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Prophecy
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Prediction
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clients
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user computers
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D flipflop
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one input
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Top Level Domain
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Suffix, ICANN
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Modem
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Computer hardware that allows information to be passed through the telephone lines.
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web
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worldwide collection of electronic documents called web pages, the web is one of the more popular services on the internet
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embedded comptuer
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sometimes called microcontrollers; special purpose computers (typically an entire computer on one chip) that are embedded in electrical and mechanical ddevices in order to control them
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VGA
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Video Graphics Array
The VGA standard is output in 16 colors at640x480.
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Arrangement
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the placement of visual elements within a display
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database
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stores large amounts of information in an organized fashion
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76. Modem
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A device which converts digital signals into analog signals (and back) for transmission over telephone lines (modulator and demodulator).
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when light rays penetrate a surface
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refraction
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grammar-translation method
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a traditional technique of foreign-language teaching based on explicit instruction in the grammatical analysis of the target language and translation of sentences from the native language into the target language and vice versa.
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byte
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the character on the keybaord is represented by a what ?
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Similarity
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-numerical measure of how alike two data points are-is higher when objects are more alike-often falls in the range [0,1]
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IP address
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Internet Protocol address, unique ID, every machine on the internet has it
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podcast
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an audio broadcast that has been converted to an M
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Binary
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A numbering system with only two values
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GIF
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A file compression format developed by CompuServe for transferring graphic files to and from on-line services.
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Planar patches that approximates the shape of the object being described
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Polygonal Mesh
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output
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the process of transferring data from internal storage to an external medium
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Landscape
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The sideways orientation of a piece of paper.
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Computer Security Breaches
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System penetration by outsiders, theft of information, the changing of data, financial fraud, vandalism, theft of passwords, and the prevention of legitimate users from gaining access to systems.
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1-M Relationship
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a connection between two tables in which one row of a parent table can be referenced by many rows of a child table. These are the most common kind of relationship.
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Sniffer program
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capture info as it travels through the internet
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Query
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The process by which a web client requests specific information from a web server, based on a character string that is passed along.
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91. POP (server!)
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A server using the Post Office Protocol, which holds users' incoming e-mail until they read or download it.
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Clipboard
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An area used to temporarily store cut or copied information.
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secondary storage
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storage, as on disk or tape, supplemental to and slower than main storage, not under the direct control of the CPU and generally contained outside it
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gopher
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a protocol for a menu-based system of accessing documents on the Internet; any program that implements this protocol
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Nearly all NIC's contain what device that transmits and receives data signals?
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A data transceiver.
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LAN, local area network
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connects several computers that are geographically close to one another, often in the same building, and allows them to share resources, such as a printer, a database, or a file system
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16. Clipboard
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An area used to temporary store cut or copied information. The clipboard can store text, graphics, objects, and other data. The clipboard contents are erased when new information is placed on the clipboard or when the computer is shut down.
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A node in a tree with no children
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Terminal Node
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Bit/Byte
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Unit of measurement. A byte is a collection of bits, originally differing in size depending on the context but now almost always eight bits.
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The P, TABLE, and UL elements are all HTML
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container elements
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Allows images to be placed into a text document
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Word Processing
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Why option 2?
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Because we want to get the values all at onceAlso because we have to implement too many wires in option 1
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Under Paging File, what does '%Usage Peak' represent and how are the values interpreted?
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Indicates the peak percentage of the paging file in use.
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How many cables do you need for a memory
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Data lines + Address lines + CS + Re!write
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