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Friday, September 20, 2013

GTA

        Grand Theft Auto, officially known as GTA, is a British video game series created by David Jones and Mike Dailly then later by Dan and Sam Houser and game designer Zachary Clarke. It is primarily developed by Rockstar North in United Kingdom and published by rockstar games. The name of the series is derived from "grand theft auto" , referring to motor vehicle theft. The series has won multiple awards. The game is set in fictional locales American cities, while as expansion for original was based in London. The subject if the games is usually a comedic satire of American culture, but the series has gained controversy for its adult nature and violent themes. The series focues around many different protagonists who attempt to rise through the ranks of the criminal underworld, although  their motives for doing so vary in each game.

           Each game in this series allows players to take on the role of a criminal or a wannabe in the big city, typically an individual who plans to rise through the ranks of organized crime through the course of the game. The player is given various missions by kingpins and major idols which must be completed to progress through the storyline. Assassinations and other violent crimes are featured regularly. Occasionally taxi driving, firefighting, street racing. bus driving, or learning to fly helicopters and fixed-sing aircraft are also involved.

                                             Games

  •  1997- Grand Theft Auto
  •  1999- Grand Theft Auto:London , Grand Theft Auto  2
  •  2001- Grand Theft Auto 3
  •  2002- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
  •  2004- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas , Grand Theft Auto Advance 
  •  2005- Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
  •  2006- Grand Theft Auto : Vice City Stories 
  •  2008- Grand Theft Auto 4
  •  2009- Grand Theft Auto: the lost and damned , Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars , Grand Theft                 Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony
  •  2013- Grand Theft Auto 5
     

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Online Shopping

           Online shopping or online retailing is a form of electronic commerce which allows consumers to directly buy goods or services from a seller over the internet using a web browser. An online shop evokes the physical analogy of buying products or services at a shopping center; the process is called business-to-consumer(B2C) online shopping. In the case where a business buys from another business, the process is called business-to-business (B2B) online shopping. The largest of these online retailing corporations are Alibaba, Amazone.com and e-bay. With the growth of online shopping,comes a wealth of new market footprint coverage opportunities for stores that can appropriately cater to offshore market demands and service required.

                                            History


          The first world wide web server and browser, created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990, opened for commercial used in 1991. Thereafter, subsequent technological innovations emerged in 1994 online banking, the opening of an online pizza shop by Pizza Hut, Netscape's SSL and Intershop's first online shopping system. Amazone.com launched its online shopping site in 1995 and ebay was also introduced in 1995.



                                            Costumers

             Online customers must have access to the Internet and a valid method of payment in order to complete a transaction (e.g. credit card, Paypal etc).  Generally, higher levels of education, and personal income correspond to more favorable perceptions of shopping online. In December 2011 study, Equation Research surveyed 1500 online shoppers and found that 87% of the tablet owners made online transactions with their tablet deceives during the early Christmas shopping season. 


                                                     

                                                                   

Thursday, August 29, 2013

John Deere

              Deere and the company, also known as John Deere, is an American corporation located in Moline, Illinois and is one of the largest manufacturers of the agricultural machinery in the world. They manufacture construction equipment, forestry equipment and agricultural equipment.  The company's slogan is "Nothing Runs Like a Deere" and has a picture of a leaping deer as a logo(<a href="http://www.greenfarmparts.com">john deere parts</a>), a word play pun on "nothing run like a deer". The company's products are also identifiable by its distinctive shade of green paints, usually augmented by yellow trim.

                John Deere manufactures a wide ranges of products, with several models of each in many cases.
  •   Agricultural equipment : 
                                          They include tractors,combine harvesters, cotton harvesters, balers, planters/seeders,sillage machine, and sprayers.
  • Construction equipment:
                                           The company is also a leading manufacturer of  heavy equipment\
  • Forestry equipment:
                                           They have of range of forestry machinery like harvesters, forwarders and skidders. Timber-jack is a subsidiary of  John Deere sice 2000
  • Other products:
                                          The company also manufactures consumer and commercial equipment, as well as a supplier of diesel engines and power trains used especially in heavy equipment


Saturday, August 24, 2013

Final Fantasy

             Final Fantasy is a media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi, and is developed and owned by Square Einx. The franchise centers around a series of fantasy and science fantasy role-playing video game(RPG), but includes motion pictures, anime, printed media, and other merchandise. The first game in the sequels. published in 1987, was conceived by Sakaguchi as his last ditch effort in the game industry;  the title was a success and spawned sequels.

              Although most Final Fantasy installments are stand-alone stories with different settings and main characters, they feature identical elements that define the franchise.  Recurring elements include plot themes, character names, and game mechanics. Plots center on a group of heroes battling a great evil while exploring the characters' internal struggles and relationships. Character names are frequently derived from the history, languages, and mythologies of cultures worldwide.

              The series has been commercially and critically successful; it is Square Enix's best selling video game franchise, with more than 100 million units sold, and one of the best-selling video game franchises. It was awarded a star on the Walk of Game in 2006, and holds seven Guinness World Records in the Gamer's Edition 2008. 


             The first installment of the series  premiered in Japan on December 18, 1987. Subsequent titles are numbered and given a story unrelated to previous games; consequently, the numbers refer more to volumes than to sequels. Many Final Fantasy games have been localized for markets in North America, Europe, and Australia on numerous video game consoles, personal computer(PC), and mobile phones. As of September 2012, there are 35 games in the franchise.

Basketball

         Basketball is a sport played by two teams of five players on a rectangular court. The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop 18 inches in diameter and 10 feet high to a backboard at each end. Basketball is one the most popular and widely viewed sports in the world. A team can score a field goal by shooting the ball through the basket during regular play. A field goal scores 2 points for the shooting team if the player is touching or closer to the basket than the three-point line, and three points if the player is behind the three-point line. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but additional time may be issued when the game ends with a draw.

        The ball can be advanced on the court by bouncing it while walking or running or throwing it to a team mate. It is a violation to move without dribbling the ball, to carry it, or to hold the ball with both hands then resume dribbling Violations are called "fouls". A personal foul is penalized, and a free throw is usually awarded to an offensive player if he is fouled while shooting the ball, As well as many techniques for shooting, passing, dribbling and rebounding, basketball has specialized player positions and offensive and defensive structures. Typically, the tallest members of a team will play "center", "power forward" or "small forward" positions, while shorter players or those who possess the best ball handling skills and speed play "point guard" or "shooting guard".

You Tube

        You Tube is a video sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005 and owned by Google since late 2006, on which users can upload, view and share videos. The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video and HTML5 technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clip, and music videos, as well as amateur contents such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos. Unregistered users can watch videos, while registered users can upload an unlimited number of videos but have to be registered to upload videos to You Tube.
 
        Viewing You Tube videos on a personal computer requires the Adobe Flash Player plug-in to be installed on the browser. The Adobe Flash Player plug-in is one of the most common pieces of software installed on personal computers and accounts for almost 75% of online video material. All You Tube users can upload videos up to 15 minutes each in duration. Users who have a good track record of complying with the site's Community Guidelines may be offered the ability to upload videos up to 12 hour in length, which requires verifying the account, normally through a mobile phone.

       Most videos enable users to leave comments, and these have attracted attention for the negative aspects of both their form and content. In 2006, praised web 2.0 for enabling "community and collaboration on a scale never seen before", and added that You Tube "harness the stupidity of crowds as well as its wisdom".

Anime

        Anime are Japanese animated products featuring hand-drawn or computer animation.The term, "anime" itself did not emerge until the mid 1980, and its intended meaning of the term sometimes varies depending on the context.Arguably, the stabilization approach to the meaning may open up the possibility of anime produced in the countries, other than Japan. Yet, for simplicity, many Westerners strictly view anime as an animation product from Japan. The earliest Japanese animation dates to 1971, and many original Japanese animations were produced in the ensuing decades.Anime is primary used for animated T.V series, featured films, and Internet-based releases. Both hand-drawn and computer-animated anime exist. As the market for anime increased in Japan, it also gained popularity in East and Southeast Asia. Anime is currently popular world wide.

          Japanese write the English term"animation"; anime in short for this. Many sources claim that anime derives from the French phrase dessin animé, however this is debated. The pronunciation of anime in Japanese giffers signigicantly from the Standard English, which has the vowels and stress. In Japan, the term anime does not specify an animation's nation of origin or style; instead, it serves as a blanket term to refer to all forms of animation from around the world. English-language dictionaries define anime as "a Japanese style of motion-picture animation" or as "a style of animation developed in Japan".