Saturday, December 26, 2009
Buddhabot development
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he two year old Artificial Intelligence (AI) known as the Buddhabot began answering questions on Yahoo! Answers site last week. Yahoo Answers is a Web 2.0 site with a social content rating system reminiscent of Digg. The Buddhabot has so far answered 102 questions and eleven have been selected as the best answer. The Buddhabot is the first and only AI to compete with human beings to provide the best answers on Yahoo Answers new social networking site.
One winning answer was posted in response to the human question, "why is comedy part of who we are -- does god have a sence(sic) of humour??"
Out of 26 human responses the following Buddhabot reply was chosen by an impartial unrelated asker as the best response,
In either case, Gelsinger points out that the energy savings from a Climate Savers device would pay for the higher cost within two years.
intel core duo
NaturalNews) Yesterday, Intel Corp. announced the arrival of its Core 2 Duo, a processor that the company described as its most important product since the Pentium processor released in 1993.
The Core 2 Duo marks a change in Intel's approach to chip making, as the company admitted it had hit a technical wall since its 1990s dominance, which was powered by the huge leap in speed that the Pentium processor offered.
Now the company has focused on shrinking circuitry, allowing them to affix two computing engines to a single piece of silicon, which gives computers as much as 40 percent improved performance while still emitting less heat, the company says.
Intel Chief Executive Paul S. Otellini said that the company planned to ship at least one million chips out in the next two months, which would get them into the PCs of computer
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"Today, the average desktop PC wastes nearly half of its power, and the average server wastes one-third of its power," said Urs Hölzle, Google's senior vice president of operations. "The Climate Savers Computing Initiative is setting a new 90 percent efficiency target for power supplies, which if achieved, will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 54 million tons per year."
According to Hölzle, this reduction would be equivalent to removing 11 million cars from the road.
The initiative has taken the U.S. government's 2007 Energy Star guidelines at its starting point, but plans to eventually surpass them. For example, the guidelines require that all Energy-Star-certified personal computer power supplies be 80 percent efficient, whereas the Climate Savers Computing Initiative aims to hit 90 percent by 2010.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
windows
From the Windows standpoint, the slide show application is a very simple SDI (Single Document Interface) application. CchildView::OnPaint() displays a GDI Image object that represents the current image. The other events and commands are all handled in the CMainFrame class, which implements the top level main frame window of the application.
The ImageSource class handles retrieving pictures from one of several components and presenting the images in sequence.
When a memory stick, flash card, or USB hard drive is inserted or removed, the Windows system automatically sends WM_DEVICECHANGE messages to the top level window of each application. CMainFrame::OnDeviceChange() sorts out the messages that signal media insertion and removal. The Slide Show application responds to the insertion by attempting to display picture files in the root folder.