direct computer systems company. Austin is the company’s birthplace and home to Dell Americas, the regional business unit for the Unites States, Canada and Latin America ...
- 945: GPS: The Future of Navigation and Technology
- ... They are also used for time keeping in certain scientific experiments. Most of the GPS manufacturers are not explicit about what kind of problems non- compliant GPS receivers will experience at the time of the roll over. Some of the problems could be: 1: The GPS receiver may not be able to locate the GPS satellites. In this case the receiver will not work at all. 2: The receiver may take ...
- 946: Radio: A Form of Communication
- ... called Morse Code. (The International Morse Code is still used to send messages by shortwave radio.) Communication of human speech first took place in 1906. Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, a physicist, spoke by radio from Brant Rock, Mass., to ships in the Atlantic Ocean. Armstrong's Contributions Much of the improvement of radio receivers is the result of work done by the American inventor Edwin Armstrong. In 1918 he developed the superheterodyne ...
- 947: Overview of Video On Demand Systems
- ... commercial, industrial, governmental and military associations to retrieve past information in order to prepare and anticipate future events. This preparation and anticipation can be crucial to the survival of these industries because of the key roll of the individuals or groups being monitored. It is this monitoring and collection of data that allows these organizations to make informed decisions and to take the appropriate action to current events. Multipoint multimedia teleconferencing ...
- 948: Computers
- ... created what is usually considered the first digital computer. This machine was constructed from mechanical adding machine parts. The instruction sequence to be used to solve a problem was fed into the machine on a roll of punched paper tape, rather than being stored in the computer. In 1945, however, a computer with program storage was built, based on the concepts of the Hungarian-American mathematician John von Neumann. The instructions ...
- 949: Technology Changes Role of Database Administrator
- ... to data entry. Therefore, it is vital to individual database personnel to make sure they are receiving the proper training to prepare them for our rapidly changing technology world. (Mael 1995) The database administrator's roll has become ambiguous. Therefore, the job description has been separated into two fields. The traditional database administratori is responsible for managing and the organization of data. He is no longer responsible for programming in C ...
- 950: OpenVMS: Using a Virtual Operating System by the International Securities Exchange
- ... operating system to host its trading applications. The bid is still undecided with the Securities and Exchange Commission. So why use OpenVMS and not Windows NT? "The Platform was chosen because of its scalability and rock-solid reliability." Said Diana Wilson, CIO at the New York-based exchange. Let us examine the origins of OpenVMS, its scalability, and reliability. This way we can get a better understanding of why the International ...
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