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- 451: Video Games: The High Tech Threat to Our Younger Generation
- ... Institute, Peter Huber overwhelmed many people by testifying that his 6 year old daughter learn basic musical notations by shooting ducks in the electronic key board which is linked with a MIDI and to a software that runs on another computer. Huber testifies, "television -even Sesame Street- holds no interest for her at all. What I see in her experience is the face of learning transformed, almost beyond recognition”. This proud ... to the source of the industries trade group, the bad news is unfortunately the 5,000 computer games already in stores, Mr Wasch reports, would not rated(Rating 36). Bob Garfield, an expert on videogames software in his regular column in the Advertising age angrily exposes that the hideous manipulation of children's psyches is a disgrace and further charges the industry for aiming to 'Be heard by exploiting kids' distress ...
- 452: Truth and Lies About the Computer Virus
- ... distort the truth. There is no organization that certifies wheather or not a virus is real. Even more potentially harmful is that the anti-virus companies could write viruses in order to sell their programs. Software companies have and do distort the truth about viruses. "Antivirus firms tend to count even the most insignificant variations of viruses for advertising purposes. When the Marijuana virus first appeared, for example, it contained the ... a little further. I went to the Data Fellows Web site to what the distributors of F-prot had to say about viruses. It is to no surprise that I found them trying to see software with the typical scare tactics: Quite recently, we read in the newspapers how CIA and NSA (National Security Agency) managed to break into the EU Commission's systems and access confidential information about the GATT ...
- 453: The History of The Internet
- ... lab at Prep. The server usually has a large hard drive and possibly share a printer. The computers connected to the server generally have a microprocessor and maybe a small hard drive. All the important software is shared from the server. An Ethernet on the other hand, is similar to a LAN but the connecting cable is large and enables other computers on the network to be up to 1000ft. away ... depending on your letters length and if you have a file attached. New forms of e-mail are being developed such as voice mail and video mail; both these exist and require special hardware and software. They also take longer to send and receive. One of the first features on the ARPANET then Internet were discussion groups. These discussion groups or "newsgroups" as they are more commonly known, are a world ...
- 454: The Dependability of the Web
- ... results. A second way to lighten the load of the internet is by improving the time it takes to load a page. The speed of loading a page depends greatly on the type of equipment, software, how much memory you have, your connection speed, plus a lot of other factors, but web page designers should make more text and less graphics, animation, and video because text takes a lot less time ... world. Their is currently cybercops surfing the web looking for illegal happenings on the information superhighway. Patrolling the web is only one way to help put a stop to hackers. Encrypting and making better security software needs to be developed along with other computer technology to help control hackers or cybercriminals. Theirs no denying the fact that the internet is very powerful in today's world. It combines text, audio, animation ...
- 455: Telnet
- ... friendly graphic user interfaces one sees today. Each of the early internet functions could be invoked from the UNIX prompt, however, each of them used a different client program with its own unique problems. Internet software has since greatly matured, with modern web browsers (i.e. Netscape and Internet Explorer) easily handling the WWW protocol (http) along with the protocols for FTP, gopher, news, and email. Only the telnet protocol to ... end users from having to deal with the command line prompt and the peculiar details of commands like Telnet. While that may be the case, the tendency remains in place for programmers to develop new software by building on the old. Therefore, knowing the underlying command structure of older protocols like telnet and rlogin are likely to remain essential skills for the networking professional in the forseeable future.
- 456: How Technology Effects Modern America
- ... for high school dropouts, by a sixth for high school graduates, and by about 7% for those with some college education. Only the wages of college graduates are up. Of the fastest growing technical jobs, software engineering tops the list. Carnegie Mellon University reports, "recruitment of it's software engineering students is up this year by over 20%." All engineering jobs are paying well, proving that highly skilled labor is what employers want! "There is clear evidence that the supply of workers in the ...
- 457: OpenVMS: Using a Virtual Operating System by the International Securities Exchange
- ... is that VMS is a very good, mission-critical, back-end server, and Windows NT is a wonderful desktop system and a wonderful application server," said Rich Marcello, vice president of Compaq's OpenVMS System Software Group. Compaq and Microsoft joined forces in mid-September to work on performance, scalability and availability of OpenVMS client/servers and clusters used with Windows NT. The results will be seen on the OpenVMS version ... for secure distributed application development, and is a native port of the Microsoft code that supports the COM draft standard. So what does all that mean? It will enable developers to create small, platform- independent software objects that can be distributed across networks. With this capability, existing OpenVMS applications can be encapsulated easily, and a Windows NT client can be added to extend the life of critical applications and data. This ...
- 458: Internet Censorship and the Communications Decency Act
- ... well as most other forms of mass-media, its cheap and easy to run a web site as opposed to a television show or a newspaper, thus rendering anyone with an Internet connection, the right software and the know-how capable of publishing material on the Internet. Another thing often overlooked by the Censorship supporters is the fact that the Internet is a worldwide network. No US law could control the ... be kept in a generally high-traffic area of the house to make it easy to monitor a child's Internet usage. Another option, although I personally disagree with it, would be to install blocking software that would restrict access to sites that contain key words that would supposedly make the site "offensive." Overall, I feel it's the parent's job to supervise a child's Internet access and not ...
- 459: Development of Computers and Technology
- ... the world, to the World Wide Web, which is a mass of information networked from places around the world. Nowadays, no matter where you look, computers are somewhere, doing something. Changes in computer hardware and software have taken great leaps and jumps since the first video games and word processors. Video games started out with a game called Pong...monochrome (2 colors, typically amber and black, or green and black), you ... these were not very sophisticated nor much better than a good typewriter at the time. About the only benefits were the editing tools available with the word processors. But, since these first two dinosaurs of software, they have gone through some major changes. Video games are now placed in fully 3-D environments and word processors now have the abilities to change grammar and check your spelling. Hardware has also undergone ...
- 460: Computer Systems Analyst
- ... never stop growing. I have introduced myself to all topics of word processing to surfing the web. After reviewing a number of resources, I have noticed a relatively high demand for technologically integrated hardware and software positions available with companies that wish to compete with the demand for “networking”. (“Computer Scientists” 95) This leads me to believe that future employment prospects will be high and of high quality pay within the ... quickly as the systems themselves do. Continuous study is necessary to keep the skills up to date. Continuing education is usually offered by employers in the form of paid time in night classes. Hardware and software vendors might also sponsor a seminar where analysts will go to gather ideas and new products. Even colleges and universities will sponsor some of these types of events. (“Computer Systems” America's 36) Environment, Hours ...
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