Week3 Tute 10:00~12:00

2a
1. What is the weight of the world's biggest pumpkin?
Weighing in at 1,502 pounds, a pumpkin owned by a Rhode Island farmer may set a new world record for the biggest pumpkin in the world.
http://www.wayodd.com/new-record-may-be-set-for-biggest-pumpkin-in-the-world/v/5402/

2. What is the best way (quickest, most reliable) to contact Grant Hackett?

3. What is the length of a giraffe's tongue?
A giraffe's tongue can up to 22 inches long.
http://www.asij.ac.jp/elementary/projects/2-eb/zoo/shizukat.htm

4. How would you define the word 'ontology'? In your own words, what does it really mean ?
http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/kst/what-is-an-ontology.html

5. What was David Cronenberg's first feature film?
The director's first feature film slithered onscreen in 1975. "Shivers" (aka "The Parasite Murders" and "They Came From Within")
http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/11/30/cronenberg/

6. When was the original 'Hacker's Manifesto' written?
The Mentor+++
Written on January 8, 1986
http://www.technozen.com/manifesto.htm

7. Why do all phone numbers in Hollywood films start with '555'?

30 years ago or more when the use of exchange names as part of the telephone number was still popular in the USA. Dials had letters as well as numbers and the first 3 letters of the exchange name were dialled followed by numbers. An example might be CENtral 78978. You dialled CEN 78978 or, using all numbers, 236 78978. It so happened that 5 on the dial corresponded with J K and L and you can’t make any English place names using any combination of J, K and L as the first 3 letters. So the 555 code was allocated to service levels such as Directory Assistance, Operator, Repair Service, etc.
Due to the "low fill" of the 555 code, Hollywood was encouraged to quote 555 numbers in their productions to prevent real subscribers being harassed by members of the public trying out the numbers quoted on the screen.
http://www.omegarobot.com/article/555.html

8. What is the cheapest form of travel from Crete to Rhodes?

9. What song was top of the Australian Pop Charts this week in 1965?
I'll Never Find Another You The Seekers
http://www.onmc.iinet.net.au/topspot/1965.htm

10. Which Brisbane band includes Stephen Stockwell on keyboards and vocals?
Stephen played keyboard for Brisbane punk band Black Assassins.
http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/art/staff/stockwell.htm
2b
1.What is a search engine?
A program that searches documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found.
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/s/search_engine.html

2.How do search engines rank the stuff they find on the internet?
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/061016-112712

3.who, or what, makes one page (that you might get in your search results) more useful than another one, so that it is put at the top of your search results?

4.what are some of your favourite search engines? why do you like one more than others?
My favourite search engines are Google, Yahoo. Yahoo search engines is my first know how to do research's engine and Goggle search engine was my friend told me this is a good search engine which is better than yahoo. Therefore now I use both of them to do my research.

5. Can you find some current news stories about search engines? (for example, Google has been in the technology news a bit lately).

http://www.intrapromote.com/case-studies.html

http://www.havenworks.com/news/search/

Week 2 Tute 10:00~12:00

Hello everyone this week I am going to discuss about my own experience with communication technology. There is TV, mobile phone, Internet, PDA and so on.

Nowadays, TV has been become a part of our life. People can’t stay at home without TV because we usually get all of Information from TV such as advertisement and news. The another amazing invent of the society is mobile phone, mobile phone is not like past time, it has been changed, now we can watch TV, listen to Mp3 and get into the internet. By the way I don’t really like it because I like watch anything with big screen, so I still like use a computer with big screen. Then, you know what I am going to talk about that’s right?As I mention last week I come from Taiwan. I usually go back to Taiwan once a year, so I have to keep in contact with my parents. I always remember when I studied English language course in Australia, my parents phoned me once a week because it was a long distance call, so it was cost a lot of money. The wonderful thing is from this year, we found out how to use the Internet phone and the Web camera which is convenient and useful. Now we can talk and see my parents on the internet all the time. The most important thing is the internet phone is FREE. I stuck on internet very much. Ok it is a little story .Of course, the Internet is not only like this. Additional, PDA is a useful technology of today’s society. PDA has navigation
system which can help people to find right destination, thus people will never get lose.
Finally, those technologies help people very much though it often cost a lot of money.

Week1 Totorial 10:00~12:00

This is my first year study in Griffithy and I never though university can be this big.
On the first day I couldn't find my class and don't know where can i find help which made me feel so lost.
After one week everything fall in place. It's my first time learn to use map to find my classes and it's not road map Can u believer that! ha ha

I come from Taiwan, live with my sis and bro. My sis's just finish her marketing degree from Centre Queensland University this year and she is going back to Taiwan the end of this month, i feel sad. My bro is studying diploma of Business Studies in the Southport TAFE at the moment.

I taking 3 courses in this semester which are Introductory Japanese Intor to Japanese Culture and Society and New Communication Technologies . I really like Japanese course I want to go to Japan for travelling as soon as i get a degree of Japanese Arts
I hope i can All PASsssssss .

On my free time I always use Internet chatting with my friends but in this course I learn how to create weblog which I can tell my friends to visit my weblog and share my university life with them, also they can leave message on my weblog sharing their life with me. Weblog is not like individual chat it's like many to many chat room. However I feel free to write or chat on Internet but in the real life I feel shy speak to everyone but i want to make a lot friends,Cheer up Chiao-ping~~^^