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- 361: Computer Mediated Evnvironments
- ... flight schedules and make reservations, purchase a wide variety of products, and discuss product performance with other consumers, are becoming very popular. Households in Chicago and San Francisco can purchase groceries from home using computer software marketed by Peapod, Inc. This latter service allows consumers to search within a product category using attributes such as price, calories, sugar content, and package size. Car manufacturers such as BMW regularly mail CD-ROMs ... other alternatives. In the current shopping environment, it is very difficult to form such frontiers and make efficient choices. However, with CMEs (where we assume that such data manipulation could actually be performed by the software), the nature of the marketplace would change dramatically as inefficient brands are either driven out or re-manufactured to be on the frontier. CMEs also provide the opportunity to study the dynamics of processing strategies ...
- 362: Should Governments Use Private
- ... Chinese but have opposite political and economic system. As statistics shown, Taiwan has become a much more successful country than China in economic growth. Private enterprise economic system allows small business. Microsoft, the biggest computer Software Company in the world was also built from the ground up. Bill Gate, the guy who created Microsoft, started the business when he was still a university student. He believed he would make an effort ... wielded monopoly power. But in fact, the company is also facing rival operating systems such as Linux and BeOS. The company admitted that at present the rivals were not viable alternatives to Microsoft, but the software market could be very different in one or two years. If the private enterprise economy were not introduced, we would not be able to have the technology we have now because when the government controls ...
- 363: Loophole Or A Conspiracy?
- ... and they have no choice but to use the other Microsoft's products because if everyone is using it and you will be out of the loop. The New York Times article reported that the software security breaches has been verified. This means that if one hacker has the knowledge of hacking through this loophole, then we are in great danger because everything you can imagine is stored in the computers ... written and implemented by the programmers of Microsoft. If Microsoft can do this sneaky program in all of their programs, the question of what other secretly imbedded programs are their in the other Microsoft's software. What can these secret program do? This scares me as I write this paper because I am writing with Microsoft's Word program. Can somebody be reading what I am writing or hacking through my ...
- 364: Animal Rights
- ... that 90% of all research animals are not included in the statistics. Too many animals are being tested and they do not even need to use the animals for these tests. They can use computer software materials and get the same results. One more point is that animals do have rights. The activists of the animal rights movements do not claim that animals are the moral equivalent of humans, just that ... empathy for the oppressed by influential outsides came because the outsides could identify with the oppressed - because they are human. So we must continue to stand up for animal rights. No animal needs dies when software can be used for testing. The third, and final reason to defend animal rights is that animal testing is cruel and unusual. Animals are used every day to help find a cure for a certain ...
- 365: Steve Jobs
- ... to Steve. He wanted a company to call his own. He left Apple for good and founded NeXTStep with five key Apple employees. Jobs new ideas werent in the hardware industry but in the software industry. He developed NeXTOS and in mid 1989 NeXT came out with a $7,000 monochrome system. It had no floppy, virtually no useful software, and a slow magneto-optical disk. In the end only 50,000 NeXTStep machines were ever built. Jobs and a new member to NeXT, Peter Van Cuylenburg, age 44, planned on releasing NeXTStep to run ...
- 366: History Of Ozzy
- ... exist because there would be no music to be heard. Without either of these, artists wouldn t be heard and businesses wouldn t exist. There are four major issues that face the recording industry today: piracy, payola, contents of recording, and authenticity of performances(150). Piracy is the recording of music without the consent of the musician or business(149). To put it bluntly, the recording industry, as well as the musician, lose money when a person records the musicians music ...
- 367: Steve Jobs
- ... to Steve. He wanted a company to call his own. He left Apple for good and founded NeXTStep with five key Apple employees. Jobs new ideas werent in the hardware industry but in the software industry. He developed NeXTOS and in mid 1989 NeXT came out with a $7,000 monochrome system. It had no floppy, virtually no useful software, and a slow magneto-optical disk. In the end only 50,000 NeXTStep machines were ever built. Jobs and a new member to NeXT, Peter Van Cuylenburg, age 44, planned on releasing NeXTStep to run ...
- 368: Yarmouth,england
- ... a lot of times the boats required supplies to be brought with them, and the King was not ready to pay for any of that. Another problem for Yarmouth was they were being accused of Piracy. An investigation was held and they found out at least thirty of Yarmouth's ships had been involved in piratic activities. In the later years of the middle ages, Yarmouth was in decline. Due to piracy, their ships being damaged, problems with silting, and the Black Death wiping out a large part of its population. Also, they became a rival with another town in England, Norwich. Norwich controlled the trade the ...
- 369: Web Radio
- ... different types of music. (Thomas 38) Although the most prominent reason for the increase in Web radio activity is advancement in related technology, there are multiple other reasons. The key has been the development of software that allows a digital recording stored on a computer to be transmitted over the Internet and played instantly and continuously as it is received by the listener s computer. (Your Very Own 516) This technique is known as streaming, and was pioneered by RealNetworks. In the streaming process, the digitized clips are sent over the Internet as a stream of compressed data packets. (O Malley 64) Free audio-player software that works with Web browsers then decompresses and assembles these packets at the user s computer and automatically plays them back as they are received. Streaming systems typically use a buffering system that stores an ...
- 370: Web Advertising
- ... phenomenon whereby the majority of local Internet entrepreneurs - many of them are under thirty and already multi-millionaires - come from tertiary education backgrounds where they were weaned on readily available Internet access. Popular 'browser' client software for navigating the multimedia WWW includes Netscape and Microsoft Internet Explorer. On the other end, there exist approximately 30 local companies which call themselves ISP's (Internet Service Providers), which operate in similar fashion to ... anyone is doing so at prese nt in South Africa, although a lot of people are trying.' IS-Commercial a division Internet Solutions scored a South African first in 1996 in the development of a software engine that searched only South African Web resources. This introduced a new aspect to Web advertising in South Africa as it means that local Web users no longer have to sift through a colossal amount ...
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