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Computer Aided Drafting And Design
<view this essay>.... use inches or centimetres. The standard method of co-ordinates gives
a product which is compatible with other systems. One co-ordinate point
might represent 1/10 of a millimetre in actual space. Then 1 millimetre is
10 co-ordinate points.
CADD systems were developed along with the computer. They were
developed very slowly. They went from being very large, clumsy, elaborate
machines which needed lots of human intervention to one program on a floppy
disk. When the power of computers increased, so did the possibilities of
CADD.
Images on CADD systems are drawn with the aid of a keyboard, mouse, or
tracking ball. One selects the starting point of a .....
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The Year 2000 Problem
<view this essay>.... Peter de Jager, described the problem quite well. “We programmed computers to store the date in the following format: dd/mm/yy. This only allows 2 digits for the year. January 1, 2000 would be stored as 01/01/00. But the computer will interpret this as January 1, 1900- not 2000” (de Jager 1). The ‘19’ is “hard-coded” into computer hardware and software. Since there are only 2 physical spaces for the year in this date format, after ‘99’, the only logical choice is to reset the number to ‘00’.
is unlike any other problem in modern history for several reasons. William Adams points out some of the most important ones. “Time is running out- the Year 2000 is in .....
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Knowledge Is Power: How To Buy A Computer
<view this essay>.... drive, or how much memory he or she really needs.
Just because buying a computer can be confusing does not mean one should throw
up his hands and put himself at the mercy of some salesman who may not know much
more than he does. If one would follow a few basic guidelines, he could be
assured of making a wise purchase decision.
A computer has only one purpose; to run programs. Some programs require more
computing power than others. In order to figure out how powerful a computer the
consumer needs, therefore, a person must first determine which programs he wants
to run. For many buyers, this creates a problem. They cannot buy a computer
until they know what .....
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Journalism On The Internet
<view this essay>.... The next group is resource files and
web pages. The third is discussion groups/forums and e-mail. I will investigate
these areas of the net, showing the advantages and disadvantages of each in
comparison to the conventional forms.
In order to understand what all these topics are you must first understand
what the internet is. The simple answer is that it is computers all over the
globe connected together by telephone wires. It was first made by the military,
"No one owns the Internet", to have a network with no centre. That way it could
never be destroyed by nuclear war. Since then, universities have used it and it
has evolved into what it is toda .....
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Should The U.S. Government Be Scared Of Cyber Terrorism?
<view this essay>.... Many people are hacking into U.S. government files and messing up the files, while the government is trying to prevent the hackers with computer simulations and computer programs.
The Colombian Rebel Group ELN is one of the many terrorist groups known to have a web page on the Internet. The ELN is known mainly for blowing up oilrigs in South America, and for kidnapping foreign executives. Two years ago, a Swedish hacker managed to go to London, to Atlanta, and then to Florida where he rerouted and tied up phone lines in each country, put 911 services out of commission, impeded the response of police, fire and rescue services. There are also a lot of cyber a .....
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Brief History Of Databases
<view this essay>.... Information Systems) was introduced. This
would prove to be very influential towards future designs of computer systems
and the methods they will use in manipulating data.
In 1966, Philip Kotler had the first description of how managers could
benefit from the powerful capabilities of the electronic computer as a
management tool.
In 1969, Berson developed a marketing information system for marketing
research. In 1970, the Montgomery urban model was developed stressing the
quantitative aspect of management by highlighting a data bank, a model bank, and
a measurement statistics bank. All of these factors will be influential on
future models of storing .....
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The History Of The Internet And The WWW
<view this essay>.... A BBS is an abreviation for Bullitin Board Service. A BBS is a
computer that you can ether dial into or access from the Internet. BBS's are
normally text based.
2. The Creator of the WWW-
A graduate of Oxford University, England, Tim is now with the Laboratory
for Computer Science ( LCS)at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT).
He directs the W3 Consortium, an open forum of companies and organizations with
the mission to realize the full potential of the Web.
With a background of system design in real-time communications and text
processing software development, in 1989 he invented the World Wide Web, an
internet-based hypermedi .....
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Battle Of Computer Bytes
<view this essay>.... over the earlier versions of Windows, and of course over DOS, but it still didn't compete against the ease of use on a Mac. The Windows 95 interface is much better than Windows 3.x. It borrows some from the Macintosh interface and has improved on it.
Some improvements are the ability to work with folder icons that represent directories and subdirectories in DOS. Windows 95, unlike the Mac, logically groups data and resources. A Taskbar menu lets you call up and switch between any software application at any time. Thus feature is better than the Mac's because its use is more obvious. It clearly shows what is running and allows you to switch programs wit .....
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