8-bit Essays

  • 8051 Microcontroller Analysis

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    more efficient, much like the story of the 8051 microcontroller. In 1980, Intel introduced the 8051 microcontroller as a successor to the 8048. It was efficient. It was not the best piece of equipment, but it worked at the time and was successful. 8-bits, multiple I/O ports, 128kb of RAM, it was a standard piece to use. From here comes the real success of the 8051 microcontroller. Intel decided that it was not smart to keep the hardware strictly theirs. They allowed other companies to come in and

  • Fellini's 8 1/2

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    “The original title of Fellini’s 8 ½ was ‘Beautiful Confusion,’ and Fellini branded his film as a comedy. Anyone who has seen 8 ½ cannot help but laugh at the eclectic and satirical humor that imbues Fellini’s work, but ultimately the feature does not come off as comic,” (Horak). While certain critics (such as Horak) argue that Federico Fellini’s 8 ½ (1963) evokes partial tragedy, one could dually aver that the film epitomizes a classical, “bathos” model; everything within the work, even the dramatic

  • Essay Writing Code Nt1110

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    the bit. A bit, or binary digit, is the basic unit that all computers use. A bit can only have two values, usually represented by a 1 or 0, or on or off, or true or false, or yen and yang, you get the point. To make writing code for a computer easier, we decided to group bits into bytes to make things easier. A byte is the smallest unit of information that we store in a memory location. Today’s standard is eight bits to one byte. With each bit being a 1 or 0, and a byte consisting of 8 bits

  • I2c

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    Communication bus, often abbreviated as I2C bus, is a multi-master bi directional 2 wire serial bus for Inter IC communication, developed by Philips Semiconductor. The I2C bus consists of only two lines; one is called SDA (Serial Data line) carries the data bits and the other is called SCL (Serial Clock Line) is used as a clock signal. The messages sent over the I2C bus contain addresses to define which device should reply to them. All I2C-bus compatible devices incorporate an on-chip interface which allows

  • Federico Fellini

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    one of the most important film directors of all time. He created multiple films that expressed the true reality of a Fascist Italy. Italy at the time was under Fascist control, which was similar to that of the Nazi take over in Germany. In his movie 8 ½ Fellini casts Marcello as the lead role, some say that Marcello was portraying a younger version of Fellini. Marcello plays the role of Guido in the film. Guido is a young man who is struggling through a sort of directors block on his recent film.

  • Subnet Masking And Addressing

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    addressing. Note that this only describes IPv4 subnets. Reading binary values Normally, you read binary numbers bytewise (8 bit wise). Start at the last bit, bit 0. If it is 1, add 2^0 to your number, else add 0. Then the next bit, bit 1, If it is 1, add 2^1 (2) to your number, If bit 3 is 1 add 2^2 (4) to your number, if bit 4 is 1 add 2^3 (8) to your number ... if bit 8 is 1 add 2^7 (128) to your number. You see, the base is always 2 because it can be either 0 or 1. Example 1: 10100100 = 2^7+0+2^5+0+0+0+2^2+0+0

  • Digital Representation In Digital Watermarking

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    There are two main disadvantages. They are 1) If the encryption is performed on a message size of few bits, the size of the ciphertext may expand and will cause loss of compression efficiency. 2) If the encryption is done on a large message size of few hundreds of bits, to compensate the loss in compression, the payload capacity decreases, where payload capacity is the number of watermark signal bits embedded per encrypted message. So we select a secure symmetric stream cipher with homomorphic property

  • Advanced Shellcoding Techniques

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    Introduction This paper assumes a working knowledge of basic shellcoding techniques, and x86 assembly, I will not rehash these in this paper. I hope to teach you some of the lesser known shellcoding techniques that I have picked up, which will allow you to write smaller and better shellcodes. I do not claim to have invented any of these techniques, except for the one that uses the div instruction. The multiplicity of mul This technique was originally developed by Sorbo of darkircop.net

  • Child Pornography On The Internet

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    In this new age of Information, the Internet has made all types of information readily available. Some of this information can be very useful, some can be malicious. Child pornography, also known as Paedophilia is one of these problems. Any one person can find child pornography on the internet with just a few clicks of the mouse using any search engine. Despite webmaster's and law enforcement officials' efforts to control child pornography and shut down illegal sites, new sites

  • Physics of Baseball

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    Here is a few bits of information about a baseball that is hit 400 feet. 1. For each 1000 feet of altitude you can add 7 Feet. 2. For each 10 degrees of air temp you can add 4 Feet. 3. For each 10 degrees of ball temp you can add 4 Feet. 4. For each 1 inch drop in Barometer you can add 6 Feet. 5. For each 1 mph following wind you can add 3 Feet. 6. With the Ball at 100 % Humidity you can subtract 30 Feet. 7. When the ball is Pitched, for every 5 mph you can add 3.5 Feet. 8. For a ball Hit

  • The Sisters of Mercy

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    examples of God's teaching, and I feel truly blessed to be involved with the Sisters of Mercy. Each and every one of them has a unique story to tell about her life, but none is more intriguing than that of Sister Mary Joel Hopkinson. Having only heard bits and pieces, and not knowing for sure the steps that each of these women had to take to become who she is today, I asked Sister Mary Joel to share her story with me. When she was born into a Protestant family in New England, no one could have

  • Comets

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    visible when they cross the sun. This also applies to people who view comets with telescopes. When a comet gets near the sun it becomes very visible because the sun's radiation starts to sublime its volatile gases, which, in turn, blow away small bits of the little solid material the comet has. Another feature of a comet is a long tail. This is caused by materials breaking off and expanding. They expand into an enormous escaping atmosphere called the coma. This becomes at least the size of

  • The Nature and Function of Dreams

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    that we dream for psychological reasons and that any dream can and should be interpreted because it is a road to our unconsciousness. Following Sir Richard Burton’s observation that “truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits; while each believes his little bit the whole to own,” I will take a middle ground position in regards to current dream theories. This position recognizes that dreams might have physiological determinants, as well as psychological ones (3). Such an approach lets one

  • Marketing in a Digital Age

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    that underlie the new digital age: A. Digitalization and Connectivity * Today a growing number of appliances and systems operate on digital information, which comes as streams of zeros and ones, or bits. * Text, data, sound, and images can be converted into bitstreams. * For bits to flow from one appliance or location to another requires connectivity, a telecommunications network.. Intranet: A network that connects people within a company to each other and to the company network

  • Theme of Heritage in Everyday Use

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    and Big Dee and me and hung them on the quilt frames on the front porch and quilted them. One was in the Lone Star pattern. The other was Walk Around the Mountain. In both of them were scraps of dresses Grandma Dee had worn fifty and more years ago. Bits and pieces of Grandpa Jarrell's paisley shirts. And one teeny faded blue piece about the size of a penny matchbox that was from Great Grandpa Ezra's uniform that he wore in the Civil War. (Walker, 399)" Understanding the importance of why the author

  • Narrowing the Defining Boundaries of Magical Realism

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    three dogs and no people." I didn't ask anything. Next to Toni the house had lost its wieght. Two ants were walking on the ground of the day; an earthworm peeked out of a hole, I touched it with my fingertip and it became a red ring. There were bits of leaves, little pieces of branches, tiny pebbles, and the black earth smelled of magnolia water. The other day was off to one side. Toni, Eva, and I watched without fear its gigantic towers and stationary winds, purple and mulberry colored."You

  • Domain Names

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    the addresses of the Internet, like www.amazon.com or ry.byu.edu. A domain name is part of a URL or “Universal Resource Locator;” an Internet Address. Each user on the Internet is identified by a unique IP address, consisting of four bytes (or 32 bits) from 0 to 255 separated by periods, such as 132.112.15.254. To avoid remembering such an unwieldy address, a domain name is used instead. When you type a domain name into your browser, it first looks it up in a “domain name server” or DNS, which

  • Perspectives on Fear

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    reaction to fear can be inhibited, softening the formation of memories and the emotions they evoke” (Baard). Sometimes I have trouble sleeping. I lie in bed for hours while my mind churns through endless streams of fragmented thoughts and memories, bits of brain matter that I do not have time for in my waking life. I have tried the homeopathic remedies. I drink “calming” teas, take showers, and inhale scents advertised to promote sleep and relaxation. I even have a lavender neck pillow. Nevertheless

  • Strategic Importance of Knowledge Management

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    Information and experience, key components of definitions of knowledge, are put into categories through the process of labeling with abstract symbols. This allows the process of synthesis to occur more efficiently than when dealing with masses of individual bits of information. Information coded into symbols to make it “knowledge” may be stored both inside and outside the individuals. Thus, knowledge may be stored within a person in his mind or outside the person in books, manuscripts, pictures, and audio

  • History Of The Internet

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    copy of the document. This is a major problem and the obvious solution is to “chop” the information up into smaller pieces and then transmit the smaller pieces2. Then another problem was realized, how does the computer know where to put these small bits of information? The solution to that was what has come to be known as packet-switching (PS). In PS, the entire document is sent in a bunch of tiny “packets,” these packets contain the information of the document “wrapped” in its placement on the page