tute 6 24/01

1. The world biggest machine is a mining machine which weight 45 500 tons. It took 5 years to design and manufacture at a cost of $100 million.
2. Mawson Station and South Pole are names of live webcam in Antarctica. There isn't any where to stay, eat, sleep or drink in Antarctica. What a pity, there's an opportunity here for someone to open the first ever Antarctic bed and Breakfast!
3. Systems such as international mail and telephony have played a huge role in bringing the world together. Nowadays the internet is enhancing the globalisation process as the internet is a whole world.
4. The cheapest form of travel from the Gold Coast to Melbourne is taking a flight with flight centre as they propose a 66 dollars flight if you take it enough in advance. And it is a direct flight. You could take a bus which is 10 dollars less expensive but it is not straight to Melbourne. The bus makes a couple of stop over and that’s not what you want.
5. Douglas Carl Engelbart (born January 30, 1925) is an American inventor and early computer pioneer. He is best known for inventing the computer mouse.
6. Stephen Conroy is the Minister for Broadband,Communication and the Digital Economy. The best way to contact him is to call him at the ministerial office(0396501188) or email him as there is a link “email the minister on his website http://www.minister.dbcde.gov.au/contact
7. The song is “Hold on” by Wilson Phillips
8. Ontology, according to my understanding is a term which specifies how to represent the objects and concepts that are assumed to exist in some area of interest and their interrelation.
9. The camera used by Google street view is this fairly disco-ball-esque device that you can see on this web site. http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9724604-7.html The camera takes 360-degree images while driving; they have fixed it to a van and gone everywhere.
10. GEOS (Graphical Environment Operating System) has been created by Berkeley Softworks and has been released in 1986, nowadays this version of GEOS is owned and distruted by Cick Here Software Co. The UNIX operating system has been originally developed in 1969 by a group of employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas Mcllroy and Joe Ossanna. In 1973 UNIX has been entirely recoded to facilitate its development. GNU was created by Richard M Stallman in 1983 and was the focus of the Free software Foundation. But no stable release of GNU exists, the latest release of GNU is the GNU 0.2 system released in 2004, a more developed version. All those operating system are free and available to anyone as long as it still exists. One way to have it is to download it or get it from a friend who already has it.