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Radar: A Silent Eye In The Sky
<view this essay>.... at the
same time. In 1935, the first radar systems are installed in Great Britain,
called the Early Warning Detection system. In 1940, Great Britain and the
United States install radar aboard fighter planes, giving them an advantage in
plane-to-plane combat as well as air-to-ground attacks.
Radar works on a relatively simple theory. It's one that everybody has
experienced in their lifetime. Radar works much like an echo. In an echo, a
sound is sent out in all directions. When the sound waves find an object, such
as a cliff face, they will bounce back to the source of the echo. If you count
the number of seconds from when the sound was made to when th .....
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Biometric Systems
<view this essay>.... the most reliable but most people hate the idea of a laser shooting into
their eye. Yet something such as monitoring keystroke patters people don't mind,
but it's not nearly as effective.
Biometric verification is forecast to be a multibillion dollar market in
this decade. There is no doubt that financial credit and debit cards are going
to be the biggest part of the biometric market. There are also many
significant niche markets which are growing rapidly. For example, biometric
identification cards are being used at a university in Georgia to allow students
to get their meals, and in a Maryland day care center to ensure that the right
person picks up .....
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Computers And The Disabled
<view this essay>.... developments toward making life easier for
the nearly blind and for the deaf, including on screen text to synthesize speech
or Braille, and adaptive hardware that transforms a computers audible cues into
a visual format. Computers have given the limited back their freedom to be an
active part of the human race.
According to the Americans with Disabilities Acts, any office that has a
staff of more than fifteen people now has to provide adaptive hardware and
software on their computers, so that workers with disabilities can accomplish
many tasks independently. Before this Act was passed the disabled were normally
passed over for jobs because of th .....
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A Computerized World
<view this essay>.... new area will be taken over by computers, namely maps.
Different routes are stored on one single compact-disk. Imagine, simply
insert the CD into the CD-driver in your car, and tell the computer where
to go. The rest will be done automatically. This will be a safer, faster,
and more comfortable way to travel.
Another new area, called "virtual reality" is currently being tested. This
is a way to simulate reality on a monitor. In order to feel this so-called
reality you have to wear special electronic glasses and an electronic suit.
Fastened to the suit are sensors, which send information to the main
computer. This computer works with the data and displays them .....
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Year 2000 Fiction, Fantasy, And Fact
<view this essay>.... In fact, Mike Elgan
who is the editor of Windows Magazine, says " . . . the problem could cost
businesses a total of $600 billion to remedy." (p. 1) The fallacy that
mainframes were the only machines to be affected was short lived as industry
realized that 60 to 80 million home and small business users doing math or
accounting etc. on Windows 3.1 or older software, are just as susceptible to
this "bug." Can this be repaired in time? For some, it is already too late. A
system that is devised to cut an annual federal deficit to 0 by the year 2002 is
already in "hot water." Data will become erroneous as the numbers "just don't
add up" anymore. Some PC owners .....
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Importance Of Electronics
<view this essay>.... Electronics also provide a
superior tool for progression in the business world today. Business people rely
on electronics to communicate with each other faster and to store and quickly
organize vast amounts of essential data.
Electronics are improving at a blindingly fast rate. The newest
technology from five years ago is literally obsolete today. Electronics are
also being used for new purposes continuously. The Internet, or World Wide Web,
is a relatively new concept of being “on-line”. This new project has opened a
limitless number of doors for our society. Now anyone can use the Internet to
communicate with anybody else in the world a lot faster and .....
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Dispute Over Computers And Knowledge To Operate Them
<view this essay>.... of all,without knowledge
of computers anyone dont stand a chance on the job market. Because without
education in this field there is no way to succed in life or to find ajob which
would provide decant pay for an average person. However,other people have
different opinion about this issue. In theit opinion knowledge of computers is
not required in today's job market. They also thinks that people should not
depend so much on computers but more on their own education and capibilities to
make the right decisions.
Even knowing for a fact that the computers are almost everywhere in use it's not
appropriate for people to get addicted to them and to make them so .....
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Censorship On The Internet
<view this essay>.... military since 1960s, but no one actually owns it. Thus,
the Internet is a global network, and it crosses over different cultures. It is
impossible to censor everything that seems to be offensive. For example, Vietnam
has announced new regulations that forbid "data that can affect national
security, social order, and safety or information that is not appropriate to the
culture, morality, and traditional customs of the Vietnamese people." on June 4,
1996. It is also impossible to ban all things that are prohibited in a country.
For instant, some countries, such as Germany, have considered taking measures
against the U.S. and other companies or individuals that .....
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