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The
internet is originally created by the United States Department of Defense as
an emergency communication link in the event of
a nuclear fallout, which, will no doubt render any other communication links
useless with their Electro-Magnetic Pulse effect.
Most
viruses are unable to do permanent damage to a computer, only being able to
erase data, yet unable to cause the computer to physically "self-destruct".
Except for the virus the CIH virus which unleashes
itself on the 25th of May and has potential to destroy not only software in
a computer and its data, but also is able to spoil the computer Basic Input-Output
System. (BIOS)
By
using MP3, the data content of a digital music recording can be compressed
by a factor of up to 12:1, which substantially
reduces the amount of time to transmit the file and the amount of memory, storage
and other system resources required to handle the file without degrading the
fidelity of the music contained in the compressed file.
Direct
X is used in
games to bypass the Operating System -
it is so that games can send instructions directly to the computer - This makes
Performance much faster.
Dreamcast,
Playstation and other such console games are based on the
concept of the computer and even use a similar processor.
The AMD Athalon
K7 running at 1000 MHZ(or 1 GHZ) - compared to a Intel Pentium III running
at 1000 MHZ - managed
to work faster in benchmark and real life tests
Computers use little
or no electricity when put side to side with
Fans, Ovens and Fridges.
A
DVD-ROM similar to the CD-ROM, yet is able to contain a whopping
8.5 GB, or 8500MB of data.
At
IBM, a punch card prototype, dubbed as Millipede, is made of plastic and can
cram an amazing amount of information into a tiny space--500
gigabits per square inch--by
storing the data as microscopic indentations on a flat polymer surface.
Even with the most
powerful computer imaginable--say, one performing perhaps 1017 operations
per second, it still would not be able to make a dent
in solving a game such as Go, for which there are some 10170 possible
positions.
