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Interactive Television
1410 Words - 6 Pages.... eat dinner. They
like to watch television in groups, not by themselves. The problem with
interactive television is that it works best with a focused individual
viewer without distractions. It also requires the user to remain indoors
for long periods of time which people don't like to do. Human beings are
social animals. It is this fact that will keep them from being glued to
their television sets. Clearly these factors will not allow interactive
television to overtake the American home.
So what exactly is interactive television and what does it do?
Interactive television is the ability literally to interact with the
television set just like we do with a home computer ....
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Porn On The Internet
1492 Words - 6 Pages.... injurious objects in the house are kept far away from children's reach. Still, there is one thing that many parents do not think about putting away. It is the computer. Although the computer is mostly used for helpful things such as school work and business work, it can be manipulated to show vulgarity. Sites that contain pornography can be linked to with ease. These sites can be seen whether or not the child is purposely or mistakenly connecting to them. This is why mothers should act immediately if they do not want their children to be exposed to demeaning pictures of complete nudity and explicit sex. They need to monitor Internet use for their children by purcha ....
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Data Security
1173 Words - 5 Pages.... an uncountable number of computer
breakins each month. Most breakins however are probably not reported due to
unaware System Administrators.
There was the 1993 case in which investigators in NYC found that
three city employees had found a flaw in city's real estate tax computer
system and erased 20,000,000 dollars in overdue property taxes (Secure
Commerce on The Internet 12). The corporation Citibank also had an
incident in 1995 in which Russian hackers stole over 10,000,000 dollars in
fraudulent wire transfers by exploiting a hole in it's systems provision
for money transfers. It cost the Italian government over 225,000 to repair
a glitch in The Rome Air Force Base's sys ....
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Creating WebPages By Using HTML
687 Words - 3 Pages.... work in pairs. You give a beginning tag, and then you must give an ending tag. The only difference between the beginning tag and the ending tag is that a slash must be used with the ending tag. All tags must be surrounded by angle blankets. With the knowledge of the tags and proper combination of the tags, you can create a web page, as you desire.
Now let's start creating a web page. The very first thing you need to put into your HTML document is a tag, it identifies the entire document as an HTML document. The next thing you will do is to create a header. An HTML document can be roughly divided into two sections: header and body. Header is where you display infor ....
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HDTV
688 Words - 3 Pages.... in the development process
within the industry that would be accepted by the FCC. This standard was
created in the 40's and 50's. Each receiver sold to the American public must
conform to received the NTSC signal. This signal has proved to be a durable way
of transmitting information for 50 years. But with today's technology, a new
standard has been in the works, HDTV.
In September 1992 NBC's WRC-TV in Washington DC became the first
television station in the country to send HDTV signals over the air waves. WRC-
TV's general manager then stated, "With advanced digital high-definition
television, viewers will experience unmatched picture quality and superior sound
re ....
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Catalytic Converters
591 Words - 3 Pages.... catalyst is an element
which although causing a reaction to occur, does not change at all during the
reaction. This is the idea behind a catalytic converter. The carbon monoxide
gas and hydrocarbons emitted from the engine will travel along the exhaust
system until they reach they catalytic converter. There it comes into contact
with the described catalyst. This forces a reaction between the carbon monoxide
and hydrocarbons with the oxygen inside the converter creating products of
carbon dioxide and water vapor. The reaction which occurs inside the converter
is as follows:
The main compounds involved are carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons
(compounds of hydrogen and carb ....
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Technology And Progress
1133 Words - 5 Pages.... nature of pain and suffering and as a result I did not understand such concepts as cruelty. During these formative years I spent much of my time with my pet dog Barney. Barney was a kind natured dog who put up with far more than he should have from me. Still unable to understand that my actions could cause annoyance or pain to another, I often would often tease my dog for my own entertainment. Usually the teasing would consist of things like chasing my dog with the garden hose, or stealing his food and running with it, but one time I took my games too far. For some reason I came in contact with the idea that pain was humorous, maybe from TV, or schoolmates, or even my ....
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Computer Piracy
1959 Words - 8 Pages.... most likely get is no. This is becuase most people do not know what computer/software piracy is nor do they understand it if they do.
The Software Publisher’s Association defines computer/software piracy as “the unauthorized use or illegal copying of a software product. It occurs in a number of forms, from the sharing of floppy disks to mismanagement of network software licenses and the production of counterfeit CD-ROMs, including “compilation CDs” that can contain thousands of dollars worth of products.” There are many ways that an individual can commit computer/software piracy. There are six different methods that you can pirate software. The first method of soft ....
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