Search Details

Word: ips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...well, providing the technology that makes competition possible. The relevant hocus-pocus is the "Internet protocol," which is not the title of a Robert Ludlum novel but is rather a geeky delight that sits at the heart of the Web and e-mail revolution. Internet protocol (generally called IP) is a language computers use to talk to one another: a hyperefficient chatter that lets phone-company machines banter by sending digital data "packets" back and forth. These packages can contain anything--a frame of video, a few lines of a fax or a split second of conversation. The computers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scary Splice | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

Like letters at the post office, each packet is individually addressed. IP tells the network how to read the packets and where to send them. Unlike a traditional phone call, which sets up a circuit between two phones (think of the 1930s operator plugging wires into jacks), IP allows phone carriers simply to throw the packets onto a network, where they will be sorted and delivered by any one of thousands of machines (called routers), just as if they were postcards at a post office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scary Splice | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...LEMOYNE IP H R ER BB SOBechard...

Author: By Richard A. Perez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Reaches NCAAs | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

...LEMOYNE IP H R ER BB SOCassidy, L(7-5) 7.1 11 7 7 4 9Pokracki 0.1 0 0 0 0 0Chudacik...

Author: By Richard A. Perez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Reaches NCAAs | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

...HARVARD IP H R ER BB SODuffell 3.2 4 2 2 1 0Lennon 4.0 4 2 2 0 2Marcucci 0.0 1 1 1 0 0Madden...

Author: By Richard A. Perez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Reaches NCAAs | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

Previous | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | Next