The Internet: How It Works And How It Effects The World
.... to be
routed from one net to another as needed. All the networks connected by IP
in the Internet speak IP, so they can all exchange messages." (Levine 12)
Even though there were only two networks at that time, IP was made to allow
thousands of networks. The IP is designed so that every computer on an IP
network is compatible. That means any machine can communicate with any
other machine.
The Internet, also called the Net, is the world's largest computer network.
The Internet is the "network of all networks." (Levine 7) The networks are
connected to big companies like AT&T, as well as to home computers.
About 1,000 net .....
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Windows 95 Beats Mac
.... Mac users use in favor of their sysstems over
PCs is in multimedia and networking capabilities. Mac users gloat that the
Mac has networking technology built in the system. Even if a user did not
use it, the network is included with the system. They cited that for the PC
users and Pc users hate the fact that they need to stick a card in their
computers to communicate with any other computer. With Windows 95, the Mac
network gloaters are silenced. Windows 95 included built-in network support.
Any network will work properly. The Mac users also claim their systems have
speech, telephony, and voice recognition, whereas the Pc use .....
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Development Of The Submarine
.... in a
unique situation. The two major naval powers of the day, Great Britain and the
United States, were now allied against the greatest land power in history in the
Soviet Union. In the period from 1955 to 1965, the advantage was heavily in
favor of the U.S. As the United States had developed the atomic and hydrogen
bombs first, they obviously gained a head start which developed into a decisive
nuclear advantage. This advantage acted as an effective deterrent to any Soviet
movement into Western Europe. However, as the Soviet nuclear arsenal expanded
(mostly during the Kennedy administration), it became necessary to effect a
ba .....
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The History Of The Airship
.... who constructed in 1852 a cigar-shaped, non-rigid gas bag 44 m (143 ft)
long, driven by a screw propeller rotated by a 2.2-kw (3-hp) steam engine. He
flew over Paris at a speed of about 10 km/hr (about 6 mph). Giffard's airship
could be steered only in calm or nearly calm weather. The first airship to
demonstrate its ability to return to its starting place in a light wind was the
La France, developed in 1884 by the French inventors Charles Renard and Arthur
Krebs. It was driven by an electrically rotated propeller. The Brazilian
aeronaut Alberto Santos-Dumont developed a series of 14 airships in France. In
his No. 6, in 1 .....
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Animation
.... of animation.
Second rule, and one of the most important ones is that, the animator must have
great patience, so that his or her piece of artwork is not rushed, to prevent
the animation from looking choppy and not as smooth as it should look. Finally
what is required from an animator is "it takes commitment and effort to make the
basis of animation come alive with fresh ideas."2 The following is not a rule of
animation, but is often taught to animators around the world. "Animators were
often taught that animation is only limited by the imagination and skills of its
creators."3 Using these rules animation companies hire artists w .....
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HDTV
.... signals over the air waves. WRC-
TV's general manager then stated, "With advanced digital high-definition
television, viewers will experience unmatched picture quality and superior sound
resolution."
There are many pro's and con's regarding having HDTV as the new standard.
Not all broadcasters are interested in HDTV at all. During the transitional
period, broadcasters will have channel space to send NTSC signals and HDTV
signals simultaneously. At first, the timeline for this to take place was about
7 years down the road. Now experts are saying 15 years is more accurate.
Broadcasters are eager to see which of the major corpo .....
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How Technology Has Hurt Us
.... 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 watch TV it has also caused problems. Some
people say that violence has increased in America because there is too much
violence on television. Family time has become less because people are .....
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Technology Spontaneously Approaching `Humanity' With The Passage Of Time
.... 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 a period of time, it is predicted that replicants could
not develop emotions in their four year life span. So it's easy for the society
in Blade Runner to equate replicants with .....
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Can Computers Understand?
.... like it understands a story, it can do no more than "go through the
motions."
Of course such a definitive standpoint on an issue as controversial as
the capacity of an AI to understand will draw many critics. The criticism of
his theory that I find to be the most credible is The Other Mind Reply offered
by Yale University. This line of thinking asks: if behavior is what we can
determine the presence of cognition through, and an AI passes a behavioral test,
why don't we attribute cognition to it?
I myself do not believe in the philosophy of AI understanding, because
to support either side on this issue one must .....
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How Technology Effects Modern America
.... 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! But, political action must be
taken to ensure that this societal evolution is beneficial to all of us. "Back
in 1970, a high school diploma could still be a ticket to the middle income
bracket, a nice car in the drive .....
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A Technical Analysis Of Ergonomics And Human Factors In Modern Flight Deck Design
.... measure altitude. The Wright
brothers incorporated a string attached to the aircraft to indicate slips and
skids (Hawkins, 241). However, the first real efforts towards human factors
implementation in cockpit design began in the early 1930's. During this time,
the United States Postal Service began flying aircraft in all-weather missions
(Kane, 4:9). The greater reliance on instrumentation raised the question of
where to put each display and control. However, not much attention was being
focused on this area as engineers cared more about getting the instrument in the
cockpit, than about how it would interface with the pilot ( .....
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Beam Me Up Scotty: Teleportation
.... something from point A to point B.
There are many kinds of teleportation, one kind is transferring a
picture of an image to a piece of film in a special camera called a tele-camera,
the teleporter sticks the lens of the camera to hiser fore head and thinks about
the picture as hard as they can, most of the time it doesn't show up on the film
but a couple of times the picture usually a picture of a building or historical
marker barely shows up.
Another kind of teleportation is Water Witching, which is the act of
bending small metal objects such as a spoon or some keys without touching them.
A famous instance of Water Witc .....
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