ISWA Web Design and Multimedia: S2T4W1 Monday: Virtual Crime, iPad2 Fallout, Homework, Professor Teaches Web Design Fundamentals

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1. Virtual Crime

Virtual worlds like FarmVille and World of Warcraft are being used by criminals to launder money, say NSW Police, who have discovered that buying and selling virtual items and currency is a growing new way of cleaning dirty money.

http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/games/virtual-pigs-and-chooks-see-payday-for-crooks-nsw-police-20110329-1ce4f.html

Virtual slavery and subsistance clicking thanks to Zynga

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2. iPad2 is so yesterday says competitor

Apple’s iPad tablet computer, widely credited with sparking a global trend and creating a new category of device, has been criticised by senior figures at Dell and Microsoft.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8417530/Apple-iPad-craze-might-not-last-say-Microsoft-and-Dell.html

In other news - it's sold out:

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/tablets/apple-fans-livid-as-ipad-2-sells-out-20110329-1cdvx.html

And iPad 2 parts are hard to come by:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/42146087/Apple_iPad_2_Parts_Squeezed_by_Japan_Quake_Report

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3. World Languages vs Computer Languages

Here is a graphic of where the world's languages originate. Since the 196, however, there has been an explosion of a different class of logical languages for computers - see the graphics:

Computer Languages

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4. Professor Teaches Web Design Fundamentals

We will do a brief quiz Wednesday on the Professor Teaches Web Design Fundamentals Web Design Overview. It teaches the basic terminology of web design. To this end you will also be given homework today. Please work through the chapter and we will do the quiz once everyone is finished the chapter on Wednesday. Questions will be drawn solely from the content of Chapter on Web Design Overview and the homework.