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- 9171: Telecommunication
- ... computers that they were connected to. The next advancement was the invention of the 2400 bits per second modem. The specifications came from the CCITT, an industry standard setting organization composed of hundreds of companies world wide. The new standard was designated as V.22bis and is still in use today. Other CCITT standards that followed were the V.32 (9600 bps), the V.32bis (14400 bps), the V42 (error control ... servers may not be able to handle the extra activity. 5. Links Between LANs 5.1. She Just Won't Send Sysop! Most networks have very short information transfer ranges. But, in an ever shrinking world the need for links between LANs has never been higher. This section will explain the components and information needed to link LANs. When an electric current travels over a long length, it's charge decreases ... determine the destination of the message. The Routers strip the outer Ethernet packets of a data packet in order to get the data. This data is sent to other routers in other places of the world and then repackaged by those routers. The removal of the excess data packets by the routers decreases the time required to transfer that data. If networks use the same addressing protocol, bridges can be ...
- 9172: The Role Of Women In The Odyss
- Homer wrote the classic epic The Odyssey more than 2,500 years ago. At that time in ancient Greek society, as well as in the whole of the ancient world, the dominant role was played by men. Society was organized, directed, and controlled by men, and it was accepted that women occupied a subservient and inferior position. Women, of course, were valued, but were expected ... Helen and Arete serve their husbands as loyal wives. Almost nowhere in The Odyssey can one find a woman doing the same things as a man. No women went off to fight in the Trojan War. There were no female members of Odysseus or Telemachus crew, nor do any women participate in the battle against the suitors. The character traits that make a man great; strength, courage, and leadership are lacking ...
- 9173: American Violence
- ... this mutual recognition, society could not function in peace. Yet having laws drives some people to want to break these laws, peoples need to rebel may actually cause violence. All other societies in the ancient world devised sets of laws. In the 7th century BC, a lawgiver named Draco drew up a very harsh code that punished offenses, no matter how trivial, with death. Not many years later, another Greek lawgiver ... so dependent on the drugs that they will do anything for money in which to buy them. Much of the theft and recorded mugging in this country are directly linked to drug abuse. The drug war has gone on in this country for quite some time now and has been linked to many violent acts. Wars that break out involving gangs, police, and the general public are much to frequent in ...
- 9174: The Influence That Hsi Yu Chi
- ... Western Readers. Professor Yu has done a marvelous job translating the long book (one hundred chapters). The Journey To The West (which is want I will refer to it as from now on) portrays the world as one which is inhabited by demons, monsters, dragons, fairies, magic and various deities from Chinese Mythology and pushes the real hero of The Journey Hsuan Tsang into a corner and introduces a new hero ... The three disciples of Hsuan Tsang have a lot in common despite their ugliness. All three once held office in Heaven, but for some crime, they were all punished. Sun Wu K'ung had waged war on Heaven and attempted to force the Emperor of Heaven to abdicate, Chi Wu Neng had 'dallied' with the Goddess of the Moon when he was drunk one night and Sha Wu Ching was punished ...
- 9175: The Internet: It Was To Be the Great Equalizer
- ... California. "That's fine if you already know what you want, but if you're unsure, well, we think we can help." But even with their hit-the-competition-where-they-'aint strategies, sites like World of Music and the Last Vestige site aren't swimming in profits. They are, however, reaching out to a whole new clientele. Wheatley's six-month-old Last Vestige site, for example, draws about 10 ... their owners and useful to their customers. In the meantime, site owners like Phillip are trying to temper the Net commerce hype with a cold-water splash of experience. "The good news is that the world Wide Web is going to be the biggest shopping mall and communications center in the world. The bad news is that hundreds or thousands of your competitors will all be there with you."
- 9176: Harrison Bergeron
- ... the situation to the people. Symbolism is used in the story by means of Harrison Bergeron, this enormous seven-foot tall, good-looking, athletic, genius. He embodies all the traits that everyone in this equal world could or essentially would have if it were not for the enslavement that they are subject to by this overpowering government. The common people in the story have been completely brainwashed and filled with ridiculous ... government ultimately has total control over not only everyones lives, but their minds as well. The motive behind the governments controlling society is the idea that an equal society will eliminate hatred, envy, and war. While this does prove true, the numerous side effects, such as loss of identity, lack of originality, and conformity begin to arise. In actuality these governments are creating a society with zombie like creatures, which ...
- 9177: An American Shame
- ... alive today, George Washington, Ben Franklin, John Adams and even Liberal Thomas Jefferson would declare the News Media a greater threat to the freedom and future of this nation than King George and would declare war on them and not stop till every last infectious reporter, editor and announcer was burning in Hell. Some brain-dead, TV polluted, mushy-gushy Christian will piously say, "But for the grace of God, there ... divine forgiveness. They should have gotten saved. They should have repented. They should have told the truth. Oh well! Let's go enjoy Eternity! In the meantime, America will be the laughing stock of the world. While the News Mafia goes out and digs up some morally bankrupted pervert to herald Clinton's acquittal that very pervert will laugh up his sleeve at how easily the American public buckled under to ...
- 9178: The Rime Of The Christo-marine
- ... between a man and his god? Only death, as the passage illustrates. In the following stanza, "And straight the Sun was flecked with bars," the perspective is that of a prisoner looking to the outside world the sailors are imprisoned, both in life and in the ocean. Death is all that keeps life contained from grace, so the bars across the Sun (god) are fitting symbolism. A biblical allusion referred to ... usage of color to signify life and death. Green is typically regarded as the color of living things, such as when spring comes after the grays of winter, bringing life and color back into the world. "Her beams bemocked the sultry main,/Like April hoar-frost spread;/But where the ship's huge shadow lay,/The charmed water burnt away/A still and awful red." [ln 268] The Mariner was on ... exceptional writer, would not have been dissatisfied, it seems, to have been a man of the cloth. From Rime of the Ancient Mariner alone, he makes an impression of how a great deal of the world mimics Christian belief. Although not intended to be factual, nor construed as such, Rime is a well developed, character-based morality play.
- 9179: Coping With Computers
- ... that has been caught with their pants down.' For many of the senior members of this workforce, they are at a disadvantage when it comes to competing with newer college graduates in today's computer world. This article deals with the feelings of one particular person in this position. Linda Ellerbee, a journalist and author owns a television production company. She also has her own column in Windows magazine. Her experiences ... a computer involved sending a message over the AP news wire. As it turns out, she expressed her candid opinion on some very sensitive topics at the time, including but not limited to the Vietnam War. Consequently, the AP was not amused with the message and she was fired. At the time, this incident was popular enough to make it into Newsweek magazine. Later on, she moved into television as a ...
- 9180: Computer Ergonomics In The Work Place
- ... embedded "hotspots" which point to other sections of text or other documents. Any piece of text or graphic can be defined as a hotspot which points elsewhere. Internet (a.k.a. "The Information Superhighway"). A world-wide interconnection between thousands of computer networks on many different platforms, with over 10 million end users (and growing). The telecommunications backbone of the Internet is based on a network of U.S. government owned ... program or feature popularly used on the Internet by individuals to log into, and take control of other computers on the Internet. VRML "Virtual Reality Markup Language" A new emerging language becoming supported by the World Wide Web, for programming virtual reality content on the Internet. Web Browser A type of program used by individuals which reads HTML files on the Internet and presents them to the user in a friendly ... Web Site is not to be confused with a single physical location where a Web Server exists. It is a Cyber-Location. Web Server A combination of computer hardware, telecomm. lines, and HTTP server software. World Wide Web, WWW, or The Web An intricate and vast web of information, tied together by hypertext links between multimedia documents residing on thousands of Internet computers around the globe.
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