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- 231: Computers
- ... independently in a form known as software. In some specialized, or "dedicated," computers the operating instructions are embedded in their circuitry; common examples are the microcomputers found in calculators, wristwatches, automobile engines, and microwave ovens. A general-purpose computer, on the other hand, contains some built-in programs (in ROM) or instructions, in a chip, but it depends on external programs ...
- 232: Seatbelts and Airbags: They Save Lives!!!
- ... Car buyers also just plain avoid buying cars with a passenger side airbag. Seatbelts, however, cannot be avoided. In the state of Pennsylvania it is illegal to ride in an automobile without wearing a seatbelt, yet we still do not wear them because they are uncomfortable. We don't think about what can and will happen if we don't wear ...
- 233: Catalytic Converters
- ... main function of a catalytic converter is to decrease pollution emitted from a vehicles exhaust. The concept behind this is to add a catalyst and force a reaction between the automobile's exhaust and oxygen in the converter. To see just how this happens let's look inside of a catalytic converter. A catalytic converter is made up mainly of a ...
- 234: Cyberspace and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age
- ... new products to challenge the old ones and, if they really are better, to replace them. Static competition might lead to faster and stronger horses. Dynamic competition gives us the automobile. Such dynamic competition -- the essence of what Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter called "creative destruction" -- creates winners and losers on a massive scale. New technologies can render instantly obsolete billions of ...
- 235: Airplanes
- ... landing gear. Shock struts are designed for this purpose. They absorb bumps and jolts, as well as the downward force of landing. Airplane brakes operate on the same principles as automobile brakes, but they do have a few significant differences. For example, airplane brakes usually are located on the main wheels, and are applied by separate pedals. Because of this, operating ...
- 236: Virtual Reality Technology and Society
- ... in intellectual discourse as well" (Krueger 1992, 262). Often, when a new trend is introduced into the social order, society integrates it over time at a relatively slow pace. The automobile, telephone, and television, are all examples of new technologies that came into being, but were slow to be accepted. The same can not be said of the newer technologies of ...
- 237: Robotics
- ... designed from the start around robots, such as several of those in Japan, industrial robots are still only slowly being placed in production lines. Most of the robots in large automobile and airplane factories are used for welding, spray-painting, and other operations where humans would require expensive ventilating systems. The problem of workers being replaced by industrial robots is only ...
- 238: Natural Language Processing
- ... that most of our everyday activities are linked together in chains which they called "scripts." (Daniel Crevier, 1994) In 1975, SAM (Script Applied Mechanism), written by Richard Cullingford, used an automobile accident script to make sense out of newspaper reports of them. SAM built internal representations of the articles using semantic primitives. SAM was the first working natural language processing program ...
- 239: Government Intervention of the Internet
- ... and the FBI and NSA are believed to be unable to crack this code. When told about the illegal uses of his programs, Zimmerman replies: "If I had invented an automobile, and was told that criminals used it to rob banks, I would feel bad, too. But most people agree the benefits to society that come from automobiles -- taking the kids ...
- 240: John Cheever’s Portrayals of Suburban Life
- ... the environment is tremendous. When Sears finds that “nearly a third of Beasley Pond {has been} despoiled and on the right there {is} a shell of a ten year old automobile and close to that a dead dog” (Oh What 9) he is traumatized. Being the determined New Englander he is, Sears will go to any extent to return Beasley Pond ...
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