... their findings to the public. The problem with the current system is that there are no checks and balances. If the anti-virus company wants to make viruses seem worse all they have to do is distort the truth. There is no organization that certifies wheather or not a virus is real. Even more potentially harmful is that the anti-virus companies could write viruses in order to sell their programs. Software companies have and do distort the truth about viruses. "Antivirus firms tend to count even the most insignificant variations of viruses for advertising purposes. When the Marijuana virus first appeared, for example, it contained the word "legalise," but a miscr ...

... The abacus, which emerged about 5,000 years ago in Asia Minor and is still in use today, may be considered the first computer. This device allows users to make computations using a system of sliding beads arranged on a rack. Early merchants used the abacus to keep trading transactions. But as the use of paper and pencil spread, particularly in Europe, the abacus lost its importance. It took nearly 12 centuries, however, for the next significant advance in computing devices to emerge. In 1642, Blaise Pascal, the 18-year-old son of a French tax collector invented what he called a numerical wheel calculator to help his father with his duties. This brass rectan ...

... home video market. This paper will explore the benefits of DVD as well as explore some the technical possibilities that are made available to consumers with DVD. It will also look at the latest features of DVD, DIVX (Digital Video Express) and let the reader make the decision if it's an option that is really all that necessary. DVD is a relatively new format, but it has made a huge impact in the consumer video market since it's relapse only a year ago. DVD is DVD, which stands for Digital Video Disc, Digital Versatile Disc, or nothing, depending on whom you ask, is the next generation of optical disc storage technology. It's essentially a bigger, faster CD that ...

... like T.V., radio, newspapers, and magazines are a big part of our lives. Things we see and hear in the media influence what we wear, what we eat, and how we think without things like global communication our economy would be very different We wouldn't be able to buy cars from japan or sell crops to foreign countries. Government communicate using global technology. Mass meetings are held using video conferencing and speaker phones. Massive oversea trade deals are made overseas with the aids of phones, fax, and the Internet. Without these forms of communication we would have to take a plane across the ocean just to talk to someone on the other side of the pond. Typ ...

... by the computers clock reaching a certain date and time (often Friday the thirteenth). The logic bomb is a virus triggered by a certain value appearing a certain part of the computers memory, either relevant to the viruses purposes or at random. The Trojan horse is an innocent seeming program deliberately infects with a virus and circulated publicly. There is a cure for these viruses, though. These "cures" are called vaccines. A vaccine is a program that watches for typical things viruses do, halts them, and warns the computer operator. "Put a kid with the chicken pox together with a bunch of healthy kids and not all of them will get sick." But that is not t ...

... a seat belt. Small children and don’t mix. Children shouldn’t be in the front seat because the force of the airbag is usually too much for them. Never put a rear facing child seat in the front seat of the car. If the airbag goes off, the seat will be pushed forward and the child may get squeezed between the back of the seat and the airbag. Children are less likely to be killed in a crash if they are in the back seat. If someone must put a child in the front seat, they may want to have an on/off switch for the airbag installed on the passenger side. On/off switches are used to prevent the airbag from going off in an accident, but they aren’t recommended fo ...

... 2000 years ago. It is simply a wooden rack holding parallel wires on which beads are strung. When these beads are moved along the wire according to "programming" rules that the user must me! morize, all ordinary arithmetic operations can be performed (Soma, 14). The next innovation in computers took place in 1694 when Blaise Pascal invented the first "digital calculating machine". It could only add numbers and they had to be entered by turning dials. It was designed to help Pascal's father who was a tax collector (Soma, 32). In the early 1800Os, a mathematics professor named Charles Babbage designed an automatic calculation machine. It was steam powered and cou ...

... from children's reach. Still, there is one thing that many parents do not think about putting away. It is the computer. Although the computer is mostly used for helpful things such as school work and business work, it can be manipulated to show vulgarity. Sites that contain pornography can be linked to with ease. These sites can be seen whether or not the child is purposely or mistakenly connecting to them. This is why mothers should act immediately if they do not want their children to be exposed to demeaning pictures of complete nudity and explicit sex. They need to monitor Internet use for their children by purchasing and installing a program that filte ...

... to improve the educational process. School systems often consider purchasing a computer network, and justify its purchase by applying it to routine administrative tasks, such as attendance records and grading. While these tasks are very important, they only show a small part of what technology can do for a school. Technology must go further than simply keeping attendance; it must focus on keeping students interested and productive. Since computers and the Internet have expanded in such a way in which education can be delivered to students, it is currently possible to engage in "distance education through the Internet. Distance education involves audio and v ...

... are normally text based. 2. The Creator of the WWW- A graduate of Oxford University, England, Tim is now with the Laboratory for Computer Science ( LCS)at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT). He directs the W3 Consortium, an open forum of companies and organizations with the mission to realize the full potential of the Web. With a background of system design in real-time communications and text processing software development, in 1989 he invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing. while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory. He spent two years with Plessey elecommunicat ...