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Private Cable TV
<view this essay>.... on pan-european broadcasting.
In this paper we try to make the point on this changes. Furthermore as we came
from different countries and live now in an other one, we found it interesting
to compare the three countries (France, Germany and Sweden) TV-broadcasting
system.
While we were searching for datas, we discovered the gap that exists in cable-
covering between France and the two other countries. What are the main reasons
of this delay? Are they political, financial or cultural? We will try to answer
these questions in our paper. But we will first define the different technical
terms that we are going to focus on. Then we will developp the birth of priv .....
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Computers Related To Turf Grass Industries
<view this essay>.... be turned on
with the touch of a button through IBM or MACINTOSH Personal computer. New
computer technology will continue to make leaps and bounds for the turfgrass
industry.
Ransome Industries, maker of fine turgrass mowing equipment, has come
out with the first electric mowing machine. I myself am not in favor of this,
or I would guess anyone in the petroleum industry is either for that matter.
There has been a greater demand for environmental concern along the nations
coastlines, and nation wide. Most of the worlds great golf courses are located
along the coasts. Ransome was banking on that an electric mowing machine would
fit that need. It has be .....
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The Arrival Of Email
<view this essay>.... 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
Age, organizational managers are finding that E-mail archives and files are
telling sources of information about an organization's policies and actions.
In the antitrust case against Microsoft "E-mail messages dashed off years
ago by the Microsoft Corp. chairman and his top lieutenants now figure
prominently as digital "smoking guns" . . . Trustbusters say electronic
mess .....
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The Electronic Computer
<view this essay>.... as the calculator. The other one is for preserving and communicating ideas, such as the technology of writing and printing. In the past ten years, however, a powerful, general-purpose mind tool, , has become widely available. In almost any shopping mall we can now buy a machine that will not only do our arithmetic. In addition, this machine helps us think, write, draw, play music, learn, keep records and retrieve information. It is that we are using every day.
The idea of an automatic computing machine can be traced back to the mid-nineteenth century. But it was only in the 1904s, when electronics was applied to the task of automatic computing, that fast, reli .....
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Investigative Report Of Internet Addiction
<view this essay>.... To Overcome The Addiction........................................4
The elements of any addiction........................................4
CONCLUSION ..........................................................8
One Last Interesting Question .......................................9
REFERENCES ..........................................................10
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Figures
1. The number of networks connected to the Internet vs. Time.
2. The percentage of the Internet domains
3. Will the equation people = Internet Users be true in 2001?
ABSTRACT
The problem of Internet addiction is not very noticeable now and that's why not
many people are takin .....
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The Origins Of The Computer
<view this essay>.... of their predecessors with public
amenities previously unheard of courts, theaters, circuses, and public baths.
And these were now large permanent masonry buildings as were the habitations,
tall apartment houses covering whole city blocks.
This architectural revolution brought about by the Romans required two
innovations: the invention of a new building method called concrete vaulting and
the organization of labor and capital on a large scale so that huge projects
could be executed quickly after the plans of a single master architect.
Roman concrete was a fluid mixture of lime and small stones poured into
the hollow centers of walls faced with brick or s .....
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The Bulgarian And Soviet Virus Factories
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these were things that can happen only in the capitalist countries. They
were first mentioned in the April issue of the Bulgarian computer magazine
"Komputar za vas" ("Computer for you") [KV88] in a paper, translated from
the German magazine "Chip" [Chip]. Soon after that, the same Bulgarian
magazine published an article [KV89]], explaining why computer viruses
cannot be dangerous. The arguments presented were, in general, correct, but
the author had completely missed the fact that the majority of PC users are
not experienced programmers.
A few months later, in the fall of the same year, two men came in the
editor's office of the magazine and claimed th .....
Number of words: 9220 | Number of pages: 34 |
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Computer Programmer
<view this essay>.... is a high demand for qualified programmers. On a recent college tour of Cornell University Computer Science Department, I learned that the average graduate of this department earns $ 54,000 a year.
A is a person who writes the coding of a program, in a language a computer can understand and follow. A program must be written in an exact and precise way, with absolutely no errors, for a computer to understand and execute the directions. An example would be telling a computer to "reed data", a computer would not be able to execute this command. A simple misspelling of one word, can make a program worthless. Errors such as these must be identified and correcte .....
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