.... ‘The radio had an enormous impact on society. News from across the country could be received shortly after it occurred. Citizens no longer had to wait for the copy of the morning paper to hit the newsstands’(Bergeen 3). The television was invented on the heels of radio. ‘In 1920 the first primitive TV’s were born, however the media did not become persuasive until the 1950’s when they became more affordable’(Strate 2). They soon replaced the radio as the media form of choice. The newest and currently most controversial form of mass media and communication is .....

.... microprocessor(Encarta 95). It was invented by Motorola in the early 80's. The 68000 also had two very distinct qualities like 24-bit physical addressing and a 16-bit data bus. The original Apple Macintosh ,released in 1984, had the 8-MHz found at the core of it. It was also found in the Macintosh Plus, the original Macintosh SE, the Apple Laser-Writer IISC, and the Hewlett-Packard's LaserJet printer family. The 68000 was very efficient for its time for example it could address 16 megabytes of memory, that is 16 more times the memory than the Intel 8088 whi .....

.... system to cut down on the number of keystrokes needed to complete the programming, which helped them complete their task faster. It was discovered in the late 1980’s that this Y2K bug could cause computer systems to fail when the year 2000 rolled around because computers might fail to recognize that it is the year 2000 versus 1900. The problem is going to affect the whole world. How does affect the average person? It is possible that the electric companyies’ computers could crash, which could cause either blackouts or brownouts. It would mean no heat for you .....

.... web (WWW), which is another component of the Net, can be used to "publish" material that would traditionally appear in journals, magazines, posters, books, television and even on film. 2. It is also essential to give a brief history on the internet. 3.The U.S. government is now trying to pass bills to prevent misuse of the Net. II. In order to understand the need for the ever-growing body of legislation, it is important to explore the controversy, and the current problems involved with the Net as it exists must be introduced. 1. The problem that concerns mos .....

.... that everybody has experienced in their lifetime. Radar works much like an echo. In an echo, a sound is sent out in all directions. When the sound waves find an object, such as a cliff face, they will bounce back to the source of the echo. If you count the number of seconds from when the sound was made to when the sound was heard, you can figure out the distance the sound had to travel. The formula is: (S/2) X 1100 = D (Half of the total time times 1100 feet per second equals the distance from the origin to the reflection point) Of course, radar is a m .....

.... through its DellWare program. Nearly two-thirds of Dell’s sales are to large corporations, government agencies and educational institutions. Dell also serves medium and small business and home-PC users. Dell’s award-winning customer service, industry-leading growth and financial performance continue to differentiate the company from competitors. At the heart of that performance is Dell’s unique direct-to-customer business model. “Direct” refers to the company’s relationships with its customers, from home-PC users to the world’s largest corporations. .....

.... For example: the actuall magnetic disk inside the hard cover of the disk must NEVER be touched, the magnetic disk inside, must be protected by the metallic sliding shield, the disk must always be within the temperature of 50° to 140° Fahrenheit and the disk must never be bought near a magnet! (3M Diskettes) There are many such hazards to computer disks. Problems caused by magnets are very common. A floppy can be damaged unknowingly if it is kept near a magnet, that may be in the open or inside any device, such as a speaker phone in computer speakers or stereo o .....

.... wrote many of the Wired pieces. The result is a read that is often insightful, often madenning, and always provoc ative. In the first part he talks about the communication medium, and how information content is so much more important than bandwidth. If we would only transmit better-labelled bits, we could do so much more with the bandwidth we have today. More elaborately, on 'Bits are Bits' here, he reflects on the difference between bits and atoms: how the shift to an economy based on the transfer o f bits is affecting the structure of .....