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DVD VS. DIVX: Consumer Product Investigation
Number of words: 1440 - Number of pages: 6

.... of DVD, DIVX (Digital Video Express) and let the reader make the decision if it's an option that is really all that necessary. DVD is a relatively new format, but it has made a huge impact in the consumer video market since it's relapse only a year ago. DVD is DVD, which stands for Digital Video Disc, Digital Versatile Disc, or nothing, depending on whom you ask, is the next generation of optical disc storage technology. It's essentially a bigger, faster CD that can hold video as well as audio and computer data. DVD aims to encompass home entertainment, c .....


OpenVMS: Using A Virtual Operating System By The International Securities Exchange
Number of words: 961 - Number of pages: 4

.... virtual memory line of computers, named VAX (Virtual Address eXtension). The designers of OpenVMS were Dave Cutler and Dick Hustvedt, it was designed entirely within Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). OpenVMS is a 32-bit, multitasking, multiprocessing virtual memory operating system. OpenVMS currently runs on Digital's VAX and Alpha computer systems. Digital Equipment Corporation owned the operating system. It wasn't until January 25, 1998 Compaq computers acquired Digital Equipment at a tremendous price of 9.6 billion dollars. "This is a marriage mad .....


Firewalls
Number of words: 462 - Number of pages: 2

.... means by which this is accomplished varies widely, but in principle, the firewall can be thought of as a pair of mechanisms: one that exists to block traffic, and the other that exists to permit traffic. Some place a greater emphasis on blocking traffic, while others emphasize permitting traffic. Probably the most important thing to recognize about a firewall is that it implements an access control policy. The Internet, like any other society, is plagued with the kind of jerks who enjoy the electronic equivalent of writing on other people's walls with spray pa .....


Quantum Computers Fact -or- Fantasy?
Number of words: 1636 - Number of pages: 6

.... hundreds of offices. In the same way that you would have to walk through the building, opening doors one at a time to find the briefcase, an ordinary computer has to make it way through long strings of 1’s and 0’s until it arrives at the answer. But what if instead of having to search by yourself, you could instantly create as many copies of yourself as there were rooms in the building all the copies could simultaneously peek in all the offices, and the one that finds the briefcase becomes the real you, the rest just disappear. – (David Freeman, discover ) Da .....


The Internet
Number of words: 457 - Number of pages: 2

.... order to access the internet you require a good computer and a powerful modem . If you have these it is much easier and faster to "Surf the Net". I would recommend a 28.8 kbs modem manufactured by U.S Robotics. The Internet can give you access to both legal & illegal sites on the net. There is pirated software e.g. full version of games that you can access without actually paying for them. The internet can only be accessed with a browser. There are a few web browsers but two main ones are Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer. As I mentioned earl .....


Uses Of Networking
Number of words: 1843 - Number of pages: 7

.... -Advantages & Disadvantages of networks Advantages and disadvantages of networks Some advantages of networks Sharing Communication Data E-Mail Programs Bulletin boards Storage Tele-computer-conferencing Printer Information Scanner Fax Electronic diaries Allows Allows Fast information exchange Electronic funds transfer Real time database’s Electronic data interchange Distributed databases Electronic point of sale Electronic links Business links Some dis-advantages of networks Ins .....


The Computer Revolution
Number of words: 588 - Number of pages: 3

.... computers accessible to the average American. This helped greatly in proving that computers were no longer just toys and they had a very useful purpose. Most people still felt the cost was too great for a glorified typewriter. Several years after they introduction of the BASIC system, Apple introduced a new line of computers called the Macintosh. These Macintosh computers were extreme easy to use, and were about the same price of a computer that used BASIC. Apple's business exploded with the Mac, Macintosh were put in schools and millions of homes proving .....


The Benefits Of Satellites
Number of words: 1495 - Number of pages: 6

.... provides users with accurate information about their latitude, longitude, velocity and altitude, as well as the time, anywhere in the world and works in all weather conditions. The GPS was initiated in 1973 by Navstar in the United States and then followed by the Soviet Union with their own GPS. Both GPS systems are free to use by anyone around the world and offers great benefits to the military, commercial companies and civilian residents. On the military side, the U.S. Air Force uses the GPS to test unmanned prototype aircraft’s like the X-22, which can prev .....



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