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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESX | ESX may refer to:
VMware ESX, a computer virtualization product
Dodge Intrepid ESX, a hybrid electric automobile
Essex Junction station (station code ESX), Vermont, United States
ESX-1, an Electribe electronic musical instrument
Ethosuximide, an anti epileptic drugs paper
ESX-1, a pore-forming protein system of M.tuberculosis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGLA-DT | KGLA-DT (channel 42) is a television station licensed to Hammond, Louisiana, United States, serving the New Orleans area as an affiliate of the Spanish-language network Telemundo. Owned by Mayavision, Inc., the station maintains studios on South I-10 Service Road West in Metairie, and its transmitter is located on Paris Road/Highway 47 (northeast of Chalmette).
History
The station first signed on the air on June 5, 2007 as WHMM-DT. Channel 42 has operated as a digital-only station from its sign-on, as one of a handful of full-power television stations around the United States to sign on without a companion analog signal. The station debuted with an effective radiated power of 1 megawatt, the maximum wattage currently allowed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for digital television stations; as a result, it is the only full-power Spanish-language television station in the New Orleans market (Estrella TV affiliate WTNO-CD (channel 22), which debuted in August 2006 as the first Spanish-language station in the market, operates with a Class A license).
On April 23, 2007, Mayavision announced that it had signed an agreement with Telemundo to affiliate with WHMM-DT. Channel 42 was originally slated to debut in mid-May of that year, however its launch was delayed until the following month. At the time the station launched, the Hispanic population in New Orleans had increased between 2005 and 2007, from 6% to between 12% and 14%, which was attributed to the growth of re-construction jobs following Hurricane Katrina.
The station changed its call letters to KGLA-TV on August 27, 2007. On December 21 of that year, the suffix in the station's callsign was replaced with a suffix. KGLA's city of license, Hammond, and its studios in Metairie and transmitter near Chalmette, are all located east of the Mississippi River, making it one of the few broadcast stations in the country whose callsign begins with a "K" that is licensed to a location east of the Mississippi River. The KGLA callsign was grandfathered to the television station, from Gretna-licensed radio station WFNO (1540 AM, formerly KGLA), which Mayavision holds a 50% stake in conjunction with co-owner Crocodile Broadcasting. The station launched its own website in late 2007.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
Television stations in New Orleans
Telemundo network affiliates
Laff (TV network) affiliates
Cozi TV affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 2007
2007 establishments in Louisiana
Spanish-language television stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Cross | is a beat 'em up video game released for the PC Engine in 1989, developed by Face Corporation. It has a sequel called Cross Wiber.
Reception
Computer and Video Games reviewed the game, giving it an 80% rating.
Notes
References
External links
1989 video games
Beat 'em ups
Face (company) games
Superhero video games
TurboGrafx-16 games
TurboGrafx-16-only games
Video games about police officers
Video games developed in Japan
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff%20Nielsen | Cliff Nielsen is an American book illustrator and comic book artist. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database credits him with cover art for about 500 book and magazine covers published since 1994 Nielsen is best known for his work on projects such as Star Wars, The X-Files, Chronicles of Narnia among many projects including advertising campaigns, designs, and magazines. His illustrations have been recognized for their excellence by the Society of Illustrators, Print, and Spectrum among others. Feature articles focusing on his work appear in design publications and fanzine magazines. Nielsen has been an international speaker on digital art and has served as a judge for the Society of Illustrators and a variety of professional illustration award programs. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
In 1995, the husband-and-wife team of Cliff and Terese Nielsen (since divorced) collaborated on Ruins, a Marvel Comics mini-series (two issues).
Work
Nielsen's works are primarily created digitally. He has illustrated the covers of several books, including:
The Giver
The Chronicles of Narnia
Star Wars
Star Trek
Wrinkle in Time
The Dark Tower series
The Mortal Instruments
The Infernal Devices
Shadowhunter Academy
Cirque Du Freak
Heir Apparent
Ranger's Apprentice
The Inheritance Trilogy
Tiger's Curse series
Blood and Chocolate
Demon in My View
Midnight Predator
Royal Street
Kiesha'ra Series
The Chronicles of Faerie
Buffy the Vampire Faerie
Jane Yellowrock Series
Touching Spirit Bear
The Last Hours
He has also illustrated some comic books, such as Marvel comic book Ruins.
Besides this, he was known for working in the magazine Carpe Noctem, and was interviewed as well as created a few covers. He is currently designing/writing a graphic novel known as Beloved, but it so far, has only shown at ComicCon. Nielsen has also illustrated cards for the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game.
Bibliography
The Other Wind (2001) (Written and Illustrated by Ursula K. Le Guin)
References
External links
Cliff Nielsen at agent Shannon Associates
American illustrators
American speculative fiction artists
Artists from Los Angeles
Fantasy artists
Game artists
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Artists represented by Shannon Associates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20Wesley%20Peterson | William Wesley Peterson (April 22, 1924 – May 6, 2009) was an American mathematician and computer scientist. He was best known for designing the cyclic redundancy check (CRC), for which research he was awarded the Japan Prize in 1999.
Peterson was born on April 22, 1924, in Muskegon, Michigan and earned his Ph.D. in 1954 from the University of Michigan. Peterson was a professor of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, joining the faculty in 1964. He started work at IBM in 1954. He authored the publication of algebraic coding theory Error Correcting Codes in 1961. He co-authored a number of books on the topic of error correcting codes, including the revised 2nd edition of Error Correcting Codes (co-authored with Edward J. Weldon). In the early 1950s, he contributed significantly to the development of signal detection theory through participation in the IRE Professional Group on Information Theory. He has also done research and published in the fields of programming languages, systems programming, and networks. As well as the Japan Prize in 1999, he was awarded the Claude E. Shannon Award in 1981, and the IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984. In 2007, two years before Peterson's death, Intel added crc32 to the SSE4.2 instruction set of the x86-64 architecture.
Peterson finished 16th in the 2005 Honolulu Marathon for males ages 80 to 84. He died on May 6, 2009, in Honolulu, Hawaii survived by five children from two different marriages, his wife, and several grandchildren.
References
External links
Press release announcing the award of the Japan Prize
1924 births
2009 deaths
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Detection and estimation theorists
IEEE Centennial Medal laureates
People from Muskegon, Michigan
University of Hawaiʻi faculty
University of Michigan alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ESPN%20Latin%20America%20announcers | The commentators teams of selected major sports and SportsCenter anchors of the Latin American networks of ESPN International, such as ESPN, ESPN 2, ESPN 3, ESPN+, ESPN Brasil and ESPN Caribbean.
English-language, Spanish-language and Portuguese-language announcers
SportsCenter (Northern feed) and ESPN Deportes anchors
Álvaro Morales
Carolina Padrón
Karin Ontiveros
Kary Correa
Cristina Alexander
Vanessa Huppenkothen
Jorge Eduardo Sánchez
Sergio Dipp
Paulina García Robles
SportsCenter (Southern feed)
Quique Wolff
Miguel Simón
Pablo Ferreira
Guillermo Poggi
Jorge Barril
Ayrton Ruiz
Morena Beltrán
Aline Moine
Agostina Scalise
American Football
Auto Racing
Baseball
*Only the All-Star Game, the Home Run Derby and the Serie del Rey.
Basketball
Boxing
Cricket
Cycling
Futsal
Golf
Ice Hockey
Field Hockey
Ice Skating
Horse Racing
Motorcycle Racing
Rugby
Soccer
Softball
Surf
Polo
Tennis
Ncaa Other Events
Poker
Olympic Games
See also
ESPN Deportes
ESPN Latin America
ESPN Brasil
ESPN International
ESPN
ESPN Latin America announcers
Latin America announcersor
ESPN Latin America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied%20General | Allied General is a turn-based computer wargame set in World War II that features the Allied side of operations. It is a sequel to Panzer General. Players can progress through four campaigns as an Allied general against Axis forces controlled by the computer. In Germany, Allied General was titled Panzer General II, and Panzer General II was named Panzer General IIID.
Gameplay
The playable campaigns include:
A Soviet campaign, which features the Soviet invasion of Finland, known as the Winter War, the defenses of Moscow, and if successful, the counter-attack.
A British campaign in North Africa against the German and Italian armies, beginning in Sidi Barrani.
A British campaign, which can be played as the continuation of the first British campaign, which features the final Allied attack in Tunis on Mareth Line and the invasion of Europe.
An American campaign, similar to the second British campaign, that begins with Operation Torch and continues to the invasion of Europe.
Individual scenarios can be played from either side.
Whereas the first Panzer General targeted DOS, Allied General was made for Windows. Allied General and Panzer General for Windows (an update to the DOS version) utilize a pop-up interface and share an underlying file system that differs from the original Panzer General. Fans created a version of Allied General, based on its own DOS version, that borrows interface features from the original Panzer General. Called Allied Panzer General, it includes all scenarios and campaigns from the original, as well as bugfixes.
Reception
Allied General sold at least 50,000 units by September 1997.
Reviewing the Windows version, a Next Generation critic summarized that "Panzer General was one of the best-loved war games of last year, and Allied General is an improvement on an already great engine. For a sequel to such a prestigious title, however, there's really not much new here". He was pleased with the new Windows-specific features, such as being able to keep several windows open at once and change the game's resolution, as well as the improved e-mail play. He criticized that the weak AI is unimproved from Panzer General, but concluded the game to be worth getting for war game enthusiasts. Next Generation also reviewed the PlayStation version, opining that it "boasts much of what made [Panzer General] such a delight".
References
External links
1995 video games
Computer wargames
Classic Mac OS games
Play-by-email video games
PlayStation (console) games
Strategic Simulations games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
World War II video games
Mindscape games
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s%20General | People's General (a.k.a. Dynasty General) is a turn-based computer wargame developed by Strategic Simulations, Inc (SSI). It was released in September 1998 in North America and Europe. The game focuses on early 21st century warfare in Asia. People's General, or PeG as it is commonly known, followed SSI's successful 5 Star General Series of World War II war games (Panzer General, Allied General, Pacific General) and their sequel, Panzer General II (PG2). It uses the same game dynamics as these earlier games—turn-based movement & fighting with military units on a hex based map. PeG uses substantially the same "Living Battlefield" game engine as PG2 but features higher quality (16 bit) graphics and many new features.
Gameplay
People's General focuses on modern conflict in Asia between 20 countries, principally the United States, China and Russia. The countries are organized into an Eastern Alliance and a Western Alliance. China, Mongolia and North Korea comprise the Eastern Alliance. The USA, Russia, 13 other countries and the United Nations comprise the Western Alliance. Vietnam is included as a non-aligned country.
The original campaigns and scenarios expanded on this premise with a more detailed background story provided by SSI via an introductory video. The video narrated hypothetical "future" events occurring from 2000–2004, i.e., after publication of the game and before the start of the campaigns and scenarios. According to this video, both the US and Russia reduce their military spendings. Russia is in turmoil from food shortages and other internal conflicts. China grows stronger militarily. After invading and annexing Taiwan it initiates a plan to dominate all of Asia from Sakhalin Islands and Vladivostok in the east to Volgograd and Kazakhstan in the west; from Siberia in the north to Southeast Asia and Singapore in the south. China justifies this as "reclaiming traditional Chinese territories". The USA sends its 7th Fleet to the Taiwan Straits to force China to withdraw. Chinese air attacks sink 7th Fleet's flagship USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), claiming it was in Chinese waters. United States denounces this as an unprovoked attack and declares war on China. The US is joined by the United Nations and most of its members.
The game dynamics in PeG are essentially the same as those in PG2 and SSI's earlier Generals games:
The playing pieces are military units which have varied attack, defense and other characteristics.
Play is turn based with unit purchase, deployment, movement and combat occurring throughout each player's turn.
Game play takes place on maps with different types of terrain which affect each unit's attack, defense, movement, supply, spotting results & entrenchment.
Units can be damaged or destroyed from combat but can also increase their experience as a result of combat.
Prestige points are used to purchase or upgrade units; prestige points are distributed at the beginning of scenarios and during game play.
Nine camp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminfo | Terminfo is a library and database that enables programs to use display terminals in a device-independent manner. Mary Ann Horton implemented the first terminfo library in 1981–1982 as an improvement over termcap. The improvements include
faster access to stored terminal descriptions,
longer, more understandable names for terminal capabilities and
general expression evaluation for strings sent to the terminal.
Terminfo was included with UNIX System V Release 2 and soon became the preferred form of terminal descriptions in System V, rather than termcap (which BSD continued to use). This was imitated in pcurses in 1982–1984 by Pavel Curtis, and was available on other UNIX implementations, adapting or incorporating fixes from Mary Horton. For more information, refer to the posting on the comp.sources.unix newsgroup from December 1986.
A terminfo database can describe the capabilities of hundreds of different display terminals. This allows external programs to be able to have character-based display output, independent of the type of terminal.
Some configurations are:
Number of lines on the screen
Mono mode; suppress color
Use visible bell instead of beep
Data model
Terminfo databases consist of one or more descriptions of terminals.
Indices
Each description must contain the canonical name of the terminal. It may also contain one or more aliases for the name of the terminal. The canonical name or aliases are the keys by which the library searches the terminfo database.
Data values
The description contains one or more capabilities, which have conventional names.
The capabilities are typed: boolean, numeric and string.
The terminfo library has predetermined types for each capability name.
It checks the types of each capability by the syntax:
string capabilities have an "=" between the capability name and its value,
numeric capabilities have a "#" between the capability name and its value, and
boolean capabilities have no associated value (they are always true if specified).
Applications which use terminfo know the types for the respective capabilities, and obtain the values of capabilities from the terminfo database using library calls that return successfully only when the capability name corresponds to one of the predefined typed capabilities.
Like termcap, some of the string capabilities represent escape sequences which may be sent to the host by pressing special keys on the keyboard. Other capabilities represent strings that may be sent by an application to the terminal. In the latter case, the terminfo library functions (as does a termcap library) for substituting application parameters into the string which is sent. These functions provide a stack-based expression parser, which is primarily used to help minimize the number of characters sent for control sequences which have optional parameters such as SGR (Select Graphic Rendition). In contrast, termcap libraries provide a limited set of operations which are useful for most |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinduction | In computer science, coinduction is a technique for defining and proving properties of systems of concurrent interacting objects.
Coinduction is the mathematical dual to structural induction. Coinductively defined types are known as codata and are typically infinite data structures, such as streams.
As a definition or specification, coinduction describes how an object may be "observed", "broken down" or "destructed" into simpler objects. As a proof technique, it may be used to show that an equation is satisfied by all possible implementations of such a specification.
To generate and manipulate codata, one typically uses corecursive functions, in conjunction with lazy evaluation. Informally, rather than defining a function by pattern-matching on each of the inductive constructors, one defines each of the "destructors" or "observers" over the function result.
In programming, co-logic programming (co-LP for brevity) "is a natural generalization of logic programming and coinductive logic programming, which in turn generalizes other extensions of logic programming, such as infinite trees, lazy predicates, and concurrent communicating predicates. Co-LP has applications to rational trees, verifying infinitary properties, lazy evaluation, concurrent logic programming, model checking, bisimilarity proofs, etc." Experimental implementations of co-LP are available from the University of Texas at Dallas and in Logtalk (for examples see ) and SWI-Prolog.
Description
In a concise statement is given of both the principle of induction and the principle of coinduction. While this article is not primarily concerned with induction, it is useful to consider their somewhat generalized forms at once. In order to state the principles, a few preliminaries are required.
Preliminaries
Let be a set and be a monotone function , that is:
Unless otherwise stated, will be assumed to be monotone.
X is F-closed if
X is F-consistent if
X is a fixed point if
These terms can be intuitively understood in the following way. Suppose that is a set of assertions, and is the operation which takes the implications of . Then is F-closed when you cannot conclude anymore than you've already asserted, while is F-consistent when all of your assertions are supported by other assertions (i.e. there are no "non-F-logical assumptions").
The Knaster–Tarski theorem tells us that the least fixed-point of (denoted ) is given by the intersection of all F-closed sets, while the greatest fixed-point (denoted ) is given by the union of all F-consistent sets. We can now state the principles of induction and coinduction.
Definition
Principle of induction: If is F-closed, then
Principle of coinduction: If is F-consistent, then
Discussion
The principles, as stated, are somewhat opaque, but can be usefully thought of in the following way. Suppose you wish to prove a property of . By the principle of induction, it suffices to exhibit an F-closed set for which |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termcap | Termcap (terminal capability) is a legacy software library and database used on Unix-like computers that enables programs to use display computer terminals in a device-independent manner, which greatly simplifies the process of writing portable text mode applications. It was superseded by terminfo database used by ncurses, tput, and others programs.
Bill Joy wrote the first termcap library in 1978 for the Berkeley Unix operating system; it has since been ported to most Unix and Unix-like environments, even OS-9. Joy's design was reportedly influenced by the design of the terminal data store in the earlier Incompatible Timesharing System.
A termcap database can describe the capabilities of hundreds of different display terminals. This allows programs to have character-based display output, independent of the type of terminal. On-screen text editors such as vi and Emacs are examples of programs that may use termcap. Other programs are listed in the Termcap category.
Examples of what the database describes:
how many columns wide the display is
what string to send to move the cursor to an arbitrary position (including how to encode the row and column numbers)
how to scroll the screen up one or several lines
how much padding is needed for such a scrolling operation.
Data model
Termcap databases consist of one or more descriptions of terminals.
Indices
Each description must contain the canonical name of the terminal. It may also contain one or more aliases for the name of the terminal. The canonical name or aliases are the keys by which the library searches the termcap database.
Data values
The description contains one or more capabilities, which have conventional names. The capabilities are typed: boolean, numeric and string. The termcap library has no predetermined type for each capability name. It determines the types of each capability by the syntax:
string capabilities have an "=" between the capability name and its value,
numeric capabilities have a "#" between the capability name and its value, and
boolean capabilities have no associated value (they are always true if specified).
Applications which use termcap do expect specific types for the commonly used capabilities, and obtain the values of capabilities from the termcap database using library calls that return successfully only when the database contents matches the assumed type.
Hierarchy
Termcap descriptions can be constructed by including the contents of one description in another, suppressing capabilities from the included description or overriding or adding capabilities. No matter what storage model is used, the termcap library constructs the terminal description from the requested description, including, suppressing or overriding at the time of the request.
Storage model
Termcap data is stored as text, making it simple to modify. The text can be retrieved by the termcap library from files or environment variables.
Environment variables
The TERM environment variable |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seinosuke%20Toda | is a computer scientist working at the Nihon University in Tokyo. Toda earned his Ph.D. from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1992, under the supervision of Kojiro Kobayashi. He was a recipient of the 1998 Gödel Prize for proving Toda's theorem in computational complexity theory, which states that every problem in the polynomial hierarchy has a polynomial-time Turing reduction to a counting problem.
Notes
Japanese computer scientists
20th-century Japanese mathematicians
21st-century Japanese mathematicians
Theoretical computer scientists
Gödel Prize laureates
1959 births
Living people
Academic staff of Nihon University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African%20Publishers%20Network | The African Publishers Network (APNET) is a pan-African, non-profit, collaborative network that exists to connect African publishing associations in order to exchange information and promote and strengthen indigenous publishing.
Introduction
Prior to the foundation of APNET in 1992, publishers in Africa had difficulty sharing information and learning from one another’s experiences. There was no database containing the addresses of libraries, bookshops or fellow publishers, and there was no networking structure connecting the agencies.
After several conferences and seminars focused on solving the problems within the African publishing and book trade industry, it was concluded that "the need for networking as a means of information-sharing became paramount. It was necessary to set up an umbrella body which would be a network of publishers in Africa". In 1992, delegates from 9 countries founded the African Publishers Network at a conference in Harare, Zimbabwe. Relocating from Zimbabwe to Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, with a research and documentation centre located in Harare, Zimbabwe. However, due to the political situation in Côte d'Ivoire, APNET's headquarters is now in Accra, Ghana.
APNET is a diverse network representing all regions from across Africa. It lists 41 national publishers associations as members. The governance of APNET consists of four key parts which are interdependent: the General Council represents the totality of African members and meets once a year; the board is representative of Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone Africa and is the executive arm of the council; the Secretariat, which consists of Executive Secretary and Administrative Officer, manages the daily concerns of APNET and ascertains that everything is running smoothly. They also conduct many functions such as organizing training workshops and conferences and fundraising; the project committees oversee pertinent activities that are specifically assigned such as fulfilling research opportunities.
In addition, membership to APNET consists of four levels: full membership (granted to national publishing associations); founding membership (among the publishers from the nine countries that started APNET); affiliate membership (for those interested in the work of APNET – booksellers, editors, printers, designers, etc.); and associate membership for those with “an outstanding record of service to African publishing”.
Accomplishments
APNET can claim many concrete achievements since its formation; in general, as an evaluation of APNET states: “The formation and revitalization of many national publishers associations are a direct result of APNET’s networking activities, most consistently through person-to-person contact and the publication of the African Publishing Review”. The African Publishing Review (APR) is a bi-monthly newsletter sent out to publishers’ associations, book development councils, libraries, etc., and other subscribers. For publishers in Africa, the APR |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Computer-Aided%20Design | The International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) is a yearly conference about electronic design automation. From the start in 1982 until 2014 the conference was held in San Jose, California. It is sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, Computer-Aided Design Technical Committee (CANDE), the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA), and SIGDA, and in cooperation with the IEEE Electron Devices Society and the IEEE Solid State Circuits Society.
Unlike the Design Automation Conference, Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), and Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), ICCAD is primarily a technical conference, with only a small trade show component.
ICCAD Student Scholar Program
The ICCAD Scholar Program assists students who lack other support opportunities to attend ICCAD conferences to participate in activities such as:
Presenting a paper
CADathlon
IC/CAD contest
SRC
Joining the job fair
ICCAD's CAD Contest
Since 2012, the CAD Contest at ICCAD has been research and development competition, focusing on advanced, real-world problems in the field of Electronic Design Automation (EDA).
See also
electronic design automation
EDA Software Category
Design Automation Conference
Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
Design Automation and Test in Europe
Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits
External links
Main web page for the ICCAD conference
References
International conferences
IEEE conferences
Electronic design automation conferences
Recurring events established in 1980 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Symposium%20on%20Physical%20Design | The International Symposium on Physical Design, or ISPD is a yearly conference on the topic of electronic design automation, concentrating on algorithms for the physical design of integrated circuits. It is typically held in April of each year, in a city in the western United States. It is sponsored by the SIGDA of the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA).
ISPD is purely a technical conference with no associated trade show.
See also
Design Automation Conference
International Conference on Computer-Aided Design
Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
Design Automation and Test in Europe
References
External links
Main web page for the ISPD conference
IEEE conferences
Electronic design automation conferences
Association for Computing Machinery conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%2015926%20WIP | The ISO 15926 is an interoperability standard in the process industry. ISO 15926 includes the Work In Progress (WIP) database. WIP is available online and includes technical class descriptions of all the main equipment items, pipe, instruments, buildings, activities and anything else used in engineering, constructing, procuring, operating and maintaining process facilities.
Description
The ISO 15926 Reference Data Library contains the approved core library set and the Object Information Models (e.g. product models), but is expanded with proposed classes and proposed model extensions.
Work process
To expand the set, a user must be certified. This is to keep the Reference Data Library in a certain structure, and directly usable for all the various connected projects.
When a new item is submitted by a certified user, it can be used immediately, and it will also enter an approval cycle performed by modeling and domain matter experts. In this cycle the new item can reach a higher status of approval; up until ISO certification.
History
In order to create the WIP, the builders needed to have the content, the infrastructure and the tools.
The content was created originally by many companies, starting around 1992. At some point it was divided up into Reference Data Libraries called STEPlib (of USPI) and PClib (of POSC Caesar Association). In 2005-2006, these libraries were merged again into the present content. About 10,000 classes are now (2007) ISO certified. That set is called the core library. In the near future the content will be expanded by the POSC Caesar IDS project, with new classes and with Object Information Models.
The infrastructure is created by the POSC Caesar Association RDS (Reference Data System) project. It consists of Express-native and SQL Server databases which can be opened through multiple web-enabled screens. Some screens are targeted for engineers and some for modelers. In 2007 and 2008 it will be in operation with 24/7 access. This infrastructure will be kept as a test to gain experience with the procedures and operations. In the future ISO Maintenance Agency will take over the content and it may be brought into a different infrastructure, using the gained experience.
The tools are created by the POSC Caesar RDS project and the FIATECH ADI project.
References
15926 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-driven%20learning | Data-driven learning (DDL) is an approach to foreign language learning. Whereas most language learning is guided by teachers and textbooks, data-driven learning treats language as data and students as researchers undertaking guided discovery tasks. Underpinning this pedagogical approach is the data - information - knowledge paradigm (see DIKW pyramid). It is informed by a pattern-based approach to grammar and vocabulary, and a lexicogrammatical approach to language in general. Thus the basic task in DDL is to identify patterns at all levels of language. From their findings, foreign language students can see how an aspect of language is typically used, which in turn informs how they can use it in their own speaking and writing. Learning how to frame language questions and use the resources to obtain data and interpret it is fundamental to learner autonomy. When students arrive at their own conclusions through such procedures, they use their higher order thinking skills (see Bloom's taxonomy) and are creating knowledge (see Vygotsky).
In DDL, students use the same types of tools that professional linguists use, namely a corpus of texts that have been sampled and stored electronically, and a concordancer, which is a search engine designed for linguistic analysis. Some tools have been specifically created for data-driven learning, such as SkELL, WriteBetter, and Micro-concord.
Micro-concord was the first significant software designed for classroom use. It was developed for the MS-DOS microcomputers by Tim Johns and Mike Scott and published for DOS computers in 1993 by OUP. It evolved into the widely-used WordSmith Tools.
Johns (1936 – 2009) pioneered data-driven learning and coined the term. It first appeared in an article, Should you be persuaded: Two examples of data-driven learning (1991). His paper, From Printout to Handout, is reprinted and discussed at length in Volume 2 of Hubbard's Computer-Assisted Language Learning. Thomas' task-based Discovering English with Sketch Engine exemplifies DDL and acknowledges Johns throughout. Other recent books on DDL which credit Johns as the originator of the approach include those by Anderson and Corbett (2009), Reppen (2010), Bennett (2010), Flowerdew (2012), Boulton and Tyne (2014), and Friginal (2018).
Johns worked at the English for Overseas Students Unit of Birmingham University from 1971 till the end of his career. This was while John Sinclair led a large team of linguists at Birmingham University working on the COBUILD project which delivered the first major corpus-based dictionaries and grammars of English for foreign students. COBUILD however, never tasked students with exploring language data themselves.
Johns' referred to his specific DDL approach as kibitzing: when he returned his students' written work, together they would explore the errors using corpus data. A selection of these Kibbitzer tutorials are accessible on Mike Scott’s website.
Despite the widespread awareness of corpora amon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Association%20of%20Business%20Communicators | The International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) is a global network of communications professionals.
Each summer, IABC hosts a World Conference, a three-day event with professional development seminars and activities, as well as talks by industry leaders.
Decisions within the organization are made by a two-thirds vote of the executive board, which is elected by members. IABC members agree to follow a professional code of ethics, which encourages members to do what is legal, ethical and in good taste.
History
IABC's predecessor was the American Association of Industrial Editors (AAIE), which was founded in 1938. AAIE became a member of the International Council of Industrial Editors (ICIE) in 1941. It withdrew from ICIE in 1946 over policy differences, but formed IABC when it merged again in 1970. In IABC's first year of operation, the association had 2,280 members and was focused on internal communications. IABC's research showed its members were moving into positions with broader public relations responsibilities and the association expanded its scope. In 1974 it merged with Corporate Communicators Canada.
In 1982 the association formed the IABC Research Foundation, which funded a study of 323 organizations in the 1980s to determine what made some public relations teams more effective than others. The study found that executive involvement in communications was the best predictor of effectiveness. The Research Foundation also looked into the status and pay of women in the public relations field, in a pioneering study called The Velvet Ghetto.
IABC had financial troubles in 2000 after losing $1 million in an e-business initiative called TalkingBusinessNow. In 2001 a grass-roots initiative was started within IABC's membership that eventually developed into the Gift of Communication program, whereby members donated their professional services to local charities. Membership grew 79 percent each year in the 2000s due to an increasing number of practitioners in the field of internal communications. IABC hosted its first annual world conference in 2005 and grew to more than 16,000 members by 2008. That same year, IABC accredited Chinese citizens for the first time in the Accredited Business Communicator (ABC) program.
In 2009 the IABC Research Foundation conducted a survey that found 79 percent of respondents frequently use social media to communicate with employees. It also co-authored a study the following year that found email and intranet were the most common internal communications tools among respondents.
For 40 years, the association offered an accreditation program called Accreditation for Business Communications (ABC). By the time the program ended in 2013, a total of 1,003 people had earned ABC status. Though the program stopped accepting new applicants in September 2012, ABCs will be recognized as long as they maintain their membership in IABC. A new professional certification program to replace accreditation with a mor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation%20Eye | The PlayStation Eye (trademarked PLAYSTATION Eye) is a digital camera device, similar to a webcam, for the PlayStation 3. The technology uses computer vision and gesture recognition to process images taken by the camera. This allows players to interact with games using motion and color detection as well as sound through its built-in microphone array. It is the successor to the EyeToy for the PlayStation 2, which was released in 2003.
The peripheral was launched in a bundle with The Eye of Judgment in the United States on October 23, 2007, in Japan and Australia on October 25, 2007 and in Europe on October 26, 2007.
The PlayStation Eye was also released as a stand-alone product in the United States, Europe, and Australia. EyeToy designer Richard Marks stated that the EyeToy was used as a model for the rough cost design.
The device is succeeded by PlayStation Camera for PlayStation 4.
Features
Camera
The PlayStation Eye is capable of capturing standard video with frame rates of 60 hertz at a 640×480 pixel resolution, and 120 hertz at 320×240 pixels, which is "four times the resolution" and "two times the frame-rate" of the EyeToy, according to Sony. Higher frame rate, up to 320×240@187 or 640×480@75 fps, can be selected by specific applications (FreeTrack and LinuxTrack).
The PlayStation Eye also has "two times the sensitivity" of the EyeToy, with Sony collaborating with sensor chip partner OmniVision Technologies on a sensor chip design using larger sensor pixels, allowing more effective low-light operation. Sony states that the PlayStation Eye can produce "reasonable quality video" under the illumination provided by a television set.
The camera features a two-setting adjustable fixed-focus zoom lens. Selected manually by rotating the lens barrel, the PlayStation Eye can be set to a 56° field of view (red dot) similar to that of the EyeToy, for close-up framing in chat applications, or a 75° field of view (blue dot) for long-shot framing in interactive physical gaming applications.
The PlayStation Eye is capable of outputting video to the console uncompressed, with "no compression artifacts"; or with optional JPEG compression. 8 bits per pixel is the sensor native color depth.
Microphone
The PlayStation Eye features a built-in four-capsule microphone array, with which the PlayStation 3 can employ technologies for multi-directional voice location tracking, echo cancellation, and background noise suppression. This allows the peripheral to be used for speech recognition and audio chat in noisy environments without the use of a headset. The PlayStation Eye microphone array operates with each channel processing 16-bit samples at a sampling rate of 48 kilohertz, and a signal-to-noise ratio of 90 decibels.
Applications
Like its predecessor, the EyeToy, the PlayStation Eye enables natural user interface and mixed reality video game applications through the use of computer vision (CV) and gesture recognition technologies implemented in the softwa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20La%20Femme%20Nikita%20episodes | La Femme Nikita is a television series from Warner Bros. and Fireworks Entertainment. The series premiered on USA Network on January 13, 1997 and ended March 4, 2001, with a total of 96 episodes over the course of five seasons.
The number of words comprising each episode's title is equal to the number of the season in which the episode first aired. Thus, for example, every third-season episode has a title that is three words long.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (1997)
Season 2 (1998)
Season 3 (1999)
Season 4 (2000)
Season 5 (2001)
External links
La Femme Nikita Episode guide
Lists of Canadian drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonia%20%28disambiguation%29 | Ammonia is a chemical compound with the formula NH3.
Ammonia (data page)
Ammonia may also refer to:
Ammonia (band), an Australian rock band
Ammonia (genus), a widespread genus of estuarine foraminiferan
Ammonium hydroxide, a cleaning chemical commonly referred to as ammonia
Hera Ammonia, an epithet of Greek goddess Hera
SF Ammonia, a railway ferry in Norway
See also
Pneumonia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUAL%20table | The DUAL table is a special one-row, one-column table present by default in Oracle and other database installations. In Oracle, the table has a single VARCHAR2(1) column called DUMMY that has a value of 'X'. It is suitable for use in selecting a pseudo column such as SYSDATE or USER.
Example use
Oracle's SQL syntax requires the FROM clause but some queries don't require any tables - DUAL can be used in these cases.
SELECT 1+1
FROM dual;
SELECT 1
FROM dual;
SELECT USER
FROM dual;
SELECT SYSDATE
FROM dual;
SELECT *
FROM dual;
History
Charles Weiss explains why he created DUAL:
I created the DUAL table as an underlying object in the Oracle Data Dictionary. It was never meant to be seen itself, but instead used inside a view that was expected to be queried. The idea was that you could do a JOIN to the DUAL table and create two rows in the result for every one row in your table. Then, by using GROUP BY, the resulting join could be summarized to show the amount of storage for the DATA extent and for the INDEX extent(s). The name, DUAL, seemed apt for the process of creating a pair of rows from just one.
Optimization
Beginning with 10g Release 1, Oracle no longer performs physical or logical I/O on the DUAL table, though the table still exists.
DUAL is readily available for all authorized users in a SQL database.
In other database systems
Several other databases (including Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Teradata) enable one to omit the FROM clause entirely if no table is needed. This avoids the need for any dummy table.
ClickHouse has a one-row system table system.one with a single column named "dummy" of type UInt8 and value 0. This table is implicitly used when no table is specified in the SELECT query.
Firebird has a one-row system table RDB$DATABASE that is used in the same way as Oracle's DUAL, although it also has a meaning of its own.
IBM Db2 has a view that resolves DUAL when using Oracle Compatibility. It also has a table called sysibm.sysdummy1 that has similar properties to the Oracle DUAL one.
Informix: Informix version 11.50 and later has a table named with the same functionality but a more verbose name. You can use to create a name in the current database with the same functionality.
Microsoft Access: A table named DUAL may be created and the single-row constraint enforced via ADO (Table-less UNION query in MS Access)
Microsoft SQL Server: SQL Server does not require a dummy table. Queries like 'select 1 + 1' can be run without a "from" clause/table name.
MySQL allows DUAL to be specified as a table in queries that do not need data from any tables. It is suitable for use in selecting a result function such as SYSDATE() or USER(), although it is not essential.
PostgreSQL: A DUAL-view can be added to ease porting from Oracle.
Snowflake: DUAL is supported, but not explicitly documented. It appears in sample SQL for other operations in the documentation.
SQLite: A VIEW named "dual" that works the sa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover%20tree | The cover tree is a type of data structure in computer science that is specifically designed to facilitate the speed-up of a nearest neighbor search. It is a refinement of the Navigating Net data structure, and related to a variety of other data structures developed for indexing intrinsically low-dimensional data.
The tree can be thought of as a hierarchy of levels with the top level containing the root point and the bottom level containing every point in the metric space. Each level C is associated with an integer value i that decrements by one as the tree is descended. Each level C in the cover tree has three important properties:
Nesting:
Covering: For every point , there exists a point such that the distance from to is less than or equal to and exactly one such is a parent of .
Separation: For all points , the distance from to is greater than .
Complexity
Find
Like other metric trees the cover tree allows for nearest neighbor searches in where is a constant associated with the dimensionality of the dataset and n is the cardinality. To compare, a basic linear search requires , which is a much worse dependence on . However, in high-dimensional metric spaces the constant is non-trivial, which means it cannot be ignored in complexity analysis. Unlike other metric trees, the cover tree has a theoretical bound on its constant that is based on the dataset's expansion constant or doubling constant (in the case of approximate NN retrieval). The bound on search time is where is the expansion constant of the dataset.
Insert
Although cover trees provide faster searches than the naive approach, this advantage must be weighed with the additional cost of maintaining the data structure. In a naive approach adding a new point to the dataset is trivial because order does not need to be preserved, but in a cover tree it can take time. However, this is an upper-bound, and some techniques have been implemented that seem to improve the performance in practice.
Space
The cover tree uses implicit representation to keep track of repeated points. Thus, it only requires O(n) space.
See also
Nearest neighbor search
kd-tree
M-tree
References
Notes
Bibliography
Alina Beygelzimer, Sham Kakade, and John Langford. Cover Trees for Nearest Neighbor. In Proc. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2006.
JL's Cover Tree page. John Langford's page links to papers and code.
A C++ Cover Tree implementation on GitHub.
A cover tree implementation in Java.
Trees (data structures) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulli | Gulli (; stylised as gulli) is a French free-to-air television channel focused on kids' programming for those aged 3 to 14. It was created as a result of a partnership between Lagardère Active and state-owned broadcaster France Télévisions. In 2019, the M6 Group bought Gulli as well as the television division of the Lagardère Active Group.
History
The channel was launched on 18 November 2005 on the digital terrestrial television platform in France. Ten years later, on 1 July 2015, Gulli launched its own HD simulcast feed on the Astra 1 satellite. On 5 April 2016, its HD feed is launched on DTT.
Gulli was created as a result of a partnership between a kids-television pioneer companies Lagardère Active and the state-owned France Télévisions. The former is known due to is children's network, Canal J, while the latter has a long history investing on kids programming through its youth-oriented division on France 3. On 23 December 2013, a deal was reached between Lagardère and France Télévisions to purchase the latter's shares in Gulli. The deal was finalised on 29 October 2014 with the transfer of 34% of France Télévisions's shares to Lagardère for €25 million.
The network has been launched in Russia, Africa, the MENA region, and Brazil, broadcasting in Russian, French, Arabic and Brazilian Portuguese. The brand itself was sold alongside the rest of the Lagadère channels to Groupe M6 in 2019. The Russian feed utilizes the name "Gulli Girl" and broadcasts series aimed at a young female audience.
The channel has been launched in Brazil on August 9, 2020, on the newly established satellite TV provider BluTV, being the first expansion of the channel to the Americas.
Branding
At the CSA hearings for the new DTT channels, the channel was presented under the name of Gulliver, named after Jonathan Swift's character Gulliver's Travels, before being renamed and shortened to Gulli.
The first design of the channel as well as the logo were designed by the Dream On agency.
On 8 April 2010, Gulli decided to use a new on-the-air branding designed by Gédéon. On the same occasion, the channel started modernising its logo, which has become darker, giving it volume and changing to 16/9 but somewhat dynamically, in the 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios.
A new branding, again designed by Gédéon, came in September 2013.
On 28 August 2017, Gulli changed its branding. This branding was made by 17MARS. This new branding received very positive reviews and gave a lot of colour to the channel.
Following the announcement of Gulli Prime, a temporary logo is presented. Finally, this logo is then shown in another form on December 14, 2021.
On 28 August 2023, the channel announced that it would adopt a new logo as well as a new on-air design for 4 September both designed by the Gédéon agency.
Logos
Logos of derived channels
Slogans
Version 1 (2005 – 2010)
18 November 2005 to 26 September 2007: "Gulli, la chaîne des enfants sur la TNT."
26 September 2007 to 26 December 2008: |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin%2017 | Virgin 17 was a French music video and TV show television network owned by the MCM Group, a subsidiary of Lagardère Active. It was available through digital terrestrial television (DTT).
The channel was created for the launch of DTT and modeled after MCM, another channel owned by Lagardère Active. It initially had the working title "iMCM", but before launch it was named after the radio station Europe 2, and was then renamed Virgin 17 on 1 January 2008 (along with the radio station which became Virgin Radio France)
From 1 September 2010, Virgin 17 changed its name to Direct Star. This change was intended by the Bolloré Group "for the sake of the uniform group" .
The TV channel had been broadcast free-to-air via satellite Hot Bird 8 (13°E) up to 2007-11-21. Now it's Viaccess encrypted and available to TPS subscribers as well as on Internet television.
Virgin 17 was replaced on 1 September 2010 by Direct Star.
History
Created by MCM Group, a subsidiary of Lagardère Active for TNT on the model of its music channel MCM cable and Canalsat. It is initially presented under the name of MCM during the summer of 2002 because of the hearing of the MCM Group before the Superior council of audio-visual to obtain a frequency on TNT. The project was then renamed to be presented under the name Europe 2 TV during the second hearing before the CSA on 14 December 2004. This choice aims to capitalize on the fame of the eponymous music radio Europe 2, better known to the general public than MCM. Although bearing the same name, its musical editorial line is totally different from its radio format. 19 years after the TV6 experience, the CSA chose a free musical channel and retained the Europe 2 TV project on 19 July 2005 for broadcasting on TNT.
The channel began broadcasting on TNT channel 17 on 17 October 2005 at 5:17 pm. It targets an audience aged 15 to 34. Its specifications require it to devote 75% of its antenna to musical programs (clips, concerts, variety shows) with a few documentaries. Reality TV does not take long to make its appearance with Next. Regular meetings are scheduled with themed evenings: "Live" on Mondays, "Kidding" on Tuesdays, "Sexy" on Wednesdays, "Girls" on Thursdays, "SF" on Fridays, "Animated" on Saturdays and "Hit " Sundays. New and older series are also on the air.
Ranked last of the TNT channels in terms of audience and wishing to reach a wider audience to compete with NRJ 12, Lagardère Active decided in the summer of 2007 to rename its brands Europe 2 in radio and television by the emblematic brand of the publisher British musical Virgin with whom he is already associated in the Virgin Megastore stores in France. On 17 July 2007, the CSA gave its agreement to change the name of Europe 2 TV to Virgin 17, but the authorization is subject to several conditions: the chain's logo must not be confused with those of products or services which include in their name the Virgin brand and the ban on advertising for the Virgin group and any |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Bianchi | Frederick Bianchi is an American-born composer and music technologist (born 1954). Central to his work is the integration of acoustic instruments with electronic/computer-generated sound. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, honors, and citations including the ASCAP Young Composers Award, the Russolo-Pratella International Electronic Music Competition in Italy, the Bourges International Computer Music competition in France, the Kennedy Center's Friedheim Award competition in orchestral composition, the National Orchestral Association's Orchestral Fellow Award in New York City, and the United States Institute for Theatre Technology 'Award for Innovation'.
In 1988, Bianchi began developing interactive computer music systems and Virtual Orchestra technology with research partner David B. Smith. They were the first to introduce the term Virtual Orchestra into the musical lexicon in the early 1990s. The Kentucky Opera’s use of the Virtual Orchestra in the 1995 production of Hansel and Gretel marks the first use of virtual orchestra technology by a major performing arts organization. Controversy has surrounded Bianchi’s work and research which has prompted international debate regarding the future of music performance and technology. The Broadway musicians strike of 2003 resulted in the attempted banning of the technology and the blacklisting of the Bianchi & Smith partnership by the New York Musician’s Union. In 2004, the British Musician’s Union threatened to strike over the use of Virtual Orchestra technology in the remount of Les Misérables at the Queen’s Theater in London’s West End. The walkout was eventually thwarted when the Musician’s Union conceded that it could not prevent producer Sir Cameron Mackintosh from using the technology.
In 1998, Bianchi co-founded RealTime Music Solutions in New York City. Bianchi’s Virtual Orchestra work includes over 300,000 performances worldwide and collaborations with Lucent Technologies and Cirque du Soleil. He has been on the faculty of the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, Boston University, and is currently Professor of Music at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts.
References
Norman Crowe and Paul Laseau: "Visual Notes for Architects and Designers", Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. 1984.
Parsons, Charles H. (1996), "The Money Pit", Opera News Vol.60, NO. 12: 20-22.
Smith, Patrick J. (1996), "The Bottom Line", Opera News Vol.60, NO. 12: 21.
External links
RealTime Music Solutions
Frederick Bianchi
Media Arts Group Innovation Center
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
American male composers
21st-century American composers
Living people
Worcester Polytechnic Institute faculty
1954 births
21st-century American male musicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20states%20by%20literacy%20rate | This article is a list of Brazilian states by literacy rate.
List
References
External links
Statoids data on Brazilian states
Brazil, literacy rate
Literacy rate
Literacy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Cha%C3%AEne%20parlementaire | La Chaîne parlementaire (; French for The Parliamentary Channel) is a French television network created, along with its sister station Public Sénat, by law on 30 December 1999. It films and broadcasts live and recorded debates twenty-four hours a day, including committee hearings, questions to the government, and discussions concerning parliamentary debates and government policy. There are programs that focus on different levels of government; some programs are about Europe, others about local government. Linked to Public Sénat from its inception, the two channels share content. The Public Sénat chain also broadcasts a nightly news analysis program and funds and broadcasts documentaries.
Broadcasting history
It started by broadcasting twice a week, Tuesday and Wednesday, in the afternoons on France 3. On 8 February 2000, the channel started broadcasting activity from the Senate of France. On 31 March 2005, the channel obtained its own TNT frequency.
High-definition (HD) broadcasting of the combined LCP/Public Sénat channel started on 1 July 2015 via satellite in the CanalSat mux as an upscaled HD feed. In January 2017 the HD feed was changed from upscaled into native HD (1920x1080).
See also
Legislative broadcaster
External links
Website of the National Assembly of France channel (LCP)
Website of the Senate of France channel (Public Sénat)
References
French-language television stations
Legislature broadcasters
Television channels and stations established in 1999
Television stations in France
1999 establishments in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy%20in%20file%20sharing%20networks | Peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) systems like Gnutella, KaZaA, and eDonkey/eMule, have become extremely popular in recent years, with the estimated user population in the millions. An academic research paper analyzed Gnutella and eMule protocols and found weaknesses in the protocol; many of the issues found in these networks are fundamental and probably common on other P2P networks. Users of file sharing networks, such as eMule and Gnutella, are subject to monitoring of their activity. Clients may be tracked by IP address, DNS name, software version they use, files they share, queries they initiate, and queries they answer to. Clients may also share their private files to the network without notice due to inappropriate settings.
Much is known about the network structure, routing schemes, performance load and fault tolerance of P2P systems in general. It might be surprising, but the eMule protocol does not provide much privacy to the users, although it is a P2P protocol which is supposed to be decentralized.
The Gnutella and eMule protocols
The eMule protocol
eMule is one of the clients which implements the eDonkey network. The eMule protocol consists of more than 75 types of messages. When an eMule client connects to the network, it first gets a list of known eMule servers which can be obtained from the Internet. Despite the fact that there are millions of eMule clients, there are only small amount of servers. The client connects to a server with TCP connection. That stays open as long as the client is connected to the network. Upon connecting, the client sends a list of its shared files to the server. By this the server builds a database with the files that reside on this client. The server also returns a list of other known servers. The server returns an ID to the client, which is a unique client identifier within the system. The server can only generate query replies to clients which are directly connected to it. The download is done by dividing the file into parts and asking each client a part.
The Gnutella protocol
Gnutella protocol v0.4
In Gnutella protocol V0.4 all the nodes are identical, and every node may choose to connect to every other. The Gnutella protocol consist of 5 message types: query for tile search. Query messages use a flooding mechanism, i.e. each node that receives a query forwards it on all of its adjacent graph node links. A node that receives a query and has the appropriate file replies with a query hit message. A hop count field in the header limits the message lifetime. Ping and Pong messages are used for detecting new nodes that can be linked to the actual file download performed by opening TCP connection and using the HTTP GET mechanism.
Gnutella protocol v0.6
Gnutella protocol V0.6 includes several modifications: A node has one of two operational modes: "leaf node" or "ultrapeer". Initially each node starts in a leaf node mode in which it can only connect to ultrapeers. The leaf nodes send query to an ult |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYHA | WYHA (102.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting the Bible Broadcasting Network in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States.
History
Originally WFUR-FM and the sister station to WFUR, the station was constructed on the AM tower site in 1960. The primary reason for construction of WFUR-FM was the early morning and night time audience that WFUR could not reach because at that time, WFUR was only allowed daylight operation (sunrise to sunset). WFUR-FM was the third FM station in the Grand Rapids market. Through the years, WFUR-FM increased power as opportunities became available. The final increase took place in 1983. Agreements were signed with other 102.9 FM stations in Ann Arbor and Milwaukee to accept any interference caused by each of them going to 50,000 watts. WFUR-FM constructed a new, taller with the antenna at a height above average terrain of 490 ft., and installed a new transmitter (Continental) at that time.
Effective May 11, 2020, WFUR-FM was sold to the Bible Broadcasting Network, and the station changed its call sign to WYHA. As WYHA began carrying Bible Broadcasting Network programming, its former programming continued to air on WFUR and its translator at 92.9 FM.
External links
YHA
Radio stations established in 1960
1960 establishments in Michigan
Bible Broadcasting Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application%20Session%20Controller | In computer networking, the Application Session Controller (ASC) network element resides at the application layer and sits between the application layer and the core network to provide and manage connectivity to the evolving telecom network. The ASC incorporates a number of open standard APIs, plus the signaling, media between disparate networks that converged. It insulates the application server farm from the network below via a programmable network abstraction engine, thereby providing the application specific call-control functions independent of each network.
The ASC incorporates a number of open standard APIs, plus the signaling, media, and the feature inter-working between disparate networks that converged and consolidated applications require. It is scalable to support tens of millions of subscribers via a single system or via clustering and provides the necessary calls per second / transactions per second required for large-scale multi-network environments.
As Communications Service Providers continue to deploy new network assets and technology at an increasingly rapid pace, achieving feature transparency becomes very challenging. The benefit of creating a solution to ensure feature transparency will provide subscribers application feature parity across multiple networks, enable the service providers to consolidate their application platforms and fully enable them to leverage their network assets to offer converged applications across ever evolving networks.
See also
Session border controller
Call control
References
External links
Frost and Sullivan White Paper at The Messaging Industry Association Web site
AppTrigger launches first Application Session Controller
NXTcomm IMS One-Stop Page
VoIP News
Network service |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airspan%20Networks | Airspan Networks is an American telecommunications company headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. The company develops Radio Access Network technology including the Sprint 'Magic Box' and cells (both small and macro) for the Rakuten virtualized network.
Airspan was originally a product division of DSC Communications, a manufacturer of telephone switching equipment. Original products included a CDMA-based radio platform used for the fixed wireless market. In 1998, the company separated from DSC Communications and announced Eric Stonestrom as CEO and President.
Airspan originally focused its product line on the small cell and mini-macro equipment market, used by mobile operators to extend wireless services. Through the acquisition of Mimosa Networks in 2018, the company entered the market for fixed wireless solutions which are used in commercial, enterprise and operator networks for wireless backhaul and access applications.
Airspan's 5G NR development program is focused on mmWave, Sub 6GHz, Massive MIMO, and Open Virtual RAN architectures. The company also offers fixed wireless access and backhaul solutions for PTP (point-to-point) and PTMP (point-to-multi-point) applications through its Mimosa Products.
In March, 2019, Airspan announced a partnership with Google in support of CBRS services.
In August 2021, Airspan completed a business combination with New Beginnings Acquisition Corp. The newly-renamed "Airspan Networks Holdings Inc. then began trading on the NYSE American under the ticker symbol MIMO.
History
The company was founded in January 1998.
In May 1998, Eric D. Stonestrom was named president and chief executive officer of the company.
Its first product, AS4020 platform, was based on CDMA radio technology adapted for fixed wireless access points.
In July 2000, as the dot-com bubble was bursting, the company became a public company and raised $82.5 million in an initial public offering. Its stock price rose 113% in its first day of trading.
In 2004, the company made an agreement with Neda Telecommunications, a subsidiary of Aspen Wind Corporation, to send radios to Kabul, Afghanistan.
In the fourth quarter of 2005, the company released its WiMAX product line.
In September 2006, Oak Investment Partners made a $29 million investment in the company.
In 2010, the company teamed with LightSquared to market LightSquared's 1.4 GHz wireless spectrum in the United States. The spectrum is targeted primarily at the utility industry for Smart Grid deployments.
In 2009, the company's stock was delisted from the NASDAQ.
In March 2021, the company announced that it would be re-listed on NYSE American through a reverse merger with New Beginnings Acquisition Corporation, a special-purpose acquisition company.
In August 2021, the company completed the reverse merger with New Beginnings Acquisition Corporation. The parent company was hence renamed "Airspan Networks Holdings Inc." and began trading on the NYSE American under the ticker symbol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph%20Meinel | Christoph Meinel (born April 14, 1954 in Meißen, Germany) is a German computer scientist and professor of Internet technologies and systems at the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) of the University of Potsdam. In the years 2004 to 2023 he was the scientific director and CEO of the HPI and has developed the openHPI learning platform with more than 1 million enrolled learners. In 2019, he was appointed to the New Internet IPv6 Hall of Fame.
Professional life
Meinel studied mathematics and computer science at the Humboldt-University of Berlin from 1974 to 1979, received his doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) there in 1981, on questions of complexity theory, and habilitated (Dr. sc. nat.) in 1988, with the paper Modified branching programs and their computational power. After German reunification, he held visiting positions at the universities of Saarbrücken and Paderborn.
From 1992 to 2004, he was Professor of Theoretical Concepts and New Applications in Computer Science at the University of Trier. From 1996 to 2002, he was founding director of the Institute for Telematics e. V. in Trier, which, under the supervision of the Fraunhofer Society, dealt with issues in the field of Internet and Web technologies. From 1995 to 2007, he was a member of the scientific board of directors of the International Meeting and Research Center for Computer Science IBFI Schloss Dagstuhl. He was Visiting Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Luxembourg (2002–2010), is Honorary Professor at the School of Computer Sciences at Beijing University of Technology, and Visiting Professor at the Universities of Shanghai and Dalian.
In the years from 2004 to 2023, Meinel was the Institute Director and CEO of the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering (HPI) in Potsdam and holds the Chair of Internet Technologies and Systems. From 2017 to 2021, he was founding dean of the Faculty of Digital Engineering at the University of Potsdam. Meinel is a member of acatech, the German National Academy of Science and Engineering, and serves on the Board of Governors of the Technion in Haifa, among many other academic bodies. He is a teacher at the HPI School of Design Thinking and on the MOOC platform openHPI.
Research focus
Christoph Meinel's work initially focused on theoretical computer science, and here on complexity theory and Binary Decision Diagrams. Later, he worked on Internet technologies, IT security, and digital education and new forms of teaching and learning on the Internet, such as tele-teaching and e-learning with tele-TASK and openHPI. He then conducted research on information and Internet security issues, such as the high-security network protection Lock-Keeper, protection against unwanted and offensive content, and security in service-based architectures with applications in telemedicine. He is also scientifically engaged in knowledge management issues on the Internet and new forms of Internet-based teaching and learning tele-TASK. In 2008–2022, toge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMFN | WMFN (640 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Black-oriented news format from the Black Information Network. The station is owned by Birach Broadcasting, and under a local marketing agreement with iHeartMedia, specifically its Chicago cluster.
Licensed to Peotone, Illinois, the station currently targets Chicago, specifically the city's South and West Sides, where most of the city's Black population resides. The station's transmitter site is northwest of the intersection of Interstate 57 and (Will/Kankakee) County Line Road south of Peotone.
Though the station in technicality serves the radio market of Will County seat Joliet, along with Morris and Crete, the station's schedule is completely automated with the master feed of BIN and its coverage area de facto serves Chicago and its suburbs, with occasional contributions from personalities from iHeart's WVAZ, WGRB, and WGCI-FM. The station is de facto a full-market satellite station of WVAZ's second HD Radio subchannel, which broadcast BIN before Birach and iHeartMedia entered into the LMA.
Technical details
The station is a "move in" frequency which originally served West Michigan, and first began broadcasting in Zeeland, Michigan in 1990 under the WBMX call sign, serving Muskegon and Grand Rapids. The station has since been through a number of different formats and call signs, and changed market areas, which is rare for a station.
640 kilohertz is a United States clear-channel frequency, on which KFI in Los Angeles and KYUK in Bethel, Alaska are the dominant Class A stations.
History
AM 640 was originally a MOR station in 1990 when it signed on as WBMX, using the call sign that had recently been vacated by a popular urban contemporary station in Chicago. The following year, the owners of WROR-FM 98.5 in Boston, Massachusetts, bought the WBMX call letters from 640 in order to debut "Mix 98.5" there; in return, AM 640 received the WROR calls. Its format did not change. In 1993, WROR (AM) was sold and converted to Radio AAHS as WISZ, freeing the WROR calls to be used again in Boston, where they were again placed beginning in 1996.
For a time, the station also played adult standards (Westwood One's AM Only) at night as a continuation of daytimer sister station WMJH 810 AM's format. Since WMJH was known at the time as "Majic 810," WMFN's nighttime standards programming was called "Night Majic."
In 1995, AM 640 became WMFN, taking a sports format branded "West Michigan's Fan". During its sports talk days former NFL linebacker Ray Bentley hosted an afternoon program. In 1999 WMFN adopted a Business News format branded "West Michigan's Financial News". Starting in 2000 WMFN evolved into a News Talk Sports format eventually becoming "Hot Talk 640". In 2005 WMFN's talk format was dropped in favor of an Adult Urban Contemporary format branded "Smooth Vibes AM 640".
From about 2006 until November 2008, the station was leased to Tyrone Bynum, a controversial talk show host and deejay who hosted |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZPL | ZPL may refer to:
ZPL (complexity), a complexity class
ZPL (programming language), for scientific applications
Zebra Programming Language, for label printers
Zope Public License
Lachixío Zapotec language (ISO 639-3 language code) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drobo | Drobo was a manufacturer of a series of external storage devices for computers, including DAS, SAN, and NAS appliances. Drobo devices can house up to four, five, eight, or twelve 3.5" or 2.5" Serial ATA or Serial Attached SCSI hard disk drives and connect with a computer or network via USB 2.0, USB 3.0, FireWire 800, eSATA, Gigabit Ethernet or Thunderbolt. Drobo devices are primarily designed to allow installation and removal of hard disk drives without requiring manual data migration, for increasing storage capacity of the unit without downtime, and for data protection against drive failure.
The company Drobo, Inc. changed its name from Data Robotics in 2011 since the familiarity with the Drobo name (which had only been the name of their product line until then) far exceeded the Data Robotics name. Drobo, Inc. merged with Connected Data, Inc. in June 2013, with the new company taking the Connected Data name. In May 2015, the storage appliance business was spun-off as Drobo, Inc. and acquired by an investment group composed of seasoned tech executives Drobo was later acquired by StorCentric in August, 2018.
All Drobo products have been out of stock or severely inventory constrained in both the Drobo Store and retail channels since the beginning of 2020. Drobo initially blamed this on supply chain issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. In November, 2021, Drobo stated that more devices would be available in "the next few months". In June 2022, StorCentric filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. After failing to find a buyer or reorganize the company, it shifted to Chapter 7 bankruptcy in April 2023.
From the Drobo website: As of January 27th, 2023, Drobo support and products are no longer available. Drobo support has transitioned to a self-service model. The knowledge base, documentation repository, and legacy documentation library are still accessible for your support needs. We thank you for being a Drobo customer and entrusting us with your data.
Products
Overview
Consumer models
* Plus one mSATA SSD slot for Data-Aware Tiering
**Plus one 128 GB mSATA SSD card for Data-Aware Tiering
***Plus one 2.5" SATA SSD bay for Data-Aware Tiering
Business models
References
External links
Computer storage devices
Linux-based devices
Computer storage companies
Server appliance
Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2022
Companies that have filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy
Companies that filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2023
Defunct computer companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBK | IBK may refer to:
Hwaseong IBK Altos, a women's professional volleyball club in South Korea
ÍBK (Íþróttabandalag Keflavíkur), an Icelandic sports club now known as Keflavík ÍF
Ibk algorithm, implements the k-nearest neighbor algorithm
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (1945–2022), former president and prime minister of Mali
Industrial Bank of Korea, a bank headquartered in Seoul, South Korea
Infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis, an infection of cattle caused by a rod shaped bacterium
Innsbruck Airport, an airport in Tyrol in western Austria
Innsbruck, city in Tyrol in western Austria, Abbreviation commonly used in slang speech and social media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estates%20Gazette | EG (formerly Estates Gazette) is an established provider of data, news and analytics for the UK commercial property market. It was first published in 1858 and celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2008.
In March 2008, Estates Gazette was announced as one of the top 500 "Business Superbrands" in the UK.
In 1996, Estates Gazette launched its own online property news and research arm, EGi. In 1997, the group launched Propertylink, the UK's largest free-access commercial property availability search website.
EG is part of a portfolio of brands that belongs to LexisNexis Risk Solutions. The publication hosts its own "EG Awards" annually, the show being held in London each year.
References
See also
Estates Gazette Law Reports
1858 establishments in the United Kingdom
Business magazines published in the United Kingdom
Weekly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 1858
RELX |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation%20in%20Mexico | As the third largest and second most populous country in Latin America, Mexico has developed an extensive transportation network to meet the needs of the economy. As with communications, transportation in Mexico is regulated by the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation, (Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes, SCT) a federal executive cabinet branch.
Roadways
The roadway network in Mexico is extensive and covers all areas of the country. The roadway network in Mexico has an extent of , of which are paved, making it the largest paved-roadway network in Latin America. Of these, are multi-lane expressways: are four-lane highways and the rest have six or more lanes.
The highway network in Mexico is classified by number of lanes and type of access. The great majority of the network is composed of undivided or divided two-lane highways, with or without shoulders, and are known simply as carreteras. Four or more-lane freeways or expressways, with restricted or unrestricted access, are known as autopistas. Speed limits on two-lane highways can vary depending on terrain conditions. The speed limit on multi-lane freeways or expressways is on average 110 km/h (70 mph) for automobiles and 95 km/h (60 mph) for buses and trucks.
The expressways are for the most part toll roads or autopistas de cuota. Non-toll roads are referred to as carreteras libres (free-roads). Most toll expressways have emergency telephone booths, water wells, and emergency braking ramps at short intervals. The toll usually includes a "travelers' insurance" (seguro del viajero) for any accident occurring within the freeway. The toll expressways are on average among the most expensive in the world according to a comparative study realized in 2004 by the Chamber of Deputies. The most traveled freeways are those that link the three most populous cities in Mexico— Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Monterrey in the form of a triangle.
No federal freeway or expressway crosses a city; toll expressways are either turned into toll bypasses (libramientos), often used as toll or free ring roads (periféricos), or are turned into major arterial roads even if they function as freeways with restricted access.
Mexican highways are assigned a one to three-digit number. North-south highways are assigned odd numbers whereas east-west highways are assigned even numbers. Toll expressways usually run parallel to a free road and so are assigned the same number with the letter "D" added. (For example, the undivided two-lane highway connecting Mexico City and Puebla is MX 150, and the six-lane toll expressway is MX 150D).
Mexico has had difficulty in building an integrated highway network because of the country's orography and landscape characteristics—most of the country is crossed by high-altitude ranges of mountains. Over the last two decades, Mexico has made impressive investments in order to improve its road infrastructure and connect main cities and towns across the country. In spite |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesonet | In meteorology and climatology, a mesonet, portmanteau of mesoscale network, is a network of automated weather and, often also including environmental monitoring stations, designed to observe mesoscale meteorological phenomena and/or microclimates.
Dry lines, squall lines, and sea breezes are examples of phenomena observed by mesonets. Due to the space and time scales associated with mesoscale phenomena and microclimates, weather stations comprising a mesonet are spaced closer together and report more frequently than synoptic scale observing networks, such as the WMO Global Observing System (GOS) and US ASOS. The term mesonet refers to the collective group of these weather stations, which are usually owned and operated by a common entity. Mesonets generally record in situ surface weather observations but some involve other observation platforms, particularly vertical profiles of the planetary boundary layer (PBL). Other environmental parameters may include insolation and various variables of interest to particular users, such as soil temperature or road conditions (the latter notable in Road Weather Information System (RWIS) networks).
The distinguishing features that classify a network of weather stations as a mesonet are station density and temporal resolution with sufficiently robust station quality. Depending upon the phenomena meant to be observed, mesonet stations use a spatial spacing of and report conditions every 1 to 15 minutes. Micronets (see microscale and storm scale), such as in metropolitan areas such as Oklahoma City, St. Louis, and Birmingham UK, are yet denser in spatial and sometimes temporal resolution.
Purpose
Thunderstorms and other atmospheric convection, squall lines, drylines, sea and land breezes, mountain breeze and valley breezes, mountain waves, mesolows and mesohighs, wake lows, mesoscale convective vortices (MCVs), tropical cyclone and extratropical cyclone rainbands, macrobursts, gust fronts and outflow boundaries, heat bursts, urban heat islands (UHIs), and other mesoscale phenomena, as well as topographical features, can cause weather and climate conditions in a localized area to be significantly different from that dictated by the ambient large-scale conditions. As such, meteorologists must understand these phenomena in order to improve forecast skill. Observations are critical to understanding the processes by which these phenomena form, evolve, and dissipate.
The long-term observing networks (ASOS, AWOS, COOP), however, are too sparse and report too infrequently for mesoscale research and forecasting. ASOS and AWOS stations are typically spaced apart and report only hourly at many sites (though over time the frequency of reporting has increased, down to 5-15 minutes in the 2020s at major sites). The Cooperative Observer Program (COOP) database consists of only daily reports recorded manually. That network, like the more recent CoCoRaHS, is large but both are limited in reporting frequency and robustne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive-additive%20algorithm | In the studies of Fourier optics, sound synthesis, stellar interferometry, optical tweezers, and diffractive optical elements (DOEs) it is often important to know the spatial frequency phase of an observed wave source. In order to reconstruct this phase the Adaptive-Additive Algorithm (or AA algorithm), which derives from a group of adaptive (input-output) algorithms, can be used. The AA algorithm is an iterative algorithm that utilizes the Fourier Transform to calculate an unknown part of a propagating wave, normally the spatial frequency phase (k space). This can be done when given the phase’s known counterparts, usually an observed amplitude (position space) and an assumed starting amplitude (k space). To find the correct phase the algorithm uses error conversion, or the error between the desired and the theoretical intensities.
The algorithm
History
The adaptive-additive algorithm was originally created to reconstruct the spatial frequency phase of light intensity in the study of stellar interferometry. Since then, the AA algorithm has been adapted to work in the fields of Fourier Optics by Soifer and Dr. Hill, soft matter and optical tweezers by Dr. Grier, and sound synthesis by Röbel.
Algorithm
Define input amplitude and random phase
Forward Fourier Transform
Separate transformed amplitude and phase
Compare transformed amplitude/intensity to desired output amplitude/intensity
Check convergence conditions
Mix transformed amplitude with desired output amplitude and combine with transformed phase
Inverse Fourier Transform
Separate new amplitude and new phase
Combine new phase with original input amplitude
Loop back to Forward Fourier Transform
Example
For the problem of reconstructing the spatial frequency phase (k-space) for a desired intensity in the image plane (x-space). Assume the amplitude and the starting phase of the wave in k-space is and respectively. Fourier transform the wave in k-space to x space.
Then compare the transformed intensity with the desired intensity , where
Check against the convergence requirements. If the requirements are not met then mix the transformed amplitude with desired amplitude .
where a is mixing ratio and
.
Note that a is a percentage, defined on the interval 0 ≤ a ≤ 1.
Combine mixed amplitude with the x-space phase and inverse Fourier transform.
Separate and and combine with . Increase loop by one and repeat.
Limits
If then the AA algorithm becomes the Gerchberg–Saxton algorithm.
If then .
See also
Gerchberg–Saxton algorithm
Fourier optics
Holography
Interferometry
Sound Synthesis
References
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External links
David Grier's Lab Presentation on optical tweezers and fabrication of AA algorithm.
Adaptive Additive Synthesis for Non Stationary Sound Dr. Axel Röbel.
Hill Labs University of Maryland College Park.]
Digital signal processing
Physical optics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20Tracks%3A%20The%20Computer%20Slot%20Car%20Construction%20Kit | Fast Tracks is a racing game designed for the Commodore 64 by Mark Turmell and published by Activision in 1986.
Gameplay
The game involves running into other cars on the track. Each time a player bumps another car off the track, the car returns to the start of the lap, and two seconds are removed from the final time. If he player leaves the track he will have to restart the lap.
A map editor is also available in the game, which can be saved onto the disc. Seven circuits are built-in.
Reception
Roy Wagner reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and wrote that "race tracks, that you create, can be sent to friends who don't even have the game. They can then try to beat your best times. This game offers a lot of variety and plays nicely. It comes in a close third to the Racing Destruction Set from EA and Pole Position".
See also
Racing Destruction Set
Rally Speedway
References
External links
1986 video games
Commodore 64 games
Commodore 64-only games
Racing video games
Vehicular combat games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC%20%28disambiguation%29 | SPARC (Scalable Processor Architecture) is a computer instruction set architecture.
SPARC may also refer to:
Organizations
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community, a nonprofit organization in Virginia
Social and Public Art Resource Center, a community arts center in Venice, California
Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child in Pakistan
SPARC Innovation Program, a research program at Mayo Clinic, and its "See-Plan-Act-Refine-Communicate" method
Sport and Recreation New Zealand, the former name of Sport New Zealand, a Crown entity
Stratospheric Processes And their Role in Climate, a project of the World Climate Research Programme
Summer Program on Applied Rationality and Cognition, a summer program sponsored by the Center for Applied Rationality
Technology
SPARC, Scalable Processor Architecture
ANSI-SPARC Architecture, a database design standard
Osteonectin, a glycoprotein also known as SPARC (secreted protein, acidic and rich in cysteine)
SPARC (tokamak), a proposed compact tokamak fusion experiment to be built by Commonwealth Fusion Systems and MIT based on the ARC fusion reactor
Spitzer Photometry and Accurate Rotation Curves, a database of galaxy rotation curves collected by the Spitzer Space Telescope
See also
Spark (disambiguation)
Sparks (disambiguation)
Sparq (disambiguation)
SPAC (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexterity%20%28disambiguation%29 | Dexterity refers to fine motor skills in using one's hands.
Dexterity may also refer to:
Dexterity (programming language), used to customize Microsoft Dynamics GP software
"Dexterity" (song), a 1947 bebop standard written by Charlie Parker
Dexterity (Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons album), 1981
Dexterity (George Shearing album), 1988
Dexterity Island, Nunavut, Canada
The dexterity attribute (ability score) of characters in various games, such as Dungeons and Dragons
Dexterity (video game), a 1990 video game for the Nintendo Game Boy
Manuel and Manuella Dexterity, siblings from the Xombi comics
Operation Dexterity, a military operation
See also
Dextrous (disambiguation)
Dextrose |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytoscape | Cytoscape is an open source bioinformatics software platform for visualizing molecular interaction networks and integrating with gene expression profiles and other state data. Additional features are available as plugins. Plugins are available for network and molecular profiling analyses, new layouts, additional file format support and connection with databases and searching in large networks. Plugins may be developed using the Cytoscape open Java software architecture by anyone and plugin community development is encouraged. Cytoscape also has a JavaScript-centric sister project named Cytoscape.js that can be used to analyse and visualise graphs in JavaScript environments, like a browser.
History
Cytoscape was originally created at the Institute of Systems Biology in Seattle in 2002. Now, it is developed by an international consortium of open source developers. Cytoscape was initially made public in July, 2002 (v0.8); the second release (v0.9) was in November, 2002, and v1.0 was released in March 2003. Version 1.1.1 is the last stable release for the 1.0 series. Version 2.0 was initially released in 2004; Cytoscape 2.83, the final 2.xx version, was released in May 2012. Version 3.0 was released Feb 1, 2013, and the latest version, 3.4.0, was released in May 2016.
Development
The Cytoscape core developer team continues to work on this project and released Cytoscape 3.0 in 2013. This represented a major change in the Cytoscape architecture; it is a more modularized, expandable and maintainable version of the software.
Usage
While Cytoscape is most commonly used for biological research applications, it is agnostic in terms of usage. Cytoscape can visualize and analyze network graphs of any kind involving nodes and edges (e.g., social networks). A vital aspect of the software architecture of Cytoscape is the use of plugins for specialized features. Plugins are developed by core developers and the greater user community.
See also
Computational genomics
Graph drawing
JavaScript framework
JavaScript library
Metabolic network modelling
Protein–protein interaction prediction
References
External links
https://cytoscape.org/screenshots.html
Cytoscape wiki
Cytoscape omictools webpage
Bioinformatics software
Systems biology
Mathematical and theoretical biology
Graph drawing software
Cross-platform software
Java platform software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20Multimedia%20Lab | The Apple Multimedia Lab was a pioneering electronic media research group operated by Apple Computer. It was founded in 1987 by cognitive psychologist Kristina Hooper Woolsey and educational psychologist Sueann Ambron.
References
Multimedia
Communication design
Mass media companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIVE%20%28virtual%20environment%29 | The H.I.V.E. (Huge Immersive Virtual Environment) is a joint research project between the departments of Psychology, Computer Science, and Systems Analysis at Miami University. The project is funded by a grant from the U.S. Army Research Office and is currently the world's largest virtual environment in terms of navigable floor area (currently over 1200m2). The goal of the research project is to conduct experiments in human spatial cognition.
System Components
The H.I.V.E. platform consists of several components, including:
Position-Tracking Camera Array
Wearable Rendering System
References
Waller, D., Bachmann, E., Hodgson, E., & Beall, A. C. (2007). The HIVE: A Huge Immersive Virtual Environment for research in spatial cognition. Behavior Research Methods, 39, 835–843.
External links
Official HIVE Site
Miami University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave%20Old%20World%20%28comics%29 | Brave Old World is a four issue comic book miniseries published by Vertigo Comics. It is about a group of computer hackers who at the turn of the year 2000 are working on a solution to the Y2K bug when they are transported back in time a hundred years to 1900. The series follows their adventures as they try to build a computer using the technology of the time, in order to make their way back to their own time.
The first issue came out in February 2000. The story is by William Messner-Loebs, and the artwork by Guy Davis and Phil Hester.
References
External links
Brave Old World at the Grand Comics Database
Vertigo Comics titles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunx | Cyberpunx is a comic book series produced by Image Comics. It is about a group of cyborg computer hacker warriors that enter into a virtual reality in order to stop an alien invasion by the Cyberlords. As a homage to Cyberpunk author William Gibson, the leading computer scientist in the story is named Karl Gibson.
The first issue came out in March 1996. The creator of the series is Rob Liefeld; the script is by Robert Loren Fleming and the artwork is by Ching Lau.
Image Comics titles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.Skill | G.SKILL International Enterprise is a Taiwanese computer hardware manufacturing company. The company's target customers are overclocking computer users. It produces a variety of high-end PC products and is best known for its DRAM products.
History
Based in Taiwan, G.SKILL corporation was established in 1989 by Great Skill. In 2003, the company debuted as a maker of computer memory. The company currently operates through several distributors and resellers in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
Products
Memory
G.SKILL is known for its range of DDR, DDR2, DDR3, DDR4 and DDR5 computer memory. RAM is available in single-channel, dual-channel, triple-channel and quad-channel packs for desktops, workstations, HTPC, as well as netbooks and laptops.
It was shown to be the only DDR4 manufacturer not vulnerable to the rowhammer security exploit.
The company does not manufacture the memory dies, it purchases the memory dies and assembles them into a DIMM memory module ready for sale to customers.
In February 2020, G.SKILL announced a DDR4 256 GB memory kit that, unusually for kits of that size at the time, operated at above JEDEC specifications.
Solid-state drive
On 12 May 2008 G.SKILL announced its first SATA II 2.5" solid-state drives (SSDs) with 32 GB or 64 GB of capacity.
On 22 October 2014 G.SKILL released its first Extreme Performance Phoenix Blade Series 480 GB PCIe 2.0 x8 SSD using MLC NAND capable of maximum read and write speeds up to 2,000 MB per second and 245K IOPS.
The company has also produced flash cards in several formats including Secure Digital (SD) and MultiMediaCard (MMC) in addition to high capacity USB 2.0 and 3.0 flash drives.
Peripherals
Mechanical gaming keyboard
On 14 September 2015 G.SKILL announced the availability of the new RIPJAWS series' KM780 RGB and KM780 MX mechanical gaming keyboards with genuine Cherry MX key switches.
Announced on August 21, 2019, G.SKILL announced the KM360 mechanical keyboard with a $49.99 price tag and with Cherry MX red switches (the linear variant).
Laser gaming mouse
On 24 September 2015 G.SKILL released the new RIPJAWS series' MX780 customizable RGB laser gaming mouse.
See also
List of companies of Taiwan
References
External links
G.SKILL Official Website
1989 establishments in Taiwan
Electronics companies established in 1989
Computer memory companies
Electronics companies of Taiwan
Manufacturing companies based in Taipei
Taiwanese brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20Comer | Douglas Earl Comer is a professor of computer science at Purdue University, where he teaches courses on operating systems and computer networks. He has written numerous research papers and textbooks, and currently heads several networking research projects. He has been involved in TCP/IP and internetworking since the late 1970s, and is an internationally recognized authority. He designed and implemented X25NET and Cypress networks, and the Xinu operating system. He is director of the Internetworking Research Group at Purdue, editor of Software - Practice and Experience, and a former member of the Internet Architecture Board. Comer completed the original version of Xinu (and wrote correspondent book The Xinu Approach) in 1979. Since then, Xinu has been expanded and ported to a wide variety of platforms, including: IBM PC, Macintosh, Digital Equipment Corporation VAX and DECstation 3100, Sun Microsystems Sun-2, Sun-3 and SPARCstations, and Intel Pentium. It has been used as the basis for many research projects. Furthermore, Xinu has been used as an embedded system in products by companies such as Motorola, Mitsubishi, Hewlett-Packard, and Lexmark.
Education and career
Comer holds a BS in Mathematics and Physics from Houghton College earned in 1971 and a PhD in Computer Science from Pennsylvania State University earned in 1976. He is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University in the US. Beginning in the late 1970s he started his continuing research into TCP/IP, which has earned him international fame in the field of Computer Science and computer networking.
Achievements
Douglas Comer headed a number of research projects associated with the creation of the Internet, and is the author of a number of books on Operating Systems, the Internet and TCP/IP networking, and computer architecture.
Comer is also the developer of the Xinu operating system.
Comer is well known for his series of ground breaking textbooks on computer networks, the Internet, computer operating systems, and computer architecture. His books have been translated into sixteen languages, and are widely used in both industry and academia. Comer's three-volume series Internetworking With TCP/IP is often cited as an authoritative reference for the Internet protocols.
For twenty years, Comer served as editor-in-chief of the research journal Software—Practice And Experience, published by John Wiley & Sons. Comer is a Fellow of the ACM and the recipient of numerous teaching awards.
Research Grants
Csnet Protocol Development – 1981
High-Level Network Protocols: Computer Research – 1983
Feasibility Studies of High-Performance Communication Over Public Packet-Switched Networks – 1984
Cypress: A Proposed Cost Effective Packet-Switched Interconnection Strategy – 1985
Shadow Editing – 1986
Computer Research Equipment – 1987
Extensible Terascale Facility (ETF): Indiana-Purdue Grid (IP-grid) – 2003
FIA: Collaborative |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swizzling%20%28computer%20graphics%29 | In computer graphics, swizzles are a class of operations that transform vectors by rearranging components. Swizzles can also project from a vector of one dimensionality to a vector of another dimensionality, such as taking a three-dimensional vector and creating a two-dimensional or five-dimensional vector using components from the original vector. For example, if A = {1,2,3,4}, where the components are x, y, z, and w respectively, you could compute B = A.wwxy, whereupon B would equal {4,4,1,2}. Additionally, one could create a two-dimensional vector with A.wx or a five-dimensional vector with A.xyzwx. Combining vectors and swizzling can be employed in various ways. This is common in GPGPU applications.
In terms of linear algebra, this is equivalent to multiplying by a matrix whose rows are standard basis vectors. If , then swizzling as above looks like
See also
Z-order curve
References
External links
OpenGL Vertex Program documentation
Swizzling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Adventures%20of%20William%20Tell | The Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on the ITV network in 1958, and produced by ITC Entertainment. In the United States, the episodes aired on the syndicated NTA Film Network in 1958–1959.
William Tell is a folk hero of Switzerland, supposedly active in the early 14th century. He supposedly encouraged the population of the Old Swiss Confederacy to revolt against the regime of Albert I of Germany (reigned 1298–1308). Tell's legend is recorded in the White Book of Sarnen (1474).
Cast
Main
Conrad Phillips as William Tell
Jennifer Jayne as Hedda Tell (wife)
Richard Rogers as Walter Tell (son)
Willoughby Goddard as Landburgher Gessler
Nigel Green as The Bear
Jack Lambert as Judge Furst (Hedda's father)
Peter Hammond as Hofmanstahl
Notable actors appearing
Production
The series was produced by Ralph Smart, who wrote a number of stories for the series and also created and produced Danger Man. The show was made at the National Studios in Elstree.
The outdoor scenes were filmed around the mountains and lakes of Snowdonia in Wales. The film base and make-up were at a small farm in Cwm-y-glo in Snowdonia. This is beside Llyn Padarn, a lake which can be seen in many shots (as can cars on the A4086 road on the opposite side of the lake!). The crew used to walk up the mountain from their base, as there was no vehicle access, and brought work for at least three yearly shoots to a tiny corner of North Wales before tourism took off.
An accident early occurred to the star, Conrad Phillips, during filming in Snowdonia. He was asked to keep stepping back until he stepped off a 12-foot drop, injuring his knee – which eventually led to his retirement from acting. Phillips had to wear support bandages during filming but sometimes forgot, causing him to struggle with some action scenes.
Daily rushes were viewed at the only cinema in the area, at Llanberis, which was taken over from 8.00 until noon every morning. The film was taken to Soho in London for developing and the rushes returned to Llanberis by 8.30 next morning.
Although all three series had location scenes, the third was more studio based and location scenes were mostly taken from unused and reused stock shots from the first and second series. A smaller crew went to Wales for this series and more money was saved by shooting without synchronised sound. In the days of enforced demarcation, this saved several technicians' wages.
Though in some ways the same as The Adventures of Robin Hood, a brave bowman fighting against a tyrant, this was a harder show with crossbow bolts killing people and Tell fighting hand-to-hand, which often resulted in the death of the bad guy. Unlike the courtly Sheriff of Nottingham, Gessler was a pig of a man, unshaven, often eating or drinking without manners and throwing his metaphorical as well as literal weight around. Nevertheless, the interaction between the hero and the Sheriff and Land burger respectively, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy%20Directive | Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive 2002/58/EC on Privacy and Electronic Communications, otherwise known as ePrivacy Directive (ePD), is an EU directive on data protection and privacy in the digital age. It presents a continuation of earlier efforts, most directly the Data Protection Directive. It deals with the regulation of a number of important issues such as confidentiality of information, treatment of traffic data, spam and cookies. This Directive has been amended by Directive 2009/136, which introduces several changes, especially in what concerns cookies, that are now subject to prior consent.
There are some interplays between the ePrivacy Regulation (ePR) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Some EU lawmakers had hoped the ePrivacy Regulation (ePR) could come into force at the same time as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May 2018. In this way, it would repeal the ePrivacy Directive 2002/58/EC and accompany the GDPR in regulating the requirements for consent to the use of cookies and opt-out options.
Subject-matter and Scope
The Electronic Privacy Directive has been drafted specifically to address the requirements of new digital technologies and ease the advance of electronic communications services. The Directive complements the Data Protection Directive and applies to all matters which are not specifically covered by that Directive. In particular, the subject of the Directive is the "right to privacy in the electronic communication sector" and free movement of data, communication equipment and services.
The Directive does not apply to Titles V and VI (Second and Third Pillars constituting the European Union). Likewise, it does not apply to issues concerning public security and defence, state security and criminal law. The interception of data was however covered by the EU Data Retention Directive, prior to its annulment by the Court of Justice of the European Union.
Contrary to the Data Protection Directive, which specifically addresses only individuals, Article 1(2) makes it clear that ePrivacy Directive also applies to legal persons.
Main provisions
The first general obligation in the Directive is to provide security of services. The addressees are providers of electronic communications services. This obligation also includes the duty to inform the subscribers whenever there is a particular risk, such as a virus or other malware attack.
The second general obligation is for the confidentiality of information to be maintained. The addressees are Member States, who should prohibit listening, tapping, storage or other kinds of interception or surveillance of communication and "related traffic", unless the users have given their consent or conditions of Article 15(1) have been fulfilled.
Data retention and other issues
The directive obliges the providers of services to erase or anonymise the traffic data processed when no longer needed, unless the conditions from Article 15 have been fulfill |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20H.%20Davenport | James Harold Davenport (born 26 September 1953) is a British computer scientist who works in computer algebra. Having done his PhD and early research at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, he is the Hebron and Medlock Professor of Information Technology at the University of Bath in Bath, England.
Education
Davenport was educated at Marlborough College, and was then a student at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974 which was converted to a Master of Arts degree in 1978, and a Master of Mathematics in 2011. He was awarded a PhD in 1980.
Career and research
In 1969, the team that developed the automated teller machine in the United Kingdom at IBM Hursley used parts from that project to build an IBM School Computer. It was a community outreach project, and it went on tour. When it came to Marlborough College, Davenport, aged 16, discovered that, although it was ostensibly a six-digit computer, the microcode had access to a 12-digit internal register to do multiply/divide. He used this to implement Draim's algorithm from his father's book, The Higher Arithmetic, and tested eight-digit numbers for primality.
Between school and university, Davenport worked in a government laboratory for nine months, again writing and using multiword arithmetic, but also using number theory to solve a problem in hashing, which was published. He was at IBM Yorktown Heights for a year, and returned to Cambridge as a Research Fellow. He went to Grenoble for a year, before taking a post at the University of Bath in 1983.
Davenport is an author of a textbook about computer algebra and of many papers. He has been Project Chair of the European OpenMath Project and its successor Thematic Network, with responsibilities for aligning OpenMath and MathML, producing Content Dictionaries and supervised a Reduce-based OpenMath/MathML translator, and was Treasurer of the European Mathematical Trust. He was Founding Editor-in-Chief of the London Mathematical Society's Journal of Computation and Mathematics.
Awards and honours
Davenport was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science in September 2019 by the West University of Timişoara, Romania. This was in recognition of his pioneering and ongoing work in computer algebra systems and theory of symbolic computation.
In 2014, Davenport was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy.
He was awarded the Bronze Medal of the University of Helsinki in 2001.
From January to June 2017 Davenport was a Fulbright CyberSecurity Scholar at New York University, and maintained a blog over the same period.
Personal life
Davenport is the son of the mathematician Harold Davenport.
References
British computer scientists
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Academics of the University of Bath
Living people
1953 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20Application%20Programming%20Interface | The Remote Application Programming Interface (RAPI) is a remote procedure call (RPC) mechanism in which the Pocket PC is the server and the PC application is the client. In other words, RAPI allows PC applications to call functions that are executed on the Pocket PC. With RAPI, the registry, file system, database, and configuration of the Pocket PC device are available to the PC application.
Microsoft application programming interfaces |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wolf%20%28radio%20network%29 | The Wolf was a radio network in New Zealand based from Lake Tekapo in South Canterbury. The station operated between 2001 and 2003 and was independently owned and operated. The Wolf broadcast to rural areas, where in some cases the larger network stations did not broadcast or operate local stations. The Wolf started at a time when many New Zealand stations had been taken over by New Zealand's two largest radio companies The Radio Network and MediaWorks NZ or replaced with a network product based from one of the main centres, particularly Auckland.
Due to funding issues, the network went off the air permanently in 2003.
Regions of The Wolf Broadcast to
The Wolf broadcast nationwide through the Sky Digital service, and on AM or FM in the following areas:
91.9 FM - Hokitika
97.8 FM - Lake Tekapo
99.0 FM - Kāpiti Coast
100.6 FM - Temuka, Blenheim, Kaikōura, Methven, Waimate, Oamaru, Alexandra, Gore, Mount Cook Village, Reefton, Geraldine, Twizel, Fairlie, Murchison, Timaru, Westport, Hanmer Springs, Karamea
105.4 FM - Auckland
1593 AM - Christchurch
References
Radio stations in New Zealand
Defunct radio stations in New Zealand
Radio stations established in 2001
Radio stations disestablished in 2003 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diphenylamine%20%28data%20page%29 | This page provides supplementary chemical data on diphenylamine.
Physical data
Appearance: white to yellow crystals or powder
Melting point: 52 - 54 °C
Boiling point: 302 °C
Vapour density: 5.82 (air = 1)
Vapour pressure: 1 mm Hg at 108 °C
Flash point: 152 °C (closed cup)
Explosion limits: 634 °C
Autoignition temperature: 635 °C
Water solubility: Slightly
Specific gravity: 1.16
Flash point: 152
Stability: Stable under ordinary conditions, may discolour on exposure to light. Incompatible with strong acids, strong oxidizing agents.
Toxicology
Toxic. Possible mutagen. Possible teratogen. Harmful in contact with skin, and if swallowed or inhaled. Irritant.
Toxicity data
ORL-RAT LD50 2000 mg kg-1
ORL-MUS LD50 1750 mg kg-1
ORL-GPG LD50 300 mg kg-1
ORL-MAM LD50 3200 mg kg-1
References
Chemical data pages
Chemical data pages cleanup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic%20Art%20Center | The Icelandic Art Center ( ; IAC) is the platform for Icelandic visual art activities. IAC promotes Icelandic art by connecting the local visual art community with the international art network. IAC enforces national and international collaborations in order to improve opportunities for Icelandic artists in their home country and to increase their visibility abroad.
The Icelandic Art Center was founded in 2005 and is located at Lækjargata 3 in Reykjavík.
Its main objectives are to provide an information center; promote Icelandic art and mediation to international art events; commission the Icelandic Pavilion at Venice Biennale; initiate exhibitions and conference; and have a visitor program. In 2007, Frida Bjørk Ingvarsdóttir was the chairwoman of the IAC.
See also
Culture of Iceland
Sequences Art Festival
References
External links
IAC website
LIST icelandic art news
SEQUENCES real-time art festival 2008
HOMESICK
Myndstef (The Icelandic Visual Artists Copyright Association)
SÍM (The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists)
Art museums and galleries in Iceland
Icelandic art
Art museums established in 2005
Museums in Reykjavík |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teris | Teris was an Icelandic software company that focused on servicing the financial sector. It was founded as Tölvumiðstöð Sparisjóðanna (Savings Banks Computer Centre), and changed its name on March 23, 2007, to reflect changes in clientele and ownership. In 2012, Teris merged with Reiknistofa Bankanna
History
Teris’ predecessor, Tölvumiðstöð Sparisjóðanna, was founded in March 1989 by six of the largest savings banks in Iceland together with Lánastofnun Sparisjóðanna (the Savings Banks Lending Organization – renamed Icebank). Other savings banks soon joined the partnership.
The Computer Centre began as the computer division for the savings banks. Gradually the number of shareholders increased, more finance companies joined the group and the firm expanded.
Services
Teris provided services as a dedicated computer department, and sold software to several financial institutions and companies in Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Norway.
References
Software companies of Iceland
Financial services companies of Iceland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabana | Rabana may refer to:
Rabana Chhaya, a form of shadow puppetry from the eastern Indian state of Odisha
Rapelang Rabana, computer scientist and entrepreneur
Rabana-Merquly, a cluster of archaeological sites in Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
See also
Raban (disambiguation)
Rabanal (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Ace%20Squadron | Red Ace Squadron is a computer vehicle simulation game developed and published by Small Rockets in 2001. There is also an enhanced version named Red Ace Squadron Pro, which is an update to the game based on complaints and feedback from players. It is a sequel to the game Master of the Skies: The Red Ace. The game is compatible with 32-bit Windows systems from Windows 95b to Windows XP, although it is sometimes possible to run it in a 64-bit operating system (although with graphical and stability issues).
Gameplay
The game takes place in World War I. There are 21 missions in total, with 10 having the player fight on the German side and 10 having him on the Allied side. A secret mission is also unlockable. Completing all singleplayer missions will unlock Master mode, in which the player faces a higher difficulty and numbers of enemies.
The game features 11 types of planes. Each faction has 4 types of planes that can be controlled by the player, with the Allied side sporting the Airco DH.2, the Sopwith Camel, the SPAD S.XIII, and the Nieuport 17, while the German side has the Halberstadt CL.II, the Junkers D.I, the Gotha G.V and the Fokker Dr.I. There are 3 types of aircraft in the game that the player is not able to control, those being the Albatros D.III, the Handley Page Type O and the Bristol Scout.
There are many different types of missions, including escorting allied units, bombing convoys and factories, dogfights and so on.
Pro Version
A Pro version of Red Ace Squadron was released after a year of development. The main updates in the pro version are improved loading speeds, updated key bindings to get around Windows XP 'sticky keys' and improved documentation. Singleplayer mode now had 4 levels of difficulty to be chosen from, while multiplayer saw many new features, such as:
Files are verified against the server - to stop cheating
Servers can have a name and a game type name
Server is configurable from inside the server program
Server can be password protected
Pick Up configuration
Enable/disable Pick Ups
Change how often a Pick Up appears
Configure amount of ordinance a Pick Up gives you
Pick Ups can be given to Players entering the arena
Better GameSpy integration
Will correctly show the number of players/active players/game type/name
Game mode features displayed in game
Change aircraft map visibility with 5 different modes
Choose the map the game will start on
Versioning - to stop clashes with different server/client versions
Configure the number of players on a server
Internet games can now have 8 players
Server can display its IP address
Proposed sequel
Jon Small had planned to launch the sequel to Red Ace Squadron in 2008, but the release date was delayed. The game was to feature a new graphics engine, multiplayer settings, as well as bigger and more detailed landscapes. It would also probably be designed to work on Windows 7. As usual, the game would be set in World War I. With the closing of Small Rockets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Storm | Red Storm may refer to:
Operation Red Storm, a name given to the Battle of Wadi al-Batin during the 1991 Gulf War
Red Storm (film), a 2019 Malaysian action film
Red Storm (computing), computing architecture
Red Storm Rising, a 1986 novel by Tom Clancy and Larry Bond
St. John's Red Storm, athletic teams of St. John's University
Red Storm Entertainment, a video game company specializing in Tom Clancy licenses
Red Storm Webtoon, an action and martial arts series, written by Kyungchan Noh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRN | GRN may refer to:
Broadcasting
Global Radio News, a journalism organization
Government Radio Network (Australia)
Guadalupe Radio Network
Swedish Broadcasting Commission (Swedish: )
Transport
Greensborough railway station, in Victoria, Australia
Greenville and Northern Railway, a defunct American railroad
Grindleford railway station, in England
Other uses
Gene regulatory network
Global Recordings Network, US Christian network
Granulin
Grenada, IOC and UNDP country code
Guarani dialects, ISO-639 code |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga%20rigid%20disk%20block | In computing, a rigid disk block (RDB) is the block on a hard disk where the Amiga series of computers store the disk's partition and filesystem information. The IBM's PC equivalent of the Amiga's RDB is the master boot record (MBR).
Unlike its PC equivalent, the RDB doesn't directly contain metadata for each partition. Instead it points to a linked list of partition blocks, which contain the actual partition data. The partition data includes the start, length, filesystem, boot priority, buffer memory type and "flavor", though the latter was never used. Because there is no limitation in partition block count, there is no need to distinguish primary and extended types and all partitions are equal in stature and architecture.
Additionally, it may point to additional filesystem drivers, allowing the Amiga to boot from filesystems not directly supported by the ROM, such as PFS or SFS.
The data in the rigid disk block must start with the ASCII bytes "RDSK". Furthermore, its position is not restricted to the very first block of a volume, instead it could be located anywhere within its first 16 blocks. Thus it could safely coexist with a master boot record, which is forced to be found at block 0.
Nearly all Amiga hard disk controllers support the RDB standard, enabling the user to exchange disks between controllers.
See also
Master Boot Record (MBR)
Extended Boot Record (EBR)
GUID Partition Table (GPT)
Boot Engineering Extension Record (BEER)
Apple Partition Map (APM)
BSD disklabel
External links
The .ADF (Amiga Disk File) format FAQ; 6. The structure of a hard disks
Prints out information stored in RigidDiskBlocks of any device including source
Amiga
AmigaOS
MorphOS
Booting
Disk partitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAME%20%28database%29 | FAME (Forecasting Analysis and Modeling Environment) is a time series database released in 1981 and owned by FIS Global.
History
The FAME software environment had several development phases during its history.
Lawrence C. Rafsky founded GemNet Software Corp to create FAME in 1981. It was an independent software company located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The first version of the software was delivered to Harris Bank in 1983. The company was purchased by CitiCorp in 1984. During this time, development focused on the time series-oriented database engine and the 4GL scripting language.
Citigroup sold FAME to private investors headed by Warburg Pincus in 1994. Management focused on fixing bugs, developing remote database server access to FAME, and investing in expanding the FAME database engine. Emphasis was also placed on extending FAME by creating an object-oriented Java interface called TimeIQ that replicated many features of FAME 4GL in Java. This period also saw the release of the access point, which provides URL access to FAME objects in multiple output formats.
SunGard acquired FAME in 2004.
In 2010, Sungard merged FAME and MarketMap Data into the MarketMap brand.
FIS Global acquired Sungard in 2015.
Toolkits and connectors
FAME Desktop Add-in for Excel:
FAME Desktop is an Excel add-in that supports the =FMD(expression, sd, ed,0, freq, orientation) and =FMS(expression, freq + date) formula, just as the 4GL command prompt does. These formulas can be placed in Excel spreadsheets and are linked to FAME objects and analytics stored on a FAME server. Sample excel templates for research and analytics, which act as accelerators for clients, are available in the template library.
The FAME Desktop Add-in was first renamed as FAME Populator, then MarketMap Analytics.
FAME Connector for MATLAB:
Matlab is an environment for technical computing applications that is also used in the financial sector by fixed-income analysts, equity research groups, and investment firms. Customers can store content in FAME and use Matlab to access and model their data. The Matlab-FAME Connector uses the FAME Java Toolkit to link Matlab scripts to FAME objects.
BITA Curve Connector:
The BITA Curve workstation provides a platform that can link to “in database” analytics and content warehoused in FAME. Through the BITA Curve Connector, FAME users can better visualize and work with the content that they warehouse into FAME.
R Interface:
FAME customers have developed and released as free software an interface that links FAME objects to the open-source R statistical package. Originally developed at the Federal Reserve Board, features include:
Time series adaptation of FAME to R
Frequency conformance
A set of fundamental statistical functions
SASEFAME:
SAS provides an interface to FAME databases called SASEFAME. This provides dynamic read-and-write access between a SAS application and FAME databases or a FAME server process
TROLL Interface:
TROLL’s interface to FAME |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain%20of%20thought | Chain of thought might refer to:
a train of thought
chain-of-thought prompting, a technique in natural language processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID%20Tech%20Camps | iD Tech Camps is a summer computer camp, based in Campbell, California, that specializes in providing computer technology education to children ages 7 through 19. iD Tech Camps are held at more than 150 U.S. college and university campuses and have expanded into international locations as well.
History
iD Tech Camps was founded as “internalDrive” in California in 1999. In 2013, the company rebranded as iD Tech.
Enrollment and expansion
In its first season, iD Tech Camps began with 270 campers. 6,000 attended in 2004 and 8,000 were expected in 2005. In 2011, 20,000 students attended iD Tech Camps and in 2013, there were 28,000 students enrolled in iD Tech Camps courses across dozens of U.S. locations. In 2014, iD Tech Camps, as a company, was "the largest of its kind"; expected enrollment that year was over 36,000 students. 40,000 students were expected to attend iD Tech Camps in 2015; and over 50,000 in 2016 and 2017; this included international locations, GEMS Nations Academy in Dubai and the University of Hong Kong.
Alexa Café
Attracting girls to iD Tech Camp programs was cited as a challenge in 2002. In 2014, 15% of iD Tech Camps’ 36,000 students were girls. The company test-ran a girls-only camp program, Alexa Café, in the Bay Area in 2014 and expanded it to nine locations in 2015.
Susan Wojcicki (CEO of YouTube) was an early advocate for Alexa Café. The mission of Alexa Café is to "fight and decrease the gender gap in the tech industry one camp at a time."
In Alexa Café’s second year at the University of Washington in 2016, Lynn (a UW alum) and Howard Behar (retired Starbucks president) sponsored the local program, offering scholarships to 40 girls in the Tacoma and Highline school districts.
In 2017, the Girl Scouts coordinated with iD Tech Camps to bring Alexa Café to Southern Nevada.
Girls are now 25% of iD Tech Camp attendees.
Camp courses and online education
iD Tech Camps offers courses in video game design, programming, app development, game modding, 3D modeling, robotics, graphic arts, web design, digital video editing, digital photography, film production, and AI / Machine Learning.
Younger children may take courses in Adobe Photoshop and Multimedia Fusion, while older children may take courses in app design, such as Unreal Development Kit and programming languages, such as Java, C++, and Scratch.
In a 2013 study, which analyzed existing research that spanned over a decade, nonprofit research institute SRI International found that "using digital games in teaching can enhance student learning." iD Tech Camps uses popular video games, including Portal 2, TrackMania, Shootmania, Dota 2, and Rocket League, in its curriculum. Mojang’s Minecraft has been used as a "teaching tool for game design, logic, and storytelling." In 2013, iD Tech Camps offered four different Minecraft-related courses.
Campers are given the opportunity to participate in traditional summer camp activities, like swimming, kickball, frisbee, and other spor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss%20V-2 | The Curtiss V-2 Type 3 (V-2-3) was a liquid-cooled V8 aircraft engine.
Specifications
Data from: Aerofiles Powerplants
References
V-2
1920s aircraft piston engines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument%20Neutral%20Distributed%20Interface | Instrument Neutral Distributed Interface (INDI) is a distributed control system (DCS) protocol to enable control, data acquisition and exchange among hardware devices and software front ends, emphasizing astronomical instrumentation.
Introduction
Elwood Downey started the INDI Protocol initiative in 2003 to develop a platform and client independent control protocol. INDI is a simple protocol modeled on Extensible Markup Language (XML), described for interactive and automated remote control of diverse instruments. It is small, easy to parse, and stateless. In the INDI paradigm, each Device poses all command and status functions in terms of setting and getting Properties. Each Property is a vector of one or more named members, and has a current value vector; a target value vector; provides information about how it should be sequenced with respect to other Properties to accomplish one coordinated unit of observation; and provides hints as to how it might be displayed for interactive manipulation in a graphical user interface (GUI). Clients learn the Properties of a particular Device at runtime using introspection.
This decouples Client and Device implementation histories. Devices have full authority over whether to accept commands from Clients. INDI accommodates intermediate servers, broadcasting, and connection topologies ranging from one-to-one on one type of system, to many-to-many between systems of different genre. The INDI protocol can be nested within other XML elements such as Remote Telescope Markup Language (RTML) to add constraints for automatic scheduling and execution.
Architecture
The main key concept in INDI is that devices have the ability to describe themselves. This is accomplished by using XML to describe a generic hierarchy that can represent both canonical and non-canonical devices. In INDI, all devices may contain one or more properties. Any property may contain one or more elements. A property in the INDI paradigm describes a specific function of the device. There are five types of INDI properties:
Text property
Number property
Switch property – represented in GUI by buttons or check boxes
Light property – represented in GUI by colored LEDs
Blob property – binary data
INDI provides powerful scripting facilities that enable full device automation.
INDI Library
INDI Library is an implementation of the INDI wire protocol for Unix-like systems. It supports a wide variety of astronomical instruments including telescopes, charge-coupled devices (CCDs), focusers, filters, and video capture devices. The INDI Library is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
INDI Driver
INDI driver is the program that communicates directly to the device. It is responsible for controlling the device parameters and for defining them to clients. Drivers send a list of supported device properties to clients where they are parsed and presented to the end users.
INDI Clients
Clients are the software frontends that communicate wi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil%20twin%20%28wireless%20networks%29 | An evil twin is a fraudulent Wi-Fi access point that appears to be legitimate but is set up to eavesdrop on wireless communications.
The evil twin is the wireless LAN equivalent of the phishing scam.
This type of attack may be used to steal the passwords of unsuspecting users, either by monitoring their connections or by phishing, which involves setting up a fraudulent web site and luring people there.
Method
The attacker snoops on Internet traffic using a bogus wireless access point. Unwitting web users may be invited to log into the attacker's server, prompting them to enter sensitive information such as usernames and passwords. Often, users are unaware they have been duped until well after the incident has occurred.
When users log into unsecured (non-HTTPS) bank or e-mail accounts, the attacker intercepts the transaction, since it is sent through their equipment. The attacker is also able to connect to other networks associated with the users' credentials.
Fake access points are set up by configuring a wireless card to act as an access point (known as HostAP). They are hard to trace since they can be shut off instantly. The counterfeit access point may be given the same SSID and BSSID as a nearby Wi-Fi network. The evil twin can be configured to pass Internet traffic through to the legitimate access point while monitoring the victim's connection, or it can simply say the system is temporarily unavailable after obtaining a username and password.
Using captive portals
One of the most commonly used attacks under evil twins is a captive portal. At first, the attacker would create a fake wireless access point that has a similar Essid to the legitimate access point. The attacker then might execute a denial-of-service attack on the legitimate access point which will cause it to go offline. From then on, clients would connect to the fake access point automatically. The clients would then be led to a web portal that will be requesting them to enter their password, which can then be misused by the attackers.
See also
KARMA attack, a variant on the evil twin attack
Snarfing
Wireless LAN Security
References
External links
Rogue AP software.
Web security exploits |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie%20McNamee | Bernie McNamee (born 1952/53?) is a Canadian retired radio journalist, best known as a longtime anchor of news programming, including The World at Six, The World This Weekend and The World This Hour, on CBC Radio One. He has also been an occasional guest host of As It Happens.
Originally from St. Catharines, Ontario, he studied broadcasting at Niagara College, and worked for local radio stations CHSC and CKTB before joining CKNX-TV as a reporter. He later worked for CFRA in Ottawa, and was a reporter for CFTO-TV in Toronto in the late 1980s before joining the CBC in 1989.
He retired from the CBC Radio in 2015.
References
Canadian radio news anchors
Canadian television reporters and correspondents
CBC Radio hosts
People from St. Catharines
Journalists from Ontario
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Niagara College alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-gigabit%20transceiver | A multi-gigabit transceiver (MGT) is a SerDes capable of operating at serial bit rates above 1 Gigabit/second. MGTs are used increasingly for data communications because they can run over longer distances, use fewer wires, and thus have lower costs than parallel interfaces with equivalent data throughput.
Functions
Like other SerDes, the primary function of the MGT is to transmit parallel data as stream of serial bits, and convert the serial bits it receives to parallel data. The most basic performance metric of an MGT is its serial bit rate, or line rate, which is the number of serial bits it can transmit or receive per second. Although there is no strict rule, MGTs can typically run at line rates of 1 Gigabit/second or more.
MGTs have become the 'data highways' for data processing systems that demand a high in/out raw data input and output (e.g. video processing applications). They are becoming very common on FPGA - such programmable logic devices being especially well fitted for parallel data processing algorithms.
Beyond serialization and de-serialization, MGTs must incorporate a number of additional technologies to allow them to operate at high line rates. Some of these are listed below:
Signal integrity and jitter
Signal integrity is critical for MGTs due to their high line rates. The quality of a given high-speed link is characterized by the bit error ratio (BER) of the connection (the ratio of bits received in error to total bits received), and jitter.
BER and jitter are functions of the entire MGT connection, including the MGTs themselves, their serial lines, their reference clocks, their power supplies, and the digital systems that create and consume their parallel data. As a result, MGTs are often measured by how little jitter they transmit (Jitter Transfer/Jitter Generation), and how much jitter they can tolerate before their BER is too high (Jitter Tolerance). These measurements are commonly taken using a BERT, and analyzed using an eye diagram.
Other considerations
Some other metrics for MGTs include:
Maximum run length before loss of CDR lock
Power consumption
Flexibility (e.g. multiple line rates, multiple encodings)
Differential swing (max differential signal the MGT can drive)
Receiver sensitivity (min differential signal the MGT can detect)
Common-mode rejection ratio
Protocols that use MGTs
MGTs are used in the implementation of the following serial protocols:
2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T
10 Gigabit Ethernet
Aurora
CEI-6G
CPRI
Fibre Channel
Gigabit Ethernet
GPON
HD-SDI
CoaXPress
Infiniband
Interlaken
OBSAI
PCI Express
SAS (Serial Attached SCSI)
Serial ATA
SerialLite
Serial RapidIO
SFI-5
SONET/SDH
XAUI
References
High Speed Digital Design, Johnson & Graham
Signal Integrity Simplified, Bogatin
Handbook of Digital Techniques for High Speed Design, Granberg
Jitter
FPGA blog : using multi-gigabit transceivers to test and debug FPGA
External links
Xilinx Aurora (Xilinx Inc.)
Serial Multi-Proto |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imidazolidine%20%28data%20page%29 |
References
Chemical data pages
Chemical data pages cleanup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMHG | WMHG (1600 AM, "Unforgettable Magic") was a radio station in Muskegon, Michigan. It broadcast a MOR/Oldies format. WMHG used ABC Radio Networks' satellite-delivered "Timeless Favorites" (formerly known as "Stardust") format.
The station was deleted in 2008 after the Federal Communications Commission determined that its license had been improperly transferred in 1999.
History
WMHG was first licensed in 1949 as WKNK (which stood for the original owner of the station, Nick Kurtis) in Muskegon, with 1,000 watts daytime-only on 1600 kHz. The call letters were changed to WTRU on April 13, 1957, airing a Top 40 music format that would become legendary in the history of West Michigan radio and dominated the Muskegon market through the mid-1970s. Despite the weak signal, WTRU was once one of the most listened-to and most influential contemporary hits stations in Michigan. In the 1970s, during its peak of popularity, its slogan was "The TRU spirit of America".
During the station's later years, one of the DJs, Larry Allen, hosted an FM-like program called "Spectrum" on late Saturday nights. Allen (who died in December 2013), later hosted a Saturday night deep-track show on WMMQ-FM (94.9) in Lansing, Michigan. The station's influence and popularity waned with the waxing of FM radio in the late 1970s—by the end of the 1970s, however, as rock music continued its shift from AM to FM, WTRU had shifted to a full-service adult contemporary format.
The Top 40/CHR format returned to 1600 AM in 1986 as WTRU began to simulcast "Sunny" 104.5 WSNX-FM, taking the WSNX calls in 1989 to go along with the simulcast. This continued through 1992, when the station became sports-talk WSFN "The Fan". In 1996, WMHG was on 107.9 as "Magic 108", which at the time was West Michigan's only FM Rhythm and Blues and Urban station, and was owned by Goodrich Radio. However, due to the fall in ratings Goodrich decided to keep the Urban format and moved the WMHG calls on November 18, 1996 to 1600 AM, which adopted the urban contemporary format.
Expanded Band assignment
On March 17, 1997 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that eighty-eight stations had been given permission to move to newly available "Expanded Band" transmitting frequencies, ranging from 1610 to 1700 kHz, with WMHG authorized to move from 1600 kHz to 1680 kHz.
A construction permit for the expanded band station was assigned the call letters WBHD (now WPRR) on September 4, 1998. The FCC's initial policy was that both the original station and its expanded band counterpart could operate simultaneously for up to five years, after which owners would have to turn in one of the two licenses, depending on whether they preferred the new assignment or elected to remain on the original frequency. However, this deadline was extended multiple times, and both stations remained authorized after the initial five year period.
Later history
In the fall of 1998 the programming on 1600 AM was replaced by ABC' |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TALON%20%28database%29 | TALON (Threat and Local Observation Notice) was a database maintained by the United States Air Force after the September 11th terrorist attacks. It was authorized for creation in 2002 by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz, in order to collect and evaluate information about possible threats to US servicemembers and civilian workers in the US and at overseas military installations. The database included lists of anti-war groups and people who have attended anti-war rallies. TALON reports are collected by various US Defense Department agencies including law enforcement, intelligence, counterintelligence and security, and were analyzed by a Pentagon agency, the Counterintelligence Field Activity. CIFA had existed since 2004, and its size and budget are secret.
On August 21, 2007, the US Defense Department announced that it would shut down the database, as the database had been criticized for gathering information on peace activists and other political activists who posed no credible threat, but who had been one topic of this database due to their political views. The department is working on a new system which would replace TALON, but for the time being, information on force protection threats will be handled by the FBI’s Guardian reporting system.
See also
ADVISE
Civil liberties
Fusion center
Mass surveillance in the United States
Patriot Act
War on Terror
References
External links
U.S. Department of Defense official website
National Security Agency
Government databases in the United States
Espionage
Privacy of telecommunications
National security institutions
Surveillance scandals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20office | The electronic office, or e-office, was a term coined to cover the increasing use of computer-based information technology for office work, especially in the 1980s. It was a popular marketing buzzword during that era, but is no longer so widely used since all modern offices are electronic offices.
The term appeared much earlier in the name of the LEO computer (Lyons Electronic Office), that first ran a business application in 1951 in England.
The general objective of e-office adoption was the elimination of paper and converting most or all office communications to electronic form.
The definition of electronic office is not precise, and it might be either:
the introduction of individual computers running office software applications, such as word processors,
or the interconnection of office computers using a local area network (LAN),
or the centralization of office functions via collaborative software (i.e., groupware), which was later superseded in many contexts by web applications.
The introduction of e-office improved accuracy and efficiency of organizations and thereby improved their level of service, while theoretically lowering costs and drastically reducing the consumption of paper. Many documents are still being printed out and circulated on paper, however, especially those that require signatures or other legal formalities.
References
Susan Fenner (ed.), Complete Office Handbook: The Definitive Reference for Today's Electronic Office, 2nd edition. Random House, 1996. .
External links
Electronic office etiquette
Office work |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive%20ALGOL%2068 | The Interactive ALGOL 68 compiler for ALGOL 68 was made available by Peter Craven of Algol Applications from 1984. Then in 1994 from OCCL (Oxford and Cambridge Compilers Ltd) until 2004.
Platforms
Inmos Transputer family
Linux for Intel x86 computers
OS/2 version 2.0 and onward
SunOS-4.1.3 (Solaris 1) for SPARC-based computers
Windows 95 and Windows NT for Intel
Extensions to standard ALGOL 68
Ability to include source code, and versions of source code.
Nestable comments
FORALL syntactic element for looping over arrays.
ANYMODE a union of all MODEs known to the compiler, and hence dynamic typing.
Enhanced coercions (casting) allowing stringer then "strong" coercions.
Enstructuring automatically coerces a variable from type to struct(type)
Conforming coerces UNION (THING, MOODS) to THING, but if that is not the current mood of the union, then a run-time error will be generated.
Library interface to the native operating system and other libraries.
The operator SIZE
Pseudo-operators ANDTH and OREL, and ANF and ORF for Short-circuit evaluation of Boolean expressions.
Arrays can be slices with stride to select a subset of elements.
MOID is treated differently.
Example of code
MODULE vectors
BEGIN
INT dim=3;
MODE VECTOR = [dim]REAL;
OP + = (VECTOR a, b) VECTOR: ( VECTOR out; FOR i FROM LWB a TO UPB a DO out:=a[i]+b[i] OD; out ),
- = (VECTOR a, b) VECTOR: ( VECTOR out; FOR i FROM LWB a TO UPB a DO out:=a[i]-b[i] OD; out ),
DOT = (VECTOR a, b) REAL: ( REAL out:=0; FOR i FROM LWB a TO UPB a DO out+:=a[i]*b[i] OD; out );
END
KEEP VECTOR, +, -, DOT
Restrictions to the language from the standard ALGOL 68
Variable, Modes and Operators must be declared before use.
Anonymous procedure may use rows-declarer as a parameter.
No transient subnames of flexible arrays.
No formatted Transput (or format-texts).
Restricted use of straightening of multiple values during Transput.
Limited use of BYTES, BITS and BOOL.
restricted use of labels to follow EXIT statements.
See also
ALGOL 68
References
External links
"Interactive Algol 68" as an introduction to structured programming for students - Dec 1984
Archived OCCL Home page
Proprietary OCCL Algol 68 compiler for MSDOS
OCCL Algol 68 white-paper
ALGOL 68 implementation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20River%20Trails | The Red River Trails were a network of ox cart routes connecting the Red River Colony (the "Selkirk Settlement") and Fort Garry in British North America with the head of navigation on the Mississippi River in the United States. These trade routes ran from the location of present-day Winnipeg in the Canadian province of Manitoba across the Canada–United States border, and thence by a variety of routes through what is now the eastern part of North Dakota and western and central Minnesota to Mendota and Saint Paul, Minnesota on the Mississippi.
Travellers began to use the trails by the 1820s, with the heaviest use from the 1840s to the early 1870s, when they were superseded by railways. Until then, these cartways provided the most efficient means of transportation between the isolated Red River Colony and the outside world. They gave the Selkirk colonists and their neighbours, the people, an outlet for their furs and a source of supplies other than the Hudson's Bay Company, which was unable to enforce its monopoly in the face of the competition that used the trails.
Free traders, independent of the Hudson's Bay Company and outside its jurisdiction, developed extensive commerce with the United States, making Saint Paul the principal entrepôt and link to the outside world for the Selkirk Settlement. The trade, developed by and along the trails connecting Fort Garry with Saint Paul, stimulated commerce, contributed to the settlement of Minnesota and North Dakota in the United States, and accelerated the settlement of Canada to the west of the rugged barrier known as the Canadian Shield. For a time, this cross-border trade even threatened Canada's control of its western territories. The threat diminished after completion of transcontinental trade routes both north and south of the border, and the transportation corridor through which the trails once ran declined in importance. That corridor has now seen a resurgence of traffic, carried by more modern means of transport than the crude ox carts that once travelled the Red River Trails.
Origins
Red River Trails between Fort Garry and Saint Paul
Not all trails shown; there were many connecting trails and alternate routes.
Hold cursor over waypoints to display settlements; click to go to article.
In 1812, Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, started a colony of settlers in British North America where the Assiniboine River joins the Red River at the site of modern Winnipeg. Although fur posts were scattered throughout the Canadian northwest, and settlements of fur traders and bison hunters were located in the vicinity of Selkirk's establishment, this colony was the only agricultural settlement between Upper Canada and the Pacific Ocean. Isolated by geology behind the rugged Canadian Shield and many hundreds of miles of wilderness, settlers and their neighbours had access to outside markets and sources of supply only by two laborious water routes.
The first, maintained by the Hudson's Bay Company (in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Hitchcock%20Presents%20%281985%20TV%20series%29 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents, sometimes called The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents, is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986 and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The series is an updated version of the 1955 eponymous series.
The series aired 76 episodes.
Background
In 1985, NBC aired a new made-for-television film based upon the series, combining newly filmed stories with colorized footage of Alfred Hitchcock from the original series introducing each segment. The segments were "Incident in a Small Jail," adapted and directed by Joel Oliansky, "Man from the South," adapted and directed by Steve De Jarnatt, "Bang! You're Dead!," adapted by Harold Swanton and Christopher Crowe and directed by Randa Haines, and "An Unlocked Window," adapted and directed by Fred Walton. The film was a ratings success.
Format
A new Alfred Hitchcock Presents series debuted in the fall of 1985 and retained the same format as the film – newly filmed stories (a mixture of original works and updated remakes of original series episodes) with colorized introductions by Hitchcock. The new series lasted only one season before NBC cancelled it, but it was then produced for three more years by USA Network (which is now co-owned with NBC under NBCUniversal), and shifted production from Los Angeles to Toronto, where the show's new Canadian producing partner Paragon Motion Pictures was based, along with several budget cuts to the series. Name directors who helmed episodes included Tim Burton, David Chase, Burt Reynolds, Atom Egoyan, Joan Tewkesbury, and Thomas Carter.
Episodes
Notable guest stars
Series pilot
Ned Beatty as Larry Broome (segment "Incident in a Small Jail")
Lee Ving as Curt Venner (segment "Incident in a Small Jail")
Tony Frank as Sheriff Noakes (segment "Incident in a Small Jail")
John Huston as Carlos/Narrator (segment "Man from the South")
Melanie Griffith as Girl (segment "Man from the South")
Annette O'Toole as Stella (segment "An Unlocked Window")
Bruce Davison as Betty Ames/Baker (segment "An Unlocked Window")
Richard Lineback as Billy (segment "Incident In A Small Jail")
Steven Bauer as Gambler (Segment "Man From The South")
Tippi Hedren as Waitress (Segment "Man From The South")
Kim Novak as Rosa (Segment "Man From The South")
Lyman Ward as Uncle Jack (Segment "Bang! You're Dead!")
Bill Mumy as Supermarket Clerk (Segment "Bang! You're Dead!")
Jonathan Goldsmith as Manager (Segment "Bang! You're Dead!")
Helena Kallianiotes as Maria Kyprianov (Segment "An Unlocked Window")
Other episodes
Melissa Sue Anderson as Laura Donovan, Julie Fenton
Karen Allen as Jackie Foster
Richard Anderson as Tom Northcliff
Susan Anton as Diane Lewis
John Aprea as Fisher
Vaughn Armstrong as Marine
Elizabeth Ashley as Karen Lawson / Kate Lawson
Harvey Atkin as Sam Wicks
Tom Atkins as Police Lieutenant
Barbara Babcock as Cissie Enright
Brian Bedford as Sherlock Holmes, Stewart Dean
Dirk Benedict as Dr. Rush
Robby B |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20Traffic%20Controller%20%28video%20game%29 | is a simulation computer game series, developed by TechnoBrain, that simulates the operation of an airport. The games simulate the job of an air traffic controller. The player's mission is to direct planes onto the correct ILS, land them on the runway, taxi them to the correct gate, and to direct takeoffs.
Air Traffic Controller was released in Japan in September 1998. Its sequel Air Traffic Controller 2 was released in 2001. Air Traffic Controller 3 was released in 2008. Air Traffic Controller 4 was released in 2015.
Initially released as a computer game, there have also been five PlayStation Portable versions, a Game Boy Advance, a Nintendo DS version, nine Nintendo 3DS versions and five different mobile ports for both Android and iOS.
Air Traffic Controller
The game features six airports. Players direct the air traffic for arrival and departures. There is only one channel of communication.
Air Traffic Controller
Airports featured: Miyazaki Airport, Hiroshima-Nishi Airport, Matsuyama Airport, Osaka International Airport, Nagoya Airfield and Tokyo International Airport.
Air Traffic Controller Power Up Kit 1
Airports: Saga Airport, Fukuoka Airport and Komatsu Airport.
Air Traffic Controller Power Up Kit 1 Value Pack
Airports: ATC + Power Kit 1
Air Traffic Controller Power Up Kit 2
Airports: Kansai International Airport, Narita International Airport and New Chitose Airport.
Air Traffic Controller Power Up Kit 2 Value Pack
Airports: ATC + Power Kit 2
Air Traffic Controller Power Up Kit 3
Airports: none.
Air Traffic Controller Complete
Airports: ATC + Power Kit 1 + Power Kit 2
Air Traffic Controller 2
Air Traffic Controller 2 made many improvements. The game is now in 3D, more airport gates, and increased to five channels of communication: Approach, Tower, Ground, Delivery, and Departure. New features included ground movements (e.g. towing planes to gates), giving correct Standard Instrument Departure, use of radar vectors, and changing channel frequency. The choice of Standard Terminal Arrival Route distance eliminates the speed instruction in previous version.
In the game, there are a few conditions that will cause game over. These include head-on, near miss, pilots' pressure bar reaching 100%, or failed to accumulate enough points to pass that particular stage. The points are awarded according to how fast to reply a response. A slow or non-response will raise the pressure bar. Other things that increase pressure bar include instructing the plane to take off in tailwind or tower failing to give the plane permission to land or go-around. Additional points are awarded at the end of the stage, but before deciding whether there's enough points to pass, for minimal % in pressure bar. More bonus points are awarded if the pressure bar is at 0%.
Tokyo: BigWing A (Alpha)
Airport: Tokyo International Airport
Release date: 2001
Airlines: Japan Airlines, All Nippon Airways, Skymark Airlines, Hokkaido International Airlines, Japan A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat%20Story | Goat Story - The Old Prague Legends () is a 2008 Czech 3D computer-animated fantasy comedy film produced and directed by Jan Tománek and written by Tománek with David Sláma. The first Czech-produced feature-length computer-animated film, it features animation by Art And Animation studios, and was released May 19, 2010 in the USA.
The film features the voices of Jiří Lábus, Matěj Hádek, Mahulena Bočanová, Michal Dlouhý, Petr Pelzer, Jan Přeučil, Viktor Preiss, Miroslav Táborský, Karel Heřmánek, Petr Nárožný, Dalimil Klapka, Pavel Rímský, Ota Jirák, Filip Jevič and Justin Svoboda. Produced over the course of five years with a budget of $1.8 million, only about ten animators and 3D graphic designers created it.
Goat Story was released in theatres on October 16, 2008 by Bontonfilm, and it won the main prize at the 2010 Buenos Aires International Children's Film Festival, and received nominations at other film festivals. A sequel, Goat Story 2, was released in 2012.
Plot
The story takes place in Prague during the reign of Charles IV, when the Charles Bridge and Prague Astronomical Clock were still undergoing construction. A villager whose name is Jemmy arrives in the capital from the countryside with his Goat. A poor student named Matthew arrives Prague to study with .
Jemmy and Goat stay in Prague to do work on the bridge. It is here that Jemmy sees Katie for the first time, and immediately falls in love with her. Katie is a city girl who supplies forged nails for the bridge's construction. Jemmy ends up causing the scaffolding on a side of the bridge to fall due to his carving of a statue of Katie from a support beam. He and his goat are banned by the workers.
In the meantime, Master Hanuš looks for sculptors and carvers for the Astronomical Clock statues. He catches a glimpse of Jemmy, and is interested with his natural woodcarving talent. Matthew, being the target of ridicule by other students because of his poverty, studies with Master Hanuš, too. He has gained his teacher's trust, and oversees the plans of the Astronomical Clock. Since Matthew has nowhere to sleep, he finds the in Prague, already abandoned at the time.
Thanks to his classmates' frequent ridicule, he succumbs to the lure and then picks up a grey tolar in Faust's house to pay for his classmates' drinks and fit in with his peers. However, they deceive him and destroy the plans to the Astronomical Clock while they are unguarded. The unsuspecting Matthew gives the ruined plans back to Master Hanuš. The Prague councilors discover the damaged plans, and demand punishment of the problem. Matthew is placed in a pillory for one day. Because he never knows what he did wrong, he plans to take revenge on Master Hanuš. When Master Hanuš and Jemmy complete the Astronomical Clock, they get no respect or recognition.
The Chinese ask Master Hanuš to make an astronomical clock in their city, too. Matthew glimpses this discussion, who meanwhile signed his contract with Satan.
He writes a l |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press%20TV | Press TV (stylised as PRESSTV) is an Iranian state-owned news network that broadcasts in the English and French languages owned by Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), the only organization legally able to transmit radio and TV broadcasts in Iran. The 24-hour channel, which has headquarters in Tehran, was launched on 2 July 2007 and was intended to compete with western English language services.
Background and purpose
Iran's first international English-language TV channel was established in 1976. Later in 1997, Sahar TV was launched by IRIB, broadcasting in multiple languages including English.
Press TV was created on 8 July 2007, for the purpose of presenting news, images and arguments, especially on Middle Eastern affairs, to counter the news coverage that appears on BBC World News, CNN International and Al Jazeera English. Press TV is state-funded and is a division of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), the only organisation legally able to transmit radio and television broadcasts inside Iran. Based in Tehran, It broadcasts to North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and areas of Africa and Latin America.
IRIB's head is appointed directly by the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei; according to The Guardian, it is close to the country's conservative political faction, especially the Revolutionary Guards.
Press TV CEO Mohammad Sarafraz said in a June 2007 press conference that, "Since September 11, Western bias has divided the media into two camps: those that favour their policies make up one group and the rest of the media are attached to radical Islamic groups like Al-Qaeda. We want to show that there is a different view. Iran, and the Shi'as in particular, have become a focal point of world propaganda. From the media point of view, we are trying to give a second eye to Western audiences."
By launching an English-language television network to promote an Iranian perspective of the world, together with an Arab-language station, the Al-Alam News Network, the Iranian government said it hoped "to address a global audience exposed to misinformation and mudslinging as regards the Islamic Republic of Iran." The two networks focus on "difficult issues in the Middle East such as the United States’ occupation of neighbouring Iraq and the Shia question." According to mediachannel.org, "the government aims to use Press TV to counter what it sees as a steady stream of Western propaganda against Iran as well as offer an alternative view of world news".
Press TV began its activities in London during 2007. The network's website launched in late January 2007, and the channel itself on 2 July 2007. Roshan Muhammed Salih was Press TV's first London news editor and chief correspondent. In an article for The Guardian in July 2009, Salih wrote that Press TV was "willing to give a platform to legitimate actors whom the western media will not touch, such as Hamas and Hezbollah".
The BBC journalist Linda Pressly described Press |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UHF%20Television%20Yamanashi | , also known as UTY, is a Japanese broadcast network affiliated with the JNN. Its headquarters are located in Kōfu, Yamanashi.
History
Television Yamanashi was established on 1 April 1970 as the second broadcasting station located in Yamanashi Prefecture. A new studio and head office was completed on 1 August 1984. Digital terrestrial television broadcasts started in July 2006. All analog broadcasting were discontinued on 24 July 2011.
Stations
Digital(ID:6)
Kofu(Main Station) JOGI-DTV 27 ch
Fujiyosihda 27 ch
Otsuki 19 ch
Otsuki-Hatsukari 40ch
Tsuru 37 ch
Uenohara 34 ch
Nambu 44 ch
Minobu 24 ch
Nirazaki-Anayama 42 ch
Programs
UTY News no hoshi(UTYニュースの星) - from 18:16 until 18:55 on Weekdays
Rival Stations
Yamanashi Broadcasting System(YBS)
Other Links
Welcome to UTY
Japan News Network
Television stations in Japan
Mass media in Kōfu, Yamanashi
Companies based in Yamanashi Prefecture
Television channels and stations established in 1970 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach%20Head%20%28video%20game%29 | Beach-Head is a video game developed and published in 1983 by Access Software for the Atari 8-bit family and Commodore 64 home computers in the US. Versions for the ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, and Acorn Electron (as well as the Atari and C64 versions) were published in Europe by U.S. Gold in 1984, followed by versions for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 16 and Plus/4 in 1985.
Gameplay
The game's setting is the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II. Gameplay consists of several varying stages in which the player must control various vehicles including warships and tanks in order to defeat an enemy fleet, break through enemy beach defences and destroy an enormous gun-emplacement to win the game. The gun emplacement requires multiple hits to be destroyed, but traverses faster than tanks can aim and fire, so it cannot be destroyed in a single attempt. In order to complete the game multiple tanks must make it through to the final level.
Reception
Beach-Head was Access' best-selling Commodore game as of late 1987. It was the first U.S. Gold release to sell 250,000 copies.
Ahoy! stated "This game is a blast". It praised the graphics and concluded, "It is a remarkable programming achievement". Compute! listed the game in May 1988 as one of "Our Favorite Games", stating that it was superior to its "many imitators".
Zzap!64 reviewed the game in a retrospective feature in October 1985. They argued that although it was considered impressive at the time of release it had already become dated, and was rated 70% overall.
In 1996, Computer Gaming World declared Beach Head the 117th-best computer game ever released.
Legacy
A sequel, Beach Head II: The Dictator Strikes Back, was released in 1985. A version of the game for Commodore Amiga was planned, but was cancelled when an agreement to publish with U.S. Gold could not be reached. In 2000, a loose remake of the game, Beach Head 2000, was released for the Windows and MacOS platforms.
References
External links
1983 video games
Amsoft games
Amstrad CPC games
Apple II games
Atari 8-bit family games
BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games
Commodore 16 and Plus/4 games
Commodore 64 games
MSX games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Ocean Software games
U.S. Gold games
Video games developed in the United States
World War II video games
ZX Spectrum games
Access Software games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s%20secret%20sharing | Shamir's secret sharing (SSS) is an efficient secret sharing algorithm for distributing private information (the "secret") among a group so that the secret cannot be revealed unless a quorum of the group acts together to pool their knowledge. To achieve this, the secret is mathematically divided into parts (the "shares") from which the secret can be reassembled only when a sufficient number of shares are combined. SSS has the property of information-theoretic security, meaning that even if an attacker steals some shares, it is impossible for the attacker to reconstruct the secret unless they have stolen the quorum number of shares.
Shamir's secret sharing is used in some applications to share the access keys to a master secret.
High-level explanation
SSS is used to secure a secret in a distributed form, most often to secure encryption keys. The secret is split into multiple shares, which individually do not give any information about the secret.
To reconstruct a secret secured by SSS, a number of shares is needed, called the threshold. No information about the secret can be gained from any number of shares below the threshold (a property called perfect secrecy). In this sense, SSS is a generalisation of the one-time pad (which can be viewed as SSS with a two-share threshold and two shares in total).
Application example
A company needs to secure their vault. If a single person knows the code to the vault, the code might be lost or unavailable when the vault needs to be opened. If there are several people who know the code, they may not trust each other to always act honestly.
SSS can be used in this situation to generate shares of the vault's code which are distributed to authorized individuals in the company. The minimum threshold and number of shares given to each individual can be selected such that the vault is accessible only by (groups of) authorized individuals. If fewer shares than the threshold are presented, the vault cannot be opened.
By accident or as an act of opposition, some individuals might present incorrect information for their shares. If the total of correct shares fails to meet the minimum threshold, the vault remains locked.
Use cases
Shamir's secret sharing can be used to
share a key for decrypting the root key of a password manager,
recover a user key for encrypted email access and
sharing of the passphrase used to recreate a master secret, which is in turn used to access a cryptocurrency wallet.
Properties and weaknesses
SSS has useful properties, but also weaknesses that mean that it is unsuited to some uses.
Useful properties include:
Secure: The scheme has information-theoretic security.
Minimal: The size of each piece does not exceed the size of the original data.
Extensible: For any given threshold, shares can be dynamically added or deleted without affecting existing shares
Dynamic: Security can be enhanced without changing the secret, but by changing the polynomial occasionally (keeping the same |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiwm | In computing, the AMIga Window Manager (amiwm) is a stacking window manager for the X Window System written by Marcus Comstedt.
The window manager emulates the Amiga Workbench and includes support for multiple virtual screens like the AmigaOS, but doesn't offer more functionality than standard Workbench. By the words of its author, "the purpose of amiwm is to make life more pleasant for Amiga-freaks like myself who has/wants to use UNIX workstations once in a while". AmiWM was not updated for years since the 1998 release, yet Linux Format magazine rated it as fast and reliable in 2007. Although Marcus Comstedt included new features like support for AmigaOS 3.5 icons during internal development, a new version was not released until 2010.
Features
Features of the amiwm window manager include:
Supports iconification of running tasks
Window borders
Window titlebars
Titlebar buttons for menu, minimize, maximize, and close
Desktop shortcuts
Notes
References
External links
amiwm homepage
amiwm's official github
xwinman.org page on Amiwm
amiwm patch to make it look like Amiga OS 1.x
X window managers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristinn%20R.%20Th%C3%B3risson | Kristinn R. Thórisson (Þórisson) is an Icelandic artificial intelligence researcher, founder and Managing Director of the Icelandic Institute for Intelligent Machines (IIIM), and co-founder and former co-director of the Center for Analysis and Design of Intelligent Agents (CADIA) at Reykjavik University. Thórisson is one of the leading proponents of unified theories of cognition.
Thórisson's research focus is artificial general intelligence (also referred to as artificial general intelligence (AGI) or strong AI) and he has proposed a new methodology for achieving machines with general intelligence. An early demonstration of his constructivist AI methodology was given in the FP-7 funded HUMANOBS project, where an artificial agent autonomously learned from scratch how to do spoken multimodal interviews by observing humans participate in a TV-style interview. The goal-driven self-programming system, called AERA, started out with only a small set of seed knowledge (a few pages of "given" code) and autonomously expanded its capabilities through self-reconfiguration, writing the equivalent of thousands of lines of code on its own, to enable it to perform such a realtime TV interview. Thórisson has also worked extensively on systems integration for artificial intelligence systems in the past, contributing architectural principles for infusing dialogue and human-interaction capabilities into the Honda ASIMO robot.
Kristinn R. Thórisson is currently the Managing Director of the Icelandic Institute for Intelligent Machines, and Professor at the Department of Computer Science at Reykjavík University. He was co-founder of semantic Web startup company [Radar Networks] (with [Nova Spivack]), whose online Website [Radar Networks Twine] was one of the first working applications of semantic Web technologies, and served as its Chief Technology Officer 2002–03.
Constructivist AI methodology
The constructivist artificial intelligence methodology proposed by Thórisson to addresses the numerous significant challenges involved in building artificial general intelligence AGI systems, by replacing the top-down architectural design approaches that are ubiquitous today with methods that allow a system to autonomously manage its own cognitive growth. This involves a shift of focus from manual design of mental functions to the principles from which intelligent systems can grow through self-organization. The methodology was inspired in part by Piaget's theory of cognitive development and motivated by the level of operational complexity that will be required for realizing AGI systems in contrast to what can be achieved with even large teams of human software engineers and software designers relying on methods of manual construction.
The constructivist AI approach has been successfully demonstrated in the HUMANOBS project, where a domain-independent AI system autonomously learned real-time socio-communicative behavior through observation. The project was funded by the Europ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Dix | Alan John Dix FCBS FLSW is a British author, researcher, and university professor, specialising in human–computer interaction (HCI). He is one of the four co-authors of the university level textbook Human–Computer Interaction. Dix is the Director of the Computational Foundry at Swansea University, since May 2018. He was previously a professor at Lancaster University.
In 2021, he was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
Publications
Books
Contributions
This book contains a chapter written by Dix, in summary from the 1987 British Computer Society of Human-Computer Interaction held at University of Exeter.
References
External links
Alan's homepage
HCI Book Website
HCI Course on interaction-design.org
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British computer scientists
Human–computer interaction researchers
Academics of Lancaster University
International Mathematical Olympiad participants
Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20Fire%20X4500 | The Sun Fire X4500 data server (code named Thumper) integrates server and storage technologies. It was announced in July, 2006 and is part of the Sun Fire server line from Sun Microsystems.
In July 2008, Sun announced the X4540 model (code-named Thor), which doubles the processing power of the X4500.
In November 2010, Oracle designated that the X4540 is end-of-life and has no next-generation replacement model.
Development
Thumper was developed by Palo Alto, California based company Kealia inc. Kealia was founded in 2001 by Stanford University professor David Cheriton and Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim. When Sun bought Kealia in 2004, Thumper became the basis for the X4500 model.
Hardware
The Sun Fire X4500 supports two dual-core AMD Opteron processors and up to 64 GB RAM. With forty-eight 500/1000/2000 GB SATA drives, it provides up to 96 TB of raw storage in four rack units.
The Sun Fire X4540 supports two quad- or six-core AMD K10 (Barcelona) processors and up to 128 GB RAM. The new model also uses PCI Express IO technology, and added a compact flash disk slot for booting the operating system.
A significant feature of both systems is that the I/O framework was designed to handle high throughput on all disks simultaneously. These were the first systems designed specifically with ZFS in mind, so no hardware RAID is included.
Supported operating systems
Solaris 10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
Rocks Cluster Distribution
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (Standard and Enterprise)
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
FreeNAS 9.3 - newer do not work
Products using X4500/X4540
Sun Streaming System
Sun Visualization System
Sun Secure Data Retrieval Server (SDRS)
Sun Constellation System
Sun StorageTek Virtual Tape Library Value ("VTL Value") System
Sun Scalable Storage Cluster
Luminex Virtual Tape Solution for IBM zSeries mainframes via FICON
SAS Intelligence Storage
Greenplum's Sun Data Warehouse Appliance
IPConfigure - Enterprise Surveillance Manager
G10 Enterprise Video Manager
Media Server for Symantec Veritas NetBackup
Cypress Storage Appliance
Internet Archive
Forty-two Sun Fire X4500 data servers are used to provide Lustre cluster filesystem storage in the TSUBAME supercomputer, which was number 7 in June 2006 TOP500 list.
TPC-H World Record
In October 2007, Sun submitted TPC-H result with an X4500 running Sybase IQ. At US $8.11/QphH, it achieved the best price/performance among the 1,000 GB results.
References
External links
Sun Fire X4500 Server
Sun Fire X4540 Server
Sun Fire X4640 Server
Sun Fire X4500 System Walkthrough and Part 2 (YouTube Video)
Sun Fire x4500 demonstration - Andy Bechtolsheim demonstrating the 4500 hardware, Menlo Park Ca, 11 July 2006
Configuring the Sun Fire X4500 Server as Network Attached Archival Storage for Symantec Enterprise Vault
Sun servers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impy%27s%20Island | Impy's Island, or Urmel from the Ice Age (), is a 2006 German computer-animated feature film based on the children's novel Urmel from the Ice Age by Max Kruse.
Plot summary
On a magical tropical island called Tikiwoo in the 1950s, a fun-loving group of misfit animals and people make a marvelous discovery: a baby dinosaur frozen since prehistoric times. Little Impy, as they call him, is loving his new family and ready to explore the strange new world. But when a king from a faraway country vows to capture the lovable baby dino for his private collection, all the inhabitants of Impy's island must join together to save their new friend.
Cast
The film stars the voice talents of:
Wigald Boning as Professor Habakuk Tibatong
Anke Engelke as Wutz
Florian Halm as Diener Sami
Christoph Maria Herbst as Doctor Zwengelmann
Kevin Iannotta as Tim Tintenklecks
Stefan Krause as Ping
Oliver Pocher as Schusch
Domenic Redl as Urmel
Frank Schaff as Wawa
Klaus Sonnenschein as King Pumponell
Wolfgang Völz as Seele-Fant
For the American release, the voice talents are the following:
Lisa Ortiz as Impy
Zoe Martin as Ping the king penguin
Maddie Blaustein as Shoe the shoebill
Sean Schemmel as King Pumponell the 55th
Charlotte Mahoney as Peg the pig
Pete Bowlan as Sami
Michael Sinterniklaas as Professor Horatio Tibberton
Jimmy Zoppi as Monty the monitor lizard
Alan Smithee as Dr. Zonderburgh
P.J. Battisti, Jr. as Tim
Michael Alston Baley as Solomon the elephant seal
Release
February 27, 2007 (DVD)
See also
List of animated feature films
List of computer-animated films
External links
References
2006 films
2006 computer-animated films
2000s children's animated films
German animated feature films
2000s children's fantasy films
German children's films
German fantasy films
2000s German-language films
Films directed by Reinhard Klooss
Films scored by James Dooley
Films set on islands
Films based on German novels
HanWay Films films
Animated films based on children's books
Animated films about dinosaurs
Animated films about penguins
Films based on television series
Films set in the 1950s
Films set on fictional islands
2000s German films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Promise%20%28Radiohead%20song%29 | "I Promise" is a song by the English rock band Radiohead, released in 2017. Radiohead performed it on their 1996 tour, and recorded it during the sessions for their third album, OK Computer (1997), but felt it was not strong enough to release. In June 2017, "I Promise" was included on the OK Computer reissue OKNOTOK 1997 2017 and released as a download with a music video.
History
Radiohead first performed "I Promise" on 27 March 1996 at the Fillmore in San Francisco, and played it several times that year while touring in support of Alanis Morissette. Bootleg recordings were widely circulated.
Radiohead recorded "I Promise" during the sessions for their third album, OK Computer (1997), but felt it was not strong enough to release. In 1998, the guitarist Ed O’Brien suggested that Radiohead could rerecord "I Promise" for their next album, but it remained unreleased. After the release of their seventh album, In Rainbows (2007), O'Brien said they had abandoned it.
On 23 June 2017, Radiohead released a 20th-anniversary OK Computer reissue, OKNOTOK 1997 2017, featuring "I Promise" and two other new tracks. "I Promise" premiered on BBC Radio 6 on 2 June; the host, Steve Lamacq, said that Radiohead had been "especially pleased to find [it] in the vaults, because they thought it'd been lost over the years". That day, Radiohead released an "I Promise" music video on their website and made the song available to download to those who had pre-ordered OKNOTOK.
On tour in June 2017, Radiohead performed "I Promise" for the first time in 21 years. The songwriter, Thom Yorke, told the crowd: "What a bunch of nutters we were, and probably still are ... One of the crazy things we did was not release this song, because we didn't think it was good enough."
Composition
"I Promise" features strummed acoustic guitar, marching band-like drums, and orchestral Mellotron tones. The lyrics see Yorke "listing off vows like a shopping list", with themes common to OK Computer including loneliness, alienation, paranoia and heartache. O'Brien likened it to Roy Orbison, while Yorke likened it to Joy Division. NME described "I Promise" as "Radiohead at their most direct" before they moved into electronic music with later albums.
Music video
The "I Promise" music video was directed by Michal Marczak, who had previously directed a video vignette for Radiohead's ninth album, A Moon Shaped Pool (2016), and the video for "Beautiful People" by Mark Pritchard, featuring Yorke. The video depicts a nighttime bus journey through Warsaw, with one passenger as a detached animatronic head. Robin Hilton of NPR interpreted the video as a reference to the isolation and "gruelling" schedule Yorke experienced on the OK Computer tour.
Reception
Pitchfork named "I Promise" the week's "Best New Music", writing that if Radiohead had released it in 1997 "it might've been inescapable in dorm rooms, at open mic nights, and wherever else sensitive guys with guitars are found ... It doesn't much rei |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionts%E2%80%93Wallenius%20method | Within computer science, the Zionts–Wallenius method is an interactive method used to find a best solution to a multi-criteria optimization problem.
Detail
Specifically it can help a user solve a linear programming problem having more than one (linear) objective. A user is asked to respond to comparisons between feasible solutions or to choose directions of change desired in each iteration. Providing certain mathematical assumptions hold, the method finds an optimal solution.
References
Zionts, S. and J. Wallenius, “An Interactive Programming Method for Solving the Multiple Criteria Problem,” Management Science. Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 652–663, 1976.
Optimization algorithms and methods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Melrose%20Place%20episodes | Melrose Place, a primetime soap opera created by Darren Star, premiered on July 8, 1992 on Fox network in the United States and ended on May 24, 1999. The show spans seven seasons of 226 episodes, and one special aired in 1995. Each episode was approximately 45 minutes long (without commercials) though there were several double or two-part episodes that were shown as feature length 85 to 90 minute episodes
The complete series of Melrose Place has been released on DVD in the United States (Region 1) from 2006 to 2012, the final season having been released on July 31, 2012.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (1992–93)
Season 2 (1993–94)
Season 3 (1994–95)
Season 4 (1995–96)
Season 5 (1996–97)
Season 6 (1997–98)
Season 7 (1998–99)
References
External links
Beverly Hills, 90210 (franchise)
Lists of American drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcast%20VGA | The Dreamcast VGA Box (also known generally as a DC VGA adapter or DC VGA cable) is an accessory for Sega's Dreamcast video game console that allows it to connect to a video display such as a computer monitor or an HDTV set through a VGA port. Because the Dreamcast hardware can produce a VGA-compatible video signal natively, this connection provides improved picture quality compared to standard composite video or S-Video connections, along with support for progressive scan video.
Sega released the original VGA Box as an official accessory, but many third-party versions were also produced and sold worldwide in various form factors.
Most games for the Dreamcast are VGA-compatible, while various workarounds exist to enable VGA output from many of the games that do not feature official support.
Functionality
When pins 6 and 7 on the Dreamcast's A/V out port are connected to the ground pin (such as when a VGA box is connected to the console and externally switched to VGA mode), the Dreamcast system internally switches to VGA mode, displaying a 720x480 image (480p progressive scan, at a standard EDTV resolution) in RGBHV at 31 kHz, which allows it to connect to a computer monitor or EDTV/HDTV set with a VGA input.
The official VGA Box consists of a rectangular black plastic case, bearing a VGA out port and a 3.5 mm minijack for stereo audio output on one side, and an A/V output jack breakout panel (S-Video, composite, and RCA stereo audio jacks) on the other, for switching output either to a typical computer monitor and speakers/headphones or to a typical TV.
Most third-party versions are functionally identical to Sega's model besides cosmetic differences, but some simplified designs lack the additional A/V breakout and output switch. These units can only be used for VGA and audio output. Some of these designs are streamlined to the point that no extra housing is required beyond the cable jacket and the connectors; such units are described generically as DC VGA cables.
One enhanced model, the Performance-branded VGA Adapter for Dreamcast produced by InterAct, additionally features a VGA input port and stereo minijack input for PC video and audio pass-through, with automatic source switching when the Dreamcast system is powered on and off. This enables a computer or other daisy-chained video game console with VGA output to remain connected to the same monitor and speakers as the Dreamcast simultaneously, without swapping cables or using additional switches for both VGA video and 3.5 mm stereo minijack audio.
It is also possible to modify a Dreamcast to add the same VGA functionality to the console itself, obviating the need for a standalone VGA box.
Compatibility
Software
Most Dreamcast games are compatible with the VGA Box. Incompatible games will normally present an error message upon boot. All Dreamcast games can use a VGA box's S-Video and composite ports when the box is switched to TV mode, meaning one does not have to swap cables to play |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Ofria | Dr. Charles A. Ofria is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University, the director of the Digital Evolution (DEvo) Lab there, and Director of the BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action. He is the son of the late Charles Ofria, who developed the first fully integrated shop management program for the automotive repair industry. Ofria attended Stuyvesant High School and graduated from Ward Melville High School in 1991. He obtained a B.S. in Computer Science, Pure Mathematics, and Applied Mathematics from Stony Brook University in 1994, and a Ph.D. in Computation and Neural Systems from the California Institute of Technology in 1999. Ofria's research focuses on the interplay between computer science and Darwinian evolution.
Ofria is one of the designers of Avida, an artificial life software platform to study the evolutionary biology of self-replicating and evolving computer programs (digital organisms, see also Digital organism simulators). Avida has been used extensively to study the basic processes that underlie Darwinian evolution. Avida is under active development in Ofria's Digital Evolution Lab at Michigan State University and was originally designed by Ofria, Chris Adami and C. Titus Brown at Caltech in 1993.
Honors
Ofria received the NSF Career Award in 2007 and the Withrow Excellence Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2010 and for Excellence in Research in 2006 and 2016. He was also a 2017 winner of the William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award.
Representative journal publications
Clune J, Pennock RT, Ofria C, Lenski RE (2012) Ontogeny tends to recapitulate phylogeny in digital organisms" The American Naturalist 180: E54–E63. (pdf)
Clune J, Goldsby HJ, Ofria C, and Pennock RT (2011) Selective pressures for accurate altruism targeting: Evidence from digital evolution for difficult-to-test aspects of inclusive fitness theory. Proceedings of the Royal Society. 278: 666-674. (PDF)
Clune J, Stanley KO, Pennock RT, Ofria C (2011) On the performance of indirect encoding across the continuum of regularity. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 15(3): 346-367. (PDF)
Clune J, Misevic D, Ofria C, Lenski RE, Elena SF, and Sanjuán R. Natural selection fails to optimize mutation rates for long-term adaptation on rugged fitness landscapes
Ofria C, Huang W and Torng E. On the gradual evolution of complexity and the sudden emergence of complex features
Elena SF, Wilke CO, Ofria C, and Lenski RE. Effects of population size and mutation rate on the evolution of mutational robustness
Ostrowski E, Ofria C, and Lenski RE, Ecological specialization and adaptive decay in digital organisms
Lenski RE, Barrick JE, Ofria C. Balancing Robustness and Evolvability
Misevic D, Ofria C, and Lenski RE. Sexual reproduction reshapes the genetic architecture of digital organisms
Selected scientific publications featuring Avida
R. E. Lenski, C. Ofria, T. C. Collier, C. Adami (1999). Genomic Compl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Unnatural%20Combat | The Unnatural Combat is a Jacobean era stage play, a tragedy written by Philip Massinger, and first published in 1639.
No hard data on the play's date of origin or initial theatrical production has survived. Scholars estimate a date in the early 1620s; "There is a strong case for a late 1624 or early 1625 date for the play." The play was entered into the Stationers' Register on 14 February 1639, and published in quarto later that year by the bookseller John Waterson; the title page states that it was acted by the King's Men in the Globe Theatre. The quarto also bears Massinger's dedication of the play to a personal friend, Sir Anthony St. Leger (or "Sentleger").
In search of a source for Massinger's plot, critics have considered the story of Beatrice Cenci and a passage in Jonson's Catiline that refers to "incest, murders, rapes...incestuous life." Yet it is clear from the thinness of these connections that the plot of the play is "Massinger's own."
Scholars have studied The Unnatural Combat for resonances with the events of its era; it has been argued that the play's portrait of its villain Malefort Senior alludes to the sex scandals and witchcraft allegations surrounding George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham. Also, in another possible anti-Buckingham thrust, the play may refer to the failed English expedition to Cádiz (1625); the dedicatee's brother, Sir William St. Leger, was instrumental in the expedition and was critical of Buckingham's conduct of it.
The play's theme of incest has prevented it from gaining any status as a popular or often-revived drama. Nineteenth-century critics tended to condemn The Unnatural Combat for its sensational aspect; but T. S. Eliot praised the play's "deft handling of suspense" and its "theatrical skill."
Synopsis
The play tells the story of the intertwined fates of two families, the Beauforts and Maleforts. Beaufort Senior is the governor of Marseilles in France; his son, Beaufort Junior, is in love with, and beloved by, Theocrine, the daughter of Malefort Senior, the admiral of Marseilles. The admiral's son and Theocrine's half-brother, Malefort Junior, is a successful and notorious pirate; at the start of the play his pirate fleet is blockading the harbor of the city, and his father the admiral is suspected of collusion with the son's actions.
This situation is delineated in the play's opening scene, which proceeds to the admiral's trial before the governor and other officials. Malefort Senior reminds his judges of his many past victories and acts of courage, though to little effect. The trial is then interrupted by an emissary from the pirates, who bears a challenge: Malefort Junior challenges his father to single combat, which will decide the outcome of the pirates' siege. Malefort Senior agrees; it is a way for him to clear his reputation and refute the charges against him—but more than that, the challenge satisfies his bloody-minded nature. (This duel, of course, is the "unnatural combat" of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen%20Design%20Aid | Screen Design Aid (SDA) is a utility for the IBM System/34 and System/36 midrange computers. Programmers can use SDA to create menus, display formats, or WSU skeleton programs. The System/38, and IBM i platforms also have a utility Screen Design Aid, but its syntax and functionality are different.
S/34 and S/36 applications usually involve the operator to a critical degree, whether accepting the bulk of input through display stations or controlling them. Computer programs may utilize unformatted or formatted input, and this is where SDA applies.
Creating display formats or menus from code
Like RPG II, display formats are built from column-sensitive specifications which describe fields of fixed sizes with fixed or conditioned properties.
The System/36 version of SDA gained the H specification, which describes the displays used when the operator presses the "Help" key. The "Help" key can summon one display, a series of displays, or open an online document created by DisplayWrite/36 and position it to a certain page using a "bookmark." If "Help" is program-coded, program control resumes when "Help" is pressed; in this instance, the program determines what action to take. If "Help" was not coded at all, a keyboard error occurs, stating that the Help key is not allowed now.
All display formats have exactly one coded S specification, which describes the size of the format, the keys which may be used, the lines to be cleared, special functions such as sounding the Alarm (the "raspberry" sound is the only sound a S/3X terminal can be programmed to make), and most importantly the name of the format which must be referenced by the HLL (High-Level Language) program.
Display formats may have one, many, or no D ("Detail") specifications to describe the field(s) used in the display. These fields may be constants, input, output, or input-output. Properties such as Nondisplay and Protected may seem to defeat the purpose of having the field, but there are non-intuitive uses for these fields. D specifications must state the starting line and column number used by the field; whether attributes or color are used; and, if a constant is declared, the value can also be declared. An "X" is used for continuation D specification(s) when a constant is larger than 24 characters. In order to accommodate displays created with the larger 27x132 capabilities, an odd system of hexadecimal entries is allowed for the column position.
Display formats are so attuned to the RPG II language as to require language extensions when used with other HLLs. The 99 numbered RPG indicators perfectly match the screen indicators; however, when coding display formats, it is important to reserve indicator usage to match the current conditioning of the indicator when the display is written - otherwise, a dummy indicator used for Half-Adjust may end up positioning the cursor incorrectly.
Coding for the audience
When the IBM System/34 was sold, a common monitor would be a monochrom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvie%20Denis | Sylvie Denis (born 10 November 1963 in Talence) is a French science fiction writer. She is also a translator and co-edited the magazine "Cyberdreams."
Selected works
Jardins virtuels Pézilla-la-Rivière: DLM, c1995.(1995)
References
External links
Her works
Génération Science-Fiction Collective blog for Sylvie Denis, Claude Ecken & Roland C. Wagner
1963 births
Living people
People from Talence
French science fiction writers
Women science fiction and fantasy writers
French women novelists
English–French translators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Dorset | Dorset is a county in South West England. The county is largely rural and therefore does not have a dense transport network, and is one of the few English counties without a motorway. Owing to its position on the English Channel coast, and its natural sheltered harbours, it has a maritime history, though lack of inland transport routes have led to the decline of its ports.
Rail
Dorset is connected to London by two main railway lines. The West of England Main Line runs through the north of the county at Gillingham and Sherborne. The electric South West Main Line runs through the south of the county, at Bournemouth, Poole, Dorchester and the terminus at Weymouth, and was part of the London and South Western Railway (later Southern Railway). Additionally, a secondary line, the Heart of Wessex Line runs from Weymouth to Bristol, via Yeovil and Bath, in Somerset. This line was part of the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway (later Great Western Railway).
Railway closures in Dorset began with the West Bay line south of Bridport in the 1930s. Then lost in the 1950s were the branch lines to Abbotsbury and Portland. The Beeching Axe of the 1960s led to the closure of other Dorset lines, the Lyme Regis and Bridport branches. The latter remained open until 1975 although the Beeching report was published in 1963. The biggest loss was the entire Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, between Bournemouth and Bath. Through Dorset, this line roughly followed the Stour Valley, serving the market towns of Blandford Forum and Sturminster Newton in the Blackmore Vale, and is being converted into a long-distance trail for cyclists and walkers. Another through line, the Salisbury and Dorset Junction Railway, roughly followed the Avon Valley from Bournemouth to Salisbury. With the closure of the lines which terminated in Bournemouth, the terminus station in the town centre was also closed, leaving only the through stations. The station at Semley on the West of England Main Line also closed. As this had been the nearest station to Shaftesbury, travellers from that town would have to use Gillingham, on the same line. An oddity is the Swanage Branch. Although omitted from the Beeching plan this line closed in 1972 and most of the track was lifted. However it has now been rebuilt as a heritage railway.
Rural roads
Dorset is one of only five non metropolitan counties in England to not have a single motorway, however, two trunk road corridors run east–west through the county. In the north, the A303 London to Exeter and Cornwall road briefly enters the county, though for most of its route it is north of the borders with Somerset and Wiltshire. Further south, the A31, a continuation of the M27 motorway from Hampshire, serves as a northern bypass for the South East Dorset conurbation, merging into the A35 to continue west through the county, bypassing Dorchester and Bridport.
Several primary routes also run through the county. These are:
A338, Bournemouth relief road, |
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