Laptops: Past‚ Present‚ & Future Ms.C INF103 August 22‚ 2011 In order to understand the future of laptops‚ we will take a look at the history and present concepts of laptops. Technology has advance dramatically over the years. Laptops were once huge bulky machines and now most portable devices such as laptops are so small you can fit them in a regular purse. Laptops once had modems and dial up connection but now we use Wi-Fi as way to connect to the internet. Now laptops can do virtually
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Present‚ and Future of Computers Imagine being able to do almost anything right from your own living room. You could order a pizza‚ watch cartoons‚ or play video games with people from around the entire world. All are possible today with your computer. The beginnings of the computer started off in a rather unique way. It was first used to produce intricate designs with silk‚ a task far to long a tedious for a human to do constantly. It’s really unbelievable how the computers changed from
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transmission protocol from 1969 to 1982‚ when NCP was replaced with the now widespread TCP-IP (Transmission Control Protocol - Internet Protocol). With the technology in place‚ the question was what to do with it! A number of interconnected US military computers formed the first sizable Internet for defence use. E-mail developed through ARPANET as did the bulletin-board system‚ Usenet in the 1970s/80s. During this period all major universities in the USA were connected to the network. This was found to be
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An Artifact for Our Future Generations March 16‚ 2013 Unit 5 IP AIU Online Abstract Artifacts are defined as “Any mass-produced‚ usually inexpensive object reflecting contemporary society or popular culture: artifacts of the pop rock generation.” (2013). Although this is just one definition for the word artifact‚ it is the one used for this paper. Of every generation there is an artifact that could be looked back at by future generations to gain insight to the past. The iPod is no exception
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words. Computer virus A computer virus is an executable program. Depend on the nature of a virus‚ it may cause damage of your hard disk contents‚ and/or interfere normal operation of your computer. By definition‚ a virus program is able to replicate itself. This means that the virus multiplies on a computer by making copies of itself. This replication is intentional; it is part of the virus program. In most cases‚ if a file that contains virus is executed or copied onto another computer‚ then that
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it may be possible to build an extremely powerful computer based on this peculiar reality. In 1994‚ Peter Shor‚ a mathematician at AT&T Bell Laboratories in New Jersey‚ proved that‚ in theory at least‚ a full-blown quantum computer could factor even the largest numbers in seconds--an accomplishment impossible for even the fastest conventional computer. An outbreak of theories and discussions of the possibility of buildig a quantum computer now permeates itself thoughtout the quantum fields
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Throughout the years our society has gotten considerably worse. Many factors in the modern day has had a part in the negativity in the world. Our music has become everything about drug life‚ sex life and "thug life". Not only has music impacted our change‚ but the increase in violence has affected it. Violence can become an after effect due to what is on TV and cemented into our brains. People have lost all knowledge of common sense. The last factor that makes our society ugly is the rate in bullying
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of computers on education Computers are a big factor to education because it is helping teachers‚ students and parents communicate. Computers can be used if you are doing an assignment at home or if you are being tutored online. Computers can be used to access the internet and the internet can be used to chat about school‚ work or any other educational purposes. Chatting is a good way to learn because you can ask questions online on things you do not know. It has been proven that computer-assisted
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changing and expanding in every field imaginable. Smart phones are now capable of acting as standalone computer devices that can take pictures‚ search the Internet‚ send emails and text messages and yes‚ they even make phone calls. While it might seem that the technology of today has reached its limits‚ it is still actually spreading its proverbial wings. Only twenty or so years ago‚ personal computers were becoming small enough and affordable enough for families to buy them for home use. Since then
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With the present wide use of computers‚ in the course of teaching‚ more and more teachers are in favour of using computers as an aid in teaching their students or in appropriating the latest information from the Internet. However‚ I am not a believer in the argument that computers may in the future take the place of teachers in teaching students. Firstly‚ the creators of any education program and software need to be teachers or workers in the education system‚ or programmers who had previously worked
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