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The History Of Computers
Number of words: 475 - Number of pages: 2.... because until then, the only thing a computer could do was add.
The computer multiplied by successive adding and shifting (Guides 45).
Perhaps the first actual computer was made by Charles Babbage. He
explains himself rather well with the following quote:
"One evening I was sitting in the rooms of the Analytical Society at
Cambridge with a table full of logarithms lying open before me. Another member
coming into the room, and seeing me half asleep called out, ‘Well Babbage, what
are you dreaming about?', to which I replied, ‘I am thinking that all these
tables might be calculated by m .....
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How Technology Effects Modern America
Number of words: 1152 - Number of pages: 5.... 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 danger of the information age is that while in the short run it may be
cheaper to replace workers with technology, in the long run it is potentially
self-destructive because there will not be enough purchasing power to grow the
economy,” M. B. Zuckerman. My feeling is that the trend from unskilled labor
to highly technical, skilled labor is a good one! Bu .....
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The Modem
Number of words: 474 - Number of pages: 2.... have 14.4
or 28.8 baud modems (Baud is "Slang" for Baud Rate Per Second) the reason for
the increase in 14.4 and 28.8's is that they are cheap and fairly recent and
haven't gone out of date yet. There are two types of modem external and
external modems internal plugs into a 16 bit port inside your computer and
external connects through either a serial (mouse)port or a parallel
(printer)port most people like the external modems because they don't take up an
extra space in your computer (according to PC Computing) prices in modems range
price from $100 (28.8bps) to $500(software upgradable .....
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It And Retailing
Number of words: 1423 - Number of pages: 6.... home (if space for storage allows!). Also when considering mail order companies there is no longer the need to endure the costs of designing, printing and sending out catalogues. These factors contribute to e-commerce companies being able to offer products at greatly reduced prices as overheads have been minimised.
A company now has the ability to provide customers with a catalogue that has a far more extensive range than that of which any mail-order catalogue could provide. Recently Amazon have advertised that they currently offer more than 3 million books, to further their service they .....
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What Is ISDN?
Number of words: 5167 - Number of pages: 19.... computer technology. It allowed
computers to communicate with each other by converting their digital
communications into an analog format to travel through the public phone network.
However, there is a limit to the amount of information that a common analog
telephone line can hold. Currently, it is about 28.8 kbit/s. [Hopkins] ISDN
allows multiple digital channels to be operated simultaneously through the same
regular phone jack in a home or office. The change comes about when the
telephone company's switches are upgraded to handle digital calls. Therefore,
the same wiring can be used, but a .....
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Morality And Ethics And Computers
Number of words: 1652 - Number of pages: 7.... society to answer.
There are also many moral and ethical problems dealing with the use of
computers in the medical field. In one particular case, a technician trusted
what he thought a computer was telling him, and administered a deadly dose of
radiation to a hospital patient.2 In cases like these, it is difficult to decide
who's fault it is. It could have been the computer programmer's fault, but
Goodman asks, "How much responsibility can you place on a machine?"3
Many problems also occur when computers are used in education. Should
computers replace actual teachers in the clas .....
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The Y2k Bug
Number of words: 422 - Number of pages: 2.... them complete their task faster.
It was discovered in the late 1980’s that this Y2K bug could cause computer systems to fail when the year 2000 rolled around because computers might fail to recognize that it is the year 2000 versus 1900. The problem is going to affect the whole world.
How does affect the average person? It is possible that the electric companyies’ computers could crash, which could cause either blackouts or brownouts. It would mean no heat for your house and no way to store perishable items. It would mean that water companyies could not operate, so there would b .....
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Technology Spontaneously Approaching `Humanity' With The Passage Of Time
Number of words: 2045 - Number of pages: 8.... are deigned to meet specific
specifications. In Terminator 2, the T800 is a multipurpose cyborg assigned to
save John Connor, given a series of “mission parameters,” initially
characterized by his computer logic. He often advises John based on permutations
of the T1000's next move, similar to the way a chess computer decides what move
to make next. Just as the T800 is designed to perform solely as a unemotional
computer, the ‘replicants' in Blade Runner are designed to work in slavery
without protest. Since it's remarked in Blade Runner that humans develop
emotions by existing for .....
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Internet Inventions
Number of words: 730 - Number of pages: 3.... such as telephone calls or postage for letters.
The savings to be gained from e-mail were enough of an inducement for many
businesses to invest heavily in equipment and network connections in the early
1990s. The employees of a large corporation may send hundreds of thousands of
pieces of E-mail over the Internet every month, thereby cutting back on postal
and telephone costs. It is not uncommon to find internet providers from twenty
to thirty dollars a month for unlimited access to internet features. Many
online services such as America Online and Prodigy offer e-mail software and .....
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Computer Crime 2
Number of words: 2800 - Number of pages: 11.... and chemical drips (such as "sober-up" drugs and synthesized hormones) will keep most of the sexually and physically violent offenders under control.
But computer criminals--ranging in age from preteen to senior citizen--will have ample opportunities to violate citizens' rights for fun and profit, and stopping them will require much more effort. Currently, we have only primitive knowledge about these lawbreakers: Typically, they are seen only as nuisances or even admired as innovators or computer whizzes. But increasingly, the "hacker" is being replaced by the menacing "cracker"--an indiv .....
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