comptometer: October 2007

Sunday, October 28, 2007

A Need for Welfare

There is an old joke that asked where you find a welfare recipient’s check under his work boots of course. For a long time now, since the expert formation of a stable government, the U.S government has had the programs and passed laws that either dealt with issues of or influenced family. Many of these family programs and laws currently in place today are often and usually debated. One of the most debated and most labored over family programs or laws are welfare.
This is because there is now a smallest amount of income so the poor no longer have the need to go out and commit crimes to attain such money.

// posted by wibsio3 @ 9:35 PM 0 comments

Monday, October 22, 2007

Politics

Politics is the method by which groups make decisions. It is the solid allocation of values. Although the term is usually applied to performance within governments, politics is observed in all human group relations, as well as corporate, academic, and religious institutions.

In its most basic form, politics consists of "social affairs involving authority or power". In practice, the term refers to the rule and government of a nation-state and to the methods and plans used to formulate and apply government policy.

In a broader sense, any circumstances involving power, or any maneouvring in arrange to improve one's power or status within a group, may be described as politics. This form of politics "is most connected with a struggle for superiority among groups having different priorities and power relations”.

// posted by wibsio3 @ 9:23 PM 0 comments

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Robotics

Robotics is the science and technology of robots, their design, manufacture, and application.Robotics requires a functioning knowledge of electronics, mechanics, and software. A person working in the field is a roboticist. The word robotics was first used in publish by Isaac Asimov, in his science fiction short story "Runaround" (1941).

Although the exterior and capabilities of robots fluctuate enormously, all robots share the features of a mechanical, movable structure under some form of control. The chain is warped of links ,actuators and joints which can allow one or more degrees of freedom. Most contemporary robots use open serial chains in which each link connects the one before to the one after it. These robots are called serial robots and often resemble the human arm. A few robots, such as the Stewart platform, exploit closed parallel kinematic chains. Other structures, such as those that mimic the mechanical structure of humans, different animals and insects, are comparatively rare. However, the development and use of such structures in robots is an dynamic area of research. Robots used as manipulators have an end effector mounted on the last link. This end effector can be anything from a welding mechanism to a mechanical hand used to manipulate the environment.

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Sunday, October 14, 2007

Multicellular organism

Multicellular organisms are those organisms consisting of more than one cell, and having differentiated cells that achieve specialized functions. Most life that can be seen with the naked eye is multicellular, as are all animals and plants. A group of similarly differentiated cells performing a function in a multicellular organism is known as a tissue. Although some single-celled organisms, such as mycobacteria, have differentiated cells, the differentiation is less dramatic than that usually found in multicellular organisms.

A multicellular organism can work on a number of levels. For instance, a sponge works on a cellular level as the different cells are almost like many separate organisms co-operating jointly for a common goal. This is illustrated by the fact you can put a sponge in a blender and the cells of the sponge will aggregate again to form another sponge. They have no tissues, organs or organ systems which require a higher level of organization. More advanced organisms such as jellyfish, coral and sea anemones work on a tissue level of organization, as their cells can aggregate to form different tissues. For instance, a jellyfish has an outer epidermis and an inner gastrodermis, an example of different tissues to serve a different purpose.

// posted by wibsio3 @ 11:29 PM 0 comments

Monday, October 08, 2007

Lithography

Lithography is a technique for printing on a smooth surface. It can be used to print text or artwork onto paper or another appropriate material. It can also refer to photolithography, a microfabrication method used to construct integrated circuits and microelectromechanical systems. Lithography works because of the revulsion of oil and water.Lithography was invented by Alois Senefelder in 1798.

Lithography is a printing method that uses chemical processes to make an image. For instance, the positive part of an image would be a hydrophobic chemical, while the negative image would be water. Thus, when the plate is introduced to a companionable ink and water mixture, the ink will adhere to the positive image and the water will clean the negative image. This allows for a comparatively flat print plate which allows for much longer runs than the older physical methods of imaging (e.g., embossing or engraving).

current high-volume lithography is used to make posters, books, newspapers, packaging, credit cards, decorated CDs – just about any smooth, mass-produced item with print on it.

// posted by wibsio3 @ 7:33 AM 0 comments

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Microprocessor

A microprocessor is a programmable component. It incorporates the functions of a central processing unit (CPU) on a single semiconducting integrated circuit (IC). The microprocessor was born by dipping the word size of the CPU from 32 bits to 4 bits, so that the transistors of its logic circuits would vigorous onto a single part. One or more microprocessors typically serve up as the CPU in a computer system, embedded system, or handheld device.

Microprocessors made probable the beginning of the microcomputer in the mid-1970s. Before this period, electronic CPUs were typically made from massive distinct switching devices (and later small-scale integrated circuits) containing the equivalent of only a few transistors. By integrating the processor onto one or a very few large-scale integrated circuit packages (containing the equivalent of thousands or millions of discrete transistors), the cost of processor power was greatly reduced. Since the dawn of the IC in the mid-1970s, the microprocessor has become the most rampant implementation of the CPU, nearly completely replacing all other forms. See History of computing hardware for pre-electronic and early electronic computers.

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