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Phone Company Internet Connection
1,005 wordsAchieving a reliable Internet connection as close to 56 K as possible is something every Internet user strives to achieve. However, due to line conditions and phone companies, the dream of every surfer is shattered into something reminiscent of 5 year old 33. 6 technology. The general rule of thumb is that to obtain speeds greater than 33. 6, one must live within 2 - 3 miles of the telephone company's switch box. The further out, the more degraded the connection speed becomes. Connections speeds...
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Object Oriented Programming Programming Language
1,928 wordsA high-level programming language developed by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs in the mid 1970 s. Although originally designed as a systems programming language, C has proved to be a powerful and flexible language that can be used for a variety of applications, from business programs to engineering. C is a particularly popular language for personal computer programmers because it is relatively small -- it requires less memory than other languages. The first major program written in C was the UNIX op...
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Caller Id Sound System
1,341 wordsThis file lists the main functional enhancements, additions, bug fixes, and known incompatibilities for the SM 56 PCI Modem. 3 Com Network Interface Card (NIC) Interrupt Sharing Problem After investigating a periodic (approx. once every 8 seconds) desktop freeze (no mouse response for a second or so) we found that the offending device was actually 3 Com's 3 C 905 B-TX NIC. This NIC/driver has an interrupt sharing problem. The problem shows up with any devices that share the interrupt with it, in...
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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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Justification By Faith Sinful Nature
1,302 words... comments so far would be agreeable to a person who advocated that both physical and spiritual circumcision were necessary. But Paul's next comment would be too sweeping: A man is one of God's people if he is inwardly circumcised, since the real circumcision is a spiritual matter, of the heart, "not by the written code'' (verse 29). What value is there in being circumcised? Or, in synonymous terms, what advantage is there in being a Jew? Much, replies Paul (Romans 3: 1 - 2). He does not extol...
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Strategic Bombing During World War 2
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Tet Offensive Viet Cong
1,272 wordsIn the mid to late 1960 's the Vietnam Conflict was greatly controversial. This is mainly due to the fact that it was an undeclared war and was being fought with unclear objectives. It was fought mainly by Viet Cong guerillas and the NVA from the North and by the USA and ARVN from the south. Throughout the conflict it appeared as if the South was prevailing; up until one climatic battle that turned out to be a failure militarily; it is known as the Tet Offensive. The Tet Offensive started with d...
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Floppy Disks Hard Disk
1,111 wordsKeyboard The keyboard is used to input data into a computer by pressing the keys on it, the data maybe input into a verity of different applications from word processors to program generators. A keyboard has 102 keys on it as standard; these keys allow the inputting of numerical data, textual data and commands (By using the F or function keys) into specially designed programs. The character keys are what are used to input textual data, this maybe into a word processor or Internet order form. The...
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Files Our Group Creating The Table Tables
1,071 wordsAs the database team, it was our job to provide a storage facility for the other teams. We had to come up with a design that was flexible enough to handle the various types of data and yet robust enough to make searching and record lookup efficient. Since Oracle is available in the lab and is a very powerful database management system, we decided to leverage our assets and create the database on perhaps the best database server available. But before we could slap together some SQL commands we ha...
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Hand Side Black Box
1,165 wordsComposite structure: the size of a typical software system implies that it must be broken down into manageable pieces of this Composition: the process of building a system using simpler parts or components Abstraction: the process of ignoring details irrelevant to the problem at hand and emphasizing essential ones. To abstract is to disregard certain differentiating details Data: the info the program deals with Functionality: what the program does with the data, the responsibility of the object ...
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Bertrand Russell Moral Principles
1,062 wordsSocrates and Euthyphro had a pretty educating dialogue during very ancient times. Euthyphro was concerned about the issue that he had to judge his own father for a murder that he committed. Socrates and Euthyphro try to figure out what is actually good and what is not. This theme goes along their whole conversation. Socrates asked his companion to identify the notion of piety and unity. For thousands of years many philosophers and theologians have tied moral principles to the existence of God. T...
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Comparing Ms Dos To Windows Vista
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Graphical User Interface Virtual Memory
421 wordsDiscovering Computers How Is A Cold Boot Different From A Warm Boot? Cold boot is the start-up of computer from off, or powered down state, while a warm book is the restart of computer that is already turned on via the operating system. How Is A Memory-Resident Part Of An Operating System Different From A Nonresident Part Of An Operating System? As the name implies, the memory-resident part of an operating system remains in memory (for example, programs and data used), while nonresident parts of...
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Search For Meaning Meaning Of Life
1,590 wordsIt was Victor Frankl's Moral Strength and View of Life that Allowed him to Survive the Concentration Camp Today Viktor Frankl's is a world-known psychologist, who founded his own school of psychotherapy, and also the author of twenty-five books. The most influential and distinguished book of Frankl's is Man's Search for Meaning: Experiences in the Concentration Camp written in 1946. The writer dedicated it to the sombre pages of World War II and it appeals to every one who reads it with its stri...
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Amount Of Time Silicon Chip
2,049 wordsomputers. I should start by saying that the Moores law is a theory developed in 1965 by Mr. Gordon Moore, one of the founding fathers of Intel. The theory basically states that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year since the integrated circuit was invented. I should note that Mr. Moore predicted that this trend would continue for the foreseeable future, yet did not specify how foreseeable. In subsequent years (1970 s- 1990 s), the pace slowed dow...
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Deuteronomy Land Of Promise And Part 1
1,598 wordsDeuteronomy: Land of Promise and Problems The first five books of the Bible are commonly referred to as the Pentateuch, a term indicating a scroll made up of five books. Jewish scholars, however, refer to these books by the Hebrew term Torah The Law. Deuteronomy means the Second Law. It is the fifth and final book of Moses, the last of the Torah, given by Moses, Gods representative and mediator to His Chosen People, to the new generation of Israelites, those who had not sinned in the desert, tho...
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Gender Roles Social Political
2,014 wordsPeople use gender roles to obtain power. In my life experience this is always been true. I look at it in my everyday life at the workplace. I happen to work with people who have gotten where they are based purely on their sex alone. I am not talking about sex in terms of intercourse, rather than gender. However this does work both ways. It also works for different types of power. To say that people use gender roles to obtain power is a very broad statement. One must define two things. First peop...
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19 Th Century Medical Association
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19 Th Century British Medical
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Read This Article Clean The House Commands
255 wordsWell, finally got my book, so now I can write reaction papers? . yay! Anyway, I read the article? Why Don? t You Say What You Mean? ? I have to be honest with you, one of the biggest reasons I chose to read this particular article was because it was short. But my, was it interesting. It was about how people talk in direct and indirect ways, and why they do it. It mentioned that people who are superior in any kind of rank, seem to make commands more indirectly. Subordinates most of the time, inte...
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