Computer Space Essays

  • Yu-Gi-Oh: Popular Trading Card Game

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    Yu-Gi-Oh is the best trading card game ever developed! Yu-Gi-Oh is a popular trading card game the lets the player, or known in the game as the “duelist” to summon monsters, activate spell cards, and traps cards. Yu-Gi-Oh was created by Kazuki Takahashi, a manga artist who said the reason he created the trading card game was because “I've always been obsessed with games. Certainly as a kid, and even today, I like blackjack and board games like Scotland Yard. In a game, the player becomes the hero

  • BENEFITS OF COMPUTERIZED FILING SYSTEM

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    because they just need to open the system and type the file’s name then the computer will find it. Hence, the computerized filing system is faster in speed to retrieve the files than manual filing system. It is also beneficial in speed as it can be seen and shared by others. For example, the other staff can use the system to key in any data while the other one can use it to find any records by using a different computer at the same time. Thus, it does not affect the others time to do their work.

  • The Issue of Jurisdiction in Cyberspace

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    advent of computers and especially the internet, our very lives have changed dramatically. Now starting from acquiring information to complex online transactions involving billions of dollars have become possible due to the cyberspace. The term “Cyberspace” was used for the first time by William Gibson in his book “Neuromancer” written in 1984. He defined cyberspace as the consensual hallucination felt daily by the billions of legitimate operators. He envisioned cyberspace where all the computers, people

  • The Scale of Cyberspace

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    Geographical space, as we know it, is undergoing significant changes in its perception. It is in a state of continuous redefinition caused by the increased use of technologies that provide access to cyberspace. Although cyberspace has no physical dimensions, it is very real for the many of us who use modern technology. Whether it is the Internet, accessed through a computer or cell phones, or other private networks such as MMOGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Games), cyberspace is increasingly the

  • Arguments Against The Immitator In Book 10 Of Plato's Republic

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    a piece of architecture is to simply be there; experiencing the space first hand as the designer intended it. However, when entering the beginning stages of the long architectural process clients understandably prefer to have some idea of what they are investing their time and money in before it’s constructed; enter architectural visualization. Whether it be in the form of a watercolor painting, floor plan, or photorealistic computer generated rendering, these images and drawings are a mere representation

  • Interpretation In Architecture Essay

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    edu/studioworks/launch.html (accessed on 10th January 2010) 66 Adrian Snodgrass and Richard Coyne,2006,Interpretation in architecture , design as a way of think... ... middle of paper ... ...oblems and cities potential. • Natural influence and character of the space, to facilitate the seeker of solitude and spirituality. • Vastness of views to and from the site , to raise the building on a pedestal and give it a monumental position. 5.b) SITE INTRODUCTION: The site is situated at Shahdara ,near Barakaho and Bani

  • Chess

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    Chess Chess is one of the oldest games still played today. It began in India probably in the 6th century. This game spread throughout Asia and later into Europe around 900. Chess went through the evolution of different pieces, boards, and rules, and did not settle until the 19th century. When it did stop its evolution, chess was left with chivalric European names for its pieces. At this time, chess, was known all over the world, and people began to play for championships. This game with

  • Ubiquity through physical spaces and objects

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    Since ages, objects and things in the spaces where we live and work have been nothing more than inanimate things. We see objects around us as entities meant to be used for specific purpose. These entities are kept idle most of the time, they are put into service only when required. What if we could change this state of affairs by defining a purpose to everything around us and keep them engaged. Can we make walls around us sense our presence? Can objects around us sense when we touch them? Gestural

  • How Television and The Internet Have Changed The World

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    be recreated by members of the private through their re-telling of the story, allowing engagement and a sense of presence of the event. The newspaper, limited in how it was able to pluralize space within society, nonetheless provided the foundations of what was to be a whole new way in how we occupy our space within the world, and how society was to give and receive information through media broadcasting. The televisions impact has been so great it’s become a normative in society. Almost all households

  • Chisholm and the Doctrine of Temporal Parts

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    Chisholm and the Doctrine of Temporal Parts In the appendix to Person and Object, Roderick Chisholm discusses the doctrine of temporal parts. Chisholm’s position is that the arguments commonly supplied in support of the doctrine are not successful. In this paper, I will consider Chisholm’s objections and then give my own responses in favor of the doctrine of temporal parts. The doctrine of temporal parts, commonly called four dimensionalism, is a metaphysical theory concerning how it is

  • Writing Cannot be Altered by Technology

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    subject and the forming communities within the realms of those networked spaces that are being created through technological devices and amplifications (Silver). In this essay I will examine how technological advancements affect our fundamental habits of writing and reading. Our “traditional” writing was not traditional in ancient times. The birth of writing itself was a new technology. This is similar to the birth of the computers years ago. The writing process is taught in grade school. It begins

  • MP3

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    Internet, and played on any multimedia computer with the right sound card and speakers. MP 3 is simply a file format that compresses a song into a smaller size so it is easier to move around on the Internet and store. MPEG is the acronym for Moving Picture Experts Group. This group has developed compression systems used for video data. For example, DVD movies, HDTV broadcasts and DSS satellite systems use MPEG compression to fit video and movie data into smaller spaces. The MPEG compression system includes

  • Internet Privacy

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    demarcation of public and private spaces brought on by the networked economy and new technology?’ Also, ‘What roles do government, industry and citizens have in regard to censorship and privacy?’ These statements ultimately end with the fact that it is impossible for Net users to expect privacy online, because online privacy doesn’t exist. However, one must ask, ‘What will be done about the problem?’ while keeping in mind that yes, the thin line between public and private spaces has been severed as a result

  • The Mirrors of Classic Physics

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    conceptions of mirrors are not so different from models in middle school physics. The mirror is a line dividing the ‘real’ from the ‘virtual’, and the image is the same on both sides. It is a plane in three-dimensional space, a slash in textual space, and a boundary to fluid spaces. In physics class, rays of light go from each point of the image and bounce off the mirror in such a way that they seem to have come from the virtual object. These are not the only mirrors. These are instead the only

  • Folklore and British Cultural Studies

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    and British Cultural Studies As an American folklorist studying postcolonial literature in a cultural studies centre in England, I felt a bit colonized myself when, upon browsing in Fred Inglis' Cultural Studies, I read about "the large vacant spaces now being staked out by cultural studies" (181). It reminded me of the nineteenth-century maps of Africa, made by Europeans, that depicted the continent as an unfilled void, even though it teemed with people, cultures and boundaries. So, too, with

  • Environmentalism in Manga and Anime

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    "cyberpunk"-ish stories, the world is not a pleasant place to be in, in general. But, running through other works is a thread of a different hue. Listen closely, and a different voice is heard --- the voice of dissent, the voice protesting the loss of green spaces and clean waters and open air. Where has this voice come from? I'm not quite qualified to say for sure, but I can guess. Some of it is obvious: people who are tired of seeing tranquil forests razed, or seeing their favorite beach turned into a

  • Humans Should Explore Space

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    The recent events regarding the NASA Mars probes have renewed the debate of reinstalling manned space missions with the objectives of exploring and landing on foreign worlds such as the moon and the red planet Mars, rather than the use of solely robotic craft and machines. It is my belief that we should return to the days of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, those of manned lunar landings and manned space exploration. Robots simply cannot and should not be allowed to be the sole means of visiting these

  • The Ewell Residence in To Kill a Mockingbird

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    supplemented with sheets of corrugated iron, its general shape suggested it's original design: square, with four tiny rooms opening onto a shotgun hall, the cabin rested uneasily upon four irregular lumps of limestone. Its windows were merely open spaces in the walls, which in the summer were covered with greasy strips of cheese cloth to keep out the varmints that feasted on Maycomb's refuse." This description paints a very vivid picture of the cabin and also tells a little bit about the Ewells

  • Islam in America

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    knowledge used as a means of imbricating the "presentation" of Islam within heterogeneous settings. The historical challenge for Islamic missions, armies, scholars, traders, and sojourners was how to maintain the coherence of the faith in foreign spaces simultaneously considered within and outside of the Islamic world. The question was how to maintain the absolute authority of Quranic guidance while propagating Islam and ruling Muslims in ways that were of necessity-if Islam was truly going to

  • Edna’s Search for Solitude in Kate Chopin's The Awakening

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    disagreeable, oblivious husband, Edna Pontellier sees her home, her garden, her fashionable neighborhood as "an alien world which had suddenly become antagonistic" (76). When she is left alone in the house, she thrills to the sensation of free time and space, the chance to explore, investigate, to see her house in its own light. To eat in peace without her husband's trifling complaints, to read until sleepy, to rest is a luxury which convention, her husband and her own complicity had denied her. She slept