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The Computer Revolution
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a series of complex codes that took a great deal of training to learn. Then the
Apple computer company took this complex computer language and evolved it to a
simpler system of computer language using words that made sense in their context.
This system was called BASIC. BASIC was a major development in the computer
industry, because it made computers accessible to the average American. This
helped greatly in proving that computers were no longer just toys and they had a
very useful purpose. Most people still felt the cost was too great for a
glorified typewriter.
Several years after they introduction of the BASIC system, Apple
introduced a new line .....
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Airships
<view this essay>.... PROLOGUE
An airship is a type of lighter-than-air aircraft with propulsion and steering
systems, it is used to carry passengers and cargo. It obtains its buoyancy
from the presence of a lighter-than-air gas such as hydrogen or helium. The
first airship was developed by the French, called a ballon dirigible, it could
be steered and could also be flown against the wind.
TYPES OF AIRSHIP
Two basic types of airship have been developed: the rigid airship, the shape of
which is fixed by its internal structure; and the nonrigid blimp, which depends
on the pressure created by a series of air diaphragms inside its gas space to
maintain the shape of its fabr .....
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Questions Of Ethics In Computer Systems And Their Future
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is truly a public access network, then the control to which they would like to
extend to it would be the most regulated public access system in history. What I
believe the attempt here is to regulate through censorship. Since it is almost
impossible to censor the phone networks without actually eaves dropping on your
phone, they have decided to regulate and censor your written word. The danger in
this is what you write as an opinion may be construed by that government
regulator as a violation of some regulatory act. The flip side to this is if you
did this through another medium such as the phone system nothing would ever come
it. The bigger que .....
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The Telephone
<view this essay>.... then select a number using either tone or
pulsing dial.
A telephone can be separated into two main categories: there is the tone
(touch tone) or the older rotary dial (pulse) telephones. Then you can divide
those into other categories such as business line (multi -- line) or home line
(single line). You can also have many other types of phones: there are those
that hang on the wall, on the desk, etc.
THE HANDSET
No matter what kind of telephone you own, there has to be some device
that allows you to talk to and listen to. This device is called the handset. The
handset is usually made out of plastic and inside it are two main components:
the transmitter .....
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History Of The Intel Corporation
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electronics company. Gordon suggested that semiconductor memory looked
promising enough to risk starting a new company. Intel was born.
Intel made quite an impact on the industry soon after it was founded.
The sales revenues jumped enormously through Intel's International exspansion to
many countries including Europe and the Phillipines in the early 70's. From
1969 to 1970 Intel's revenues went up by almost four-million dollars! Today,
Intel is one of the biggest companies pulling in billions and billions of
dollars each year.
Intel has had many factors over the years that has allowed it to
mono .....
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Protocols And Interfaces
<view this essay>.... connection, much like an existing landline modem connection. Except for wireless LANs, which are not discussed here, it is uncommon to use a bridge between a wireless network and a fixed-en d network.
Our profiles of specific networks further below explain what specific protocols are used. But the general pattern for the wireless link is as follows.
Physical layer An RF carrier signal that is digitally modulated to create a bit stream. This bit stream incorporates forward error correction, interleaving and other techniques to mitigate the effects of interference and weak signals that can produce high-bit-error rates.
Link layer Usually a specialized r .....
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The History Of The Airship
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which, to maintain the form, gas pressure acts in conjunction with a
longitudinal keel; and the rigid airship, or zeppelin, in which the form is
determined by a rigid structure. Technically all three classes may be called
dirigible (Latin dirigere, "to direct, to steer") balloons. Equipped with a bag
containing a gas such as helium or hydrogen which is elongated or streamlined to
enable easy passage through the air, these Airships could reach speeds up to
10mph with a 5hp steam engine propeller.
The first successful airship was that of the French engineer and inventor Henri
Giffard, who constructed in 1852 a cigar-shaped, non-rigid gas bag 44 .....
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Software Piracy
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any laws you throw at us .There is no stopping it . America has gotta wake up ,
no matter what kind of warning you put out , or whatever other restrictions you
try to enforce , there will always be another way . No matter what kind of
encryption there will always be someone out there , wether it be me or the next
guy , whose intelligence is greater then those who make the software .
According to the federal government , that by the way has no real
control over america since they can't even control themselves , software is
protected from the moment of its creation . As soon as that software hits the
store it is protected by the United States Federal G .....
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