... digital storytelling depends upon the user's - the audience's - sense of narrative intelligence: "how to portray and sustain a character, how to develop a situation to a crisis and resolution, and so forth." She notes that the success of a given experience relies on (1) the improvisational skill of the players, (2) the situations in which they find themselves, and (3) the robustness of the virtual environment's interactivity. It ... operating in scholarly and commercial high gear" (Levison, 1997, p.140) there is a belief that we are moving towards what Roland Barthes describes in his bo...

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... to a physical classroom in a campus or a school. There are various types of applications designed for online learning and these applications are normally used to download educational contents such as lecture notes or tutorial questions. In this digital world, online learning is open for everyone especially for those who are doing it alongside work or other social responsibility. However, the concern raised ... for the students to read the lecture materials is longer than listening to the delivery of words from the teachers in the classroom. A person tends to go back over the notes if he...

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... hoped by such an investment. The authors believe this is because companies are not investing enough time or money to train their employees to use these new tools. The article notes that a study by Coopers and Lybrand claim, "companies spend less than 2% of their technology budgets on training". The authors than note several companies that have experienced problems in their training ... for new technologies. Instron Corp., for example, had spent millions of dollars in new computers and software but still uses ledger books for its record keeping. The article also notes a Bureau of Labor S...

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... by Habermas. I have felt that in the course of this scrutiny it would be appropriate to rely almost exclusively on sources available from the Internet (as well as my lecture notes). Habermas sees the public sphere as the essential vehicle for the furtherment of democracy. In his approach he combines the liberal view of democracy (i.e. to keep the state in check ... speech situation' - in other words a generally observed set of rules governing debate - must exist in the public sphere. These rules are as follows (as laid out in his Discourse Ethics: Notes on Philosophical Justification, q...

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... of the phone line, they are missing out on interaction with the people that are around them. In "Pearls before Breakfast: Joshua Bell on the Subway", Gene Weingarten notes that although one of the best musicians in the world was playing violin for free from the Metro at the L'Enfant Plaza station, most people didn't notice him because they ... ...

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... has had the responsibility of managing many of their own infrastructure concerns. As the international community has grown closer, a need for standardization in many things have had to take place. A classic example has been the use of Morse code for those traveling on the high seas to use as a form of communication. Even over time as radios and the ability to ... ...

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... to check your code into cvs or how to keep it maintainable, but the school of hard knocks usually doesn't teach you the underlying math of programming (eg, efficient sorts), classic structures like hash tables and linked lists, formal concepts of scoping, etc.(Simon Hibbs; O"Reilly Network)". "Having been a teaching assistant for undergraduates in computer science for four years, and then ... ...

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... corporate giants are all harnessing the power of the Internet. For many businesses the Internet is becoming integral to their operations. Imagine the ability to send and receive data: messages, notes, letters, documents, pictures, video, sound- just about any form of communication, as effortlessly as making a phone call. It is easy to understand why the Internet is rapidly becoming the corporate ... ...

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... the death penalty, while retentionists believe that respect for life requires it. Retentionists says the Bible (Genesis 9:6) says, "Whosoever sheds man's blood, by man may his blood be shed." This classic argument in favor of the death penalty has usually been interpreted as a proper and moral reason for putting a murderer to death. Abolitionists, in turn, stand by John 8:7, stating that "He ... ...

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... , and they're in great demand around the world. They could be the bow of the ship leading a wonderful American economic resurgence in global markets." Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin notes that in the post-Cold War era, America's power and prestige may ultimately depend less on being a military superpower than on being an information and entertainment superpower. But the times ... ...

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... own and other organization for example it considers neither the country culture, nor the management skill aspect of corporate strategy (lynch 2000 pg131) In the economic sense, the model assumes a classic perfect market. The more an industry is regulated, the less meaningful insights the model can deliver. This also affects the analysis of our work because globalization is the intensification of ... ...

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... may live. What social and emotional dynamics are involved in these heroic acts of self-sacrifice? Combining with his study of Congressional Medal of Honor recipients, he uses Emile Durkheim's classic statement on heroic suicide as well an earlier study by Blake on altruistic suicide in military combat. The data used are consistent with Durkhemi's views of behavior on heroic suicide ... ...

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... in psychological well-being. After stating this theoretical finding the article lists the cost of the project ($1.5 million) and the organizations who sponsored it (many being technology companies). The article notes that both these organizations and the research team were shocked by the findings, because the Internet has been viewed by many as having actively social uses. Harmon goes on to ... ...

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... a cyber-community, which in effect appears to live in the 'online' space of the Internet unlike that of the physical space presented by reality (Allan 2000. Sv "Cybersocieties"). As Beniger notes: "Cyberspace does not merely consist of material objects (such as the computer, modem or telephone line) but also has two major non-material components: relationships among the individuals and the ... ...

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... of physical appearance, computer mediated communication also eliminates personality cues people can derive from text based communications, such as handwriting, choice of stationary and so forth. "In Mehranbian and Wiener's classic 1966 study, non verbal and vocal cues formed 93 percent of social meanings people conveyed in social processes where words and non verbal behaviors seemed in conflict" (Chesebro and Bonsall ... ...

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... (Red Hat Certified Engineer) has been gaining ground as well. • Benchmarking efforts with various hardware vendors such as IBM, Dell, HP and software vendors such as Oracle and Lotus Notes to further convince IT industry on Red Hat ability to deliver high-end capabilities. Some industry-standard benchmarks Red Hat used are TPC (www.tpc.org), SPECjAppServer2001 (www.specbench.org ... ...

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... follow along as scientists, explorers, and adventurers mount expeditions to earth's most remote areas. Such real-world connections are powerful motivators for students, teachers say. "The kids are learning better," notes Bart Hays, a teacher at Morse High School in San Diego. "I'm constantly reassured every time I put them on the computers. They're so excited, and they get so much done. Their ... ...

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... of the Kosovo people can be seen on TV in Kathmandu or Lima, which was unthinkable in the 19th century. Radio, television and feature film media are about to become classic with the introduction of Internet and digital electronic media in the recent years. Now, one can get the information almost for everything such as; advertising, shopping, selling, banking, weather report ... ...

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... Today's hot topic in e-commerce law is whether a domain name constitutes a valid and recognisable trademark. Domain names have become powerful tools in a company's success. Yahoo.com and Amazon.com is classic examples of how small start up companies can successfully compete with multi-million dollar corporations over the WWW. A domain name gives a company an identity and a symbol for future recognition by ... ...

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... not listed in the enterprise-wide directories and it is protected by passwords Informal information are stored in a directory on an Intranet server that serve as a repository for white papers, notes and concepts that may be shared with others. Instead of making copies, the interested parties can access the latest information via Web at all time. Application such as Document Manager ... ...

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... main threat categories are: 2.1: Hacking or intrusion: This category includes attacks whereby an intruder gains access to some area or set of resources that are intended to be off-limits. Classic examples are a web site being vandalized or confidential data from a mainframe being stolen by illegal access. The hackers is using a well-based knowledge of the system he is using and ... ...

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... , and let the results guide you. Discussion In the course of the article, the authors address a number of elements of critical thinking as they are laid out in the course notes. Assumption is important to how we work with information. In the course of researching, assumptions must be made about the relevance and reliability of the data being collected. The authors ... ...

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... attention to detail of some of the members of this particular board. Now utilising Buhler's model, I can further clarify my use of language in the topic as discussed in the notes on Buhler's model. As Buhler's view is that language is more of a tool, that view becomes very subjective when related against Internet communication, due to the lack of immediate emotion ... ...

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... built compatible devices. Already about 3 million U.S. households swap files of movies and TV shows in file-sharing communities online such as Kazaa, according to research from the Yankee Group, which notes that a large amount of those files are encoded in DivX technology. About a third of those people downloading video files burn them onto a CD or DVD. Studio executives fear that the ... ...

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