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Term Papers on Computers
The History Of Electronic Musical Instruments
Number of words: 2148 - Number of pages: 8.... but also as a way to generate new sounds, effects, tones and timbres that would never be possible to be produced in a natural setting.
In the years following the first electronic instruments and synthesizers was what was called the �Digital Era�. Employing computers to do operations similar to that of electronic devices required conversion of an electronic signal, called an analogue signal, to a series of 1�s and 0�s that computers use to calculate information, hence the term digital.
Seeming that the computers allowed musicians to arrange synthesized sou .....
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Radio - Making Waves In America
Number of words: 1502 - Number of pages: 6.... Working at home with no support from his father, but plenty from his mother, Marconi improved upon the experiments and equipment of Hertz and others working on radio transmission. He created a better radio wave detector or cohere and connected it to an early type of antenna. With the help of his brothers and some of the neighborhood boys he was able to send wireless telegraph messages over short distances. By 1899 he had established a wireless communications link between England and France that had the ability to operate under any weather conditions. .....
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As A Technology, It Is Called Multimedia
Number of words: 1636 - Number of pages: 6.... reality. This
souped-up television will itself be a powerful computer. This, many
believe, will be the world's biggest media group, letting consumers tune
into anything, anywhere, anytime.
The most extraordinary thing about the multimedia boom, is that so many
moguls are spending such vast sums to develop digital technologies, for the
delivering of programs and services which are still largely hypothetical.
So what is behind such grand prophecies? Primarily, two technological
advances known as digitization (including digital compression), and fibre
optics. .....
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Unemployement - The Unavoidable Consequence Of New Technolog
Number of words: 1575 - Number of pages: 6.... and seek to relate these to social, economic, political, and cultural factors occurring at the time.
The relationship between technology and employment is at the same time complex and volatile (Mokyr 1990, p.52). To illustrate, the term �Luddite� was coined in the early 19th Century to describe mindless machine-breaking (Jones 1996, p.21). The Luddites were skilled cloth-weavers who believed that technology would destroy their livelihood and opportunities for work (Jones 1996, p.22). They were opposed not to the knitting and lace-making machines as such, b .....
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The Evolution Of The PC And Microsoft
Number of words: 767 - Number of pages: 3.... �nerds� just
wanted their computer to do SOMETHING.
The burning need for a PC was met in 1977, when Apple, a company formed
by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, released it�s Apple II. Now the nerds were
satisfied, but that wasn�t enough. In order to catapult the PC in to a big-time
product, Apple needed to make it marketable to the average Joe. This was made
possible by Visical, the home spread sheet. The Apple II was now a true-blue
product.
In order to compete with Apple�s success, IBM needed something to set
its product apart from the others. So they .....
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How Batteries Work
Number of words: 1011 - Number of pages: 4.... Leclanche in the late 1860�s. At the time this invention was very important and helped the start of the industrial revolution. It allowed people with portable electricity. This popular invention was called the dry cell or flashlight battery. The Lechlanche cell is very similar to the dry cell we use today. The positive pole is a rode of carbon embedded in a black manganese dioxide (MnO2) and Carbon particles and the negative electrode is made of zinc. The electrolyte consists of a mixture of ammonium chloride and zinc chloride made into a paste. This sits in b .....
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Porn On The Internet
Number of words: 1492 - Number of pages: 6.... and business work, it can be manipulated to show vulgarity. Sites that contain pornography can be linked to with ease. These sites can be seen whether or not the child is purposely or mistakenly connecting to them. This is why mothers should act immediately if they do not want their children to be exposed to demeaning pictures of complete nudity and explicit sex. They need to monitor Internet use for their children by purchasing and installing a program that filters out pornography.
Surprisingly, there is an unlimited amount of pornography on the Internet. .....
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Why We Should Stick To Qwerty
Number of words: 787 - Number of pages: 3.... the other typists. The regular users are people who uses the keyboard
for word processing, e-mailing, and internet; there is not much of a need for
them to type extremely fast. They do not type mechanically but rather based on
their thought, and thinking takes time. In other words, faster keyboards are
irrelevant for them because they are not continuously typing. They need to
think what they are going to write, one sentence one after another.
On the other hand, the typists whose job is simply to type, do so continuously.
They also happen to be the major vict .....
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