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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

... the development, maintenance, and use of computer systems, software, and networks for the processing and distribution of data.‖ According to M-W,... ...ightbulb 1880  Electricity distribution 1906–1919  Radio 1920s  Television 1930s (or sooner)  Punch cards to input and externally store ... ...e Internet we know today that connects ground-based, radio, and satellite networks. In 1974, Vint Cerf (―father of the Internet‖ to some) and Bob K... ... Kahn wrote the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). That let the various networks connect in a true ―Internet.‖ By the 1980s, it connected the comp... ...of the twenty-first century:  Satellite TV gave people access on their television sets to real reporting of images and information on CNN, Al Jaz... ...people post information and opinions anonymously on a computer.  Social networks let people share information, opinions, and organizing ideas and ... ...h following TEXT<<<<< PERHAPS INCLUDE TIME LINE ON SAME PAGE? Social Networks and Digital Books Soar TIME magazine named Facebook founder Mark ...

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Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...to ten languages. His daily lessons are broad- cast live and recorded on cable television in the US, in Israel, and on the Internet to tens of thousa... ...uction company, producing documentaries and edu- cational films aired on cable television networks in Israel, North America, and Europe. Additionally... ...any, producing documentaries and edu- cational films aired on cable television networks in Israel, North America, and Europe. Additionally, Bnei Baru...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

...Cafe Mimoza". His government constructed makeshift schools and hospitals, parallel networks of services staffed by the Serb-dispossessed, capitaliz... ... Sam: In my view, this is simply wrong. Modern terrorism - multinational, amorphic networks, with access to technology - is at least 50 years old. ... ... other periodicals, and in the economic programs on various channels of Macedonian Television. Chief Lecturer in courses organised by the Agency o...

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Apec's Achievements in Trade Facilitation 2007-2010-Final Assessment of Tfapii

By: Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Policy Support Unit

...ulatory burdens, while also building a foundation of trust and confidence in data networks. A case study on the application of an electronic Cert... ...ng in more rapid trade flows, reduced costs and greater integration of production networks. APEC has relied on international standards and participa... ...006, but are now between 91% and 100% alignment. As a reference for the study, televisions were chosen as the product in which to evaluate the ac... ...owards reducing trade transaction costs. The value of APEC’s worldwide exports in televisions, in real terms, grew from USD 39.1 billion in 2005 to ... ...onsumer spending as a result of the Global Financial Crisis). Intra-APEC trade in televisions consistently accounted for around 80% of the value of ... ...the value of these exports over that period. The growth experienced in exports of televisions was in line with global trends, with APEC economies con... ...lations to the international standard covering electrical safety requirements for televisions, IEC 60065. In 2006, 10 APEC members reported 100% ali... ... APEC region. Additionally, building a foundation of trust and confidence in data networks ensures the growth of electronic commerce in the region, ... ...ulatory burdens, while also building a foundation of trust and confidence in data networks, thereby ensuring the growth of electronic commerce in th...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...technology Continental states - universal technosystems - Internet, global networks - universal science - global databases ('World Brain') - global hi... ...Today we ask, what does a global person identify with, what are his safety networks? Will local morality be replaced by biological morality, and will ... ... cultural environment. In virtual reality, the Internet, cyber- and global networks, man of the future is able to live simultaneously in different par... ...es and they are like summer cottages, holiday homes of the rich. We have a television set and the young people watch it, but I don't care to watch. So... ...do you like most? watch it. I stopped watching TV many years ago. I think television is a good thing. You can see the news from our home country and ... ...s a good thing to buy and you have something to boast about when you own a television. I think that TV programmes are mostly good. It's our human natu... ...arn a lot of foreign affairs. I don't think there are any disadvantages to television. The only drawback is that it can't be left on in a What about u... ... of house. Which do you think is the best? In this next picture, there's a television set, telephone, radio, typewriter, and all kinds of goods. Which... ... rise and fall of the water; house building style, irrigation canals, the networks of dammed paddy fields were adapted to the nature of riversides, ...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...s, now consume mere decades. Telecommunications, global transports and information networks, such as the Internet - pit the likes of the USA agains... ...ltant position with a firm you formerly oversaw or regulated, your own talk show on television, a cushy job in the administration? The truth is tha... ...f eminent Afghan leaders. This is how they secured their foothold in Afghan social networks - something neither the West nor Pakistan succeeded to ... ...ernment is largely supplanted in Pakistan by criminally-tainted regional political networks of patronage, venality, nepotism, and cronyism. More th... ...ident Vladimir Putin warned on Tuesday, in an interview he granted to TF1, a French television channel, that unilateral American-British military ac... ... typical daily occurrence, bucking a global trend, Matsushita intends to expand its television factory in Plzen. Its investment of $8 million will e... ...between Chinese and Russian companies that provide for the assembly in Russia color televisions and household air conditioners are being successfull... ...pplied by imported Indian and Moroccan craftsmen in two of the palaces. Iraqi state television reported in June that Saddam exhorted his ministers t... ...ruction - though Israel is hitherto the only regional nuclear power - and by global networks like al-Qaida. In his travelogue, "Eastward to Tartary...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...manner similar to al-Qaida: they freelance and self- assemble ad hoc in cross-border networks to tackle specific issues. Jewish organizations - many ... ...learned to closely cooperate in order to survive. No wonder that all modern global networks - from Rothschild to Reuters - were established by Jews... ...h an independent copy of a book of instructions). The receiver can be passive (as television is). In such a case we will not be justified in sayin... ...n vitro fertilization to space travel. Every technology can be potentially abused. Television can be either a wonderful educational tool - or an a... ...man species be any different? Effects on Society Cloning - like the Internet, the television, the car, electricity, the telegraph, and the wheel b... ...ation), scale hindrances (no possibility to distribute small quantities), "old boy networks" which share political clout and research and developme... ... the land and steal money or solicit bribes because they need the funds to support networks of patronage. Others do it in order to reward their nea... ...ltant position with a firm you formerly oversaw or regulated, your own talk show on television, a cushy job in the administration? The truth is tha... ... over by schools, health – by (national or private) health plans, entertainment by television, interpersonal communication by telephony and compute...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...manner similar to al-Qaida: they freelance and self- assemble ad hoc in cross-border networks to tackle specific issues. Jewish organizations - many ... ...learned to closely cooperate in order to survive. No wonder that all modern global networks - from Rothschild to Reuters - were established by Jews... ...h an independent copy of a book of instructions). The receiver can be passive (as television is). In such a case we will not be justified in sayin... ...n vitro fertilization to space travel. Every technology can be potentially abused. Television can be either a wonderful educational tool - or an a... ...man species be any different? Effects on Society Cloning - like the Internet, the television, the car, electricity, the telegraph, and the wheel b... ...ation), scale hindrances (no possibility to distribute small quantities), "old boy networks" which share political clout and research and developme... ... the land and steal money or solicit bribes because they need the funds to support networks of patronage. Others do it in order to reward their nea... ...ltant position with a firm you formerly oversaw or regulated, your own talk show on television, a cushy job in the administration? The truth is tha... ... over by schools, health – by (national or private) health plans, entertainment by television, interpersonal communication by telephony and compute...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

...ll Street Journal has recently published an elegiac list: "Twenty years ago, cable television was dominated by a patchwork of thousands of tiny, fa... ... longer hierarchical and rigid, business resembles self-assembling, nimble, ad- hoc networks of entrepreneurship superimposed on ever- shifting produ... ...ress International (UPI) Also Read: The Disruptive Engine - Innovation Forgent Networks from Texas wants to collect a royalty every time someon... ...g poses a threat - however distant - to print publishing. Napster-like peer to peer networks undermine the foundations of the music and film indust... ...tes or stands for. Actors are often mistaken for their roles, wars are fought on television, fictitious TV celebrities become real. That which ha... ...ted and disseminated virtually cost-free to the next consumer through the Internet, television, radio, and on magnetic media. MIT has recently place... ...mes). One can hardly benefit from the weather forecasts without owning a radio or a television set - which would immediately tend to exclude the ho... ... the land and steal money or solicit bribes because they need the funds to support networks of patronage. Others do it in order to reward their nea... ...d, arid, and disadvantaged country can nowadays leverage air flight, the Internet, television, cell phones, and other miracles of technology to pro...

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The Marketing of Ideas and Social Issues

By: Seymour Fine

... so on. A transaction takes place, for example, when a person decides to watch a television program; he is exchanging his time for entertainment. ... ...tamate in baby food, fatty hot dogs, unclean fish, tractors, medical X-rays, color television radiation and many Federal agencies. Another change a... ...tion. Bagozzi (1975) points out that "an exchange can occur between a person and a television program.” The "person gives his attention, support, p... ...ngth of weak ties." This concept has grown out of sociological research on social networks. It is a fact that one's particular communication netwo... ...ak ties of friendship and acquaintance, although the commitment to ideas from such networks may be quite shallow and may lead to compliance only when... ...omething, the channel is word of mouth; if I place a public service announcement on television, the channel is the mass media (see Chapter 7). Au... ...he present context, information is the product. In fact, because a newspaper or a television screen can not deliver an actual product, media are ent...

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders

By: Sam Vaknin

...satisfactorily, and comprehensively resolved by the application of computer networks to voting. Even with existing technologies, election results (r... ...ectorate), can be announced with great accuracy within hours. Yet, computer networks are unlikely to overcome the second obstacle - the problem of t... ...ich Alexander the Great is an integral part. Not to be outdone, Macedonian television is now awash with a lengthy ad depicting the precocious leade... ...periodicals, and in the economic programs on various channels of Macedonian Television. Chief Lecturer in courses in Macedonia organised by the Agen...

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The Labor Divide

By: Sam Vaknin

...t the way of central planning. Business resembles self-assembling ad-hoc networks, or a guerilla force - rather than the bottom heavy and elephanti... ... less than 100 workers. Even behemoths, like General Motors, now resemble networks of small, autonomous, businesses and profit and loss centers. 6.... ... Modern economies are comprised 70% of services and are sustained by vast networks of telecommunications and transport. Advances in computing allow ... ...prostitution. UNICEF and the ILO are in the throes of establishing school networks for child laborers and providing their parents with alternative e... ...of small quantities or render it non-profitable), by maintaining "old boy networks" which share political clout and research and development, or by ... ...riodicals, and in the economic programs on various channels of Macedonian Television. Chief Lecturer in Macedonia in courses organized by the Agency...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

...lecommunications: limited telephone, telegraph, and radiobroadcast services; television introduced in 1980; 31,200 telephones (0.2 per 100 popl.); 5 A... ...n of Journalists, International Medical Association, International Radio and Television Organization Economy GNP: $57.8 billion, $6,460 per capita; re... ...- ways 2,440-3,659 m Telecommunications: government- operated radiotelephone networks provid- ing effective service to almost all points on both islan... ...-3,659 m, 21 with runways 1,220-2,439 m Telecommunications: adequate, modern networks reach all areas on mainland islands; 3.52 million telephones (35... ...y by microwave relay; international service good; good coverage by radio and television broadcasts; 849,129 telephones nationwide in 1984 (5.3 per 100... ...40-3,659 on Tristan da Cunha Telecommunications: 1,500 radio receiv- ers; no television service; wireless service to Cape Town and Ascension; telephon... ...to Grenada and St. Lucia; 4 AM and 1 FM stations; St. Vincentian-owned cable television system Defense Forces Branches: Royal St. Vincent and the Gren... ...casting or televi- sion facilities; radio-relay and cable links into Italian networks 212 Sao Tome and Principe 50km //ha do . Principe 1 Pedras , Ti... ...00,000 receiver sets; many satellite ground stations and extensive satellite networks Defense Forces Branches: Ground Forces, Navy, Air Defense Forces...

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The Soul Bearer

By: Jonathan Cross

...c relations. You're still using that one site you restored in everyone of your television commercials running on those Sunday morning news shows, a... ... around the room. C-SPAN would cover the event live from open to close, but the Networks would edit their coverage down to no more than four minutes... ...sed. Cathy Knowles had been bouncing around from newspapers, to radio, and now television where she held the spot as special events reporter. She w... ... come." "He called you personally?" Edwards asked. "I'm here. I'm not watching television," Brent replied. "I was told by head of News, be here or ... ...r case. When the richest man in the country donates ten million dollars on live television, you can bet something's up. You can both turn your notes... ... PRESIDENT'S NEWS conference started at six p.m. sharp. It was carried on every television station in the country, plus, broadcast to most countries...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

... the development, maintenance, and use of computer systems, software, and networks for the processing and distribution of data.‖ According to M-W... ...ightbulb 1880  Electricity distribution 1906–1919  Radio 1920s  Television 1930s (or sooner)  Punch cards to input and externally store ... ...e Internet we know today that connects ground-based, radio, and satellite networks. In 1974, Vint Cerf (―father of the Internet‖ to some) and Bob ... ... Kahn wrote the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). That let the various networks connect in a true ―Internet.‖ By the 1980s, it connected the comp... ...of the twenty-first century:  Satellite TV gave people access on their television sets to real reporting of images and information on CNN, Al Jaz... ...people post information and opinions anonymously on a computer.  Social networks let people share information, opinions, and organizing ideas and ... ...h Following TEXT<<<<< PERHAPS INCLUDE TIME LINE ON SAME PAGE? Social Networks and Digital Books Soar TIME magazine named Facebook founder Mar...

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