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Rishoo Mittal
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Google introduced the next generation of interaction with its Android operating system by introducing a set of new features. The most prominent one is the voice-driven actions. Google executives outlined 12 new 'Voice Actions for Android,' including phone calls, reminder e-mails, direction search, and music search. The app is called 'Voice Search,' requires Android 2.2, and is available in the Android Market now. Voice actions can be triggered by clicking the 'microphone' icon on the screen. Saying 'call John Smith at home' will trigger the contacts list and voice dialer, 'find art museums in Amsterdam' would launch a Google Maps application, and 'listen to Ace of Base' will search for music from the artist on Pandora, Last.fm, or another music application. Another improvement worth a mention is 'Chrome to Phone,' allows users to click on a new 'mobile phone' icon to send links, YouTube videos, even directions, to the phone. So far, the features are exclusive to Android phones and US English, although the capabilities will be moved to other languages and other operating systems (including the iPhone) in the future
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Consultant - Understanding the Job
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Rishoo Mittal
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IPSC 2010
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Rishoo Mittal
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Roughly a thousand teams from all around the globe have already registered for IPSC 2010 , which takes place on Sunday, June 6. $3,000 in prize money (courtesy of Facebook, Inc.) is waiting for the best few of them. Participation is free and the contest is open to everybody. IPSC is what you could call a programming contest with a twist. Over the years, the problems always push the boundary and go beyond the usual stuff you see in a programming contest. For example, in past few years the contestants have had to understand how arithmetic in computers differs from that in mathematics, produce a sequence of cache requests that generates many page faults, solve a logic puzzle given as a Flash game, and recognize images to evaluate a rock-paper-scissors game.
The bug in the name of the C++ language.
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Rishoo Mittal
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From the internet, a popular quote goes like this: "Of course, while it is true that the ++ operator gives the C++ language its name, it also led to the first joke about the language. C++ haters point out that even the name of the language contains a bug: 'After all, it should really be called ... ++C, because we only want to use a language after it has been improved.' " We will now see why this joke is so absolutely hilarious. int main() { int x = 40; int y = ++x + 1; std::cout << x << '\n' << y; } Output: x = 41, y = 42. The pre-increment operator first increments the value of x (the ++) and then stores it in the variable. Hence, when the code is executed, x becomes 41 AFTER being assigned to y . The post-increment works the other way, the value is first stored in the lvalue before being assigned to the rvalue of the variable being incremented. int main() { int x = 40; int y = x++ + 1; std::cout <&l
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