2009年2月20日 星期五

Assignment 3

1.
Proxy bidding will automatically bid for you each time you’re outbid. You set a maximum amount, and it will automatically add one more dollar on the current high bid until your maximum amount. That will be more convenient. It is unnecessary for user to wait in front of computer and user can control their budget.

2.
A. Search for misspelled items to find a bargain price.
B. If you enter correct spelling for an item, and it will search eBay using multiple misspelled variants at once.

3.
You win the bid on eBay and receive the item. But the seller used the stolen credit card to buy your item on different website. And using your address. So you may be arrest for the illegal behavior. So to prevent this situation, never use wire transfer to pay and if receive the item which is in a box from Amazon. You should contact Amazon and eBay to explain.

4.
Virtual credit card is a good way to prevent hackers. Some bank’s cardholder can purchase items on line without real card number. The cardholder can log into the ShpoSafe page and enter the limit amount. It will generate a unique and temporary number for you. So you can use it to purchase items on line.

2009年2月13日 星期五

Comic Outline

This story is take place in Taiwan, there is a university built on the mountain. It is a remote place from downtown. Besides students, not many people go there. In fact, they are doing a special research secretly. I am one of the students in that university and major in Software Engineering. One day, my professor showed me a contract with a check in his office. He wanted me to join the special research program. I saw the check the amount was so high that I decide to agree his request. I followed my professor and we enter the elevator just as normal. But he pressed 7-2-1-3-2-4-8, and then the elevator went down automatically. The secret Lab was in the basement. What we are doing is to analyze the thought of animals, in order to control animals. One year past, we start to experiment on real animals. But…..something wrong. All the animals in the zoo are in a coma. And we start to fix the big problem.

2009年2月6日 星期五

Assignment 2

1.
Wikipedia is a very useful tool. I use it a lot when doing my reports. It provides different language version for user to search. For this assignment, I search for “Pittsburgh Steelers”. In Taiwan, we don’t play football and don’t have any football team. I have no idea about the rule and the background. But when I watched the super bowl, it was so exciting! So I search for Steelers to get more information. The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They are currently a member of the North Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). Stealers won the super bowl six times, which is more than any other AFC or NFC team. One thing is very interesting that I found in the page. In 1943 season Steelers merged with the Philadelphia Eagles and formed the "Steagles"; the team's colors at that time were green and white as a result of wearing Eagles uniforms. That is an interesting history. Through this page, I learn more about Steelers, it is a great team. Maybe I can say I am lucky, because I study in PA!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steelers#Players_of_note

2.
Sudokube

The Sudoko Cube is a variation on a Rubik's Cube in which the faces have numbers one to nine on the sides instead of colours. The aim is to solve Sudoku puzzles on one ore more of the sides. The toy was created in 2006 by Jay Horowitz. The Sudoku Cube is more complicated than the Rubik's Cube. In a standard Rubik's Cube, the player must match up colours on each side of the cube. In the Sudoku cube, the player must place the numbers one to nine on each side with no repetition. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Sudokube". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.

In fact, I don’t think this article has any problem. Maybe it did not meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The format has something wrong or the content is not complete. Need more information to provide this article.

3.
Web 2.0 is more interactive than Web 1.0. And combine the technologies of user-created content, social networking, and publishing. The concepts are “interact” and “share”. For example, blog’s content is create by user instead of the website provide all the information.

4.
1996 http://web.archive.org/web/19961017235908/http://www2.yahoo.com/
Now
http://www.yahoo.com/

Compare with two websites. The current one adds more functions and links. The icon is more pretty and shipshape. And the arrangement is better. They put all the categories on the left that will be easier for user to use. And for the search function, the current one provides different ways to search. Such as images and videos. In general old one is too simple and the current one has more function and better arrangement.