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- 651: The Computer Revolution
- ... As we walk around today we are never far from advanced technology. A third of the UK population currently own mobile phones. Just thirty years ago the technology behind this everyday device was completely alien to all but the most visionary in society. Its exploitation of advanced electronic components and various methods of communication enable it to perform what would have ... and investments over the last twenty years, the number of bank and building society branches has remained stagnant while the number employed in them has decreased due to the increased use of technology within them. This has led to a loss of many well paid and sought after jobs which have been only partly replaced by less skilled jobs in cal ... traditional queries of simpler, more coherent databases. With the amount of information held about our habits and behaviour increasing at an ever-faster rate, civil liberties groups are questioning the use of these types of targeted advertising which exploits our weaknesses and desires.
- 652: Why Y2K?
- ... computers ARE compliant, what about those computers that they contact or link to Via the internet that are NOT compliant? They'd only be spewing in garbage the computer cant use, and can may even screw up compliant computers as well. I know what your thinking: "Its not going to happen, someone is going to make some "wonder program" that will ... being used, and those that know it are either Retired, Senile, or dead! In Some cases, the source code no longer exists, which means the language that some computers still use, cannot be gotten into, and repaired. Lets not forget that there are Millions of lines of Code, that the programmers have to go into, find each mistake, correct it, then ... tape...and froze. It would not move, it went black, and nothing worked! She had to have it sent back to the company, to have it replaced. MANY of our everyday items, like blenders, microwaves, TV's, VCR's and even parts of our newer cars may fail in the year 2000. What I want to know is...if these ...
- 653: Radar: A Silent Eye in the Sky
- ... radar, whether they realize it or not. Tens of thousands of lives rely on the precision and speed of radar to guide their plane through the skies unscathed. Others just use it when they turn on the morning news to check the weather forecast. While radar seems to be an important part of our everyday lives, it has not been around for long. It was not put into effect until 1935, near World War II. The British and the Americans both worked on radar, but ... has the most sophisticated radar system, both on the ground and in the sky. On the ground, we track planes, weather, ships, and many Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. From space, we use satellites with radar to map the globe, spy on foreign countries, and track over the oceans. In each instance, radar plays a key role in our day-to-day ...
- 654: Natural Language Processing
- ... would make inferences associated with the semantic primitive. For example, an ATRANS rule might be that if someone gets something they want, they may be happy about it and may use it. (Daniel Crevier, 1994) Schank implemented his idea of conceptual dependency in a program called MARGIE (memory, analysis, response generation in English.) MARGIE was a program that analyzed English sentences ... and semantics well, it forgot about pragmatics. To solve this problem, Schank moved to Yale and teamed up with Professor of Psychology Robert Abelson. They realized 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 ... to the word "bad" once it realized that it is slang for "incredible." IBM also uses statistical probability to determine the meaning of a word. IBM's NLP programs also use a sentence-charting technique. For example, charting the sentence "The boy has left" and storing the boy as a noun phrase allows the computer to see that the subject ...
- 655: Computers: Productive Tools In Our Lives
- ... cannot survive. If you have no idea of what I am beeping about, read on. Experts, I report no error in reading further. Computers are very productive tools in our everyday lives. To maximize the utility of a computer, what you need to do is get going with the program. To do that, the minimum system requirements are a C.P ... s and 0's. Each of these tiny little instructions makes up a bit. Then they assemble to form a byte. Bytes make up a program, which you run to use the computer's various applications. Now that you know more about computers than Einstein did, let me tell you something more about them, so that you will beat the President ... that you are talking to, and forgetting the fact that the $$$ meter is rising and climbing and mounting every hour you are on-line. Finally, you know that the typical use of computers is not only for typing and calculating, but also for learning the masterful art of patience and how to cope with the mistakes others make without cursing ...
- 656: Embracing The Change
- ... A planting season requiring no dangerous herbicides or toxic pesticides. Thousands of dollars saved, because nutritional supplements are now needless. A beef steer reaching market weight in 75 days. The use of medicines nearly nonexistent. Millions of human lives improved and even saved by a sheep s milk or a pig s brain cells. Something out of a science fiction novel ... level. Plants will become salt tolerant, so that salt-water can be used for irrigation purposes. We will be able to protect our farms by allowing reduced and more effective use of chemical pesticides and herbicides, therefore creating a healthier and safer environment. Farm productivity will improve as food production increases in crops and animals, which in return will reduce food ... and enhance an effect all ready present, such as an increased growth rate. Transgenic animals may soon be the dominant source of pharmaceuticals. The need for biotechnology can be seen everyday. Many of us have had crops ruined by the bacterial and viral infection, insects, worms, weeds, and unpredictable weather. Insects are becoming resistant to our most potent chemicals many ...
- 657: Internet Censorship
- ... the Internet is demonstrated through its many components. The most readily identifiable part is the World Wide Web (WWW). This consists of web pages that can be accessed through the use of a web browser. Web pages are created using a basic programming language. Another easily identified section of the Internet is e-mail. Once again it is a relatively user ... to transfer obscene and pornographic material through these newsgroups. There is no accurate way to determine how many people are connected to the Internet because the number grows so rapidly everyday. Figures become obsolete before they can be published. "[The Internet] started as a military strategy and, over thirty years later, has evolved into the massive networking of over 3 million ... the way information is passed around the Internet means that if information has been posted, deleting this material becomes almost impossible. The millions of people that participate on the Internet everyday have access to almost all of the data present. As well it becomes easy to copy something that exists no the Internet with only a click of a button. ...
- 658: Derek
- ... tuned out the rest as best he could and wished fervently that he had walked all the way home. I will, he thought fiercely. I promise I will walk home everyday, he swore, as if standing up to himself and putting his foot down. Unless it is bad weather, his brain quickly added. Derek cursed. It seemed that everytime he made ... spend a lot of time making his place as homey as possible. When he saw the lighted candle, Arthur raised an eyebrow, and he began to wonder. To Arthur, the use of marijuana was a social thing, an experience to be shared with others. He did not understand how Derek could sit all by himself in the dark, alone with his ... probably have had the confidence to appear quite comfortable, or even to mildly imitate the role which he felt was required here. But his natural feelings of transparency (which in everyday life he managed to cover with an act), along with the disorientation caused by the drug, loomed so large that Derek could not understand where to begin acting. Arthur ...
- 659: Creative Writing: In An Oldster's Mind
- ... His eyes were staring on the page of a novel, but I knew he was talking to me. In my class Angus was the only one who retook the course. Everyday I attended the course because I would get the mark of attendance. The teacher's voice was gradually fading out until no words I could hear. Everyday the whole course started and finished like that. At home I used to turn on the radio. Loneliness was my hatred. The louder the radio, the more it comforted me ... hand and also yelled, "I told you to leave her alone. You! Spy! Tie her hands at the back." "Take it easy! Angus, give me the gun. It is no use to point that gun to us. Everything would be OK," I tried to persuade him. "I also don't want to kidnap her but I have heard her cursing ...
- 660: “The Slippery Slope of Pizza Money": The Money Scheme
- ... already smirking”(1). This means that now schools can go to any extent to get what they want. A scholarship isn’t all they have to offer nowadays. They can use cash and other gifts given from boosters now to get who and what they want. For the programs that want to win no matter what it takes, this is the ... make others take his side. It’s obvious that the author wrote this article because of things that have been going on in the past with athletes. It is an everyday occurrence for an athlete to be handed money. Now it’s as if they can be handed money legally. Looney is saying how this is unfair and unethical Looney wrote ... he was making and in doing so I can agree with the author’s point of view. The language of this piece is done in a very sarcastically way. This use of language only helps Looney get his point across. It helps him show how ridiculous this new rule really is. It makes it seem as though he is trying ...
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