Today, on 20th November 2009, Google released the source code for its much hyped Chrome OS! Yes, the wait is almost over. During the presentation, public was given first look of how the Chrome OS will look on netbooks.
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Pathfinding is a pretty important aspect of any game. Be it a first person shooter or real time strategy. It literally means getting an AI controlled unit from point a to point b.
It is actually one of the more difficult things to get right in a game. A programmer needs to code for possible chokes in a path (units crowding into a bottle neck thereby blocking the path temporarily), danger in an area (a bad guy deciding if it’s a good idea to take the shortest path available or take a safer path in which chances of getting hit are less) and so on.
Such pathfinding problems, i.e. finding the quickest and safest path, are faced by real military strategists as well. [Click to Continue Reading…]
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TCP/IP is the oldest and by far the most popular protocol used for communication on Internet. I implemented this protocol during my internship. It is advised to implement UDP/IP protocol first then implementing TCP/IP protocol as the former is easier to implement. The code for TCP/IP in half duplex mode is as follow.
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UDP/IP is a famous protocol used for voice and video communication. It is easy to implement as compared to TCP/IP protocol as it doesn’t require handshaking signals for establishing communication. But it can loose data packets as you have no way to know if all the data packets have reached the destination. Code for UDP/IP protocol implemented in C/C++ working in half duplex mode is given below.
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Intel has resealed an animation showing the fabrication of an Intel Processor from sand. This small video shows how are impurities removed from, sand converted to silicon on which a Processor is grown and fabrication.
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Google is now a more safe place for children to search in. With the launch of Google safe search option you can filter adult content and sexually explicit website from the search results google returns, in image and web searches, providing a more safer search engine.
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