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Term Papers on Computers
Government Intervention On The Internet
Number of words: 1408 - Number of pages: 6.... Generalities such as these have sparked
great debates within our nation's government. This paper will attempt to focus
on two high profile ethical aspects concerning the Internet and its usage.
These subjects are Internet privacy and Internet censorship.
At the moment, the Internet is epitome of our first amendment, free
speech. It is a place where a person can speak their mind without being
reprimanded for what they say or how they choose to say it. But also contained
on the Internet, are a huge collection of obscene graphics, Anarchists'
cookbooks, .....
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The Public Broadcasting System: Digital Technology And HDTV
Number of words: 1618 - Number of pages: 6.... will
significantly enhance the beauty and complexity of all PBS's programming.
Founded in 1969, The Public Broadcasting System is America's sole
television network of public stations. Collectively, educational
establishments, community organizations or state and municipal groups,
operate approximately 350 member stations. All public television stations
highlight the importance of illuminating cultural and educational
programming, as well as distinguished programs on nature, science, and
public affairs. In PBS: Behind the Screen, Laurence Tarvik .....
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The Serious Year 2000 Problem
Number of words: 423 - Number of pages: 2.... due to this problem, when a computer sorts dates by year, “00” could be identified as an earlier date than “99”. A financial spreadsheet or projection therefore might show the financial trend for the 1999-2000 period running backwards rather than forwards. Insurance company computers might report a policy running through the year 2001 as having instead expired in 1901.
A bank computer calculating the interest for a financial instrument for the six year period of 1995 through the year 2000 might instead calculate the interest for the period of 1900 throu .....
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Internet Access: Flat Fee Vs. Pay-Per-Use
Number of words: 1687 - Number of pages: 7.... Imagine how a person's reading
habits would change if they had to pay for each article they looked at in a
magazine or newspaper.
Yet many of the most interesting things we learn about or find come from
following unknown routes, bumping into things we weren't looking for. (Indeed,
Thomas Kuhn makes the claim that, even in the hard sciences, real breakthroughs
and interesting discoveries only come from following these unconventional routes
[Kuhn, Thomas, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1962]).
And people wh .....
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Global Positioning Systems
Number of words: 3319 - Number of pages: 13.... the process. On your chart at this point there would be two circles whose lines intersected at two points. Even a vague guess of your whereabouts would be enough to discard the bogus point, and you'd be left with a pretty good idea of your position. Better yet, take a cut from a third DME transmitter and draw a third circle on your chart. Now you'd have three intersecting circles and your position would be inside the little triangle formed by the intersection of the three circles. Got the picture? This is basically how GPS triangulates, except that instead of .....
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Production Planning
Number of words: 2089 - Number of pages: 8.... the following principles.
a. Scientific laws govern how much a worker can produce in a day. b. It is the
function of management to discover and use these laws in operation of productive
systems. c. It is the function of the worker to carry out management's wishes
without question.
Many of today's method's of operation management have elements of the
above stated principles. For example, part of Material Requirement Planning
system (MRP) is learning how workers to hire, fire, or lay idle. This is
because it we realize the a worker can only produce so many .....
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Year 2000 Fiction, Fantasy, And Fact
Number of words: 682 - Number of pages: 3.... or older software, are just as susceptible to
this "bug." Can this be repaired in time? For some, it is already too late. A
system that is devised to cut an annual federal deficit to 0 by the year 2002 is
already in "hot water." Data will become erroneous as the numbers "just don't
add up" anymore. Some PC owners can upgrade their computer's BIOS (or complete
operating system) and upgrade the OS (operating system) to Windows 95, this
will set them up for another 99 years. Older software however, may very well
have to be replaced or at the very least, upgra .....
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What Is A Computer
Number of words: 389 - Number of pages: 2.... computers.
Computers can be classified as analog or digital. Both types process data, but in different ways. Analog computers are best suited to solving problems in which several quantities vary continuously over a period of time, making exact answers difficult or impossible to obtain. Digital computers are capable of providing exact answers to problems.
The basic concept of a computer is very simple. A computer processes step by step, performing one operation at a time. For example, a computer reads a number from memory, stores it, reads another number from .....
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