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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...ate warrior-kings and priests. 5. Symbols of Sound Demand Analysis The alphabet makes the pen mightier than the sword, generating the powers of kn... ... move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and event... ...c skills that bloomed in ancient times. Take, for instance, the legendary Greek lyric poet Simonides of Ceos, credited with having invented the mnem... ...wer and wealth to a growing literate populace. CHAPTER 5 The alphabet made the pen mightier than the sword. It generated powers of know... ...rching warriors. Symbols-of-Sound Demand Analysis To Abe Lincoln, the alphabet was ―the world‘s greatest invention.‖ What made the switch from ... ...made the switch from pictographic writing‘s shape symbols to the phonetic alphabet‘s sound symbols so great? The twenty-six letters of our alphabet ... ...n today as Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinian Territories. The Greeks named them ―phonics‖ (the purple people) in recognition of the prec... ...were missing The Phoenician‘s twenty-two signs caused ambiguities, so the Greeks converted vowel-related signs from Hebrew and other Semitic systems... ... from Hebrew and other Semitic systems to create the vowels that made the Greek alphabet the most accurate and unambiguous phonetic system known to m...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

...ttp://www.Turnitin.com Latin kidnapped the word "plagion" from ancient Greek and it ended up in English as "plagiarism". It literally means "to k... ...ked-like textual design. It sported a subject index, a lexical part and an alphabetically arranged series of in-depth essays authored by the best in ... ... pile of knowledge was organized in a convenient and recognizable manner (alphabetically or by subject) Moreover, authoring an encyclopaedia was ... ... Swedish, Danish, Welsh, Portuguese, Old Dutch, Bulgarian, Dutch/Flemish, Greek, Hebrew. We have texts in Old French, Polish, Russian, Romanian, and... ...y basic texts) even as literacy (in other words, repeated exposure to the alphabet) has increased dramatically all over the world. In other words: ... ...op service. Macedonia just handed a second mobile operator license to the Greek OTE. "By the end of 2005, the total number of mobile subscribers in ... ...ain a luxury and a status symbol. Hitherto domestic operators - from the Greek OTE to the Russian MTS - are becoming regional. Multinationals, such... ... phobia). Foreign operators often exacerbate the situation. ArmenTel, the Greek owned monopoly in Armenia, keeps Internet access costs prohibitively ... ...raditional law but its (habitual? last 2500+ years?) enclosing frame: the alphabetic language. This is precisely what most thinkers and intellectual...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...n staring at an infinite roll of paper tape. On the paper are symbols in some alphabet or number system. The reader carries out simple, The Enclosure o... ...ructed.” And to give lawyers fits. But that is getting ahead of ourselves. In Greek mythology, Procrustes had a bed to which he fitted its prospective o... ...e, has four “base pairs”— A, C, G, and T . Scientists have developed genetic alphabets that involve twelve base pairs. Not only is the result not foun... ...ry. Even though the rules would have allowed the equivalent of patenting the alphabet, the very maturity of the field minimized the disruption such pat... ...ithout data, the “more is better” idea is obviously flawed. Copyrighting the alphabet will not produce more books. Patenting E = mc 2 will not yield m... ...ase. A white pages directory is a database of names and numbers, compiled in alphabetical order by name. Does anyone have an intellectual property rig...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...ate warrior-kings and priests. 5. Symbols of Sound Demand Analysis The alphabet makes the pen mightier than the sword, generating the powers of kn... ... move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and event... ...c skills that bloomed in ancient times. Take, for instance, the legendary Greek lyric poet Simonides of Ceos, credited with having invented the mnem... ...wer and wealth to a growing literate populace. CHAPTER 5 The alphabet made the pen mightier than the sword. It generated powers of know... ...rching warriors. Symbols-of-Sound Demand Analysis To Abe Lincoln, the alphabet was ―the world‘s greatest invention.‖ What made the switch from ... ...made the switch from pictographic writing‘s shape symbols to the phonetic alphabet‘s sound symbols so great? The twenty-six letters of our alphabe... ...today as Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinian Territories. The Greeks named them ―phonics‖ (the purple people) in recognition of the prec... ...re missing The Phoenician‘s twenty-two signs caused ambiguities, so the Greeks converted vowel-related signs from Hebrew and other Semitic systems... ... from Hebrew and other Semitic systems to create the vowels that made the Greek alphabet the most accurate and unambiguous phonetic system known to m...

...e over space and time. Balance of power shifts from tribal chiefs to city-state warrior-kings and priests. -- 5. Symbols of Sound Demand Analysis-The alphabet makes the pen mightier than the sword, generating the powers of knowledge needed to create and govern empires. -- 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblings-For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ?the wasps’ secret? and the...

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The Egoist : A Comedy in Narrative

By: George Meredith

...ok like a victim decked for the sacrifice?—the garlanded heifer you see on Greek vases, in that array of jewellery?” “My dear Clara!” exclaimed the as... ...e flute-playing behind the scenes, imitating the nightingale, enraptured a Greek audience! He would have suspected a motive in Miss Dale’s eager atten... ...e me as much Latin as I could take. The fault is mine that it is little.” “Greek?” “A little Greek.” “Ah! And you carry it like a feather.” “Because i... ...s. They pertain to the time of the first critics of those poets. Touch the Greeks, and you can nothing new; all has been said: ‘Graiis … praeter, laud... ...ds.” “I have beaten some small stock of Latin into her head, and a note of Greek. She contains a savour of the classics. I hoped once … But she is a g... ...hem into human speech might likewise venture to propose an addition to the alphabet and a continuation of Homer. The one performance would be not more... ...umentally, a land-mark of the tough and honest old Ages, with the symbolic alphabet of striking arms and running legs, our early language, scrawled ov...

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