... company and external evaluations. Equiptek's main focus was to ensure that computer compliance and customer supply needs were addressed before January 1, 2000. Importance of Study The significance of this study is to determine what the purchasing decisions of medical facilities will have on the medical supply manufacturer, Equiptek. This survey was influenced by the repeated ... manufacturer will determine what key elements will impact their organization and build a strategic plan that will protect them from problems associated with Y2K. Medical facilities purchasing patterns guide both ...

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... learning that employees initiate themselves. Training, when available, will be replaced by learning when needed. Training for the masses will be replaced by highly customized, just-for-me learning. It is abundantly clear that the Information Technology (IT) industry's employment needs and its impact on the American economy necessitate a more basic understanding of the ... level of debate centers on how to use technology in delivery of teacher education programs. Some view technology as a tool to assist faculty in delivering traditional programs of study. In this model, teacher preparatio...

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... mass media can influence a child with visual aids, sound effects, audible words, actors and actresses and more. This is what empowered me to begin a study/research on the topic of children who view and hear pornography and profanity from unsupervised access to mass media "specifically television and the ... according to the Sex On TV biennial report, the authors measure sexual messages that are presented to young audiences as such: For this study, sexual content is defined as any depiction of sexual activity, sexually suggestive behavior, or talk about sexual activity. Portrayals involvi...

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... ; the ability to access one computer from another easily and economically to permit resource sharing." Roberts recalled, "That was a topic in which Licklider was very interested and his enthusiasm infected me." (Hauben, 1995) Licklidcomputer science. It also was an important beginning to the ARPANET, and later, the Internet. Taylor commented on Licklider's ideas: "Lick was among the first to perceive the ... the other work (Cerf, et al., 1998). In 1966-67, MIT's Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington, Massachusetts and System Development Corporation (SDC), in Santa Monica, California, got a gra...

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... task over and over, with certain variables involved. When Maeda discovered that he could replace one thousand lines of code with about fifty, he was dumbfounded and immediately began to study the computer more seriously. Later, he would go on to attend M.I.T. in 1984 as a computer science major. Here, he faced the difficulty of not being able to cultivate his artistic ... foundations of fine art. I then expanded my knowledge of design to include graphics, but I was very removed from the use of technology to create. The computer was especially intimidating to me, until I become more fami...

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... are on all hard disks. The program searches PC hard disks for more than 1300 of the most common programs used in business. Also available is the SPA Software Management Guide which helps companies audit their current software policies, educate employees about the legal use of software, and establish procedures to purchase, register, upgrade and backup computing systems. The ... guide in addition also provides an Internal Controls Analysis and Questionnaire. The guide also contains all of the SPA's current anti-piracy materials. The U.S. software industry is facing the challenges of more...

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... of the store. I feel technology does more good then bad but I will explore both the pros and cons of technology. I used a number of Time Lines as a guide for my report because I feel that when we study the past we learn more about the future. We use the basic ideas of our ancestors, equipped with the knowledge of their every step, failed or ... ...

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... are on all hard disks. The program searches PC hard disks for more than 1300 of the most common programs used in business. Also available is the SPA Software Management Guide which helps companies audit their current software policies, educate employees about the legal use of software, and establish procedures to purchase, register, upgrade and backup computing systems. The ... guide in addition also provides an Internal Controls Analysis and Questionnaire. The guide also contains all of the SPA's current anti-piracy materials. The U.S. software industry is facing the challenges of more...

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... purposes, computers seem to do more harm than good. Technology is, after all, only a tool in the educational process, not terribly unlike a pencil" (Lee, 1998). Doinne Searcey(1998), in her study on laptop computers in education, stated that, "Students with laptop computers can produce class projects as impressive in their depth as they are flashy in their design. On the other ... . They are online, in the newspaper, and on the curb outside your school as parents wait to pick up their children at dismissal. Educators must engage in the conversation and guide the discussion toward the goa...

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... are on all hard disks. The program searches PC hard disks for more than 1300 of the most common programs used in business. Also available is the SPA Software Management Guide which helps companies audit their current software policies, educate employees about the legal use of software, and establish procedures to purchase, register, upgrade and backup computing systems. The ... guide in addition also provides an Internal Controls Analysis and Questionnaire. The guide also contains all of the SPA's current anti-piracy materials. The U.S. software industry is facing the challenges of more...

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... to describe the individuals who find and exploit vulnerabilities in computers. Whatever you call them, the fact is that hackers are among us. They are people just like you and me, heroes or villains. Like any group of people, some will be good and some will be bad. Ian Murphy, also known as Captain Zap, performed one of the first cracker ... live without regrets means doing nothing of which you might later be ashamed; Do not be afraid to have morals and principles in which you believe; Allow those morals to guide your decision-making. If others decide for you, for your stand, ignore the...

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... to describe the individuals who find and exploit vulnerabilities in computers. Whatever you call them, the fact is that hackers are among us. They are people just like you and me, heroes or villains. Like any group of people, some will be good and some will be bad. Ian Murphy, also known as Captain Zap, performed one of the first cracker ... live without regrets means doing nothing of which you might later be ashamed; Do not be afraid to have morals and principles in which you believe; Allow those morals to guide your decision-making. If others decide for you, for your stand, ignore the...

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... computer mouse. He completed a great deal of different studies in regard to human interpretation with the computer. Englebart completed a study of augmentation, which he defines as using technology to assist the intellect. The computer mouse came out of Engelbart's study due to the acceptability and ease of its operation. Engelbart did not officially announce his invention until 1968. After the debut ... computer mouse. He completed a great deal of different studies in regard to human interpretation with the computer. Englebart completed a study of augmentation, which he defines as using ...

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... that is worth mentioning. In this regard, this literature review concerning the effects of computer usage to the academic performance of students, will address the following areas relevant to this study: History of the Computer; Importance of Computers, Negative Effects of Gaming; Computer Crime; Computer Use recommendations; and conclusion. HISTORY OF THE COMPUTER Many people do not know how, ... obese; increased body weight caused by excessive accumulation of fat. Aping----------------- the act, practice, or art of copying the manner or expression of another Epidemic------------ as u...

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... "flame war" that ensued on the computer networks when the story was published soon gave way to a full-blown and highly political conflagration. The main focus of discontent was a new study, "Marketing Pornography on the Information Superhighway", purportedly by a team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, which was a centerpiece of Time's story. In the course of the debate, serious ... questions have been raised regarding the study's methodology, the ethics by which its data were gathered and even its true authorship. Marty Rimm, who wrote it while an undergraduate at Carnegie M...

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... a lot of patience. This is something I do not have. Dealing with people who do not know the basics of computing is very hard for me, and I quickly tend to get very frustrated with such people. Being a computer programmer means being part of a large team that needs to work together ... is used to connect IP networks to minimize the amount of traffic each segment must receive. Solving the puzzle of setting up a subnet sounds interesting to me. I also learned a great deal about average and starting salaries. IT's are presently the highest paid of the three professions and there is a predic...

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... thought of it as a fairly expensive and unreasonable "party". I realized that college professors were often much stricter and harsher than high school and elementary teachers. It became obvious to me that sometimes going to the best possible college for one's desired field meant venturing a considerable distance away from home. I found out that for one to be accepted to a ... Need based financial aid includes SEOG (Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant), NCCG (North Carolina Contractual Grant), NC State Incentive Grant, Need Grants, Whitehead Scholarships, Endowed Scholarships, FWS...

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... themselves on the different forms of piracy and reporting suspected software piracy offenders. Worldwide Piracy In 2001, the Business Software Alliance commissioned a study on worldwide business piracy. The study showed that in 2000: The world piracy rate increased to 37% $11.75 billion was lost due to piracy By region, Eastern ... Europe had the highest piracy rate at 63%, and has had the highest piracy rate in every study since 1994. North America's rate decreased to 25% from 31% in 1994. Vietnam has a piracy rate of 97%, which is the highest rate ... of all countries in the study. T...

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... 1961. I had spent almost five years since my PhD at the General Motors Research Labs, at the recommendation of my mentor Mindlin who told me that GM had hired a new Vice President, Larry Hafstad, who wanted to build GM's basic research activities, and it was worth my trying ... theory. Within months after my arrival at Yorktown, some people from IBM's marketing organization discovered that I knew something about traffic and came after me. They wanted to sell a computer to New York City to use for controlling the traffic, and solicited my help in convincing the Traffic Commissioner ... me...

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... Boys & Girls Clubhouse located in the East New York section of Brooklyn. First I interviewed Ms. Parker, the Recreation Program Manager. She informed me that at the Boys & Girls Clubhouse their first duty is to work with the members on improving their education. They offer them homework assistant, ... the summer hours probably getting into all kinds of trouble. She enjoys learning how to operate the computers and wants to go to college to study computer programming. Her family can't afford to buy a computer and is very glad that the Boys & Girls club has computers that she ... major in ...

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... undoubtedly be scrutinized by funders, and while an all encompassing mission statement can be difficult to devise, it is the responsibility of nonprofit boards to assure that the organizations they guide do in fact develop concise objectives and easily articulated goals that can be clearly communicated to potential sources of financial support (Cosier, 1993; Conners, 1992). Another important management principle that ... ...

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... be spent trying to configure the motherboard. Before buying, check for product comparisons and reviews. The Internet is full of benchmarks and ratings for motherboards. Some sites include Tom's Hardware Guide, Cnet, and Anand Tech. The processor is the most well known part of the computer; it is the brain of the system. The processor takes binary information and processes it ... ...

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... parallelism, POWER4 die, SMP capabilities, POWER4 core, and caches and memory. Steve Behling, Ron Bell, Peter Farell, Holger Holhoff, Frank O,Connell, and Will Weir, The Power4 Processor Introduction and Tuning Guide, IBM Redbooks, Austin, Texas, 2001. This book gives a complete overview of the Power4's history and microarchitecture. It goes into great detail and covers many areas of the Power4, such as ... ...

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... physical environment, social environment, psychological and mental capacity, and economics are important factors in computer crimes, specific causation of computer crime has to be dealt with on a case by base study. What makes one person engage in computer crime can be different from what makes another person do the vary same criminal act. However, what remains the same in all computer ... most of it is reactive instead of proactive. Also affecting the way we combat computer crime is the way that society views it and the way society punishes offenders. To me, it appears that the efforts...

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... the questionnaire approach and make direct observations of accounting and economic variables that would be indicative of the achievement of business goals taken from Bakos, J. Yannis, "Dependent Variables for the Study of Firm and Industry Level Impacts of Information Systems", Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information Systems, 1985, pp. 10-23 Three dimensions of effectiveness can be identified and ... the method of their collection, and the way it is interpreted. Questionnaires, visual (field) observations can be used as well as primary (new data) and secondary (da...

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