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The Future of Air Travel
Introduction As the holiday travel season moves into top gear, most passengers will be unaware of the fact that the heavily-booked flight that they are traveling on will most likely not be making any money for the airline that is operating it. As the fuel prices get higher, airlines are
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The Future of Broadband over Power Lines
The future of BPL (Broadband over Power Lines) BPL, or Broadband over Power Lines, is in its infancy. Several utility companies are rolling BPL out to their customers for field trials, and "predict that 15 to 20% of its customer base will eventually be on BPL". 1 There are several
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The Future of Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Introduction Honda is a well-known and reputable car manufacturer in North America. It is now 2002, and Honda is planning on launching its second Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) to the market - a hybrid version of Honda's top selling vehicle, the Civic. The company's first HEV, the two-seater Honda Insight
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The Future of Robots
If intelligent machines ever write a history of their evolution, Hans Moravec will figure prominently in it. At Stanford University in the 1970s, he developed a mobile robot that could navigate its environment, albeit slowly. In 1980 he cofounded Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, where he is now working on
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The Future of Smartphones
The future of smartphones Nowadays, smartphones has rapidly evolved in sophistication. However, what will smartphone look like in a year or two years or even more than ten years? How we define the smartphones in the future? Is there another kind of phones whose function is stronger or "smarter" than
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The Future on Evoting; the Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (serve)
The Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment, SERVE, is a project aimed at providing Uniformed Services members and overseas citizens the ability to register, vote and check their status throughout the absentee voting process, by bringing the voting booth to you through the Internet. The SERVE system is planned for
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The Genesis Flood: Local or Global?
THE GENESIS FLOOD: LOCAL OR GLOBAL? CONTENTS Introduction ............................................................................... 3 Definition of the Hebrew Word "Erets" ............................................... 3 The Local Flood View ................................................................... 4 Global Flood View ....................................................................... 7 Conclusion ................................................................................ 10 Bibliography .............................................................................. 12 THE GENESIS FLOOD: LOCAL OR GLOBAL? INTRODUCTION The Genesis Flood is one of the most
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The Gillette Company Marketing Plan
The disposable Gillette Sensor 3 Razor with incorporated gel for men Gillette's $9.2 billion global business began on September, 1901 by the name of "American Safety Razor Company. In 1902 it was names Gillette Safety Razor Company. The Gillette Company today is the global market leader in nearly a
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The Global Security Policy
The Global Security Policy In this technological age where you can shop, trade or work from anywhere in the world comes many good things. However within these same things we see many challenges, such as security, cultural barriers or laws and connections. Companies these days are sometimes run globally in
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The Global System
The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is the most popular standard for mobile phones in the world. GSM service is used by over 1.5 billion people across more than 210 countries and territories [1]. The ubiquity of the GSM standard makes international roaming very common between mobile phone operators,
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The Goal: A Process of ongoing Improvement
Jennifer Purifoy April 30, 2001 Page 1 of 3 Executive Summary for The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt The heart of this story is based around the life of Alex Rogo, Plant Manager for Uniware a division of Unico. After a very upset customer approaches
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The Good and Bad of Telecommuting
The good and bad of telecommuting Telecommuting may be the movement of the future, which will allow more people to work away from the office. Many people see telecommuting as a way to be close to home or allow them to be connected to their organization while working abroad. While
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The Good and the Evil of the Internet
The onset of computers on the general population has given a boost to the Economy in the world's market. People who weren't much aware of the world became drawn to computers, which in turn brought about the Internet, connecting the world all over. The Internet has played a major role
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The Good, the Bad, and the Inbetweens of Hacking
The Good, The Bad, and The Inbetweens of Hacking “During a three-day period in February 2000, some of the most high-profile sites on the World Wide Web were temporarily knocked out of service.”(Issues and Controversy) This quote is one of the many that show the down side to hacking. A
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The Great Ai Debate
The Great AI Debate (Compare and Contrast Paper) In a Star Trek episode entitled, "Measure of a Man," a villainous cybernetics researcher obtains authorization to dismantle Data, the android, to learn more about its construction. This action is met by Data's friends with resistance, and a legal battle ensues to
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The Great Gatsby
Running Header: THE GREAT GATSBY VISUAL EFFECTS | I remember the first time that I saw The Great Gatsby. It was actually in 3D at a movie theatre in California. I remember sitting in those red recliner seats in complete awe of the images that seemed to fly towards my
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The Great Patient Race
When Gordon Gould was a graduate student at Columbia University in 1957, he sketched out the concept of a concentrated beam of light amplified in a gas-filled chamber and coined the term "laser" to describe it. But Gould waited to seek a patent on his discovery, believing incorrectly that a
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The History of Computers
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to highlight the history of the personal computer. The research in this paper shows that personal computers were not met with a warm reception when they were first introduced. Personal computers or PC's have impacted the culture and the way that people live
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The History of Linux
It all began in 1991, during the time of monumental computing development. DOS had been bought from a Seattle hacker by Bill Gates, for a sum of $50,000 - a small price for an operating system that had managed sneak its way across the globe due to a clever
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The History of Paper
The History of Paper The history of paper dates back almost 2,000 years to when inventors in China first crafted cloth sheets to record their drawings and writings. Before then, people communicated through pictures and symbols etched on stone, bones, cave walls, or clay tablets. Paper as we know it
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The History of the Integrated Circuit
"The History of the Integrated Circuit" In today's world integrated circuits are everywhere we turn. Many of them you will find in computers. For example the microprocessor is an integrated circuit that processes all information in the computer. It keeps track of what keys are pressed and if the mouse
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The History of the Internet
The History of the Internet Within our society there has been a revolution, one that rivals that of the Industrial Revolution, the Technological Revolution. At the head of this revolution is the Internet. The Internet is a place full of information, adventure, and even for some, romance. In our society
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The History of the Modem
The modem, which is an acronym for modulator/demodulator, was invented in the 1950's for military use. Manufactured by the now popular computer company, IBM, modems were used as part of an air-defense system; their purpose was to connect various airbases and control centers. Modems are devices that mix (modulate)
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The History of Windows
Ever since the invention of the micro computer, there has been a definitive war between companies competing for their share of the professional and private computer market. There have been hundreds of operating systems produced over the years, most of them were not able to maintain a solid customer base,
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The Hoax
THE HOAX Let's dispose of one technique that is absolutely a hoax (meaning a fraud: something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage.) If you see a newsgroup post or web page with something like the following, it is a hoax and will not work. :
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The Home Depot History
The Home Depot History The Home Depot was formed in 1979 by Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank in Atlanta, Georgia. Home Depot virtually revolutionized the do-it-yourself home improvement industry in the United States almost overnight. The two entrepreneurs opened their stores which were no frills warehouses. In 1998 the average
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The Honda Insight Was the First Electric Hybrid Car in the Us Market in 1999
The Honda Insight was the first electric hybrid car in the US market in 1999. www.thedailystar.com These cars operate from a rechargeable battery and gasoline. The engines are smaller so that they will be able to accommodate the 99% of time when the car is not going uphill or accelerating
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The How to for Masonry Repair
How to do masonry repair To start a masonry repair on your home you need to identify all of you problem spots. The general rule to follow is that is the crack in the mortar joint is wider than a credit card then it needs to be replaced. In most
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The Human Brain Experiences
The human brain experiences close to 11,000,000 bits of information per second but only take in about 40 of them. The brains selective attention, or responding to one stimulus rather than many others, helps show why people have different perceptions on just about anything. Perception is top-down processing, with our
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The Human Eye and Night Vision Goggles
Introduction One of the most common causes of fatal helicopter accidents is Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) at night. (FlightWeb). The major contributor to such accidents is the pilot's level of situational awareness, or rather - not being able to see where they are going, or what might be in
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