The Most Intriguing Billionaire Heiresses

It used to be heiresses just lunched, shopped and partied. Don’t tell the $20 billion babies on Forbes’ list of the 20 Most Intriguing Billionaire Heiresses, who defy the stereotype of the bon-bon popping princess thanks to achievements in business, sports and the arts.

Though society and gossip columns track them like Hollywood starlets, these women distinguish themselves by exhibiting the tenacity and risk-taking that makes their parents the most powerful people on Earth. Not all are success stories — it may take a lifetime for these women to match their parents’ legacies.

Forbes editors — our very own “wealth experts” — compiled the list. Under 40 and hailing from around the world, the heiresses are ranked according to their father’s or mother’s most recent net worth on either Forbes’ World’s Billionaires list, the Forbes 400 list of the Richest Americans or Forbes Asia’s 40 Richest Indians.

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How the Internet Came to Be

Vinton Cerf, as told to Bernard Aboba

Copyright (C) 1993 Vinton Cerf. All rights reserved. May be
reproduced in any medium for noncommercial purposes.

This article appears in “The Online User’s Encyclopedia,”
by Bernard Aboba, Addison-Wesley, November 1993,
ISBN 0-201-62214-9

 
The birth of the ARPANET

My involvement began when I was at UCLA doing graduate work from
1967 to 1972. There were several people at UCLA at the time
studying under Jerry Estrin, and among them was Stephen Crocker.
Stephen was an old high-school friend, and when he found out
that I wanted to do graduate work in computer science, he
invited me to interview at UCLA.

When I started graduate school, I was originally looking at
multiprocessor hardware and software. Then a Request For
Proposal came in from the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency, DARPA. The proposal was about packet switching, and it
went along with the packet-switching network that DARPA was
building.

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Damn!

 

My semster’s mid-term exams are on and after two papers cold caught me and the fever is killing me now. With 103 temperature I went for the 3rd paper .. but survived … today was the 4th paper and it made my condition the worst! Before going to university today in the morning I checked the temperature it was 98 and I started feeling strong again .. today cool breeze caught me again and now the temperature is 104 … GOD i’m in pain … now tomorrow is my 5th and last paper and I dont know what will happen .. will I be ready to take the risk again or not … and in bonus to all .. after exams I dont have any days off. Just one Sunday break and from Monday again classes.

Please pray for me!

 

 

AdSense do’s and dont’s. Mostly dont’s.

1) Comply Google AdSense program policy !!!
2) Don’t change AdSense code given. AdSense offers variety of choices when creating an ad. You can use any color you want (not only those in palette, but you can input any HEX code). If you want even a slightest change (e.g. just border color, channel name), it won’t be hard for you to login to your AdSense account and apply the changes.
3) NEVER, I repeat NEVER click on your own ads. This is well known. Google will ban you for this by certain. However, if you accidentally click on your ad - no need to worry - just make sure it doesn’t happen again! If it does, you should contact googleThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .
4) Never ask friends and cousins to click on your ads. This is similar to above. Program Policy clearly states that visitor must click on an ad from genuine interest in it.
5) Use content-based pages only. It is against the rules to put an AdSense on a page that does not have content on it.

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Object Oriented Programming C++, C#

Important Question Answers of OOP.

What is a class?
Class is concrete representation of an entity. It represents a group of objects, which hold similar attributes and behavior. It provides Abstraction and Encapsulations.

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What is an Object? What is Object Oriented Programming?
Object represents/resembles a Physical/real entity. An object is simply something you can give a name. Object Oriented Programming is a Style of programming that represents a program as a system of objects and enables code-reuse.

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What is Encapsulation?
Encapsulation is binding of attributes and behaviors. Hiding the actual implementation and exposing the functionality of any object. Encapsulation is the first step towards OOPS, is the procedure of covering up of data and functions into a single unit (called class). Its main aim is to protect the data from out side world.

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What is Abstraction?
Hiding the complexity. It is a process of defining communication interface for the functionality and hiding rest of the things.

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Visual C# Code: Display System Processes

This sample code will display all the processes information on the system.

using System; using System.Diagnostics; class ListProcs { public static void Main() { int totMemory = 0; Console.WriteLine(”Info for all processes:”); Process[] allProcs = Process.GetProcesses(); foreach(Process thisProc in allProcs) { string procName = thisProc.ProcessName; DateTime started = thisProc.StartTime; int procID = thisProc.Id; int memory = thisProc.VirtualMemorySize; int priMemory = thisProc.PrivateMemorySize; int physMemory = thisProc.WorkingSet; totMemory += physMemory; int priority = thisProc.BasePriority; TimeSpan cpuTime = thisProc.TotalProcessorTime; Console.WriteLine(”Process: {0}, ID: {1}”, procName, procID); Console.WriteLine(” started: {0}”, started.ToString()); Console.WriteLine(” CPU time: {0}”, cpuTime.ToString()); Console.WriteLine(” virtual memory: {0}”, memory); Console.WriteLine(” private memory: {0}”, priMemory); Console.WriteLine(” physical memory: {0}”, physMemory); } Console.WriteLine(”\nTotal physical memory used: {0}”, totMemory); } } Â

How to run Visual C++ (based on RTC API) on Microsoft Windows Vista

To run follows these three easy steps.

1. Get RTC API 1.3 SDK, and install it. at the end it will ask you to run RTCAPISetup.exe present at [program files]\RTC Client Apiv1.3 SDK \Installation folder. goto the folder just negect it and isntall 2nd file present in the same directory i.e. RTCSxSPolicies.exe. 

2. In the same folder you will find MergeModules folder. Develop an empty Setup Project in visual studio.net and add one merge module from a list of 26. I have added EN-US. Build your project. Now run this setup on your target window vista. 

3. In the same Installation folder you will find Example.exe.Manifest. Just named it according to your project as abc.exe.manifest. and place it in same folder where your project exe is. 

now run your executable file. It will work

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