... operate an computer controlled video system is not very difficult and you don’t need a supercomputer. All the crew will need is a Pentium PC compatible, 8 MB Ram, FlashPoint®, 128 Lite Video Frame Grabber Card, and Windows NT 4.0® or Windows 95®. SPECIFICATIONS Digital SONY camcorder with VHS, S-VHS and digital output signal for PC signal processing Very high resolution (480/line) for macro imaging of particles Pre-programmed controller for starting time, recording time and - interval Deployable as particle camera or observation camera Technical data: Housing Material: TiAl4V4 alloy Total weight: 8.9 kg Lens cover: Borosilikat glass Con ...
... than a human hair, yet inch by inch is stronger than steel. The future of fiber optics is very promising due to the simple fact of how much information they can carry. Two single fiber optics lines carry the equivalent of 24,000 telephone calls at one time. With the introduction of fiber optics into our daily lives, it will greatly improve the quality and speed of the information we receive. With the growth of television and telephone traffic, bandwidth has become a large issue that is seemingly solved with the advent of fiber. Fiber Optics has enormous bandwidth and distance coverage as compared to copper wire. Commercial phone systems carry more conversati ...
... fast inner-city travel leading to lower airline fares, commercial air traffic has increased by 56 percent. Adding to the congestion and delay is increased commuter and regional air traffic. Those short distance flights take valuable landing slots that could be used for larger planes on more profitable, longer flights. With the maglev vehicles the shorter trips excluding access time can be cut a lot. With a study of 16 major corridors of travel, less than 300 miles in length, they studied how well the maglev vehicles could help, and in 10 out of the 16 the time could be cut at least slightly. Also the cost of a maglev trip will be less so that even with the lo ...
... But wait, you have a computer, a modem, and the internet! You are saved! All you have to do is log on the internet, type in a keyword about your topic, and search. Instantly, you can get tons of information about your topic. The internet links people together into a web of networks and shared software using computer terminals and telephone lines or wireless radio connections.The basic internet was formed about 4 or 5 years ago by the United States government with the idea to pass information between themselves rapidly and efficently. Groups like the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, and NASA all used the internet to communicate, and still do t ...
... Facilitation is the deliberate copying of copyrighted software and distributing it. An example would be an MIT student named David LaMacchia. This individual served and maintained a computer that was connected to the internet that offered it's users more than one million dollars worth of software 'free of charge.' Mr. LaMacchia was caught by the authorities and was acquitted of this piracy due to the lack of legal standards for this crime. Another example is off local bulletin board systems. Many are run out of the offenders homes with just a phone line, a computer and a modem. Here members of this service can send and receive pirated software (otherwise known ...
... be implemented throughout the world and already a big change is being noticed. Companies are keeping track of all of their important information on web sites, which are restricted to users, unless they have the security code to access them. Thanks to Internet technology, companies and other types of organizations are able to keep all of their information organized and easily accessible with a click of a button. The Internet, how has it changed the world around us? Government, education, business is all wrapping around it. Is this because of all of the information on it, simplicity or is it the quickness, with a simple point and click and the information appears ...
... a briefcase left on a desk picked at random in one of hundreds of offices. In the same way that you would have to walk through the building, opening doors one at a time to find the briefcase, an ordinary computer has to make it way through long strings of 1’s and 0’s until it arrives at the answer. But what if instead of having to search by yourself, you could instantly create as many copies of yourself as there were rooms in the building all the copies could simultaneously peek in all the offices, and the one that finds the briefcase becomes the real you, the rest just disappear. – (David Freeman, discover ) David Deutsch, a physicist at Oxford University, ...
... -its form and where it sits in relation to other objects. Your brain processes this information so that you see the apple, and the rest of the world, in 3-D. You can look around objects, too -if the apple is blocking the view of an orange behind it, you can just move your head to one side. The apple seems to "move" out of the way so you can see the orange or even the back of the apple. If that seems a bit obvious, just try looking behind something in a regular photograph! You can't, because the photograph can't reproduce the infinitely complicated waves of light reflected by objects; the lens of a camera can only focus thos ...
... Berkeley UNIX system. At the time, he was in England far from computers and civilization. The crew does not what to believe that it would be Seventek, so they start to look what the impostor is doing. Cliff hooks up a few computers to the line that comes from the Tymnet. Tymnet is a series of fiber-optic cables that run from a major city to another major city. So if you were in LA and wanted to hook up to a computer in the Big Apple you could call long distance, have a lot of interference from other callers and have a slow connection, or you could sign-up to Tymnet and dial locally, hop onthe optic cable and cruise at a T-3 line. The lab had only five Tymnet ...
... and use the system. Most of the online systems have chat rooms where users can chat in real time with one another. some users even think of on-line services as a community. The second catagory involves Bulletin Boards or (BBS's). These services allow the user accounts like their larger on-line service cousins. These BBS's have less users because they run on smaller computers. The system operators, more commonly known as sysops, are running the boards. Since most BBS's are hobbies there is usually no charge for an account. The same as on-line services, users use BBS's for trades, games, and to chat among other users. Since bulletin boeard are so easy t ...
