In case you have tried the Show Options link that is displayed on top of Google search result, it gives options timeline of which you want search results, like past year, past week, past 24 hrs and recent results. Now like many if you too are interested in finding results that Google spider crawled just a few min back, below is how you do it. the no. in last is taken as past-minutes.
http://www.google.com/search?q=your_search_query_goes_here&tbs=qdr:n10
If
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
is equal to
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
Then,
Hard Work
H+A+R+D+W+O+R+K
8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%
Knowledge K+N+O+W+L+E+D+G+E
11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%
Love
L+O+V+E
12+15+22+5 = 54%
Luck L+U+C+K
12+21+3+11 = 47%
most of us think this is the most important ??? )
Then what makes 100% ?
Is it Money ? .. NO ! ! !
M+O+N+E+Y
13+15+14+5+25 = 72%
Leadership ? .... NO ! ! !
L+E+A+D+E+R+S+H+I+P
12+5+1+4+5+18+19+9+16 = 89%
Every problem has a solution, only if we perhaps change our attitude.
To go to the top,
to that 100% ,
what we really need to go further... a bit more...
ATTITUDE A+T+T+I+T+U+D+E 1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%
It is OUR ATTITUDE towards Life and Hard Work that makes OUR Life very close to 100% Success! ! !
ATTITUDE matter...
Well this is definitely not about one of those xRM solutions that Dynamics CRM Team boasts about.. he.. he.. (in case u saw their video)
Digital rights mgmt. technology limits on how users may make and distribute copies of digital files and physical media like CDs/DVDs. nothing new and interesting.. ;-)
But its just that came across a few solutions/products from MS that i thought i will share you with.. :-)
The Windows Media DRM tech. got started in 1999 and is adopted in computing as well as in consumer electronics ind. namely by Nokia, Motorola, Verizon Wireless, and NTT DoCoMo. Recently MS came up with MS PlayReady which is more than what a DRM does. It caters to mobile ind. also and other than microsoft audio/video formats, it also supports games, ringtones, images, etc. And a typical MS PlayReady ecosystem looks like this:
Microsoft PlayReady supports wide rage of business model subscription scenarios with flat rate to access any and all content under 3 diff. mechanism i.e. timely subscribtion renewal, metering and license chaining. It also supports pay-per-view scenarios, pay-per-track scenarios, rental scenarios by supporting time-based licenses, gifting scenarios like one person effectively paying for another person to accessing content.
Also it has wide range of content distribution options like basic progressive downloads, streaming, side loading from PC to mobile, MMS, WiFi, bluetooth sync., etc
So if it interests you.. do go and read more abt. it here...
Why i 'm just talking abt. only MS based ones?? its like asking why lowest dangling fruits are plucked first.. ;-p
technically they are always easy to install, deploy and use.. just do next, next and next.. but yes the same doesn't go well as far as price is concerned (its costing approx $30000 for the SDK and $30000 per processor for service deployment license)
So then out of curiosity i just bing'ed (not googled.. :) to see how easy is it to crack DRM protected files.. and i found plenty of such tools that too FREE!!!
http://undrm.info/remove-DRM-protection/
http://www.instantfundas.com/2008/01/how-to-remove-drm-from-media-files.html
not sure if these tools do work what they claim to and whether PlayReady managed content will crack proof???
Happy Reading...
even if question remains open on whether To DRM or Not to DRM!!! ;-)
In its efforts to provide streaming services, M$ has come long way as from NetShow Services under Windows NT 4.0 to Windows Media Services 2008 to smooth-streaming under IIS7.
So you see a very gradual shift from traditional streaming protocols (RTSP, MMS, RTMP, etc.) to basic HTTP protocol based progressive streaming to now what is called as adaptive streaming which is enabled in IIS7 by installing Smooth Streaming IIS extension and a similar product by Move Networks' Adaptive Stream.
The HTTP based progressive streaming is widely used by YouTube and many similar video sharing sites. Even though its has benefits over traditional streaming protocols, but it has its own disadvantages which is very much addressed by adaptive/smooth streaming (won't bore u lot, so leaving up to u to find/read it.. he.. he..)
There is a nice demo uploaded at http://www.iis.net/media/experiencesmoothstreaming which show how smooth-streaming dynamically detects current network and local PC conditions, and based on it switches the video quality that Silverlight client plays.
To prove this new power of IIS, M$ did coverage for Democratic National Convention under its SilverLight client framework at http://gallery1.demconvention.com/ (u might hv to download MoveNetworks' player too) and later again did it for 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games at http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/ (though now you will have to search for it there as they are now getting ready for 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver ;-)
Then again M$ also teamed with Akamai to show case some of the best HD quality videos at http://www.smoothhd.com/
To encode such smooth-streaming videos MS Expression Encoder 2 (SP1) can be used, which has built-in templates too to enable smooth-streaming in any SilverLight app. So you, the flash lover designer, get up, jagooo, bcoz its time learn few new tools... ;-p
Its quiet interesting to understand how this adaptive streaming works and the benefits/complexities that comes with it, so do read more about it...
Happy Streaming!!!
;-)
