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    workstations. ESG provides mission critical applications to its client’s web-based IT infrastructures and business processes. This is the high-end of the industry, dominated by mainframes (for large corporations), internet servers, workstations and supercomputers (Verlinden & Christensen, 1999, p. 1). The important question is to determine whether HP should continue investing its resources in extending the capability of its UNIX-based Performance Architecture built on the proprietary HP RISC…

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    The fact that Earth was made as a supercomputer by an alien race means that everything that evolved from the Earth was simply part of the program that Magrathea and Deep Thought, the Earth’s predecessor, invented. Enhancing the sense of pointlessness is the fact that Earth was destroyed, after…

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    Technology is becoming more and more accessible; which results in humans becoming more dependent on technology to the point where it begins to make replacements. While technology is becoming more accessible to everyone, it is taking jobs and in many ways, replacing humans in the workforce. Humans are becoming more and more dependant on technology because it: make our lives easier, it’s cheaper to use, and because it is more accessible. The workforce is experiencing…

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    compared to most people. However, when teamed together the possibilities increased on how humans could use this technology to make breakthroughs in many didn’t field. World chess champion Garry Kasparov explained how his experience teaming with a supercomputer freed himself to focus on the “creative texture” of the game of chess. Thompson uses examples in how advances in these certain fields will only improve human lives for the better and couldn’t be done without this blending between man and…

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    used through history to prevent attacks. For example, as Obama is describing how 9/11 produce the issue that encounters how the U.S can defend the nation while ensuring people their civil liberties, he states, “Digital information and powerful supercomputers offers intelligence agencies the possibility of sifting through massive amounts of bulk data to identify patterns or pursue leads that may thwart impending threats” ( Obama ). By allowing…

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    The brain has the ability to reprogram itself on the fly, altering the way it functions" (Carr 60). While reading Nicholas Carr 's article "Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains", one may feel they have taken a seat on the most intellectual and fascinating roller coaster. In the 2008 article published in the Atlantic, Carr effectively explains not only what an obsessive amount of surfing the web is progressively doing to our lives but in our lives. He does an…

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    Actually we have to break down our problem into small parts because the discretization is based on them. Then programs are written to solve, generally they written in typical languages like Fortran and C. The programs are run on workstation or supercomputers. Finally we get the simulation results which we can compare and analyze with experiments and real problems. If the results are not convincing to solve the problem we can repeat the simulation until we get a satisfying results. This is the…

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    IBM hopes to re-engineer the brain by 2030, and with Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s efforts to capture thought at moment of creation, forward-thinkers believe we can one day replace all our neurons with nanomaterials that process thoughts at supercomputer speeds. Futurists see our powerful new 2040 body as the next step in human evolution; and many believe that this miracle will become reality in time to benefit many alive today. Living in an amazing body without fear of unwanted death will…

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    Throughout the article titled “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” the author Nicholas Carr references the fact that he has is very experienced with the internet as it has been a key part of his life in the past decade and has added to the web's massive databases. He also talks about how, before the internet was super popular, people had to learn to read the old-fashioned way and open up a book. Throughout the article, Carr regularly references many other reliable sources such as Maryanne Wolf, a…

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    I was late to Group, again. I ran in and said sorry to Penny. I went to sit in my usual seat, but someone caught my eye. She was new, but she looked familiar. I don't know how, but I feel like I know her, but I've been Slated, I do not remember anything in my past. I missed her introduction, but I wanted a proper greeting. "Hello, are you the new girl? I'm Ben," I say. I noticed her cheeks turned red. Tori rolled her eyes."Yes, Ben, you've missed the introductions. Ben, this is Kyla; Kyla,…

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