... yet people are not using their own minds to accomplish certain tasks. Our minds are not going to grow if we depend on a machine to think for us. Yes, there is a plethora of information available to us on the Internet, but is anyone applying it to everyday life? Maybe so, but there is nothing like researching your interests through your own motivation. It is not hard to go to the library and read through books to gather information. The many people who read for leisure probably cannot imagine reading their favorite novel on the computer. One of the joys of reading is that you can be anywhere and still "lose" yourself in a book. You can sit in bed, or on your ...
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... did not officially announce his invention until 1968. After the debut of the mouse the next real step in its advancement did not come until 1970 at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Alan Day developed the first working computer that used the . While at the research center Day and other researches developed the first computer that depended on the to point. The next advancement for the came out of the Apple computer. The Apple Lisa computer used a graphical user interface and it helped create the technology used for the . The Macintosh computer used a and it simplified the use of the computer because all you had to do was point and click. The windows based ...
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... 1776. was used to show the Cornish miners how successful it could be in removing the water from the mineshafts. This proved to be of great importance to the Cornish, because one of their biggest problems was the flooding of the mining shafts. (The Penetration of the Industry by Steam Power) The mine owners “worried…that the mines would have to be shut down unless water could be pumped out of the shafts.” “The engine successfully raised water from the bottom of deep mines.” (Siegel, 17) This saved the shutting down of the mines, which were essential to further the economy. Not only did save the mines, it provided a method of mining that proved to be extreme ...
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... decibels greater than the ambient noise. The hearing aid’s task is to acoustically or electronically compensate for both the neurological shortcomings of the hearing impaired person and the wide band increase inherent in any basic amplifier. Acoustic compensation can be carried out in a hearing aid microphone. Most hearing aids today utilize omnidirectional microphones, which pick up sound equally from all directions. This may be beneficial and practical in some cases, as in the completely in the canal (CIC) aid. The CIC aid uses the natural funneling of the auricle in order to focus sound directly into the instrument. Behind-the-ear (BTE) and full concha i ...
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... responsibility.” The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is charging the site with copyright infringement and alleges that Napster has created a base for music piracy on an unprecedented scale. Napster contends that they provide the platform, not the actions, and that as the blurb states it’s up to the people. Napster is not at fault because the RIAA has overstepped their boundaries and infringed on first amendment rights online. Should the owner of the gun shop be charged with murder if a man he sold a gun to decides to shoot another man in cold blood? Of course not, if the shop owner followed all of the laws that govern him. Should the car dealershi ...
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... courses in computer ethics, "There's hardly a business that's not using computers."1 This makes these questions all the more important for today's society to answer. There are also many moral and ethical problems dealing with the use of computers in the medical field. In one particular case, a technician trusted what he thought a computer was telling him, and administered a deadly dose of radiation to a hospital patient.2 In cases like these, it is difficult to decide who's fault it is. It could have been the computer programmer's fault, but Goodman asks, "How much responsibility can you place on a machine?"3 Many problems also occur when computers a ...
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... is taking place. The image that keeps popping up is the one of the elimination of the need for human work. This bleak picture is probably never going to occur on such a drastic scale, but it has happened to millions of hard working people. One concern is what the people as a whole going to do about losing their jobs. The only real answer to this problem may not be determined for years to come. As automation continues to grow, many people will be negatively affected. My feeling on the entire picture is spit both ways. On the one side, many applications for a machine exist, which man cannot perform. I know that I would not want to be the person that has to t ...
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... and information is no longer tied to physical objects. In this ‘age of information,’ information and ideas can no longer be stopped at the physical territorial borders. We must also examine the meaning of the concept to “seek and receive” and to “impart” information. National restrictions on speech have a direct and negative impact on the ability of Internet users around the world to “seek and receive” information and ideas, as well as their right to “impart” information. For example, if citizens of one country are prohibited from discussing political issues online, then not only are their rights infringed upon, but also the rights of others around the wo ...
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... research, analysis and conceptual design. Then I talk a little about the models used in this system. I finish by talking about the actual design, the construction, and the implementation of the new ITT system. I finish the paper with a discussion of maintaining the system. The first step in building any DSS is planning. Planning is basically defining the problem. The planning also involves an assessment of exactly what is needed. In this case I deal with trip scheduling. In the case description this would include: How many trips to offer, the days of the week to have particular trips, and when to cancel trips. Obviously the scheduling ties to other inf ...
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... issues. It seems that what is on everyone's mind are questions of significant and permanent social change seeping into every crevasse of our everyday work and private lives. Many of the issues that are being raised today, and which I will sketch out here, deal with abstract notions about the virtual and `real', about time and space, about `body-less' interactions and communities of learners, and so forth. I hope, however, that I have brought together the diversity of research, current debates and issues in a concrete way that helps adult literacy professionals to get a baseline familiarity with a range of complex issues. As well, where appropriate, I have provided ...
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