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Computing Essays and Term Papers
Unemployement - The Unavoidable Consequence Of New TechnologTechnology – as defined by the US National Academy of Science (cited in Jones 1996, p.17) –
is a perishable resource comprising knowledge, skills, and the means
of using and controlling factors of production for the purpose of
producing, delivering to users, and maintaining goods and services, ...
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American Labor Movement: Development Of UnionsThe American Labor Movement of the nineteenth century developed as a result of the city-wide organizations that unhappy workers were establishing. These men and women were determined to receive the rights and privileges they deserved as citizens of a free country. They refused to be treated like ...
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Internet 2There has been a great deal of excitement in the media over the significant commercial potential of the internet. Many commercial enterprises are viewing the internet as a significant element of their business operations. They see it as a means of advertising, selling and supporting their product ...
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Easy As Pi Maybe Not...Some people argue that independent film is a purer form of film when compared to the high budget Hollywood blockbusters. Independent films usually show exactly what the writer intends whereas the higher budget competitors become a mix of the writer’s and producer’s desires, targeted at the ...
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How The Internet Got StartedSome thirty years ago , the Rand corporation , America's formost cold
war think tank, faced a strange straegic problem. How could the US authrieties
succesfully communicate after a nuclear war?
Postnuclear America would need a comand-and-control network, linked from
city to city , state to state, ...
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History Of English LanguageEnglish is a Germanic Language of the Indo-European Family. It is the second most spoken language in the world. It is estimated that there are 300 million native speakers and 300 million who use English as a second language and a further 100 million use it as a foreign language. It is the language ...
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The InternetChances are, anyone who is reading this paper has at one time, at least, surfed the net once. Don't worry if you haven't, I will explain everything you need to know about and the World Wide Web. Including how it started, it's growth, and the purpose it serves in today's society. was born about ...
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A Look Into The Computer VirusEngineering 201.02
Most of us swap disks with friends and browse the Net looking for downloads.
Rarely do we ever consider that we are also exchanging files with anyone and
everyone who has ever handled them in the past. If that sounds like a warning
about social diseases, it might as well ...
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Web Advertising – Is It Really Worth It??
Web advertising, not to mention the Internet itself, is still relatively new and therefore provides marketers with challenges that need to be dealt with, with caution. The realm of Web advertising is in uncharted territory. What implications will this new technology have for marketing? How ...
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Propaganda In The Online Free Speech CampaignPropaganda and Mass Communication
In February 1996, President Bill Clinton signed into law the
Telecommunications Act of 1996, the first revision of our country's
communications laws in 62 years. This historic event has been greeted with
primarily positive responses by most people and companies. ...
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Designing A Video On Demand ServerVideo-on-demand (VoD) service will allow customers to request that certain movies or television shows be played on their television sets or computers immediately, giving individuals direct access to the materials stored in a video server. The goal of this project is to design a Video-on-Demand ...
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Grace Murray Hopper(1906 - 1992)
Grace Hopper graduated from Vassar College in 1928 with Phi Beta Kappa and a Vassar College Fellowship. She went to Yale University, where she earned an M.A. in 1930, and a Ph.D. in 1934. She also went to New York University as a Vassar Faculty Fellow in 1941. In December 1943 she ...
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Internet CensorshipThe internet is and institution that resists institutionalization. The internet community, belonging to everyone yet no-one, resembles our own community in many ways, and is susceptible to many of the same pressures. Business people want the internet put on sounder financial footing. Government ...
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ModemsFirst of all I would like to start with an introduction I chose this topic because I thought it would be interesting to learn about how a modem works in a computer. With modem we are able to access the Internet BBS’ or Bulletin Board Systems.The MODEM is one of the smartest computer hardware tools ...
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Advancement Of The ComputerThe idea of computing has been in people’s minds throughout history. Today we have a different idea of computers, but a computer is any complex counting machine. The first computer ever used by a person could have been a simple set of stones that he used to represent a set or group of something. ...
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Cognitive Artifacts & Windows 95The article on Cognitive Artifacts by David A. Norman deals with the
theories and principles of artifacts as they relate to the user during execution
and completion of tasks. These principles and theories that Norman speaks about
may be applied to any graphical user interface, however I have ...
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HackersIntroduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
What is the Computer Underground? . . . . . . . . 11
Topography of the Computer Underground . . . . . . 20
Hacking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Phreaking . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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Knowledge Is Power: How To Buy A ComputerBuying a personal computer can be as difficult as buying a car. No matter how
much one investigates, how many dealers a person visits, and how much bargaining
a person has done on the price, he still may not be really certain that he has
gotten a good deal. There are good reasons for this ...
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Morality And Ethics And ComputersThere are many different sides to the discussion on moral and ethical
uses of computers. In many situations, the morality of a particular use of a
computer is up to the individual to decide. For this reason, absolute laws
about ethical computer usage is almost, but not entirely, impossible to ...
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