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Microsoft
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 528.... its stock went public and started at $21 per share. The updated version of Windows operating system went on sale in 1990 and five years later the complete makeover version named Windows 95 was launched. And now the much debated and controversial program called Windows 98 was launched last June. (Martin, et al., 1995)
Why did the Windows 98 program become so controversial? Due to the fact that Windows program has been used on ninety percent of all the PCs in the world, and utilized such advantage to include Internet Explorer program. Internet Explorer program allows you .....
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Censorship Online
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 500.... Sega. Some problems with this,
however, are the enormous cost of s descent system and software and the
technology that moves at lightning speed. The computer you buy tomorrow will
not be able to handle any of the new software two years from now. Owners must
not only keep up with the new trends but must also be well aware of what their
own system can sustain so that they do not overload it and cause it to crash.
This article focuses on interactive video, which is a relatively new field in
the gaming industry. The games that have been on the market have not lived up
to the bo .....
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Catalytic Converters
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 591.... There it comes into contact
with the described catalyst. This forces a reaction between the carbon monoxide
and hydrocarbons with the oxygen inside the converter creating products of
carbon dioxide and water vapor. The reaction which occurs inside the converter
is as follows:
The main compounds involved are carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons
(compounds of hydrogen and carbon), as well as oxygen. When these three are
combined with the provided catalyst, a reaction occurs as above. During the
reaction the oxygen splits apart the carbon monoxide and the hydrocarbons and .....
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How To Maintain A Computer System
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 384.... you touch anything
inside the computer, touch and unpainted metal surface such as the power supply.
This will help to discharge any static electricity that could damage internal
components.
Now you should periodically, defragment your hard disk. Defragmenting
your hard disk reorganizes files so they are in contiguous clusters and makes
disk operations faster. Defragmentation programs have been known to damage
files so make sure your disk is backed up first.
A good thing to do now would be to protect your system from computer
viruses. Computer viruses are programs des .....
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The Growth Of The Internet
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 555.... for accessing databases.
This all changed in 1989. A researcher at CERN (a big European physics laboratory) named Tim Berners-Lee started to work on hypertext. By using hypertext he could link together all the different kinds of information available on the Internet.
Berners-Lee called the software pack the World Wide Web.
For the World Wide Web to work, each page has it’s own address that the web recognizes using a system called HTTP (Hypertext Transport Protocol). Each page has to be written with a special language called HTML (Hypertext Markup Language). This languag .....
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The Linux Operating System
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 747.... and availability, it has become quite popular worldwide and a vast number of software programmers have taken Linux's source code and adapted it to meet their individual needs. At this time, there are dozens of ongoing projects for Linux to different hardware configurations and purposes.
Linux has an official mascot, the Linux Penguin, which was selected by Linus Torvalds to represent the image he associates with the operating system he created. Although many variations of the word Linux exist, it is most often pronounced with a short " i " and with the first syll .....
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Telecommunication
Number of pages: 14 | Number of words: 3597.... a switch. When the switch is down the current flows from the battery
through the key, down the wire, and into the sounder at the other end of the
line. By itself the telegraph could express only two states, on or off. This
limitation was eliminated by the fact that it was the duration of the connection
that determined the dot and dash from each other being short and long
respectively. From these combinations of dots and dashes the Morse code was
formed. The code included all the letters of the English alphabet, all the
numbers and several punctuation marks. A variation .....
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Will Computers Control Humans In The Future?
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 865.... to match someone else who knows" (Nine Tomorrows, Profession 55). People would not chose to study, they would only want to be educated by computer tapes. Putting in knowledge would take less time than reading books and memorizing something that would take almost no time using a computer in the futuristic world that Asimov describes. Humans might began to rely on computers and allow them to control themselves by letting computers educate people. Computers would start teaching humans what computers tell them without having any choice of creativity. Computers would start to c .....
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