Battle Of The Bytes: Macintosh Vs. Windows 95
.... It clearly shows what is running and
allows you to switch programs with a single click of the mouse. Control panels
have been added so you can configure your hardware. There is easy access to
frequently used files. You can make very long file names on Windows 95 instead
of short and strange names that leave you wondering about, such as on Windows
3.x I could not name a folder This is stuff for school it must be a lot shorter.
The Help system helps you implement its suggestions. A multilevel Undo command
for all file operations safeguards your work, something Macintosh does not have.
Something that Windows 95 has, similar to th .....
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Bugged
.... lines normally contain. This connection
enables the phone to be live on the hook, sending continuous room sounds to the
eavesdropper.
It used to be that hidden microphones and concealed tape recorders were
strictly for cops and spies. Today such gadgets have filtered down to the
jealous spouse, the nosy neighbor, the high-level executive, and the local
politician.
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Effects Of The Year 2000 Problem
.... and major businesses, not to mention all
home owners and other people. Gina Smith writes in a August 1998 issue of
Popular Science about the fixing of the problem
"You are probably wondering why the problem is so hart to fix. It isn't
It's just that there's so much to be fixed. Updating software to handle the
new century is sometimes a matter of culling through millions of lines of
code, and the finding and fixing every two-digit date reference. One
mistake and the entire operation may be unsuccessful" (Smith 26).
What can the Y2K prblem effect?
On the home front people could be waking up to chaos. In June 1998,
PC Computi .....
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Business In Computers
.... to experts, analysts, consultants and business leaders to guide their way
to starting up their own business, careers and lives. These experts can help
push the beginners in the right direction in every field of business, including
every way to generate start up revenue from better management of personal
finances to diving into the stock market. When the beginner has sufficient
funds to actually open their own company, they can't just expect the customers
to come to them, they have to go out and attract them.
This is where the Internet becomes most useful, in advertising. On the
Internet, in every major consum .....
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Modernization Of Air Warfare
.... people started to add bombs
to aircraft and then airplanes started to become an essence of war. After
World War 2, new bombers were developed with fast speed, and could travel
far distances. They could also carry nuclear bombs and missiles. The use
of the bomber aircraft then led to the fighter, which was equipped with
guns and missiles. Helicopters were also found to be good strike aircraft.
They were armed with cannons, machine guns, rockets, torpedoes, and a
variety of missiles. Vertical takeoff made the helicopter an advantage.
The first flight of the F-117A was in June of 1981 in Groom Lake
test facility. The total cost f .....
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INTEL Knows Best? A Major Marketing Mistake
.... this.
Intel's handling of this defective chip situation gives rise to many
questions. During the course of this paper I will address several of them. The
first of which is how did a company with such a stellar reputation for consumer
satisfaction fall into the trap that the customer does not know best? Secondly,
what made this chip defect more of a public issue than other defective products
manufactured and sold to the public in the past? Finally, how did Intel recover
from such a mistake? How much did it cost them and what lessons can other
companies learn from Intel's marketing blunder so that they do not make the same
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Can Computers Think? The Case For And Against Artificial Intelligence
.... what are we to consider intelligence? The most compelling argument
is that intelligence is the ability to adapt to an environment. Desktop
computers can, say, go to a specific WWW address. But, if the address were
changed, it wouldn't know how to go about finding the new one (or even that it
should). So intelligence is the ability to perform a task taking into
consideration the circumstances of completing the task.
So now that we have all of that out of that way, can computers think?
The issue is contested as hotly among scientists as the advantages of Superman
over Batman is among pre-pubescent boys. On the one hand are th .....
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The Y2K Problem
.... and their corporations.
What, specifically, _is_ this "millennia virus" to begin with? There has
been much talk about it, and most people know it has something to do with
the date formats and how they are processed by the computer. How it is
affecting that processing is what the key to implementing a solution is.
There are several forms the "bug" will metamorphose into. For example:
Field / Date Processing
Time based calculations
Hardware failure
Will all be affected by the problem.
"OLD will seem YOUNG, a FEW moments will seem like an ENTIRE century,
FUTURE events will have ALREADY occurred."
-- Dun .....
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Censorship On The Internet
.... measures
against the U.S. and other companies or individuals that have created or
distributed offensive material on the Internet. If the United States government
really wanted to censor the net, there is only one solution - shut down all
network links of other countries. But of course that would mean no Internet
access for the whole country and that is disgust by the whole nation.
Secondly, everyone has their personal judgment values. The decision of some
people cannot represent the whole population of those using the net. Many people
debate that pornography on the net should be censored because there are kids
online. However .....
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The Cuckoo's Egg: Cliff's Persistence
.... is a series of
fiber-optic cables that run from a major city to another major city. So if you
were in LA and wanted to hook up to a computer in the Big Apple you could call
long distance, have a lot of interference from other callers and have a slow
connection, or you could sign-up to Tymnet and dial locally, hop onthe optic
cable and cruise at a T-3 line. The lab had only five Tymnet lines so Cliff
could easily monitor every one with five computers, teletypes, and five printers.
That was the difficult part, where to get all that equipment. At graduate
school they taught Cliff to improvise. It was a Friday, and not many p .....
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CMIP Vs. SNMP : Network Management
.... Tagging the two systems, you press enter, and with a flash, the screen
displays all the statitics of the two systems, including anything they might
have in common causing the problem. Seeing that both systems are linked to the
same card of a network switch, you pick up the phone and give that branch office
a call, notifying them not only that they have a problem, but how to fix it as
well.
Early in the days of computers, a central computer (called a mainframe) was
connected to a bunch of dumb terminals using a standard copper wire. Not much
thought was put into how this was done because there was only one way to do it:
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Virtual Reality: What It Is And How It Works
.... to create the illusion of reality with a piece of machinery known as
the computer. This is done with several computer-user interfaces used
to simulate the senses. Among these, are stereoscopic glasses to make
the simulated world look real, a 3D auditory display to give depth to
sound, sensor lined gloves to simulate tactile feedback, and head-
trackers to follow the orientation of the head. Since the technology
is fairly young, these interfaces have not been perfected, making for
a somewhat cartoonish simulated reality.
Stereoscopic vision is probably the most important feature of VR
becau .....
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