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Well as you may have noticed the updates around here are very few and far between. That’s why I have come to the decision of employing a blogger to publish interesting and unique posts on here just like MINE

If you want to apply just email me at papa.face @ gmail.com (no spaces). Past experience would be beneficial and please state how much you would expect. No time wasters please.

I am looking to hire someone with immediate effect.

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Computers cannot interpret human languages. They have their own language which is known as binary language. It is the language of 0’s and 1’s. So to command or program a computer to get the desired results one had to first convert the program from human language to the binary language. This was done by converting each line of the program into binary language and feed it into the memory line by line. This was how the computers in those days were programmed.

Shortly after the invention of John Von Neumann’s models, the first ever programming language to be programmed on an electronic device named Short Code was devised in the year 1949 A.D. In this language human help was needed to convert the program into binary language and feed it into the memory. This job of converting the program line by line into binary language was proving to be a tedious and time consuming work.

This is when the compiler was invented. The first compiler was named A-0 by its inventor, Mr. Grace Hopper in the year 1951 A.D. A compiler is a program which automatically converts the human language into the machine understandable language that is the binary language. The invention of the compiler made programming simple and very efficient. Now a lot of time was saved as the machine could itself translate human language into the machine readable language and the programmer was saved from the tedious job of interpreting.

In the year 1957 A.D. the first major programming language which appeared due to the inventions and work of earlier scientists was FORTRAN-FORmula TRANslating. This programming language was invented by International Business Machines (IBM). They invented FORTRAN for computing science related queries. The language was a breakthrough in programming. It was a big step towards the start of making high end languages. Today FORTRAN is nothing compared to modern languages because it contained limited commands such as DO, GOTO and IF statements, but these commands were innovative in those days.

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In 1945 a revolutionizing concept was invented which would change the way programming was performed. A scientist named John Von Neumann working at the prestigious Institute for Advanced studies in Princeton, New Jersey created two programming models. John named the models as “Shared Program Technique” and “Conditional Control Transfers”.

John was very concerned about the fact that the ENIAC was a success even though it used a lot of technology that was similar to the previous technologies. The ENIAC was a computer that had a complicated structure and was of undefined physical dimensions. Sometimes the computers were so large that they would occupy an entire floor. John suggested that a computer should have a simple structure and its size should be smaller than usual.

This is what John has tried explaining in the “Shared Program Technique” model. He created awareness among people that a computer need not be as large as they used to be at that time. He also told them that a computer can be a lot faster if they are programmed in a complicated structure instead of the simple mechanism that was used to design them those days. These ideas gave way to the high speed computers of today’s generation.

The main idea behind this kind of programming was to keep the computer busy all the time. As the computers of those days used to perform a single operation at a time and then used to enter wait state till the next instruction is received. So with the help of “Shared Program Technique” subroutines were created which helped in programming the computer so that it will be in busy state most of the time for the optimum utilization of the processor.

In the second model viz, “Conditional Control Transfer”, John informs us that instead of performing the program in a specific sequence i.e. line after line, there should be use of jump statement. He also suggests the use of conditional programming which is popularly known by IF-ELSE loop in today’s world. With the help of these two models the computers became much more efficient and

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The first ever machine which calculated the difference between numbers was developed by Charles Babbage.  This machine evolved with time and is called a computer nowadays. The machine which Charles Babbage invented used to perform only one operation i.e. calculating difference between numbers. This instruction which tells the machine that it has to calculate difference between two numbers is called programming.

Earlier programming languages were a lot different than today’s. In those days the programming languages were to be embedded line by line into the processor and then execute. They were able to execute only one program at a time as the memory available was minimal. Programming languages of the previous five decades have arrived in two phases; namely primary major language and secondary major language. The latter one is what we use nowadays.

The machine that was developed by Charles Babbage used gears for executing the calculation i.e. Charles’ difference engine was only useful if the gears were changed physically. The computers of yesteryears used physical motion for the execution of programs. This method changed in 1942 with the invention of ENIAC. ENIAC was developed by the US government who were successful in replacing the physical motion by electrical signals. In the new machine’s working many of the principles were same as Babbage’s. The only way the mechanism could be programmed was by resetting the controls and rewiring the complete structure, which was very tedious.

In 1945, the Institute of Advanced Study developed two significant models in the field which straightforwardly changed the way coding languages worked in those days. The project was headed by John Von Neumann who was working at the institute. The first model was named “The Shared Program Technique” by the Institute. John named the second model as “Conditional Control Transfers”. These two models were about to change the entire system of programming in those days and give way to new age programming concepts.

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C is a general purpose computer coding language which works closely with hardware. C was invented by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson with the help of their team mates at AT&T Bell Lab’s USA in the year 1969 but major development was made in the language in the year 1973 when it was actually published under the title “The C Programming Language”, the same year.

One would wonder why Dennis and Ken named the language as C. The reason is that in the process of developing the language they had taken a lot of features from the existing language which was called B. So the language which they created was an advanced version of the B language, which is why they named their language C, funnily.

C is a basic language which is the building block of mostly all the languages present today. The language is platform independent. That means C does not need any specific platform for running. It can work on any operating system. There are many compilers which run C. As the language works close to the hardware it uses minimal space. Also the language is easy to understand as it has a user friendly language.

If one wants to become a programmer, this is the first language he should learn. Also nowadays in academics, this language is made compulsory in computer studies. All the new languages like Java, Microsoft .Net and many other languages have used C language as their building mechanism. All these languages are easy to learn if one has knowledge of the C language.

The boundary of C language is vast. It s not limited to just programming of applications. In fact it is also used in graphical applications. There are many games which uses high end graphics built using the language. The C language is so old compared to modern languages but despite that it still it stands apart from all these powerful languages.

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One of the major labels in the music industry (Sony BMG) has decided to remove the DRM protection on their MP3s.
Sony BMG is the last of the major record labels to cave in to the removal of DRM.

It is predicted that this will put a strain on Apple’s position in the music industry as we all know that iTunes relies heavily on the DRM protection it uses on every song downloaded.

Amazon is now likely to take some of Apple’s market as they’re in the process of releasing DRM-Free music, something that is much more appealing to any music lover.

Apple of course, has the iPod to fall back on. With the iPod being the most popular MP3 player at the moment which is tied to iTunes, maybe they will keep a firm grasp on the music industry after all….

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Many people consider Thomas Edison to be one of the worlds greatest inventors of all time. With 1,093 US patents to his name you’d be right in thinking that. However Nikola Tesla was in a league of his own.
Nikola Tesla has around 700 patents awarded to him, but his inventions were revolutionary for the 20th century. He is sometimes considered to be the “man who invented the twentieth century” because his inventions have such a profound affect on our lives today.
Watch the videos below to see what I mean, they’re very interesting. (try to ignore the screaming woman in the intro to the programme lol)

Enjoy

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Getting started with what you say?

Getting started to your own blog…

Oh, that’s sounds awesome… wait… what is a blog?

A blog is a personal site that is dedicated to news or articles that are about one or many given subjects.

Now I’m interested, but what would my blog be about?

Well, first start off with your hobbies. Do you often play the Playstation 3 or your xbox 360? Maybe you like hunting, fishing, trap shooting? Most common blogs are about peoples life directly. What they did at school, or updates on their work activities. For instance, PapaFace.com is a blog directed in Web Design.

Ok, I figured out what I want my blog to be about… where do I start?

Well first, the easiest blogging system I have ever ran into was Google Blogs… called Blogger.

Blogger however limits your templating and coding spectre.

Ok, I’ve used Blogger, but as you said… I am limited on what I can do.

Ok, go ahead and grab a cheap little host.

As a customer of this host… http://www.aptohost.com/ I am obligated to recommend them! Sure the template is sloshy, but they are 100% a great host.

Then go ahead and zoom over to one of these sites (no selected order except for word press because it’s by far the best)

http://wordpress.org/ (The greatest blog tool ever)
http://www.blogphp.net/ (Kind of sloshy, but easy for custom upgrades)
http://www.kubelabs.com/kubeblog/ (Nice little blogging tool, very nice)
http://www.publicwarehouse.co.uk/php_scripts/lightblog.php (Again, sloshy, but easy for custom upgrades)

Ok, I’ve installed the one I chose. Loving it! Now how do I get more people to view my blog…

Ok, there is quite a few methods to gaining hits on your blog.

1) If your signed up to a community forum, go ahead and leave your URL in your signature. Give it some color so it stands out.
2) Add it to some RSS feeds and blog directories according to your blog category.
3) Add some downloads that match up to your site, there is always some freeloaders and they love free stuff!
4) If you have some money, add some advertisements to frequently viewed websites.
5) Send a huge e-mail to everyone on your list explaining how cool your blog is and how it might give them cancer (don’t really say that, it’s not that funny) if they don’t visit your blog.

Thanks Justin, I want to send you some money for helping me.

I can’t accept any donations of any sort, I love helping people. Just send me a link to your blog!

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The Dutch are a crazy bunch, but I didn’t think they were this crazy. Okay, so the country is getting a bit crowded and because of global warming the sea is rising and eating away at the coastline, but what do you do? You could encourage people not to do the ‘business’ so the population will steady off a little. Or you could build sea defences. But building a whole new island? I understand why they want to do it. The new island will create lots of new room for people to live. It will also act as a shield to protect the actual country itself. But here is the interesting bit, they have decided to make it in the shape of a tulip!

It may seem a bit strange, but the Dutch know their stuff when it comes to water and land. The USA asked for some advice when Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, the Dutch have also helped India and China with their water problems.

Some people think that they are making the island into a recognised shape for publicity, and attention. I can image there will be some property developers eagerly watching this!

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Part of me wants to keep sorry for this obviously confused animal, but half of me want to join in with the fun. The video shows a deer that has been caught up in a swing. It looks like its antlers have got caught, and it is trying to get free. I wonder how long it was there swinging around?

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If you have seen Terminator, you will know what I am talking about. The T100 rises up from the liquid goo and becomes his evil robot self. Well, they have done the just that…but with pigs. There pigs gets splattered on the floor, then rise up and become exactly what they were before. It is rather freaky to be honest. I have no idea what it is made of, or if it is legal! Take a look.

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This is rather interesting! South Korean scientists have cloned cats by manipulating a fluorescent protein gene, a procedure which could help develop treatments for human genetic diseases. However, a side-effect is that the cloned cats glow in the dark when exposed to ultraviolet beams. The cats were born in January and February. One was stillborn while two others grew to become adults. The technology can also help clone endangered animals like tigers, leopards and wildcats.

“The ability to produce cloned cats with the manipulated genes is significant as it could be used for developing treatments for genetic diseases and for reproducing model (cloned) animals suffering from the same diseases as humans,” a scientist added.

Maybe we could get a couple of these for Christmas and stick then on a roof or something!

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…for me anyway. Today was an average day, nothing unusual. I got up at the same time, had breakfast and the usual morning business…and then it happened. I walked outside and there was a chill in the air. The grass crunched beneath my feet and then I noticed something…strange.

My car which I had bought a couple of months back didn’t look the same. It was white. Covered in ice and frost. This is the first time it has happened to me as I only started driving a couple of months back. I casually got into my car and put the heating on, thinking the heat would melt the ice within minutes and I would be off on my merry way. But I waited a while and nothing was happening. I decided to put the window wipers on, it only slid across the frost which wasn’t very helpful. I tried to get the windows down but they were jammed.

I sat there for a while. I had to pick a friend up and I was already a couple of minutes late. I decided to get some cold water and pour it over the windows as I had seen someone do it before. It cleared the front screen, but the side windows were still iced up. I had to go otherwise I would have been late. I started driving and when I came to the end of the road I realised I couldn’t actually see if a car was coming or not. So I sat there for a few more minutes and eventually got the window down so I had a good view even though I was shivering like a cow.

As the journey continued the ice removed itself from my car and all was well. I have now set my alarm 10 minutes earlier in case I have to so the same again tomorrow. Winter is my favourite time of the year, but sometimes it can be bloody annoying!

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Around 100 years ago people realised that the number of whales in the world was going down quite rapidly, this was due to hunting. Whales could be used to make soap, umbrellas, handbags, shoes, lipstick, shaving cream, tennis racket strings and pet food. Although a highly useful animal, its numbers were declining so something had to be done. So a number of organisations were put in place to help stop, or slow down these huntings. Eventually in 1994 all of the countries got together to decide to stop hunting whales. Everyone agreed apart from Norway, Japan and Iceland who said they needed to hunt whales for ’scientific reasons’. They have since been hunting whales every year in the hundreds, so the people at Greenpeace decided to try and do something.

They decided to tag a humpback whale, and follow as it enters the Southern Oceans, otherwise known as the hunting grounds. They decided to get the public involved so they introduced a competition so that people could name the whale. ( I mean if the whale ended up getting murdered the public could scream ‘YOU KILLED JEFF’ or whatever). The competition got around 11,000 names, which was reduced to 20, one of those included Mr Splashy Pants. The name gained a lot of attention. Sites such as BoingBoing.com posted the story. Reddit even changed their logo to include Mr Splashy Pants in the title. Eventually, over 130,000 people voted, 78 per cent of them for Mr Splashy.

There are now SAVE MR SPLASHY PANTS petitions all over the web, and the Japanese will get more than an outcry if he ends up being made into an umbrella. That I am sure of.

MR SPLASHY PANTS!

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A new trailer for Jumper has arrived on the internet, and is a vast improvement from the teaser trailer we got a couple of months ago. You can watch the trailer below:

The film is about a boy/man, placed by Hayden Christensen, who learns he can teleport from place to place. There are shots in the trailer that show him in on the Sphinx in Egypt, Big Ben in London and the Colosseum in Rome. There is Samuel L Jackson who seems to be in every film made. He plays a villain type person in the film, who can prevent Hayden from teleporting. And with every Hollywood blockbuster there is the love interest, played by O.C. actress Rachel Bilson.

The film will be released in February so watch out for it. I would have expected it to be released sometime in the summer as a ’summer blockbuster’ but it seems they want to get it out early so it has hardly any competition. If it were to be released a bit later it would have Batman, Iron Man and The Hulk to deal with. Yikes!

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I didn’t actually think about this until now, but showers are rather boring. You stand there while water is poured onto you. I have regular showers and I didn’t realise how boring it was, because I didn’t know there were alternatives. There is the bath but they are not convenient. My eyes have been opened a little after finding out about this…

The thing you see to your right is known as a ‘fog shower’ and was made by a student at Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Parana in Brazil. Normal shower heads consume 26 liters of water for a five minute shower. By creating a fog of microscopic water droplets, the Fog Shower consumes only two liters of water for a five minute shower. It also looks rather cool.

The Fog Shower reduces water consumption by creating a vapor flow with microscopic water droplets. The water is heated and sent under pressure to an ultrasonic vaporizer, and is then forced through perforated metal plates. An intelligent sensor system aims the water vapor in different angles, depending on the movements of the person showering.

I want one!

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You would expect that if your wife wanted you to retire from your job, she would sit you down and talk to you about it. However, this is not always the case.

A woman in New York had marijuana in the house to ease her back pain, and decided to spike her husbands meal with it. The meal turned out to be meatballs. I am sure he enjoyed it, as would any meal ball loving person. Being a cop it is required that he have random drugs tests, and when it came to his he failed, and was fired after 22 years of service. The man, named Anthony Chiofalo has decided to sue to try and get his job back.

Mrs Chiofalo told investigators she had put enough marijuana for six cigarettes in her meatball recipe. She told the court that she just wanted her husband “not to die of a heart attack or get killed” while still in service. But she was fine putting drugs in his food? I wonder what words were exchanged when he found out that it was his wife ‘who dun it’.

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Will Smith is a great movie star. He may play himself is almost every movie, but he is a ’star’. He has gone from TV sitcoms to leading huge blockbusters such as I,Robot, Independence Day and upcoming I Am Legend. So you would think after all his years of playing the Hollywood game he would not break an important golden rule…don’t reveal the ending of your movie before it is even released.

Will Smith was in Tokyo at a press conference for the film, and randomly revealed the plot to the film, along with the ending. At one point, he even had film co-producer and co-screenwriter Akiva Goldsman shouting “Don’t give away the ending.” The reps who work for Warner Brothers had to ask the press not to reveal anything, as the film will be released within a couple of weeks.

Some people are wondering whether Will Smith actually made a huge mistake, or whether it was a publicity stunt. I mean it has people talking about it and the fact that the plot ‘could not be revealed’ makes me want to see it 5% more. The film itself is based on a novel, involving a virus that spreads and turns living things into vampire zombie things. Will Smith, however, is the immune action hero who has to find a cure and save the world. The trailer below gives you a better idea of what it is about, and Will Smith revealing the details would be rather devastating for the film, as it depends on mystery to get buts on seats.

The film is out in the UK on the 21st December. Personally, I will be seeing this and will be looking forward to a scene that apparently cost $5 million to make!

Here is the trailer:

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Everyone gets into a bit of debt at some point in their life. Sometimes this causes checks to bounce which can be a small wake up call that you need to do something. But imagine being told you owe $211,010,028,257,303.00. That is what what happened to a man called Joe Martins.

He decided to close his bank account, so he paid off the small debt he owed the bank, and got a big surprise when he opened the confirmation letter. Joe said “… I open up the letter and I look at it and I’m like, ‘No, you’ve got to be kidding me’. I didn’t know what to think. Obviously $211 trillion is a little above what I put in my bank account.”

$211 trillion is a huge amount of money, around 80 times what Bill Gates earns in a year. The bank have blamed a word processing error and are sending Joe an apology. I think he made the right decision closing his account, don’t you?

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I don’t know whether anyone has been following the Writers Guild of America strike over in the US, but it has been going on for around a month now. It hasn’t really affected me over in the UK. In fact, it hasn’t affected me at all. However, it does have an impact on television over in the US. They have been playing repeat after repeat after repeat of talk shows that require writers to come up with topical jokes.

The writers are taking a stand and want money from DVD’s and something called ‘the internet’, which is fair enough. Why should the studios get paid gazillions when the writers only get a small % of the profits? However, a problem with the writers striking is that shows have to shut down. This means that all the people behind the scenes are out of work. The make-up girl, the assistants and even the coffee guy all paying the price, while the writers strike because they want more millions.

A good soul named Conan O’Brian who hosts his own talk show, has took it upon himself to PAY for those people who have not been paid since the strike began. I don’t know whether he is doing it for the brownie points, so he can turn around and say ‘I am paying you dammit, work!’, or whether it is because he feels for the people who work on his show, and has a stupid amount of money to help them.

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