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Electronics

... to stay updated on world-wide issues. Electronics also provide a superior tool for progression in the business world today. Business people rely on electronics to communicate with each other faster and to store and quickly organize vast amounts of essential data. Electronics are improving at a blindingly fast rate. The newest technology from five years ago is literally obsolete today. Electronics are also being used for new purposes continuously. The Internet, or World Wide Web, is a relatively new concept of being “on-line” ...

Number of words: 500 | Number of pages: 2

Ecodisc

... decides what changes will be made to the nature reserve. With aid of the Ecodisc, the results of decisions can be shown without actually doing anything, or doing any harm to the environment. Ecodisc allows users to explore various parts of the nature reserve and view it from different positions. You can see the area from any direction (north, south, east or west), and even from a helicopter position. Ecodisc lets you see the areas of the reserve from any part of the year. For example, you could view the reserve in the middle of winter and ...

Number of words: 394 | Number of pages: 2

Virtual Reality Technology And Society

... . . 2 THE TECHNOLOGY BEHIND VIRTUAL REALITY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Video Display Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Audio Output Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Tactile Response Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Interactive Input Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Computers and Software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 THE HISTORY OF VIRTUAL REALITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Virt ...

Number of words: 3875 | Number of pages: 15

History Of The Internet

... always been such a key figure in American life; in fact it was mostly unheard of until recently. The theory for the Internet first started being published in 1961 with Leonard Kleinrock’s document on packet-switching theory, “Information Flow in Large Communication Net.” This document presented the theory behind the first problem of the Internet, and how to solve it1. The problem was this: when a large document is sent then pieces of it become lost in transfer and the entire document has to be resent, but then different pie ...

Number of words: 1398 | Number of pages: 6

Napster Vs Riaa

... everyone’s files and lets you search through them all and download as you please. 90% of the files that are traded daily are illegally “ripped” from CDs. Napster has a blurb at startup that states “Copying or distributing unauthorized Mp3 files may violate United States and/or foreign copyright laws. Compliance with copyright law remains your responsibility.” The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is charging the site with copyright infringement and alleges that Napster has created a base for music piracy on a ...

Number of words: 782 | Number of pages: 3

Computers In Business

... in November, 1992. The space required on a business system depends on the firm. If a company has a network, their memory would range on the applications required to run the system productively. A one to three gigabyte hard drive would be most common for businesses. To keep these applications on the computer, you need a fair amount of RAM memory as well as hard disk space. An application developed in 1993, probably will be to powerful and run quite slow on a previous system that was 'top of the line' in 1991. That's why it is important ...

Number of words: 1011 | Number of pages: 4

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 [unskilled labor] categories al ...

Number of words: 1228 | Number of pages: 5

The V-Chip

... the constitutionally of any law that might concern standards set by the US government. Yet in the space provided for this essay, the focus will be the technical aspects and costs of the new chip. It is impossible to generally assume that the V-chip will solve the violence problem of broadcast television or that adding this little device to every set will be a first amendment infringement. We can, however, find clues through examining the cold facts of broadcast television and the impact of a mandatory regulation on that free broadcast ...

Number of words: 661 | Number of pages: 3

Why We Should Stick To Qwerty

... type any faster than at the current speed. Second, for the people whose job require fast typing, the new keyboards can lead to bigger health problems that develop from continuous typing. Third, and most importantly, standardization has led the qwerty keyboards to firmly hold the position as the keyboard. There are major differences between the two types of keyboard users; the regular users and the other typists. The regular users are people who uses the keyboard for word processing, e-mailing, and internet; there is not much of a need for ...

Number of words: 787 | Number of pages: 3

File Storage And Document-To-Html Conversion

... to download them, though the contents in these two files may be the same. Although the format of a data file does not based only on its extension, "the name and the extension of any file are completely arbitrary, and therefore could be anything", Murry as a novice Internet user, it is easy for you to understand the file formats by its extension. If you want to learn how to create files or advanced techniques to use files, you have to know more about the files' structure. The file extension is the most important thing you must know in order ...

Number of words: 963 | Number of pages: 4

Radar: A Silent Eye In The Sky

... system. They each developed their own systems at the same time. In 1935, the first radar systems are installed in Great Britain, called the Early Warning Detection system. In 1940, Great Britain and the United States install radar aboard fighter planes, giving them an advantage in plane-to-plane combat as well as air-to-ground attacks. Radar works on a relatively simple theory. It's one that everybody has experienced in their lifetime. Radar works much like an echo. In an echo, a sound is sent out in all directions. When the soun ...

Number of words: 948 | Number of pages: 4

The Future Of Fiber Optics On The Internet

... signals or pulses representing digital information (0's and 1's) are transmitted from one location to another in the form or light, guided through thin fibers of glass or plastic. Fiber Optics can represent information from voice, date, video and images, which allows for use with telephones, computers, and televisions. A strand of glass is thinner than a human hair, yet inch by inch is stronger than steel. The future of fiber optics is very promising due to the simple fact of how much information they can carry. Two single fiber optics ...

Number of words: 653 | Number of pages: 3

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