Papers on Computers & Technology
Computer Networking
Words: 2863 - Pages: 11.... might come on at one time is the question. An example of a guest computer is if someone brought a laptop and connected it for a short while to download or access data. To find the answer to the question, simply count the desktop computers that will be connected and how many guest computers you expect to be connected at one time.
The second mathematical problem that occurs is best solved using an algebraic equation. Let x=the amount of desktop computers that will always be connected, y=the amount of guest computers that you expect to be connected at one time. So, the equation is: x+y+1. The one added on the end of the equation is another gu .....
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Othello: Game Strategy
Words: 695 - Pages: 3.... would put a white
stone at the end with the 5 black stones, but that is a bad mistake. Go to
the side with the one black (a setup move so the computer cannot capitalize
when you turn 5 black stones white, and the computer your seven whites
black.
Always play within your set "square". If you had on the bottom row 3
white, and on the second row 2 blacks, you would only play within that
designated square, which is 3 x 3 stones. (see diagram.) This ensures
that the computer can only play one stone past the square at any time,
which will help you in predicting where the computer will move and a basic
strategy.
Always try to keep .....
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The History Of Computers
Words: 475 - Pages: 2.... a tax
collector" (Buchsbaum 13).
However, in 1671, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz invented a computer that
could not only add but, multiply. Multiplication was quite a step to be taken
by a computer because until then, the only thing a computer could do was add.
The computer multiplied by successive adding and shifting (Guides 45).
Perhaps the first actual computer was made by Charles Babbage. He
explains himself rather well with the following quote:
"One evening I was sitting in the rooms of the Analytical Society at
Cambridge with a table full of logarithms lying open before me. Another member
coming into the room, and seeing me half .....
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New Weapons And Technology In World War I
Words: 1966 - Pages: 8.... faster. In 1914 Winston Churchill decided that the British aircraft should be protected from the ground by using armored motor vehicles. The Germans counteracted this by digging trenches across the roads of Germany. Some of the first armored vehicles were just normal cars converted in a tank. In 1915, Wolseley developed a thirty-cwt. lorry chassis with armored sides and a revolving turret with a Vickers-maxim machine gun. The first design of a tank known as “Little Willie” designed by Lieutenant W.G. Wilson and William Tritton. It consisted of an armored box encircled by caterpillar tracks. The first vehicle to be designed and .....
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How To Maintain A Computer System
Words: 384 - Pages: 2.... .grp should also be
backed up.
Next any time you work inside you computer turn off the power and
disconnect the equipment form the power source. Before you touch anything
inside the computer, touch and unpainted metal surface such as the power supply.
This will help to discharge any static electricity that could damage internal
components.
Now you should periodically, defragment your hard disk. Defragmenting
your hard disk reorganizes files so they are in contiguous clusters and makes
disk operations faster. Defragmentation programs have been known to damage
files so make sure your disk is backed up first.
A good thing to do now woul .....
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The History Of Electronic Musical Instruments
Words: 2148 - Pages: 8.... by playing them.
Electronics has not only offered a means to alter the sounds of already existing instruments, but also as a way to generate new sounds, effects, tones and timbres that would never be possible to be produced in a natural setting.
In the years following the first electronic instruments and synthesizers was what was called the “Digital Era”. Employing computers to do operations similar to that of electronic devices required conversion of an electronic signal, called an analogue signal, to a series of 1’s and 0’s that computers use to calculate information, hence the term digital.
Seeming that the computers allowe .....
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How Cell Phones Work
Words: 999 - Pages: 4.... for listening (Dang). A CB radio has 40 channels. A cell phone can communicate on 1,664 channels. Cell phones also operate within cells and they can switch cells as they move around. Cells give cell phones incredible range. A walkie-talkie can transmit perhaps a mile. A CB radio, because it has much higher power, can transmit perhaps 5 miles. Someone using a cell phone, on the other hand, can drive clear across a city and maintain a conversation the entire time. Cells are what give a cell phone its incredible
range (Anonymous #2).
The genius of the cellular system is the realization that a city can be chopped up into small cells, and .....
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The Telephone
Words: 1495 - Pages: 6.... line (multi -- line) or home line
(single line). You can also have many other types of phones: there are those
that hang on the wall, on the desk, etc.
THE HANDSET
No matter what kind of telephone you own, there has to be some device
that allows you to talk to and listen to. This device is called the handset. The
handset is usually made out of plastic and inside it are two main components:
the transmitter and the receiver.
THE TRANSMITTER
It is the job of the transmitter to turn the air pressure created by
your sound waves to electrical signals so they can be sent to the other
telephone. The waves hit a thin skin called the dia .....
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Exploring The Career Of A Computer Programmer
Words: 2652 - Pages: 10.... categorized as technicians. However, many technical innovations in programming such as advanced computing technologies, sophisticated new languages, and programming tools, have cahnged the role of a programmer and elevated much of the programming work done today. It is becoming more difficult to distinguish programmers from other computer specialist since job titles shift so rapidly, reflecting new areas of specialization or changes in technology. Job titles and descriptions also may vary depending on the organization. In this paper, "computer programmer" refers to individuals whose main job function is programming; this group has a wide ran .....
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Microsoft Corporation
Words: 4570 - Pages: 17.... humans learned to
harness these raw materials ingeniously. The Industrial Revolution of the late
nineteenth century brought the discoveries of the Bronze and Iron Ages to new
heights, and the advent of the locomotive, automobiles, cargo ships and
airplanes were the most evident by-products of such raw materials. Use of these
by-products from the earth's raw materials dramatically changed the world of
business and trade. With the subsequent invention of wire communications (i.e.,
tapping out Morse code and speaking over telephone lines), business and trade
grew exponentially. Wireless communications via the inventions of radio,
televis .....
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