The ethnographic reality behind these concepts Potlatch 1. The Culture a. North West coast cultural area is mostly in Canada b. Whole series of related groups all the way up to Alaska C. Fascinating area
Linguistic Aspects of Culture 1. How does culture hang together as system? How does it work? How does it interact with aspects of life that aren't culture? a. There has been a lot of efforts in the 20century to answer these question
The culture concept is fundamental to anthropology Years ago, we used to have more trouble introducing the concept, because people tended to think of the other meaning of culture, i.e., high culture, esp. art, music, refinement
Race and Anthropology Huge topic-only going to cover a small portion of the discussion Two notions about race: Race has a biological meaning, but not a social meaning *Race has a social meaning but not biological meaning
Optimizing stateless servers Consider a connectionless server for file Table of information about files clients are using We find hash(IP addr, port) Overhead of opening and closing file each Buffer for file x
Collaborate Document Management Plan and design up front Create a short model section for information content and order Create a layout template Create a document control system for revisions Accept individual responsibility and deadlines
Uniqueness of Satellite Manufacture Small production runs Extreme operational environments Limited repair/replace options after launch High product cost and importance High cost test environment Highly coupled designs minimize weight and maximize performance but yield high complexity
