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Kind Of Person Solving Problems
2,157 wordsAs editor of the Jargon File, I often get email requests from enthusiastic network newbies asking (in effect) "how can I learn to be a wizard hacker?" . Oddly enough there don't seem to be any FAQs or Web documents that address this vital question, so here's mine. If you are reading a snapshot of this document offline, the current version lives at web The Jargon File contains a bunch of definitions of the term 'hacker', most having to do with technical adeptness and a delight in solving problems...
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Monte Carlo Las Vegas
1,131 wordsAt Mirage Resorts, we dream our guests', address their desires and build resorts to accommodate the experience. Over this past year, we have fulfilled some dreams ourselves, including the opening of two spectacular new resorts- Bellagio on the Las Vegas Strip and Beau Rivage in Biloxi, Mississippi. Mirage Resorts is the world's leading developer and operator of casino-based resorts. Bellagio, a spectacular $ 1. 6 billion resort inspired by the drama and elegance of fine art, opened in October 19...
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Operating System System V
809 wordsIn the following file, all references made to the name Unix, may also be substituted to the Unix operating system. Brief history: Back in the early sixties, during the development of third generation computers at MIT, a group of programmers studying the potential of computers, discovered their ability of performing two or more tasks simultaneously. Bell Labs, taking notice of this discovery, provided funds for their developmental scientists to investigate into this new frontier. After about 2 ye...
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Voice And Data Vacuum Tubes
1,493 wordsThe relentless advance of IT and telecommunications systems has brought dramatic benefits to individuals, businesses and other organisations. These years, the world has developed into an information economy, and the applying of new technologies is at the centre of the activity. New technologies are being developed at a record pace. Those celebrities such as Bill Gates of Microsoft, Steven Jobs of Apple all emerged to create information technology dynasties for 1980 s and 1990 s have become the h...
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Nuclear Power Plants Chemical Weapons
1,909 wordsThis paper will discuss the moral and ethical issues concerning how and why Locally Undesirable Land Uses (LULUs) and Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facilities (Tsdf's) are located. A LULU, or TSDF, can be a power plant, a munitions factory, a county landfill, a medical waste incinerator, a hazardous waste storage facility, a military base, an airport or any number of other facilities that people need, but do not want to live next to. The siting of these types of facilities is thought to be dri...
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Doctors And Nurses Doors Opened
1,739 words... listing position, but that my water had broke. Then she proceeded to tell us that I was not having contractions and that my cervix was not softened or dilated. While we waited for the ultrasound technician to show up Donny went to the phone and call everyone and let them know that my water in fact had broke. While he was gone I asked the nurse what they were going to do since my water had broke, but I was not having any contractions or dilated. She told me they would probably put me in a roo...
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Sales And Marketing Operating Expenses
1,744 wordsThe business world has continued to grow over the past century, although only recently has a new market for business arrived. This new market is able to reach billions of people around the world at a click of a button. This business opportunity has emerged in the World Wide Web. Many companies have successfully tapped this resource and have made millions upon millions of dollars off of distributing services or goods to the billions of people that log on everyday. DoubleClick has in recent years ...
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Labor Movement Labor Unions
1,512 words... ude's 115, 000 part- timers) won all major issues. The issues included: 20, 000 full-time job opportunities for part-timers, including 10, 000 new full-time jobs created from existing part-time positions; new limits on subcontracting; the largest-ever wages raises and major increases in pensions under the existing Teamster plans; and new job safety protections (The Teamster, October 1997). At the time of the strike, House Speaker Newt Gingrich attempted to use tactics similar to those applie...
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Sri Lanka Export Oriented
1,582 words... ny like Oman. Ammar Textile when set up its unit Galaxy Textile in Oman the only thing done at that unit is the stitching of the T-shirts. The company have 90 % of work done in Pakistan and only the stitching and the re-export procedure is done in Oman. This shows that all the major operations are done at the mother company. In Oman the finished product is transferred to their buyers. As the country have good legal, political, and economic condition so there is good opportunity for any indus...
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Nuclear Power Plants Nuclear Plants
1,125 wordsToday in our energy hungry world, the reliance on nuclear power is getting larger and larger. Nuclear power is on top of the list of forms of power available to generate electricity in the quantities, forms and reliability needed as we head towards the 21 st century. Current operating nuclear plants number approximately Nuclear energy production will grow an average of 3. 3 to 4. 2 % Per Year worldwide from 1988 - 2005 (IAEA News briefs, Sept. 1989). Though we have experienced if not the worst t...
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Airline Industry Low Fares
1,746 wordsThe airline industry has been subject of intense price competition since it was deregulated, and the result has been a number of new carriers which specialize in regional service and no-frills operations. These carriers typically purchase older aircraft and often operate outside the industry-wide computerized reservations system. In exchange for these inconveniences, passengers receive low fares relative to the industry as a whole. This research examines two low fare air carriers, Valu Jet and S...
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Apple Ii Mac Os
1,463 wordsLet's take a trip back in time and review the evolution of a computer company. It's not IBM or Microsoft. This company is Apple Computers, Incorporated. In the year 1976, before most people even thought about buying a computer for their homes. Back then the computer community added up to a few brainy hobbyist. So when Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs sold a van and two programmable calculators for thirteen hundred dollars and started Apple Computers, Inc. , in Jobs garage, the reach for success seem...
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Brown Forman Company Analysis
1,951 words... For example packages may need to be redesigned to hold one or two fewer bottles, or some other changes. From our examination of the Brown-Forman reports the company seem to have no clearly defined strategy or contingency plan to deal with the advent of the Euro either this year of in future years. We do not expect Euro conversion to have a material adverse effect on financial conditions or results (Extract from Brown-Forman Annual Report 1998) This seeming indifference may be a potential haz...
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Floppy Disks Hard Drive
1,307 wordsHard drives have been around longer than you think. In 1956, I. B. M. had invented a disk storage unit that was very large but did not store a lot of data. It was twenty-four inches in diameter and could hold only five megabytes, which is the equivalent to three and one half floppy disks. Originally called fixed disks later became known as hard disks opposed to floppy disks. In 1973, I. B. M. released a hard drive that could hold seventeen and one half megabytes. In 1980 Seagate made the first f...
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Easy To Learn Grolier Multimedia
1,553 words... ; ) - this increments i before any testing is done - Connoisseurs of C semantics find C++ inferior to ++C (Stroustrup, 10). The language is not called D because it is an extension of C, and it does not attempt to remedy problems by removing features (Stroustrup, 10). How did the language become so popular among programmers? Explosive growth in the academic and business communities led to the need of a standardization of C++. AT&T Bell Laboratories allowed Stroustrup to share drafts of revise...
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Floppy Disk Hard Disk
925 wordsIn this report, youll about the components and history regarding the computer. A computer is a devise that processes, organize, and calculate, displays information. It can communicate with other computers all over the world. The most powerful computer can perform 10 s of billion of calculations per second. People use computers for business, track inventories, and use bar codes, personal home use and other things. Computers can produce information, numbers, images, sounds and movies. Embedded com...
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Attack On Pearl Harbor People In Power
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Tanks The Evolution Of Tank Technology
1,679 wordsEver since the introduction of the tank into modern ground combat, it has been a bold symbol of armies of all countries. Its beginnings based on that of a farm tractor, the tank now looms large over battlefields as a worthy foe, and is in many cases the backbone of most modern day ground maneuvers. The tank was first developed by the British and the French during World War I. These tanks were very slow (road speed was about 5 mph) and were used only for infantry protection. Although they had som...
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Express Transportation Company Bargaining Power Of Suppliers
1,872 wordsStrategic Management Project: FedEx Introduction The Federal Express Corporation was founded in 1971 by Fred Smith in Little Rock, Arkansas, as express transportation company. In 1973, Company moved its headquarters to Memphis, Tennessee. It was the first air cargo company in American history to provide one-day delivery service to its customers in 25 cities nationwide. The innovative delivery methods, used by the Company, have led to its rapid growth, since the time of its founding. When Federal...
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Intellectual Property Microsoft Corp
1,557 wordsGovernments Proposed Conduct Remedies Would Also Hurt Consumers and Innovation; Company Outlines Proposal to Speed Resolution of the Case As Well As More Extensive Remedy Procedures If Necessary REDMOND, Wash. May 10, 2000 Microsoft Corp. today urged U. S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson to dismiss the governments unprecedented proposal to break up the company and outlined more appropriate remedies as well as a range of procedures designed to move the remedy phase forward as quickly...
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