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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOVER | XOVER is a Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) command used to return information from a news server's overview (NOV) database.
The XOVER command is documented in RFC 2980, a specification for Common NNTP Extensions authored by Stan O. Barber in October 2000. A newer version of NNTP, specified in RFC 3977, formalized the XOVER extension with new OVER and LIST OVERVIEW.FMT commands.
See also
List of Usenet newsreaders
Usenet newsgroup
News server
References
Usenet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial%20application | In computer science, partial application (or partial function application) refers to the process of fixing a number of arguments to a function, producing another function of smaller arity. Given a function , we might fix (or 'bind') the first argument, producing a function of type . Evaluation of this function might be represented as . Note that the result of partial function application in this case is a function that takes two arguments. Partial application is sometimes incorrectly called currying, which is a related, but distinct concept.
Motivation
Intuitively, partial function application says "if you fix the first arguments of the function, you get a function of the remaining arguments". For example, if function div(x,y) = x/y, then div with the parameter x fixed at 1 is another function: div1(y) = div(1,y) = 1/y. This is the same as the function inv that returns the multiplicative inverse of its argument, defined by inv(y) = 1/y.
The practical motivation for partial application is that very often the functions obtained by supplying some but not all of the arguments to a function are useful; for example, many languages have a function or operator similar to plus_one. Partial application makes it easy to define these functions, for example by creating a function that represents the addition operator with 1 bound as its first argument.
Implementations
In languages such as ML, Haskell and F#, functions are defined in curried form by default. Supplying fewer than the total number of arguments is referred to as partial application.
In languages with first-class functions, one can define curry, uncurry and papply to perform currying and partial application explicitly. This might incur a greater run-time overhead due to the creation of additional closures, while Haskell can use more efficient techniques.
Scala implements optional partial application with placeholder, e.g. returns an incrementing function. Scala also supports multiple parameter lists as currying, e.g. .
Clojure implements partial application using the partial function defined in its core library.
The C++ standard library provides bind(function, args..) to return a function object that is the result of partial application of the given arguments to the given function. Since C++20 the function bind_front(function, args...) is also provided which binds the first sizeof...(args) arguments of the function to the args. In contrast, bind allows binding any of the arguments of the function passed to it, not just the first ones. Alternatively, lambda expressions can be used:
int f(int a, int b);
auto f_partial = [](int a) { return f(a, 123); };
assert(f_partial(456) == f(456, 123) );
In Java, MethodHandle.bindTo partially applies a function to its first argument.
Alternatively, since Java 8, lambdas can be used:
public static <A, B, R> Function<B, R> partialApply(BiFunction<A, B, R> biFunc, A value) {
return b -> biFunc.apply(value, b);
}
In Raku, the assuming method creat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrot%20AR.Drone | The Parrot AR.Drone is a discontinued remote-controlled flying quadcopter, built by the French company Parrot.
The drone is designed to be controlled by mobile or tablet operating systems, such as iOS or Android within their respective apps or the unofficial software available for Windows Phone, Samsung BADA and Symbian devices.
Design and development
Version 1.0.
The Parrot AR.Drone was unveiled at the International CES 2010 in Las Vegas along with a demonstration of the iOS applications used to control it. Along with AR.Freeflight, the application designed for the free operation of the drone, Parrot also released AR.Race, allowing users to take part in solo games, or interact with other drones in combat simulations.
The airframe of the AR.Drone, constructed from nylon and carbon fiber parts, which make it light weight, measures across. Two interchangeable hulls were supplied with the airframe, one is designed for indoor and one for outdoor flight. The indoor hull is made from EPP foam, and encases the circumference of the blades for protection. The outdoor-use hull is made from lightweight plastic and allows for increased maneuverability. In total, the AR.Drone has six degrees of freedom, with a miniaturized inertial measurement unit tracking the pitch, roll, and yaw for use in stabilisation.
Inside the airframe, a range of sensors assist flight, enabling the interface used by pilots to be simpler, and making advanced flight easier. The onboard computer runs a Linux operating system, and communicates with the pilot through a self-generated Wi-Fi hotspot. The onboard sensors include an ultrasonic altimeter, which is used to provide vertical stabilization up to . The rotors are powered by 15-watt, brushless motors powered by an 11.1 Volt lithium polymer battery. This provides approximately 12 minutes of flight time at a speed of . Coupled with the software on the piloting device, the forward-facing camera allows the drone to build a 3D environment, track objects and drones, and validate shots in augmented reality games.
Technical specifications
Interfaces: USB and Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
Front camera: QVGA sensor with 93° lens
Vertical camera: 64° lens, recording up to 60fps
Version 2.0.
The successor to the original drone, the AR.Drone 2.0 was unveiled at CES Las Vegas 2012. Rather than redesigning the product, improvements were made to its functionality, along with developing a larger ecosystem to support pilots.
The equipment on board AR.Drone 2.0 was significantly upgraded to improve the drone's function. The camera quality was increased to 720p, and many of the onboard sensors were made more sensitive, allowing for greater control. The ultrasound altimeter was enhanced with the addition of an air pressure sensor, allowing for more stable flight and hovering. The resources available to the onboard computer were also improved, and the Wi-Fi hardware was updated to follow the new 802.11n standard. Other sensor improvements included an upgra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loading%20screen | A loading screen is a screen shown by a computer program, very often a video game, while the program is loading (moving program data from the disk to RAM) or initializing.
In early video games, the loading screen was also a chance for graphic artists to be creative without the technical limitations often required for the in-game graphics. Drawing utilities were also limited during this period. Melbourne Draw, one of the few 8-bit screen utilities with a zoom function, was one program of choice for artists.
While loading screens remain commonplace in video games, background loading is now used in many games, especially open world titles, to eliminate loading screens while traversing normally through the game, making them appear only when "teleporting" farther than the load distance (e.g. using warps or fast travel) or moving faster than the game can load.
Loading times
Loading screens that disguise the length of time that a program takes to load were common when computer games were loaded from cassette tape, a process which could take five minutes or more. Nowadays, most games are downloaded digitally, and therefore loaded off the hard drive meaning faster load times; however, some games are also loaded off of an optical disc, faster than previous magnetic media, but still include loading screens to disguise the amount of time taken to initialize the game in RAM.
Because the loading screen data itself needs to be read from the media, it actually can increase the overall loading time. For example, with a ZX Spectrum game, the screen data takes up 6 kilobytes, representing an increase in loading time of about 13% over the same game without a loading screen. Recently, however, more powerful hardware has significantly diminished this effect.
Variations
The loading screen does not need to be a static picture. Some loading screens display a progress bar or a timer countdown to show how much data has actually loaded. Others, recently, are not even a picture at all, and are a small video or have parts animated in real time.
Variations such as the progress bar are sometimes programmed to inaccurately reflect the passage of time or extended during loading; opting instead for artificial pauses or stutters. This can be done in games for a multitude of reasons including encouraging players to engage with exposition during time away from gameplay and providing the player with an immersive transition between scenes. One notable example of this practice being used is for the real-time strategy game Age of Empires, with programmer Greg Street describing his method of timing visual loading queues with appropriate script queues when loading a randomly generated map. Other developers describe the necessity of an artificial loading timer despite technical advancement making modern loading times near-instantaneous to allow the player a smooth transition between gameplay segments. This technique also has grounds in the perceived perception of performance denote |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9310%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28late%20night%29 | These are the late night schedules for the four United States broadcast networks that offer programming during this time period, from September 2009 to August 2010. All times are Eastern or Pacific. Affiliates will fill non-network schedule with local, syndicated, or paid programming. Affiliates also have the option to preempt or delay network programming at their discretion.
Legend
Schedule
Monday-Friday
Note: As the result of the Tonight Show conflict, O'Brien was let go at NBC, with his version of The Tonight Show ending on January 22, 2010. Jay Leno returned on March 1, 2010. O'Brien returned to late night in the Fall of 2010, with Conan airing on TBS.
Saturday
By network
ABC
Returning series
ABC World News Now
America This Morning
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Nightline
CBS
Returning series
CBS Morning News
Late Show with David Letterman
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Up to the Minute
Fox
New series
Brothers
Encore Programming
Sit Down, Shut Up
The Wanda Sykes Show
Not returning from 2008-09:
MADtv (revived by The CW in 2015-16)
Talkshow with Spike Feresten
NBC
Returning series
Early Today
Last Call with Carson Daly
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Poker After Dark
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Not returning from 2008-09:
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
References
TV Listings
United States late night network television schedules
2009 in American television
2010 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEPnet | The South-East Physics Network, or SEPnet, is an association of physics departments at universities in the South-East of England.
In 2008 it received a grant of £12.5 million from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. and in 2013 received an additional grant of £2.75m
The South East Physics Network is better known as SEPnet, a consortium of physics departments in nine universities.
Its partners are, alphabetically:
The University of Hertfordshire (joined 2013)
The University of Kent (Founding member)
The Open University (joined 2013)
The University of Portsmouth (joined 2010)
Queen Mary University of London (Founding member)
Royal Holloway, University of London (Founding member)
The University of Southampton (Founding member)
The University of Surrey (Founding member)
The University of Sussex (Founding member)
Its associates are:
University of Oxford
The University of Reading
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
History and background
Until around 2005 there had been a long-term decline in the numbers of students nationally enrolling on Undergraduate degree courses in Physics and Astronomy. As a result, Physics departments and provision in universities was at risk with departments closing. Physics departments ran at a loss and required subsidies to maintain their undergraduate provision. Even universities in the UK's Russell Group were failing to attract enough students to be viable. The Universities in England's South East were felt to be particularly vulnerable and the decision by the University of Reading to close its Physics Department was a call to arms to these universities to take action to prevent closure and bolster their Physics departments. The result was a proposal from six universities to form a network of physics departments and seek funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England to invest in sustaining Physics in the South East of England. Led by the University of Surrey, the network consisted of the Physics departments at Kent, QMUL, RHUL, Southampton, Surrey and Sussex and was granted a £12.5m grant in 2008 for five years.
SEPnet Phase Two from 2013 onwards is based on an expanded consortium of nine Physics Departments of Universities in the South East of England – with the founding SEPnet members Kent, Queen Mary, Royal Holloway, Southampton, Surrey and Sussex being joined by Portsmouth, Hertfordshire and the Open University with University of Reading joining as an associate. This phase of SEPnet is led by the University of Southampton.
In 2008 SEPnet received a £12.5m grant over five years from the Higher Education Funding Council for England, to support innovative research, a collaborative Graduate School, lectures using video conferencing, regional employer engagement and a schools outreach programme.
In 2013 it received a further £2.75m grant from the Higher Education Funding Council for England and £10.3m from its members to continue programmes from the first phase, to maint |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Vaio%20Y%20series | The Vaio Y series is a line of notebook computer from Sony introduced in January 2010. It is a netbook-inspired model designed for travel use: compared with the other 13.3" models in the Vaio range, the Y lacks an optical drive, and is heavier and cheaper than the premium Sony Vaio Z series, but lighter than the consumer-grade Sony Vaio S series, with better battery life than either, thanks to the use of CULV processors. The weight is 3.92lbs (1.78kg).
The Y series features a 13.3" 16:9 1366x768 screen, 2-8GB of DDR3 RAM, hard drive or SSD, CULV Intel dual-core CPU, Mobile Intel Intel GMA 4500MHD or ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4550 graphics (refreshed models only), integrated VGA webcam, gigabit ethernet, 802.11b/g/n wireless, and Windows 7 64 bit. Initially the Y series shipped with a Core 2 CULV CPUs; the mid-2010 refresh saw these replaced with newer Arrandale CULV chips.
Battery specs are 5000 mAh (330g - standard) or 7500 mAh (490g - extended).
Models (USA & Europe)
Launch
VPC-Y115FX: Intel Core 2 SU7300 (1.30 GHz), 4GB RAM, 320GB 5200rpm hard drive, Intel GS45 graphics, Windows 7 Home Premium ($799)
VPC-Y118GX: Intel Core 2 SU7300 (1.30 GHz), 4GB RAM, 500GB 5200rpm hard drive, Intel GS45 graphics, Windows 7 Home Premium, included additional high-capacity battery ($999)
VPC-Y11S1E (Sold in Europe): Intel Core 2 SU7300 (1.30 GHz), 4GB RAM, 320GB 5400rpm hard drive, Intel Media Accelerator 4500 MHD graphics, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Refresh
VPC-Y21EFX and VPC-Y21SFX: Intel Core i3-330UM 1.20GHz, 4GB RAM, 320GB 5200rpm hard drive, Intel GS45 graphics, Windows 7 Home Premium
VPC-2190X: Intel Pentium U5400 (1.20GHz), Core i3-330UM (1.20GHz) or Core i5-430UM (1.20GHz with Turbo Boost to 1.73GHz), 320 or 500GB hard drive or 256GB SSD, 2GB, 4GB, 6GB or 8GB of RAM, Intel GMA 4500 or ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4550 graphics, Windows 7 Home Premium or Professional
External links
Sony Vaio VPCY11S1E VAIO Series Y
Y |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed%2C%20Edd%20n%20Eddy%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of the animated comedy television series Ed, Edd n Eddy, created by Danny Antonucci, originally aired on Cartoon Network from November 26, 1999, to December 22, 2000, and consists of 13 episodes. The series revolves around three adolescent boys collectively known as "the Eds", who live in a suburban cul-de-sac. Unofficially led by Eddy, the Eds frequently scheme to make money off their peers in order to purchase their favorite confection, jawbreakers. However, their plans usually fail, leaving them in various predicaments.
The first season was a success in Nielsen ratings, prompting Cartoon Network for a November 1999 premiere. While the first season itself received generally positive reviews, the second season proved to be an improvement in reception, garnering acclaim and earning two Leo Awards, while the first received one.
The Complete Second Season DVD was released in Region 1 in 2007. The Ed, Edd n Eddy DVD volume Edifying Ed-Ventures, also featured season two episodes. Both DVDs were published by Warner Home Video. Many Cartoon Network compilation DVDs featured episodes from the season. It can also be purchased from the iTunes Store. It was written by Antonucci, Jono Howard, Mike Kubat, and Robert Leighton.
Development
Concept
Ed, Edd n Eddy follows the lives of three adolescent boys who all share variations of the name Ed, but differ greatly in their personalities. In the pursuit of buying jawbreakers and fitting in with the other kids, dimwitted Ed and intellectual Double Dee aid the self-appointed leader, Eddy, in his plans to scam the other children in their cul-de-sac out of their money during a perpetual summer vacation; however problems always ensue. The other children mostly dislike or show indifference to the Eds, though they all share a common fear of the Kanker Sisters, a group of teenage girls who live in the nearby "Park n' Flush" trailer park. The series takes place mostly within the fictional town of Peach Creek, and new locations were rarely introduced.
Production and cast
Danny Antonucci, a cartoonist known for his edgy adult work such as Lupo the Butcher and The Brothers Grunt, was dared by someone to produce a children's cartoon. In 1996, Antonucci pitched Ed, Edd n Eddy, which he conceived while designing a commercial, to Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon. After Cartoon Network agreed to give Antonucci creative control over the show, the series went into production and premiered its first season on January 4, 1999.
According to Cartoon Network executive Linda Simensky, the first season did "remarkably well" in ratings ever since its premiere, becoming one of the top-rated series on the network and prompting Cartoon Network to quickly order a second season for a November 1999 premiere, making it one of four seasons which Ed, Edd n Eddy was set to run. Antonucci stated that change in the characters from the first to the second season is "very" noticeable, due to the amount of development they went th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-Integrated%20Multimedia%20Middleware | The Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware (NMM) is a flow graph based multimedia framework. NMM allows creating distributed multimedia applications: local and remote multimedia devices or software components can be controlled transparently and integrated into a common multimedia processing flow graph. NMM is implemented in C++, a programming language, and NMM-IDL, an interface description language (IDL). NMM is a set of cross-platform libraries and applications for the operating systems Linux, OS X, Windows, and others. A software development kit (SDK) is also provided.
NMM is released under dual-licensing. The Linux, OS X, and PS3 versions are distributed for free as open-source software under the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License (GPL). The Windows version is distributed for free as binary version under the terms and conditions of the NMM Non-Commercial License (NMM-NCL). All NMM versions (i.e., for all supported operating systems) are also distributed under a commercial license with full warranty, which allows developing closed-source proprietary software atop NMM.
See also
Java Media Framework
DirectShow
QuickTime
Helix DNA
MPlayer
VLC media player (VLC)
Video wall
Sources
Linux gains open source multimedia middleware
KDE to gain cutting-edge multimedia technology
Multimedia barriers drop at CeBIT in March
A Survey of Software Infrastructures and Frameworks for Ubiquitous Computing
External links
NMM homepage
Computer networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADVA%20Optical%20Networking | ADVA Optical Networking SE is a European telecommunications vendor that provides network equipment for data, storage, voice and video services. ADVA has a global workforce of over 1,900 employees and its FSP 3000 has been deployed in more than 250 carriers and 10,000 enterprises. It was founded in 1994 by Brian Protiva.
Corporate history
ADVA was founded in 1994 by Brian Protiva. It established its headquarters in Martinsried in Munich (district) and its first production facility in Meiningen. Funded by Egora Holding, the company's initial focus was on the development of wavelength division multiplexing technology designed to provide enterprises, including banks, insurance firms and utilities, with high-bandwidth network connectivity.
Acquisitions
In 2014, ADVA Optical Networking acquired Oscilloquartz. Following the purchase, ADVA continued to expand and develop Oscilloquartz's portfolio of end-to-end synchronization technology.
In 2016, ADVA acquired Overture.
In 2017, ADVA Optical Networking acquired its US rival, MRV Communications in an effort to increase its cloud access portfolio and strengthen its Network Edge portfolio. Following the acquisition, one MRV executive, Scott St. John, was appointed to ADVA's board.
Market share
In 2009, Infonetics Research listed ADVA as the industry leader (#1 position) in the Ethernet Access Device (EAD) space with a market share of 20 percent, based on 2008 revenues.
In 2016, ADVA was listed as the industry leader (#1 position) in Ovum's data center interconnect (DCI) global market share report, with the largest market share in both the metro ICP/CNP and enterprise categories.
Recent history
ADVA's annual revenues surpassed half a billion euros in 2016, peaking at 556.7 million euros.
ADVA demonstrated the world's first 100G quantum safe transport over 2800 km on 13 June 2018. ADVA achieves world-first 100G quantum-safe transport over 2,800km
ADVA's FSP 3000 TeraFlex terminal broke industry records on 24 July 2019, achieving 200Gbit/s per wavelength transmission over a distance of 5,738 km with 2.5bit/symbol, and 500Gbit/s over 1,016 km with 5bit/symbol modulation. The trial was conducted with partners: the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC), EENet of HITSA and Tele2 Estonia. Marketwatch
ADVA announced in August 2021 that they are planning a merger with ADTRAN in an all-stock transaction with ADTRAN shareholders to own approximately 54% and ADVA shareholders to own approximately 46% of the combined company.
Awards
10 March 2021: ADVA won two MEF Proof of Concept (POC) awards. The Judge's Choice Award was for ADVA's multi-vendor live video showcase which utilized network slices and uCPE. ADVA also received the Market Game Changer Award for its demo of multi-edge cloud services.
2 February 2021 ADVA won the TIA QuEST Forum Global Sustainability Award for Excellence in Network Equipment. These annual awards acknowledge outstanding performance and innovation in sustainability pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V8%20engine%20%28disambiguation%29 | A V8 engine is an engine with eight cylinders mounted on the crankcase in two banks of four cylinders.
V8 engine may also refer to:
V8 (JavaScript engine), the JavaScript compiler used by Google Chrome
V8 engines in specific lines of automobiles
AMC V8 engine
BMW OHV V8 engine
Buick V8 engine
Cadillac V8 engine
Chrysler Spitfire V8 engine
Detroit Diesel V8 engine
Duramax V8 engine
Ford SHO V8 engine
GMC V8 engine
Holden V8 engine
Jaguar AJ-V8 engine, compact DOHC V8 piston engine
Lincoln V8 engine
Oldsmobile V8 engine
Pontiac V8 engine
Rolls-Royce V8 engine
Rover V8 engine
Yamaha V8 engine
Chevrolet Big-Block engine, series of large displacement V8 engines
Chevrolet small-block engine, series of automobile V8 engines
Chrysler FirePower engine, Chrysler's first V8 engine
Ford Flathead engine, first independently designed and built V8 engine produced by the Ford Motor Company for mass production
Ford Modular engine, V8 and V10 gasoline engine family
Ford Windsor engine, 90-degree small-block V8
GM small-block engine, V-8 engine utilized in General Motors' line of rear-wheel-drive cars and trucks
Toyota UR engine, 32-valve quad-camshaft V8 piston engine series
See also
V8 (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notascea%20nudata | Notascea nudata is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is known only from Brazil.
External links
discoverlife.org
Notodontidae of South America
Moths described in 1925
Notodontidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resuscitation%20Outcomes%20Consortium | The Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC) is a network of eleven regional clinical centers and a data coordinating center. The consortium conducts experimental and observational studies of out-of-hospital treatments of cardiac arrest and trauma.
Ten communities in the United States and Canada doing uniform quality improvement, clinical trials, and tracking of cardiac arrest and major trauma. The network is coordinated by the University of Washington Clinical Trial Center. ROC is funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health, United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Defence Research and Development Canada, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, and American Heart Association.
Research Sites
Studies
Epistry Database
Hypertonic Saline
ROC PRIMED
(Prehospital Resuscitation using an IMpedance valve and Early vs Delayed analysis) Seattle/King County did not participate in the early vs. delayed analysis portion of the trial.
CPR Feedback
Footnotes
References
ROC Update - Dr. Kudenchuck
External links
Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium
The Alabama Resuscitation Center
The Dallas Center for Resuscitation Research
The Milwaukee Resuscitation Research Center
Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium - Emergency Medicine Research - Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
The British Columbia Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium Network
Center for Research on Emergency Medical Services - Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium
OHSU ROC Study
Rescu (Toronto RescuNET)
ROC (Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium) Studies | UW Medicine, Seattle
Emergency medical services
Emergency services in Washington (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Evangelization%20Television | New Evangelization Television, or NET-TV, is a Catholic television network based in Brooklyn, New York. The network is owned by DeSales Media Group, the communications arm of the Diocese of Brooklyn, which encompasses the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens in New York City.
NET TV offers a variety of original and syndicated programming, including Currents News, the first nightly Catholic news show in the United States.
The network is currently building a production and broadcast facility on Pacific Street in the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Programming
NET TV airs many hours of original programming every week. In addition to Currents News, original programs produced by the network include Mysteries of the Church, hosted by Tim Moriarty; All Things Catholic, hosted by Joe Estevez; City of Churches, hosted by Anthony Mangano; Breaking Bread, hosted by Msgr. Jamie Gigantiello; In the Arena, hosted by Msgr. Kieran Harrington; On the Block, hosted by Ed Wilkinson; and Reel Faith, hosted by David DiCerto and Steven D. Greydanus.
The network also provides live news coverage of major events, including Papal trips abroad, and live Masses from St. James Cathedral Basilica in Brooklyn.
Leadership
Craig Tubiolo is the Director of Programming and Production for NET TV and has directed and produced award-winning films and TV shows.
Vito Formica is the Executive Director of News Content & Development for DeSales Media Group and works closely with the editorial team at NET on news coverage.
William Maier is the Chief Operating Officer for DeSales Media Group.
Related Media Outlets
NET TV is one of several Catholic news outlets owned and operated by DeSales Media Group.
The Tablet has been publishing news and opinion in the Diocese of Brooklyn since 1908.
Nuestra Voz is a Spanish-language newspaper and website serving Brooklyn and Queens.
Facilities
NET TV is currently headquartered at 1712 Tenth Ave. in Brooklyn, NY. A state-of-the-art production and broadcast facility is under construction next to the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph on Pacific Street in the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Awards
In 2010, NET TV received its first Emmy Award nomination for the original program Mysteries of the Church.
In 2017, the documentary “Shelter in the City” was nominated for a NY Emmy.
In 2018, the documentary “Refugees: Enemies or Victims?” was nominated for a NY Emmy.
"Shelter in the City" and "Refugees: Enemies or Victims?" were produced by Craig Syracusa and Terence Donnellan and directed by Donnellan.
History
In 1960, six superintendents from the Roman Catholic Dioceses of Brooklyn, Rockville Centre, Bridgeport, Newark and Jersey City, as well as the Archdiocese of New York, decided to use television as a means of education within their parochial schools. In 1965, production by the Brooklyn diocese began on educational and religious shows for Catholic schools in the area, under the name Instructional Television Associates (ITA). |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual%20computing | Perceptual computing is an application of Zadeh's theory of computing with words on the field of assisting people to make subjective judgments.
Perceptual computer
The perceptual computer – Per-C – an instantiation of perceptual computing – has the architecture that is depicted in Fig. 1 [2]–[6]. It consists of three components: encoder, CWW engine and decoder. Perceptions – words – activate the Per-C and are the Per-C output (along with data); so, it is possible for a human to interact with the Per-C using just a vocabulary.
A vocabulary is application (context) dependent, and must be large enough so that it lets the end-user interact with the Per-C in a user-friendly manner. The encoder transforms words into fuzzy sets (FSs) and leads to a codebook – words with their associated FS models. The outputs of the encoder activate a Computing With Words (CWW) engine, whose output is one or more other FSs, which are then mapped by the decoder into a recommendation (subjective judgment) with supporting data. The recommendation may be in the form of a word, group of similar words, rank or class.
Although many details are needed in order to implement the Per-C's three components – encoder, decoder and CWW engine – and they are covered in [5], it is when the Per-C is applied to specific applications, that the focus on the methodology becomes clear. Stepping back from those details, the methodology of perceptual computing is:
Focus on an application (A).
Establish a vocabulary (or vocabularies) for A.
Collect interval end-point data from a group of subjects (representative of the subjects who will use the Per-C) for all of the words in the vocabulary.
Map the collected word data into word-FOUs by using the Interval Approach [1], [5, Ch. 3]. The result of doing this is the codebook (or codebooks) for A, and completes the design of the encoder of the Per-C.
Choose an appropriate CWW engine for A. It will map IT2 FSs into one or more IT2 FSs. Examples of CWW engines are: IF-THEN rules [5, Ch. 6] and Linguistic Weighted Averages [6], [5, Ch. 5].
If an existing CWW engine is available for A, then use its available mathematics to compute its output(s). Otherwise, develop such mathematics for the new kind of CWW engine. The new CWW engine should be constrained so that its output(s) resemble the FOUs in the codebook(s) for A.
Map the IT2 FS outputs from the CWW engine into a recommendation at the output of the decoder. If the recommendation is a word, rank or class, then use existing mathematics to accomplish this mapping [5, Ch. 4]. Otherwise, develop such mathematics for the new kind of decoder.
Applications of Per-C
To-date a Per-C has been implemented for the following four applications: (1) investment decision-making, (2) social judgment making, (3) distributed decision making, and (4) hierarchical and distributed decision-making. A specific example of the fourth application is the so-called Journal Publication Judgment Advisor [5, Ch. 10] in which |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars%20Needs%20Moms | Mars Needs Moms is a 2011 American 3D computer-animated science fiction film co-written and directed by Simon Wells, produced by ImageMovers Digital and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Based on the Berkeley Breathed book of the same title, the film was animated through the process of performance capture and stars Seth Green, Dan Fogler, Elisabeth Harnois, Mindy Sterling, and Joan Cusack. It was the second and final film produced by ImageMovers Digital before the studio was shut down and re-absorbed into ImageMovers. It tells the story of a nine-year-old boy named Milo who sets out to save his mother on Mars after she is abducted by Martians.
Mars Needs Moms premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on March 6, 2011, and was released in theaters on March 11, 2011, in Disney Digital 3D, RealD 3D and IMAX 3D formats. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the visuals, set design and cast, but criticized its story, characters and "unsettling" character animation, with critics saying that it "suffers from a lack of imagination and heart". It grossed $39.2 million worldwide on a $150 million budget, becoming one of the biggest box-office bombs of all time, losing an estimated $100–144 million for Disney.
Plot
Unbeknownst to humans, there is a thriving, technologically sophisticated society of Martians living below the surface of Mars. The Martians' Supervisor, while observing Earth, sees a mother persuading her son, Milo, to do his chores. The Martians decide to bring her to Mars, where her "mom-ness" will be extracted and implanted into the next-generation of nanny-bots. Meanwhile, Milo, who doesn't like to follow house rules and do chores and has been sent to his room for feeding broccoli to his cat, Cujo, sarcastically tells his mother that his life would be better without her, which hurts her deeply.
Later that night, Milo goes to apologize, but discovers his mom is taken away. He runs after her, but they end up in separate parts of the Martian spaceship. On Mars, Milo is taken to an underground prison cell. He escapes and is chased by the Supervisor's henchmen, but he follows a voice that tells him to jump down a chute, and lands in a lower subterranean level. There, he sees a trash-covered landscape that is inhabited by furry creatures.
Milo is whisked away by the creatures to meet Gribble, also known as George Ribble, the childlike adult human who had told him to jump down the chute. Gribble explains to Milo that the Martians plan to extract Milo's mom's memories at sunrise, using a process that will kill her. Gribble, who is lonely and does not want Milo to leave, pretends to help Milo find his mother. His plan goes awry, leading to Gribble being captured and Milo being chased by the Supervisor's henchmen. Milo is rescued by Ki, one of the supervisors who raise Martian babies. Milo tells her about his search for his Mom and what a human relationship with a mom is like, as Ki and her kin were mentored by only n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiFi-Where | WiFi-Where is a tool that facilitates detecting wireless LANs using the 802.11b, 802.11a and 802.11g WLAN standards. Versions exist for the operating systems iOS and Palm OS. Originally created in June 2004 for the Palm OS by Jonathan Hays of Hazelware Software, the IP for WiFi-Where was licensed to 3Jacks Software in 2009. An iPhone version of the application was released in January 2010, but was pulled from the App Store by Apple in March 2010. As of 2010, it is available in the Jailbroken Cydia store.
Uses
The program is commonly used for:
Wardriving
Verifying network configurations
Finding locations with poor coverage in a WLAN
Detecting causes of wireless interference
Detecting unauthorized (rogue) access points
Features
Some of the unique features that the program implements are:
Continuous scanning mode
GPS logging (when a device supports it)
Email scan results
Email attachments (OS 3.0 only) in NetStumbler , CSV, or Google Earth KML formats
Option to filter hotspots by signal strength and location accuracy
Displays detailed information about each network, including name/SSID, signal strength, raw RSSI value, security and authentication modes (WEP/WPA/WPA2), location, MAC address
Save passwords for secure networks
Upload hotspots to popular wardriving website Wigle.net
App store removal
According to a blog post on 3Jacks web site, as of 3 March 2010, Apple removed all WiFi scanning apps, including WiFi-Where, from sale on the App Store for using private frameworks to access wireless information.
References
Wireless networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounds%20%28website%29 | Rounds (formally known as 6rounds) is a video-enabled real-time social network with collaborative browsing, chat, multi-player gaming and built-in social recommendation features that can be expanded through an open API. Rounds was founded by Israeli entrepreneurs Dany Fishel, Ilan Leibovich and Dimitry Shestek in February 2008. Fishel is Rounds' CEO and Ilan Leibovich is the company COO. The company is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Rounds is the first product released using the GixOO software platform, which was created in April 2008.
History
Rounds launched in July 2009.
Rounds released an API for game, entertainment and collaboration-based applications in April 2010. The company changed its name from 6rounds to Rounds in August 2010. Rounds also released its application that allows users to video chat, exchange pictures, surf the internet and play games via Facebook in August.
Rounds released Android and iOS applications in December 2012.
The company discontinued the "Meet New People" feature of its platform in February 2013. Rounds retired the feature out of concerns about security and privacy of its users, most of whom are under the age of 25. In December 2013, company also announced its integration with Vidyo's technology that allows video chat capabilities to Google Hangouts.
In January 2017, Rounds has been acquired by the Canadian messaging service, Kik Messenger, for a reported $60-$80 million. Kik will acquire all 35 employees of Rounds and turn its Tel Aviv office into a Kik product and engineering center, which will be its first international base.
Features and uses
Rounds users create their own (embeddable) personal slide show to inform other users about themselves. Users connect through messaging and video chats (referred to as rounds). They initiate rounds either by inviting a specific person or by joining a specified room based on activity, game or topic. Once users join a specified round they are systematically matched with another user interested in the same type of round.
As of 2013, Rounds requires a pre-existing Facebook friendship before users can begin video chatting one another.
While chatting, users can share in various activities, including watching videos on YouTube, co-browsing on Facebook, and playing games such as chess, backgammon, checkers, and truth or dare.
External features
The Rounds platform offers an open API which allows third party integrations, from small scaled modifications to white-label solutions. Rounds was one of the first Google Wave extensions to be featured and the only video chat to be launched at the Google Wave beta launch.
References
Chat websites
VoIP software
Internet properties established in 2009
Israeli social networking websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year%202000%20problem | The year 2000 problem, also commonly known as the Y2K problem, Y2K scare, millennium bug, Y2K bug, Y2K glitch, Y2K error, or simply Y2K refers to potential computer errors related to the formatting and storage of calendar data for dates in and after the year 2000. Many programs represented four-digit years with only the final two digits, making the year 2000 indistinguishable from 1900. Computer systems' inability to distinguish dates correctly had the potential to bring down worldwide infrastructures for computer reliant industries.
In the years leading up to the turn of the century (millennium), the public gradually became aware of the "Y2K scare", and individual companies predicted the global damage caused by the bug would require anything between $400 million and $600 billion to rectify. A lack of clarity regarding the potential dangers of the bug led some to stock up on food, water, and firearms, purchase backup generators, and withdraw large sums of money in anticipation of a computer-induced apocalypse.
Contrary to published expectations, few major errors occurred in 2000. Supporters of the Y2K remediation effort argued that this was primarily due to the pre-emptive action of many computer programmers and information technology experts. Companies and organizations in some countries, but not all, had checked, fixed, and upgraded their computer systems to address the problem. Then-U.S. president Bill Clinton, who organized efforts to minimize the damage in the United States, labeled Y2K as "the first challenge of the 21st century successfully met", and retrospectives on the event typically commend the programmers who worked to avert the anticipated disaster.
Critics argued that even in countries where very little had been done to fix software, problems were minimal. The same was true in sectors such as schools and small businesses where compliance with Y2K policies was patchy at best.
Background
Y2K is a numeronym and was the common abbreviation for the year 2000 software problem. The abbreviation combines the letter Y for "year", the number 2 and a capitalized version of k for the SI unit prefix kilo meaning 1000; hence, 2K signifies 2000. It was also named the "millennium bug" because it was associated with the popular (rather than literal) rollover of the millennium, even though most of the problems could have occurred at the end of any century.
Computerworlds 1993 three-page "Doomsday 2000" article by Peter de Jager was called "the information-age equivalent of the midnight ride of Paul Revere" by The New York Times.
The problem was the subject of the early book Computers in Crisis by Jerome and Marilyn Murray (Petrocelli, 1984; reissued by McGraw-Hill under the title The Year 2000 Computing Crisis in 1996). Its first recorded mention on a Usenet newsgroup is from 18 January 1985 by Spencer Bolles.
The acronym Y2K has been attributed to Massachusetts programmer David Eddy in an e-mail sent on 12 June 1995. He later said, "People |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Live%20Art | Digital Live Art is the intersection of Live Art (art form), Computing and Human Computer Interaction (HCI). It is used to describe live performance which is computer mediated - an orchestrated, temporal witnessed event occurring for any length of time and in any place using technological means. Digital Live Art borrows the methods, tools and theories from HCI to help inform and analyze the design and evaluation of Digital Live Art experiences.
Theory
Central to the understanding of Digital Live Art is the concept of performance framing (social sciences). First identified by Gregory Bateson, the performance frame is described as a cognitive context where all the rules of behavior, symbols, and their interpretations are bound within a particular activity within its own structure. The concept has since been used extensively in ethnography by Erving Goffman in his discussions of face to face encounters in the everyday, in discourse structures; in theatrical and ritual events; sporting events and festivals; and trance phenomena (see:).
Goffman's work uses the concept of performance frame to broadly mean a constructed context within the limits of which individual human agency and social interaction takes place. For example, a theatrical frame, pp. 124–155) involves the construction of a higher-level frame on top of a ‘primary framework’, i.e., the reality in which the fantasy takes place. In this example, actors assume a character, audiences suspend disbelief and events have their meaning transformed (e.g., compare the use of a mobile phone in public with its use in a theatre). Additionally, framings are temporal, meaning that they have specific beginning and endings. While many theorists argue that all social interaction may be seen from a dramaturgical perspective, meaning all everyday social interaction becomes performance in some sense, Digital Live Art theorists often deliberately align their work with Richard Schechner, narrowing their analysis to cover more stabilized ‘established’ forms of performance so that performance framing is defined as an activity done within the intended frame ‘by an individual or group’ who have some established knowledge about the frame, and are ‘in the presence of and for another individual or group’. Performance framings then, are intentional, temporal and for an audience.
Method and Tools
The goal of interaction in Digital Live Art goes beyond that of traditional HCI methods and theory which focus on usability, functionality and efficiency. HCI and CSCW models often focus on workplace activities and their tasks, artefacts and goals. This research often leads to a better understanding of how to increase efficiency in the workplace by providing more efficient and usable interfaces. For example, one could conduct usability testing or task analysis of how a DJ uses his DJ decks and one could then use this information to design a more efficient system.
However, traditional HCI models tell us little about how t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Covert%20Affairs%20episodes | Covert Affairs is an American spy drama created by Matt Corman and Chris Ord, which originally aired on the USA Network. Piper Perabo and Christopher Gorham star as Annie Walker and Auggie Anderson, two CIA agents working together on missions all around the world with the help of their bosses, Joan (Kari Matchett) and Arthur (Peter Gallagher), and associate Jai (Sendhil Ramamurthy). Annie must also deal with her home life and her sister Danielle (Anne Dudek).
The first season of this one-hour drama premiered on Tuesday, July 13, 2010, following White Collar, and ended on September 14, 2010. The show was renewed for a second season on August 19, 2010; the second season started airing on June 7, 2011. New episodes aired until August 9, and the last six aired from November 1 until December 6, 2011. The show was renewed for a third season, which began on July 10, 2012, and consists of 16 episodes. On September 25, 2012, the show was renewed for a 16-episode fourth season, which began airing July 16, 2013. On October 3, 2013, the series was renewed for a 16-episode fifth season, which premiered on June 24, 2014. On January 6, 2015, it was reported that USA had opted to cancel the show.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2010)
Season one of Covert Affairs comprises eleven episodes. With the exception of the pilot episode, all Season 1 episode titles are also titles of songs by Led Zeppelin.
Season 2 (2011)
The show was renewed for a second season on August 19, 2010. Production began in March 2011, and the season premiered on June 7, 2011. Ben Lawson appeared in several episodes as Dr. Scott Weiss, a physician at a local emergency room. Rena Sofer appeared in multiple episodes as Gina, Arthur Campbell's ex-wife. Jaimie Alexander portrayed Reva Kline, a former analyst who begins working in the field, in various episodes throughout the season. Oded Fehr reprised his role as Eyal Lavin, a Mossad agent, in two episodes. Additional guest stars included Santiago Cabrera, Tim Guinee, Rebecca Mader, Benito Martinez, and Peter Stormare. The first half of the season, consisting of 10 episodes, concluded on August 9, 2011, while the remaining six episodes began airing on November 1, 2011. All Season 2 episode titles are also titles of songs by R.E.M.
Season 3 (2012)
On September 15, 2011, USA Network renewed the series for a 16-episode third season, which premiered July 10, 2012. Sarah Clarke began a recurring role in the first episode as Lena Smith, a highly regarded agent who serves as Annie's mentor when Annie is transferred to a new section. Oded Fehr will resume his recurring role as Mossad agent Eyal Lavin in both the summer and fall seasons, and Daniella Alonso will recur as Suzanne Wilkins, a DPD therapist. Rena Sofer will return as Gina, Arthur's ex-wife, in one episode. Devin Kelley returned as Parker, Auggie's girlfriend, and Brendan Hines appeared in the third episode as Wade, a man who works alongside Parker in the Peace Corps. The ser |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20programming%20paradigms | This article attempts to set out the various similarities and differences between the various programming paradigms as a summary in both graphical and tabular format with links to the separate discussions concerning these similarities and differences in extant Wikipedia articles.
Main paradigm approaches
There are two main approaches to programming:
Imperative programming – focuses on how to execute, defines control flow as statements that change a program state.
Declarative programming – focuses on what to execute, defines program logic, but not detailed control flow.
The following are widely considered the main programming paradigms, as seen when measuring programming language popularity:
Procedural programming – specifies the steps a program must take to reach a desired state.
Functional programming – treats programs as evaluating mathematical functions and avoids state and mutable data.
Object-oriented programming (OOP) – organizes programs as objects: data structures consisting of attributes and methods together with their interactions.
The following are common types of programming that can be implemented using different paradigms:
Event-driven programming – program control flow is determined by events, such as sensor inputs or user actions (mouse clicks, key presses) or messages from other programs or threads.
Automata-based programming – a program, or part, is treated as a model of a finite state machine or any other formal automaton.
Reactive programming is a declarative programming paradigm concerned with data streams and the propagation of change.
The subroutines that implement OOP methods may be ultimately coded in an imperative, functional, or procedural style that may, or may not, directly alter state on behalf of the invoking program. There is some overlap between paradigms, inevitably, but the main features or identifiable differences are summarized in this table:
Differences in terminology
Despite multiple (types of) programming paradigms existing in parallel (with sometimes apparently conflicting definitions), many of the underlying fundamental components remain more or less the same (constants, variables, datafields, subroutine calls etc.) and must inevitably be incorporated into each separate paradigm with equally similar attributes or functions. The table above is not intended as a guide to precise similarities, but more of an index of where to look for more information, based on the different naming of these entities, within each paradigm. Further complicating matters are non-standardized implementations of each paradigm, in many programming languages, especially languages supporting multiple paradigms, each with its own jargon.
Language support
Syntactic sugar is the sweetening of program functionality by introducing language features that facilitate a given usage, even if the end result could be achieved without them. One example of syntactic sugar may arguably be the classes used in object-oriented progr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlekamp%E2%80%93Zassenhaus%20algorithm | In mathematics, in particular in computational algebra, the Berlekamp–Zassenhaus algorithm is an algorithm for factoring polynomials over the integers, named after Elwyn Berlekamp and Hans Zassenhaus. As a consequence of Gauss's lemma, this amounts to solving the problem also over the rationals.
The algorithm starts by finding factorizations over suitable finite fields using Hensel's lemma to lift the solution from modulo a prime p to a convenient power of p. After this the right factors are found as a subset of these.
The worst case of this algorithm is exponential in the number of factors.
improved this algorithm by using the LLL algorithm, substantially reducing the time needed to choose the right subsets of mod p factors.
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MEMC | MEMC may refer to:
MEMC Electronic Materials, a United States manufacturer of silicon wafers for the semiconductor industry
MEMC, a support chip in Acorn Computers
mEMC, mammalian endoplasmic reticulum membrane protein complex
Motion estimation/motion compensation; see
Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre, in Singapore
See also
Pro-Emancipation Movement of Chilean Women (MeMCh) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law%20%26%20Order%3A%20Criminal%20Intent%20%28season%207%29 | The seventh season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent premiered on USA Network on October 4, 2007, and ended on August 24, 2008.
The first ten episodes of the seventh season aired on Thursday nights at 10:00PM/9:00PM (Central), filling a slot previously occupied by the first season of Burn Notice. The season then took a "fall finale" with the episode "Senseless," coinciding with the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike where show runner/executive producer Warren Leight and the rest of the writing staff participated in the work stoppage; the first ten episodes of the season being the only ones produced. The remaining twelve episodes resumed airing Sunday nights at 9:00PM/8:00PM (Central) – leading in new series In Plain Sight – starting June 8, 2008.
Network change and production
During the 2006-2007 network TV season, both Law & Order: Criminal Intent and the original Law & Order series began to falter in the ratings on NBC; president at the time Jeff Zucker was in a telephone interview with creator Dick Wolf when he renewed both series, Mr. Zucker said the plan to move original episodes of Criminal Intent to USA Network, with the repeats then set to play "shortly thereafter" on NBC, represented "a new paradigm for network TV." Wolf said he was thrilled with the deal because "my stated goal has been to keep all three shows (L&O, CI, & SVU) up and running." Both the original series and Criminal Intent won full 22-episode orders, although most series for cable channels do not produce more than 13. Mr. Wolf said that he had found some budgetary savings to make the deal more viable, but that "none of them are going to be apparent to viewers."
Chris Noth who portrayed Detective Mike Logan said on the move from network to cable; "Cable is probably the future. They're paying a lot more attention to [the show] than NBC did, frankly." Noth also believed the change would help the series differentiate itself from the rest of the franchise, saying, "We're happy to set ourselves apart." Vincent D'Onofrio who portrayed Detective Robert Goren said about the switch, "I feel like it saved the show." In an interview about his character, Eric Bogosian (who portrayed Captain Daniel Ross) thought about the move to USA, "We were one of whatever number of shows on NBC, we're getting numbers every week, we're knocking ourselves out to do the best we can, and I don't think we had one ad all season. To be on USA and have them embrace us and cheerlead us, we feel we deserve it. USA wants us to succeed. I just hope more people watch it and dig it."
The theme music changed to that of the then-defunct Law & Order: Trial by Jury. Original episodes of season seven aired on USA Network until August 2008, with reruns on NBC beginning in January 2008. Production of the seventh season was interrupted by the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike when Executive Producer Warren Leight and the rest of the writing staff participated in the work stoppage. Only 10 of the 22 episodes ord |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoundrels%20%28TV%20series%29 | Scoundrels is an American comedy-drama television series that aired on the ABC network. It is based on the New Zealand TV series Outrageous Fortune. The one-hour comedy-drama premiered on Sunday, June 20, 2010 at 9 pm. The eight-episode run ended on August 15, 2010.
Plot
Cheryl West is a middle-aged woman with four children: twin brothers Logan and Cal, and daughters Heather, an aspiring model and Hope, the youngest and an aspiring filmmaker. After Cheryl's career criminal husband Wolf is sentenced to five years in prison, Cheryl forces her family to quit its criminal activities. However, even from jail, Wolf interferes with her attempts to reform their family.
Cast
Virginia Madsen as Cheryl West
David James Elliott as Wolfgang "Wolf" West
Patrick Flueger as Logan and Calvin "Cal" West (twins)
Leven Rambin as Heather West
Vanessa Marano as Hope West
Carlos Bernard as Sergeant Mack
Development and production
The series is based on the New Zealand TV series Outrageous Fortune, which was created by James Griffin and Rachel Lang. (See also "Honest" starring Amanda Redman - a UK version of the New Zealand series which transmitted on ITV in 2008.) Lyn Greene and Richard Levine wrote the pilot of Scoundrels for American television, and they serve as the series show runners. ABC green-lit the series in January 2010 with an eight episode order.
Madsen was cast in early February, followed by Flueger. Rambin came on board in late February, along with Neal McDonough, who was originally cast as Wolf West. Filming began March 16, 2010 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Three days into the shoot, McDonough was replaced by David James Elliot due to McDonough's strict religious beliefs and refusal to film sex scenes.
This was ABC's second attempt at reformatting Outrageous Fortune for an American audience. In 2008, a pilot named Good Behavior wasn't picked up by the network.
Reception
The series pilot "And Jill Came Tumbling After" received mixed reviews with The Boston Herald claiming the show was "wicked fun" and praised the show's cast. A reviewer from The Boston Globe was quoted to say "Not a single one of the characters were funny enough, or touching enough, to make me want to see more of them. If the Wests were thrown in jail, I’d be tempted to throw away the key." On the review collaboration site Metacritic, Scoundrels currently holds 56% (mixed or average) based on 18 critic reviews. The show's second episode Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary got overall a better response than the pilot with it earning positive reviews. TV Fanatic gave the episode 3/5 saying "the episode was an improvement on the pilot, with the characters developing and the show overall finding its tone and footing a bit." and "there were decent dramatic moments and good laughs in “Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary."
Cancellation
On October 24, 2010 it was revealed on ABC's Twitter page that Scoundrels would not be returning for another season.
Episodes
Ratings
U.S. Nielsen ratings
Weekly ratin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Brother%20Brasil%204 | Big Brother Brasil 4 was the fourth season of Big Brother Brasil which premiered January 13, 2004 with the season finale airing April 6, 2004 on the Rede Globo television network.
The show was produced by Endemol Globo and presented by news reporter Pedro Bial and directed by Jose Bonifacio Brasil de Oliveira. The prize award was R$500.000 without tax allowances.
The winner was 21-year-old nanny Gecilda "Cida" dos Santos from Mangaratiba, Rio de Janeiro.
She was the first woman to win the show in Brazil and the youngest winner ever.
Solange from this season was considered for production to return as a veteran in Big Brother Brasil 13, but unfortunately did not return.
Overview
There were fourteen housemates competing for the grand prize. The season lasted 85 days, an increase of one week over the previous season. Housemates Marcela and Solange were involved in what is considered until today the worst fight in all seasons.
Reunion Show
The reunion was hosted by Pedro Bial and aired on April 11, 2004. All the former housemates, attended. Cristiano ended up winning the "Big Boss Prize" which awarded a new Fiat Stilo. He won over Marcela with 70% of the fans' vote.
After the Show
Edílson Buba died in 2006 due to a stomach cancer. Juliana Lopes starred in a Rede Record's prime-time soap opera in 2007 entitled "Vidas Opostas".
Housemates
(ages stated at time of contest)
Future Appearances
In 2010, Marcelo Dourado returned to compete in Big Brother Brasil 10, where he won the competition.
In 2021, Zulu Gomes appeared in No Limite 5, he finished the competition in 4th place. Also, Antonela Avellaneda appeared in Ilha Record, she finished in 8th place in the competition.
Voting history
Notes
: Géris, Juliana and Zulu received the most nominations with 2 each. Marcelo, as Head of Household, had the casting vote and chose Géris to be the second nominee.
: Cida and Juliana received the most nominations with 2 each. Solange, as Head of Household, had the casting vote and chose Juliana to be the second nominee.
: Thiago won the Head of Household and nominated Juliana for eviction. Since Cida and Solange's votes would cancel each other out, only Juliana was eligible to nominate. She chose Solange to be the second nominee.
: Thiago won the final Head of Household competition. Therefore, Cida and Juliana were automatically nominated for eviction by default.
References
External links
Big Brother Brasil 4
Terra: BBB4
2004 Brazilian television seasons
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Brother%20Brasil%205 | Big Brother Brasil 5 was the fifth season of Big Brother Brasil which premiered January 10, 2005 with the season finale airing March 29, 2005 on the Rede Globo television network.
The show was produced by Endemol Globo and presented by news reporter Pedro Bial and directed by Jose Bonifacio Brasil de Oliveira. The prize award was R$1 million without tax allowances.
The winner was 30-year-old college professor Jean Wyllys from Alagoinhas, Bahia. He was the first housemate to come out during the show.
Overview
There were fourteen housemates competing for the grand prize. The season lasted 79 days, a decrease of almost one week over the previous season. The season introduced the Z$ Estaleca (currency of the house). For the first time since the first season, the Finale Night featured a Final Three rather than a Final Two. Aline Cristina is the currently tied with Big Brother Spain 11's Nagore for the highest eviction percentage in the world, 95%.
Reunion Show
The reunion was hosted by Pedro Bial and aired on April 3, 2005. All the housemates, except Marielza, attended. Tati Pink ended up winning the "Big Boss Prize" which awarded a new Fiat Stilo. She won over Marcos with 76% of the fans' vote. This was the last season that air a reunion.
After the Show
Grazielli Massafera became a very popular celebrity and starred in a 2006 Rede Globo's prime-time soap opera entitled Páginas da Vida. She also starred another soap-operas like Desejo Proibido, Negócio da China (protagonist) and Tempos Modernos (main antagonist).
Jean Wyllys was elected federal congressman for Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL) in 2010 and was re-elected in 2014. He is famous for being openly gay and gay rights activist. His most famous opponent is the right-wing conservative congressman Jair Bolsonaro.
Housemates
(ages stated at time of contest)
Future Appearances
In 2015, Grazielli Massafera appeared on Big Brother Brasil 15 as a host in a HOH competition.
Voting history
Note 1: Extra surprise housemates Marcos and Marielza entered the house on Day 4 and the public was able to choose one of them to be immune. Marielza won the vote with 54%.
Note 2: Marielza had to leave the House after a health problem.
Note 3: Big Brother revealed to the audience that the winner of the ninth and final Power of Immunity competition, instead of give immunity to someone else, would win the immunity. Sammy won the PoI on day 68, but the housemates were only informed about the twist during the live nominations on day 70.
Note 4: With Alan immune as HoH, Sammy as saved by the Power of Immunity and Tati Pink as the HoH's nominee, Jean and Grazielli did not cast votes during nominations as they could only vote for each other. After a 1-1 nominations vote between Jean and Grazielli, Alan, as Head of Household, had the casting vote and chose Jean to be the second nominee.
Note 5: Sammy won the final Head of Household and nominated Alan for eviction. Since Grazielli and Jean's votes would can |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Brother%20Brasil%206 | Big Brother Brasil 6 was the sixth season of Big Brother Brasil which premiered January 10, 2006 with the season finale airing March 28, 2006 on the Rede Globo television network.
The show was produced by Endemol Globo and presented by news reporter Pedro Bial and directed by J.B Oliveira "Boninho". The prize award was R$1,000,000 without tax allowances.
The winner was 33-year-old nurse Maria Nilza "Mara" Viana from Porto Seguro, Bahia.
General
There were fourteen housemates competing for the grand prize. The season lasted 78 days, a decrease of one day over the previous season. The season produced the first ever all-female Final Two and was the only season (to date) that the Final Two housemates are from the same gender.
Housemates
(ages stated at time of contest)
Future appearances
After this season, in 2006, Mariana Felício appeared in Dança dos Famosos 3, she finished in 9th place.
In 2010, Rafael Valente was contender to be a competitor on Big Brother Brasil 10, but ultimately did not return.
In 2019, Daniel Saullo and Mariana Felicio appeared as a couple in Power Couple Brasil 4, they finished as Runner-Up.
Voting history
The voting table below records whom each housemate voted to nominate on the diary room during his or her time in the House. The Head of Household (HOH) vote (cast in front of the other housemates) automatically nominates one housemate from eviction. Then, the other housemates vote and if the vote is tied, the HOH breaks the tie (all these types of vote count for the total number of nominations received).
References
External links
Big Brother Brasil 6
Terra: BBB6
2006 Brazilian television seasons
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Brother%20Brasil%207 | Big Brother Brasil 7 was the seventh season of Big Brother Brasil which premiered January 9, 2007 with the season finale airing April 3, 2007 on the Rede Globo television network.
The show is produced by Endemol Globo and presented by news reporter Pedro Bial. The season was officially confirmed since 2001 as part of the original contract between international Endemol and Rede Globo that provided seasons until 2008.
The grand prize was R$1 million with tax allowances, with a R$50,000 prize offered to the runner up and a R$30,000 prize offered to the 3rd place.
Overview
There were seventeen housemates competing for the grand prize, an increase over the four previous seasons. The season lasted 85 days, an increase of one week over the previous season. For the first time since the fourth season, the finale night featured a final two rather than a final three.
Ex-Housemate Exchange
When two seasons in different countries are taking place simultaneously, housemates are sometimes temporarily exchanged between them. This season was the first time that Big Brother Brasil allow other contestant of other Big Brother to stay in the house.
Pablo Espósito, from Gran Hermano Argentina 4 spent four days (March 20 to March 25, 2007) in the Brazilian house, while Big Boss winner Íris Stefanelli spent another four days (March 27 to April 1, 2007) in the Argentinian house.
Controversy
Before the beginning of the show, the announced contestant Yumi Ouchi was replaced by Flávia Viana, as Rede Globo claimed that Yumi had a contract with SBT, another Brazilian television channel, although she denied that.
Another replacement happened on the premiere of the season, when Fernando Orozco was ejected for having a friend who works as a director in the channel, which is against the rules of the show, as anyone who has any type of relationship with a Globo's employee is not allowed to be contestant in the program. He was replaced by Felipe Cobra.
After the Show
Only two months after the finale, Diego broke up with Íris causing outrage among the fans and viewers. Flávia Viana & Fernando-Luiz Bacalow married in 2007, as Alan-Pierre Miranda & Analy Rosa had a child together named Theo in 2008.
Íris Stefanelli became a personality on the country. She received a big paycheck to pose naked for Playboy. She was contracted by RedeTV! to co-host celebrities show TV Fama. Her lucrative deal was highlighted by the media. Íris is still a host on the show after the huge buzz that ensued her participation on the house
Another Housemate, Flávia Viana, became a personality too. In 2008 she was also contracted by RedeTV! to host the game show Esquenta. She also acts on Chiquititas in 2014, as the teacher Flávia. In 2017, she joined the ninth season of the reality A Fazenda, and became the winner of the season.
Housemates
(ages stated at time of contest)
Future Appearances
In 2010, Fani Pacheco was contender to be a competitor on Big Brother Brasil 10, but ultimately did not return |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Brother%20Brasil%209 | Big Brother Brasil 9 was the ninth season of Big Brother Brasil which premiered January 13, 2009 with the season finale airing April 7, 2009 on the Rede Globo television network.
The show is produced by Endemol Globo and presented by Pedro Bial. That season was officially confirmed since 2008 as part of a millionaire contract between international Endemol and Rede Globo.
The grand prize was R$1 million with tax allowances, with a R$100,000 prize offered to the runner up and a R$50,000 prize offered to the 3rd place.
At the end, Maximiliano Porto from Maricá, RJ, won the competition over journalist Priscila Pires with 34.85% of the final vote (0.24% lead), in the closest vote in the history of the Big Brother series.
General
There were twenty housemates (the largest number of contestants to date) competing for the grand prize, an increase over the previous season. The season lasted 85 days (one of the longest seasons of the show, tied with the fourth and seventh seasons), an increase of one week over the previous season.
The season introduced the notion of "The Battle," in which the house is separated into a luxurious half (A) and a poor half (B), with two teams of housemates constantly fighting for time in the luxurious half. The wall that divided the house was effective only in the first week.
For the first time since the sixth season, the Finale Night featured a Final Three rather than a Final Two.
During the Show
At the launch night, there were eighteen housemates, but only fourteen entered the house. The remaining four contestants were locked for a week in a glass room located at a shopping mall in Rio de Janeiro.
At the end of the first week, viewers could vote one (later two) of the glass house housemates to enter the house. Emanuel (41% to save) and Josiane (37% to save) were chosen. Both entered in the house on day 9 (January 21, 2009).
On day 31 (February 12, 2009), two new housemates (Maíra Cardi and André) entered the house. They lived in a glass house (this time, located at the garden) for 4 days. Viewers could vote "yes" or "no" for both stay in the house. They chose "yes" with 59%.
This is the second time Big Brother Brasil has allowed a contestant of another Big Brother to stay in the house (He was Ricardo "Ricco" Venancio, the winner of Big Brother Africa 3). Ricco entered on day 47 (February 28, 2009) and stayed in the house for 4 days. He left the house on day 50 (March 3, 2009).
Ana Carolina Madeira (one of the most popular contestant of the season) was the housemate with the most number of nominations for eviction in Big Brother Brasil history, being seven times on the chopping block.
White Room Controversy
The "White Room" was the subject of controversy in the media, viewed as a cruel tactic of psychological torture. This kind of sensory deprivation is also used in CIA interrogations, which only increased the criticism of the block.
Housemates
(ages stated at time of contest)
Voting History
The voting table below |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Brother%20Brasil%208 | Big Brother Brasil 8 was the eighth season of Big Brother Brasil which premiered January 8, 2008 with the season finale airing March 25, 2008 on the Rede Globo television network.
The show is produced by Endemol Globo and presented by news reporter Pedro Bial. The season was officially confirmed since 2001 as part of the original contract between international Endemol and Rede Globo that provided seasons until 2008.
The grand prize was R$1 million with tax allowances, with a R$100,000 prize offered to the runner up and a R$50,000 prize offered to the 3rd place. In the end, 26-year-old musician Rafinha Ribeiro from Campinas, SP, won the competition over student Gyselle Soares with 50.15% of the final vote. There were 75 million votes cast on the season finale, the show's record at the time.
Overview
There were fourteen housemates competing for the grand prize, a decrease over the previous season. The season introduced the "big phone" and the "haves and have-nots" concept. It lasted 78 days, a decrease of one week over the previous season.
Controversy
On week 7, journalism student and housemate Juliana Góes fainted inside a glass chamber during an endurance competition. Newspapers and websites proclaimed Big Brother Brasil to be inhumane. However, the show was unaffected by the negative press.
Housemates
The cast list was unveiled on January 3, 2008.
(ages stated at time of contest)
Future appearances
In 2010, Natália Casassola was contender to be a competitor on Big Brother Brasil 10, but ultimately did not return, eventually in 2013 she returned in Big Brother Brasil 13 and finished in 4th place.
In 2023, Gyselle Soares appeared on A Grande Conquista, she have to compete for a place to enter in the game, Gyselle won her place in the mansion and finished the game 4th place.
Voting history
Notes
Have and Have-Nots
References
External links
Big Brother Brasil 8
Terra: BBB8
2008 Brazilian television seasons
08 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Brother%20Brasil%2010 | Big Brother Brasil 10 was the tenth season of Big Brother Brasil. It began on January 12, 2010, and ended on March 30, 2010, on the Rede Globo television network. The show was produced by Endemol Globo and presented by the news reporter Pedro Bial. The season was officially confirmed in 2008 as part of a millionaire contract between international Endemol and Rede Globo. The prize award was R$1,500,000 without tax allowances. The winner was a 37-year-old physical education teacher, Marcelo Dourado, from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, who won with 60% of 154,878,460 votes cast, a worldwide record. He had previously appeared on Big Brother Brasil 4, when he finished in seventh place. Anamara Barreira and Elieser Ambrosio returned to compete as veterans in Big Brother Brasil 13, where they were placed 8th and 10th respectively.
Overview
There were seventeen housemates competing for the grand prize (the first season to have an odd number of original housemates), a decrease over the previous season. The season lasted for 78 days, one week less than the previous season.
The game
Big Brother divided the housemates into five cliques of three: Sarados (the Fit), Belos (the Beautiful), Cabeças (the Nerds), Ligados (the Tunned) and Coloridos (the Colorful/Gays). The housemates played as individuals except when a housemate from a clique won Head of Household, when all members of that clique were immune from eviction. This concept was first implemented on the eleventh season of Big Brother in USA. Five previous housemates returned to support one of the cliques in the House: Joseane Oliveira of Big Brother 3 supported the Belos, Marcelo Dourado of Big Brother 4 supported the Sarados, Rafael Valente of Big Brother 6 supported the Cabeças, Fani Pacheco of Big Brother 7 supported the Coloridos and Natalia Casassola of Big Brother 8 supported the Ligados. Fernanda won the first Head of Household competition for the Belos, allowing Joseane to return to the house as a full housemate and the first Head of Household. She could also could choose one of the two male ex-housemates, either Dourado or Rafael, to enter as a full housemate, and chose Dourado.
Reunion show
The reunion was hosted by Ana Maria Braga and broadcast on April 5, 2010, on the morning news and talk show Mais Você. It was the first reunion since Season 5 and all the former housemates attended. The actresses Deborah Secco and Betty Lago, the singer Preta Gil, season 7 winner Diego Gasques and season 9 runner-up Priscila Pires were special guests.
Controversies
Anamara
A request for exemption was made on January 29, 2010, by housemate Anamara Barreira to the State Military Police was accepted and the decision was published on February 23, 2010, in the Official Gazette of Bahia. Anamara should have returned from her vacation earlier that month. Without the exemption, she would be considered a deserter and could have been imprisoned for up to two years. The application was lodged by the procurator o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy%20Castro%20Baguyos | Jeremy Castro Baguyos (born 1968 in Quezon City, Philippines) is a musician-researcher specializing in the realization of live interactive computer music. Based at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (USA), he is a Professor of Music.
His most notable contributions to the field are in the area of live performance combined with interactive computer technology. For the state of Nebraska (USA), Baguyos established the state's first interactive computer music ensemble, Ensemble A.M.I. (Artificial Music Initiative), in conjunction with its first and only electronic music festival featuring interactive computer music, Virtual Music Week. For his own instrument, the double bass, he was one of the early practitioners of interactive computer music performance on the double bass. Inspired by the early electronic pioneers such as Robert Black and Bertram Turetzky and building on foundational studies at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Baguyos studied computer music at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University. It was at Peabody where he performed with the Peabody Computer Music Consort and collaborated with other students of computer music and established composers of computer music who shared his enthusiasm for the emerging art form. The result was the creation and performance, between 2002 and 2005, of some of the first significant repertoire for double bass and interactive electronics and probably the very first double bass repertoire to utilize the MSP extensions to the Max (software) digital audio programming language. It is for this reason, his work differed from the few earlier experiments in interactive computer music for double bass. His realizations in public presentation were implemented in software as opposed to reliance on the much more limited hardware-based synthesis. He performed repertoire that utilized real-time audio capture and DSP, the use of automation in live performance, and simulations of musical machine intelligence. His experimental work in this area has been recorded on the "Music From SEAMUS" annual CD series of the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States as well as his own solo CD released in 2005, "Uncoiled Oscillations," (OCD).
He appears frequently at notable academic conferences such as the International Computer Music Conference the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States.,
and the Seoul International Computer Music Festival. He is also the Principal Double Bassist of the Des Moines Metro Opera Summer Festival Orchestra, and has performed with the National Symphony (Washington, DC), the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra (Washington, DC), and the DC-based early music group the Washington Bach Consort.
References
University of Nebraska at Omaha Faculty Bio
Music Technology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha
Electronic Music Midwest
Peabody Computer Music Alumni page
myauditions.com- string committee member
Jeremy Baguyos myspace page (double bass + e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Rhodin | Robert Rhodin (born 15 May 1972 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is the CEO of Blockchain security company KEYCHAINX AG which is developing a keyless crypto wallet and have an American patent with the USPTO and Japan. The company is based in the canton of Zug, Switzerland.
Rhodin started programming during the PC boom in the late 1980s. At the age 16 he was hired to develop software tools for Swedish energy giant Vattenfall and their R&D department.
During 1992 the nuclear power station Forsmark experienced cracks in their cooling part of the reactor and Rhodin was hired to develop tools based on mathlab databases to track fluid flows through the reactors in order to determinate the source of the cracks.
By the beginning of 1993, he was running the first Animation studio and developing custom tools for 3D software.
During 1994 and 1995 Rhodin was teaching computer graphics as a certified trainer by Alias Wavefront in Toronto, Canada.
In early 1997 Rhodin worked for a short period of time for The Moving Picture company in London writing custom shaders and animation tools for CGI projects.
In 1998 he founded a post-production facility in Stockholm, Sweden.
2000 the Studio started to produce commercials and Television Spots.
During 2007, Rhodin founded an animation studio, White Shark in 2001 which went public on the Stockholm OMX Nasdaq stock exchange in 2009.
In 2008 Rhodin produced and directed the first CG-animated feature film in Sweden. Rhodin's first film-directing credit was Gnomes and Trolls: The Secret Chamber which screened May 2008 in Cannes, France. The picture was sold to over 80 countries entering the top ten at the box office in Sweden, Kuwait, the (UAE) and Turkey.
In 2014 Rhodin founded a production producing special effects and commercials for television clients.
Director and producer credits
Soul in the Piano - Feature Doc (2022)
Baby Pirates - TV series (2016-)
Forkladet Commercial (2015)
Tomasz Ossolinski - Before the Show - Feature doc (2014)
Evita Commercial (2014)
Jesus Christ Superstar - TV commercial (2013)
Priscilla "Queen of the Desert" - TV commercial (2013)
Skrotarna - TV Series (2013)
Gnomes & Trolls - The Secret Chamber, feature (2008)
Burger King - Commercials (2000–2004)
McDonald's - Korsordet - Commercial (2003)
Parlamentet - TV Ident (2002)
Vichy Novaeu - Commercial (1999)
Landrover - Commercial (1997)
World Championship Athletic - Opening credits (1995)
Writing Credits
Troll Hunters (2018)
Astrid Silverlock (2020)
Gnomes and Trolls: The Secret Chamber(2008)
Commercials FX
Volkswagen Golf GTi - Production Co: mod:film
Diesel - Perfume - Production Co: mod:film
Candelia - Polly - Production Co: Petterson & Åkerlund
Posten - OSA - Production Co: Petterson & Åkerlund
McDonald's - Ronald McDonald Barncancerfond - Production Co: White Shark
Sirius Satellite - Production Co: Stink London
Superbrugsen
Always
Special Effects
Gnomes and Trolls: The Secret Chamber (2008)
Lilla Jönssonligan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%20Channel%20%28German%20TV%20channel%29 | Disney Channel is a German free-to-air television channel owned by The Walt Disney Company Germany. The channel is based in Munich and for children.
Aimed at all ages, its programming consists of original first-run television series, theatrically released and original made-for-cable movies and select other third-party programming. The original programming is mainly supplied by its U.S. counterpart.
The channel was originally launched on 16 October 1999 as a subscription television channel on the Sky Deutschland platform. However, it was later closed down on 30 November 2013. It was transformed into a free-TV channel on 17 January 2014 replacing Das Vierte.
The network competes with other channels primarily aimed at children such as Super RTL (50% owned by Disney Television until March 2021), KiKa and Nickelodeon Germany.
History
Walt Disney Television International opened their German offices near Munich on 1 March 1999. Disney Channel Germany was launched on 16 October 1999 as a subscription channel.
Disney purchased Das Vierte (lit. The Fourth), a free-to-air TV station, in December 2012 from Dmitry Lesnevsky, a Russian media mogul, and former owner of Russia's REN-TV. In April 2013, Disney announced that Das Vierte would become Disney Channel in January 2014 as a 24-hour family entertainment network under Disney Channel's German head Lars Wagner.
Initial daytime programming included standard Disney Channel fare including Jessie, Austin & Ally, Phineas and Ferb and Gravity Falls while prime time saw Pixar films and older drawing shows including those from ABC Family as well as Hallmark Channel's Cedar Cove. Disney formed an in house ad sales company, Disney Media +, for the channel given that two competitors control most ad sales companies. The channel will also be offered on two online platforms: live-stream and a catch-up service. The channel launched over the air on 17 January 2014 at 6 AM with the classic animated short film Steamboat Willie. Disney reported that its launch weekend pushed them past Nick in to third place among kid broadcast channels.
Programming
Availability
Via the airwaves, the station had an availability to 93% of German TV households plus on two online platforms: live-stream and a catch-up service.
See also
Super RTL
References
External links
Disney Channel on YouTube
Disney Channel on Twitter
Germany
Television stations in Germany
Television stations in Austria
Television stations in Switzerland
German-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 1999
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2013
Television channels and stations established in 2014
Re-established companies
Disney acquisitions
Children's television networks
1999 establishments in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synonym%20%28database%29 | In databases, a synonym is an alias or alternate name for a table, view, sequence, or other schema object. They are used mainly to make it easy for users to access database objects owned by other users. They hide the underlying object's identity and make it harder for a malicious program or user to target the underlying object. Because a synonym is just an alternate name for an object, it requires no storage other than its definition. When an application uses a synonym, the DBMS forwards the request to the synonym's underlying base object. By coding your programs to use synonyms instead of database object names, you insulate yourself from any changes in the name, ownership, or object locations. If you frequently refer to a database object that has a long name, you might appreciate being able to refer to it with a shorter name without having to rename it and alter the code referring to it.
Synonyms are very powerful from the point of view of allowing users access to objects that do not lie within their schema. All synonyms have to be created explicitly with the CREATE SYNONYM command and the underlying objects can be located in the same database or in other databases that are connected by.
There are two major uses of synonyms:
Object invisibility: Synonyms can be created to keep the original object hidden from the user.
Location invisibility: Synonyms can be created as aliases for tables and other objects that are not part of the local database.
When a table or a procedure is created, it is created in a particular schema, and other users can access it only by using that schema's name as a prefix to the object's name. The way around for this is for the schema owner creates a synonym with the same name as the table name.
Public synonyms
Public synonyms are owned by special schema in the Oracle Database called PUBLIC. As mentioned earlier, public synonyms can be referenced by all users in the database. Public synonyms are usually created by the application owner for the tables and other objects such as procedures and packages so the users of the application can see the objects
The following code shows how to create a public synonym for the employee table:
CREATE PUBLIC SYNONYM employees for hr.employees;
Now any user can see the table by just typing the original table name. If you wish, you could provide a different table name for that table in the CREATE SYNONYM statement. Remember that the DBA must create public synonyms. Just because you can see a table through public (or private) synonym doesn’t mean that you can also perform SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE operations on the table. To be able to perform those operations, a user needs specific privileges for the underlying object, either directly or through roles from the application owner.
Private synonyms
A private synonym is a synonym within a database schema that a developer typically uses to mask the true name of a table, view stored procedure, or other database object in a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime%20in%20London | Figures on crime in London are based primarily on two sets of statistics: the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) and police recorded crime data. Greater London is generally served by three police forces; the Metropolitan Police which is responsible for policing the vast majority of the capital, the City of London Police which is responsible for The Square Mile of the City of London and the British Transport Police, which polices the national rail network and the London Underground. A fourth police force in London, the Ministry of Defence Police, do not generally become involved with policing the general public. London also has a number of small constabularies for policing parks. Within the Home Office crime statistic publications, Greater London is referred to as the London Region.
Current trends
The Mayor's Office for Policing & Crime (MOPAC) prepares quarterly performance reports for policing and crime in the Greater London area. Q1 2021 showed a reduction in all crime in London with the exception of hate crimes and domestic violence. Total notifiable offences (TNO) had decreased by 17.2% when compared to the same quarter in 2019/20 (-20,465) and had decreased by 8.1% (17,148) compared to Q2 2020. These figures include COVID-19 lockdown periods.
The Office for National Statistics data between June 2016 and March 2020 showed per person crime had increased by 31% in England and by a lower margin of 18% in London since 2016. These statistics only count crime recorded by police, and it's estimated by that overall crime continues to decrease.
The increase in crime recorded in London is not uniform across different types of offence. For example, while homicides increased over the period by 23% in London compared to 8% across England, violence against the person in general increased by 2% in London compared to 7% across England. Over the same period, sexual offences recorded by police in London fell by 2% while in England they remained flat; robbery increased by 16% in London, compared to 6% across England. Otherwise, the increase in London over 2019/20 was largely driven by an increase in theft offences, including burglary. Theft is stealing from a person without the use or threat of force, robbery is stealing by using force or the threat of force on someone and burglary is entering a property illegally in order to steal. Theft offences account for 50% of the Metropolitan Police's recorded crimes and increased by 4% last year. Across England, they fell 5%.
Over the longer period, the trend is similar. Since 2016, the number of police recorded theft offences (without force or threat) per person has increased by 23% in London, compared to a rise of 7% in England more widely, accounting for much of the recorded increase in crime in the capital.
His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) independently assess the effectiveness and efficiency of police forces. In 2018, they reported the Met recorded just 89. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20Mobile | Free Mobile S.A.S. is a French telecommunications company, subsidiary of Free S.A.S. that provides wireless Internet to consumers in France. It was the fourth mobile network operator to obtain a metropolitan French 3G license in 2009. It also obtained a 4G license in 2011.
Free Mobile provides wireless services to 14.518 million subscribers as of June 2023.
History
3G license (900 MHz and 2100 MHz)
The first 3G licenses were awarded to France Telecom (now Orange) in 2000, SFR in 2000 and Bouygues Telecom in 2002.
Free Mobile application has been agreed by French regulatory authority ARCEP on 17 December 2009. The license price is 240 million euros for two 5 MHz duplex bands in the 900 MHz and 2100 MHz frequency bands.
Roaming agreement
Free Mobile signed a 2G and 3G roaming agreement with Orange on 3 March 2011. It was initially set to run until 31 December 2020. It was extended for 2 more years, up to 31 December 2022, on 28 October 2020. The roaming agreement was again extended by 3 years, until 31 December 2025, on 27 July 2022.
100% of the 2G traffic will go through Orange's network as Free Mobile has no 2G license.
Network deployment
Free Mobile has for legal obligation to cover 27% of the French population by January 2012, 75% by January 2015 and 90% by January 2018.
Free Mobile was already covering 30% of the French population in November 2011. A 3G roaming agreement with Orange enables communications channeled through Orange's network, which covers about 98% of the French metropolitan population according to ARCEP.
Free Mobile was covering 37.3% of the French population in July 2012.
Xavier Niel announced its network was covering 50% in January 2013.
ARCEP confirmed that Free Mobile covered 78% of the population in January 2015.
An estimated 18,000 antennas, depending on the frequencies, are required to cover the whole French metropolitan area. Free Mobile operates roughly 21,600 3G antennas, 21,300 4G antennas and 13,500 5G antennas as of January 2022.
Number of 3G, 4G and 5G antennas in service (Source ANFR):
3G:
4G:
5G:
Service launch
ARCEP confirmed that Free covers enough of the country to open commercially and start using its roaming agreement with Orange.
For the few first years Free will pay Orange to get a full national coverage, for the roaming license agreement as it arrived late to the mobile market.
Free Mobile launched its two offers on 10 January 2012. Both offers are without commitment and without subsidized phones.
4G license (2600 MHz)
Free Mobile obtained a 4G license on 22 September 2011 for 271 million euros for a duplex 20 MHz band in the 2600 MHz frequency band. It failed to obtain further bands in the 800 MHz frequency band.
4G launch
Xavier Niel announced on his Twitter account the availability of the 4G on 3 December 2013.
4G was added, at no additional cost, to the current commercial packages.
Additional 4G frequency bands (1800 MHz)
Free Mobile has been granted 15 MHz duplex bands in the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArchOne | ArchOne is an Arch Linux based operating system, optimized for Acer Aspire One netbooks, but usable on other PCs with similar hardware.
Features
ArchOne is preconfigured to support the hardware of the Acer Aspire One. Drivers for network, sound, graphics, special keys and the webcam are active and make the hardware ready to use immediately upon first boot.
ArchOne uses a rolling-release model for upgrades.
Edition
ArchOne has three versions, each with a different desktop manager: Openbox edition, GNOME edition and the KDE edition., but with the same application software, including Firefox, Google Chrome, Skype, KeePassX, Hsoconnect, Gparted, GIMP, OpenOffice.org, VLC, MPlayer.
External links
ArchOne Website
Arch Linux Website
References
Arch-based Linux distributions
Pacman-based Linux distributions
Linux distributions
Rolling Release Linux distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yala%20Technical%20College | Yala Technical College () is a higher education institution in Yala, Thailand offering two year (full-time) post-secondary diplomas in information technology, computer engineering, architecture, mechanical engineering, construction engineering, rubber technology, electrical engineering, electronics engineering, automotive engineering, and business information systems.
The college also offers a 2+2 years programme in technical education.
References
External links
www.ytc.ac.th
Universities and colleges established in 1957
Vocational colleges in Thailand
1957 establishments in Thailand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter%20Covington | Carter Covington ( 1973) is an American television show creator, writer, story editor and producer. He is known for his screenwriting on two television series which aired on the ABC Family network: Greek and 10 Things I Hate About You. Covington was the showrunner for the first season of The CW series Charmed.
Early life
Covington grew up in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The son of Marie and Butch Covington, he graduated from R. J. Reynolds High School in 1991. Covington attended the University of Virginia, where he received his degree in 1995 after studying foreign affairs and Spanish. After college, Covington was undecided about a career path. He taught English in Mexico and then worked as an advertising executive before studying entertainment business at UCLA's Business School, where he graduated in 2001. This was followed by a stint as a dog-walker. It wasn't until he met a screenwriter for the TV show Smallville that he said he found a career that interested him.
Career
Covington has been involved in more than 17 episodes of Greek, some of which he co-wrote with fellow University of Virginia graduate Amy Rardin. A Delta Tau Delta fraternity alumnus, Covington's own college experiences were an inspiration for his writing on Greek.
Covington is a self-professed fan of the original 1999 film 10 Things I Hate About You. He often collaborated with original film director Gil Junger on various ABC Family projects, where he regularly quizzed Junger for information about the movie. These discussions with Junger, coupled with Covington's desire to create a "reimagined" TV version of the movie, led to the creation of a pilot episode of 10 Things I Hate About You, which Junger directed. On July 7, 2009, the series premiere brought in 1.60 million viewer, a record for a 30-minute comedy debut on the ABC Family network. The series was canceled after one twenty-episode season.
In 2018 Covington became the showrunner for The CW television series Charmed after it was picked up to series, in order to help executive producers Jessica O'Toole and Amy Rardin, neither of whom had run a show before. He departed the show after its first season and was replaced by married duo Liz Kruger and Craig Shapiro.
Personal life
Covington is openly gay. He married Patrick Sean Smith, the creator of Greek, in Maui on October 25, 2008. They have one adopted son, Cormac.
Filmography
Television shows
Just a Phase (2006) TV pilot, creator
Greek (2007–09, 2011) writer, producer, executive story editor
10 Things I Hate About You (2009–10) creator, writer, executive producer
Hart of Dixie (2012–13), writer
Faking It (2014–16) "Developed by," executive producer, writer
Charmed (2018–19) showrunner, executive producer, writer
Television movies
Happy Campers (2008) creator, writer
References
External links
1970s births
American male screenwriters
American television producers
American television writers
Living people
Writers from Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Sh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPSCHD | HPSCHD (pronounced as initials: eɪtʃ-piː-ɛs-siː-eɪtʃ-di:, although Cage himself said the title is "Harpsichord") is a composition for harpsichord and computer-generated sounds by American avant-garde composers John Cage (1912–1992) and Lejaren Hiller (1924–1994). It was written between 1967 and 1969 and was premiered on May 16, 1969, at the Experimental Music Studios at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
History of composition
As part of the commemoration events of the University of Illinois's one hundredth anniversary in 1967, Hiller, head of the computer music department at the time, invited Cage (then a Visiting Associate in the Center for Advanced Studies) to submit two works related to the field of computing technology and chance procedures. Together with a piece called Atlas Borealis with Ten Thunderclaps, Cage submitted the idea for HPSCHD, which had been commissioned by the Swiss harpsichord aficionado Antoinette Vischer. The long and complex compositional process also involved the technical assistance of Jim Cuomo, Laetitia Snow, James Grant Stroud, and Max Mathews.
Premiere
HPSCHD received its premiere performance before an audience of 6000 on May 16, 1969, at the Assembly Hall of Urbana Campus, University of Illinois. Conceived as a highly immersive multimedia experience, the performance featured David Tudor, Antoinette Vischer, William Brooks, Ronald Peters, Yūji Takahashi, Neely Bruce and Philip Corner playing harpsichords whose sounds were captured and amplified; 208 tapes with computer-generated sounds played through 52 monaural tape players; and an array of movie and slide projectors used to project 6400 slides and 40 movies onto rectangular screens and a 340-foot circular screen (and on the domed ceiling of the Assembly Hall). Many of these images, selected by Ron Nameth and Calvin Sumsion, were borrowed from NASA (the premiere took place just a month prior to the first manned landing on the Moon).
The performance, which lasted for about 5 hours, was not intended as a static, unidirectional event, but rather as a hypnotic environment where the audience was encouraged to "move in and out of the building, around the Hall, and through the performing area." During the premiere an image of Beethoven wearing a University of Illinois jersey with Cage's face on it was silkscreened onto paper tunics distributed to members of the audience (and onto audience members' garments, including T-shirts, once the supply of tunics ran out). Three large silkscreened posters were created for the event, two of which featured images chosen by chance operations similar to those used in the composition of the music. Some copies were sold to support the event, each for a different price established using an I Ching chart.
Analysis
HPSCHD is composed of 7 solo pieces for harpsichord and 52 computer-generated tapes. The harpsichord solos were created from randomly processed pieces by Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Gottschalk, Busoni, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomasz%20Imieli%C5%84ski | Tomasz Imieliński (born July 11, 1954, in Toruń, Poland) is a Polish-American computer scientist, most known in the areas of data mining, mobile computing, data extraction, and search engine technology. He is currently a professor of computer science at Rutgers University in New Jersey, United States.
In 2000, he co-founded Connotate Technologies, a web data extraction company based in New Brunswick, NJ. Since 2004 till 2010 he had held multiple positions at Ask.com, from vice president of data solutions intelligence to executive vice president of global search and answers and chief scientist. From 2010 to 2012 he served as VP of data solutions at IAC/Pronto.
Tomasz Imieliński served as chairman of the Computer Science Department at Rutgers University from 1996 to 2003.
He co-founded, with Celina Imielińska and Konrad Imieliński Art Data Laboratories LLC company, and its product, Articker is the largest known database that aggregates dynamic non-price information about the visual artists in the global art market. Articker has been under an exclusive partnership with Phillips auction house.
Education
Tomasz Imieliński graduated with B.E/M.E degree in electrical engineering from Politechnika Gdańska in Gdańsk, Poland, and received his PhD, in 1982, in computer science, from Polish Academy of Sciences, in Poland, under supervision of Witold Lipski.
Career
After receiving his PhD, Tomasz Imieliński joined, for a year, faculty at the McGill University School of Computer Science at McGill University in Montreal. Since 1983, he joined the Computer Science Department at Rutgers University, in New Brunswick. He served as a chairman of the department, from 1996 to 2003. In 2000, he co-founded Connotate Technologies based on his data extraction research developed at Rutgers University. While on leave from Rutgers University, from 2004 to 2010, he had held multiple positions at Ask.com: vice president of data solutions, executive vice president of global search and answers, and chief scientist. Between 2010 and 2012, Tomasz Imieliński served as vice president of data solutions at Pronto. Tomasz Imieliński received numerous awards, such as 2018 The Tadeusz Sendzimir Applied Sciences Award.
Research and recognition
Imieliński-Lipski Algebras
Imieliński's early work on 'Incomplete Information in Relational Databases' produced a fundamental concept that became later known as Imieliński-Lipski Algebras.
Cylindric Algebras
According to Van den Bussche, the first people from database community to recognize the connection between Codd's relational algebra and Tarski's cylindric algebras were Witold Lipski and Tomasz Imieliński, in a talk given at the very first edition of PODS (the ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems), in 1982. Their work,"The relational model of data and cylindric algebras"
was later published in 1984.
Association Rule Mining
His joint 1993 paper with Agrawal and Swami, 'Mining Association Rules Between Sets of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy-Efficient%20Ethernet | In computer networking, Energy-Efficient Ethernet (EEE) is a set of enhancements to twisted-pair, twinaxial, backplane, and optical fiber Ethernet physical-layer variants that reduce power consumption during periods of low data activity. The intention is to reduce power consumption by 50% or more, while retaining full compatibility with existing equipment.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), through the IEEE 802.3az task force, developed the standard. The first study group had its call for interest in November 2006, and the official standards task force was authorized in May 2007. The IEEE ratified the final standard in September 2010. Some companies introduced technology to reduce the power required for Ethernet before the standard was ratified, using the name Green Ethernet.
Some energy-efficient switch integrated circuits were developed before the IEEE 802.3az Energy-Efficient Ethernet standard was finalized.
Potential savings
In 2005, all the network interface controllers in the United States (in computers, switches, and routers) used an estimated 5.3 terawatt-hours of electricity. According to a researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Energy-Efficient Ethernet can potentially save an estimated a year in energy costs in the U.S. Most of the savings would come from homes () and offices (), and the remaining from data centers.
Concepts
The power reduction is accomplished in a few ways. In Fast Ethernet and faster links, constant and significant energy is used by the physical layer as transmitters are active regardless of whether data is being sent. If they could be put into sleep mode when no data is being sent, that energy could be saved. When the controlling software or firmware decides that no data needs to be sent, it can issue a low-power idle (LPI) request to the Ethernet controller physical layer PHY. The PHY will then send LPI symbols for a specified time onto the link, and then disable its transmitter. Refresh signals are sent periodically to maintain link signaling integrity. When there is data to transmit, a normal IDLE signal is sent for a predetermined period of time. The data link is considered to be always operational, as the receive signal circuit remains active even when the transmit path is in sleep mode.
Green Ethernet
Green Ethernet technology was a superset of the 802.3az standard. In addition to the link load power savings of Energy-Efficient Ethernet, Green Ethernet works in one of two ways. First, it detects link status, allowing each port on the switch to power down into a standby mode when a connected device, such as a computer, is not active. Second, it detects cable length and adjusts the power used for transmission accordingly. Standard switches provide enough power to send a signal up to . However, this is often unnecessary in the SOHO environment, where of cabling are typical between rooms. Moreover, small data centers can also benefit from this approach since the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starshine | Starshine may refer to:
STARSHINE, acronym for Student Tracked Atmospheric Research Satellite Heuristic International Networking Experiment, a series of three artificial satellites
Starshine (comics), name of two fictional American comic book characters appearing in Marvel Universe
Starshine Records, a late 1960s, now defunct independent record label
The almost imperceptible glow created by a night sky full of bright stars on a clear, moonless night. Usually only seen far from any urban areas. It is also called Starlight.
"Starshine", a song by Gorillaz from their album Gorillaz
"Starshine" (Stevie Nicks song), 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Brethren%20of%20Malaysia | The Christian Brethren of Malaysia, sometimes simply called the Brethren, are an aggregate of independent and autonomous Protestant Evangelical Christian churches in Malaysia, which are networked together through a set of shared Biblical doctrines and practices. Most of these churches are associated with the faith and practices of the Plymouth Brethren movement that arose in the late 1820s.
Each Brethren assembly is independent in its administration, and there is no larger policy making body or federation. The primary organised links between the Brethren assemblies are the Christian Brethren of Malaysia Property Trust Berhad which holds the properties of the local Brethren assemblies in trust and the Christian Brethren Secretariat Malaysia which coordinates joint activities between the local Brethren assemblies.
History
Early nonconformist missionary work
Early Brethren missionary work in Malaysia is not well recorded but can be traced to the early work of nonconformist Christian missionaries.
In 1821, a mission house was purchased in Penang by the London Missionary Society (LMS) and used as a Chinese girls' school. A chapel was opened in the same premise in 1824. In 1826, the Independent Church, Mission Chapel Prince of Wales Island was officially founded as an independent, non-denominational church modelled on the primitive New Testament Church. Based on their own description, their practices resembled those of the early Brethren, which emerged at precisely the same time in Britain.
The conclusion of the First Opium War and the signing of the Treaty of Nanking in 1842 opened the possibility of new missionary work and the LMS started to wind down their mission stations in the Straits Settlements to focus on the newly opened treaty ports in China.
In 1843, the LMS school and chapel was administered by Maria Dyer, the widow of Samuel Dyer, an LMS missionary known as a typographer for creating a steel typeface of Chinese characters for printing to replace traditional wood blocks. Maria Dyer remarried fellow nonconformist missionary, Johann Georg Bausum, in 1845. The administration of the LMS school was entrusted to the Bausams in 1846 in recognition of Maria Dyer's contribution as a missionary wife in exchange for its upkeep.
Maria Dyer's death in 1846 left the school in the care of Bausum. In 1847, Bausum informed the LMS that he had purchased an adjacent property to expand the school but the newly purchased property was not transferred to the LMS. On Bausum's death in 1855, both the properties came under the temporary charge of the harbourmaster of Penang, George Felix Gottlieb, and the school remained under the administration of independent nonconformist missionaries who were supported by diverse various missionary societies including the Chinese Evangelisation Society, George Müller’s Scriptural Knowledge Institution for Home and Abroad, the Society for Promotion of Female Education in the East.
In January 1860, Gottlieb wrote to the L |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina%20Kodaka | is a Filipino Japanese TV personality, host, actress & pianist who gained media attention as a finalist on the 5th season of StarStruck, a reality-TV talent show broadcast on GMA Network.
Personal life
Kodaka lived in Japan before joining StarStruck. On Startalk, after her elimination, she is the co-host in "Startalk" which is longest news show in the Philippines.
StarStruck V
Kodaka was one of the eight finalists who auditioned abroad. She advanced to the final 14 alongside Zeryl Lim (who auditioned in the Middle East) and Rye Burgos (who auditioned in the United States.)She was top 3 of the girls, her batch mates are Sarah Lahbati, Diva Montelava, Rocco Nacino, Enzo Pineda, Steven Silva.
Filmography
TV Shows
Movies
See also
at iGMA.tv
at IMDB.com
at cchan.tv (search:Nina)
References
1989 births
Living people
Japanese television personalities
People from Tokyo
Filipino people of Japanese descent
Participants in Philippine reality television series
StarStruck (Philippine TV series) participants
GMA Network personalities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIRS | LIRS may refer to:
Grosseto Airport
LIRS caching algorithm
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Water%20Rats%20episodes | The following is a list of episodes for the Australian television programme, Water Rats on Nine Network.
Series overview
Episodes
Season One
Season Two
Season Three
Season Four
Season Five
Season Six
See also
Water Rats
List of Water Rats characters
References
Lists of Australian drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situated%20approach%20%28artificial%20intelligence%29 | In artificial intelligence research, the situated approach builds agents that are designed to behave effectively successfully in their environment. This requires designing AI "from the bottom-up" by focussing on the basic perceptual and motor skills required to survive. The situated approach gives a much lower priority to abstract reasoning or problem-solving skills.
The approach was originally proposed as an alternative to traditional approaches (that is, approaches popular before 1985 or so).
After several decades, classical AI technologies started to face intractable issues (e.g. combinatorial explosion) when confronted with real-world modeling problems. All approaches to address these issues focus on modeling intelligences situated in an environment. They have become known as the situated approach to AI.
Emergence of a concept
From traditional AI to Nouvelle AI
During the late 1980s, the approach now known as Nouvelle AI (Nouvelle means new in French) was pioneered at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory by Rodney Brooks. As opposed to classical or traditional artificial intelligence, Nouvelle AI purposely avoided the traditional goal of modeling human-level performance, but rather tries to create systems with intelligence at the level of insects, closer to real-world robots. But eventually, at least at MIT new AI did lead to an attempt for humanoid AI in the Cog Project.
From Nouvelle AI to behavior-based and situated AI
The conceptual shift introduced by nouvelle AI flourished in the robotics area, given way to behavior-based artificial intelligence (BBAI), a methodology for developing AI based on a modular decomposition of intelligence. It was made famous by Rodney Brooks: his subsumption architecture was one of the earliest attempts to describe a mechanism for developing BBAI. It is extremely popular in robotics and to a lesser extent to implement intelligent virtual agents because it allows the successful creation of real-time dynamic systems that can run in complex environments. For example, it underlies the intelligence of the Sony Aibo and many RoboCup robot teams.
Realizing that in fact all these approaches were aiming at building not an abstract intelligence, but rather an intelligence situated in a given environment, they have come to be known as the situated approach. In fact, this approach stems out from early insights of Alan Turing, describing the need to build machines equipped with sense organs to learn directly from the real-world instead of focusing on abstract activities, such as playing chess.
Definitions
Classically, a software entity is defined as a simulated element, able to act on itself and on its environment, and which has an internal representation of itself and of the outside world. An entity can communicate with other entities, and its behavior is the consequence of its perceptions, its representations, and its interactions with the other entities.
AI loop
Simulating entities in a virtual environmen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipolla%27s%20algorithm | In computational number theory, Cipolla's algorithm is a technique for solving a congruence of the form
where , so n is the square of x, and where is an odd prime. Here denotes the finite field with elements; . The algorithm is named after Michele Cipolla, an Italian mathematician who discovered it in 1907.
Apart from prime moduli, Cipolla's algorithm is also able to take square roots modulo prime powers.
Algorithm
Inputs:
, an odd prime,
, which is a square.
Outputs:
, satisfying
Step 1 is to find an such that is not a square. There is no known deterministic algorithm for finding such an , but the following trial and error method can be used. Simply pick an and by computing the Legendre symbol one can see whether satisfies the condition. The chance that a random will satisfy is . With large enough this is about . Therefore, the expected number of trials before finding a suitable is about 2.
Step 2 is to compute x by computing within the field extension . This x will be the one satisfying
If , then also holds. And since p is odd, . So whenever a solution x is found, there's always a second solution, -x.
Example
(Note: All elements before step two are considered as an element of and all elements in step two are considered as elements of .)
Find all x such that
Before applying the algorithm, it must be checked that is indeed a square in . Therefore, the Legendre symbol has to be equal to 1. This can be computed using Euler's criterion: This confirms 10 being a square and hence the algorithm can be applied.
Step 1: Find an a such that is not a square. As stated, this has to be done by trial and error. Choose . Then becomes 7. The Legendre symbol has to be −1. Again this can be computed using Euler's criterion: So is a suitable choice for a.
Step 2: Compute in :
So is a solution, as well as . Indeed,
Proof
The first part of the proof is to verify that is indeed a field. For the sake of notation simplicity, is defined as . Of course, is a quadratic non-residue, so there is no square root in . This can roughly be seen as analogous to the complex number i.
The field arithmetic is quite obvious. Addition is defined as
.
Multiplication is also defined as usual. With keeping in mind that , it becomes
.
Now the field properties have to be checked.
The properties of closure under addition and multiplication, associativity, commutativity and distributivity are easily seen. This is because in this case the field is somewhat resembles the field of complex numbers (with being the analogon of i).
The additive identity is , or more formally : Let , then
.
The multiplicative identity is , or more formally :
.
The only thing left for being a field is the existence of additive and multiplicative inverses. It is easily seen that the additive inverse of is , which is an element of , because . In fact, those are the additive inverse elements of x and y. For showing that every non-zero element has a multiplicative in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexent%20Metro%20Connect | Lexent Metro Connect was a New York City based neutral telecommunications provider that owned, operated, built and maintained its own dark fiber network in New York, Northern New Jersey, and surrounding areas. Based in New York City, Lexent provided services in the boroughs of Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn, as well as in Northern New Jersey. It had 150 fiber route miles and served over 200 commercial buildings.
The company was acquired by Lightower Fiber Networks in 2010.
Lexent constructed and leased dark fiber networks for carriers, wireless service providers, service providers, financial and enterprise customers. Lexent also provided engineering and project management support to carriers looking to build telecommunications networks in New York as well as consultation on fiber networks in various metropolitan areas around the United States.
Lexent's dark fiber network provided connectivity between regional carrier hotels, central offices, and Enterprise Buildings. The network included four river crossings over the Hudson River, Harlem River and East River, and spanned over 100 route miles of metro fiber.
History
Lexent Metro Connect LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lexent Inc., was formed in 2002 and awarded a NYC High Capacity Telecommunications Franchise with the non-exclusive right to construct, operate and maintain local high capacity telecommunications networks and services in the New York City metro market. Lexent's sister company, Hugh O'Kane Electric Co Inc. was founded in 1946 by Hugh O’Kane Sr. as an electrical company specializing in services to the graphic arts and printing industries. The two companies operated independently, and Lexent was privately owned by the O’Kane Family, until being acquired in 2010 by Lightower Fiber Networks.
List of Points of Presence (POPs)
Lexent Metro Connect had 27 PoPs in 13 different carrier hotel buildings and fiber access to over 100 enterprise buildings throughout Manhattan, the Bronx and Northern New Jersey including:
32 Avenue of the Americas, NYC
The Hub (Building MMR), 24th floor
60 Hudson Street, NYC
Fibernet (a Zayo Group Company), 1st floor
Telx, 9th floor
Metcom Network Services, Datacenters 10th floor and 23rd floor. Interconnect presence all floors including Roof and Basement.
XO, 13th floor
75 Broad Street, NYC
Fibermedia, 19th floor
Metcom Network Services, Datacenter 25th floor. Interconnect presence all floors including Roof and Basement.
Fibermedia, 28th floor
InterNAP
85 Tenth Avenue, NYC
L-3 Communications Vault, Basement
Client Datacenter, 7th floor
111 Eighth Avenue NYC
Level 3, 3rd floor
Switch and Data, 5th floor
Telx (fka NYC Connect), 8th floor
Telx (fka NYC Connect), 15th floor
325 Hudson Street, NYC
Building Meet-Me-Room, Basement
Flag Telecom, 4th floor
601 West 26th Street, NYC
Level 3 (fka Wiltel), 6th floor
SBC SuperPoP, 6th floor
Broadview, 4th floor
1095 Avenue of the Americas, NYC
Verizon CO-CATT, Basement, 1095 Avenue of the Amer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith%20Newman | Faith Newman is a fictional character from The Young and the Restless, an American soap opera on the CBS network. She is currently portrayed by Reylynn Caster, who assumed the role following the departure of Alyvia Alyn Lind, who played Faith for almost ten years from 2011 to 2021. Introduced during the September 30, 2009, episode, Faith is the youngest daughter of supercouple Nick and Sharon Newman.
Storylines
Faith is conceived during an affair between Sharon Abbott (Sharon Case) and Nick Newman (Joshua Morrow). Her paternity is initially in question, with Nick, Jack Abbott (Peter Bergman), and Billy Abbott (Billy Miller) as the possible fathers; a paternity test confirms Nick as Faith's father. Moments after Sharon gives birth to Faith while institutionalized at Fairview Sanitarium, she is kidnapped by Nick's brother Adam Newman (Michael Muhney), who passes her off as Ashley Abbott's (Eileen Davidson) child and leads Sharon to believe her baby died. Adam's deceit is revealed months later, after Sharon had befriended and married him, and Faith is reunited with her biological parents. Sharon and Faith become trapped in a barn during a tornado, and when the barn's beams start to collapse, Adam saves Faith's life by shielding her from the falling beams. Nick later deems Sharon an unfit mother due to her continued involvement with Adam, and successfully obtains full custody of Faith. Sharon is presumed dead after going on the run from the police, having been falsely convicted for the murder of Skye Newman (Laura Stone). After being found alive, Sharon is sentenced to thirty years in prison. Ashley offers to watch Faith several times for Nick, which brings the two of them closer. Faith's brother Noah Newman (Robert Adamson) encourages Nick to bring Faith to visit Sharon in prison, which he reluctantly agrees to do. Sharon reunites with Faith after she is acquitted, and they go to New Mexico together on vacation.
Sharon suffers a nervous breakdown and is diagnosed with bipolar disorder, leaving Nick as Faith's sole carer for several months. The following year, Sharon takes advantage of Faith's disapproval of Nick's girlfriend (and eventual fiancée) Avery Bailey Clark (Jessica Collins), in hopes of undermining Nick and Avery's relationship. Meanwhile, Faith forms a bond with Dylan McAvoy (Steve Burton), who turns out to be Nick's half-brother. Nick and Sharon become engaged again, and Faith meets her sister, Mariah Copeland (Camryn Grimes). The engagement ends when Nick learns that Sharon (while off her medication) had tampered with a DNA test and led him to believe that he was not the father of Summer Newman (Hunter King). Another custody dispute ensues between Nick and Sharon, with Nick using Sharon's mental health struggles to win full custody of Faith. After reverting to joint custody, their relationship turns hostile again when it is revealed that Sharon had been raising what was believed to be Nick's son, Christian Newman (Jamie and Alister To |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Breeze%20%28radio%20station%29 | The Breeze was the name of two easy listening radio stations in Essex and Surrey. The stations are today part of the Gold network.
History
Breeze Essex
Starting life as the medium wave frequencies of Essex Radio, the frequencies split in July 1989, when Breeze AM was born. It later changed name to simply Breeze, then The Breeze. In 2000, the GWR Group bought Essex Radio and Breeze became Classic Gold Breeze despite petitioning by locals. The word Breeze was later dropped as it became part of the Classic Gold Digital network.
Breeze Surrey
Breeze 1521 was formerly known as Fame 1521, Mercury Xtra and Extra AM. It came about when Radio Mercury split its AM and FM frequencies to form two services. Just like its sister station in Essex it became Classic Gold Breeze then it became part of the Classic Gold Digital network.
Today
Since August 2007 after another take over by Global Radio, both services have become Gold and offer very few local programmes.
At present Breeze AM is an online station with a music policy of love songs and easy listening.
References
Defunct radio stations in the United Kingdom
Radio stations in Surrey
Radio stations in Essex |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20ThinkPad%20240 | IBM ThinkPad 240 is an ultra-portable laptop computer designed and produced by IBM from June 1999 to 2001. It is one of the few ThinkPad 200 series models made available in America and was the smallest and lightest ThinkPad model produced to date. The 240 series was discontinued, and it (as well as the 570 series) was replaced with the ThinkPad X series in 2000.
Features
The first 240 series models included the 300 MHz Mobile Celeron processor, 64 MB built-in RAM and one slot for memory expansion (maximum 320 MB). The laptop also was one of the first to feature the Mini PCI card slot. No built-in optical drive or diskette drive was included due to size limitations. External drive access was via a USB 1.0 port and/or the IBM external floppy drive connector. The unit shipped either with a standard 6 GB hard disk drive or with the 12 GB upgrade option.
All 240 series models feature a 10.4 TFT display, and the first models featured NeoMagic MagicGraph128XD graphics chips with 2 MB of video memory. The 240 is capable of displaying up to SVGA (800x600) on the TFT display, with XGA output available to an external monitor. All 240s also have audio controllers and VGA ports to connect to external display devices.
Models
Reception
Joseph Leung from the South China Morning Post in December 1999 appreciated the compactness and portability of the ThinkPad 240. It also noted the short battery life and that it only has a single Type II PC Card slot. Peter H. Lewis from The New York Times noted that it is a niche product for people who travel a lot.
Transmeta Crusoe
At the June 2000 PC Expo in New York, IBM demonstrated a ThinkPad 240 with a Transmeta Crusoe. In November, it was announced that IBM would not be using the Transmeta CPU in a 240. According to a source close to Transmeta, this was due to pressure from Intel.
References
Further reading
A retro 'ThinkPad Classic' could be a killer laptop not crippled by insane thinness
ThinkWiki.de
ThinkPad 240 internals & maintenance
ThinkPad 240 Hardware Maintenance Manual
ThinkPad 240X Hardware Maintenance Manual
ThinkPad 240
240 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDiTV | Lazzara Media Production Network (LMPN.tv) and Medical Doctor Internet Television (MDiTV) are health sciences media networks founded by Robert R. Lazzara M.D., Diederik Sjardijn and Thomas Overbey. Portland, OR served as the headquarters for its production and administrative operations.
The personalization of media through the wider use of portable devices and broader Internet-connectivity has given rise to a number of websites that offer content that is typically found through traditional media outlets; such as network television and cable television. The Nielsen Company recently reported year-over-year online video streams per viewer and time per viewer were up 13 percent from December 2009 compared to December 2008. A report from the Portland Business Journal stated that "MDiTV is targeting a growing market opportunity" by making its content "available for iPads, smart phones and new TV devices in development by Apple and Google." This strategy mirrors other online syndicated video content providers, like Hulu.com.
References
External links
http://scienceroll.com/2010/01/20/internet-based-medical-television-mditv/
https://web.archive.org/web/20100611083335/http://vodpod.com/watch/2902816-internet-based-medical-television-mditv
http://www.neurology.ucla.edu/index.jsp?m=1&s=11
http://www.lmpn.tv/#/home
Television networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnel%20%28concurrent%20computing%29 | In Computer science, a funnel is a synchronization primitive used in kernel development to protect system resources. First used on Digital UNIX as a way to "funnel" device driver execution onto a single processor, funnels are now used in the Mac OS X kernel to serialize access to the BSD portion of XNU.
A funnel is a mutual exclusion (mutex) mechanism that prevents more than one thread from accessing certain kernel resources at the same time. Each thread acquires a funnel when it enters a synchronized portion of the kernel, and releases it when it leaves. If a thread blocks (sleeps) while holding a funnel, the kernel forces the thread to automatically drop the funnel, thereby allowing other threads to enter the synchronized portion of the kernel.
Because a funnel is automatically dropped when a thread blocks, care must be taken to ensure that synchronized resources are acquired again after any blocking operation. Specifically, acquiring a funnel can be a blocking operation, so if multiple funnels are needed, they must be acquired at once. This limits the utility of funnels because it increases the granularity of locking when multiple funnels need to be held at once.
In Mac OS X
There is only one funnel in OS X 10.4 and higher. Prior to version 10.4, there are two funnels: one protects network resources, and the other protects other BSD kernel resources. A thread was only allowed to hold one funnel at a time, and holding both would cause a kernel panic. As a result of these limitations and the lack of granularity, funnels are being phased out of Mac OS X. For example, the networking funnel has been replaced by finer-grained locking mechanisms.
See also
Serializing tokens
Notes
For notes referring to sources, see bibliography below.
References
External links
OSX Book xnu architecture overview .
BSDCon 2002 paper: Advanced Synchronization in Mac OS X.
Concurrency control |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altor%20Networks | Altor Networks, Inc., a Juniper Networks company, is a provider of security for virtual data centers and clouds. The company developed the world's first firewall purpose-built for virtual networks, a software security "appliance" that runs in a virtualized environment and enforces security policy on a per-virtual-machine basis. Data center administrators could pinpoint a broad range of virtual network security comprises and create roles-based security policies. Security policies could be continuously enforced on individual virtual machines (VM), even as they moved throughout the virtualized data center.
Headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, United States, Altor was founded in 2007 by security and networking experts from Check Point Software, Cisco and Oracle Corporation, and has received funding from Accel Partners, DAG Ventures, Foundation capital, and Juniper Networks. On December 6, 2010 Juniper Networks announced it has acquired Altor Networks.
Background
Computer virtualization has been in use on mainframe computers since the IBM VM/370 platform release in the early 1970s. VM technology became more widely available with the release of VMware Workstation in 1999, and the VMWare server line in 2001. It was estimated that 50% of workloads would be running inside virtualized environments by 2012
Whenever virtualization technology includes a hypervisor then a virtual network can be created within the hypervisor layer to transparently network all the virtual machines operating under a single virtualized environment. This "virtual network" provides all the benefits and administrative responsibilities of a physical network, with the addition of some new challenges. The founders of Altor Networks became aware early on that adoption of virtualization technologies in data centers had been accelerating for many years and several problems in virtual network security in particular became apparent:
The virtual environment had some unique security characteristics and needs;
Those needs were not being addressed effectively by IT security vendors; and
Traditional security technologies were ill-equipped to protect virtualized IT resources.
It was decided that the way to address these challenges was to provide a solution that operated entirely within the virtualized environment as a purpose-built appliance to provide firewalling and other security services directly inside the virtual network without recourse to external hardware firewalls or intrusion detection appliances, or any associated VLAN rerouting out of the virtual network to the physical network and back again.
Products
Altor released the Virtual Network Security Analyzer (VNSA) as a tool to monitor and analyze virtual network traffic in March 2008, followed on by the Altor VF 1.0 (which included the VNSA as a module) in October 2008. Integrated signature-based network intrusion detection was incorporated into the Altor VF 3.0 release in September 2009. The release of Altor v4.0 now |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight%20Capital%20Group | The Knight Capital Group was an American global financial services firm engaging in market making, electronic execution, and institutional sales and trading. With its high-frequency trading algorithms Knight was the largest trader in U.S. equities, with a market share of 17.3% on NYSE and 16.9% on NASDAQ. The company agreed to be acquired by Getco LLC in December 2012 after an August 2012 trading error lost $460 million. The merger was completed in July 2013, forming KCG Holdings.
Company
Knight was formerly known as Knight/Trimark Group, Inc. and Knight Trading Group, Inc. Initially, Knight Trading group had multiple offices located in the United States and in other cities around the world. Knight's Asset Management offices were headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota, with offices in Hong Kong, China, and London.
Activities
Knight's largest business was market making in U.S. equities. Its Electronic Trading Group (ETG) covered more than 19,000 U.S. securities with an average daily trading volume of more than 21 billion dollars in May 2012. Knight also made markets in U.S. options and European equities.
In 2002, Knight paid $1.5 million to settle regulatory charges of violations such as not respecting posted quotes. Knight neither admitted nor denied the allegations. In 2004, the company paid a $79 million settlement to customers whom they had overcharged. In 2008, Knight traded an average of 3.97 billion shares per day. In 2011, the company was worth $1.5 billion and employed approximately 1450 people.
Knight has also been accused of the illegal practice of spoofing, which is a disruptive algorithmic trading activity employed by traders to outpace other market participants and to manipulate markets. Spoofers feign interest in trading futures, stocks and other products in financial markets creating an illusion of the demand and supply of the traded asset.
Offices
Knight was headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey. It had many offices in other US locations, as well as in the UK, Germany, Switzerland, China, and Singapore.
Operating subsidiaries
Knight Capital Group operated in four segments: equities, fixed income, currencies and commodities, and corporate. Operating business subsidiaries included Knight Capital Americas, L.P., Knight Execution & Clearing Services LLC, Knight Capital Europe Limited and Hotspot FX Holdings, Inc. Knight Capital Group discontinued operations of its asset management segment in 2009 when its subsidiary, Deephaven Capital Management, sold most of its assets to Stark & Roth, LLC.
2012 stock trading disruption
On August 1, 2012, Knight Capital caused a major stock market disruption leading to a large trading loss for the company. The incident happened after a technician forgot to copy the new Retail Liquidity Program (RLP) code to one of the eight SMARS computer servers, which was Knight's automated routing system for equity orders. RLP code repurposed a flag that was formerly used to activate an old function kno |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora%20Energy%20%28New%20Zealand%29 | Aurora Energy is New Zealand's seventh largest electricity distribution network by customer connections, supplying electricity to 91,600 homes, farms and businesses in Dunedin, Central Otago, and the Queenstown-Lakes District. Aurora Energy is owned by Dunedin City Holdings Limited on behalf of the Dunedin City Council.
In the period 2013 to 2020, there were multiple criticisms of Aurora Energy for poor network reliability, creating safety hazards for workers and the public, historic under-investment, and the need for large price increases to fund the renewal of ageing assets. Independent commentators criticised the owner Dunedin City Holdings, for taking large dividends from Aurora Energy to fund the construction of the Forsyth Barr Stadium, instead of ensuring appropriate expenditure on ageing assets.
In March 2020, Aurora Energy was fined almost $5 million for failing to meet regulated network reliability performance standards during the 2016–2019 period. At the same time, the Commerce Commission acknowledged that in the period since 2016, Aurora had taken steps to improve the quality of service quality across its network, including the appointment of a new board and management and beginning a major programme of capital works.
In March 2021, the Commerce Commission announced their final decision on an investment and revenue proposal submitted by Aurora Energy. The decision allows expenditure of up to $609 million over the period 2021–26, to replace end-of-life equipment and improve safety and reliability. This will result in significant increases in electricity lines charges for all customers, particularly those in Central Otago and Wānaka.
History
The history of electricity supply to Dunedin dates from 1907, when the Dunedin City Council developed New Zealand's first large hydro-electric generating station on the Waipori River. Power from the initial Waipori scheme was transmitted at 35kV over a route to Dunedin using duplicate lines. The Council continued with further hydro-electricity developments on the Waipori River for almost 80 years. The largest development on the river was the construction of a high dam, forming Lake Mahinerangi. The Waipori scheme was interconnected with the Waitaki power station in 1935 as part of extending generating capacity in the South Island.
Ownership and governance
As part of electricity industry reforms in 1990, the Dunedin City Council separated its lines and energy businesses. A new company Waipori Power Generation Limited, was formed to take over the energy business. In the same year, the Council established a utility contracting company that was eventually renamed as Delta Utility Services. A further new company, Dunedin Electricity Limited was registered on 26 June 1990 to manage the Council's electricity lines business. Dunedin Electricity was subsequently re-registered and renamed as Aurora Energy on 1 July 2003.
Prior to 2016, while Aurora Energy was the asset owner, Delta Utility Service |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk%3A%20Factions | Risk: Factions is a downloadable video game for Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade service, PlayStation 3's PlayStation Network, and Windows computers through Steam. The game was announced on January 12, 2010 for Xbox 360, December 21, 2010 for PlayStation 3, and March 8, 2011 for Windows. Based on Hasbro's popular board game Risk, the game has both single player and online modes of play.
Gameplay
In addition to the brand new Factions game variation, Risk: Factions also features a Classic game variation derived directly from the 2008 Risk rule set. Players must complete three objectives and have control of their capital to win the game. Alternatively, a player may defeat all the opponents to win the game as well. The game is played by 2 to 5 players, depending on the size of the map. For example, the classic World map is available for a 3 to 5 player game.
The features exclusive to the Factions game variation are overkills and terrain features. Overkills are awarded by rolling two or three sixes. If a player rolls two sixes, he destroys twice as many units as he would normally. If a player rolls three sixes, he destroys all the opponent's units in the current battle. Some maps have special terrain features like the volcano, which can erupt and kill most surrounding soldiers, or the temple, which allows the player who has captured it to convert an opponent-controlled territory of his choice and all units within it to his color.
The Factions game variation also includes a single player campaign, divided into 5 chapters. Each chapter unlocks one of the game's five playable factions.
Factions
Humans - Color: Green - Leader: General William P. "Fatty" McGutterpants - A jingoistic army general with a distinctive American accent. He is always seen with his pet dog. He also has a blue-colored palette swap named Major Nolens, who appears in the first chapter campaign mode as his opponent.
Cats - Color: Yellow - Leader: Generalissimo Meow - A Hispanic-sounding cat dressed like Mao Zedong. He launches an attack on the Humans after a mortar is "accidentally" dropped on his country (courtesy of McGutterpants' dog) and McGutterpants refuses to apologize.
Robots - Color: Red - Leader: Commandant SixFour - An untested automated defense system built by the Humans. Unfortunately, due to his obsolete graphics technology, he is incapable of distinguishing friend from foe and declares war on the rest of the factions. His name is a reference to the Commodore 64.
Zombies - Color: Black - Leader: Colonel Claus Von Stiffenberg (a.k.a. "Stiffy") - A hook and eyepatch-wearing zombie who declares war on the other factions after being attacked by the Humans. Like the rest of the faction, he was presumably either an ordinary human or a revived corpse, mutated by an experimental bioweapon launched by Commandant SixFour. His name is a reference to Claus von Stauffenberg.
Yetis - Color: Blue - Leader: His Excellency Gary - A Buddha-like yeti monk with a jovial attitude like the Dal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSCAD | OpenSCAD is a free software application for creating solid 3D computer-aided design (CAD) objects. It is a script-only based modeller that uses its own description language; the 3D preview can be manipulated interactively, but cannot be interactively modified in 3D. Instead, an OpenSCAD script specifies geometric primitives (such as spheres, boxes, cylinders, etc.) and defines how they are modified and combined (for instance by intersection, difference, envelope combination, or Minkowski sums) to render a 3D model. As such, the program performs constructive solid geometry (CSG). OpenSCAD is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Overview
Scripting language
OpenSCAD employs special The OpenSCAD Language to produce 3D graphics.
Previewing
For fast previewing of models using z-buffering, OpenSCAD employs OpenCSG and OpenGL.
The 3D model position can be interactively manipulated in the view with a mouse similarly to other 3D modellers. It is also possible to define a default "camera" position in the script.
Part colors can be defined in the 3D view (including transparency).
Preview is relatively fast and allows interactive modifications while modifying the script.
The model renderer takes into account lighting, but the lighting source is not modifiable.
Use
OpenSCAD allows a designer to create accurate 3D models and parametric designs that can be easily adjusted by changing the parameters.
OpenSCAD documents are human-readable scripts in plain ASCII text and potentially syntactically better suited to integrate with version control systems such as GIT.
As such, OpenSCAD is a programmer-oriented solid-modeling tool and has been recommended as an entry-level CAD tool for designing open-source hardware such as scientific tools for research and education.
It is often used to design 3D printed parts, which can be exported in various 3D file formats. Its script-based parametric nature allows it to be integrated into online model customization services, such as the "Customizer" tool on Thingiverse.
Animation is possible with a speed of a few images per seconds for simple models. The animation can have effect on any parameter, being it the camera position or the parts dimensions, position, shape or existence. It can be recorded as a set of images usable to build animated GIFs.
An experimental coupling with Calculix for FEM (Finite Element Method) is available.
FreeCAD can import OpenSCAD files also for FEM with Calculix or other supported FEM solvers. FreeCAD features a workbench for interoperability with OpenSCAD.
File formats
Imports
2D drawings in DXF, SVG and PNG can be imported, then extruded as monolithic parts.
3D parts can be imported in STL, OFF, AMF and 3MF and can be scaled and submitted to subtractive or additive operations.
Exports
OpenSCAD views and models can be exported to many different formats. Including:
Views: can be exported in PNG format.
2D models can be exported in SVG, AutoCAD DXF, and PDF.
3D parts can be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliachna | Eliachna is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tortricidae.
Species
Eliachna chileana Razowski, 1999
Eliachna digitana Brown & McPherson, 2002
Eliachna hemicordata Brown & McPherson, 2002
References
, 1999, Polskie Pismo Ent. 68: 68
, 2005, World Catalogue of Insects 5
External links
tortricidae.com
Euliini
Tortricidae genera
Taxa named by Józef Razowski |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climograph | A climograph is a graphical representation of a location's basic climate. Climographs display data for two variables: (a) monthly average temperature and (b) monthly average precipitation. These are useful tools to quickly describe a location's climate.
Representation
While temperature is typically visualized using a line, some climographs opt to visualize the data using a bar. This method's advantage allows the climograph to display the average range in temperature (average minimum and average maximum temperatures) rather than a simple monthly average.
Use
The patterns in a climograph describe not just a location's climate but also provide evidence for that climate's relative geographical location. For example, a climograph with a narrow range in temperature over the year might represent a location close to the equator, or alternatively a location adjacent to a large body of water exerting a moderating effect on the temperature range. Meanwhile, a wide range in annual temperature might suggest the opposite. We could also derive information about a site's ecological conditions through a climograph. For example, if precipitation is consistently low year-round, we might suggest the location reflects a desert; if there is a noticeable seasonal pattern to the precipitation, we might suggest the location experiences a monsoon season. When combining the temperature and precipitation patterns together, we have even better clues as to the local conditions. Despite this, a number of local factors contribute to the patterns observed in a particular place; therefore, a climograph is not a foolproof tool that captures all the geographic variation that might exist.
References
External links
https://climatecharts.net/ - Webapplication for generating climographs for places worldwide dynamically.
ClimateCharts.net an interactive climate analysis web platform https://doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2020.1829112 (Open Access)
https://climate.mapresso.com/ - Web application for generating climate diagrams for any location on Earth using the free high-resolution CHELSA dataset.
Climate and weather statistics
Meteorological data and networks
Graphs (images) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISIDPlus | ISIDPlus (International Securities Identification Directory) is a comprehensive database of global security identifiers, cross-referencing more than one million issues. The database is co-produced by Standard & Poor's and SIX Financial Information.
References
Unique identifiers
Security databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20White%20Abacus | The White Abacus is a 1997 science fiction novel by Damien Broderick. It follows the story of Telmah Lord Cima who travels to Earth from a far-off world and becomes friends with a computer-augmented being called Ratio.
Background
The White Abacus was first published in the United States in March 1997 by Avon Eos in hardback and trade paperback formats. In April 1998 it was republished in mass market paperback format. The White Abacus won the 1997 Aurealis Award for best science fiction novel and the 1998 Ditmar Award for best Australian long fiction.
References
External links
1997 novels
1997 science fiction novels
Australian science fiction novels
Aurealis Award-winning works
HarperCollins books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20%26%20Kristina%27s%20Beauty%20Call | Anna & Kristina's Beauty Call is a Canadian television series that airs on the W Network in Canada. Parts of the program are filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, while some segments for the show are filmed in Los Angeles, New York, and Toronto. The show is produced by Worldwide Bag Media Inc. in association with W Network and produced by Picture Box Distribution. The credits give the impression that hosts Anna Wallner and Kristina Matisic are tip-toeing around a store, naked.
Hosts Anna Wallner and Kristina Matisic previously hosted and produced the two series The Shopping Bags and Anna & Kristina's Grocery Bag.
Targeting the 25-to-54 demographic, the show is slated for 26 episodes in its first season. Media planning was done by Toronto's Zig and executed through New York's Active Media. The show's premiere offers tips on eyebrow grooming, how to best fit a stiletto, and wearing the right accessories for your body type.
Concept
By employing various product-testing methods, Anna and Kristina put clothing, trends and beauty products and techniques to the test. This is also accomplished with the help of high-profile fashion and beauty industry guest experts including Carolina Herrera and Yigal Azrouel. The first episode aired on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 9 p.m.
The goal of each episode is to re-style men and women facing fashion dilemmas, working with a $500 budget. In addition to the limited budget, the two have just a few hours to put the look together. The $500 budget was partly influenced by today's challenging economic times and the fact that few people have limitless funds for clothes. The final outfit, and how it suits the person they have made over, is then offered up for appraisal by an expert from the fashion world. The judges include Kim Newport-Mimran of Pink Tartan, Flare editor-in-chief Lisa Tant, and Brian Hill, president and CEO of Aritzia.
The show also includes product reviews, how-to's, and tips for both budget- and style-conscious consumers.
Segments
During each 30-minute episode, there are a variety of rotating segments in addition to the main makeover segment. Said segments include:
Anatomy of, which takes a look at the key details that go into making a quality piece of clothing
Beauty and the Best, where Anna and Kristina work with other testers to test the quality of beauty products
Copy Cats, a look at expensive items and examples of good imitations that are cost efficient
Uncut, where Anna & Kristina look at various non-invasive beauty treatments, including intense pulsed light therapy, lipolaser therapy, and infrared saunas.
List of episodes
See also
The Shopping Bags
Anna & Kristina's Grocery Bag
References
External links
Anna & Kristina's official website
Kristina Matisic's bio on Anna & Kristina's official website
Anna Wallner's bio on Anna & Kristina's official website
TV show fan page for Anna & Kristina's Beauty Call on Facebook
Anna & Kristina's photostream on Flickr
Anna & Kristina's tweets o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yousef%20Saad | Yousef Saad born in 1950 in Algiers, Algeria from Boghni, Tizi Ouzou, Kabylia is an I.T. Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He holds the William Norris Chair for Large-Scale Computing since January 2006. He is known for his contributions to the matrix computations, including the iterative methods for solving large sparse linear algebraic systems, eigenvalue problems, and parallel computing. He is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher in mathematics, is the most cited author in the journal Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications, and is the author of the highly cited book Iterative Methods for Sparse Linear Systems. He is a SIAM fellow (class of 2010) and a fellow of the AAAS (2011).
In 2023, he won the John von Neumann Prize.
Education and career
Saad received his B.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Algiers, Algeria in 1970. He then joined University of Grenoble for the doctoral program and obtained a junior doctorate, 'Doctorat de troisieme cycle' in 1974 and a higher doctorate, 'Doctorat d’Etat' in 1983. During the course of his academic career, he has held various positions, including Research Scientist in the Computer Science Department at Yale University (1981–1983), Associate Professor in the University of Tizi-Ouzou in Algeria (1983–1984), Research Scientist at the Computer Science Department at Yale University (1984–1986), and Associate Professor in the Mathematics Department at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1986–1988). He also worked as a Senior Scientist in the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS) during 1980–1990.
Saad joined University of Minnesota as a Professor in the Department of Computer Science in 1990. At Minnesota, he held the position of Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering between January 1997 and June 2000. Currently, he is the I. T. Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at University of Minnesota.
Books
Saad is the author of a couple of influential books in linear algebra and matrix computation which include
Numerical Methods for Large Eigenvalue Problems, Halstead Press, 1992.
Iterative Methods for Sparse Linear Systems, 2nd ed., Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, 2003.
He has also co-edited the following article collections:
D. L. Boley, D. G. Truhlar, Y. Saad, R. E. Wyatt, and L. E. Collins, Practical Iterative Methods for Large Scale Computations. North Holland, Amsterdam, 1989.
D. E. Keyes, Y. Saad, and D. G. Truhlar, Domain-Based Parallelism and Problem Decomposition Methods in Computational Science and Engineering. SIAM, Philadelphia, 1995.
A. Ferreira, J. Rolim, Y. Saad, and T. Yang, Parallel Algorithms for Irregularly Structured Problems, Proceedings of Third International Workshop, IRREGULAR’96 Santa Barbara, CA USA, 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, No 1117. Springer Verlag, 1996.
M. W. Berry, K. A. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W15CG | W15CG Channel 15 TV was a translator television station located in Pontotoc, Mississippi. The station was owned and operated by the Unity Broadcasting Network.
W15CG's license was cancelled by the Federal Communications Commission on July 22, 2021, as the station failed to converted to digital operations by the July 13, 2021 deadline.
Coverage areas
Pontotoc, Mississippi
Algoma, Mississippi
Ecru, Mississippi
Thaxton, Mississippi
Sherman, Mississippi
New Houlka, Mississippi
Tupelo, Mississippi
Verona, Mississippi
References
15CG
Television channels and stations established in 2005
2005 establishments in Mississippi
Defunct television stations in the United States
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2021
2021 disestablishments in Mississippi
15CG |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Enterprise%20Manager%20Ops%20Center | Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center (formerly Sun Ops Center) is a data center automation tool that simplifies discovery and management of physical and virtualized assets. Among its features it can:
Provide a single console for the management of both the physical and virtual infrastructure in a virtualized environment
Allow discovery of any existing infrastructure, including hardware that has just been unpacked and plugged in but has not been switched on
Power everything up and then provision this hardware with firmware, operating system hypervisors and other applications as required
Once operational, ensure that all the software on the servers, both physical and virtualized, can be automatically updated and patched
Enable custom reports to be generated for operational as well as compliance purposes.
Ops Center includes a browser-based, platform-independent interface that uses AJAX.
See also
Sun xVM
VirtualBox
Sun VDI
References
External links
Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center home page
Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center Documentation
Ops Center developer forum
Ops Center Doctor - self diagnosis utility for Ops Center
Halcyon Neuron integration for Sun Ops Center
Sun Microsystems software
Virtualization software
Network management
System administration
Systems management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20VDI | Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) software is a discontinued desktop virtualization product that provides desktop virtualization to replace personal computers with virtual machines (VMs) on a server. Desktops are accessed via Sun Ray Client, Oracle VDC Client (basically a software version of the Sun Ray, also using the same ALP protocol as the Sun Ray, Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) client, or optionally through the web via Oracle Secure Global Desktop software.
The product features tight integration with LDAP and Active Directory for user authentication. When accessing a VM, the user is presented with an Oracle VDI login screen. Upon entering credentials, the connection broker determines the correct VM for the user based on customizable policies. Once the VM has been determined it will be made available (resuming when suspended, starting when shut down) and the user is then redirected to the client OS or, if VirtualBox is used as virtualization backend, the RDP server built into VirtualBox.
Multiple supported virtualization products were: Oracle VirtualBox (included), VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Remote Desktop Services.
Built-in vRDP support in VirtualBox can be used to remotely access operating systems that lack a built-in RDP server, such as Linux.
In 2013, Oracle announced that it was discontinuing all further development of Oracle VDI, although existing customers would continue to be supported for a transitional period. Full support of Oracle VDI ended in March 2017.
See also
VirtualBox
Sun Ray
Sun xVM
Sun Ops Center
References
Sun Microsystems software
Oracle software
Remote desktop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idol%20series%20in%20Greece | Greece has two adaptations of the singing competition Pop Idol under two different titles and on two different networks:
Super Idol, which was aired in 2004 on Mega Channel
Greek Idol, which premiered in 2010 on Alpha TV
Super Idol (Greek TV series)
Greek-language television shows
Greek reality television series
Television series by Fremantle (company) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthochirana | Acanthochirana is an extinct genus of prawn that existed during the upper Jurassic period. It was named by E. Strand in 1928, and its type species is Acanthochirana cordata. They are distinguished from the related genus Aeger by the presence of teeth on the rostrum, which are absent in Aeger.
Species
, Acanthochirana includes six to seven species:
Notes
References
External links
Acanthochirana at the Paleobiology Database
Dendrobranchiata
Jurassic crustaceans
Prehistoric arthropods of Europe
Prehistoric crustacean genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia%20Lee | Cynthia Lee may refer to:
Cynthia Bailey Lee, computer scientist
Cynthia Cozette Lee, African-American classical music composer and librettist
Cynthia Ling Lee, American dancer, choreographer, and scholar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppland%20Runic%20Inscription%20308 | Uppland Runic Inscription 308 or U 308 is the Rundata catalog designation for a memorial runestone that is located in Ekeby, Stockholm County, Sweden, which was in the historic province of Uppland. While the tradition of carving inscriptions into boulders began in the 4th century and lasted into the 12th century, most runestones date from the late Viking Age.
Description
This inscription is carved on a rock that is north-west of Skånela Church and consists of a Christian cross surrounded by a runic text within a serpent band. The inscription is about 1.2 meters tall by 1 meters wide. The runic text indicates that it was carved by Þorgautr, which is often normalized as Torgöt, and states that he is the son of the runemaster Fot, who was an active runemaster in southern Uppland during the late Viking Age. Two other surviving runestones listed in the Rundata catalog, U 746 in Hårby and U 958 in Villinge, are listed as being signed by Þorgautr, and several others are attributed either to him based on stylistic analysis. This runestone is considered to be similar in style to those carved by Þorgautr's father, Fot, and is classified as being carved in runestone style Pr4, which is also known as the Urnes style. This runestone style is characterized by slim and stylized animals that are interwoven into tight patterns. The animal heads are typically seen in profile with slender almond-shaped eyes and upwardly curled appendages on the noses and the necks.
The runic text states that that stone was raised by a man named Gunni in memory of himself. There are over twenty other runestones in which the sponsor states that the stone was raised in memory of himself, including Sö 55 in Bjudby, U 127 in Danderyds, the now-lost U 149 in Hagby, U 164 and U 165 in Täby, U 171 in Söderby, U 194 in Väsby, U 212 in Vallentuna, U 261 in Fresta, the now-lost U 345 in Yttergärde, U 433 in Husby-Ärlinghundra, U 734 in Linsunda, U 739 in Gådi, U 803 in Långtora, U 962 in Vaksala, U 1011 in Örby, U 1040 in Fasma, the now-lost U 1114 in Myrby, U 1181 in Lilla Runhällen, U Fv1958;250 in Sigtuna, Vs 17 in Råby, Vs 32 in Prästgården, and DR 212 in Tillitse. Of these, five stones known as the Jarlabanke Runestones were sponsored by the same person in memory of himself. The name Þorgautr contains the Norse pagan god Thor as a theophoric name element and means "Thor-Goth."
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
kuni lit rista runaʀ þisar eftʀ sik * kuikhan þurhkutr * risti runa þisar fots arfi
Transcription into Old Norse
Gunni lét rista rúnar þessar eptir sik kvikvan. Þorgautr risti rúnar þessar, Fóts arfi.
Translation in English
Gunni had these runes carved in memory of himself while alive. Þorgautr, Fótr's heir, carved these runes.
References
External links
Photograph of U 308 in 1985 - Stockholm Läns Museum
Uppland Runic Inscription 0308 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worst%20Cooks%20in%20America | Worst Cooks in America is an American reality television series that premiered on January3, 2010, on Food Network. The show takes 12 to 16 contestants (referred to as "recruits") with very poor cooking skills through a culinary boot camp, to earn a cash prize of $25,000 and a Food Network cooking set. In the celebrity edition of the show, the winning celebrity gets a $50,000 prize to donate to the charity of their choice. The recruits are trained on the various basic cooking techniques including baking, knife skills, temperature, seasoning and preparation. The final challenge is to cook a restaurant-quality, three-course meal for three food critics.
History
Chef Chart
Chef Anne Burrell has led the Red team in every season to date.
Season 1: 2010
Chefs Beau MacMillan and Anne Burrell lead an intense culinary boot camp. They have six recruits each, and every week they must eliminate one recruit from each of their teams until there is only one from each team left. The final two create a three-course meal to fool a panel of restaurant critics into believing that the meal was created by the acclaimed chefs.
Recruits
Twelve chefs competed in the first season of Worst Cooks in America. Hometowns and occupations are available from the Food Network website. Chef Anne's team was known as the Red Team and Chef Beau's team was known as the Blue Team.
Contestant progress and episodes
Red: Team Anne
Blue: Team Beau
Key
(WINNER) This contestant won the competition and was crowned "Best of the Worst".
(RUNNER-UP) The contestant was the runner-up in the finals of the competition.
(WIN) The contestant did the best on their team in the week's Main Dish challenge and was considered the winner.
(BTM) The contestant was selected as one of the bottom entries in the Main Dish challenge, but was not eliminated.
(OUT) The contestant lost that week's Main Dish challenge and was out of the competition.
* Initially a member of the other team but switched after Chef Beau won the bet on whose team member made the best crepes.
Season 2: 2011
Casting for season 2 of Worst Cooks in America was held at the LA Marriott Burbank Airport, Hotel & Convention Center on March 27, 2010. The Food Network also began accepting online video applications for season 2. Food Network's website announced that Robert Irvine would replace Beau MacMillan for season 2. Season 2 debuted on January 2, 2011. In this season the chefs had eight recruits each.
Recruits
Contestant progress
Red: Team Anne
Blue: Team Robert
Key
(WINNER) This contestant won the competition and was crowned "Best of the Worst".
(RUNNER-UP) The contestant was the runner-up in the finals of the competition.
(WIN) The contestant did the best on their team in the week's Main Dish challenge and was considered the winner.
(BTM) The contestant was selected as one of the bottom entries in the Main Dish challenge, but was not eliminated.
(OUT) The contestant lost that week's Main Dish challenge and was out of the com |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Viega | John Viega (born February 22, 1974) is an American computer security author, researcher and professional.
Early life
He earned his BA from the University of Virginia. As an undergraduate, he worked in Randy Pausch's Stage 3 Research Group, as an early contributor to Alice. Viega earned an MS in Computer Science, also from the University of Virginia.
Career
John Viega co-authored the widely used GCM mode of operation for AES, along with David A. McGrew. He also co-designed its predecessor, CWC mode
John Viega was also a pioneer in static analysis for security vulnerabilities. He was responsible for the first publicly available tool, ITS4., as well as the prominent open source Rough Auditing Tool for Security (RATS). He also founded Secure Software, the first commercial vendor for such tools, which was bought by Fortify Software.
John Viega was also the original author of OWASP's CLASP, a lightweight process for relating software development to security. He is also a former editor-in-chief for the IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine. In addition, Viega is the original author of the GNU Mailman mailing list program.
John Viega is Executive Vice President, Products and Engineering at BAE Systems Applied Intelligence. He joined BAE Systems through the 2014 acquisition of SilverSky, a cloud security provider funded by Goldman Sachs and Bessemer Ventures. Prior to SilverSky, Viega was at McAfee, where he was CTO for SaaS, and prior to that, McAfee's Chief Security Architect. He currently teaches at NYU, and has previously taught at Virginia Tech. In 2016, he founded Capsule8, which was acquired by Sophos in July, 2021.
He is the co-author of Building Secure Software (Addison Wesley, 2001), which was the first book to teach developers how to write secure software. He has since co-authored a number of additional books on computer security, including The Myths of Security (O'Reilly, 2009), Beautiful Security, (O'Reilly, 2009) Network Security with OpenSSL (O’Reilly, 2002), the Secure Programming Cookbook (O’Reilly, 2003) and the 19 Deadly Sins of Software Security (McGraw Hill, 2005).
References
1974 births
Living people
MUD developers
People associated with computer security
American technology writers
University of Virginia alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20firewall | A virtual firewall (VF) is a network firewall service or appliance running entirely within a virtualized environment and which provides the usual packet filtering and monitoring provided via a physical network firewall. The VF can be realized as a traditional software firewall on a guest virtual machine already running, a purpose-built virtual security appliance designed with virtual network security in mind, a virtual switch with additional security capabilities, or a managed kernel process running within the host hypervisor.
Background
So long as a computer network runs entirely over physical hardware and cabling, it is a physical network. As such it can be protected by physical firewalls and fire walls alike; the first and most important protection for a physical computer network always was and remains a physical, locked, flame-resistant door. Since the inception of the Internet this was the case, and structural fire walls and network firewalls were for a long time both necessary and sufficient.
Since about 1998 there has been an explosive increase in the use of virtual machines (VM) in addition to — sometimes instead of — physical machines to offer many kinds of computer and communications services on local area networks and over the broader Internet. The advantages of virtual machines are well explored elsewhere.
Virtual machines can operate in isolation (for example as a guest operating system on a personal computer) or under a unified virtualized environment overseen by a supervisory virtual machine monitor or "hypervisor" process. In the case where many virtual machines operate under the same virtualized environment they might be connected together via a virtual network consisting of virtualized network switches between machines and virtualized network interfaces within machines. The resulting virtual network could then implement traditional network protocols (for example TCP) or virtual network provisioning such as VLAN or VPN, though the latter while useful for their own reasons are in no way required.
There is a continued perception that virtual machines are inherently secure because they are seen as "sandboxed" within the host operating system. It is often believed that the host, in like manner, is secured against exploitation from the virtual machine itself and that the host is no threat to the virtual machine because it is a physical asset protected by traditional physical and network security. Even when this is not explicitly assumed, early testing of virtual infrastructures often proceeds in isolated lab environments where security is not as a rule an immediate concern, or security may only come to the fore when the same solution is moving into production or onto a computer cloud, where suddenly virtual machines of different trust levels may wind up on the same virtual network running across any number of physical hosts.
Because they are true networks, virtual networks may end up suffering the same kinds of vulnerabilities l |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trendrr | Trendrr is a New Yorkbased digital and social media business intelligence platform that was acquired by Twitter in 2013.
A "virtual scratch pad" enables users to compare data sets and create mashups. Graphs can be shared with links or embed codes, or exported in xml, json, or excel. Trendrr allows users to make real-time actions based on quantitative and qualitative trends by understanding social media's impact on sales, savings and brand equity—three sources through which Trendrr enables users to track ROI.
History
Wiredset, a digital marketing agency, created the first version of Trendrr called Infofilter in 2006. Infofilter pulled time-series data and pushed it into graphs and charts, without the interactive features such as mash-ups and scratch pad. The reporting function was manual, and access to the platform was deemed private.
As the demand for the platform expanded beyond specific client needs, Infofilter evolved into Trendrr in April 2007.
June 2009 saw the launch of Trendrr Pro, marking Trendrr's shift from a free service to a freemium model. In addition to the features included in the free version, Trendrr Pro allows users to track a greater number of data sets, receive unlimited alerts, and create custom reports. Users can also import their own data via Trendrr's API.
On August 28, 2013, it was announced that Trendrr was acquired by Twitter for an undisclosed amount.
References
American companies established in 2007
Business intelligence companies
Social media companies
Technology companies established in 2007
Twitter, Inc. acquisitions
2013 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actaeopsis | Actaeopsis is an extinct genus of crab, containing the single species Actaeopsis whiltshirei from the Lower Cretaceous.
References
External links
Actaeopsis at the Paleobiology Database
Xanthoidea
Early Cretaceous crustaceans
Prehistoric crustacean genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Reeves%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Steve Reeves is a computer scientist based at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. He has been in the various roles of Associate Dean, Programme Co-ordinator and Head of Department of Software Engineering. He has undertaken research work on the Z notation, formal methods for GUI design, a general theory of refinement and logic for veracity.
Steve Reeves' academic work is in the area of formal methods to aid software engineering. In particular, he has undertaken research into the design and use of logics for specification. With Prof. Martin Henson, he has studied the formal semantics of the Z notation in detail, in relation to the international ISO standard for Z.
He has done work (initially with colleagues from Data61) on uses for blockchain. He has had a two seed grants awarded by the New Zealand Science for Technological Innovation fund SfTI.
More recently he has developed a logic for veracity, also under the SfTI scheme, but this time as part of a multi-university Spearhead grant Veracity project.
Reeves has delivered talks internationally, including as the opening talk in the BCS-FACS seminar series at the British Computer Society in London in 2005.
Steve Reeves is currently Chair of the (somewhat defunct) Z User Group, and the New Zealand member of the Australasian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC) Steering Committee and the Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC), held at Waikato in December 2016 .
He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the Institute of IT Professionals (formerly the New Zealand Computer Society), and is a Chartered IT Professional (CITPNZ).
Reeves has published a number of academic papers.
References
External links
Steve Reeves home page
1957 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Birmingham
English computer scientists
British expatriates in New Zealand
Formal methods people
Academics of the University of Essex
Academics of Queen Mary University of London
Academic staff of the University of Waikato
Fellows of the British Computer Society
People from Brighton |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ina%2C%20Kasusuklaman%20Ba%20Kita%3F | (International title: A Mother's Sacrifice / ) is a 2010 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Based on a 1985 Philippine film of the same title, the series is the eighteenth installment of Sine Novela. Directed by Gil Tejada Jr., it stars Jean Garcia and Jennica Garcia. It premiered on January 25, 2010 on the network's Dramarama sa Hapon line up replacing Tinik sa Dibdib. The series concluded on May 21, 2010 with a total of 82 episodes. It was replaced by Basahang Ginto in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Jean Garcia as Alvina Mendiola-Montenegro
Jennica Garcia as Rizzi M. Bustamante
Supporting cast
Ariel Rivera as Daniel Bustamante
Iwa Moto as Rossan M. Ortega
Dion Ignacio as Rav M. Asuncion
Karla Estrada as Cora Evangelista
Paulo Avelino as Cito Valera
Luis Alandy as Brent Carlos
Lloyd Samartino as Arnel Ortega
LJ Reyes as Katrina Evangelista
Regine Tolentino as Gina
Richard Quan as Monching
Dang Cruz as Bebang
Guest cast
Renz Valerio as Rav
Ella Cruz as Rossan
Sandy Talag as Rizzi
Sabrina Man as Katrina
Gerard Pizarras as Benjie
Toby Alejar as Ted Asuncion
Caridad Sanchez as Susing Mendiola
Eunice Lagusad as Nova
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of earned a 17.9% rating. While the final episode scored a 14.6% rating.
References
External links
2010 Philippine television series debuts
2010 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine television series based on films
Television shows based on comics
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panday%20Kids | Kids () is a 2010 Philippine television drama fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is a television sequel to the 2009 film Ang Panday. Directed by Mike Tuviera and Dominic Zapata, it stars Sabrina Man, Buboy Villar and Julian Trono. It premiered on February 22, 2010 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Darna. The series concluded on June 4, 2010 with a total of 72 episodes. It was replaced by Pilyang Kerubin in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Buboy Villar as Oliver
Julian Trono as Hadji
Sabrina Man as Charlie
Supporting cast
Jolina Magdangal as Ola
Marvin Agustin as Lizardo
Iza Calzado as Maria Makiling
Gelli de Belen as Rosanna
Ryan Eigenmann as Andreas
Marissa Delgado as Guada Salcedo
Pen Medina as Tasyo
Nanette Inventor as Fidela
Jose Manalo as Mambo
Polo Ravales as Cicero
Danilo Barrios as Areas
Paulo Avelino as Alfred / Aureus
Ella Cruz as Jenny
Jackie Rice as Jana / Sarah
Rich Asuncion as Fatima
Akihiro Sato as Oswaldo / Kakak
Nikki Samonte as Wendy
Yogo Singh as Makoy
Miggy Jimenez as Sintoy
Franchesca Salcedo as Marva
Recurring cast
Ama Quiambao as older Maria Makiling
Paolo Paraiso as Ruben
Miguel Tanfelix as Orix
Rob Sy as Oxo
Jan Manual as Hamogo
Lian Paz as Cecilia
Gabriel Roxas as Butchoy
Isabel Granada as Tessa
Bernard Palanca as James Villafuerte
Guest cast
Angelika Dela Cruz as Ester
Tirso Cruz III as Augusto Luna
Katrina Halili as Wenoa
Sheena Halili as Oxana
Carlo Aquino as Elvin
Marti San Juan
John Carlo Tan
Nathalie Hart as Luningning
Gerard Pizarras as Diego
Jomari Yllana as Flavio
Christopher de Leon as a teacher
JC de Vera as Aureus
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Kids earned a 34.8% rating. While the final episode scored a 16.5% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
Panday
2010 Philippine television series debuts
2010 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine fantasy television series
Television shows based on comics
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial%20data%20vendor | A financial data vendor provides market data to financial firms, traders, and investors. The data distributed is collected from sources such as stock exchange feeds, brokers and dealer desks or regulatory filings (e.g. an SEC filing).
History
Financial data vendors have been in existence as long as financial data has been available. The first technology that allowed data vendors to disseminate was the ticker tape starting in the 1870s. Financial data includes "pre-trade" such as bid/ask data necessary to price a financial instrument and post-trade data such as the last trade price and other transaction data.
From ticker tape to television cameras, from databases to websites this multibillion-dollar industry provides data utilized in the financial sector. Paper ticker tape became obsolete in the 1960s, as television and computers were increasingly used to transmit financial information. The concept of the stock ticker lives on, however, in the scrolling electronic tickers seen on brokerage walls and on news and financial television channels.
Because the financial investment needed to provide the services needed, the industry had become ever more consolidated, but in 2004 it was forecast that the industry was beginning to fragment.
Industry size
According to the 2009 Burton-Taylor report, the Market Data industry exited 2009 at US$22.68 billion after closing 2008 at US$23.01 billion. In 2009, Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg market share were virtually even, at 29.4% and 29.2% respectively.
The largest four financial data vendors represent the USD 15.222 billion tip of an enormous global market (2008 Annual figures) and employ tens of thousands of people.
Types of data
There are many different types of instruments (including stocks, bonds, funds, options, futures, currencies, etc.) and hundreds of different markets for investment, leading to an extremely large and hard to define universe of data.
The types of data offered vary by vendor, and most typically cover information about entities (companies) and instruments (shares, bonds etc.) which companies might issue. Typically, pricing data is sold separately from other related data, such as corporate actions and events, valuation information, fundamental data including company performance and reference data on the entities and instruments themselves.
In addition to market price data there are data known as market reference data, such as a ticker name, which describe securities, commodities and transactions.
Intraday Data are prices provided during the day, they are usually released every 15 minutes.
The majority of financial data vendors can access data during trading sessions but with the requirement that any inquiry be in reference to historical market analysis. Analysis of historical market data provides a larger snapshot of the market at the expense of timely information (time inbetween database updates).
Alternative data (finance) vendors offer non-traditional datasets, typically de |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PForth | pForth (Portable Forth) is a portable implementation of the Forth programming language written in ANSI C. It differs from the other distributions of Forth in that it strives for portability over performance.
The pForth implementation of Forth is an open source programming language.
History
PForth started out as HForth, which was used in connection with the Hierarchical Music Specification Language, a music experimentation language developed by Phil Burk, Larry Polansky and David Rosenboom. Phil Burk ported the HForth kernel to C when he moved to the 3DO company. The newly ported Forth at 3DO had to run on many different systems including SUN, SGI, Macintosh, PC, Amiga, the 3DO ARM based Opera system, and the 3DO PowerPC based M2 system.
License
Originally pForth was released to the public domain with a custom release and disclaimer of no warranty but in 2020, it was relicensed under the zero-clause BSD license, which is a public-domain-equivalent license.
References
External links
Official Homepage
pForth on GitHub
pForth for Max OS X
pForth for Debian
pForth for MVS : MVS on the IBM System/370 is an EBCDIC platform.
Concatenative programming languages
Forth programming language family
Public-domain software with source code
Forth implementations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MNET%20%28interbank%20network%29 | MNET Services Private Limited was a Pakistani operator of inter-bank connectivity platform of MCB Bank Ltd (formerly known as Muslim Commercial Bank) for online financial transaction processing and offers a managed services portfolio that includes card personalisation & management, mobile payment services and ATM & POS controller hosting.
History
Incorporated in 2001, MNET was the first company in Pakistan to provide a secure electronic inter-bank connectivity platform for online financial transactions.
In 2002, SBP circular for the mandatory connectivity of either of the two switches (1LINK or MNET).
In 2004, SBP instructed 1LINK and MNET to interconnect with each other.
The company is now being closed as MCB has now become a member bank of 1LINK.
MNET services amalgamation with and into MCB Bank
MNET Services (Private) Limited amalgamated with and into MCB Bank, the effective date of amalgamation is April 30, 2019.
References
Banking in Pakistan
Interbank networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gforth | Gforth is a free and portable implementation of the Forth programming language for Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows, and other operating systems. A primary goal of Gforth is to adhere to the ANS Forth standard. Gforth is free software as part of the GNU Project.
History
The Gforth project was started in mid-1992 by Bernd Paysan and Anton Ertl. Gforth descends from bigFORTH and fig-Forth Gforth is fully ANS FORTH compliant.
References
External links
Gforth - Free Software Directory
Concatenative programming languages
Forth programming language family
GNU Project software
Free software programmed in C
Free compilers and interpreters
Forth implementations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Line%20%28Dubai%20Metro%29 | The Blue Line is a proposed line on the Dubai Metro network in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is currently approved for construction. This was originally proposed for construction starting along with the Purple Line and completion in 2012. Due to the 2008 global financial crisis it was taken under reconsideration and the RTA fixed a deadline of 2014 for completion of this line. However, as of 2023, construction had not yet started. The Blue line is proposed to run between Dubai International Airport and the newer Al Maktoum International Airport in Jebel Ali, along the Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road. In 2023, the project was picked up again and the RTA has invited contractors for the project. The redesigned line will be 30 kilometers long, will have 14 stations and will mostly be underground.
Statistics
ThAfter the 2023 redesign, the line will be 30 kilometers long, with 15.5 kilometers underground with 5 stations, while the rest will be above-ground with 9 stations. It will run along the Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road.
Route
Seven stations will be elevated, including one iconic station. Five stations will be underground, including one interchange station; and two elevated transfer stations connected to the existing Centrepoint station, the eastern terminus of Red Line in Rashidiya; and Creek station, the southern terminus of Green Line in Al Jaddaf.
See also
Roads and Transport Authority (Dubai)
Green Line (Dubai Metro)
Red Line (Dubai Metro)
Purple Line (Dubai Metro)
References
External links
Dubai Metro Review
Dubai Metro Projects Blue Line
Proposed public transport in Asia
Dubai Metro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple%20Line%20%28Dubai%20Metro%29 | The Purple Line is a proposed line of the Dubai Metro network in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The purple line will run between Dubai International Airport to Al Maktoum International Airport, along Al Khail Road. Announced in 2007, construction of the line had not started yet as of February 2023, and news reports in July 2011 claimed that the line faces cancellation.
It will have about eight stations along its route, three with check-in facilities. However The Dubai Airports claimed that this was unfeasible as it did not pass through many localities. However they suggested opting for a "central terminal" similar to ones in the US where trains leave from inside the airport to the other airport with trains also leaving to the city. The RTA have taken this into consideration.
Statistics
The Purple line will be long and trains on this line will travel at an average speed of 110 kilometres per hour (68 mph).
See also
Green Line (Dubai Metro)
Red Line (Dubai Metro)
Blue Line (Dubai Metro)
References
External links
Zawya.com
Arabianbusiness.com
Gulfnews.com
Ameinfo.com
Proposed public transport in Asia
Dubai Metro
ar:الخط الأخضر (مترو دبي) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo%20Skylight | Lenovo Skylight was a small portable computer with mobile data capabilities (sometimes called a smartbook) designed by Lenovo. The project was announced in January 2010, but was cancelled less than six months later.
History
Qualcomm was rumored to announce a smartbook at an analyst meeting on November 12, 2009.
A Lenovo device concept was shown, and reported that it would be announced officially at the Consumer Electronics Show of January 2010. The Lenovo device was expected to be sold through AT&T carrier in the US.
A Lenovo device was submitted to the FCC earlier in October, rumored to be the smartbook in question. In early January 2010, it was announced that the Lenovo smartbook's name would be "Skylight" and more detailed specifications were made public.
Some of the design differences from a traditional notebook included a semicircular shape, relatively larger touchpad, and Universal Serial Bus connector which extends out from the keyboard surface.
The Skylight used the Snapdragon technology from Qualcomm with a custom Linux operating system.
In May 2010 the product was cancelled.
References
External links
Linux-based devices
Skylight
Smartbooks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yao%27s%20Millionaires%27%20problem | Yao's Millionaires' problem is a secure multi-party computation problem introduced in 1982 by computer scientist and computational theorist Andrew Yao. The problem discusses two millionaires, Alice and Bob, who are interested in knowing which of them is richer without revealing their actual wealth.
This problem is analogous to a more general problem where there are two numbers and and the goal is to determine whether the inequality is true or false without revealing the actual values of and .
The Millionaires' problem is an important problem in cryptography, the solution of which is used in e-commerce and data mining. Commercial applications sometimes have to compare numbers that are confidential and whose security is important.
Many solutions have been introduced for the problem. The first solution, presented by Yao, is exponential in time and space.
Protocols and proof
The protocol of Hsiao-Ying Lin and Wen-Guey Tzeng
Let be a binary string of length n.
Denote 0-encoding of s as and 1-encoding of s as
Then, the protocol is based on the following claim:
Assume that a and b are binary strings of length n bits.
Then if the sets and have a common element (where a and b are the binary encodings of the corresponding integers).
The protocol leverages this idea into a practical solution to Yao's Millionaires' problem by performing a private set intersection between and .
The protocol of Ioannidis and Ananth
The protocol uses a variant of oblivious transfer, called 1-2 oblivious transfer. In that transfer one bit is transferred in the following way: a sender has two bits and . The receiver chooses , and the sender sends with the oblivious transfer protocol such that
the receiver doesn't get any information about ,
the value of is not exposed to the sender.
To describe the protocol, Alice's number is indicated as , Bob's number as , and it is assumed that the length of their binary representation is less than for some . The protocol takes the following steps.
Alice creates a matrix of size of -bit numbers, where is the length of the key in the oblivious transfer protocol. In addition, she chooses two random numbers and , where and .
will be the -th bit of the number that appears in cell (where indicates the least significant bit). In addition, is denoted as the -th bit of Alice's number . For every , Alice does the following actions.
For every bit she sets and to random bits.
If , let , otherwise let and for every set to a random bit.
For set and to .
For every , will be a random -bit number, and will be another number of bits where all bits except the last two are random, and the last two are calculated as and , where is the bitwise XOR operation.
For set . Where indicates the bitwise rotation of to the left by bits.
For every , Bob transfers with the oblivious transfer protocol, where , and is the -th bit of .
Alice sends to Bob .
Bob calculates the bitwise XOR of all the numbers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QualNet | QualNet is a testing and simulation tool owned and provided by Scalable Network Technologies, Inc. As network simulation software, it acts as a planning, testing, and training tool which mimics the behavior of a physical communications network.
See also
Network simulation
Wireless networking
Computer network analysis
Computer networking
Simulation software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISTY | The Institut des Sciences et Techniques des Yvelines or ISTY is a French public engineering school specialized in the field of computer science and mechatronics, attached to the Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University.
References
External links
Grandes écoles
Educational institutions established in 1992
Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
1992 establishments in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WXTT | WXTT could refer to:
WYXY 99.1 Savoy, Illinois, which formerly had the callsign WXTT and was known as "eXtra 99.1"
W221CK 92.1 Champaign, Illinois, which took over the programming from 99.1 as "eXtra 92.1" |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drilling%20%28disambiguation%29 | Drilling is the cutting of a hole into a solid.
Drilling may also refer to:
Boring (earth), cutting a hole into the earth
Drilling (firearm), a combination gun
See also
Data drilling
Drill (disambiguation)
Perforation (disambiguation)
Boring (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Atwood | Jeff Atwood (born 1970) is an American software developer, author, blogger, and entrepreneur. He co-founded the computer programming question-and-answer website Stack Overflow and co-founded Stack Exchange, which extends Stack Overflow's question-and-answer model to subjects other than programming. He is the owner and writer of the computer programming blog Coding Horror, focused on programming and human factors.
As of 2012, Jeff Atwood's most recent project was Discourse, an open source Internet discussion platform.
Career
Atwood started a programming blog, Coding Horror, in 2004. As a result, he met Joel Spolsky, among others.
In 2007, Jeff Atwood made the quote that was popularly referred to as Atwood’s Law:“Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.”In 2008, together with Spolsky, Atwood founded Stack Overflow, a programming question-and-answer website. The site quickly became very popular, and was followed by Server Fault for system administrators, and Super User for general computer-related questions, eventually becoming the Stack Exchange network which includes many Q&A websites about topics decided on by the community.
From 2008 to 2014, Atwood and Spolsky published a weekly podcast covering the progress on Stack Exchange and a wide range of software development issues. Jeff Atwood was also a keynote presenter at the 2008 Canadian University Software Engineering Conference.
In February 2012, Atwood left Stack Exchange so he could spend more time with his family.
On February 5, 2013, Atwood announced his new company, Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc. Its flagship product is an open source next-generation discussion platform called Discourse. Atwood and others developed it out of their frustration with current bulletin board software that hadn't seemed to evolve since 1990. On February 1, 2023, he stepped down as CEO and assumed the role of Executive Chairman.
He also launched a mechanical keyboard called CODE in 2013.
Books
The ASP.NET 2.0 Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks, by Scott Allen, Jeff Atwood, Wyatt Barnett, Jon Galloway and Phil Haack.
Effective Programming: More Than Writing Code.
References
External links
Profile on Coding Horror
1970 births
Living people
Web developers
American male bloggers
American bloggers
American computer programmers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%20Disney%20Channel | Le Disney Channel was a French programming block on FR3 (now France 3, the second largest French public television channel and part of the France Télévisions group) from January 26, 1985, until December 31, 1988. The block's runtime was 8:35pm–10:00pm (UTC+1) on Saturday nights. On January 7, 1989, it was replaced with a cartoon-based block named Samdynamite. Yet the show reached good ratings on FR3, but Disney wanted to impose its programs on FR3, FR3 refused to renew its contract and the latter was terminated. Disney would later sign a contract with TF1 (which by coïncidence, the network which terminated Disney's contract, FR3, was to be privatized into a private body, however the final decision was that of TF1).
Programmes shown on Disney Channel FR3
Adventures of the Gummi Bears (Les Gummi)
Disney Family Album (Disney Souvenirs)
Donald Duck Presents (Donald Duck présente)
D-TV
DuckTales (La Bande à Picsou)
Five Mile Creek (Diligence Express)
Good Morning, Mickey! (Bon Weekend Mickey)
Sidekicks (Le Chavelier Lumiere)
The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh (L'Épouvantail)
Welcome to Pooh Corner (Les Aventures de Winnie L'Ourson)
Zorro
In addition to Good Morning, Mickey!, classic cartoons were also shown in a short block entitled "Festival de Dessins Animes". Clips from feature-length productions had the spotlight on "La Minute Disney".
References
Television in France
1985 French television series debuts
1988 French television series endings
1980s French television series
France Télévisions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRFS | CRFS (Coherent Remote File System) is a network file system protocol by Zach Brown formerly of Oracle intended to leverage the Btrfs architecture to gain higher performance than existing protocols (such as NFS and SMB) and to expose Btrfs features such as snapshots to remote clients. The code is unmaintained.
If one is looking for a network file system on top of Btrfs, there are a number of options available, which are under active support and development, including Ceph, BeeGFS, GlusterFS, and Samba.
See also
Btrfs
Ceph
BeeGFS
GlusterFS
References
External links
CRFS and POHMELFS (LWN.net)
Network file systems
Distributed file systems supported by the Linux kernel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI%20War%3A%20Fleet%20Command | AI War: Fleet Command is a real time strategy computer game created by independent developer Arcen Games. The game was first released on the Arcen Games website and Impulse on June 2, 2009, before getting a Steam release on October 16, 2009 that coincided with the release of version 2.0. AI War blends the 4X, tower defense, and traditional RTS genre to create something that was hailed as unique but with a steep learning curve. Players go up against two artificial intelligence (AI) opponents that are superior to the player. The objective is to destroy the home planets of both AI opponents.
AI War was lauded by reviewers for being a fresh take on the RTS genre and bringing something new to the table, but criticized for its learning curve and lackluster graphics. It was also noted that the AI represented a significant challenge and reacted to the actions of the player. An expansion titled The Zenith Remnant was released on January 12, 2010 that adds new factions, AI types, ships and new gameplay mechanics. As of October 27, 2010, a micro-expansion named Children of Neinzul was released, with the sole intention of donating all profits from game sales to Child's Play, a charity for sick children. Another full expansion was released on January 28, 2011 titled Light of the Spire, which added new content and game modes. On October 19, 2012, AI War 6.0 was released along with the Ancient Shadows expansion. A sequel, AI War 2, was released to early access on Steam on October 15, 2018. The official release was on October 22, 2019.
Gameplay
AI War pits human players against AI opponents that control vastly superior fleets at the start of the game. The main goal is to destroy the two opposing AI's home command stations without losing yours (in multiplayer the humans will not lose until all human home command stations have been lost). As with chess, AI War is generally thought of in the three stages of opening, middlegame, and endgame, all of which involve different player and AI interactions and activities.
Maps vary in size from 10 to 120 systems and map size has a significant impact on the play style of the game as well as time required. The game starts out with the human player(s) each controlling one system (though they may choose to start with more) and the AI controlling the rest of the map. The AI operates using something called AI Progress. This mechanic works as an indicator of how aware the AI is of the leftover human remnants in the galaxy (as well as to balance the fact that if the AI simply attacked the player with everything it had at the start of the game it would win every time). As players complete objectives and capture systems, this value goes up, increasing the volume of reinforcements and attack forces the AI gets to use. There are a few mechanics such as Data Centers and the newly introduced AI Superterminals that lower the AI Progress. One of the primary factors when considering whether to take a planet is the AI progress; taking |
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