... where he obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degree in electrical engineering in 1990. It was there that he met David Filo. Filo and Yang were doctoral students in computer engineering. As one of their assignments they were working on the computer-aided design of computer chip circuitry. For this project they were set up in an “office” which was really a trailer that was filled with computers and equipment. “ I was terribly bored,” Filo stated, “And with our faculty advisor out of town we started to fool around on the World Wide Web.” They soon became very frustrated with the World Wide Web. It seriously lacked any type of organization. The only was to acce ...
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... he not been stopped, he could have caused some real national defense problems for the United States (Sussman 66). Other "small time" affect people just as much by stealing or giving away copyrighted software, which causes the prices of software to increase, thus increasing the price the public must pay for the programs. Companies reason that if they have a program that can be copied onto a disc then they will lose a certain amount of their profit. People will copy it and give to friends or pass it around on the Internet. To compensate, they will raise the price of disc programs. CD Rom programs cost more to make but are about the same price as disc games. Compan ...
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... study sports in a more systematic way and they need a more scientific definition (Coakley 78). It is hard to come up with a concrete and precise definition of sports without making the word confusing to the non-sociologist. There are many kinds of activities that can be considered sports and at the same time not. For example would you include skiing, or biking as sports regardless of the conditions which people engage in them? What is the difference between play and sports? When a person's only goal is for personal satisfactions are they participating in a sport or playing? To better understand what participating in "sport" means sociologists consider t ...
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... these theories could be intertwined, even used together. Thus it is the object of this paper to prove that the Freudian theory about the unconscious id, and ego are analogous to the idea on the Apollonian and Dionysian duality's presented by Nietzsche. "The division of the psychical into what is conscious and what is unconscious is the fundamental premise of psycho-analysis; and it alone makes it possible for psycho-analysis to understand the pathological processes in mental life..." (Freud, The Ego and the Id, 3). To say it another way, psycho-analysis cannot situate the essence of the psychial in consciousness, but is mandated to comply consciousness as a q ...
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... zeros in a network of computers, but that doesn't mean they're only virtual reality, and basically one big fantasy. No, dollars are utterly and entirely real, far more real than anything as vague as the public interest. If you're not a commodity, you don't exist! Of course there are many elements of our lives that exist outside the money economy. There's a lot going on in our lives that's not-for-profit and that can't be denominated in dollars. "The best things in life are free," the old saying goes. Nice old saying. Gets a little older-sounding every day. Sounds about as old and mossy as the wedding vow "for richer for poorer," which in a modern environment is pret ...
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... due to the high promotion factors always seems to have a name that everyone knows, like “Hulk” Hogan. On the other hand, a real wrestler will have a normal name like yours or mine and eventually will probably pick up a couple nicknames from teammate’s. Another factor differing professionals from amateurs is their build. Professionals usually take the “muscle bound” or the “I am just a fat slob” approach into the wrestling world. Amateurs go for the best all around shape, meaning strength, endurance and flexibility. The moves a grappler knows, practices and can execute are known as their technique. A professionals technique, if any consists of anything and ...
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... more contemporary sense of neurochemistry and neurophysiology. Rational or intelligent action is the upshot of processes or activities physically internal to the brain."(Graham, 129) The exclusionist thesis states that human beings possess no special power which regular physical systems and objects normally lack. Our concept of free choice or free will is a mental concept, and since no physical system is free, there is no free will. The human soul can not exist because the soul is something mental and when the body dies, the brain fails to survive as well and the concept of soul exists no longer. Materialism never states that the mind depends on the body or ...
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... arts and grappling arts. Kickboxing is what is known as a striking art, and jujitsu is a grappling art. Kickboxing consists of a series of quick blows, using various parts of the body such as the elbows, knees, shins, and the head. Jujitsu utilizes the use of various locks and holds that can be used to quickly break the limbs of an opponent or render them unconscious. Kickboxing includes a lot of fast maneuvering and centers on the idea of using the strong parts of your body to cripple your opponent in a swift attack. Jujitsu is a more defensive and arguably more technical art that relies on patience and capitalizing on an opponents offensive mistakes. The supr ...
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... Shirtwaist Company in Manhattan. 146 garment workers perished in the fire. Days later, 80,000 people participated in a funeral procession up 5th Avenue. This tragedy, and its enormous public response, prompted the federal government to take action and establish control over the industry. In 1938, major legislation passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Fair Labor Standards Act, (FLSA) guaranteed a $.25 an hour minimum wage, prohibited child labor, and required that employers keep adequate time and payroll records. In 1958 the largest nationwide strike in history, with 100,000 union members walking out of factories occurred. They won more holidays ...
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... a big man with a weird hair-do came out. I saw those kinds of people before, but not in real life. It was Professor Weirdo! I had read in our local newspaper, The Torch Times that he had dissapered and hasn't been seen in over two years. And he was just a few feet away from me! He started to talk with one of the many aliens that came out with him. The alien, whom he called Zork, took out a big roll of paper from the back of his head. It was some plans! Professor Weirdo was planning to suck all of the Olympic spirit out of the people of Torch and the people of the whole rest of the world! I couldn't let that happen. When he wasn't looking, I ran inside ...
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