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Term Papers on Computers
History Of The Internet
Number of words: 1398 - Number of pages: 6.... is sent then pieces of it become lost in transfer and the entire
document has to be resent, but then different pieces are missing from the new
copy of the document. This is a major problem and the obvious solution is to
“chop” the information up into smaller pieces and then transmit the smaller
pieces2. Then another problem was realized, how does the computer know
where to put these small bits of information? The solution to that was what has
come to be known as packet-switching (PS). In PS, the entire document is sent
in a bunch of tiny “packets,” .....
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The Video Game Wars
Number of words: 908 - Number of pages: 4.... games, on another, were Sega's games, and on the last, were Sony's
games. Surprisingly, Nintendo's new games didn't look much different than the
other two companies'. On three corners of the room, there were television sets
displaying the latest and greatest games for each popular console. While
watching these new games, I was in awe.
When I was younger, I remembered playing what those times considered,
"high tech" video games. During those years, the games had little blocky
characters who looked more like a blob than a human being. The music .....
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Ecommerce
Number of words: 715 - Number of pages: 3.... million people is a very large consumer marketplace. Consumers are not the only ones "surfing" around for info. Businesses also focus on other companies to sell their products. General Electric sold machine and appliance parts using a new business to business technology called "extranet". GE used its successful "extranet" to roll in 1996 online sales of one billion dollars. Another very successful type of business on the net is the coming of services backed by research, such as discount stock trading, including e.Schwab and a Web-only company called E*Trade. T .....
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Information Technology And Quality Customer Service
Number of words: 602 - Number of pages: 3.... do a preliminary analysis, write a work order stating the request and/or problem that was to be solved through automation. The work order would then find its way to ISD (Information Services Department) where it would be assigned to a programmer analyst who would do an in-depth analysis with the help of the ASU analyst and define the requirements for the automation project. The programming would begin and soon, a new program was created and deployed. The requests and problems soon began to multiply and expand until it was like a virtual snowstorm .....
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Hackers And Security. What Are The Effects Of Data Encryption And Firewalls?
Number of words: 1288 - Number of pages: 5.... computer security has received a great
deal of more attention than it has in the past. Computerized break-ins and
criminal activity, have become fairly common occurrences in both commercial
and academic circles. Hackers are becoming more common, and quickly
learning new techniques and methods, which no longer leave computer systems
as 'safehouses'. The question of "what kind of person is a Hacker?" cannot
be answered simply. Hackers vary in race, style and preference. Since every
person is different, therefore so are hackers, "Each Hacker has their own
sty .....
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Time And Technology
Number of words: 978 - Number of pages: 4.... of dot and lines called the Morse Code. It was first used in 1844 and it was mainly reserved for companies which needed information quickly such as banks, this helped them grow and more efficient. With the telegraph one could pass a message across any distance almost effortlessly and it was cheap, so the need for this kind of communication was already there. This new medium also meant that even people which were not rich could send a message very far without having to pay incredible amount of money. The whole world began to expand their telegraph networks a .....
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Hate On The Net
Number of words: 613 - Number of pages: 3.... and pleaded to any white supremacy group to come and exterminate them.
Should these people have the right to say these things? Concerns such as these have led many to demand that hate material be removed from the net. Some Internet Service Providers are already starting to block access to sites they see as harboring extreme material.
Why is this happening? Have we all lost the ability to reason for ourselves? People are quite capable of making up their own minds about what they read or see on the net.
Freedom of speech is often misunderstood to be .....
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Speeding Up Windows 95
Number of words: 806 - Number of pages: 3.... About a year ago
Microsoft released a small program called TweakUI that actually adds more
flexibility and functionality to the already current user-friendly interface.
TweakUI is actually a rewrite (bug fix) program that edits certain data files
from the Windows 95 registry. With TweakUI running on your machine you can
disable the following options which in turn will speed up your access time:
windows animation, reboot start up, GUI interface, and last log on settings.
TweakUI also adds a few nifty extras such as: smooth scroll, mouse enhancement,
instant CD- .....
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