Computers

Since 1990, a battle has raged in United States courts between the United Statesgovernment and the Microsoft Corporation out of Redmond, Washington, headed byBill Gates. What is at stake is…

If you haven’t heard of the year 2000 problem (also known as Y2K or the millennium bug), you soon will. To save space, many computer programs and chips use two…

Are MP3’s a breakthrough in technology or are they just another bomb waitingto explode on us? Many people say they are good, while others say they are notjust bad, but…

The term media refers to the storage, transmission, interchange, presentation,representation and perception of different information types (data types) suchas text, graphics, voice, audio and video. The term multimedia is used…

Imagine yourself as a network administrator, responsible for a 2000 user network. This network reaches from California to New York, and some branches over seas. In this situation, anything can,…

The two types of computers that are the most common people use are the Personalcomputer, and the Laptop computer. Most people would say that there is not thatmuch difference between…

Late this summer, Sony will release its brainchild product dubbed PlayStation2.This is a follow up to its predecessor PlayStation1. If you are familiar withthe video game entertainment market, its usual…

its Pentium-crushing speed and new design, the Power Mac G4 picks up where theold Macintosh (G3) left off. Its enclosure is now highly polished silver andgraphite, yet it still offers…

Alan Turing was born in London on 23 June 1912. He was the son of Julius MathiusTuring and Ethel Sara Stoney, the youngest of three children, he was born to…

Silicon is the raw material most often used in integrated circuit (IC)fabrication. It is the second most abundant substance on the earth. It isextracted from rocks and common beach sand…

Software piracy is defined as the illegal copying of software for commercial orpersonal gain. Software companies have tried many methods to prevent piracy,with varying degrees of success. Several agencies like…

Let’s face it, in today’s world we are using computers more and more. The growthof accessibility to the Internet has given us a brand new definition toconnectivity, thus exponentially widening…

At first I had began brainstorming trying to think of a subject for this paper.I had heard Mr. Perry speak of Apple computer and of Steve jobs. His rise topower…

Systems Analyst analyses, designs and implements the information gatheredpreviously to a system, the final product which is a report of yearly sales,profits, etc. The first thing a Systems Analyst does…

This country’s economy thrives on its trade secrets and without them the economy would lack its competitive edge and economic value. The trade secret laws date back to Roman law…

Programs running in the Background Sometimes you will run into the problem wheretwo programs that are installed on your PC conflict with each other and refuseto run at the same…

In the 1990s the personal computer revolution turned into the social computerrevolution. The thrill of having sophisticated computer power on your desktopturned out to be just the beginning, once your…

“UNIX was the first operating system designed to run on ‘dissimilar’computers by converting most hardware specific commands in machine language intoan independent programming language called ‘C,’” Jon Wolfe writes in…

Invitro is defined as, “In glass, as in a test tube” (Taber’s cyclopedicdictionary,1993), hence with reference to invitro fertilization, the term“Test tube baby”. The first ‘test tube baby’ was Louise…

Video games were first introduced in the 1970s. By the end of that decade theyhad become a preferred childhood leisure activity, and adults responded withconcern about the possible ill effects…