Semantic Web # 7

The semantic web is primarily focused on machines. While Web 2.0 is mainly operated and controlled by a human being, the semantic web is controlled and operated by machines. These computer systems perform the tasks that find and search information. It is presented in a way that a computer can understand what is going on. The semantic web is not separate from the World Wide Web. Rather, it is an extension of it, by that it adds data and metadata to other existing Web page documents. Not a lot of companies and peoples use the semantic web yet. Twine is one company that uses Semantic Web technologies, as well as Joost, an online television service. Semantic Web uses the RDF (Resource Description Framework) to change Web data so that software can easily read it. So semantic web does have advantages, because people might need something for computers to translate for them, and the semantic web is the easiest way to do that.

More information about semantic web can be read at:
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2007/Semantic_Web.asp

Copyright #6

In the Constitution, copyright was included as a way to protect people from theft and influence them to promote creativity and enlightenment as the country progressed. At the beginning, copyright was not a restricted right. But as more and more people started creating their own pieces of work, copyright became more and more restricted. This was influenced by Thomas Jefferson, who believed copyright could bring creativity to the United States. There have been several shifts in how copyrighted work is used. For example, if an author has been dead for more than 70 years, then work could be used with special permission from a person or source. Most works, including some outside the United States, have this special privilege. However, some big name authors who have been dead for more than 70 years, follow the same basic rules as those who have been dead for less than 70 years. Overall, copyright is a basic way to protect the people who have created works from theft and allow the people to boost their own creativity and uniqueness, as Thomas Jefferson proposed when the Constitution was created.

For more info on copyright: please see this two sources:
http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm

http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/copyright/1.php

http://elastico.net/copyfight/upload/siva_jefferson.pdf

Different Cultures of Colors Blog #5

In different cultures and different environments in the world, there are many different uses for color. In western culture, the color purple is most associated with royalty or wealth of a person. Red, white, and blue are symbolized because they are on the American flag, and as such, represent patriotism and conservatism. Green mostly represents biology but when it is used with red, it can represent Christmas. In some other cultures, such as in Europe or China, these colors have different meanings, such as red means danger or love, green represents the earth and its nature, blue represents defeat or possibly even soothing, white represents god or spirituality in a person, and black represents sadness or evil. Many other traditions represent colors in many different ways, based on how they started their civilization. Color also communicates meaning within a person. For one thing, it can affect a person's mind and how they might think differently from another person. It interacts with different cultures and how these cultures interpret certain things as a type of color. It is associated with politics, such as a certain party might be one color and another party might be the other. Color is also linked to religion, such as Hindu gods might have blue colors, or Islam might be associated with a different colors. Color has many meanings in this world, and we have yet to know how many more meanings there are.


For more information regarding the meaning of colors and how they are used in life, click on one of these two links:

http://www.sibagraphics.com/colour.php

http://carsonified.com/blog/design/color/how-colour-communicates-meaning/

Network Neutrality Blog #4

Network neutrality is a principle that was proposed for residential brand networks and potentially for all the networks. It is said that if one is connected to a certain level of access and another person is connected to the same level of access, that they both would connect to each other at that rate of access. The network remains widely unknown to most people up until the early 2000s, when it was supported by Vinton Cerf, a co-inventor of the Internet Protocal, and Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the web. In an article by Karl Bode, Canada was considering passing network neutrality. The article can be seen at: http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Will-Canada-Pass-Network-Neutrality-Rules-Too-104649?nocomment=1. The wikipedia article about Network Neutrality can be seen at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality

Let's Go Shopping!

I went to the site http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2140567/people_of_walmart_web_site_silly_or.html?cat=9] to read about the article of people at Wal-Mart and saw pictures of the people at http://peopleofwalmart.com/ and this is my opinion of both of them. This type of site which describes what people wear and how they interact inside Wal-Mart stores might be funny and appealing to some, but to tell you the truth, this is such a sad story. It makes them feel embarrassed and maybe even upset at the people who do this a little bit. It was wrong of the photographers to post these on this type of URL, just so that they can make fun of people, so that he will get all the glory and make people feel exposed to the world. Widespread technology can have a positive effect on some people but to an entire world filled with very unusual people who rather stay hidden, it shows nothing more than a negative impact on these type of people. These people are wrong in showing these people to the outside world. They show nothing more than embarrassment and selfishness and it's just plain wrong. The global community could try to cut out the embarrassment used in these photos for photos that show the positive impacts of people when they go inside of Wal-Mart or any other places. It is for the better of the people and for the better of the community that we try to bring out a positive effect, not a negative.

How the Internet Began Exercise Questions

Today, people who use the Internet are only allowed to use the browser Internet Explorer since Netscape had shut down. They are also allowed to use Opera, whose operations started in 1994 and continue today, Safari, and Mozilla Firefox. Though some people have to use all because of the features provided for each browser and people need a certain feature and maybe only one browser has it. For a long time, Netscape and Microsoft were competing in order to attract developers to the features of their browsers, which eventually became known as the "browser wars." It eventually ended with Netscape shutting down its operations to users. Today, around 33% of users use Firefox 3, 25% and 26% of users use Internet Explorer 6 and 7, 9% use Firefox 2 while the rest make up the other internet browers such as Opera and Safari. (graph) I'm not sure, but I believe that most mobile devices such as iPhones and cell phones like to use either the Internet Explorer browser or the Safari browser. In my estimate, the W3C has published at least several standards, such as HTML, XML, RDF, and OWL. There are many more standards that W3C, but I don't know at the moment. Every Internet browser support HTML, since it is the basic form. XML is mostly supported by Microsoft Office and Apple's iWork. RDF is supported by groups not known worldwide, such as Creative Commons or MusicBrainz. OWL does not many well-known supporters and I am unsure as to who even supports OWL.

Technology Questions and Answers

DCCP is a technology that helps congestion and allows for a reliable control for the packet flow on a computer. It is pronounced as Datagram Congestion Control Program. Many people might not know about it, unless for somebody who's really good with computers and its inner-programming. DCCP was first released in a Linux kernal computer version 2.6.14 on October 28, 2005. DCCP is part of the Internet Protocal Suite, which includes the IP address on the Internet layer, which is different from the Transport Layer. DCCP also controls the data traffic on a computer. As far as I know, there are many developers for DCCP at this point in time. The chairs for DCCP are Thomas Phelan and Pasi Sarolahti. The transport area directors are Magnus Westerlund and Lars Eggert. It is currently not growing or diminishing, rather it is at a mid-level, so to speak. I believe there are certification uses, but I'm not sure of how to get them or what they are. Unless there are no certification uses at all with this program. for information on their working group and what their goals are for the future of this programming.

For more information on the DCCP, go to this link for any other information you're wondering about:

http://www.ietf.org/dyn/wg/charter/dccp-charter.html

My Introduction

Hey, everybody, I'm Reid Urban and welcome to my new blog site. On this site, I'll be mainly talking about the L.A. Angels, the Anaheim Ducks, and mostly of Southern California. I won't know a lot about politics or anything like that. Just sports is something I look at daily, whether it's my fan teams or any team in the NHL or in the MLB. Enjoy my site, and just remember, I'm starting out.