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How Technology Effects Modern America
<view this essay>.... 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 already
exceeds the demand for their services," says L. Mishel, Research Director of
Welfare Reform Network.
In view of these facts, I wonder if these trends are good or bad for society.
"The danger .....
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The Steam Engine
<view this essay>.... transportation of goods, and travel. The invention of revolutionized European society by enabling tasks to be done quicker, cheaper, and more dependably.
use throughout the several professions revolutionized numerous aspects of Western European Society. The first important use of came in 1776. was used to show the Cornish miners how successful it could be in removing the water from the mineshafts. This proved to be of great importance to the Cornish, because one of their biggest problems was the flooding of the mining shafts. (The Penetration of the Industry by Steam Power) The mine owners “worried…that the mines would have to be shut down unle .....
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Ecodisc
<view this essay>.... 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 see what it looks like in summer.
Ecodisc is one of the first interactive programmes, and there are hopes of some
day there being interactive broadcast television. This .....
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The Anti-Trust Case Against Microsoft
<view this essay>.... investigating them for
possible violations of the Sherman and Clayton Antitrust Acts,(Maldoom 1) which
are designed to stop the formation of monopolies. The investigation continued on
for the next three years without resolve, until Novell, maker of DR-DOS, a
competitor of Microsoft's MS-DOS, filed a complaint with the Competition
Directorate of the European Commission in June of 1993. (Maldoom 1) Doing this
stalled the investigations even more, until finally in August of 1993, (Check
1)the Federal Trade Commission decided to hand the case over to the Department
of Justice. The Department of Justice moved quickly, with Anne K. Bingaman, head
of the Antitrust D .....
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MMX Technology
<view this essay>.... system packages that are obtainable for most home users to take advantage of.
is Intel's most recent processor enhancement, but what is it? How does it work? What does it mean as far as performance improvements? is the first new chip architecture from Intel in ten years. From a technological standpoint, there are significant changes: MMX defines a set of 57 new computer instructions that extend the x86 instruction set of approximately 80; it has 32 KB of on-chip cache, verses the non-MMX on-chip cache of 16 KB, which enhances performance of even non-MMX applications, and it makes use of Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) for more efficient data proc .....
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Microsoft
<view this essay>.... opened its first foreign office in England. A year later introduced the Mouse which was a must have peripheral for all computer users today. Word was developed in September 1983 as the first Office family application. The biggest invention in was Windows, a more user-friendly and more powerful operating system than MS-DOS. formed their headquarter in Redmond, Washington, In the same year, its stock went public and started at $21 per share. The updated version of Windows operating system went on sale in 1990 and five years later the complete makeover version named Windows 95 was launched. And now the much debated and controversial program called Win .....
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Technology And Special Education
<view this essay>.... Education) in our country. These programs are imperative for the enhancement and achievements of students in special education.
Exceptional Student Education or Special Education is instruction that is specially designed to meet the unique needs of children who have disabilities. This is done at no cost to the parents. Special education can include special instruction in the classroom, at home, in hospitals, or other institutions. Over 5 million children ages 6 through 21 receive special education and related services each year in the United States. Each of these children receives instruction that is specially designed:
to meet the child's unique nee .....
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Video Cards
<view this essay>.... homepage, but instead a virtual world. With that added
dimension, they all look more realistic and attractive. Nevertheless, 3D do not
exist in most of the business programs today, but it can be forecasted that it
is not far away.
Many new kinds of video cards have been introduced to the market recently. In
the past, the video card could only deliver two dimensional graphics which were
only in low resolution. However, there has now emerged as a result of high
resolution three dimensional graphics technology. This paper will discuss why
the video card nowadays can process high resolution three dimensional graphics,
but why the video card in the past could .....
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