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The Digital World Essays and Term Papers
Virtual RealityINTRODUCTION
Imagine yourself being able to jump off of the Empire State
Building and fly over New York City on your own personal tour. You catch a
glimpse of Madison Square, you see a breathtaking view of Broadway, and
then you quickly pass over Monk's Coffee Shop, where Jerry, George, ...
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Windows NTOnce a small and simple collection of computers run by the Defence Department,
is now a massive world wide network of computers, what we call the 'Internet'.
The word "Internet" literally means "network of networks." In itself, the
Internet is composed of thousands of smaller local networks ...
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Virtual Reality, is a computer-generated, multi-sensory human interface to computers. extends beyond the capability of typical workstation graphics in two ways. First, through the use of tracking sensors, the computer knows precisely the location and angle of the user's head, which enables the graphics scene to ...
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Computer HistoryComputers affect the lives of nearly everyone living today. No matter where it is that someone calls their home; there is almost a certainty that they have some sort of daily interaction with computers or some kind of computer driven device. Every morning, millions of people of every field ...
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Email What Is It Good ForRemember those letters you used to write to your grandmother? Oh, who am I kidding, if you are under twenty, chances are you have never even written a letter. A tidal wave has emerged from beneath and grabbed us by a storm. It's called an E-mail. E-mail is a word that has echoed in our society ...
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Artificial Life(commonly called a-life) is the term applied
collectively to attempts being made to develop mathematical models and
computer simulations of the ways in which living organisms develop, grow,
and evolve. Researchers in this burgeoning field hope to gain deeper
insights into the nature of organic ...
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C-SPAN, The Cable TV ChannelC-SPAN, the Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network is a medium that
truly brings the government to the people. By presenting live and uncut footage
of our government in action, the citizens of the United States can get a bit
closer to what the founding fathers had in mind when they created our ...
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Censor The Internet?? The freedom of speech that was possible on the Internet could now be subjected to governmental approvals. For example, China is attempting to res5trict political expression, in the name of security and social stability. It requires users of the Internet and e-mail to register, so that they can ...
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Virtual Reality - What It Is And How It WorksImagine being able to point into the sky and fly. Or perhaps walk through
space and connect molecules together. These are some of the dreams that
have come with the invention of virtual reality. With the introduction of
computers, numerous applications have been enhanced or created. The ...
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Security, Commerce And The Internet
As the internet/world wide web (www), gradually became more available to ordinary computer users, it was obvious that it would become a target market for commercial retailers, financial services, etc. The benefits to seller and buyer are readily apparent – shopping and banking from ...
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Time WarnerIn 1989, the largest Media Corporation was formed. The
integration of Time Inc. and Warner communications produced
, which in 1996 with the acquisition of Turner
broadcasting, regained it’s status from Disney as the
largest media corporation in the world.
The company right now, with ...
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The First Generation Of Computers, beginning around the end of World War 2,
and continuing until around the year 1957, included computers that used vacuum
tubes, drum memories, and programming in machine code. Computers at that time
where mammoth machines that did not have the power our present day desktop
microcomputers.
In ...
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Internet TaxThe sign at Wal-Mart says, "99 Cents." Although, if you go through the checkout line and greet the cashier with merely a dollar, the cashier would laugh at you. The price isn't ninety-nine cents, it's $1.06. The taxman at our friendly Raymore Wal-Mart claims an additional 7.45% of one's hard ...
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Web RadioInstant global radio, or , is the latest manifestation of the Internet’s multimedia successor, the World Wide Web. Improved technology and content are turning into a mass medium. (Hickman 30) The concept is mainly underlined by the concept of Webcasting, or broadcasting station content ...
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Computer ProtectionAbout two hundred years before, the word "computer" started to appear in
the dictionary. Some people even didn't know what is a computer. However, most
of the people today not just knowing what is a computer, but understand how to
use a computer.
Therefore, computer become more and more popular ...
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How To Make A MovieImagine a young child, eye level with a floor full of miniature toys, concentrating intently on building a make-believe world. To the child, the toys are not miniature figures made of plastic or wood. They are real characters with real adventures. The child frames the action, crafting scenes that ...
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Cuba And EmbargoCuba and the Affects of the Embargo The island nation of Cuba, located just ninety miles off the coast of Florida, is home to 11 million people and has one of the few remaining communist regimes in the world. Cuba’s leader, Fidel Castro, came to power in 1959 and immediately instituted a communist ...
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The MatrixIn the science fiction movie "" people are ruled by Artificial Intelligence (AI), machines made by men to make life easier on the human race. This form of industrialization has also begun in our world today. We have given birth to a host of machines that think for themselves, hoping they would ...
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Microsoft The CompanyThe thought of forming a company which supplies its customers with software, was a great idea--especially coming from a college dropout. Bill Gates, along with high-school friend Paul Allen, formed a software company in 1975. From the beginning, Microsoft had a tremendous potential to become a ...
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The Communications Decency ActThe U.S. Government should not attempt to place restrictions on the internet.
The Internet does not belong to the United States and it is not our
responsibility to save the world, so why are we attempting to regulate something
that belongs to the world? The Telecommunications Reform Act has done ...
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