.... more confusing than the previous two. The format and layout of the various languages are very diverse between some, and between others are somewhat similar. When programming in Basic the user has to type in line numbers before each new line of code. In an updated version of Basic called QBasic, numbers are optional. Turbo pascal does not allow the user to input numbers, it has preset commands that seperate each part of the program. This is similar to QBasic, but is much more sophisticated. Instead of using the command gosub in Basic, the user would make a procedure call. Another new l .....

.... is no standard object-oriented model, most object-oriented database systems that are operational or under development today share a set of fundamental object-oriented concepts. Therefore the implementation issues in OODBMSs that arise due to these concepts are universal. The third characteristic is that of experimental activity. Plenty of prototypes have been implemented and some of them became commercial products. There is really a need for applications to handle very complex data and that is why the interest of people in building such systems is so strong. Although there is no con .....

.... aluminium oxide provides a highly effective barrier to the effects of air, temperature, moisture and chemical attack. „h Aluminium is a superb conductor of electricity. This property allied with other intrinsic qualities has ensured the replacement of copper by aluminium in many situations. „h Aluminium is non-magnetic and non-combustible, properties invaluable in advanced industries such as electronics or in offshore structures. „h Aluminium is non-toxic and impervious, qualities that have established its use in the food and packaging industries since the earliest times. Other va .....

.... to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. In no way does violate the first amendment. prevents broadcasters from infringing on the rights of the viewers. has really been limited to obscenity and gratuitous violence or nudity because people in the media have policed themselves pretty harshly. The most prominent law established due to is the Children’s Television Act of 1990. It was established to "remind broadcasters that there is indeed a common ground outside their narrow interests, a responsibility beyond profiteering, a common civic well .....

.... the defective Pentium chips. Intel's stock dropped 5% following this bold move by IBM. IBM's main contention was that it puts its customers first, and Intel was failing to do this. Intel's handling of this defective chip situation gives rise to many questions. During the course of this paper I will address several of them. The first of which is how did a company with such a stellar reputation for consumer satisfaction fall into the trap that the customer does not know best? Secondly, what made this chip defect more of a public issue than other defective products manufacture .....

.... five stages to extract high throughput from the silicon - the Pentium Pro processor moves to a decoupled, 12-stage, superpipelined implementation, trading less work per pipestage for more stages. The Pentium Pro processor reduced its pipestage time by 33 percent, compared with a Pentium processor, which means the Pentium Pro processor can have a 33% higher clock speed than a Pentium processor and still be equally easy to produce from a semiconductor manufacturing process (i.e., transistor speed) perspective. The Pentium processor's superscalar microarchitecture, with its ability to execute .....

.... were Dave Cutler and Dick Hustvedt, it was designed entirely within Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). OpenVMS is a 32-bit, multitasking, multiprocessing virtual memory operating system. OpenVMS currently runs on Digital's VAX and Alpha computer systems. Digital Equipment Corporation owned the operating system. It wasn't until January 25, 1998 Compaq computers acquired Digital Equipment at a tremendous price of 9.6 billion dollars. "This is a marriage made in heaven," says Sateesh Lele, CIO at the European division of General Motors, which uses products form both companies. "Digita .....

.... 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 use, this is absolutely unacceptable for multiple reasons. Looking at a computer screen with a low resolution or refresh rate is stressful on the eyes. When students are constantly straining their eyes, according to his studies, creativity is reduced, errors increase due to a hasty finish, and enthusiasm is lost. Ideally, the student would be able to just have their images "p .....

.... programs, or applications, exist to aid every level of education, from programs that teach simple addition or sentence construction to advanced calculus. Educators use computers to track grades and prepare notes; with computer-controlled projection units, they can add graphics, sound, and animation to their lectures. Computers are used extensively in scientific research to solve mathematical problems. How Computers Work The physical computer and its components are known as hardware. Computer hardware includes the memory that stores data and instructions; the central processing unit (CPU) th .....

.... six hours with a piece of broccoli stuck in your teeth, or toilet paper on your shoe. But you knew that already. While screen shots from PlayStation2 titles filter in from Japan, we are all, of course, duly impressed. No one will doubt the power of Sony's newest behemoth, or the sheer beauty of its games. Titles such as Ridge Racer V, Tekken Tag Tournament,Dead or Alive 2, Dark Cloud, Gran Turismo 2000 and Onimusha are graphical masterpieces -- but then, so are games on the DC. Thes PlayStation2 titles are, by no means, the Dreamcast killers they've been made out to be. The hype has been suc .....