Week 4 task!

Part 1:Scavenger Hunt

Q1: What is the weight of the world's biggest pumpkin?

Answer:The largest pumpkin ever grown is 1,502 pounds. It was grown by Ron Wallace of Greene, Rhode Island. It was weighed in on October 7, 2006 at the Rhode Island Weigh-off.
http://www.pumpkinnook.com/giants/record.htm

Q2: What's the best way to contact Grant Hackett?
Answer: sorry, I can't find it.

Q3:What is the length of a giraffe's tongue?
Answer:A giraffe’s tongue can be up to 21 inches long.
http://www.plsd.k12.pa.us/final_projects/06/vaughnessa/fun%20facys.htm

Q4: How would you define the word 'ontology'? In your own words, what does it really mean ?

Answer: An ontology the can be metaphysical study of the nature of being and existence.

To me, the meaning of ontology is that if you want to study something new for you, like you will learn the word of "flower", it is better for your teacher to bring a real flower to you, then you can study fast and good.
http://www.answers.com/topic/ontology

Q5:What was David Cronenberg's first feature film?

Answer: "Shivers"1975
http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/11/30/cronenberg/

Q6:When was the original 'Hacker's Manifesto' written?
Answer:The Hacker Manifesto is a small essay written January8,1968.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_Manifesto

Q7: Why do all phone numbers in Hollywood films start with '555'?
Answer:any number beginning with 555 was safe to use in a TV show or movie. I am not sure wether it's the right answer.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-2357,00.html

Q8: What is the cheapest form of travel from Crete to Rhodes?
Answer: Ferry is the cheapest way of traceling from Crete to Rhodes.

Q9: What song was top of the Australian Pop Charts this week in 1965?
Answer: I can't find the exactly answer for this, but some relative imformations that the period 1964-1969 is often classified as the 'Second Wave' of Australian rock.
http://www.answers.com/topic/australian-rock

Q10: Which Brisbane band includes Stephen Stockwell on keyboards and vocals?
Answer: The Black Assassin.

Part 2:

What is a search engine?

Generously speaking a search engine is a software program that when you type into your key words or a question into the reach engine website then you can get a lot of information about you question. You can find some profesional answer, or you may just find some presonal opinion.

How do search engines rank the stuff they find on the internet?

A combination of relevant page titles and body copy can influence site ranking. The searcher types a query into a search engine.
Search engine software quickly sorts through literally millions of pages in its database to find matches to this query. A software robot, called a spider or crawler, automatically fetches sites all over the Web, reading pages and following associated links. By design, a spider will return to a site periodically to check for new pages and changes to existing pages.
The search engine's results are ranked in order of relevancy.

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?

Sorry, I didn't find the profesional answer for this question. However, from my own experience that it is not who or what makes one page more useful than another one. The top result depend on the title or the key words you typed into the engine. The title of the first result have some words were highlighted, and the order of those highlighted words is the same order as your title. Further more, the first result has more same words that you mentioned in your title. The content of the the top five results usually have more information that you need.

what are some of your favourite search engines? why do you like one more than others?

My favourite search engine called "Baidu" which is a Chinese search engine. I like it because it has more interesting information that I need. Although google and yahoo has Chinese search engine as well, but baidu was created by Chinese, that means this engine can satisfied people very well, because of the same culture background.

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

Ask.com:In 2006, it became the 4th largest search engine in the world.

The part of human's life-----computer!!!!!

Everyone knows that computer plays a very important role of human's life. Computer almost covered all te areas. We use computer to count, to talk, to write, to manage a factory...

Technology develops when human beings want to make convenience and advantage for their life. The computer history begin with the countting. During the accient time Chinese were becoming very involved in commerce with the Japanese, Indian, and Koreans. they needed a way to accounts and bills, thus the first account tool was born - the abacus. The second step of moving computational technology along was the invention of simple mechanical scale for weighing and measuring. In the 17th century, John Napier, Baron of Merchiston, Scotland, invened logrithms which was a big advances in computation. In te same centure, German mathematician Wilhel Schickard built one of the first mechanical calculator which use the system of cogs and gears. Duing the 19th century, the mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage first worked out a device to undertake mechanical calculus, which noticed as the different engine.After the convergence of the development of calculation, and the need of the war, Alan Turing and some mathematicians and cryptographers the devised the first working computer which was used to break secret German 'Enigma' codes.

After the Second World War, computer had a significant improvement in USA. I n 1950s, IBM first produced the commercial computer. The first generation computers were large and expensive machines for military, government. But in 1965, they were quickly became apparent that computers would get smaller, quicker and less expensive at an exponential rate. Xerox PARC developed concepts such as the mouse, the graphical user interface (GUI) and pull-down menus that made the personal computers of today possible and approachable by the general user. Afterwards computor moved out of the laboratories and military and be used widely in he office, home and classroom. Microsoft of Bill Gates is the most famouse development of computer that made a lot of covenience to the world.

Nowadays, it is very hard for people to work or study without computor. It is very necessary for us to think about whether computers will control us in the future.

New beginning!

Hello, everyone!!!

I am Gao Fei, and i come from china. You can call me Fay if you like. Hopefully, I'd like to do something relate to film industry, so I think this course might be a good start.

Today is my second lecture of NEW COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY, but i didn't concentrate on the content. Because i didn't read the reading, so i was wondering during the lecture. Sorry, my teachers!!! I will try my best to enjoy the course afterwards.

I found maybe one of the hobby of my New Communication Technology professor, that is he may be a history lover. In my last semester, once he visited our NEWS AND POLITICS lecture and told us the development of Australian goverment, the history of different party. Today during the lecture he talked many things about media development history. That's great! Because I am a history lover as well.

Although I was wondering this morning, but I still love this course. I can learn the mass communication technology from previous time until now. I think the developments are magics. The speed is so quickly. I wanna know during this semester that why those technology developed so quickly and why we developed them.

GAO fei