Got Milk: check your grammar

Taken from an article written by By Martha Brockenbrough (undated)

There are a couple of interesting ways to look at got and gotten.

One is as a vestige of American rebellion.  British English is much more likely to use have got than American English, which prefers have gotten. 

Where a British writer might say, "The year has got off to a great start," an American one is more likely to say, "The year has gotten off to a great start."

But it's not just the Atlantic separating the senses of these two words.  There are actually slight differences in meaning.

If you say, "I have got a wig," it means you have one in your possession.  But "I have gotten a wig" means you've gone out and fetched one. Meanwhile, "I have got to go to the dentist" means you must do it.  "I've gotten to go to the dentist" means you went and consider it a privilege.

Got it? 

Technology As We See IT

This week's IT news are on the following two areas.

3D TV:
http://news.cnet.com/Forget-the-glasses-3D-monitors-ready-now/2100-1041_3-6081242.html
http://www-g.eng.cam.ac.uk/enginuity/issue1/article5.html
http://www.physorg.com/news156683102.html
http://www.gizmag.com/dualplex-display-3d/16038/

Disaster: preparedness/recovery:http://www.itstrategycenter.com/networkcomputing/Threat/preparedness/preparing_for_disaster/
http://www.edfacilities.org/rl/disaster.cfm
http://www.computereconomics.com/article.cfm?id=1313
http://www.disaster-resource.com/

Khan Academy: empowering world through science and technology

The Power of Technology: rethink and reason with passion and curiosity

The impact of internet is simply mind boggling.  Countries across the world are using social media to promote democracy and free-flowing ideas.  According to The Economist (see link below), people submit 2.5 billion photos each month on Facebook; YouTube broadcast more than a billion videos a month.  Examples like these show the changing trend in consumer behavior.  Social sciences like economics must rethink their theoretical applications.  Because technology has arrived. 

http://www.economist.com/node/17091709

Microsoft NEW Technology Microsoft Surface

Noteworthy Thoughts: on greed and envy and immigration

Two briliant articles caught my attention in The Washington Post this week. 

One is about greed and envy in the context of power, money, and economic empowerment written by Carlos Lozada.  I wonder if this is what Adma Smith had in mind when he talked about "self-enlightenment" in "The wealth of Nations."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/24/AR2010092404118.html

The other about our immigration policy written by columnist Ezra Klein.  He wrote very eloquently about the issue of immigrants and their contribution to the U.S. economy.  I understood more about the effect of employment in the U.S. from his article than some other writings on this issue. 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/24/AR2010092401774.html

Technology As We See IT

This week's IT news are on the following two areas.

Public safety and defense policy:
http://csciwww.etsu.edu/gotterbarn/stdntppr/
http://www.cert.org/insider_threat/
http://www.disastercenter.com/terror.htm
http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ka.cfm?knlgAreaID=119

Government:
http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/un/unpan012062.pdf
http://govfresh.com/2010/04/opengov-apis-interfacing-with-open-government/
http://www.govtech.com/e-government/White-House-Launches-Challengegov.html
http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2009/06_technology_west/06_technology_west.pdf