.... regular phone connections to a digital satellite dish. The article is offers a worthy discussion for anyone contemplating a higher speed internet connection in the near future. ABSTRACT ii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS iv INTRODUCTION 1 ISDN DEVELOPMENT 2 INTENTION OF ISDN 2 USES OF ISDN 2 TYPES OF ISDN 3 INTERFACES 3 Usage of PRI 3 How BRI Works 4 USAGE CONFIGURATION 4 EQUIPMENT NEEDED 4 RATES AND CHARGES 6 EXPLANATION OF CHARGES 6 CONFIGURATION CONSIDERATIONS 6 USAGE CONSIDERATIONS 7 AVAILABILITY OF SERVICE 7 ALTERNATIVES 8 SUMMARY 9 WORKS CITED 10 List of Illustrations Figure 1 PRI Usage……………………… .....

.... Into a global system of social relation and peace--where people from all over the world can intertwine within a perfect Utopia? Or will it cause pain and suffering due to a worldwide depression? A scale that would be twenty-times the size of the Great Depression during the 1920's. Technology has so wondrously and destructively marveled the human mind and body throughout the centuries. From out of the dark depths of the mind have sprung explosive ideas, producing inventions that have transformed minute villages into gigantic civilizations; stimulating population increases throughout the world. Simple tasks such as the automatic traffic si .....

.... hazard is one of the causes of destroying the data in the computer. For example, send a flood of coffee toward a personal computer. The hard disk of the computer could be endangered by the flood of coffee. Besides, human caretaker of computer system can cause as much as harm as any physical hazard. For example, a cashier in a bank can transfer some money from one of his customer's account to his own account. Nonetheless, the most dangerous thief are not those who work with computer every day, but youthful amateurs who experiment at night --- the hackers. The term "hacker "may have originated at M.I.T. as students' jargon for classmate .....

.... instead of two years. The negative answer would cause an incorrect calculation or even program failure. Typically, in scenarios of this nature, computers do one of two things: freeze up and/or shut down. Date computation functions are used on millions of software applications, thus affecting millions of computers world-wide. It not only affects calculations for interest rates, inventories, or insurance policies, but every major aspect of our modern economic infrastructure. Government agencies, businesses, and financial institutions use software applications that contain date computation functions. The following types of organizations w .....

.... mean that the government owns the Internet, or is it no longer a tool limited by the powers that govern. Generalities such as these have sparked great debates within our nation's government. This paper will attempt to focus on two high profile ethical aspects concerning the Internet and its usage. These subjects are Internet privacy and Internet censorship. At the moment, the Internet is epitome of our first amendment, free speech. It is a place where a person can speak their mind without being reprimanded for what they say or how they choose to say it. But also contained on the Internet, are a huge collection of obscene graphics, Ana .....

.... was Windows, a more user-friendly and more powerful operating system than MS-DOS. formed their headquarter in Redmond, Washington, In the same year, its stock went public and started at $21 per share. The updated version of Windows operating system went on sale in 1990 and five years later the complete makeover version named Windows 95 was launched. And now the much debated and controversial program called Windows 98 was launched last June. (Martin, et al., 1995) Why did the Windows 98 program become so controversial? Due to the fact that Windows program has been used on ninety percent of all the PCs in the world, and utilized such .....

.... your eye, which the ATM then compares to a photo taken when you opened your bank account. If the two match, you can withdraw money. You won’t have to look into a viewfinder, or even open your eyes wider than normal. The cameras work at a range up to 3 feet away, and only take two to four seconds to find, photograph and match your iris. The security benefits are obvious: no two people, not even identical twins, have the same iris. While cards and PINs can be stolen, irises cannot. Van Naarden says iris-scanning is also being used overseas at teller windows, kiosks, vaults, and safety deposit boxes. Stopping Fraud, Saving Money And i .....

.... but is contained wholly in the brain. In other words, the actual material of the brain is capable of what we identify as thought. 3. Thought is the result of some sort of mystical phenomena involving the soul and a whole slew of other unprovable ideas. Since neither reader nor writer is a scientist, for all intents and purposes, we will say only that thought is what we (as homo sapien) experience. So what are we to consider intelligence? The most compelling argument is that intelligence is the ability to adapt to an environment. Desktop computers can, say, go to a specific WWW address. But, if the address were changed, it would .....

.... intact and prepared for launch. Although scheduled for launch in 1986, the project was later postponed due to the space shuttle Challenger disaster. During this period, HST was subjected to intense tests and observation in order to prepare its duty in space. The HST was finally launched aboard the STS-31 mission of the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990. Shortly after its launch in 1990, an error was found in the HST main mirror, which caused the telescope to operate improperly. The main mirror was shaped too flat toward the edge of the lens itself. This caused the images to appear as a blur upon use of the telescope. The mirror .....

.... skills as they enter college. The in home computer called the personal computer has now become a part of the home appliance and entertainment center. They are now in about every household across America. Students are now doing the majority of their research in the comforts of home with less distraction. The software for PCs is extensive and the students can obtain all the information he/she needs for an assignment. The time that was spent running to the library has been cut by about ninety percent. This is due to the new and ever improving software that is produced for personal computers. Secondly, the computer has become a strong teaching .....