Archive for January, 2010
Digital Angst in a Technological World (Part 2 of 3)
A smart, side splitting article about angst in the digital world. This read will have you suspiciously eying the digital gadgets in your life for signs of alien life!
How to Install New Devices on Your Computer
As a long time Computer System technician, one thing I’ve seen that nearly everyone has trouble with is installing a new device to their Computer System. The device might be a printer, camera, scanner, etc. Here’s why.
Driving Simulation - Safe and Effective Training
Training with driving simulator is the modern way of learning how to drive. It can provide a safe and effective driving lessons, the reason why it is considered as the better means over the traditional training.
Computer Training - The Mystery Power of Momentum and Cathedrals
You send employees to training, write the check, and then wonder later if it made any difference at all. It can, if you are doing it correctly. Let’s look at the power of momentum, cathedrals, and Computer System training.
Email to SMS - The Winner is Communication
Technology doesn’t stand still for a minute and when you take the time to sit down and think about it, it is amazing to think of how far everything has come over the last decade or so. Obviously it hasn’t been that long since the internet was invented.
A Battery Break Through?
Move over li-ion batteries, there is a potential new sheriff in town. EEstor, a company located in Texas is creating a new power system that it hopes will be able to replace the batteries that we typically use in everything from our cars to our personal laptop Computer Systems.
List of Computer Viruses - A Through D
The word “virus” is commonly used to describe to other types of Malware, Adware, and Spyware programs that do not have the reproductive ability that a “true” virus has. The possibility of spreading of viruses to other Computer Systems increases when infected files on a network file system or a file system are accessed by [...]
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Article number one in a series about AI. This article serves as an introduction to the topic, and through the series we will be explaining traditional and more modern approaches to artificial intelligence.
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - Part 2
In the last article we defined four acceptable goals for producing AI - systems that think like humans, systems that act like humans, systems that think rationally, and systems that act rationally. This article provides more detail on systems that act like humans.
What is a Laser?
What is a Laser? One of the first newspaper articles, written about the invention of the Laser, in 1960, said that scientists had invented a death ray. Although it’s true that laser beams can destroy an incoming missile, they can also be used as a medical scalpel, read barcodes at the grocery store or be [...]