Web Protocols are ways in which the internet can convey information to individual computers and visa versa. There are many different protocols and new and up coming improved ones that companies are releasing. The three main ones are (HTML) HyperText Markup Language, (HTTP) HyperText Transfer Protocol and (URL) Uniform Resource Locator. HTML is code that is used to create a website, these are often made up of tables which space out the work, this has now been taken over by flash (.flv) it is an easier and better way in which to make websites but having said this a new HTML being released that is expected to be better than flash. (HTTP) this is how the (HTML) is transferred to the computer and rather than being shown as the code it is transferred to something that we can understand. (URL) this is the address at the top of the screen that we can see this is so that we can find what we are looking for, without these it would be impossible to find anything. Above are the three main protocols that make up the web there are many others that serve important purposes to the way we live.
One of these is SMS this stands for Short Messaging Service which most people use every day; it is a form of written digital communication that is used in text messages and emails. It can be used to communicate across long distances by customers to a certain company that runs it or it can also be used by that same company in order to advertise. They are cheaper, faster and more efficient than sending a letter as not only is it free you are the one sending it and you can be certain that it was received by the intended person.
WAP is another protocol that is often used by many people throughout the day, it stands for Wireless Application Protocol but most people call it the mobile internet. This is because like the name says it allows people to access the internet on their mobile phones, this is efficient as it is convenient and can be viewed where ever you go. The sites can be different to how they are viewed on the internet on a computer as they are made in the most basic form so that the mobile can download it faster to the smaller screen.
FTP is the next protocol, this stands for File Transfer Protocol as the name indicates it is used in order to transfer files from the internet to the computer or from one computer across the internet and to another computer. Sometimes it is also used by the creator of a website; your computer downloads certain files that can't be viewed any other way.
WAN stands for Wide Area Network, this is the protocol that is the internet. It is a connection of smaller networks these can be local area networks (LAN) and Metropolitan Area Networks (MAN). A LAN is a protocol that allows a connection between close working computers these are some likely to be used in a office or school and MAN is what is used in much larger scale places like cities with link all the individual computers to the WAN.
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Completed website
Today I managed to patch up some of the last things that I needed to do on my website, since we only have one lesson left of it, rather than wasting my time I will look over the website and make sure that everything is in working order and make any necessary small changes to it. I've tried to work around the feedback that I got from it last time and have changed the reviews page so, I had help from Julian in order to make some true and false statements in order to make some arrows pop up to show the reviews. With this new code I was able to move it on to the reviews as one of the people who gave feedback stated that I should make it so that we didn't have to hold down the button. After doing this I found the problem that all the reviews would show up one over the top of each other if you clicked on the buttons, I attempted to make more true and false variables in order to over ride this but found that this wouldn't work no matter what I tried. In the end we had to convert it to a movie clip and make it so that the button went to one of the frames, each of the frames in the movie clip each displayed a different review.
I have really enjoyed this project and think that the outcome has been pretty good. I think the work I did on the site is pretty simple but because of the theme it looks a lot better than it would with anything else. This project has helped me learn the codes better and realise that although we found stuff hard at frist after all the practise we are able to learn how to do a lot of things. As well as help from Julian on some of the more difficult stuff I was able to look at some of the word we have done in other lessons and adapt it to something that I could use in my site.
One of the best things that I got from this project was the fact that I am able to understand flash better, before I would have had difficulty understanding some of Julians instructions but now when he shows me what I am supposed to do I am able to understand why and transfer it to other parts of the site as well that need it. I felt that this project was challengeing but I enjoyed trying to work things out for myself, it's definately some thing I would enjoy doing again.
I have really enjoyed this project and think that the outcome has been pretty good. I think the work I did on the site is pretty simple but because of the theme it looks a lot better than it would with anything else. This project has helped me learn the codes better and realise that although we found stuff hard at frist after all the practise we are able to learn how to do a lot of things. As well as help from Julian on some of the more difficult stuff I was able to look at some of the word we have done in other lessons and adapt it to something that I could use in my site.
One of the best things that I got from this project was the fact that I am able to understand flash better, before I would have had difficulty understanding some of Julians instructions but now when he shows me what I am supposed to do I am able to understand why and transfer it to other parts of the site as well that need it. I felt that this project was challengeing but I enjoyed trying to work things out for myself, it's definately some thing I would enjoy doing again.
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Audiences response:Pokemon Project
Personally I believed that there was nothing wrong with pokemon after all they removed almost every small piece of violence and indecency at the dubbing stage. But unsurprisingly due to its popularity people still had to find something wrong with it.
Christians seem to believe that it is dangerous and should be banned as it promotes Satanism of some sort; this thought has risen due to the moves which some of the pokemon use. They in general hate the idea of pokemon having powers of some sort but most of all they detest the pokemon that could be related to Hell or being able to manipulate a person (eg. mindreading) (among these are things like negative energy and inducing sleep on a person). Below is an image of Houndoom which due to the word doom in its name was immediately assumed that this was supposed to be a demon dog and the fact that it's Japanese translation was "Hell Hound" some Christians believe that Nintendo are pushing children to start worshiping Satan.
Christians seem to believe that it is dangerous and should be banned as it promotes Satanism of some sort; this thought has risen due to the moves which some of the pokemon use. They in general hate the idea of pokemon having powers of some sort but most of all they detest the pokemon that could be related to Hell or being able to manipulate a person (eg. mindreading) (among these are things like negative energy and inducing sleep on a person). Below is an image of Houndoom which due to the word doom in its name was immediately assumed that this was supposed to be a demon dog and the fact that it's Japanese translation was "Hell Hound" some Christians believe that Nintendo are pushing children to start worshiping Satan.
Some even go as far as saying that Satan is in fact creating pokemon through certain people in order to corrupt children and adults.
The things that I honestly can understand in the Pokemon game and etc is the fact that they are pushing children to want more and more and have made the games insanely addictive. This did cause problems in schools as they had to ban them in order to get kids to stop playing them during their lessons. I can see from this that it is promoting greed from the fact that the theme song repeats "Gotta catch 'em all". Linking in with this is the belief that it promotes gambling and for this reason has been banned in certain countries as winning cards from your opponent, which can be viewed as gambling. Something I also found in the game was that the "games corner tend to look very much like casinos.
Just through the research I have done I have found that pokemon have faced many problems from since they started. One of the problems they had was being accused of Jynx being a racist pokemon, they believed it was Pokemon based on blackface. This was where people used make up to create a stereo type of a back person, this was banned due to being seen as racist it was also compared to the story "Little Black Sambo" which was removed from publication as it too was seen as racist. Since people believed that it resembled this too much they had to later on edit Jynx in order to stop the complaints. Was the product accused of causing harm?
YES, there are several cases in which pokemon have been accused of physically harming people, one of which can be proved that they did, accidently of course.
The first case was the "Denno Senshi Porygon" it was only aired in Japan but it caused several hundred kids to develop illnesses some were even said to have had seizures. This is the only one I will believe because if you watch the episode it shows red and blue flashing, due to this I think there is a possibility that it could have caused epileptic seizures.
The next case was "Lavender Town" people started claiming that the music played whilst in Lavender Town caused people to commit suicide and develop illnesses. Later on the game was remade and the music was removed. This is an interesting case, but I was unable to find anything on it that really convinced me that it was real. There was a peck in suicides around the correct gaming age for pokemon which is what I believe cause people to start saying that it was the music in Lavender Town. In almost all the articles that I have read on Lavender Town people say that it is due to the noises that only undeveloped ears can hear.
The last problem Pokemon faced were the timing of some of their episodes, some were removed from airing in certain countries at certain times due to the problems that country was facing. The main exapmle of this would be after the 9/11 attacks, several episodes were skipped in the running in order to stop complaints, these were all in some way similar to what America had just faced. There were several cases of what is mentioned above but also some episodes were removed due to the fact that they weren't demed appropriate, one example of this is "Beauty and the Beach" in which James wears a swim suit that has an inflatiable chest, firstly this was banned altogether but eventually it was dubbed and the scenes that contained James in the swim suit were removed.
One episode that was banned altogether and never dubbed is "Miniryu no Densetsu" this is once again due to the age group that it was aimed at, during the whole episode there are a lot of scences with people pointing guns.
Although it is clear that the creator and 4kids are trying hard to make sure that the content is for the correct age group it seems that there will always be problems that people find with pokemon.
The things that I honestly can understand in the Pokemon game and etc is the fact that they are pushing children to want more and more and have made the games insanely addictive. This did cause problems in schools as they had to ban them in order to get kids to stop playing them during their lessons. I can see from this that it is promoting greed from the fact that the theme song repeats "Gotta catch 'em all". Linking in with this is the belief that it promotes gambling and for this reason has been banned in certain countries as winning cards from your opponent, which can be viewed as gambling. Something I also found in the game was that the "games corner tend to look very much like casinos.
Just through the research I have done I have found that pokemon have faced many problems from since they started. One of the problems they had was being accused of Jynx being a racist pokemon, they believed it was Pokemon based on blackface. This was where people used make up to create a stereo type of a back person, this was banned due to being seen as racist it was also compared to the story "Little Black Sambo" which was removed from publication as it too was seen as racist. Since people believed that it resembled this too much they had to later on edit Jynx in order to stop the complaints. Was the product accused of causing harm?
YES, there are several cases in which pokemon have been accused of physically harming people, one of which can be proved that they did, accidently of course.
The first case was the "Denno Senshi Porygon" it was only aired in Japan but it caused several hundred kids to develop illnesses some were even said to have had seizures. This is the only one I will believe because if you watch the episode it shows red and blue flashing, due to this I think there is a possibility that it could have caused epileptic seizures.
The next case was "Lavender Town" people started claiming that the music played whilst in Lavender Town caused people to commit suicide and develop illnesses. Later on the game was remade and the music was removed. This is an interesting case, but I was unable to find anything on it that really convinced me that it was real. There was a peck in suicides around the correct gaming age for pokemon which is what I believe cause people to start saying that it was the music in Lavender Town. In almost all the articles that I have read on Lavender Town people say that it is due to the noises that only undeveloped ears can hear.
The last problem Pokemon faced were the timing of some of their episodes, some were removed from airing in certain countries at certain times due to the problems that country was facing. The main exapmle of this would be after the 9/11 attacks, several episodes were skipped in the running in order to stop complaints, these were all in some way similar to what America had just faced. There were several cases of what is mentioned above but also some episodes were removed due to the fact that they weren't demed appropriate, one example of this is "Beauty and the Beach" in which James wears a swim suit that has an inflatiable chest, firstly this was banned altogether but eventually it was dubbed and the scenes that contained James in the swim suit were removed.
One episode that was banned altogether and never dubbed is "Miniryu no Densetsu" this is once again due to the age group that it was aimed at, during the whole episode there are a lot of scences with people pointing guns.
Although it is clear that the creator and 4kids are trying hard to make sure that the content is for the correct age group it seems that there will always be problems that people find with pokemon.
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