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Computers In Business
<view this essay>.... 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 for
companies to understand that they must think years down the road before
spending thousands of dollars on the technology of today. The best way is
to prepare for the .....
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The Computer Underground
<view this essay>.... ABSTRACT
The criminalization of "deviant acts" transforms social meanings
into legal ones. Yet, legal meanings are not necessari- ly social meanings.
The legitimacy of statutory social control generally requires that one
accept the realist textual readings of those with the power to interpret
and stigmatize behaviors as inappropriate. "Moral crusades" that lead to
definitions of criminalized deviance tend to reduce the meanings of
polysemic acts to unidimensional ones that limit understanding of both the
nature of the acts and their broader relationship to the culture in which
they occur. This has occured .....
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Analog Vs Digital
<view this essay>.... by converting human speech into software codes and converting them to audio signals before the codes reach the listener. Because it is software based it provides a perfect platform for a variety of advanced wireless features. Digital PCS is the future of mobile phone service and the soon to be de facto standard for wireless phone service.
People can choose digital PCS service for many reasons, though affordability might be the initial attraction. Because of competition by many companies price is always being driven down. Also, the many different customizable price plans offer an affordable package for any type of budget. Companies, which offer digital PC .....
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How Technology Effects Modern America
<view this essay>.... 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 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 .....
Number of words: 1152 | Number of pages: 5 |
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Radar Detector
<view this essay>.... the ticket. This device is called the Phazer. The Phazer makes your vehicle electronically invisible to the police speed-detecting equipment. It mixes a portion of the radar signals with background clutter and bounces it back to the squad car by way of wave guide antenna, which effectively confuses the computer inside the radar gun. Police radar takes five to ten speed measurements per second of the vehicle. The Phazer sends two different signals to the radar, so the final result is that police radar can not verify the speed of the vehicle and displays no speed at all.
The Phazer also protects your vehicle from Lidar guns which use distance over t .....
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Computer In The Classroom
<view this essay>.... be able to hear what is produced from our programs, and how will we prevent the computers from overbearing our voices? If there is more than one computer, how shall we network them? Possibly the last and most important question is how we make it available and easy for everyone who wants to use it?
Traditionally, each student sitting at a computer would have a 14" or 15" conventional monitor sitting on the desk, taking up a good 50% of the workspace. These monitors are usually greater than a .3 dot pitch or worse and some with only a 33 mHz refresh rate. According to Van Horn, a professor at Augsburg, in his essay titled Electronic classrooms: design and u .....
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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 .....
Number of words: 2573 | Number of pages: 10 |
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Experiencing Cyberspace
<view this essay>.... that there is no possible way of visiting
different places or countries via my home computer, but in my mind, when I see
the location that I am connected to, it feel as though a part of me is there.
The best part is that I can switch from scenario to scenario without having to
travel any ground. I do not feel a sense of distance or location, except when it
takes a prolonged amount of time to connect to a host. When I travel from place
to place (site to site), I do not cover any known physical distances, but
instead I cover visual distance. Just as many people do, I refer to the places
that I visit as virtual worlds. I like calling them this because I never .....
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