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ISDN Vs. Cable Modems
Number of words: 2980 - Number of pages: 11.... of two commercial
deployments of residential Internet access, each introduced in the spring of
1994:
· Continental Cablevision and Performance Systems International (PSI)
jointly developed PSICable, an Internet access service deployed over upgraded
cable plant in Cambridge, Massachusetts;
· Internex, Inc. began selling Internet access over ISDN telephone
circuits available from Pacific Bell. Internex's customers are residences and
small businesses in the "Silicon Valley" area south of San Francisco, California.
2.0 The Internet
When a home is connected to the Internet, residential .....
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Computers As Medical Treatment Devices
Number of words: 771 - Number of pages: 3.... or even physical surgery with the scalpel which could
release the tension on the cornea and allow it to form into it's proper
shape. Now, with the help of modern science and computers, it's possible to
use lasers in surgical procedures to reshape the lens.
The procedure consists of creating a "flap" on the outermost layer
of the cornea, and folding it back, allowing the laser to change the
refractive index of the old lens by effectively vaporizing the surrounding
layers.
This technology would definitely not have been possible had it not
been for computers. The laser itself .....
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Identity Theft
Number of words: 696 - Number of pages: 3.... this there are ways to prevent yourself from falling victem to identity
theft. you see a criminal likes easy prey. They don't want to have to work for
it. It's like locking your car at the mall, sure someone might break in anyway,
but chance are if your doors are lock the will probably move on to another car.
First off... Never give your credit card number online out unless you are
positive that the company you are dealing with is legitimate and reputable. If
you aren't sure call the better burough of business. Never give out your social
security number unless you absolutly have to, t .....
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The Involvement Of Computers In Future Jobs
Number of words: 1330 - Number of pages: 5.... and
you will not be able to cope with new technological events. Computer
consulting is a job, I have chosen long before the advances of technology.
And now it has paid off. I now have a business of my own, working as a
computer consultant. I assist others in learning about computers to be
able to operate more efficently in their everyday jobs. Computers will
fall into careers and our everyday life more rapidly then you think.
Perhaps you would like to be a teacher. You will store all class data,
students work, names, grades, records all accessible by computer. Or, how
about a doctor. .....
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How Technology Has Hurt Us
Number of words: 365 - Number of pages: 2.... garbage
problem by recycling.
Air conditioners are using up allot of our electricity. There are times
in the summer when brown outs happen because if our excessive use of the air
conditioners. Freon gets released into our environment.
Today people are being kept alive longer and longer. People that have
no chance of recovery are being kept alive on ventilators. This causes a great
expense to society and an emotional stress on the family. Even though older
people may beg to let them die medicine refuses to let them. This is slowly
changing with living wills.
Even though we love to watc .....
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Internet And Internet Security
Number of words: 1171 - Number of pages: 5.... 1950s. The US Government owns the Internet and has the responsibility
and right to decide who uses it and how it is used. The government HAS to have control on what information people are able to get from its agencies. This
information is not lawfully available through the mail OR over the telephone, so
there is absolutely no reason why they should be available otherwise. Since the
idea a network of computers, the industry has wonderfully advanced some good
blocking devices, but they are not an alternative for a well-reasoned law. Because the Internet has become one of the biggest .....
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The Information Super Highway
Number of words: 2772 - Number of pages: 11.... strong medium, allowing thousands to hear news, entertainment, and even propaganda. Radio was new and was therefore forced to restrict its use of certain ideas and vocabulary. Years went by and a new form of media emerged: the device television, which was used to see pictures. Another new medium of communication except now with sight too. Television too was forced to restrict profanity, ideas that were not to be expressed, and information
that was only for certain individuals. Both radio and television underwent heavy investigation on how they were to broadcast. With the rise of the I .....
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HDTV: The Emergence Of A New Generation In Television.
Number of words: 1782 - Number of pages: 7.... to bow
down and purchase 600 million new high definition television sets.
HDTV, is known in the television industry as high definition
television. HDTV is paving the way as a new medium waiting to emerge as
the greatest thing to hit television since color. However it's not the
1950's and HDTV is already up and running in other markets. Japan's NHK
broadcasting group used 1125/60 equipment and European ZDF broadcasters
used 1250/50 equipment to cover the 1996 Atlanta games using the HDTV
signal (Hitchen, 1997). Although no one could receive the signal except
experimental digital .....
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Video Games: The High Tech Threat To Our Younger Generation
Number of words: 2673 - Number of pages: 10.... from 1987 to 1993
(Palmeri 102). Tetzeli in his article "Videogames: Serious Fun" compares
videogames $ 6.5 billion--a--year business to the Hollywood film industry (110).
He continues to point out that two Japan based conglomerate have put about 64
million videogame machines in US households in total. In addition to that they
also produced and licenced for all their softwares for their machines (110).
Palmery estimates to produce and market a ful featured videogame it would costs
up to $10 million (102). Because of the cost producers attempt to make a return
on their investments and e .....
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A Detail Look Into The Internet And Where It Is Headed!
Number of words: 1797 - Number of pages: 7.... be received shortly after it occurred. Citizens no longer had to wait for the copy of the morning paper to hit the newsstands’(Bergeen 3). The television was invented on the heels of radio. ‘In 1920 the first primitive TV’s were born, however the media did not become persuasive until the 1950’s when they became more affordable’(Strate 2). They soon replaced the radio as the media form of choice.
The newest and currently most controversial form of mass media and communication is the Internet. ‘The Internet has linked sources of information around the world and with the progress m .....
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