Exercise 11

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href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/eamoncurry/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/eamoncurry/ / CC BY 2.0

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/dailyinvention/ / CC BY 2.0

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/nauright/ / CC BY-SA 2.0

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/diametrik/ / CC BY 2.0

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/62327186@N00/ / CC BY 2.0

This video compares LCD televisions to Plasma televisions. Both TV's have very good qualities but some negative sides. The Plasma television has very good picture resolution. One bad thing about Plasma is its glossy screen can sometimes have bad reflections. The LCD TV has a comparably good picture resolution as well. LCD televisions are known for being very good for playing video games. Another thing this video discussed is a new wireless television.

Exercise 12

PC: The Need for Speed
Console game: Donkey Kong
Mobile game: Scrabble

Melanie
PC GAME: BUBBLE TROUBLE
CONSOLE GAME: MARIOKART WII
MOBILE GAME: BRICKBREAKER

Jenn
Pc = The Sims City
Mobile = Mancala
Console = Mario Cart 64

Emily Hood
pc: Call of Duty
console: Wii Fit
mobile: Wordle

Cameron Capriotti
PC: Helicopter Game
Console: Call of Duty Modern Warfare
Mobile: Brick Breaker


PC:
The Need for Speed is published by EA Games and is classified as a racing game. There are no networking opportunities when playing this game. Other games by EA Games and in the genre of racing is Burnout Paradise Ultimate, Undercover, and ProStreet Collectors. The Sims City is a game created by EA Sports that enable you to network throughout the city. It is classified as a social networking game. EA also has Sims Pets, Sims university and Sims big business. Bubble Trouble is an online game created by miniclip that you have to strategically plan how to manuever through each level. Call of Duty is a shooting genre, another similar game is NBA Live, published by Activision, this game does enables networking. For the Helicopter game the genre is Arcade, publisher is MyPlayCity.ru, and other games by them are Kill Deal, Crazy fishing, and Sawblaster.


Console:
Donkey Kong is published by Playstation 2 and is classified as a platform. There are no networking opportunities when playing this game. Other games by Playstation 2 and in the genre of platforming are Hidden Invasion, Lifeline, and Mashed Fully Loaded. Mancala is a puzzle game created by FlipSide5. Other games offered by this company within the same genre are Touch4 (Connect4), Checkers and Touch Tennis. Brickbreaker is a game created by digital chocolate in which you use a paddle to try and eliminate bricks on the screen with a little ball. Each level gets more difficult with certain bricks that the player cannot break, but you have to go around to get the the weaker bricks. Wii Fit is a sport simulation genre, other similar games Wii Sports Resorts and EA Sports Active, published by wii, this dont not have a sharing network. For the Call of Duty Modern Warfare the genre was first person shooting game, the publisher was Activision, and other games by Activision are Call of Duty world at war, Call of Duty modern warfare, Call of Duty roads to victory.

Mobile:
Mobile games are convenient and easy to use because you can play them wherever you are. Many times these games are played on cell phones. There are usually options that you can play with other people so you are competing against friends. Scrabble is published by EA Mobile and is classified as a puzzle. There are networking opportunities when playing this game and can play with other people. Other games by EA Mobile is Tetris, Bejeweled, and Sudoku. Mario Cart 64 is a game created by Nintendo and is a racing game. Other racing games for this console can be Donkey Kong racing, Diddy Kong 64 and Crusing in the USA. MarioKart on my WII console, created by Nintendo also just used on the WII console. Wordle mind simuation genre, other similar games include Scrable and WordFu, published by the i phone, this does not enable a sharing network For the Brick Breaker game the genre was Arcade, the publisher was Digital Chocolate, and other games by Digital Chocolate are Tornado Mania, Crazy penguin catapult, Bull run fever.

Exercise 18

The five online services that I use everyday are email.tamu.edu, elearning.tamu.edu, facebook.com, gmail.com, and BOFA.com. I reviewd the privacy policies and personal account settings for each of these services.

email.tamu.edu
-This site does not collect personal information. Email.tamu.edu does not permit personal information or access to it. My setting is set to the default setting. I feel really safe using this site everyday because i did not share any of my information with the company.

elearning.tamu.edu
-This site if very private and the university is not legally allowed to release information. elearning.tamu.edu does not use cookies to gather information. For this site I use a default setting.

facebook.com
-This site contains many different privacy controlls. You must be 13 or older to have an account. Facebook users are able to make their site private but facebook still reserves the right to your page and information, including pictures. Facebook.com has very detailed privacy settings but you do have a lot of control over what information is used. My facebook privacy setting is the most resricted policy they offer. I have to give my concent for my information to be shared. However, if i decide to cancell my account, facebook still hold all my information.

Bank of America
-This site reserves the right to alot of my personal information. My name, address, telephone number, and social security number are all stored in this site. My setting is set to default. This allows BOFA access to my personal information, including my account activity and transactions.

gmail.com
-This site reserves the right to use my information in order to select which ads they run. My setting for gmail.com is set to default. Google can send me information based on the messages they have filtered.

Exercise 16

Chemistry Building:
Availability- tamu link wpa, tamu link guest, tamu link help
Strength- excellent


Reed-MacDonald Building:
Availability- tamu link wpa, tamu link guest, tamu link help
Strength- excellent


Poor Yorick's Coffee Shop:
Availability- tamu link wpa, tamu link guest, tamu link help
Strength- excellent


Evans Library:
Availability- tamu link wpa, tamu link guest, tamu link help
Strength- excellent


ONM Building
Availability:Tamulink-WPA, Tamulink-Guest, Tamulink-Help
Strength: Excellent


Langford Architecture Building C
Availability:, Tamulink-WPA, Tamulink-Guest, Tamulink-Help
Strength: Excellent


Rudder
Availability:, Tamulink-WPA, Tamulink-Guest, Tamulink-Help
Strength: Excellent


Animal Sciences Building
Availability:Tamulink-WPA, Tamulink-Guest, Tamulink-Help
Strength: Good

Underwood
Availability:Tamulink-WPA, Tamulink-Guest, Tamulink-Help
Strength: no service


Spence
Availability:Tamulink-WPA, Tamulink-Guest, Tamulink-Help
Strength: no service


Mosher
Availability:Tamulink-WPA, Tamulink-Guest, Tamulink-Help
Strength: excellent


Studio 12
Availability:Tamulink-WPA, Tamulink-Guest, Tamulink-Help
Strength: good


Harrington Education Center
Availability:Tamulink-WPA, Tamulink-Guest, Tamulink-Help
Signal Strength: Strong (Five Bars)


The Annex
Availability:Tamulink-WPA, Tamulink-Guest, Tamulink-Help
Signal Strength: Strong (Five Bars)


Blocker
Availability:Tamulink-WPA, Tamulink-Guest, Tamulink-Help
Signal Strength: Good (Four Bars)


Zachary
Availability:Tamulink-WPA, Tamulink-Guest, Tamulink-Help
Signal Strength: Good (Four Bars)


academic building:
Availability:Tamulink-WPA, Tamulink-Guest, Tamulink-Help
Tamulink: 3 bars service


Student computer center:
Availability:Tamulink-WPA, Tamulink-Guest, Tamulink-Help
Tamulink: full bars of service


grassy knoll:
Availability:Tamulink-WPA, Tamulink-Guest, Tamulink-Help
Tamulink: 3 bars of service


common dorms upstairs:
Availability:Tamulink-WPA, Tamulink-Guest, Tamulink-Help
Tamulink: no service

Exercise 15

An ecommerce business has many advantages that brick and mortal shops do not have. Electronic commerce allows people to buy and sell products over electronic systems. Your flower shop online will allow customers to order things wherever they like; at home, at work, or even out of town. Your business will grow after making it ecommerce because people all over the world can shop there and many people think it is easier. The three ecommerce I recommend are Zen Cart, osCmax, and osCommerce.

Zen Cart is an open software that I believe would benefit your flower business. It provides an easy to setup and run online store. This would be a good ecommerce business because it requires less time and management to keep up and running. Some features it provides are product attributes managers, built-in gift certificates and discount coupons, HTML editor, a template system, and "register globals off.” Zen Cart is very secure. Only your administrative personnel can access your customer and catalog data. PayPal is the system used for paying. PayPal is usually well supported by the customers. One bad thing about Zen Cart is sometimes it is not very cosmetically appealing. On the other hand it provides an opportunity for customers to write a review about their experience shopping at your business.

OsCmax is another good ecommerce business that I think would be good. It is based on osCommerce with additional functionality. It has all the features needed to run a successful Internet store and can be customized to whatever configuration you need. OsCMax is a powerful ecommerce and shopping web application. Some features it provides are a secure and stable code base, multiple payment modules, and gift vouchers and coupons. A negative thing about osCmaz is its complexity. In my opinion the simplicity in Zen Cart makes it a better choice for your new ecommerce business.

I believe OsCommerce would be the best ecommerce software for your flower business. In my opinion it combines the simplicity of Zen Cart and the positive features of osCmax. It offers a wide range of features and enables online stores to be set up fairly quickly with minimal effort. OsCommerce provides a catalogue frontend and an administration tool which can be easily installed. It runs on systems such as Apache, PHP, and MySQL. More features it includes are automatic web-based installation, multi-currency support, and it supports physical products as well as product downloads. Although this software does not have an inbuilt way to password protect the administrative area of osCommerce and the program itself is not template driven, I still believe this is the right choice.

Although I reccomend osCommerce, any of these three ecommerce softwares will positively affect your flower business. Oscommerce will enabled your business to stay open all the time and expand customers by geographically being unrestricted. After you make the switch to use osCommerce i gaurantee that your flower business will flourish.

Exercise 14

Skype Inventory:
Things that are provided in Skype that are not in cell phones is there are video capabilites in Skype. This allows you to see the person you are communicating with as opposed to just talking with them. Skype is free between other people that are using Skype, so as a result you can talk to anyone around the world that is also using Skype for free. There is a cost between other providers and Skype, however. Desktop PCs don't have a built in camera so you would need to buy a camera in order to Skype. Some Laptop PCs have built in cameras, in which case you would not have to buy a camera. Another feature available in Skype is chatting options which is much like texting through the computer. Skype also allows you to take pictures and change the features of the screen. You can manipulate the pictures that are taken. These would be considered advantages.

Advantages to Skype would be the fact that it is free between Skype users, you can see the person you are talking to, you can take pictures, and text with them all that the same time.


Disadvantages of Skype is that the quality is not as good as other technologies. Also, it is dependent on internet services so it often gets bad reception. The video freezes often as well, making it difficult to understand what the other person is saying.

Our overall impression of the software is that it is very useful and a good tool for communication, however their can be lag of service and the voice and video quality is not very good. We think it is worth investing in the Skype technology.

*We did this exercise on a PC as opposed to an iPod touch because our group did not have an iPod.

Exercise 13

Cobain Parody Video Yanked, Activision Shows Iota Of Decency, Sorta
http://gaygamer.net/2009/10/cobain_parody_video_yanked_act.html
Comment #1: points out that people who don't like Nirvana wont care that the game might imply Cobain "Whoring it out."
Comment #2: Disagrees by saying everyone should respect the dead.
Comment #3: "What's so holy about Cobain? Plenty of dead rock stars in the world."

Gay In Gaming: Use Of The Word Gay In The Current Vernacular
http://gaygamer.net/2009/10/what_is_acceptable_current_use.html
Comment #1: This person agrees with the post and respects him for standing up against people using the word gay to describe video games in a negative way.
Comment #2: "I have never been offended by the of the word gay when used as a negative"
Comment #3: refers to alot of gamers as ignorant and blames their ignorancey on why they use "gay" incorrectly.

Iowa State University Study Links Excessive Gaming To ADD
http://gaygamer.net/2009/10/iowa_state_university_study_li.html
Comment #1: "i wonder if this is more a case of correlation versus causality"
Comment #2: This person thinks your attention is only affected for a short time after playing a video game for a long period of time. The person does agree that it has some affect.
Comment #3: This comment points out that all test are biased and wants to know what kind of test they used to gauge a persons proactive attention.