... devices to work together. The original network has long since been upgraded and expanded and TCP/IP is now a ¡§de facto¡¨ standard. Millions of people worldwide are using the Internet to share information, make new associations and communicate. Individuals and businesses, from students and journalists, to consultants, programmers and corporate giants are all harnessing the power of the Internet. For many businesses the Internet is becoming integral to their operations. Imagine the ability to send and receive data: messages, notes, letters, documents, pictures, video, sound- just about any form of communication, as effortlessly as making a phone call. It is easy to ...

... against the little guy, says the vice president of the Chicago-area-based Phillip's 1-800-FLORALS, and he faces a steeper incline all the time. "The Internet is like a huge mall in the middle of the Sahara desert," Phillip says. "Once you get there, which is the first hurdle, all the competitors are lined up together, one next to the other. So where do you go? You gravitate towards the brand names you already know -- the biggies." While Web site affordability has made it easier for companies like Phillip's to establish an Internet presence, the same is true for his competitors. Hence, a glut of small to medium-sized florists camp out on the Internet and fight to ...

... that economic growth and productivity are adversely affected. Increased demand. Between 1980 and 1990, with deregulation and consumer demand for fast inner-city travel leading to lower airline fares, commercial air traffic has increased by 56 percent. Adding to the congestion and delay is increased commuter and regional air traffic. Those short distance flights take valuable landing slots that could be used for larger planes on more profitable, longer flights. With the maglev vehicles the shorter trips excluding access time can be cut a lot. With a study of 16 major corridors of travel, less than 300 miles in length, they studied how well the maglev vehicle ...

... who say they’re doing the world a favor by pointing out security loopholes, have a slew of ways to break the law (Frog 67:C11). Computer crime becomes a larger and more prevalent issue, as there is more value to criminally gain and the stakes raise in the hacker’s ego game. Only seventy-five computer crime prosecutions were reported in the United States in 1986, according to the National Center for Computer Crime Data in Santa Cruz, Calif. By 1989, that number jumped to 500 prosecutions. that year cost businesses and banks and, ultimately, consumers about $500 million. "As the use of computers has increased, so has their criminal misuse" (Parker 54:G13) ...

... telecommunications providers rushed to install light wave systems. The US Sprint network was the first to use a total fiber optic network to traverse the nation. By 1990, AT&T had installed 300 million miles of interexchange light wave networks. The advantages of light wave systems are many and include • freedom from electrical disturbance • tremendous bandwidth or information-carrying capacity • small physical size • relative low cost The speed at which information can be moved through the fiber optic cable is also an important advantage. AT&T established an experimental fiber optic system that moves digital information at a speed of 8 gigabits (8 billi ...

... element in designing a competitive car for professional racing or getting the car model on the front of a Car and Driver or Motortrend. Aerodynamics is the study of the motion of gases on objects and the forces created by this motion. The Bernoulli effect is one of the most important behind car design. The Bernoulli Effect states that the pressure of a fluid, in gaseous or liquid state, varies inversely with speed or velocity and a slower moving fluid will exert more pressure on and object than the same fluid moving slower (Yager). The goal of car designers is to make the air passing under a car move faster than the air passing over the car. This causes the ...

... of the business programs today, but it can be forecasted that it is not far away. Many new kinds of video cards have been introduced to the market recently. In the past, the video card could only deliver two dimensional graphics which were only in low resolution. However, there has now emerged as a result of high resolution three dimensional graphics technology. This paper will discuss why the video card nowadays can process high resolution three dimensional graphics, but why the video card in the past could only process low resolution two dimensional graphics. The explanation will be based on some recently developed video cards such like Matrox Millenium. Th ...

... because they are not being emitted at exactly the same moment but instead at random short bursts. Even if the light is of a single frequency that statement would also be true. A laser is useful because it produces light that is not only of essentially a single frequency but also coherent, with the light waves all moving along in unison. Lasers consist of several components. A few of the many things that the so-called active medium might consist of are, atoms of a gas, molecules in a liquid, and ions in a crystal. Another component consists of some method of introducing energy into the active medium, such as a flash lamp for example. Another component is the pai ...

... Injection) system is the wave of the future and the only way to go, but the old man continually reminds me of the way things used to be when he was young. Despite the outstanding performance of carbuated cars on the racetrack, I believe that the future of the automotive world lies in computer controlled fuel injection systems. In order to understand the benefits of carburetors and fuel injectors, one must understand what they do. The carburetor is quite simply a fuel-metering device that operates under the logical and straightforward laws of physics. It has evolved over the years from a very simple and basic design to the complex and intricate models that are a ...

... his PC at home. With his expertise in bookkeeping and his adequate knowledge of computers, he finds that computerized accounting is easy to work with and is very timesaving. With computer technology changing at such fast pace, many businesses try to keep up by upgrading computer system constantly in order to stay competitive. In the example of Advance Management; the computer equipment they have is quite advances. For example, they own 3 computers of which one is solely for accounting purposes. The system includes a CPU Pentium II with 300 MHz microprocessor, a 64 MB SD Ram on board, a 56 K modem, a 32´CD-ROM, and also a 4.3 GB Hard Disk. This high qu ...