WHAT KIND OF JOB I WANT AFTER I GRADUATE FROM UNIVERSITY

Graduation is the best moment when I was successful to finish my study in University. After I was graduation from University, I must continue my life with finding my future job. It’s so complicated to find my future job, because so many job is available in Industry. But I have a wish, I will become a lecturer. Why? Because I still closer with college student. I can’t be separated from University World. I can share my experience too for my college student, and I can explore their talent with encouraging to join competition. And I think, become...

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TENSES

Jika kita membicarakan tenses, kita berbicara tentang time (waktu). Secara umum, ada 3 macam tenses yaitu present, past and future, yang masing – masing mempunyai 4 bagian yaitu Simple, Continous, Perfect, dan Perfect Continous. Pada postingan hari ini, kita akan membahas 6 tenses terlebih dahulu yaitu Simple Present Tense, Present Continous Tense, Present Perfect Tense, Simple Past Tense, Past Continous Tense, dan Past Perfect Tense. A.  Simple Present Tense Simple Present Tense berhubungan dengan habitual (kebiasaan) dan factual...

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PRESENT PERFECT TENSE DAN SIMPLE PAST TENSE

A.Present Perfect Tense Tense ini membicarakan tentang suatu kejadian di masa lampau yang berhubungan dengan kejadian sekarang. Tanda waktu yang bisa digunakan adalah already (kalimat positif), yet (kalimat negatif), for (selama), since (sejak), lately / recenlty (akhir – akhir ini), never (tidak pernah), once, twice, dan three times. Contoh : -          I have done my homework (+) -          I haven’t done my homework (-) -          Have...

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ADJECTIVE CLAUSE

Sebelum kita membahas Adjective Clause, kita perlu mengetahui bahwa complex sentence terdiri dari 2 bagian yaitu yaitu Main Clause dan Subordinate Clause. 1.  Main Clause Adalah kalimat lengkap dan mempunyai subjek dan predikat. Nama lain dari Main Clause adalah Independet Clause. 2.  Subordinate Clause Adalah bukanlah kalimat lengkap dan harus dihubungkan dengan induk kalimat. Nama lain dari Subordinate Clause adalah Dependent Clause. Contoh : 1. The man who comes here is Ali The man is Ali (Main Clause) Who comes here (Subordinate...

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WEALTH AND IT’S RELATION WITH SOMEONE’S HAPPINESS

Can money buy happiness? It is a kind of open ended question which can be read in almost every novel. You may not believe that money can buy someone’s happiness. But in fact, many rich people are happy with their lives. You can see them in television or read their activities in the internet or magazines. On the other hand, less prosperous people can only buy their primary needs with their money. They can not enjoy their lives because of low income. In my opinion, wealth has strong relation with someone’s happiness because people can buy anything,...

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SNAPSHOT OF THE INTERNET

(1) 1980sInternet-compatible computer networking started in West Asia and North Africa like many other parts of the world with BITNET, CSNET, FIDONET and UUCPNET among other computer networks in 1980s [Chon 2013]. These four networks interoperate with the Internet through email service, but not other services.According to the article, “BITNET Overview” by BITNET Network Information Center in 1990, the following six countries in West Asia and North Africa had BITNET nodes in 1990 [BITNET 1990]; Egypt, Israel, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Turkey....

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SMARTPHONE

The first mobile phones were developed in 1970s and 1980s, and evolved to smartphones in 2007 with announcements of iPhone with iOS from Apple, and Android OS from Google. Its precursors include i-mode from NTT DoCoMo in 1999, and Prada from LG in 2006.The smartphone became very popular almost from the beginning in 2007, and it was taking over desktop and laptop computers as the primary access device to the Internet in 2010s especially among developing countries due to its low cost despite its small screen size from 3 to 6 inches. Almost all Internet...

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RESTROPECTIVE

The Internet user population was around 4,000~5,000 with over 66 nodes in 1980. The number of nodes increased to 250 nodes in 1983 after the transition from NCP to TCP/IP at ARPANET took place on 1983.1.1 [Hauben 1998; Postel 1981]. The Internet user population had grown to over three billion by 2015.The Internet services cover almost every aspects of human activities by now, and the Internet is becoming a critical global social infrastructure. The Internet has started to connect devices in addition to human and we expect a trillion devices to...

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ONLINE EDUCATION

(1)  Open and Free Access to Web ContentThe Internet had a major impact on the research community right from the beginning. It promoted the exchange of preprints and reprints and speeded up communication among researchers, referees and publishers. Its impact on education was slower. The World Wide Web protocols and the development of search engines triggered the generation of content on the network and its wide-spread sharing in the early nineties. The first decade of the twenty first century saw an enormous explosion of Web content, including...

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MOBILE MESSAGING SERVICES

Mobile messaging services started in late 2000s and early 2010s in USA and Asia. WhatsApp in USA is one of the first mobile messenger services in the world with its launching in 2009. Facebook also offers a mobile messenger service called Facebook Messenger.  KakaoTalk in South Korea, WeChat in China, and LINE in Japan and South Korea followed in late 2000s and early 2010s.Short message services on mobile phones in 1980s and 1990s, and chatting services in the Internet and other computer networks in 1970s and 1980s led to development of the...

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INTRODUCTION CIVIL SOCIETY AT WSIS

The first conference of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was held in Geneva in December 2003. Through the processes of organising this conference, and the second one in Tunis in November 2005, United Nations expressed a clear intention of great participation of actors from the private companies, civil society, academia, and media, along with the governmental organisations. Towards this goal, the Civil Society Subcommittee on Content and Themes (WSIS-SCT) was established at the first Preparatory Committee meeting (PrepCom-1) of...

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INTERNET

The Internet started as ARPANET, the computer network for the US research community at the end of 1960s, and has become one of the critical global social infrastructure without which the world does not function properly with around three billion Internet users globally in 2013. [Internet 2014] We access the Internet for every aspect of social life.  We expect around seven billion Internet users globally in 2020s, over 90% of the global population.Asia started the twenty-first century with 125 million Internet users including Oceania and West...

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COMMERCIAL ONLINE SERVICE PROVIDER

As the Internet became very popular in 1980s, commercial Internet service providers appeared starting from USA in 1980s as described in the previous section.  Then, World Wide Web (WWW) and other online services appeared in the late 1980s and early 1990s.  With the invention of the Internet browser called Mosaic in 1992, WWW became very popular, and commercial online services started in USA including eBay in 1993 and Yahoo and Amazon in early 1994. Similar commercial online services appeared in Asia starting from Australia, Hong Kong,...

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COMMERCIAL INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER

Rick Adams who was in charge of seismo, one of the major UUCP sites in USA started UUnet, the first commercial internet service provider in 1987 with email as its primary service initially.  This was followed by Pegasus in Australia in 1989, followed by Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) in 1991. Please refer the Section 6.1 of Asia Internet History – Book 1 (1980s) on further information on Australia including Pegasus, and the Section 10.4 of Asia Internet History – Book 2 (1990s) on further information on Japan including IIJ. Most...

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