... ingenious, or quick-witted. The word originated from Old English. As a noun it means "a person displaying ostentatious or smug cleverness." The word card dated back to the14 century. The origin was trace back to Middle English, a modification of Middle French. Can also trace back to Old Italia ... : a flat stiff usually small and rectangular piece of material (as paper, paperboard, or plastic) usually bearing information. The dimensions of a smart card are 85.6 mm by 54 mm and a thickness of 0.76 mm. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 7810 set certain standards for ...

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... possibly acquire bank records, and spend all of your money, leaving you bankrupt with no explanation. They can aquire your drivers license, social security number, and other valuable and important information. They will become, in a sense, by using your name as their own and ... using your drivers license and possibly give you a bad record using your identifying materials, such as drivers license. This is a computer ethical issue because it is using a computer to harm other people, therefore breaking one ... to pay anything. If the buyer agrees then the "seller", without the buyer knowi...

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... , CD-ROMs use SCSI or EIDE and can be installed without taking up an extra slot. Older CD-ROMs were connected to a controller card that is attached to one of the motherboard's expansion slots. The first CD-ROM drives transferred data at 150KB per second. Speeds doubled to ... into digital form. Without compression, they take up considerable storage space. The native digital audio format for Windows is the wave file. A standard card has at least the line-input jack, microphone-input jack, and stereo-output jack. The line-input allows for already recorded audio to be ... (higher RAMDAC) d...

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... tests showed only small gains beyond 64MB." Gaming Computer games are complicated programs and they require very high amounts of memory to display realistic graphics. The monitor runs off a graphics card that uses its own on-board RAM, which differs from the type of RAM in the motherboard. As games have become more memory- intensive, they have exceeded the amount of ... transport information back and forth with the system RAM when its on-board RAM is full. That makes the system RAM an overflow for the graphics card's limited RAM. Invariably, games and similar applications that use large...

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... the operating voltage can even damage some chips, so ESD is something that precautions must be taken against. Microcomputer Dismantling 1. Removed the case/cover 2. Removed expansion card 1 (AGP/Graphic Card) 3. Removed expansion card 2 (Network Card) 4. Removed expansion card 3 (Sound Card) 5. Removed IDE 1 from motherboard and master hard drive 6. Removed IDE 2 from motherboard and cd-rom drive 7. Removed IDE 3 from motherboard and floppy disk ... - Mitsumi: Model D359M3D Hard drive - Maxtor model 2B020H1 20Gb 5400 RPM CD Drive - Sony model CDU5211 52 Speed Sound Card - Advance Logic ...

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... the marked connection on the motherboard. This is what powers every component on the system. Once that is made, you will want to install the video card into anyone of the coinciding slots on the motherboard. Once you have it lined up by using the palm of your hand apply moderate pressure on the ... edge of the card until you feel it bottom out. Take a screw and insert it into the hole and tighten it down. Look at the connector and see that it ... is seated correctly. Repeat the process with the sound card and modem. Next using the included ribbon cables, find the side with the red line....

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How to Choose a Computer for the Home In the 60's, there was not a telephone and TV in every household. Forty years later, not only is there a TV and telephone in every household, but some homes have several TVs and cordless telephones. If history repeats itself, the same thing will happen with the ... such as keyboards, hard drives, and printers. The computer has four main hardware components, the Central Processing Unit (CPU), Random Access Memory, hard drive and video card. The Central Processing Unit is the brain of the computer. It receives and interprets information from other devices ...

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... dedicate their work to purposely infect programs and distant computers that access the internet. In July 1997, successfully capturing and distributing credit card numbers of NBA and ESPN users, crackers achieved the first widely known attack on internet credit card data. On the same year, another cracker known as "Snak" was taken into custody by FBI agents after he had stolen over ... one hundred thousands credit card numbers from an internet service provider (ISP) located in northern California. Nevertheless, the "internet tasking force" (ITF), a group of knowledgeable engineers whose ...

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... the first pass the odd rows are refreshed. The even rows are refreshed in the second pass. Noninterlaced displays process the pixels at twice the rate of the interlaced displays. TV sets are based on the interlacing procedure. The other property of raster display devices is the number of pixels that can be shown on the screen. This is called the ... a palette of up to 16.8 million colors and resolutions of up to 1600x1200 pixels, depending on the video memory of the graphics card in your computer. The maximum resolution normally depends on the number of colors displayed. For example, yo...

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... transactions. The most widely used form of security is Netscape's 'Secure Socket Layer' or 'SSL Protocol'. It uses the standard PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) to transfer private information (e.g. credit/debit card details) from the client i.e. the customer, to the server, or seller. This application has become standard in most e-business tools and is said to provide the most safety to customers ... and businesses. Click here for a more complex guide to SSL Encryption is currently largely used in conjunction with credit card transactions on the WWW, however as some of the examples give...

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... what is considered a computer today. These elements include an input and output device, control unit, arithmetic processor, and storage capability. In 1890, Census Department employee Herman Hollerith borrowed Babbage's punch card idea to help tabulate U.S. Census information. As a result of these cards, the United States was able to complete the census in six weeks, years short of a previous estimate. Hollerith went ... options are available. Moreover, depending on the options wanted, the price for the device can differ dramatically. Two of the more important internal IO devices are th...

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... for a true virtually integrated system to exist. First, product complexity and supply channel constraints are key limiting factors of lean manufacturing that must be addressed. Due to the generic nature of computer parts, Dell possesses the ability to negotiate and procure necessary items for plant assembly from several independent purveyors. Therefore, Business-To-Business (B2B) transactions are ... accomplished with relative ease and minimal cost. Although generic items, such as spark plugs and windshield wipers, are provided to Ford by lower tier suppliers, wholly-dependent, "tier on...

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... very time consuming for human calculation. The first major use for a computer in the U.S. was during the 1890 census. Two men, Herman Hollerith and James Powers, developed a new punched-card system that could automatically read information on cards without human (Dolotta, 1985). Since the population of the U.S. was increasing so fast, the computer was an essential tool for managers in ... all four arithmetic operations (Dolotta, 1985). Also, it had special built-in programs to handled logarithms and trigonometric functions. The Mark I was controlled from prepunched paper tape. Output wa...

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... very time consuming for human calculation. The first major use for a computer in the U.S. was during the 1890 census. Two men, Herman Hollerith and James Powers, developed a new punched-card system that could automatically read information on cards without human (Dolotta, 1985). Since the population of the U.S. was increasing so fast, the computer was an essential tool for managers in ... all four arithmetic operations (Dolotta, 1985). Also, it had special built-in programs to handled logarithms and trigonometric functions. The Mark I was controlled from prepunched paper tape. Output wa...

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... to reconnect the cables on the computer and prepared to start it for the first time with the new hardware. The drive that I bought came with a disk that contains the drivers for the drive. Drivers are software programs that allow the computer to communicate with the new equipment. A new drive simply will not work properly without the correct ... drivers. My computer has Windows 98 installed on it which allows it to automatically recognize when new hardware has been installed. I started my computer and a message requesting that the drivers be installed came up on the screen. I simply put...

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... very time consuming for human calculation. The first major use for a computer in the U.S. was during the 1890 census. Two men, Herman Hollerith and James Powers, developed a new punched-card system that could automatically read information on cards without human (Dolotta, 1985). Since the population of the U.S. was increasing so fast, the computer was an essential tool for managers in ... all four arithmetic operations (Dolotta, 1985). Also, it had special built-in programs to handled logarithms and trigonometric functions. The Mark I was controlled from prepunched paper tape. Output wa...

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... very time consuming for human calculation. The first major use for a computer in the U.S. was during the 1890 census. Two men, Herman Hollerith and James Powers, developed a new punched-card system that could automatically read information on cards without human (Dolotta, 1985). Since the population of the U.S. was increasing so fast, the computer was an essential tool for managers in ... all four arithmetic operations (Dolotta, 1985). Also, it had special built-in programs to handled logarithms and trigonometric functions. The Mark I was controlled from prepunched paper tape. Output wa...

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... a hard drive does, very simple stuff. The last few things you need for your new computer is a video card, sound card, network card, or if your still on 56k dial up then you need a modem. The video card doesn't have to be an expensive one, the only reason you would buy an expensive one is if you"re ... into gaming. Today's high graphic games require a very good video card but it's up to you what you really need for your computer. I think a cheap video card will satisfy anybody's needs. Next you need to buy a sound card; this is what gives sound to your speakers. Finally you need to get a...

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... very time consuming for human calculation. The first major use for a computer in the U.S. was during the 1890 census. Two men, Herman Hollerith and James Powers, developed a new punched-card system that could automatically read information on cards without human (Dolotta, 1985). Since the population of the U.S. was increasing so fast, the computer was an essential tool for managers in ... all four arithmetic operations (Dolotta, 1985). Also, it had special built-in programs to handled logarithms and trigonometric functions. The Mark I was controlled from prepunched paper tape. Output wa...

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... to your PC, such as Scanners or external drives. These usually connect to your PC via an open PCI slot, or a USB 1.0/2.0 connection. A sound card is also very important if you want to enjoy vibrant sound and noise from your PC speakers. Sound Cards range from normal 2.0 support all the way up to ... sound placement technology to manipulate full 6.1 speaker settings in real time during games. With this and the new EAX sound technology having a good sound card has never been more important when playing games. However for a business, sound cards are of very little importance as they add ver...

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... Modems and Network Cards play a very important role in a computer. A modem allows you to connect to the Internet, download music, and browse the Internet. A Network Card allows computers to talk between each other. Network Cards today are also used like a modems, which is know as DSL, Cable, T1, and T3. The speed of DSL ... , Cable, T1 and T3 is a lot greater than on a regular modem. Video Card plays a very important role in a computer. With out a Video Card the computer will not be able to display any kinds of pictures. Video Cards display High Quality Resolution, that allows you to see...

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... . If you have a black color computer desktop, then you have to buy black color-face CD-Writer. The off-white color is the generic color, If your desktop is an off-white color than you can buy any generic CD-writer and install it. When you ready to install, open the new CD-Writer box. You should have a CD-Writer, a 40-pin ... ...

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... peripherals. The computers that connect to the server are called clients. 2. A network interface on each computer (the device that lets the computer talk to the network; usually called a Network Interface Card [NIC] or adapter). Network interface cards or adapters, arte usually installed inside a computers case. NICs may be necessary for high-traffic applications and devices such as video-on-demand servers ... cable is less expensive than fibre-optic cable, is well known, and has been used for many years for all types of data communication and is still being used for TV cable. Fibre opt...

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... , Corey Lindsly and Calvin Cantrell were sentenced in federal court by Chief District Judge Jerry Buchmeyer. Criminal conviction on the two was handed down for selling stolen long distance calling card numbers that were illegally obtained by hacking into computer systems of Sprint Corporation, Southwestern Bell and GTE. Calvin Cantrell, age 30, of Grand Prairie, Texas, was sentenced to two years ... use to help shift or steer public perception in the right direction. The media's responsibility would be to bring the public interest message to the masses through the use of TV and radio com...

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... and/or services over the Internet that are shipped to the customers that order them via UPS, FedEx, USPS and other miscellaneous shippers. It is usually paid for by credit card or a pre-paid account. There are however, other means of paying. E-commerce, a small trend in some people's eyes, has made great strides and will change the way we do business ... 've got Mail," E-commerce, online, and the Internet is just a part of the main stream of life. The computer is now just another tool of every day life like the TV or the telephone (McCollum, E6). In his book The Road Ahead, Bill Gates, p...

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