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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web-based%20simulation | Web-based simulation (WBS) is the invocation of computer simulation services over the World Wide Web, specifically through a web browser. Increasingly, the web is being looked upon as an environment for providing modeling and simulation applications, and as such, is an emerging area of investigation within the simulation community.
Application
Web-based simulation is used in several contexts:
In e-learning, various principles can quickly be illustrated to students by means of interactive computer animations, for example during lecture demonstrations and computer exercises.
In distance learning, web-based simulation may provide an alternative to installing expensive simulation software on the student computer, or an alternative to expensive laboratory equipment.
In software engineering, web-based emulation allows application development and testing on one platform for other target platforms, for example for various mobile operating systems or mobile web browsers, without the need of target hardware or locally installed emulation software.
In online computer games, 3D environments can be simulated, and old home computers and video game consoles can be emulated, allowing the user to play old computer games in the web browser.
In medical education, nurse education and allied health education (like sonographer training), web-based simulations can be used for learning and practicing clinical healthcare procedures. Web-based procedural simulations emphasize the cognitive elements such as the steps of the procedure, the decisions, the tools/devices to be used, and the correct anatomical location.
Client-side vs server-side approaches
Web-based simulation can take place either on the server side or on the client side. In server-side simulation, the numerical calculations and visualization (generation of plots and other computer graphics) is carried out on the web server, while the interactive graphical user interface (GUI) often partly is provided by the client-side, for example using server-side scripting such as PHP or CGI scripts, interactive services based on Ajax or a conventional application software remotely accessed through a VNC Java applet.
In client-side simulation, the simulation program is downloaded from the server side but completely executed on the client side, for example using Java applets, Flash animations, JavaScript, or some mathematical software viewer plug-in. Server-side simulation is not scalable for many simultaneous users, but places fewer demands on the user computer performance and web-browser plug-ins than client-side simulation.
The term on-line simulation sometimes refers to server-side web-based simulation, sometimes to symbiotic simulation, i.e. a simulation that interacts in real-time with a physical system.
The upcoming cloud-computing technologies can be used for new server-side simulation approaches. For instance, there are multi-agent-simulation applications which are deployed on cloud-computing instances |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXBB-FM | DXBB (98.5 FM), broadcasting as 98.5 Wild FM, is a radio station owned and operated by UM Broadcasting Network. The station's studio and transmitter are located at the2nd floor, Laurente Bldg., J.C. Aquino Avenue, Brgy. Tandang Sora, Butuan.
References
External links
Wild FM Butuan FB Page
Radio stations in Butuan
Radio stations established in 1995 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Con%20%28video%20game%29 | The Con, released as Gamble Con Fight in Japan, and The Con: Gamble Fight in South Korea, is a fighting video game developed by Think & Feel and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation Portable in 2005. The story follows the life of a con artist who fights for money.
Gameplay
The Con is an innovative 3D fighting game based on an underworld where illegal fighting tournaments exist and high-stakes gambling takes center stage. During gameplay, players can train their fighter to fight solo or in a team of three in Story Mode where their ability to build up a team and implementing match-up strategy plays a huge role. Throughout gameplay, players can learn re-programmable fighting combinations based on five different brawling disciplines—Boxing, Wrestling, Kick Boxing, Tae Kwon Do and Jeet Kune Do. These five brawling disciplines are always on default character, but the player's custom character can choose any brawling disciplines. All brawling disciplines have moves combinations that can be acted as combo, which can be updated depending on the moves a player puts in a combo.
Quick Play
There are three modes: arcade, time-attack and survival. In this mode, there are eleven stages. The first nine are random, and the final two are always the same: Hardcase, a supposedly disgraced man as he wears a cloth which covers his mouth and has scars on his body; and Mask, a man whose fighting style is dependent on the player; if the player is a street boxer, he is a street boxer too, etc.
Plot
A con artist is introduced to underground fighting by Reina. He/she wins twice and then the protagonist is taught how to make money, and he/she has to do the following: Fight to win, pull off a comeback con, start like a loser and make a comeback, and take a dive, start like a winner and then lose.
Then the protagonist confronts Reina and tells her they are done. Reina says she owns him/her. Reina is killed by the protagonist who claims no one owns him. The protagonist then recruits two other fighters and form a team. Team (name) fight to get invited to the Big Time, where the winners of the tournament get 10 million dollars. They defeat Boneyard and his team Phantom of rank D (24-2), Smoke and his team Extreme of rank C (26-2), Shaman and his team Demoish of team B (36-2), Cinder and her team Crimson of rank A (52-6) and optionally, Cornfed and his team Triumph (57-0) (it is not required to defeat team Triumph to go to the Big Time Tournament). When that team jumps to rank A, Smoke, whom they fought at rank C, wants to join his/her team. If the protagonist wants him, he/she is going to have to choose which fighting style Smoke is going to fight as. Smoke masters every style in the game, but at the cost of another team member. One is going home, while Smoke joins the team. If he/she says no, he leaves immediately and there is no other chance. After some fights, the old team member comes back to take his/her old place. The protagonist can choose to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachana%20Malayalam | Rachna Malayalam is considered as the first computer operating system in Malayalam language and the first such system in a regional language in India. It was launched on February 16, 2006.
The operating system, developed by four people in Kerala, is in the Linux platform and is an open software.
References
2006 software
Language-specific Linux distributions
Malayalam language
Linux distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searching | Searching or search may refer to:
Computing technology
Search algorithm, including keyword search
:Category:Search algorithms
Search and optimization for problem solving in artificial intelligence
Search engine technology, software for finding information
Enterprise search, software or services for finding information within organizations
Web search engine, a service for finding information on the World Wide Web
Music
Search (band), a Malaysian rock band
"Searchin", a 1957 song originally performed by The Coasters
"Searching" (China Black song), a 1991 song by China Black
"Searchin" (CeCe Peniston song), a 1993 song by CeCe Peniston
"Searchin' (I Gotta Find a Man)", a 1983 dance song by Hazell Dean
"Searching" (INXS song), a 1997 song by INXS
"Searching" (Pete Rock & CL Smooth song), a 1995 song from the Pete Rock & CL Smooth album The Main Ingredient
Searching, a 2013 album by Jay Diggins
"Searching", a 1980 single by Change
"Searching", a 2004 song by Joe Satriani from his album Is There Love in Space?
"Searchin", a 1981 song on the Blackfoot album Marauder
"Searching", a 1976 song by Lynyrd Skynyrd from the album Gimme Back My Bullets
"Searching", a 1976 song by Roy Ayers from the album Vibrations
"Searchin", a 2003 song by Brant Bjork from the album Keep Your Cool
"Searchin", a 1996 song by Eminem from his album Infinite
Television
Search (American TV series), a 1972–1973 American science fiction TV series that aired on NBC
Search (South Korean TV series), a 2020 South Korean television series
"Searching" (Desperate Housewives), the 150th episode of the ABC television series Desperate Housewives
"The Search", the third episode of the 1965 Doctor Who serial The Space Museum
Organizations
Society for Education Action and Research in Community Health, a non-governmental organization in Maharashtra, India
Study of Environmental Arctic Change, a research program
Other uses
Gay Search, a British television anchor and gardener
Sara Opal Search, an American composer
Searching (film), a 2018 American thriller film
Searching (horse), a racehorse
Bayesian search theory, the application of Bayesian statistics to finding lost objects
Search theory, in economics (typically optimal stopping-related)
Search and seizure, legal term
Search (novel), a 2022 American novel by Michelle Huneven
See also
Find (disambiguation)
The Search (disambiguation)
Searcher (disambiguation)
The Searchers (disambiguation)
Research (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerDVD | CyberLink PowerDVD is a media player for movie discs, video files, photos and music. During 2016, PowerDVD achieved certification from the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) for the playback of Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs, and became the world's first software player to pass the BD-ROM 4.0 PC Application Software License process.
Features
8K video playback: added in PowerDVD 19
Ultra HD Blu-Ray disc playback: PowerDVD 17 is the first software that supports 4K UHD Blu-ray drives.
360-Degree VR: PowerDVD 17 supports 360-degree camera such as Samsung Gear 360 and the Nikon KeyMission. Available to watch VR content on an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive headset.
Blu-Ray 3D disc playback: added in PowerDVD 10 and removed in PowerDVD 20.
Blu-Ray disc playback: added in PowerDVD 6.
TrueTheater: PowerDVD adds TrueTheater image/color correction and enhancement, also motion enhancement to make motion smoother. TrueTheater HDR enhancement provides a larger color space.
Media Casting to Streaming Devices: supported devices as Roku, Chromecast, and Apple TV.
Version history
Decoders
Native video decoders
H.264/MPEG-4 AVC (including MVC for Blu-ray-3D)
H.265/MPEG-H HEVC (Media File Type)
MPEG-4 ASP (DivX, Xvid)
MPEG-2/HD
MPEG-1
VC-1
WMV HD
Native audio decoders
Dolby Meridian Lossless Packing (MLP)
Dolby TrueHD (7.1 Channel)
Dolby Digital Plus (7.1 Channel)
Dolby Digital EX (7.1 Channel)
Dolby Digital (2 & 5.1 Channel)
DSD (In PowerDVD 16)
DTS-HD (7.1 Channel)
DTS-ES (Discrete & Matrix)
DTS 96/24 Decoding
DTS (5.1 Channel)
LPCM
AAC
MP3 Surround
MP2
Audio effects
Dolby Pro Logic IIx Surround Sound
Dolby Virtual Speaker
CyberLink TrueTheater Surround
See also
Comparison of video player software
References
External links
1998 software
Software Blu-ray players
Windows media players |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0koda%2015T | Škoda 15T (also known as Škoda ForCity Alfa) is a 100% low-floor multiple-unit tram developed by VUKV a.s. and built by Škoda Transportation in Pilsen for the Prague tram network. It was a successor to the Škoda 14 T, featuring articulated bogies and more power to correct for problems found during the operation of the 14 T. The 15T has articulated bogies at either end of the train, and Jacobs bogies between the segments. The tram has two double-doors in each segment (or four in bi-directional version) to allow fast boarding of passengers, and one extra side door leading to the driver's cabin.
Design
The Škoda 15T ForCity was developed as highly modular; it is offered with up to five car body sections and in length. It may be used on gauges from up to and the body may be wide. The tram can be uni-directional or bi-directional. It can have from 60% of wheels driven up to all of the wheels driven for networks in hilly cities. As the bogies are under articulations and don't interfere with the inner space of the body sections, there is unlimited choice of interior lay-out and location of doors.
The basic vehicle length can be modified. It is also possible to couple two or more vehicles. The tram's appearance and front design are user-defined.
Newer model trams may be up to long and carry 539 passengers at a comfortable .
Bogies
The fixed bogies which are used by most 100% low floor trams for this time increase track wear and decrease the speed at which a tram can drive through a curve (usually on a radius curve). The 15T is designed to cope with these drawbacks by using Jacobs bogies under the articulations, and pivoting bogies at the ends of the tram.
For a time the 15T was said to be the only 100% low floor tram in production with full-pivoting bogies . However, the Alstom Citadis X04, an experimental 100% low floor tram currently being developed with pivoting bogies (but with sections of high floor seating over the bogies), has made an initial production appearance in Istanbul as a modified Citadis 301 (with a fixed centre bogie), and , a tram with a similar interior arrangement, and all pivoting bogies, is undergoing trials for Helsinki. With the same length of tramcar, the Škoda 15T also has four bogies, compared to three (fixed) bogies (the same as on most 100% low floor trams) on it its predecessor, the Škoda 14 T's, which decreases the load each wheel puts on the track. Most of the tram floor is above the rails, but the height over the bogies is above the rails. The transition is inclined, without interior steps. The corridor above the central bogies is wide.
The bogies can all be driven, or some may be idle, depending on the customer's preferences. The bogies have two axles and two-level springing. The mounted wheels are rubber-sprung, with integrated brake-discs and axle bearings. On the axle bearings there is a combined, dynamically resistant, primary rubber-bonded-metal-sprung bogie framework. This framework supports four |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross%20Williams | Ross Neil Williams is an Australian computer scientist and entrepreneur who has made significant contributions to data compression and data deduplication technologies. He is best known as the inventor of the and the founder of Rocksoft Pty Ltd.
Ross Williams gained his PhD in data compression from the University of Adelaide in 1991 and his thesis was subsequently published as Adaptive Data Compression. Williams conducted research into Lempel–Ziv lossless compression techniques during which he developed the SAKDC algorithm, the LZRW range of algorithms, and created the newsgroups comp.compression and comp.compression.research.
In 1996 Williams submitted a patent, , for a variable-length data partitioning system that has since become the basis for data deduplication technology in the computer data storage industry.
In 2001, Williams founded the data integrity and data storage company Rocksoft Pty Ltd. With Williams as chairman and chief architect, Rocksoft developed the deduplication technology to a commercial product. In 2006, Rocksoft was sold to ADIC which was in turn immediately acquired by Quantum Corporation.
In 2007, Williams' patent became the subject of legal action between Quantum Corporation and Riverbed Technology.
Since exiting Rocksoft, Williams founded, along with associate David Sag, Carbon Planet Pty Ltd, a carbon credits auditing, origination, and retailing company.
References
External links
Ross Williams's compression website
Carbon Planet Website
Australian businesspeople
Australian computer scientists
Computer programmers
Living people
1962 births
People from Adelaide
University of Adelaide alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talvisota%3A%20Icy%20Hell | Talvisota: Icy Hell (Russian "Talvisota: Ледяной ад") is a real-time tactics and educational computer game, developed by the international developer group Blitzfront Game Studio and is based on the events of the Winter War () conflict of 1939–1940 between Finland and the Soviet Union. The game is built-up upon Nival Interactive's Enigma Engine that was used in the Blitzkrieg game and is a fully stand-alone product.
The Finnish Board of Film Classification determined that Talvisota: Icy Hell is both a real-time strategy and an educational game.
Game features
Two long campaigns for Soviet and Finnish sides.
Historical accuracy.
Based on real political and historical events before and during the Winter War.
Historical encyclopedia and archives videos.
Molotov cocktails, soldiers speaking Russian and Finnish, authentic battle-front reports, airplanes, skiing troops, satchel charges, flamethrower tanks, and experimental units.
Development history
The game's development was started by the Russian language online community, which consisted of people from different countries that were interested in military history and historical games. In 2004 they started wondering why nobody had made a game about the Winter War, a highly interesting war conflict, although somewhat unknown to the public. They decided to make the game themselves.
Because of various publishing problems, the game wasn't released for a long time despite development being completely finished. At the end of 2007 the game was finally released in CIS countries in Russian. A year later, at the end of 2008, the game was released in Finland in English.
Critical reception
The game received generally positive reviews from game critics. Finland's main website for historians reviewed the game from historical and cultural perspectives, and their opinion was generally positive.
There were some negative opinions as well. For example, Finnish Captain Olli Ovaska said that the game claimed that the Finnish military attacked the USSR on the first day of the war, but according to the game developers, Olli Ovaska misunderstood something as they never claimed such a thing.
However content within the game itself has the player recreating a version of the Shelling of Mainila as a mission for the Soviets defending against Finnish aggression - with the events being presented as being as historically accurate as any other mission in the game, with no text in the mission or its briefing stating that they are fictional. As does the game's official Russian language website in which recounts this event as though it is historic fact (a page which is missing from the Finnish language version of the site - which however have a unique page defending the game's historical accuracy which is not present on the Russian portal) - which support Olli Ovaska's claims that the game promotes the Shelling of Mainila as being a Finnish act of aggression, and not a false flag incident carried out by the Soviets.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAMIT | WAMIT is a computer program for computing wave loads and motions of offshore structures in waves. It is based on the linear and second-order potential theory. The velocity potential is solved by means of boundary integral equation method, also known as panel method. WAMIT has the capability of representing the geometry of the structure by a higher-order method, whereby the potential is represented by continuous B-splines.
WAMIT was developed by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hence the acronym WaveAnalysisMIT. Its first version was launched in 1987. In 1999, WAMIT, Inc. was founded by Chang-Ho Lee and J. Nicholas Newman. Consortiums are held annually to discuss applications and new capabilities of the program.
References
External links
WAMIT, Inc. web site
Computational fluid dynamics
Computer-aided engineering software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC%20Pure | AC Pure was a 24-hour music format produced by Waitt Radio Networks and then by Dial Global under its Dial Global Local banner. Its playlist was composed of adult contemporary music released from the 1970s to this day from artists such as Phil Collins, Celine Dion, Rod Stewart, Gloria Estefan, Michael Bolton, etc. that mainly targeted listeners ages 25-54.
In June 2012, due to reorganizations at Dial Global, the Dial Global Local 24/7 formats were fully integrated into Dial Global's portfolio of formats, and "Dial Global Local" ceased to exist as a brand name. However, most of the former Dial Global Local formats are still offered to affiliate stations in the same manner in which they were previously offered. AC Pure continues as a Local version of Dial Global's Adult Contemporary format.
Competitor Networks
Hits & Favorites by ABC Radio Networks
External links
AC Pure - Info from Waitt Radio Networks
Radio formats
Defunct radio networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TP-Link | TP-Link Technologies Co., Ltd. (), is a global manufacturer of computer networking products based in Shenzhen, China.
History
TP-Link was founded in 1996 by two brothers, Zhao Jianjun ( Zhào Jiànjūn) and Zhao Jiaxing ( Zhào Jiāxīng), to produce and market a network card they had developed. The company name was based on the concept of "twisted pair link" invented by Alexander Graham Bell, a kind of cabling that reduces electromagnetic interference, hence the "TP" in the company name.
TP-Link began its first international expansion in 2005. In 2007, the company moved into its new 100,000-square-meter headquarters and facilities at Shenzhen's Hi-Tech Industry Park. TP-Link USA was established in 2008.
In September 2016, TP-Link unveiled a new logo and slogan, "Reliably Smart"; the new logo is meant to portray the company as being a "lifestyle"-oriented brand as it expands into smart home products.
Product ranges
TP-Link products include high speed cable modems, wireless routers, mobile phones, ADSL, range extenders, routers, switches, IP cameras, power-line adapters, print servers, media converters, wireless adapters, power banks, USB hubs, and smart home devices. TP-Link also manufactured the OnHub router for Google. In 2016 the company launched the new brand Neffos for smart phones. TP-Link manufactures smart home devices under their Kasa Smart and Tapo product lines.
TP-Link sells through multiple sales channels globally, including traditional retailers, online retailers, wholesale distributors, direct market resellers ("DMRs"), value-added resellers ("VARs") and broadband service providers. Its main competition includes companies such as Netgear, Buffalo, Belkin, Linksys, D-Link and ASUS.
Brands
Deco
Deco is a family of mesh-network products. The first of this category was the TP-Link M5, followed up by the M9 Plus which had backhaul compatibility improving on the usable bandwidth in certain cases compared to the M5. At the same time, TP-Link also introduced the Deco P7 which was a power-line connected mesh-network system meaning nodes communicate through the electrical wiring of the domicile compared to the wireless transmissions of the other Deco products. The Deco P7 has since been replaced with the newer Deco P9 which has a different aesthetic but the same wireless performance. Recent products in the series include the Deco M4 and S4 which have the same wireless bandwidth, with only slight differences in design. Further products have been introduced, including the Deco X20 as a new base model, and the Deco X60 as a mid-tier model with higher bandwidth but the same overall design. The Deco X90 is the most powerful of the current Deco family, with more than double the bandwidth compared to the X60 model, and a larger design compared to the other models.
Neffos
Neffos is a brand operated by TP-Link since 2015, for the production of mobile phones and smartphones.
Tapo
On September 30, 2019, TP-Link launched Tapo with one of its initi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Atlantic%20weather%20war | The North Atlantic weather war occurred during World War II. The Allies (Britain in particular) and Germany tried to gain a monopoly on weather data in the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans. Meteorological intelligence was important as it affected military planning and the routing of ships and convoys. In some circumstances, visibility was necessary (photographic reconnaissance and bombing raids) and in others concealment (keeping ship movements secret or suppressing enemy air activity). D-day planning was greatly affected by weather forecasting; it was delayed by one day in the expectation that a storm would blow out and sea conditions would be acceptable. British sources of data included ships at sea and the weather stations at Valentia Observatory and Blacksod Point, in neutral Ireland; German use of weather ships also exposed their secret Enigma codes.
Ocean weather vessels
In 1939, United States Coast Guard vessels were being used as weather ships to protect transatlantic air commerce. The Atlantic Weather Observation Service was authorized by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on January 25, 1940. By February 1941, five Coast Guard cutters were used in weather patrol, usually deployed for three weeks at a time, then sent back to port for ten days. As World War II continued, cutters were needed for the war effort and by August 1942, six cargo vessels were used. The ships were modified with guns and depth charge projectors, and crews were trained and regularly drilled in gunnery but the former cargo ships had top speeds of 10-12 knots, significantly less than U-Boats, which could reach 16 knots on the surface. USCGC Muskeget was torpedoed with 121 aboard on September 9, 1942. In 1943, the United States Weather Bureau recognized their observations as "indispensable" for the war effort.
The flying of fighter aircraft between North America, Greenland and Iceland led to the deployment of two more weather ships in 1943 and 1944. The United Kingdom established one off the west coast of Britain. By May 1945, sixteen ships were in use north of the 15th parallel north in the Atlantic, with six more in the tropical Atlantic. Twenty United States Navy frigates were used in the Pacific for similar operations. Weather Bureau personnel stationed on weather ships were asked voluntarily to accept the assignment. They used surface weather observations, radiosondes and pilot balloons (PIBALs) to determine weather conditions aloft. Due to its value, operations continued after World War II, leading to an international agreement in September 1946 that no fewer than 13 ocean weather stations would be maintained by the Coast Guard, with five others maintained by Great Britain and two by Brazil.
The Germans began to use weather ships in the summer of 1940 but three of its four ships were sunk by November 23, which led to the use of fishing vessels for its weather ship fleet. German weather ships were out to sea for three to five weeks at a time |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Affiliate%20Network | The Google Affiliate Network was the affiliate marketing company, specifically affiliate network, formerly known as Doubleclick Performics, which was bought by Google in 2007. On April 16, 2013, Google announced the closure of the Google Affiliate Network.
History
DoubleClick announced the acquisition of DoubleClick (including Performics) by Google for $3.1 Billion in April 2007. The acquisition was finalized in March 2008 after the approval of the Department of Justice antitrust authorities in the United States and the Brussels-based European Commission, the antitrust authority of the European Union.
The search engine marketing and optimization part of Performics was acquired by Publicis in 2008, after the purchase of DoubleClick by Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) had been finalized. The affiliate network part of DoubleClick Performics remained with Google and was re-branded Google Affiliate Network.
On April 17, 2013, Google announced plans to retire the Google Affiliate Network on July 31, 2013.
See also
Affiliate marketing
Affiliate programs directories
Affiliate network
References
External links
Google Affiliate Network Website
Google AdPlanner (beta) - Complimentary tool
Google Homepage (corporate website)
Online advertising services and affiliate networks
Affiliate marketing
Companies based in Mountain View, California
Marketing companies established in 1998 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dol2day | dol2day is a social networking platform for politically interested German speaking people. dol2day is the abbreviation for “democracy online today”. Most of the members are college and university students, pupils and younger professionals, in particular from Germany. Average age is between 20 and 30 years. Five students from Aachen launched the website in May 2000. Therefore, dol2day claims to be one of the oldest social networks and the biggest for politics in Germany. The site is a combination of Internet forum and multi-user dungeon (MUD).
dol2day provides several features for its members (“Doler”). Users are able to keep and maintain a personal page. This page contains information about their name, age, contact details, interests, friends list, political preferences and group as well as virtual party memberships within dol2day. Doler also have the option to upload a photo on their personal page. dol2day is comparable to other social networking sites.
Users can start public-opinion polls about political and social topics. In these polls all Doler are able to discuss the issue and to evaluate articles by other member.
Doler are accessed to vote an “Internet Chancellor” for a period of four months. In 2000 the election of the "Internet Chancellor" on the website received significant media attention in Germany. This “Internet Chancellor” organizes chats with politicians and other celebrities (e.g. Franz Müntefering, Christian Wulff, Günter Verheugen) and starts referendums to develop the community. But the ultimate decision makers are the owner of dol2day. From time to time Dolers hold local real-life meet-ups.
During the 2002 German federal election the Christian Democratic Union of Germany launched their own online community, which was criticised for supposedly plagiarising the concept of Dol2day.
See also
Me2day
References
Internet properties established in 2000
German social networking websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20naturalness%20theory | Media naturalness theory is also known as the psychobiological model. The theory was developed by Ned Kock and attempts to apply Darwinian evolutionary principles to suggest which types of computer-mediated communication will best fit innate human communication capabilities. Media naturalness theory argues that natural selection has resulted in face-to-face communication becoming the most effective way for two people to exchange information.
The theory has been applied to human communication outcomes in various contexts, such as: education, knowledge transfer, communication in virtual environments, e-negotiation, business process improvement, trust and leadership in virtual teamwork, online learning, maintenance of distributed relationships, performance in experimental tasks using various media, and modular production. Its development is also consistent with ideas from the field of evolutionary psychology.
The media naturalness theory builds on the media richness theory's arguments that face-to-face interaction is the richest type of communication medium by providing an evolutionary explanation for the face-to-face medium's degree of richness. Media naturalness theory argues that since ancient hominins communicated primarily face-to-face, evolutionary pressures since that time have led to the development of a brain that is consequently designed for that form of communication. Kock points out that computer-mediated communication is far too recent a phenomenon to have had the time necessary to shape human cognition and language capabilities via natural selection. In turn, Kock argues that using communication media that suppress key elements found in face-to-face communication, as many electronic communication media do, ends up posing cognitive obstacles to communication, and particularly in the case of complex tasks (e.g., business process redesign, new product development, online learning), because such tasks seem to require more intense communication over extended periods of time than simple tasks.
Medium naturalness
The naturalness of a communication medium is defined by Kock as the degree of similarity of the medium with the face-to-face medium. The face-to-face medium is presented as the medium enabling the highest possible level of communication naturalness, which is characterized by the following five key elements: (1) a high degree of co-location, which would allow the individuals engaged in a communication interaction to see and hear each other; (2) a high degree of synchronicity, which would allow the individuals to quickly exchange communicative stimuli; (3) the ability to convey and observe facial expressions; (4) the ability to convey and observe body language; and (5) the ability to convey and listen to speech.
Media naturalness theory predicts that any electronic communication medium allowing for the exchange of significantly less or more communicative stimuli per unit of time than the face-to-face medium will pose cognitive o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YASARA | Yet Another Scientific Artificial Reality Application (YASARA) is a computer program for molecular visualising, modelling, and dynamics. It has many scientific uses, as expressed by the large number of scientific articles mentioning the software. The free version of YASARA is well suited to bioinformatics education. A series of freely available bioinformatics courses exist that use this software. See the Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics (CMBI) education pages for a series of examples.
Modelling:
Dynamics:
See also
List of molecular graphics systems
Comparison of software for molecular mechanics modeling
Molecular graphics
Molecular design software
References
External links
Molecular modelling software
Molecular dynamics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genuine%20Classic%20Rock | Classic Rock (Local Version) (formerly known as Genuine Classic Rock) is a 24-hour music format produced by Dial Global, formerly by Waitt Radio Networks and then by the now-defunct Dial Global Local. Its playlist comprises classic rock music released from the 1960s to the 1980s from artists such as ZZ Top, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Pink Floyd, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Tom Petty and Eric Clapton among others.
In June 2012, due to reorganizations at Dial Global, the Dial Global Local 24/7 formats were fully integrated into Dial Global's portfolio of formats, and "Dial Global Local" ceased to exist as a brand name. However, most of the former Dial Global Local formats are still offered to affiliate stations in the same manner in which they were previously offered. Genuine Classic Rock is no longer offered under that name, but continues as a Local version of Dial Global's Classic Rock format. By 2020, it’s still being used today
Competitor Networks
The Classic Rock Experience by ABC Radio Networks
External links
Dial Global Classic Rock homepage
Radio formats
American radio networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock%202.0 | Rock 2.0, formerly Modern Rock, was a 24-hour music format produced by the Dial Global Radio Networks, and formerly distributed through its now-defunct Dial Global Local service. Its playlist is composed of highly tested classic rock from the 1980s combined with alternative and active rock music released from the 1990s to this day from artists such as Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, Nickelback, Pearl Jam, Metallica, etc. This satellite/internet-driven programming service predominantly targets male listeners in the 18–44 demographic range with a 20- to 40-year-old target.
Rock 2.0 was originally an alternative rock format under its former owner Waitt Radio Networks called "Alternative Now!" After Dial Global purchased Waitt in 2008, the service was renamed "Modern Rock," but retained its alternative/active rock hybrid format. In mid-2010, the network was relaunched into what Dial Global terms as a new generation classic rock format as "Rock 2.0," featuring rock music from the 1980s through today.
On-Air Personalities: Pyke - Mornings, Eddie Barella - Middays, Mistress Carrie - Afternoons, Marconi - Nights...
When Dial Global made the final integration of the Dial Global Local formats into its own portfolio in June 2012, Rock 2.0 was the only Dial Global Local format to survive with its name intact. It was the only format offered by Dial Global to feature current mainstream rock, and is available only in a Local version, not in a Total version.
In September 2013, Dial Global was renamed Westwood One, a brand that Dial Global had purchased in 2011, because the Westwood One brand is better known in the industry.
External links
Rock 2.0 format page on Westwood One's website
References
Radio formats
Defunct radio networks in the United States
Defunct radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai%20Supercomputer%20Center | Shanghai Supercomputer Center (SSC; ) offers high performance computing (HPC), technical support and technical consulting services to customers from scientific research, public utilities services, and industrials and engineering. It was founded in December 2000 with an investment by the Shanghai Municipal Government. SSC has over 350 users from 27 provinces across China, and covers 20 different fields and industries, which include weather forecast, drug design, life science, auto design, new material, civil engineering, physics, chemistry, and aerospace.
During the past decade, SSC has introduced three HPC systems, two of which were ranked #10 in TOP500 list in 2004 and 2009 separately: DAWNING 4000A (10TFlops) and DAWNING 5000A (Magic Cube, 230TFlops).
See also
Dawning Information Industry
Computing platform
Supercomputer centers in China
References
External links
Economy of Shanghai
Supercomputer sites
Computer science institutes in China
Science and technology in China
Supercomputing in China
2000 establishments in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street%20Spies | Street Spies is a Hardy Boys novel in the Casefiles series. It was published in 1988.
Plot summary
Frank and Joe head to New York to pose as bike messengers. They hear of "computer secrets" being stolen by cyberspace thieves, and they hear of a renegade messenger out to destroy the Hardys. They must find a lead, before it becomes too much.
References
The Hardy Boys books
1988 American novels
1988 children's books
Novels set in New York City
Children's books set in New York (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tchanaga | Tchanaga is a town in northern Togo.
Transport
It is proposed to be served by a railway station on the Togo Railways network.
See also
Railway stations in Togo
Transport in Togo
References
Populated places in Savanes Region, Togo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20for%20the%20Management%20of%20Information%20Systems | The Institute for the Management of Information Systems (IMIS), previously called the Institute of Data Processing Management (IDPM), is an international association in the field of Information Systems Management. Its headquarters is in the United Kingdom, and it has approximately 12,000 members the majority of whom reside outside the UK. The Institute was founded in 1978 and is a registered charity.
Since their early establishment, the IMIS (formerly the IDPM) and the British Computer Society (BCS) have been regarded as the two main UK professional institutes for computer professionals. In a Press Release dated 3 May 2013, the BCS announced that "Following an overwhelming majority vote from its membership, the Institute for the Management of Information Systems (IMIS), has ratified its decision to merge with BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, with immediate effect. The agreement will see all IMIS professional members transfer into BCS membership".
IMIS Qualifications
IMIS qualifications are divided into three levels:
Foundation Diploma
Diploma
Higher Diploma.
Files of each course syllabus are available from the institute in PDF format via their website.
Foundation Diploma
This course is suitable for young people who want to work with computers and need some entry-level education. All modules defined within the course structure may be taken individually or collectively to form a Foundation Diploma. Each module is designed to introduce the student to the basic elements of information systems practices.
Diploma
Completion of these examinations awards a Diploma Certificate and Licentiate grade of professional membership. The general standard equates to the National (ONC) Certificate. Candidates having completed the Diploma course are working at the equivalent level of early entry analysts..
Higher Diploma
The Higher Diploma extends and complements the Diploma course to give students a comprehensive knowledge of the entire field of operations, programming, systems analysis and design, and computer management. Access at this level is also available to candidates who comply with the entrance requirements which can be found on the IMIS website page. Completion of these examinations awards a Higher Diploma Certificate and Associate grade of professional membership. The general standard equates to the Higher National Certificate/Diploma (HNC/HND) and prepares candidates for work at the equivalent level of analyst/team leader.
After gaining their academic IMIS qualifications students can become full Members (or later Fellows) of the Institute.
IMIS Journal
The Institute has its own professional publication, the IMIS Journal which is a quarterly magazine circulated to the organisation’s 12,000+ members, in addition to business leaders, policy makers and academic institutions. The editorial content contains coverage and analysis of current people, events and topics of interest to senior managers working in an information systems setting. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange%20Austria | Orange Austria was an Austrian mobile network operator. It started its business on 26 October 1998 as owner of the third GSM license of the country, and the first provider operating in the GSM 1800 band. Since 2004, Orange (previously known as ONE) successfully applied for a UMTS-License and offers since 2005 also UMTS Services. ONE's logo was a blue circle. It was rebranded as Orange on 22 September 2008.
With 1.9 million customers (including approximately 180,000 Tele2mobil customers) it is Austria's third largest provider with a market share of 20%. Orange cooperates with UPC Telekabel (a Liberty Global company) for landline and ISP offers.
On 3 February 2012, Hutchison Whampoa announced that it would buy all of Orange Austria for US$1.7 billion. The deal closed on 3 January 2013. The combined business created a mobile carrier with 2.8 million customers and more than 20% market share in Austria. The Orange brand continued to operate in Austria until August 19, 2013, when its operations were merged into 3.
Ownership
Orange Austria was formerly owned by:
France Télécom: 35%
Mid Europa Partners: 65%
On 3 February 2012, Hutchison 3G Austria acquired 100% of Orange Austria from Mid Europa and France Télécom for US$1.7 billion. JPMorgan Chase advised Hutchison on the deal, while Morgan Stanley advised France Télécom and Mid Europa Partners.
Discount offers
Since 2005, Orange Austria initiated two subsidiary discount companies, Yesss and Eety.
Yesss
Yesss offers prepaid-services with various conditions. It shares the network with Orange Austria and operates under the network-codes 6998 and recently 681. The instant success of Yesss made Orange Austria's competitor A1 initiate a similar offer called BoB in 2006. Yesss itself offers neither cheap phones nor any kind of bonus-system. From time to time, there are special offers in cooperation with the supermarket Hofer.
At its beginning, some of the Austrian mobile providers protested, because Yesss operates a free unlocking service and describes how to remove the SIM lock from different phone models.
Following the sale of Orange to Hutchison Whampoa, Yesss was sold off to Mobilkom Austria.
Eety
Eety is pretty similar to Yesss, but very dedicated to emigrants and guest workers. It offers localisation and support in many eastern- and south-European languages and offers low rates for calls to this areas. Calls to the UK/USA are also very cheap.
Other Austrian mobile providers
A1 / BoB
3
Magenta Telekom / Telering
References
External links
Yesss Website, yesss.at
Eety Website, eety.at
Mobile phone companies of Austria
Companies based in Vienna
CK Hutchison Holdings
Orange S.A. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U%C4%8Dka%20Tunnel | The Učka Tunnel () is a toll tunnel on the A8 motorway in Croatia, under the Učka mountain range, as part of the Istrian Y network in Istria owned and operated by BINA Istra (owning the highway in a concession from 1995 to 2027).
At wide and long, it is the third longest in Croatia after the Mala Kapela and Sveti Rok tunnels. The tunnel consists of a single tube (although another is under construction), with two traffic lanes operating in opposite directions. Construction on the existing tunnel tube began in 1978 and it was opened for traffic on September 27, 1981.
The toll is part of the rest of the closed toll collection system in use on the Istrian Y. The shortest possible journey through it costs EUR 4,50 for a class I vehicle.
It is rated Class D/E under the ADR treaty for hazardous materials transportation, and vehicles transporting restricted goods must be pre-arranged and escorted. It is the only suitable road between Istria and the rest of Croatia for vehicles over 5 tonnes.
Over 40 million vehicles have passed through the tunnel, with more than 2.7 million passing in 2007 alone. During the summer of 2008, on average 14,000 vehicles passed daily.
Safety Concerns
In a 2004 traffic safety test by ADAC, the Učka Tunnel shared the last place with Tuhobić Tunnel, also from Croatia, being classified as a high-risk transportation utility.
In 2008, the Tuhobić Tunnel was widened to four lanes. However, no improvements were made to the Učka Tunnel, causing a demonstration clogging the traffic at a tunnel entrance by Istrian bikers.
More serious implications of the tunnels lack of safety were seen in October 2019, when the European Commission recalled Croatia on their obligations to comply with the minimum safety requirements set out in the Tunnel Safety Directive. Tunnels already in operation on 30 April 2006, and that were not already in accordance with the safety requirements, had to be modernized by 30 April 2014. For certain tunnels, as it is the case of Učka’s tunnel, that period could be prolonged by five years (until 30 April 2019). However, due to the lack of upgrade to the tunnel, this obligation was not met. As such, the government of Croatia accelerated the works.
Upgrade
In June 2011, BINA Istra announced that design documents were being prepared for construction of the second tunnel tube of the Učka Tunnel, and that construction was scheduled to start in mid-2012, estimating its completion in 2015.
However, this construction never started. It was transferred to be part of the wider Istrian Y upgrade plan, as part of the 2B2-1 phase.
The excavation of the second tunnel tube was officially completed on the 18 September 2023. It is planned to open to traffic before the Summer of June 2024, in readiness for the tourist season.
In the existing tunnel tube, upgrades of the emergency and signalization systems are ongoing.
See also
A8 motorway
BINA Istra
Učka
References
External links
Road tunnels in Croatia
Toll tu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime%20Awareness%20Global%20Network | Maritime Awareness Global Network (MAGNET) is an intelligence tool for the collection, correlation, fusion, and dissemination of maritime information via web-enabled user interfaces to specific user groups in support of maritime domain awareness (MDA).
The United States Coast Guard, an agency of the Department of Homeland Security, developed the Maritime Awareness Global Network (MAGNET) system to use information relating to vessels and activities within the maritime environment to accomplish the Coast Guard's missions in the areas of Maritime Safety, Maritime Security, Maritime Mobility, National Defense, and Protection of Natural Resources. MAGNET replaces the Joint Maritime Information Element (JMIE) Support System (JSS).
MAGNET provides awareness to the field as well as to strategic planners by aggregating data from existing sources internal and external to the Coast Guard or the Department of Homeland Security. MAGNET correlates data and provides the medium to display information such as ship registry, current ship position, crew background, passenger lists, port history, cargo, known criminal vessels, and suspect lists. MAGNET processes personally identifiable information (PII).
Coast Guard Intelligence serves as MAGNET's executive agent and shares appropriate aggregated data on a need to know basis with other law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
MAGNET provides access to the database via workstations located throughout the world. The system will be accessible on multiple networks at different classification levels. The workstations are equipped to access the appropriate networks with current browser technology.
See also
U.S. Coast Guard Legal Division
U.S. Coast Guard Investigative Service
Coast Guard Intelligence
References
United States Coast Guard |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice%20%28command%29 | In computing, choice is a command that allows for batch files to prompt the user to select one item from a set of single-character choices. It is available in a number of operating system command-line shells.
History
The command was first introduced as an external command (with filenames CHOICE.COM or CHOICE.EXE) with MS-DOS 6.0. It is included in Novell DOS 7 and IBM PC DOS 7.0, and is also available from the command-line shell of some versions of Microsoft Windows, but not under Windows 2000 and Windows XP. It was first made available for Windows in the Windows XP Resource Kit.
It has been reintroduced in Windows Server 2003 and is present in later versions.
Starting with Windows 2000, the SET command has similar functionality using the /P command-line argument. However this command requires an additional key stroke (hitting ENTER key), which is not required by choice.
The choice command has been ported to OS/2, Rexx and Perl. It is also available in Datalight ROM-DOS, FreeDOS, PTS-DOS, and ReactOS. The FreeDOS version was developed by Jim Hall and is licensed under the GPL v2.
Usage
The command returns the selected choice as an exit code which is set to the index of the key that the user selects from the list of choices. The first choice in the list returns a value of 1, the second a value of 2, and so forth.
If a key is pressed that is not a valid choice, the command will sound a warning beep. If an error condition is detected, an exit code value of 255 will be returned. An exit code value of 0 will be returned if the user presses + or +.
Choice displays the default choices Y and N if used without parameters.
Syntax
DOS
CHOICE [/C[:]choices] [/N] [/S] [/T[:]c,nn] ["text"]
Arguments:
/C[:]choices Specifies allowable keys. The default is "YN".
/T[:]c,nn This defaults choice to "c" after "nn" seconds.
text Specifies the prompt string to display. (Quotes are optional).
Flags:
/N Specifies not to display the choices and "?" at end of prompt string.
/S Specifies that choice keys should be treated as case sensitive.
Microsoft Windows, ReactOS
CHOICE [/C [<Choice1><Choice2><…>]] [/N] [/CS] [/T <Timeout> /D <Choice>] [/M <"Text">]
Arguments:
/C[:]choices Specifies allowable keys. The default is "YN". (Microsoft Windows restricts valid choice keys to a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and ASCII values of 128 to 254)
/T[:]nn This defaults choice to /D after "nn" seconds. Must be specified with default /D.
/D[:]c This defaults choice to 'c'.
/M text Specifies the prompt string to display.
Flags:
/N Specifies not to display the choices and "?" at end of prompt string.
/CS Specifies that choice keys should be treated as case sensitive.
Example
The batch file below gives the user three choices.
The user is directed depending upon his input by evaluating the exit code using the IF ERRORLEVEL command (which tests on "greater or equal"). The selected choice is then printed to the screen using the ECHO command.
@ECHO off
@CHOICE /C:123
IF ERRORLEVEL 3 GOTO three
IF ER |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliable%20multicast | A reliable multicast is any computer networking protocol that provides a reliable sequence of packets to multiple recipients simultaneously, making it suitable for applications such as multi-receiver file transfer.
Overview
Multicast is a network addressing method for the delivery of information to a group of destinations simultaneously using the most efficient strategy to deliver the messages over each link of the network only once, creating copies only when the links to the multiple destinations split (typically network switches and routers). However, like the User Datagram Protocol, multicast does not guarantee the delivery of a message stream. Messages may be dropped, delivered multiple times, or delivered out of order. A reliable multicast protocol adds the ability for receivers to detect lost and/or out-of-order messages and take corrective action (similar in principle to TCP), resulting in a gap-free, in-order message stream.
Reliability
The exact meaning of reliability depends on the specific protocol instance. A minimal definition of reliable multicast is eventual delivery of all the data to all the group members, without enforcing any particular delivery order. However, not all reliable multicast protocols ensure this level of reliability; many of them trade efficiency for reliability, in different ways. For example, while TCP makes the sender responsible for transmission reliability, multicast NAK-based protocols shift the responsibility to receivers: the sender never knows for sure that all the receivers have in fact received all the data. RFC- 2887 explores the design space for bulk data transfer, with a brief discussion on the various issues and some hints at the possible different meanings of reliable.
Reliable Group Data Delivery
Reliable Group Data Delivery (RGDD) is a form of multicasting where an object is to be moved from a single source to a fixed set of receivers known before transmission begins. A variety of applications may need such delivery: Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) replicates any chunk of data two additional times to specific servers, VM replication to multiple servers may be required for scale out of applications and data replication to multiple servers may be necessary for load balancing by allowing multiple servers to serve the same data from their local cached copies. Such delivery is frequent within datacenters due to plethora of servers communicating while running highly distributed applications.
RGDD may also occur across datacenters and is sometimes referred to as inter-datacenter Point to Multipoint (P2MP) Transfers. Such transfers deliver huge volumes of data from one datacenter to multiple datacenters for various applications: search engines distribute search index updates periodically (e.g. every 24 hours), social media applications push new content to many cache locations across the world (e.g. YouTube and Facebook), and backup services make several geographically dispersed copies f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title%20%28command%29 | In computing, title is a command in various command-line interpreters (shells) on Microsoft Windows and ReactOS that changes the title for the graphical terminal emulator window. The command is also used within DFS and ADFS to change the title of the disc in the current drive.
Overview
In case of Microsoft Windows it is a shell builtin of the command-line interpreter cmd.exe. The command is available in Windows 2000 and later.
It is compatible with Windows Console and Windows Terminal.
The default window title is defined in the %COMSPEC% environment variable. However, since the Windows Console title can also be defined in the program shortcut, the title is usually set to "Command Prompt".
The command is also available in the Command Processor Shell of Windows Embedded CE and in the Take Command Console.
Although the OS/2 command shell is closely related to the Windows Command Prompt, the title command is not available in the OS/2 version of cmd.exe. The default title of the OS/2 shell window is "OS/2 Window". It can be changed using the start command.
The ReactOS Command Prompt also includes the title command to set the window title for the command prompt window.
The command also is not available in the macOS Terminal. Instead, the echo command can be used in combination with special escape sequences.
Within the GNU GRUB command processor title is one of several menu-specific commands. It is used to start a new boot entry.
Syntax
title [<String>]
Arguments:
<String> Specifies the title of the Command Prompt window.
Example
The following batch file changes the title of the Command Prompt window to "Updating files" while the copy command is being executed. After the command is executed, the text "Files updated" is displayed using the echo command, and the title of the Command Prompt window is changed back to "Command Prompt".
@echo off
title Updating files
copy \\server\share\*.txt c:\documents\*.txt
echo Files updated
title Command Prompt
See also
Windows Console
Linux console
References
Further reading
External links
title | Microsoft Docs
Microcomputer software
ReactOS commands
Windows administration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCloud%20Air | vCloud Air was a public cloud computing service built on vSphere from VMware. vCloud Air has three "infrastructure as a service" (IaaS) subscription service types: dedicated cloud, virtual private cloud, and disaster recovery. vCloud Air also offers a pay-as-you-go service named Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand.
In Q2 2017, VMware sold vCloud Air to French cloud service provider OVH.
History
VMware announced the vCloud initiative at the 2008 VMworld conference in Las Vegas and garnered significant press attention.
At the 2009 VMworld conference in San Francisco vCloud was featured in the vCloud Pavilion. vCloud was also a subject at the 2010 VMworld conference.
On May 21, 2013, the early access program for vCloud Hybrid Service was launched. On August 26, 2013, general availability was announced for vCloud Hybrid Service including features such as DRaaS and Direct Connect.
vCloud Hybrid Service was rebranded to vCloud Air on August 21, 2014. vCloud Air provides a hybrid cloud—a public IaaS that functions as an extension of existing data centers running VMware vSphere, with common management and networking. With the rebrand of the service, they also announced a cloud computing On-Demand program that allows users to pay only for what each user needs to use for resources.
vCloud Air Mobile was announced on August 25, 2014, which added the integration of AirWatch and Pivotal Cloud Foundry.
On 4 April 2017 French cloud provider OVH announced its intent to acquire VMware vCloud Air Business and all personnel. The acquisition was completed in Q2 2017.
Data center locations
Similar to other public cloud providers, vCloud Air supports the concept of regions - or locations, in vCloud terminology - which are typically used for better pricing, to increase application performance, or as disaster recovery. vCloud Air is offered to the public in California, Nevada, Texas, Virginia and New Jersey in the United States. Internationally, it is available in the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, and Australia.
Government users have access to two additional locations: one in Arizona, and another in Virginia.
Architecture
vCloud Air supports more than 5,000 applications and 90+ operating systems certified to run on vSphere. The use of vCloud Air allows seamless workload portability and migration due to vSphere, which means no rewrites or recoding when moving workloads from an on-premises data center to the cloud and vice versa.
Network virtualization allows users to configure firewalls and network to mirror on-site networks, including NAT rules and firewall rules, networks, and public IPs.
Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand
Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand is self-service on-demand cloud computing platform from vCloud Air. This infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) pay-as-you-go offering allows users to consume specific vCPU, storage, vRAM, Network, and IP as needed. Additionally, the service allows adjusting of powered-on state virtual machines.
VMware announced |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stampede%20%28video%20game%29 | Stampede is a video game written by Bob Whitehead for the Atari Video Computer System (later called the Atari 2600) and published by Activision in 1981. Stampede is a left-to-right, horizontally-scrolling, action game with a cattle round-up theme. An Intellivision version was released the following year.
Gameplay
An Activision catalog from 1982 advertised Stampede in the following way:
{{blockquote|Ready for a little round up? With Stampede by Activision, you'll have to ride fast and rope even faster. Those little dogies seem to be everywhere, and they're all worth points. But, be careful! Your ol' horse can get a little edgy, especially when you take your eyes off the trail. So, head out West for hours of fun with Stampede!" }}
The objective of Stampede is to round up all of the cattle without letting any pass by. To do so, the player must lasso each one in order to capture it. The player is initially only allowed to let two cattle pass; if a third one slips by, the game is over. All of the cattle run in the same direction as the player, albeit slower. The one exception is the Black Angus calf, which is described by the game as "stubborn", and remains motionless, forcing the player to prioritize the calf.
An important caveat to this is that the player gets one extra free pass for every 1,000 points scored. So, if a player were at 2,000 points and had not yet let any cattle pass, the player would be allowed to let four cattle pass before the fifth one ended the game (assuming the player did not reach 3,000 points).
This makes it possible for an expert player to repeatedly beat the game, as after about 5,000 points or so the game essentially "resets," and the same pattern is repeated. According to David Yancey, there is a bug which makes it so that the game will typically only allow the player to play in a loop for eight play throughs; apparently, however, there is a version of the game with a different binary which allows one to continue to accrue points until the score 99,999 is reached.
ReceptionStampede was favorably reviewed in 1982 by Video magazine where it was described as a "thrilling representation of rope ridin'" boasting "charming visuals". The reviewers noted that although the game only utilized 2k of ROM, it demonstrated Activision's success in "marketing new and unusual games" and showed that "expanding memory isn't the only way to create solid, playable games".
Richard A. Edwards reviewed the Atari version of Stampede in The Space Gamer No. 53. Edwards commented that "This is one of the best combined strategy and action games for the Atari system. Go rope yourself a copy, pardners."
In 1983, Video Games stated that the Intellivision version of Stampede was easier than the difficult Atari 2600 original with identical graphics. Danny Goodman of Creative Computing Video & Arcade Games was surprised that the Intellivision version's graphics "were scarcely more detailed than their Atari ancestors".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EasyPeasy | EasyPeasy (formerly named Ubuntu Eee) was a Linux-based operating system for netbooks. EasyPeasy was built upon Debian and Ubuntu, but was customized for low-powered computers and access to web applications. EasyPeasy is maintained as an open source project, though it primarily uses popular web applications or proprietary software over free and open source software alternatives (e.g. Skype over Ekiga) when the functionality offered is deemed better by its users.
Main characteristics
Uses a recent Ubuntu release as a base
Supports many netbooks
Pre-installs some widely used applications and codecs like Adobe Flash and MP3
Uses well known proprietary software, instead of open source alternatives
Strives to deliver netbook functionality like the Social Desktop and automatic file synchronization
History
Ubuntu Eee was started by Jon Ramvi in December 2007. At that time it was only some scripts which modified a regular Ubuntu installation to support the Asus Eee PCs. In June 2008 the project was disbanded as a script and Ubuntu Eee 8.04 was released as a stand-alone distribution, based on Ubuntu 8.04 with EeePC support installed out of the box. On September 5 followed the 8.04.1 version. It used a new Linux kernel, came with a new user interface and Flash 10.
It was renamed EasyPeasy in January 2009, and has been downloaded well over a million times from the main mirror.
Trademark issues
On September 10, 2008, Canonical notified Jon Ramvi by email that the project's use of Canonical's names, URLs, and logos violated Canonical's trademarks in the original name Ubuntu Eee.
In response, the owners of the project announced that they would use a new name EasyPeasy and version 1.0 was released January 1, 2009.
Release history
See also
Comparison of netbook-oriented Linux distributions
Ubuntu Netbook Edition
References
External links
Ubuntu derivatives
Linux distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthestration | Synthestration is the art of composing music in the form of a MIDI mockup. A mockup is an extensive demo of a musical recording, for playback by computers triggering virtual instrument software or hardware, to emulate an orchestral recording.
The process involves inputting notes into a computer sequencing program as MIDI data, which then produces those tones via virtual instrument software/hardware. This is followed by significant programming in order to realistically mimic the ensemble playing of an orchestra.
The term is a combination of the words 'synth(esizer)' and 'orchestration'.
"Synthestrated" mockups are frequently used in projects requiring large budgets to record, such as film scores. A mockup allows the director, or producer, to hear the compositions in a setting that approximates their final version, allowing them to approve or alter the project before the budget has been committed to record live musicians. However, because the replication of acoustic instruments has progressed steadily, MIDI mockups are occasionally utilized in the final score on films, in cases where time has run out, or due to budget constraints. For big-budget films, mockups are eventually converted into an orchestrated score and recorded by a live orchestra.
MIDI |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colocation | Colocation or collocation may refer to:
Colocation (business), the placement of several entities in a single location
Colocation centre, a data center where companies can rent equipment, space, and bandwidth for computing services, known as colocation services
Collocation, in corpus linguistics, a sequence of words that often occur together
Collocation, a sub-type of phraseme
Collocation method, used in mathematics to solve differential and integral equations
Technology and engineering
Co-location (satellite), the placing of two or more geostationary communications satellites in orbit in close proximity
Collocation (remote sensing), matching remote sensing measurements from two or more different instruments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20NewsNation | This is a list of television programs currently and formerly broadcast by NewsNation and WGN America, a Chicago-based cable channel.
Current programming
Syndicated series
News programming
Religious programming
These programs air in early morning Sunday timeslots under paid programming arrangements with each ministry.
Catholic Mass
In Search of the Lord's Way
The Jewish Jesus
Joseph Prince (daily)
Manna-fest with Perry Stone
Michael Youssef
Tomorrow's World 1 (1998–present)
Worship Anew
Former programming
Original programming
Original
Acquired
Syndicated series
The Andy Griffith Show (1978–99)
Bewitched (1978–83; 1990–94; 1996–97; 2008–12)
Daniel Boone (1978–80)
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1978–83; 1985–91)
Family Affair (1978–82)
The Flintstones (1978–81, 1991–95)
Gilligan's Island (1978–82)
I Dream of Jeannie (1978–85; 1990–92, 2008–12)
Love American Style (1978–81)
My Three Sons (1978–80)
The New Soupy Sales Show (1978–79)
The Odd Couple (1978–87; 1993–94)
The Phil Donahue Show (1978–82)
Soul Train (1978–September 29, 2008)
Wild Kingdom (1978–82; 1984–87)
Bugs Bunny and Friends (1979–90)
Carol Burnett and Friends (1979–87)
The Cisco Kid (1979–88)
Dennis the Menace (1959 TV series) (1979–80; 1982–84)
Groovie Goolies and Friends (1979–80, 1983–84)
In Search of... (1979–86)
The Lone Ranger (1979–92)
Maude (1979–80)
McHale's Navy (1979–80)
Star Blazers (1979–80)
Star Trek (1979–80)
Zane Grey Theater (1979–85)
Adventures of Superman (1980–89)
Barney Miller (1980–88; 2007–10)
The Bullwinkle Show (1980–83; 1993; April 18-September 26, 2009)
Good Times (1980–90)
Hollywood Squares (1980–81)
Independent Network News/USA Tonight (1980–90, produced by sister station WPIX in New York)
Kung Fu (1980–90)
The Mike Douglas Show (1980–81)
The Phil Silvers Show (1980–84)
Prisoner: Cell Block H (1980–82)
Scooby-Doo (1980–86)
Solid Gold (1980–84)
Welcome Back, Kotter (1980–91)
The $50,000 Pyramid (1981)
America's Top 10 (1981–86)
Best of Saturday Night (1981–83)
Hogan's Heroes (1981–84; 1986–93)
The Incredible Hulk (1981–82)
Laverne & Shirley (1981–88)
The Lawrence Welk Show (1981–82)
Little House on the Prairie (1981–89)
The Muppet Show (1981–88)
The New You Asked for It (1981–83)
The Pink Panther Show (1981–84)
Rhoda (1981–82; 1984–85; 1987–88)
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon (1981–82)
Tarzan (1981–84)
At the Movies (1982–90)
The Big Valley (1982–87)
Charlie's Angels (1982–85; 1988–91, 1995–97, 2009–12)
The Jeffersons (1982–90; 1992–96)
Rawhide (1982–88)
Soap (1982–92)
Super Friends (1982–87)
The Twilight Zone (1959) (1982–94)
Alice (1983–89)
Alvin and the Chipmunks (1983–84)
The Beverly Hillbillies (1983–88; 2003–11)
Chico and the Man (1983–84)
Fantasy Island (1983–86, 1989–90)
Lou Grant (1983–88; 1991–93)
The Love Boat (1983–92)
One Day at a Time (1983–86; 1988–91)
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1983–84)
Tales from the Darkside (1983–91, 2000–01, 2008–13)
WKRP in Cincinnati (1983–90, 2008–September 6, 2009)
The Abbott and Costello Show (1984–85; 1990–91)
The Ad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multistage | Multistage may refer to:
Armitage–Doll multistage model of carcinogenesis
Multistage amplifiers
Multistage centrifugal pump
Multi-stage flash distillation
Multistage interconnection networks
Multistage rocket
Multistage sampling
Multistage testing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infadels | Infadels were a London-based indie-electro band signed to the Wall of Sound record label. Infadels were founded in 2003 by Alex Bruford (drums), Matt Gooderson (guitar, programming) and Bnann Watts (vocals), who were joined shortly afterwards by Dead at Thirty founder Richie Vernon (live keys) and Wag Marshall-Page (Bass).
Their debut album, We Are Not the Infadels, was produced by Jagz Kooner and released in January 2006. A second album, the Martin "Youth" Glover produced Universe In Reverse, was released in June 2008. Their third album, The Future of the Gravity Boy, was released digitally on 19 March, and physically on 9 June 2012.
History
The band released two singles, "Leave Your Body" and "Can't Get Enough"/"Murder That Sound", on their own record label, Dead at Thirty. The band sent a copy of "Leave Your Body" to John Peel who played it on his Radio 1 show, while "Can't Get Enough" which reached No. 43 on the UK charts. They won awards for "Best Live Act" and "Best Dance Band" at the 2004 Diesel-U-Music Awards. One of the judges was Wall of Sound boss Mark Jones, who immediately offered the band a deal. "Can't Get Enough" was later remixed by Wall of Sound producer John Gosling and released on the FIFA 07 album.
In January 2005, the Infadels headed into the studio with producer Jagz Kooner to record their debut album, We Are Not the Infadels. The band supported the release with an almost constant touring schedule with over 150 shows in 20 countries in 2006 alone. This included two UK tours, three European tours, two Australian tours, a number of shows in the USA & China and 35 festival dates.
The band's second album, Universe In Reverse, was released in June 2008 and written largely by Watts and Gooderson, and produced by Martin "Youth" Glover (Verve, Guns ’n’ Roses, Depeche Mode). "Play Blind", the first single from the second album, was given away for free as a limited-time download in February 2008. Next single "Make Mistakes", was released in April, and "Free Things For Poor People" was released in June 2008, reaching No. 1 on the UK Indie Singles Charts and No. 52 on the UK Singles Chart. On Monday 19 August they were voted best band at the 2008 Lowlands festival by the Dutch public ahead of Editors and N.E.R.D.
In November 2009 a new track, "Ghosts" was aired on Radio 1 by Alex Metric and backed up rumours of a return to the dance inspired sound of their debut album We Are Not the Infadels. Following this, Metric offered to produce their next record. In January 2010, the band confirmed that Metric would indeed be on production duties for their new album. Also produced by Matt Gooderson, The Future of the Gravity Boy was finally released in 2012. The band released a video for "From Out of the Black Sky" in July 2012. This would be the last video the band would make, as in September 2012 the band announced via Twitter that they had disbanded.
After a long period of silence, the band announced that We Are Not the Infadels would be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five%20the%20Hard%20Way%20%28Prison%20Break%29 | "Five the Hard Way" is the 64th episode of the American television series Prison Break and was broadcast on October 6, 2008 in the United States on the Fox Network.
Plot
The episode starts with T-Bag coming to his senses, tied up in a chair. Gretchen, his captor, asks T-Bag what he knows about Scylla. She proceeds to cut his good arm several times before T-Bag asks how he could be of service to her.
At the warehouse the team finds out that the next card holder is in Las Vegas, Nevada. Lincoln, Sucre, Roland, and Sara proceed to Las Vegas. The foursome tails the card holder in a casino to copy his card. Meanwhile, Sara becomes shaken when she learns from Lincoln that Michael may have a brain aneurysm and could die soon like his mother did. Roland's device fails to pick up any signal, and Lincoln deduces that the card holder is keeping his card in his room. At an outdoor swimming pool, Sara is wearing a string bikini with a transparent dress over it and is sent to hit up the card holder by faking that she was on a stagette party and her friends dared her to get a photo in a whale room. However, the card holder refuses and leaves. The bartender tells her that she "isn't his type" and that the card holder asked if he "liked to party." This leads to the team using Sucre instead, who accepts very reluctantly.
Back in Los Angeles T-Bag's assistant calls Bellick and tells the team that she wants to help and wants money. At the meeting, however, Michael, Mahone, and Bellick walk into a trap created by T-Bag. T-Bag has the girl tie up Bellick, Michael, and Mahone, but Mahone makes a run for it and calls Agent Self.
T-Bag forces Michael to help him decode Whistler's bird book by threatening the life of his assistant with a gun until Michael agrees. Gretchen, staying out of view in another room, notices Bellick has an ankle monitor and tells T-Bag they have to get them off. Michael arranges the pages from the book into a blueprint of the GATE office but secretly hides a page under the table.
In Las Vegas Sucre is seen walking to the pool deck, removing his shirt, and sitting down with a beer beside the card holder. Sucre is invited by the card holder to his room for a better drink. Once inside the room, Sucre secretly copies the fifth card while discovering that Scuderi's aim was to find a one-time bedmate for his wife and not for himself; this due to impotency caused by a Vietnam War wound in Hue City. Sucre then returns after a long time to the hotel room and tells them that the download was successful. Roland is then asking what happened, and Sucre answers, "It stays in Vegas," while Sucre gives Roland the device.
Mahone, with a GPS and a gun, breaks into the house where Michael and Bellick are supposedly held but only finds the ankle monitors. Mahone notices a paper crane, which is a page with the word GATE. Meanwhile, T-Bag, Gretchen, and their captives arrive at a new hiding spot, where Gretchen lures a GATE employee and kills him for snooping ar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/87.8%20FM | This is a list of radio stations that broadcast on FM frequency 87.8 MHz:
Australia
1A12 in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Radio Austral in Sydney, New South Wales
Vision Radio Network in Griffith, New South Wales
Vision Radio Network in Mudgee, New South Wales
Vision Radio Network in Young, New South Wales
Vision Radio Network in Moree, New South Wales
Vision Radio Network in Gold Coast, Queensland
Vision Radio Network in Mackay, Queensland
Vision Radio Network in Port Lincoln, South Australia
Vision Radio Network in Port Pirie, South Australia
Kiss FM Australia in Geelong, Victoria
Wodonga TAFE Radio in Wodonga, Victoria
Newy 87.8 FM in Newcastle, New South Wales
China
CNR Business Radio in Haikou
CNR Hong Kong Radio
TJTRS Tianjin Binhai Radio
France
France Inter at Paris
Malaysia
8FM in Kedah, Perlis, Penang & Taiping, Perak
Sinar in Johor Bahru, Johor & Singapore
New Zealand
Various low-power stations up to 1 watt
United States
In the United States, a number of low-power radio stations operate on analog television channel 6; this channel broadcasts its audio on the 87.75 MHz frequency. While most of these stations market themselves on "87.7," (due to the .2 MHz odd-decimal spacing used in the United States) such stations are equally audible on 87.8 MHz.
References
Lists of radio stations by frequency |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88.0%20FM | This is a list of radio stations that broadcast on FM 88.6 frequency 88.0 FM MHz:
Australia
Radio Austral in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Raw FM (Australian radio network) in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales
Vision Radio Network in Cootamundra, New South Wales
Planet Radio in Brisbane, Queensland
Red Dirt Radio in Bundaberg, Queensland
Radio ENA in Adelaide, South Australia
Radio TAB in Naracoorte, South Australia
Radio TAB in Mount Gambier, South Australia
Radio TAB in Port Pirie, South Australia
Vision Radio Network in Woomera, South Australia
Bangladesh
Radio Foorti
China
Guangzhou MYFM880 in Guangzhou
New Zealand
Various low-power stations up to 1 watt
Turkey
TRT-4 at Hatay
United Kingdom
Heart North Wales in Wrexham and Chester
References
Lists of radio stations by frequency |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KXKK | KXKK (92.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Park Rapids, Minnesota. Its country music format comes from the Dial Global networks. The station is owned by De La Hunt Broadcasting, licensed to De La Hunt Media, Inc.
The station was assigned the KXKK call sign by the Federal Communications Commission on May 11, 1998.
References
External links
KXKK official website
Radio stations in Minnesota
Country radio stations in the United States
Hubbard County, Minnesota
Radio stations established in 1998 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A3%20road%20%28Latvia%29 | The A3 is a national road in Latvia connecting Inčukalns to Estonian border in Valka. The road is part of European route E264, and part of TEN-T road network of Latvia. After the border, the road turns into Estonian National Highway 3, which leads to Jõhvi in northeastern Estonia. The length of A3 in Latvian territory is 122 kilometers. The road leads through the scenic Gauja National Park. Currently A3 has 1x2 lanes in full length. A3 bypasses Valmiera, which is one of the biggest cities in Latvia. There aren't any plans to widen it in near future. Almost half of A3 was reconstructed in 2012. Speed limit is 90 km/h. The average AADT on A3 in 2015 was 5317 cars per day.
Crossings
Major cities crossed
Inčukalns
Ragana
Stalbe
Kocēni
Valmiera
Strenči
Valka
References
External links
Autoceļš A3 in Google Maps
A03 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed%20Forces%20Financial%20Network | The Armed Forces Financial Network (AFFN) is an interbank network. It provides electronic financial transactions services to the military banking and defense credit union sector. It connects approximately 346 banks and credit unions with over 800,000 ATMs and 2.3 million point-of-sale locations that are often in or near military bases both in the United States and overseas. John M. Broda is the president and chief executive officer of the network.
History
The Armed Forces Financial Network was founded in 1985 at the request of the United States Army to support the "Surepay" direct deposit initiative. The AFFN's role in the Surepay initiative was to be one way U.S. military personnel could gain access to their money.
In 2017 the Armed Forces Financial Network launched a chip and pin travel card.
References
Interbank networks
United States Army organization
FIS (company)
Companies based in St. Petersburg, Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreaming%20Metal | Dreaming Metal is a 1997 science fiction novel by American writer Melissa Scott, which explores the question of at what point artificial intelligence becomes indistinguishable from human intelligence. Another theme of the book is the impact of terrorism on the lives of people and how artists react to this. The book is an example of the cyberpunk genre.
Characters
Celeste is an artificial intelligence. One component was originally owned by Reverdy Jian. A second component was added by Celinde Fortune, who needs a computer assistant to operate the karakuri (lifelike manikins) for her act.
Celinde Fortune is an illusionist who uses lifelike manikins as part of her act to deliberately blur the line between "human" and "robot", "real" and "artificial".
Reverdy Jian, female spaceship pilot, is a main character from Dreamships, in which Scott establishes the political conflicts between those who advocate rights for artificial intelligences and those who view them as property. Her co-pilot, Imre Vaughn, is in a gay partnership with Red, who had a relationship with Fanning Jones in the past.
Fanning Jones is a cousin of Celinde Fortune and member of a band that comes to perform at the same theatre as Fortune. The band is controversial because it includes members from two social classes. Fanning programs the visual effects for the band. He has the contacts that enable Fortune to purchase the components that become Celeste.
Sources
Hamburger, Susan, and Barbara Hoffert. "Dreaming Metal". Library Journal 122.9 (15 May 1997): 106-106.
"In Prints: New In Paperback". Lambda Book Report 7.6 (Jan. 1999): 36.
Steinberg, Sybil S., and Jeff Zaleski. "Forecasts: Fiction". Publishers Weekly 244.24 (16 June 1997): 50.
Mort, John. "Adult books: Fiction". Booklist 93.19/20 (June 1997): 1669.
1997 science fiction novels
Cyberpunk novels
1997 novels
1990s LGBT novels
LGBT speculative fiction novels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Swad | Stephen M. Swad is currently the President and COO of Apptopia Inc., mobile app market intelligence and alternative data company. Previously, he held the role of the former president and CEO of Rosetta Stone, having resigned effective April 1, 2015. He was Fannie Mae's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, since replaced by David Hisey. Swad was responsible for ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of the financial reporting and accounting.
In May 2007, Swad served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for AOL where he was the financial adviser to divisional presidents.
From 1998 through 2002, Swad served in various corporate finance roles with Time Warner. Before 1998, Swad was a partner in KPMG's national office. He also was the deputy chief accountant at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Before that, he was a senior manager at KPMG, in Detroit, Michigan.
Swad has a bachelor of business administration from the University of Michigan. He is a certified public accountant.
Notes
American chief financial officers
Living people
Ross School of Business alumni
American technology chief executives
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%205820 | NGC 5820 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Boötes. It lies near NGC 5821, a galaxy with a similar mass at the same redshift.
References
External links
Distance
Image NGC 5820
SIMBAD data
Interacting galaxies
NGC 05820
5820
09642
139
53511
53511
+09-25-001
Lenticular galaxies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edouard%20Bugnion | Edouard "Ed" Bugnion (born 1970) is a Swiss computer science professor and the co-founder of VMware.
Biography
Bugnion was raised in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Bugnion graduated with a bachelor's degree in engineering from ETH Zurich in 1994 and a master's degree from Stanford University in 1996. He was one of the five founders of VMware in 1998 (with his advisor Mendel Rosenblum) and was the chief architect until 2004. He had been a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at Stanford University prior to co-founding VMware. While he was chief architect, VMware developed the secure desktop initiative also known as NetTop for the US National Security Agency.
His primary research interests are in operating systems and computer architectures, and he was a key member of the SimOS and Disco virtual machine research teams.
After VMware, Bugnion was a founder of Nuova Systems which was funded by Cisco Systems, and acquired by them in April 2008. Bugnion joined Cisco as vice president and chief technology officer of Cisco's Server Access and Virtualization Business Unit. He promoted Cisco's Data Center 3.0 vision, and appeared in advertisements. He resigned from Cisco in 2011 and resumed his PhD program of study at Stanford University, which he graduated from in 2012. In 2014, he became Adjunct Professor at the School of Computer Science at EPFL, Switzerland, where he is now a Full Professor and the Vice President for Information Systems.
Bugnion co-authored papers on operating systems and platform virtualization such as “Disco: Running Commodity Operating Systems on Scalable Multiprocessors,” in 1997.
Bugnion is also an angel investor in startup companies such as Cumulus Networks.
He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2017.
In 2020, Bugnion took a key role in fighting Covid19 through Exposure Notification, as a principal member of the team behind the concept and the implementation in Switzerland. He was also a member of the Swiss National COVID-19 Science Task Force.
References
Living people
1970 births
People from Neuchâtel
Chief technology officers
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P67 | P67 may refer to:
BRM P67, an experimental Formula One car
Intel P67, a computer chipset
, also HMS Vox (P67), a submarine in service with the Free French Naval Forces and the Royal Navy
Magdalen papyrus, a biblical manuscript
McDonnell XP-67, an American prototype interceptor aircraft
P67, a state regional road in Latvia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookiemonster%20attack | The CookieMonster attack is a man-in-the-middle exploit where a third party can gain HTTPS cookie data when the "Encrypted Sessions Only" property is not properly set. This could allow access to sites with sensitive personal or financial information.
It is a Python based tool, developed by security researcher Mike Perry.
Perry originally announced the vulnerability exploited by CookieMonster on BugTraq in 2007. A year later, he demonstrated CookieMonster as a proof of concept tool at Defcon 16.
Users of the World Wide Web can reduce their exposure to CookieMonster attacks by avoiding websites that are unprotected to these attacks. Certain web browsers make it possible for the user to establish which sites these are. For example, users of the Firefox browser can go to the Privacy tab in the Preferences window, and click on 'Show Cookies.' For a given site, inspecting the individual cookies for the top level name of the site, and any subdomain names, will reveal if 'Send For: Encrypted connections only,' has been set. If it has, the user can test for the site's vulnerability to CookieMonster attacks by deleting these cookies and visiting the site again. If the site still allows the user in, the site is vulnerable to CookieMonster attacks.
Affected websites
Websites allegedly affected by CookieMonster included:
Google services including: Gmail, Blogger, Google Docs, Google Finance and search history
Airline/Travel websites: Southwest, United, Expedia, USAirways.com, priceline.com
Banks: National City, USAA, Patelco, CapitalOne
Domain Registrars: Register.com, namesecure.com
Merchants: eBay, wireless.att.com, Netflix, Newegg
See also
HTTP cookie § Cookie theft and session hijacking
Session hijacking
References
External links
Perry's Defcon Presentation (YouTube)
https://fscked.org/proj/cookiemonster/ActiveHTTPSCookieStealing.pdf - Defcon Presentation slides
http://fscked.org/blog/cookiemonster-core-logic-configuration-and-readmes
Web security exploits |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edoardo%20Catemario | Edoardo Catemario (born 25 September 1965) is an Italian classical guitarist.
Biography
Edoardo Catemario was born in Naples. He studied guitar with Salvatore Canino, Antimo Pedata, José Tomás, Stefano Aruta and Maria Luisa Anido, piano and analysis with Titina De Fazio and the South American composers Leo Brouwer and Oscar Casares. At the age of 11 gave his first solo recital.
In January 1991 Catemario was the first prize winner of the "Andrés Segovia" guitar competition in Almuñécar, and in 1992 of the Michele Pittaluga International Classical Guitar Competition in Alessandria.
His performances include the romantic repertoire (played on original instruments), baroque, 20th-century music, contemporary and avant-garde music, and include solo, chamber works and concertos for guitar and orchestra. He has performed across Europe, the United States and South America in venues such as the Grosser Saal of the Wiener Musikverein (Vienna), Auditorio Nacional de Musica (Madrid), St John's and the Royal Academy of Music (London), Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall (New York City), Cité de la Musique (Paris), Teatro Coliseo (Buenos Aires), and the Musikhalle Hamburg. He is frequently invited as a guest soloist by various orchestras, and has collaborated with many of the world's chamber musicians. Catemario has recorded for the Decca, ARTS Music, and Koch Schwann labels.
As a teacher, he has held master classes in Europe and the United States. He has taught at the Accademia Musicale di Firenze since 2006. He is also a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music (London) and taught in the "Sommer Akademie" of the Salzburg Mozarteum from 2001 to 2007.
Catemario is the artistic director of Associazione QuattroQuarti, which organizes several music festivals in Italy. He owns and plays on his collection of old instruments dated between 1890 and 1935.
Recordings
Recuerdos (Decca)
Bach for guitar (Decca)
Conciertango (ARTS Music)
Mauro Giuliani Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra No. 3, Gran Quintetto for Guitar and Strings, Variations for Guitar and String Quartet (ARTS Music)
Mauro Giuliani Concertos for guitar and Orchestra n 1 & 2. (ARTS Music)
Italian Virtuoso (ARTS Music)
Guitar XX (ARTS Music)
Astor Piazzolla complete works with guitar. (ARTS Music)
Guitar Concertos (ARTS Music)
Barocco Napoletano (ARTS Music)
Spanish guitar music (ARTS Music)
Concierto Sefaradi (Koch Schwann) (no longer available)
References
Edoardo Catemario discography — Arts Music. Accessed 17 November 2008
Edoardo Catemario biography — Euro Arts. Accessed 17 November 2008
Recording reviews for Edoardo Catemario — Classics Today.com. Accessed 17 November 2008
Tobias Fischer, Interview with Edoardo Catemario, Tokafi, 28 October 2007. Accessed 17 November 2008
Archive of Latina 99 concerts — Comitato Nazionale Italiano Musica. Accessed 17 November 2008
MusicaSiena 2008: Artist biography — Comune di Siena, 23 May 2008. Accessed 17 November 2008
External links
Ed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB%20flash%20drive%20security | Secure USB flash drives protect the data stored on them from access by unauthorized users. USB flash drive products have been on the market since 2000, and their use is increasing exponentially. As both consumers and businesses have increased demand for these drives, manufacturers are producing faster devices with greater data storage capacities.
An increasing number of portable devices are used in business, such as laptops, notebooks, personal digital assistants (PDA), smartphones, USB flash drives and other mobile devices.
Companies in particular are at risk when sensitive data are stored on unsecured USB flash drives by employees who use the devices to transport data outside the office. The consequences of losing drives loaded with such information can be significant, including the loss of customer data, financial information, business plans and other confidential information, with the associated risk of reputation damage.
Major dangers of USB drives
USB flash drives pose two major challenges to information system security: data leakage owing to their small size and ubiquity and system compromise through infections from computer viruses, malware and spyware.
Data leakage
The large storage capacity of USB flash drives relative to their small size and low cost means that using them for data storage without adequate operational and logical controls may pose a serious threat to information availability, confidentiality and integrity. The following factors should be taken into consideration for securing important assets:
Storage: USB flash drives are hard to track physically, being stored in bags, backpacks, laptop cases, jackets, trouser pockets or left at unattended workstations.
Usage: tracking corporate data stored on personal flash drives is a significant challenge; the drives are small, common and constantly moving. While many enterprises have strict management policies toward USB drives and some companies ban them outright to minimize risk, others seem unaware of the risks these devices pose to system security.
The average cost of a data breach from any source (not necessarily a flash drive) ranges from less than $100,000 to about $2.5 million.
A SanDisk survey characterized the data corporate end users most frequently copy:
Customer data (25%)
Financial information (17%)
Business plans (15%)
Employee data (13%)
Marketing plans (13%)
Intellectual property (6%)
Source code (6%)
Examples of security breaches resulting from USB drives include:
In the UK:
HM Revenue & Customs lost personal details of 6,500 private pension holders
In the United States:
a USB drive was stolen with names, grades, and social security numbers of 6,500 former students
USB flash drives with US Army classified military information were up for sale at a bazaar outside Bagram, Afghanistan.
Malware infections
In the early days of computer viruses, malware, and spyware, the primary means of transmission and infection was the floppy disk. Today, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20network | Distributed network may refer to:
Computer network
Distributed computing
Stand-alone power system
See also
Decentralization
Distributed manufacturing
Distributed social network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBO%20%28Canadian%20TV%20channel%29 | HBO (previously known as HBO Canada, and still referred to as such on social media) is a Canadian premium television network from Crave (formerly The Movie Network), which is owned by Bell Media. The channel is primarily devoted to original programming and special events sourced from the HBO and Cinemax subscription services in the U.S., as well as domestic motion pictures.
Although branded distinctly from Crave's other channels, HBO is not available in Canada as a standalone channel; it is only included with a subscription to either the Crave linear pay-TV service through a television provider, or the Crave OTT streaming service.
Home Box Office, Inc., the Warner Bros. Discovery subsidiary that operates HBO's U.S. and international services, is not a shareholder in the Canadian HBO channel, and only licenses the name, logo and programming to Bell Media.
History
Background and launch
Prior to October 2008, much of HBO's programming aired in Canada on the various multiplex channels of both Astral Media's The Movie Network, which at the time was available only in Eastern Canada, and Corus Entertainment's Movie Central, which was offered in Western and Northern Canada. A few HBO programs aired in first-run and/or second window on basic cable specialty channels such as Bravo (the latter now CTV Drama Channel) and Showcase.
On September 22, 2008, The Movie Network and Movie Central announced that the two networks would jointly begin offering a dedicated HBO multiplex channel (in both standard definition and high definition formats), which would debut on October 30. For TMN subscribers, HBO Canada replaced MMore and MMore HD, while for Movie Central subscribers, HBO Canada replaced Movie Central 4 and Movie Central 1 HD. As different multiplex channels of a single pay service cannot have separate sets of owners, Astral and Corus each held de jure full ownership of HBO Canada in the designated service areas of their respectively owned pay services. However, in practice, the channel was jointly managed by both companies and the HBO Canada schedule was common to both services, except that TMN's feed of the channel operated on an Eastern Time Zone schedule while Movie Central fed the same programming two hours later on Mountain Time.
Although much of HBO's programming had already aired in Canada as discussed above, many other programs from the network were not previously widely available in Canada; the new channel was created with the intention to fill the gap. Original programming from HBO's sister service Cinemax have also been broadcast at times, particularly action series that Cinemax has aired since broadening its series programming content to include mainstream original series in August 2011 (prior to this, Cinemax's series programming consisted only of softcore pornographic programs).
Some HBO series already carried by TMN or Movie Central were initially simulcast on their respective main channels, but shortly thereafter HBO programming becam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Combat%20Man%20System | The Advanced Combat Man System (ACMS) is part of the Singapore Armed Forces's (SAF) move to integrate into 3G to progressively provide tactical units with network capabilities, including C4I capabilities in the field. The project costs about SG$100 million to maintain.
The head of the ACMS project is Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Toh Yong Leng. According to him, ACMS was created to address the concern of urban warfare operations, especially "key challenges in this environment were survivability, situational awareness (SA) and the avoidance of civilian casualties and collateral damage."
In a future deployment, the section commander and two commanding officers are to be equipped with the ACMS system as a part of honing urban operation capabilities.
History
The ACMS was first developed in 1998 as a joint project by the Singaporean Army and by the Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) alongside ST Electronics and ST Kinetics under a Technology Exploration and Demonstration initiative in order to assess the possibility of simplifying capability and integration issues. It was succeeded in 2002 with a three-year Technology Consolidation and Development effort. Trials took place in 2006 with funding allocated to the Integrated Concept Development and Demonstration stage, which permitted the acquisition of 60 ACMS sets and ACMS sets and two CCIS equipped AFV platforms. Further trails took place in 2008 when Singaporean soldiers conducted live exercises at the Murai Urban Training Facility.
ST Electronics was chosen to be the main contractor responsible for the eventual production of the ACMS. Research and development of the ACMS was completed by 2012. Field tests began in January and March 2010 when two Singaporean Army battalions were equipped with ACMS gear.
Design
The challenge with the creation of ACMS was the stature of the average Singaporean soldier, considering that they are smaller than other races. The three modular variants consist of the Basic Fighting System, which is focused on fighting capabilities. The Full Fighting System equips commanders on the field, but has significant C2 capabilities. The Hand Held System which works with the Full Fighting System, which is carried by a commander's aide, providing notebook hosted capabilities, which in trials used a Panasonic Toughbook, for use in stationary mission planning tasks, where greater screen size is necessary and a more complex input device can be used. Initial trials had used Windows XP, but the ACMS later on used commercial off-the-shelf platforms and modified them for military applications.
The main weapon used under the ACMS is the SAR 21's Modular Mounting System variant. For communications, ACMS uses Selex Soldier Personal Radio systems with a noise reduction system to protect the hearing of soldiers. The SAF revealed that the ACMS will be integrated with the vehicle-borne and static Rockwell Collins-Thales FlexNet-One system.
In various trials done initially, the helmet-mou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%20Against%20Crime | Man Against Crime (also known as Follow That Man) starring Ralph Bellamy, one of the first television programs about private eyes, ran on CBS, the DuMont Television Network and NBC from October 7, 1949, to June 27, 1954, and was briefly revived, starring Frank Lovejoy, during 1956. The show was created by Lawrence Klee and was broadcast live until 1952. The series was one of the few television programs ever to have been simulcast on more than one network: the program aired on both NBC and DuMont during the 1953–54 television season.
Synopsis
Man Against Crime stars Ralph Bellamy as Mike Barnett, a New York freelance private eye. In the 1951 season, Robert Preston co-starred as Mike Barnett's brother, Pat (who also assumed the lead while Bellamy was on vacation that summer). Mike Barnett did not carry a gun.
Accompanied by a frantic theme song by Fred Steiner [where is the evidence that Steiner wrote the theme? - the theme is named "Manhunt" and originally was in the Filmusic Library, then the Langlois Filmusic Library, then Cinemusic Library, and now in the APM Music Library - it can be found online at www.APMmusic.com and on YouTube], the film noir-style introduction features an unknown man running down a deserted New York City street while being chased by a black car, all of which is viewed from above. As he knocks on Barnett's door, there is a spray of sub-machine gun fire, and the man is killed. Barnett opens the door, hears the click of the bolt on the gun, ducks and is missed by a second, shorter burst of slugs. Barnett then takes off after the killer while Follow That Man appears in bold letters and the title of the episode is shown on a file folder that is propped up against a telephone. The filmed episodes were syndicated as Follow That Man because the sponsor owned the original title [see below].
The show's first prime-time episode aired on CBS on October 7, 1949, and the final prime-time episode was broadcast, on NBC, on August 26, 1956. In the 1950–51 season, the series finished at #13 in the Nielsen ratings, followed by a #29 finish in 1951–52.
1956 version
Man Against Crime returned to TV on NBC from July 1, 1956, through August 19, 1956, at 10 p.m. Eastern Time as a summer replacement for The Loretta Young Show. Procter & Gamble sponsored this version, which starred Frank Lovejoy and originated in Hollywood, California. It was televised live.
Production
The program was initially broadcast live from CBS's studio in the Grand Central Terminal building, but by mid-1953, it was being filmed at the Bedford Park Studios in New York City, while exterior sites included the East River, Grant's Tomb, the Hudson River, the Staten Island Ferry, and subways. The budget was $10,000 - $15,000 per episode for the initial live broadcasts, but expenses increased with the shift to film.
Charles Russell was the producer, Paul Nickell was the director, and Lawrence Klee was the writer. The program originated from WCBS-TV. Philip Reisman Jr. was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20day%20%28computing%29 | A flag day, as used in system administration, is a change which requires a complete restart or conversion of a sizable body of software or data. The change is large and expensive, and—in the event of failure—similarly difficult and expensive to reverse.
The situation may arise if there are limitations on backward compatibility and forward compatibility among system components, which then requires that updates be performed almost simultaneously (during a "flag day cutover") for the system to function after the upgrade. This contrasts with the method of gradually phased-in upgrades, which avoids the disruption of service caused by en masse upgrades.
This systems terminology originates from a major change in the Multics operating system's definition of ASCII, which was scheduled for the United States holiday, Flag Day, on June 14, 1966.
Another historical flag day was January 1, 1983, when the ARPANET changed from NCP to the TCP/IP protocol suite. This major change required all ARPANET nodes and interfaces to be shut down and restarted across the entire network.
See also
Backward compatibility
Forward compatibility
Protocol ossification
References
External links
DNS Flag Day 2019
Computer jargon
1966 neologisms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinguisher | Distinguisher may refer to:
Route distinguisher, an address qualifier used to distinguish Virtual Private Network (VPN) routes
Distinguishing attack, a cryptographic attack that distinguishes a ciphertext from truly random data |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Lifetime | This is a list of programs that have been broadcast by the American television network Lifetime.
Current programming
Original programming
Talk shows
The Balancing Act TV Show (2008)
Access Health (2014)
Reality
Designing Spaces (2005)
Married at First Sight (2017)
Making a Model (2018)
Marrying Millions (2019)
Married at First Sight: Australia (2020-)
Married at First Night: Couples' Cam (2020)
Married at First Sight: Unmatchables (2021)
5 Guys a Week (2022)
Off-network Syndicated programs
Grey's Anatomy (2007)
The Closer (2018)
Rizzoli & Isles (2020)
Major Crimes (2021, 2023)
Castle (2021)
The Mentalist (2022)
The First 48 (2022)
Former programming
Original programming
Dr. Ruth (1984–1991)
Mother's Day with Joan Lunden (1984–1989)
Regis Philbin's Lifestyles (1984–1989)
What Every Baby Knows (1984–1998)
Attitudes (1986-1992)
This Evening (1989–1990)
Rodeo Drive (1990)
Supermarket Sweep (1990–1995)
Shop 'til You Drop (1991–1994)
Born Lucky (1992–1993)
Intimate Portrait (1994–2005)
Debt (1996–1998)
Kids These Days (1996–1998)
Three Blind Dates (1996–1997)
Denise Austin's Daily Workout (1997–2008)
Beyond Chance (1999–2002)
Ruby (1999)
Who Knows You Best? (2000-2001)
Speaking of Women's Health (2001, 2003–2004)
Head 2 Toe (2003–2008)
I Do Diaries (2003–2005)
Merge (2003–2005)
What Should You Do? (2003–2006)
How Clean Is Your House? (2004–2005)
Queen for a Day (2004)
I Married a Princess (2005)
You're Not the Man I Married (2005)
Cheerleader Nation (2006)
Inspector Mom (2006–2007)
Not Like Everyone Else (2006)
Gay, Straight or Taken? (2007)
Lisa Williams: Among the Dead (2007–2008)
Blush: The Search for the Next Great Makeup Artist (2008)
The Big Match (2008)
How to Look Good Naked (2008)
Your Mama Don't Dance (2008)
Cook Yourself Thin (2009)
DietTribe (2009)
Mission: Makeover (2009-2010)
Models of the Runway (2009–2010)
Project Runway (2009–2017)
Project Runway: All-Star Challenge (2009)
The Fairy Jobmother (2010)
On the Road with Austin & Santino (2010)
One Born Every Minute (2010)
America's Most Wanted (2011–2012)
America's Supernanny (2011–2012)
Coming Home (2011–2012)
Dance Moms (2011-2017, 2019)
Glamour Belles (2011)
Project Accessory (2011)
Roseanne's Nuts (2011)
Russian Dolls (2011)
Seriously Funny Kids (2011)
7 Days of Sex (2012)
24 Hour Catwalk (2012)
Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition (2012–2013)
Dance Moms: Miami (2012)
The Houstons: On Our Own (2012–2013)
My Life is a Lifetime Movie (2012)
Project Runway All-Stars (2012-2019)
Prom Queens (2012)
Teen Trouble (2012–2013)
Chasing Nashville (2013)
Come Dine with Me (2013)
Double Divas (2013)
Preachers' Daughters (2013–2015)
Pretty Wicked Moms (2013)
Supermarket Superstar (2013)
Abby's Studio Rescue (2014)
Betty White's Off Their Rockers (2014)
Bring It! (2014-2019)
Girlfriend Intervention (2014)
Kim of Queens (2014)
Little Women: LA (2014-2019)
Project Runway: Threads (2014)
Raising Asia (2014)
Rela |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20Billboard%20Top%20Latin%20Albums%20of%202004 | The Billboard Top Latin albums chart, published in Billboard magazine, is a record chart that features Latin music sales information. These data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at electronics and department stores, Internet sales (both physical and digital) and verifiable sales from concert venues in the United States.
There were twenty-two number-one albums in 2004, including two releases by the Mexican group Los Temerarios: Tributo al Amor and Veintisiete; the latter album received a nomination for a Grammy Award for Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album. However, the award went to Intimamente by Intocable, which also peaked at number one on the chart in March. Mi Sangre, by Colombian performer Juanes, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Latin Rock/Alternative Album, won three Latin Grammy Awards, and also reached the top spot of this chart for five consecutive weeks from October 16 to November 13, 2004.
Singer-songwriter Marco Antonio Solís also peaked twice at the top of the chart with his greatest hits album La Historia Continúa... and his Latin Grammy Award nominated album Razón de Sobra. Daddy Yankee, Jennifer Peña, Grupo Climax and Adán Sánchez peaked at number one for the first time in 2004. Luis Miguel's México En La Piel became his sixth number-one set on the chart and was also the winner of a Latin Grammy Award for Best Ranchero Album and the Grammy Award for Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album in 2005.
Two albums by Marc Anthony reached the top spot of the chart: Amar Sin Mentiras and Valió La Pena. With these recordings, Marc Anthony won the Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album and was nominated for a Latin Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Album for Amar Sin Mentiras. Valió La Pena was awarded with the Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album and also received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Salsa/Merengue album.
Albums
References
2004 Latin
United States Latin Albums
2004 in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myawaddy%20%28disambiguation%29 | Myawaddy is a town in Kayin State, Myanmar.
Myawaddy may also refer to:
Myawaddy District
Myawaddy Township
Myawaddy TV, Burmese TV network
See also
Myawady F.C., Burmese professional football club based in Naypyidaw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function%20model | In systems engineering, software engineering, and computer science, a function model or functional model is a structured representation of the functions (activities, actions, processes, operations) within the modeled system or subject area.
A function model, similar with the activity model or process model, is a graphical representation of an enterprise's function within a defined scope. The purposes of the function model are to describe the functions and processes, assist with discovery of information needs, help identify opportunities, and establish a basis for determining product and service costs.
History
The function model in the field of systems engineering and software engineering originates in the 1950s and 1960s, but the origin of functional modelling of organizational activity goes back to the late 19th century.
In the late 19th century the first diagrams appeared that pictured business activities, actions, processes, or operations, and in the first half of the 20th century the first structured methods for documenting business process activities emerged. One of those methods was the flow process chart, introduced by Frank Gilbreth to members of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in 1921 with the presentation, entitled “Process Charts—First Steps in Finding the One Best Way”. Gilbreth's tools quickly found their way into industrial engineering curricula.
The emergence of the field of systems engineering can be traced back to Bell Telephone Laboratories in the 1940s. The need to identify and manipulate the properties of a system as a whole, which in complex engineering projects may greatly differ from the sum of the parts' properties, motivated various industries to apply the discipline. One of the first to define the function model in this field was the British engineer William Gosling. In his book The design of engineering systems (1962, p. 25) he stated:
A functional model must thus achieve two aims in order to be of use. It must furnish a throughput description mechanics capable of completely defining the first and last throughput states, and perhaps some of the intervening states. It must also offer some means by which any input, correctly described in terms of this mechanics, can be used to generate an output which is an equally correct description of the output which the actual system would have given for the input concerned. It may also be noted that there are two other things which a functional model may do, but which are not necessary to all functional models. Thus such a system may, but need not, describe the system throughputs other than at the input and output, and it may also contain a description of the operation which each element carries out on the throughput, but once again this is not.
One of the first well defined function models, was the functional flow block diagram (FFBD) developed by the defense-related TRW Incorporated in the 1950s. In the 1960s it was exploited by the NASA to visualize the t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Bohlinger%20%28musician%29 | John C. Bohlinger III (born 1967) is an American musician, and writer who worked primarily in television as a band leader/music director for The USA Network's Real Country, NBC's program Nashville Star The Next GAC Star for Great American Country, the "CMT Music Awards" from 2009 to 2022, CMT's Christmas Special featuring Larry The Cable Guy as well as PBS's The Outlaw Trail, GAC networks' 2012 Christmas with Scotty McCreery & Friends. In 2013, Bohlinger became the Nashville video correspondent for Premier Guitar where he films Review Demos of musical gear and Rig Rundown interviews with celebrity guitarists.
In addition to his work in music, Bohlinger is a contributor and co-editor of A Guitar and a Pen, Stories by Country Music's Greatest Songwriters, published by Center Street, a division of Hachette book group. Bohlinger now writes a monthly column entitled "Last Call" for Premier Guitar.
Early life and education
John Bohlinger is the son of Montana lieutenant governor John Bohlinger and Bette Cobetto Bohlinger. During high school his parents withdrew him from public school and sent him to the Hun School of Princeton, where he graduated. Bohlinger began his undergraduate studies at the University of Montana, quit school after two years to work at a school and orphanage in Honduras, then returned to finish his bachelor's studies at Columbia University, where he graduated magna cum laude in English literature and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Though he was awarded a full fellowship to Columbia's Teacher's College, Bohlinger returned to Montana with his family, where he became a part-time faculty member in the English department at Eastern Montana College. While teaching at Eastern, Bohlinger worked toward a master's degree in education but left the program to pursue his music career.
Career
Musician
Bohlinger originally moved to Nashville to pursue a song-writing career. Bohlinger became the consummate Nashville sideman having accompanied Sheryl Crow, Lee Brice, Miranda Lambert, Joe Walsh, Little Big Town, Jordin Sparks, Bret Michaels of Poison, Sara Evans, Leann Rimes, Kasey Musgraves, Chris Young, Tanya Tucker, Trace Adkins, Hank Williams Jr, Kenny Rogers, The Beach Boys, Alabama, Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues and many others.
A versatile multi-instrumentalist, Bohlinger has recorded master sessions on electric and acoustic guitars, bass, pedal steel, harmonica and mandolin.
Songwriter
Bohlinger's songs have also been recorded by Lee Brice, Joe Walsh, Chrissie Hynde, Joey + Rory, Ray Scott, Ashley Ray, Cowboy Troy, Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson of Heart and many others.
Writer/Interviewer/Demonstrator
In 2001, Bohlinger left the music business and worked toward a PhD in psychology at Tennessee State University. Unable to completely leave the arts, Bohlinger began pitching a book idea entitled A Guitar and a Pen eventually enlisting his friend Robert Hicks as a partner. The book of short stories by Nashville songwriters was eventu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20Billboard%20Top%20Latin%20Albums%20of%202005 | The Billboard Top Latin albums chart, published in Billboard magazine, is a record chart that features Latin music sales information. This data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at electronics and department stores, Internet sales (both physical and digital) and verifiable sales from concert venues in the United States.
There were nine number-one albums in 2005, including Barrio Fino by Daddy Yankee, which peaked at the top of the chart for 25 weeks, sold nearly 900,000 copies in the United States, reached number 26 on Billboard 200, was named Reggaeton Album of the Year at the 2005 Billboard Latin Music Awards, and won a Latin Grammy Award for Best Urban Music Album. Another recording by Daddy Yankee entitled Barrio Fino en Directo was released on December 7, 2005 and reached the first spot on the chart. The album contains live tracks and five new songs, including the Hot Latin Tracks number-one single "Rompe". RBD, Don Omar, K-Paz de la Sierra, Grupo Montéz de Durango and Wisin & Yandel peaked at number one for the first time in their careers. Cautivo, the 12th studio album by Puerto Rican performer Chayanne became his third number-one set on this list.
Fijación Oral Vol. 1 by Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira spent 17 weeks at number one on the chart. Despite a ban by retail chain Ritmo Latino, the album had the largest sales week for a Spanish-language album since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking in 1991, with 157,000 copies sold, which led to a first-ever debut by a Latin album at number four on Billboard 200, surpassing Ricky Martin's Almas del Silencio, which was the previous record holder with 65,000 units in 2003. This album won five Latin Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, and also received the Grammy Award for Best Latin Rock/Alternative Album.
Albums
References
2005 Latin
United States Latin Albums
2005 in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%205665 | NGC 5665 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Boötes.
References
External links
Image NGC 5665
Distance
SIMBAD Data
Boötes
Intermediate spiral galaxies
5665
09352
51953
049
51953
+01-37-024 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KANT%20%28software%29 | KANT is a computer algebra system for mathematicians interested in algebraic number theory, performing sophisticated computations in algebraic number fields, in global function fields, and in local fields. KASH is the associated command line interface. They have been developed by the Algebra and Number Theory research group of the Institute of Mathematics at Technische Universität Berlin under the project leadership of Prof. Dr Michael Pohst. Kant is free for non-commercial use.
See also
List of computer algebra systems
References
External links
Introduction to KASH3, The KANT Group
Computer algebra system software for Linux
Computer algebra systems
Proprietary freeware for Linux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Waterways%20Trust | The Waterways Trust was an independent registered charity, established in 1999, that worked with partners to see the waterway network in England, Wales and Scotland supported, valued and enjoyed by a wide audience. The Trust was formerly registered in England and Wales and in Scotland, until July 2012 when the operations in England and Wales were merged with the newly established Canal & River Trust. The remaining operations in Scotland were renamed the Scottish Waterways Trust.
The Trust's principal funder was British Waterways. Its Patron was The Prince of Wales, and its Vice Presidents were Paul Atterbury, John Craven OBE, John Fletcher, Miranda Krestovnikoff, Sonia Rolt, David Suchet OBE and Timothy West CBE.
The Trust also cared for the nationally important inland waterways collection and the National Waterways Museum at Ellesmere Port, the Waterways Museum Gloucester and the Canal Museum at Stoke Bruerne.
The Trust also operated a Small Grants Scheme, and administered the annual Waterways Renaissance Awards jointly with the British Urban Regeneration Association (BURA).
See also
List of waterway societies in the United Kingdom
References
External links
Transport charities based in the United Kingdom
Waterways organisations in the United Kingdom
2012 disestablishments in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20S.%20Mayo | John Sullivan Mayo (born February 26, 1930) is an American engineer, AT&T executive and seventh president of Bell Labs, known for contributions to the computer and telecommunications industry.
In 1979, Mayo was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions and leadership in the realization of digital facilities for the telecommunications network.
Biography
Born in Greenville, North Carolina, he earned B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University.
Following this, Mayo joined Bell Labs, now Nokia Bell Labs, (1955) where he first worked on early computers as the TRADIC and Leprechaun, the Telstar satellite, ocean sonar systems and various switching systems. He was elected vice president at Bell Labs (1975) and eventually became the seventh president (1991) until his retirement (1995). He is credited with globalizing Bell Labs and forging closer ties between its research and development and business units.
Awards
IEEE Fellow (1967).
Outstanding Engineering Alumnus of North Carolina State University (1977).
With Eric E. Sumner and M. Robert Aaron he won the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal (1978) and the Computer and Communications Society Koji Kobayashi Award (1988) for the pioneer work on T-1.
Elected to the National Academy of Engineering (1979).
National Medal of Technology award (1990) for providing the technological foundation for information age communications and for overseeing the conversion of the national switched telephone network from analog to digital-based technology.
The Industrial Research Institute (IRI) Medal (1992).
Engineering Manager of the Year by the American Society for Engineering Management (1992).
American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES) Chair's Award (2010).
References
External links
John S. Mayo Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award Recipient — 1977
1930 births
Living people
21st-century American engineers
North Carolina State University alumni
Scientists at Bell Labs
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
National Medal of Technology recipients
People from Greenville, North Carolina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con%20Murphy%20%28presenter%29 | Conleth 'Con' Murphy (born 30 January 1966) is an Irish freelance radio and television presenter, working mainly on sports programming. Until recently he presented Monday Night Soccer on RTÉ Two, the League of Ireland highlights show which also includes highlights of Republic of Ireland soccer matches. He also co-presented Crimecall with Anne Cassin. On radio, he co-presented Sunday Sport on RTÉ Radio 1, with Jacqui Hurley.
He left RTÉ in 2012.
Career
Murphy worked as one of the main sports presenters with RTÉ from 1992 until 2012.
In that time he anchored RTÉ Radio's coverage of the Summer Olympics Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 Beijing 2008, and London 2012.
He has presented football, golf, rugby, hockey, basketball, athletics, and horse racing on RTÉ Television.
He presented international football on RTÉ radio for 17 years until 2012 and reported from the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Japan and South Korea, plus he was part of RTÉ Radio's award-winning commentary team from the 2006 Ryder Cup at the K Club.
He presented the nightly highlights programme on RTÉ Sport's coverage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
References
External links
Con Murphy and Monday Night Soccer
Con Murphy Column on RTÉ
1966 births
Living people
Irish sports broadcasters
RTÉ Radio 1 presenters
RTÉ television presenters
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polsat%20News | Polsat News is a Polish news channel, launched on 7 June 2008 at 7:00am (UTC+1). Being a part of the Polsat Network, Polsat News is owned by Polsat Group. It is available over Cyfrowy Polsat, nc+ and UPC Poland digital platforms in Poland. It is broadcast on Hot Bird 6, 11158V, 27500 3/4.
History
Polsat News started broadcasting on 7 June 2008 thirty seconds before the 7am hour (UTC+1). Polsat News is the first Polish news channel to broadcast in 16:9 format. From 7 June to 14 July the channel was broadcast in test emission. Up to September, the channel was broadcast as FTA.
The live programme is broadcast from 6am to 24:00 (UTC+1). The news programmes are broadcast every half an hour. The channel hires about 400 people.
On 1 August 2008 Polsat News started broadcasting adverts.
Programmes are split into three parts: morning - Nowy Dzień (New Day), afternoon - To jest dzień (It's the day) and evening - To był dzień (That Was a Day).
On 6 June 2008 Polsat News opened a TV studio, in which its programs are recorded and where Wydarzenia (main Polsat news program) are recorded. Its cost was €6,000,000.
An HD version for this channel was launched on 3 February 2014 for a crystal clear vision of the network.
Polsat News, including with other neighbouring Polsat channels, started teasing their rebranding on 31 July 2021. The logo change took effect on 30 August 2021.
Programmes
Informacje (News, every half an hour)
Informacje dnia (News of the Day, an evening news report, 9:00pm)
Pogoda (Weather)
Sport (Sport)
Nowy dzień (New Day, block programming from 6:00am to 10am) - also in Polsat from 6am to 9am every day
To jest dzień (That Is a Day, block programming from 11am to 20:00 or 8pm)
To był dzień (That Was a Day, evening report, 20:00 to 21:00 or 8pm - 9pm)
To był dzień na świecie (That Was a Day in the World, an evening report of current affairs around the world, 9:30pm – 10pm)
Sportowe podsumowanie dnia (an evening sport report)
Wydarzenia (Events, Polsat news service, 3:50pm and 6:50pm)
Biznes Informacje (Business News) - prepare business journalists Polsat News and journalists TV Biznes
Interwencja Extra (coverage of affairs that are minor but often controversial)
Graffiti (a political morning talk show)
Ostatnia instancja (The Last Instance)
Gość "Wydarzeń" (Guest "Events", a news service)
Debata (Debate) - also in TV Biznes
Encyklopedia zdrowia (Health Encyclopedia)
Czarny punkt (Black Point)
Nie daj się fiskusowi (Cope with the Tax Office) - also in TV Biznes
Logo history
Regional centres
See also
Polsat
References
External links
Polsat
Television channels in Poland
Television channels and stations established in 2008
Polish news websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIV-7 | The KIV-7 is a National Security Agency Type-1, single-channel encryptor originally designed in the mid-1990s by AlliedSignal Corporation to meet the demand for secure data communications from personal computers (PC), workstations, and FAXs. It has data rates up to 512 kbit/s and is interoperable with the KG-84, KG-84A, and KG-84C data encryption devices.
Versions
Several versions of the KIV-7 have been developed over the years by many different corporations that have either bought the rights to build the KIV-7 or through corporate mergers.
KIV-7 Speeds up to 512 kbit/s
KIV-7 HS Speeds up to T-1 (1.54 Mbit/s)
KIV-7HSB Speeds up to 2.048 Mbit/s
KIV-7M Speeds up to 50 Mbit/s and supports the High Assurance Internet Protocol Interoperability Specification (HAIPIS)
(The National Security Agency (NSA) has established new High Assurance Internet Protocol Interoperability Specifications (HAIPIS) that requires different vendor's Inline Network Encryption (INE) devices to be interoperable.)
References
HAIPE
Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS Policy No. 19)
Cryptography
NSA encryption systems
SafeNet Mykotronx, manufacturer of a line of KIV-7 devices.
External links
CNSS Policy No. 19, National Policy Governing the Use of High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryptor (HAIPE) Products
Encryption devices
National Security Agency encryption devices
United States government secrecy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nusantao%20Maritime%20Trading%20and%20Communication%20Network | In a hypothesis developed by Wilhelm Solheim, the Nusantao Maritime Trading and Communication Network (NMTCN) is a trade and communication network that first appeared in the Asia-Pacific region during its Neolithic age, or beginning roughly around 5000 BC. Nusantao is an artificial term coined by Solheim, derived from the Austronesian root words nusa "island" and tao "man, people". Solheim's theory is an alternative hypothesis to the spread of the Austronesian language family in Southeast Asia. It contrasts the more widely accepted Out-of-Taiwan hypothesis (OOT) by Peter Bellwood.
Solheim emphasizes the cultural aspects of the Southeast Asian people, whereas Bellwood's theory places more emphasis on the linguistic origin of people.
Solheim first suggested the concept in 1964. The NMTCN attempts to explain the diffusion of cultural traits throughout the Asia-Pacific region, a pattern that does not seem to match the projections of cultural spread by simple migration theories. Today, it is one of the dominant theories for the early peopling of the Southeast Asian region.
Solheim suggests that "[if] elements of culture were spread by migrations, then the spread would have been primarily in one direction." He suggests that since the pattern of cultural diffusion in the Asia-Pacific region is spread in all directions, it is likely that the spread of cultural traits happened via some kind of trading network, rather than a series of migrations.
In Solheim's hypothesis, the people who constituted this trading network are referred to as "the Nusantao".I now define Nusantao as natives of Southeast Asia, and their descendants, with a maritime-oriented culture from their beginnings, these beginnings probably in southeastern Island Southeast Asia around 5000 BC or possibly earlier.
Most of the Nusantao probably spoke a related or pre-Austronesian language, but there were likely some who spoke a non-Austronesian language as well... I did not consider non-maritime Austronesian-speakers as Nusantao.
According to a review of Solheim's book Archaeology and Culture in Southeast Asia: Unraveling the Nusantao, Solheim believed the categorization of 'Nusantao' is outdated and does not accurately represent the entirety of the culture; later calling them '"Austronesian" as their identified language.
Solheim suggests that there is an indication of a maritime network, dating back to 30,000 BC, by describing the movement of artifacts as they are found in the Philippines, northern Vietnam, coastal South China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan. Some of the artifacts described to be associated with rice cultivation include table and capstone dolmens, stepped and pediform adzes, and plain pottery. Some linguists believe this to be why there are certain Japanese words that were created in Southeast Asia; for example, a species of rice, Javanica, is present in Japan but originated in Sarawak.
See also
Austronesian maritime trade network
Lingling-o
Lapita culture
Hiri trade cycle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaxtr |
Jaxtr was a social communications company that melds together global calling, SMS, and social networking. Founded by Phillip Mobin and Touraj Parang in October 2005, jaxtr uses Voice over Internet Protocol to offer competitive rates as well as free international and long distance calling. Some key differentiators for jaxtr in its market include allowing phone-to-phone calls to and from any mobile and landline phones, offering social networking focused on voice (café jaxtr), requiring no software downloads or access pins, and giving users local Direct Inward Dialing (DID) phone numbers. Offered in 56 countries, these numbers allow users in those countries to dial a local phone number which would ring a long distance or international destination phone. Jaxtr also offers users a set number of global SMS messages each month.
Jaxtr reported having over 10 million users in 220 countries in 2008. In June 2008, they raised $10 million in a Series B round of venture capital funding from Lehman Brothers Venture Partners. In the same month, they also launched their paid services. In October, Jaxtr laid off thirty percent of its employees, and its CEO, Konstantin Guericke, was fired.
The company was located in Menlo Park, CA.
On 14 June 2009, Hotmail Founder Sabeer Bhatia's Sabsebolo acquired Jaxtr for an unknown amount., which as stated by co-founded Touraj Parang effectively meant closing down the service.
Technology
While Skype popularized the concept to make calls through personal computers for consumers, jaxtr builds on that concept by allowing calls to be routed through VoIP to and from both mobile and landline phones. As a hybrid of telephony and Web technologies, jaxtr is built with Java components and MySQL database servers, which run a protocol-independent calls engine that combines users' voice and text conversations. Jaxtr uses open source software throughout the system--memcached, Asterisk, and OpenSER SIP server among others.
Jaxtr provided local phone numbers in numerous countries around the world by contracting with wholesale Direct Inward Dialing (DID) service providers such as DIDX . Providing users with these DIDs allows them to dial a local number, which is routed through jaxtr’s VoIP system, and connects with the person they are calling internationally. As a result, the caller pays their service provider only the standard charge for local calling, instead of international toll.
Products
JaxtrSMS
JaxtrSMS was a cross-platform, open texting application. This mobile application let users send unlimited free text messages to any other phone anywhere in the world. Also, JaxtrSMS retained the number of the user and no new number was required while signingehaves like regular SMS.
Although initially promoted as a free product, Jaxtr later asked some users to pay for delivery of SMS messages to countries other than India and the USA.
See also
Voice over Internet Protocol
Direct Inward Dialing
References
External links
Compani |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA%2009%3A%20The%20Inside | NBA 09: The Inside is a basketball simulation game developed by San Diego Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. The game was released on October 7, 2008 for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable. The game includes all 30 NBA teams along with 14 of the 16 NBDL teams.
Gameplay
There are four game modes: Quick Play- this mode allows to choose an NBA or D-League team to play in a regular game, Franchise- choosing one NBA team and controlling its player transactions and as a General Manager, The Life- 3 different player stories of a rise from the D-League to the NBA, and NBA Replay- replaying a game played in real life.
Reception
The PSP version received "generally favorable reviews", and the PS3 version received "mixed" reviews, while the PS2 version received "generally unfavorable reviews", according to Metacritic.
References
External links
2008 video games
National Basketball Association video games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation Portable games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
North America-exclusive video games
Video games developed in the United States
San Diego Studio games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet%20Roitman | Janet Roitman is an American anthropologist. She is the co-founder of the Platform Economies Research Network. Roitman is a professor at RMIT University, an Associate Investigator with the Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S), and co-Director of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre. She is also a member of the Council of Advisors for the Platform Cooperativism Consortium, New York.
From 2007-2022, Roitman was University Professor at The New School in New York City. Before that time, Roitman was a research fellow with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), a member of the Institut Marcel-Mauss (CNRS-EHESS, GSPM), and an instructor at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Sciences po) in Paris.
Roitman’s research focuses on the anthropology of value, economization, and emergent forms of the political. Her research has received support from The Ford Foundation, The MacArthur Foundation, The American Council of Learned Societies, the Agence Française du Développement, The Institute for Public Knowledge, and The US National Science Foundation.
Roitman has conducted extensive research in Central Africa, focusing on the borders of Cameroon, Nigeria, the Central African Republic, and Chad. Her first book, Fiscal Disobedience: An Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa (Princeton University Press, 2005), is an analysis of the unregulated commerce that transpires on those borders. This book is an anthropology of taxation and economic regulation. It is a study of unregulated commerce on the borders of Nigeria, Cameroon, and Chad that documents emergent forms of economic value and the consequential transformations in state governance – ultimately raising questions about the relevance and normative consequences of claims about “state failure” on the African continent.
Roitman’s second book, “Anti-Crisis” (Duke University Press, 2013), is the first systematic account of how the concept of crisis functions as a blind spot in contemporary analyses of finance and economics. Anti-Crisis investigates the concept of crisis as an object of knowledge and social inquiry, demonstrating its significance as a foundational concept for our understanding and management of contemporary practices, taking The Great Recession of 2007-08 as a case study. This study illustrates how crisis talk diverts our attention away from primary, constitutional questions, such as how debt is constituted as a form of value.
Roitman's current research inquires into digital financial technology payments platforms as potential sources of new asset classes and domestic capital markets on the African continent, which gives insight into emerging socio-class dynamics and the geo-political contours of high finance.
Select publications
Books
“Anti-Crisis” Durham: Duke University Press, 2013.
"Fiscal Disobedience: An Anthropology of Economic Regulation in Central Africa." NY: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Article |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast | Beast most often refers to:
Non-human animal
Monster
Beast or Beasts may also refer to:
Bible
Beast (Revelation), two beasts described in the Book of Revelation
Computing and gaming
Beast (card game), English name of historical French game, the first card game to use bidding
BEAST (computer security), a computer security attack
BEAST (music composition), a music composition and modular synthesis application that runs under Unix
Beast (lighting software), a computer-graphics lighting software
Beast (Trojan horse), a Windows-based backdoor trojan horse
Beast (video game), a 1984 ASCII game
Film and television
Beast (Beauty and the Beast), a character from the 1991 animated film Beauty and the Beast and sequels
Beast (2017 film), a British psychological thriller
Beast (2022 American film), an American thriller film directed by Baltasar Kormákur and starring Idris Elba
Beast (2022 Indian film), an Indian Tamil-language film
Beast (TV series), a 2000–2001 British sitcom
Beasts (TV series), a 1976 British horror programme by Nigel Kneale
Beast, a minor character in the television series Angel
Beast, a villain from the television series Doctor Who
Beast, a television series character from Law & Order: Criminal Intent (season 4)
Beast, stage name of professional wrestler Matt Morgan in American Gladiators
Beast Man, a character in the cartoon He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
Beastly, a character from the Care Bears franchise
Beastur, a character in the animated television series My Pet Monster
Kamen Rider Beast, a character in Kamen Rider Wizard
Literature
Beast (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics character
Beast (Benchley novel), a 1991 novel by Peter Benchley
Beast (Kennen novel), a 2006 novel by Ally Kennen
Beasts (Crowley novel), a 1976 novel by John Crowley
Beasts (novella), a 2001 novella by Joyce Carol Oates
Beast, a 2000 novel by Donna Jo Napoli
Beast, a graphic novel by Marian Churchland, winner of the 2010 Russ Manning Award
Music
Film soundtrack
Beast (soundtrack), soundtrack album of the film of the 2022 Tamil-language film Beast
Beast (score), 2022 film score of the 2022 Tamil-language film Beast
Groups
Beast (Canadian band)
Beast (South African band)
Beast (South Korean band)
Albums
Beast (Beast album) (2008)
Beast (DevilDriver album) (2011)
Beast (Magic Dirt album) (2007)
Beast (Vamps album) (2010)
Beast (V.I.C. album) (2008)
Songs
"Beast" (Chipmunk song) (2008)
"Beast" (Mia Martina song) (2015)
"Beast" (Nico Vega song) (2006 EP version, 2013 single)
"Beast", by Jolin Tsai from Muse (2012)
"Beast (Southpaw Remix)", by Rob Bailey & The Hustle Standard from the film soundtrack Southpaw (2015)
Other
Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre, a sound diffusion system
Other uses
Beast (Alton Towers), a roller coaster at Alton Towers, Staffordshire, England
Beast Lake, a lake in Minnesota, US
Bengaluru Beast, an Indian basketball team
Benjamin Butler (politician) (1813-1893), American politician a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television%20in%20Myanmar | Television broadcasting in Myanmar began in 1979 as a test trial in Yangon. The first television service BBS was launched on 3 June 1980, followed by regular service in 1981. Most television networks in the country are broadcast from Yangon. MRTV and MWD are the two Burmese state-owned television networks, providing Burmese-language programming in news and entertainment. Other channels include MRTV-4, Channel 7, 5Plus, MNTV, Channel 9, Htv Sports Channel, Htv Channel, Mahar HD, Mizzima TV, DVB TV, Channel K, YTV, Fortune TV and M Entertainment Channel. Pay TV services include SKYNET and CANAL+ Myanmar.
Digital Terrestrial Television
Pay Television Providers
See also
Media of Burma
References
Mass media in Myanmar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myawaddy%20TV | Myawaddy TV (, abbreviated MWD) is a Myanmar military-owned propaganda network based in Yangon and Naypyidaw, Myanmar.
History
Myawaddy TV was launched on the 27 March 1995, in commemoration of the Myanmar's Armed Forces Day. Its programming is also broadcast over the AsiaSat 2 satellite. It was used in 2021 to formally announce the military takeover of Myanmar. In response to the coup, Facebook removed the page of the military-owned Myawaddy TV Network, for violating Facebook policy that prohibits organizations that promote hate speech or violence. This was later followed by YouTube which terminated their channel page along with MRTV for similar reason.
Expansion
In 2012, after the completion of a new TV station in Naypyidaw, MWD launched six new digital channels and increased its broadcasting hours on its digital channels so as to better compete with other local television stations.
Channels
All channels from MWD television network are 24-hour free-to-air television channels. Some channels are transmitted in both Analogue and Digital system. The current channels of MWD television network are -
Programming
TV programs
Melody World
TV series
Legends of Warriors
See also
Myanmar Radio and Television
MRTV-4
Myanmar International
References
Television channels in Myanmar
Television channels and stations established in 1995
1995 establishments in Myanmar
Military of Myanmar
State media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20game%20bot%20Turing%20test | The computer game bot Turing test is a variant of the Turing test, where a human judge viewing and interacting with a virtual world must distinguish between other humans and video game bots, both interacting with the same virtual world. This variant was first proposed in 2008 by Associate Professor Philip Hingston of Edith Cowan University, and implemented through a tournament called the 2K BotPrize.
History
The computer game bot Turing test was proposed to advance the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and computational intelligence with respect to video games. It was considered that a poorly implemented bot implied a subpar game, so a bot that would be capable of passing this test, and therefore might be indistinguishable from a human player, would directly improve the quality of a game. It also served to debunk a flawed notion that "game AI is a solved problem."
Emphasis is placed on a game bot that interacts with other players in a multiplayer environment. Unlike a bot that simply needs to make optimal human-like decisions to play or beat a game, this bot must make the same decisions while also convincing another in-game player of its human-likeness.
Implementation
The computer game bot Turing test was designed to test a bot's ability to interact with a game environment in comparison with a human player, simply 'winning' was insufficient. This evolved into a contest with a few important goals in mind:
There are three participants: a human player, a computer-game bot, and a judge.
The bot needs to appear more human-like than the human player. Judge scores are not bipolar — both human and bot can be scored anywhere on a scale from 1 to 5 (1=not humanlike, 5=human).
All three participants are to be indistinguishable in the arena, with the exception of a randomly generated name tag, so as to reduce the chance of random elements such as name or appearance influencing the judges.
Chat is disabled throughout the match.
Bots were not given omniscient powers as they may be in other games. Bots must react only to the data that might be reasonably available to a human player.
Human participants were of a moderate skill range, with no participant either ignorant to the game or capable of playing at a professional level.
In 2008, the first 2K BotPrize tournament took place. The contest was held with the game Unreal Tournament 2004 as the platform. Contestants created their bots in advance using the GameBots interface. GameBots had some modifications made so as to adhere to the above conditions, such as removing data about vantage points or weapon damage that unfairly informed the bots of relevant strengths/weakness that a human would otherwise need to learn.
Tournament
The first BotPrize Tournament was held on 17 December 2008, as part of the 2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games in Australia. Each competing team was given time to set up and adjust their bots to the modified game client, although no coding changes wer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracey%20MacLeod | Tracey MacLeod (born 30 October 1960 in Ipswich, Suffolk) is an English journalist and broadcaster. She has presented arts and music programming, including The Late Show (1989–95) and its musical offshoots New West and Words and Music, Edinburgh Nights (1989, 1990), the Booker Prize (1990–95) and the Mercury Music Prize (1994–98). She hosted a Sunday night radio show on GLR from 1990 for several years and was one of the launch DJs on BBC Radio 6 Music.
Biography
MacLeod attended Ipswich High School and Durham University.
MacLeod worked as a researcher for the BBC before making her on-screen debut in 1987 on Channel 4’s youth show Network 7. Other screen credits include channel 4’s A Stab in the Dark with David Baddiel and Michael Gove, All I Want – A Portrait of Rufus Wainwright, Kitchen Criminals, Masterchef, and voicing over many music documentaries and the long-running BBC2 show Rapido, presented by Antoine de Caunes. She appeared as a guest interviewer in Sean Hughes' 1992 comedy series Sean's Show. Her friend Helen Fielding partly based the Jude character in Bridget Jones's Diary on her, and she appeared as an extra in the literary party scene of the film, directed by Sharon Maguire.
She was a team captain on the Radio 4 music quiz All the Way from Memphis, with Andrew Collins, and a regular contestant on the Radio 4 books quiz, The Write Stuff.
She was the restaurant critic of The Independent from 1997 until the paper ended its print edition in 2016, winning the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award for "Restaurant Writer of the Year" in 2003, and being awarded "Restaurant Writer of the Year" by the Guild of Food Writers in 2008 and 2010. She has also been literary editor of Marie Claire, and radio critic of The Mail on Sunday.
She is a director of the talent agency KBJ Management, where she manages TV presenters including Simon Amstell and Kevin McCloud.
She is a regular guest critic on Masterchef.
References
External links
1960 births
Living people
British music journalists
The Independent people
Radio critics
British women journalists
20th-century English women writers
20th-century English writers
British food writers
British restaurant critics
Women food writers
Mass media people from Ipswich
Alumni of St Aidan's College, Durham |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLEAN%20%28algorithm%29 | The CLEAN algorithm is a computational algorithm to perform a deconvolution on images created in radio astronomy. It was published by Jan Högbom in 1974 and several variations have been proposed since then.
The algorithm assumes that the image consists of a number of point sources. It will iteratively find the highest value in the image and subtract a small gain of this point source convolved with the point spread function ("dirty beam") of the observation, until the highest value is smaller than some threshold.
Astronomer T. J. Cornwell writes, "The impact of CLEAN on radio astronomy has been immense", both directly in enabling greater speed and efficiency in observations, and indirectly by encouraging "a wave of innovation in synthesis processing that continues to this day." It has also been applied in other areas of astronomy and many other fields of science.
The CLEAN algorithm and its variations are still extensively used in radio astronomy, for example in the first imaging of the M87 central supermassive black hole by the Event Horizon Telescope.
References
Radio astronomy
Computational astronomy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exasol | Exasol is an analytics database management software company. Its product is called Exasol, an in-memory, column-oriented, relational database management system
Since 2008, Exasol led the Transaction Processing Performance Council's TPC-H benchmark for analytical scenarios, in all data volume-based categories 100 GB, 300 GB, 1 TB, 3 TB, 10 TB, 30 TB and 100 TB. Exasol holds the top position in absolute performance as well as price/performance.
The database company used to be included as a niche player in Gartner's "Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems". It has not been included since 2016. The 2021 "Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems" includes Exasol as a niche player again.
Products
Exasol is a parallelized relational database management system (RDBMS) which runs on a cluster of standard computer hardware servers. Following the SPMD model, on each node the identical code is executed simultaneously. The data is stored in a column-oriented way and proprietary in-memory compression methods are used. The company claims that tuning efforts are not necessary since the database includes some kind of automatic self-optimization (like automatic indices, table statistics, and distributing of data).
Exasol is designed to run in memory, although data is persistently stored on disk following the ACID rules. Exasol supports the SQL Standard 2003 via interfaces like ODBC, JDBC or ADO.NET. A software development kit (SDK) is provided for native integration. For online analytical processing (OLAP) applications, the Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) extension of SQL is supported via OLE DB for OLAP and XML for Analysis.
The license model is based on the allocated RAM for the database software (per GB RAM) and independent to the physical hardware. Customers gain the maximal performance if their compressed active data fits into that licensed RAM, but it can also be much larger.
Exasol has implemented a so-called cluster operating system (EXACluster OS). It is based on Linux and provides a runtime environment and storage layer for the RDBMS, employing a proprietary, cluster-based file system (ExaStorage). Cluster management algorithms are provided like failover mechanisms or automatic cluster installation.
In-database analytics is supported. Exasol integrates support to run Lua, Java, Python and GNU R scripts in parallel inside user defined functions (UDFs) within the DBMS' SQL pipeline.
See also
Shared nothing architecture
Column-oriented database
In-memory database
SQL(:2008)
(R)OLAP, i.e. MDX over ODBO or XMLA
Business analytics
Predictive analytics
References
External links
Official website
Technical Details
TPC-H benchmark results
Software companies of Germany
Big data companies
Database companies
Companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna%20Mystika | Luna Mystika is a Philippine television drama fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Michael Tuviera and Gil Tejada Jr., it stars Heart Evangelista and Mark Anthony Fernandez. It premiered on November 17, 2008 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Codename: Asero. The series concluded on March 6, 2009 with a total of 80 episodes. It was replaced by All About Eve in its timeslot.
A sequel to the series, Luna Blanca was broadcast in 2012.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Heart Evangelista as Luna Sagrado-Samaniego / Celestina Sagrado
Mark Anthony Fernandez as Dexter Samaniego
Supporting cast
Dante Rivero as Joaquin Sagrado / Agnon
Chanda Romero as Benita Sagrado
Sheryl Cruz as Alice Sagrado
Romnick Sarmenta as Dominic Samaniego
Rita Avila as Diana Sagrado
Gardo Versoza as Dante / Sikano
Ariel Rivera as Simon Samaniego / Ybarra Montecillo
Mark Herras as Kamilo
Luis Alandy as Andoy
Kris Bernal as Malou
Aljur Abrenica as Libado
Iwa Moto as Donita Sagrado
John Lapus as Karya
Beth Tamayo as Lanie Samaniego
Pauleen Luna as Adita
Michelle Madrigal as Anata
Hero Angeles as Alguwas
Mosang as Piryang
Marky Lopez as Efren
Bearwin Meily as Bikodong
Jade Lopez as Susing
Paulo Avelino as Johnny
Prince Stefan as Henry
Jace Flores as Lucas
Recurring cast
Ces Quesada as Gina
Jenny Miller as Aligwa
Christian Vasquez as Milawon
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Luna Mystika earned a 38.9% rating. While the final episode scored a 37.3% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2008 Philippine television series debuts
2009 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine fantasy television series
Television shows set in Metro Manila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egenera | Egenera, Inc. is a multinational cloud manager and data center infrastructure automation company with corporate headquarters in Boxborough, Massachusetts in the United States. It is a privately held company with approximately 110 employees. Founded in March 2000, the company was named by Network World as one of the top 10 startups to watch in 2002 and was a winner in the annual "Red Herring 100 North America" award given by Red Herring magazine in 2006.
Egenera maintains overseas headquarters in the United Kingdom, Japan and Hong Kong.
History
Egenera was founded by Vern Brownell in March 2000.
The company launched its first product, the Egenera BladeFrame, in October, 2001.
In October 2006, Egenera announced its plan to create a separate line of business in order to make its virtualization management software, called PAN Manager, available under OEM agreement to other server vendors.
In December 2012, Egenera acquired Fort Technologies who was a developer of cloud management software.
OEM partners
As of 2013, Egenera has OEM agreements with the following vendors:
Dell
Fujitsu
Hewlett Packard
IBM
NEC
See also
Cloud computing
Storage virtualization
Network virtualization
x86 virtualization
Blade Server
Fabric computing
Unified computing
References
Software companies based in Massachusetts
Virtualization software
Software companies established in 2000
Software companies of the United States
Remote companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Proulx | Thomas Proulx is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur. He was a co-founder and first programmer of Intuit and a pioneer of usability testing in the 1980s. He was the main programmer of the first version of Quicken and TurboTax. He co-founded Intuit in 1983, and was later involved with NetPulse.
Early life and education
He earned an electrical engineering degree from Stanford University and was a Hughes Fellow.
Career
Intuit
In 1983, he began designing Quicken in his dorm room at Stanford.
In 1983 Scott Cook went to Stanford University in California, United States. He wanted a programmer for a planned home bill payment and bank reconciliation program. Proulx, who studied Electrical Engineering/Computer Science at Stanford, was the first person Cook met and they soon co-founded Intuit. Proulx was the first and foremost programmer of the first version of Quicken and the first Apple and Radio Shack versions. He obtained a patent for finding a way for a computer to verify that a user had correctly inserted blank checks in a dot matrix printer. This was essential to the near universal use of such checks in accounting programs.
After he co-founded Intuit in 1983, the company ran into financial difficulties, with staff working at one point for nine months without pay.
In 1984, in what may have been the first case of usability testing with engineers, Intuit recruited people off the street to test Quicken with a stopwatch. After each test Proulx improved Quicken. Before this, experienced computer users spent an hour or more installing programs and print a check. Novices often gave up. Quicken let newbies do it in less than 15 minutes, printing checks faster than it took to write them. The market share of Quicken varied from 65% to 98%, making it a killer application, which drove many computer sales. It also made usability testing a standard industry practice.
In 1985, the company lost key employees due to a lack of funds, with Proulx as one of four remaining employees working for free for six months. They worked on Quicken, which they used to create an advertising revenue stream. In 1985, while Proulx was one of three Intuit employees, Intuit became the first company to shrink wrap floppy disks and manuals. This further revolutionized software development. By 1992, all major Intuit programs had a market share of 75% or more. Proulx created an Intuit credit card with a download service, that automatically classified charges. Proulx was a recipient of the Inc. Magazine Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1992. In 1993, he actively assisted with helping Intuit go public and was the driving force behind its Chip Soft TurboTax merger. He resigned soon after.
He retired from Intuit in 1994. Afterwards, he became a private investor in several startup companies.
Netpulse
He co-founded Netpulse, Inc. In June 2000, Netpulse E-Zone Media Networks was formed out of E-Zone Networks, Netpulse Communications, and Xystos Media Networks in a merger. The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant-resistance%20network | A constant-resistance network in electrical engineering is a network whose input resistance does not change with frequency when correctly terminated. Examples of constant resistance networks include:
Zobel network
Lattice phase equaliser
Boucherot cell
Bridged T delay equaliser
Electrical engineering
Physics-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMIT%20School%20of%20Computing%20Technologies | The RMIT School of Computer Technologies is an Australian tertiary education school within the STEM College of RMIT University.
Location
The school is located in Building 14 (levels 8 to 11) in Swanston Street at the RMIT City campus. Previously the school was located in Building 10 at RMIT's City campus and also part of the school was located at RMIT's Bundoora campus.
History
The first computer at RMIT, an Elliott Automation model 803, was acquired at the instigation of the Department of Mathematics during the early 1960s, and located on the ground floor of Storey Hall.
The School of Computer Science and Information Technology (which has had several names) became a separate academic department of RMIT in 1980. The first PhD in Computer Science awarded at RMIT was in 1988 to Dr Alan Kent for his thesis on "File access methods based on descriptors and superimposed coding".
In 1990, the Multimedia Database Systems group within the school became a research centre led by Professor Ron Sacks-Davis. Following the development of TeraText (a non-relational text database system), the commercial arm of the group (including TeraText) was in 2001 spun off into a separate company, InQuirion. RMIT subsequently sold TeraText and InQuirion to SAIC in 2006.
See also
RMIT University
References
Computing Technologies
Computer science departments
Information technology schools
Science and technology in Melbourne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum-distance%20estimation | Minimum-distance estimation (MDE) is a conceptual method for fitting a statistical model to data, usually the empirical distribution. Often-used estimators such as ordinary least squares can be thought of as special cases of minimum-distance estimation.
While consistent and asymptotically normal, minimum-distance estimators are generally not statistically efficient when compared to maximum likelihood estimators, because they omit the Jacobian usually present in the likelihood function. This, however, substantially reduces the computational complexity of the optimization problem.
Definition
Let be an independent and identically distributed (iid) random sample from a population with distribution and .
Let be the empirical distribution function based on the sample.
Let be an estimator for . Then is an estimator for .
Let be a functional returning some measure of "distance" between the two arguments. The functional is also called the criterion function.
If there exists a such that , then is called the minimum-distance estimate of .
Statistics used in estimation
Most theoretical studies of minimum-distance estimation, and most applications, make use of "distance" measures which underlie already-established goodness of fit tests: the test statistic used in one of these tests is used as the distance measure to be minimised. Below are some examples of statistical tests that have been used for minimum-distance estimation.
Chi-square criterion
The chi-square test uses as its criterion the sum, over predefined groups, of the squared difference between the increases of the empirical distribution and the estimated distribution, weighted by the increase in the estimate for that group.
Cramér–von Mises criterion
The Cramér–von Mises criterion uses the integral of the squared difference between the empirical and the estimated distribution functions .
Kolmogorov–Smirnov criterion
The Kolmogorov–Smirnov test uses the supremum of the absolute difference between the empirical and the estimated distribution functions .
Anderson–Darling criterion
The Anderson–Darling test is similar to the Cramér–von Mises criterion except that the integral is of a weighted version of the squared difference, where the weighting relates the variance of the empirical distribution function .
Theoretical results
The theory of minimum-distance estimation is related to that for the asymptotic distribution of the corresponding statistical goodness of fit tests. Often the cases of the Cramér–von Mises criterion, the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test and the Anderson–Darling test are treated simultaneously by treating them as special cases of a more general formulation of a distance measure. Examples of the theoretical results that are available are: consistency of the parameter estimates; the asymptotic covariance matrices of the parameter estimates.
See also
Maximum likelihood estimation
Maximum spacing estimation
References
Estimation methods
Statistical distance
Mathema |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Neale | Mark Neale is a British documentarian and film director based in Los Angeles, California. His best-known work is the 1999 documentary No Maps for These Territories, which profiled cyberpunk author William Gibson. Prior to No Maps, Neale had been an acclaimed music video director, making videos for artists such as U2, Paul Weller and Counting Crows. In 2003, Neale wrote and directed Faster, a documentary on the MotoGP motorcycle racing world championship, and its sequel The Doctor, the Tornado and the Kentucky Kid in 2006.
Filmography
Mojo Working: Jimi Hendrix (1992)
No Maps for These Territories (1999)
Faster (2003)
Faster & Faster (2004)
The Doctor, the Tornado and the Kentucky Kid (2006)
Charge, Zero Emissions/Maximum Speed (2011)
Fastest (2011)
Hitting The Apex (2015)
Videography
''U2 — "Lemon" (1993)
References
External links
British film directors
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia%20Falconeri | Olivia Falconeri is a fictional character from General Hospital, an American soap opera on the ABC network. Created by head writer Robert Guza, Jr. and introduced by executive producer Jill Farren Phelps, the role been portrayed by Lisa LoCicero since September 2008.
Casting
The role of Olivia Falconeri was originated by Lisa LoCicero on September 19, 2008, on a recurring basis. It was announced in July 2009 that LoCicero was put on contract with the series, just a month before her onscreen cousin Kate Howard was dropped to recurring status. In 2015, she returned to recurring status, where she has remained since – however, Olivia remains a key character in the show.
Storylines
Backstory
Olivia Falconeri grew up in a large Italian family in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bensonhurst. She was very close with her cousin, Connie (aka Kate Howard) when they were growing up until Connie left town for college and changed her name, abandoning their family, including Olivia. As a teenager, Olivia became involved with Sonny Corinthos and their brief relationship would lead to the birth of their son, Dante in 1984, when she was 15. Sonny and Connie would also date until Connie left town to attend Princeton University. Olivia keeps Dante's paternity secret due to Sonny being in the mob and leads everyone else to believe she was promiscuous, and that Dante's father can one of any three or four other men. Only Kate knows the truth about Olivia's son and has kept her secret even after she changed her name and left her family. Olivia was very relieved when Kate didn't run off with Sonny, but was upset when Kate left her family to pursue her dreams. After Kate left Bensonhurst and changed her identity, Olivia did not have any contact with Kate for twenty years. She kept herself posted on Kate's accomplishments through newspapers and magazines.
2008–09
Olivia was reconnected with her past after she saw Sonny at Frankie's bar. Sonny, engaged to Kate, asked Olivia to come to Port Charles to be Kate's maid-of-honor. When she arrived in Port Charles, she checked into the Metro Court Hotel where she meets Carly Corinthos Jacks, Sonny's ex-wife. Olivia told Carly who she was and revealed to Carly that Kate's real identity is Connie Falconeri and she hails from Bensonhurst, not Connecticut.
On the day of the wedding, Olivia helped Kate fix her hair and get dressed for the ceremony. Olivia presented Kate with a necklace all Falconeri women have worn to their weddings. Kate refused to wear the heirloom and the two had a loud argument that everyone in the chapel could hear. Olivia, furious Kate denies her identity by refusing to wear the heirloom, decides to wear the necklace herself. After Kate was shot at the altar, Olivia was grief-stricken, fearing for her cousin's life. As she held a bloody, wounded Kate, she told her she is proud of who she has become and she is happy she accomplished everything she dreamed of. Kate was rushed to General Hospital and Olivia told So |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirhash | Dirhash is a feature of FreeBSD that improves the speed of finding files in a directory. Rather than finding a file in a directory using a linear search algorithm, FreeBSD uses a hash table. The feature is backwards-compatible because the hash table is built in memory when the directory is accessed, and it does not affect the on-disk format of the filesystem, in contrast to systems such as Htree. An in-memory of space for new entries is also maintained, allowing addition of new entries without having to scan the directory to find free space.
Dirhash was implemented by Ian Dowse early in 2001 as an addition to UFS, operating in parallel with higher-level file system caching. It was imported into FreeBSD in July 2001. It was subsequently imported into OpenBSD in December 2003 and NetBSD in January 2005.
References
Disk file systems
Hashing
FreeBSD |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head%20impact%20telemetry%20system | Head Impact Telemetry System (HITS) is a hardware and software system intended as a shock detector and logger; the hardware is embedded in football helmets and transmits data to a computer.
The system was developed by Simbex, based on Lebanon, New Hampshire, in collaboration with Virginia Tech, starting around 2000. By 2006 the system weighed about six ounces and had six sensors, a small computer, a battery and a radio; helmets including the system were marketed by Riddell and a set of 40 cost around $50,000 at that time. At that time nine NCAA football teams and a high school team were testing it, and the NFL had decided it not well validated enough to use.
References
Virginia Tech
American football equipment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apprenticeship%20learning | In artificial intelligence, apprenticeship learning (or learning from demonstration or imitation learning) is the process of learning by observing an expert. It can be viewed as a form of supervised learning, where the training dataset consists of task executions by a demonstration teacher.
Mapping function approach
Mapping methods try to mimic the expert by forming a direct mapping either from states to actions, or from states to reward values. For example, in 2002 researchers used such an approach to teach an AIBO robot basic soccer skills.
Inverse reinforcement learning approach
Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) is the process of deriving a reward function from observed behavior. While ordinary "reinforcement learning" involves using rewards and punishments to learn behavior, in IRL the direction is reversed, and a robot observes a person's behavior to figure out what goal that behavior seems to be trying to achieve. The IRL problem can be defined as:
Given 1) measurements of an agent's behaviour over time, in a variety of circumstances; 2) measurements of the sensory inputs to that agent; 3) a model of the physical environment (including the agent's body): Determine the reward function that the agent is optimizing.
IRL researcher Stuart J. Russell proposes that IRL might be used to observe humans and attempt to codify their complex "ethical values", in an effort to create "ethical robots" that might someday know "not to cook your cat" without needing to be explicitly told. The scenario can be modeled as a "cooperative inverse reinforcement learning game", where a "person" player and a "robot" player cooperate to secure the person's implicit goals, despite these goals not being explicitly known by either the person nor the robot.
In 2017, OpenAI and DeepMind applied deep learning to the cooperative inverse reinforcement learning in simple domains such as Atari games and straightforward robot tasks such as backflips. The human role was limited to answering queries from the robot as to which of two different actions were preferred. The researchers found evidence that the techniques may be economically scalable to modern systems.
Apprenticeship via inverse reinforcement learning (AIRP) was developed by in 2004 Pieter Abbeel, Professor in Berkeley's EECS department, and Andrew Ng, Associate Professor in Stanford University's Computer Science Department. AIRP deals with "Markov decision process where we are not explicitly given a reward function, but where instead we can observe an expert demonstrating the task that we want to learn to perform". AIRP has been used to model reward functions of highly dynamic scenarios where there is no obvious reward function intuitively. Take the task of driving for example, there are many different objectives working simultaneously - such as maintaining safe following distance, a good speed, not changing lanes too often, etc. This task, may seem easy at first glance, but a trivial reward function may not |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E018 | E018 is a European class B road in Kazakhstan connecting the cities Zhezkazgan – Karagandy - Pavlodar - Uspenka.
In the International E-road network, a class B road is a branch, link or connecting road of or between two or more class A main roads. In this case the E018 is a connecting road between the main international roads E123 (in city Zhezkazgan), E125 (in city Karagandy), and E127 (in city Pavlodar).
E123 makes the route Tsjeljabinsk (Russia) - Kostanay (Kazakhstan) - Zapadnoje - Boezoeloek - Derzjavinsk - Arkalyk - Zjezkazgan - Kyzylorda - Shymkent - Tashkent (Uzbekistan) - Aini - Dushanbe (Tajikistan)- Nizhny Pyanj.
E125 makes the route Ishim (Russia) - Petropavlovsk (Kazakhstan)- Kokshetau - Shchuchinsk - Nur-Sultan - Karagandy - Balkhash - Burubaytal - Almaty - Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)- Naryn - Torugart.
E127 makes the route Omsk (Russia) - Pavlodar (Kazakhstan) - Semey - Georgiyevka - Maikapshagai.
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
International E-road network
European routes in Kazakhstan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI%20Virtu | SGI Virtu is a computer product line from Silicon Graphics dedicated to visualization, announced in April 2008. It represents a return of Silicon Graphics to the visualization market after several years of focus on high-performance computing.
SGI Virtu workstations effectively replaced the SGI Fuel, SGI Tezro and SGI Prism workstations that were discontinued in 2006.
The Virtu range consists of a rack-mounted server configuration (Virtu VN200) and four workstation configurations (Virtu VS series). The latter are re-badged systems from BOXX Technologies, based on Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron processors and Nvidia Quadro graphics chipsets, running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server or Windows Compute Cluster Server.
SGI Virtu VN200
SGI Virtu VN200 is a high density node installed in a rack-mounted enclosure. Five nodes are supported in the 4U enclosure.
The node itself is based on a two-way Intel Xeon 5400 architecture and supports Nvidia Quadro graphic cards and is intended to be clustered.
SGI Virtu VS
The SGI Virtu VS series are the workstation models of the product line. Virtu VS100 is based on a two-way Quad Core Intel Xeon architecture. Virtu VS200 is a two-way AMD Opteron configuration, Virtu VS300 a four-way AMD Opteron and Virtu VS350 is an eight-way AMD Opteron configuration.
All systems accept the full range of Nvidia Quadro Plex and Nvidia Quadro graphic solutions. NVIDIA SLI is supported.
References
External links
Official Virtu Homepage
SGI workstations
SGI visualization
SGI Virtu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shard%20%28database%20architecture%29 | A database shard, or simply a shard, is a horizontal partition of data in a database or search engine. Each shard is held on a separate database server instance, to spread load.
Some data within a database remains present in all shards, but some appear only in a single shard. Each shard (or server) acts as the single source for this subset of data.
Database architecture
Horizontal partitioning is a database design principle whereby rows of a database table are held separately, rather than being split into columns (which is what normalization and vertical partitioning do, to differing extents). Each partition forms part of a shard, which may in turn be located on a separate database server or physical location.
There are numerous advantages to the horizontal partitioning approach. Since the tables are divided and distributed into multiple servers, the total number of rows in each table in each database is reduced. This reduces index size, which generally improves search performance. A database shard can be placed on separate hardware, and multiple shards can be placed on multiple machines. This enables a distribution of the database over a large number of machines, greatly improving performance. In addition, if the database shard is based on some real-world segmentation of the data (e.g., European customers v. American customers) then it may be possible to infer the appropriate shard membership easily and automatically, and query only the relevant shard.
In practice, sharding is complex. Although it has been done for a long time by hand-coding (especially where rows have an obvious grouping, as per the example above), this is often inflexible. There is a desire to support sharding automatically, both in terms of adding code support for it, and for identifying candidates to be sharded separately. Consistent hashing is a technique used in sharding to spread large loads across multiple smaller services and servers.
Where distributed computing is used to separate load between multiple servers (either for performance or reliability reasons), a shard approach may also be useful. In the 2010s, sharding of execution capacity, as well as the more traditional sharding of data, has emerged as a potential approach to overcome performance and scalability problems in blockchains.
Compared to horizontal partitioning
Horizontal partitioning splits one or more tables by row, usually within a single instance of a schema and a database server. It may offer an advantage by reducing index size (and thus search effort) provided that there is some obvious, robust, implicit way to identify in which partition a particular row will be found, without first needing to search the index, e.g., the classic example of the 'CustomersEast' and 'CustomersWest' tables, where their zip code already indicates where they will be found.
Sharding goes beyond this: it partitions the problematic table(s) in the same way, but it does this across potentially multiple instances of t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOCUS | LOCUS is a discontinued distributed operating system developed at UCLA during the 1980s. It was notable for providing an early implementation of the single-system image idea, where a cluster of machines appeared to be one larger machine.
A desire to commercialize the technologies developed for LOCUS inspired the creation of the Locus Computing Corporation which went on to include ideas from LOCUS in various products, including OSF/1 AD and, finally, the SCO–Tandem UnixWare NonStop Clusters product.
Description
The LOCUS system was created at UCLA between 1980 and 1983, initial implementation was on a cluster of PDP-11/45s using 1 and 10 megabit ring networks, by 1983 the system was running on 17 VAX-11/750s using a 10 megabit Ethernet. The system was Unix compatible and provided both a single root view of the file system and a unified process space across all nodes.
The development of LOCUS was supported by an ARPA research contract, DSS-MDA-903-82-C-0189.
File system
In order to allow reliable and rapid access to the cluster wide filesystem LOCUS used replication, the data of files could be stored on more than one node and LOCUS would keep the various copies up to date. This provided particularly good access times for files that were read more often than they were written, the normal case for directories for example.
In order to ensure that all access was made to the most recent version of any file LOCUS would nominate one node as the "current synchronization site" (CSS) for a particular file system. All accesses to files a file system would need to be coordinated with the appropriate CSS.
Node dependent files
As with other SSI systems LOCUS sometimes found it necessary to break the illusion of a single system, notably to allow some files to be different on a per-node basis. For example, it was possible to build a LOCUS cluster containing both PDP-11/45 and VAX 750 machines, but instruction sets used were not identical, so two versions of each object program would be needed
The solution was to replace the files that needed to be different on a per node basis by special hidden directories. These directories would then contain the different versions of the file. When a user accessed one of these hidden directories the system would check the user's context and open the appropriate file.
For example, if the user was running on one of the PDP-11/45's and typed the command /bin/who then the system would find that /bin/who was actually a hidden directory and run the command /bin/who/45. Another user on a VAX node who typed /bin/who would run the command /bin/who/vax.
Devices
LOCUS provided remote access to I/O devices.
Processes
LOCUS provided a single process space. Processes could be created on any node on the system. Both the Unix fork and exec calls would examine an advice list which determined on which node the process would be run. LOCUS was designed to work with heterogeneous nodes, (e.g., a mix of VAX 750s and PDP 11/45s) a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nik%C5%A1a%20Ranjina | Nikša Andretić Ranjina or Nicola Ragnina (1494–1582) was a writer and nobleman from the Republic of Ragusa (modern-day Dubrovnik), most famous as the compiler of Ranjina's Miscellany.
Ranjina is the most famous for his manuscript collection of Croatian Petrarchian poems known as Nikša Ranjina's Miscellany. The manuscript itself was destroyed in World War II. The manuscript had two pieces and contained about 820 poems, with (recognized) authors such as Šiško Menčetić (about 500 poems), Džore Držić (~70 poems), Mavro Vetranović, Marin Krističević and Mato Hispani.
Beside this well-known miscellany, he also compiled Ranjinin Lekcionar (started in 1508) (a collection of passages from the Bible), and the Dubrovnik chronicle Annali di Ragusa (1522). Whether some of the verses in the Miscellany were authored by Ranjina is not known, although it is possible.
See also
Ranjina's Miscellany
External links
Obljetnica objavljivanja Zbornika Nikše Ranjine
1494 births
1582 deaths
Croatian writers
Ragusan writers
Ragusan nobility |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PureXML | pureXML is the native XML storage feature in the IBM Db2 data server. pureXML provides query languages, storage technologies, indexing technologies, and other features to support XML data. The word pure in pureXML was chosen to indicate that Db2 natively stores and natively processes XML data in its inherent hierarchical structure, as opposed to treating XML data as plain text or converting it into a relational format.
Technical information
Db2 includes two distinct storage mechanisms: one for efficiently managing traditional SQL data types, and another for managing XML data. The underlying storage mechanism is transparent to users and applications; they simply use SQL (including SQL with XML extensions or SQL/XML) or XQuery to work with the data.
XML data is stored in columns of Db2 tables that have the XML data type. XML data is stored in a parsed format that reflects the hierarchical nature of the original XML data. As such, pureXML uses trees and nodes as its model for storing and processing XML data. If you instruct Db2 to validate XML data against an XML schema prior to storage, Db2 annotates all nodes in the XML hierarchy with information about the schema types; otherwise, it will annotate the nodes with default type information. Upon storage, Db2 preserves the internal structure of XML data, converting its tag names and other information into integer values. Doing so helps conserve disk space and also improves the performance of queries that use navigational expressions. However, users aren't aware of this internal representation. Finally, Db2 automatically splits XML nodes across multiple database pages, as needed.
XML schemas specify which XML elements are valid, in what order these elements should appear in XML data, which XML data types are associated with each element, and so on. pureXML allows you to validate the cells in a column of XML data against no schema, one schema, or multiple schemas. pureXML also provides tools to support evolving XML schemas.
IBM has enhanced its programming language interfaces to support access to its XML data. These enhancements span Java (JDBC), C (embedded SQL and call-level interface), COBOL (embedded SQL), PHP, and Microsoft's .NET Framework (through the DB2.NET provider).
History
pureXML was first included in the DB2 9 for Linux, Unix, and Microsoft Windows release, which was codenamed Viper, in June 2006. It was available on DB2 9 for z/OS in March 2007. In October 2007, IBM released DB2 9.5 with improved XML data transaction performance and improved storage savings. In June 2009, IBM released DB2 9.7 with XML supported for database-partitioned, range-partitioned, and multi-dimensionally clustered tables as well as compression of XML data and indices.
Competition
Db2 is a hybrid data server—it offers data management for traditional relational data, as well as providing native XML data management. Other vendors that offer data management for both relational data and native XM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr%20H%C3%A1jek | Petr Hájek (; 6 February 1940 – 26 December 2016) was a Czech scientist in the area of mathematical logic and a professor of mathematics. Born in Prague, he worked at the Institute of Computer Science at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and as a lecturer at the faculty of mathematics and physics at the Charles University in Prague and at the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague.
Academics
Petr Hájek studied at the faculty of mathematics and physics of the Charles University in Prague. Influenced by Petr Vopěnka, he specialized in set theory and arithmetic, and later also in logic and artificial intelligence. He contributed to establishing the mathematical fundamentals of fuzzy logic. Following the Velvet Revolution, he was appointed a senior lecturer (1993) and a professor (1997). From 1992 to 2000 he held the position of chairman of the Institute of Computer Science at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. From 1996 to 2003 he was also president of the Kurt Gödel Society.
Later, he graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where he studied the pipe organ under Jiří Reinberger to become an organ player in a church.
Awards
2002, Medal of the Minister of Education of the Czech Republic
2006, Medal of Merit, third grade, in the area of sciences by President of the Czech Republic Václav Klaus
2008, doctor honoris causa from Silesian University in Opava
Papers
See also
Semiset
References
External links
Petr Hájek's former webpage
Databases of the National Library of the Czech Republic
1940 births
2016 deaths
Charles University alumni
Czech scientists
Mathematicians from Prague
Set theorists
Recipients of Medal of Merit (Czech Republic)
Academic staff of Czech Technical University in Prague
Scientists from Prague
Academy of Performing Arts in Prague alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian%20Cultural%20Forum%20New%20York | The Austrian Cultural Forum New York (ACFNY) is one of Austria's two cultural representation offices in the United States; the other is in Washington, D.C. It is part of the worldwide network of Austrian Cultural Forums overseen by the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs.
History
ACFNY was founded as the Austrian Institute in 1942 in New York City by Austrian immigrants to the United States for the purpose of preserving and disseminating Austrian culture. One of the leading figures of that time was émigré Irene Harand, who served as the institute's vice president.
In 1963, it opened offices at its current location at 11 East 52nd Street in Manhattan, as the official cultural representation office of the Austrian federal government. In 2002, the institution, now called the Austrian Cultural Forum, moved into a new building at the location of its former townhouse.
ACFNY is a division of the Austrian consulate in New York. Susanne Keppler-Schlesinger has held the position of Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum New York since September 2022. She is an Austrian career diplomat. Her predecessors include Michael Haider, Christine Moser, Andreas Stadler, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Wolfgang Waldner, Peter Marboe, Fritz Cocron, and Wilhelm Schlag.
Building
A competition was held in 1992 to choose a design for ACFNY's new building. Raimund Abraham was the winning architect among 226 submissions. Completed in 2002, the building is situated on a plot in Manhattan that is only wide and deep. It is considered as an architectural anomaly because, despite its small footprint, it is 24 stories and tall. The building's facade is clad in glass and aluminum and gradually tapers to a narrow point as it slants upwards in accordance with zoning laws. It houses exhibition spaces, a theater, a library for books and audio recordings, offices, seminar and reception rooms, and apartments for the officers of the institution. The library is named in honor of Frederic Morton and has a collection of more than 10,000 books specific to Austrian art and culture.
Activities
Since its founding, ACFNY has served as a place for cultural exchange between Austrians and Americans throughout the United States, with the exception of Washington D.C., which has its own cultural forum under the auspices of the Austrian Embassy. It introduces Austrian artists at venues across the country.
In the ACFNY building, five floors are used as exhibition space for predominantly contemporary art. Some exhibits make use of and showcase the building's unique architecture. Concerts and performances are presented in the in-house auditorium and at other venues in New York. In addition to films, AFCNY offers talks, readings, and book presentations.
References
External links
Culture of Austria
Buildings and structures in Manhattan
Art museums and galleries in Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan
Cultural centers in New York City
Libraries in Manhattan
Austria–United States re |
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