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- 3371: Why Y2K?
- ... to happen...why didnt they try and fix it sooner!? Were looking at a world wide crisis, involving lives, billions of money, and Society itself and these pocket-protecting dimbulbs just sat there on there big, fat wallets and probably plan to fiddle while "Rome" burns. Ok, so we cant fix it..what do we do? Well, there are four things we can do: Stick your thumbs in your ears and ...
- 3372: Netscape’s Gecko: The Next-Generation Layout Engine
- ... article begins by introducing the function of a layout engine. The article goes on to tell of some of the problems of the present day layout engine, one being the fact that they are too big. It states that the need for a powerful layout engine that could fit easily onto a portable device was a major reason why Netscape began developing its new layout engine -Gecko- back in 1997. This ...
- 3373: The Internet
- ... and still be able to function. From that point on, Internet developers were responding to the market pressures, and began building or developing software for every conceivable type of computer. Internet uses started out with big companies, then to the government, to the universities and so on. The World Wide Web or WWW, is an information service that is on the Internet. The WWW is based on technology called hypertext, and ...
- 3374: Cryptography
- ... violation on civil liberties is astounding. The US cellular Phone industry is lobbying for protective laws to fix the problems they made in making a poor security system for phones. It is an example of big business trying to use the govern¬ ment to fix their mistakes.(Shneier) In researching,I found out about Digital Cer¬ tificates. Basically it is a way to ensure that the information that is received from ...
- 3375: Limitations on Robotic Technology
- ... 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 of that sort. This may not seem like a big deal, but this is a major breakthrough in this area. Scientist believe that in ten years the technology will be more advanced and the robots will be as clever as humans are (Kelly 1). Soon ...
- 3376: Internet and Censorship
- ... inhibits people's free speech. In this country, many activists for censorship of the Internet mainly have one thing on their minds. They want to protect children from pornography. Although I view this as a big concern, there is a greater issue at hand. Since censorship encompasses all forms of expression, censoring the Internet would hurt many people. Since the Internet is an international community, we must view it as pertaining ...
- 3377: A Quantum Computer
- ... or other subatomic particle is "in more than one place at a time," because individual particles behave like waves, these different places are different states that an atom can exist in simultaneously. What’s the big deal about quantum computing? Imagine you were in a large office building and you had to retrieve a briefcase left on a desk picked at random in one of hundreds of offices. In the same ...
- 3378: The Utilities Confront Y2K
- ... centers, supply and inventory systems, and accounting systems. While being important to providing service to the customers, those areas are not as crucial system of modern day society". Since the industry's size is so big, it can be broken up into four different sections.(???) Each section faces Y2K in different and similar ways. The wireline is composed of a vast network of telephone wire that stretches hundreds of miles across ...
- 3379: Advancement of the Computer
- ... very large, slow, and produced a lot of heat. The vacuum tubes that the computer ran on failed frequently. They were down and not running for most of the time. But these new machines were big news to the public. The media became very interested in them. They wrote about them in newspapers and magazines calling them “electronic brains” That will change the world. In 1953 IBM realized that a market ...
- 3380: Speech Recognition Technology
- ... where Microsoft has already experienced regulatory scrutiny regarding its Internet Explorer integration. How quickly the technology improves and is widely adopted depends in large part on what Microsoft decides to do. If it makes a big commitment to integrating speech recognition into its operating systems, it would rapidly accelerate the speed with which speech is used in computers and other types of machines. So far, Microsoft has taken a backseat approach ...
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