How to Remove Any Unwanted Program
How to Remove Any Unwanted Program
What is an uninstaller program and why do you sometimes need to use it?
Well, if you’re reading this article, you may know the answer already? Yes, to remove those pesky little programs, that does not appear in windows’ ADD/REMOVE utility. Or those sneaky spy ware programs, that, having installed itself on your computer, without your permission, proves almost impossible to remove via the conventional uninstall methods. As well as those programs, where the program manufacturer, after you got to uninstall the unwanted programs, intentionally left behind myriads of scattered files, which may either act as hidden spy ware, collecting data unobtrusively, or frequently causing pop-up messages, which warns you of virus infections, every 60 seconds and prompting you to download additional software, from a particular site. Aside from driving you crazy, these files can cause all sorts of problems, such as error messages popping up constantly i.e. runtime errors, rundll32 errors etc.
Now this is one of the reasons, that Stand Alone Third Party Uninstaller Programs exists. In a Perfect world, there shouldn’t be any reason for such programs to be around. However, there are those manufacturers, that creates great products ,with excellent features and properties, but sadly, the big let down comes with the uninstaller section. This is the section, that not enough development and testing resources are spend on. These manufacturer’s don’t always realize that there software causes major changes to the operating system, through file associations and / or file replacements, and if these changes are not logged in a log file, during the installation process, it may prove very difficult to reverse these changes , when you wish to uninstall or remove some unwanted program. It may even put you in a spot, where you have no other alternative, because of the instability of your operating system, caused by files which were deleted ( maybe accidentally, perhaps), to format your hard drive and re-install windows or whatever operating system you’re using. If , like me, you have a lot of files and programs, which you’ve accumulated over a long period of time, possibly years, and you have no backups, then it can really be a disaster which can set you back for some time.
There are ways and means to manually uninstall and remove unwanted programs, but let me emphatically stress : Do Not Simply Delete These Files From Your Computer’s Program files section, without having tried using the program’s uninstall function. You may unknowingly delete system files that are used by more than one program. If you cannot find an uninstall function, or if the program does not appear in the windows Add/Remove list,– and this is for advanced PC users only,– you may access the windows registry, where you will find data entries, related to the unwanted program. However, I suggest you stay away from the registry, even if you are an advance user, and rather make use of one of the many uninstaller programs out there. This type of program has been specifically developed to assist with the uninstallation of “hard to remove programs”.
Here are a few general guidelines, to what makes a good uninstaller.
A good third party uninstaller usually consist of the following parts :
A logger : This is simply a program that writes all installation changes to a log file – i.e. files that were added and /or changed, as well as registry entries etc. ( You may have tried to uninstall a program and getting and error” log not found”. The log referred to, is the log file entry of that particular program at the time of installation. Without that information, uninstallation of that program becomes quite a daunting task )
An Uninstaller : This program reads the log file (if there is a log), noting the system changes, and proceeds to reverse
Eidetic Memory
Eidetic Memory
Our human body is a fabulous integration of the high tech systems in it. It is totally impossible to create another android robot which is similar to the human and has its characteristics. One interesting property of the human brain is its capacity to store all the information that is collected by all the senses.
For example the brain has to store the information that is collected by the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and the body parts. This is the most remarkable feature. Of all the senses it is been seen that we are using about 80% our information collection through the eyes. So it is very important for the brain to collect as much information as possible through the eyes.
This is why we have a large portion of brain dedicated to the eye sight and its information collection system. Information is stored in two parts of memory in our brain. The primary memory stores all the basic data such as the alphabets and the mother tongue. The secondary memory or the eidetic memory stores all the information that is collected by our eye. For example the information that is collected as photographs are stored in this part of the memory only.
This memory is responsible for the person to identify the sound, image, and the face of the person who he sees and thus making him to remember them as when they are needed. This memory is not as dominant as that of the primary as they are not as used often as that of that primary memory.
Robots in Myth and Literature
Robots in Myth and Literature
ROBOTS IN MYTH AND LITERATURE
By
Tala Bar
Robots (a word which includes here androids as well) are part and parcel of modern science fiction literature; robots appear in stories (s. link) by Peter Philips, Philip K. Dick, Idris Seabright, Algis Budrys, Cordwainer Smith, J. T. Macintosh, Alfred Bester, Walter M. Miller, Robert Bloch, Keith Roberts, Richard Bowker, Clifford Simak, Lester del Ray, William Campbell Gault, Richard Matheson and Robert Presslie; the robot stories of all these authors were written in the 1950s. Ray Bradbury wrote between 1951 and 1976 five robots stories, and Isaac Asimov made a career of writing robots stories, and a series of detective novels circling round the idea of robots as part of futuristic human society.
Robots seem to be such a modern idea, part of advanced technology and the notion of putting machines to work in place of human beings, that it is difficult to grasp how ancient their idea is, which actually forms part of long gone mythology. As a matter of fact, the idea of man-made creatures who should replace humans in some hard or dangerous tasks has existed for hundreds of years in literature, from fairy tales to science fiction.
The word “robot”, together with its modern idea of replacing humans at work, appeared in 1921 in a play by the Czech author Karel Capek, called R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots – s. link). The word “robot” comes from the Czech word “robota”, which means “drudgery” or “servitude”, and a robotnik is a serf who performs menial labor. The purpose of such mechanical men was to be the cheapest workers, those who had fewest needs. Such beings “remember everything, while at the same time thinking of nothing new.”
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The first robot-like being known from literature is the giant bronze man Talos of Crete. This mechanical man was supposedly created by the smith god Hephaestus and given as a gift to Minos, king of Crete, for the purpose of protecting and defending the island and the city of Knossos from attacks and invaders. In this capacity, it threw rocks at any approaching ship, as it did at the Argonauts on their voyage to get the Golden Fleece. It was the sorceress Medea who managed to a get near it so she could extract the nail that blocked its one vain and release its ichor of molten lead, which was its life source, and thus kill it.
The function of protection assigned to the mechanical man appears also in a story of a Scandinavian “robot”. In a Hebrew book of Scandinavian Mythology written by Yaakov Sarig (2005), a story is told of the giant Rungnir, who fought against the god Thor. Seeing that he could not win that fight, Rungnir had another giant made in his image out of clay, equipped with armor and shield, to fight at his side against the god. Together, they managed to wound Thor, although they were defeated just the same.
Made of clay was also the Golem of Prague in the 16th cent., made by the Maharal (an acronym for the name of Rabbi Lowe, the Jewish leader of his time), for the purpose of protecting the Jewish community against pogroms. Unlike the Slav word “robot”, which is connected with the idea of work, the Hebrew word “golem” refers to a creature without a brain; in modern language, it is used for the stage of chrysalis in the cycle of insect life. The Hebrew root actually means “unfinished”, as in the expression homer golmi, meaning “raw material”.
An interesting approach to the protection function of robots appears in Philip K. Dick’s story The Defenders (1953 – s. link). In it, as is told on that site, robots are created to continue a war against invaders of a decimated Earth, while the humans live safely underground. However, while the humans believe that the robots are still fighting, these have actually rebuilt Earth and live on it in peace. The idea of the possible difference between the war-like humans and the peace loving robots has appeared in
Historical Background and Design of Robotics
Historical Background and Design of Robotics
Robotics History
Definition of a ‘Robot’
First use of the word ‘Robot’
First use of the word ‘Robotics’
Three Laws of Robotics
The First Robot ‘Unimate’
Modern Industrial Robots
Benefits of Robots
Definition of a ‘Robot’
According to the Robot Institute of America (1979) a robot is:
“A reprogrammable, multifunctional manipulator designed to move material, parts, tools, or specialized devices through various programmed motions for the performance of a variety of tasks”.
A more inspiring definition can be found in Webster. According to Webster a robot is:
“An automatic device that performs functions normally ascribed to humans or a machine in the form of a human.”
First use of the word ‘Robot’
The acclaimed Czech playwright Karel Capek (1890-1938) made the first use of the word ‘robot’, from the Czech word for forced labor or serf. Capek was reportedly several times a candidate for the Nobel prize for his works and very influential and prolific as a writer and playwright.
The use of the word Robot was introduced into his play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) which opened in Prague in January 1921.
In R.U.R., Capek poses a paradise, where the machines initially bring so many benefits but in the end bring an equal amount of blight in the form of unemployment and social unrest.
The play was an enormous success and productions soon opened throughout Europe and the U.S. R.U.R’s theme, in part, was the dehumanization of man in a technological civilization.
You may find it surprising that the robots were not mechanical in nature but were created through chemical means. In fact, in an essay written in 1935, Capek strongly fought that this idea was at all possible and, writing in the third person, said:
“It is with horror, frankly, that he rejects all responsibility for the idea that metal contraptions could ever replace human beings, and that by means of wires they could awaken something like life, love, or rebellion. He would deem this dark prospect to be either an overestimation of machines, or a grave offence against life.”
[The Author of Robots Defends Himself - Karl Capek, Lidove noviny, June 9, 1935, translation: Bean Comrada]
There is some evidence that the word robot was actually coined by Karl’s brother Josef, a writer in his own right. In a short letter, Capek writes that he asked Josef what he should call the artificial workers in his new play.
Karel suggests Labori, which he thinks too ‘bookish’ and his brother mutters “then call them Robots” and turns back to his work, and so from a curt response we have the word robot.
First use of the word ‘Robotics’
The word ‘robotics’ was first used in Runaround, a short story published in 1942, by Isaac Asimov (born Jan. 2, 1920, died Apr. 6, 1992). I, Robot, a collection of several of these stories, was published in 1950.
One of the first robots Asimov wrote about was a robotherapist. A modern counterpart to Asimov’s fictional character is Eliza. Eliza was born in 1966 by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Joseph Weizenbaum who wrote Eliza — a computer program for the study of natural language communication between man and machine.
She was initially programmed with 240 lines of code to simulate a psychotherapist by answering questions with questions.
Three Laws of Robotics
Asimov also proposed his three “Laws of Robotics”, and he later added a
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