Flappy Bird has been removed

Summary

Close the legend of indie game that had huge number of downloads.

         Flappy Bird is another game that is the trend in the overnight session of game Vietnamese developer Dong Nguyen, but all the gamer are so curious why did he took down the game from Appstore and Googleplay even though it could make him money about 50000$ per day from the advertisements in the game and can be equivalent in to Thai money around 1600000 Baht. And he finally clarify the curiosity by tweeting that "It ruins my simple life" 

For those who do not know this game , Flappy Bird is a game that has simple principle is to tap the screen to make a bird fly without crashing green water pipes that block vision of flying birds. The highlight here is the fact that it is hard to play, but people try to get the highest score and can compete with their friends.

Major Concepts  

• The creator of one of the most famous game on mobile phone Flappy Bird removed the game from the online store 
• With simple reason that he doesn't want to do it anymore. 

Advantages 

• The game has really been removed by the creator although it earned him alot of moneys 
• And the reason is not due to any legal issues

Question 

• There is alot of other developers that desire to buy Flappy Bird but he chose to keep it instead of selling it and can earn more money and can see his game becomes even more popular ,why didn't he sell it ?

Citation 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2014/02/08/flappy-bird-creator-says-hes-taking-the-game-down/

Musil, Steven. "Bye-bye Flappy Bird -- Popular Game Grounded by Its Creator." CNET News. CBS Interactive, 09 Feb. 2014. Web. 17 Feb. 2014.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/10626852/Flappy-Bird-to-be-taken-down-after-ruining-creators-life.html

"Flappy Bird 'to Be Taken Down' after 'ruining Creator's Life'" The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group, 07 Sept. 0034. Web. 17 Feb. 2014.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26173937

BBC News. BBC, 14 Feb. 2014. Web. 17 Feb. 2014.

Database Note

What is database?

• An organized collection of information.
• Telephone books .
• Collection of possessions.
• Customers,employees, and orders 
• Tools to analyze your data 
• Sorting using tables 
• Extracting what you want to see using Forms and Queries 
• Summarizing it using Reports 

Tables

• Table is a collection of information, organized into 
• Fields: the columns in the table (name,address,phone,number)
• Records: the rows in the table
• Data values: the actual information itself

Excel (Flat files) Vs. Access (Relational Databases)

• A phone book is a "flat file"(just a list of info) 
• That's what differentiates Access and Excel.

• A" relational database" prevents duplicate information.
• It's efficient and less prone to errors.
• In flat files, repeated information are kept in the same place.

 Relational Databases

• Example it works with 3 different types

Primary Keys and Foreign Keys 

• Need to add some techinique to the table structure 
• Primary Key is a unique identifier for each record in the table 
• These primary keys become Foreign Keys (AKA common fields)
• Linking related information between 2 or more tables 
• It's the field that both tables have in common and it;s allowed user to gather data from both when the user taking order,or run report.

Relationships

• The connection between Primary Keys and Foreign Keys 
• One-to-many 

•  1 record in the first table has multiple occurrences in the table .
• There are more types but one-to-many is common.

Data Types

• Every field needs a Data Type so that Access knows how to manage it
• Auto Number - Sequentially increments each record  
• Commonly used as a Primary Key Field 
• Text = for alphanumeric characters (letters and numbers) 
• Number - numbers that you calculate 
• Currency - for financial information ($)
• Date/Time - for date and times 
• Yes/No - for either / or scenarios 
• Attachments - allow you to associate files from other programs such as Word or Excel

• Hyperlinks - for emails and websites URLs 
• Memo - for long commentary (for taking notes)
• Calculations - do math based on data in your other fields
• Lookups - get data from other tables 

Normalization

• Design your database according to accepted standards
• Use smallest meaningful values possible 
• (split "Name" into Last Name and First Name for easier sorting )
• (split "Address" into Street,City ,State,Zip)

•  Separate repeated groups of data 
• If you see the same information more than once ,those fields should be moved into a second table, and linked through a conmmon ID field 

•  Plan Ahead!

Throwing Camera Panonomic

Panono Camera Ball 

Panono Camera Ball is an imaging device that has a sphere shape with a diameter of 11 cm and a weight of only 300 g. External material made ​​of plastic but actually inside of it consists of a total of 36 cameras that will take pictures at the same time when we throw it up in the sky. And it will has a software to take an images connect them together form a panorama 108 megapixel image, it will not only can view the images on the left  right but also top and bottom too.

For how to view image they will have the app specifically for this. Users can view images in a portable device with apps which are displayed varies according to the orientation of the device ,example like. The user holds the tablet horizontal screen facing up it will shows in the photo looking down below. If you hold the tablet vertically and facing north. I can see the photos in the north . And will sell out around 2015. 

Major Concepts 

• The camera is easy and fun to use which is by just throwing it up in the sky.
• The images that come out will be like panorama but more more special that we it's 360 degree. 

Advantages 

• Throw able which makes the user having fun when taking the image.It will be so fun taking picture with friends 360 degrees.
• How to get an image is suitable for world now aday by using application on phone.
• Price not so expensive compare to other normal camera which is about 550 US Dollar or around 18000 Thai Baht .

Disadvantages 

• By throwing it up in the sky what if we can't catch it and drop on the floor ,plastic might be easy to break. And can the water gets in if we accidentally  drop it in the water.
• From the sphere shape it's going to a little bit hard to maintain it like other camera because if we put it on the table its going to roll around fall to somewhere.

Discussion Question 

• I think this Camera ball will be so popular for sure after it releases to the world but after that about a year its rating will drop down because it's not that interesting and something completely new and normal people who don't have a jobs or things relate to this won't be using it. Most of it will only popular in adults ages because i don't think people around 30 up will walk around on the street and tossing this ball up in the sky . 
• When taking a picture i don't think everyone are going replace this in their bag instead of normal camera because people still wont with normal camera and their phone also can take a picture too. 

Video

Citation 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8xjXqC9m2A

"Panono: Panoramic Ball Camera." YouTube. YouTube, 12 Nov. 2013. Web. 03 Feb. 2014.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25926300

BBC News. BBC, 31 Jan. 2014. Web. 02 Feb. 2014.

http://www.panono.com/features/

"Panono: Panoramic Ball Camera." YouTube. YouTube, 12 Nov. 2013. Web. 03 Feb. 2014.

http://www.blognone.com/node/50735

"Panono: Panoramic Ball Camera." YouTube. YouTube, 12 Nov. 2013. Web. 03 Feb. 2014.

http://technolomo.com/2013/12/30/panono-panoramic-camera-ball/

"Panono: Panoramic Ball Camera." YouTube. YouTube, 12 Nov. 2013. Web. 03 Feb. 2014.

Chinese New Year Poster

中國新年 Chinese New Year 2014

At first we were assigned to make poster about Chinese New Year that's coming up in couple a days by using 3 programs 1:Adobe InDesign 2:Adobe Illustrator 3:Adobe Photoshop .First i used Adobe Photoshop for edit and put pictures ,background and text most of my work is done using Photoshop 85% and used Adobe Illustrator to edit texts Fonts and some pictures ,make them look more like Chinese theme. And finally InDesign i actually use just a little of it to arrange the picture but i think that Photoshop is much easier to use. And then done , i saved it as pdf file and print out but its quality wasn't so good because i used a small picture and i maximize it too much so it shows pixels in the background.