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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juniper%20E-Series | Juniper E-Series is a series of broadband services routers or edge routers manufactured by Juniper Networks. The E series was originally developed by Unisphere Networks, which Juniper acquired in 2002. These routers provide multiple services including broadband remote access server, broadband video services, dedicated access, 802.11 wireless subscriber management, VOIP, internet access, security services, network address translation (NAT) etc. on a single platform. The carrier-class architecture of E-series routers allows to combine Broadband Remote Access Server (B-RAS) and dedicated access capabilities (T1/E1 and above) on a single and integrated platform. The E-series routes runs on JUNOSe software compared to other series of routers of Juniper which runs on JUNOS.
Models and Platforms
The Juniper E-series includes six different models that are designed to address the variety of Service Provider requirements. The specific models include the high-capacity E320 BSR and ERX-1440 platforms, the mid-range ERX-1410 platform, compact ERX-710 and ERX-705 platforms, and the highly compact ERX-310. All E-series platforms use a single version of the JUNOSe operating system, and support a full suite of Internet routing protocols, including BGP-4, IS-IS, OSPF, and RIP.
E120
The Juniper E120 router is a high-performance router used primarily for small to medium-sized points of presence (PoPs) and central offices. The E120 has a 120 Gbit/s switch fabric and hosts up to six line modules that support OC3/STM1 through OC48c/STM16 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet rates.
E320
The Juniper E320 router is a high-performance router used primarily for large points of presence (PoPs). The box supports a 100 Gbit/s or a 320 Gbit/s switch fabric and hosts up to 12 line modules that support OC3/STM1 through OC48c/STM16 and 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces with the ability to support 96,000 subscribers. The E320 was designed with video in mind, adding the Quality of service (QOS) and high availability that carriers want for IPTV, as well as a huge increase in density. Cisco Systems has two boxes selling into this space: the 10000 series, considered Cisco's primary B-RAS entry, and the 7600 line of edge routers (of which the 7613 is the largest), which include some B-RAS capabilities. The B-RAS Backplane Switching Capacities of E320 supports up to 320 Gbit/s compared to 256 Gbit/s of Cisco 7613.
ERX310
The Juniper ERX310 is a compact but high-performance router that has a 10 Gbit/s switch fabric, two slots dedicated to line modules, and supports up to OC12c/STM4 and Gigabit Ethernet interfaces. The 3-slot router contains a 10 Gbit/s switch fabric /route processor (SRP) and the rest of the two slots dedicated to line modules.
ERX705
The Juniper ERX705 is a compact router that is used for small and medium-sized circuit aggregation applications. They can be configured with a 5 Gbit/s or 10 Gbit/s switch fabric (optional switch fabric redundancy), has five slots for line module |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20Ona | Marc Ona Essangui is founder of the environmental NGO Brainforest and president of Environment Gabon, a network of NGOs. Marc Ona Essangui led efforts to expose agreements behind a Chinese mining project in Gabon, a country in West Central Africa, that threatened equatorial rainforest ecosystems.
According to Ona Essangui, the proposed Belinga development, a $3.5 billion project, was secretly negotiated. Local communities were not consulted and are unaware of the effect that the project would have on their environment. Ona won the 2009 Africa Goldman Environmental Prize for his work. The project is currently on hold due to a lack of financing. In March 2013, Ona Essangui was sentenced to a six-month suspended prison sentence and an approximately $10,000 USD fine for defamation of Liban Soleman, senior advisor to President Ali Bongo Ondimba.
Since January 2020, Marc Ona Essangui is the president of Tournons La Page movement for democracy in Africa.
References
Gabonese environmentalists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Goldman Environmental Prize awardees
21st-century Gabonese people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clustering%20high-dimensional%20data | Clustering high-dimensional data is the cluster analysis of data with anywhere from a few dozen to many thousands of dimensions. Such high-dimensional spaces of data are often encountered in areas such as medicine, where DNA microarray technology can produce many measurements at once, and the clustering of text documents, where, if a word-frequency vector is used, the number of dimensions equals the size of the vocabulary.
Problems
Four problems need to be overcome for clustering in high-dimensional data:
Multiple dimensions are hard to think in, impossible to visualize, and, due to the exponential growth of the number of possible values with each dimension, complete enumeration of all subspaces becomes intractable with increasing dimensionality. This problem is known as the curse of dimensionality.
The concept of distance becomes less precise as the number of dimensions grows, since the distance between any two points in a given dataset converges. The discrimination of the nearest and farthest point in particular becomes meaningless:
A cluster is intended to group objects that are related, based on observations of their attribute's values. However, given a large number of attributes some of the attributes will usually not be meaningful for a given cluster. For example, in newborn screening a cluster of samples might identify newborns that share similar blood values, which might lead to insights about the relevance of certain blood values for a disease. But for different diseases, different blood values might form a cluster, and other values might be uncorrelated. This is known as the local feature relevance problem: different clusters might be found in different subspaces, so a global filtering of attributes is not sufficient.
Given a large number of attributes, it is likely that some attributes are correlated. Hence, clusters might exist in arbitrarily oriented affine subspaces.
Recent research indicates that the discrimination problems only occur when there is a high number of irrelevant dimensions, and that shared-nearest-neighbor approaches can improve results.
Approaches
Approaches towards clustering in axis-parallel or arbitrarily oriented affine subspaces differ in how they interpret the overall goal, which is finding clusters in data with high dimensionality. An overall different approach is to find clusters based on pattern in the data matrix, often referred to as biclustering, which is a technique frequently utilized in bioinformatics.
Subspace clustering
The adjacent image shows a mere two-dimensional space where a number of clusters can be identified. In the one-dimensional subspaces, the clusters (in subspace ) and , , (in subspace ) can be found. cannot be considered a cluster in a two-dimensional (sub-)space, since it is too sparsely distributed in the axis. In two dimensions, the two clusters and can be identified.
The problem of subspace clustering is given by the fact that there are different subspaces of a sp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juniper%20MX%20Series | The Juniper MX Series is a family of ethernet routers and switches designed and manufactured by Juniper Networks. In 2006, Juniper released the first of the MX-series, the MX960, MX240, and MX480. The second generation routers, called MX "3D", were first released in 2009 and featured a new Trio chipset and IPv6 support. In 2013, the MX routers were improved to increase their bandwidth, and a virtualized MX 3D router, the vMX 3D, was released in 2014. Utilizing the Juniper Extension Toolkit (JET), third party software can be integrated into the routers.
History
Early releases
On October 18, 2006, the MX Series was publicly announced. Before its release, Ethernet aggregation was a missing component of Juniper's edge network products, which was causing it to lose market-share to Alcatel. The MX Series was late to market, but it was well received by analysts and customers. It was part of a trend at-the-time to incorporate additional software features in routers and switches.
The first product release of the MX series was the MX960, a 14-slot, 480 Gbit/s switch and router. In late 2006, Juniper introduced the MX240 and MX480, which are smaller versions of the 960. They had a throughput of 240 Gbit/s and 480 Gbit/s respectively.
Further development
In 2009 a new line of MX "3D" products were introduced, using Juniper's programmable Trio chipset. Trio is a proprietary semiconductor technology with custom network instructions. It provides a cross between network processing units and ASICs. IPv6 features were added and the MX80, a smaller 80Gbit/s router, was introduced the following year.
In 2011 new switch fabric cards increased the capacity of MX 3D routers. In May 2011 Juniper introduced several new products including the MX5, MX10 and MX40 3D routers, which have a throughput of 20, 40 and 60 Gbit/s respectively and can each be upgraded to an MX80. A collection of features called MobileNext was introduced in 2011 at Mobile World Congress, then discontinued in August 2013. According to Network World, it allowed MX 3D products to serve as a mobile "gateway, an authentication and management control plan for 2G/3G and LTE mobile packet cores and as a policy manager for subscriber management systems."
In October 2012, Juniper introduced the MX2020 and 2010 3D Universal Edge Routers, with throughputs of 80 Tbit/s and 40 Tbit/s respectively. Juniper also released a video caching system for the MX family and a suite of software applications that include parental control, firewall and traffic monitoring. New "Virtual Chassis" features allowed network operators to manage multiple boxes as though they were a single router or switch.
Recent developments
In 2013, Juniper introduced new line cards for the MX series and a new switch fabric module, intended to upgrade the MX series' for higher bandwidth needs and for software-defined networking applications. The capacity of the MX240, 480 and 960 were increased by double or more. A new Multiservice Modular Int |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomberman%202 | Bomberman 2 (Custom Battler Bomberman in Japan) is a video game for the Nintendo DS. Part of the Bomberman franchise, it is the sequel to the 2005 DS game. The game takes place in Grid City, cyberspace-like setting.
Gameplay
The game contains a single player Mission Mode and multiplayer Battle Mode. In addition, there is a custom multiplayer mode, allowing for customization in fighting other non-CPU players. Scattered armor parts can also be collected and equipped to enhance Bomberman's power through a leveling system, adding strategic depth to the gameplay.
References
2008 video games
2
Nintendo DS games
Nintendo DS-only games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in Japan
Hudson Soft games
Action games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl%3A%3ACritic | Perl::Critic is a static code analysis system for the Perl programming language. Perl::Critic is available as a source-code distribution on CPAN. It comes with a commandline tool, perlcritic, which can check Perl source code files and report on the code quality therein. Perl::Critic has an extensible architecture that allows the programmer to choose from many "policies" which enforce different Perl programming styles and tastes. The default policy is largely based on the recommendations in the book Perl Best Practices by Damian Conway.
Perl::Critic is based on the PPI parsing library. For safety, PPI does not execute any code while parsing, unlike the Perl compiler, so it is a close approximation of the real parser rather than an exact representation.
Some new alternatives include Perl::Lint and B::Lint.
External links
Homepage
Perl::Critic on CPAN
Source code repository
Perl::Lint A fork for performance
Perl::Lint in MetaCPAN
B::Lint is equivalent to an extended version of the -w option of perl
Perl
Program analysis
Static program analysis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold%20Feet%20%28series%203%29 | The third series of the British comedy-drama television series Cold Feet was first broadcast on the ITV network from 5 November to 26 December 2000. The eight episodes were written by Mike Bullen and David Nicholls, produced by Christine Langan and Spencer Campbell, and directed by Simon Delaney, Jon Jones, and Tim Whitby. The storylines, which focus on three couples, continue from the end of the second series; Adam Williams and Rachel Bradley (James Nesbitt and Helen Baxendale) try to conceive their first child, and get married at the end of the series; Pete and Jenny Gifford (John Thomson and Fay Ripley) have separated after he had an affair with a co-worker. They date different people throughout the series but reconcile in the last episode. After Karen Marsden (Hermione Norris) gives birth to baby twins, her husband David (Robert Bathurst) has an affair with a local political activist, which damages their marriage.
Bullen stepped back from writing the series during pre-production, believing no new storylines could be created for the characters. David Nicholls was one of five writers hired to write the series; when the other four writers were dismissed by producers Granada Television because their scripts were not of the right standard, Bullen returned to write half the series. The eighth episode was the highest-rated of the series, getting 9.66 million viewers on its Boxing Day broadcast. The series won a British Comedy Award the following year, and was nominated for Royal Television Society awards, a Banff Rockie award, and an International Emmy Award. Fay Ripley received a nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress.
Cast
James Nesbitt as Adam Williams
Helen Baxendale as Rachel Bradley
John Thomson as Pete Gifford
Fay Ripley as Jenny Gifford
Robert Bathurst as David Marsden
Hermione Norris as Karen Marsden
Recurring
Jacey Salles as Ramona Ramirez (Episodes 1, 3, 4, 5, 7)
Nicholas Ball as Felix Bishop (Episodes 1, 2, 3)
Yasmin Bannerman as Jessica Barnes (Episodes 2, 3, 4, 5, 7)
Richard Dillane as Miles Brodie (Episodes 4, 5)
Mel Martin as Heather Childs (Episodes 1, 2, 3)
Ben Miles as Robert Brown (Episodes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8)
Pooky Quesnel as Emma Keaton (Episodes 5, 7, 8)
Episodes
Broadcast
The episodes suffered from ITV's late decision to insert a third commercial break into evening programming; like many other series that had already completed post-production, Cold Feets editors were forced to alter their episodes to allow for the extra breaks. Writing in Revolution magazine, John Owen, the head of media company Starcom, criticised the fact that up to 25 advertisements now appeared during the show. Allied Domecq, who had sponsored the previous two series of Cold Feet with their Cockburn's Port brand, did not renew their contract with Granada. Granada Ventures negotiated a new sponsorship deal with United Airlines, estimated at £1.5 million. The first two episodes were broadcast as a single two-hour episod |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMVER | AMVER, or Automated Mutual-Assistance Vessel Rescue is a worldwide voluntary reporting system sponsored by the United States Coast Guard. It is a computer-based global ship-reporting system used worldwide by search and rescue authorities to arrange for assistance to persons in distress at sea. With AMVER, rescue coordinators can identify participating ships in the area of distress and divert the best-suited ship or ships to respond. Participating in AMVER does not put ships under any additional obligation to assist in search and rescue efforts, beyond that which is required under. international law.
History
The beginnings of the AMVER system finds its roots in the disaster in 1912. Ships passing within sight of the ill-fated passenger liner were unaware that it had hit an iceberg and was sinking. Upon later investigation, those who had seen the distress flares from the stricken ship admitted they thought they were merely part of the maiden voyage celebrations. As late as the mid-twentieth century the world's commercial shipping fleet and burgeoning air transport system lacked an available full-time, global emergency reporting system.
On April 15, 1958, the United States Coast Guard and commercial shipping representatives began discussions which led to the creation of AMVER. Originally known as the Atlantic Merchant Vessel Emergency Reporting System, it became operational on July 18, 1958. AMVER began as an experiment, confined to waters of the North Atlantic Ocean, notorious for icebergs, fog and winter storms. Vice Admiral Alfred C. Richmond, Coast Guard Commandant at the time, called on all commercial vessels of U.S. and foreign registry, over 1,000 gross tons and making a voyage of more than 24 hours, to voluntarily become AMVER participants. The basic premise of AMVER, as a vehicle for mariner to help mariner without regard to nationality, continues to this day.
The first home of the AMVER Center was at the New York Custom House in downtown New York City, due to the fact that many commercial cargo and passenger lines operating in the Atlantic maintained offices nearby, and AMVER's success would depend on close ties to the merchant fleet. The system's first computer was an IBM RAMAC (Random Access Method Accounting Control), characterized as being able to "evaluate information and determine the position of vessels through dead reckoning." The product of the computer was a "Surface Picture" or "SURPIC" of an area of the ocean, indicating the AMVER participating ships in the vicinity. In 1966, the Coast Guard moved its regional headquarters from the Custom House to Governors Island, in upper New York Bay. The move included the AMVER Center and consolidated all New York area Coast Guard activities, including a Rescue Coordination Center, at one site. One year after the move, AMVER's title was revised to read Automated Merchant VEssel Reporting program. Subsequent homes for the AMVER computer would include Washington, D.C.; Governors Island, N |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yadanabon%20Cyber%20City | Yatanarpon Cyber City ( ) is the largest information technology center in Myanmar. The 4050-hectare (10,000-acre) ICT park is located near Pyinoolwin, about 67 km east of Mandalay. Partly operational since December 2007, tenants in the park reportedly include over 30 local and foreign investors, mostly from Asia.
History
When the ICT park was established in June 2006, the master plan called for simultaneously developing nine "zones"—the teleport building; seven single-story “incubation units”; local and international software zones; a park and convention center zone; a commercial and services zone; a research and development zone; a training centre; and a residential area. To encourage private housing, the government has offered land lease grants for 30 years, not for resale or transfer within the first ten years.
In June 2008, the military government announced that twelve local and foreign information technology companies had been given permission to invest in the center. The Burmese companies included the semi-government-owned Myanmar Teleport and eight privately-owned companies, including FISCA Enterprise, MCC and Fortune International, Htoo Trading, Myanmar World Distribution, Nibban, Tamoenyel Chantha Tun Wai Tha, Yatanarpon Cyber Corporation, Jadeland Myanmar, High-Tech Princess, and Myanmar Info-Tech. Foreign investors reportedly included: Shin Satellite from Thailand; ZTE and Alcatel Shanghai Bell of China; IP Tel Sdn Bhd of Malaysia; and CBOSS of Russia. The 12 companies agreed to invest a total of US $22 million in the Yatanarpon site.
By December 2008, the Burmese government had allotted 150 hectares to 35 local and foreign IT companies.
References
Mandalay
Mandalay Region |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimint | Crimint is a database run by the Metropolitan Police Service of Greater London which stores information on criminals, suspected criminals and protesters. It was created in 1994 and supplied by Memex Technology Limited based on their 'Patriarch' technology. It supports the recording and searching of items of intelligence by both police officers and back office staff. As of 2005 it contained seven million information reports and 250,000 intelligence records.
People are able to request their information from the database under data protection laws. Requests have shown that the database holds large amounts of information on protesters who have not committed any crimes which is to be expected as the database is an intelligence database, not a crime recording system. Information is stored for at least seven years. Holding information on people who have never committed any offence may be against people's human rights. A police officer, Amerdeep Johal, allegedly used the database to contact sex offenders and threatened to disclose information about them from the database unless they paid him thousands of pounds.
See also
Police National Computer
United Kingdom National DNA Database
National Ballistics Intelligence Service
Aerial roof markings
Canadian Police Information Centre, Canadian equivalent law enforcement database
References
Databases in England
Government databases in the United Kingdom
1994 establishments in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park%20%26%20Charge | Park & Charge is a European infrastructure for charging electric vehicles. Park & Charge runs an open database LEMnet since 1998 that lists its own charging stations as well as that of other infrastructure providers in Europe.
History
In 1992, the first four locations of Park & Charge were established under the "pilot and demonstration project P & D" of the Federal Office of Energy in Bern. After a three-year experimental phase, the project went into regular operation. The Electromobile Club of Switzerland (ECS), which has accompanied the project, took over the financial and legal responsibility for Park & Charge. At the end of 1997 Park & Charge was founded as an independent association (President: Wilfried Blum, Managing Director: Eduard Stolz).
Park & Charge stations became available beyond the borders as well. The German Solar Mobility Association founded an organization for the operation in Germany in 1997. Since 1999 there are Park & Charge stations in Italy and Austria. As for Austria VLOTTE has taken over the operations since 2010 which is a project by the "Vorarlberger Elektroautomobil Planungs- und Beratungs GmbH" in cooperation with the VKW Utility Company Vorarlberg (Vorarlberger Kraftwerke AG). More charging points became available in Liechtenstein, France and the Netherlands.
In the Canton Ticino the federal "P & D" project was continued with studies for „Veicoli Elettrici Leggeri“ (light electric vehicles) running from 1995 to 2001 (VEL1) and from 2001 to 2005 (VEL2). With the help of those projects an electric vehicle network of charging stations was deployed which is operated by RiParTI (Ricariche e Parcheggi in Ticino – Charging and Parking in Ticino).
Function
The yearly subscription entitles the user use of all the Park & Charge Charging points in Europe at a (flat rate). The prices of the subscription is set by the respective national organizations.
Charging Stations
Today allows Park & Charge is at nearly 500 locations in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Italy.
LEMnet
The locations of the charging stations of Park & Charge are assembled in a list for its members. After the reorganization the new association created an internet database in 1998 to publish the list of available charging stations. The name LEMnet is derived from the main vehicle type of Park & Charge members at the time being light electric vehicles (LEV - in German Leichtelektromobile LEM) being electric quadricycles that are often summarized in English in the Neighborhood Electric Vehicle class. Those only need an electrical outlet to be charged overnight so that LEMnet also listed inns that cooperate with electric vehicle owners.
With the revival and mass production of electric vehicles the LEMnet database served as a central overview mapping the available charging stations across Europe. The providers of commercial charging station networks began to provide their data to LEMnet - in 2012 more than 30 providers cooperated wit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See%20What%20I%20Care | See What I Care is an EP by Norwegian band Datarock. It was released on 12 November 2007 by their record label, Young Aspiring Professionals.
Track listing
"Not Me" – 3:35
"Do It Your Way" – 1:50
"See What I Care" – 3:19
"Stay" – 2:26
"New Rave Anthem" – 1:45
"Fa Fa Fa (Shakes Remix)" – 4:22
"Fa Fa Fa (Riton Turbo Disco Remix)" – 6:31
"I Used To Dance With My Daddy (Para One Remix)" – 4:55
"I Used To Dance With My Daddy (Mark Dynamix And Jaytech's Suger Daddy-O Remix)" – 5:26
2007 EPs
Datarock albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urophora%20cuspidata | Urophora cuspidata is a species of tephritid or fruit flies in the genus Urophora of the family Tephritidae.
Distribution
North & Central Europe, West Siberia & Caucasus.
References
Urophora
Insects described in 1826
Diptera of Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synfire%20chain | A synfire chain (synchronous firing chain) is a feed-forward network of neurons with multiple layers or pools. In a synfire chain, neural impulses propagate synchronously back and forth from layer to layer. Each neuron in one layer feeds excitatory connections to neurons in the next, while each neuron in the receiving layer is excited by neurons in the previous layer.
Activity
Activity along a synfire chain propagates in a synchronous or an asynchronous mode. In the asynchronous mode, an elevated firing rate in one pool will accumulate, and increase the firing rate in the next layer. In the synchronous mode, a volley of spikes in one layer will elicit a synchronous volley in the other, after one synaptic delay. It has been argued that the only stable mode of transmission is the synchronous mode.
History
The term synfire chain was first used by Moshe Abeles in 1982, to account for the appearance of synchronous firing sequences with long inter-spike delays, which resisted explanation in terms of the known properties of cortical physiology. This structure, with every neuron in one pool exciting all neurons in the second pool, was suggested by Griffith as a structure that can guarantee a fixed level of activity in a network of excitatory neurons. He called this structure a “complete transmission line”. Griffith did not study its properties in any detail. A fairly similar idea in which synchronized reverberations among neuronal populations transfer information was suggested by Hebb in 1949.
References
Neurons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolife%20%28TV%20channel%29 | Nolife was a French TV network. It described itself as TV "for geeks, nerds and otakus". Its main programming focused on videogames, Japanese culture, technology and various other topics. Its slogan was "Y a pas que la vraie vie dans la vie !" (There's not only real life in life!).
History
Nolife was originally created as an independent TV network by Sébastien Ruchet and Alexandre Pilot, both of them having previously worked for other French TV channels through their production company Pocket Shami. Later, Pilot said that they wanted to create Nolife because a lot of their projects were refused by other TV networks. They took advantage of the possibility to launch a TV channel at a lower cost (a few hundred Euros per month) on the Free IPTV network.
In 2008, despite being well known in the videogame and anime/manga French audience, Nolife went through major financial difficulties and looked for new investors. Then a company they previously worked with, Ankama Games, offered to massively invest into Nolife without taking control over the company. This was announced during a fake farewell show on 13 June 2008, less than two weeks after the first birthday of the channel (the audience were not aware it was fake).
As of September 2009 the audience share is unknown, but an official Médiamétrie survey said that 12% of the people receiving TV by cable and satellite was interested in receiving this channel.
Despite those results, Nolife announced in June of the same year that the channel won't be broadcast on CanalSat (which holds a near monopoly in the French satellite market) due to huge transmission costs, nor on the French cable network Numericable (also almost monopolistic) for "technical reasons". A member of Nolife explained that this actually cut off advertising incomes for Nolife because of a market lock-down: Médiamétrie is the only recognized source for audience figures but it doesn't evaluate DSL IPTV audience despite the fact that at least as much French households receive IPTV as Satellite TV.
Consequently, following a business model used in open source software, a pay catch-up TV service named Nolife Online was launched on 26 August 2009 on the main site of Nolife. It hosts the archive of most of the shows of Nolife except TV series, anime and J-music-related shows. It is available worldwide while the French IPTV channel remains free of charge.
During the following year, Médiamétrie started to include IPTV in their measurements. Thanks to official audience figures, Nolife was finally able to enter the advertising market on equal footing with other niche channels.
The situation was stable until mid-2014; the advertising market being at an historical low meant the income of the channel suddenly dropped, making it more dependent on its still-existing catch-up service.
On April 1, 2018, after a special edition of 101% where new projects were announced like live events or a brand new esports channel, Sébastien Ruchet announced that it w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail%20map | A trail map is a map used to aid in navigation and can symbolize an assorted amount of information of a particular area or contain only a single representation of the data it represents.
Overview
Trail maps are produced in a variety of scales, sizes, formats, and media, depending on the audience and purpose of the map. Some trail maps have been extensively edited for content giving detail about nearby features, places of interest, or interesting facts, while some maps may only give minimal information of the trail.
Hiking sometimes requires planning. Some web sites offer hikers necessary preparation “must-haves” when packing for a trip as well as information about various trails around the country. Included in the list of these essentials is the trail map.
Navigating through, to, and away from people's destinations require, in many instances, the use of maps, descriptions of or around those places, and/or a combination of these displayed on paper or through today's extended market of GPS devices. The maps help give the reader a graphic representation of the environment and may vary in the level of spatiality and labeling. Additionally, the written descriptions of a place also vary in the levels of spatial and labeling detail.
The personal experience coupled with the memory of an environment can change as a function of these mapping variations. Experiments have demonstrated that by reducing spatial details through ‘graphic generalization’ one can increase memory. Likewise, verbally presented information additionally reveals the importance of a balance between spatial and verbal detail in maps.
GPS and the integrated digital map technology is rapidly become the choice of many mountaineers in place the traditional paper map and compass. Additionally, some camera's have a GPS module included internally that allow the digital image to contain geographic coordinates that can help determine the location where the picture was taken. GPS has also helped with research and expeditions. GPS devices, along with satellite data has helped determine the heights of mountain peaks as well as the depths of subterranean pits and caves.
Interactive web services like Wikimapia and Google Maps support user-generated and modifiable maps. Users can import and ‘mashup’ shared source code into their own mapping service or they can geotag online content using markup languages to share information about their geographic location. New digital geospatial information is captured from normal activities of daily life, such as public transit agencies tracking locations of electronic payment with cards to board a bus, or GPS enabled cell phones that can track our movements and location.
References
Hiking equipment
Trails
Navigation maps |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHL%20on%20Global | NHL on Global was the de facto name of a television program that broadcast National Hockey League games on the Global Television Network. The program aired during the 1987 and 1988 Stanley Cup playoffs under the titles Stanley Cup '87 and Stanley Cup '88 respectively.
Background
About CTV's NHL coverage
For the 1984–85 and 1985–86 seasons, CTV aired regular season games on Friday nights (and some Sunday afternoons) as well as partial coverage of the playoffs and Stanley Cup Finals. While Molson continued to present Hockey Night in Canada on Saturday nights on CBC, rival brewery Carling O'Keefe began airing Friday Night Hockey on CTV. This marked the first time since 1974–75 that CBC was not the lone over-the-air network broadcaster of the National Hockey League in Canada. CTV's 1965-75 NHL package consisted of Wednesday night games produced by the McLaren advertising agency, which also produced CBC's Saturday night Hockey Night in Canada telecasts.
The deal with CTV was arranged by the Quebec Nordiques (who were owned by Carling O'Keefe) and all 14 U.S.-based NHL clubs, who sought to break Molson's monopoly on NHL broadcasting in Canada. All of CTV's regular-season telecasts originated from Quebec City or the United States, as Molson shut them out of the other six Canadian buildings (as Carling did to them in Québec City).
The deal ended following the 1985-86 season. CTV's limited access to Canadian-based teams (other than Québec, whose English-speaking fan base was quite small) translated into poor ratings. on the venture.
Stanley Cup '87 and Stanley Cup '88
Despite CTV pulling the plug on their two-year-long venture with the NHL, Carling O'Keefe retained their rights (two years were remaining on the contract with or without CTV).
Things became problematic when the 1987 Stanley Cup playoffs opened with Carling O'Keefe still without a network of some sort. The problems arguably peaked when the Montreal-Quebec second-round playoff series opened without Molson being allowed to broadcast from Quebec City, leaving Games 3 and 4 off of English-language television altogether. This led to a hastily-arranged syndicated package on a chain of stations that would one day form the basis of the Global Television Network. The deal between Carling O'Keefe and the Canwest/Global consortium (with a few CBC and CTV affiliates sprinkled in for good measure) came just in time for Game 6 of this series on April 30.
It must be stressed that Global, technically, didn't become a national network until 1997. During the 1980s, Global consisted of a single station in Toronto with numerous rebroadcast transmitters throughout Ontario, CanWest was a chain of independent stations in Western Canada (and at the time a part-owner of Global), and the two often combined to carry syndicated programming, such as this NHL package and the Canadian Football Network, which would also begin in 1987. These NHL broadcasts were aired under the names Stanley Cup '87 and Stanley Cup '88 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glide%20OS | Glide OS was a cross-platform web desktop developed by Jumptuit. It was notable for operating on both desktop operating systems, like Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and its contemporary mobile operating systems like Apple iOS, Google Android and Honeycomb, BlackBerry OS and BlackBerry Tablet OS (QNX), webOS, Symbian and Windows Mobile. Glide OS was compatible with a variety of web browsers, including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Google Chrome.
History
Jumptuit (originally TransMedia) was founded by Donald Leka. He began to develop a cloud computing platform that could manage media across proprietary platforms. The Company shifted its focus from business clients to consumers unveiling Glide at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Convention on April 18, 2005 and launching a free consumer version on November 30, 2005.
The latest HTML5 version of Glide was 4.0 and was presented at the Harvard University Cyberposium 16 Technology Conference on November 13, 2010. The previous version, 3.0, was launched on May 20, 2008 at the All Things Digital Conference (AllThingsD).
In 2006, Intel announced plans to include Glide on ultra-mobile PCs. However the project has not manifested as a consumer product.
Glide provided support for most tablets of its day, including the Apple iPad, HP Touchpad, BlackBerry Playbook, Samsung Galaxy, Motorola XOOM and most recently the Amazon Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet.
Glide OS and the Company have won numerous awards, including PC World's Top 100 Products of the Year, Laptop Magazine's Top 50 Products of the Year, EContent Magazine's Top 100 Companies of the Year and Red Herring's Top 100 Companies of the Year among others.
Features
Glide featured a desktop-like interface which displayed the Desktop, Glide HD, and Web Portal. Glide included several web-based applications, including an integrated office suite, media players, photo editor, calendar software, webmail, address book, micro-blogging service, publishing platform and Internet search client.
References
External links
Jumptuit
Web desktops |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rovers%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Rovers was an Australian ocean-based family adventure television show originally screened from 21 August 1969 until 12 June 1970 and was broadcast on the 0-Ten network, the precursor of Network Ten
Synopsis
Produced by NLT Productions, executive producer was Bill Harmon and producer Don Cash, who would become famous for creating Number 96. The series starred Rowena Wallace, Edward Hepple, Noel Trevarthen and child actor Grant Seiden.
The storylines revolve around the adventures of the crew of the ‘Pacific Lady’, an island schooner owned by Captain Sam McGill (or ‘Cap’ for short), played by Hepple, Bob Wild (a freelance photographer) played by Trevarthen and Rusty Collins, a wildlife journalist (played by Wallace).
Thirty-nine episodes of 30 minutes each were produced on colour film, with an eye to distributing in overseas markets the way Skippy the Bush Kangaroo was. Writers included Kenneth Cook, Michael Latimer, Ron McLean, Michael Wright, Ralph Peterson and Rosamund Waring.
Ron Randell, who was in Australia performing in stage plays, guest starred in some episodes.
Cast
Main cast
Rowena Wallace as Rusty Collins
Edward Hepple as Captain Sam McGill
Noel Trevarthen as Bob Wild
Grant Seiden
Guest cast
Ron Randell
Slim De Grey as Terry Claffey
Vincent Gil as Biker / Bert
Brian Moll as Dr Wright
Lionel Long
Tony Hughes
Notes
References
Classic Australian Television - The Rovers accessed 26 April 2009
Memorable TV The TV Shows (1970's) The Rovers accessed 26 April 2009
External links
The Rovers at AustLit
The Rovers at National Film and Sound Archive
Network 10 original programming
1969 Australian television series debuts
1970 Australian television series endings
Australian children's television series
Television shows set in New South Wales
Black-and-white Australian television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRUST | TRUST (Train Running Under System TOPS) is a Network Rail computer system used for monitoring the progress of trains and tracking delays on Great Britain's rail network. It compares actual train movement events with those planned, allowing delays to be recorded with explanations as to the cause allowing the operation of an incentive scheme to reduce delays.
TRUST is used to record when a train passes a measuring point, which can be used to identify delays, and the cause of the delays. It is based on the TOPS mainframe-based computer system.
TRUST data is part of Network Rail's open data feed and is used by Realtime Trains as a source for train movements and cancellations. A similar computer system is Darwin, from the Rail Delivery Group.
See also
Signalman (rail)
References
External links
TRUST user guide from 2011 released following a Freedom of Information Request
Railway signalling in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPC%20ECO | SPC ECO (pronounced Space Echo) are a British shoegaze band formed in 2007.
The band consists of Dean Garcia (bass, drums, guitar and programming), formerly of Curve, and his daughter Rose Berlin (vocals); and a long list of "friends and collaborators" including: Joey Levenson, Perry Pelonero, Jarek Leskiewicz, Debbie Smith, Steve Monti, Harry K G, Preston Maddox, Russell Keeble, Ed Shearmur, Alan Moulder, Masa at Quince Japan, Julian Baker, Anne Baker, Freddie Lomaz, Slade Templeton, J P Wombbaby, Alex Keevil, Jo Neale, Zac, Laura and Em, Robin Allport, Gary Crowley, Chris McCormack, Baxter, Merlin Rhys Jones, Chris Rigg, Phill Savidge, Jo Murray, and John Howarrd Fletcher.
Discography
All releases are issued on ELaB Records (aka Eco Lab Recordings), an independent label owned and operated by Dean Garcia; with the exception of the You're Alright / Another Day single issued on Club AC30.
3-D was also released on Noiseplus Music, Quince Records, Electric; and the Silver Clouds EP was released on Electric.
The single "Push" from the Push EP was featured on "BBC London Introducing: The best in new music with Gary Crowley". on 26 January 2013. Crowley commented "We played them before to always a good reaction; Rose likes twisters and Marcel Duchamp, Dean likes eating biscuits and staying up late." A review by Wave Maker Magazine stated "Push is undeniably one of those songs that automatically has the ability to put you into a trance, and for all of the right reasons."
Albums
3-D (2009; 1 January 2010)
Alternative Mixes and Remixes (16 September 2010)
You Tell Me (1 November 2011)
Dark Notes (18 August 2012)
Sirens and Satellites (18 September 2013)
The Art of Pop (28 June 2014)
Dark Matter (3 May 2015)
All We Have Is Now (25 March 2016)
Anomalies (12 August 2016)
Calm (22 August 2017)
Fifteen (15 February 2019)
6月LP (1 June 2020)
Day By Day (18 June 2021)
Times Like These (16 July 2021)
Be The Change (22 July 2022)
EPs
Silver Clouds (5 May 2010)
Out of the Sky (25 September 2010)
Big Fat World (10 May 2011)
Don't Say (10 March 2012)
Push (12 December 2012)
Zombie (30 September 2014)
Smile (8 July 2015)
Favorite Colour (12 August 2016)
Ours (17 August 2016)
Singles
"You're Alright / Another Day" (2007)
"Silent Night" (2010)
"Ave Verum Corpus" (2011)
"Hollow Talk" (2012)
"Because" (2013)
"Fallen Stars" (2013)
"Delusional Waste" (2013)
"Fuck You" (2014)
"2+2=5" (2014)
"Hear Me Now" (2015)
"Feel Me" (2015)
Compilation albums
SPC and Time Vol. 1 (2015)
SPC and Time Vol. 2 (2015)
Remixes
The Art Of Pop Remixes + (2014)
References
External links
British shoegaze musical groups
English electronic music groups
English indie rock groups
English post-punk music groups
Musical groups established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNBA%20on%20ABC | The WNBA on ABC is the branding used for presentations of Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) games produced ESPN and broadcast on the ABC television network in the United States.
Background
In the early years, two women's-oriented networks, Lifetime and Oxygen, also broadcast games including the first game of the WNBA. NBC showed games from 1997 to 2002 as part of their NBA on NBC coverage before the league transferred the rights to ABC/ESPN.
Coverage breakdown
In June 2007, the WNBA signed a contract extension with ESPN. The new television deal ran from 2009 to 2016. A minimum of 18 games would be broadcast on ABC, ESPN, and ESPN2 each season; the rights to broadcast the first regular-season game and the All-Star Game were held by ABC. Additionally, a minimum of 11 postseason games would be broadcast on any of the three stations. Along with this deal, came the first-ever rights fees to be paid to a women's professional sports league. Over the eight years of the contract, "millions and millions of dollars" would be "dispersed to the league's teams".
WNBA All-Star Game
Select WNBA regular season games
Select Sunday game of the WNBA Finals (usually the first scheduled Sunday game airing at 3:30 PM ET)
Initially, Saturday and Sunday afternoon games were broadcast on ABC. But over time that changed. For 2013, only one game was shown on ABC on Saturday, June 8, and thirteen games were shown on ESPN2 on five different days of the week (no WNBA games were shown on Sunday or Friday on ESPN2). On opening day for the 2008 season (May 17), ABC broadcast the Los Angeles Sparks and Phoenix Mercury matchup. The game received a little over 1 million viewers. Average viewership for games broadcast on national television (ABC and ESPN2) was 413,000 (up from 346,000 in 2007). Average viewership for the 2007 WNBA finals was 545,000.
Viewership for the 2011 WNBA All-Star Game on ABC was up 46% from the previous game. Game 1 of the 2015 WNBA Finals telecast on ABC, drew 571,000 viewers, up from 558,000 for Game 1 in 2014. Game 1 of the 2016 WNBA Finals was broadcast on ABC and had 0.5 overnight rating (597,000 viewers), which was the best since 2010. The five game 2016 Finals broadcast on ABC, ESPN and ESPN2 averaged a 0.3 rating and 487,000 viewers. Average viewership in 2016 was 224,000 viewers.
Announcers
Ryan Ruocco (play-by-play)
Rebecca Lobo (color commentary)
Holly Rowe (sideline reporter)
References
External links
Sports Media Watch
ABC Sports
American Broadcasting Company original programming
English-language television shows
2003 American television series debuts
2000s American television series
2010s American television series
2020s American television series
Women's National Basketball Association media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin%20%28database%29 | Merlin is a database run by the Metropolitan Police that stores information on children who have become known to the police for any reason. This can range from being a victim of bullying to being present whilst a property is searched, this may be with a warrant or under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act. It also holds data for missing persons. They can be of any age. Entries on the database can be accessed by police officers and civilian workers.
See also
ContactPoint
Crimint
References
Government databases in the United Kingdom
Person databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Satellaview%20broadcasts | The list of Satellaview broadcasts is organized by genre (game, magazine, or data broadcast) and then alphabetically by broadcast title. Because the Satellaview was available only to the Japanese market, the official titles are Japanese and literal English translations are provided where possible.
This is intended as a complete list of all official St.GIGA broadcasts transmitted between April 23, 1995 and June 30, 2000 via the BS network to be received and unscrambled by subscribers to Nintendo's Satellaview service. The list encompasses data broadcast from the period of partnership between St.GIGA and Nintendo (April 1995 - April 1999) as well as the period of sole St.GIGA control (April 1999 - June 2000).
Because many Satellaview broadcasts were episodic in nature, individual broadcast titles often took a standard "Dai-Shuu" form which indicated to the player the episode number in terms of weeks (for example, "Game Title 第X週", where "X" represents the week number). Other Satellaview broadcasts bore titles that more directly reflected the exact date of the broadcast. This was common, for example, with the Nintendo Power magazine broadcasts. To reduce repetition, this list displays the name of the broadcast and the number of weeks during which unique episodes were broadcast (including the dates of first broadcast); however dates and "Dai-Shuu" constructions have been removed to allow a single listing for the item.
Numerous non-SoundLink Satellaview broadcasts were originally or simultaneously released for the Super Famicom.
Broadcast game list
There are of the 231 Satellaview games on this list.
Broadcast data list
Broadcast magazine list
See also
Satellaview games from The Legend of Zelda series
References
Satellaview
Satellaview
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Satellaview |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juniper%20EX-Series | Juniper EX-Series is a series of Ethernet network switches designed and manufactured by Juniper Networks. These switches run on Juniper's network operating system, JUNOS.
Juniper's then CEO and present Chairman, Scott Kriens said that the product launch marked the beginning of a transcending chapter in Juniper's history, declaring, "The switch is on".
Creation
The EX series was launched in 2008.
Features
The EX switches support a range of features including high availability and network access control (NAC). The NAC support, which Juniper calls Unified Access Control (UAC), enables the switches to enforce access policies rather than rely on firewalls, VPN gateways, or switches made by other vendors.
Juniper Networks EX-series Ethernet switches are compliant with Internet protocol (IP) telephony solutions from Avaya. They are also interoperable with leading network management platforms from AlterPoint, CA, EMC, HP, IBM, InfoVista and SolarWinds.
Network World Lab Alliance certified that Juniper switches are a credible alternative for enterprise access in switching, compared to access switches of other vendors.
References
External links
Best Ethernet Switches of 2019 - Managed, Unmanaged and Web-Smart – Page 3 of 3
Juniper Networks
Networking_hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20social%20network | A semantic social network is the result of the application of Semantic Web technologies to social networks and online social media.
History
The term Semantic Social Networks was coined independently by Stephen Downes and Marco Neumann in 2004 to describe the application of Semantic Web technologies and online social networks. In particular the use of RDF, FOAF and social network metrics for "SNEACHTA", a community portal project, to improve search results for online resources and content management for personalized content selection and display demonstrates this concept. A Semantic Social Network Portal project applied to the PUII (Programme for University Industry Interface) to support efforts in enterprise training units to identify up-skilling needs of the employee in the company and to simplify the creation and reuse of knowledge in online communities. In 2005 the concepts of Semantic Social Networks were applied to the Lotico Semantic Web to demonstrate the effectiveness of the research results to augmented communities of interest.
In 2007 a team of French researchers at INRIA applied Semantic Social Network concepts and established formal methods for ontology matching. And in 2009 more researchers around the world started to implement Semantic Social Networks amongst them a team in Iran applied the concepts of Semantic Social Networks in order to facilitate organizational collaboration and expertise finding in decentralized organizations to Rayan Faragard, a software development company. They then performed social network analysis from the network they had gathered by FOAF tags which showed that using semantic social networks greatly increases the reliability, effectiveness and collaboration.
References
Social networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playfish | Playfish was a developer of free-to-play social network games. Playfish was founded in 2007 by Kristian Segerstråle, Sebastien de Halleux, Sami Lababidi, and Shukri Shammas. It closed in 2013. Playfish in the past had attracted up to 55 million users a month, with over 37 million users coming from Facebook users. In October 2008, they secured US$17 million in venture capital funding from Accel Partners and Index Ventures. The company was acquired by Electronic Arts in 2009, with the last of Playfish's games being retired in 2013.
History
Who has the Biggest Brain? was the company's first release. It was one of the first Facebook games to attract millions of daily players, and allowed the company to raise the funding necessary to produce other games. The company made money by selling virtual goods inside its games.
On Monday, November 9, 2009, Electronic Arts announced their acquisition of Playfish for $400 million. The acquisition was initially for $275 million cash and $25 million in equity—with a further $100 million in performance-based bonuses available if the company hits targets set by EA executives. As of February 2013, all four of the original founders have left the company, with Lababidi and Shammas setting up educational developer Mindshapes, and Segerstråle returning to the world of startups.
On June 14, 2013, all of the Playfish-developed games have been retired while Madden NFL 13 Social was retired on September 2, 2013, and can no longer be played on Facebook. The last 3 games to be retired (Pet Society, The Sims Social, and SimCity Social) were retired on June 17, 2013.
List of games
Notable games
Restaurant City
In Restaurant City, players own a restaurant in a set environment. The goal is to run an exceedingly popular restaurant and increase in restaurant level and dish quality. A restaurant needs at least two employees to function; a chef and a waiter. Through popularity, a restaurant can attract more customers. As a restaurant attracts more customers, it needs more employees. A restaurant gains the ability to hire more employees as it rises in level. The restaurant also grows in size as it gains levels, and can serve drinks and grow certain ingredients in a garden.
At its peak, Restaurant City had more than 18 million monthly active users. This number dropped to 1.8 million by 2012, and the game was retired on June 29, 2012.
Pet Society
In Pet Society, players own virtual pets in a "neighborhood." Players can dress up their pets, decorate their homes, go fishing, cook dishes, and dig for treasures. Gaining "paw points" allows players to eventually level up to Level 100. Players can also send gifts and do a crafting challenge to make an item. It was announced on April 15, 2013, that the game would be retired on June 14, 2013, however it was retired on June 17, 2013, instead.
Madden NFL Superstars
Madden NFL Superstars is a spin-off of the popular Madden NFL American football video game series. Players create a team ou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Political%20Cesspool | The Political Cesspool is a weekly far-right talk radio show founded by Tennessean political activist James Edwards and syndicated by the organizations Liberty News Radio Network and Accent Radio Network in the United States. First broadcast in October 2004 twice a week from radio station WMQM, per Edwards it has been simulcast on Stormfront Radio, a service of the white nationalist Stormfront website and as of 2011 is broadcast on Saturday nights on WLRM, a blues and southern soul radio station in Millington, Tennessee. Its sponsors include the white separatist Council of Conservative Citizens and the Institute for Historical Review, a Holocaust denial group.
According to its statement of principles, the show stands for the "Dispossessed Majority" and represents "a philosophy that is pro-White." It has attracted criticism—including from The Nation, The New Republic, the Stephen Roth Institute, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and the Anti-Defamation League—for its promotion of anti-semitic, white nationalist and white supremacist views. According to the SPLC, the show has featured a "Who's Who of the radical right", including members of the Ku Klux Klan; they say Edwards has probably done more than anyone in America to promote neo-Nazis, Holocaust deniers and other extremists.
The show features Edwards and his co-hosts Keith Alexander, Bill Rolen, Winston Smith, and Eddie Miller, as well as producer Art Frith. Former staffers include Geoff Melton, Jess Bonds and co-founder Austin Farley. Its guests have included author Jerome Corsi, Minuteman Project leader Jim Gilchrist, former Constitution Party presidential candidate Michael Peroutka, actor Sonny Landham, British National Party leader Nick Griffin, Vermont secessionist Thomas Naylor, and paleoconservative activist Pat Buchanan. It is carried by at least three licensed terrestrial radio stations in the United States and on network feeds on the Galaxy 19 communications satellite.
Background
James Edwards
Edwards is a far-right political activist from Memphis, Tennessee, described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a rising star of the modern white-nationalist movement. They write that he is articulate, charming, and at ease in front of the public, as well as in television and radio studios. He attended Briarcrest Christian School, a private school in Memphis, and in ninth grade transferred into a Christian-nationalist homeschooling program, a decision that he said led him into political activism. In 2000 he volunteered for Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign, and in 2002 ran unsuccessfully for the Tennessee House of Representatives. It was during this campaign that he met fellow activist Austin Farley, who was on the ballot against him. In October of that year, he and Farley established The Political Cesspool.
In 2007, Edwards was part of a panel that appeared on CNN's Paula Zahn Now, along with Roland S. Martin and Jesse Lee Peterson. The purpose was to discuss racial segregati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper%20Clip | "Paper Clip" is the second episode of the third season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on . It was directed by Rob Bowman, and written by series creator Chris Carter. "Paper Clip" featured guest appearances by Sheila Larken, Melinda McGraw and Nicholas Lea. The episode is one of those that explored the overarching mythology, or fictional history of The X-Files. "Paper Clip" earned a Nielsen household rating of 11.1, being watched by 17.2 million people in its initial broadcast. "Paper Clip" has received highly positive reviews from critics; it is generally considered by both critics and cast/crew as being among the best episodes of the series.
The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. In this episode, Mulder and Scully investigate information gleaned from secret government records, finding that a Nazi scientist working as part of Operation Paperclip may have been responsible for creating a race of human-alien hybrids. "Paper Clip" concludes a three-episode storyline, carrying on from the second season finale "Anasazi" and the third-season premiere "The Blessing Way".
The creators of the series likened themes of the episode to the Star Wars trilogy, referring to the revelations about Mulder's father, and Sophie's Choice, referring to how William Mulder was forced to choose Fox or Samantha to be taken.
Plot
Continuing from the previous episode, Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) and Walter Skinner (Mitch Pileggi) hold each other at gunpoint. Fox Mulder (David Duchovny), the person lingering outside his apartment, bursts in and forces Skinner to put his gun down. He also demands that Skinner surrender the digital tape. Skinner insists on keeping the tape, saying it is their only leverage in exposing the conspiracy.
The agents visit The Lone Gunmen, showing them an old photo featuring Bill Mulder, The Smoking Man, Deep Throat, and other members of the Syndicate. The Lone Gunmen also recognize Victor Klemper, a notorious Nazi scientist who was brought to the United States under Operation Paperclip. Melvin Frohike informs Scully of her sister Melissa's condition. Mulder persuades Scully not to visit Melissa at the hospital, since she could be targeted there.
Furious that the wrong person was murdered, the Syndicate demands that the Smoking Man produce the tape. The Smoking Man promises to do so the following day. Meanwhile, Mulder and Scully visit Klemper, who says that the photo was taken at Strughold Mining Facility, a former mine in West Virginia. After the agents leave, Klemper calls the Well-Manicured Man and informs him that Mulder is alive. The news causes the Syndicate to further mistrust the Smoking Man. Meanwhile, at the hospital, Albert Hosteen visits Melissa while a suited man loiters nearby.
Mulder and Scully arrive at the mining facility and, using the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender%20differences%20in%20social%20network%20service%20use | Men and women use social network services (SNSs) differently and with different frequencies. In general, several researchers have found that women tend to use SNSs more than men and for different and more social purposes.
Historical connections
Technologies, including communications technologies, have a long history of shaping and being shaped by the gender of their users. Although technologies used to perform housework have an apparent historical connection to gender in many cultures, a more ready connection to SNSs may be drawn with telephones as a communications technology readily and widely available in the home. Telephone use has long had gendered connections ranging from the widespread assumption that women simply talk more than men, and the employment of women as telephone operators. In particular, young women have been closely associated with extensive and trivial use of the telephone for purely social purposes. Similarly, women's use of and influence on the development of computers has been trivialized while significant developments in computers have been masculinized.
There may be both real and perceived differences in how men and women use SNSs – and that those uses may shape the SNSs – has historical analogues. There is historical and contemporary evidence that current fears about young girls' online safety have historical antecedents such as telegraphs and telephones. Further, in many cases those historical reactions resulted in restrictions of girls' use of technology to protect them from predators, molesters, and other criminals threatening their innocence. Like current fears focused on computer use, particularly SNSs and other communication media, these fears are most intense when the medium enters the home. These fears have the potential to – at least temporarily – overwhelm the positive and empowering uses of these technologies. These historical fears are echoed in contemporary media accounts of youths' use of SNSs.
Finally, the histories of some SNSs themselves have ties with gender. For example, gay men were one of the earliest groups to join and use the early SNS Friendster.
Differences
Predilection for usage
Many studies have found that women are more likely to use either specific SNSs such as Facebook or MySpace or SNSs in general. In 2015, 73% of online men and 80% of online women used social networking sites. The gap in gender differences has become less apparent in LinkedIn. In 2015 about 26 percent of online men and 25% of online women used the business-and employee-oriented networking site.
Researchers who have examined the gender of users of multiple SNSs have found contradictory results. Hargittai's groundbreaking 2007 study examining race, gender, and other differences between undergraduate college student users of SNSs found that women were not only more likely to have used SNSes than men but that they were also more likely to have used many different services, including Facebook, MySpace, and Friendster; t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law%20%26%20Order%3A%20Criminal%20Intent%20%28season%208%29 | The eighth season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent premiered on the USA Network in the United States on April 19, 2009. It consisted of sixteen episodes, and concluded on August 9, 2009. The day following each episode's broadcast on television, they are made available to purchase and download from the iTunes Store. Law & Order: Criminal Intent is an American police procedural television series set and filmed in New York City. It is the second spin-off of the long-running crime drama Law & Order, and was created by Dick Wolf and René Balcer. Law & Order: Criminal Intent follows the New York City Police Department's Major Case Squad, which investigates high-profile murder cases.
Season eight starred Vincent D'Onofrio as Detective Robert Goren, Kathryn Erbe as Detective Alexandra Eames, Julianne Nicholson as Detective Megan Wheeler, and Eric Bogosian as Captain Danny Ross. Jeff Goldblum joined the cast as Detective Zack Nichols. The season was executive produced by the following teams: Walon Green and Michael Chernuchin; Ed Zuckerman and Tim Lea; Dick Wolf and Peter Jankowski; and Norberto Barba, Diana Son, Julie Martin, and Arthur W. Forney.
Production
Law & Order: Criminal Intent is the third series in the crime drama Law & Order franchise, which was created by Dick Wolf in 1990. It was developed by Wolf and René Balcer, who began working on the original Law & Order series during its first season. Law & Order: Criminal Intent is a police procedural crime drama that follows a distinct division of the New York City Police Department: the Major Case Squad, and its investigations into high-profile murder cases, such as those involving VIPs, local government officials and employees, the financial industry, and the art world. Unlike the other series in the Law & Order franchise, Law & Order: Criminal Intent gives significant attention to the actions and motives of the criminals, rather than primarily focusing on the police investigation and trial prosecution. Episodes do not usually contain trials, and often end in confessions rather than plea bargains or verdicts.
USA Network made a sixteen-episode order for season eight on May 22, 2008, down from the twenty-two episodes of season seven. Production for season eight began at the end of the summer of 2008, shooting on location in and around New York City using local color. The main set of One Police Plaza is located at Pier 62, Chelsea Piers, Manhattan.
Following the departure of Warren Leight, who served as show runner, executive producer, and head writer in seasons six and seven, it was announced in July 2008 that Walon Green and Robert Nathan would share Leight's role for the forthcoming eighth season, handling eight episodes each; however, after making two episodes, Nathan was replaced by Law & Order executive producer Ed Zuckerman. Michael Chernuchin co-executive produces Green's episodes, and Tim Lea co-executive produces Zuckerman's episodes. Wolf and Peter Jankowski are also credited as ex |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashidate | The is a limited express train service operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West) in Japan. One of the services making up JR West's "Big X Network", it connects Kyoto Station, Amanohashidate Station and Toyooka Station via the Sanin Main Line and Kyoto Tango Railway's Miyafuku Line and Miyatoyo (Miyazu) Line. The color associated with the service is red.
Stops
Trains stop at the following stations:
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Rolling stock
287 series EMUs
289 series EMUs (from 31 October 2015, end at 25 March 2016)
KTR8000 series DMUs
Services are operated by 287 series electric multiple unit (EMU) trains based at Fukuchiyama Depot, and KTR8000 series DMUs from Willer Trains. 289 series EMUs converted from former dual-voltage 683 series trainsets were introduced on Hashidate services from 31 October 2015, replacing the remaining JNR-era 381 series trains.
After the resetting of the rolling stock in 26 March 2016, all 289 series EMUs were changed to 287 series EMUs.
Former
183 series EMUs (until 15 March 2013)
381 series EMUs (until 30 October 2015)
183 series EMUs were formerly used on some services, but were withdrawn by the start of the revised timetable on 16 March 2013.
381 series EMUs used on Hashidate services were withdrawn following the final day of operations on 30 October 2015.
History
The Hashidate first appeared in 1965 as a semi-express connecting Osaka and Amanohashidate via the Fukuchiyama Line, Sanin Main Line, and Miyazu Line. It became an express service in 1966. In 1968, Hashidate services were merged into Tamba services. Until March 11, 2011, the Monju and Tango Discovery were most like the original Hashidate service. From 1982 until 1992, the Hashidate was an express service connecting and Amanohashidate via the Obama Line and Miyazu Line. Two other services, the Wakasa and Taisha, had service areas that overlapped with the Hashidate.
March 1, 1961: The Wakasa begins service as a semi-express connecting Nishi-Maizuru and Kanazawa.
April 20, 1963: One daily round trip is added, service is extended to Fukui.
October 1, 1964: One daily round trip is discontinued. However, until the beginning of express Asashio service between Kanazawa and Izumo-shi on 1 December, the Wakasa operates as a temporary service.
March 5, 1966: The Wakasa becomes an express service.
October 1, 1966: The Taisha express service begins linking Nagoya, Tsuruga, and Izumo-shi. It connects with the Asashio between Tsuruga and Yonago.
July 1968: The Emerald express service begins, linking Nagoya and Higashi-Maizuru. Intended as a complement to the Taisha, it is introduced to ease crowding during the summer. After the Taisha service is discontinued, the Emerald continues to operate during summers until 1995.
October 1, 1968: Asashio services are renamed Taisha. Taisha service is modified to Nagoya and Kanazawa with Izumo-shi.
October 1, 1970: One round-trip Wakasa service is added.
March 15, 1972: Wakasa beg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Belmont%20Stakes%20broadcasters | The following is a list of national American television networks and announcers who have broadcast Belmont Stakes.
Television
2020s
Notes
In 2022, Fox Sports announced a deal to carry the Belmont Stakes from 2023 through 2030.
2010s
Notes
In 2011, NBC Sports once again became the broadcaster of all three Triple Crown races in separate broadcast deals; including an extension to its existing rights to the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, plus establishing a new 5-year deal to broadcast the Belmont Stakes after ABC and ESPN declined to renew their previous contract. All three deals lasted through 2015, and included supplementary coverage on NBC Sports Network for all three races. The additional coverage included 14-1/2 hours of Kentucky Derby pre-race coverage including an hour and a half live special for the Kentucky Oaks and six and a half hours of Preakness Stakes pre-race coverage including a one-hour live special on the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes both carried on NBC Sports Network.
2000s
Notes
Combined broadcast arrangements with ABC continued until 2001, when NBC Sports took over. Under NBC, ratings continued to go up, by as much as 20 percent in some years. It did not hurt that many horses, like Funny Cide and Smarty Jones, were making Triple Crown runs during those years (although all of them failed). From 2002 to 2004, the Belmont had the highest ratings of any horse race on television.
After the 2004 race, the New York Racing Association ended its deal with NBC, citing a conflict over profit-sharing arrangements. ABC won the rights to the Belmont, and Triple Crown Productions was effectively dissolved related to bonuses and broadcast rights. The only function that Triple Crown Production still oversees is joint nomination fees and a small joint marketing effort.
1990s
Notes
Jim McKay missed the 1995 Belmont, electing to undergo heart bypass surgery.
1980s
1970s
1960s
1950s
1940s
References
Lists of horse racing writers and broadcasters
ABC Sports
CBS Sports
Fox Sports
NBC Sports
Lists of announcers of American sports events
American horse racing announcers
Wide World of Sports (American TV series)
Broadcasters
CBS Sports Spectacular |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train%20Dispatcher%20%28computer%20simulation%29 | Train Dispatcher is a train simulator of centralized traffic control (CTC) systems. It was originally developed in the 1980s as a training tool for a commercial railroad and was then made available to the public. The software is currently produced by SoftRail (formerly Signal Computer Consultants) for Windows-based computers.
The simulator is operated from the perspective of a CTC dispatcher. Track diagrams similar to actual CTC displays are provided, and train operations run according to a timetable. Operations can be run in real time or adjusted fast or slow.
Version 2 of the software was released in 1997 and supported multiple track territories. The manufacturer provided five territory files in the initial package, and offered additional territories for sale on its website. It also provided companion software called "Track Builder" which allows users to create and share files for additional railroad territories. Users have created territory files for many locations, including North America, Australia and Europe, and some of these files are available for free downloading on the company's website. The version 2 software is available as a free download from the manufacturer.
The current version of the software is 3.5, and is provided with five US territories, and one each for Canada and Australia. Additional for-sale and free territory files are available.
In April 2012 Softrail announced that it would discontinue Train Dispatcher 3 as of April 30, 2012.
References
External links
Softrail - official site
Train Dispatcher 3 - Free download
Train Dispatcher 2 - Free download
Train simulation video games
Windows games
Railway signalling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXSA-TV | DXSA-TV, channel 10, is a television station of Philippine television network Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation. Its transmitter are located at City Heights, General Santos. This station is currently inactive.
See also
List of Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation channels and stations
Television stations in General Santos
Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation stations
Television channels and stations established in 1975 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Watson | IBM Watson is a question-answering computer system capable of answering questions posed in natural language, developed in IBM's DeepQA project by a research team led by principal investigator David Ferrucci. Watson was named after IBM's founder and first CEO, industrialist Thomas J. Watson.
The computer system was initially developed to answer questions on the quiz show Jeopardy! and in 2011, the Watson computer system competed on Jeopardy! against champions Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings, winning the first place prize of 1 million USD.
In February 2013, IBM announced that Watson's first commercial application would be for utilization management decisions in lung cancer treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, in conjunction with WellPoint (now Elevance Health)..
Description
Watson was created as a question answering (QA) computing system that IBM built to apply advanced natural language processing, information retrieval, knowledge representation, automated reasoning, and machine learning technologies to the field of open domain question answering.
IBM stated that Watson uses "more than 100 different techniques to analyze natural language, identify sources, find and generate hypotheses, find and score evidence, and merge and rank hypotheses."
In recent years, Watson's capabilities have been extended and the way in which Watson works has been changed to take advantage of new deployment models (Watson on IBM Cloud), evolved machine learning capabilities, and optimized hardware available to developers and researchers. It is no longer purely a question answering (QA) computing system designed from Q&A pairs but can now 'see', 'hear', 'read', 'talk', 'taste', 'interpret', 'learn' and 'recommend'.
Software
Watson uses IBM's DeepQA software and the Apache UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Architecture) framework implementation. The system was written in various languages, including Java, C++, and Prolog, and runs on the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 operating system using the Apache Hadoop framework to provide distributed computing.
Hardware
The system is workload-optimized, integrating massively parallel POWER7 processors and built on IBM's DeepQA technology, which it uses to generate hypotheses, gather massive evidence, and analyze data. Watson employs a cluster of ninety IBM Power 750 servers, each of which uses a 3.5 GHz POWER7 eight-core processor, with four threads per core. In total, the system uses 2,880 POWER7 processor threads and 16 terabytes of RAM.
According to John Rennie, Watson can process 500 gigabytes (the equivalent of a million books) per second. IBM master inventor and senior consultant Tony Pearson estimated Watson's hardware cost at about three million dollars. Its Linpack performance stands at 80 TeraFLOPs, which is about half as fast as the cut-off line for the Top 500 Supercomputers list. According to Rennie, all content was stored in Watson's RAM for the Jeopardy game because data st |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interception%20Modernisation%20Programme | The Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP) was a UK government initiative to extend the government's capabilities for lawful interception and storage of communications data. It was widely reported that the IMP's eventual goal was to store details of all UK communications data in a central database.
The proposal was similar to the NSA Call Database (MAINWAY) established by GCHQ's American counterpart NSA and the Titan traffic database established by the Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment.
In 2008 plans were being made to collect data on all phone calls, emails, chatroom discussions and web-browsing habits as part of the IMP, thought likely to require the insertion of 'thousands' of black box probes into the country's computer and telephone networks. The proposals were expected to be included in the Communications Data Bill 2008. The "giant database" would include telephone numbers dialled, the websites visited and addresses to which e-mails are sent "but not the content of e-mails or telephone conversations." Chris Huhne, the Liberal Democrat Home affairs spokesman said: "The government's Orwellian plans for a vast database of our private communications are deeply worrying." Despite this, the Home Office denied reports that a prototype of the IMP had already been built.
Reports in April 2009 suggested that the government had changed its public stance to one of using legal measures to compel communications providers to store the data themselves, and making it available for government to access; then Home Secretary Jacqui Smith stated that "there are absolutely no plans for a single central store."
The new plans were thought to involve spending £2bn on paying ISPs to install deep packet inspection equipment within their own networks, and obliging them to perform the cross-correlation and profiling of their users' behaviour themselves, in effect achieving the original goals of the IMP by different means.
A detailed analysis was published by the Policy Engagement Network of the London School of Economics on 16 June 2009. The All Party Privacy Group held a hearing on IMP in the House of Commons on 1 July 2009.
In 2010 the new coalition government apparently revived the IMP in its Strategic Defence and Security Review. The new version of the IMP was known as the Communications Capabilities Development Programme.
See also
Data Retention Directive
Mass surveillance in the United Kingdom
National Identity Register
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000
References
External links
Intercept Modernisation at the Open Rights Group wiki
Surveillance
Civil rights and liberties in the United Kingdom
Mass intelligence-gathering systems
Surveillance databases
Government databases in the United Kingdom
Home Office (United Kingdom)
GCHQ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20infrastructure%20management | Remote infrastructure management (RIM) is the remote management of information technology (IT) infrastructure. This can include the management of computer hardware and software, such as workstations (desktops, laptops, notebooks, etc.), servers, network devices, storage devices, IT security devices, etc. of a company.
Major sub-services included in RIM are:
Service desk / Help desk
Proactive monitoring of server and network devices
Workstation management
Server Management
Storage management
Application support
IT security Management and database management.
See also
Remote monitoring and management
Network monitoring
Network performance management
Systems management
Comparison of network monitoring systems
References
Computer networking
System administration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movenda | Movenda is a company that provides software products for Device & SIMCard Remote Management. Movenda works for mobile operators, Handset and SIMCard manufacturers, and mobile virtual network operators to accelerate the adoption of new technologies and services. The company is heavily involved in the mobile solutions sector.
Movenda was founded in 1999, and is headquartered in Rome, Italy. Telecom Italia is a Movenda minority shareholder.
Product Lines
SIMCard: Smart Card Web Server management, SIMCard OTA management, SIMCard quality testing.
Movenda has developed an SCWS management platform that allows one to configure and manage a web portal resident on a USIM card remotely, thanks to a web server running internally that allows the Mobile network operator to implement Value-added services.
Mobile Phones: OMA device management and client provisioning, OMA firmware OTA, Android and iPhone customized applications.
Mobile Content: delivery and protection.
References
Software companies of Italy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instance-based%20learning | In machine learning, instance-based learning (sometimes called memory-based learning) is a family of learning algorithms that, instead of performing explicit generalization, compare new problem instances with instances seen in training, which have been stored in memory. Because computation is postponed until a new instance is observed, these algorithms are sometimes referred to as "lazy."
It is called instance-based because it constructs hypotheses directly from the training instances themselves.
This means that the hypothesis complexity can grow with the data: in the worst case, a hypothesis is a list of n training items and the computational complexity of classifying a single new instance is O(n). One advantage that instance-based learning has over other methods of machine learning is its ability to adapt its model to previously unseen data. Instance-based learners may simply store a new instance or throw an old instance away.
Examples of instance-based learning algorithms are the k-nearest neighbors algorithm, kernel machines and RBF networks. These store (a subset of) their training set; when predicting a value/class for a new instance, they compute distances or similarities between this instance and the training instances to make a decision.
To battle the memory complexity of storing all training instances, as well as the risk of overfitting to noise in the training set, instance reduction algorithms have been proposed.
See also
Analogical modeling
References
Machine learning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20profiling | A thermal profile is a complex set of time-temperature data typically associated with the measurement of thermal temperatures in an oven (ex: reflow oven). The thermal profile is often measured along a variety of dimensions such as slope, soak, time above liquidus (TAL), and peak.
A thermal profile can be ranked on how it fits in a process window (the specification or tolerance limit). Raw temperature values are normalized in terms of a percentage relative to both the process mean and the window limits. The center of the process window is defined as zero, and the extreme edges of the process window are ±99%. A Process Window Index (PWI) greater than or equal to 100% indicates the profile is outside of the process limitations. A PWI of 99% indicates that the profile is within process limitations, but runs at the edge of the process window. For example, if the process mean is set at 200 °C with the process window calibrated at 180 °C and 220 °C respectively, then a measured value of 188 °C translates to a process window index of −60%.
The method is used in a variety of industrial and laboratory processes, including electronic component assembly, optoelectronics, optics, biochemical engineering, food science, decontamination of hazardous wastes, and geochemical analysis.
Soldering of electronic products
One of the major uses of this method is soldering of electronic assemblies. There are two main types of profiles used today: The Ramp-Soak-Spike (RSS) and the Ramp to Spike (RTS). In modern systems, quality management practices in manufacturing industries have produced automatic process algorithms such as PWI, where soldering ovens come preloaded with extensive electronics and programmable inputs to define and refine process specifications. By using algorithms such as PWI, engineers can calibrate and customize parameters to achieve minimum process variance and a near zero defect rate.
Reflow process
In soldering, a thermal profile is a complex set of time-temperature values for a variety of process dimensions such as slope, soak, TAL, and peak. Solder paste contains a mix of metal, flux, and solvents that aid in the phase change of the paste from semi-solid, to liquid to vapor; and the metal from solid to liquid. For an effective soldering process, soldering must be carried out under carefully calibrated conditions in a reflow oven. Convection Reflow Oven Detailed Description
There are two main profile types used today in soldering:
The Ramp-Soak-Spike (RSS)
Ramp to Spike (RTS)
Ramp-Soak-Spike
Ramp is defined as the rate of change in temperature over time, expressed in degrees per second. The most commonly used process limit is 4 °C/s, though many component and solder paste manufacturers specify the value as 2 °C/s. Many components have a specification where the rise in temperature should not exceed a specified temperature per second, such as 2 °C/s. Rapid evaporation of the flux contained in the solder paste can lead to defects, such |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost%20Island%20Lake | Lost Island Lake is a lake north of Ruthven, Iowa, United States.
References
Iowa Lakes Information System: Lost Island Lake, Summary Data Table
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20080518032924/http://www.emmetsburg.com/recreation/lo-lake.htm
http://findlakes.com/lost_island_lake_iowa_vacation.htm
http://www.ruthvenlostisland.com/
http://www.stateparks.com/lost_island_lake.html
Lakes of Iowa
Bodies of water of Clay County, Iowa
Bodies of water of Palo Alto County, Iowa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TenAsys | TenAsys (rhymes with tenacious) is a privately owned company providing real-time software and services based on the x86 Intel Architecture and Microsoft Windows operating system.
History
The company was founded in 2000 as a spin-off of RadiSys Corporation to exploit the RTOS technology based on the iRMX and INtime for Windows products originally developed by Intel Corporation. RadiSys acquired the iRMX and INtime RTOS technology when they purchased Intel's Multibus division in 1996.
RadiSys released version 1.0 of the INtime RTOS in June, 1997. The product was selected as one of two finalists in the EDN 1997 "Innovation of the Year" embedded development category.
Effective 2000 iRMX III is supported, maintained, and licensed worldwide by TenAsys Corporation, under an exclusive licensing arrangement with Intel.
Products
TenAsys develops real-time operating system (RTOS) products designed to merge two separate computing platforms into one. Specifically, their products provide a means by which an RTOS can run in parallel with Windows on a standard PC platform. Their products are specific to the x86 Intel architecture.
iRMX III
iRMX is a real-time operating system designed specifically for use with the Intel 8080 and Intel 8086 family of processors. It is an acronym for Real-time Multitasking eXecutive. Intel developed iRMX in the late 1970s and originally released it in 1980 to support and create demand for their processors and Multibus system platforms.
iRMX for Windows
iRMX for Windows provides legacy support for existing applications based on the iRMX III real-time operating system and the iRMX for Windows RTOS produced by Intel beginning in 1992.
The iRMX for Windows RTOS loads and runs on a standard Windows system. Upon initialization, it sets up a separate execution environment, takes over the CPU, and encapsulates Windows as the lowest priority iRMX task. The iRMX operating system scheduler then determines which tasks will run; whenever a real-time task is ready to run, it preempts Windows, handles all real-time activities, and then resumes Windows (the lowest priority iRMX task) after all real-time activities have completed.
INtime RTOS for Windows
Like iRMX for Windows, the INtime RTOS also installs on a standard Windows system. Once installed, the INtime RTOS schedules all real-time processes to run first, at a higher priority than Windows. The INtime RTOS runs as a separate, independent kernel outside of the Windows kernel, without modifying the Windows kernel, drivers, or applications.
Real-time processes run on the INtime kernel, and non-real-time processes run on Windows. Windows application threads communicate with their real time counterparts on the INtime kernel through a special API that facilitates coordination and data sharing.
eVM Virtualization Platform for Windows
The eVM virtualization platform provides a virtual machine that hosts real-time and embedded operating systems running alongside Microsoft Windows. T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain%20Wegmann | Alain Wegmann (born 1958) was a Swiss computer scientist, professor of Systemic Modeling at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), and Information Technology and Services consultant, known for the development of the Systemic Enterprise Architecture Methodology (SEAM).
Biography
Wegmann received his EE (Engineer's degree) degree at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 1981, and his Ph.D. in office automation at Paris VI University in France in 1984.
In 1984 Wegmann started his career at Logitech in Romanel, Switzerland, where he kept working for 14 years in Switzerland, Taiwan and the US. At Logitech he moved up from software developer, IS manager, manufacturing engineering to vice president engineering and marketing director. In 1996 he returned to his alma mater, where he became professor Systemic Modeling.
Wegmann has been conference program member of the Requirement Engineering Conference in 2006, steering committee member of the EDOC Conference in 2009 and conference program member of UML Conference in 2009. He is member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the engineering academy (SATW) of the Swiss Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Wegmann passed away on December 1st, 2022.
Work
Wegmann's research interests and expertise were in the fields of "strategic thinking, marketing, enterprise architecture, requirements engineering, service-oriented architecture".
Publications
Wegmann published a series of articles starting in the new millennium A selection.
2001. "Conceptual modeling of complex systems using an RM-ODP based Ontology" with Andrey Naumenko, in : Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, 2001. EDOC '01. Proceedings. Fifth IEEE International. p. 200-211
2003. "On the systemic enterprise architecture methodology (SEAM)". Published at the International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems 2003 (ICEIS 2003).
2004. "Enterprise Architecture: What Aspects is Current Research Targeting?". With Kerstin Langenberg. Laboratory of Systemic Modeling, at infoscience.epfl.ch
2005. "Where do Goals Come from: the Underlying Principles of Goal-Oriented". With Gil Regev. in: Proceedings 13th IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering (RE’05), Paris, France, 2005 . p. 353-362
2007. "Teaching Enterprise and Service-Oriented Architecture in Practice". Wegmann et al., in: Journal of Enterprise Architecture, 4(3):15 - 24, 2007.
2008. "Using Declarative Specifications in Business Process Design". With I. Rychkova and G. Regev, in: International Journal of Computer Science & Applications, V(IIIb): p. 45-68
2008 "Specifying Services for ITIL Service Management". A. Wegmann, et al. in: The International Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing Consequences for Engineering Requirements (SOCCER'08) in the 16th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 2008.
2008. ""Augmenting the Zachman Enterprise Archit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Eggs | The Eggs is a children's animated television program that broadcast on the Nine Network on 2004 to 2009. There are 52 episodes of 12 minutes duration. Two cartoon episodes were usually screened together in a half hour timeslot. The Eggs was produced by Tony Byrne and Brendan Byrne (not related).
Series synopsis
The Eggs follows the colourful adventures of the four anthropomorphic egg college graduates as they continue their mission through the Looneyverse to search out valuable new sounds for their music-loving home planet of Kazoo. On their travels, they visit many unique and strange different planets each with their own music and sounds.
Characters
Main
Benedict (voiced by Mike O'Reilly (speaking); John Koensgen (singing)) - Benedict is a level-headed scientist egg who has his own laboratory aboard Shelly. He wears a blue spacesuit.
Yolky (voiced by Kate Hurman (speaking); Andrea Lees (singing)) - Yolky is a plucky, feisty female egg who is often made fun of for being slightly smaller than the others. She wears a red spacesuit.
Scramble (voiced by Terrence Scammell) - Scramble is a cowardly and lazy egg. He wears a green spacesuit.
Sunnyside (voiced by Hélène Joy) - Sunnyside is a friendly, positive and stylish egg. She wears a purple spacesuit.
Recurring
Shelly (voiced by Hélène Joy)
Min (voiced by Kate Hurman)
Eggor (voiced by Rick Jones)
The Worms
Eeny (voiced by Terrence Scammell)
Meeny (voiced by Rick Jones)
Miney (voiced by Mike O'Reilly)
Fred (voiced by Terrence Scammell)
Voice cast
Main
Mike O'Reilly - Benedict (speaking), Miney
John Koensgen - Benedict (singing)
Kate Hurman - Yolky (speaking), Min
Andrea Lees - Yolky (singing)
Terrence Scammell - Scramble, Eeny, Fred
Hélène Joy - Sunnyside, Shelly
Rick Jones - Eggor, Meeny
Additional voices
Pierre Brault
Kate Hurman
Rick Jones
Hélène Joy
John Koensgen
Nancy Neilson
Mike O'Reilly
Terrence Scammell
Ross Wilson
Episode list
Series 1 (2004)
Series 2 (2004)
Series 3 (2005)
Series 4 (2005)
References
External links
2000s Australian animated television series
2004 Australian television series debuts
2005 Australian television series endings
2000s Canadian animated television series
2004 Canadian television series debuts
2005 Canadian television series endings
Australian children's animated adventure television series
Canadian children's animated adventure television series
Nine Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20News%20of%20Texas | The News of Texas is a statewide newscast in Texas that was syndicated to 27 affiliate stations in the state by the San Antonio-based Texas Network (TXN) between January 18, 1999, and July 31, 2000. TXN was founded by James R. Leininger, a San Antonio physician and conservative political donor, and Bob Rogers, a longtime San Antonio news executive. The program provided in-depth news and feature coverage focusing on Texas issues. However, it expanded quickly and faced difficulty attracting viewers in large markets in the state. Unable to accrue advertising revenue, TXN shut down in 2000.
Launch
The Texas Network was founded by San Antonio physician and conservative political donor James R. Leininger, who invested $10 million into the product, and Bob Rogers, the former vice president of San Antonio's KENS TV. Rogers conducted surveys in 1998 that found that 77 percent of Texans wanted more statewide news coverage. The project pivoted from a daily newspaper to television after determining that TV news offered greater revenue potential.
The News of Texas debuted on January 18, 1999, in 17 of the state's 20 markets. The program originated from studios in Hollywood Park, near San Antonio, in rebuilt facilities that had housed Christian station KHCE-TV. The company maintained news bureaus in Austin, Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio, as well as three satellite trucks positioned throughout the state to provide newsgathering facilities. The news program was updated nine times a day, and local stations could also incorporate stories from TXN into their own newscasts. Technically, TXN was an all-digital operation, with the final studio equipment setup coming into use in September 1999.
In September 1999, TXN expanded from television news to radio products and a newswire for newspapers and the internet, with a view to serving media outlets in mid-sized Texas cities.
The News of Texas was generally well received. In retrospect, the San Antonio Current hailed TXN for its "remarkably competent broadcast journalists and highly talented video shooters on staff". Jeanne Jakle of the San Antonio Express-News found its dedication to stories in Texas "refreshing" and the content informative. There was one notable incident where a TXN reporter mailed out postcards to the state's sex offenders with the Texas Department of Public Safety on the return address and no markings indicating the mailings came from the news organization; TXN suspended the reporter.
TXN was not the only startup seeking to cover Texas news to debut in 1999. On January 1, the Belo Corporation, which owned stations in Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio, started Texas Cable News (TXCN), a regional 24-hour news channel. Belo did not own an Austin station at the network's launch, but it traded for Austin ABC affiliate KVUE in a deal announced in February 1999. The similarity of the names of TXN and TXCN led to a lawsuit filed by Belo in November 1998, shortly before both services launche |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20%28original%29 | The Samsung GT-I7500 Galaxy is a smartphone manufactured by Samsung that uses the open source Android operating system. It was announced on 27 April 2009 and was released on 29 June 2009 as the first Samsung Mobile device to use the Android operating system introduced in the HTC Dream (marketed as the T-Mobile G1), and the first in what would become the long-running Galaxy series. It is succeeded by the Samsung Galaxy S.
Features
The Galaxy is a smartphone, offering quad-band GSM and announced with tri-band HSDPA (900/1700/2100) at 7.2Mbit/s (however, Samsung's official pages for the Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish versions only mention dual-band UMTS 900/2100). The phone features a 3.2-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with power LED flash, and a digital compass. Unlike the first Android phone, the HTC Dream (known as the T-Mobile G1 in the USA), the i7500 has a standard 3.5 mm headphone jack, and a Directional Pad in place of a trackball.
The Galaxy offers a suite of Mobile Google services, including Google Search, Gmail, YouTube, Google Calendar, and Google Talk. The phone's GPS enables Google Maps features such as My Location, and Google Latitude. It also supports MP3, AAC (including iTunes Plus downloads) (only the codec, not the .aac format), and H.264 video. A beta version of the Spotify music streaming service was also available for this phone via the Android Marketplace.
Criticism
Due to a lack of firmware updates, Samsung received criticism from original Galaxy users.
For some countries, Samsung updated the Galaxy's firmware to Android Donut (1.6) version. Users from other countries could download and update manually at the risk of voiding the warranty.
See also
Samsung i8000 Omnia II, Samsung's Windows Mobile flagship at the time
Samsung i8910 Omnia HD, Samsung's Symbian flagship phone at the time
Samsung S8000 Jet, Samsung's mid-range proprietary phone at the time
References
External links
Samsung Mobile homepage
Official press release
Samsung Galaxy I7500 Owners Group
Galaxy (Original)
Android (operating system) devices
Mobile Linux
Portable media players
Mobile phones introduced in 2009
Samsung smartphones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20verification | Data verification is a process in which different types of data are checked for accuracy and inconsistencies after data migration is done. In some domains it is referred to Source Data Verification (SDV), such as in clinical trials.
Data verification helps to determine whether data was accurately translated when data is transferred from one source to another, is complete, and supports processes in the new system. During verification, there may be a need for a parallel run of both systems to identify areas of disparity and forestall erroneous data loss.
Methods for data verification include double data entry, proofreading and automated verification of data. Proofreading data involves someone checking the data entered against the original document. This is also time consuming and costly. Automated verification of data can be achieved using one way hashes locally or through use of a SaaS based service such as Q by SoLVBL to provide immutable seals to allow verification of the original data.
See also
Data validation
Verification and validation
References
External links
PC Guide article
Data management
Data quality |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial%20Road%201 | Radial Road 1 (R-1), informally known as the R-1 Road, is a network of roads and bridges that all together form the first arterial road of Metro Manila in the Philippines. Spanning some , it connects the cities and municipalities of Bacoor, General Trias, Imus, Kawit, Las Piñas, Manila, Naic, Noveleta, Parañaque, Pasay, and Tanza in Cavite and Metro Manila.
Route description
Bonifacio Drive
Between Anda Circle and Padre Burgos Avenue, R-1 is known as Bonifacio Drive. It serves the districts of Intramuros and Port Area and meets Roxas Boulevard in Rizal Park.
Roxas Boulevard
R-1 becomes Roxas Boulevard after intersecting with Padre Burgos Avenue. This section of R-1 passes through the kilometer zero of the Philippines in Rizal Park. It is a waterfront promenade which leads out of Ermita and Malate in the city of Manila into Pasay and Parañaque. Roxas Boulevard ends at the junction with NAIA Road and Seaside Drive.
Manila–Cavite Expressway
Between the NAIA Road and Covelandia Road in Kawit, Cavite, R-1 is known as the Manila–Cavite Expressway (also known as Coastal Road and CAVITEX). This toll road connects Parañaque with Las Piñas and leaves Metro Manila for Bacoor and Kawit in the province of Cavite.
Covelandia Road
R-1 then merges with Covelandia Road briefly until it meets Antero Soriano Highway at the intersection with Tirona Highway.
Antero Soriano Highway
R-1 is known as the Antero Soriano Highway from the Covelandia Road's terminus in Kawit to Governor's Drive in Naic. It connects the Cavite municipalities of Noveleta, Rosario, Tanza, and the cities of General Trias, and Imus along the coast of Manila Bay in Cavite.
Notes
References
Routes in Metro Manila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial%20Road%208 | Radial Road 8, more commonly referred to as R-8, is a network of roads and bridges that altogether form the eighth radial road of Manila in the Philippines. It runs north-south through northern Metro Manila linking the City of Manila with Quezon City, Caloocan, and Valenzuela into the northern provinces of Bulacan, Pampanga, Tarlac, Pangasinan, and La Union. The portion of R-8 between Guiguinto and Balintawak is also designated a component of the Pan-Philippine Highway network (AH26). It also has a spur segment in Quirino Highway from NLEX to its junction with R-7 at Commonwealth Avenue, both in Quezon City.
Route
The road consists of the following segments:
Quezon Boulevard
Between Quezon Bridge over the Pasig River in the district of Quiapo and Lerma Street in Sampaloc, R-8 is known as Quezon Boulevard. It is the main north-south thoroughfare of Quiapo which is also linked to Radial Road 7 (R-7) via a tunnel to Lerma Street.
Alfonso Mendoza Street
Between Lerma Street and Laong Laan Street, R-8 is carried by Alfonso Mendoza Street (formerly Calle Andalucía), the continuation of Quezon Boulevard along the Sampaloc–Santa Cruz border. Past Laong Laan, the street continues unassigned to R-8 up to Lacson Avenue.
Dimasalang Street
Between Lacson Avenue and Blumentritt Road at Sampaloc's border with Quezon City, R-8 is known as Dimasalang Street. It passes the Dangwa flower market at its south end and leads to the Manila North Green Park and the Manila North Cemetery main gate at its north end before merging with Bonifacio Avenue.
A. Bonifacio Avenue
A. Bonifacio Avenue carries R-8 between Blumentritt Road and Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA). It intersects with Del Monte Avenue and 5th Avenue, a part of Circumferential Road 3 (C-3), before coming to an interchange with EDSA and North Luzon Expressway at the Balintawak Cloverleaf.
North Luzon Expressway
The main segment of R-8 is North Luzon Expressway (NLEx). It leads motorists out of Metro Manila into the Central Luzon provinces of Bulacan and Pampanga passing through Quezon City and Valenzuela. The section of NLEx between the Santa Rita Interchange in Guiguinto and Balintawak Interchange in Quezon City is also the route of the Pan-Philippine Highway (AH26) from the Cagayan Valley Road to EDSA. The road ends at an interchange with the Subic–Clark–Tarlac Expressway in Mabalacat, Pampanga.
Subic–Clark–Tarlac Expressway
NLEx connects to the Subic–Clark–Tarlac Expressway (SCTEX) via Clark Spur Road towards the interchange of SCTEX Main in Mabalacat. SCTEX Main then carries R-8 north towards Tarlac City.
Tarlac–Pangasinan–La Union Expressway
Between Tarlac City and its northern terminus at Manila North Road and Pugo–Rosario Road in Rosario, R-8 is known as the Tarlac–Pangasinan–La Union Expressway (TPLEx). It links the provinces of Tarlac, Nueva Ecija, Pangasinan, and La Union.
R-8 Spur
The segment of Quirino Highway is considered as a spur of R-8, branching from the Novaliches Interc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial%20Road%203 | Radial Road 3 (R-3), informally known as the R-3 Road, is a network of roads and bridges that all together form the third arterial road of Metro Manila in the Philippines. Spanning some , it connects the cities and municipalities of Batangas, Biñan, Cabuyao, Calamba, Ibaan, Lipa, Makati, Malvar, Muntinlupa, Parañaque, Pasay, San Jose, San Pedro, Santa Rosa, Santo Tomas, Taguig, and Tanauan in Batangas, Laguna, and Metro Manila.
Route description
Osmeña Highway
Between its northern terminus at the intersection with Quirino Avenue in Paco district and Sales Interchange at the boundary of Pasay and Taguig, R-3 is known as Osmeña Highway. It used to be known as South Superhighway which is the toll-free component of South Luzon Expressway in Metro Manila, named after Commonwealth president Sergio Osmeña. It links Paco and San Andres south to Magallanes Interchange in Makati. The name also refers to the expressway segment south of Magallanes Interchange up to Kilometer 28.387 in San Pedro, Laguna.
South Luzon Expressway
The main segment of R-3 is the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) which runs underneath Skyway up to Muntinlupa in Metro Manila and forms a component of the Pan-Philippine Highway (AH26). With the expressway section starting at Magallanes Interchange and its
restrictions starting at Sales Interchange, it traverses the Metro Manila cities of Makati, Taguig, Pasay, Parañaque, and Muntinlupa and the Laguna cities of San Pedro, Biñan, the Cavite municipality of Carmona, and the Laguna cities of Santa Rosa, Cabuyao, and Calamba before arriving at the Southern Tagalog Arterial Road in the city of Santo Tomas in Batangas.
Southern Tagalog Arterial Road
R-3 is known as the Southern Tagalog Arterial Road (STAR Tollway) in the province of Batangas, which connects the South Luzon Expressway with the Port of Batangas in Batangas City.
Notes
References
Routes in Metro Manila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial%20Road%209 | Radial Road 9, more commonly referred to as R-9, is a network of roads and bridges that all together form the ninth radial road of Manila in the Philippines. It is the westernmost of the radial roads north of the Pasig River that actually lead to the provinces. The road links the City of Manila with Caloocan, Malabon and Valenzuela in the north, leading out of Metro Manila into the provinces of Bulacan, Pampanga, Tarlac, Pangasinan, and La Union.
Route
The road consists of the following segments:
Rizal Avenue
Between the Pasig River front of the district of Santa Cruz and the Monumento Roundabout at the intersection with Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) in Caloocan, R-9 is known as Rizal Avenue. It runs underneath the LRT Line 1 (Line 1).
MacArthur Highway
R-9 becomes the MacArthur Highway after crossing the intersection of EDSA and Samson Road at the Monumento Roundabout. It connects South Caloocan with Malabon and Valenzuela running parallel to the North Luzon Expressway (R-8) to the east. The highway crosses into the Central Luzon provinces of Bulacan, Pampanga, Tarlac, Pangasinan, and La Union, where it is also known as the Manila North Road. The R-9 segment of the road terminates at the junction with Kennon Road in Rosario.
See also
List of roads in Metro Manila
References
Routes in Metro Manila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumferential%20Road%203 | Circumferential Road 3 (C-3), informally known as the C-3 Road, is a network of roads and bridges that all together form the third beltway of Metro Manila in the Philippines. Spanning some , it connects the cities of Caloocan, Makati, Navotas, Pasay, Quezon City, and San Juan.
History
The development of a major road network in Manila was first conceived in the Metropolitan Thoroughfare Plan of 1945, predicting that the metropolis in the 1940s will expand further to the shorelines of Laguna de Bay. The plan proposed the laying of circumferential roads 1 to 6 and radial roads 1 to 10.
Metro Manila Skybridge
The Metro Manila Skybridge was a proposed six-lane elevated expressway that could have formed the missing link of C-3 between G. Araneta Avenue in Quezon City and South Avenue in Makati with several interchanges.
The project was cancelled due to the Skyway Stage 3 project occupying the portion of the San Juan River located on the boundaries of Manila, Mandaluyong, San Juan, and Quezon City, which could have been utilized to establish the road link to the next segment of the road system. Currently, no other methods nor proposals have been raised to complete the road link.
Route description
C-3 Road
C-3 Road is the portion of C-3 from R-10 in Navotas to Baltazar Street, located past the Philippine National Railways railroad crossing and the Caloocan Interchange of the NLEX Harbor Link and Connector projects in Caloocan.
5th Avenue
Past Baltazar Street, C-3 becomes 5th Avenue, a six-lane, two-way traffic roadway from Caloocan to A. Bonifacio Avenue in Quezon City. Prior to its expansion, this roadway was a two-lane, one-way traffic roadway eastwards. The expansion aimed to accommodate and connect C-3 Road (east) and C-3 Road (west) to both eastbound and westbound traffic. Being the fifth avenue running east–west from the city's border with Manila in the south, it passes through the areas of Grace Park West, Grace Park East, and Barrio San Jose, as well as the northern boundary of La Loma Cemetery, in Caloocan before entering Quezon City.
Sergeant Rivera Avenue
After crossing A. Bonifacio Avenue, C-3 becomes Sgt. Rivera Avenue, a main road in Quezon City with six lanes. Skyway's alignment over C-3 begins at this road. It becomes G. Araneta after turning southwards after its intersection with Santo Domingo Avenue. Oftentimes, the names G. Araneta and Sgt. Rivera are interchangeably used by people in this segment of the C-3.
Gregorio Araneta Avenue
C-3 becomes G. Araneta Avenue after turning southwards after its intersection with Santo Domingo Avenue up to where it was cut short in San Juan via the N. Domingo Street. This area of the C-3 is well known for its big funeral parlors such as Arlington and La Funeraria Paz, SM City Sta. Mesa and the creek from Toctokan Street up to Quezon Avenue which is a flood prone zone due to overflowing during rainy season and it being one of the lowest area in the C-3 (the other is the area where it c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial%20Road%202 | Radial Road 2 (R-2), informally known as the R-2 Road, is a network of roads and bridges that all together form the second arterial road of Metro Manila in the Philippines. Spanning some , it connects the cities and municipalities of Bacoor, Dasmariñas, Imus, Las Piñas, Manila, Parañaque, Pasay, Silang, and Tagaytay in Cavite and Metro Manila.
Route description
Taft Avenue
Between its northern terminus at the Lagusnilad underpass of Padre Burgos Avenue and Redemptorist Road in Pasay, R-2 is known as Taft Avenue. It serves the districts of Ermita and Malate running underneath the Manila Light Rail Transit System Line 1 (LRT-1) towards Parañaque via Pasay.
Elpidio Quirino Avenue
Taft Avenue Extension merges with Elpidio Quirino Avenue at the intersection with Redemptorist Road near the Pasay–Parañaque border. This section of R-2 runs the entire length of Parañaque from Baclaran to San Dionisio.
Diego Cera Avenue
R-2 is known as Diego Cera Avenue in Las Piñas. It runs between the Parañaque–Las Piñas boundary and Alabang–Zapote Road.
Aguinaldo Highway
From Alabang–Zapote Road south to Tagaytay, R-2 is known as Aguinaldo Highway. It is the main north-south thoroughfare in the province of Cavite linking Las Piñas, Metro Manila with Cavite, particularly the cities and municipalities of Bacoor, Imus, Dasmariñas, Silang, and Tagaytay. R-2 ends at the Tagaytay Rotunda, providing the famous view of the Taal Lake.
Notes
References
Routes in Metro Manila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977%20in%20British%20television | This is a list of British television related events from 1977.
Events
January
1 January – BBC1 airs its network television premiere of the 1971 musical film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, starring Gene Wilder.
3 January – The US crime drama series, Charlie's Angels makes its UK debut on ITV, starring Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and Jaclyn Smith as the crime-fighting trio, the "Angels".
10 January – ITV broadcasts the first episode of the children's folk horror drama Children of the Stones.
February
3 February – The Annan Committee on the future of broadcasting makes its recommendations. They include the establishment of a fourth independent television channel, the establishment of Broadcasting Complaints Commission and an increase in independent production.
14 February – BBC1 debut the children's animated series The Flumps, which, although only 13 episodes are ever produced, will be broadcast on the BBC until 1988.
15 February – The first Aardman Animations character, Morph, is introduced with the launch of BBC children's series Take Hart with Tony Hart.
24 February – ITV begins showing the US medical mystery drama series Quincy, M.E., starring Jack Klugman.
26 February – The network television premiere of the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball airs on ITV, starring Sean Connery in his fourth 007 adventure.
February – Michael Grade is appointed as Director of Programmes at London Weekend Television.
March
21 March – The network premiere of Nicholas Roeg's 1971 Australian-set survival film Walkabout, starring Jenny Agutter.
24 March – ITV shows the network television premiere of the 1968 science fiction film Planet of the Apes, starring Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowall.
27 March – Jesus of Nazareth, a British-Italian television miniseries co-produced by Lew Grade dramatising the birth, life, ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus based on the accounts in the four New Testament Gospels makes its debut on British television, starring Robert Powell as Jesus.
28 March – Yorkshire Television and Tyne Tees Television launch a nine-week breakfast television experiment. It is credited as being the United Kingdom's first breakfast television programme, six years before the launch of TV-am and the BBC's Breakfast Time in 1983. Both programmes run at the same time, with Tyne Tees' Good Morning North and Yorkshire's Good Morning Calendar. Both programmes finish on Friday 27 May.
April
7 April – BBC1 begins showing a new series of the American cartoon The Scooby-Doo Show, following several years of repeating older episodes.
22 April – The original series of motoring programme Top Gear begins as a local magazine format produced by (and shown only by) BBC Midlands from its Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham, presented by Angela Rippon and Tom Coyne. In 1978, it is offered to BBC2 where it airs until 2001. In 2002, the series is relaunched in a new format.
May
7 May – The 22nd Eurovision Song Contest is held in London. With Angela Rippon as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral%20Tournament | Astral Tournament is a computer turn-based strategy game released by Apus Software in 2001. The goal of the game is to beat the opponent (who can be either computer-controlled or human) in a magic duel, making use of both creatures and spells in order to reduce the opponent's Life Points to zero. A 30-day trial version of the game can be downloaded at the game's official page, and its full version upgrade is worth (US) $14.95. As of 2007, a sequel to Astral Tournament, Spectromancer, was released
Game Menu
From the main menu, five options are available:
New Duel Game
Starts a new 1 on 1 magic duel, either against a computer-controlled opponent (with five choosable levels of difficulty: Novice, Advanced, Expert, Master and Archmage) or against a human player. Human players can duel using Hot seat mode (two players playing at the same computer), or by internet.
References
External links
Official Website
2002 video games
Turn-based strategy video games
Windows games
Windows-only games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demandatam | Demandatam coelitus humilitati nostrae is an apostolic constitution promulgated by Pope Benedict XIV on December 24, 1743, about the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. It is addressed to the Patriarch of Antioch Cyril VI Tanas and to all Melkite bishops under his jurisdiction, and is generally not considered ex cathedra. The subject of this apostolic constitution is the full preservation of the Byzantine Rite in the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.
Historical context
In the first part of the 18th century, many liturgical latinisations were introduced in some Melkite Catholic communities, mainly by Euthymios Saifi and Cyril VI Tanas, and supported by many Latin Church missionaries (mainly Franciscans) against the wishes of the papacy. These changes led to a division in the Melkite Catholic Church between those who went on following the unmodified Byzantine Rite (as the Basilian Chouerite monks) and those who, named "Latinisers" in the apostolic constitution, mixed the Byzantine Rite with Latin practices. Rome had already taken measures against the uses of the "Latinisers" (e.g., the letters to Saifi in 1723 or the decree of July 8, 1729). However these measures did not resolve the issue, and in 1743, before granting the pallium to Cyril VI Tanas, Pope Benedict XIV issued the Demandatam apostolic constitution to put an end to the mixture of liturgical rites.
Content
The main points of the apostolic constitution are:
it is forbidden to any one, including the patriarch, to change, to add or to remove anything from the Byzantine Rite and uses (para. 3);
it is forbidden to have any faithful to pass from the Byzantine Rite churches to the Latin Church (para. 15);
Concerning the "Latinisers" (who mixed the rites), the apostolic constitution orders that all the faithful baptized in the Byzantine Rite shall return to the Byzantine Rite. An exception is made for the area of Damascus where the "Latinisers" were numerous: they had to choose between the Byzantine and the Latin Rites, and follow it without later changes or mixtures (para. 16).
This letter deals also with the disciplinary issues of the Melkite religious orders.
See also
Eastern Catholic liturgy
List of encyclicals of Pope Benedict XIV
Notes
External links
Full text available online
Documents of Pope Benedict XIV
Melkite Greek Catholic Church
Papal encyclicals
1743 in Christianity
1743 works |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperOffice | HyperOffice is a privately held American corporation based in Rockville, Maryland, that offers web collaboration, online meeting, web conferencing, online database and email marketing applications to the small and mid-sized business segment. Their flagship product is the HyperOffice Collaboration Suite, which contains integrated tools including business email, mobile mail, document collaboration, intranet/extranet publishing, contact management, calendaring, task management, forums, and other applications.
HyperOffice is a paid service, and as of 2009, the company has served around 300,000 customers worldwide.. HyperOffice is specialized in 3 types of industry: Healthcare, Public Sector and Education.
The company was funded during the dot-com bubble of 1998–2000 and subsequently changed its name to WebOS and adopted the primary goal of developing a web-based operating system, taking focus off its collaboration products. In 2002, however, the company re-opened its doors as HyperOffice to concentrate on its collaboration products again.
The company has its headquarters located in Rockville, Maryland.
History
HyperOffice was founded in 1999 by Drew Morris and Shervin Pishevar. The lead angel investor was Strategic Technology Investors, co-managed by Roy Morris and Steve Zecola, two former telecom executives. It was one of the earliest incarnations of hosted groupware, along with sites such as Jump.com (bought by Microsoft), When.com (bought by AOL), and Hotoffice (which failed but was restarted). It was amongst the early few companies to offer software-as-a-service (SaaS), a popular and emergent approach to application deployment today. Also, its later incarnation, WebOS, had a contribution in the emergence of the rich Internet language known as Ajax.
The product was originally launched as a free service and targeted toward individuals and small businesses. It enjoyed modest success and was soon funded by a group of private investors.
WebOS
While HyperOffice was building out its collaboration functions, a young Swedish programmer, Fredrik Malmer released a web site known as webos.org to demonstrate the power of a web-based desktop. The site was immediately heralded for its innovative use of JavaScript and DHTML. Within months of its release Malmer was contacted by HyperOffice and joined the company. Shortly afterwards the company changed its name to myWebOS.com, a year later it became WebOS.com.
Within a few months Daniel Steinman, Erik Arviddson and Emil A Eklund joined the team. Each of these developers went on to be prominent members of the web development community . The company then began work on the WebOS API, a predecessor of the now-ubiquitous Ajax.
The WebOS API served as one of the earliest JavaScript event/object models that was overlaid on the browser. It formalized a process for asynchronous communication through the use of Iframes or Layers (depending on the browser). Perhaps more importantly, the WebOS API marked the fir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUBCLU | SUBCLU is an algorithm for clustering high-dimensional data by Karin Kailing, Hans-Peter Kriegel and Peer Kröger. It is a subspace clustering algorithm that builds on the density-based clustering algorithm DBSCAN. SUBCLU can find clusters in axis-parallel subspaces, and uses a bottom-up, greedy strategy to remain efficient.
Approach
SUBCLU uses a monotonicity criteria: if a cluster is found in a subspace , then each subspace also contains a cluster. However, a cluster in subspace is not necessarily a cluster in , since clusters are required to be maximal, and more objects might be contained in the cluster in that contains . However, a density-connected set in a subspace is also a density-connected set in .
This downward-closure property is utilized by SUBCLU in a way similar to the Apriori algorithm: first, all 1-dimensional subspaces are clustered. All clusters in a higher-dimensional subspace will be subsets of the clusters detected in this first clustering. SUBCLU hence recursively produces -dimensional candidate subspaces by combining -dimensional subspaces with clusters sharing attributes. After pruning irrelevant candidates, DBSCAN is applied to the candidate subspace to find out if it still contains clusters. If it does, the candidate subspace is used for the next combination of subspaces. In order to improve the runtime of DBSCAN, only the points known to belong to clusters in one -dimensional subspace (which is chosen to contain as little clusters as possible) are considered. Due to the downward-closure property, other point cannot be part of a -dimensional cluster anyway.
Pseudocode
SUBCLU takes two parameters, and , which serve the same role as in DBSCAN. In a first step, DBSCAN is used to find 1D-clusters in each subspace spanned by a single attribute:
// In a second step, -dimensional clusters are built from -dimensional ones:
The set contains all the -dimensional subspaces that are known to contain clusters. The set contains the sets of clusters found in the subspaces. The is chosen to minimize the runs of DBSCAN (and the number of points that need to be considered in each run) for finding the clusters in the candidate subspaces.
Candidate subspaces are generated much alike the Apriori algorithm generates the frequent itemset candidates: Pairs of the -dimensional subspaces are compared, and if they differ in one attribute only, they form a -dimensional candidate. However, a number of irrelevant candidates are found as well; they contain a -dimensional subspace that does not contain a cluster. Hence, these candidates are removed in a second step:
// Pruning of irrelevant candidate subspaces
Availability
An example implementation of SUBCLU is available in the ELKI framework.
References
Cluster analysis algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlastimil%20Kl%C3%ADma | RNDr. Vlastimil Klíma (born 19 February 1957 in Benešov, Czech Republic) is a leading cryptographer, computer security expert, and white hat hacker.
As an academic, he taught Applied Cryptography at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in Prague. He is the author of several works in the field of cryptographic hash functions and digital signatures. Klíma received his doctorate from the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University in 1984.
Dr. Klíma is the former Head of the research and development group at the Federal Ministry of Defense of the Czech Republic and the Czech National Security Authority.
Klíma authored the world’s first on-the-fly encryption system, Windows 95 (98/NT/2000). As an ethical hacker, he successfully broke SSL protocol.
He currently works in the digital security sector.
External links
Personal pages of Vlastimil Klima
1957 births
Living people
Computer security specialists
Modern cryptographers
People from Prague
Czech scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker%20News | Hacker News (sometimes abbreviated as HN) is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship. It is run by the investment fund and startup incubator Y Combinator. In general, content that can be submitted is defined as "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
The word hacker in "Hacker News" is used in its original meaning and refers to the hacker culture which consists of people who enjoy tinkering with technology.
History
The site was created by Paul Graham in February 2007. Initially called Startup News or occasionally News.YC., it became known by its current name on August 14, 2007. It developed as a project of Graham's company Y Combinator, functioning as a real-world application of the Arc programming language which Graham co-developed.
At the end of March 2014, Graham stepped away from his leadership role at Y Combinator, leaving Hacker News administration in the hands of other staff members. The site is currently moderated by Daniel Gackle who posts under the username dang.
Gackle co-moderated Hacker News with Scott Bell (username sctb) until 2019 when Bell stopped working on the site.
Vision and practices
The intention was to recreate a community similar to the early days of Reddit. However, unlike Reddit where new users can immediately both upvote and downvote content, Hacker News does not allow users to downvote content until they have accumulated 501 "karma" points. Karma points are calculated as the number of upvotes a given user's content has received minus the number of downvotes. "Flagging" comments, likewise, is not permitted until a user has 30 karma points.
Graham stated he hopes to avoid the Eternal September that results in the general decline of intelligent discourse within a community. The site has a proactive attitude in moderating content, including automated flame and spam detectors and active human moderation. It also practices stealth banning in which user posts stop appearing for others to see, unbeknownst to the user. Additional software is used to detect "voting rings to purposefully vote up stories".
Criticism
According to a 2013 TechCrunch article: "Graham says that Hacker News gets a lot of complaints that it has a bias toward featuring stories about Y Combinator startups, but he says there is no such bias. [...] Graham adds that he gets a lot of vitriol from users personally with accusations of bias or censoring."
See also
Slashdot
Reddit
References
External links
American news websites
Social bookmarking
News aggregators
Computing websites
Internet properties established in 2007
Y Combinator companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9XM | 9XM is an Indian Hindi free-to-air music channel based in Mumbai.
The channel is owned by 9X Media, an Indian television business. 9XM's programming is focused on Hindi-language music videos. The channel is available on all major dth platforms, including DD Free Dish. The channel is available on channel number 4 on DD Free Dish.
International
In August 2008, 9XM launched as a free-to-air channel on Sky in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The following month, the channel was added to Freesat. 9XM was removed from Freesat on 27 August 2009 and from Sky on 24 December 2009, with the channel's Sky EPG slot purchased by Colors.
The channel returned to Sky and the UK market on 14 February 2012. On 12 October 2012, the channel closed once again citing technical difficulties, however their broadcast license had been revoked by Ofcom on 13 September following a failure to submit their returns. The channel returned on 8 November 2012, only to finally close again on 31 May 2013, following poor audience ratings. 9XM telecasts instant hit Ranjithame Hindi Vijay song from film Varisu to highly positive viewership response.
References
External links
9XM Official Site
Television stations in Mumbai
Music television channels in India
Television channels and stations established in 2008
9X Media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homecoming%20with%20Rick%20Reilly | Homecoming with Rick Reilly is an American television show on the sports network ESPN. The show is hosted by ESPN personality Rick Reilly, and features interviews with popular American sports figures.
Interview subjects
Josh Hamilton
Jerry Rice
Kurt Warner
Tony Hawk
John Elway
Joe Mauer
Michael Phelps
Alonzo Mourning
Chris Paul
Dwyane Wade
Landon Donovan
Emmitt Smith
Donovan McNabb (aired September 14, 2010)
Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Jr. (air date December 14, 2010)
American sports television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oricon%20number-one%20singles%20of%202009 | The highest-selling singles in Japan are ranked in the Oricon Weekly Chart, which is published by Oricon Style magazine. The data are compiled by Oricon based on each singles' weekly physical sales. In 2009, 51 singles reached the peak of the chart.
Sisters Kumi Koda and Misono's "It's All Love!" made them the fourth group of siblings to have a number one on the charts. However, they are the first siblings to have a number one debut on the charts in its initial week. Enka singer Junko Akimoto's makes her the oldest singer at the age of 61 years to have a number one single. The record was previously held by Kazumasa Oda's which was released in 2007. Korean pop boy band TVXQ's "Share the World/We Are!" debut at number-one on the charts, making them first foreign artist to have six number one singles in Japan.
Rock boy band KAT-TUN's "Rescue" makes them the third group to ten consecutive number one singles since their debut. KinKi Kids' extended their record for having the most consecutive number one singles since their debut. They also extended their Oricon record for having a number one single for 13 consecutive years since their debut. Pop singer Ayumi Hamasaki's "Rule/Sparkle" makes her the only solo female artist and the first female artist to have 20 consecutive singles to debut at number one. R&B singer Namie Amuro's Wild/Dr. debuted atop of the charts and made her the only female artist to have a top ten single each year for 15 years. is Aiko's first number one single in her 11-year career.
Pop boy band NEWS' makes them the second group to have 11 consecutive number one singles since their debut. Pop boy band Arashi's "Believe/Kumorinochi, Kaisei" and "Ashita no Kioku/Crazy Moon (Kimi wa Muteki)" are the first singles in seven years to sell over 500,000 copies consecutively with first week sales. This feat was last achieved by Keisuke Kuwata in 2001.
Chart history
References
2009 in Japanese music
Japan
Lists of number-one songs in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEGASUS | PEGASUS is an encryption algorithm used for satellite telemetry, command link and mission data transfers.
According to budget item justification document for FY 2004–2005, this cryptographic algorithm is used for Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Space-Based Infrared Systems (SBIRS), MILSATCOM, and other Special Project Systems.
References
External links
PEGASUS products
Spaceflight technology
Telecommunications
Cryptographic algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Mix | Internet Mix or IMIX refers to typical Internet traffic passing some network equipment such as routers, switches or firewalls. When measuring equipment performance using an IMIX of packets the performance is assumed to resemble what can be seen in "real-world" conditions.
Network equipment that performs complex manipulation of packets, such as firewalls or VPN routers, often have non-wire rate performance and as such it can not deliver wire rate performance on small 64 byte packets, this is easier at 1500 byte packets - but none of these packet sizes resemble actual traffic seen on the Internet over some time.
The IMIX traffic profiles are used by network equipment vendors to simulate real-world traffic patterns and packet distributions. IMIX profiles are based on statistical sampling done on Internet routers, and are published in various levels of granularity, such as "simple" and "complete."
Although the actual Internet traffic mix has changed over time, the standardized IMIX profiles used for testing have not been updated accordingly because the IMIX test results need to be comparable.
Mix profiles exist for IPv4, TCP, VPN (IPsec) and IPv6 traffic, distributions are similar but frame sizes vary given the different overhead and upper layer limitations on MTU.
Here is an illustration of the Simple IMIX, a mix often used by firewall vendors showing IMIX throughput performance in their data sheets (along with the "optimal test conditions" throughput performance):
Here is an illustration of the "optimal test conditions" IMIX used by some firewall vendors showing only theoretical throughput performance in their data sheets:
Early scholarly studies in 2004 indicated that TCP traffic in particular exhibits a bimodal distribution with spikes around minimum-sized packets (less than 100 bytes) and Ethernet MTU (more than 1400 bytes). Later studies confirmed this for backbone and enterprise networks.
References
Internet architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond%20Compare | Beyond Compare is a proprietary data comparison utility. In addition to comparing files, the program is capable of performing side-by-side comparisons of directories, FTP and SFTP directories, Dropbox directories, Amazon S3 directories, and archives. It is available for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux operating systems. One of the features of Beyond Compare is it's configurability as difftool and mergetool of version control systems, such as git.
Reception
In an April 2009 review, Beyond Compare received a four out of five rating stars by CNET. The reviewers initially found the user interface to be "a little overwhelming", but they "quickly got the hang of it" after using the program for a while. PC World writer Michael Desmond included the program in a 2005 list of utilities for a "Trouble-Free PC" and praised its "watch list" feature. Beyond Compare also was featured in the March 2005 issue of the Windows IT Pro magazine, in the "What's Hot" section.
Scott Mitchell, writing for MSDN Magazine, identified the program's comparison rules as its most powerful feature. The customizable rules control which differences between two files should be flagged as such. A set of predefined rules are included for the comparison of common file types, such as C++ source code, XML, and HTML files.
Steve Gibson of GRC recommended it as "a really cool...very smart Windows-based source comparison tool".
See also
Comparison of file comparison tools
Comparison of FTP client software
References
External links
Scooter Software, maker of Beyond Compare
File comparison tools
Data synchronization
Pascal (programming language) software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre%20for%20Computing%20History | The Centre for Computing History is a museum in Cambridge, England, established to create a permanent public exhibition telling the story of the Information Age.
Overview
The museum acts as a repository for vintage computers and related artefacts. The museum is open Wednesdays through to Sundays from 10am to 5pm in term time and 7 days a week during school holidays. On display are key items from the early era of computers (and even before) from ageing comptometers through the Altair 8800 to the ZX Spectrum and Apple II series. The museum also holds vintage games consoles, peripherals, software and an extensive collection of computer manuals, magazines and other literature. It is home to the Megaprocessor, an enormous version of a computer chip designed by James Newman.
History and status
The centre is a registered educational charity. It is funded by a combination of sponsors from local businesses and private individuals. Venture capitalist and entrepreneur Hermann Hauser was involved with funding discussions. He became patron of the museum in December 2011, 30 years after the launch of the BBC Micro. The museum is run by a board of trustees chaired by Gareth Marlow.
The Centre moved to a site in Rene Court, off Coldham's Lane in the east side of Cambridge in summer 2013. The museum was originally located in Haverhill, Suffolk. Plans to relocate the museum to Cambridge, led to a report in October 2011 that negotiations were underway for a site. The museum was informed in June 2012 that planning permission for the new Cambridge site had been granted, subject to complying with current building regulations.
In March 2019, the museum was granted Accredited Museum status by Arts Council England (ACE). The Accreditation Scheme sets out nationally agreed standards, which inspire the confidence of the public and funding and governing bodies. It enables museums to assess their current performance, as well as supporting them to plan and develop their services.
The founder, Jason Fitzpatrick, was replaced as CEO and Curator by former Project Manager Lisa McGerty in December 2022.
Activities
The Centre for Computing History runs regular educational activities for schools and the general public. These range from programming workshops using 1980s BBC Micros to gaming tours to coding using software like Scratch for the Raspberry Pi.
The centre also loans artefacts for film and TV productions and has helped with props and sets for The IT Crowd, Brits Who Made the Modern World on Channel Five with Peter Snow and in April 2009 produced the Gadget Hall of Fame stand at The Gadget Show Live exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham. In December 2018, the centre was involved in a groundbreaking interactive Netflix episode of Black Mirror called Bandersnatch.
The centre collects and preserves historical computing related artefacts and has undertaken a project to preserve the data from the BBC Domesday Project and make it available online. They already have data fr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bivariate%20data | In statistics, bivariate data is data on each of two variables, where each value of one of the variables is paired with a value of the other variable. It is a specific but very common case of multivariate data. The association can be studied via a tabular or graphical display, or via sample statistics which might be used for inference. Typically it would be of interest to investigate the possible association between the two variables. The method used to investigate the association would depend on the level of measurement of the variable. This association that involves exactly two variables can be termed a bivariate correlation, or bivariate association.
For two quantitative variables (interval or ratio in level of measurement) a scatterplot can be used and a correlation coefficient or regression model can be used to quantify the association. For two qualitative variables (nominal or ordinal in level of measurement) a contingency table can be used to view the data, and a measure of association or a test of independence could be used.
If the variables are quantitative, the pairs of values of these two variables are often represented as individual points in a plane using a scatter plot. This is done so that the relationship (if any) between the variables is easily seen. For example, bivariate data on a scatter plot could be used to study the relationship between stride length and length of legs.
In a bivariate correlation, outliers can be incredibly problematic when they involve both extreme scores on both variables. The best way to look for these outliers is to look at the scatterplots and see if any data points stand out between the variables.
Dependent and independent variables
In some instances of bivariate data, it is determined that one variable influences or determines the second variable, and the terms dependent and independent variables are used to distinguish between the two types of variables. In the above example, the length of a person's legs is the independent variable. The stride length is determined by the length of a person's legs, so it is the dependent variable. Having long legs increases stride length, but increasing stride length will not increase the length of your legs.
Correlations between the two variables are determined as strong or weak correlations and are rated on a scale of –1 to 1, where 1 is a perfect direct correlation, –1 is a perfect inverse correlation, and 0 is no correlation. In the case of long legs and long strides, there would be a strong direct correlation.
Analysis of bivariate data
In the analysis of bivariate data, one typically either compares summary statistics of each of the variables or uses regression analysis to find the strength and direction of a specific relationship between the variables. If each variable can only take one of a small number of values, such as only "male" or "female", or only "left-handed" or "right-handed", then the joint frequency distribution can be displayed in a co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosted%20desktop | A hosted desktop is a product set within the larger cloud-computing sphere generally delivered using a combination of technologies including hardware virtualization and some form of remote connection software, Citrix XenApp or Microsoft Remote Desktop Services being two of the most common. Processing takes place within the provider's datacentre environment with traffic between the datacentre and the client being primarily display updates, mouse movements and keyboard activity (additional traffic will be generated by audio & print jobs).
A hosted desktop commonly involves a browser-based connection to a desktop environment which includes an office productivity suite alongside other desktop applications. The desktop is hosted, run, delivered and supported from a central location, usually a secure data center with high-quality and resilient connections to the Internet/cloud. Cloud Desktop is a term often used to refer to a container of a collection of virtual objects, software, hardware, configurations etc., residing on the cloud, used by a client to interact with remote services and perform computer related tasks.
Connecting clients run pre-installed or downloaded viewer applications via one of many remote desktop protocols. Clients can include thin clients, PCs, workstations, mobile and handheld devices running a variety of operating systems such as Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and others.
The move towards hosted desktops, of which virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is a subset, is predicted by Gartner to account for 49 million business desktops by 2013 equal to more than 40 percent of the worldwide professional PC market. The development of applications by service providers such as Google and Microsoft have accelerated this process, as has the evolution of new licensing schemes which allow fee-paying based on a subscription rather than on purchase.
Key characteristics
The centralized nature of hosted desktops can overcome common issues with mobile working, delivery of a common infrastructure across physical sites, disaster recovery, cost control and scaling up/down in timely fashion.
Hosted desktop services can be a comparatively simple method for applying outsourcing principles within a business although care is warranted in ensuring service provider quality to ensure compliance, data security and data protection standards meet requirements.
A hosted desktop based environment will generally migrate user authentication, file & print services and application delivery and data storage to the cloud making it accessible via secure connections from any internet enabled location. The relatively small bandwidth requirements for a Hosted Desktop means that between 5 & 10 people can connect and work on a standard xDSL broadband, whilst a single user can operate quite effectively on a 3G mobile data connection.
Hosted desktops are most often based on a Windows Server 2008 utilising Remote Desktop Services, often with an additional management layer fr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Cyber%20Command | United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) is one of the eleven unified combatant commands of the United States Department of Defense (DoD). It unifies the direction of cyberspace operations, strengthens DoD cyberspace capabilities, and integrates and bolsters DoD's cyber expertise.
USCYBERCOM was established as a Sub-Unified command under U.S. Strategic Command at the direction of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on June 23, 2009 at the National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters in Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. It cooperates with NSA networks and has been concurrently headed by the director of the National Security Agency since its inception. While originally created with a defensive mission in mind, it has increasingly been viewed as an offensive force. On 18 August 2017, it was announced that USCYBERCOM would be elevated to the status of a full and independent unified combatant command. On 23 May 2023, it was announced that President Biden nominated Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh to the Senate to be the next USCYBERCOM Commander.
Mission statement
According to the US Department of Defense (DoD):
The text "9ec4c12949a4f31474f299058ce2b22a", located in the command's emblem, is the MD5 hash of their mission statement.
The command is charged with pulling together existing cyberspace resources, creating synergies and synchronizing war-fighting effects to defend the information security environment. USCYBERCOM is tasked with centralizing command of cyberspace operations, strengthening DoD cyberspace capabilities, and integrating and bolstering DoD's cyber expertise.
Organizational structure
Cyber teams
Since 2015, the U.S. Cyber Command added 133 new cyber teams. The breakdown was:
Thirteen National Mission Teams to defend against broad cyberattacks
Sixty-eight Cyber Protection Teams to defend priority DoD networks and systems against priority threats
Twenty-seven Combat Mission Teams to provide integrated cyberspace attacks in support of operational plans and contingency operations
Twenty-five Cyber Support Teams to provide analytic and planning support to the national mission and combat mission teams.
Component Commands
Cyber National Mission Force
The Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF) was activated on January 27, 2014, as an element of Cyber Command. At inception the CNMF consisted of 21 teams, broken down into 13 National Mission Teams (NMT) and 8 National Support Teams (NST). Today, the CNMF has expanded to 39 joint cyber teams consisting of over 2,000 service members and civilian members across the U.S. Armed Forces On October 25, 2022, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin authorized that the Cyber National Mission Force become a subordinate unified command underneath the United States Cyber Command. Following this, on December 19, 2022, General Paul Nakasone presided over a ceremony to establish the CNMF with the new "sub-unified" command status.
Major General William J. Hartman, United States Army has served as CNMF commander since Au |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner%20Knudsen | Werner Knudsen (born 23 October 1953) in Ringsted) is a Danish computer scientist, composer and author of both choral music and IT books. He is an IT architect at IBM and used to work at TDC A/S. He lives in Glostrup close to Copenhagen.
Parallel to his IT career he has always worked with music, in particular choir singing. For a number of years he was chairman of the Children's choir of the Royal Danish Academy of Music for which he has arranged some music. He is also a member of Akademisk Kor, a Copenhagen-based oratorio choir.
He has primarily composed songs as well as choral and organ music, notably in collaboration with author Niels Johansen. Hvem kaldte på erantis?, a collection of their songs and hymns, was published at Unitas Forlag in 2010. His Sommersange, a choral cycle with lyrics by Thøger Larsen, has been published at Edition S in 2008.
Works
IT Books
1995: Internet for alle
1997: Mere Internet for alle
1999: Internet tips for alle
2001: Den lille bog om søgning på nettet
Music Works:
2006: Sommersange (lyrics by Thøger Larsen)
2007: Du danske sommer, jeg elsker dig (lyrics by Thøger Larsen)
2010: Hvem kaldte på erantis? (lyrics by Niels Johansen)
See also
List of Danish composers
References
This article was initially translated from the Danish Wikipedia.
External links
Hvem kaldte på Erantis? (2010)
Sommersange (2006)
Sange, salmer og viser
Edition S
Unitas Forlag
Danish composers
Male composers
1953 births
Living people
People from Ringsted
People from Glostrup Municipality |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20London%20Computer%20Centre | The University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) was founded in 1968, and was the first supercomputer facility established in London for the purpose of scientific and educational research by all of the colleges of the University of London. ULCC initially provided large-scale CDC-based facilities, then from 1982 to 1991 a national Cray vector supercomputing service, and more recently a six processor, 4Gb Convex C3860 supercomputer with a Convex C3200 front-end.
ULCC also became a major site for national and international network connections in the UK. It ran the Network Operations and Service Centre for the JANET Internet Protocol Service (JIPS), the largest of the JANET network centres, and various international links and relays on behalf of UKERNA.
Since the closure of its supercomputer service in the 1990s, ULCC has focused on providing IT services across the educational and public sector, as well as undertaking research work in fields such as digital preservation and e-learning.
In 2009, after 40 years, ULCC moved out of its premises at 20 Guilford Street, which were custom built in the 1960s to house some of the earliest supercomputers in the UK. It is now based within the central university at Senate House.
In 2015 ULCC became part of CoSector - University of London.
References
External links
CoSector
University of London
Senate House Library Archives, University of London
History of computing in the United Kingdom
History of telecommunications in the United Kingdom
University of London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-jock%20movement | The anti-jock movement is a loosely organized cyber-movement consisting of similarly themed websites, whose goal is to challenge the perceived cultural dominance of institutionalized competitive sports and to raise issues of the perceived detrimental effects of such a dominance. In this regard, the term "jock" is used in its sense of "stereotypical athlete," although websites constituent of the Anti-jock Movement often use the term to distinguish negative or excessive interest in sports, from common or positive athletic endeavor. The stereotypical athlete can be defined as an individual who uses his or her athletic ability or abilities in an effort to gain social capital. His or her identity is intertwined with their athletic endeavor and as a result they are unable to connect with individuals who do not participate in athletics. In the decade following the year 2000, increasing recognition has been given to the existence of a movement consisting of "a group of self-described marginalized youth [who] constructed and sustained anti-jock websites, where they articulated 'dissatisfaction with and anger toward institutions that uncritically adulate hyper-masculine/high contact sport culture and the athletes who are part of this culture (i.e., the ‘jocks’)'”. This "group of self-described marginalized youth" identify with the individuals who feel as though they have been marginalized by "stereotypical athlete". As a whole, the group of young people who created the anti-jock cyber movement were not students who participated in athletics. The anti-jock cyber-movement was created as support to those who feel as though they have been tormented by the 'jocks' and was initially created as a support group. As the anti-jock movement gained support, it took on a more negative perspective against the "stereotypical athlete". Such has been cited as an act of resistance against the dominant media and cultural paradigm.
Recognition
One of the most cited articles giving recognition to the existence of an anti-jock cyber movement is a 2002 article published by Brian Wilson (an assistant professor of Cultural Studies and Sociology, University of British Columbia) in the Sociology of Sport Journal, titled "The 'Anti-Jock' Movement: Reconsidering Youth Resistance, Masculinity and Sport Culture in the Age of the Internet". In the course of the article, Wilson described the movement as follows:
The anti-jock movement is group of self-described "marginalized youth" who, through the production and consumption of anti-jock Websites, express dissatisfaction with and anger toward institutions that uncritically adulate hyper-masculine/high-contact sport culture and the athletes who are part of this culture (i.e. the "jocks"). Through these Websites, strategies of resistance against the "pro-jock" establishment are offered.
After analyzing the content of various "Anti-Jock" websites, Wilson concluded that
In one sense, the anti-jock Websites can be viewed, together, as a new |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Cybernetic%20Building%20Testbed | The Virtual Cybernetic Building Testbed (VCBT) is a whole building emulator located at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland. It is designed with enough flexibility to be capable of reproducibly simulating normal operation and a variety of faulty and hazardous conditions that might occur in a cybernetic building. It serves as a testbed for investigating the interactions between integrated building systems and a wide range of issues important to the development of cybernetic building technology.
The VCBT consists of a variety of simulation models that together emulate the
characteristics and performance of a cybernetic building system. The simulation models are
interfaced to real state-of-the-art BACnet speaking control systems to provide a hybrid
software/hardware testbed that can be used to develop and evaluate control strategies and control
products that use the BACnet communication protocol. The simulation models used are based on
versions of HVACSIM+ and CFAST.
References
Cybernetics
Building automation
Control engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratory%20Response%20Network | The Laboratory Response Network (LRN) is a collaborative effort within the US federal government involving the Association of Public Health Laboratories and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Most state public health laboratories participate as reference laboratories (formerly level B/C) of the LRN. These facilities support hundreds of sentinel (formerly level A) laboratories in local hospitals throughout the United States and can provide sophisticated confirmatory diagnosis and typing of biological agents that may be used in a bioterrorist attack or other bio-agent incident. The LRN was established in 1999.
Levels
The LRN consists of a loose network of government labs at three levels:
Sentinel Laboratories
These laboratories, found in many hospitals and local public health facilities, have the ability to rule out specific bioterrorism threat agents, to handle specimens safely, and to forward specimens to higher-level labs within the network.
Reference Laboratories
These laboratories (more than 100), typically found at state health departments and at military, veterinary, agricultural, and water-testing facilities, can rule on the presence of the various biological threat agents. They can use BSL-3 practices and can often conduct nucleic acid amplification and molecular typing studies.
National Laboratories
These laboratories, including those at CDC and U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), can use BSL-4 practices and serve as the final authority in the evaluation of potential bioterrorism specimens. They provide specialized reagents to lower level laboratories and have the ability to bank specimens, perform serotyping, and detect genetic recombinants and chimeras.
References
See also
BioWatch
Counterterrorism in the United States
War on terror
United States Department of Homeland Security
United States Environmental Protection Agency
United States Department of Health and Human Services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZincFive | ZincFive, Inc. develops proprietary nickel-zinc battery storage technology to provide electricity for data centers and other applications. The company is based near Portland, Oregon, and sells its products globally.
History
ZincFive was created in 2016 when Ensite Power (formed near Portland in 2015) merged with PowerGenix (formed near San Diego in 2003). The combined entity has raised over $144M from a number of venture capital firms, including Helios Climate Ventures, Standard Investments, Senator Investment Group, and OGCI Climate Investments.
Since 2016 ZincFive has developed products based upon its nickel-zinc battery technology for data centers, transportation control, and industrial engine starting. Products traditionally developed for these markets are based on lead-acid or lithium ion technology; batteries based upon nickel-zinc technology potentially have improved performance with a lower environmental impact.
References
External links
ZincFive homepage
Battery manufacturers
Renewable energy
Nickel
Zinc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula%27s%20Best%20Dishes | Paula's Best Dishes is an American cooking show hosted by Paula Deen on Food Network
On June 21, 2013, the Food Network announced that they would not renew Deen's contract due to controversy surrounding Deen's use of a racial slur and racist jokes in her restaurant, effectively cancelling the series. As of 2017, culinary icon Paula Deen has a new show, Positively Paula that's syndicated and is available in over 130 million homes.
Background
Debuting on June 8, 2008, the show stars Paula Deen as she helps rescue viewer recipes, prepare dishes and shares stories.
Episodes
References
External links
Official website
2008 American television series debuts
2000s American cooking television series
2010s American cooking television series
2013 American television series endings
Food Network original programming
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChristianaCare | ChristianaCare is a network of private, non-profit hospitals providing health care services to all of the U.S. state of Delaware and portions of seven counties bordering the state in Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey. The system includes two hospitals in Delaware, Wilmington Hospital and Christiana Hospital, and one in Maryland, ChristianaCare Union Hospital in Elkton. ChristianaCare operates the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute, the Center for Heart & Vascular Health, The Center for Women & Children's Health, and ChristianaCare HomeHealth, as well as the Eugene du Pont Preventive Medicine & Rehabilitation Center, and a wide range of outpatient and satellite services. ChristianaCare is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.
History
The system's history dates to 1888, when Delaware Hospital was first opened in Wilmington. It was expanded throughout the subsequent decades. In 1965, it merged with Memorial Hospital and Wilmington General Hospital to form Wilmington Medical Center, with each of the three facilities being known as a "division", thus Delaware Hospital became known as the Delaware Division of the Wilmington Medical Center. Later, it was decided to close the other two hospitals and replace them with a new one, Christiana Hospital. In 1985, the Delaware Division was renamed Wilmington Hospital.
In 2014, family medicine physician Janice E. Nevin, M.D., MPH, became president and CEO of the health system. Under Dr. Nevin, the health system focused on excellence and love and focusing on empowering coworkers to speak up about potentially problematic behavior by others in the work environment. The health care system developed CareVio, a patient centered and clinician-led information technology enhanced care coordination service, that was designed to provide information and scheduling aid in 2017.
Demographics
In 2007, ChristianaCare saw 457,348 outpatient visits, 55,512 admissions and 7,100 childbirths. ChristianaCare provided $35.7 million in charity care in 2007. With more than 10,000 employees, it is one of the largest private employers in Delaware and among the top 10 in the greater Philadelphia region. In 2017 it was reported that the Health Care system was ranked as the 22nd leading hospital and the 11th on the East Coast in terms of admissions.
Location of medical facilities
Christiana Hospital
Christiana Hospital in Newark, Delaware, is Delaware's only adult Level I trauma center. It was built in 1985 and houses 907 licensed beds and includes 22 hospital-based operating rooms and 10 outpatient operating rooms. It is home to Delaware's only Level 3 neonatal intensive care unit and the state's largest maternity center, where more than 7,100 newborns are delivered each year. The Christiana Hospital campus is also home to the Center for Heart & Vascular Health and the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center. In 2018, the hospital opened Delaware's first epilepsy monitoring unit, where doctors attempt to induce a seizur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MORE%20protocol | MORE, which stands for MAC independent Opportunistic Routing, is an opportunistic routing protocol designed for wireless mesh networks. The protocol removes the dependency that other opportunistic routing protocols, such as ExOR and SOAR have on the MAC layer. Both of these protocols make use of a scheduler, to co-ordinate transmission among the nodes. Only one node transmits at a given point of time and all the other nodes listen to this. The nodes that listen remove the packets which they have queued for retransmission. This ensures that the same packet is not redundantly retransmitted by different nodes.
MORE makes use of network encoding techniques and brings about spatial re-use by allowing all the nodes to transmit at the same time. Given a file, the source node breaks up the file into K packets. The number of packets each file is divided into varies. The uncoded packets are called "native packets". The source node then creates a linear combination of K packets and forwards them. The code vector represents the random co-efficients chosen by the node to perform encoding. The source also attaches a MORE header to each packet along with a forwarding list. The forwarders listen to the transmission of the source node. If the node that listens to this packet is in the forwarding list, it checks if the packet has any new information which are called as innovative packets. If the packet is innovative, it performs a linear recombination of the packets. This is essentially the linear recombination of the native packets again. The node ignores all non-innovative packets. The destination receives the packets and checks for innovative-ness. Upon receiving K innovative packets, it sends back ACK to the source and continues decoding the packets. The intermediate nodes hear this ACK and stop further transmission followed by the purging of packets in the buffer.
Practical Challenges
Calculating the number of pockets that the forwarder has to send. The paper suggests a distributed heuristic to calculate this.
Stopping rule:Once the destination has received K innovative packets, it is necessary to stop further flow pumped into the network. The ACK is sent before and the packets along the =#shortest path to stop $6 packets pumpe\d into the network.
nodes i
Overhead
MORE introduces a few overheads in the network. The use of network encoding requires the nodes to have sufficient computing abilities. It also requires the nodes to have sufficient memory to store the packets and process them. Finally, the protocol adds an additional MORE header to each of the packet.
References
Wireless networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AgentSpeak | AgentSpeak is an agent-oriented programming language. It is based on logic programming and the belief–desire–intention software model (BDI) architecture for (cognitive) autonomous agents. The language was originally called AgentSpeak(L), but became more popular as AgentSpeak, a term that is also used to refer to the variants of the original language.
History
In 1996, Anand Rao created a logic-based agent programming language based on the BDI architecture and named it AgentSpeak(L). This became a highly cited paper in the multi-agent systems literature. In its original conception, AgentSpeak was an abstract agent programming language aimed to help the understanding of the relation between practical implementations of the BDI architecture such as procedural reasoning system (PRS) and the formalisation of the ideas behind the BDI architecture using modal logics.
Various authors contributed to the further formalisation of the AgentSpeak(L) language. In recent years, the language has been revived both in research and development. In terms of research, there has been work both on extensions of AgentSpeak as well as on formal verification of AgentSpeak programs using model checking. The language is also one of the most popular agent-oriented languages because of the development of the Jason platform.
AgentSpeak(L) is also the most prominent means for developing the solution for the Multi-Agent Programming Contest from the beginning of the competition up to the recent edition.
Example
Hello World program in AgentSpeak(L), based on Jason://Belief indicating the message to print.
message("Hello World!").
//Initial goal
!start.
//Plan
+!start: message(M) <-
.print(M). //Internal action from Jason to print a message.
See also
Distributed multi-agent reasoning system
References
External links
is an interpreter for an extension of AgentSpeak.
Computer-related introductions in 1996
Agent-based programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOWtv | WOWtv is a Canadian exempt Category B Chinese language specialty channel and is owned by Canadian Chinese Media Network (CCMN). WOWtv broadcasts programming in Cantonese, Mandarin and Vietnamese from predominantly foreign sources as well as local Canadian programming.
The channel launched on April 29, 2009, exclusively on Rogers Cable. On December 2, 2009, WOWtv launched a high-definition (HD) channel called WOWtv HD, which simulcast the standard definition feed, on Rogers Cable. In June 2010, WOWtv HD launched on Bell Fibe TV. On September 25, 2012, WOWtv launched their western feed to Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton via Telus Optik TV.
WOW TV head office is now in Markham moved from the original Toronto (Agincourt) studios.
References
External links
CCMN
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Chinese-language mass media in Canada
Companies based in Markham, Ontario
Multicultural and ethnic television in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer%20AspireRevo | The Acer AspireRevo was a line of nettop computers from Acer Inc., first released at the end of April 2009. It is one of the first desktop computers to pair the NVIDIA ION chipset with Intel's Atom CPU.
When the AspireRevo first launched, model R1600, its basic specs were an Intel Atom 230 processor (1.6 GHz), 1 GB of RAM and the NVIDIA ION graphics motherboard with Windows XP. Since then, the models of this PC have been upgraded with the launch of Windows 7. The R3600 model now features a single core Intel Atom 230 (64-bit, hyperthreading), 1 GB of RAM, a 320 GB hard-drive, 802.11n Wi-Fi and Windows 7 Home Premium edition at $329.00 US. The higher-end model R3610 features a dual core Intel Atom 330, 2 GB of RAM, a 500 GB hard-drive, 802.11n Wi-Fi and Windows 7 Home Premium at $399.00 US. Both models feature the NVIDIA ION, as well as the RAM boost, DirectX 10 support of Windows 7, graphics and overall performance increases. Although not officially supported for reasons unknown, Windows Vista also runs well if installed.
The combination of low power, relatively low price and support for hardware accelerated video make it suitable for many uses, including as a Home Theater PC (HTPC) or Media Center — for example, running Kodi (formerly Xbox Media Center).
The Acer Veriton models N260G, N270G, N281G and N282G are using the same small form factor case and partly identical hardware as the AspireRevo.
See also
Nvidia Ion
ASUS EeeBox PC
MSI Wind PC
Dell Studio Hybrid
Mac Mini
References
Nettop
AspireRevo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapalocystis | Hapalocystis is a genus of fungi in the family Sydowiellaceae.
Species
As accepted by Species Fungorum;
Hapalocystis berkeleyi
Hapalocystis bicaudata
Hapalocystis corni
Hapalocystis kickxii
Hapalocystis occidentalis
Hapalocystis ulmi
Hapalocystis vexans
Former species;
H. berkeleyi var. kickxii = Hapalocystis kickxii, Sydowiellaceae
H. mirabilis = Sorokinocystis mirabilis, Chytridiales order
References
Sordariomycetes genera
Diaporthales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC/TCP%20Packet%20Driver | PC/TCP Packet Driver is a networking API for MS-DOS, PC DOS, and later x86 DOS implementations such as DR-DOS, FreeDOS, etc. It implements the lowest levels of a TCP/IP stack, where the remainder is typically implemented either by terminate-and-stay-resident drivers or as a library linked into an application program. It was invented in 1983 at MIT's Lab for Computer Science (CSR/CSC group under Jerry Saltzer and David D. Clark), and was commercialized in 1986 by FTP Software.
A packet driver uses an x86 interrupt number (INT) between The number used is detected at runtime, it is most commonly 60h but may be changed to avoid application programs which use fixed interrupts for internal communications. The interrupt vector is used as a pointer (4-bytes little endian) to the address of a possible interrupt handler. If the null-terminated ASCII text string "PKT DRVR" (2 spaces in the middle!) is found within the first 12-bytes -- more specifically in bytes 3 through 11 -- immediately following the entry point then a driver has been located.
Packet drivers can implement many different network interfaces, including Ethernet, Token Ring, RS-232, Arcnet, and X.25.
Functions
Drivers
WinPKT is a driver that enables use of packet drivers under Microsoft Windows that moves around applications in memory.
W3C507 is a DLL to packet driver for the Microsoft Windows environment.
Support for Ethernet alike network interface over (using 8250 UART), CSLIP, , IPX, Token Ring, LocalTalk, ARCNET.
See also
Crynwr Collection - alternative free packet driver collection
Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) - developed by Microsoft and 3Com, free wrappers
Open Data-Link Interface (ODI) - developed by Apple and Novell
Universal Network Device Interface (UNDI) - used by Intel PXE
Uniform Driver Interface (UDI) - defunct
Preboot Execution Environment - network boot by Intel, widespread
References
Computer networks
Device drivers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%20%281970s%20text%20editor%29 | E is a text editor originally developed at the Stanford AI Lab in the 1970s for the WAITS operating system.
E was one of the first WYSIWYG editors. Richard Stallman visited the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1976 and was quite impressed by this technology. Carl Mikkelsen had previously implemented a similar hack to the TECO text editor, adding a combined display+editing mode called "Control-R".
References
External links
« Essential E by Arthur Samuel », Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, March 1980.
Text editors
History of software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autraumaton | Autraumaton is the debut album by Canadian Cyberrockers The Rabid Whole. The album was released on March 3, 2009 by Synthetic Sounds and was mastered by Shaun Thingvold.
Track listing
References
External links
Autraumaton on Amazon.ca
Autraumaton on Amazon MP3 Store
2009 debut albums
The Rabid Whole albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20lakes%20of%20South%20Ossetia |
A list of waters of the South Ossetia
On the territory of South Ossetia is part of Keli Highland, which is the second by the number of lakes in the Caucasus.
Notes
All data obtained by Google Earth.
South Ossetia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesto%20tie%C5%88ov | Mesto tieňov or City of the Shadows, is a Slovak crime TV series which debuted on April 11, 2008 on the Markíza network. It was produced by DNA Production company with its episodes based on real life events.
The TV series received the "Televízna udalosť roka" Award (Television Event of Year) by film critics.
Casts and characters
Episode characters
Martin Rausch
Szidi Tobias
Vlado Černý
Vladimír Jedľovský
Petra Polnišová
Juraj Ďurdiak
Zuzana Šebová
List of episodes
Season 1: 2008
Books
2008 - Marek Zákopčan - Mesto tieňov 1, Ikar
2008 - Marek Zákopčan - Mesto tieňov 2, Ikar
External links
správa na medialne.sk
správa na markiza.sk
správa na medialne.sk
Czechoslovak Film Database
Slovak drama television series
2008 Slovak television series debuts
2000s Slovak television series
2010s Slovak television series
Markíza original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Office%203.0 | Microsoft Office 3.0 was a release of Microsoft Office. It was the second major release for the Microsoft Windows operating system and the third on the Macintosh, preceding Microsoft Office 4.0. Omitting version 2 entirely on Windows, Microsoft released Office 3.0 on August 30, 1992. Previously, these components were distributed separately for Windows, and it was with Microsoft Office that they were combined as a full office suite.
Its main components included Word 2.0c, Excel 4.0a, PowerPoint 3.0, and Mail, a network messaging client. Versions for Macintosh were also updated to Word 5.1, which didn't exist for Windows.
References
1992 software
3.0 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn%20of%20Discovery | Dawn of Discovery may refer to:
Anno 1404, a 2009 computer game, known as Dawn of Discovery in North America
Anno: Create A New World, a 2009 Nintendo Wii and DS game, known as Dawn of Discovery in North America
Anno 1701: Dawn of Discovery, a 2007 Nintendo DS game
The Age of Discovery, the period in history during which Europeans and their descendants intensively explored and mapped the world |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20software%20for%20nuclear%20engineering | With the decreased cost and increased capabilities of computers, Nuclear Engineering has implemented computer software (Computer code to Mathematical model) into all facets of this field. There are a wide variety of fields associated with nuclear engineering, but computers and associated software are used most often in design and analysis. Neutron Kinetics, Thermal-hydraulics, and structural mechanics are all important in this effort. each software need to test and verify before use. The codes can be separated by use and function. most of software's written in C and Fortran.
Monte Carlo Radiation Transport
Geant4
MCCARD
MCNP
OpenMC - https://github.com/openmc-dev/openmc
PHITS - https://phits.jaea.go.jp/
SCALE(KENO V and KENO VI) - https://www.ornl.gov/scale
Serpent
TRIPOLI-4 - http://www.cea.fr/nucleaire/tripoli-4
Transmutation, fuel depletion
ACAB code Activation and Transmutation calculations for nuclear applications
ORIP_XXI code Isotope transmutation simulations
ORILL Code 1D transmutation, fuel depletion (burn-up) and radiological protection code
FISPACT-II Multiphysics, inventory and source-term code
MURE Serpent-MCNP Utility for Reactor Evolution
VESTA Monte Carlo depletion interface code
Toolkit
PyNE The Nuclear Engineering Toolkit - https://pyne.io/
Deterministic Radiation Transport
CASMO5 - https://www.studsvik.com/our-solutions/products/casmo/
HELIOS-2 - https://www.studsvik.com/our-solutions/products/helios-2/
SCALE - https://www.ornl.gov/scale
MPACT - https://www.ornl.gov/division/rnsd/projects/mpact
THOR - https://github.com/NCSU-NCSG/THOR
nTRACER
Steady-state Reactor Analysis
SIMULATE5 - https://www.studsvik.com/our-solutions/products/simulate5/
Spatial Kinetics
PARCS - https://engineering.purdue.edu/PARCS
SIMULATE-3K - https://www.studsvik.com/our-solutions/products/simulate3-k/
NESTLE - http://necluster.engr.utk.edu/nestledev
Citation - http://www.oecd-nea.org/tools/abstract/detail/nesc0387
Thermal-Hydraulics
ATHLET https://www.grs.de/en/computer-code-athlet
TRACE
Idaho National Laboratory's RELAP5-3D
GOTHIC - http://www.numerical.com/software/gothic
FLICA-4
RETRAN (RETRAN-02 and RETRAN-3D)
VIPRE-01
PROTO-FLO
PROTO-HX
PROTO-HVAC
PROTO-Sprinkler
Computational Fluid Dynamics
CFX
FLUENT
StarCD
STAR-CCM+
LOGOS - http://logos.vniief.ru/
COBRA-TF - https://www.ne.ncsu.edu/rdfmg/cobra-tf/
TransAT - https://www.transat-cfd.com/
Severe Accident
ATHLET-CD - https://www.grs.de/en/simulation-codes/athlet-cd
MELCOR
MAAP - http://www.fauske.com/nuclear/maap-modular-accident-analysis-program
Many codes are supported by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). These include SCALE, PARCS, TRACE (Formerly RELAP5 and TRAC-B), MELCOR, and many others.
http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/regulatory/research/safetycodes.html
See also
Safety code (nuclear reactor)
Computational science
Computational physics
Computer simulation
List of software for nanostructures modeling
References
External links
http://www.min.uc.edu/nuclear/curr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Kin | Kin was a short-lived mobile phone line from Microsoft designed for users of social networking. The phones, aimed at people between ages 15 and 30, were manufactured by Sharp Corporation and sold through Verizon Wireless.
Microsoft invested two years and about US$1 billion developing the Kin platform, beginning with its acquisition of Danger Incorporated. The Kin was based on Windows CE.
The Kin ONE and TWO went on the market on May 14, 2010. Within two months, Verizon stopped selling the phones because of poor sales. Microsoft scrapped its planned European release, stopped promoting the devices, ceased production, and reassigned the Kin development team to other projects.
Microsoft updated its unsold Kin inventory with firmware that removed social and web-based features, and in December 2010 offered these re-purposed units through Verizon stores as limited feature phones, the Kin ONEm and the TWOm. In January 2011, Microsoft shut down the kin.com website, which controlled most of the earlier phones' features.
The Kin TWOm was discontinued in August 2011; unsold inventory could still be found for sale on deals sites as late as June 2013.
History
Development
The Kin project was first known by the codename Project Pink, and began under direction of Microsoft executive J Allard. In order to gain a head start, Microsoft acquired Danger Incorporated, which built the Danger Hiptop/T-Mobile Sidekick, in 2008 for a purchase price rumored to be around US$500 million. In September 2009, a ZDNet source reported that Project Pink would bring an entirely new software stack and services. Some reports predicted that the new mobile phone platform would be based on the Zune media device. The project was managed by Roz Ho, a corporate vice president at Microsoft. Internally, the team used the slogan "Truly Madly Deeply Pink"; in tweets they used the hashtag "#tmdp".
Kin was developed inside Microsoft's Premium Mobile Experiences (PMX) division by a group that included staff from Danger. Handset manufacturers and network carriers were said to be initially enthusiastic about Kin, and vying with each other to be involved with the project.
According to Engadget, there was jealousy and rivalry in Microsoft's executive ranks, and Windows Phone senior vice president Andy Lees managed to wrest control of the Kin project away from Allard, and move it under his Windows Phone division. Danger's Sidekick, the predecessor to Kin, was based on the Java programming language, but Engadget says that Lees wanted Kin to run an in-house Microsoft operating system. Microsoft planned to base Kin on Windows Phone. Due to delays with Windows Phone, however, the software instead had to be based directly upon Windows CE.
Engadget claims that Lees lacked enthusiasm for the Kin project. Nonetheless, Microsoft spent a further two years developing the Kin until its release in 2010.
Unveiling
The unveiling of Microsoft Kin began when the company sent out invitations to select repor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexel%20University%20School%20of%20Public%20Health | The Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health is a part of the Drexel University Health Sciences network of schools. The Dornsife School of Public Health was located in downtown Philadelphia from its inception until December 2013. It has since re-located to the University City Campus.
The Dornsife School of Public Health was founded in 1996, with Jonathan Mann as its first dean. In 2000, the School came under the operational management of Drexel University and in 2002 fully joined the university's Health Sciences network, where it was physically located until early 2014 within the Center City Hahnemann Campus, alongside the Drexel University College of Medicine and the Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions. In mid-January 2014, the school moved into the renovated Nesbitt Hall building, located in the University City Campus. The building used to house the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts and Design. In September 2015, the School received a $45 million gift from longtime philanthropists Dana and David Dornsife, in recognition of which the School was named after the donors.
Mission
Departments
The School's academic program contains the following four departments:
Community Health and Prevention (CHP)
Environmental and Occupational Health (EOH)
Epidemiology and Biostatistics (Epi/ Bio)
Health Management and Policy (HMP)
Degrees
The School currently offers the following Master's, Doctoral and Certificate degrees:
Master of Public Health (MPH)
Master of Public Health, Executive Program (Executive MPH)
Master of Science (MS) in Biostatistics
Master of Science (MS) in Epidemiology
Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) in Community Health & Prevention
Doctorate (PhD) in Epidemiology
DrPH in Health Policy and Social Justice
Joint Doctor of Medicine and Master of Public Health (MD/MPH)
Certificate in Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Centers and projects
Drexel Urban Health Collaborative (DUHC)
A.J. Drexel Autism Institute
Center for Public Health Readiness and Communication (CPHRC)
Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice
National Resource Center on Advancing Emergency Preparedness for Culturally Diverse Communities
Center for Hunger-Free Communities
Program for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Health
References
External links
Schools of public health in the United States
Drexel University
Universities and colleges established in 1996
Medical and health organizations based in Pennsylvania
1996 establishments in Pennsylvania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberdyne%20Inc. | Cyberdyne is a Japanese robotics and technology company most noted for the marketing and distribution of the HAL robotic exoskeleton suit.
History
Cyberdyne was founded on June 24, 2004, by Yoshiyuki Sankai, a professor at the University of Tsukuba. as a venture company to develop his ideas for an exoskeleton suit.
The name is the same as a fictional company from the Terminator film series, which also produces robots. The name, however, is not necessarily a reference, but from the new academic fields of "Cybernetics", and the suffix "-dyne", referring to power. That being said, during an interview between Sankai and McG, director of Terminator Salvation, Sankai admits that he likes the Terminator franchise as well as 2001: A Space Odyssey.
In early 2009, Cyberdyne attracted international media attention with the announcement that it will be marketing and distributing the HAL 5 (Hybrid Assistive Limb) powered exoskeleton, which they claim augments body movement and increases user strength by up to ten times. As of February 2013, Cyberdyne has leased 330 HAL suits to 150 facilities across Japan, and HAL has been given a global safety certification that should allow it to be distributed outside Japan.
In 2017 March, Abdul Latif Jameel of Saudi Arabia signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Cyberdyne Inc. in order to assist the victims of traumatic spinal injuries in Saudi Arabia.
References
External links
Companies based in Ibaraki Prefecture
Japanese companies established in 2004
Technology companies established in 2004
Medical technology companies of Japan
Robotics companies of Japan
Japanese brands
Companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20data%20flow | Distributed data flow (also abbreviated as distributed flow) refers to a set of events in a distributed application or protocol.
Distributed data flows serve a purpose analogous to variables or method parameters in programming languages such as Java, in that they can represent state that is stored or communicated by a layer of software. Unlike variables or parameters, which represent a unit of state that resides in a single location, distributed flows are dynamic and distributed: they simultaneously appear in multiple locations within the network at the same time. As such, distributed flows are a more natural way of modeling the semantics and inner workings of certain classes of distributed systems. In particular, the distributed data flow abstraction has been used as a convenient way of expressing the high-level logical relationships between parts of distributed protocols.
Informal properties
A distributed data flow satisfies the following informal properties.
Asynchronous, non-blocking, and one-way. Each event represents a single instance of a non-blocking, one-way, asynchronous method invocation or other form of explicit or implicit message passing between two layers or software components. For example, each event might represent a single request to multicast a packet, issued by an application layer to an underlying multicast protocol. The requirement that events are one-way and asynchronous is important. Invocations of methods that may return results would normally be represented as two separate flows: one flow that represents the requests, and another flow that represents responses.
Homogeneous, unidirectional, and uniform. All events in the distributed flow serve the same functional and logical purpose, and are related to one another; generally, we require that they represent method calls or message exchanges between instances of the same functional layers, or instances of the same components, but perhaps on different nodes within a computer network. Furthermore, all events must flow in the same direction (i.e., one type of a layer or component always produces, and the other always consumes the events), and carry the same type of a payload. For example, a set of events that includes all multicast requests issued by the same application layer to the same multicast protocol is a distributed flow. On the other hand, a set of events that includes multicast requests made by different applications to different multicast protocols would not be considered a distributed flow, and neither would be a set of events that represent multicast requests as well as acknowledgments and error notifications.
Concurrent, continuous, and distributed. The flow usually includes all events that flow between the two layers of software, simultaneously at different locations, and over a finite or infinite period of time. Thus, in general, events in a distributed flow are distributed both in space (they occur at different nodes) and in time (they occur at differe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20Chang | Fred Chang (; born 1956/57) is a Taiwanese-born American entrepreneur. He is the founder of Newegg, an online computer hardware and software store. He debuted on the Forbes' 2014 global list of billionaires and holds the position of #1940 in its 2017 ranking.
Early life
Chang has a degree from the Chinese Cultural University.
Newegg
Before Newegg, Chang owned ABS Computers, a mail order company selling high-end PCs and gaming systems based in Whittier, California. Building on this experience, he founded Newegg in 2001. It has grown into a multibillion-dollar company, becoming the second-largest online-only retailer in the United States.
In August 2008, it was announced that Chang would step down as the CEO and chairman of Newegg while still being a member of Board of Directors and Executive Committee. He also retained his position as the President of Newegg's China operations. He was succeeded by Tally Liu. In 2010, upon the departure of Liu, Chang took up his old role as CEO of the company. In 2019, Anthony Chow became CEO of Newegg.
References
1950s births
American billionaires
American computer businesspeople
American technology chief executives
American technology company founders
Taiwanese emigrants to the United States
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%20SEC%20men%27s%20basketball%20tournament | The 2010 SEC men's basketball tournament was held March 11–14, 2010 in Nashville, Tennessee at Bridgestone Arena. The first, quarterfinal, and semifinal rounds were televised by SEC Network and the semifinals and finals were broadcast nationwide on ABC, with the exception of the majority of South Carolina markets.
The weekend games did not air in the market of the South Carolina Gamecocks in Columbia. ABC affiliate WOLO pre-empted the game and aired the 2010 ACC men's basketball tournament semifinal and final matches instead, per syndication contract with Raycom Sports, with the current Raycom-WOLO contract continuing until the 2011 tournament. The games also did not air in the Greenville-Spartanburg area (also Asheville, NC), as ABC affiliate WLOS also aired the ACC tournament. Raycom had owned the syndication rights to SEC sports prior to this season.
Seeds
All twelve SEC schools played in the tournament. Teams were seeded by 2009–10 SEC season record, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The top 2 teams in each division received a first round bye.
The seeds for the tournament were as follows:
Schedule
Bracket
References
SEC men's basketball tournament
2009–10 Southeastern Conference men's basketball season
Basketball competitions in Nashville, Tennessee
2010 in sports in Tennessee
College sports tournaments in Tennessee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer%20Ultra-Low%20Voltage | Consumer Ultra-Low Voltage (CULV) is a computing platform developed by Intel. It was estimated in January 2009 that this market could reach 10 million CULV laptops shipped during that year. Competing platforms are the VIA Nano, AMD Yukon, AMD Nile notebook platform, and graphic chips from the Nvidia GeForce line within the "Nvidia Ion platform". Some of the lowest-power-consumption processors for the ultra thin CULV category are only a few watts more than the Intel Atom, which is rated at no more than 2.5 W. Because of their low power and heat output, CULV enables very thin computer systems, and long battery life in notebook computers, such as those designed to Intel's Ultrabook specifications.
While the first processors in this category were single core (such as the SU3500), newer CULV processors are dual core (e.g., the SU9600). They are all based on the Intel Core 2 architecture, but the ultra-low voltage versions have a thermal rating of 5.5 W – more than the Intel Atom, but a fraction of the dual-core mainstream Intel mobile chips rated at 25 and 35 watts – and they come in a small 22 mm chip package.
The newest CULV processors come from the Intel Core product lines, and are based on a 10 nm process.
Processors
Based on the Penryn microarchitecture
Single-Core Processors (45 nm)
Dual-Core Processors (45 nm)
Based on the Westmere microarchitecture
Celeron (32 nm)
Pentium (32 nm)
Core i3 (32 nm)
Core i5 (32 nm)
Core i7 (32 nm)
Based on the Sandy Bridge microarchitecture
Celeron (32 nm)
Pentium (32 nm)
Core i3 (32 nm)
Core i5 (32 nm)
Core i7 (32 nm)
Based on the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture
Celeron (22 nm)
Pentium (22 nm)
Core i3 (22 nm)
Core i5 (22 nm)
Core i7 (22 nm)
Based on the Haswell microarchitecture
Celeron (22 nm)
Pentium (22 nm)
Core i3 (22 nm)
Core i5 (22 nm)
Core i7 (22 nm)
Based on the Broadwell microarchitecture
Celeron (14 nm)
Pentium (14 nm)
Core i3 (14 nm)
Core i5 (14 nm)
Core i7 (14 nm)
Core M (14 nm)
Based on the Skylake microarchitecture
Pentium (14 nm)
Core i3 (14 nm)
Core i5 (14 nm)
Core i7 (14 nm)
Core m (14 nm)
Based on the Kaby Lake microarchitecture
Core i3 (14 nm)
Core i5 (14 nm)
Core i7 (14 nm)
Core m (14 nm)
See also
List of AMD mobile microprocessors
List of Intel Celeron microprocessors
List of Intel Core 2 microprocessors
List of Intel Core i3 microprocessors
List of Intel Core i5 microprocessors
List of Intel Core i7 microprocessors
List of Intel Pentium microprocessors
Penryn (microprocessor)
Ultra-low-voltage processor
References
External links
Intel - Ultra Thin Laptops
2009 introductions
Intel x86 microprocessors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBC%20Olympic%20broadcasts | The broadcasts of Summer and Winter Olympic Games produced by CBC Sports is shown on CBC Television and heard on the CBC's radio networks in Canada. The CBC was the broadcaster of the 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2022 Olympics.
History
The first telecast of the Olympics on Canadian television was the CBC's broadcast of the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. The CBC aired black-and-white highlights of the previous day's events and aired the Canada vs. Soviet Union hockey game live by leasing a standby circuit from CBS and making the CBC's 1st winter Olympics in the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, USA. Critics compared the CBC's overall Olympic coverage unfavourably to that of ABC, which broadcast same-day colour highlights throughout the Games. For the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy, the CBC produced a total of 17 hours of radio and TV coverage for the 1960 Summer Olympics. CBC Television broadcast same-day highlights each night. The half-hour package featured was provided by CBS Sports, which had the broadcast rights in the United States. CBS sportscasters Bud Palmer, Gil Stratton, and Bob Richards provided commentary. CBS sent videotapes of each day's events by jet to Idlewild Airport (now John F. Kennedy International Airport) in New York City where a mobile transmission unit there beamed the pictures to the CBC and CBS networks. On radio Ward Cornell and Thom Benson gave listeners 15-minute reports every evening except Sunday on the CBC's Trans-Canada Network and Doug Smith gave half-hour evening wrap-ups on the CBC's Dominion Network.
The CBC lost their Winter Olympic broadcasting rights to CTV following the 1960 Olympics, but retained their rights to the Summer Olympics. The CBC Television broadcasters for the 1964 Summer games were Ted Reynolds, Dave Cruikshank, Bob McDevitt, Steve Douglas, and Lloyd Robertson. Ward Cornell, Al Hamel, Bob Moir, Don Goodwin, and Bill Good were the broadcasters for CBC Radio. For the Tokyo Olympics, CBC Television used the same satellite as NBCUniversal, the recently launched Syncom 3, to transmit late-night highlight packages of events from that day.
The CBC provided its first colour pictures of Olympic competition during the 1968 Summer Olympics from Mexico City. CBC Radio broadcast five-minute hourly updates and occasional live reports. CBC Olympic host Lloyd Robertson was praised by The Globe and Mail writer Leslie Millin for his cool demeanour in the face of many technical glitches including "strange breaks, noises, lapses and unscheduled fade-outs." Millin applauded Robertson, normally a newscaster, for "working with the grace and agility of a man hired to stamp grapes in a Sicilian winery."
The CBC almost cancelled their plans for coverage of the 1980 Summer Olympics after Canada took part in the boycott, but decided not to and was represented by nine accreditation cards.
Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium, a joint venture between CTVglobemedia (now Bell Media) and R |
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