... business. The main reason that backups are done is to be able to recover files when needed. However, disaster recovery is no longer easily achieved due to the enormous amounts of data. First, the full backup must be restored and then each additional incremental backup must restored in order to re-establish the system to its accurate state. To further complicate matters, if ... decrease the window of time, the company would have to deploy more hardware, which, as previously stated, would not make a tremendous difference in system downtime. In the past, tape backups were sufficient for th...

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... The Essence of VR"). Among the first institutions to get a site on the Web were museums and galleries, with scanned images and navigable itineraries. Today, art sites, homepages, galleries and museums - both public and private, famous and unknown - number in thousands (Kerckhove 1995. Sv "Parallel Gallery"). Art no longer encompasses 'traditional high art aspects', but has steered towards a more technological basis, ... objects, by taking two Virtual Reality subjects - an anonymous woman, and a male convict named Joseph Jernigon who was sentenced to death - reconstructing and converting...

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... . There are also photographers, writers and musicians, who all create their own unique forms of art. Along with endless possibilities, computers have opened the door for new breeds of artists such as graphic designers. Many artists, who were once unable to make a living doing what they loved are now able to. With the introduction of computers, all of these artists now have so ... creating new art from scratch, digital modifications to existing work provide a way for an artist to incorporate their traditional and digital artistry skills. For example, John Day, an artist from Portland, Ore...

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... deriving huge market capitalizations; it makes B2C interesting to study from a stock-pricing standpoint. The rest of this paper is dedicated to answering that question: what drives large stock prices and market capitalizations for B2C eCommerce companies that have made little or no profits. 3. Pricing options In terms of understanding the pricing of eCommerce stocks it is important to review classical financial ... Perhaps the most widely used valuation model is the standard DCF. Essentially, this model uses the net present value of future cash flows to determine a reasonable market cap...

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... symbol of America's economic might, the twin towers. Then another crashed on Pentagon the nerve center of America's military might, and a fourth one crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Within few hours, America's sense of security was shattered abruptly and decisively. The President was flown from one bunker to the other, which were built during the cold war to protect the president from ... 180 days or to communications records, 18 U.S.C. 2703(b),(c). They can obtain a limited amount of record information (subscribers' names and addresses, telephone numbers, billing records and the like...

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... is becoming a job in itself just dealing with them- (p. 407-18). Each day in the corporate world brings a new technology. Businesses were becoming adapting to the idea of moving from typewriters to word processors when unexpectedly came faxes and e-mail, now the World Wide Web (Atkinson, 1999, p. 86). Many of the corporate leaders who are not technologically inclined, must make ... "This relocation of work is beginning to erode the old distinctions between the public sphere of work and the private sphere of home and household- (Challenger, 2001, p. 16-18). There is no turning back from te...

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... computers. If B wanted to communicate with computer C, it would send a message to computer A, who would th A packet switching network would be designed from the beginning to operate while in pieces and with no significant command and control center. All the nodes (computers) in the network would be equal in status to all other nodes, each node with its own authority to originate, pass ... . The issue of protocol development consumed much of the energy of this original group of institutions. As problems were identified and solutions found, the network of university networks expanded. By A...

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... a creative boom in music or a burst that will leave artists struggling to be heard much less earn a living off of their work. "The creativity and passion of these musicians fuels music around us. Without them, there would be no music."" (Pfahl, 2001) The whole creation of Napster did more than just cause conflict among people about copyright laws; it also created an enormous ... song that someone has taken the time to encode in the MP3 format. Even though Napster had been banned from about 40 percent of U.S. colleges and universities, some of the biggest users of Napster were still coll...

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... Internet had exploded as of late, violent and property crimes were down for the 5th consecutive year in a row. If one were to draw a connection, it would seem to be the opposite case, and that maybe the entertainment industry kept kids off the streets and provided, well, entertainment, but no one seemed to take notice of these findings, and the cry for censorship became louder. Even President ... the proposal, they realized that they had also mistakenly outlawed the popular Indy 500 race."" (Nuzum 145). Then there's racism, that ugly little propaganda-plague that has been poisoning the ...

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... a multiplication table stored in its memory. ENIAC was about 1,000 times faster then the earlier generation of relay computers. ENIAC used about 1,800 square feet of floor space, and consumed about 180,000 watts of electrical power. The executable commands making up a program were embodied in the separate "units" of ENIAC. They were plugged together to form a "route" for the stream of information. ENIAC ... are forced to. My own sister-in-law, had to be told by her daughters first grade teacher that she did not know anything about the computer, and so they were forced to get one and now...

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... actions requires that a determination if the actions are right or wrong is based solely upon existing social norms. So then what denotes right and wrong? Unlike other social circles where ethical behavior is dependent upon the social customs imbedded in actions, there exists no clear path of morality to follow when it comes to the corporate world. (8) Ignoring such a path would reap severe consequences ... issue cannot be left to individual physicians or individual patients to decide. In Caplan's words, "If society wants to pass laws saying no transplants for alcoholics, no transplants ...

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... There are several other types of DSL available on the market; the following table summarizes their properties: A DSL Summary Table DSL Type Description Data Rate Downstream; Upstream Distance Limit Application IDSL ISDN Digital Subscriber Line 128 Kbps 18,000 feet on 24 gauge wire Similar to the ISDN BRI service but data only (no ... to watch. "In a cable TV system, signals from the various channels are each given a 6-MHz slice of the cable's available bandwidth and then sent down the cable to your house. In some systems, coaxial cable is the only medium used for distributing signals. In ...

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... Hut accepted orders for a mushroom, pepperoni with extra cheese over the net, and Japan's Prime minister goes online. Backbone traffic exceeds 10 trillion bytes per month. By 1996, users in almost 150 countries around the world were connected to the Internet. The number of computer host approached 10 million at ... 1.5 million bits per second, while normal phone line using a modem can usually handle 30,000 to 50,000 bits per second. ISPs then connect to larger ISPs, and the largest ISPs maintain fiber-optic "backbones" for an entire nation or region. Backbones around the world are conne...

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... . Most users feel they are anonymous when on-line, yet in actuality they are not. The user is free to browse and or transfer information with others and there are some very easy ways to protect the user from future problems. The Internet has brought many advantages to its users but ... destinations to take your next vacation on and then decide if you want to refinance your house with competing companies on the web to see who will give you the lowest interest rate there is. You can e-mail your family whom live half way around the world and make a visa payment without having to ... import...

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... . Most users feel they are anonymous when on-line, yet in actuality they are not. The user is free to browse and or transfer information with others and there are some very easy ways to protect the user from future problems. The Internet has brought many advantages to its users but ... destinations to take your next vacation on and then decide if you want to refinance your house with competing companies on the web to see who will give you the lowest interest rate there is. You can e-mail your family whom live half way around the world and make a visa payment without having to ... import...

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... centre on the classical marketing model of 4Ps - Product, Price, Promotion and Place (or distribution). The researchers also realized the importance of the technology and customer dimensions to any business and hence these were also included this study. From fig1 it can be easily seen that ... not vice versa) and which areas should be given the most attention. Basically: 1. Marketing, selling and service 2. Supply chain trading, and 3. Employee/Customer self service Web Tactics (Marketing, Selling and Service Issues) Once a strategy has been agreed upon the actual Website design consider...

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... these powers, which has been dubbed by some as "Patriot II", seeks to collect and store information on individuals in central databases and then use data-mining techniques to detect possible terrorist and criminal activity. All three government efforts emphasize the use of technology both for data collection and surveillance (Stakes). High-tech Tools In the seven months since the passage of a ... to commerce. The more advanced version of Ancore's technology, known as Pulsed Fast Neutron Analysis, scans a container with a laser-like beam of neutrons. A computer then analyzes the signals g...

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... it is always on - you don't need to dial up every time you want to log on. Just sit down at your computer and the Internet is there - like electricity or tap water! If you use a standard modem, you may find yourself waiting several minutes if sending emails with large ... called TDM services because they use TDM (time division multiplexing). Data is transmitted in time slots that can guarantee bandwidth for time sensitive voice and video, assuming enough bandwidth is allocated in the circuit. The advantage of switched circuit is that you can connect to a variety of reconfigured ... end...

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... need for the specialized training and courses that aren't found at traditional universities, but through certification or technical schools. College does a great job of exposing you to different aspects of the Information Technology (IT) field, but no real specialized instruction. On the ... In each of those studies, as well as another by Novell Corp., employers also said certified workers were more productive, something often attributed to reduced downtime and faster resolution of support incidents. Companies are increasingly offering certification training as an employee benefit. For ...

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... being downsized are generally forewarned once the merger/acquisition takes place. Subordinates are sometimes given the opportunity to remain at their job for up to ninety days, after which if no other employment is found a letter of recommendation is made available. Similar to mergers, corporate restructuring is also an explanation for organizational downsizing. During corporate restructuring, companies make an effort to ... desired applicant. Some companies are allowing their employees to come up with their own individual plan, and then the employee's plans are compared to the company'...

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... will be familiar with such disaster as the London Ambulance Service's computerised despatch system which after a week of intermittent use slowed down and then locked up altogether. Attempts to reboot the system failed to cut-in; the control room staff had no alternative but revert to a fully manual paper-based system (Wiley,1996:74). According to a report from KPMG (2002), which included ... last year as a failure. Among the reasons cited for failure were inadequate planning, poor scope management and poor communication between the IT function and the business. Information System Develo...

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... on Internet protocols such as TCP, UDP, RSTP and etc. There are a total of six sections including this introduction section in this report. The second section deals with the background on the above topics in order to allow readers to understand the terms as well as the history of the technologies/techniques mentioned above. Then, in the third section, the author will talk ... interconnectivity between supercomputers in the United States of America. These supercomputers are connected together using T-3 lines that can carry a total transmission rate of 43 Mbps. With such a large bandwidth...

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... whom their child is associating themselves with. Previous generations were only able to get in touch with someone by knocking on his or her front door step. If the person had a landline, it was usually the parent who answered the phone and then allowing the child to have access to use the phone ... . Years ago, it was easier for parents to know who and what their child was interacting with. Nowadays, most families have the privilege to use cell ... did have a couple things she advised me to change on my paper which I certainly did. Not every essay is perfect and there were a few mistake...

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... military officers, computer programmers, attorneys, accountants, even a Broadway producer."" 12 Hollywood stars, movie moguls, politicians, judges and police officers [were] among those who [were] being sought by investigators working on what they [called] Operation Avalanche.13 In the end, there turned out to be more than 35,000 individual subscribers [to a child pornography business] in the United States.14 Acting ... pornography." The Diet, Japan's parliament, backed away from making possession of pornographyxii a crime " leaving untouched the titillating magazines and adult comics re...

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... disk on some computer someday. Despite the low incidence of actual viruses, it cannot hurt to run a virus-checking program now and then. There are actually two kinds of antivirus programs: virus shields, which detect viruses as they are infecting your PC and virus scanners, which detect viruses once they have infected you. Remember these four points: Viruses cannot infect a data or text file ... The central switch, which could be a telephone exchange, is used to connect different devices on the network directly. Once the link is established, the two devices communicate as though they we...

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