Blogging was fun. Although it was hard to think up something to say that lasts up to 50 words every day. That was the most challenging part. Learning how to blog was handy because I never made a blog in my life nor have I ever really engaged in a blog either. So this experience was totally new to me. Even I had no idea how to make this link to my personal blog. Oh well. Better to learn it then not ever know it I guess.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Access
The access for me wasn't all that bad, as apparently it was a 'rip your hair out' kind of thing. I actually wanted to know how to create databases with forms and queries. I can't say it was fun, but i can say it was educational and will probably pop up later in my life when I'm working. Above is a report I did from the booklet we had to follow. I liked the beginning and middle of the booklet, it was fine, but the end of the booklet got a bit weird. I didn't like the assignments that we had to complete using Access (of course) and also Microsoft Word. It got extremely confusing when one of the assignments asked to write a letter and a cover page for the Access information. I don't know if I did it right but when I did it i felt that it wasn't even relevent to what we were learning in Access.
Choose Ur Own Adventure Game
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This project was the most fun of all. I 've never made a game before and it was so exciting to create one. I learned how to program buttons in a different way ( instead of having the button link to another key frame). Drawing and designing the rooms and items that the players would pick up was fun. I figured out how to make a box and a drawer open, and have items disappear once clicked on. And it was awesome how I could have a sentence above the stage saying what the player has to do if they didn't have an item or once they entered a room. It took awhile to plan out the game and actually think about the 'game over' areas. Some areas of the game was 'mind boggling' but the answers were pretty obvious. Like how to make an item disappear once clicked on or program 'game over' if they didn't have the item.
Luckily I finished the game just in time, but I wish we had just a day longer to work on this project so I could for sure completely finish it. I say this because in the last minutes of class, I just threw in the last two frames ( the game over with the dog and the congrats ending) together and hoped the buttons that should lead to them were properly programmed. But it wasn't all that of a big deal.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Ipod Interactive Banner
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My ipod tour was fantastic!!! Using buttons and more buttons to link each keyframe to eachother was fun. I really like my idea of the colour ipods. It was a lot of work, linking every colour word on each colour page to its appropriate location took long and sometimes it got a bit confusing. It was also hard to put the minimal number of words into my interactive banner and make it look nice. But hopefully I accomlished it. And what a relief that all the buttons work and go to their appropriate location.
I gained a lot of experience with the buttons and learned how to zoom into the button once touched and what not. It was a fun assignment.
PACMAN!!!
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I loved creating the pacman banner. Having him roll across the stage and eating the morphed yellow ball thingys' was fun. I gained more experience with using the motion tween and shape tween, but still it seemed that I couldn't get want I wanted pacman to do most of the time. But that goes with more experience. Also that was the first time I learned how to link my pacman banner to the pacman website by learning how to create a button. The button code to link it to the website got a bit confusing, but no worries I learned it.
Flash Book
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The Flash Book was awesome. It showed me a lot of ways to make a character or a word move. I was baffled with the jiggly text, I never created something that jiggly on a computer in my life. Drawing and creating the alien face, and the rubber man showed me how to use the shapes and colours on flash, and the shape shifting shapes using the shape tween was amazing! Creating a rectangle shape and having it morph and shift into a squiggly line was awesome! The flash book sure helped me create other projects that we were asked to complete. With out it, I'd be totally lost.
Virtual Stock Exchange Assignment
This is the Virtual Stock Exchange. It was confusing at first, all the numbers and percents that I had no idea what they ment were over whelming and I'd just buy stocks that I was familiar with. But over time, I understood the numbers; when to buy cheap stocks and sell them for a good price. Looking for stocks was also hard because I didn't really know a lot of companies that base their stocks on technologies like the computer. As I said before, I just chose ones that were popular and that I've heard of.
I gained money and I lost money from time to time. As you can see on the homepage above I had a total return of 22.13%. That is a lot of money to gain. Hopefully it stays like that. Other times it would fall down to -20% or something around there and I hated that, it took my pride away.
The group was a total different story. Our group was called Tarcoalian company and man I found it frustrating to work with them, as well as present a powerpoint with them. It was hard to get them working. The only thing that was fun was creating the logo. I'd prefer not to present a crappy powerpoint that we threw together in such the small amount of time we left to do it. I'd rather put together a good powerpoint and not present it, ( although then I guess why make a powerpoint if we aren't going to present? Whatever) that would've been better.
I learned a lot about stock exchanges like how to buy wisely, what stock exchange actually is and how to make good decisions on stocks. Learning how to make graphs off of Excel was interesting and handy to know too. It was somewhat fun and easy all in all.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Business Report
Bell Canada
Filled with Doors
By Courtney Semmler
Bell Canada is a major telecommunications company throughout Canada. It has continually moved forward for a better communicational future. Bell Canada has improved greatly on its popularity and more importantly their improving devices. There operations are successful and 4.9 million people within Canada subscribe wireless to Bell Canada. In the 3rd quadrant of Bell Canada, it grew to 1.7 million subscribed to their internet. It hosts 13 million phone lines in Canada.
Alexander Graham Bell, who mostly vacationed in Nova Scotia, inspired the idea of building a company that focused on telecommunications. Alexander is known as the founder of the great telecommunication technology, the telephone. He received a US patent in 1877 allowing him to completely own his new device, meaning that no other person or company could steal, offer to sell, or make their own telephone. This patent allowed Alexander to have his rights to license, mortgaged, sell to another company or assign to whom ever he pleases without any other competition. He decided to assigned 75% of the Canadian patent rights to his father, Alexander Melville Bell, his father. Melville used this offer and sold hand made wooden telephones to customers that wished to have quick communications to one certain destination, like a store to a local company.
In 1879, Melville decided to sell his 75% of the Canadian patent rights to a National Bell Telephone Company in Boston, Massachusetts. This company was the first official company to become the Bell System. The National Bell Telephone Company then assigned some of it’s patent rights to a Chicago businessman named Charles Fleetford Sise, whom soon became general manager within the Bell Company. Charles took his rights and used them towards the Canadian economy and began to develop an “offspring” from the National Bell Telephone Company. In 1880, The Bell Telephone Company of Canada Ltd was founded in Montreal, Canada. On March 7th 1968, The Bell Telephone Company of Canada Ltd name was officially changed to what we know now Bell Canada.
Within June 2007, Bell Canada announced that that it was privatizing with Teachers’ Private Capital and Providence Equity Partners. Privatizing meaning that Bell Canada’s new suitor to of Bell Canada’s shares was going to be run by a private sector, not a public sector; government functioned like revenue collection and law enforcement. This pension is Bell Canada’s largest shareholder. At the end of March 2007, Bell Canada gained 43.8% of shareholders, so with this new pension with the Teacher’s Private Capital and Providence Equity Partners, Bell Canada will sky rocket with it’s strive to increase shareholders. This share between the Teachers’ Private Capital and Providence Equity Partners would raise Bell Canada’s shares to 41 cents, or 1.1%, to $37.38.
During the same month, Bell Canada also opened another path to a greater success. The talks were about a possible combination with Canada’s 2nd leading telecom, Telus. If this passed, shares of Bell Canada would jump 77 cents, or 2.1%, to $37.54. Although it may be a benefit to Bell Canada, it may not be all so great for Telus. Investors believe that the value the deal would create for Telus would negatively affect the company. They believe that Telus shares would drop 93%, or 1.5%, to $59.80. Not good at all. Darren Entwistle, Chief Executive of Telus, begs to differ. He believes that there would be no such drastic problems. He believes that merging with Bell Canada would “be an all- Canadian solution for both immediate and long-term value creation, while ensuring a vibrant player continues in this increasingly competitive industry.” – Darren Entwistle.
It is not clear what Bell Canada has decided to deal with. Many investors wish that Bell Canada merge with Telus. Bell Canada has already privatized with Teachers’ Private Capital and Providence Equity Partners, as those are its largest shareholders.
A ‘Do Not Call’ list now exists since the day of December 21st, 2007 hit. Bell Canada was the only company within Canada that agreed to all the terms that The CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commissions) requested for proposal. The CRTC openly allowed any company to adopt and create their own ‘Do Not Call’ List, but no other company besides Bell Canada bid into the deal. After CRTC announced the agreement between them and Bell Canada, CRTC awarded Bell Canada a five-year contract which allowed Bell Canada help those Canadians who wish not to be contacted by telemarketing firms. The contract will be officially launched by September 30th, 2008. Bell Canada will be responsible for registering phone numbers, providing the telemarketers with updated Do Not Call lists and will be responsible for receiving consumer complaints about telemarketer complaints. This ‘Do Not Call’ List would have a great impact on Bell Canada’s popularity as so many subscribers would not want to be bothered by CRTC’s telemarketers.
For many years, Bell Canada has always been ‘on top’ of everything and the most trusted throughout Canada as a telecommunication company. Although, it seems as though it’s traditional ways of always being the strongest in the country are about to change. Normally Bell Canada has a very deep balance sheet, meaning that both its strategies and abilities are strong and what ever the negative shocks or positive shocks that the company takes in will not affect the company too greatly, but allowing the company go into complete debt in numbers of $44 billion with their largest shareholder, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. This is significant and will allow other companies to step in and take over the placement of the leading telecommunication company in Canada. The Rogers company is definitely taking advantage of this opportunity as Rogers is Bell Canada’s major competitor. As Rogers ‘foe’, Bell Canada, is struggling to stay organized and “keeping itself on the rails” – Andrew Wahl, Ted Rogers, owner of Rogers company, rolls in and takes great advantages on it’s subscribers. In fact, Rogers’s stock went up 25%. It is said that Ted Rogers’s personal wealth rose 67% to $7.6 billion. In the past, Rogers always was known as the company that brushed bankruptcy, they had a weak balance sheet. The irony of Rogers luck was that when Bell Canada took a fall, Rogers at that point had an investment-grade balance sheet, allowing the to be more organized and not brushing bankruptcy. As long as Bell Canada tripped, fell and now can’t get back up, Rogers will take the lead in Canada.
Bell Canada has had many successes within its lifetime. But also has had many mistakes that have not yet been corrected. Due to its state right now, hopefully it will stand on its own two feet again and continue having its greatest successes in the future.
This long and on going blur is my Business Report about Bell Canada. I was impressed with myself that I wrote this much about Bell Canada. I learned a lot about Bell Canada; where they came from and how they came to be. It was painful to write this much. A lot of research was put into this article and it helped me improve my writing skills (I think) research capabilities.
Filled with Doors
By Courtney Semmler
Bell Canada is a major telecommunications company throughout Canada. It has continually moved forward for a better communicational future. Bell Canada has improved greatly on its popularity and more importantly their improving devices. There operations are successful and 4.9 million people within Canada subscribe wireless to Bell Canada. In the 3rd quadrant of Bell Canada, it grew to 1.7 million subscribed to their internet. It hosts 13 million phone lines in Canada.
Alexander Graham Bell, who mostly vacationed in Nova Scotia, inspired the idea of building a company that focused on telecommunications. Alexander is known as the founder of the great telecommunication technology, the telephone. He received a US patent in 1877 allowing him to completely own his new device, meaning that no other person or company could steal, offer to sell, or make their own telephone. This patent allowed Alexander to have his rights to license, mortgaged, sell to another company or assign to whom ever he pleases without any other competition. He decided to assigned 75% of the Canadian patent rights to his father, Alexander Melville Bell, his father. Melville used this offer and sold hand made wooden telephones to customers that wished to have quick communications to one certain destination, like a store to a local company.
In 1879, Melville decided to sell his 75% of the Canadian patent rights to a National Bell Telephone Company in Boston, Massachusetts. This company was the first official company to become the Bell System. The National Bell Telephone Company then assigned some of it’s patent rights to a Chicago businessman named Charles Fleetford Sise, whom soon became general manager within the Bell Company. Charles took his rights and used them towards the Canadian economy and began to develop an “offspring” from the National Bell Telephone Company. In 1880, The Bell Telephone Company of Canada Ltd was founded in Montreal, Canada. On March 7th 1968, The Bell Telephone Company of Canada Ltd name was officially changed to what we know now Bell Canada.
Within June 2007, Bell Canada announced that that it was privatizing with Teachers’ Private Capital and Providence Equity Partners. Privatizing meaning that Bell Canada’s new suitor to of Bell Canada’s shares was going to be run by a private sector, not a public sector; government functioned like revenue collection and law enforcement. This pension is Bell Canada’s largest shareholder. At the end of March 2007, Bell Canada gained 43.8% of shareholders, so with this new pension with the Teacher’s Private Capital and Providence Equity Partners, Bell Canada will sky rocket with it’s strive to increase shareholders. This share between the Teachers’ Private Capital and Providence Equity Partners would raise Bell Canada’s shares to 41 cents, or 1.1%, to $37.38.
During the same month, Bell Canada also opened another path to a greater success. The talks were about a possible combination with Canada’s 2nd leading telecom, Telus. If this passed, shares of Bell Canada would jump 77 cents, or 2.1%, to $37.54. Although it may be a benefit to Bell Canada, it may not be all so great for Telus. Investors believe that the value the deal would create for Telus would negatively affect the company. They believe that Telus shares would drop 93%, or 1.5%, to $59.80. Not good at all. Darren Entwistle, Chief Executive of Telus, begs to differ. He believes that there would be no such drastic problems. He believes that merging with Bell Canada would “be an all- Canadian solution for both immediate and long-term value creation, while ensuring a vibrant player continues in this increasingly competitive industry.” – Darren Entwistle.
It is not clear what Bell Canada has decided to deal with. Many investors wish that Bell Canada merge with Telus. Bell Canada has already privatized with Teachers’ Private Capital and Providence Equity Partners, as those are its largest shareholders.
A ‘Do Not Call’ list now exists since the day of December 21st, 2007 hit. Bell Canada was the only company within Canada that agreed to all the terms that The CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commissions) requested for proposal. The CRTC openly allowed any company to adopt and create their own ‘Do Not Call’ List, but no other company besides Bell Canada bid into the deal. After CRTC announced the agreement between them and Bell Canada, CRTC awarded Bell Canada a five-year contract which allowed Bell Canada help those Canadians who wish not to be contacted by telemarketing firms. The contract will be officially launched by September 30th, 2008. Bell Canada will be responsible for registering phone numbers, providing the telemarketers with updated Do Not Call lists and will be responsible for receiving consumer complaints about telemarketer complaints. This ‘Do Not Call’ List would have a great impact on Bell Canada’s popularity as so many subscribers would not want to be bothered by CRTC’s telemarketers.
For many years, Bell Canada has always been ‘on top’ of everything and the most trusted throughout Canada as a telecommunication company. Although, it seems as though it’s traditional ways of always being the strongest in the country are about to change. Normally Bell Canada has a very deep balance sheet, meaning that both its strategies and abilities are strong and what ever the negative shocks or positive shocks that the company takes in will not affect the company too greatly, but allowing the company go into complete debt in numbers of $44 billion with their largest shareholder, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. This is significant and will allow other companies to step in and take over the placement of the leading telecommunication company in Canada. The Rogers company is definitely taking advantage of this opportunity as Rogers is Bell Canada’s major competitor. As Rogers ‘foe’, Bell Canada, is struggling to stay organized and “keeping itself on the rails” – Andrew Wahl, Ted Rogers, owner of Rogers company, rolls in and takes great advantages on it’s subscribers. In fact, Rogers’s stock went up 25%. It is said that Ted Rogers’s personal wealth rose 67% to $7.6 billion. In the past, Rogers always was known as the company that brushed bankruptcy, they had a weak balance sheet. The irony of Rogers luck was that when Bell Canada took a fall, Rogers at that point had an investment-grade balance sheet, allowing the to be more organized and not brushing bankruptcy. As long as Bell Canada tripped, fell and now can’t get back up, Rogers will take the lead in Canada.
Bell Canada has had many successes within its lifetime. But also has had many mistakes that have not yet been corrected. Due to its state right now, hopefully it will stand on its own two feet again and continue having its greatest successes in the future.
This long and on going blur is my Business Report about Bell Canada. I was impressed with myself that I wrote this much about Bell Canada. I learned a lot about Bell Canada; where they came from and how they came to be. It was painful to write this much. A lot of research was put into this article and it helped me improve my writing skills (I think) research capabilities.
Peripheral Assignment
LCD Projectors
By: Courtney S.
In New York, during 1968, an inventor named Gene Dolgoff wanted to invent a video projector that would be able to allow brighter light to pass through from the lamp to the resulted lenses to allow clearer images than the available brand 3-CRT projectors. He developed the first liquid crystal projector in 1971 after many trials with different materials. He decided the liquid crystal material would be best to modulate the light. After building the 1971 new invention, errors arose like very noticeable pixels on the image. He invented optical methods to create high efficiency and high- brightness projectors and created the method of depixelization to minimize the appearance of pixels on the image, this creating a high definition image. After those correction, the final outcome in 1988: the world’s first LCD ( Liquid Crystal Display) projector.
Also in 1988, Gene Dolgoff started the very first LCD projector company. Licensing Samsung, Panasonic, BENQ, and several other major companies to sell these fabulous new LCD projectors. Now these LCD projectors are being updated into DLP projectors and have been transformed into TV’s for better HD images.
As shown on the diagram above, the LCD Projector’s most important part is the lamp, or the light source. The methods begin at the light source, where normally it is located at the back of the LCD projector. The emitted light from the light source first hits the Red Dichroic Mirror. This Dichroic Mirror separates the light colours by only allowing the red light of the emitting light through. The other colours don’t pass through the Red Dichroic Mirror but bounce off of the mirror into a different direction. Following the Red light ( note: the following methods are similar to what occurs with the other colours), after the red light passes through the Red Dichroic Mirror, it approaches another Mirror that doesn’t allow it to pass through, therefore aiming towards the LCD or Liquid Crystal Display panels. The LCD panels convert the light into the image that you see on a screen or a wall. It filters the light to block or allow it to pass to organize the shades of the image that the viewer sees. After the light passes through the LCD panels, it is joined with the other colours in the Dichroic Combiner Cube to create the wanted image.
By: Courtney S.
In New York, during 1968, an inventor named Gene Dolgoff wanted to invent a video projector that would be able to allow brighter light to pass through from the lamp to the resulted lenses to allow clearer images than the available brand 3-CRT projectors. He developed the first liquid crystal projector in 1971 after many trials with different materials. He decided the liquid crystal material would be best to modulate the light. After building the 1971 new invention, errors arose like very noticeable pixels on the image. He invented optical methods to create high efficiency and high- brightness projectors and created the method of depixelization to minimize the appearance of pixels on the image, this creating a high definition image. After those correction, the final outcome in 1988: the world’s first LCD ( Liquid Crystal Display) projector.
Also in 1988, Gene Dolgoff started the very first LCD projector company. Licensing Samsung, Panasonic, BENQ, and several other major companies to sell these fabulous new LCD projectors. Now these LCD projectors are being updated into DLP projectors and have been transformed into TV’s for better HD images.
As shown on the diagram above, the LCD Projector’s most important part is the lamp, or the light source. The methods begin at the light source, where normally it is located at the back of the LCD projector. The emitted light from the light source first hits the Red Dichroic Mirror. This Dichroic Mirror separates the light colours by only allowing the red light of the emitting light through. The other colours don’t pass through the Red Dichroic Mirror but bounce off of the mirror into a different direction. Following the Red light ( note: the following methods are similar to what occurs with the other colours), after the red light passes through the Red Dichroic Mirror, it approaches another Mirror that doesn’t allow it to pass through, therefore aiming towards the LCD or Liquid Crystal Display panels. The LCD panels convert the light into the image that you see on a screen or a wall. It filters the light to block or allow it to pass to organize the shades of the image that the viewer sees. After the light passes through the LCD panels, it is joined with the other colours in the Dichroic Combiner Cube to create the wanted image.
Bibliography
www.kawarthatv.com/Home%20Video/LCD%20TV.htm
www.futureshop.ca/search/searchresult.asp?logon=&langid=EN&search=KWS
www.benq.ca/products/Projector/?product=733&page=specifications
www.trueretail.co.uk/lcdprojinfo.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCD-projector
www.kawarthatv.com/Home%20Video/LCD%20TV.htm
www.futureshop.ca/search/searchresult.asp?logon=&langid=EN&search=KWS
www.benq.ca/products/Projector/?product=733&page=specifications
www.trueretail.co.uk/lcdprojinfo.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCD-projector
This is the peripheral Assignment that I wrote. It took awhile to write up and make sense of this mess of a LCD Projector. The table was the most annoying part of the whole project. I didn't like looking up different LCD Projectors and finding the price, resolution, and potential screen size. That was a pain. The rest was pretty straight forward and like any other essay that I have written in the past.
Business Card
This is the Business Card I was asked to make. I used photoshop to complete this project. This was a good way to learn how to set up an appropriate business card that contains valuable information for customers or patients. It was fun, I like working in photoshop, I learned enough for future business card creations.
Complaint Letter
Courtney Semmler
43 Kingswood Drive,
Ontario, Canada
Phone#: (705)750-5874
February 08, 2008
Ralph Hyatt
Toshiba Canada General Manager
191 McNabb Street
Markham, ON, L3R 8H2
Dear Ralph Hyatt,
Hello, my name is Courtney Semmler. I am one of the owners of the HD-XA2 HD DVD Players. I am not pleased with the outcome of the player. I bought it at Future Shop two weeks ago for $319.00, and so far it is not working as I hoped.
After wiring the player to my television and receiver, it was working fine for a couple minutes. After a while it started to become noisy and irritating to hear while I was watching my movie. I thought it was over heating, so I turned it off, then a few minutes later, I turned it back on again and it was still quite loud. I called the Technical Support that was available on the Toshiba Canada Website, but the help did not fix my player in anyway. Still, after 2 weeks, it continues to be loud.
Secondly, the high definition that the player promised to contain isn’t the greatest. Not to be rude, but I believe that my old DVD player has the same clear pictures and it is viewed through the same amount of pixels, that is seeing, as the HD player that I bought.
Thank you for your time and efforts, and thank you for taking these matters into consideration for future improvement.
Sincerely,
Courtney Semmler
This is a complaint letter I wrote at the beginning of this semester. It was pretty simple, pick a topic complain about it. It taught me how to write an appropriate and formal complaint letter ( as before I had no idea how to set it up). I wouldn't say it was fun, but of course when is writing a complaint letter fun?. It was good to learn for future complaints and other formal letters.
43 Kingswood Drive,
Ontario, Canada
Phone#: (705)750-5874
February 08, 2008
Ralph Hyatt
Toshiba Canada General Manager
191 McNabb Street
Markham, ON, L3R 8H2
Dear Ralph Hyatt,
Hello, my name is Courtney Semmler. I am one of the owners of the HD-XA2 HD DVD Players. I am not pleased with the outcome of the player. I bought it at Future Shop two weeks ago for $319.00, and so far it is not working as I hoped.
After wiring the player to my television and receiver, it was working fine for a couple minutes. After a while it started to become noisy and irritating to hear while I was watching my movie. I thought it was over heating, so I turned it off, then a few minutes later, I turned it back on again and it was still quite loud. I called the Technical Support that was available on the Toshiba Canada Website, but the help did not fix my player in anyway. Still, after 2 weeks, it continues to be loud.
Secondly, the high definition that the player promised to contain isn’t the greatest. Not to be rude, but I believe that my old DVD player has the same clear pictures and it is viewed through the same amount of pixels, that is seeing, as the HD player that I bought.
Thank you for your time and efforts, and thank you for taking these matters into consideration for future improvement.
Sincerely,
Courtney Semmler
This is a complaint letter I wrote at the beginning of this semester. It was pretty simple, pick a topic complain about it. It taught me how to write an appropriate and formal complaint letter ( as before I had no idea how to set it up). I wouldn't say it was fun, but of course when is writing a complaint letter fun?. It was good to learn for future complaints and other formal letters.
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