| Jobs DB Singapore | |
|---|---|
| Type | Pte Ltd, subsidiary of Jobs DB Group |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Headquarters | Hong Kong |
| Key People | Steven Seek, Managing Director, Jobs DB Singapore |
| Industry | Recruitment |
| Products | Recruitment, Seminars, Career Talks |
| Employees | 80 |
| Website | www.jobsdb.sg |
Background
Jobs DB Singapore was incorporated in 1999. It is part of the Jobs DB Group, which has other offices in Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand.
Achievements
Awards
Jobs DB Singapore was voted best recruitment website vendor of the year in both 2006 and 2007 , by Human Resources Magazine.
Annual physical career expo
The company held its inaugural JobsDB.com Career Expo 2008 at Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre from 18 - 20 January. It facilitated face-to-face interaction between companies and job applicants. It was reported that over 100,000 people attended the three-day exhibition.
Career Expo 2008 was participated by leading companies from both the public and private sectors including Adidas, Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, Certis Cisco, DBS Bank Limited, Singapore Airlines, and Standard Chartered Bank.
YMYI - You Move You Interact - is an interactive digital art installation created at the University of Minho, Portugal, in the Master in Technology and Digital Art.
YMYI uses emerging techical methods of computer vision and image processing to detect the user's body silhouette in real time. The movements of the body silhouette are tracked and the extreme points of the body are analysed and expressed in a graphical immerse environment. YMYI was fully developed in open source tools: and Super Collider. YMYI was designed to encourage a body performing dialogue with an artificial system. YMYI was created by João Martinho Moura and Jorge Sousa from University of Minho.
YMYI was presented, as a visual performance, in the 2008 International Symposium on Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualisation, and Imaging, in Lisbon, Portugal.
YMYI uses emerging techical methods of computer vision and image processing to detect the user's body silhouette in real time. The movements of the body silhouette are tracked and the extreme points of the body are analysed and expressed in a graphical immerse environment. YMYI was fully developed in open source tools: and Super Collider. YMYI was designed to encourage a body performing dialogue with an artificial system. YMYI was created by João Martinho Moura and Jorge Sousa from University of Minho.
YMYI was presented, as a visual performance, in the 2008 International Symposium on Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualisation, and Imaging, in Lisbon, Portugal.
GeneRally is a freeware arcade racing game created by Hannu and Jukka Räbinä, originally publicly released on May 16, 2002.
The game
Up to six cars (either human or computer-controlled) can race at the same time. Although it features a 3-D graphics engine, GeneRally has a top-down perspective, where you can see all the cars.
GeneRally includes arcade physics, pitstops, customizable racing seasons, ghost car, and an adjustable AI level. An official track editor lets the user put different objects around the track, draw the areas with asphalt, grass, mud, gravel, snow or water, and make elevation changes. There are also many different sound packs and palettes to download which give more variety to the audio and visual parts of the game.
System requirements
GeneRally has relatively low system requirements. To run GeneRally with acceptable quality, a PC should have:
* 200 MHz or faster CPU
* 16 MB or more RAM
* 2 MB or more free hard drive space.
* DirectX compatible display adaptor
* Windows 95 or newer.
* DirectX 8.0 or newer.
* A mouse
* A keyboard.
There is no port of GeneRally for Linux, However, using WINE, and various other programs, it is possible to run GeneRally on Linux.
Other editable materials
Most of GeneRally is customizable.
Drivers
Drivers can be created easily within GeneRally, and each can be assigned to be either a computer-controlled driver or a human-controlled driver. If human-controlled, the commands for Accelerate, Brake, Left, and Right can be assigned to any combination of 4 keys. If computer-controlled, a skill level from 0-200 can be chosen, with 200 being the "most-skilled". Also, each driver can choose primary and secondary colors for themselves, both of which are selected using a "color mixer" which allows 16,777,216 different combinations of color. In total, 281,474,976,710,656 color combinations per driver are possible.
Sound packs
Sound packs may be created by editing .wav sound files. An engine sound (Engine.wav) is the engine sound of the cars. It is possible to have a sound played when the car the player is driving does not have enough fuel to complete 2 more laps of the circuit. The game's two sound packs do not contain a fuel.wav sound, so no sound is played and the player will need to look at a small bar graph on the bottom of the screen to check if he or she is about to run out of fuel.
Language packs
Whilst the game comes with English and Finnish language packs, it is possible to download language packs for a large number of other languages from the official website.
The Greek pack Greek pack is not on the official website, and it requires modification of the font file due to the fact that Greek does not use the Latin alphabet.
Fonts
Various third party fonts for GeneRally are downloadable. However, it is fairly difficult to create new fonts for GeneRally, as the font is stored in a .BMP file rather than a TTF file, but can be achieved by using Microsoft Paint's text tool.
Palettes
There are several .pal palette files available for GeneRally. There are night, rain, autumn, and winter palettes available for GeneRally. However, there are some problems with the palette format as the pit crew's blood is the same colour as the soft walls, so if the soft walls are made green (which is recommended for some tracks so that they can look like hedges) so is the pit crew's blood. Another such problem is that a pallette used to make fences grey to look like Armco can also make tree trunks-which are the same colour-grey.
A palette changer utility is downloadable here.
Non-customisable sections of the game
It is not possible to change the models of in-game objects, or the layout of the user interface.
The racing community
There is a large GeneRally community where players can exchange tracks, lap records and cars (which can be made with fan-made tools). There is even a Track of the Month competition - every month the community nominates which tracks can be candidates for the election, a secret ballot decides the winner of the award.
Despite not having an online play mode, GeneRally has a large competition community. These competitions can take the form of lap-time challenges, replay based races, or AI competitions. The former are judged on data from the .trk file's lap records. "Racing" events, are time trials using computer cars to simulate traffic, then comparing the average speeds of each user. AI competitions are held by assigning each user a computer car to take part in a season of races, sometimes combined with replay timing.
Future development
GeneRally v1.05 is the latest released version of the game, although this does not mean that there will not be an upgrade to the game released at a later time (refer to section 8.1.1 of the GeneRally FAQ). Co-creator Hannu hinted that news related to the future of GeneRally would come out at the end of the summer of 2007. But as of July 2008, this has not materialized.
The game
Up to six cars (either human or computer-controlled) can race at the same time. Although it features a 3-D graphics engine, GeneRally has a top-down perspective, where you can see all the cars.
GeneRally includes arcade physics, pitstops, customizable racing seasons, ghost car, and an adjustable AI level. An official track editor lets the user put different objects around the track, draw the areas with asphalt, grass, mud, gravel, snow or water, and make elevation changes. There are also many different sound packs and palettes to download which give more variety to the audio and visual parts of the game.
System requirements
GeneRally has relatively low system requirements. To run GeneRally with acceptable quality, a PC should have:
* 200 MHz or faster CPU
* 16 MB or more RAM
* 2 MB or more free hard drive space.
* DirectX compatible display adaptor
* Windows 95 or newer.
* DirectX 8.0 or newer.
* A mouse
* A keyboard.
There is no port of GeneRally for Linux, However, using WINE, and various other programs, it is possible to run GeneRally on Linux.
Other editable materials
Most of GeneRally is customizable.
Drivers
Drivers can be created easily within GeneRally, and each can be assigned to be either a computer-controlled driver or a human-controlled driver. If human-controlled, the commands for Accelerate, Brake, Left, and Right can be assigned to any combination of 4 keys. If computer-controlled, a skill level from 0-200 can be chosen, with 200 being the "most-skilled". Also, each driver can choose primary and secondary colors for themselves, both of which are selected using a "color mixer" which allows 16,777,216 different combinations of color. In total, 281,474,976,710,656 color combinations per driver are possible.
Sound packs
Sound packs may be created by editing .wav sound files. An engine sound (Engine.wav) is the engine sound of the cars. It is possible to have a sound played when the car the player is driving does not have enough fuel to complete 2 more laps of the circuit. The game's two sound packs do not contain a fuel.wav sound, so no sound is played and the player will need to look at a small bar graph on the bottom of the screen to check if he or she is about to run out of fuel.
Language packs
Whilst the game comes with English and Finnish language packs, it is possible to download language packs for a large number of other languages from the official website.
The Greek pack Greek pack is not on the official website, and it requires modification of the font file due to the fact that Greek does not use the Latin alphabet.
Fonts
Various third party fonts for GeneRally are downloadable. However, it is fairly difficult to create new fonts for GeneRally, as the font is stored in a .BMP file rather than a TTF file, but can be achieved by using Microsoft Paint's text tool.
Palettes
There are several .pal palette files available for GeneRally. There are night, rain, autumn, and winter palettes available for GeneRally. However, there are some problems with the palette format as the pit crew's blood is the same colour as the soft walls, so if the soft walls are made green (which is recommended for some tracks so that they can look like hedges) so is the pit crew's blood. Another such problem is that a pallette used to make fences grey to look like Armco can also make tree trunks-which are the same colour-grey.
A palette changer utility is downloadable here.
Non-customisable sections of the game
It is not possible to change the models of in-game objects, or the layout of the user interface.
The racing community
There is a large GeneRally community where players can exchange tracks, lap records and cars (which can be made with fan-made tools). There is even a Track of the Month competition - every month the community nominates which tracks can be candidates for the election, a secret ballot decides the winner of the award.
Despite not having an online play mode, GeneRally has a large competition community. These competitions can take the form of lap-time challenges, replay based races, or AI competitions. The former are judged on data from the .trk file's lap records. "Racing" events, are time trials using computer cars to simulate traffic, then comparing the average speeds of each user. AI competitions are held by assigning each user a computer car to take part in a season of races, sometimes combined with replay timing.
Future development
GeneRally v1.05 is the latest released version of the game, although this does not mean that there will not be an upgrade to the game released at a later time (refer to section 8.1.1 of the GeneRally FAQ). Co-creator Hannu hinted that news related to the future of GeneRally would come out at the end of the summer of 2007. But as of July 2008, this has not materialized.
Top Of The Line Electronics is an electronics retailer founded by David and Chasity
Womack, located in Quitman, Louisiana.
History
Top Of The Line Electronics was formed December
2001 during the aftermath of the dot-bust. The company that started out in a small
room in the home of David Womack has grown to became an internet success. When many companies was
leaving the dot-com world, David Womack started to pump money into the new company
in hopes that it would pay off. He first started the company under a partnership
between the now defunct Kwikweb and the highly criticized World Wide Merchant Services
in 2001. The first year was very poor due to the terms of agreement with the two
above mentioned companies. It is said that the agreement was full of falsehoods,
such as a large sum of money collected by WorldWide Merchant services proclaiming
that David Womack was purchasing web space, merchant fees and the use of Kwikweb's
shopping cart. In reality he was paying a heavy price for merchant equipment that
was sent to him and said to be free with the agreement. Documents that had already
been signed by David Womack were edited. A hearing was called and in 2002 the
company was let out of the multi year contract. On the heels of this major let down
it was decided that in order to be successful and continue his dream he needed to
make a move to a new hosting company and completely cut ties with his former
acquaintances. As soon as the site was moved to yahoo, the company found success that
seemed to elude it before. It was now on a much larger platform and customer base to
sell to.
Adversity
With this new customer base came a significant amount of credit
card fraud among other problems. This caused the company to take very hard line against
fraud in 2002, credit card or otherwise. In 2003 the company was cheated out of a good sum of money by one of its major wholesalers that suddenly went out of business, keeping the money to this day.
Today
The company has strived in a Wal-Mart type way to
bring customer low prices, even to the point where they have been threatened to be cut
off by some manufacturers for selling at too low of a price. The company suffered another major setback in
early 2005, when it's founder was involved in a major automobile accident. Because of
the active role he had in running the company, it was in peril for weeks. It is said
that he has since made a full recovery and returned to the day to day operations of
the company.
Significant notes:
*The company was started during the dot-bust when many other online companies were on their way out.
*Overcome many problems in the early years from credit card fraud to using dropship method from manufacturers.
*Sold the controversial TE371 Car Remote Duplicator at a much lower price than retail even underselling gadgetalert.com sparking huge sales and criticism from their parent company that supplied Top Of The Line Electronics the products.
*The first and to date only internet retailer in Quitman, LA
Womack, located in Quitman, Louisiana.
History
Top Of The Line Electronics was formed December
2001 during the aftermath of the dot-bust. The company that started out in a small
room in the home of David Womack has grown to became an internet success. When many companies was
leaving the dot-com world, David Womack started to pump money into the new company
in hopes that it would pay off. He first started the company under a partnership
between the now defunct Kwikweb and the highly criticized World Wide Merchant Services
in 2001. The first year was very poor due to the terms of agreement with the two
above mentioned companies. It is said that the agreement was full of falsehoods,
such as a large sum of money collected by WorldWide Merchant services proclaiming
that David Womack was purchasing web space, merchant fees and the use of Kwikweb's
shopping cart. In reality he was paying a heavy price for merchant equipment that
was sent to him and said to be free with the agreement. Documents that had already
been signed by David Womack were edited. A hearing was called and in 2002 the
company was let out of the multi year contract. On the heels of this major let down
it was decided that in order to be successful and continue his dream he needed to
make a move to a new hosting company and completely cut ties with his former
acquaintances. As soon as the site was moved to yahoo, the company found success that
seemed to elude it before. It was now on a much larger platform and customer base to
sell to.
Adversity
With this new customer base came a significant amount of credit
card fraud among other problems. This caused the company to take very hard line against
fraud in 2002, credit card or otherwise. In 2003 the company was cheated out of a good sum of money by one of its major wholesalers that suddenly went out of business, keeping the money to this day.
Today
The company has strived in a Wal-Mart type way to
bring customer low prices, even to the point where they have been threatened to be cut
off by some manufacturers for selling at too low of a price. The company suffered another major setback in
early 2005, when it's founder was involved in a major automobile accident. Because of
the active role he had in running the company, it was in peril for weeks. It is said
that he has since made a full recovery and returned to the day to day operations of
the company.
Significant notes:
*The company was started during the dot-bust when many other online companies were on their way out.
*Overcome many problems in the early years from credit card fraud to using dropship method from manufacturers.
*Sold the controversial TE371 Car Remote Duplicator at a much lower price than retail even underselling gadgetalert.com sparking huge sales and criticism from their parent company that supplied Top Of The Line Electronics the products.
*The first and to date only internet retailer in Quitman, LA