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- 131: Bridging Technology And Academe
- Abstract The current information technology mediums, such as the Internet pose exciting new opportunities for researchers and educators and, at the same time, present numerous questions and challenges. One of the current frustrations of many faculty includes their limited conceptual grasp of how these technologies can benefit themselves and their students. For certain, the Internet as it currently exists, is largely an undefined and unrefined information resource. This ostensible weakness, however, provides early adopters of these infant technologies to participate in and to define the role of the Internet for our discipline before it gets defined for us. The primary objectives of this paper are to present the potential of technology to faculty just beginning to consider it, as well as open a ...
- 132: Online Business
- ... and other high-tech equipment to produce and progress knowledge into the future. Today, in 1999, nearing the new millenium, the number one technique of tying business into technology would be the use of the Internet. The Internet is a computer application that connects tens of thousands of interconnected computer networks that include over 2.0 million host computers around the world. The basis of connecting all these computers together is by the ... computer users at there own will for a small connection fee per month. The connection conveniently includes unlimited access to millions of web sites twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Since the Internet can be accessed by millions of people all time, it would be a great incentive for businesses. The Internet can help businesses in number of extraordinary ways. First, the Internet is an excellent way ...
- 133: Internet Censorship
- ... Constitution has held up through the years, it cannot be argued that in the last fifty years especially, issues come up daily that seem to test the strength and integrity of our sacred Constitution. The Internet, for example, has caused more controversy than anything we have ever seen. The biggest issue: Censorship. For a number of different reasons, government and other organizations are trying to take our First Amendment right from us by censoring the Internet, but it is up to us to become educated and decide for ourselves if it is helping or hurting. There are many reasons for the Internet not to be censored. First, it truly is unconstitutional. The First Amendment of the Constitution clearly says, "Congress shall make no law
abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press
". As far as ...
- 134: The Ancient Art Of Jujitsu, And The Modern Form Of Judo
- ... Tokyo Games. (The Japan of Today Pg. 23) Judo has been known by many different names such as "Yawara", "Taijutsu", "Wajutsu", "Torite", "Kogusoku", "Kempo", "Hakuda", "Hamiuchi", "Shubaku", "Koshinomawari" and most popularly "Jujitsu". (Judo Information Site internet) I think that more people should take up Judo, I would if I had the time and I would suggest it to anybody with extra time. Judo is taught in many school all different just ... the base around most if not all other form of Martial Arts. (Complete Reference Library CD) Historians believe that in 230 BC. there was a "Chikara-Kurabe" tournament, the contest of strength. (Judo Information Site internet) Many historians believe that this is the beginning of both Sumo Wrestling and Jujitsu. (Judo Information Site internet) The fact that Jujitsu and Sumo wrestling originated from the same place confuses me they are two totally different sports today but they began out of the same tournament. Its weird that these two ...
- 135: All About the Internet
- All About the Internet There were many computer networks on the market before the Internet was comprised. The problem with these early networks is that they were not compatible with other networks; consequently, all computers were not able to communicate with each other. The standards of the Internet allow for all computers and networks to work with each other, creating a computer network stretching worldwide. An estimated 75 million people in 132 countries are now taking advantage of all that the internet ...
- 136: Netspeak: An Analysis Of Internet Jargon
- Netspeak: An Analysis Of Internet Jargon Approximately 30 million people world-wide use the Internet and online services daily. The Net is growing exponentially in all areas, and a rapidly increasing number of people are finding themselves working and playing on the Internet. The people on the Net are not all rocket scientists and computer programmers; they're graphic designers, teachers, students, artists, musicians, feminists, Rush Limbaugh-fans, and your next door neighbors. What these diverse groups ...
- 137: About the Internet
- About the Internet There were many computer networks on the market before the Internet was comprised. The problem with these early networks is that they were not compatible with other networks; consequently, all computers were not able to communicate with each other. The standards of the Internet allow for all com-puters and networks to work with each other, creating a computer network stretching worldwide. An estimated 75 million people in 132 countries are now taking advantage of all that the ...
- 138: History And Development Of The Internet
- History and Development of the Internet The internet is a global computer network connecting millions and millions of users throughout the world. (Leiner, 2). It has become one of the fastest growing forms of communication today. (Marshall, 1). The Internet started as a Defense Department Cold War experiment in the 1950 s. (Academic American, 225). The government needed a way to relay information between tanks and headquarters so the APRA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) ...
- 139: How The Internet Got Started
- How The Internet Got Started Some thirty years ago , the Rand corporation , America's formost cold war think tank, faced a strange straegic problem. How could the US authrieties succesfully communicate after a nuclear war? Postnuclear America would ... ARPANET. ARPANET itself remained fairly tightly controlled,at least until 1983,when its military segment broke off and became MILNET. TCP/IP became more common,entire other networks fell into the digital embrace of the Internet,and messily adhered. Since the software called TCP/IP was public domain and he basic technology was decentralized and rather anarchic by its very nature,it as difficult to stop people from barging in linking up somewhere or other. Nobody wanted to stop them from joining this branching complex of networks, which came tobe known as the "INTERNET". Connecting to the Internet cost the taxpayer little or nothing, since each node was independent, and had to handle its own financing and its own technical requirements. The more, the merrier. Like the phone ...
- 140: Free Music: Why Not?
- ... work of art without paying for it; a world where information is freely given, theatrical performances and music are the property of no one and everyone. This world is not much different than what the internet is like today, but all is confined, in a way, to its respective worldthe internet world and the real world. A piece of writing printed out on eight and a half by eleven sheets of paper is nothing like a book. By no means does a downloaded divx avi movie ... a disc does not compare with that of a legitimate recording. The RIAA, which represents the major recording companies, would have you believe that the sharing of music online is destroying the music industry (The Internet Debacle), yet there are several artists including Janis Ian, Limp Bizkit, Offspring, and Public Enemy who see it a different way. Indeed, music distributed within the internet community allows people to sample available music ...
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