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Term Papers on Computers
Outsourcing
Number of words: 2372 - Number of pages: 9.... changing business
needs of an organisation. As a result, an organisation may find that it is not
possible to have all its IT services supplied from within its own company. Given
this, an IT manager may decide to choose to seek assistance from an external
contractor/company to supply their services the organisation lacks. In addition,
the business competition has set the pace for an organisation to continue to
strive for internal efficiency. It also needs to look for a way to transfer non-
core activities or "in house" services and support activities to external .....
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Review Of On-line Publications
Number of words: 955 - Number of pages: 4.... concern and
dispelled the rumor that China would censor the paper when the city is turned
over in July.
The Morning Post is a very up to date paper that features an updated
breaking news sidebar. A very useful and inviting feature which enables it to
keep up with and often scoop the broadcast media. The newspaper also had a
technology section which caters to the on-line user. The post also utilizes the
use of java script to make it seem more like an interactive medium.
Of the papers available from the continent of India the Times of India
is the one of the .....
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Limitations On Robotic Technology
Number of words: 2027 - Number of pages: 8.... of almost every inventor or dreamer. Faster and better are the keys for words that society yearns for. The technological age is in full force and robots are in the main stream of this tidal wave.
In the movie, Terminator, robots take over the world in their future. Are movies like these foretelling the future of mankind? Some Swiss scientists say that the end may be close (Kelly 1). An autonomous robot that learns from its environment sparked all of this "Armageddon" talk (Kelly 1). The robot learned not to bump into a barrier without any programming .....
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BBS Piracy And The Copyright
Number of words: 1083 - Number of pages: 4.... whether this software could be distributed electronically.
Yves Roy, sergeant of RCMP stated that charges will be laid in early
December under paragraph 42 of The Copyright Act. Conviction under this
act carries a maximum punishment of a fine of $1 million dollars, and/or 5
years imprisonment.
Because newspaper articles are very biased in one point-of- view, it
is difficult to look at both sides of this situation. But let us discuss
piracy in a more general manner. Software piracy is the act in which
someone takes a copyrighted portion or .....
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Computers: Nonverbal Communications
Number of words: 4524 - Number of pages: 17.... are, however, a form of virtual reality, "because they construct
enduring places, objects, and user identities. These objects have
characteristics that define and constrain how users can interact with them,"
(Holmes & Dishman, 1994, p. 6). Having been created in their most rudimentary
form nearly two decades ago, the technology that supports MUD interaction is
well developed and has spawned a new variety of communicative environment, one
that thousands if not millions of users have found fiercely compelling.
Since MUDs are generally restricted to text-based .....
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Computers 2
Number of words: 1207 - Number of pages: 5.... only on magazines, billboards, and T.V. The internet has spawned a new world for advertising. If anyone has ever been on the Internet; they know that it is a major contributor to this. Instead of companies paying around 1 million dollars to advertise for a 30 second commercial during the Super Bowl;
they could just pay a certain amount to be advertised forever on the net. People can also notice the changes of advertising on the T.V., also. Not until the last few years have people noticed that a great deal of the commercials on T.V. are computer-relat .....
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Use Of Non-Lethal Weapons
Number of words: 257 - Number of pages: 1.... such as tasers are used in everyday life. Another problem in our
society is violence such as riots and fights. These things can be
controlled with sticky foam, water cannons, or rubber bullets.
The main reason to choose tasers and new-age weapons over guns, is
the fact that they are non-lethal. Every year about 500 police officers are
killed by guns. This kind of death doesn't need to happen. In 1983, 10,895
people were killed by firearms. In 1973 over 100 innocent children were
killed by guns, and every year that number increases. So, if you would like
these numbers to drastically decrease, we must c .....
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The Growth Of The Internet
Number of words: 555 - Number of pages: 3.... one for news groups, and several different programs for accessing databases.
This all changed in 1989. A researcher at CERN (a big European physics laboratory) named Tim Berners-Lee started to work on hypertext. By using hypertext he could link together all the different kinds of information available on the Internet.
Berners-Lee called the software pack the World Wide Web.
For the World Wide Web to work, each page has it’s own address that the web recognizes using a system called HTTP (Hypertext Transport Protocol). Each page has to be written with a specia .....
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