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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Herlihy | Maurice Peter Herlihy (born 4 January 1954) is a computer scientist active in the field of multiprocessor synchronization. Herlihy has contributed to areas including theoretical foundations of wait-free synchronization, linearizable data structures, applications of combinatorial topology to distributed computing, as well as hardware and software transactional memory. He is the An Wang Professor of Computer Science at Brown University, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1994.
Herlihy was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2013 for concurrent computing techniques for linearizability, non-blocking data structures, and transactional memory.
Recognition
2003 Dijkstra Prize
2004 Gödel prize
2005 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
2012 Dijkstra Prize
2013 W. Wallace McDowell Award
2013 National Academy of Engineering
2014 National Academy of Inventors Fellow
2015 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member
2022 Dijkstra Prize
References
External links
Website
1954 births
American computer scientists
Researchers in distributed computing
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Gödel Prize laureates
Brown University faculty
Living people
Dijkstra Prize laureates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYSS-TV | DYSS-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Metro Cebu, Philippines, serving as the Visayas flagship of the GMA network. It is owned and operated by the network's namesake corporate parent alongside GTV outlet DYLS-TV (channel 27). Both stations share studios at the GMA Skyview Complex, Nivel Hills, Apas, Cebu City, while DYSS-TV's hybrid analog and digital transmitting facility is located atop Mt. Busay, Brgy. Bonbon.
Timeline
November 20, 1963 - The origin of GMA Cebu can traced back to radio station in Cebu, DYSS (1560 kHz (now 999 kHz) AM band), which began airing its radio operations on July 4, 1957, and launched its first provincial AM station in Cebu City. DYSS was then owned by GMA Network's predecessor Loreto F. de Hemedes Inc. through DZBB in Manila, later Republic Broadcasting System, Inc. of Robert "Uncle Bob" Stewart. Upon the launch, their old studios of radio operation in Fortunata Bldg., at the corner of Magallanes & Lapu-lapu Sts., with the location of 1-kilowatt BC Gates Transmitter is at Mambaling Seaside. After the success of its radio station, the company ventured into television and started operations as DYSS Channel 7 Cebu. With this venture, DYSS-TV Channel 7 became the third VHF television station established in Cebu City after the establishment of provincial stations of ABS Channel 3 (owned by ABS-CBN's predecessor Alto Broadcasting System) and ABC Channel 11 (owned by the Associated Broadcasting Corporation) which began its broadcasts on June 14, 1961, and September 11, 1963, respectively. The original studios and transmitters of TV operations were inaugurated since then at the 10/F Luym Bldg. (now Ludo and Luym Bldg.) along Plaridel cor. Juan Luna Sts. (now Osmeña Blvd.) and at that time, the station broadcast with a power output of 5,000 watts.
March 1, 1969 - RBS was then known as "Greater 7 Cebu", using the Circle 7 logo that ABC was using for all of its owned-and-operated stations at the time. The station's programming is composed of canned programs from the United States and it later produced local programs.
September 21, 1972 - Following the proclamation of Martial Law by then President Ferdinand Marcos, DYSS-TV was forced to shut down, though it only lasted for more than 3 months. In December of that year, DYSS-TV (along with the flagship station in Manila, DZBB-TV) was given the green light by the National Media Production Center (NMPC) to return on the air, however with limited three-month permits.
1974 - RBS were sold to a triumvirate composed of Felipe Gozon, Gilberto Duavit Sr., and Menardo Jimenez. Under the new management, DYSS-TV reopened with a new identity as GMA Radio-Television Arts and introduced the Where You Belong slogan to catch the attention of local viewers. Despite its network rebranding, Republic Broadcasting System, Inc. remained as its corporate name fourteen years later. The relaunch of GMA, aside from sporting a light blue square logo with the network name in white, also had a circle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYSS | DYSS (pronounced DY-double-S; 999 AM) Super Radyo is a radio station owned and operated by GMA Network. The station's studio is located at the GMA Skyview Complex, Nivel Hills, Apas, Cebu City, while its transmitter is located at Alumnos, Brgy. Mambaling, Cebu City. DYSS operates on Mondays through Saturdays from 3:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. and on Sundays from 4:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
At present, DYSS is considered one of the top AM stations in Metro Cebu and Central Visayas.
History
DYSS began its radio operations on July 4, 1957. It was then owned by Loreto F. de Hemedes Inc. through DZBB in Manila, later the Republic Broadcasting System of Robert "Uncle Bob" Stewart. It was first located in Fortunata Bldg. at the corner of Magallanes & Lapu-lapu Sts. with a 167-ft. vertical antenna and 1-kilowatt BC Gates Transmitter situated in Mambaling Seaside. It was initially situated on 1560 kHz.
In September 1972, the station was among the stations shut down following the declaration of Martial Law by then-President Ferdinand Marcos by the virtue of Proclamation 1081. Two years later, the assets of RBS were sold to the triumvirate of Gilberto Duavit Sr., Menardo Jimenez and Felipe Gozon due to the changes in media ownership laws. At the same time, DYSS returned to the airwaves under the branding Dobol S as a music station. In November 1978, following the switch from the NARBA-mandated 10 kHz to the adoption of the 9 kHz spacing implemented by the Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975 on AM radio stations in the Philippines and across the Asia-Pacific region, DYSS moved its frequency to 999 kHz.
On July 17, 1989, the station switched to a news and public service format, now known as simply DYSS. The following year, DYSS, along with its sister stations DYSS-TV and DYRT, transferred to its current home at the GMA Skyview Complex in Nivel Hills. On January 4, 1999, the station, along with its sister AM stations, started carrying the Super Radyo branding. At the same time, DYSS started carrying GMA Cebu's Balitang Bisdak on a slightly-delayed basis at 6:00 pm followed by GMA's flagship newscast 24 Oras at 6:30 pm.
In 2017, DYSS, together with other RGMA AM and FM stations nationwide, officially launched its new logo coinciding with DZBB's first ever jingle and the relaunch of Dobol B sa News TV (renamed into Dobol B TV) which returned on GMA News TV (now GTV).
Former anchors
Bobby Nalzaro (deceased)
References
Super Radyo stations
DYSS
Radio stations established in 1957 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Claiborne%20%28baseball%20executive%29 | John W. Claiborne III (born 1939) is a former front-office executive in American Major League Baseball who also was an early president of the New England Sports Network (NESN), a regional cable television network primarily (80 percent) owned by the Boston Red Sox that telecasts Red Sox baseball and Boston Bruins National Hockey League games.
Claiborne's baseball career began with the New York Mets and ended with the St. Louis Cardinals. After starting out in New York's farm system, he was the Cards' administrative assistant for minor leagues and scouting in 1970–72, and the general manager and chief operating officer of the Redbirds in 1978–80. In between, he was the farm system director of the Oakland Athletics in 1972–75 and the assistant general manager of the Red Sox in 1975–77.
Claiborne ran the A's farm system during the height of the A's dynasty under owner Charlie Finley. Finley served as his own general manager and had a phenomenal degree of success at the major league level with a roster that he had signed and groomed through the player development system. But by the mid-1970s, the talent pipeline began to dry up as Finley economised through slashing the number of scouts and minor league affiliates working on Oakland's behalf.
In August 1975, Claiborne resigned his Oakland post. He then joined the Red Sox as a special assignment scout, evaluating West Coast-based teams at the major league level. When Boston won the American League East Division and faced the three-time defending world champion Athletics in the 1975 American League Championship Series, Claiborne's scouting report was a critical factor in Boston's stunning three-game sweep. At season's end, he was promoted to chief aide to Bosox general manager Dick O'Connell.
Claiborne drew positive notices for his work in the Boston front office, but when longtime owner Tom Yawkey's death forced a sale of the team in 1977, O'Connell and his top assistants, including Claiborne, were fired by Yawkey's widow, Jean, to make way for a new ownership/management team. Reportedly, some of the unsuccessful bidders for the Boston franchise were considering hiring Claiborne as O'Connell's successor.
Less than a year later, however, Claiborne returned to St. Louis to take over the Cardinals' front office. He ran the Redbirds from the end of the 1978 campaign to the middle of 1980, a period of transition during which the Cardinals hired Whitey Herzog as field manager. When Herzog's hiring on June 9, 1980, did not produce immediate results, he was given additional duties as general manager and Claiborne was fired on August 18 of the same year. Eventually, Herzog would make trades for players such as Ozzie Smith who would lead to St. Louis' three National League pennants during the 1980s.
Claiborne eventually returned to Boston to serve as president of the fledgling NESN, which has grown to become a powerful regional sports network.
In 2002, Claiborne was hired by the Baltimore Orioles as the fi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20neural%20membrane | Artificial neural membrane (ANM) refers to a new class of functional structure developed through research adaptive and evolutionary neural networks and programmable materials. The greatest interest in ANM structures surround their potential as open architecture environments for the integration of microscale and nanoscale devices.
Originally based on the Neurogenesis Algorithms developed by mathematician and engineering physicist Dr. P. A. Menges. While working as a postdoctoral research associate at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Dr. Menges became interested in thin film materials used in specialized sensors also referred to as smart skins. After leaving the laboratory she established a computational method allowing networks to automatically embed or simulate on other networks based in functional materials.
Artificial neural membrane technology development has been funded by the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts, for application to flapping wing flight. Currently Aerospace Research Systems, Inc – the agency that pioneered work in developing artificial neurons for use in control of multifunctional smart structures – is applying the technology to reusable launch vehicles. Other applications include biotechnology processes, morphing aircraft and spacecraft, adaptive wind generators, and artificial organs. Recent research also indicates that ANM systems may provide the first truly automated intentional or conceptual programming environment. The ANM technology has been referred as being as significant as semiconductors in the 1950s.
References
External links
Aerospace Research Systems, Inc.
NASA
NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts
Applied sciences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20S.%20Alberts | David Stephen Alberts (born 1942) is a former American Director of Research for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration (NII).
Biography
David S. Alberts did his undergraduate work was at City College of New York where he received a bachelor's of arts degree in statistics in 1964. He received a master's degree in 1966 and a doctorate in operations research in 1968 from the University of Pennsylvania.
Alberts' academic career has included serving as first director of the Computer Science Program at New York University and has held professional rank posts at the NYU Graduate School of Business, the City University of New York, and most recently as a research professor at George Mason University.
He was the director of Advanced Concepts, Technologies, and Information Strategies; deputy director of the Institute for National Strategic Studies, and the executive agent for Department of Defense Command and Control Research Program. This included responsibility for the Center for Advanced Concepts and Technology and the School of Information Warfare and Strategy at the National Defense University.
Dr. Alberts has chaired numerous international and national conferences and symposia and has authored or co-authored many publications, some of which are included in tutorials given by the IEEE and other professional societies. He has served as an officer in a number of professional societies and has contributed to AIAA, MORS, TIMS, AFCEA, and ORSA. At the local level, Alberts has served as Assistant to the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department.
Honors have included the Secretary of Defense's Outstanding Public Service Award, Aviation Week and Space Technology's Government/Military Laurel, and the inaugural Network Centric Warfare Award for Best Contribution to the Theory of NCW presented by the Institute for Defense and Government Advancement.
He is currently the president of the International Command and Control Institute (IC2I), a non-profit dedicated to ensuring that the body of literature created and inspired by the Department of Defense Command and Control Research Program remains accessible to researchers. He is also a senior fellow at the Institute for Defense Analyses, a federally funded research and development center. His current research focuses on the relationships and inter-dependencies between and among approaches to C2 and Governance, composite network characteristics and performance, automation and autonomy, and cyber.
Work
In his book entitled The Agility Advantage, he proposes "agility" as the measure of choice for organizations, collections of organizations, processes, systems, and individuals engaged in complex endeavors (e.g. civil-military, cyber-security, economic development). A NATO research group, chaired by Dr. Alberts was formed to explore the ideas put forth in The Agility Advantage. In 2013, this group (SAS-085) completed its final report which rec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check%20Point%20IPSO | Check Point IPSO is the operating system for the 'Check Point firewall' appliance and other security devices, based on FreeBSD, with numerous hardening features applied.
The IP in IPSO refers to Ipsilon Networks, a company specialising in IP switching acquired by Nokia in 1997.
In 2009, Check Point acquired the Nokia security appliance business, including IPSO, from Nokia.
Variations
IPSO, now at version 6.2, is a fork of FreeBSD 6. There were two other systems, called IPSO-SX and IPSO-LX, that were Linux-based:
IPSO SX was Nokia's first release of a Linux-based IPSO, and was deployed in 2002 on the now-defunct Message Protector, and briefly thereafter on a short-lived appliance version of the "Nokia Access Mobilizer", acquired from Eizel. It had a partitioning scheme somewhat reminiscent of IPSO SB, a LILO configuration and boot manager also somewhat inspired by IPSO SB, and a software package installer that made RPM packaging look more familiar to a Nokia IPSO administrator. It did not, however, include a full configuration database or Voyager web interface, the two things that normally define IPSO.
IPSO LX is a nearly vanilla Gentoo-based Linux OS, and is used on Nokia appliances sold with Sourcefire 3D. It includes a full Voyager and database implementation—in fact, the Voyager look and feel in IPSO SB 4.0 onwards was based on that implemented for IPSO LX.
Check Point offers three lines of security appliances – one based on IPSO 6.x, one based on an operating system called SecurePlatform and the latest based on Gaia platform (RHEL4 based).
Features
IPSO notable features or firsts include:
Effective firewall load-balancing (in conjunction with Check Point synchronization), derived from Network Alchemy clustering technology, predating and still independently developed from Check Points ClusterXL.
The first commercial IPv6 router out of beta-testing (ahead of Cisco and Juniper Networks)
Firewall Flows for putting Check Point security rule implementation into the dedicated network processor circuitry on-the-fly (though this is now largely evolved into Check Point's SecureXL)
Versions
IPSO SB was originally derived by Ipsilon Networks from FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE and cross-compiled on FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE and 3.5-RELEASE platforms. Its major components are:
A configuration database held in memory by the "xpand" daemon, that creates legacy UNIX configuration in /etc on-the-fly.
A partitioning scheme which places a mini-IPSO in a separate boot manager partition for recovery
A partition-slicing scheme which segregates read-only and read-write content
A software packaging scheme which requires all packages to remain in a single location under /opt
A web interface, Voyager, which was closely integrated with the configuration database. (It has now diverged somewhat.)
Ipsilon Networks sold IPSO versions up to 2.x as part of the ATM tag-switching solutions that they originally pioneered. IPSO 3.0 onwards were designed to host C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley%20Chan | Wesley Chan (Wesley Tien-Houi, born 1978) is an American venture capitalist and the co-founder and managing partner of venture capital firm FPV. A graduate in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chan first became known from his work in the early days of Google, founding Google Analytics and Google Voice, and for building Google's early advertising system.
While at Google, Chan developed an expertise as a venture capitalist, serving as a founding General Partner of Google Ventures, before moving to Felicis Ventures in 2014, then co-founding his own firm, FPV, in 2022. Through his first decade in venture capital, he gained attention as an early investor in many well known biotech, technology, and software startups, including Canva, Flexport, Guild Education, RobinHood, AngelList, Plaid, and Ring.
Early life and education
Chan studied at the MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, earning his B.S. and S.M. (2001) degrees. While earning his masters, he did his graduate research at the MIT Media Lab.
Career
After completing his graduate studies in mid 2001, Chan started his career as a software engineer at Microsoft, moving to Fujitsu, moving to HP Labs by September 2001, where he was a research lead.
By early 2002, Chan had moved to Google at a time when, in his words: "dogs were still running around the office and nobody knew who we were". During his first eight years at Google, he helped to build, lead or launch a number of important business lines, including:
Google Analytics, which Chan founded and launched.
Google Toolbar where he led the design of Google's popup ads blocker and helped oversee the client team that eventually led to the development of Google Chrome.
The acquisition of GrandCentral Communications in 2007, and Gizmo5 in 2009, two Voice over IP services (and their teams) that combined to became Google Voice and Google Hangouts.
Google AdWords and Google AdSense, including building Google's first display advertising serving system, for which Chan holds 17 (of his 22 total) US patents.
Google Talk and Google Hangouts
Google WiFi
In 2009, still at Google, Chan moved into the field of venture capital, as one of the founding General Partners at Google Ventures. He led investments in and sat on the Board of Directors of software and enterprise startups, and biotech firms, including Gusto, Plaid, RobinHood, Vungle (exited to BlackStone), AngelList, iPierian (exited to Bristol Myers-Squibb), Dialpad, The Climate Corporation (exited to Monsanto), Parse (exited to Facebook), and Optimizely.
In January 2014, Chan stepped down as a General Partner and became an entrepreneur-in-residence (EIR), allowing him to examine the possibility of starting his own venture capital firm. In December 2014, he moved to Felicis Ventures, becoming a Managing Director and co-managing that fund with Aydin Senkut, whom he met when they were both early employees at Google. While at Felicis, Wesley invest |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon%20Schroder | Jon Schroder (born 1973) is an American filmmaker. He began his career in New York City, writing for a myriad of television shows, cable networks, production companies, and independent film producers. Schroder is one of the co-creators and producers of Nat Geo Wild's The Incredible Dr. Pol.
Schroder went on to direct a series of short films, commercials, documentaries, and reality shows for Spike TV, Nickelodeon, MTV, and Comedy Central. In addition to writing and directing, Schroder worked in various crew positions on the televisions shows, The Sopranos, Law & Order, and Sex and the City as well as for the films Spider-Man (2002), Kissing Jessica Stein (2001), and 3 A.M. (2001).
Schroder co-wrote, produced, and directed the feature film Jimmy and Judy (2006), starring Edward Furlong and Rachael Bella. The film earned two Best Feature Awards at the Newport Beach International Film Festival and the San Francisco Independent Film Festival.
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1973 births
American film directors
American reality television producers
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameWeek%20Magazine | GameWeek Magazine was a weekly video game magazine that was made by Cyberactive Media Group, Inc., a publishing company which specialized in business-to-business products serving the computer and video game industry. Its headquarters was in Wilton, Connecticut. GameWeek was the leading trade publication of its time, and to this day remains the last printed trade publication which served the North American market.
History
It was published initially under the name Video Game Advisor (VGA) beginning in 1995 and changed names twice, to GameWeek, as it is best known, and later to Interactive Entertainment. "Interactive entertainment" was a phrase that is attributed to the magazine, but became part of the industry's vernacular and was popularized by Hal Halpin, founder and publisher – representing the convergence of the console, online and computer games sectors.
GameWeek was a glossy tabloid-sized newspaper-style magazine which included interviews with the game industry’s leading personalities, feature stories on the latest trends and reviews and previews of products from a salability perspective (as opposed to enthusiast media, which covered games from their playability or fun-factor). A significant portion of the magazine’s advertising revenue came from game publisher ads promoting upcoming titles to the leading retail buyers – who comprised the bulk of the 63,000 subscribers.
The publication went largely unopposed throughout its history, largely due to spawning several ancillary products which covered market niches, including GameDaily (a daily electronic newsletter and website), GameJobs (a job site and board), Official E3 Show Daily, and a re-publishing of Game Over: Press Start to Continue (the authoritative novel chronicling the industry). Several magazines did attempt to unseat the publication’s prominence including MCV.
GameWeek ran from January 1995 until January 2002, at which point its publishing company was forced to close due to mounting accounts receivable attributable primarily to a post 9/11 decline in advertising spending.
Of the three major magazines, only MCV has survived and although UK-focused, it is seen by many as the only trade publication available that is relevant to the US market.
Current state
When Cyberactive Media Group folded, the magazine ceased print and moved its only remaining asset, its name, online. The website, Gignews.com, uses the brand to drive traffic to its website, which is only infrequently updated. There remain no print trade magazines serving the North American interactive entertainment market, although there are several in Europe and Asia.
References
External links
Wayback link for GameWeek Online
Wayback link for IE Magazine Online
1995 establishments in Connecticut
2002 disestablishments in Connecticut
Video game magazines published in the United States
Weekly magazines published in the United States
Defunct computer magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1995
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus%20cordata | Eucalyptus cordata, commonly known as the heart-leaved silver gum is a shrub to medium-sized tree that is endemic to Tasmania. It has smooth bark throughout, mostly only juvenile, more or less heart-shaped, glaucous leaves, glaucous flower buds arranged in groups of three, white flowers and cylindrical or hemispherical fruit.
Description
Eucalyptus cordata is a scraggy shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of between and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth greenish yellow to brown or grey bark throughout and has glaucous branchlets. Larger trees sometimes have rough bark on the lower part of the trunk. Its crown is mostly composed of juvenile leaves and adult leaves are usually only found at the top of the tallest trees. The leaves of young plants, coppice regrowth and mature plants have sessile leaves arranged in opposite pairs, the leaves egg-shaped to almost round, long and wide with wavy edges. Adult leaves, only present in the crown of tall trees, are arranged alternately, lance-shaped, long and wide on a flattened petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in groups of three in leaf axils on a peduncle long, the individual buds sessile or on a very short pedicel. Mature buds are oval to club-shaped, green or glaucous, long and wide with a rounded, flattened or beaked operculum. Flowering has been observed in most months, with peaks between May and June, September and November, and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody cup-shaped, cylindrical or hemispherical capsule long and wide and sessile or on a very short pedicel.
Taxonomy and naming
Eucalyptus cordata was first formally described in 1806 by Jacques Labillardière who published the description in Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen. The specific epithet (cordata) is a Latin word meaning "heart-shaped" referring to the leaves.
In 2008, Dean Nicolle, Brad Potts and Gay McKinnon described two subspecies and the names have been accepted by the Australian Plant Census:
Eucalyptus cordata Labill. subsp. cordata, that has branchlets that are circular in cross section;
Eucalyptus cordata subsp. quadrangulosa D.Nicolle, B.M.Potts & McKinnon, that has branchlets that are square in cross-section.
Distribution and habitat
Heart-leaved silver gum has a restricted distribution in the south-east of Tasmania, growing at intermediate altitudes such as on the foothills of Mount Wellington, on the Snug Plains and around Port Arthur and Moogara. The tree makes an attractive ornamental with its large, glaucous juvenile leaves, which often persist in the crown. Subspecies cordata mainly occurs south from Triabunna and is found on Bruny and Maria Islands. Subspecies quadrangulosa is centred on the Wellington Range but is most prolific on the Snug Plains.
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Myrtales of Australia
Trees of Australia
Endemic flora of Tasmania
Plants described in 1806
Taxa named by Jacques Labillardière |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Rally | Windows Rally is a set of technologies from Microsoft intended to simplify the setup and maintenance of wired and wireless network-connected devices. They aim to increase reliability and security of connectivity for users who connect the devices to the Internet or to computers running Microsoft Windows. These technologies provide control of network quality of service (QoS) and diagnostics for data sharing, communications, and entertainment. Windows Rally technologies provide provisioning for the following devices:
Wireless access points, PCs, and servers
Network printers, projectors, printer bridges, digital still cameras, and game consoles
Digital media receivers, network media players, set-top boxes, digital photo frames, and PDAs
Windows Rally technologies
Windows Rally includes the following set of technologies:
LLTD
The Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) protocol enables applications to discover devices and determine network topology. In Windows Vista, it enables a graphical view of all the devices in the network on the Network Map. For Windows XP computers to appear on the Network Map, the LLTD Responder must be downloaded and installed. Devices that provide audio or video playback or that are bandwidth sensitive can implement the QoS Extension part of the protocol so that they receive prioritized streams and that changes in available bandwidth have less impact on the playback experience.
qWAVE
Windows Vista includes qWAVE, a pre-configured quality of service API for time-dependent multimedia data, such as audio or video streams. qWAVE uses different packet priority schemes for real-time flows (such as multimedia packets) and best-effort flows (such as file downloads or e-mails) to ensure that real-time data gets delayed as little as possible, while providing a high-quality channel for other data packets. qWAVE-enabled applications together with devices that implement the LLTD QoS Extensions aim to improve an end user's experience of streaming video by prioritizing traffic and reducing the effects of network-related transient issues.
Windows Connect Now
Windows Connect Now (WCN) is the name of Windows Rally technologies aimed for simpler wireless device configuration. With Windows Connect Now, users running Windows Vista or Windows XP SP2 can create network configuration settings and transmit them to the access point. Alternatively, users can also print the configuration settings for reference for manually configuring the device. With Windows Connect Now, one of the following methods may be used for easier configuration:
WCN-NET is Microsoft's implementation of the Wi-Fi Simple Config standard. It provides for configuration of devices using out-of-band Ethernet and in-band wireless networks. In Windows Vista, WCN-NET can discover an unconfigured router, access point, base station or a device such as a Media Center Extender by using UPnP, authenticate with the device by using a personal identification number (PIN), provide wir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion%20rapid%20transit | Ion, stylized as ION, is an integrated public transportation network in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. It is operated by Keolis and is part of the Grand River Transit (GRT) system, partially replacing GRT's Route 200 iXpress bus service. The section of the bus route serving Cambridge has been renamed "Ion Bus", and renumbered as 302. The first phase commenced operations on June 21, 2019, between the north end of Waterloo and the south end of Kitchener. A future extension of light rail to the downtown Galt area of Cambridge (Phase 2) is planned but construction may not begin on that line until 2028.
In 2009, an Environmental Assessment (EA) began to create a proposal of electrically-powered light rail transit through Kitchener and Waterloo, and adapted bus rapid transit from Kitchener to Cambridge. On June 24, 2009, Regional Council voted to approve the project, subject to funding from higher levels of government, which was in turn approved by council on June 15, 2011. This was followed by a community building strategy to guide development, identify key destinations, and strengthen regional connections. The strategy, led by Urban Strategies Inc. of Toronto, consulted hundreds of individuals and stakeholders from Cambridge, Kitchener, and Waterloo.
Construction began in August 2014 and service was expected to begin in late 2017; however, because of delays in the manufacture and delivery of rolling stock, the introduction of the light rail service was significantly delayed. The total cost of the system was estimated at $818 million, but in December 2017, the overruns were estimated to total approximately $50 million. The Province was expected to provide $25 million of that amount.
Etymology
According to the Region of Waterloo, the Ion network is named after the atom, which it describes as being “always in motion”.
History
In 2004, the Regional Municipality began an Individual Environmental Assessment to study the feasibility of constructing a rapid transit line to provide higher-order public transit service to the Region and to encourage more compact urban growth along the corridor.
The EA took a broader approach to studying possible routes and stations for the rapid transit line, examining several options such as utilizing existing tracks/roads and constructing new facilities. In keeping with legislation, the Environmental Assessment also examined ten possible transport technologies, including monorails and subways.
The EA as planned consisted of three phases:
Phase 1: Determine a preferred transportation strategy from options such as road expansion, improved conventional transit, and rapid transit. Phase 1 was completed in July 2006.
Phase 2:
Step 1: Determine a preferred route design (grade separated, dedicated on-road, dedicated off-road, etc.) and technology. The EA examined ten different technologies including light rail, bus rapid transit, monorail, and subway. Step 1, completed in February 2007, determine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libslack | Libslack is a library of general utilities designed to make UNIX/C programming a bit easier on the eye. It is a seemingly random collection of modules and functions. It was originally implemented as part of the "daemon" program (although some of the code dates back much further).
It's a small library with much functionality, accurately documented and thoroughly tested. Good library naming conventions are not rigorously observed on the principle that common operations should always be easy to write and code should always be easy to read.
Libslack is freely available under the GNU General Public License.
See also
glibc
External links
libslack homepage
C (programming language) libraries
Free computer libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Announcement | Announcement may refer to:
"Announcement" (song), a 2008 song by Common
Announcement (computing), a message about a new software version
Campaign announcement, a type of political speech
Public service announcement, a media message in the public interest
Press release, a communication via news media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANT%20%28network%29 | ANT is a proprietary (but open access) multicast wireless sensor network technology designed and marketed by ANT Wireless (a division of Garmin Canada). It provides personal area networks (PANs), primarily for activity trackers. ANT was introduced by Dynastream Innovations in 2003, followed by the low-power standard ANT+ in 2004, before Dynastream was bought by Garmin in 2006.
ANT defines a wireless communications protocol stack that enables hardware operating in the 2.4 GHz ISM band to communicate by establishing standard rules for co-existence, data representation, signalling, authentication, and error detection. It is conceptually similar to Bluetooth low energy, but is oriented towards use with sensors.
the ANT website lists almost 200 brands using ANT technology. Samsung and, to a lesser part, Fujitsu, HTC, Kyocera, Nokia and Sharp added native support (without the use of a USB adapter) to their smartphones, with Samsung starting support with the Galaxy S4 and ending support with the Galaxy S20 line.
Overview
ANT-powered nodes are capable of acting as sources or sinks within a wireless sensor network concurrently. This means the nodes can act as transmitters, receivers, or transceivers to route traffic to other nodes. In addition, every node is capable of determining when to transmit based on the activity of its neighbors.
Technical information
ANT can be configured to spend long periods in a low-power sleep mode (consuming of the order of microamps of current), wake up briefly to communicate (when consumption rises to a peak of 22mA (at -5dB) during reception and 13.5mA (at -5 dB) during transmission) and return to sleep mode. Average current consumption for low message rates is less than 60 microamps on some devices.
Each ANT channel consists of one or more transmitting nodes and one or more receiving nodes, depending on the network topology. Any node can transmit or receive, so the channels are bi-directional.
ANT accommodates three types of messaging: broadcast, acknowledged, and burst. Broadcast is a one-way communication from one node to another (or many). The receiving node(s) transmit no acknowledgment, but the receiving node may still send messages back to the transmitting node. This technique is suited to sensor applications and is the most economical method of operation.
Acknowledged messaging confirms receipt of data packets. The transmitter is informed of success or failure, although there are no retransmissions. This technique is suited to control applications.
ANT can also be used for burst messaging; this is a multi-message transmission technique using the full data bandwidth and running to completion. The receiving node acknowledges receipt and informs of corrupted packets that the transmitter then re-sends. The packets are sequence numbered for traceability. This technique is suited to data block transfer where the integrity of the data is paramount.
Comparison to other protocols
ANT was designed for low bit-rate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil%20Television%20Network | Tamil Television Network (TTN) is a France-based Tamil language satellite television channel. Its main audience were Sri Lankan Tamils living in Europe, Australia and the Middle East. The channel mainly broadcast films, live broadcast of football, crickets matches and news.
Launch
In June 1997 Paris based Radio Asia (founded by Sabapathy Suppiah Kuhanathan, editor of Eelanadu) launched Tamil Radio & Television (TRT), the first Tamil-language TV station outside India. The subscription channel broadcast 24 hours to viewers across Europe, South Africa, Mauritius and Réunion. The channel broadcast news and original cultural programmes as well as films, soap operas and music imported from Tamil Nadu.
By 2000 it had about 7,000 subscribers and 50,000-60,000 viewers. Despite this the channel faced financial difficulties. In September 2000 Tamil Media Ltd, owner of IBC Radio, took a 50% stake in TRT, against the wishes of Kuhanathan. On January 14, 2001 TRT was renamed Tamil Television Network.
Sabapathy Suppiah Kuhanathan now started Dish Asia Network and DAN Tamil Alai Radio
Closure
The French authorities started investigating TTN after the Sri Lankan government protested about its links to the Tamil Tigers. The investigations revealed that TTN did not have a license to broadcast from the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA), the French broadcasting regulator. Later TTN applied for a license but this was rejected by the CSA in February 2006 as TTN was already broadcasting from French soil without a license. The matter was referred to the Procureur de la République (Attorney General). The channel ceased broadcasting on 2 May 2007 when Globecast stopped relaying the channel.
Relaunch
In 2013 TTN Tamil Oli has started their own IP TV Service, where you could watch Tamil Channels like TTN Tamil Oli and more channels.
References
Defunct television channels
Tamil-language television channels
Television channels and stations established in 1997
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaSalle%20Trail | "LaSalle Trail" is also the name of a municipal trail network in LaSalle, Ontario, Canada.
The LaSalle Trail is a rail trail in Indiana.
Occupying an abandoned railroad corridor, it is a bicycle and walking trail.
It is currently open from Cripe St. to Cleveland Road in Roseland, Indiana. When completed it will connect at the Indiana/Michigan state line to the Blossomland River Trail (proposed) in Michigan,
which will collectively be called the Indiana-Michigan River Valley Trail.
See also
List of rail trails
References
External links
Friends of the Trails
Rail trails in Indiana
Protected areas of St. Joseph County, Indiana
Transportation in St. Joseph County, Indiana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade%20Knowledge%20Network | The Trade Knowledge Network (TKN) is the collaboration of research institutions in developed and developing countries located in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. The Trade Knowledge Network is aimed at building long-term capacity to address issues of trade and sustainable development in developing country research institutions, non-governmental organizations and governments through increased awareness, knowledge and understanding of the issues. The Trade Knowledge Network is not to be confused with the Trade Knowledge Exchange (TKE), a network of 6 organisations providing expert analysis on the key issues around the post-Brexit trade environment in the UK and globally.
Objective
TKN is composed of research and policy institutions in Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America that are exploring the connection between trade and sustainable development and working to ensure that increased international trade can contribute to sustainable development in their countries and regions. The goal of the Trade Knowledge Network is to foster long-term capacity to address the complex issues of trade and sustainable development in partner-country research institutions, governments and the wider policy community, including business, academia, and environment and development NGOs.
The Trade Knowledge Network has four inter-related objectives to achieve this goal:
To produce objective, high quality, country- and region-specific policy and thematic research on trade policy and practice issues that present challenges or opportunities for achieving sustainable development in developing countries;
To inform and engage trade policy-makers and promote dialogue among stakeholders to incorporate sustainable development into trade negotiations, policy promulgation and trade practice;
To build the capacity of TKN Partner organizations to integrate sustainable development priorities into trade policy and practice through demand-driven training; South-South and North-South joint and cooperative research and policy engagement activities; and exchange and placement of young researchers and interns at TKN Partner organizations; and
To facilitate through the Trade Knowledge Network, its partners and among broader audiences globally, exchange of information, best policy and practice on trade and sustainable development.
Structure
The Trade Knowledge Network is managed collaboratively by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (Canada) and the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (Switzerland).
Representatives of TKN partner institutions met at an inception meeting in 2000 and will hold a wrap-up meeting at a conference featuring the dissemination of research results. Partners communicate with each other on an ongoing basis primarily through the network's electronic mailing list.
Partner institutions selected the TKN research topics based on what was most relevant for their specific countries and regions. The research focuses on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGee%20%28video%20game%20series%29 | McGee is a series of computer games released by Lawrence Productions for Kindergarteners ages 2–4.
Description
McGee was the first game in a series for preschoolers in 1989. The program allows kids to control young McGee, a preschooler himself, in and around his house. This is done from the mouse by pointing and clicking at the pictorial icons at the bottom of screen. For instance, if you click on the ball, McGee will start playing with it. If you click on the TV, McGee will sit down and proceed watching the tube.
Katie’s Farm, let kids further explore the world of McGee in 1990. The second point and click exploration game for preschoolers, McGee visits his cousin Katie at her farm.
McGee at the Fun Fair, let kids further explore the world of McGee in 1991. The third and last in the series followed the adventures of McGee and his friend Tony at the Fun Fair, with careful supervision from McGee's parents. It also provides the same point and click interface of the previous two games.
Reception
Computer Gaming World gave McGee five stars out of five, stating that it was "a remarkably imaginative ... charming, simple, non-threatening introduction to computer literacy and interaction" that did not require reading skills. The magazine also gave Katie's Farm five stars, stating that "even young children can run the software all by themselves". Computer Gaming World later reviewed the series, calling it "excellent" and concluding that "the three programs should provide hours of fun and stimulation for preschool players".
All three titles were reviewed in the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Guide Book where the "electronic pop-up books" were praised for bringing "picturebooks [...] alive for young children".
References
Children's educational video games
1990 video games
Apple IIGS games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidya%20Bharati | Vidya Bharati (short for Vidya Bharati Akhil Bharatiya Shiksha Sansthan) is the educational wing of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). It runs one of the largest private network of schools in India, operating 12,000 schools with over 3.2 Million students, as of 2016 and has its registered headquarters in Lucknow with a functional headquarters in Delhi and a sub-office in Kurukshetra. In the year 2020, the million lives club selected Vidya Bharati as an official member of Vanguard cohort for its contribution to school education.
History
RSS, under the tutelage of M. S. Golwalkar established its first Gita school at Kurukshetra in 1946. But, the ban on RSS in 1948 put a damper on the spread of the Gita school model. After the ban was lifted, the first Saraswati Shishu Mandir brand school was established in Gorakhpur in 1952, by Nanaji Deshmukh.
The Saraswati Shishu Mandir model was quickly replicated across several locations and as the number of schools increased, there arose the need of a definite management structure. Accordingly, Shishu Shiksha Prabandak Samiti, was set up to coordinate activities between these schools at the state level. Such committees were set up in Delhi, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh.
In 1977-78, an all-India apex body, Vidya Bharati was set up to coordinate the activities between these state committees and was headquartered in Delhi. This coincided with the Bharatiya Jan Sangh (political arm of RSS) winning the national elections, as a member of the Janata Party. Incidentally, Vidya Bharati used to have an associated National Academic Council with educationists, which enjoyed the trust of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT).
Organisation
By the early 1990s, the network had grown to 5,000 schools and by 2003, to about 14,000 schools with 17 lakh (1.7 million) pupils. This expansion was facilitated by the growing demand for education in India and the disaffection with the state school system. As of March 2002, it had 17,396 schools, 22 lakh (2.2 million) students, over 93,000 teachers, 15 teacher training colleges, 12 degree colleges and 7 vocational and training institutions. As of 2019, there were 12,828 formal schools and 11,353 informal schools. In 2019, the formal schools had a total strength of more than 34 lakh (3.4 million) students.
Most of the Vidya Bharati schools are affiliated to the Central Board for Secondary Education or their local State Boards. Vidya Bharati-run educational programs were adopted in Madhya Pradesh as an alternate model of education when BJP was in power.
In addition to formal schools (which go by a variety of names such as Adarsh Vidhya Mandir, , , , etc.), Vidya Bharati also runs sanskar kendras (cultural schools) and single-teacher schools for cultural education. It controls over 250 intermediate colleges and about 25 institutions of higher education and training colleges.
Presence
It has schools in remote areas of the north-eastern stat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te%20Amo%2C%20Maging%20Sino%20Ka%20Man | Te Amo, (International title: Te Amo, Speaking the Language of Love / ) is a 2004 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Khryss Adalia and Lore Reyes, it stars Iza Calzado and Segundo Cernadas. It premiered on February 2, 2004 on the network's Telebabad line up. The series concluded on September 17, 2004 with a total of 162 episodes.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Iza Calzado as Rosela Atilado
Segundo Cernadas as Principe Aragon de Montenegro
Supporting cast
Jomari Yllana as Rodelio Gamban
Angelu de Leon as Colette Camacho
Tonton Gutierrez as Minong Gamban
Elizabeth Oropesa as Belinda Manalo
Jennifer Sevilla as Gemma Manalo
Jaclyn Jose as Carol Canonigo
Johnny Delgado as Arnaldo Camacho
Princess Punzalan as Amanda Camacho
Ryan Eigenmann as Edwin Camacho
Wilma Doesnt as Undang Banal
Guest cast
Ara Mina as Destiny
Ian Veneracion as Amiel
Kier Legaspi as Flip
Jan Marini Alano as Letty
Perla Bautista as Catalina
Raquel Montesa as Mercy
Mike "Pekto" Nacua as Nomi
Shermaine Santiago as Marie
Irma Adlawan as Olivia
Lexi Schulze as Margarita
Basti Samson as Billy
Jaime Fabregas as Antonio
Orestes Ojeda as Crispin
References
External links
2004 Philippine television series debuts
2004 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Karlan | Michael Karlan (born 1968) is an American attorney and social entrepreneur who is known for founding a socializing and networking organization, Professionals in the City.
Early life and education
Born in 1968, Karlan grew up in Long Island, New York.
Karlan earned his bachelor's degree in business administration with an emphasis in accounting from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1989, where he was valedictorian of his graduating class. For further studies, he attended Columbia University School of Law, where he earned his J.D. degree in 1992 and was named a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. He continued his education in law and earned an LL.M. in taxation from New York University School of Law in 1993.
Career
Early career
Karlan started his legal career by clerking for Judge Julian Jacobs of the United States Tax Court from 1993 to 1995.
From 1995 to 1998, Karlan worked as an attorney, for Covington & Burling in Washington, DC. In 1998, he joined the Office of Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as an attorney, and served there until 1999. While at the IRS, Karlan was drafter of federal regulations relating to 401(k) plans.
Professionals in the City
Karlan founded Professionals in the City in 1999 to bring the local professional community together and to familiarize residents with the activities their cities have to offer.
On December 31, 2006, when he was simultaneously hosting New Year's Eve Galas at both the French embassy and the Washington Plaza Hotel, The Washington Post wrote a cover story about Karlan that characterized him as "an expert party guy."
On December 31, 2007, Karlan hosted the farewell party for the historic Hotel Washington, Washington, D.C.'s oldest continuously operated hotel, the hotel located across the street from the White House. With more than 3,000 attendees, this was the largest party in the history of the Hotel Washington. At the same time, Karlan hosted a second Gala at the Embassy of Italy.
In October 2010, Washington, DC Mayor Adrian Fenty officially commended Karlan for Professionals in the City surpassing a membership of 200,000 in the Greater Washington, DC metropolitan area and for enhancing the quality of life of residents of Washington, DC.
In February 2011, Karlan hosted the nation's first-ever speed dating at an auto show, at which Washington Post columnist Carolyn Hax provided advice on dating and then the speed daters went from car to car in the General Motors exhibit at the Washington Auto Show participating in a different date in each car.
Bibliography
Book
Karlan, Michael (2008). Washington, DC For Singles
Selected publications
Karlan, Michael; Lawson, Kurt L.P. (1998). Differences in Treatment of Employees and Independent Contractors Under Selected State and Federal Statutes, American Bar Association Section of Taxation Mid-Year Meeting.
Karlan, Michael; Oppenheimer, Mary (1998). Cash or Deferred Arrangements, Matching Contributions, and Employee Contributions, A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Media%20Vault | The HP Media Vault is a home printer and file server from Hewlett-Packard that runs the Linux operating system although you can install Debian on the MV2
First Generation
The Media Vault's processor is a Broadcom BCM4785 MIPS-based system-on-a-chip running Linux and BusyBox v1.00-pre2 based firmware. It has 64 megabytes of RAM, one Gigabit Ethernet interface, and three USB 2.0 ports.
The capacity of the device may be expanded using the empty drive bay which can house an off-the-shelf Serial ATA hard drive. The maximum expanded capacity of MV1 (first-generation) devices is approximately 1.2TB due to memory limitations.
One of the advantages of the system is that if the primary drive is lost (which includes some system software which works in conjunction with the firmware) the system can be restored onto a replacement SATA hard drive using HP's nasrecovery software.
Since the device supports standard communications protocols (listed below), it can be accessed by Windows, Linux, Mac, and any other OS that supports the needed protocols.
Protocols
CIFS
DAAP (only by user customization)
DLNA
FTP
HTTP
NFS
Telnet (disabled by default)
Second Generation
The second generation of the MediaVault products is powered by an ARM9 Marvell Orion processor, and has 128MB of RAM. It has 1 Gigabit network connector, and 2 USB 2.0 ports. There are 2 internal disk bays which support any off the shelf SATA hard drive up to 1TB in size.
Support
Lee Devlin was the hardware architect for the HP Media Vault and he maintains an unofficial support site for the device. The site includes information on hard drive replacement, restoring a previous snapshot of your pc, photos of the device internals as well as setting up a Firefly/iTunes Experimental server amongst many other articles.
There was also a Yahoo! group that offered support.
External links
HP Media Vault Frequently Asked Questions/Knowledge Base
Yahoo HP Media Vault group
HP Media Vault Flash Demo
References
Media Vault
Home servers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaido%3A%20Pulis%20Pangkalawakan | Zaido: (International title: Zaido: The Space Sheriff / ) is a Philippine television drama science fiction series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is a spin-off of the Japanese Metal Hero series Space Sheriff Shaider. Directed by Dominic Zapata, it stars Dennis Trillo, Marky Cielo and Aljur Abrenica. A special Zaido: Ang Bagong Alamat (The New Legend) – The Making of Zaido aired on September 22, 2007. It premiered on September 24, 2007 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Impostora. The series concluded on February 8, 2008 with a total of 100 episodes. It was replaced by Joaquin Bordado in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Dennis Trillo as Gallian Magdalion / Zaido Blue
Marky Cielo as Alexis Lorenzo / Zaido Green
Aljur Abrenica as Cervano Torres / Zaido Red
Supporting cast
Lorna Tolentino as Helen Lorenzo / Shanara
Raymart Santiago as Alvaro Lorenzo / Azur / Gamma
Tirso Cruz III as Ramiro
Diana Zubiri as Carmela Langit / Arianna
Jay Manalo as Drigo
Ian de Leon as Zion
Paolo Ballesteros as Ida
Lovi Poe as Mona Langit
Dion Ignacio as Thor Mentor
Karel Marquez as Lyka
LJ Reyes as Lila / Debbie
Iwa Moto as Itim / Sonia Tamano
Kris Bernal as Amy Maltayra
Melissa Avelino as Rosas / Marla
Arci Muñoz as Puti / Stacy
Vaness del Moral as Kahel / Rhea
Tiya Pusit as Angge Mentor
Spanky Manikan / John Feir as Eng
Pinky Amador as Armida
Ricardo Cepeda as Nalax King
Richard Quan as Danny Torres
Lovely Rivero as Mrs. Torres
Guest cast
Chariz Solomon as Gayke
Jacob Rica as Gelo Torres / Zaido Kid Red
Pauleen Luna as Lyvia
Isabel Granada as Luna
Robert Villar as Oggy Lorenzo / Zaido Kid Green
JM Reyes as Aqualia / Zaido Kid Blue
Charisse Hermoso as Ave / Zaido Kid Yellow
Charlotte Hermoso as Vea / Zaido Kid Pink
Nicole Dulalia as Ida Dida
Patricia Ysmael as Fasullo / Inday
Paulo Avelino as Cervano's buddy
Ken Punzalan as Cervano's buddy
Vivo Ouano as Cervano's buddy
Karen delos Reyes as Ederlyn
Lifernand as Dodong
Gio Alvarez as Giggle / Giga-wiga
Sandy Talag as young Sharina
Gian Carlos as Toby Mendoza / Zaido Gold Shadow
Dexter Doria as Selma
Jana Roxas as Sharina, young Helen Lorenzo
Ryan Yllana as Tabatino
Alex Crisano as Vola
Mura as Buboy
Louie Alejandro as Izcaruz
Al Tantay as Alberto Lorenzo
Tai Tomoyuki as Shigeki
Voice cast
Tirso Cruz III as Kuuma Le-ar
Vincent Gutierrez as Shaider
Noel Urbano as Ulla
Jeffrey Tam as Robix
Reception
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Zaido: earned a 34.6% rating. While the final episode scored a 32.3% rating.
Critical response
The series received negative reviews from critics. Entertainment critic Nestor Torre viewed that Zaido's visual effects felt "borrowed" from iconic references such as Star Wars. He also cited the inconsistency between the series' glossy sci-fi effects and the dated martial arts fight scenes and sword fights saying that "an advanced civiliza |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20desktop%20software | In computing, the term remote desktop refers to a software- or operating system feature that allows a personal computer's desktop environment to be run remotely from one system (usually a PC, but the concept applies equally to a server or a smartphone), while being displayed on a separate client device. Remote desktop applications have varying features. Some allow attaching to an existing user's session and "remote controlling", either displaying the remote control session or blanking the screen. Taking over a desktop remotely is a form of remote administration.
Overview
Remote access can also be explained as the remote control of a computer by using another device connected via the internet or another network. This is widely used by many computer manufacturers and large businesses help desks for technical troubleshooting of their customer's problems.
Remote desktop software captures the mouse and keyboard inputs from the local computer (client) and sends them to the remote computer (server).
The remote computer in turn sends the display commands to the local computer. When applications with many graphics including video or 3D models need to be controlled remotely, a remote workstation software that sends the pixels rather than the display commands must be used to provide a smooth, like-local experience.
Remote desktop sharing is accomplished through a common client/server model. The client, or VNC viewer, is installed on a local computer and then connects via a network to a server component, which is installed on the remote computer. In a typical VNC session, all keystrokes and mouse clicks are registered as if the client were actually performing tasks on the end-user machine.
Remote desktops also have a major advantage for security development, companies are able to permit software engineers who may be dispersed geographically to operate and develop from a computer which can be held within the companies office or cloud environment.
The target computer in a remote desktop scenario is still able to access all of its core functions. Many of these core functions, including the main clipboard, can be shared between the target computer and remote desktop client.
Uses
A main use of remote desktop software is remote administration and remote implementation. This need arises when software buyers are far away from their software vendor. Most remote access software can be used for "headless computers": instead of each computer having its own monitor, keyboard, and mouse, or using a KVM switch, one computer can have a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and remote control software, and control many headless computers. The duplicate desktop mode is useful for user support and education. Remote control software combined with telephone communication can be nearly as helpful for novice computer-users as if the support staff were actually there.
Remote desktop software can be used to access a remote computer: a physical personal computer to which a user does |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20remote%20desktop%20software | This page is a comparison of notable remote desktop software available for various platforms.
Remote desktop software
Operating system support
Features
Terminology
In the table above, the following terminology is intended to be used to describe some important features:
Listening mode: where a server connects to a viewer. The server site does not have to configure its firewall/NAT to allow access on a defined port; the onus is on the viewer, which is useful if the server site has no computer expertise, while the viewer user would be expected to be more knowledgeable.
Built-in encryption: the software has at least one method of encrypting the data between the local and remote computers, and the encryption mechanism is built into the remote control software.
File transfer: the software allows the user to transfer files between the local and remote computers, from within the client software's user interface.
Audio support: the remote control software transfers audio signals across the network and plays the audio through the speakers attached to the local computer. For example, music playback software normally sends audio signals to the locally attached speakers, via some sound controller hardware. If the remote control software package supports audio transfer, the playback software can run on the remote computer, while the music can be heard from the local computer, as though the software were running locally.
Multiple sessions: the ability to connect to a server as many users, and have each one see their individual desktops.
Seamless window: the software allows an application to be run on the server, and just the application window to be shown on the client's desktop. Normally the remote user interface chrome is also removed, giving the impression that the application is running on the client machines.
Remote assistance: remote and local users are able to view the same screen at the same time, so a remote user can assist a local user.
Access permission request: local user should approve a remote access session start.
NAT passthrough: the ability to connect to the server behind a NAT without configuring the router's port forwarding rules. It offers an advantage when you can't reconfigure the router/firewall (for example in case it is on the Internet service provider's side), but is a serious security risk (unless the traffic is end-to-end encrypted), because all the traffic will pass through some proxy server which in most cases is owned by the remote access application's developers.
Maximum simultaneous connections: number of clients connected to the same session
Screen blanking: the ability to prevent the user of the host/server from viewing what is currently being displayed on the screen while a remote user is connected.
Session persistence: unsaved work will not be lost when the user disconnects or in the event of connection loss
IPv6 support: supports connections over IPv6
See also
Comparison of SSH clients
Notes
References
Virtual N |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Ford%20%28numerical%20analyst%29 | Brian Ford (OBE, born 1940, Nottingham) is a British Mathematician who founded, and until his retirement in 2004, was director of the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG). Ford gained a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Nottingham. The NAG (then Nottingham Algorithms Group) project began in 1970 as a collaborative venture, led by Ford, between the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham and Oxford, and the Atlas Computer Laboratory. In 1973 the project moved to Oxford and was renamed. Ford was awarded an Order of the British Empire in 1989 in "recognition of outstanding services to British industry and research" In 2005 he was awarded an Honorary Degree from the University of Bath.
References
External links
Citation for honorary degree at Bath
20th-century British mathematicians
21st-century British mathematicians
Living people
Academics of the University of Nottingham
Numerical analysts
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clans%20in%20Central%20Asia | Clans in Central Asia are political networks based on regional and tribal loyalties. Clans frequently control certain government departments, though there is fluidity between clan loyalty and membership in government agencies. The people of Central Asia self-identified by their clans prior to Russian expansion in the 19th century. After the fall of the USSR, the informal agreements between the clans were the only means with which to stabilize the new Republics. Ethnic identity did not come into play until as late as the 1980s during glasnost. The influence of the clans in the contemporary history of Central Asia is derived from the enormous importance that these have held in the past. The weaker states of Central Asia have relied on the social salience of clans to secure their own legitimacy through pacts and informal agreements. These pacts guarantee that the clans have informal access to power and resources and have allowed for the clans to become central actors in post-Soviet politics
History
Whereas Czarist colonialism had generally left Central Asia’s clans alone, Lenin declared in 1918 that the Bolsheviks would modernize the region and make its peoples into “Soviet nations.” But the vast communist bureaucracy of the Soviet party-state often failed to provide the social and economic goods it promised, and Soviet-forged identities (whether ethnonational or communist) put down only the shallowest of roots in Central Asia. Ironically, the Soviet institutions designed to destroy clans actually wound up making them stronger. The collectivization and “nationalities” policies of the 1920s and 1930s were meant to modernize clans out of existence by turning wandering herdspeople into sedentary Soviet subjects and overwhelming old clan affiliations with new and larger “national” identities such as Kyrgyz, Turkmen, or Kazakh. However, clan members adapted and survived. They also learned to use Soviet affirmative-action policies for titular nationalities as channels for promoting kinfolk within the Soviet system. During the three decades under Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev, moreover, Moscow intervened relatively little in Central Asia’s republic-level politics, and both larger and smaller clans were able to maintain their networks with resources from the Soviet state.
After Brezhnev’s death in 1982, the decline of the Soviet regime brought new instability to Central Asia. From 1984 to 1988, Moscow staged massive purges of the dominant clans in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Mikhail Gorbachev installed a large ethnically Russian cadre from Moscow in most positions of economic and political power. All told, his efforts to shake up the traditional system of power resulted in the imprisonment of an estimated 30,000 Central Asian leaders. But the deeper trend unleashed by Gorbachev’s perestroika eroded the power of the party-state. Clans reasserted themselves, seizing opportunities to coordinate against Moscow and show that they would no longer remain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20Routing%20Protocol | The Wireless Routing Protocol (WRP) is a proactive unicast routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs).
Description
WRP uses an enhanced version of the distance-vector routing protocol, which uses the Bellman–Ford algorithm to calculate paths. Because of the mobile nature of the nodes within the MANET, the protocol introduces mechanisms which reduce route loops and ensure reliable message exchange.
WRP, similar to Destination-Sequenced Distance Vector routing (DSDV), inherits the properties of the distributed Bellman–Ford algorithm. To counter the count-to-infinity problem and to enable faster convergence, it employs a unique method of maintaining information regarding the shortest distance to every destination node in the network and the penultimate hop node on the path to every destination node. Since WRP, like DSDV, maintains an up-to-date view of the network, every node has a readily available route to every destination node in the network. It differs from DSDV in table maintenance and in the update procedures. While DSDV maintains only one topology table, WRP uses a set of tables to maintain more accurate information. The tables that are maintained by a node are the following: distance table (DT), routing table (RT), link cost table (LCT), and a message retransmission list (MRL).
The DT contains the network view of the neighbors of a node. It contains a matrix where each element contains the distance and the penultimate node reported by a neighbor for a particular destination. The RT contains the up-to-date view of the network for all known destinations. It keeps the shortest distance, the predecessor node (penultimate node), the successor node (the next node to reach the destination), and a flag indicating the status of the path. The path status may be a simple path (correct), or a loop (error), or the destination node not marked (null). The LCT contains the cost (e.g., the number of hops to reach the destination) of relaying messages through each link. The cost of a broken link is infinity. It also contains the number of update periods (intervals between two successive periodic updates) passed since the last successful update was received from that link. This is done to detect links breaks. The MRL contains an entry for every update message that is to be retransmitted and maintains a counter for each entry. This counter is decremented after every retransmission of an update message. Each update message contains a list of updates. A node also marks each node in the RT that has to acknowledge the update message it transmitted. Once the counter reaches zero, the entries in the update message for which no acknowledgments have been received are to be retransmitted and the update message is deleted. Thus, a node detects a link break by the number of update periods missed since the last successful transmission. After receiving an update message, a node not only updates the distance for transmission neighbors but a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Gutmann | Peter Gutmann or Guttman may refer to:
Peter Gutmann (computer scientist), computer scientist from New Zealand
Peter Gutmann (journalist) (born 1949), American journalist, writer and attorney
Peter Guttman (photographer), American author and photographer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winx%20Club%3A%20The%20Secret%20of%20the%20Lost%20Kingdom | Winx Club: The Secret of the Lost Kingdom (Italian: Winx Club - Il segreto del regno perduto) is a 2007 Italian computer-animated film based on the television series Winx Club, taking place after the events of the first three seasons. The film premiered on November 30, 2007, in Italy.
The film was animated by Rainbow S.p.A. In February 2011, Nickelodeon's parent company Viacom became a co-owner of Rainbow, and it was announced that Viacom would re-release The Secret of the Lost Kingdom through its subsidiary Paramount Pictures. Nickelodeon U.S. premiered the movie on March 11, 2012, and Paramount released it on DVD on August 7, 2012.
Plot
Bloom and her best friends, Flora, Stella, Musa, Aisha and Tecna, are on a search for Bloom's missing birth parents, King Oritel and Queen Marion, who Bloom believes are still alive. The girls track down Hagen, a blacksmith who forged the powerful sword of Oritel, a magical sword that can never be separated from its rightful master, in hopes that he can trace the sword's power to Bloom's parents. The girls successfully sneak into Hagen's castle but when they encounter Hagen, he believes they are intruders. Soon, Faragonda, an old friend of Hagen's, arrives and they return to Alfea to discuss the matter. Bloom begs Hagen for help, but he admits that he is unable to aid her. Bloom feels guilty for the effort her friends have put in when it had been hopeless the whole time, and runs off in tears to avoid facing them.
Most of the third-year fairies at Alfea, including the Winx (sans Bloom), graduate and become guardian fairies of their home planets, after having earned their Enchantix powers. Due to Bloom's powers being incomplete, she is compelled to stay behind as she watches her friends graduate. Sky comes to comfort her, encouraging her to continue her quest despite Hagen's words. They share a tender moment until a mysterious girl arrives, forcing Sky to leave in a hurry, although he promises Bloom that he will explain everything later.
The next day, Bloom leaves for Earth to stay with her adoptive parents. Although she seems happy, Mike and Vanessa see that Bloom is uncomfortable living on Earth, and that she belongs more in the Magical Dimension. The same night, Bloom has a dream about Daphne, who tells her that there is still hope; their parents are still alive. She offers Bloom her strength through her mask, and also informs her about the Book of Fate - a tome their father kept that tells the entire history of Domino, and its location.
The next morning, Bloom is surprised to see all of her friends at her house to celebrate her birthday. Bloom shares her plan and they all agree to help her, reminding her of their everlasting friendship. The restoration of Bloom's hope triggers the sword of Oritel, deep within the dark Obsidian Circle, the center of all evil forces. Its glow troubles the spiritual forms of the three Ancestral Witches, who caused the destruction of Domino. They employ Obsidian's keeper, Ma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color%20%28software%29 | Color is a professional color-grading application developed by Apple for its Mac OS X operating system. It was one of the major applications included as part of the Final Cut Studio video-production suite. The application was originally called FinalTouch and was developed by Silicon Color, until the company was acquired by Apple in October 2006.
Color was launched on April 15, 2007, as part of the USD$1,299 Final Cut Studio suite, with Apple proclaiming it was "democratizing" color correction and video editing by offering professional-level tools at a consumer price (at the time a color grading system could cost up to $100,000). The standalone Final Cut Pro application contained basic color grading tools, but Color allowed professional techniques such as Bezier-based masking and single and multipoint optical tracking. FinalTouch and Color used the Digital Picture Exchange (DPX) format commonly used in commercial video and feature film production.
Color 1.5 was introduced on July 23, 2009, along with the new Final Cut Studio 2009, which featured support for 4K video, full-quality compatibility with the Red One camera, and the ability to copy grades to multiple clips.
Color and the other Final Cut Studio applications were discontinued with the release of Final Cut Pro X, Motion 5, and Compressor 4 in 2011.
References
MacOS-only software made by Apple Inc.
Video editing software for macOS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval%20Conquest | Medieval Conquest is a fantasy-themed real-time strategy personal computer game developed by Cat Daddy Games and published by Global Star Software for Microsoft Windows in 2004. The game involves managing a kingdom by hiring units and building and upgrading structures.
Overview
Medieval Conquest uses a 3D game engine. The game's story takes place over 12 missions spanning four maps. Players can hire three types of units: fighters, rangers, and mages. Units in Medieval Conquest are autonomous; the player indirectly influences their actions by assigning hunting territories and building structures that provide units with goods and services. Units gain experience points and improve in power over time as they level up and purchase better equipment. The game's sole resource is gold, earned by hunting monsters.
Critical reception
Medieval Conquest received mixed reviews in the gaming media. Positive reviews praised its casual, light-hearted style, while critics singled out problems with unit AI and lack of compelling gameplay. A number of reviewers commented on its similarities to the 2000 real-time strategy game Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim.
References
External links
2004 video games
Cat Daddy Games games
Global Star Software games
Real-time strategy video games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in the Middle Ages
Windows games
Windows-only games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas%20Computer%20Laboratory | The Atlas Computer Laboratory on the Harwell, Oxfordshire campus shared by the Harwell Laboratory was one of the major computer laboratories in the world, which operated between 1961 and 1975 to provide a service to British scientists at a time when powerful computers were not usually available. The main user population was the UK universities and some government agencies.
Now called the Atlas centre, it is home to European Space Agency's (ESA) Business Incubation Centre (ESA BIC), the Space Applications and Telecommunications (ESA ESCAT), and the Science and Technology Facilities Council's (STFC) Innovations Technology Access Centre (I-TAC).
History
From 1964 to 1971, the laboratory housed the largest of the three examples of the Ferranti Atlas 1 computer that was purchased for £2.5 million, and after which the laboratory was named. For a time, it was the fastest and most innovative of the computers available worldwide.
Throughout its life, it was headed by Jack Howlett. Early staff or visitors included A. O. L. Atkin (1964–1970), I. J. Good (1964–1967), and Donald Michie who had worked together at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.
High quality text and graphics output on both paper and film was provided by a Stromberg-Carlson SC4020 microfilm recorder that provided a unique service for many years, especially to people interested in doing computer animation. Associated with the SC4020 was a PDP15 satellite computer that provided previewing facilities for the SC4020 and a range of interactive graphics facilities for users.
From 1971, an ICL 1906A was installed with twice the computing power of the Atlas 1. About the same time, work started on replacing the ageing SC4020 with a modern III FR80 microfilm recorder which expanded the range of output media to include microfiche and was able to generate colour as well as black and white output.
From 1967 until 1985, several of the earliest computed generated image (CGI) or computer animated films were produced at the laboratory, particularly for the Open University. Most famously, the laboratory's facilities were used to produce the raster wireframe model rendering shown on the navigation monitors in the landing sequence of the 1979 Ridley Scott film Alien which won the 1979 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.
The Atlas Computer Laboratory made important contributions to systems software including operating systems, compilers, computer graphics, and networking. Basic software in the areas of statistics, mathematics, linguistics, chemistry and many other areas was also developed.
In 1975, the Atlas Computer Laboratory was closed, moving some parts to the Daresbury Laboratory and amalgamating the rest with the neighbouring Rutherford High Energy Laboratory, and then in 1979 with the Appleton Laboratory to form the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Since 2007, the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory has been operated by the Science and Technology Facilities Council.
In July 2009, The Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20Transport%20Information%20and%20Priority%20System | The Public Transport Information and Priority System, abbreviated PTIPS,
is a computer-based system used in New South Wales, Australia, that brings together information about public transport entities, such as buses. Where applicable, PTIPS can also provide transport vehicles with priority at traffic signals.
PTIPS consists of a number of hardware and software components installed on-board buses which wirelessly communicate with a central set of servers. PTIPS also relies on an interface with Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System (SCATS) - to provide the priority feature) and bus/route/timetable data provided by bus organisations and government authorities.
PTIPS provides:
Real-time tracking of bus location and status
Traffic light priority for late running buses
Bus/Timetable performance and reliability reports
Real-time Bus arrival information for bus stops
How PTIPS works
PTIPS works by combining, on the one hand, schedule and route path information for buses performing timetabled services (as opposed to, say, charter trips), and on the other hand, live location data transmitted by the buses to PTIPS.
PTIPS receives XML data files from the bus operators, which contain information relating to planned trips (for example, route paths, trips & schedules, bus stops etc.)
Each bus that PTIPS tracks is equipped with a hardware device that records its location via GPS, and transmits it to the central PTIPS servers via the cellular radio communications network. Buses transmit these messages at certain intervals (which are configurable, and which vary depending on what the bus is doing), and also when they pass certain points along their intended route. Apart from GPS location, the transmitted messages also include information about the vehicle and which trip it is doing.
With the above information, PTIPS can compare the location of a bus performing a certain trip, at a certain point in time, with where it should be, based on the planned route and timetable data.
Real time apps
Transport for NSW worked with several developers in late 2012 to create, and release smartphone applications with access to the real-time bus data provided from PTIPS. Released in December, several iOS and Android apps went live on their respective App stores, allowing customers to track where their buses were in real-time, as well as any delays or timetable changes as they occur. It was initially trialled on Sydney Buses' route 400.
In 2013, this real-time data was further expanded to provide live information from Sydney Trains, and private bus operators Hillsbus and Busways Blacktown, and was eventually rolled out across bus operators in Greater Sydney.
In 2020, Transport for NSW started working with bus operators to introduce real-time tracking to regional bus services. As of March 2022, PTIPS-assisted real-time tracking was available for the regional centres of Albury, Armidale, Bathurst, Bega, Coffs Harbour, Dubbo, Forbes, Grafton, Nowra, Parkes, Port Macq |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDoc | IDoc, short for Intermediate Document, is a SAP document format for business transaction data transfers.
Non SAP-systems can use IDocs as the standard interface (computing) for data transfer.
IDoc is similar to XML in purpose, but differs in syntax. Both serve the purpose of data exchange and automation in computer systems, but the IDoc-Technology takes a different approach.
While XML allows having some metadata about the document itself, an IDoc is obliged to have information at its header like its creator, creation time etc. While XML has a tag-like tree structure containing data and meta-data, IDocs use a table with the data and meta-data. IDocs also have a session that explains all the processes which the document passed or will pass, allowing one to debug and trace the status of the document.
Different IDoc types are available to handle different types of messages. For example, the IDoc format ORDERS01 may be used for both purchase orders and order confirmations.
IDoc technology offers many tools for automation, monitoring and error handling. For example, if the IDocs are customised that way on a particular server, then a user of SAP R/3 system creates a purchase order; this is automatically sent via an IDoc and a sales order is immediately created on the vendor's system.
When this order cannot be created because of an application error (for example: The price per piece is lower than allowed for this material), then the administrator on the vendor's system sees this IDoc among the erroneous ones and can solve the situation. If the error is in the master data at the vendor's system, he can correct them and order the IDoc to be processed again.
Because of the flexibility and transparency of IDoc technology, some non-SAP technologies use them as well.
Structure of the IDoc
An IDoc consists of
Control record (it contains the type of IDoc, port of the partner, release of SAP R/3 which produced the IDoc etc.)
Data records of different types. The number and type of segments is mostly fixed for each IDoc type, but there is some flexibility (for example an SD order can have any number of items).
Status records containing messages like 'IDoc created', 'The recipient exists', 'IDoc was successfully passed to the port', 'Could not book the invoice because..'
The IDoc itself is a structured Text-File, that means IDocs can be used on all platforms, there is no need to translate binary data. Each record is identified by the name of the record. The load (data) is stored in a 1000 byte long container. Use transaction WE60 in a SAP-System to get documentation for IDocs, like HTML files and C-header files.
Example ORDERS01 Segment E1EDK01
/* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
/* Automatically created data declarations */
/* Data declarations for IDoc segments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogiri | Pogiri is a village and panchayat in Rajam mandal of Srikakulam district, Andhra Pradesh, India.
References
http://www.census2011.co.in/data/village/581333-pogiri-andhra-pradesh.html
Villages in Srikakulam district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEGIS%3A%20Guardian%20of%20the%20Fleet | Aegis: Guardian of the Fleet is a video game for MS-DOS compatible operating systems published in 1994 by Time Warner Interactive.
Gameplay
It simulates command of a US Navy Ticonderoga class cruiser using the Aegis combat system, a US Navy radar and computer system which operates intelligence and missile guidance functions. It was developed by Microplay Software, and published by Time Warner Interactive.
Players are given the ability to operate this ship in real-time, either from the bridge, or by viewing ship operations on radar, via the Tactical Plot System. Players can also command several ships at once.
Players can play single mission games, or play a full campaign. The game depicts missions in the Middle East against a variety of targets, and with several different mission objectives.
Reception
Computer Gaming World in July 1994 rated AEGIS: Guardian of the Flet 3.5 stars out of five. While criticizing the documentation and bugs, the magazine approved of the more than 100 missions, and predicted that like Falcon 3.0 consumers would upgrade computers to play it.
References
External links
Game review at ibiblio.org
Issue 120, page 88, Computer Gaming World Magazine, July 1994.
1994 video games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Naval video games
Ship simulation games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost%20%28season%204%29 | The fourth season of the American serial drama television series Lost commenced airing on the ABC network in the United States, and on CTV in Canada on January 31, 2008, and concluded on May 29, 2008. The season continues the stories of a group of over 40 people who have been stranded on a remote island in the South Pacific, after their airplane crashed there more than 90 days prior to the beginning of the season. According to Lost executive producers/writers/showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, there are two main themes in the fourth season: "the castaways' relationship to the freighter folk" and "who gets off the island and the fact that they need to get back". The fourth season was acclaimed for its flash-forwards, pace and new characters.
The season was originally planned to contain 16 episodes; eight were written before the start of the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike. Following the strike's resolution, it was announced that only five more episodes would be produced to complete the season; however, the season finale's script was so long that network executives approved the production of a 14th episode as part of a three-hour season finale split over two nights. The fourth season aired Thursdays at 9:00 pm from January 31 to March 20, 2008, and at 10:00 pm from April 24 to May 15, 2008. The two-hour finale aired at 9:00 pm on May 29, 2008. Buena Vista Home Entertainment (under the ABC Studios label) released the season on DVD and Blu-ray Disc under the title Lost: The Complete Fourth Season – The Expanded Experience on December 9, 2008, in Region 1; however, it was released earlier—on October 20, 2008—in Region 2.
Crew
The fourth season was produced by ABC Studios, Bad Robot Productions and Grass Skirt Productions. Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse served as the season's show runners. The show was primarily filmed in Hawaii with post-production in Los Angeles. Lindelof and Cuse's fellow executive producers were co-creator J. J. Abrams, Bryan Burk and Jack Bender. The staff writers were Lindelof, Cuse, co-executive producers Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz, and Drew Goddard, supervising producer Elizabeth Sarnoff, co-producer Brian K. Vaughan and executive story editor Christina M. Kim. The regular directors were Bender and co-executive producer Stephen Williams.
Cast
The fourth season featured 16 major roles with star billing. The show continues to chronicle the lives of the survivors of the crash of Oceanic Airlines Flight 815, including their interactions with the island's original inhabitants, whom they refer to as "the Others", and an inauspicious team from a nearby freighter. Characters are briefly summarized and credited in alphabetical order.
Naveen Andrews acts as 815 survivor Sayid Jarrah, a former soldier of the Iraqi Republican Guard.
Henry Ian Cusick plays Desmond Hume, a man who has been living on the island for three years and who has developed the ability to time travel, though this is beyond his control |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reassignment%20method | The method of reassignment is a technique for sharpening a time-frequency representation by mapping the data to time-frequency coordinates that are nearer to the true region of support of the analyzed signal. The method has been independently introduced by several parties under various names, including method of reassignment, remapping, time-frequency reassignment, and modified moving-window method. In
the case of the spectrogram or the short-time Fourier transform, the method of reassignment sharpens blurry time-frequency data by relocating the data according to local estimates of instantaneous frequency and group delay. This mapping to reassigned time-frequency coordinates is very precise for signals that are separable in time and frequency with respect to the analysis window.
Introduction
Many signals of interest have a distribution of energy that varies in time and frequency. For example, any sound signal having a beginning or an end has an energy distribution that varies in time, and most sounds exhibit considerable variation in both time and frequency over their duration. Time-frequency representations are commonly used to analyze or characterize such signals. They map the one-dimensional time-domain signal into a two-dimensional function of time and frequency. A time-frequency representation describes the variation of spectral energy distribution over time, much as a musical score describes the variation of musical pitch over time.
In audio signal analysis, the spectrogram is the most commonly used time-frequency representation, probably because it is well understood, and immune to so-called "cross-terms" that sometimes make other time-frequency representations difficult to interpret. But the windowing operation required in spectrogram computation introduces an unsavory tradeoff between time resolution and frequency resolution, so spectrograms provide a time-frequency representation that is blurred in time, in frequency, or in both dimensions. The method of time-frequency reassignment is a technique for refocussing time-frequency data in a blurred representation like the spectrogram by mapping the data to time-frequency coordinates that are nearer to the true region of support of the analyzed signal.
The spectrogram as a time-frequency representation
One of the best-known time-frequency representations is the spectrogram, defined as the squared magnitude of the short-time Fourier transform. Though the short-time phase spectrum is known to contain important temporal information about the signal, this information is difficult to interpret, so typically, only the short-time magnitude spectrum is considered in short-time spectral analysis.
As a time-frequency representation, the spectrogram has relatively poor resolution. Time and frequency resolution are governed by the choice of analysis window and greater concentration in one domain is accompanied by greater smearing in the other.
A time-frequency representation having improved re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20hesperiid%20genera%3AM | The large Lepidoptera family Hesperiidae (skippers) contains the following genera:
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
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Hesperiid genera M |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20hesperiid%20genera%3AN | The large Lepidoptera family Hesperiidae (skippers) contains the following genera:
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
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Hesperiid genera N |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex%20Systems%20%28journal%29 | Complex Systems is a quarterly peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering subjects ranging across a number of scientific and engineering fields, including computational biology, computer science, mathematics, and physics. It was established in 1987 with Stephen Wolfram as founding editor-in-chief. The journal is published by Complex Systems Publications.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
See also
List of journals in systems science
References
External links
Academic journals established in 1987
Systems journals
Computer science journals
Quarterly journals
English-language journals
Open access journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia%20Petroleum%20Convenience%20and%20Grocery%20Association | The Virginia Petroleum and Convenience Marketers Association (VPCMA) is a statewide trade association formed in 1948 providing advocacy, educational and networking services to its membership.
Until 1999, the Association was known as the Virginia Petroleum Jobbers Association. As the traditional jobber (wholesaler) evolved more into direct sales to consumers so did the Association. VPCGA now has over 600 members, who in turn own and operate more than 4000 retail locations across Virginia. Members operate gasoline/convenience locations, grocery stores, travel centers, sell home heating oil, lubricants and supply petroleum products to the motoring public, agriculture and maritime industries and the armed forces.
The Association is governed by a 15-member Board of Directors, and has had just three Presidents since its founding. Its President, Michael O'Connor, CAE, has more than 30 years of association management experience and has led the Association as President and Chief Executive Officer since 2000. He was selected as Virginia's Oilman of the Year in 2007.
In addition to representing the interests of the membership at the Virginia General Assembly and various regulatory agencies, the Association publishes regular industry updates containing important compliance information on pending issues, conducts compliance training seminars to provide hands on training to employees on technical aspects of the petroleum business. The association's motto is "Virginia Neighbors Serving Neighbors". VPCGA works closely with the Energy Marketers Association of America (www.ema.org) and the National Association of Convenience Stores (www.nacsonline.com) on Federal Issues
The Association office is located at 7275 Glen Forest Drive Suite 204 Richmond, Virginia 23226
External links
Website
Organizations based in Virginia
Petroleum in the United States
Trade associations based in the United States
1948 establishments in Virginia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural%20risk%20minimization | Structural risk minimization (SRM) is an inductive principle of use in machine learning. Commonly in machine learning, a generalized model must be selected from a finite data set, with the consequent problem of overfitting – the model becoming too strongly tailored to the particularities of the training set and generalizing poorly to new data. The SRM principle addresses this problem by balancing the model's complexity against its success at fitting the training data. This principle was first set out in a 1974 paper by Vladimir Vapnik and Alexey Chervonenkis and uses the VC dimension.
In practical terms, Structural Risk Minimization is implemented by minimizing , where is the train error, the function is called a regularization function, and is a constant. is chosen such that it takes large values on parameters that belong to high-capacity subsets of the parameter space. Minimizing in effect limits the capacity of the accessible subsets of the parameter space, thereby controlling the trade-off between minimizing the training error and minimizing the expected gap between the training error and test error.
The SRM problem can be formulated in terms of data. Given n data points consisting of data x and labels y, the objective is often expressed in the following manner:
The first term is the mean squared error (MSE) term between the value of the learned model, , and the given labels . This term is the training error, , that was discussed earlier. The second term, places a prior over the weights, to favor sparsity and penalize larger weights. The trade-off coefficient, , is a hyperparameter that places more or less importance on the regularization term. Larger encourages sparser weights at the expense of a more optimal MSE, and smaller relaxes regularization allowing the model to fit to data. Note that as the weights become zero, and as , the model typically suffers from overfitting.
See also
Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory
Support vector machines
Model selection
Occam Learning
Empirical risk minimization
Ridge regression
Regularization (mathematics)
References
External links
Structural risk minimization at the support vector machines website.
Machine learning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSDB | CSDB is an acronym that can stand for several different things:
Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind
Commercial Standard Digital Bus
Common Source Data Base
Central Securities Database
Carbohydrate Structure Database |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualstar | Qualstar Corporation () is an American manufacturer of magnetic tape data storage products, based in Simi Valley, California. It was founded in 1984 as a 9-track tape drive manufacturer, and now makes tape library products. The company sold its last 9-track tape drive in 2006 and as of March 2006 has sold all remaining parts inventory to Vinastar, an aftermarket vendor.
Qualstar announced the TLS-4000 Series tape library family in 1994 and began shipment in 1995. Initially using Exabyte 8mm tape drives, the TLS-4000 Series was the first library product line to automate Sony's popular AIT drives. Leveraging the basic TLS design, Qualstar subsequently introduced the TLS-6000 Series for DLT and SDLT drives, the TLS-5000 Series for Sony SAIT drives and the TLS-8000 Series for LTO drives. The TLS-2000 Series for 4mm drives was also produced for a limited time. By 2011, only select models of the TLS-8000 family remain in production.
In 2001, the company introduced the first RLS-Series of rack mountable tape libraries. A number of models supporting AIT, SAIT, SDLT and LTO tape drive technologies were produced. The RLS-8000 Series for LTO technology continues in production. Various models house up to 44 tape cartridges and four LTO SAS or Fibre Channel tape drives in a 5U high package.
In 2010 Qualstar introduced the RLS-8500 Series that house up to 114 tapes and five LTO drives in a 10U high mechanism.
Qualstar entered the enterprise tape library market in 2006 with the XLS-Series Enterprise Library System. Using patented technology, the XLS-Series introduced interchangeable Library Resource Modules (LRMs)and storage modules (MEMs) in highly flexible configurations that could be combined to exceed 7,000 tapes and 128 LTO tape drives. The XLS family has continued to expand, adding four more LRM models and a second MEM module. XLS models currently span capacities from 160 slots to over 11,000 slots and can house over 150 drives.
References
External links
Corporate website
Companies based in Simi Valley, California
Companies based in Ventura County, California
Information technology companies of the United States
Companies listed on the Nasdaq |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20hesperiid%20genera%3AO | The large Lepidoptera family Hesperiidae (skippers) contains the following genera:
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
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Hesperiid genera O |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor%20of%20Computer%20Information%20Systems | The Bachelor of Computer Information Systems, also known as Bachelor of Computer & Information Science by the University of Oregon and The Ohio State University, (abbreviated BSc CIS) is an undergraduate or bachelor's degree that focuses on practical applications of technology to support organizations while adding value to their offerings. In order to apply technology effectively in this manner, a broad range of subjects are covered, such as communications, business, networking, software design, and mathematics. This degree encompasses the entirety of the Computing field and therefore is very useful when applying to computing positions of various sectors.
Some computer information systems programs have received accreditation from ABET, the recognized U.S. accreditor of college and university programs in applied science, computing, engineering, and technology.
References
Computer Information Systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEFLIN | NEFLIN, the Northeast Florida Library Information Network, is one of five non-profit library cooperatives committed to serving libraries throughout Florida.
Established in 1992, NEFLIN's membership employs 2,500 staff at 560 public, academic, school, and specialized libraries located within its 24 county service area.
NEFLIN is governed by a nine-member, elected, Board of Directors that represents each type of library in the cooperative.
Through grant funding and membership dues, NEFLIN provides members access to training and continuing education, resource sharing, research and development, partnerships for grant funding, leadership opportunities, and additional services through relationships with other organizations.
Florida's multitype library cooperatives
NEFLIN is one of five multitype library cooperatives in Florida. The other four are:
Panhandle Library Access Network
Southeast Florida Library Information Network
Southwest Florida Library Network
Tampa Bay Library Consortium
References
External links
NEFLIN website
Official NEFLIN blog
Library consortia in Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20Capacity%20Color%20Barcode | High Capacity Color Barcode (HCCB) is a technology developed by Microsoft for encoding data in a 2D "barcode" using clusters of colored triangles instead of the square pixels conventionally associated with 2D barcodes or QR codes. Data density is increased by using a palette of 4 or 8 colors for the triangles, although HCCB also permits the use of black and white when necessary. It has been licensed by the ISAN International Agency for use in its International Standard Audiovisual Number standard, and serves as the basis for the Microsoft Tag mobile tagging application.
The technology was created by Gavin Jancke, an engineering director at Microsoft Research. Quoted by BBC News in 2007, he said that HCCB was not intended to replace conventional barcodes. "'It's more of a 'partner' barcode', he said. 'The UPC barcodes will always be there. Ours is more of a niche barcode where you want to put a lot of information in a small space.'"
Technology
HCCB uses a grid of colored triangles to encode data. Depending on the target use, the grid size (total number of symbols), symbol density (the printed size of the triangles), and symbol count (number of colors used) can be varied. HCCB can use an eight-, four-, or two-color (black-and-white) palette. Microsoft claims that laboratory tests using standard off-the-shelf printers and scanners have yielded readable eight-color HCCBs equivalent to approximately 3,500 characters per square inch.
Microsoft Tag
Microsoft Tag is a discontinued but still available implementation of High Capacity Color Barcode (HCCB) using 4 colors in a 5 x 10 grid. Additionally, the code works in monochrome. The print size can be varied to allow reasonable reading by a mobile camera phone; for example, a Tag on a real estate sign might be printed large enough to be read from a car driving by, whereas a Tag in a magazine could be smaller because the reader would likely be nearer.
A Microsoft Tag is essentially a machine readable web link, analogous to a URL shortening link: when read, the Tag application sends the HCCB data to a Microsoft server, which then returns the publisher's intended URL. The Tag reader then directs the user's mobile browser to the appropriate website. Because of this redirection, Microsoft is also able to track users and provide Tag analytics to publishers.
When the platform was released, creation of tags for both commercial and noncommercial use was free as were the associated analytics. In 2013, the process for creating new accounts was transferred to Scanbuy, which said that "A free plan will also be offered from ScanLife with the same basic features", although additional features may be available at extra cost.
Consumer
Users can download the free Microsoft Tag reader application to their Internet-capable mobile device with camera, launch the reader and read a tag using their phone’s camera. Depending on the scenario, this triggers the intended content to be displayed. Some GPS-equipped phon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible%20reference%20system%20propagation%20algorithm | Reversible reference system propagation algorithm (r-RESPA) is a time stepping algorithm used in molecular dynamics.
It evolves the system state over time,
where the L is the Liouville operator.
References
Molecular dynamics
Hamiltonian mechanics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenet%20%28disambiguation%29 | Telenet is a former US particular packet switched network which went into service in 1975.
Telenet may also refer to:
Telenet (Belgium), a Belgian telecommunications company
Telenet Japan, a Japanese video game and software developer
See also
Telnet, a network protocol used on the Internet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-RCS | DVB-RCS (Digital Video Broadcasting - Return Channel via Satellite) provides a method by which the DVB-S platform (and in theory also the DVB-S2 platform) can become a bi-directional, asymmetric data path using wireless between broadcasters and customers. It is a specification for an interactive on-demand multimedia satellite communication system formulated in 1999 by the DVB consortium. Without this method, various degrees of interactivity can be offered, without implying any return channel back from the user to the service provider: Data Carrousel or Electronic Programs Guides (EPG) are examples of such enhanced TV services which make use of “local interactivity”, without any return path from customer to provider.
Chronology
The 5th revision of the DVB-RCS standard was completed in 2008. A major update included the very first broadband mobile standardization. This extended version, formally referred to as "ETSI EN 301 790 v 1.5.1" is also known as "DVB-RCS+M". The "+M" version added several new features, such as the ability to use "DVB-S2" bursts in the uplink channel back to the satellite. It incorporated signal fade mitigation techniques and other solutions to combat short term signal loss.
In contrast to other satellite communications systems, DVB-RCS was created in an open environment where any DVB member can participate. DVB membership is open to all companies willing to subscribe. The work group called "DVB TM-RCS" is currently pursuing other technical solutions for the approved commercial system.
In 2009 technical work started for a new version of DVB-RCS called "DVB-RCS NG" (Next Generation). In this more powerful version of the standard "RCS2" there will be support for Higher Layers for Satellite (HLS) communication.
Evolution
In older systems, interactive video broadcasting was possible as a result of using physical cables for connectivity. However, in remote areas cable connections may be unavailable, two-way communication was then impossible via traditional means. One possible solution was to use a satellite linked connection for the return (uplink) channel in addition to the standard downlink channel. This option is more expensive to implement than with cabled connections in built-up areas, but may be more cost effective for remote areas where the costs of laying cable to users would not be recovered for a long time. Additional costs involved in RCS systems include the costs of a two-way satellite antenna and renting data bandwidth from a satellite communications provider.
Advantages
DVB-RCS is a mature open source satellite communication standard with highly efficient bandwidth management. This make it a cost-efficient alternative solution for many users. It also provides an established foundation for further satellite communications research.
Hardware implementation
To implement this kind of communication, a user will require a device called a SIT, (Satellite Interactive Terminal, "astromodem" or satellite modem). A sui |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive%20Branch%20Reform%20Act%20of%202007 | The Executive Branch Reform Act () was a bill proposed in the 110th United States Congress and would have required thousands of federal officials to report into a government database the names of persons who contact them attempting to "influence" government policies or actions.
The prime sponsor of the bill is Congressman Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California. In the 110th Congress, the bill is designated H.R. 984. It was approved, without dissent, by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the U.S. House of Representatives on February 14, 2007. The legislation has not yet been scheduled for action by the full House of Representatives. According to The Washington Post (March 6, 2007), "A spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says that she backs the measure . . . and that she expects it to get a vote in the House."
Requirements of the Bill
According as to a letter from the director of the Office of Government Ethics, the bill would require over 8,000 executive branch officials to report into a public database certain details on nearly any "significant contact" from any "private party." The coverage extends to essentially all executive branch appointees of any president of the United States, including any employee serving in a position in level I, II, III, IV, or V of the Executive Schedule; any employee serving in a position of a "policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character;" and all military officers of one-star rank and above.
The only senior federal officials exempted under the bill are the president, the vice president, and their respective chiefs of staff.
Regarding the requirement to report contacts from any "private party," the bill states, "The term 'private party' means any person or entity, but does not include a Federal, State, or local government official or a person representing such an official." Thus, the bill requires the reporting of contacts from citizens, but does not require the reporting of contacts made by one government official to another.
The bill defines "significant contact" to be any "oral or written communication (including electronic communication) . . . in which the private party seeks to influence official action by any officer or employee of the executive branch of the United States." This definition covers all forms of oral or written communication, one way or two way, whether solicited by the official or not, including letters, faxes, e-mails, phone messages, and petitions.
The covered officials would be required to file quarterly reports listing "the name of each private party who had a significant contact with that official," and "a summary of the nature of the contact, including -- (A) the date of the contact; (B) the subject matter of the contact and the specific executive branch action to which the contact relates; and (C) if the contact was made on behalf of a client, the name of the client." The final provision is apparently meant to cover contac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%20short-term%20memory | Long short-term memory (LSTM) network is a recurrent neural network (RNN), aimed to deal with the vanishing gradient problem present in traditional RNNs. Its relative insensitivity to gap length is its advantage over other RNNs, hidden Markov models and other sequence learning methods. It aims to provide a short-term memory for RNN that can last thousands of timesteps, thus "long short-term memory". It is applicable to classification, processing and predicting data based on time series, such as in handwriting, speech recognition, machine translation, speech activity detection, robot control, video games, and healthcare.
A common LSTM unit is composed of a cell, an input gate, an output gate and a forget gate. The cell remembers values over arbitrary time intervals and the three gates regulate the flow of information into and out of the cell. Forget gates decide what information to discard from a previous state by assigning a previous state, compared to a current input, a value between 0 and 1. A (rounded) value of 1 means to keep the information, and a value of 0 means to discard it. Input gates decide which pieces of new information to store in the current state, using the same system as forget gates. Output gates control which pieces of information in the current state to output by assigning a value from 0 to 1 to the information, considering the previous and current states. Selectively outputting relevant information from the current state allows the LSTM network to maintain useful, long-term dependencies to make predictions, both in current and future time-steps.
Motivation
In theory, classic (or "vanilla") RNNs can keep track of arbitrary long-term dependencies in the input sequences. The problem with vanilla RNNs is computational (or practical) in nature: when training a vanilla RNN using back-propagation, the long-term gradients which are back-propagated can "vanish" (that is, they can tend to zero) or "explode" (that is, they can tend to infinity), because of the computations involved in the process, which use finite-precision numbers. RNNs using LSTM units partially solve the vanishing gradient problem, because LSTM units allow gradients to also flow unchanged. However, LSTM networks can still suffer from the exploding gradient problem.
The intuition behind the LSTM architecture is to create an additional module in a neural network that learns when to remember and when to forget pertinent information. In other words, the network effectively learns which information might be needed later on in a sequence and when that information is no longer needed. For instance, in the context of natural language processing, the network can learn grammatical dependencies. An LSTM might process the sentence "Dave, as a result of his controversial claims, is now a pariah" by remembering the (statistically likely) grammatical gender and number of the subject Dave, note that this information is pertinent for the pronoun his and note that this informati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torkel%20Franz%C3%A9n | Torkel Franzén (1 April 1950, Norrbotten County – 19 April 2006, Stockholm) was a Swedish academic.
Biography
Franzén worked at the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, in the fields of mathematical logic and computer science. He was known for his work on Gödel's incompleteness theorems and for his contributions to Usenet. He was active in the online science fiction fan community, and even issued his own electronic fanzine Frotz on his fiftieth birthday. He died of bone cancer at age 56.
Selected works
Gödel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide to its Use and Abuse. Wellesley, Massachusetts: A K Peters, Ltd., 2005. x + 172 pp. .
Inexhaustibility: A Non-Exhaustive Treatment. Wellesley, Massachusetts: A K Peters, Ltd., 2004. Lecture Notes in Logic, #16, Association for Symbolic Logic. .
The Popular Impact of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 53, #4 (April 2006), pp. 440–443.
Provability and Truth (Acta universitatis stockholmiensis, Stockholm Studies in Philosophy 9) (1987)
See also
Gödel's incompleteness theorems
References
External links
Home page
Raatikainen, Panu. Review of Gödel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide to Its Use and Abuse. Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 54, No. 3 (March 2007), pp. 380–3.
1950 births
2006 deaths
Usenet people
20th-century Swedish mathematicians
21st-century Swedish mathematicians
Mathematical logicians
Academic staff of the Luleå University of Technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20Blue%20versus%20Garry%20Kasparov | Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov was a pair of six-game chess matches between then-world chess champion Garry Kasparov and an IBM supercomputer called Deep Blue. Kasparov won the first match, held in Philadelphia in 1996, by 4–2. Deep Blue won a 1997 rematch held in New York City by 3½–2½. The second match was the first defeat of a reigning world chess champion by a computer under tournament conditions, and was the subject of a documentary film, Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine.
Impact and symbolic significance
The 1997 match was widely covered by the media, and Deep Blue became a celebrity. After the match, it was reported that IBM had dismantled Deep Blue, but in fact it remained in operation for several years.
Deep Blue's win was seen as symbolically significant, a sign that artificial intelligence was catching up to human intelligence, and could defeat one of humanity's great intellectual champions. Later analysis tended to play down Kasparov's loss as a result of uncharacteristically bad play on Kasparov's part, and play down the intellectual value of chess as a game that can be defeated by brute force.
In December 2016, discussing the match in a podcast with Sam Harris, Kasparov advised of a change of heart in his views of this match. Kasparov stated: "While writing the book I did a lot of research – analysing the games with modern computers, also soul-searching – and I changed my conclusions. I am not writing any love letters to IBM, but my respect for the Deep Blue team went up, and my opinion of my own play, and Deep Blue's play, went down. Today you can buy a chess engine for your laptop that will beat Deep Blue quite easily."
After Deep Blue's victory, the ancient Chinese game of Go, a game of simple rules and far more possible moves than chess, became the canonical example of a game where humans outmatched machines. Go requires more intuition and is far less susceptible to brute force. It is widely played in China, South Korea, and Japan, and was considered one of the four arts of the Chinese scholar in antiquity. In 1997, many players with less than a year of experience could beat the best Go programs. But the programs gradually improved, and in 2015, Google DeepMind's AlphaGo program defeated the European Go champion Fan Hui in a private match. It then surprisingly defeated top-ranked Lee Sedol in the match AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol in 2016. While Deep Blue mainly relied on brute computational force to evaluate millions of positions, AlphaGo also relied on neural networks and reinforcement learning.
Summary
1996 match
Game 1
. The first game began with the Sicilian Defence, Alapin Variation. The first game of the 1996 match was the first game to be won by a chess-playing computer against a reigning world champion under normal chess tournament conditions, and in particular, time controls.
Game 2
. The second game transposed to an line of the Catalan Opening. Kasparov played in what could be called a preemptive style, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeleEye | TeleEye Group (), is a Hong Kong based audio-visual, information technology company, founded in 1994. The primary products of the group are network CCTV and DVR applications. The TeleEye Group is the first company to become a publicly traded company arising from the support of a Hong Kong public university and the Hong Kong government through the Business Incubation Programme. (Mak 43) Today, the TeleEye Group of products is available internationally in 25 countries.
History
The TeleEye group was founded by engineering researchers from the City University of Hong Kong.
Products
The most notable products of the Group include the TeleEye and the CAMERIO.
References
Mak, Ka-Ho and Jason Tan. Globalization and Marketization in Education: A Comparative Study of Hong Kong and Singapore. United Kingdom: G.P. Edward Elgar Publishing.
External links
Official English Site
Information technology companies of Hong Kong |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field%20Trip%20%28The%20X-Files%29 | "Field Trip" is the twenty-first episode of the sixth season of the science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on May 9, 1999, in the United States and Canada, and subsequently aired in the United Kingdom on Sky1 on July 18. The episode was written by John Shiban and Vince Gilligan, from a story by Frank Spotnitz, and was directed by Kim Manners. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology. "Field Trip" earned a Nielsen household rating of 9.5, being watched by 15.40 million people in its initial broadcast. The episode received largely positive reviews from television critics.
The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. Mulder is a believer in the paranormal, while the skeptical Scully has been assigned to debunk his work. In the episode, the mysterious discovery of two skeletons leads Mulder and Scully to investigate. What they discover is a giant fungal growth that causes the agents to have two separate hallucinogenic episodes, which eventually merge into one shared hallucination. The two are saved thanks to an FBI rescue team led by Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi).
The episode was written to give the audience a chance to see Mulder and Scully's separate viewpoints during their hallucinations. Members of the cast and crew, as well as reviewers, noted that the episode was a more serious version of the season five episode "Bad Blood". In order to prepare for the episode, various information on mushrooms, fungi, human decomposition, and cave geology was researched by the series' crew members. Furthermore, the episode has been critically examined due to its themes pertaining to alternate reality and its use of abductive reasoning.
Plot
In Boone, North Carolina, Wallace (David Denman) and Angela Schiff (Robyn Lively) return home after a day out hiking in the fields. Angela gets a headache and, while taking a shower, thinks that she sees images of a yellow substance running down the walls. Angela and Wallace head off to bed in one another's arms but as the camera pans out the scene shifts to their skeletal remains in the same position in the middle of a field. FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) investigate and after closer examination of the bones, the two find a strange yellow substance covering the underside of the skeletons which was missed in the original examination. Mulder, believing that bodies are a result of the famous Brown Mountain Lights, heads out to the scene of the discovery while Scully stays behind with the coroner (Jim Beaver) to perform more tests.
As Mulder arrives in the fields, he inadvertently drives over a patch of mushrooms which releases a cloud of hallucinogenic spores. Mulder—unbeknownst to the viewer—begins to hallucinate. He soon discovers Wallace and Angela in a cave, and th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi%20State%20Highway%20System | The Mississippi State Highway System is a network of roads that are maintained by the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT). This network includes Interstate, U.S., and state highways.
Highway systems
Interstate highways
There are nine interstate highways within the state of Mississippi. This includes six primary interstates and three auxiliary interstates. The longest interstate is I-55, and the shortest interstate is I-110.
U.S. routes
In the state of Mississippi, there are 14 U.S. highways. The longest is US 49, and the shortest being US 425.
Mississippi highways
State highways in Mississippi have different numbering schemes. The primary highways are numbered from 1-76, and most three-digit numbered routes are numbered by region (300s in the northernmost part of the state, 600 in the southernmost). Three-digit numbered routes from 700s to 900s are usually short connectors and spurs.
Other highways
Natchez Trace Parkway starts in Natchez and ends at Nashville, Tennessee. The parkway is maintained by the National Park Service.
History
In 1928, Mississippi Governor Theodore G. Bilbo appointed Horace Stansel head of a committee to investigate the state's highway needs. Stansel submitted an act to create a state highway system to the state legislature in 1930. Since then, Mississippi has gradually expanded its highway system.
Until 1987, there were but two major four-lane highways in Mississippi, not counting the Interstates, which were built during the 1960s and 1970s: U.S. Highway 49 (US 49) from Yazoo City to Gulfport and US 82 between Greenville and Winona. Things changed when the state legislature launched the $1.3 billion Four-Lane Highway Program of 1987. This program gradually allowed for the funding of over of four-lane highway statewide. In 2002, the Four-Lane Highway Program was expanded in what was known as Vision 21.
MDOT was not created until 1992; this organization consolidated several services that already existed.
See also
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh%20Concurrent%20Supercomputer | The Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer (ECS) was a large Meiko Computing Surface supercomputer. This transputer-based, massively parallel system was installed at the University of Edinburgh during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
History
Following a pilot project involving an early 40-transputer Computing Surface installed in April 1986, funding was obtained from SERC and the DTI for a much larger system using T800 transputers and a MicroVAX fileserver. The Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer Project (ECSP) was formed to manage and support the facility, which was commissioned at the end of 1987.
Over the next few years, the system received several upgrades, including more transputers (reaching, at its peak, around 400 processors) and the installation of M²VCS and MeikOS system software, which enabled multi-user access and removed the need for the MicroVAX.
In 1990, the Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer Project was succeeded by the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, which consolidated the project with other parallel computing resources and activities within the University. The ECS continued to be used for a variety of academic and commercial research work.
In October 1992 the ECS was reconfigured as a SPARC-hosted Computing Surface with three SPARC "host" processors running SunOS and around 380 T800s. The system was finally decommissioned in August 1994.
References
Wallace, D J. "Supercomputing with Transputers", Computing Systems in Engineering, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1990, Pages 131-141, , Pergamon Press, Inc. Elmsford, NY, USA
Brown, Mike. "The Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer: an appreciation", EPCC News, No.24, 1994.
External links
EPCC History page
Supercomputers
University of Edinburgh School of Informatics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block%20suballocation | Block suballocation is a feature of some computer file systems which allows large blocks or allocation units to be used while making efficient use of empty space at the end of large files, space which would otherwise be lost for other use to internal fragmentation.
In file systems that don't support fragments, this feature is also called tail merging or tail packing because it is commonly done by packing the "tail", or last partial block, of multiple files into a single block.
Rationale
File systems have traditionally divided the disk into equally sized blocks to simplify their design and limit the worst-case fragmentation. Block sizes are typically multiples of 512 bytes due to the size of hard disk sectors. When files are allocated by some traditional file systems, only whole blocks can be allocated to individual files. But as file sizes are often not multiples of the file system block size, this design inherently results in the last blocks of files (called tails) occupying only a part of the block, resulting in what is called internal fragmentation (not to be confused with external fragmentation). This waste of space can be significant if the file system stores many small files and can become critical when attempting to use higher block sizes to improve performance. FFS and other derived UNIX file systems support fragments which greatly mitigate this effect.
Suballocation schemes
Block suballocation addresses this problem by dividing up a tail block in some way to allow it to store fragments from other files.
Some block suballocation schemes can perform allocation at the byte level; most, however, simply divide up the block into smaller ones (the divisor usually being some power of 2). For example, if a 38 KiB file is to be stored in a file system using 32 KiB blocks, the file would normally span two blocks, or 64 KiB, for storage; the remaining 26 KiB of the second block becomes unused slack space. With an 8 KiB block suballocation, however, the file would occupy just 6 KiB of the second block, leave 2 KiB (of the 8 KiB suballocation block) slack and free the other 24 KiB of the block for other files.
Tail packing
Some file systems have since been designed to take advantage of this unused space, and can pack the tails of several files in a single shared tail block. While this may, at first, seem like it would significantly increase file system fragmentation, the negative effect can be mitigated with readahead features on modern operating systems – when dealing with short files, several tails may be close enough to each another to be read together, and thus a disk seek is not introduced. Such file systems often employ heuristics in order to determine whether tail packing is worthwhile in a given situation,
and defragmentation software may use a more evolved heuristic.
Efficiency
In some scenarios where the majority of files are shorter than half the block size, such as in a folder of small source code files or small bitmap im |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famicom%20Jump%3A%20Hero%20Retsuden | is a 1989 role-playing video game for the Family Computer (Famicom/NES) published by Bandai. The game commemorates the 20th anniversary of Shueisha's manga anthology Weekly Shōnen Jump.
The game is set in a world that brings together many of the long-running titles, which include stories of the past and present at the time of their release, that had appeared in the magazine. The game consists of a main character wandering and encountering the many Jump heroes as they try to save the world from an alliance of many of the most powerful and evil of the Jump villains.
The game sold 1.1 million cartridges for the Famicom in Japan. It was the first title in the Jump video game series. It had a sequel, Famicom Jump II: Saikyō no Shichinin. Due to it being based on a magazine specifically localized for the Japanese market, the game was never released outside Japan.
The 16 Heroes
One of the main objectives of the game is to recruit 16 notable Jump hero characters in order to use them to fight against the enemies in the game's overworld, which is divided into several different areas. Aside from the player character, the Jump characters that can be collected are:
Kenshiro (Fist of the North Star)
Nukesaku Aida (Tsuide ni Tonchinkan)
Son Goku (Dragon Ball)
Ryo Saeba (City Hunter)
Arale Norimaki (Dr. Slump)
Pegasus Seiya (Saint Seiya)
Momotaro Tsurugi (Sakigake!! Otokojuku)
Mankichi Tokawa (Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daishō)
Reiki Kikoku (Godsider)
Joseph Joestar (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
Jouji Kanno (Doberman Deka)
Isamu (Kōya no Shōnen Isamu)
Tsubasa Oozora (Captain Tsubasa)
Tarou Yamashita (Kenritsu Umisora Kōkō Yakyūbuin Yamashita Tarō-kun)
Kyūichi Uno (Astro Kyūdan)
Kinnikuman (Kinnikuman)
Of particular note: Son Goku and Momotaro Tsurugi are the only characters who return in Famicom Jump II: Saikyō no Shichinin. Of the series with hero characters, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure also has a playable hero in the sequel, with Joseph succeeded by Jotaro Kujo. One NPC character in this game, Ryotsu Kankichi from Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo, becomes playable as well in the sequel.
Represented series
Astro Kyūdan
Captain Tsubasa
Cat's Eye
Chichi no Tamashii
Circuit no Ōkami
City Hunter
Doberman Deka
Dr. Slump
Dragon Ball
Fist of the North Star
Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin
Godsider
Harenchi Gakuen
High School! Kimengumi
Hōchōnin Ajihei
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Kenritsu Umisora Kōkō Yakyūbuin Yamashita Tarō-kun
Kick Off
Kimagure Orange Road
Kinnikuman
Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo
Kōya no Shōnen Isamu
Moeru! Onīsan
Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daishō
Ring ni Kakero
Saint Seiya
Sakigake!! Otokojuku
Shape Up Ran
THE MOMOTAROH
Toilet Hakase
Tsuide ni Tonchinkan
Wing-Man
Yoroshiku Mechadoc
References
1989 video games
Action role-playing video games
Bandai Namco Entertainment franchises
Crossover role-playing video games
Dragon Ball games
Fist of the North Star video games
Japan-exclusive video game |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul%20Latief%20%28Indonesian%20businessman%29 | Abdul Latief is the prominent Indonesian businessman and politician. He was the founder of Pasaraya department store and television network Lativi, as well as the former Indonesian minister in the New Order era.
Early life
Abdul Latief was born on 27 April 1940, in Banda Aceh, Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam. He was bought up according to Muslim and Minangkabau traditions. Latief's father was a textile trader and his mother was an activist in Aisyiyah (a part of the Muhammadiyah Islamic organization). In 1950, Latief's family moved from Banda Aceh to Jakarta.
While at school, he performed well enough academically to become the best student. After graduating, Latief worked as head of promotion in the Sarinah department store. He also attended in-store management courses in Tokyo, Japan. In 1972, Latief founded the Young Indonesian Entrepreneur Community, known as HIPMI, and he was elected as leader for 1972–1973.
Business career
After working for about nine years in department stores, in 1972 Latief decided he wanted to own a department store, but had to settle for a variety store. Starting from a mini store in Grogol, Jakarta, Latief and his brother, Abdul Muthalib, founded PT Latief Marda Corporation. Two years later, they founded PT Indonesia Product Centre Sarinah Jaya, with brand name Pasaraya. In 2001, Latief expanded his business into television, by establishing the Lativi television network. Latief is also involved in the property business with development of Sentraya 41-storey skyscraper in Blok M, South Jakarta. In 1990s, Latief published two printed media namely Tiras magazine and Neraca daily newspaper. At the end of 1990s, Abdul Latief as well as Fahmi Idris, Aminuzal Amin, and Nasroel Chas established a joint venture company Nagari Development Corporation (NDC), which aims to improve the Minangkabau community.
Today, all of his business in retailing, media, property, advertising, finance, and agrobusiness are grouped in the ALatief Corporation.
Political career
In 1993, Latief was chosen as a Minister of Manpower under Soeharto presidency. During his term of office, the government approved the regional minimum salary for labor, known as 'Upah Minimum Regional'. He was re-elected as Minister of Tourism, Art, and Culture in 1998.
See also
Minangkabau businesspeople
References
External links
Tokohindonesia.com
Indonesian businesspeople
Minangkabau people
1940 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative%20Juice | Creative Juice is a crafting television show hosted by Cathie Filian and Steve Piacenza on HGTV and DIY Network. The program features art projects, home decorating ideas, and cooking. Filian and Piacenza were nominated for a Daytime Emmy in the Best Lifestyle Host category in 2006. The program spawned a Halloween-themed spinoff called Witch Crafts in 2007.
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
Season 6
Season 7
Season 8
Witch Crafts
References
HGTV original programming
2006 American television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhaponticum | Rhaponticum is a formerly accepted genus of flowering plants in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae. , both Plants of the World Online and the Global Compositae Database rejected the genus in favour of Leuzea. Plants of the World Online placed all its species in that genus, apart from one unplaced species, Rhaponticum scariosum.
Taxonomy
The taxonomic history of the genus name Rhaponticum is complicated. It has been published at least four times according to the International Plant Names Index. The earliest was by Albrecht von Haller in 1742, which is regarded as an invalid name (nom. inval.). The next publication was by Sébastien Vaillant in 1754, also an invalid name. The next was by Christian Gottlieb Ludwig in 1757. This has become a conserved name (nom. cons.), with the conserved type species Centaurea rhapontica (syn. Leuzea rhapontica subsp. rhapontica). A subsequent publication by Michel Adanson in 1763 is illegitimate.
Combining the genera Rhaponticum and Leuzea under the latter name was first suggested by Josef Holub in 1973. A 2006 phylogenetic study confirmed that as then circumscribed the genus Leuzea was embedded within Rhaponticum. , the Global Composite Database accepted all four Rhaponticum names as synonyms of Leuzea, while Plants of the World Online listed only Rhaponticum Ludw., which it regarded as a synonym of Centaurea, while placing the species of Rhaponticum in Leuzea.
Former species
Species formerly placed in the genus include:
Rhaponticum acaule (L.) DC. → Leuzea acaulis
Rhaponticum aulieatense Iljin → Leuzea aulieatensis
Rhaponticum australe (Gaudich.) → Leuzea australis
Rhaponticum berardioides (Batt.) Dobignard → Leuzea berardioides
Rhaponticum canariense DC. → Leuzea cynaroides
Rhaponticum carthamoides (Willd.) Iljin → Leuzea carthamoides
Rhaponticum centauroides (L.) O.Bolòs → Leuzea centauroides
Rhaponticum coniferum (L.) Greuter → Leuzea conifera
Rhaponticum cossonianum (Ball) Greuter → Leuzea caulescens
Rhaponticum exaltatum (Willk.) Greuter → Leuzea exaltata
Rhaponticum heleniifolium Godr. & Gren. → Leuzea rhapontica subsp. heleniifolia
Rhaponticum insigne (Boiss.) Wagenitz → Leuzea insignis
Rhaponticum integrifolium C.Winkl. → Leuzea integrifolia
Rhaponticum karatavicum Iljin → Leuzea karatavica
Rhaponticum longifolium (Hoffmanns. & Link) Dittrich → Leuzea longifolia
Rhaponticum lyratum C.Winkl. ex Iljin → Leuzea lyrata
Rhaponticum namanganicum Iljin → Leuzea namanganica
Rhaponticum nanum Lipsky → Leuzea nana
Rhaponticum nitidum Fisch. → Leuzea nitida
Rhaponticum pulchrum Fisch. & C.A.Mey. → Leuzea pulchra
Rhaponticum repens (L.) Hidalgo → Leuzea repens
Rhaponticum scariosum Lam. - unplaced name
Rhaponticum serratuloides (Georgi) Bobrov → Leuzea altaica
References
Cardueae
Historically recognized angiosperm genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift%20%28theory%29 | Redshift is a techno-economic theory suggesting hypersegmentation of information technology markets based on whether individual computing needs are over or under-served by Moore's law, which predicts the doubling of computing transistors (and therefore roughly computing power) every two years. The theory,
proposed and named by New Enterprise Associates partner and former Sun Microsystems CTO Greg Papadopoulos, categorized a series of high growth markets (redshifting) while predicting slower GDP-driven growth in traditional computing markets (blueshifting). Papadopoulos predicted the result will be a fundamental redesign of components comprising computing systems.
Hypergrowth market segments (redshifting)
According to the Redshift theory, applications "redshift" when they grow dramatically faster than Moore's Law allows, growing quickly in their absolute number of systems. In these markets, customers are running out of datacenter real-estate, power and cooling infrastructure. According to Dell Senior Vice President Brad Anderson, “Businesses requiring hyperscale computing environments – where infrastructure deployments are measured by up to millions of servers, storage and networking equipment – are changing the way they approach IT.”
While various Redshift proponents offer minor alterations on the original presentation, “Redshifting” generally includes:
ΣBW (Sum-of-Bandwidth)
These are companies that drive heavy Internet traffic. This includes popular web-portals like Google, Yahoo, AOL and MSN. It also includes telecoms, multimedia, television over IP, online games like World of Warcraft and others. This segment has been enabled by widespread availability of high-bandwidth Internet connections to consumers through a DSL or cable modem. A simple way to understand this market is that for every byte of content served to a PC, mobile phone or other device over a network, there must exist computing systems to send it over the network.
High performance computing (HPC)
These are companies that do complex simulations that involve (for example) weather, stock markets or drug-design simulations. This is a generally elastic market because businesses frequently spend every "available" dollar budgeted for IT. A common anecdote claims that cutting the cost of computing by half causes customers in this segment to buy at least twice as much, because each marginal IT dollar spent contributes to business advantage.
*prise (or "Star-prise")
These are companies that aggregate traditional computing applications and offer them as services, typically in the form of Software as a Service (SaaS). For example, companies that deploy CRM are over-served by Moore's Law, but companies that aggregate CRM functions and offer them as a service, such as Salesforce.com, grow faster than Moore's Law.
The eBay crisis
A prime example of redshift was a crisis at eBay. In 1999 eBay suffered a database crisis when a single Oracle Database running on the fastest Sun ma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Kath%20%26%20Kim%20episodes | The following is an episode list of the Australian comedy program Kath & Kim, initially on ABC TV, and as of 2007, on the Seven Network.
There have been four series of eight episodes each, one telemovie, and one movie. The first three series and the telemovie ran on ABC from 2002 to 2005. The fourth series initially aired on the Seven Network in 2007, and the movie was released in 2012. A two-part 20th anniversary special aired in 2022.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2002)
Season 2 (2003)
Season 3 (2004)
Da Kath & Kim Code
Riley and Turner planned to take 2005 off from television, but in July, they announced that they would be writing and filming a 90-minute telemovie. The movie aired on 27 November 2005, and was the ABC's top rated program for 2005, achieving an average audience of 2.1 million and a peak audience of 2.4 million. The telemovie screened in New Zealand in December and was sold to networks in the United Kingdom and the United States. It was the last Kath & Kim production shown on the ABC before it moved to the Seven Network.
Kel and Kath return from The Da Vinci Code European tour and begin frantic preparations for Christmas. During the two weeks leading up to Christmas Day Kim discovers that Brett is once again having an affair, this time with his boss Kelly. Brett stays at "The Buckingham Motel". Kim eventually asks him back, but he is still conducting the affair. Sharon meets a man, Marriat, online and they become engaged. She is heart broken to later learn that he does not actually exist, but is just a blog. Kath and Kel become backup dancers for Michael Bublé at Carols by Candlelight, Melbourne. Kath's affection for him results in Kel letting out his "green eyed monster". She tells him that he shouldn't bother going home as he wouldn't be welcome. Kel, too, goes to stay at "The Buckingham". Kath forgives Kel and he returns home for Christmas. Kath and Kel also receive strange messages from John Monk (Barry Humphries), the albino running Da Vinci Code tour, including one saying "44 Euros". John Monk visits their home. Kel thinks he has cracked the code and Monk is going to kill them, but he just wants to offer them a franchise. An epilogue shows Kath's first day as a tour guide on the Da Vinci Code 2 tour: G'day Leonardo.
The telemovie featured a number of notable Australian guest cast including Rove McManus, Rhonda Burchmore and The Wiggles.
Da Kath and Kim Code was released to DVD as a 2-disc set on 1 December 2005, and was bundled with Kath & Kim Live in London. The DVD was briefly discontinued and repackaged again on 1 April 2010.
Season 4 (2007)
Following a break in 2006, Kath & Kim began shooting a fourth season with the series moving to the Seven Network. The season premiered on Sunday 19 August 2007 at 7:30 pm, attracting an Australian audience of 2.521 million nationally. Sharon and Kim appear on fellow Seven Network show Deal or No Deal in a few specially-filmed scenes. Special guests to feature in th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Gordon%20%28businessman%29 | Bruce Gordon (born 4 February 1929 in Surry Hills, New South Wales) is an Australian businessman. He is the owner of the Australian television network, WIN Television through his ownership of WIN Corporation, the largest shareholder of Network 10 & the largest shareholder of the Nine Network, and holds a significant stake in Nine Entertainment Co.
Career
From humble beginning, Gordon juggled fruit to lure customers into his father's street-side fruit stall. He continued to hone his magic skills into his 20s and gained his first performance at Sydney's Tivoli circuit theatre; later progressing onto management of the theatre. During this period he got to know Rupert Murdoch, Sir Frank Packer and his sons, Kerry and Clyde, and Bruce Gyngell.
In 1962, Gordon was appointed the Australasian sales executive for Desilu Productions, which was sold to Gulf and Western, which renamed the studio Paramount Television. Gordon worked as a programming executive for Paramount in Hollywood for thirty years.
Gordon gained control of Television Wollongong Transmission Ltd (later rebadged as WIN TV) in 1979 from Murdoch. He then expanded WIN Television's operations during the 1990s, buying out the other shareholders in 1991 after buying two licences in Queensland and Crawford Productions. By the end of the decade WIN had licences and transmitters in all Australian states and mainland territories (except NT).
Gordon holds a 50% share in the NRL St. George Illawarra Dragons club through WIN Corporation.
Personal life
Gordon lives in Bermuda with his second wife, Judith, with additional residences in Sydney and Monaco. Gordon has a son, Andrew, and a daughter, Genevieve.
Net worth
, the Australian Financial Review assessed Gordon's net worth at 1.30 billion. Gordon is one of eleven living Australians who have appeared on every Rich List, since it was first published in 1984.
References
1929 births
Living people
Australian chairpersons of corporations
Australian chief executives
Australian mass media owners
Businesspeople from Sydney
People from Wollongong
Australian expatriates in Bermuda |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20FileWare | FileWare floppy disk drives and diskettes were designed by Apple Computer as a higher-performance alternative to the Disk II and Disk III floppy systems used on the Apple II and Apple III personal computers. The drives are named Apple 871 in service documentation, based on their approximate formatted storage capacity in kilobytes, but are most commonly known by their codename, Twiggy, after the famously thin 1960s fashion model named Twiggy.
History
In 1978, Apple intended to develop its own FileWare drive mechanism for use in the new Apple III and Apple Lisa business computers being developed. They quickly ran into difficulties which precluded them from being incorporated in the Apple III, which continued to use the earlier Shugart design. Finally, FileWare drives were implemented in the Lisa computer, released on January 19, 1983. The original Macintosh computer was originally intended to implement a Shugart drive, then later, a FileWare drive, before eventually shipping with Sony's 3.5" 400k diskette drive. Although Apple planned to make FileWare drives available for the Apple II and Apple III, and announced them under the names UniFile and DuoFile (for single and dual drives, respectively), these products were never shipped.
Drive
FileWare drives are 5¼-inch double-sided, but are not mechanically compatible with industry-standard diskettes. In a single-sided floppy disk drive, the disk head is opposed by a foam pressure pad. In a normal double-sided floppy disk drive, the top and bottom heads are almost directly opposed to each other. Apple was concerned about head wear, and instead designed the FileWare drive such that the top and bottom heads are on opposite sides of the spindle, and each is opposed by a pressure pad. Since there is only one actuator to move the heads, when one head is near the spindle, the other is near the outer rim of the disk.
The drive is approximately the same size as a standard full-height 5¼ inch floppy drive, but does not use the standard mounting hole locations. The electrical interface is completely different from that of standard drives, though conceptually similar to that of the Disk II.
Diskette
The FileWare diskette has the same overall jacket dimensions of a normal 5¼ inch diskette, but because of the head arrangement, the jacket has non-standard cutouts for the heads, with two sets of cutouts on opposite sides of the spindle hole. The write enable sensor is also in a non-standard location, though most FileWare diskettes were produced without a write protect slot. The jacket had a corner cutout that keyed the diskette to prevent insertion in an incorrect orientation, and a rectangular hole that the drive could use to latch the diskette in place, preventing removal until the software allowed it.
FileWare drives use 62.5 tracks per inch rather than the standard 48 or 96 TPI, and use high flux density (comparable to the later IBM 1.2MB format introduced with the PC/AT). This requires custom high-d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimRefinery | SimRefinery is a computer management simulation game designed to simulate Chevron's Richmond refinery operation. It was developed by the Maxis Business Simulations division of Maxis in 1993. John Hiles, who was the head of the Maxis division, was a lead designer on the project.
Development
After the success of SimCity, Maxis received numerous requests from various companies to develop simulations for their industries. After rejecting many requests from other companies, the team eventually agreed to make a prototype of SimRefinery for Chevron:
Release and rediscovery
As a commissioned business aid, it was not made available to the public. Until 2020, little information about the game had existed, though Maxis had discussed its creation and some screenshots existed. Most of the assets stayed with Maxis Business Simulations, which Maxis eventually divested in 1996. The division rebranded itself as Thinking Tools Inc. and continued to develop similar corporate simulations, but eventually had to shutter itself, and most of its assets were destroyed.
In May 2020, librarian Phil Salvador published a long form investigative article about Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery featuring interviews with Hiles and other members of the division. Ars Technica reported on the article, which led to a commentor on the website uncovering a floppy disc that contains an in-development build of the game. The anonymous commenter then uploaded a digital copy to the Internet Archive to work within its DOSBox emulator.
This emulated version reveals more details about the "gameplay" of SimRefinery. The game resembles SimCity with different graphics, disasters, and rules, the former to represent oil tanker ports, petroleum storage and piping systems. The user's role in the simulation was the plant manager of a refinery. One of the things the user learned was about supply and demand and how it affects the financial situation. The game was not defined to be an accurate representation of the chemical processes of a plant, as this would have been considered extremely dangerous. Instead, it was intended to show how disparate systems of a chemical plant may end up interacting at the larger scale, incorporating the financial, production, and logistics related to operating a plant. The game allowed some "disasters" to be created by creating explosive mixtures of components that set off fires, as well as external events that may disrupt the plant. The game was not considered to be a fully finished product based on the version received by the Internet Archive.
References
External links
SimRefinery on the Internet Archive
1993 video games
Business simulation games
Maxis Sim games
Video games developed in the United States
Rediscovered works
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic%20Data%20Acquisition%20System | Magnetic Data Acquisition System (abbr. MAGDAS) is a system of 50 realtime magnetometers that are being deployed by Kyushu Sangyo University of Fukuoka, Japan, as part of Japan's leading contribution to International Heliophysical Year of the United Nations.
In April 2007 the deployment was concentrated along the 210 magnetic meridian, which means north and south of Japan. However, during the current stage of expansion, units are also being deployed along the geomagnetic equator, in places such as Malaysia,
Ethiopia, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Brazil, Antarctica, and from October 2012 Ecuador. Data from each unit is sent in real time to a data center located at SERC (Space Environment Research Center of Kyushu University).
Arguably the most exotic place where a MAGDAS unit is operating is at Davis (Antarctica) of the Australian Antarctic Division.
External links
http://www.serc.kyushu-u.ac.jp
http://magdas.serc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/ SERC MAGDAS Data Archive
http://magdas2.serc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/ SERC MAGDAS-II and MAGDAS-9 Data Server
http://www.serc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/newsletter/main_menu.html MAGDAS Newsletter Archive
References
Science and technology in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realitatea-Ca%C8%9Bavencu | Realitatea–Caţavencu was Romanian’s premium media organisation, spanning television networks, radio stations, publishing, and new media. Its portfolio of over 20 titles encompassed some of the country’s most trusted and respected brands, such as Realitatea TV - the number one news source of all Romanians, Cotidianul – the daily newspaper of the elite, Academia Catavencu – the most influential satire press brand in Romania, Radio Guerrilla - the premium radio for young urban professionals, The Money Channel - the first Romanian business news channel, Tabu - the most courageous magazine for women, 24-FUN - the best city guide in Romania. The companies were sold in 2011.
As of April 2008, Realitatea-Catavencu is the only integrated media group, organized along four major divisions (quality, business, lifestyle and new media) as well as two strategic structures: a content agency – NewsIn, and the digital signage networks - Monopoly Media and Zoom.
In October 2008, Realitatea-Catavencu initiated Code Green, thus becoming the first media group to get involved in environment related issues and policy. Cod Verde brings together our journalists and all the Romanians that feel responsible for the environment, those who can, and are willing to take charge. The campaign also includes public actions of large scope which exceed the current journalistic concerns.
Operations
Television
Realitatea TV
The Money Channel
Romantica (co-owned by Chello Zone)
Telesport
Premium movie channels: CineStar, ActionStar, ComedyStar
Publika TV (Moldova).
Radio
Radio Guerrilla
Realitatea FM
Gold FM (former Radio Total)
News agency
NewsIn
In-store advertising & Digital signage
Monopoly Media
ZOOM
Publishing
24 Fun
Academia Caţavencu
Aventuri la pescuit
Bilanţ
Bucătăria pentru toţi
Business Standard
Cotidianul
Idei în Dialog
Investiţii şi Profit
IQads
J'adore
Le Monde Diplomatique (Romanian edition)
Money Express
Psihologia Azi
Superbebe
Tabu
References
Mass media in Romania
Television networks in Romania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrel%20%28reservoir%20software%29 | Petrel is a software platform used in the exploration and production sector of the petroleum industry. It enables the user to interpret seismic data, perform well correlation, build reservoir models, visualize reservoir simulation results, calculate volumes, produce maps and design development strategies to maximize reservoir exploitation. Risk and uncertainty can be assessed throughout the life of the reservoir. Although some other oil servicing companies hire the services of this software, Petrel is developed and built by Schlumberger.
Background
Petrel software was developed in Norway by a company called Technoguide. Technoguide was formed in 1996 by former employees of Geomatic, some of whom were key programmers involved in the early development of RMS. Petrel was developed specifically for PCs and the Windows OS, it was commercially available in 1998. Petrel was developed to have a familiar Microsoft like interface, with a pre-arranged workflow that enabled less experienced user to follow, Technoguide made 3D geologic modeling more accessible to all subsurface technical staff, even those without specialist training. In 2002, Schlumberger acquired Technoguide, the Petrel software tools, they currently support and market Petrel. Newer versions of Petrel include additional functionality such as geological modeling, seismic interpretation, uncertainty analysis, well planning, and links to reservoir simulators.
Version History
Petrel Version 2007.1
The Petrel 2007.1 release expands the application's seismic-to-simulation scope with greater capabilities for exploration workflows. Petrel software now handles large-scale seismic surveys and regional scale 2D lines. Fracture modeling and dual porosity capabilities support carbonates and unconventional gas workflows. Real-time updates are available through WITSML, the industry standard data delivery mechanism. Petrel 2007.1 software was built on the Ocean framework which allows 3rd parties, universities, oil companies and other parts of Schlumberger to code directly into Petrel.
Petrel Version 2008.1
Released in March 2008. Major enhancements include support for hydraulic fractures, sector modeling, multi-threading of several modeling processes, and improvements to the 3D seismic auto tracking workflows. A major re-working of the volume rendering and extraction module now allows users to interactively blend multiple seismic volumes, isolate out areas of interest and then instantly extract what is seen into a 3D object called a geobody. In essence this is “what you see is what you pick”. Extracted 'geobodys' can be sampled directly into the geological model.
Petrel Version 2009.1
Released in February 2009 this is the first version of Petrel to be fully 64 bit and to run on Microsoft's Windows Vista 64 bit OS. This brings large performance benefits to users especially those working in exploration or with large seismic volumes and geological models. Other enhancements include a new type |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short%20Message%20Service%20technical%20realisation%20%28GSM%29 | The Short Message Service is realised by the use of the Mobile Application Part (MAP) of the SS7 protocol, with Short Message protocol elements being transported across the network as fields within the MAP messages. These MAP messages may be transported using "traditional" TDM based signalling, or over IP using SIGTRAN and an appropriate adaptation layer.
Protocol
The Short Message protocol itself is defined by 3GPP TS 23.040 for the Short Message Service - Point to Point (SMS-PP), and 3GPP TS 23.041 for the Cell Broadcast Service (CBS).
Four MAP procedures are defined for the control of the Short Message Service:
Mobile Originated (MO) short message service transfer;
Mobile Terminated (MT) short message service transfer;
Short message alert procedure;
Short message waiting data set procedure.
MO Short Message Service transfer
The diagram to the right depicts a simplified call flow for a successful submission of a mobile-originated Short Message (SM).
When the subscriber sends a Short Message, the handset sends the text message over the air interface to the Mobile Switching Center (MSC)/Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN). Along with the actual text of the Short Message, the destination address of the SM and the address of the Short Message service center (SMSC) are included, the latter taken from the handset's configuration stored on the SIM card.
Regardless of the air interface technology, the VMSC/SGSN invokes the MAP service package MAP_MO_FORWARD_SHORT_MESSAGE to send the text to the Interworking MSC of the Service Centre whose address was provided by the handset. This service sends the mo-ForwardSM MAP operation to the SMSC identified in the SM Submission from the handset, embedded within a Transaction Capabilities Application Part (TCAP) message, and transported over the core network using the Signalling Connection Control Part (SCCP).
The Interworking MSC of the SMSC, on receipt of the MAP mo-ForwardSM message, passes the SMS-PP Application Protocol Data Unit (APDU) containing the text message to the actual Service Centre (SC) of the SMSC for storing, and subsequent "forwarding" (delivery) to the destination address and the SC returns an acknowledgement indicating success or failure. On receipt of this submission status from the Service Centre, the Interworking MSC will send an appropriate indication back to the VMSC/SGSN of the sending subscriber. The message submission status is then forwarded, over the air interface, to the subscriber's handset.
MT Short Message Service transfer
The figure to the right depicts a call flow for mobile-terminated Short Message delivery. For the sake of simplicity, some of the interactions between the VMSC and VLR, and VMSC and Handset, have been omitted, and only the case when SMS home routing is not in use is shown.
When the SMSC determines it needs to attempt to deliver a Short Message to its destination, it will send the SMS-PP APDU containing the text message, the "B-Party" (destination ph |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett%20Blackledge | Brett J. Blackledge (born 1963) is former editor of The Daily Advertiser in Lafayette, Louisiana. He previously worked as Regional Investigations Editor for USA Today Network in Florida and as Investigations Editor at the Naples Daily News in Florida. Before joining the Naples paper in October 2014, Blackledge was Public Service and Investigations Editor at The News Journal in Wilmington, Del. He worked as a reporter for 26 years before joining the Delaware newspaper, including working as a reporter for The Associated Press in Washington D.C. While working for The Birmingham News, he won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for a series on alleged nepotism and cronyism in Alabama's two-year college system.
Blackledge was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and is a 1986 alumnus of Louisiana State University. He began his career that year with the Associated Press, and later worked for The Journal Newspapers in suburban Washington, D.C., Education Daily and The Mobile Register. He went to work for The Birmingham News in 1998.
While with the News, Blackledge contributed to Alabama AP Managing Editors Association Award-winning stories on the 2003 conviction of Bobby Frank Cherry for the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
Blackledge's multi-part investigative series on the two-year colleges delved deeply into financial records kept by the system, exposing a number of elected lawmakers on the system's payroll without clear duties. The system's chancellor was fired, federal and state investigations opened, and new safeguards for public accountability promised in the wake of the exposé. The series earned Blackledge a 2006 Alabama Associated Press Association Award. The newspaper entered the multi-part special report for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, and it was named a finalist in that category before the committee awarded it the prize for investigative reporting instead.
References
External links
Brett Blackledge profile at Pulitzer.org
1963 births
Living people
Writers from Birmingham, Alabama
Writers from Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting winners
American newspaper reporters and correspondents
Associated Press reporters
Journalists from Alabama |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolution%20random%20number%20generator | In statistics and computer software, a convolution random number generator is a pseudo-random number sampling method that can be used to generate random variates from certain classes of probability distribution. The particular advantage of this type of approach is that it allows advantage to be taken of existing software for generating random variates from other, usually non-uniform, distributions. However, faster algorithms may be obtainable for the same distributions by other more complicated approaches.
A number of distributions can be expressed in terms of the (possibly weighted) sum of two or more random variables from other distributions. (The distribution of the sum is the convolution of the distributions of the individual random variables).
Example
Consider the problem of generating a random variable with an Erlang distribution, . Such a random variable can be defined as the sum of k random variables each with an exponential distribution . This problem is equivalent to generating a random number for a special case of the Gamma distribution, in which the shape parameter takes an integer value.
Notice that:
One can now generate samples using a random number generator for the exponential distribution:
if then
Non-uniform random numbers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20le%20Sac%20Vs%20Scroobius%20Pip | dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip were a hip-hop duo, combining electronic beats with sung, spoken, and rapped lyrics. The pair are Daniel Stephens (a.k.a. Dan le Sac; production, programming, keyboards, guitars and backing vocals), and David Peter Meads (b.1981) (a.k.a. Scroobius Pip; vocals/rapper/poet). The name "Scroobius Pip" is an intentional misspelling of the Edward Lear poem, The Scroobious Pip.
Dan le Sac originally hails from Corringham and Scroobius Pip from neighbouring Stanford-le-Hope in Essex.
Their first single was "Thou Shalt Always Kill". Signed with the Sunday Best record label, Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip released their debut album in 2008. Titled Angles, it reached 31 in the UK album chart. They released their second album entitled The Logic of Chance on 15 March 2010 on Sunday Best. Scroobius Pip released his debut solo album, entitled Distraction Pieces, on 19 September 2011 – while Dan le Sac released his, Space Between the Words, on 9 July 2012. The duo's third album entitled Repent Replenish Repeat was released 7 October 2013 and debuted at number 22 in the UK top 40, the duo's highest album chart position to date.
History
Both Dan le Sac and Scroobius Pip worked as solo artists before forming this duo, Dan le Sac as a laptop musician, DJ and promoter, Scroobius Pip as a spoken word artist.
David Meads began writing poetry in about 2005; he adopted the pseudonym "Scroobius Pip" from Edward Lear's poem, "The Scroobious Pip". In a 2010 interview with Beatdom, Meads explained why he chose the name: "I loved the story. It's about a creature that doesn't know what it is ...By the end [of the poem] he realises that he is simply The Scroobious Pip. He doesn't fit into any one category and can just be his own creature."
The duo formed in 2006 after Dan le Sac booked Scroobius Pip to play at a gig he was promoting at the Fez Club (now Sakura) in Reading. Around this time Dan le Sac started remixing Scroobius Pip's solo album No Commercial Breaks - a selection of the remixes form the core of their debut album Angles but the band didn't garner any commercial success until they wrote the original song "Thou Shalt Always Kill" at the end of 2006. Although it is commonly thought that Rob Da Bank of BBC Radio 1 gave the band their first radio play, it was actually John Kennedy of XFM London - the band sent a demo CD to John Kennedy in December 2006 and he played it on his Xposure show within two hours of receiving it.
"Thou Shalt Always Kill" was re-released in 2009 with additional vocals by Pos Plug Won (Posdnous) of De La Soul.
In 2007 the duo released two singles on Lex Records, "Thou Shalt Always Kill" and "The Beat that my Heart Skipped" but it wasn't until early 2008 that they signed for Rob da Bank's Sunday Best record label and released their debut album Angles; the album was later released on Sage Francis's Strange Famous Records in the US and Traffic in Japan.
On Christmas Eve 2007, whilst still unsigned, the duo released a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deen%20Hergott | Deen Hergott (born October 23, 1962, in Kitchener, Ontario) is a Canadian International Master of Chess. By profession, he is a mathematician, computer programmer, and chess journalist.
Early years
Deen Hergott learned chess in his hometown of Kitchener, Ontario, and by his mid-teens was approaching National Master strength. He was selected to play for Canada at the World U26 Team Championship, Graz 1981. Hergott won the Junior Canadian Chess Championship, 1981–82, and represented Canada in the 1982 World Junior Chess Championship at Copenhagen, scoring a respectable 6/13.
Hergott studied mathematics at the University of Waterloo, graduating with an honours bachelor's degree in 1986. He also successfully represented the University in team chess competition, for example at the Pan American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship, held in Kitchener, 1984, where he played board one. The World Chess Federation (FIDE) awarded him the FM title in 1988, and the International Master title in 1991. Hergott played in the Toronto Closed in 1981, 1982 and 1987, but moved to Ottawa after that, and has resided there since.
Canadian Olympian
Hergott was chosen for the Canadian Olympiad team for Thessaloniki 1984, the first of his seven national selections. He was on the second reserve board, and scored 1/3. For Dubai 1986, he was on board four, and scored 6/10. At Thessaloniki 1988, he was first reserve, and scored 5/9. For Novi Sad 1990, he was again first reserve, and scored an undefeated 7/9 to win the bronze medal on that board. For Manila 1992, he was on board three, and made 5.5/10. At Moscow 1994, he ascended to board two, and scored 6.5/11. Not selected in 1996, he returned on board four at Elista 1998, and scored 5.5/11. His aggregate over seven Olympiads is 36.5/63 (+26 =21 -16), for 57.9 per cent, according to olimpbase.org.
Hergott made his first appearance in the Closed Canadian Chess Championship at Winnipeg 1986, also a Zonal year, where he scored 6.5/15 in a strong field. He tied for third the next year in the Closed at Baie-Comeau, with 5.5/9. He played in the British Championship, Swansea 1987, scoring 6/11 in a powerful field headed by Grandmaster Nigel Short; Canadian Masters, as Commonwealth citizens, are eligible to play in the British Championship. The next Canadian Zonal was Windsor 1989, where he made an even score with 7.5/15. He tied for fourth in the 1992 Zonal at Kingston, with 6.5/11. His best Zonal performance was Hamilton 1994, where he finished clear second, with 10.5/15, a point behind Grandmaster Kevin Spraggett. In the controversy-marred Closed at Ottawa 1995, Hergott tied for third place with 5/8. Hergott placed seventh in the 1996 Zonal at Toronto with 8/15.
International successes
Hergott has achieved some significant successes in international events outside Canada. At the strong Linares 1993 round-robin in Mexico, he tied for third with 9.5/15. That same year in an International Open at Sitges, Spain, he tie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrycja%20Mikula | Patrycja Mikula (born May 28, 1983, in Rzeszów, Poland) also known as Patricia Mikula is a Polish model and Playboy Cybergirl. Patrycja was the Cybergirl for the week of April 2, 2007 – her first time posing for Playboy; the same pictures were also featured in the February 2007 issue under Potpourri. Mikula's other credits include: Grappling magazine, MMA Sports magazine March 2007, Hot Threads Catalog, as a model at World on Wheels Car Show, and as a special guest IFL (International Fight League) and IHC (Ironheart Crown) ring card girl. She has recently been featured in the Playboy article "How to Play Poker Like a Man". Furthermore, she has become the Cyber Girl of the Month for August 2007 and will be featured in the October issue of Playboy.
Personal life
Patrycja dated mixed martial artist Andrei Arlovski for over two years before going their separate ways.
On June 17, 2010, she married professional soccer player Krzysztof Król, who played for the Major League Soccer team Chicago Fire and now plays for Montreal Impact FC, after dating for only seven weeks. On March 19, 2011, nine months after their wedding, Mikula gave birth to the couple's first child, a son named Cristiano.
References
External links
patrycja-mikula at facebook
Living people
1983 births
Models from Chicago
Polish emigrants to the United States
People from Rzeszów
Polish female models |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Equipment%20Identity%20Register | A Central Equipment Identity Register (CEIR) is a database of mobile equipment identifiers (IMEI – for networks of GSM standard, MEID – for networks of CDMA standard). Such an identifier is assigned to each SIM slot of the mobile device.
Lists of IMEIs may be the:
White – for devices that are allowed to register in the cellular network,
Black – for devices that are prohibited to register in the cellular network,
Grey – for devices in intermediate status (when it is not yet defined in which of the lists - black or white - the device should be placed).
Depending on the rules of mobile equipment registration in a country the CEIR database may contain other lists or fields beside IMEI. For example, the subscriber number (MSISDN), which is bound to the IMEI, the ID of the individual (passport data, National ID, etc.) who registered IMEI in the database, details of the importer who brought the device into the country, etc.
Originally abbreviation CEIR stood for IMEI Database, created and provided by GSM Association. It was proposed to blacklist the IMEIs of stolen or lost phones. It was assumed that any MNO would be able to receive this list to block the registration of such devices on their network. Thus, it turns out that a stolen phone, once blacklisted by the GSMA CEIR, cannot be used on a large number of cellular networks, which means that the theft of mobile devices will become meaningless. However, it soon became clear that the MNOs on their initiative were not going to do this because if many phones stopped working in their networks, but works in another, it puts them at a disadvantage and can lead to an outflow of subscribers. It became clear that the blocking of stolen devices should be introduced simultaneously in all mobile networks of the country by legislative measures at the initiative of the communications regulator. In this case, as a rule, a national IMEI database is created, which contains general lists of blocked IMEIs. Since the registration in the cellular operator's network is directly blocked by a network node called EIR (Equipment Identity Register), the system that contains the national IMEI base became known as Central EIR (CEIR). To avoid confusion the database of GSM Association was renamed to IMEI Database - IMEI DB (it was in 2003-2008, see “Document History” at IMEI Database File Format Specification). Also sometimes a common IMEI database for several EIRs is called SEIR (Shared EIR).
In each country, the CEIR can interact with IMEI DB differently. National CEIR may not communicate with IMEI DB at all. Firstly, it is separately decided whether CEIR will send information about its blacklist to IMEI DB (which IMEIs are placed in it or removed from there). Secondly, upon receipt of the blacklist from IMEI DB, the regulator decides from which countries it will receive it (IMEI DB stores the information exactly who blacklisted the IMEI). For example, you can get a list from neighboring countries, from countries in you |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector%20monitor | A vector monitor, vector display, or calligraphic display is a display device used for computer graphics up through the 1970s. It is a type of CRT, similar to that of an early oscilloscope. In a vector display, the image is composed of drawn lines rather than a grid of glowing pixels as in raster graphics. The electron beam follows an arbitrary path, tracing the connected sloped lines rather than following the same horizontal raster path for all images. The beam skips over dark areas of the image without visiting their points.
Some refresh vector displays use a normal phosphor that fades rapidly and needs constant refreshing 30-40 times per second to show a stable image. These displays, such as the Imlac PDS-1, require some local refresh memory to hold the vector endpoint data. Other storage tube displays, such as the popular Tektronix 4010, use a special phosphor that continues glowing for many minutes. Storage displays do not require any local memory. In the 1970s, both types of vector displays were much more affordable than bitmap raster graphics displays when megapixel computer memory was still very expensive. Today, raster displays have replaced nearly all uses of vector displays.
Vector displays do not suffer from the display artifacts of aliasing and pixelation—especially black and white displays; color displays keep some artifacts due to their discrete nature—but they are limited to displaying only a shape's outline (although advanced vector systems can provide a limited amount of shading). Text is crudely drawn from short strokes. Refresh vector displays are limited in how many lines or how much text can be shown without refresh flicker. Irregular beam motion is slower than steady beam motion of raster displays. Beam deflections are typically driven by magnetic coils, and those coils resist rapid changes to their current.
History
Vector graphic displays were first used in 1958 by the US SAGE air defense system.
In 1963, Ivan Sutherland at MIT first used a vector graphic display for Sketchpad, his pioneering CAD program. In 1968, he and his team again used a vector monitor to display wireframe images of 3D models. This time the display was head mounted. The obviously heavy system was held up by a support arm structure called The Sword of Damocles. The system is widely considered to be the first computer-based virtual reality.
In 1970, at the UK Farnborough Airshow, Sperry Gyroscope (Bracknell, England) exhibited the first ever vector graphic video display from a UK company. It featured an analogue monochrome display with special electronics, designed by Sperry's John Atkins, that allowed it to draw vectors on screen between two pairs of coordinates. At Farnborough the display was used to demonstrate the capabilities of the new Sperry 1412 military computer - it was shown running software that drew, in real time, a wire-frame rotating cube that could be speed-controlled in any of its three dimensions. That demonstration created sign |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20Soup%20Processor | Hot Soup Processor is a programming language from Japan that was originally developed in 1994. It was originally based on BASIC, but has diverged significantly from those roots over the years. It is freeware as of 1996, and now is open source (OpenHSP) under the BSD licenses. HSP is used to teach programming in Japanese schools, and because it is freeware, it was a popular programming language for doujin soft in the late 1990s.
Features
Hot Soup Processor is a procedural language, and includes the following features:
Very brief and simple syntax, ideal for beginning programmers
no line numbering
non-case-sensitive
all variables are global
name spaces
Originally designed to compile Windows executables, but Mac Classic and Linux ports exist as well, and compiling to .com files is also possible
Can use Windows DLLs and Windows API
includes a preprocessor
can use standard BASIC syntax as well as its own proprietary syntax
Example code
mes "Hello World!"
stop
External links
HSPTV!, new Hot Soup Processor official website (in Japanese)
old Hot Soup Processor official website (in Japanese)
Educational programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindtrap%20%28disambiguation%29 | Mindtrap is a computer game.
Mindtrap may also refer to:
MindTrap, a series of lateral thinking board games
Cour'souvra, a fictional device in the Wheel of Time series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WaveLab | WaveLab is a digital audio editor and recording computer software application for Windows and macOS, created by Steinberg. WaveLab was started in 1995 and it is mainly the work of one programmer, Philippe Goutier.
Audio can be edited as a single file, a series of files or a multitrack "montage". It fully supports VST 2 and 3 plugins for audio processing. Cut-down versions of WaveLab are available as WaveLab Elements and WaveLab LE.
Features and usage
In addition to recording audio from multiple sources, WaveLab can be used for post-processing of all types of audio. It is popularly used for mastering audio, but also facilitates basic usage such as editing podcasts.
Single-window dockable user interface with multiple themes, fully scalable
Maximum sample rate of 384 kHz and bit depth of 32-bit floating point
Encodes, imports and allows editing metadata of various file formats such as WAV, FLAC, OGG, AIFF, MP3 and AAC
DDP (Disc Description Protocol) and included shareable DDP Player
Offline loudness analysis (EBU-compliant)
Extensive batch processing features and scripting
Render button to render changes to sound files while they are playing
Spectrum Editor with various display settings and editing tools
"Audio Inpainting" to recreate missing content by analyzing the surrounding area
Visualizers such as a spectrometer, phase scope and wave scope
Real-time spectrogram for playback and monitored signals
Mid/Side viewing, processing and editing
Modern time-stretching and pitch-shifting algorithms
Folder watching for automatic offline processing
Full integration of external effects hardware
Master Section with effect slots, re-sampling, master level, final effects/dithering, playback processing and speaker configuration
Direct exchange and ASIO driver sharing with Cubase and Nuendo
Various effects and processors including the MasterRig and RestoreRig plug-in bundles, and offline processors
See also
Steinberg Cubase
Nuendo
References
External links
Steinberg - The software company that developed WaveLab
Steinberg Wavelab v2 Sound On Sound review (archive.org)
Steinberg offers free versions of Cubase WaveLab and more in its #StayHome Elements bundle
Digital audio workstation software
Soundtrack creation software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trace%20monoid | In computer science, a trace is a set of strings, wherein certain letters in the string are allowed to commute, but others are not. It generalizes the concept of a string, by not forcing the letters to always be in a fixed order, but allowing certain reshufflings to take place. Traces were introduced by Pierre Cartier and Dominique Foata in 1969 to give a combinatorial proof of MacMahon's master theorem. Traces are used in theories of concurrent computation, where commuting letters stand for portions of a job that can execute independently of one another, while non-commuting letters stand for locks, synchronization points or thread joins.
The trace monoid or free partially commutative monoid is a monoid of traces. In a nutshell, it is constructed as follows: sets of commuting letters are given by an independency relation. These induce an equivalence relation of equivalent strings; the elements of the equivalence classes are the traces. The equivalence relation then partitions up the free monoid (the set of all strings of finite length) into a set of equivalence classes; the result is still a monoid; it is a quotient monoid and is called the trace monoid. The trace monoid is universal, in that all dependency-homomorphic (see below) monoids are in fact isomorphic.
Trace monoids are commonly used to model concurrent computation, forming the foundation for process calculi. They are the object of study in trace theory. The utility of trace monoids comes from the fact that they are isomorphic to the monoid of dependency graphs; thus allowing algebraic techniques to be applied to graphs, and vice versa. They are also isomorphic to history monoids, which model the history of computation of individual processes in the context of all scheduled processes on one or more computers.
Trace
Let denote the free monoid, that is, the set of all strings written in the alphabet . Here, the asterisk denotes, as usual, the Kleene star. An independency relation on then induces a (symmetric) binary relation on , where if and only if there exist , and a pair such that and . Here, and are understood to be strings (elements of ), while and are letters (elements of ).
The trace is defined as the reflexive transitive closure of . The trace is thus an equivalence relation on , and is denoted by , where is the dependency relation corresponding to that is and conversely Clearly, different dependencies will give different equivalence relations.
The transitive closure implies that if and only if there exists a sequence of strings such that and and for all . The trace is stable under the monoid operation on (concatenation) and is therefore a congruence relation on .
The trace monoid, commonly denoted as , is defined as the quotient monoid
The homomorphism
is commonly referred to as the natural homomorphism or canonical homomorphism. That the terms natural or canonical are deserved follows from the fact that this morphism embodies a universal proper |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency%20relation | In computer science, in particular in concurrency theory, a dependency relation is a binary relation on a finite domain , symmetric, and reflexive; i.e. a finite tolerance relation. That is, it is a finite set of ordered pairs , such that
If then (symmetric)
If , then (reflexive)
In general, dependency relations are not transitive; thus, they generalize the notion of an equivalence relation by discarding transitivity.
is also called the alphabet on which is defined. The independency induced by is the binary relation
That is, the independency is the set of all ordered pairs that are not in . The independency relation is symmetric and irreflexive. Conversely, given any symmetric and irreflexive relation on a finite alphabet, the relation
is a dependency relation.
The pair is called the concurrent alphabet. The pair is called the independency alphabet or reliance alphabet, but this term may also refer to the triple (with induced by ). Elements are called dependent if holds, and independent, else (i.e. if holds).
Given a reliance alphabet , a symmetric and irreflexive relation can be defined on the free monoid of all possible strings of finite length by: for all strings and all independent symbols . The equivalence closure of is denoted or and called -equivalence. Informally, holds if the string can be transformed into by a finite sequence of swaps of adjacent independent symbols. The equivalence classes of are called traces, and are studied in trace theory.
Examples
Given the alphabet , a possible dependency relation is , see picture.
The corresponding independency is . Then e.g. the symbols are independent of one another, and e.g. are dependent. The string is equivalent to and to , but to no other string.
References
Binary relations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opengear | Opengear is a global computer network technology company headquartered in Edison, New Jersey, U.S., with R&D operations in Brisbane, Qld, Australia and production in Sandy, UT.
The company develops and manufactures "smart out-of-band infrastructure management" products aimed at allowing customers to securely access, control and automatically troubleshoot and repair their IT infrastructure remotely, including network and data-center management, for resilient operation.
Opengear solutions provide always-available wired and wireless secure remote access, with failover capabilities to automatically restore site connectivity. This enables technical staff to provision, maintain and repair infrastructure from anywhere at any time, as if they were physically present, thereby enabling both the operational costs and the risk of downtime to be reduced.
In December 2019, Opengear was acquired by Digi International.
Products
Opengear's management products include IM7200 advanced console servers that streamline management of network, server, and power infrastructure in data centers and colocation facilities; and ACM7000 remote management gateways that deliver secure remote monitoring, access and control of distributed networks and remote sites. The Lighthouse Centralized Management platform then provides a single point of scalable, secure management for these Opengear appliances and connected devices. The Opengear NetOps Console Server combine out-of-band management and NetOps tools in a single appliance, minimizing human intervention and simplifying repetitive tasks.
All Opengear products provide a secure alternate out-of-band path to the managed infrastructure, enabling accessibility even during system or network outage. They monitor, access, and control all critical infrastructure at all local and remote sites, from applications, computers and networking equipment, to security cameras, power supplies and door sensors - to proactively detect faults and remediate before they become failures.
Opengear's products are built on a Linux software base, and the company is an active supporter of the open-source community.
History
2004 Opengear founded by the founders of SnapGear
2005 Started okvm open source project, developing open source console and KVM management software and released CM4000 and SD4000 product lines (built on okvm technology)
2007 Embedded Nagios open source monitoring software.
2008 Embedded Network UPS Tools and PowerMan for UPS and PDU management and monitoring, EMD5000 Environmental Monitoring Products.
2009 Extended SNMP support for all mainstream UPS and PDU vendors for true vendor agnostic data center management.
2010 Develops VCMS virtual central management - built on Nagios
2010 Reports sales growth of 50% in 2010.
2011 Embeds ARMS in management gateways to give smart remote hands
2012 Releases extended ACM5000 with cellular and PoE and Lighthouse Central Management
2012 Reports revenue growth of 50% in North America and 78% |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6ttingen%20station | Göttingen railway station, known in German as Bahnhof Göttingen, is an InterCityExpress stop on Germany's domestic long-distance rail network and the only passenger station of the city of Göttingen. Built in 1854 as the terminus of the Hanoverian Southern Railway, the station lies west of the medieval town centre. The station today has four platform islands each with two through tracks. In addition there is a through track for goods traffic between the station building and the platforms.
History
As part of the planning for the construction of the Hanoverian Southern Railway, the municipal council of the city of Göttingen decided in 1851 to request for the construction of a station west of its centre. During the followed three years there were sometimes heated discussions among citizens and in particular the affected landowners, until the groundbreaking ceremony in 1853. The planning was undertaken by Adolph Funk, Conrad Wilhelm Hase and Julius Rasch and construction was managed by Emil Hackländer. The design of the station followed the example of the Hannover Central Station (Central-Bahnhof) completed in 1847 in the Hanoverian Rundbogenstil ("round-arch" style) in natural stone. Operations commenced with carnival-like opening celebrations on 31 July 1854.
The section of the Hanoverian Southern Railway between Alfeld–and Göttingen was opened in 1854. It was extended to Kassel over the former Dransfeld ramp (Dransfelder rampe) in 1856. The Bebra–Göttingen railway was built from Göttingen to Friedland in 1867. The line was extended to Bebra in 1875 and 1876, creating a connection to Kassel via Eichenberg. The station building in Göttingen was built between 1856 and 1887 and rebuilt several times. The station forecourt was rebuilt at the beginning of the 20th century. In the summer palms were now placed in front of the station; these shaped the image of the station until the Second World War.
The station facilities were rebuilt again from was about 1910 until the 1920s. In particular, the tracks were raised south of the station (which in the southern section involved the relocation of the line to Eichenberg) and the building of an underpass for Groner Chaussee (now Groner Landstraße), as the railway crossing was congested by the increasing traffic and it has also been decided to build a tram line. The entrance building was rebuilt and given extensions. In the course of this rebuilding, the Garte Valley Railway (Gartetalbahn), a 750mm narrow gauge railway to Duderstadt that had previously ended at the station, was cut back to run to end at its own station about 400 metres further south; this line was closed in 1959.
The station was largely destroyed by bombing during the Second World War. The station and the station hall were rebuilt in the postwar period in a simplified form with a redesigned facade. Göttingen was connected to the electrified rail network in 1963. In the 1960s, the station forecourt was rebuilt again and aligned for the req |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downhill%20Domination | Downhill Domination is a racing video game developed by Santa Monica Studio and Incognito Entertainment for the PlayStation 2. It was released in North America by Sony Computer Entertainment in 2003 and in Europe by Codemasters in 2004.
Gameplay
There are three options available at the main menu, single player, multiplayer and an options menu that allows players to modify gameplay elements such as difficulty and view unlocked items achieved during gameplay.
Initially, the player is introduced to six fictional racers displayed at the top of a mountain once single player mode is selected from the main menu of the game. By pressing the select button over an unlocked racer, additional info of the racer will be displayed, and by pressing the select button over a locked character which is represented by a statue, valuable info on how to unlock, the same will be displayed as a specific career to finish. In addition to two other fictional racers, players can also unlock real-life professional racers like Eric Carter, Tara Llanes, Brian Lopes, Richie Schley and Missy Giove when specific tournaments are finished during gameplay.
Combat is also integrated into the game, in which the player can use two buttons to attack other racers, one for a left attack, and the other for the right. These attacks can be upgraded to more powerful attacks by performing tricks, taking out opponents, or collecting power-ups (known in-game as "pickups"). A bike shop with several unlockable items to purchase is available but is only accessible in one player mode. Up to four players can play the game, but when playing with more than two, the available tracks and modes are limited.
Reception
Downhill Domination received "generally favorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, where the game was ported for release on May 20, 2004 under the name , Famitsu gave it a score of 30 out of 40.
References
External links
2003 video games
Codemasters games
Cycling video games
Incognito Entertainment games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation 2-only games
Racing video games
Vehicular combat games
Santa Monica Studio games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in Hawaii
Sports video games set in Italy
Sports video games set in Japan
Video games set in Peru
Video games set in Russia
Video games set in Scotland
Video games set in Utah |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20X2 | The Cray X2 is a vector processing node for the Cray XT5h supercomputer, developed and sold by Cray Inc. and launched in 2007.
The X2, developed under the code name Black Widow, was originally expected to be a standalone supercomputer system, superseding the Cray X1 parallel vector supercomputer. However, the X2 was eventually launched as one of the four processor "blade" options for the XT5h system.
An X2 blade comprises two nodes, each with four symmetric multiprocessing vector processors and 32 or 64 GB of shared memory. Each node has a peak performance of more than 100 gigaflops. X2 processors are connected using a radix-64 "fat-tree" interconnect implemented by the YARC router ASIC. X2 blades also link into the XT5h system via its SeaStar2+ processor interconnect.
Up to 256 X2 blades can be installed in an XT5h system. The X2 processor nodes integrate with the Cray XT5h's UNICOS/lc OS, user environment, and storage subsystem, as part of the Rainier project.
External links
Cray XT5h Supercomputer
Cray Introduces Next-Generation Supercomputers
Thinking Ahead: Future Architectures from Cray
The BlackWidow High-Radix Clos Network
Cray X2 Vector Processing Blade
X2
Vector supercomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quararibea | Quararibea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae.
Species include:
Quararibea asterolepis
Quararibea aurantiocalyx
Quararibea cordata
Quararibea dolichopoda
Quararibea dolichosiphon
Quararibea funebris
Quararibea gomeziana
Quararibea jefensis
Quararibea pendula
Quararibea platyphylla
Quararibea pterocalyx
Quararibea sanblasensis
Quararibea santaritensis
Quararibea turbinata – swizzlestick tree
Quararibea velutina
Quararibea yunckeri
References
Malvaceae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godtube | GodTube is an online video platform which provides Christian video content. It is owned by Salem Web Network, the internet division of Salem Communications. GodTube includes music videos, comedy, children, animals, sports, news and inspirational clips.
History
GodTube was launched in the spring of 2007 by founders Christopher Wyatt, Jason Martell, Lloyd Chartrand, and Mike Miller (former Executive Pastor of First Baptist Dallas). Wyatt was once an online student at Dallas Theological Seminary and was also one of CBS's producers for the 1995 Day and Date show.
Wyatt has stated the website is open to all theological viewpoints, including atheists. The terms of use, however, prohibit any content which is "contrary to the evangelization of Jesus Christ and His teachings, or constitutes blasphemy, or is otherwise offensive to our online Christian community".
According to comScore, GodTube was the fastest growing US website for the month of August 2007. According to Quantcast, total monthly site traffic lost 75% of its users, from 2.7 million, to just over 690 thousand by February 2009. In February 2008, the company raised $30,000,000 from GLG Partners, LP, at a valuation of $150,000,000 after 5 months of operation.
In February 2009, GodTube re-launched as Tangle, expanding into a social network. Tangle also included other new features, such as an online Bible and an "interactive prayer wall", and encouraged non-Christians and atheists to participate and share their points of view. By April 2010, GodTube returned as a separate site alongside Tangle.
In May 2010, Salem Communications' Salem Web Network division acquired GodTube and Tangle's parent company Big Jump Media.
On December 1, 2010, Tangle was discontinued. As part of the transition, certain functionality was pointed towards other sites in the Salem network, and videos were migrated back to GodTube accounts.
In May 2019, GodTube unveiled a new logo.
Features
Video technology
Videos can also be watched with the GodTube app on Android 4.1 or newer and iOS 7 or newer. The app was last updated in September 2016 for both platforms.
GodTube manually reviews every video uploaded to its site.
In some cases, GodTube embeds third-party videos (from sites like YouTube, Facebook and Rumble) instead of hosting them. Some GodTube features, such as view count and favorites, are still available with these embedded videos.
Music
GodTube has a dedicated music section with traditional and contemporary Christian music. It has similarities to YouTube Music and its predecessor Vevo. GodTube's artist directory consists of licensed music channels, with 387 entries as of May 2019. Entries consist of artists and record labels.
GodTube has premiered BarlowGirl's "Sing Me a Love Song" music video and COLMANblue's "Hey (Not Worth the Worry) single
Demographics
According to a November 2010 Quantcast assessment, the GodTube audience is 60% female and 40% male, with a high percentage of teenagers and baby boom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy%20learning | In machine learning, lazy learning is a learning method in which generalization of the training data is, in theory, delayed until a query is made to the system, as opposed to eager learning, where the system tries to generalize the training data before receiving queries.
The primary motivation for employing lazy learning, as in the K-nearest neighbors algorithm, used by online recommendation systems ("people who viewed/purchased/listened to this movie/item/tune also ...") is that the data set is continuously updated with new entries (e.g., new items for sale at Amazon, new movies to view at Netflix, new clips at YouTube, new music at Spotify or Pandora). Because of the continuous update, the "training data" would be rendered obsolete in a relatively short time especially in areas like books and movies, where new best-sellers or hit movies/music are published/released continuously. Therefore, one cannot really talk of a "training phase".
Lazy classifiers are most useful for large, continuously changing datasets with few attributes that are commonly queried. Specifically, even if a large set of attributes exist - for example, books have a year of publication, author/s, publisher, title, edition, ISBN, selling price, etc. - recommendation queries rely on far fewer attributes - e.g., purchase or viewing co-occurrence data, and user ratings of items purchased/viewed.
Advantages
The main advantage gained in employing a lazy learning method is that the target function will be approximated locally, such as in the k-nearest neighbor algorithm. Because the target function is approximated locally for each query to the system, lazy learning systems can simultaneously solve multiple problems and deal successfully with changes in the problem domain. At the same time they can reuse a lot of theoretical and applied results from linear regression modelling (notably PRESS statistic) and control. It is said that the advantage of this system is achieved if the predictions using a single training set are only developed for few objects. This can be demonstrated in the case of the k-NN technique, which is instance-based and function is only estimated locally.
Disadvantages
Theoretical disadvantages with lazy learning include:
The large space requirement to store the entire training dataset. In practice, this is not an issue because of advances in hardware and the relatively small number of attributes (e.g., as co-occurrence frequency) that need to be stored.
Particularly noisy training data increases the case base unnecessarily, because no abstraction is made during the training phase. In practice, as stated earlier, lazy learning is applied to situations where any learning performed in advance soon becomes obsolete because of changes in the data. Also, for the problems for which lazy learning is optimal, "noisy" data does not really occur - the purchaser of a book has either bought another book or hasn't.
Lazy learning methods are usually slower to evaluate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound%20Quality%20%28radio%20program%29 | Sound Quality was a radio program broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio National network between 1995 and 2015, featuring new music, generally in the genres of electronica, but including other genres as well. The show was produced and presented by Tim Ritchie.
Ritchie began his radio broadcasting career in 1976, when as a schoolboy, he rang ABC's youth radio station Double J and gave a critique of the Double J presenter's performance. The presenter suggested that if Ritchie could do a better job, he should do the show the next day. He did, and worked his way through a university degree as he worked shifts on Double J and then Triple J, including a stint in New York, before moving across to Radio National. He started Sound Quality in 1995.
Past programs since 1999 are still available on the ABC website.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio programs
Australian music radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eager%20learning | In artificial intelligence, eager learning is a learning method in which the system tries to construct a general, input-independent target function during training of the system, as opposed to lazy learning, where generalization beyond the training data is delayed until a query is made to the system.
The main advantage gained in employing an eager learning method, such as an artificial neural network, is that the target function will be approximated globally during training, thus requiring much less space than using a lazy learning system. Eager learning systems also deal much better with noise in the training data. Eager learning is an example of offline learning, in which post-training queries to the system have no effect on the system itself, and thus the same query to the system will always produce the same result.
The main disadvantage with eager learning is that it is generally unable to provide good local approximations in the target function.
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Machine learning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offline%20learning | In machine learning, systems which employ offline learning do not change their approximation of the target function when the initial training phase has been completed. These systems are also typically examples of eager learning.
While in online learning, only the set of possible elements is known, in offline learning, the identity of the elements as well as the order in which they are presented is known to the learner.
Applications for robotics control
The ability of robots to learn is equal to create a table (information) which is filled with values. One option for doing so is programming by demonstration. Here, the table is filled with values by a human teacher. The demonstration is provided either as direct numerical control policy which is equal to a trajectory, or as an indirect objective function which is given in advance.
Offline learning is working in batch mode. In step 1 the task is demonstrated and stored in the table, and in step 2 the task is reproduced by the robot. The pipeline is slow and inefficient because a delay is there between behavior demonstration and skill replay.
A short example will help to understand the idea. Suppose the robot should learn a wall following task and the internal table of the robot is empty. Before the robot gets activated in the replay mode, the human demonstrator has to teach the behavior. He is controlling the robot with teleoperation and during the learning step the skill table is generated. The process is called offline, because the robot control software is doing nothing but the device is utilized by the human operator as a pointing device for driving along the wall.
See also
Online learning, the opposite model
Incremental learning, a learning model for the incremental extension of knowledge
References
Machine learning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot%20%28Twin%20Peaks%29 | The pilot episode, also known as "Northwest Passage", of the mystery television series Twin Peaks premiered on the ABC Network on Sunday, April 8, 1990. It was written by series creators Mark Frost and David Lynch, and directed by Lynch. The pilot follows the characters of Dale Cooper and Harry S. Truman as they investigate the death of popular high school student Laura Palmer; Cooper believes the murder has connections to a murder case that occurred a year earlier. In addition to setting the tone for the show, the episode sets up several character and story arcs and marked the appearance of several recurring characters. The episode received a strong Nielsen household rating compared to other season one episodes, and was well received by fans and critics alike. The original title for the series was Northwest Passage, but this was later changed.
Plot overview
The small northwest town of Twin Peaks, Washington is shaken when the body of Laura Palmer is discovered washed up on a riverbank, wrapped in plastic. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) is called in when Ronnette Pulaski, who attended the same high school as Palmer, is found wandering on a bridge before lapsing into a coma. Cooper believes there is a connection between Palmer's death and the death of another girl named Teresa Banks that happened a year earlier. Cooper discovers a small piece of paper with the letter "R" on it shoved under Laura's fingernail. He tells Sheriff Harry S. Truman (Michael Ontkean) that under Banks's nail he found a "T". Meanwhile, the Palmer family and friends struggle to come to terms with her death, and wonder how it might have come about.
Believing that this is the same killer who struck the previous year, Cooper starts an official investigation. Meanwhile, the rebellious Audrey Horne (Sherilyn Fenn) ruins a business deal for her father Benjamin Horne (Richard Beymer); Sheriff Truman arrests Palmer's boyfriend Bobby Briggs (Dana Ashbrook), who is secretly seeing a married waitress named Shelly; Palmer's best friend Donna Hayward (Lara Flynn Boyle) and Palmer's secret boyfriend James Hurley (James Marshall) discover a mutual attraction; and Laura's mother is terrified by a vision.
The episode has two different endings, depending on which version of the episode one is watching. The American version ends with the above events, concluded by Sarah Palmer's nightmare of a hand digging into the ground and grabbing James's half of a necklace that belonged to Laura.
The international version was filmed with 20 extra minutes of footage in case the series was not picked up by the networks, rather allowing them to release it as a television movie. It contains scenes from episode one, where Sarah realises that there was a man hiding in Laura's room when she checked in it the previous day. It also contains the ending to episode two, when Cooper dreams of meeting Laura and a mysterious man who speaks to him in a disjointed voice. It also reveals who Laura's k |
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