From 1403 to about 1492 China participated in numerous voyages led by Zheng He‚ the leader of their maritime operations‚ including the visiting of 37 countries and traveling through the Atlantic Ocean around the tip of Africa and beyond Europe (pg 202). Countries such as Ceylon‚ India‚ and the Persian Gulf were a few of their stops along the way. These voyages proved that China was the supreme world sea power whose shipbuilding techniques and navigational abilities were unmatched by any other nation
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CHINESE CIVILIZATION http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China Wikipedia: China http://library.thinkquest.org Thinkquest: Discovering China & Beauty: The Land of China http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/articles/article/China/ Part I INTRODUCTION The land here is broad and diverse. Among this immense piece of earth‚ one can find both farmer and businessman; mountain and plain; drought and rainfall; wasteland and farmland. It is vast‚ it is multifaceted. And yet these collections of disparate
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EVOLUTION OF THE OPERATING SYSTEM Operating systems as they are known today trace their lineage to the first distinctions between hardware and software. The first digital computers of the 1940s had no concept of abstraction; their operators inputted machine code directly to the machines they were working on. As computers evolved in the 1950s and 1960s however‚ the distinction between hardware such as the CPU and memory (or Core as it was called then) and the software that was written on top of it
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Chinese Business Name : Febrianto Wijaya Introduction It is often argued that when business persons of different cultures negotiate commercial deals‚ there is bound to be a culture clash. I disagree with this view. It is true that cultural differences influence business negotiations but with the appropriate approach to deal with the differences‚ culture clash is to be least expected in any business negotiations‚ especially with the Chinese. As Sun Tzu would advised in his book The Art
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economic phenomena and the theory involves some economic models. Macroeconomics focuses on three data series which are the real GDP‚ unemployment rate and inflation rate. Focusing on GDP the gross domestic product it has emerged as the single most renowned economic indicator for government policies and businessman. Wenzel (2009‚ p 61) defines GDP as the measure of the size of an economy as captured by the market value for all final goods and services sold within a given period of time. As it compounds
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large customers including several government agencies and Dell became a publicly traded company. Dell made the bold decision in 1994 to eliminate their products from retail stores and focused on mail order customers. In 1996 Dell began selling through their website as well. By eliminating the retail store presence Dell was able to reduce costs‚ reduce inventory‚ and maximize profit. Dell utilized a built to order system that allowed customers to specify exactly what they did and did not want on their
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Paul Allen‚ Microsoft has had a major role in how we use computers today. It all started when the duo decided they wanted to utilize their shared skills to create an interpreter for a new personal computer‚ the Altair 8800 microcomputer. The interpreter worked flawlessly when it was demonstrated to MITS in the March of 1975. Microsoft wasn’t officially established until April 4 with Bill Gates as CEO. In 1977 Microsoft established its first international office in Japan. Microsoft entered the
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POS 355 Week 5 Operating Systems Analysis Team Paper Introduction When considering which operating system for a home or business office computer or network of computers‚ it is important to evaluate all areas of the different operating systems options. When evaluating Microsoft Windows XP‚ Microsoft Windows Server 2008‚ and Linux operating systems it is important to consider the system requirements‚ the different editions available‚ security features‚ system features‚ updates and support‚
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Lab-8 1. Some common risks‚ threats‚ and vulnerabilities commonly found in the Remote Access Domain that must be mitigated through a layered security strategy are: • Private data or confidential data is compromised remotely (Kim & Solomon‚ 2012). • Unauthorized remote access to IT systems‚ applications‚ and data (Kim & Solomon‚ 2012). • Mobile worker laptop is stolen (Kim & Solomon‚ 2012). • Multiple logon retries and access control attacks (Kim & Solomon‚ 2012). 2. The deny-by-default rulesets
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BUS 210 Week 2 Business Organization 1 Business Organization BUS210 Amy Dittbenner Checkpoint – Business Organization July 22‚ 1975‚ Bill Gates writes a letter to Paul Allen using the name‚ “Micro-soft” referring the their 60/40 partnership. Their main product is BASIC. Gates and Allen worked day and night to create the first version of Microsoft Basic‚ a simple computer software. They realize that the future of personal
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