Hybrid Cars Your car slows to a halt 100 miles from the nearest town. The battery that you are using has run out of fuel. Now you can ask yourself if you should have relied on batteries to get you where you wanted to go. The issue of whether we should be forced to change our cars to hybrid vehicles, that are much cleaner and use less gas, is a highly regarded debate. Many argue that i

Ignorance Of Nuclear Weapons Ignorance of Nuclear Weapons By Mark Schells Have you ever seen a kid with a bunch of fire crackers' They are amazed at the power of them and at how they can blow up there toys. Then it happens, it only takes once, without even knowing it the child closes its hand around one. Then they loose a thumb or a finger, and have learned a lesson they will rem

Improvement Or Destruction The Human need to improve, create and innovate started the industrial revolution, which was the beginning of environmental degradation. Young people left the farm to work in the mills and factories of the cities. The byproduct of burning fossil fuels led to air pollution. The runoff from manufacturing processes polluted the land, rivers and streams. The s

ISP Still Grows TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Report II. Email Survey III. Bibliography The start of the new millennium marked many changes. Of the many changes one of the most successful lies with in the realm of technology. Technology such as Internet radio is affecting many different industries in the music arena. Imagine using your computer to listen to the radio. It may seem l

IC Fabrication Cleanroom in the university The cleanroom in the university is classified with Class 10000 to Class 1000000. The contain of particles percubic meter would be 10000 to 1000000. The particles size are approximately 0.1 micrometers. As the cleanroom is classified only with ISO Class 5 to 7, the level of contamination is controlled accordingly. Besides, for academic purpos

Internal Combustion Engines Internal Combustion Engines An Internal Combustion Engine is a machine that gets power-driven energy directly from the disbursement of the chemical energy of fuel burned in a combustion chamber. Four principal types of internal-combustion engines are in general use: the Otto-cycle engine, the diesel engine, the rotary engine, and the gas turbine. The

Internet Censoring the Internet Censoring the Internet The internet offers a huge wealth of information both good and bad, unfortunately the vary nature of the internet makes policing this new domain practically impossible. The internet began as a small university network in the United States and has blossomed into a vast telecommunications network spanning the globe. Today the int

Internet Addiction Internet Addiction Research Paper Theme: Social Impact of the Internet 8 October 1997 ABSTRACT The Internet is the largest source of information in the world today. With its web sites and chat rooms, it is a means of communicating with people in places all over the face of the earth. Since its conception in 1973, the Internet has grown at a whirlwind rate. 5

Internet Privacy Internet Privacy The concern about privacy on the Internet is increasingly becoming an issue of international dispute. 'Citizens are becoming concerned that the most intimate details of their daily lives are being monitored, searched and recorded.' (www.britannica.com) 81% of Net users are concerned about threats to their privacy while online. The greatest threat to

Internet Shopping The Internet has taken its place next to the telephone and television as an important part of people’s lives. Every day, more consumers are using the Internet for financial activities like investing, banking and shopping. If you surf the Internet, then you’re probably familiar with the terms “digital stores” and “online malls.” Thousands of consumers are now taking ad

Intranet These days Intranets are becoming more and more popular throughout the business world and other types of organizations. Many companies and organizations are already making this change and many more are considering it. The advantages offered by Intranets when compared to other types of networks are many, at a reduced cost for the owner. Less maintenance, less programming and m

Java Security Java Security Introduction In this report I will look at the potential types of threats surrounding Java. Each type of threat has its own objective and ways of meeting this objective. Java developers also realised these threats so they have developed a security model, which helps ensure that certain java code is checked before it is run. The security model is implemented

Global Media With American media moguls AOL Time Warner, Disney ABC, AT&T and Microsoft making the transition into the global media market in the past two decades, foreign conglomerates like Telefonica, MediaCorp-Fox, and Sony are following suit. In expanding their reach around the globe and in making globalization their main focus, these foreign companies have slowly been buying up maj

Java With most programming languages, you either compile or interpret a program so that you can run it on your computer. The Java programming language is unusual in that a program is both compiled and interpreted. With the compiler, first you translate a program into an intermediate language called Java bytecodes —the platform-independent codes interpreted by the interpreter on the Java

M505 Palm m505 The Palm m505 is a new PDA that, unlike many PDA’s, comes with a color screen, a Motorola Dragonball VZ processor, 8MB of memory, a 160x160 pixel color display with over 65,000 colors. This PDA is one of the first in a new breed of color displays. Palm has also incorporated two expansion slots, one for memory, and one for extra peripherals. This is one of the fir

Mainframe Vs PC Mainframe vs. PC Over the years, Information Technology (IT) and computing, have taken many unexpected turns. When the world first started using computers, the machines were so big that they took up considerable amounts of room. Additionally, because they were so new, only a few select employees in an organization, actually new how to use them. These select people wer

Microsoft This case is a short version of the evolution of Apple Computer. Two young men, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, founded Apple Computer. These two men developed ideas that were way ahead of their time. Jobs and Wozniak diverged in their entrepreneurial styles. Eventually, Wozniak left Apple. Jobs was very driven. He wanted to be the best. Even though he praised his team, Jo

Microprocesor History Microprocessor History A microprocessor - also known as a CPU or Central Processing Unit - is a complete computation engine that is fabricated on a single chip. The first microprocessor was the Intel 4004, introduced in 1971. The 4004 was not very powerful - all it could do was add and subtract, and it could only do that four bits at a time. But it was amazing that

Napster Just do IP Issue 42, August 2, 2000 "People are copying music because they feel somewhat disenfranchised with the options they have at their disposal in the digital space. It's up to the content industry to create value in the digital arena and they've made phenomenal steps in that direction." Talal Shamoon, a key technologist for the SDMI (Secure Digital Music Initiat

Napster One of the hottest new trends in technology is the music provider Napster. This service provides a free and easy way for people to download their favorite songs. Napster has become extremely popular with the teenagers of this generation. The ease with which one uses the service makes it very user friendly. By being very interested in music, I have become very familiar with th

Napster There’s no such thing as a free lunch, but due to open peer to peer architecture music is. In 1998 a group of college students launched this innovative Napster technology. Since then the software has generated great controversy within the music industry due to alleged copyright infringement. However, the music industry has failed to see Napster’s potential as a valuable tool i

NAPSTER The record companies can make as much or more money by abandoning their old business model and going with Napster's. They should look at the numbers, do the math, and then join with Shawn Fanning's Napster. Then again, why do that when they can have both business models and make twice as much money' When Napster first started out, it had around 50,000 users, and as a music distri

The Unternet The Internet has revolutionized the computer and communications world like nothing before. The invention of the telegraph, telephone, radio, and computer set the stage for this unprecedented integration of capabilities. The Internet is at once a world-wide broadcasting capability, a mechanism for information dissemination, and a medium for collaboration and interaction betwe

Office Depot Vs. Staples Office Depot Vs. Staples An e-commerce solution for a business is the incorporation of all aspects of the business operation into an electronic format. When a business has incorporated an e-commerce solution, the business will experience a lower operation cost while at the same time increasing its profit. Office supply superstores Staples and Office Depot h

Onstar 1. The chapter discussed several examples of companies that have used IT for competitive advantage. Is there anything about the OnStar system that makes it a good example as well' Is OnStar a feature that is likely to give GM a competitive advantage for an extended period of time or is it likely to give, if anything, a temporary advantage' OnStar provides emergency road assistanc

Operating Systems OPERATING SYSTEMS An operating system is the program that manages all the application programs in a computer system. This also includes managing the input and output devices, and assigning system resources. Operating systems evolved as the solution to the problems that were evident in early computer systems, and coincide with the changing computer systems. Three cycl

Persuasive Appeal Analysis PERSUASIVE APPEAL ANALYSIS When we, as an exposed audience or even more specifically as the constructed or target audience, view television or are “exposed” to radio, we are “exposed” to mass media. The commercials within this type of advertising that we come into contact with are not normal of public communication, they are persuasive and designed to make us

Project Planning & Implementation:Example Background and Statement of Need The purpose of this project will be to develop and Quality Control Reporting system (QCR) for the certification of ISO 9000. XYZ is a small medical products company employing about fifty people. A year ago, the company was purchased by a larger medical manufacturing company called XYZ. Since that purchase XYZ

Rhetorical Analysis Of “Flying The Friendly Skies” The title for this editorial seems to be chosen in order to show the audience that in fact the skies are not very friendly. In a matter of sarcasm she tells us that United States airlines are indeed to be one of the safest places in the world to fly. Yet after September 11, those kinds of titles went down the drain. She mentions tha

Risk Management Today’s Internet economy has forever changed the way the world conducts business. At no other time in history has technology opened the doors to new markets at a faster pace. While e-Commerce presents tremendous opportunities, it also introduces an enormous amount of risk. After all, the same technology that connects companies to the global marketplace also makes their sy