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The Arrival Of Email
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 439.... about an organization's policies and actions.
In the antitrust case against Microsoft "E-mail messages dashed off years
ago by the Microsoft Corp. chairman and his top lieutenants now figure
prominently as digital "smoking guns" . . . Trustbusters say electronic
messages, perhaps more than any paper document, could help them prove that
Microsoft sought to crush competitors and monopolize access to the
Internet." However, Microsoft is not alone. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co.
recently agreed to settle a discrimination lawsuit initiated by employees.
"The smoking gun: an E-ma .....
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History Of Computers
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1829.... lamps
represented ones and unlit lamps represented zeros. The irony of this is that
people needed to perform another mathematical function to translate binary to
decimal to make it readable to the user.
One of the first computers was called ENIAC. It was a huge, monstrous
size nearly that of a standard railroad car. It contained electronic tubes,
heavy gauge wiring, angle-iron, and knife switches just to name a few of the
components. It has become difficult to believe that computers have evolved into
suitcase sized micro-computers of the 1990's.
Computers eventually evolve .....
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America And The Computer Industry
Number of pages: 10 | Number of words: 2608.... (Soma, 14). The next innovation in
computers took place in 1694 when Blaise Pascal invented the first "digital
calculating machine". It could only add numbers and they had to be entered by
turning dials. It was designed to help Pascal's father who was a tax collector
(Soma, 32).
In the early 1800's, a mathematics professor named Charles Babbage designed an
automatic calculation machine. It was steam powered and could store up to 1000
50-digit numbers. Built in to his machine were operations that included
everything a modern general-purpose computer would need. It was prog .....
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Military Technology
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1548.... computer technology in numerous different areas. Examples are the navigation of a submarine and intelligent long-range missiles. What most people associates with computers and war may be various simulation and action games. This is big business for software developers and merchandisers all over the world. As in all businesses money is the most important criteria for the big companies so they have no morale problems with making warfare into entertainment as long as it\'s selling. The same goes for the film industry, but at least some war films also describe the pain and hopele .....
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Censorship And The Internet
Number of pages: 11 | Number of words: 2785.... being sent through cyberspace."(Quittner) This law seems somewhat harmless at a first glance until you begin to read some of its clauses. One of the biggest groups that combated this issue was the CIEC, or Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition. The CIEC soon began to find problems with this bill as the so maticulously stated on their web site "It is also important to note that the CDA is not about child pornography, obscenity, or using the Internet to stalk children. These are already illegal under current law."(CIEC) The article then states "instead, the CDA prohibit .....
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Why We Should Stick To Qwerty
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 787.... uses the keyboard
for word processing, e-mailing, and internet; there is not much of a need for
them to type extremely fast. They do not type mechanically but rather based on
their thought, and thinking takes time. In other words, faster keyboards are
irrelevant for them because they are not continuously typing. They need to
think what they are going to write, one sentence one after another.
On the other hand, the typists whose job is simply to type, do so continuously.
They also happen to be the major victims of repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) which
is in large part caus .....
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The Power On Self Test
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1575.... This is also a handy
tip for people who play with the older AMI BIOSes with the XCMOS setup. It
allows changes directly to the chip registers with very little technical
explanation.
A Typical BIOS POST Sequence
Most BIOS POST sequences occur along four stages:
1. Display some basic information about the video card like its brand,
video BIOS version and video memory available.
2. Display the BIOS version and copyright notice in upper middle screen.
You will see a large sequence of numbers at the bottom of the screen. This
sequence is the .
3. Display memory count. You wi .....
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Internet Censorship
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1031.... banned from using the school´s internet (Heller). If the kids keep doing this there will soon be no internet for the kids to use.
The internet has many different types of pages, but of all the educational or informative pages there are always the “ black sheeps” . On the internet these are bomb/drug formulas, racist pages and pornography, as well as others. Bomb and drug formulas have always been available on the internet for a long time (since the internet became popular). ( Net Nanny) . These tell children step by step how to make low cost drugs and bombs. Racist .....
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