Video Cards and Related Technologies by Logan Rokwild
How does a video card work? A video card basically converts the computer’s digital signals coming from the processor into a signal that the monitor is able to interpret. Hence, its basic function is to convert data. The main point of difference between an entry level video card and a... SmartShader™ This technology will unleash a new generation of visual effects on your computer. ... ATI Technology An ATI card will offer many technologies that will significantly enhance your video experience. ... DDR is superior as it can transmit information faster.

Groupware: What Works the Way Businesses Do? by Joe Miller
Groupware The internet is full of 1.5 million to 7 million indexed pages of groupware packages available on the market today. Every business needs groupware to control, manage, or track documents. Groupware is similar to other systems that enable document management, often using a centralized... Version History is a flow chart or visual display of the who, what, when, where, and how of the document. ... Version History In addition to a signature that provides basic version information, groupware with a Version History feature enables a display of the document genealogy or family tree.

Video Game Jobs - Could You Be A Game Programmer? by Hitoshi Jones
The video game industry is a wide open field, complete with dozens of possible options for those that want to craft the next great video game. For those that are good with numbers, find themselves incredibly adept at picking out small details and more than anything like seeing how things work on... Once you’ve mastered the details of your craft, it’s a matter of specializing and video game design. ... The video game industry is as varied as any and you might find yourself in a series of different roles, working on different projects every six months or so.

3D Computer Graphics by Harish Katt
3d is nothing but a depth, some ways like example a paper which has a thin depth with a width and a length (a box which had length and width along with depth value, when talking regarding axis, its an object having x-axis y-axis and z-axis). So a 3d is a dimensional array of axis in 3... In computer graphics software, this distinction is occasionally blurred; some 2D applications use 3D techniques to achieve certain effects such as lighting, while some primarily 3D applications make use of 2D visual techniques.

History of End User Programming by Peter Hale
1960s In the 1960s Dartmouth BASIC programming language [7] was designed and implemented at Dartmouth College by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz. Over time BASIC became a popular language for home users, and business use, it introduced many people to programming as a hobby or career. ... Dmoz Open Directory Project - http://dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Visual/ - Visual Languages - Programming Languages Reference - Visual Languages. ... Research has continued in techniques of Visual Programming [9] e.g.

User Driven Modelling - Detailed Explanation - Part 2 - Research Approach by Peter Hale
This research demonstrates how a taxonomy can be used as the information source, from which it is possible to automatically produce software. This technique is most suitable at present to modelling, visualisation, and searching for information. The article explains the technique of User Driven... Until recently XML has been used to represent information but languages such as Java, C++, and Visual Basic have been used for the actual code. ... The purpose of this is to provide a cascading series of layers that translate a relatively easy to use visual representation of a problem to be...

Sharp PDF Usage in VB6 by Thomas Kaloyani
Most people are looking on how to create PDF documents through their VB applications, but don't want to spend money to buy Adobe Acrobat SDK or other third party components. If you don't want to invest money, there is an open source solution for you, SharpPDF. ... Visual Basic developers can't use this library straight. ... So how can you take advantage of sharpPDF? ... A choice I can think of is to change the code of sharpPDF based on your needs. ... If you don't want to mess up with the code of sharpPDF you can simply create a wrapper library with VB.NET, register the assembly and...

What Is Type Library And How Is It Related To The Registry? by A Singh
A type library can be thought of as a binary version of an IDL (interface Definition Language) file. Visual basic creates a type library when you create a VB server object, thus eliminating the need for an IDL file. A C-like language used to define interfaces and co-classes for COM. ... This registry is constantly growing and updating itself. ... The Registry contains information and settings for all the hardware, software, users, and preferences of the PC. ... But this can also slow the system down drastically.

Why Network Documentation Is So Important by Darren Miller
Undocumented Networks ------------ I can't tell you how many projects I've worked on in which the customer has little to no network documentation. The reason for the lack of network documentation is varied. In many cases this is both the fault of the customer and the vendor / consultant who... Basic Network Documentation ------------ Here is a basic set of items that should be contained in network documentation: All server hardware and operating systems should be documented, including the physical locations and what primary, secondary, etc..

Data Acquisition - Product Reviews by Michael Russell
Generally data acquisition means to acquire data. However, in computer terminology, data acquisition is defined as the process of uniting real world data to produce the data to be maneuvered by the computer system. The data is in the form of waveforms or signals. ... The data acquired can be stored on the computer using vendor supplied software and the control can be made with the use of programming languages like Basic, Pascal, FORTRAN, C etc. ... Unlike many other company boards, the omega OME-PCI-1002 comes with software development kit compatible with Windows 98/NT/2000/XP.