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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy%20%28The%20Flyin%27%20Ryan%20Brothers%20album%29 | Legacy is the third album by American progressive rock band The Flyin' Ryan Brothers, released in 2002.
Track listing
Personnel
Jimmy Ryan – guitars, keyboards, percussion programming, lead vocals, backing vocals, production, arrangements, engineering, mixing, mastering, executive production, design
Johnny Ryan – guitars, keyboards, percussion programming, lead vocals, backing vocals, production, arrangements, engineering, mixing, mastering
Bob Behnke – drums on "Legacy", "Maol Mori", "First Blood", "Yeah, Man!", "Harmony" and "Legacy Reprise"
Chacho – bass on "Maol Mori", "First Blood", "Yeah, Man!" and "Harmony"
Johnny Mrozek – drums on "Baja Breeze", "Cliffs of Moher" and "Stevie Dan", percussion on "Legacy", "Leprechaun's Ball", "Baja Breeze", "Cliss of Moher", "Sweet Virginia" and "Harmony", lead vocals on "First Blood"
William Kopecky – bass on "Legacy", "Leprechaun's Ball", "Baja Breeze", "Stevie Dan" and "Legacy Reprise", fretless bass on "Amazing Grace" and "Cliffs of Moher"
Danny Daniels – keyboards on "Red Red Rose" and "Sweet Virginia"
Jim McClain – vocals on "First Blood"
Michael Angelo Batio – mixing, mastering
Dorothy Kosior – typesetting
Julie Ryan – photography
References
The Flyin' Ryan Brothers albums
2002 albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBDZ | KBDZ (93.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Classic Rock format. Licensed to Perryville, Missouri, United States, the station is owned by Donze Communications and features programming from Westwood One.
The station features shows such as longtime Missouri and Illinois radio personality JC Corcoran’s “The Morning Showgram”; “Zav and the Classic Rock Cafe”, hosted by Chris Razavi; “Kevy Kev and Nitewatch”; Carl Russo; Dan Mitchell; “JD and Bridget”.
History
The station went on the air as KRAA on November 29, 1989. On September 21, 1990, the station changed its call sign to KBDZ.
When the station first went on the air, KBDZ was playing Soft Rock hits but that changed after the Flood of 1993 when station owners dropped the soft rock format and switched to "Mainstream Country" after sister station KSGM AM 980 went dark because of the damage to the transmitter site located in the bottoms of Perry County, MO.
The local news and sports programming was also switched to KBDZ. In addition the station became the local affiliate for St. Louis Cardinals baseball and St. Louis Blues hockey.
Prior to a change in format, KBDZ was given permission to upgrade the signal with the construction of a radio tower in Weingarten, MO. The construction permit allowed KBDZ to increase the effective radiated power from 6,000 watts to 50,000 watts. An additional change to 36,000 watts at a larger height above average terrain was later approved.
However with the upgrade, the station was forced to move Cardinal baseball to sister station KSGM AM 980 because of the signal's penetration into the St. Louis market and overlap with Cardinal flagship station KMOX. KSGM AM would eventually drop St. Louis Blues hockey but added Blues Hockey back to their sports lineup in October 2019.
Then, in November 2013, KBDZ switched from "B931 Country" to "Classic Rock 93.1".
On February 15, 2016, longtime St. Louis radio personality JC Corcoran debuted on KBDZ during the morning drive time slot. However on June 8, 2021, KBDZ announced through its official Facebook that Donze Communications and JC Corcoran were parting ways, due to a variety of reasons they announced were staying private but was in relation to Corcoran “inaccurately and unfairly attacking personnel”.
References
External links
Classic Rock 93.1 Facebook
BDZ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarita%20Adve | Sarita Vikram Adve is the Richard T. Cheng Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests are in computer architecture and systems, parallel computing, and power and reliability-aware systems.
Education and career
Adve completed a Bachelor of Technology degree in electrical engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1987. She subsequently completed a Master of Science (1989) and Ph.D. (1993) in computer science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Before joining Illinois, Adve was a member of faculty at Rice University from 1993 to 1999. She served on the NSF CISE directorate's advisory committee from 2003 to 2005 and on the expert group to revise the Java memory model from 2001 to 2005. She served as chair of ACM SIGARCH from 2015 to 2019.
She was the PhD supervisor of Parthasarathy Ranganathan.
Awards and honors
Adve received the Ken Kennedy Award in 2018, the ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes award in 2008, an IBM faculty award in 2005, was named a UIUC University Scholar in 2004, received an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 1998, an IBM University Partnership award in 1997 and 1998, and a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 1995. She was named a Fellow of the ACM in 2010. She was the winner of the 2012 ABIE Award for Innovation from the Anita Borg Institute. In 2020, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
References
External links
Sarita Adve's Homepage
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Living people
Rice University faculty
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Researchers in distributed computing
IIT Bombay alumni
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
African-American women academics
21st-century American women academics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z11%20%28computer%29 | The Z11 was a computer, the first serially produced machine of the Zuse KG.
Weighing , in 1955 it was built with relays and stepwise relays. Beginning in 1957 the Z11 could be programmed by punched tapes. It consumed 2 kW of electricity, and operated mechanically at a frequency of 10 to 20 Hz. Both input and output were in decimal numbers, and it used floating-point arithmetic.
The Z11 was first presented on the Hannover Messe in 1957. Today the German Museum of Technology and the Museum of Technology in Vienna exhibit one of the surviving Z11s.
External links
Z11 information
1950s computers
Computer-related introductions in 1955
Konrad Zuse
Computers designed in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z5%20%28computer%29 | The Z5 was a computer designed by Konrad Zuse and manufactured by Zuse KG following an order by Ernst Leitz GmbH in Wetzlar in 1950. The computer was delivered in July 1953 and was the first commercial built-to-order mainframe in Germany. The computer was purchased to help with the design of optical lens systems.
The Z5 is the successor of the Z4, and is much more compact and powerful. Zuse implemented the machine with relays, since vacuum tubes were too unreliable at the time. The Z5 used the same principles as the Z4, but was six times faster.
It also had punched tape readers, which the Z4 did not have. It had conditional branching and five subroutine loops.
Specifications
Frequency: ca. 40 Hz
Arithmetic unit: Floating point numbers (36 bit length)
Memory: 12 words, 36 bit
Speed: addition 0.1 second, multiplication 0.4 s, division 0.7 s
Power consumption: 5000 watts
Weight: ca.
References
External links
Z5 information (German), (Google translation), (English)
1950s computers
Computer-related introductions in 1953
Konrad Zuse
Computers designed in Germany
Serial computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasser%20Abufarha | Nasser Abufarha is a Palestinian-American anthropologist and social entrepreneur. He is the founder of Canaan Fair Trade and the Palestine Fair Trade Association—a network of small-scale family farms organized under fair trade and organic production, active in 54 villages across the West Bank with 1500 members.
His book, The Making of a Human Bomb: An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance, was published by Duke University Press in 2009.
Early life and education
He was born in 1964 in Al-Jalama, a small farming village near Jenin, at the northern tip of the West Bank. He currently lives in his village in Palestine.
After first studying in Canada, he traveled to the United States, where he earned his bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Wayne State University in 1989. Abufarha went on to earn a PhD in Cultural Anthropology, Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2006.
Career
In 2004, Abufarha established the Palestine Fair Trade Association—a network of small-scale family farms organized under fair trade and organic production, active in 54 villages across the West Bank with 1500 members.
He also established Canaan Fair Trade, a healthy lifestyle brand of Palestinian speciality foods selling to the United States and Europe. Canaan Palestine products are certified fair trade and organic offering Palestinian olive oil.
Publications
The Making of a Human Bomb: An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance. Duke University Press, 2009.
Book Chapter: Alternative Palestinian Agenda. in Palestinian-Israeli Impasse: Exploring Alternative Solutions to the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. Mahdi Abdelhadi, Editor. Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA), Jerusalem 2005.
Alternative Trade Organizations and the Fair Trade Movement. Social Research: For A Better World. Issue 6, Spring (2013).
Suicide, Violence, and Cultural Conceptions of Martyrdom in Palestine. Social Research: An International Quarterly of social Research. Neil Whitehead and Nasser Abufarha (2008).
Land of Symbols: Cactus, poppies, Orange, and Olive Trees in Palestine. (6-2008) Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. Vol. 15.
Bi-nationalism in Palestine-Israel: A Palestinian Historical Choice, Not a Last Resort. Shu’on Tnmawayeh (Journal of Development Affairs), June 2005, Al Multaqa (Arab Thought Forum) – Jerusalem.
Bird's Labor Mirrors Palestinian Struggle, July 2001. Capital Times, Madison. Newspaper article.
Awards
One World Award, IFOAM Organics, Germany, October 2017.
Palestine Exporter of the Year Award, Paltrade & Ministry of Economy, Palestine 2016.
Premio Verde Award, The Navarro Foundation, Madrid, Spain, November 2015.
Leadership Award, Citizenship Category. The Speciality Food Association, USA. Jan 2013.
Inspiration of Hope Award. Interfaith Peace Builders. Chicago, USA. December 2010.
References
Profile of Nasser Abufarha at the Institute for Middle East Understanding
Palestine Fair |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hands-on%20computing | Hands-on computing is a branch of human-computer interaction research which focuses on computer interfaces that respond to human touch or expression, allowing the machine and the user to interact physically. Hands-on computing can make complicated computer tasks more natural to users by attempting to respond to motions and interactions that are natural to human behavior. Thus hands-on computing is a component of user-centered design, focusing on how users physically respond to virtual environments.
Implementations
Keyboards
Stylus pens and tablets
Touchscreens
Human signaling
Keyboards
Keyboards and typewriters are some of the earliest hands-on computing devices. These devices are effective because users receive kinesthetic feedback, tactile feedback, auditory feedback, and visual feedback. The QWERTY layout of the keyboard is one of the first designs, dating to 1878. New designs such as the split keyboard increase the comfort of typing for users. Keyboards input directions to the computer via keys; however, they do not allow the user direct interaction with the computer through touch or expression.
Stylus pens and tablets
Tablets are touch-sensitive surfaces that detect the pressure applied by a stylus pen. This works via changes in magnetic fields or by bringing together two resistive sheets, for magnetic tablets and resistive tablets respectively. Tablets allow users to interact with computers by touching through a stylus pen, yet they do not respond directly to a user's touch.
Touchscreens
Touchscreen allow users to directly interact with computers by touching the screen with a finger. It is natural for humans to point to objects in order to show a preference or a selection. Touchscreens allow users to take this natural action and use it to interact with computers. Problems may arise due to inaccuracy: people attempt to make a selection, but due to incorrect calibration, the computer does not accurately process the touch.
Human signaling
New developments in hands-on computing have led to the creation of interfaces that can respond to gestures and facial signaling. Often haptic devices like a glove have to be worn to translate the gesture into a recognizable command. The natural actions of pointing, grabbing, and tapping are common ways to interact with the computer interface. The latest studies include using eye tracking to indicate selection or control a cursor. Blinking and the gaze of the eye are used to communicate selections. Computers can also respond to speech inputs. Developments in this technology have made it possible for users to dictate phrases to the computer instead of type them to display text on an interface. Utilizing human signal inputs allows more people to interact with computers in a natural way.
Current problems
There are still many problems with hands-on computing interfaces that are currently being eradicated through continuing research and development. The challenge of creating a simple, user-friendly inte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure%20Playhouse | Adventure Playhouse is the umbrella title of an early American television program broadcast on the now defunct DuMont Television Network. The series ran from April to May of 1950.
The one-hour-long program, produced and distributed by DuMont, aired pre-1948 films on Wednesday nights from 8-9 pm ET on most DuMont affiliates. The series was not renewed after the initial short run.
The May 29, 1950, episode was "Battle Scene".
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
1950 American television series debuts
1950 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
DuMont Television Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Alan%20Dale%20Show | The Alan Dale Show is an early American television program which ran on the DuMont Television Network in 1948, and then on CBS Television from 1950-1951.
Broadcast history
The Alan Dale Show was a musical variety show starring singers Alan Dale and Janie Ford and set in a record store. The program, produced and distributed by DuMont, premiered August 10, 1948, and aired Tuesday nights from 7:00 to 7:15 pm ET on most DuMont affiliates.
Other regulars on the program were Karen Rich, The Sapphires, and The Arnold Holop Ensemble. John Shafer was the announcer.
The network cancelled the series after a few months, but the series continued locally on DuMont's New York station WABD until March 1949. This show was reportedly the first DuMont series to use kinescopes for network broadcast.
In 1950, Dale hosted a series on CBS which bore the same name as the DuMont series. From June to November 1950, the new Alan Dale Show aired on Friday nights at 11 pm ET. Ford did not star in the CBS version; musical accompaniment was provided by the Milt Green Trio, a trumpet/piano/guitar unit. The show changed to a weekly evening program by December of the year. The CBS version of The Alan Dale Show was cancelled on January 16, 1951.
The CBS version of the program included singer Anne Sterling and the Milt Green Trio musical group. A weekly contest provided opportunities for winners of talent contests to appear on the program. Jack Lescoulie was the producer, and Jan Fogel was the director.
Episode status
One June 1948 episode of the DuMont version, when it was still a local show on DuMont flagship station WABD, is held in the J. Fred MacDonald collection at the Library of Congress.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1948-49 United States network television schedule
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
CBS original programming
DuMont Television Network original programming
1948 American television series debuts
1951 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows
Lost television shows
American music television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%20Street%20Radio | E Street Radio is a Sirius XM Radio channel broadcasting on Sirius 20 as well as on Dish Network channel 6020. Its format concentrates on Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, including interviews, guest disc jockey sessions, studio outtakes, concert recordings, rarities and more.
This was originally a Sirius-only channel, starting on November 1, 2005, to coincide with the release of Born to Run 30th Anniversary Edition. That run finished three months later on January 31, 2006.
Sirius restarted E Street Radio on Channel 10 on September 27, 2007 in anticipation of his album Magic and the Magic Tour.
It was programmed by Thomas Wilkinson
Celebrities that are Springsteen fans often appear on the channel. Brian Williams, Tom Morello, Pete Yorn, Dr. Oz, and even E Street Band member Max Weinberg's son Jay Weinberg have appeared on the channel.
E Street Radio celebrated ten years of satellite radio on March 9, 2012 with an exclusive live performance at the Apollo Theatre from Springsteen and the E Street Band to kick off the Wrecking Ball Tour.
References
Sirius Satellite Radio channels
XM Satellite Radio channels
Sirius XM Radio channels
Radio stations established in 2005
Bruce Springsteen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geopolitical%20ontology | The FAO geopolitical ontology is an ontology developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to describe, manage and exchange data related to geopolitical entities such as countries, territories, regions and other similar areas.
Definitions and examples
An ontology is a kind of dictionary that describes information in a certain domain using concepts and relationships. It is often implemented using OWL (Web Ontology Language), an XML-based standard language that can be interpreted by computers.
A Concept is defined as abstract knowledge. For example, in the geopolitical ontology a non-self-governing territory and a geographical group are concepts. Concepts are explicitly implemented in the ontology with individuals and classes:
An individual is defined as an object perceived from the real world. In the geopolitical domain Ethiopia and the least developed countries group are individuals.
A class is defined as a set of individuals sharing common properties. In the geopolitical domain, Ethiopia, Republic of Korea and Italy are individuals of the class self-governing territory; and least developed countries is an individual of the class special group.
Relationships between concepts are explicitly implemented by:
Object properties between individuals of two classes. For example, has member and is in group properties, as shown in Figure 1.
Datatype properties between individuals and literals or XML datatypes. For example, the individual Afghanistan has the datatype property CodeISO3 with the value "AFG".
Restrictions in classes and/or properties. For example, the property official English name of the class self-governing territory has been restricted to have only one value, this means that a self-governing territory (or country) can only have one internationally recognized official English name.
The advantage of describing information in an ontology is that it enables to acquire domain knowledge by defining hierarchical structures of classes, adding individuals, setting object properties and datatype properties, and assigning restrictions.
FAO ontology
The geopolitical ontology provides names in seven languages (Arabic, Chinese, French, English, Spanish, Russian and Italian) and identifiers in various international coding systems (ISO2, ISO3, AGROVOC, FAOSTAT, FAOTERM, GAUL, UN, UNDP and DBPediaID codes) for territories and groups. Moreover, the FAO geopolitical ontology tracks historical changes from 1985 up until today; provides geolocation (geographical coordinates); implements relationships among countries and countries, or countries and groups, including properties such as has border with, is predecessor of, is successor of, is administered by, has members, and is in group; and disseminates country statistics including country area, land area, agricultural area, GDP or population.
The FAO geopolitical ontology provides a structured description of data sources. This includes: source name, source identifie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction%20estimating%20software | Construction cost estimating software is computer software designed for contractors to estimate construction costs for a specific project. A cost estimator will typically use estimating software to estimate their bid price for a project, which will ultimately become part of a resulting construction contract. Some architects, engineers, construction managers, and others may also use cost estimating software to prepare cost estimates for purposes other than bidding such as budgeting and insurance claims.
Methods
Traditional methods
Construction contractors usually prepare bids or tenders to compete for a contract award for a project. To prepare the bid, first a cost estimate is prepared to determine the costs and then establish the price(s). This involves reviewing the project's plans and specifications to produce a take-off or quantity survey, which is a listing of all the materials and items of work required for a construction project by the construction documents. Together with prices for these components, the measured quantities are the basis for calculation of the direct cost. Indirect costs and profit are added to arrive at a total amount.
Spreadsheets
Cost estimators used columnar sheets of paper to organize the take-off and the estimate itself into rows of items and columns containing the description, quantity and the pricing components. Some of these were similar to accounting ledger paper. They became known as green sheets or spreadsheets.
With the advent of computers in business, estimators began using spreadsheet applications like VisiCalc, Lotus 1-2-3, and Microsoft Excel to duplicate the traditional tabular format, while automating redundant mathematical formulas.
Many construction cost estimators continue to rely primarily upon manual methods, hard copy documents, and/or electronic spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel. While spreadsheets are relatively easy to master and provide a means to create and report a construction cost estimate and or cost models, their benefit comes largely from their ability to partially relieve estimators of mundane calculations. Accuracy, however, is not necessarily improved and productivity is not maximized. For example, data entry remains tedious and prone to error, formula errors are common, and collaboration and information sharing are limited.
Commercial estimating software
As cost estimators came to rely heavily on spreadsheets, and the formulas within the spreadsheets became more complex, spreadsheet errors became more frequent. These were typically formula errors and cell-reference errors which would often lead to cost overruns. As a result, commercial cost estimating software applications were originally created to overcome these errors by using hard-coded formulas and data structures. Other benefits include the use of reference to cost databases (aka "cost books") and other data, predictable and professional looking reports, speed, accuracy, and overall process standardization.
As |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neopost%20web-enabled%20stamps | Neopost web-enabled stamps or Neopostage is a postage stamp that is part of the family of computerized postage. These stamps were developed by Neopost Online and Northrop Grumman Corporation. The joint effort resulted in an innovative self-service stamp vending system. Neopost Online is a US subsidiary of Neopost Inc. Testing of this system was authorized by the United States Postal Service (USPS) in March 2001.
The self-service stamp vending system allowed consumers to:
Touch a display screen to activate the kiosk.
Peruse through a variety of stamp denominations and quantities for purchase.
Select the desired purchase.
Swipe credit card information to submit the purchase order.
The kiosk then:
Logs on the centrally located database to get credit card authorization.
Awaits approval of purchase from a centrally located database.
Receives purchasing authorization information from the centrally located database..
Prints the purchasing and stamp information onto adhesive paper (from roll or individual sheets).
Dispenses the stamp sheets to the consumer.
The ability to peruse, request, authorize, print, and dispense a stamp purchase using the Internet made these the world's first browser-based stamps.
The Neopost web-enabled stamps are listed in Scott catalogue (Specialized Version) under Computer Vended Postage section with several unlisted varieties.
References
Postage stamps
Postal systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caf%C3%A9%20de%20Paris%20%28TV%20series%29 | Café de Paris was an American musical variety show broadcast on the DuMont Television Network. The 15-minute program ran on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from January 17. 1949, to March 4, 1949.
Premise
Singer Sylvie St. Claire was the host of a Paris nightclub that she inherited. She hired the Stan Free Trio to perform in the club, after which she obtained a contract for TV broadcasts, which provided funds to keep the club in operation.
None of the episodes are known to survive.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1940s American variety television series
1949 American television series debuts
1949 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows
Lost television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Chef%20Jeff%20Project | The Chef Jeff Project is a Food Network reality television program that aired in the fall of 2008. The show features Chef Jeff Henderson, a former drug dealer and prison inmate who has transformed his life to emerge as a successful chef and owner of a catering business, Posh Urban Cuisine.
Premise
Chef Jeff invites six young adults with similar tumultuous backgrounds to work as his crew for Posh Urban Cuisine for the duration of one month. The format of the reality television program is such that all participants who complete the project are eligible for the Food Network Scholarship to culinary school. The aim of the competition test each individual to the limits and not eliminate the competition; Henderson makes is clear to the competitors that the only way they can lose is if they quit.
References
http://www.foodnetwork.com/the-chef-jeff-project/index.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/arts/television/11chef.html
2008 American television series debuts
2008 American television series endings
2000s American reality television series
Food Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed%20security%20service | In computing, managed security services (MSS) are network security services that have been outsourced to a service provider. A company providing such a service is a managed security service provider (MSSP) The roots of MSSPs are in the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the mid to late 1990s. Initially, ISP(s) would sell customers a firewall appliance, as customer premises equipment (CPE), and for an additional fee would manage the customer-owned firewall over a dial-up connection.
According to recent industry research, most organizations (74%) manage IT security in-house, but 82% of IT professionals said they have either already partnered with, or plan to partner with, a managed security service provider.
Businesses turn to managed security services providers to alleviate the pressures they face daily related to information security such as targeted malware, customer data theft, skills shortages and resource constraints.
Managed security services (MSS) are also considered the systematic approach to managing an organization's security needs. The services may be conducted in-house or outsourced to a service provider that oversees other companies' network and information system security. Functions of a managed security service include round-the-clock monitoring and management of intrusion detection systems and firewalls, overseeing patch management and upgrades, performing security assessments and security audits, and responding to emergencies. There are products available from a number of vendors to help organize and guide the procedures involved. This diverts the burden of performing the chores manually, which can be considerable, away from administrators.
Industry research firm, Forrester Research, identified the 14 most significant vendors in the global market in 2018 with its 23-criteria evaluation of managed security service providers (MSSPs)--identifying Accenture, IBM, Dell SecureWorks, Trustwave, AT&T, Verizon, Deloitte, Wipro and others as the leaders in the MSSP market. Newcomers to the market include a number of smaller providers used to protect homes, small businesses, and high networth clients.
Early history
An early example of an outsourced and off-site MSSP service is US West !NTERACT Internet Security. The security service didn't require the customer to purchase any equipment and no security equipment was installed at the customers premises. The service is considered a MSSP offering in that US West retained ownership of the firewall equipment and the firewalls were operated from their own Internet Point of Presence (PoP) The service was based on Check Point Firewall-1 equipment. Following over a year long beta introduction period, the service was generally available by early 1997. The service also offered managed Virtual Private Networking (VPN) encryption security at launch.
Industry terms
Asset: A resource valuable to a company worthy of protection.
Incident: An assessed occurrence that actually or potentially jeopardize |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realistic%20Controls | Realistic Controls Corporation (NCC), later Nylac Computer Corporation and Archives, Inc., was an American computer company based in Davenport, Iowa, founded in 1974.
History
Realistic Controls Corporation (1974–1979)
Realistic Controls Corporation was founded in Davenport, Iowa, around 1974 by Robert Staib. In 1976 the company moved into its headquarters at 404 W. 35th Street in the city, in a building formerly occupied by a drug store. By this time Realistic Controls was involved in designing, manufacturing, and installing computerized utility meters and custom computer controls for industries. The company also had short-lived operations in Cleveland, Ohio.
RCC's client roster by 1977 included John Deere, Caterpillar Inc., a utility company in California, and the state of Iowa. Early that year, the company brought out their first computer system to the general public. Called the Z/100 family, these were microcomputers running the Intel 8080 aimed at Fortran IV programmers.
In summer 1977 the company had entered the burgeoning home computer market, devising a system projected for release by Christmas that year. Their efforts culminated in the REX, a Z80-based microcomputer with 24 KB of RAM (expandable up to 64 KB), a built-in keyboard, composite and RF video output (in color or monochrome), two built-in 5.25-inch floppy disk drives, and a 15-amp power supply. Its motherboard design was based on the S-100 bus and had five free expansion card slots. The following year RCC released a single-board computer based on the RCA 1802, the MPPS 100.
Nylac Computer Corporation (1979–1980)
In around May 1979, Realistic Controls was sold to Gary Martin and renamed the Nylac Computer Corporation. The company subsequently released another computer based on the Z80, called the Nylac.
Its motherboard had a Z80 processor running at 4 MHz, an 8257/8275 memory mapped video controller address at 0×F800, and an 8251 serial controller for input/output. There were six S-100 bus interfaces, one of which was occupied with a 5.25-inch disc controller card.
The cabinet was filled with a 13-inch CRT display, a linear power supply, two 5.25-inch floppy drives (later versions used dual headed drives). Toward the end of production, Nylacs were built with a 5-MB, 5.25-inch hard drive to replace one of the floppies. The computer ran CP/M.
Archives, Inc. (1980–1983)
In 1980, Archives, Inc., acquired Nylac and subsumed their 404 W. 35th Street headquarters. Archives, Inc., was formed in 1978 by Patricia "Tish" Hewett, wife of William Alexander Hewitt, a former chairman of John Deere. The company sold their first computer system, the Archive I (originally the Archive Business System), in April 1980. Although a general-purpose computer that could run other software such as video games, the Archive I was intended mainly as a word processor. It ran a Z80 processor and came equipped with 64 KB of RAM stock. It was followed up with the Archives II in April 1981 and the Archiv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperCPU | The SuperCPU is a processor upgrade for the and personal computer platforms. It uses the W65C816S microprocessor, and takes the form of an expansion port cartridge, rather than a replacement for the 6510 CPU.
History
The SuperCPU was developed by Creative Micro Designs, Inc and released on May 4, 1997. It used a device called the RamCard to increase its capabilities. The card is no longer sold by Creative Micro Designs as of 2001; the distribution was taken over from 2001 to 2009 by the U.S. company Click Here Software Co., but it is unclear if any were manufactured after 2001.
Technical description
The SuperCPU can have up to installed and sported a "Turbo" switch which when enabled, clocked a or up to . The SuperCPU requires (400mA) and has a shadow ROM in of RAM. Internal ROM was . Using the RamCard's fast page mode 1, 4, 8 or 16 MB SIMM memory modules can be used.
External links
The SuperCPU Home (from 2022) with FAQ and software.
archive.org/geocities.com: CMD Product review, CMD SuperCPU (from 2008)
References
Commodore 64 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intranet%20portal | An intranet portal is the gateway that unifies access to enterprise information and applications on an intranet. It is a tool that helps a company manage its data, applications, and information more easily through personalized views. Some portal solutions are able to integrate legacy applications, objects from other portals, and handle thousands of user requests. In a corporate enterprise environment, it is also known as an enterprise portal.
Background
The Intranet and Internet share many elements and use the same technologies, but they fundamentally differ in their missions. Unlike the Internet, the intranet operates within a private network and is not necessarily connected to the Web. Connectivity transpires within the process called address mapping. Here, Intranet addresses are converted to Internet addresses to provide the required transparency and vice versa.
Through the intranet portal, the private network is able to impose its own local rules of behavior because of the installation and maintenance of a mechanism such as a firewall and intranet portal solutions. Internet browsers cannot connect to the server behind it and must contact the gateway machine and abide by the restrictions mandated by the gateway. Only users within an organization can access the network. Users can also access the Internet by abiding by a set of local rules. The scope of the network allows the intranet portal to perform faster with higher throughput than the Internet.
History
Corporate intranets began gaining popularity during the 1990s. As intranets quickly grew more complex, the concept of an intranet portal was born. Today, intranet portals provide value-added capabilities such as managing workflows, increasing collaboration between work groups, and allowing content creators to self publish their information.
A typical example of a web platform used to build and host an intranet is Microsoft SharePoint, which is used by 46% of organizations. SharePoint provides features necessary for collaboration, integration, and customization.
Main features
Integration Ability to integrate with current tools or the possibility of adding new tools. You have your Outlook calendar and email integrated in the intranet.
Security Enable user- or group-based security to secure documents and sites throughout the intranet portal.
Customization Software that is flexible to allow for organization. Web Parts can be used to create custom modules that can make interaction with the site easier. Ability for users to customize tools and resources they use most often.
Collaboration People are now able to collaborate their work with each other. Example would be multiple people working on one document.
Communication Channels Allows corporations to promote corporate culture and present information in a more interactive way than before.
Automation Things like workflows and templates can automate specific document creation. Alerts can be created to help learn of changes and new additions t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent%20Network%20Interface%20Device | An Intelligent Network Interface Device, more commonly known as an "INID", is a system that provides triple play media services to customer homes. The system provides digital subscriber line access, advanced TV, and voice over internet protocol (VoIP) phone services to subscribed customers. The term may refer either to a standalone external residential gateway or to a system of multiple components that together provide RG functions. Models include the 2Wire HomePortal INID and the Entone Crescendo INID. AT&T's U-verse brand of services employs the 2Wire INID as an alternative residential gateway.
Unlike the traditional Network Interface Device (NID) that it replaces, an INID includes an outdoor unit that mounts to the side of the subscriber's home in a hardened, weather-resistant enclosure that is easily accessible by carrier technicians; it also can include an indoor unit and a battery backup.
By transferring intelligent gateway functions and all service and network terminations to the side of the house, the INID eliminates the need to bring DSL into the house, eliminating the signal loss typical of in-home wiring. The location at the side of the house also allows for an easy connection between the INID's integrated VoIP function and the home's existing phone wiring.
The outdoor location also provides carrier technicians with easy access to home coaxial cable wiring, which can be reused to distribute high-speed LAN technologies to video set-top boxes and other networked consumer devices throughout the home using HomePNA.
References
http://www.att.com/support_media/images/pdf/uverse/iNIDv2_UG.pdf
http://www.entone.com/assets/File/Data%20Sheets/Crescendo_datasheet%20v1_1206.pdf
Digital subscriber line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruta%20Panor%C3%A1mica | The Ruta Panorámica (Scenic Route), officially the Ruta Panorámica Luis Muñoz Marín (Luis Muñoz Marín Scenic Route), is a network of some 40 secondary roads which traverse the island of Puerto Rico from west to east along its (Central Mountain Range). Most of the route consists of three roads, PR-105, PR-143, and PR-182. The route starts in Mayagüez and ends in Maunabo. The first major segment of the route runs from Mayagüez to Maricao as Route 105, then from Adjuntas to Aibonito as Route 143, and then follows Route 182 toward Maunabo.
Route description
As the Route is a two-way road, it can be traveled starting at either its western or its eastern termini. To travel the Route in a westerly direction (i.e., from Maunabo to Mayagüez), the course of the road is reversed from what is given here. Starting from Mayagüez and ending in Maunabo, as of August 2010, the course of the Route is as follows:
PR-105 Municipality of Mayagüez (Eastbound)
PR-339 Municipality of Mayagüez (Eastbound)
PR-119 Municipality of Mayagüez (Northbound)
PR-106 Municipality of Mayagüez (Eastbound)
PR-106 Municipality of Las Marias (Eastbound)
PR-120 Municipality of Las Marias (Southbound)
PR-120 Municipality of Maricao (Southbound)
PR-120 Municipalities of Maricao and San Germán (Eastbound)
PR-120 Municipalities of Maricao and Sabana Grande (Eastbound)
Landmark: Maricao State Forest, site of Monte del Estado
PR-366 Municipalities of Maricao and Sabana Grande (Eastbound)
PR-365 Municipalities of Maricao and Yauco (Eastbound)
PR-105 Municipalities of Maricao and Yauco (Eastbound)
PR-128 Municipality of Maricao (Northbound)
PR-128 Municipality of Lares (Northbound)
PR-135 Municipality of Lares (Eastbound)
PR-135 Municipality of Adjuntas (Eastbound)
Landmark: Lago Guayo
PR-525 Municipality of Adjuntas (Eastbound)
PR-518 Municipality of Adjuntas (Eastbound)
Landmark: Lago Garzas
PR-123 Municipality of Adjuntas (Southbound)
PR-143 Municipality of Adjuntas (Eastbound)
PR-143 Municipality of Ponce (Eastbound)
Landmark: Toro Negro State Forest
PR-143 Municipality of Jayuya (Eastbound)
PR-143 Municipality of Ponce (Eastbound)
PR-143 Municipality of Villalba (Eastbound)
Landmark: Salto de Doña Juana Waterfall (2 miles)
Landmark: Villalba Overlook
PR-143 Municipality of Orocovis (Eastbound)
PR-143 Municipality of Coamo (Eastbound)
PR-143 Municipality of Barranquitas (Eastbound)
PR-723 Municipality of Barranquitas (Southbound)
PR-7718 Municipality of Aibonito (Eastbound)
Landmark: Piedra Degetau Overlook
PR-7722 Municipality of Cayey (Eastbound)
PR-1 Municipality of Cayey (Eastbound)
PR-715 Municipality of Cayey (Southbound)
PR-7737 Municipality of Cayey (Eastbound)
PR-741 Municipality of Cayey (Eastbound)
PR-7741 Municipality of Cayey (Eastbound)
PR-742 Municipality of Cayey (Eastbound)
PR-179 Municipality of Cayey (Northbound)
PR-184 Municipality of Cayey (Southbound)
Landmark: Carite State Forest, Guavate
PR-7740 Municipalities of San Lorenzo and Patillas (Eastbound)
PR-181 Muni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categories%20for%20the%20Description%20of%20Works%20of%20Art | Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA) describes the content of art databases by articulating a conceptual framework for describing and accessing information about works of art, architecture, other material culture, groups and collections of works, and related images. The CDWA includes 532 categories and subcategories. A small subset of categories are considered core in that they represent the minimum information necessary to identify and describe a work. The CDWA includes discussions, basic guidelines for cataloging, and examples.
Purpose
The Categories provide a framework to which existing art information systems can be mapped and upon which new systems can be developed. In addition, the discussions in the CDWA identify vocabulary resources and descriptive practices that will make information residing in diverse systems both more compatible and more accessible.
The use of the CDWA framework will contribute to the integrity and longevity of data and will facilitate its inevitable migration to new systems as informational technology continues to evolve. Above all, it will help to give end-users consistent, reliable access to information, regardless of the system in which it resides.
These guidelines hopefully provide a common ground for reaching agreement on what information should be included in art information systems, and what information will be shared or exchanged with other institutions or systems. Target users are curators, registrars, researchers, information managers, and systems vendors.
History
The CDWA is a product of the Art Information Task Force (AITF), which encouraged dialog between art historians, art information professionals, and information providers so that together they could develop guidelines for describing works of art, architecture, groups of objects, and visual and textual surrogates.
Formed in the early 1990s, the task force was made up of representatives from the communities that provide and use art information: art historians, museum curators and registrars, visual resource professionals, art librarians, information managers, and technical specialists. The work of the AITF was funded by the J. Paul Getty Trust, with a two-year matching grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to the College Art Association (CAA).
CDWA Lite
ARTstor, the J. Paul Getty Trust, and RLG Programs/OCLC have worked together to develop an XML schema to describe cultural materials and their surrogates to provide an easier and more sustainable model for contributing to union resources. This initiative was driven by the absence of a data content standard specifically designed for unique cultural works, and a technical format for expressing this data in a machine-readable format.
CDWA Lite is an XML schema to describe core records for works of art and material culture based on CDWA and the Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO) content standard. CDWA Lite records are intended for contribution to union catalo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanhaitha | Sanhaitha is no more a Village Development Committee (VDC), it is Municipality-19, Siraha (Nepal) now. Municipality in Siraha District in the Sagarmatha Zone of south-eastern Nepal. As per data available around 30,000 people are living in 4700 individual households in 2078 B.S.
References
External links
UN map of the municipalities of Siraha District
Populated places in Siraha District |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumarctic%20Environmental%20Observatories%20Network | Circumarctic Environmental Observatories Network (CEON) is a network of terrestrial and freshwater observation platforms, science experts and network partners promoting the collection and dissemination of environmental data from the Arctic.
CEON observation platforms include land and freshwater observatories, research infrastructures, former research sites where retrospective analyses are being or can be undertaken, data and image archive centers and community monitoring programs.
Background
The concept of initiating a CEON was first raised at a meeting of the Forum of Arctic research Operators (FARO) at Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW) in 2000 by Tom Pyle (US representative to FARO). Members of FARO endorsed the CEON concept specifying that CEON is to promote environmental observations in the Arctic and dissemination of these to Arctic researchers whilst encompassing and building on the strengths of existing stations and environmental observatory networks active in the Arctic.
In June 2002 Tom Pyle, head of Arctic Section of the Office of Polar Programs within the National Science Foundation of the United States tasked Patrick Webber (President of the International Arctic Science Committee - IASC), and Craig Tweedie (then at Michigan State University) with scoping and developing the CEON concept.
Development
The initial development of CEON was based on the notion that early successes will be met by facilitating the activities of existing environmental sites and networks active in the Arctic and increasing the potential for integration and syntheses between sites. Example activities include promoting increased transfer of knowledge and standardization of research methods between networks and sites, and increasing accessibility to data and linkages to multidisciplinary and international programs.
Accordingly, presentations on the CEON concept were made at numerous meetings of organizations/research programs active in the Arctic over a short period of time in order to establish an initial momentum for the development of CEON. Presentations focused on the necessity for the CEON initiative to meet the needs of the participating research community, science administrators, policy makers, industry, education and indigenous communities whilst providing linkages between disciplines and existing networks and connectivity spanning regional to circum-arctic and global scales.
Approach
Deliberately, presentations of the CEON concept have made no mention or suggestion of measurements or processes that should or could be made or investigated. Instead, observers have been asked to introduce their own bias into the development of CEON by providing feedback to the following question: "What would you do if you had the opportunity to conduct/maintain standardized and integrated time series observations across multiple research stations and networks in the Arctic?" This 'bottom-up' approach has facilitated the development and scoping of CEON based on the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrubbing | Scrubbing may refer to:
Amine scrubbing
Carbon dioxide scrubbing (disambiguation)
Data scrubbing
Memory scrubbing
Scrubbing (audio)
Scrubbing Bubbles
See also
Scrub (disambiguation)
Scrubber, a group of air pollution control devices
Scrubbing In, American reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neteller | Neteller is a global payments platform and digital wallet used to transfer money to and from merchants, such as forex trading brokers, social networks, and gambling websites. Users in the European Economic Area (EEA) and the United Kingdom can add a Net+ Mastercard to their account to pay with their balance in stores or withdraw it as cash from ATMs. Regardless of their location, users can transfer their balance to their own bank accounts or card if they need to withdraw the funds in their account.
Neteller is owned and operated by the international payments company, Paysafe, alongside former competitor Skrill and the prepaid payment method paysafecard.
History
Neteller was launched in 1999 in Canada and moved to the Isle of Man in 2004. Paysafe Group was listed as an "Authorised Electronic Money Institution".
In 2015, Optimal Payments Plc (now Paysafe) finalized a transformational transaction for the global payments industry – the acquisition of Skrill Group, one of Europe’s largest online payments systems and among the world’s largest independent digital wallet providers.
Neteller is not a bank and does not lend customers funds. It is required under FCA e-money regulations to maintain user funds in trust accounts, separate from its operating cash, sufficient to repay all user balances at the same time.
Online gambling
Neteller began processing online gambling payments in the year 2000, when it was processing payments for 85% of the world's gambling merchants. 95% of the company's revenue at that time was derived from fund transfers to online gaming platforms, with many users being U.S. residents.
Accounts of U.S. users were restricted as the company exited the United States, and funds were unrestricted after 30 July 2007. As a result of this enforced exit from the U.S. market, and the risks associated with online gambling, the company has sought to diversify.
High-value customers are offered a premium membership called "NETELLER VIP". It includes additional features and lower fees similar to premium membership of Skrill.
NETELLER VIP membership benefits also include earning cashback on transfers made using a NETELLER account, increased transfer limits and a free prepaid Mastercard for members with Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond VIP status.
Legal issues surrounding online gambling mean that users in certain countries are not permitted to make transfers to gambling merchants.
Services
Neteller users can load money into their account from a bank, credit/debit card or via about 40 other payment options. Payment options vary by country, and some are instant.
Customers can use the funds in their Neteller account to pay online at merchants that accept Neteller. They can also receive payouts from merchants to their Neteller account, for instance gambling winnings or trading profits.
Other features of the service include money transfers, cryptocurrency transactions, and currency exchange.
In 2021, Neteller announced the launch o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision%20intelligence | Decision intelligence is an engineering discipline that augments data science with theory from social science, decision theory, and managerial science. Its application provides a framework for best practices in organizational decision-making and processes for applying Artificial Intelligence technologies as machine learning, natural language processing, reasoning and semantics at scale. The basic idea is that decisions are based on our understanding of how actions lead to outcomes. Decision intelligence is a discipline for analyzing this chain of cause and effect, and decision modeling is a visual language for representing these chains.
A related field, decision engineering, also investigates the improvement of decision-making processes but is not always as closely tied to data science.
Origins and technologies
Decision intelligence is based on the recognition that, in many organizations, decision-making could be improved if a more structured approach were used. Decision intelligence seeks to overcome a decision-making "complexity ceiling", which is characterized by a mismatch between the sophistication of organizational decision-making practices and the complexity of situations in which those decisions must be made. As such, it seeks to solve some of the issues identified around complexity theory and organizations.
In this sense, decision intelligence represents a practical application of the field of complex systems, which helps organizations to navigate the complex systems in which they find themselves. Decision intelligence can also be thought of as a framework that brings advanced analytics and machine learning techniques to the desktop of the non-expert decision maker, as well as incorporating, and then extending, data science to overcome the problems articulated in black swan theory.
Decision intelligence proponents believe that many organizations continue to make poor decisions. In response, decision intelligence seeks to unify a number of decision-making best practices, described in more detail below.
Decision intelligence builds on the insight that it is possible to design the decision itself, using principles previously used for designing more tangible objects like bridges and buildings.
The use of a visual design language representing decisions (see ) is an important element of decision intelligence, since it provides an intuitive common language readily understood by all decision participants. A visual metaphor improves the ability to reason about complex systems as well as to enhance collaboration.
In addition to visual decision design, there are other two aspects of engineering disciplines that aid mass adoption. These are:
the creation of a shared language of design elements and
the use of a common methodology or process, as illustrated in the diagram above.
Motivation
The need for a unified methodology of decision-making is driven by a number of factors that organizations face as they make difficult decisions in a complex |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divergence%20%28computer%20science%29 | In computer science, a computation is said to diverge if it does not terminate or terminates in an exceptional state. Otherwise it is said to converge. In domains where computations are expected to be infinite, such as process calculi, a computation is said to diverge if it fails to be productive (i.e. to continue producing an action within a finite amount of time).
Definitions
Various subfields of computer science use varying, but mathematically precise, definitions of what it means for a computation to converge or diverge.
Rewriting
In abstract rewriting, an abstract rewriting system is called convergent if it is both confluent and terminating.
The notation t ↓ n means that t reduces to normal form n in zero or more reductions, t↓ means t reduces to some normal form in zero or more reductions, and t↑ means t does not reduce to a normal form; the latter is impossible in a terminating rewriting system.
In the lambda calculus an expression is divergent if it has no normal form.
Denotational semantics
In denotational semantics an object function f : A → B can be modelled as a mathematical function where ⊥ (bottom) indicates that the object function or its argument diverges.
Concurrency theory
In the calculus of communicating sequential processes (CSP), divergence is a drastic situation where a process performs an endless series of hidden actions. For example, consider the following process, defined by CSP notation:
The traces of this process are defined as:
Now, consider the following process, which conceals the tick event of the Clock process:
By definition, P is called a divergent process.
See also
Infinite loop
Termination analysis
Notes
References
J. M. R. Martin and S. A. Jassim (1997). "How to Design Deadlock-Free Networks Using CSP and Verification Tools: A Tutorial Introduction" in Proceedings of the WoTUG-20.
Programming language theory
Process (computing)
Rewriting systems
Lambda calculus
Denotational semantics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock%20%27n%20India | Rock 'n India was an annual music festival organised by event management company DNA Networks in conjunction with Nous Productions at the Palace Grounds in Bangalore. It was launched in 2008 as India's only music festival. Rock 'n India gave Indian bands the opportunity to play in front of large audiences alongside international artists. Throughout its existence, the festival featured iconic rock acts such as Megadeth, Machine Head, Iron Maiden, Biffy Clyro, Metallica and Slayer.
The day-long festival featured in excess of 10 hours of live performances. In addition to a concert area, Rock 'n India included a carnival area with various stalls and activities, such as an extreme sports zone, a gaming zone, a food court, and interactive stalls.
2008
The first Rock 'n India festival was held on 14 March 2008. It included Indian bands such as Keinan and Sai, in addition to heavy metal headliners such as Megadeth and Machine Head. Over 14,700 people attended, exceeding expectations. The festival used two separate stages: "Stage A," the main stage for the headline acts, and the smaller "Stage B" for the opening bands. The headlining act by Megadeth was criticised for poor sound quality. Rock 'n India was the first Indian rock festival to have an air guitar contest podium.
2009
Iron Maiden headlined the second festival on 15 February 2009, as part of the last leg of their Somewhere Back in Time World Tour. This was the band's third visit to the subcontinent, having held the first concert of this tour, as well as a performance on the last leg of their A Matter of Life and Death Tour, in Bangalore. The 2009 festival had attractions similar to those of the previous year, with the addition of a tattoo bar and an exhibition by the Force India Formula 1 team. The festival promoter was criticised for not making tickets available outside of Bangalore, which was cited as a major cause for the event's low ticket sales compared to its predecessor. Only an estimated 17,000 people attended. To compound the issues, the festival promoters were unable to obtain licenses for pyrotechnics and smoke machines.
2010
The headliners for Rock 'n India 2010 were the Backstreet Boys, Richard Marx, Jayce Lewis, Prime Circle.
2011
Rock 'n India 2011 took place in Bangalore on 30 October and was headlined by Metallica, supported by Biffy Clyro. This was Metallica's first performance in India. The Indian bands Guillotine and Inner Sanctum also performed. Attendance for the event was reported at around 29,000. Earlier it had been reported that the 2011 Rock 'n India would be cancelled.
2012
The 2012 festival was a low-key affair which featured Slayer performing on 20 October, and Carlos Santana on 26 October. Each concert only garnered a few thousand people. This edition would turn out to be the last as major sponsor pullouts and declining attendance figures resulted in the festival being retired; the Rock 'n India name has been retired according to the sponsors.
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%20Dombis | Pascal Dombis (born 1965) is a digital artist who uses computers and algorithms to produce excessive repetition of simple processes.
Life and work
Dombis lives and works in Paris. He earned an engineering degree from the Insa University in Lyon. In 1987, he spent one year at Tufts University where he attended computer art classes at Boston Museum School and began to use computers and algorithms in his art. From 1994 to 2000, he participated in the fractalist exhibitions that were curated by the art critics Susan Conde and Henri-François Debailleux that used fractal theory to project a new paradigm for art. The fractalist show gathered various artist under this concept, such as like Miguel Chevalier, Carlos Ginzburg, Jean-Claude Meynard , Nabil Nahas and Joseph Nechvatal. In 1993, Dombis was awarded an honorary mention from Ars Electronica in Linz and in 2003 he received a Canon digital award.
Dombis is noted for his excessive use of simple algorithmic rules. When rules are input in an excessive process, new and unpredictable forms come to the fore and generate the unlikely; which is not dissimilar with the way the Surrealist exquisite corpse operated. Dombis initially worked with simplistic rules: drawing a straight line for instance. But then he used digital tools to reach the wildest proliferations possible. Visual forms appear (they are not intentionally programmed) out of the excessive enforcement of autonomous and simple rules. So Dombis does not consciously conceive a structure in advance. He lays down simple rules and lets them go through a series of interactions. Through this abuse of technological processes, Dombis tries to confront the human viewer with 'his/her' own forms of primitive irrationality.
Frank Popper wrote:
Dombis's work has been shown in numerous exhibitions around the world and is part of several public and private collections. In 2005 Dombis started to work on spam proliferations and realized several installations at Château de Linardié in Senouillac. In collaboration with the London-based sound artist Thanos Chrysakis, he developed BLINK, an interactive digital video art installation based on the blinking experience. Blink was first displayed at the Slought Foundation in Philadelphia in 2006. Recent exhibitions include the digital art biennial of São Paulo where he realized a monumental outdoor digital print installation of 300 square meters. His work was included in the 2008 retrospective Imaging by numbers: a historical view of the computer print at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art in Evanston, Illinois.
In 2010, Dombis realized Text(e)~Fil(e)s, a monumental 252 meter long floor ribbon commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture for the Palais-Royal in Paris. Composed of thousands of written text lines borrowed from various authors who have written on the Palais Royal, this temporary installation invited visitors to a stroll while reading a single text or experiencing a non-linear reading.
In 2013, Domb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INQ1 | The INQ1 is the first product of the Hutchinson Whampoa subsidiary, INQ. The INQ1 was released in December 2008 as a social-networking phone. Retailing at a cheaper price than competitors such as the iPhone, Blackberry Storm, G1 and Nokia 5800, it also contains slightly fewer features than other 3G 'smartphones'. It is thus marketed as an entry-level phone for users wanting to access websites and web-base applications from their mobile. The phone was created for the 3 phone network.
The INQ1 integrates a range of services such as Skype, Last.fm, eBay, Facebook, Myspace and Windows Live Messenger. The inclusion of Facebook in a prominent position has led to its description as 'the Facebook phone'.
Reaction
The phone received generally positive reviews upon release. Some were extremely positive, with its low price, easy integration of multiple social networking features and light weight all being quoted as positive features. In particular, the phone was seen as successful for a manufacturer's first handset.
The phone was awarded 'best handset' at the 'Mobile World Congress' in February 2009
Features
In the box
Handset
Battery
Battery cover.
Personal stereo hands free kit (via mini-USB connector).
USB cable.
Mains charger (USB connector).
CD–ROM for PC connection.
3 user guide.
Quick start guide for Skype.
Additional guides
Supported functionality
Bluetooth stack with OBEX file transfer and A2DP support
Streaming video (can receive TV channels, watch movies or YouTube over the 3G network)
Streaming audio
Free Skype-to-skype calls
E-mail
T9 dictionary
3.2Mpx camera
Video recording
Audio recording
MP3 player (can also play WMA and AAC files)
Memory: 50Mb onboard
External memory: Micro SD up to 8Gb
PC Suite synchronization (With Vista support)
HSDPA support: Up to 2.6Mbit/s
HSDPA modem dongle
Podcasting with Mobilcast (unofficially supported)
Supports Java ME applications such as Opera Mini and many Java ME games.
Facebook always on application, change your status and easily access your profile, friends, inbox, pokes and more.
Charging via standard mini USB cable. (though its own charging unit (wall plug) and USB to mini USB cable are included, any standard mini USB cable can be used to charge the phone)
Brew games
See also
INQ
3 Skypephone Series
3 Skypephone S1
Hutchison 3G (3)
References
External links
INQ Mobile
3 INQ page
Skype
INQ mobile phones
Meta Platforms applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental%20computing | Incremental computing, also known as incremental computation, is a software feature which, whenever a piece of data changes, attempts to save time by only recomputing those outputs which depend on the changed data. When incremental computing is successful, it can be significantly faster than computing new outputs naively. For example, a spreadsheet software package might use incremental computation in its recalculation feature, to update only those cells containing formulas which depend (directly or indirectly) on the changed cells.
When incremental computing is implemented by a tool that can implement it for a variety of different pieces of code automatically, that tool is an example of a program analysis tool for optimization.
Static versus dynamic
Incremental computing techniques can be broadly separated into two types of approaches:
Static approaches attempt to derive an incremental program from a conventional program P using, e.g., either manual design and refactoring, or automatic program transformations. These program transformations occur before any inputs or input changes are provided.
Dynamic approaches record information about executing program P on a particular input (I1) and use this information when the input changes (to I2) in order to update the output (from O1 to O2). The figure shows the relationship between program P, the change calculation function ΔP, which constitutes the core of the incremental program, and a pair of inputs and outputs, I1, O1 and I2, O2.
Specialized versus general-purpose approaches
Some approaches to incremental computing are specialized, while others are general purpose.
Specialized approaches require the programmer to explicitly specify the algorithms and data structures that will be used to preserve unchanged sub-calculations.
General-purpose approaches, on the other hand, use language, compiler, or algorithmic techniques to give incremental behavior to otherwise non-incremental programs.
Static methods
Program derivatives
Given a computation and a potential change , we can insert code before the change (the pre-derivative) and after the change (the post-derivative) to update the value of faster than rerunning . Paige has written down a list of rules for formal differentiation of programs in SUBSETL.
View maintenance
In database systems such as DBToaster, views are defined with relational algebra. Incremental view maintenance statically analyzes relational algebra to create update rules that quickly maintain the view in the presence of small updates, such as insertion of a row.
Dynamic methods
Incremental computation can be achieved by building a dependency graph of all the data elements that may need to be recalculated, and their dependencies. The elements that need to be updated when a single element changes are given by the transitive closure of the dependency relation of the graph. In other words, if there is a path from the changed element to another element, the latter may be up |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20Myanmar | Rail transport in Myanmar consists of a railway network with 960 stations. The network, generally spanning north to south with branch lines to the east and west, is the second largest in Southeast Asia, and includes the Yangon Circular Railway which serves as a commuter railway for Yangon, the principal commercial city in Myanmar. The quality of the railway infrastructure is generally poor. The tracks are in poor condition, and are not passable during the monsoon season. The speed of freight trains is heavily restricted on all existing links as a consequence of poor track and bridge conditions. The maximum speed for freight trains has been quoted as , suggesting that commercial speeds on this section could be as low as .
The network is run by Myanma Railways (, ; formerly Burma Railways), a state-owned railway company under the Ministry of Rail Transportation. In the 2013-14 fiscal year, Myanma Railways carried about 60 million passengers (35 million in the circular railway and 25 million inter-city travelers) and 2.5 million metric tons of freight. Its rolling stock consisted of 384 locomotives, 1,600 passenger railcars, and 3,600 freight wagons.
The network has steadily increased in size, from nearly in 1988 to in 2015. Myanma Railways is undertaking an ambitious expansion program that will add another to its network, making it spread in to including extensions to Myeik in the south, Kyaingtong in the east, Sittwe in the west.
History
Rail transport was first launched in British Burma on 2 May 1877 with the opening of the Rangoon (Yangon) to Prome (Pyay) line by The Irrawaddy Valley State Railway. Unusually for a British colonial railway, it was built to . Subsequent development was to the same gauge, though the Burma Mines Railway opened in 1906 operated on a separate gauge. In 1884, a new company, The Sittang Valley State Railway, opened a line along the Sittaung River from Yangon to the town of Toungoo (Taungoo) via Pegu (Bago). After the annexation of Upper Burma following the Third Anglo-Burmese War of 1885, the Toungoo line was extended to Mandalay in 1889. Following the opening of this section, the Mu Valley State Railway was formed and construction began on a railway line from Sagaing to Myitkyina which connected Mandalay to Shwebo in 1891, to Wuntho in 1893, to Katha in 1895, and to Myitkyina in 1898. Extensions into southern Myanmar began in 1907 with the construction of the Bago-Mottama line. Passengers had to take a ferry over the Thanlwin River (Salween River) to Mawlamyaing.
In 1896, before the completion of the line to Myitkyina, the three companies were combined into the Burma Railway Company as a state owned public undertaking. In 1928, the railway was renamed Burma Railways and, in 1989, with the renaming of the country, it became Myanma Railways.
The Japanese invasion during the Second World War caused considerable damage to the rail network. In 1942, the country had (route-km) of metre gauge track, but the Ja |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmove | xmove is a computer program that allows the movement of X Window System applications between different displays and the persistence of X applications across X server restarts. It solves a problem in the design of X, where an X client (an X application) is tied to the X server (X display) it was started on for its lifetime. Also, if the X server is shut down, the client application is forced to stop running.
xmove lets the client disconnect from its current X server, and connect to a new one, at any time. The transition is completely transparent to the client. xmove works by acting as a proxy between the client and server. It is a "pseudoserver" which stores enough server state so that clients can connect to a new server without being disrupted.
See also
xpra — a more recent tool which is similar to xmove
guievict — a system for checkpointing and migrating the GUI of an X window application
the lbxproxy tool, which allows disconnecting and reconnecting
References
External links
Xmove, IMproved (XIMove) — by Mark C. Ballew
X Window programs
Software using the MIT license
Proxy servers
X servers
Remote desktop
1997 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Nutty%20Professor%20%282008%20film%29 | The Nutty Professor (also known as The Nutty Professor: Facing the Fear and The Nutty Professor II) is a 2008 computer-animated science fiction comedy film. It is the sequel to the 1963 live-action Jerry Lewis comedy of the same name and based on the story Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. The film is produced by Rainmaker Entertainment and The Weinstein Company and distributed by Genius Products. Lewis reprises his role of Julius Kelp and produces the film. Drake Bell provides the voice of Harold Kelp, Julius' grandson.
The film was released direct-to-video on November 25, 2008.
Plot
Harold Kelp is a young inventor. He is frequently attacked in his visions by his fear, which takes the form of a group of burly dodgeball players as well as a black monster. After encountering an angry mob involved in his bad inventions, Harold is informed by his robot assistant, Robin that he will be sent away to a science academy where his grandfather, Julius Kelp has taken up a duty as Professor.
Upon his arrival, Harold befriends a duo of misfits, Zeke and Ned who welcomes him into their dorm, has a run in with a bully named Brad and meets a beautiful girl named Polly McGregor whom he becomes enamoured with. Wanting to impress Polly, Harold gets his hands on his grandfather's secret elixir, the Secrets of Love, which he believes will help him win her affection. He drinks it, unleashing his cooler, hipper alter ego Jack, who causes mischief.
Jack starts out popular with the students, but his behavior and ego get out of hand. Also, because of Jack, Harold is failing classes. When he learns of Harold's problem, Julius transforms into Buddy Love to teach Harold to be himself. Later on, Harold's fear is accidentally brought to life by one of Julius' inventions, but he manages to defeat it by facing it.
Jack says good-bye to Harold and disappears into him, leaving Harold to share a kiss with Polly.
Voice cast
Drake Bell as Harold Kelp/Jack
Jerry Lewis as Prof. Julius Kelp/Buddy Love
Tabitha St. Germain as Robin
Britt Irvin as Polly McGregor
Logan McPherson as Zeke/Waiter/Fear/Ned
Andrew Francis as Brad/Tad
Brian Drummond as Dean Von Wu
Danielle Lewis as Suzy Perkins
Production
On August 8, 2006, Mainframe Entertainment announced The Weinstein Company acquired the rights to produce an animated version of The Nutty Professor, which was distributed direct-to-video by Genius Products Inc. The film was produced under the working title The Nutty Professor 2: Facing the Fear.
There are several references to the original film, including the place where Zeke and Ned perform, called "The Pit." In the original film, the nightclub is called "The Purple Pit." The cast includes Danielle Lewis, the daughter of Jerry Lewis, who cameos as the voice of Harold's neighbor, Suzy Perkins.
Reception
The film has received mixed reviews. Common Sense Media gave it a rating of 2/5, saying "Parents need to know that The Nutty Professor -- also c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20Laflamme | Raymond Laflamme (born 1960), OC, FRSC is a Canadian theoretical physicist and founder and until mid 2017, was the director of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo. He is also a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo and an associate faculty member at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. Laflamme is currently a Canada Research Chair in Quantum Information. In December 2017, he was named as one of the appointees to the Order of Canada.
As Stephen Hawking's PhD student, he first became famous for convincing Hawking that time does not reverse in a contracting universe, along with Don Page. Hawking told the story of how this happened in his famous book A Brief History of Time in the chapter The Arrow of Time. Later on Laflamme made a name for himself in quantum computing and quantum information theory, which is what he is famous for today. In 2005, Laflamme's research group created the world's largest quantum information processor with 12 qubits. Along with Phillip Kaye and Michele Mosca, he published the book An Introduction to Quantum Computing in 2006.
Laflamme's research focuses on understanding the impact of manipulating information using the laws of quantum mechanics, the development of methods to protect quantum information against noise through quantum control and quantum error correction for quantum computing and cryptography, the implementation of ideas and concepts of quantum information processing using nuclear magnetic resonance to develop scalable methods of control of quantum systems, and the development of blueprints for quantum information processors such as linear optical quantum computing.
Biography
Laflamme was born in Quebec City in 1960 to a medical doctor father and a dietician mother. He finished his undergraduate education at the Université Laval in Canada and went on to study at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge where he received the Part III of Math. Tripos degree in 1984. Subsequently, his PhD supervisor was Stephen Hawking. Hawking has mentioned in his book A Brief History of Time that Laflamme and Don Page were responsible for convincing him that time does not reverse in a contracting universe. Hawking inscribed a copy of the book as follows: "To Raymond, who showed me that the arrow of time is not a boomerang. Thank you for all your help. Stephen."
After completing his PhD, Laflamme worked as a Killam postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia and in 1990, moved back to Cambridge as a Research Fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge. Laflamme subsequently joined the Los Alamos National Laboratory where he was an Oppenheimer Fellow. His work during over nine years at the Lab was ranked amongst the Top Ten Breakthroughs of the Year from the journal Science in 1998. In 2001, he joined the newly founded Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Physics and Astronom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyma%20Zarghami | Cyma Zarghami (, born December 15, 1962) is an Iranian-born American film studio and former cable television executive who served as the president of Nickelodeon and Viacom Media Networks' Kids & Family Group from 2006 to 2018. She is the founder and CEO of MiMo Studios.
Early life
Zarghami was born in Abadan, Iran to an Iranian father, Gholam, and a Scottish mother, Catherine. The family later moved to Canada and finally to Englewood, New Jersey, where she graduated in the class of 1980 from the Dwight-Englewood School and was a recipient of the school's Distinguished Alumni Award. At Dwight-Englewood, she played lacrosse.
In 1980, Zarghami entered the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont as an elementary education major, later changing her major to English; she did not complete the degree. Zarghami was awarded an honorary diploma by the University of Vermont College of Education and Social Services in 2000.
Career
Zarghami traveled in Europe after leaving college, then returned to Burlington to work for Business Digest.
Zarghami joined Nickelodeon as a scheduling clerk in 1985. She moved up through the programming department and became the channel's general manager in 1996, overseeing programming, scheduling, acquisitions, marketing, and day-to-day management of the network. Zarghami was promoted to general manager and executive vice-president in 1997. In 2004, the position of president of Nickelodeon Television was created for Zarghami, where she oversaw production and development for the network, along with marketing, programming and creativity. After the resignation of Herb Scannell on January 5, 2006, Zarghami became president of the newly formed Kids & Family Group, which included Nickelodeon, Nick@Nite, Nick Jr. Channel, TeenNick, Nicktoons, TV Land, CMT, and CMT Pure Country. On June 4, 2018, Zarghami resigned as president of Nickelodeon following 33 years with the network.
In February 2020, she launched a production company and consultancy firm, MiMo Studios, to develop original film properties of one hour or less in length for young audiences. MiMo is a portmanteau of "mini movie".
Personal life
Zarghami lives in New York City with her husband George Obergfoll, a stage manager, and their three sons, Liam, Ethan, and Rupert. Her youngest son Rupert was born in 2010 in the Dominican Republic on a banana farm. Among Rupert's interests, he enjoys playing with his lego sets and hosting small theatric performances on his patio. She formerly served on the board of the Children's Museum of Manhattan.
Filmography
Television
References
External links
MIPCOM Junior 2008 Keynote address
Cyma Zarghami biography on Nick.com
Living people
Nickelodeon executives
Women television executives
20th-century American businesswomen
People from Englewood, New Jersey
Iranian emigrants to the United States
Dwight-Englewood School alumni
University of Vermont alumni
American people of Scottish descent
1962 births
20th-century American busine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiview%20orthographic%20projection | In technical drawing and computer graphics, a multiview projection is a technique of illustration by which a standardized series of orthographic two-dimensional pictures are constructed to represent the form of a three-dimensional object. Up to six pictures of an object are produced (called primary views), with each projection plane parallel to one of the coordinate axes of the object. The views are positioned relative to each other according to either of two schemes: first-angle or third-angle projection. In each, the appearances of views may be thought of as being projected onto planes that form a six-sided box around the object. Although six different sides can be drawn, usually three views of a drawing give enough information to make a three-dimensional object.
These three views are known as front view (also elevation view), top view or plan view and end view (also profile view or section view).
When the plane or axis of the object depicted is not parallel to the projection plane, and where multiple sides of an object are visible in the same image, it is called an auxiliary view.
Overview
To render each such picture, a ray of sight (also called a projection line, projection ray or line of sight) towards the object is chosen, which determines on the object various points of interest (for instance, the points that are visible when looking at the object along the ray of sight); those points of interest are mapped by an orthographic projection to points on some geometric plane (called a projection plane or image plane) that is perpendicular to the ray of sight, thereby creating a 2D representation of the 3D object.
Customarily, two rays of sight are chosen for each of the three axes of the object's coordinate system; that is, parallel to each axis, the object may be viewed in one of 2 opposite directions, making for a total of 6 orthographic projections (or "views") of the object:
Along a vertical axis (often the y-axis): The top and bottom views, which are known as plans (because they show the arrangement of features on a horizontal plane, such as a floor in a building).
Along a horizontal axis (often the z-axis): The front and back views, which are known as elevations (because they show the heights of features of an object such as a building).
Along an orthogonal axis (often the x-axis): The left and right views, which are also known as elevations, following the same reasoning.
These six planes of projection intersect each other, forming a box around the object, the most uniform construction of which is a cube; traditionally, these six views are presented together by first projecting the 3D object onto the 2D faces of a cube, and then "unfolding" the faces of the cube such that all of them are contained within the same plane (namely, the plane of the medium on which all of the images will be presented together, such as a piece of paper, or a computer monitor, etc.). However, even if the faces of the box are unfolded in one standardi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratosphere%20%28disambiguation%29 | The stratosphere is a region of Earth's upper atmosphere.
Stratosphere may also refer to:
Stratosphere: Conquest of the Skies, a 1998 computer game
"Stratosphere gun", nickname for the U.S. Army 120 mm M1 gun
Stratosphere Las Vegas, a casino hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada
Suzuki Stratosphere, a concept motorcycle
Music
Stratosphere Sound, a recording studio in New York City
Stratosfear, a 1976 album by Tangerine Dream
Stratosphere (Duster album), 1998
Stratosphere (Matt Sorum album), 2014
"Stratosphere", a song by Stratovarius |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Security%20Essentials | Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) is an antivirus software (AV) product that provides protection against different types of malicious software, such as computer viruses, spyware, rootkits, and Trojan horses. Prior to version 4.5, MSE ran on , Windows Vista, and Windows 7, but not on Windows 8 and later versions, which have built-in AV components known as Windows Defender. MSE 4.5 and later versions do not run on Windows XP. The license agreement allows home users and small businesses to install and use the product free of charge. It replaces Windows Live OneCare, a discontinued commercial subscription-based AV service, and the free Windows Defender, which only protected users from spyware until Windows8.
Built upon the same scanning engine and virus definitions as other Microsoft antivirus products, it provides real-time protection, constantly monitoring activities on the computer, scanning new files as they are created or downloaded, and disabling detected threats. It lacks the OneCare personal firewall and the Forefront Endpoint Protection centralized management features.
Microsoft's announcement of its own AV software on 18 November 2008, was met with mixed reactions from the AV industry. Symantec, McAfee, and Kaspersky Lab—three competing independent software vendors—dismissed it as an unworthy competitor, but AVG Technologies and Avast Software appreciated its potential to expand consumers' choices of AV software. AVG, McAfee, Sophos, and Trend Micro claimed that the integration of the product into Microsoft Windows would be a violation of competition law.
The product received generally positive reviews, praising its user interface, low resource usage, and freeware license. It secured AV-TEST certification in October 2009, having demonstrated its ability to eliminate all widely encountered malware. It lost that certification in October 2012; in June 2013, MSE achieved the lowest possible protection score, zero. However, Microsoft significantly improved this product during the couple of years preceding February 2018, when MSE achieved AV-TEST's "Top Product" award after detecting 80% of the samples used during its test. According to a March 2012 report by anti-malware specialist OPSWAT, MSE was the most popular AV product in North America and the second most popular in the world, which has resulted in the appearance of several rogue antivirus programs that try to impersonate it.
Features
Microsoft Security Essentials automatically checks and downloads the latest virus definitions from Microsoft Update which is updated three times a day. Users may alternatively download the updates manually from the Microsoft Security Portal website. On 30 September 2011, a faulty definition update caused the product to incorrectly tag Google Chrome as malware. The issue was resolved within three hours. MSE originally ran on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, although versions 4.5 and later do not run on Windows XP and Microsoft stopped producing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better%20Living%20TV%20Theater | Better Living TV Theater is an American television documentary program originally broadcast on ABC and later on the DuMont Television Network. The documentary series, featuring moderator Fischer Black, debuted on June 20, 1953. The ABC version was a summer replacement series which aired on Sunday afternoons. The final ABC broadcast occurred on August 16, 1953.
On April 21, 1954, the DuMont Network began to air the series in prime time. Better Living TV Theater aired on Wednesday nights at 10:30 pm EST, until June, when the program was moved to Sunday nights. The final broadcast was on August 29, 1954.
Episode status
One episode of this series survives at the Paley Center for Media.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
External links
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
American Broadcasting Company original programming
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows
1953 American television series debuts
1954 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Cases%20of%20Eddie%20Drake | The Cases of Eddie Drake is an American crime drama series which initially was shown in syndication in 1951, before airing on the DuMont Television Network during 1952. It was a crime drama originally filmed for CBS Television by Imppro, a small outfit in 1948. The TV series was adapted from the radio series The Cases of Mr. Ace (1945-1947) starring George Raft, with both series written by Jason James. Don Haggerty played the lead in the new series.
Synopsis
The series stars Don Haggerty as Eddie Drake, a typically flippant, wisecracking private eye from New York, and (in the original nine episodes) Patricia Morison as psychiatrist Dr. Karen Gayle. Gayle is writing a book on criminal psychology, and in each episode Drake stops by her office to recount his latest case to her, while the two flirt heavily. Each episode is told in flashback, narrated by Drake to Gayle.
After Morison leaves the show following episode nine, Lynne Roberts portrays criminologist Dr. Joan Wright in the final four episodes, fulfilling essentially the same function as Gayle. Starting partway through the series, Drake drives a 3-wheeled 1948 Davis D-2 Divan car (which he calls "Dave"). The show also features Theodore von Eltz in the regular role of Lt. Walsh, Drake's police contact.
A slightly similar detective series, The Files of Jeffrey Jones, also starring Don Haggerty, was produced by Lindsley Parsons in 1954.
Production background
After nine episodes were filmed in late 1948, co-star Patricia Morison was offered the lead in the Broadway musical Kiss Me, Kate, and left the show. Sources differ as to what exactly happened directly thereafter; Lynne Roberts was definitely cast in the replacement role of Dr. Joan Wright and filmed four more episodes, but precisely when these episodes were filmed is a matter of debate. However, they were completed by no later than 1951. This is known because while show was never seen on CBS, 13 episodes of Eddie Drake were offered in syndication by 1951, where it aired in Chicago and possibly other markets. By 1952, DuMont bought the series and gave it a network airing. Some sources indicate that DuMont had filmed the four additional episodes to round out the series to the standard 13-episode season. However, the 13 episode package was offered in 1951, before DuMont's involvement, and it would be extremely unusual for the cash-strapped DuMont Network to commit to filming new episodes using the expensive film process that the series used.
The final episode aired on DuMont on May 29, 1952.
The program was filmed at Republic Studios.
Episode status
The episode "Shoot the Works" (aired April 10, 1952) is available online. The episode "Sleep Well, Angel" (May 1, 1952) is in the collection of the Paley Center for Media.
Films released in the UK
Between February 1954 and February 1956, four feature films edited from the Eddie Drake series were released by Butchers Film Service and Jack Phillips Film Distribution to smaller cinemas in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI%20hole | The PCI hole or PCI memory hole is a limitation of 32-bit hardware and 32-bit operating systems that causes a computer to appear to have less memory available than is physically installed. This memory addressing limitation and the later workarounds necessary to overcome it are functionally similar to the memory limits of the early 8088 IBM PC memory architecture (see Conventional memory).
Similar situations have often arisen in the history of computing, when hardware intended to have up to a certain level of resources is designed to handle several times the maximum expected amount, which eventually becomes a severe restriction as Moore's law increases resources economically available. The original IBM PC was typically supplied with 64 KB of memory or less; it was designed to take a maximum of 640 KB. This rapidly became a restriction that had to be handled by complex DOS memory management. Similar successive restrictions in size have been imposed and overcome on hard drives.
Unavailable memory
The loss of usable memory caused by the PCI hole, when using memory-mapped I/O, is caused by using the same address space for both physical memory and to communicate with hardware devices. Thus, installed hardware devices need some of the address space in order to communicate with the processor and system software. As 32-bit hardware has a total of four gigabytes of addressable memory, some of the real physical memory of a 32-bit machine, when enough memory is installed, needs to be sacrificed by making it hidden so the devices have room to communicate. Which part of physical memory becomes replaced with the device communication space depends upon the machine, but it is usually anything above 2.5 to 3.5 GB.
The amount of system memory that is hidden and unavailable varies widely with the actual mainboard and chipset, the BIOS, the amount of physical memory, the amount of video RAM installed on graphics cards, and the number and type of PCI cards installed in the system. More than a gigabyte of 32-bit system memory can be unavailable when four gigabytes of physical memory and multiple 3D cards with large amounts of video memory are installed; on some mainboards, the hole is always at least one gigabyte in size regardless of the installed expansion cards.
Physical address extension
A workaround first developed in the Pentium Pro, known as Physical Address Extension (PAE), allows certain 32-bit operating systems to access up to 36-bit memory addresses, even though individual programs are still limited to operating within 32 bits of address space. Provided there is enough memory installed, each program can have its own four-gigabyte addressing space, together utilizing up to 64 gigabytes of memory across all programs.
But PAE alone is not enough to address the PCI hole issue, as memory addresses and I/O PCI addresses are still overlapping somewhere between the 3rd and 4th gigabyte. A PAE compatible operating system together with a PAE compatible CPU canno |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20African%20Technology%20Network | The South African Technology Network is a coalition between five of the South African Universities of Technology. Also known as SATN, the network was founded in 2005 and launched at their 2008 national conference. Established with the main goal of providing for a network to ensure the continuation of the process of cooperation, collaboration, support and joint activities such as joint curriculum development, applied research, quality assurance, cooperative education etc. within the Universities of Technology (UoTs) in the Republic of South Africa.
Members
SATN Trust
The SATN Trust was registered in August 2008 as an initiative of the vice-chancellors of the South African Universities of Technology (UoTs). It was established in order to present the views of UoTs at a national and international level, and to develop national education and training policies in accordance of the nature and character of UoTs. As well as promoting relevant research, academic excellence and employability of students. The trust will also promote co-operation between UoTs and commerce and industry.
The trustees of the SATN include the vice-chancellors of the five Universities of Technology, one member from the Department of Education, the CEO of Higher Education South Africa, and the CEO of the Tshumisano Trust.
References
External links
South African Technology Network website
Educational organisations based in South Africa
Scientific organisations based in South Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantex | Quantex may refer to:
Quantex Microsystems, computer manufacturer
Quantex Online Entertainment, company that maintains the video game Mankind |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DATAllegro | DATAllegro was a company that specialized in data warehousing appliances. It was founded by Stuart Frost in 2003 inspired by and as a competitor to Data warehouse appliance pioneer Netezza. In contrast to rival Netezza - which used "commodity" PowerPC chips - the DATAllegro architecture was implemented on commodity hardware from OEMs such as Dell Computer Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., and EMC Corp. DATAllegro - like Netezza - used open source software stack (Ingres DBMS running on Linux). Microsoft announced it had acquired DATAllegro as of September 2008. SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) is the successor product to DATAllegro on Windows Server using a version of the SQL Server database engine.
See also
Data warehouse appliance
References
External links
Official Website
Business intelligence companies
Data warehousing products |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon%20CloudFront | Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) operated by Amazon Web Services. The content delivery network was created to provide a globally-distributed network of proxy servers to cache content, such as web videos or other bulky media, more locally to consumers, to improve access speed for downloading the content.
CloudFront has servers located in the United Kingdom, Ireland, The Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Indonesia, India, Australia, South America, Africa, and several major cities in the United States. In November 2022, the service operated from 400 edge locations on six continents.
CloudFront operates on a pay-as-you-go basis.
CloudFront competes with larger CDNs, such as Akamai, Cloudflare, and Edgio (previously known as Limelight Networks). Upon launch, Larry Dignan of ZDNet News stated that CloudFront could cause price and margin reductions for competing CDNs.
Timeline
November 18, 2008 – Beta launch of CloudFront
May 7, 2009 – Adds access logging capability
November 11, 2009 – Adds support for private content
December 15, 2009 – Announced Amazon CloudFront Streaming
March 28, 2010 – Amazon launches edge locations in Singapore and adds private content for streaming
May, 2014, Amazon CloudFront is included in the Free Tier usage
Amazon CloudFront edge locations
In October 2018, Amazon CloudFront consisted of 138 access points (127 edge locations and 11 regional edge caches) in 63 cities across 29 countries.
North America
Edge locations: Ashburn, VA (3); Atlanta, GA (3); Boston, MA; Chicago, IL (2); Dallas/Fort Worth, TX (5); Denver, CO (2); Hayward, CA; Jacksonville, FL; Los Angeles, CA (4); Miami, FL (3); Minneapolis, MN; Montreal, QC; New York, NY (3); Newark, NJ (3); Palo Alto, CA; Philadelphia, PA; Phoenix, AZ; San Jose, CA (2); Seattle, WA (3); South Bend, IN; St. Louis, MO; Toronto, ON
Regional Edge caches: Virginia; Ohio; Oregon
Europe
Edge locations: Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2); Berlin, Germany; Copenhagen, Denmark; Dublin, Ireland; Frankfurt, Germany (8); Helsinki, Finland; London, England (7); Madrid, Spain (2); Manchester, England; Marseille, France; Milan, Italy; Munich, Germany; Oslo, Norway; Palermo, Italy; Paris, France (4); Prague, Czech Republic; Stockholm, Sweden (3); Vienna, Austria; Warsaw, Poland; Zurich, Switzerland
Regional Edge caches: Frankfurt, Germany; London, England
Asia
Edge locations: Bangalore, India; Chennai, India (3); Bangkok, Thailand (2); Hong Kong, China (3); Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Mumbai, India (2); Manila, Philippines; New Delhi, India (2); Osaka, Japan; Seoul, South Korea (4); Singapore (3); Taipei, Taiwan(3); Tokyo, Japan (9)
Regional Edge caches: Mumbai, India; Singapore; Seoul, South Korea; Tokyo, Japan
Australia
Edge locations: Melbourne; Perth; Sydney
Regional Edge caches: Sydney
South America
Edge locations: São Paulo, Brazil (2); Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2)
Regional Edge caches: São Paulo, Brazil
Midd |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helper%20class | In object-oriented programming, a helper class is used to assist in providing some functionality, which isn't the main goal of the application or class in which it is used. An instance of a helper class is called a helper object (for example, in the delegation pattern).
Helper classes are often created in introductory programming lessons, after the novice programmer has moved beyond creating one or two classes.
A utility class is a special case of a helper class in which the methods are all static. In general, helper classes do not have to have all static methods, but may have instance variables. Multiple instances of the helper class may exist as well.
Example
This is also an example of a utility class. Below are extension methods on the string object.
public static class PrependHelper
{
// static functions
public static string MeowPrepend(this string text)
{
return $"Meow meow {text}!";
}
public static string WoofPrepend(this string text)
{
return $"Woof woof {text}!";
}
public static string WoohPrepend(this string text)
{
return $"Wooh {text}!";
}
}
Alternative to helper class
Functions which are going to helper classes could be placed close to where they are used.
The other alternative is wrapping helper class parameters into a class as a field. That class can have a name from the business domain connected to the fields it has. The example below shows how to convert helper methods to methods on domain types:
public class Text
{
string text;
public string MeowPrepend()
{
return $"Meow meow {text}!";
}
public string WoofPrepend()
{
return $"Woof woof {text}!";
}
public string WoohPrepend()
{
return $"Wooh {text}!";
}
}
References
See also
Hierarchy
Class diagram (UML)
Class-based programming
Class (computer programming) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenplum | Greenplum is a big data technology based on MPP architecture and the Postgres open source database technology. The technology was created by a company of the same name headquartered in San Mateo, California around 2005. Greenplum was acquired by EMC Corporation in July 2010.
Starting in 2012, its database management system software became known as the Pivotal Greenplum Database sold through Pivotal Software. Pivotal open sourced the core engine and continued its development by the Greenplum Database open source community and Pivotal.
Starting in 2020 Pivotal was acquired by VMware and VMware continued to sponsor the Greenplum Database open source community as well as commercialize the technology under the brand name VMware Tanzu Greenplum.
Company
Greenplum, the company, was founded in September 2003 by Scott Yara and Luke Lonergan. It was a merger of two smaller companies: Metapa (founded in August 2000 near Los Angeles) and Didera in Fairfax, Virginia.
Investors included SoundView Ventures, Hudson Ventures and Royal Wulff Ventures. A total of in funding was announced at the merger. Greenplum, based in San Mateo, California, released its database management system software based on PostgreSQL in April 2005 calling it Bizgres. Rounds of venture capital of about each were invested in March 2006 and February 2007.
In July 2006 a partnership with Sun Microsystems was announced. Sun, which had also acquired MySQL AB, participated in a round of investment in January 2009, led by Meritech Capital Partners. The Bizgres project included a few other members, and was supported through about 2008, when the product was just called "Greenplum" as well. The Sun Fire X4500 was a reference architecture and used by the majority of customers until a transition was made to Linux around that time. Greenplum was acquired by EMC Corporation in July 2010, becoming the foundation of EMC's big data software division. Although EMC did not disclose the value, it was estimated at . Greenplum's products at the time of acquisition were the Greenplum Database, Chorus (a management tool), and Data Science Labs. Greenplum had customers in vertical markets including eBay. It became part of Pivotal Software in 2012.
A variant using Apache Hadoop to store data in the Hadoop file system called Hawq was announced in 2013. In 2015 the GreenplumDB and Hawq open source software projects were announced.
Technology
Pivotal's Greenplum database product uses massively parallel processing (MPP) techniques. Each computer cluster consists of a master node, standby master node, and segment nodes. All of the data resides on the segment nodes and the catalog information is stored in the master nodes. Segment nodes run one or more segments, which are modified PostgreSQL database instances and are assigned a content identifier. For each table the data is divided among the segment nodes based on the distribution column keys specified by the user in the data definition language. For |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragile%20Machine | Fragile Machine is an indie cyberpunk short film created by a team of artists called Aoineko.
Plot
Leda Nea is a scientist working for the Göln Remedios laboratory. Following the death of her daughter, Leda volunteers as a test subject in a series of experiments designed to mesh human and machine.
Reception
Fragile Machine was premiered at the Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema in 2005
Fragile Machine was well received at various film festivals, winning accolades such as:
"Best Animated File Award (2005): The Sedona International Film Festival
"Special Tribute for Animation (2005): Imaginaria
"Honorable Mention for Work in Progress (2005): DIY Film Festival
Reviews of Fragile Machine were generally positive. Brett D. Rogers of fps Magazine called the film "a well-styled piece of visual and audio cyberpunk, setting lessons learned from Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell and Metropolis to a beat."
References
External links
Official website
Review at Cyberpunk Review
American animated short films
2000s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia%20Tesla%20Personal%20Supercomputer | The Tesla Personal Supercomputer is a desktop computer (personal supercomputer) that is backed by Nvidia and built by various hardware vendors. It is meant to be a demonstration of the capabilities of Nvidia's Tesla GPGPU brand; it utilizes Nvidia's CUDA parallel computing architecture and is powered by up to 2688 parallel processing cores per GPGPU, which allow it to achieve speeds up to 250 times faster than standard PCs, according to Nvidia.
See also
Nvidia Tesla
Fastra II
References
External links
Tesla Personal Supercomputer website
NVIDIA Delivers the Personal Supercomputer DE Online
Nvidia Tesla YouTube channel
Nvidia products
Computer workstations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop%20Cleanup%20Wizard | The Desktop Cleanup Wizard is a component included with Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It aims to reduce the clutter in a user's desktop environment by moving unused shortcuts to a separate directory called "Unused Desktop Shortcuts". When run it shows a list of shortcuts, and the user can select which shortcuts to move to the "Unused Desktop Shortcuts" directory.
The Desktop Cleanup Wizard works as a scheduled task that runs once a day. If the wizard has not been run for 60 days, the Wizard is displayed to the user. The Desktop Cleanup Wizard is also accessible from the desktop's context menu, in the "Arrange Icons By" sub-menu.
The Desktop Cleanup Wizard scheduled task can be enabled or disabled in the "Desktop Items" configuration screen, which is available through the Desktop tab on the Display Properties dialog box.
Windows XP's successor, Windows Vista, does not include the Desktop Cleanup Wizard. As of Windows 7, its function has been integrated into the System Maintenance Wizard in the Troubleshooting Control Panel.
See also
Features new to Windows XP
Features removed from Windows Vista
References
Windows XP
Windows components |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20knowledge%20management | In computer science, semantic knowledge management is a set of practices that seeks to classify content so that the knowledge it contains may be immediately accessed and transformed for delivery to the desired audience, in the required format. This classification of content is semantic in its nature – identifying content by its type or meaning within the content itself and via external, descriptive metadata – and is achieved by employing XML technologies.
The specific outcomes of these practices are:
Maintain content for multiple audiences together in a single document
Transform content into various delivery formats without re-authoring
Search for content more effectively
Involve more subject-matter experts in the creation of content without reducing quality
Reduce production costs for delivery formats
Reduce the manual administration of getting the right knowledge to the right people
Reduce the cost and time to localize content
Notable semantic knowledge management systems
Learn eXact
Thinking Cap LCMS
Thinking Cap LMS
Xyleme LCMS
iMapping
References
Knowledge representation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UpStage | UpStage is an open source server-side application that has been purpose built for Cyberformance: multiple artists collaborate in real time via the UpStage platform to create and present live theatrical performances, for audiences who can be online or in a shared space, and who can interact with the performance via a text chat tool. It can also be understood as a form of digital puppetry. It is the first open source platform designed specifically for avatar performances.
History and context
UpStage was developed during 2003 by programmer Douglas Bagnall to realise the vision of cyberformance troupe Avatar Body Collision; the group had been creating live performance on the internet using free chat applications such as and the Palace, and wanted to create an application that better met their artistic needs. The first version of the software was created with a grant from the Smash Palace Collaboration Fund, a joint initiative of Creative New Zealand and the NZ Ministry for Research, Science and Technology; it was launched on 9 January 2004 and began to be used by artists and students around the world, as well as by the originators, Avatar Body Collision.
In 2006, the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the Auckland University of Technology began collaborating with the UpStage project. Software development students in their final year work on UpStage as a real-world software development project, providing ongoing maintenance and development for the software.
Also in 2006, UpStage received a second grant from the Community Partnership Fund of the New Zealand government's Digital Strategy, which enabled the development of UpStage V2. Douglas Bagnall was the lead developer, working in conjunction with the AUT students. UpStage V2 was launched in June 2007, with a two-week exhibition at the New Zealand Film Archive and the first UpStage festival, 070707. The festival featured 13 performances by artists from around the world and took place over a 12-hour period on 7 July 2007.
A second festival was held on 080808 (8–9 August 2008), covering an 18-hour period and involving artists from at least 14 time zones. It was reviewed in the Australian Stage Online. Following this, festivals were held annually on the successive monthly dates until 121212 (12 December 2012) when the festival extended over a period of one week and included cyberformance in UpStage and other online platforms. A number of works from previous festivals were restaged as a retrospective programme within the festival.
The 10-year anniversary of UpStage was celebrated 13 months after 121212, with a mini-festival of three performances and a meeting to discuss the future of UpStage. At this point, UpStage was unfunded and sustained by volunteers and the (also voluntary) work of the AUT student team. The meeting took place physically in Wellington, New Zealand, and online participants joined via UpStage. It was agreed that the project should continue, and that the software ne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon%20Feingold | Sharon Feingold is an American voice actress. She is the brand voice for HGTV and Food Network Asia and can be heard in promos for shows such as Fixer Upper, Property Brothers, and House Hunters. She is the voice of the ATL Skytrain and The Plane Train Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, as well as the narration voice of the Incline Railway at Chattanooga, Tennessee's Lookout Mountain. In May 2010, she appeared as herself on Donald Trump's Celebrity Apprentice as a hired voiceover talent for team Tenacity, appearing alongside Cyndi Lauper, Holly Robinson-Peete and Curtis Stone. She is the voice behind many of Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. Channel's quizzes and recap videos on their digital channels and YouTube. She provides the narration for four streaming on-demand biographies of Jennifer Aniston, Adam Sandler, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
According to her IMDB profile, she voiced the teenage character, Megan, in the animated TV series Mew Mew Power (2003).
She is also a writer/filmmaker of two award-winning short comedies, The Script Re-Right and Emojional Breakdown.
References
American voice actresses
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9seau%20de%20Transport%20d%27%C3%89lectricit%C3%A9 | Réseau de Transport d'Électricité ("Electricity Transmission Network"), usually known as RTE, is the electricity transmission system operator of France. It is responsible for the operation, maintenance and development of the French high-voltage transmission system, which at approximately , is Europe's largest.
RTE is a société anonyme headquartered in Paris and mostly owned by the French state through Électricité de France and Caisse des dépôts et consignations.
Corporation
History
RTE was formed as a result of European Directive No. 96/92/EC of December 1996, which directed that at least 26% of member countries' electricity sales be open to competition, and became law in France in February 2000. The directive required France to liberalise its electricity market by unbundling its generation and transmission activities, which until then had been fully controlled by EdF. RTE was established in July 2000 as a division of EdF, with a public charter to guarantee equitable access to its electricity market, and to secure the continuity and quality of electricity supply.
Further legal acts in July 2004 and August 2005 enforced the legal separation of RTE from EdF, transforming it into a limited liability subsidiary, and granted it trademark rights to its logo and the name Réseau de Transport d'Électricité.
Regulation
RTE's activities are overseen by the Government regulatory body Commission de régulation de l'énergie (Commission for Energy Regulation) (CRE). CRE's duties in this regard include ensuring RTE facilitates access to its network, and to survey and regulate the electricity market while opening it up to competition.
Commercial operations
RTE declared a turnover of €4,126 million in 2007, and yielding a profit of €466 million, both up slightly from the previous year, which RTE attributed to increases in network access payments and revenue derived from interconnector capacity auctions. The workforce in the same year was 8,279.
Data portal
RTE operate an open data portal named Open Data RTE which serves French electricity system data for public reuse.
Transmission network
RTE's transmission system operates at voltages of 63 kV, 90 kV, 150 kV, 225 kV and 400 kV. RTE deems the 63 to 150 kV circuits to be "high voltage" and the 225 kV and 400 kV "extra high voltage". As of the end of 2006, there were of transmission lines interconnecting 2,490 substations. Most of the transmission network is carried on 77,544 route-kilometres (48,180 mi) of overhead power lines; only of the network consists of underground cable. In common with the rest of Europe, the supply frequency is a nominal 50 Hz.
Demand and trade
France's peak demand occurs during the winter, and in 2007 was 88,960 MW. The annual production of electricity was 544.7 TWh, generated from an installed capacity of 108,319 MW, almost 60% of which was nuclear.
RTE's network interconnects with those of its counterparts in most of France's neighbouring countries, and the international t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quanta%20Computer%2C%20Inc.%20v.%20LG%20Electronics%2C%20Inc. | Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc., 553 U.S. 617 (2008), is a case decided by the United States Supreme Court in which the Court reaffirmed the validity of the patent exhaustion doctrine. The decision made uncertain the continuing precedential value of a line of decisions in the Federal Circuit that had sought to limit Supreme Court exhaustion doctrine decisions to their facts and to require a so-called "rule of reason" analysis of all post-sale restrictions other than tie-ins and price fixes. In the course of restating the patent exhaustion doctrine, the Court held that it is triggered by, among other things, an authorized sale of a component when the only reasonable and intended use of the component is to engage the patent and the component substantially embodies the patented invention by embodying its essential features. The Court also overturned, in passing, that the exhaustion doctrine was limited to product claims and did not apply to method claims.
Factual background
LG Electronics (LGE) owned several patents on methods and systems for processing information. It entered into two contracts with Intel. In the License Agreement, LGE authorized Intel to make and sell microprocessor products using the patented inventions. Moreover, the License Agreement expressly stated that no license was granted to any third party for combining licensed products with other products (for example, for combining Intel microprocessor products with other parts of a computer). The License Agreement also provided, however, "Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the parties agree that nothing herein shall in any way limit or alter the effect of patent exhaustion that would otherwise apply when a party hereto sells any of its Licensed Products."
In the Master Agreement, LGE required Intel to give its customers notice that the patent license does not extend to any product made by combining a licensed Intel microprocessor product with any other product (for example, a computer). The Master Agreement also provided that its breach would have no effect on the License Agreement and would not be grounds for its termination. Apparently, LGE was willing to allow Intel's customers to combine the microprocessor products with products not licensed by LGE, but only upon payment of a further royalty to LGE for the right to do so. This point is not discussed in the Court's opinion, which recites the facts only in very limited terms because the record was under seal to protect trade secrets.
Quanta Computer purchased licensed Intel microprocessor products and proceeded to manufacture computers containing them. In doing so, Quanta followed Intel's specifications, which in turn led to practice of the patented methods and making the patented systems that LGE licensed to Intel––since that was the way Intel had designed its microprocessor products. (The trial court found that the Intel microprocessor products were without any reasonable noninf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uchronia%3A%20The%20Alternate%20History%20List | Uchronia: The Alternate History List is an online general-interest book database containing a bibliography of alternate history novels, stories, essays and other printed material. It is owned and operated by Robert B. Schmunk. Uchronia was twice selected as the Sci Fi Channel's "Sci Fi Site of the Week."
Background
Uchronia catalogues and chronicles over 3300 published alternate history novels, short stories, anthologies, collections, series, as well as including reference material and works published in other languages. Entries indicate the original publication date, the point of divergence and a brief synopsis of the plot. A search mechanism that can identify works by author, keyword or language of publication/translation is also included.
Uchronia features a couple of real-world timelines: one devoted to alternate histories published before the Golden Age of Science Fiction, and another offering a complex chronological outline of point of divergences of the entries.
Uchronia contains large cover art gallery and links to Amazon.com in order to obtain the listed alternate history books.
Uchronia also hosts the main website for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History.
See also
List of alternate history fiction
Uchronia
References
External links
Internet properties established in 1997
Alternate history fandom
Alternate history websites
Online databases
Bibliographic databases and indexes
American book websites
Book databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar%20Orbiter%20Image%20Recovery%20Project | The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) is a project to digitize the original analog data tapes from the five Lunar Orbiter spacecraft that were sent to the Moon in 1966 and 1967; it is funded by NASA, SkyCorp, SpaceRef Interactive, and private individuals.
The first image to be successfully recovered by the project was released in November 2008. It was the first photograph of the Earth from the Moon, taken in August 1966. On February 20, 2014, the project announced it had completed the primary tape capture portion of the project. One medium resolution image, most of one high resolution image and parts of three others are missing, apparently due to lapses at the time they were being recorded. The rest of the Lunar Orbiter images have been successfully recovered and have been published in NASA's Planetary Data System.
Background
The images taken by the Lunar Orbiter spacecraft were primarily used to locate landing sites for the crewed Apollo missions. Once those missions were over, the data, on about 1,500 tapes, was largely forgotten since it had served its purpose. The original tapes were carefully archived for 20 years by the government in Maryland. When the tapes were released back to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, in 1986, the decision of whether to scrap the tapes became the responsibility of JPL archivist Nancy Evans. She decided that the tapes should be preserved. She recalled, "I could not morally get rid of this stuff".
Within a few years, Nancy Evans and a few colleagues were able to start a small project with funding from NASA. They managed to find four rare Ampex FR-900 tape drives — highly specialized drives that had only been used by government agencies such as the FAA, USAF, and NASA. (The FR-900's transport was adapted from the two-inch Quadruplex videotape format, only in the FR-900's case, the drive was designed to record a wideband analog signal of any type for instrumentation or other purposes, rather than specifically a video signal as in the two-inch Quad's case.) Over time, Evans' team also collected documentation and spare parts for the tape drives from various government surplus sources.
The project was successful at getting the raw analog data from the tapes, but in order to generate the images, they discovered that they needed the specialized demodulation hardware that had been used by the Lunar Orbiter program but no longer existed. The members of the team attempted to get funding from NASA and private sources to build the hardware, but they were unsuccessful. Eventually, both Nancy Evans and Mark Nelson went on to other projects while the tape drives sat in Evans's garage.
In 2004, Philip Horzempa was doing research on the Lunar Orbiter program at the NASA History Office in Washington, D.C. In its archives, he happened to come across a memo from 1996 containing a proposal by Mark Nelson to digitize the Lunar Orbiter images, as described above. After about a year of searc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea%20Factory | is a Japanese video game developer and publisher founded by former Data East employees in October 1994. A division of the company makes otome games under the name of Otomate. An international branch, Idea Factory International, was opened in California in 2013.
Games published
Games developed
References
External links
Official site (Japanese)
Idea Factory International
Video game companies of Japan
Video game development companies
Video game publishers
Video game companies established in 1994
Software companies based in Tokyo
Japanese companies established in 1994
Chūō, Tokyo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldenburg%20B | The steam locomotives of Oldenburg Class B of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg State Railways were built in the early 1900s for working the metre gauge network on the German island of Wangerooge.
Initially one example was ordered in 1904 from Freudenstein & Co. in Berlin. This tank engine weighed only 9.4 t when empty and could carry 1.2 m³ of water and 0.35 tonnes of coal. It had a well tank and the coal bunkers were on the left and right hand side of the boiler. The engine drove the second axle and the locomotive had the number 3.
In 1910 a somewhat heavier and larger locomotive was ordered from Hanomag. It weighed in at 12.2 tonnes (service weight). Because this engine acquitted itself well, in 1913 another one was ordered. These two locomotives were given numbers 4 and 5.
After the formation of the Reichsbahn the engines were taken over, classified as DRG Class 99.02 and given the numbers 99 021–023. In 1942 locomotives 99 021 and 99 022 had to be handed over for wartime duties at the Eastern front where they disappeared without trace.
Number 99 023 remained on Wangerooge and underwent a minor rebuild. It was given larger water tanks, wooden window shutters and an electrically operated lantern. It was retired in 1957.
See also
Grand Duchy of Oldenburg State Railways
List of Oldenburg locomotives and railbuses
Länderbahnen
References
0-4-0T locomotives
B
Metre gauge steam locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1904
Hanomag locomotives
B n2t locomotives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexell%27s%20Comet | D/1770 L1, popularly known as Lexell's Comet after its orbit computer Anders Johan Lexell, was a comet discovered by astronomer Charles Messier in June 1770. It is notable for having passed closer to Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of only , or six times the distance from the Earth to the Moon. The comet has not been seen since 1770 and is considered a lost comet.
Lexell's Comet's 1770 passing still holds the record of closest observed approach of Earth by a comet. However, if approaches deduced from orbit calculations are included, it may have been beaten by a small sungrazing comet, P/1999 J6 (SOHO), which may have passed even closer at about from Earth on June 12, 1999, but the uncertainties are around ±1.5 million km as the P/1999 J6 approach was unobserved.
Discovery
The comet was discovered on June 14, 1770, in the constellation Sagittarius by Messier, who had just completed an observation of Jupiter and was examining several nebulae. At this time it was very faint, but his observations over the course of the next few days showed that it rapidly grew in size, its coma reaching 27 arcminutes across by June 24: by this time it was of magnitude +2. The comet was also noted by several other astronomers.
The comet was observed in Japan. Surviving records identify it as an astronomical and historical phenomenon.
It was observed in the Hejaz in Safar 1184 AH (June 1770), where some believed it to be the comet predicted by the poet al-Fasi, portending future events.
Close approach to Earth
On July 1, 1770, the comet passed 0.015 astronomical units from Earth, or approximately 6 times the radius of the Moon's orbit. Charles Messier measured the coma as 2° 23' across, around four times the apparent angular size of the Moon. An English astronomer at the time noted the comet crossing over 42° of sky in 24 hours; he described the nucleus as being as large as Jupiter, "surrounded with a coma of silver light, the brightest part of which was as large as the moon's orb".
Messier was the last astronomer to observe the comet as it moved away from the Sun, on October 3, 1770.
Orbit
Scientists at the time largely believed that comets originated outside the solar system, and therefore initial attempts to model the comet's orbit assumed a parabolic trajectory, which indicated a perihelion date (the date of the closest approach to the Sun) of August 9–10. When it turned out that the parabolic solution was not a good fit to the comet's orbit, Anders Johan Lexell suggested that the comet followed an elliptical orbit. His calculations, made over a period of several years, gave a perihelion of August 13–14 and an orbital period of 5.58 years. Lexell also noted that, despite this short-period orbit, by far the shortest known at the time, the comet was unlikely to have been seen previously because its orbit had been radically altered in March 1767 by the gravitational forces of Jupiter. It is, therefore, the earlies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors.net.uk | Doctors.net.uk is an online closed community for doctors in the UK and one of the first of any networking sites to be introduced on the web.
Founded in 1998, the company offers a number of Web 2.0 features which allows doctors to communicate online – including email, a discussion forum, e-learning, medical podcasts and access to an online medical textbook and medical image library .
The company is funded by allowing communication from private companies (such as pharmaceutical companies) and government bodies (such as the NHS and Department of Health) to its members.
On the commercial side, it provides communication campaigns for pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, the Department of Health and other public sector organisations and medical colleges, providing them with effective access to doctors for marketing, education, training and market research.
The company, based in Milton Park, Oxfordshire, was acquired in August 2011 by the Tokyo listed M3 corporation, at which time it had over 180,000 doctor members. It now forms part of M3 Europe.
Doctors.net.uk is part of the M3 Group. M3 operates in Asia, the US and Europe with more than 1 million physician doctor members globally via M3.com, MDLinx, Medigate and Doctors.net.uk brands.
News
In August 2008, a row over doctors' freedom of speech was erupted after a trainee doctor was suspended for making offensive comments about a senior medical figure on the Doctors.net.uk forum. The comments, allegedly about the re-election of Dame Carol Black as the chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges – were made by a trainee in general surgery who was subsequently suspended from the Highland Deanery. Doctors.net.uk removed the offensive part of the posting as soon as it was alerted to it.
Awards
In November 2008, Doctors.net.uk received a prestigious e-Learning Award for its work for the Department of Health (DH). The award, 'Best e-learning project securing widespread adoption' was a tribute to the work carried out by Doctors.net.uk in trying to reduce healthcare associated infections (HCAI) such as MRSA and C. difficile in UK hospitals.
In September 2008, Doctors.net.uk was included in the prestigious Sunday Times Tech Track 100, a list of Britain’s fastest growing private technology companies – ranked 87th based upon steady sales growth of 42% per year during the past three years.
In 2007, it won the award for the Best Small Business IT Strategy at the Computing (magazine) Awards for Excellence, one of the most prestigious IT awards in the UK. Financial Times - Medicine may be one of Wap technology's 'killer' applications
References
Further reading
British medical websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placement%20syntax | In the C++ programming language, placement syntax allows programmers to explicitly specify the memory management of individual objects — i.e. their "placement" in memory. Normally, when an object is created dynamically, an allocation function is invoked in such a way that it will both allocate memory for the object, and initialize the object within the newly allocated memory. The placement syntax allows the programmer to supply additional arguments to the allocation function. A common use is to supply a pointer to a suitable region of storage where the object can be initialized, thus separating memory allocation from object construction.
The "placement" versions of the new and delete operators and functions are known as placement new and placement delete. A new expression, placement or otherwise, calls a new function, also known as an allocator function, whose name is operator new. Similarly, a delete expression calls a delete function, also known as a deallocator function, whose name is operator delete.
Any new expression that uses the placement syntax is a placement new expression, and any operator new or operator delete function that takes more than the mandatory first parameter (std::size_t) is a placement new or placement delete function. A placement new function takes two input parameters: std::size_t and void *.
History
In earlier versions of C++ there was no such thing as placement new; instead, developers used explicit assignment to this within constructors to achieve similar effect. This practice has been deprecated and abolished later, and the third edition of The C++ Programming Language doesn't mention this technique.
Expressions
The Standard C++ syntax for a non-placement new expression is
new new-type-id ( optional-initializer-expression-list )
The placement syntax adds an expression list immediately after the new keyword. This expression list is the placement. It can contain any number of expressions.
new ( expression-list ) new-type-id ( optional-initializer-expression-list )
Functions
The placement new functions are overloads of the non-placement new functions. The declaration of the non-placement new functions, for non-array and array new expressions respectively, are: void* operator new(std::size_t) throw(std::bad_alloc);
void* operator new[](std::size_t) throw(std::bad_alloc);
The Standard C++ library provides two placement overloads each for these functions. Their declarations are: void* operator new(std::size_t, const std::nothrow_t&) throw();
void* operator new(std::size_t, void*) throw();
void* operator new[](std::size_t, const std::nothrow_t&) throw();
void* operator new[](std::size_t, void*) throw();
In all of the overloads, the first parameter to the operator new function is of type std::size_t, which when the function is called will be passed as an argument specifying the amount of memory, in bytes, to allocate. All of the functions must return type void *, which is a pointer to the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UIC%20568 | The UIC 568 standard from the International Union of Railways (UIC), describes a 13-conductor cable and connectors used for transmitting a variety of data and commands between a locomotive and passenger carriages. Examples of those commands and data is loudspeaker messages, train destination signs, and control of doors (locked/un-locked, open/close) and others. Since 1996 this standard number has been reused for "Loudspeaker and telephone systems in RIC coaches Standard technical characteristics " The current standard is given in UIC leaflet 558 "Remote control and data cable – Standard technical features for the equipping of RIC coaches "
History
The UIC 568-cable and connector was first introduced along with the specifications for carriages built according to the UIC type Y (24.5 meters long, 8 cabins) and the UIC type X (26.4 meters long, 10 cabins), but have later on been used for variety of other passenger carriages, allowing mixing of InterCity (medium to long distances) and regional (short to medium distances) carriages.
Remote operation of locomotive
Very early in the development of the standard, it was decided that two conductors and pins should be reserved for remote operation of the locomotive (when using control cars).
Locomotives equipped according to this standard will usually have two sockets at each end of the locomotive, and carriages will usually also have one or two sockets. Loose cables are then used to establish connection between the locomotive and the carriages, as well as from carriage to carriage.
Train communication network
Attempts have been made to use this cable for a complete communications bus (Train Communication Network, TCN) but it was decided that backwards compatibility was important, so that un-converted carriages could still be used. This would require an 18-conductor cable, which led to the development of the UIC 558-cable and connectors. 13-wire plugs can be connected to an 18-pin socket, and the signals from the 13-wire cable carried through. The remaining five wires are used for the Train Communication Network (TCN)-bus and side-sensitive door control.
Head end power
Along with the UIC 568-cable and connectors, carriages used for international traffic are required to be equipped with electric heating. The power for this, as well as for lighting, air-conditioning, electric outlets for passengers, etc., is carried by a separate cable. This cable carries single-phase electric power at 1500 volts AC, 50 Hz (with the tracks as the ground connection), supplied from the locomotive, or in some cases a carriage with a generator. In order to use this power, each carriage is equipped with a transformer, which reduces the voltage and supplies a number of electric groups (typically one for heating/air-conditioning, one for lighting, one for outlets to passengers and so on).
References
Locomotive parts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obliterator%20%28disambiguation%29 | Obliterator is a 1988 computer game.
Obliterator may also refer to:
Obliterator (Dune), a type of weapon in Frank Herbert's fictional Dune universe
Obliterators (Transformers), a subgroup of the Decepticons in the fictional Transformers universe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20One%20%28TV%20series%29 | Mobile One is an American television series that aired on the ABC network from September 12, 1975 to January 5, 1976. The show was a production of Jack Webb's Mark VII Limited for Universal Television. It was the only Mark VII Limited show to air on ABC.
Premise
Unlike most of Mark VII's other productions, Mobile One was not based on the real-life exploits of a police force or any other governmental agency. The show was set instead in a local television station's electronic news gathering operation, which at the time was a very new technology. Jackie Cooper starred as on-screen reporter Peter Campbell; Julie Gregg played Maggie Spencer, Campbell's producer; and Mark Wheeler played camera operator Doug McKnight. Much of the show was spent covering Campbell and McKnight's travels to the scenes of crimes, accidents, and other newsworthy events in a mobile unit car, thereby resembling Mark VII's Emergency! (which concurrently aired on NBC) in an emphasis upon action and adventure.
Episodes
Production notes
The show was produced by William Bowers and created by James M. Miller; Cooper also directed at least one episode. ABC initially scheduled the show on Friday nights against NBC's Sanford and Son and Chico and the Man and CBS' M*A*S*H; it moved to Monday nights starting on October 27, 1975. Ratings were poor and the network cancelled the series after only thirteen episodes.
The 90-minute pilot film for the series, Mobile Two, aired on ABC on September 2, 1975.
References
Total Television: A Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present, Alex McNeil, New York: Penguin, revised ed., 1984.
External links
InBaseline
American Broadcasting Company original programming
1975 American television series debuts
1976 American television series endings
1970s American television series
Television series by Mark VII Limited
Television series by Universal Television
Television series about journalism
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Philadelphia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTVPal | The DTVPal was a line of digital-to-analog converter boxes designed by Echostar Corporation, sister company to Dish Network Corporation. The boxes were marketed starting in 2008.
The units debuted to both love and criticism from purchasers, primarily related to reliability, warranty, and service issues. All models in the line were discontinued. One model, the DTVPal DVR, had unique features in this class of product: the ability to pause live TV and time-shift broadcast TV digitally. This model returned to production in 2010 as the Channel Master model CM 7000PAL.
References
External links
Channel Master CM 7000PAL
AVS Dish DTVPal DVR official topic
Consumer electronics brands
Dish Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jad | JAD or Jad may refer to:
JAD:
JAD Records
Jamaah Ansharut Daulah, an Indonesian terrorist organization
JAD (software), a JAva Decompiler
JAD (file format), Java Application Descriptor
Joint application design (JAD), a process of collection of business requirements to develop a new information system
Jandakot Airport, IATA airport code "JAD"
Jad:
Jád, the Hungarian name for Livezile Commune, Romania
Jad people of India
Jad language
See also
Jad Abumrad (b. 1973), American radio host and producer
Yad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mug%20Travel | Mug Travel (, known as My Friend Bernard in English) is a 2007 South Korean computer-animated film, directed by Lim Ah-ron and based on his animated TV series, Bernard.
Plot
A little girl named Bebe (known as Sam in the English version), all alone on Christmas Eve, is given a magical pendant from Santa Claus and embarks on a fantastical adventure. Travelling in a mug with the power of teleportation, Bebe explores a variety of exotic locations from the desert to the North Pole, accompanied by a host of characters including Backkom the polar bear (Bernard in the English version) and Kongkong the penguin (Lloyd in the English version), Bebe and her friends go on a series of adventures through an Arctic tundra and a desert oasis. During this trip they encounter a variety of challenges, including a sea monster, a skiing adventure, and an ominous cave.
Production
Produced by RG Animation Studios and directed by Lim Ah-ron, Mug Travel is a feature film adaptation of Lim's computer-animated TV series Backkom. The film and TV series were made at the same time on a combined budget of $5.9 million, after Lim noticed a gap in the market for shows aimed at preschool children.
Release
Mug Travel was released in South Korea on 22 March 2007, and was ranked eighth at the Korean box office on its opening weekend with 48,244 admissions. Over the course of its theatrical run, the film accumulated a total of 135,261 admissions nationwide, and grossed $608,835.
Mug Travel was screened at the Fifth Bimini Animation Festival, held in Latvia in March 2007, where it was the winner of "The Best Film for Children" award. It was subsequently selected to participate in the non-competition category at the Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film, which ran from 5–17 April 2007 in Belgium.
See also
Korean animation
List of Christmas films
References
External links
(Dead link)
2007 films
2007 computer-animated films
South Korean children's films
South Korean Christmas films
2000s children's animated films
2000s Christmas films
South Korean animated films
2000s Korean-language films
Animated films about polar bears
Animated films about penguins
Films about lizards
2000s South Korean films
Animated films about reptiles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion%20Filotti%20Cantacuzino | Ion Filotti Cantacuzino or Ion I. Cantacuzino (November 7, 1908, Bucharest, Romania – August 27, 1975, Bucharest, Romania) was a Romanian film producer, writer and psychiatrist.
Biographic data
Ion Filotti Cantacuzino, born in Bucharest on November 7, 1908, was the son of prince Ion Cantacuzino and of actress Maria Filotti. He studied
medicine at the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy and philosophy at the University of Bucharesthe graduated from the University of Paris' Faculty of Sciences and Faculty of Medicine,
He married Elena Warthiadi and had two sons: historian Gheorghe I. Cantacuzino and actor Şerban Cantacuzino.
Activity as writer and film critic
His first publication is the short story "De Amore Paradox" published first in 1929 in the magazine "Excelsior". It was reprinted as a separate volume in 1935 with 18 illustrations by W. Siegfried. Interested in cinematography he started his activity as film critic in 1931 when he was appointed by "Radio România" and started the first broadcast critics in Romania. He also contributed with film critics to various Romanian magazines.
In 1934 he also wrote his first screenplay for a documentary film "Romania" – directed by Paul Călinescu and Jean Mihail.
In 1935 he published his first volume about films: "The Fairytale factory" () The same year, he published his only play "Dri-dri" which was awarded the prize of the "Society of Romanian Dramaturgists" (Societatea Autorilor Dramatici Români) for one-act plays.
Film producer and director
In 1941, Ion Cantacuzino was appointed director of the "National Office of Cinematography" which had been created in the late 1930s. The main activity of the Office was to release newsreels about the World War II. Besides coordinating the activity of the office, Ion Cantacuzino wrote the screenplays, directed and produced documentaries having cultural subjects: "The Peleş Castle" (Castelul Peleş) – 1941 or "Old Customs" (Datini din străbuni) – 1942 or related to the war: "Romania in war against bolshevism" (România în lupta contra bolșevismului) – 1941, "Our sacred war" (Războiul nostru sfânt) – 1942, "We" (Noi) – 1942.
Ion Cantacuzino's ambitions were however related to the production of feature films. In 1943 he produced the film "Stormy Night" (O noapte furtunoasă), a comedy based on a play by Ion Luca Caragiale directed by Jean Georgescu. He then created the Romanian-Italian film production and distribution company "Cineromit". The first coproduction was "Odessa in Flames" (Odessa in fiamme) directed by Carmine Gallone on a screenplay by Gherardo Gherardi and Nicolae Kiriţescu.
The next production of "Cineromit" was scheduled to be produced in Romania. A second film, "The white squadron" (Squadriglia bianca), directed by Romanian director Ion Sava was released in 1944. The same year, Ion Cantacuzino, as producer, selected Jean Georgescu to direct the film "A Winter Night's Dream" (Visul unei nopți de iarnă) based on a play by Tudor Mușa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TalkTalk%20TV%20Store | TalkTalk TV Store (formerly blinkbox) was a UK-based transactional (purchase and rental) video-on-demand (VoD) service available on Macintosh and Microsoft Windows computers, games consoles, tablet computers and Smart TVs. Content is generally streamed, with downloading currently possible on Windows PC/laptops. The blinkbox brand had been extended to companion services offering digital music and books.
Tesco bought an 80% stake in the business in 2011 as part of a move into digital content. On 8 January 2015 the company sold blinkbox Movies to TalkTalk Group, who stated they intended to integrate the service into its own range of services. Tesco sold blinkbox Music to Guvera on 26 January 2015, and confirmed it would close its blinkbox Books division at the end of February 2015. TalkTalk renamed the blinkbox Movies service in 2016. In May 2018 TalkTalk announced that they would close the service completely, with customers transferring to rival service Rakuten TV.
History
The company was co-founded in 2006 by Michael Comish (he was blinkbox's chief executive officer until June 2013 when he became Tesco Group Digital Officer) and Adrian Letts, chief operating officer of the blinkbox group of services and MD of the Movies and TV service, both former senior executives of Channel 4 and Vodafone respectively. blinkbox was launched in October 2007 with the backing of a number of venture capital firms.
On 20 April 2011, Tesco acquired an 80% stake in blinkbox from Eden Ventures and Nordic Venture Partners, intending to use the company to boost its digital entertainment offering. The Movies and TV service has around one million users per month.
In December 2014, Tesco was reported to be in negotiations with TalkTalk Group over the sale of blinkbox Movies, after talks with Vodafone fell through. The sale to TalkTalk was completed on 8 January 2015. TalkTalk eventually acquired the service along with a number of broadband customers, who transferred to the TalkTalk network.
In May 2018 TalkTalk announced that they would close the service completely for off-network customers who did not take TalkTalk's own broadband service where the more fully featured TalkTalk TV service is provided. Customers are being transferred to rival DTO service Rakuten TV.
Services
TalkTalk TV Store has content deals with over 50 of the world's leading content producers including HBO, BBC Worldwide, Disney, Warner Bros., Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, FremantleMedia, All3Media, Revolver Entertainment and Aardman Animations.
In 2010 the company signed a deal with the Samsung Group allowing films to be streamed directly though any Internet@TV Samsung TVs. blinkbox also formed a content partnership with YouTube allowing the site to carry blinkbox films on its new Movies section. The service was also the first in the UK to offer streaming film content through Sony's PlayStation 3, and Microsoft's Xbox 360 consoles.
Rental content can be stre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20language | Artificial languages are languages of a typically very limited size which emerge either in computer simulations between artificial agents, robot interactions or controlled psychological experiments with humans. They are different from both constructed languages and formal languages in that they have been consciously devised by an individual or group but are the result of (distributed) conventionalisation processes, much like natural languages. Opposed to the idea of a central designer, the field of artificial language evolution in which artificial languages are studied can be regarded as a sub-part of the more general cultural evolution studies.
Origin
The idea of creation of artificial language arose in 17th and 18th century as a result of gradually decreasing international role of Latin. The initial schemes were mainly aimed at the development of a rational language free from inconsistence of living language and based on classification of concepts. The material of living languages also appears later.
Motivation
The lack of empirical evidence in the field of evolutionary linguistics has led many researchers to adopt computer simulations as a means to investigate the ways in which artificial agents can self-organize languages with natural-like properties. This research is based on the hypothesis that natural language is a complex adaptive system that emerges through interactions between individuals and continues to evolve in order to remain adapted to the needs and capabilities of its users. By explicitly building all assumptions into computer simulations, this strand of research strives to experimentally investigate the dynamics underlying language change as well as questions regarding the origin of language under controlled conditions.
Due to its success the paradigm has also been extended to investigate the emergence of new languages in psychological experiments with humans, leading up to the new paradigm of experimental semiotics.
Because the focus of the investigations lies on the conventionalisation dynamics and higher-level properties of the resulting languages rather than specific details of the conventions, artificially evolved languages are typically not documented or re-used outside the single experiment trial or simulation run in which they emerge. In fact, the limited size and short-lived nature of artificial languages are probably the only things that sets them apart from natural languages, since all languages are artificial insofar as they are conventional (see also constructed language).
Uses
Artificial languages have been used in research in developmental psycholinguistics. Because researchers have a great deal of control over artificial languages, they have used these languages in statistical language acquisition studies, in which it can be helpful to control the linguistic patterns heard by infants.
See also
Evolutionary linguistics
Language game
Language creation in artificial intelligence
Signaling game
Reference |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon%27s%20Souls | is a 2009 action role-playing game developed by FromSoftware for the PlayStation 3 under the supervision of Japan Studio. It was published in Japan by Sony Computer Entertainment in February, in North America by Atlus USA in October, and in PAL territories by Namco Bandai Partners in June 2010. The game is referred to as a spiritual successor to FromSoftware's King's Field series.
Demon's Souls is set in Boletaria, a kingdom consumed by a dark being called the Old One, following its release through the use of forbidden Soul Arts. Players take on the role of a hero brought to Boletaria to kill its fallen king Allant and pacify the Old One. Gameplay has players navigating five different worlds from a hub called the Nexus, with a heavy emphasis on challenging combat and mechanics surrounding player death and respawning. Online multiplayer allows both player cooperation and world invasions featuring player versus player combat.
The game's early development was troubled due to a lack of coherent vision. Despite such issues, FromSoftware designer Hidetaka Miyazaki was able to take over the project and helped to turn the game into what it eventually became. The game's difficulty was intended to both evoke classic video games and provide a sense of challenge and accomplishment for players. This aspect proved demanding for Miyazaki, partly because of his fear that Sony would ask the team to lower the difficulty in order to make the game more accessible.
Announced in 2008, early reactions to the Demon's Souls demo were seen as negative, and the game's high difficulty prompted Sony to pass on publishing the game outside of Japan. While the game met with middling reception and sales in Japan, it became a commercial and critical success in the West. The game was praised for its difficult combat and addictive gameplay, subsequently winning several awards. Demon's Souls introduced many of the core elements that would define the eventual Soulslike genre and it has since been cited as one of the greatest games of all time. Its success led to the development of a spiritual successor, Dark Souls (released in 2011), and a remake (released in 2020).
Gameplay
Demon's Souls is an action role-playing game where players take on the role of an adventurer, whose gender and appearance are customized at the beginning of the game, exploring the cursed land of Boletaria. Aspects of the customization impact various statistics (stats) related to gameplay. The player character is granted a starting character class, which further influences their stats, though they can be altered later in the game and effectively change a player's class combined with a different weapon choice. The world is divided into six areas; the Nexus hub world and five additional worlds subdivided into four areas which each end in a boss encounter. Combat is reliant on timing for weapon strikes and blocks, with different weapon types opening up a variety of combat options and altering the player's move |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preqin | Preqin is a privately held London-based investment data company that provides financial data and insight on the alternative assets market, as well as tools to support investment in alternatives. By the company's own definition, its data encompasses private capital and hedge funds, including fund, fund manager, investor, performance and deal information. The asset classes it covers are: private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, private debt, real estate, infrastructure, natural resources and secondaries.
History
Preqin launched as ‘Private Equity Intelligence’ in 2003. Founded by Mark O’Hare and Nick Arnott, it began by listing private equity performance data, relying on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). As the company expanded it began to collect data for more asset classes, and it now covers private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, private debt, real estate, infrastructure, natural resources and secondaries. It gets most of its data from voluntary contributions and direct contact with market participants.
In August 2021, Preqin fully acquired Colmore, a leading private markets technology, services and administration business.
Preqin won The Queen's Award for Enterprise in International Trade in 2016 and 2019, was a national winner at the 2019 European Business Awards, and was named as part of the Sunday Times International Track 200 in the same year.
Data
Preqin provides data on fundraising, investors, performance, dry powder, AUM and deal flow, as well as information on compensation, fund terms and employment. It publishes research reports that draw from its data and include contributions from alternative investment professionals, as well as Preqin subject experts. In 2018 the business launched a research report titled Women in Alternatives, which detailed underrepresentation of women in the alternative assets industry.
Preqin is headquartered in London, and has offices in numerous other international locations: Birmingham, New York City, Dallas, Singapore, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Chicago, Tokyo, Sydney, Dubai, Bangalore, Manila and Guangzhou. It has on-the-ground research teams in many of these regions, monitoring and gathering data and information on markets worldwide.
Preqin's methods of data collection include web data extraction, direct conversations with fund managers, on and offshore web research, FOIA requests and manager-initiated data contributions.
Products
Preqin Pro
Preqin Pro is a data platform that provides access to private capital and hedge fund data sets and tools. The platform provides data for application across the investment lifecycle, including market data and information on individual investors, consultants, managers, funds, transactions and service providers. These data sets are supported by tools such as target lists, saved searches, and investor news and alerts.
Preqin Solutions
Formerly Baxon Solutions, Preqin Solutions is Preqin's software product. The software allows users to monitor, ana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECCT | ECCT may refer to:
Engineering Casualty Control Training held on board ships of the United States Navy
Enhanced Computer-Controlled Teletext, an electronic circuit for Teletext |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20global%20vegetation%20model | A Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (DGVM) is a computer program that simulates shifts in potential vegetation and its associated biogeochemical and hydrological cycles as a response to shifts in climate. DGVMs use time series of climate data and, given constraints of latitude, topography, and soil characteristics, simulate monthly or daily dynamics of ecosystem processes. DGVMs are used most often to simulate the effects of future climate change on natural vegetation and its carbon and water cycles.
Model development
DGVMs generally combine biogeochemistry, biogeography, and disturbance submodels. Disturbance is often limited to wildfires, but in principle could include any of: forest/land management decisions, windthrow, insect damage, ozone damage etc. DGVMs usually "spin up" their simulations from bare ground to equilibrium vegetation (e.g. climax community) to establish realistic initial values for their various "pools": carbon and nitrogen in live and dead vegetation, soil organic matter, etc. corresponding to a documented historical vegetation cover.
DGVMs are usually run in a spatially distributed mode, with simulations carried out for thousands of "cells", geographic points which are assumed to have homogeneous conditions within each cell. Simulations are carried out across a range of spatial scales, from global to landscape. Cells are usually arranged as lattice points; the distance between adjacent lattice points may be as coarse as a few degrees of latitude or longitude, or as fine as 30 arc-seconds. Simulations of the conterminous United States in the first DGVM comparison exercise (LPJ and MC1) called the VEMAP project, in the 1990s used a lattice grain of one-half degree. Global simulations by the PIK group and collaborators, using 6 different DGVMs (HYBRID, IBIS, LPJ, SDGVM, TRIFFID, and VECODE) used the same resolution as the general circulation model (GCM) that provided the climate data, 3.75 deg longitude x 2.5 deg latitude, a total of 1631 land grid cells. Sometimes lattice distances are specified in kilometers rather than angular measure, especially for finer grains, so a project like VEMAP is often referred to as 50 km grain.
Several DGVMs appeared in the middle 1990s. The first was apparently IBIS (Foley et al., 1996), VECODE (Brovkin et al., 1997), followed by several others described below:
Groups
Several DGVMs have been developed by various research groups around the world:
LPJ – Germany, Sweden
IBIS – Integrated Biosphere Simulator – U.S.
MC1 – U.S.
HYBRID – U.K.
SDGVM – U.K.
SEIB-DGVM – Japan
TRIFFID – U.K.
VECODE – Germany
CLM-DVGM – U.S.
Ecosystem Demography (ED, ED2)
VEGAS – U.S.
The next generation of models – Earth system models (ex. CCSM, ORCHIDEE, JULES, CTEM ) – now includes the important feedbacks from the biosphere to the atmosphere so that vegetation shifts and changes in the carbon and hydrological cycles affect the climate.
DGVMs commonly simulate a variety of plant and soil phy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future%20of%20Privacy%20Forum | The Future of Privacy Forum is a Washington DC based think tank and advocacy group focused on issues of data privacy. It is jointly supported by corporate sponsors and foundations.
Corporate members include AT&T, Comcast, Facebook, Google, Intelius and Microsoft, while foundation supporters include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, National Science Foundation, and Digital Trust Foundation. The organization is run by Jules Polonetsky, the former chief privacy officer for AOL and Doubleclick. The founder and co-chair is Christopher Wolf, a lawyer who leads the privacy group at the law firm of Hogan Lovells. The advisory board includes representatives of LinkeIn, IAPP, Dell, Facebook, Microsoft, WalMart, ViacomCBS, T-Mobile, SAP, LiveRamp, Reddit, eBay or Uber.
In 2015, the Future of Privacy Forum announced Washington and Lee University School of Law as its academic partner.
Polonetsky is also on the advisory board of the Center for Copyright Information, the industry-run organization in charge of the "6 strikes" graduated response system for copyright infringement.
References
External links
Future of Privacy Forum at fpf.org
Privacy organizations
Politics and technology
Privacy in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDOS | FDOS may refer to:
Floppy Disk Operating System, a term sometimes used to describe early floppy-based disk operating systems such as CP/M
FDOS, the part of the Basic Disk Operating System (BDOS) implementing the filesystem in Digital Research operating systems such as the CP/M and DR-DOS families
FreeDOS, a free disk operating system
FDOS, First Day of Service
See also
DOS (disambiguation)
FOS (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph%20dynamical%20system | In mathematics, the concept of graph dynamical systems can be used to capture a wide range of processes taking place on graphs or networks. A major theme in the mathematical and computational analysis of GDSs is to relate their structural properties (e.g. the network connectivity) and the global dynamics that result.
The work on GDSs considers finite graphs and finite state spaces. As such, the research typically involves techniques from, e.g., graph theory, combinatorics, algebra, and dynamical systems rather than differential geometry. In principle, one could define and study GDSs over an infinite graph (e.g. cellular automata or probabilistic cellular automata over or interacting particle systems when some randomness is included), as well as GDSs with infinite state space (e.g. as in coupled map lattices); see, for example, Wu. In the following, everything is implicitly assumed to be finite unless stated otherwise.
Formal definition
A graph dynamical system is constructed from the following components:
A finite graph Y with vertex set v[Y] = {1,2, ... , n}. Depending on the context the graph can be directed or undirected.
A state xv for each vertex v of Y taken from a finite set K. The system state is the n-tuple x = (x1, x2, ... , xn), and x[v] is the tuple consisting of the states associated to the vertices in the 1-neighborhood of v in Y (in some fixed order).
A vertex function fv for each vertex v. The vertex function maps the state of vertex v at time t to the vertex state at time t + 1 based on the states associated to the 1-neighborhood of v in Y.
An update scheme specifying the mechanism by which the mapping of individual vertex states is carried out so as to induce a discrete dynamical system with map F: Kn → Kn.
The phase space associated to a dynamical system with map F: Kn → Kn is the finite directed graph with vertex set Kn and directed edges (x, F(x)). The structure of the phase space is governed by the properties of the graph Y, the vertex functions (fi)i, and the update scheme. The research in this area seeks to infer phase space properties based on the structure of the system constituents. The analysis has a local-to-global character.
Generalized cellular automata (GCA)
If, for example, the update scheme consists of applying the vertex functions synchronously one obtains the class of generalized cellular automata (CA). In this case, the global map F: Kn → Kn is given by
This class is referred to as generalized cellular automata since the classical or standard cellular automata are typically defined and studied over regular graphs or grids, and the vertex functions are typically assumed to be identical.
Example: Let Y be the circle graph on vertices {1,2,3,4} with edges {1,2}, {2,3}, {3,4} and {1,4}, denoted Circ4. Let K = {0,1} be the state space for each vertex and use the function nor3 : K3 → K defined by nor3(x,y,z) = (1 + x)(1 + y)(1 + z) with arithmetic modulo 2 for all vertex functions. Then for example t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10G-EPON | The 10 Gbit/s Ethernet Passive Optical Network standard, better known as 10G-EPON allows computer network connections over telecommunication provider infrastructure. The standard supports two configurations: symmetric, operating at 10 Gbit/s data rate in both directions, and asymmetric, operating at 10 Gbit/s in the downstream (provider to customer) direction and 1 Gbit/s in the upstream direction. It was ratified as IEEE 802.3av standard in 2009. EPON is a type of passive optical network, which is a point-to-multipoint network using passive fiber-optic splitters rather than powered devices for fan-out from hub to customers.
Standardization
The Ethernet in the first mile task force of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.3 standards committee published standards that included a passive optical network (PON) variant in 2004.
In March 2006, the IEEE 802.3 held a call for interest for a 10 Gbit/s Ethernet PON study group. According to the CFI materials, representatives from the following companies supported the formation of the study group:
Advance/Newhouse Communications, Aeluros, Agilent, Allied Telesyn, Alloptic, Ample Communications, Astar-ODSM, Broadcom, Centillium Communications, China Netcom, China Telecom, Chunghwa Telecom, Cisco Systems, ClariPhy Communications, Conexant Systems, Corecess, Corning, Delta Electronics, ETRI, Fiberxon, FOTEK Optoelectronics, ImmenStar, Infinera, ITRI, KDDI R&D Labs., K-Opticom, Korea Telecom, NEC, OpNext, Picolight, Quake Technologies, Salira Systems, Samsung Electronics, Softbank BB, Teknovus, Teranetics, Texas Instruments, Telecom Malaysia, TranSwitch, UNH-IOL, UTStarcom, Vitesse.
By September 2006, IEEE 802.3 formed the 802.3av 10G-EPON Task Force to produce a draft standard. In September 2009, the IEEE 802 Plenary ratified an amendment to 802.3 to publish 802.3av amendment as the standard IEEE Std 802.3av-2009.
Major milestones:
The work on the 10G-EPON was continued by the IEEE P802.3bk Extended EPON Task Force, formed in March 2012. The major goals for this Task Force included adding support for PX30, PX40, PRX40, and PR40 power budget classes to both 1G-EPON and 10G-EPON. The 802.3bk amendment was approved by the IEEE-SA SB in August 2013 and published soon thereafter as the standard IEEE Std 802.3bk-2013. On June 4, 2020, the IEEE approved IEEE 802.3ca, which allows for symmetric or asymmetric operation with downstream speeds of 25 Gbit/s or 50 Gbit/s, and upstream speeds of 10 Gbit/s, 25 Gbit/s, or 50 Gbit/s over the same power-distance-splitter budgets.
Architecture
Symmetric (10/10G-EPON)
Symmetric-rate 10/10G-EPON supports both transmit and receive data paths operating at 10 Gbit/s. The main driver for 10/10G-EPON was to provide adequate downstream and upstream bandwidth to support multi-family residential building (known in the standard as Multi Dwelling Unit or MDU) customers. When deployed in the MDU configuration, one EPON Optical Network Unit (ONU) may be c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade%20Commissioner%20Service | Part of Global Affairs Canada, the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service (TCS) is a network of more than 1000 trade professionals working in Canadian embassies, high commissions, and consulates located in 161 cities around the world and with offices across Canada.
Role
The Trade Commissioner Services (TCS) assists companies in various aspects of international business, including exporting, foreign investment, attracting investment, and establishing innovation and research and development partnerships. Their primary objective is to support Canadian companies in expanding their operations overseas.
Services for Canadian businesses
The Canadian Trade Commissioner Service offers four key services which are designed to support the growth of Canadian companies internationally.
The four key services are:
Preparing Canadian companies for international markets
Providing an assessment of the company's potential in a target market through the use of market intelligence and providing advice on market strategies
Finding qualified contacts
Resolving problems and business challenges
Services for non-Canadian businesses
Global Affairs Canada (formerly the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade) also offers assistance to foreign companies interested in doing business in Canada. The Invest in Canada bureau is tasked with promoting, attracting and retaining foreign direct investment in Canada.
History
Created in 1894, the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service (TCS) has 125 years of experience helping Canadian companies succeed in foreign markets by promoting the economic interests of Canada in the global marketplace.
Since Canada's first Trade Commissioner's posting to Australia in 1895, the role of the TCS has become increasingly critical and of higher value within an ever evolving global economy. Canada's active and successful participation in the global economy impacts all Canadians. Consider that a fifth of all jobs in this country are directly linked to international trade and half of what we manufacture in Canada is exported.
See also
Minister of International Trade (Canada) (1983 – present)
List of Canadian diplomats
Canadexport - e-magazine of the Trade Commissioner Service
References
External links
Website: Business Women in International Trade
Federal departments and agencies of Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%20Cuba | Larry Cuba (born 1950) is a computer-animation artist who became active in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Born in 1950 in Atlanta, Georgia, he received A.B. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1972 and his Master's Degree from California Institute of the Arts which includes parallel schools of Dance, Music, Film, Theater, Fine Arts, and Writing. The Cal Arts faculty included abstract animator Jules Engel, Expanded Cinema critic Gene Youngblood, and special effects artist Pat O'Neill.
In 1975, John Whitney, Sr. invited Cuba to be the programmer on one of his films. The result of this collaboration was Arabesque. Subsequently, Cuba produced three more computer-animated films: 3/78 (Objects and Transformations), Two Space, and Calculated Movements. Cuba also provided computer graphics for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope in 1977. His animation of the Death Star is shown to pilots in the Rebel Alliance.
Cuba received grants for his work from the American Film Institute and The National Endowment for the Arts and was awarded a residency at the Center for Art and Media Technology Karlsruhe (ZKM). He has served on the juries for the Siggraph Electronic Theater, the Montpellier Festival of Abstract Film, The Ann Arbor Film Festival and Ars Electronica.
Cuba currently serves as the director of the iotaCenter in Los Angeles, California.
Death Star sequence
Cuba used a Vector General 3D connected to a PDP-11/45 computer to make the computer animations shown during the briefing scene near the end of the film Star Wars.
George Lucas wanted to use computer animation to show the Death Star blueprints during this scene. He asked Ben Burtt, the film's sound designer, to get bids on the project. Cuba won the contract after he showed Lucas footage from his 1974 short film First Fig and mentioned that he had recently worked with famed animator John Whitney Sr.
Cuba produced the sequences using the GRASS programming language at the University of Illinois, Chicago's Circle Graphics Habitat. There are two main sequences in the resulting animation. The first shows the Death Star as a whole, while the second shows a series of views of the flight down the equatorial trench. The final few seconds of the animation, showing the proton torpedo flying into the Death Star's reactor core, were drawn by hand to look similar to the computer footage and added six months later.
The first part of the animation, showing the exterior of the Death Star, was created programmatically. Working from an early matte painting, GRASS's internal system for creating arcs and circles was used to produce the drawing. The 3D terminal's own transformation system was then used to automatically zoom into the image and rotate it on the display. The image was copied to film frame-by-frame using a Mitchell Camera whose motor was stepped by wiring it to one of the terminal's register-controlled indicator lamps. The sequence was filmed by having the GRASS program send new values to the zoom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idol%20series%20in%20the%20Philippines | The Philippines had three adaptations of the singing competition Pop Idol under three different titles and on three different networks:
Philippine Idol, which aired in 2006 on ABC 5 (now TV5)
Pinoy Idol, which aired in 2008 on GMA 7
Idol Philippines, produced by ABS-CBN Entertainment
2019 Idol Philippines (season 1)
2022 Idol Philippines (season 2)
See also
1DOL, a 2010 Filipino TV drama on ABS-CBN
Philippines
Television series by Fremantle (company) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idol%20%28Croatian%20TV%20series%29 | Croatia has had two adaptations of the singing competition Pop Idol under two different titles and on two different networks:
Hrvatski Idol, which was aired from 2004–2005 on Nova TV
Hrvatska traži zvijezdu, which premiered February 22, 2009 on RTL
Idols (franchise)
Television series by Fremantle (company) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%20%E2%80%93%20A%20Mathemagical%20Adventure | L – A Mathemagical Adventure is an educational adventure game that was created for the BBC/Acorn class of computers in 1984. It was written by members of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics and found its way into school computers, predominantly in the UK. The game is controlled by a contemporaneous two-word input system in the form of "<verb> <noun>", e.g. "get book", and includes several mathematical and logical puzzles. The target audience for L is mid-late primary (elementary) school children, and the puzzles are based on this level of critical thinking.
Introduction text
It is a very hot day. You are sitting on the grass outside a crumbling palace. Your sister is reading a book called "Fractions and the Four Rules - 5000 Carefully Graded Problems". You are bored and the heat is making you feel a little sleepy. Suddenly you see an old man dressed as an abbot. He glances at you nervously and disappears through a small door in the side of the palace.
Memorable characters/puzzles
The recommended usage of L was for a class of students (or smaller groups) to attempt solving the various puzzles in the game in short pieces over the course of a semester, year or similarly protracted time and is hence somewhat difficult to remember.
Drogo Robot Guard - These appear somewhat randomly at different times during the game and attempt to capture the player. It is possible to evade capture (a small puzzle in itself), and avoid being taken to the attic.
Runia - It is possible to solve the game by completing most of the puzzles, but a full solution includes rescuing Runia, a princess who is imprisoned within the game.
Three Blind Mice - One of the puzzles is a musical puzzle, where you have to play the correct tune on a piano in order to obtain a special item.
Use and reception
L has been extensively cited as a tool to help children learn spatial reasoning by scholars. A book on the BBC Micro noted that L integrated math concepts into the characters and story instead of just simply displaying sums. A UK teaching guide in 2010 said that L was an "old, excellent example of a well-thought-out, text-based mathematical game" that was "is worth buying a copy for yourself." One higher education teaching book noted that the game was an excellent example of "a mathematical game, not explicitly about skills practice" in a positive note. The game was featured in a 1993 fair to help make parents more maths literate with their children in St Neots.
References
External links
L - a walkthrough
L - video playthrough
L at the Classic Adventures Solution Archive
L at the Interactive Fiction Database
Mathematical education video games
Children's educational video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided%20lean%20management | Computer-aided lean management, in business management, is a methodology of developing and using software-controlled, lean systems integration. Its goal is to drive innovation towards cost and cycle-time savings. It attempts to create an efficient use of capital and resources through the development and use of one integrated system model to run a business's planning, engineering, design, maintenance, and operations.
Overview
Computer-Aided Lean Management (CALM) is a management philosophy that uses computational software to reduce risk and inefficiencies. CALM acts on uncertainties and business inefficiencies to increase profitability through the use of computational decision-making tools that enable opportunities for additional value creation. It is based on the application of software to enable continuous improvement through an Integrated System Model (ISM) of the business’s physical assets, business processes, and machine learning. This unique integration of software applications using lean principles was developed in the aerospace industry and has migrated to the energy industry.
The creation of an integrated system model removes the barriers posed by the silos or stovepipes inherent in the departmentalization of most companies. Integration enables lean uses of information for the creation of actionable knowledge. CALM strives to create such a lean management approach to running the company through the rigors of software enforcement. From this software enforcement comes clear policy and procedures that are adhered to, activity-based costing, measurement of effectiveness, and the capability of using advanced algorithms for dramatic improvements in optimization of resources. CALM creates business capabilities through software to enable technology application, streamlining of processes, and a lean organizational structure. The methodology is based on a commonsense approach for running a business, by measuring of actions taken and using those measurements to design improved processes in order to drive out inefficiencies.
History
CALM was inspired by lean processes and techniques that were already dominant management technologies with a wide diversity of applications and successes. Motorola and General Electric (GE) had been known for the concepts of Six Sigma; Boeing had been managing mass (using modular and flexible assembly options), and Toyota put it all together into a truly lean business through its Toyota Production System. Boeing in turn took the Toyota model and added computer-aided enforcement of lean methodologies throughout the manufacturing process.
One of the major sources for CALM's outgrowth was integrated definition (IDEF) modeling in aerospace manufacturing that was pioneered by the U.S. Air Force in the 1970s. IDEF is a methodology designed to model the end-to-end decisions, actions, and activities of an organization or system so that costs, performance, and cycle times can be optimized. IDEF methods have been |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live%20by%20Request%20%28Kenny%20Rogers%20album%29 | Live by Request is a live CD released in 2003 by Kenny Rogers. It documents an installment of A&E Network's Live by Request series.
Ray Waddell of Billboard gave the album a positive review, saying that it was "a fitting overview of a sturdy artist and still vibrant career." A review by Michael D. Clark of the Houston Chronicle was less positive, praising the song choices but criticizing the "decision not to omit most of the between-song TV chatter", ultimately rating the album a "C−".
Track listing
Welcome – "Islands in the Stream" – 3:08
Official Welcome – Request
"Daytime Friends" – 2:57
Request
"She Believes in Me" – 4:16
Request
"Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town" – 2:22
Request
"Love Will Turn You Around" – 3:09
Request
"The Greatest" – 2:45
Request
"Love or Something Like It" – 2:53
Request
"Through the Years" – 2:06
Request
"Lucille" – 3:47
Request
"Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer" – 3:53
Request
"Coward of the County" – 2:35
Request
"Lady" – 3:44
Request
"Crazy" – 3:24
Request
"The Gambler" – 3:20
Request
"You Decorated My Life" – 3:29
Closing – Intro to Finale
"Slow Dance More" – 2:58
Charts
The album entered the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and peaked at number 68.
References
Kenny Rogers albums
2003 live albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart%20Gets%20a%20%27Z%27 | "Bart Gets a 'Z" is the second episode of the twenty-first season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 4, 2009.
In the episode, the fourth grade students of Springfield Elementary School decide to spike Edna Krabappel's coffee in order to teach her a lesson after she takes away their cell phones. She is fired by Principal Skinner, who hires a new teacher named Zachary Vaughn. Although Vaughn is a hip young teacher who impresses the students, Bart is plagued by guilt and tries to get Edna hired back.
In its original airing, the episode had an estimated 9.32 million viewers and received a Nielsen rating of 5.1/8. The episode was written by Matt Selman, and directed by Mark Kirkland.
Plot
Edna Krabappel's positive attitude is crushed when she sees her students distracted from class by their cell phones, so she takes the devices away and puts them in the drawer with the biology frogs. This angers Bart and the other children, and Edna fails to stimulate their learning via other methods. The kids decide that Edna needs to "chill out" once in a while, and Bart understands that Homer is goofy and easy-going once he has had a few beers, so the students decide to spike Edna's coffee with liquor they steal from their parents. The next day, once she has consumed a mug of heavily spiked coffee, with sly encouragement from the kids, Edna becomes very intoxicated. She sings a loud, off-key, incoherent version of "This Old Man" with her students, and ends up hitting on Dewey Largo and disrupting an assembly bidding farewell to foreign exchange students.
Principal Skinner is reluctantly forced to fire Edna, and replaces her with a hip recent graduate of Tufts University named Zachary Vaughn. The students are immediately impressed with Zack, as he returns their cell phones and instructs them to use their electronic devices for classwork; his first assignment to them is “Twenty minutes of Twittering”. Bart raves to his mother about how much fun it is to have Zack as a teacher, but Marge worries about Edna's well-being, and Lisa doubts Zack's ability to teach. Bart goes to visit Edna and is stricken with guilt when he sees her moping in front of the television, and plots to get her rehired. He meets with Milhouse meet at a bookstore (where Moe is revealed to be a fan of Doris Kearns Goodwin), where they buy a self-help book entitled The Answer (a spoof of The Secret), which professes to have all the answers to help someone achieve their dreams. Edna is initially skeptical, but reveals her dream is to open a muffin shop. Using the book, she successfully opens a muffin shop that attracts several Springfielders including Ned Flanders. However, when Bart inadvertently confesses that he had the idea to spike her coffee with alcohol and therefore is responsible for getting her fired, Edna is furious and tells him that her real dream was to be a teacher, and is now facing heavy d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceflight%20IC-1 | Spaceflight IC-1: An Adventure in Space is a 1965 British science-fiction movie starring Bill Williams and Norma West. The civilized world is controlled by an all-powerful computerized government that is carefully choosing colonists for its newest space launch. The candidates are selected on the basis of their age, health and IQ.
The director was Bernard Knowles and the writer was Harry Spalding working under the name "Henry Cross".
Plot summary
In the year 2015, spaceship IC-1 (Interstellar Colony #1) travels toward a planet similar to Earth to explore the possibility that the population problem on Earth can eventually be solved there. IC-1's crew consists of Capt. Mead Ralston (Bill Williams), his wife Jan (Norma West), Drs. Steven (John Cairney) and Helen Thomas (Linda Marlowe), two other married couples, and four people in suspended animation. One year into the voyage, Helen is found to have a fatal pancreatic infection that can only be cured if the ship returns to Earth, but Captain Ralston refuses to turn back; and when he denies her permission to have another child, she commits suicide.
Steven and some of the other crew members mutiny and imprison Captain Ralston. When Capt. Ralston escapes, he forces the crew to obey him by threatening to destroy the ship. Ralston plans to execute Steven. Ignoring the warnings of the crew, he releases one of the "animates" by raising the temperature of the compartment in which it is suspended, and the "animate" kills him before dying of complications caused by the thawing out process. The ship goes on under Steven's leadership.
Cast
Bill Williams as Capt. Mead Ralston
Norma West as Jan Ralston
John Cairney as Dr. Steven Thomas
Jeremy Longhurst as John Saunders, Chief Engineer
Donald Churchill as Carl Wolcott
Kathleen Breck as Kate Saunders
Margo McLennan as Joyce Wolcott (as Margo Mayne)
Linda Marlowe as Dr. Helen Thomas
John Lee as Dr. Garth
Andrew Downie as Capt. Burnett (Spacestation)
Mark Lester as Don Saunders
Stuart Middleton as Michael Thomas
Anthony Honour as Robert Wolcott
Tony Doonan as Dr. Griffith
Chuck Julian as Webster
Production
The film was shot in England at Shepperton Studios. It was one of several films that Robert L. Lippert made with Jack Parsons in England. Writer Harry Spalding says the film was inspired by space exploration at the time. "There was a lot of talk back then that if people were ever having to go to fly to Mars they'd have to be frozen for the trip and revived when they got there."
References
External links
Spaceflight IC-1 at the British Film Institute
1965 films
British space adventure films
1960s science fiction films
British science fiction films
20th Century Fox films
British black-and-white films
Films about astronauts
Films scored by Elisabeth Lutyens
Films set in the future
Films set in 2015
1960s English-language films
1960s British films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical%20grid | An electrical grid is an interconnected network for electricity delivery from producers to consumers. Electrical grids vary in size and can cover whole countries or continents. It consists of:
power stations: often located near energy and away from heavily populated areas
electrical substations to step voltage up or down
electric power transmission to carry power long distances
electric power distribution to individual customers, where voltage is stepped down again to the required service voltage(s).
Grids are nearly always synchronous, meaning all distribution areas operate with three phase alternating current (AC) frequencies synchronized (so that voltage swings occur at almost the same time). This allows transmission of AC power throughout the area, connecting a large number of electricity generators and consumers and potentially enabling more efficient electricity markets and redundant generation.
The combined transmission and distribution network is part of electricity delivery, known as the "power grid" in North America, or just "the grid." In the United Kingdom, India, Tanzania, Myanmar, Malaysia and New Zealand, the network is known as the National Grid.
Although electrical grids are widespread, , 1.4 billion people worldwide were not connected to an electricity grid. As electrification increases, the number of people with access to grid electricity is growing. About 840 million people (mostly in Africa) had no access to grid electricity in 2017, down from 1.2 billion in 2010.
Electrical grids can be prone to malicious intrusion or attack; thus, there is a need for electric grid security. Also as electric grids modernize and introduce computer technology, cyber threats start to become a security risk. Particular concerns relate to the more complex computer systems needed to manage grids.
History
Early electric energy was produced near the device or service requiring that energy. In the 1880s, electricity competed with steam, hydraulics, and especially coal gas. Coal gas was first produced on customer's premises but later evolved into gasification plants that enjoyed economies of scale. In the industrialized world, cities had networks of piped gas, used for lighting. But gas lamps produced poor light, wasted heat, made rooms hot and smokey, and gave off hydrogen and carbon monoxide. They also posed a fire hazard. In the 1880s electric lighting soon became advantageous compared to gas lighting.
Electric utility companies established central stations to take advantage of economies of scale and moved to centralized power generation, distribution, and system management. After the war of the currents was settled in favor of AC power, with long-distance power transmission it became possible to interconnect stations to balance the loads and improve load factors. Historically, transmission and distribution lines were owned by the same company, but starting in the 1990s, many countries have liberalized the regulation of the electricity m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20presence%20theory | Social presence theory explores how the "sense of being with another" is influenced by digital interfaces in human-computer interactions. Developed from the foundations of interpersonal communication and symbolic interactionism, social presence theory was first formally introduced by John Short, Ederyn Williams, and Bruce Christie in The Social Psychology of Telecommunications. Research on social presence theory has recently developed to examine the efficacy of telecommunications media, including SNS communications. The theory notes that computer-based communication is lower in social presence than face-to-face communication, but different computer-based communications can affect the levels of social presence between communicators and receivers.
Origins
The concept of social presence originated from Morton Wiener and Albert Mehrabian's study of immediacy and Michael Argyle and Janet Dean's concept of intimacy. Wiener and Mehrabian identified immediacy as nonverbal communication behaviors such as eye contact and body movements that can enhance closeness in interactions. Argyle and Dean noted intimacy as a combination of eye contact, physical proximity, and smiling.
The U.K.'s post office first funded Short et al.'s work in an attempt to observe customer's attitudes towards different media channels.
Social Presence Theory is defined by the different apparent physical proximities produced by various media, the two more popular media being face-to-face communication and online interaction. Social presence is measured by the ability to project physical and emotional presence and experience it from others in interactions. Effective communication is measured by the parties' interpersonal involvement while considering the constraints of the communication medium used.
Definitions of social presence are inconsistent, as scholars attempt to pinpoint what the phenomenon encompasses, and how it can be adapted as new media of interpersonal communication arise. Social Presence in recent years has been defined as the feeling of community a learner experiences in an online environment. We have developed multiple non-verbal intimacy behaviors in the online community that enhance our relationships with people when we communicate in a medium where there is no real-life contact.
Additional Research
Patrick R. Lowenthal noted that concepts of social presence fall on a spectrum between users' perceptions of a person being real or "being there" and whether two communicators experience positive interpersonal and emotional connections between each other. Lowenthal believes that most researchers tend to fall somewhere on the spectrum between those two perceptions.
Other research has defined social presence as the awareness of others in an interaction, combined with an appreciation of the interpersonal aspects of that interaction. In 1995, Gunawardena argued that social presence varied with perception and was a subjective issue based upon objective qualities. We a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africover | Africover is a United Nations project which collects and collates geographical information on Africa using satellites. It gathers data on areas such as land usage, climate conditions and it also locates natural resources. One major usage of this system has been to provide flood warnings to governments and NGOs, who then pass the information onto farmers.
References
External links
Africover
Geography of Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television%20in%20Moldova | Television in Moldova was introduced in 1958.
The following is a list of television channels broadcast in Moldova.
National
Moldova 1 (state owned) – 1st national network
Moldova 2 (state owned) – 2nd national network
Canal 2 retransmits programmes of, formerly: Antena Internațional and Antena 1 (Romania), now: TVR 1 (Romania) – 3rd national network
Prime retransmits programmes of Channel One (ORT) (Russia) – 4th national network
Gagauz Radyo Televiziyonu retransmits programmes of TRT Avaz (Turkey).
Transnistria 1 is the only channel in Transnistria transmitting programmes in Russian, Ukrainian and Romanian (using Cyrillic script).
Regional
Canal 3 (semi-national)
Naţional 4 (semi-national)
Pervyi Pridnestrovsky (Transnistria)
ProTV Chișinău (national), retransmits programmes of Pro TV (Romania)
Publika TV (semi-national)
STS Mega (semi-national), retransmits programmes of STS (Russia)
Super TV (semi-national), retransmits programmes of SET (Russia)
TSV (TV channel) (Transnistria)
TV Gagauzia (Gagauzia), retransmits programmes of TRT Avaz (Turkey)
TV Pink (Moldova) (semi-national) (coming soon)
TVR Moldova (national), retransmits programmes of the Romanian Television channels
TV8 (Moldova) (Chișinău and Bălți), retransmits programmes of NTV (Russia)
Realitatea TV (semi-national)
Local
Albasat TV (Nisporeni), retransmits programmes of Jurnal TV
Art TV (Zubresti), retransmits programmes of 1 Music Channel (Romania)
ATV (Comrat), retransmits programmes of TVC21
Bas TV (Basarabeasca), retransmits programmes of Mir (Russia)
BTV (Bendery TV) (Tighina)
Canal X (Briceni), retransmits programmes of TV Moldova International
Drochia TV (Drochia), retransmits programmes of Jurnal TV
Elita TV (Rezina, Orhei and Dubasari), retransmits programmes of Jurnal TV
Eni Ay (Comrat), retransmits programmes of Mir (Russia)
Euronova TV (Ungheni), retransmits programmes of Jurnal TV
Impuls TV (Şoldăneşti), retransmits programmes of TV Moldova International
Media TV (Cimişlia), retransmits programmes of Jurnal TV
NTS (Taraclia), retransmits programmes of Mir (Russia)
Rossiya-24 (Rîbnița), relay of television channel from Russia
RTR Planeta (Slobozia), retransmits programmes of Rossiya 1 (Russia)
Sor TV (Soroca)
Studio L (Căuşeni), retransmits programmes of Jurnal TV
TV Balti (Bălți)
TV Prim (Glodeni)
TV5 France (Chișinău), relay of television channel from France
TV6 Balti (Bălți), retransmits programmes of STS Mega
Cable and digital terrestrial channels
Accent TV ¶
Alt TV
Jurnal TV
Noroc TV
Perviy Kanal (Transnistria), retransmits programmes of Channel One (Russia)
RTR Moldova ¶ , retransmits programmes of Russia-1 (Russia)
NTV Moldova ¶ , retransmits programmes of NTV (Russia)
RU TV Moldova ¶ , retransmits programmes of RU.TV (Russia)
TVC21
¶ licence revoked December 2022
Defunct
Muz-TV Moldova (semi-national), retransmitted programmes of Muz-TV (Russia)
TV Moldova Internațional (state owned)
See also
Media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brushing%20and%20linking | In databases, brushing and linking is the connection of two or more views of the same data, such that a change to the representation in one view affects the representation in the other. Brushing and linking is also an important technique in interactive visual analysis, a method for performing visual exploration and analysis of large, structured data sets.
Specifically, linking consists of a change of parameters (for example a data filter) in one data representation being reflected in other connected data representations. Brushing may, for example, highlight the selected data from one view in other connected data representations.
One example might be a two-part display, consisting of a histogram alongside a list of document titles. The histogram could show how many documents were published each month. Brushing and linking would allow the user to assign a color, green for instance, to one bar of the histogram, thus causing the titles in the list display that were published during the corresponding month to also be highlighted in green.
History
The technique and name 'brushing' were introduced in the 1980s by Richard A. Becker and William S. Cleveland.
See also
Focus-plus-context screen
Interactive visual analysis
References
Data visualization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brushing | Brushing may refer to:
Tooth brushing, personal hygiene
Hair brushing, personal grooming
Wire brushing, abrasive tool technique
Brushing, in horse grooming
Brushing and linking, in data visualization
Endobronchial brushing, tissue sampling in bronchoscopy
Brushing (e-commerce), a scamming technique |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20National%20Byway | The National Byway is a signposted cycling route round England and parts of Scotland and Wales. It runs along quiet roads, rather than a mixture of roads and tracks like the National Cycle Network, making it more appropriate for road bikes. The route is managed by the registered charity "The National Byway", with Patron Viscount Linley and President Lord Foster of Thames Bank. Cycling Britain describes the route as offering "over 4000 miles of safe and easy-to-follow signposted cycle routes around the UK."
Maps are available from the National Byway web site and Sustrans.
The National Byway has received over one million pounds of funding for various projects from the Landfill Tax Credit Scheme.
References
Cycleways in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti%20M24 | The Olivetti M24 is a computer that was sold by Olivetti in 1983 using the Intel 8086 CPU.
The system was sold in the United States under its original name by Docutel/Olivetti of Dallas. AT&T and Xerox bought rights to rebadge the system as the AT&T PC 6300 and the Xerox 6060 series, respectively. (AT&T owned 25% of Olivetti around this time.) The AT&T 6300, launched in June 1984, was AT&T's first attempt to compete in the PC compatible market.
It was also available in France as the PERSONA 1600, built by LogAbax.
Versions
The initial 1984 US version named AT&T 6300 came with either one or two 360 KB 5.25" floppy drives; a hard disk was not offered.
In Europe, Olivetti launched a 10 MHz version: the Olivetti M24 SP, announced in November 1985, a contender for the title of "highest clocked 8086 computer" as its processor was the fastest grade of 8086-2, rated for a maximum speed of exactly the same 10 MHz. To support this, the motherboard now featured a switchable 24/30 MHz master crystal, still divided by 3 to produce the 33% duty CPU clock, with an additional 4 MHz crystal to maintain that clock signal for peripherals that required it, and the video board receiving its own 24 MHz crystal to maintain the same image size and scan frequencies at both processor speeds.
In October 1985, AT&T launched the 6300 Plus that used a 6 MHz 286 microprocessor in the same case as the 6300. Prior to release, this machine had been referred to as the 8300 and codenamed "Safari 5" (PC 7300 was "Safari 4"). On the hardware level, this machine was criticized by an InfoWorld reviewer for being incompatible with AT cards. On the other hand, AT&T sold a package of the 6300 Plus bundled with Simultask, which ran MS-DOS and UNIX System V simultaneously, at a cost—with all software licenses included—on par with the IBM PC/AT with MS-DOS alone. A review in PC Magazine declared that AT&T's 6300 Plus was "flat out the better machine" compared to the IBM PC/AT.
The version of Simultask included with the 6300 Plus was based on Locus Computing Corporation's Merge software. In order to allow MS-DOS applications to run as "concurrent UNIX tasks", a non-standard hardware unit known as OS Merge was provided, allowing DOS applications to "think" that they had "complete control over the system" and offering "almost complete compatibility with IBM PC software", with a reported performance penalty when running applications such as Microsoft Flight Simulator of around 15 percent. Such additional hardware was necessary to support these virtualisation features due to the limitations of the 80286. The PC 6300 Plus shipped with MS-DOS in 1985 though, because its Unix System V distribution would not be ready until the end of March 1986. The 6300 Plus did not sell as well as the original 6300. Forrester Research estimated in December 1986 that AT&T's financial losses in PC market were about $600M for the year.
In 1986, AT&T began offering 3.5" 720 KB floppies and 20 MB hard disks. The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%203767 | IBM 3767 Communication Terminal is a serial printer terminal that employed dot matrix print-head technology and, for the first time, the Synchronous Data Link Control (SDLC) communications protocol set under IBM's Systems Network Architecture (SNA). It was introduced in 1974 and was used widely during the late 1970s to 1990s, for attachment to IBM System/360 and System/370 mainframe computers and IBM System/7 as an alternative to a 2741 typewriter terminal.
Needs for more efficient computer terminals
During the late 1960 and 1970s, the computing environment expanded beyond the large computer rooms based on card input/output and started to allow data input and output terminals from remote locations. For such purposes, printer terminals such as the IBM 2741, using the traditional asynchronous serial communication (start-stop signaling), and display terminals such as IBM 2260 and IBM 3270, using the new communications protocol set (Binary Synchronous Communications or BSC), became available.
There were needs to use a new more efficient communications protocol set and to make available a more efficient and reliable remote printer and display terminals. To satisfy such needs, IBM 3767 serial printer and IBM 3770 communications system (including a line printer) became available as part of the "Advanced Communications Function" (ACF) announcement which included the new System Network Architecture (SNA) and Synchronous Data Link Control (SDLC) communications protocol set, followed by another announcement in July, 1975, which included IBM 3760 Data Entry Station and the new models of IBM 3270 display stations, and IBM 3790 communication system.
3767 functions, features and models
IBM 3767 Communication Terminal had the following functions:
IBM's own wire matrix, serial print-head technology
Keyboard
Communications: SNA/SDLC or BSC
Communications speed from 200/300 to 19,200 bits per second
US English or one of the world's other major languages
There were several models depending on the following features:
80 or 120 printing positions
With or without internal modem
They attach to IBM System/360 or IBM System/370 mainframe computers through IBM 3705 communications controllers, and supported by 3705 Network Control Program and mainframe software such as CICS and IMS.
IBM 3767 was developed by IBM Systems Development Division's Fujisawa (later Yamato) laboratory in Japan. It was manufactured at IBM Research Triangle Park plant in North Carolina, United States, Fujisawa plant, and Greenock, Scotland, plant in UK.
The IBM 3760 Data Entry Station was announced in 1975, and included the IBM 3767 as an attached terminal. The 3760 was part of the IBM 3790 distributed processing family.
See also
IBM System/360 and System/370
IBM 2741
IBM 3770
IBM 3270
Systems Network Architecture (SNA) and Binary Synchronous Communications (BSC)
IBM SYSTEM/7
References
IBM 3767 Communication Terminal Operator's Guide (IBM System Reference Library manual |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDynaMix | Molecular Dynamics of Mixtures (MDynaMix) is a computer software package for general purpose molecular dynamics to simulate mixtures of molecules, interacting by AMBER- and CHARMM-like force fields in periodic boundary conditions.
Algorithms are included for NVE, NVT, NPT, anisotropic NPT ensembles, and Ewald summation to treat electrostatic interactions.
The code was written in a mix of Fortran 77 and 90 (with Message Passing Interface (MPI) for parallel execution). The package runs on Unix and Unix-like (Linux) workstations, clusters of workstations, and on Windows in sequential mode.
MDynaMix is developed at the Division of Physical Chemistry, Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, Sweden. It is released as open-source software under a GNU General Public License (GPL).
Programs
md is the main MDynaMix block
makemol is a utility which provides help to create files describing molecular structure and the force field
tranal is a suite of utilities to analyze trajectories
mdee is a version of the program which implements expanded ensemble method to compute free energy and chemical potential (is not parallelized)
mge provides a graphical user interface to construct molecular models and monitor dynamics process
Field of application
Thermodynamic properties of liquids
Nucleic acid - ions interaction
Modeling of lipid bilayers
Polyelectrolytes
Ionic liquids
X-ray spectra of liquid water
Force Field development
See also
References
External links
Ascalaph, graphical shell for MDynaMix (GNU GPL)
Molecular dynamics software
Free science software
Free software programmed in C++
Free software programmed in Fortran |
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