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- 811: Steve Jobs
- ... to India where he traveled in search of spiritual enlightenment with Dan Kottke, a friend from Reed College. In the autumn of 1974, Jobs returned to California and started attending meetings of "Woz’s" "Homebrew Computer Club". Woz like most of the clubs members, was happy with the creation of electronics. Steve wasn’t nearly the engineer as Woz and persuaded him to start work on a home computer. Woz and Jobs designed the Apple I in Steve’s bedroom and built the first prototype in Steve’s parents garage. Apple I was a hit. Steve sold his Volkswagen microbus and Woz sold his ... working in an orchard in Oregon. Jobs and Woz built the first real machine called the Apple I. They marketed it at a price of $666.00 in 1976. The Apple I was the first computer with one board. It had a built in video interface, on board ROM-which told the machine hold to load programs from an external source. Jobs and Wozniak managed $774,000.00 in sales ...
- 812: Windows NT vs Unix As An Operating System
- Windows NT vs Unix As An Operating System In the late 1960s a combined project between researchers at MIT, Bell Labs and General Electric led to the design of a third generation of computer operating system known as MULTICS (MULTiplexed Information and Computing Service). It was envisaged as a computer utility, a machine that would support hundreds of simultaneous timesharing users. They envisaged one huge machine providing computing power for everyone in Boston. The idea that machines as powerful as their GE-645 would be ... later would have seemed like science fiction to them. However MULTICS proved more difficult than imagined to implement and Bell Labs withdrew from the project in 1969 as did General Electric, dropping out of the computer business altogether. One of the Bell Labs researchers (Ken Thompson) then decided to rewrite a stripped down version of MULTICS, initially as a hobby. He used a PDP-7 minicomputer that no was using ...
- 813: Technology Spontaneously Approaching `Humanity' With the Passage of Time
- ... more useful as means to achieve our goals. Today, innovations in technology have allowed us to fabricate tools of increasing complexity. As we recognize that the most effective tools have human characteristics, such as a computer capable of learning, we will give our tools these characteristics. If technological innovations continue, we could actually create tools that are human, or at least beings that challenge how we define being ‘human.' Ridley Scott ... the T800 and the replicant are deigned to meet specific specifications. In Terminator 2, the T800 is a multipurpose cyborg assigned to save John Connor, given a series of “mission parameters,” initially characterized by his computer logic. He often advises John based on permutations of the T1000's next move, similar to the way a chess computer decides what move to make next. Just as the T800 is designed to perform solely as a unemotional computer, the ‘replicants' in Blade Runner are designed to work in slavery without protest. Since it' ...
- 814: The Internet, Pornography, and Children
- ... all types of data between computers. Text, numbers, programs, illustrations, photographs, audio, animation, and video can all be transmitted over the Internet. Contrary to what some people may think, the Internet is not a single computer nor is it a single service. The Internet is not owned by or governed by anyone. It exists solely through the support of the companies and institutions that access it. Though the Internet seems relatively new, its roots actually start in the 1960s. In 1969, the Department of Defense started the “ARPANET” project. ARPANET was a decentralized computer network that was used to link military researchers at four universities. The Internet later evolved out of ARPANET. Funding from the National Science Foundation in the 1980s eventually led to the Internet being opened to commercial traffic. Services provided over the Internet include the World Wide Web, electronic mail (the most popular service), Newsgroups, and Chat. For one computer to communicate with another computer on the Internet, both computers must be connected to the Internet. Connection to the Internet can come from commercial online services or through Internet service providers. Generally, home users ...
- 815: The Y2k Bug
- ... is a problem that was initially caused by a lack of technology, but recently by an act of laziness. The problem is known as the “Year 2000 Bug” (Y2K bug). It deals with how the computer programmers inputted the date codes into the computers' hardware and software. These date codes could possibly cause many computers and many items that have computer chips within them to fail at the turn of the century. Back in the 1960’s, when computers were still in their infancy, computer programmers would input the date code by only entering a two digit number (i.e., 60) versus inputting a four digit number (i.e., 1960). The reason they did this was because the amount ...
- 816: Freedom of Speech & Censorship on the Internet
- ... Internet which is grossly offensive by any standards, such as paedophile material, is extremely difficult to find because of its small amounts. Of the 976 obscenity cases handled between 1991 and 1993 only 11 involved computer files, while 0.3% of the obscene material seized by Customs staff in 1992-93 were computer items (Cornwall, 1994). This paper considers the question of censorship on the Internet - does it exist, in what form, should it exist and what should be censored? The Internet To understand many of the questions raised an understanding of how the Internet originated is important. The internet grew out of developments in packet switching and distributed computer networks designed to be secure in time of war: distributed computer networks are less susceptible to damage because transmissions can be routed around the damage. Standard protocols ensure that any platform can be connected ...
- 817: Steve Jobs
- ... to India where he traveled in search of spiritual enlightenment with Dan Kottke, a friend from Reed College. In the autumn of 1974, Jobs returned to California and started attending meetings of “Woz’s” “Homebrew Computer Club”. Woz like most of the clubs members, was happy with the creation of electronics. Steve wasn’t nearly the engineer as Woz and persuaded him to start work on a home computer. Woz and Jobs designed the Apple I in Steve’s bedroom and built the first prototype in Steve’s parents garage. Apple I was a hit. Steve sold his Volkswagen microbus and Woz sold his ... working in an orchard in Oregon. Jobs and Woz built the first real machine called the Apple I. They marketed it at a price of $666.00 in 1976. The Apple I was the first computer with one board. It had a built in video interface, on board ROM-which told the machine hold to load programs from an external source. Jobs and Wozniak managed $774,000.00 in sales ...
- 818: The Serious Year 2000 Problem
- The Serious Year 2000 Problem A serious computer problem, variously known as the “Year 2000,” “Y2K,” “Century Date Change,” or “Millennium Bug” problem, faces many companies. This report is intended to provide a summary discussion of some of the major legal issues that ... the year as "00" and may assume that the year is “1900”. Programmers used two digits in the past instead of four digits to designate the year to save memory during processing. The Year 2000 computer problem can also affect embedded microcontrollers in non-computer equipment such as elevators, security systems, and air conditioning systems. As an example of the type of incorrect calculation which can be produced due to this problem, when a computer sorts dates by year, “ ...
- 819: Computers in the Workplace: Are They Used Ethically?
- ... have arisen as a result of using computers in the workplace? Information technology is replacing energy as society's main resource. Many people are concerned that too much emphasis has been put on what the computer can do to streamline business and too little on how it may be affecting the quality of our lives. For example, is it distorting the meaning of thought? That is, is it absurd and dangerous to attribute the capabilities of thinking and creativity to a computer? People have experience, convictions, and cultural traditions. Are these qualities being devalued? If so, perhaps we are heading into an era in which machinelike qualities of speed and problem solving will be valued more highly than what used to be called humane qualities. As a result, many people believe computers have the potential to contribute to worker dissatisfaction. Consider the potential for computer-based systems in business to be used to monitor employees. What if computers were (and some are already) programmed to check your speed, the pauses you make, the breaks you take, the rate of ...
- 820: Privacy and the Internet
- Privacy and the Internet Abstract On Privacy And The Internet Introduction To Privacy And The Internet What Is Privacy And The System Operator UVA Policy On Privacy/Computer Usage What Is The Electronic Communications Privacy Act It All Comes Back To The System Operator What Other Privacy Laws Exist What About Privacy In The Workplace Encryption Conclusion On Privacy And The Internet References ... images, in addition to voice communications on the telephone. · The law now prohibits unauthorized eavesdropping by all persons and businesses, not only the government. · The ECPA prohibits unauthorized access to messages in storage on a computer system, and also unauthorized interception of messages in transmission. (Rose, 167) What Kind Of Privacy Protection Does The ECPA Afford System Users If there is no arrangement on user privacy between operator and user, the ... System operator allows encrypted messages to pass through the system. This is risky on the system operator. If illegal activity is occurring on a system, and government authorities seize the system as evidence of a crime, the operator will probably find this out when the system is actually taken away by the government agents. · System operator allows no encrypted messages to pass through the system. Operator simply notifies the users ...
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