One of my friend forwarded me an email which subject "Interview with God". Interested by the subject line, wanted to read that email completely. Read it. Awesome one! Searched in Live search for "Interview with God"! Got this wonderful website.

http://www.theinterviewwithgod.com/viewmovie.html

Praise the Lord! Trust in God, you will always win.  I do remember coming through this verse somewhere, not sure where it is.

"Don't ask God for the things you want, always ask God for things you DESERVE"

If you didn't get the thing you asked for, God has certainly more than that which you DESERVE.

Heard about prepaid mobiles, what is a prepaid PC? I know you must be thinking hard about this. Simple. Microsoft FlexGo presents Pay-As-You-Go computers - prepaid computers! This gives the flexibilities for the users in emerging markets like India, China, etc where people work with a very less paychecks, but wish to own a Vista powered PC.

Check this site http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/flexgo/payasyougo.mspx for more details about prepaid PCs.

This is what Frederico Trajono thinks about this:

"Sometimes great ideas are not feasible in practice, but the pay-as-you-go PC project proved quite the contrary. All the machines that we made available for sale in this initial stage were sold. In some cases we even had waiting lists! Even more important for the feasibility of the project, the level of PC usage by clients is meeting our initial expectations."

Robert McLaws talks about Free software in his blog post here. Wonderful post. He just said the truth of life. How will be the software engineers will be paid if the world continue to support Free Softwares? To some extent, free softwares should be there. I mean, to the extent of getting some goddies after you buying an expensive product in a showroom. That is okay with me. But that expensive product which is being developed after putting a lot of man hours of work, should be sold, not thrown as free.

Write softwares, Sell them, don't throw them for free, if you feel you had put a lot of efforts / man power into the development. Enough said! Comments welcome!

Microsoft also support the idea of OpenSource to the applications developed.

http://www.codeplex.com is a wonderful site where you can see a lot of activities / initiatives / development happening on OpenSource softwares / utilities.

Problem

You have 2 arrays, one array A contains 20000 nos and all numbers are distinct and are in random order. Second array B contains 19999 numbers and it is the subset of the array A. Find the number which is in A but not in B.

Answer

Use XOR and compexity is O(n)

@algo

Let arr1 and arr2 be the arrays with 20000 and 19999 elements respectively.

int temp=0;

for(int j=0;j<20000;j++)
    temp^=arr1[j]; ///Is O(n)

for(int j=0;j<19999;j++)
   temp^=arr2[j]; ////Is also O(n)

Now temp contains the missing element.

PS : I got this problem / algorithm from one of my friend. And here is my sample C# code which verifies it, I have used the arrays of sizes 5 and 4:

using System;
namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
class Program
{
 static void Main(string[] args)
 {
   int[] arr1 = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 };
   int[] arr2 = { 1, 3, 4, 5 };
   int temp = 0 ;

   for (int j = 0; j < 5; j++)
      temp ^= arr1[j]; ///Is O(n)

   for (int j = 0; j < 4; j++)
      temp ^= arr2[j]; ////Is also O(n)

   Console.WriteLine(temp);
   Console.ReadKey();
 }
}
}

The output is : 2

I know everyone using Zune will love this. Here is the site which gives you some soapbox videos for your zune!

http://soapbox.msn.com/zune

Here is the screenshot of the website:

Currently Soapbox site works on invite. Let me know if you need an invite to use this great video uploading site from Microsoft under MSN brand.

Finally, the much awaited feature is now available. You can now watch Soapbox videos in your Messenger chat window with your friend. Cool, isn't it?

This post has more information on this. Enjoy!

            

The new Microsoft.com homepage is out! It look awesome! AJAXified! See the following screenshot!

And the piece which made me to scream was,

Click on Products & Related Technologies and click on the thumbnail view, you will see the awesome page! Nicely AJAXified.

Well done Folks!

This is a great question, but I have a very simple obvious answer for this. As I always go with Microsoft. I prefer to use IE7 than Mozilla.

Just read an article from Readwriteweb.com. This talks about the browser war! Opinitons may differ, but no one has a different thought on this.. Microsoft's user base is huge!

How about you folks?

If you are looking for an article which explains the basic windows debugging tools and commands, this article is a good start.

http://www.codeproject.com/debug/windbg_part1.asp#_Toc64133684

This is an article written by Saikat Sen.

http://www.codeproject.com/debug/ has a lot of articles to start learning about windows debugging!

Happy Debugging!

Recently in The Times of India there was an article / advertisement about Pizza delivery Companies which guarantees you free pizza if they fail to deliver within the specified time (like 30 minutes). Have you ever wondered who pays for the free pizzas??

Well, the delivery boy is made to pay for the pizza. They are paid such low wages and the price of the pizza is deducted from their monthly wages which can amount to up to 60% in some months (It becomes difficult to run their family). To deliver the pizzas the delivery boys take high traffic risks as delivery becomes their priority. Their life and safety risks are neither looked into by the Pizza Shop Management nor the Pizza Delivery Boy himself. (They are more concerned to avoid the deduction from their salary).

If this type of exploitation is carried on in your city's pizza logistics we should stop availing the home delivery system, because to deliver our pizza one person may be risking his life. Is the life of an Indian citizen so cheap and of no value?In case he is late in delivering the pizza, we are enjoying the free pizza at the hard earned money of a poor delivery boy.

Is it fair or right on our part to do it?

As a human, please think and if you feel that this is wrong, please spread the message and stop having the so called FREE pizzas delivered at home.

Spread this message people! Do you really want to eat a FREE pizza delivered to you by risking a person's life? You decide!

Live book search has been launched and here is the link.

http://books.live.com

And LiveSide and MSTechtoday already have posted about this.

http://liveqna.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2933A3E375F68349!479.entry 

The above link talks about the new changes in the site!