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What is up ahead us right now in gaming
Half a year in the past I posted a list of games that were about to be released. Some were as planned, some were not unfortunately. So I bring you an updated list, hopefully this time game developers will mind more their release dates than before. Release dates I put down are the first ones in the world. Not always the first release date applies for United states or any other country you live in please keep that in mind. The following release dates apply to PC versions only.
- Bioshock 2 - 09 February 2010
- Alien vs. Predator 3 - 16 February 2010
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2 - 02 March 2010
- Assasins creed 2 - 16 March 2010
- METRO 2033: The Last Refuge - 16 March 2010
- Mafia 2 - 31 March 2010
- Saints row 3 - 2nd quarter 2010
- Need for speed: World online - 4th quarter 2010
- Crysis 2 - Expected 2010
- Half life 2 episode 3 - Expected 2010
75% of people are permanently offline
Did you think, these days everyone has internet Because you have it, your friends and family has it, your colleagues at work have it and the guy you spoke yesterday to has to it likely too. Did you also think there is no one left out who would not be able to access billions of sites, articles, images, videos, music tracks, games and so on in one single click? If you did, you were very wrong. As a matter of fact you should feel lucky if you are able to read this article right now. You belong to the minority of people 25%, who have everyday access to the internet and who do not even think that it is a big deal, and how grateful they should be for it. Remaining 75% of people do not have an internet connection, many of them might have never even seen a computer in their whole life.
Obviously the most internet users are in Asia. 740 000 000 Asians are connected to the internet and can enjoy all of its benefits. You might think this value is gigantic. Its not! There are 3.8 billion people in Asia making it only every 5th person being able to go online. The highest percentage of internet usage among the particular population is naturally in North America. Almost 75% of Americans living in the northern continent go online everyday. 250 million out of 340 million. Even there you can see, there is still 90 million people who do not have internet access on daily bases, quite a lot!?
Unfortunately Africa has very bad results in terms of internet usage. Only 6.8% Africans have the internet. One internet connection has to be separated between 14 people theoretically speaking. Can you imaging not having internet right now as you read? Or sharing one computer with your whole highschool class?
Most internet users speak english, 430 million followed by chinese 275 million, than spanish, japanese and french. The values are growing on geometric rate, therefore any of above values are just informative.
17 years old bug in Windows comes to surfice
In the early 90s when Windows was still running the NT 3.1 environment, since then BIOS called a function that caused a vulnerability of the whole system. Back than, it was no big deal, because the internet was in its development stage and so were the viruses. There was less than 1% of viruses and hacker than is today. The vulnerability was so well hidden that it took 17 years to be discovered. The bug basically opens door to hacker who is trying to take over control of your PC, however the door is not that easy to open. This vulnerability can not be abused remotely without previous actions to the system. The alarming fact is that even Windows 7 32 bit version is a carrier of that bug and therefore is vulnerable.
How could it get up to Windows 7?
Even though software is being developed all the time some parts of the programming code remain unchanged until it needs an update or a bug has to be removed. Apparently this particular code was not debugged well enough for 17 years. That can happen, software developers are more than familiar with so called timed bombs - pieces of software that initiate failure or vulnerability only once in a long while (for eg. 17 years).Affected systems
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4
- Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows XP Service Pack 3
- Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2
- Windows Vista, Windows Vista Service Pack 1, and Windows Vista Service Pack 2
- Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems and Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 2*
- Windows 7 for 32-bit Systems
How to solve it?
Link below will certainly help you solve this issue. Even though the nature of this bug is not critical it is advised to deal with it and get rid of it. Put in simple words, the affected system once healed will no longer be allowed to initiate 16 bit applications, this will solve the problem for good. (Dont worry, you are using no 16 bit application any more, those are very outdated and many of them will not even run on todays operating systems)
More about the bug and possible sollution
Mercedes S550 - S600
Mercedes S class has always been the pride of the company, holding the most luxury models of their manufacturing cycle. The S class can be also proud for constant improvement its models are being exposed to. This year Mercedes S class shall bring more advanced high-tech built in systems and increased security. New features that Mercedes S class holds as an ace is 32 valve V8 engine, 7-speed automatic transmission including touch shift. The interior of the car will be supplied with an LED daytime running lamps. LED is quite a new technology and is basically adapted to any environment in which it can save plenty of electricity. The new models will also have tire pressure monitoring system built in. Definitely worth considering since the price is reasonable and the car is elegant.
New Mercedes S class has one more ace in its sleeve. It is going to introduce splitview monitor which will allow 2 different images appear on one screen at once each in a different point of view. The driver will only be able to see the driving software and navigation, however the co-driver could watch movie of his/her choice. Sound will be delivered either by built in speakers or high-end headphones.
SEDAN 5.5L V8 RWD
| Base price | $91,600 |
| Drivetrain | Rear Wheel Drive |
| Horsepower | 382 @ 6000 |
| Torque (lb-ft) | 391 @ 2800 - 4800 |
| Curb Weight (lbs) | 4465 |
What is this language
Does not happen often but if it does its a pickle. You see something or hear something and you cant say what language was it in. LangdId has a solution for you. It offers a very quick to use interface that would determine you a huge variety of languages around the whole world. You can input your text in several different ways which makes it easier and quicker. Not much more to say about it, only its cool and try it out...
LangId - what is this language
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What makes Windows better than Mac OS?
There are several things. I am not going to name them all, but I will certainly state the obvious. What I really dont like are Apple lovers who just would not admit that Windows is still a better operating system and that it has major share of the market. Those Mac lovers would not even consider how much harder Windows it has and still is so much more advanced than any other competition.
1) Windows runs on practically any combination of hardware you choose to have in your computer. There are no restrictions, no unsupported hardware. Mac OS is designed for only a very limited collection of hardware and therefore is not much of use if you are not an owner of at least $1000 Apple MacBook (the cheapest variant).
2) All versions of Windows (mainly XP, Vista, 7) are designed and fully supported to be run on any PC (even Mac). Windows XP will stop being supported in year 2014, approximately 13 years after it was released. Apple decided to stop supporting Mac OS X 10.5 and earlier already. The only supported and sold version officially is OS X 10.6 which isnt even compatible with older Mac hardware, so you cant apply it on your old MacBook or iMac, you have to buy a new one, to get the newest operating system working.
Official prove of point #2
3) Price of Windows is higher than Mac OS. Why? Well if you bought an apple computer you would have spent an awful lot of money on it and so at least the software has to be cheap. Windows is not part of your new computer it is a completely separate product, therefor it is a little bit more expensive than Mac OS. The final price however is much lower if you bought a PC with Windows than a Mac with Mac OS.
4) Mac OS is so easy to use. True. There are many features that are making your life easier when using Mac OS, you dont have to bother much, you dont have to wait long to get something to work, but for what price? As much as you are given lots of cool stuff, the more stuff you loose. Some feature is made very clear and easy to use however some feature is not there at all. Windows might be a little more harder to understand sometimes, hundreds of millions of people use it every day and they are quite all right with it arent they? Windows basically offers much more than Mac OS even if it harder to understand at first.
5) Mac OS works very simply. If something isnt compatible or possible at first it never is and cant be made compatible. With Windows it is more sophisticated. It might not be compatible or work at first moment however you can make it to work in majority of cases. Another plus for Windows. Take it this way. You see some program for Windows and you wanna pop it into your Mac, oops it does not exist for Mac - end of discussion, good bye. If you wanna get something for Windows that you saw on a Mac, no problem, google it and use it the following minute.
Honestly I didnt try to persuade you about Windows, it has its issues too as much as anything else in the World. I was implying the fact that Windows is just better operating system and that Mac OS fanatics should take in consideration more facts to understand it. I like Mac OS, I like Apple product, I love their design, its just beautiful, however I still prefer Windows. And please dont use argument a Mac can run Windows therefore its benefit to Mac. Its benefit to Windows that it has not limitations and can be run even on Mac, Mac OS can be run bug free only on Mac hardware (and newer software does not even run on older hardware)
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Difference between News Feed | Live Feed
A couple of months ago, Facebook has introduced a new hierarchy of posting statuses of your friends. Before there was only a Live feed that showed most recent statuses of people in your friend list. The introduced News feed is more sophisticated than that. (I guess you already figured it out, however someone might not have yet). The News feed is an algorithm that takes in consideration all your actions you do on Facebook, based on that it builds a grid of statuses and events that you might like to see and respond to. For example statuses with many comments are more likely to appear in your News feed, because there is a higher change that you participate in discussion and it is more probable that such status is more interesting that others. Seconds example is, Facebook considers your relationship status and if you are single in the News feed all relationship changes will be listed since you might find interest in those too. The News feed also includes joining of groups and becoming fans of popular pages, the more of your friends become a fan or join a group the higher probability that it will appear in your News feed. The algorithm is surely far more twisted than that, but you see the pattern dont you?
Baba Vanga´s prophecies and World War 3
Baba Vanga was a famous prophet in Bulgaria who has managed to predict a few scenarios that truly happened. She experienced a strong storm when she was a little girl in which she lost her sight but gained her ability. She was even payed for her job as a prophet and visited by many powerful people including Adolf Hitler himself. She has been confirmed to predict death of princes Diana in 1997 quite accurately. In 1989 she also predicted 9/11 2001 disaster of World Trade Center in the particular words:
"Horror, horror! The American brethren will fall after being attacked by the steel birds. The wolves will be howling in a bush, and innocent blood will be gushing."
Baba Vanga claims she is able to communicate with extra terrestrial race called Vamfim. Todays records say that Vanga´s prophecies were 80% correct so far. Sceptics claim that some of the prophecies were written after they have happened since Vanga was not completely literate, therefore verity of such prophecies may be questioned.
2010 prophecy
The future
Baba Vanga's prophecies do not end so soon. Her latest prophecies for the wolds existence to end is dated to year 3797 however a trickle of living organisms (possibly humans) will continue living on a different planet beginning in year 3803. Vanga's final prophecy is assigned to year 5079 which is hypothetical end of the world, which might mean several different things, because living on earth is predicted to end in 3797 so 5079 shall probably mean complete end of general existence of living organisms.
Some of Vanga's more distant future prophecies
- 2023: Change in Earth orbit
- 2043: Economic situation is good. Europe is run by Muslims
- 2076: Communism takes over
- 2088: New disease causing instant aging (Growing old in seconds)
- 2100: Artificial Sun is created and illuminates dark site of the planet
- 2111: People become robots
- 2130: Underwater living is introduced thanks to alien interaction
- 2271: Laws of physics change
- 3797: End of life on planet Earth
- 4304: Discovered cure to win any disease
- 5079: End of world
See also: mendhak, theastralworld, Wikipedia
There are more ways to use condoms
If one says condom, only one thing pops into everyones mind. This video shall lead you out of your mistakes, there are more reasonable ways to use those rubbery things. Condoms have more usages that just the one that they have been particularyly designed for. Dont make fun, maybe this video will reveal something new to you that you have been struggling with however now you found a cheap and reliable solution. Are you ready to consider condoms in more ways that just the one as you did so far?
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