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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Rom%C3%A2nia%20Regional
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Radio România Regional is, in fact, the national network of regional state owned radio stations.
These are, as follows:
Radio București FM
Radio România Brașov FM
Radio Cluj
Radio Constanța
Radio Iași
Radio Oltenia Craiova
Radio Târgu Mureș
Radio Reșița
Radio Timișoara
Radio Vacanța
Radio România Regional Network is part of the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company, which operates as an autonomous public service of national interest, editorially independent.
References
External links
Radio România Regional website
Radio stations in Romania
Romanian-language radio stations
Multilingual broadcasters
Radio stations established in 1939
1939 establishments in Romania
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEAX
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WEAX (88.3 FM) is a Christian contemporary radio station in Angola, Indiana, and is owned by Star Educational Media Network, Inc.
WEAX began broadcasting in September 1979. It was formerly the student run station Trine University and aired an Indie/Alternative radio format. On July 15, 2019, Trine University shut down FM broadcasting of WEAX, and the station was sold to Star Educational Media Network, Inc. for $40,000; the sale was consummated on January 17, 2020. However, the station remained silent, because the tower that had used by Trine University was on property owned by the City of Angola, and the city refused to allow the tower to be used by a Christian broadcaster. The station resumed operations on July 13, 2020.
References
External links
Radio stations established in 1979
1979 establishments in Indiana
Contemporary Christian radio stations in the United States
EAX
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20LeVitus
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Bob LeVitus (born April 4, 1955 in Chicago, and also known as Dr. Macintosh) is an American author of more than 75 computer-related books, particularly on the Apple Macintosh, iPhone, and iPad for the book series ...For Dummies. He worked as a columnist for the Houston Chronicle since 1996 and for The Mac Observer since 2001, until his retirement from both outlets in 2022. In 2001, Macworld magazine described him as "a well-known columnist and speaker in the Mac world".
Career
In 1984, LeVitus ran a market research firm. Convinced that the original Macintosh, released that same year, could "revolutionize" his business, he proposed buying one. After his partners refused, he sold his shares in the company and left to start his own short-lived market research firm. After a sales call to Macintosh trade magazine MACazine, he closed his firm and joined the latter in 1986 as an executive editor. The magazine was owned by publisher Hart Graphics, whose chairman, Bill Hart, saw LeVitus as a "perfect match" due to his industry connections and "chutzpah". The magazine closed in 1988 after a sale to MacUser, where LeVitus then served as a columnist until MacUser 1998 closure. According to Austin American-Statesman Lori Hawkins, by then, LeVitus's "no-hold-barred, take-no-prisoners" software reviews had earned him a reputation as a "Macintosh cult icon".
LeVitus adopted the "Dr. Macintosh" nickname in his first Addison-Wesley book, Dr. Macintosh: Tips, Techniques and Advice on Mastering the Macintosh (1989, reedited 1991), which sold 100,000 copies. By 1995, nine of his books had hit best-sellers list.
In May 1995, he was hired as chief evangelist for Power Computing, a Macintosh clone seller.
In 2005, when John Wiley & Sons published iCon, Apple stopped selling all Wiley books in its Apple Stores, including LeVitus's Macs for Dummies books.
In 2009, LeVitus, and reportedly all other columnists, were fired from MacCentral after a downsizing.
LeVitus appeared at a number of Mac-focused meetups and events, including MacLive, MacFest, MacCORE, MacMania, and was a regular at the Macworld/iWorld trade show.
LeVitus retired from the Houston Chronicle and MacObserver in 2022.
Personal life
LeVitus is married with two children.
Works
Macintosh third-party developer and publisher Michael Tsai credits LeVitus's Dr. Macintosh and Stupid Mac Tricks for sparking his interest in the Mac platform.
Notes
References
External links
Working Smarter for Mac Users (dot com)
American technology writers
Living people
1955 births
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Real%20Estate%20Network
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Christian Real Estate Network (CREN) is an association that was started in January 2002 by Bart Smith and Justin Smith.
Bart Smith, a ReMax broker/owner since 1987, began the service as an affiliate marketing experiment in the Christian marketplace.
The service is a referral network that connects buyers and sellers with Christian Real Estate Agents in the United States and Canada. The Network consists of approximately 1,400 association members including real estate agents, loan officers, appraisers, property managers, property inspectors, and various other fields related to real estate.
(CREN) Maintains offices in Orange, California, and Castle Rock, Colorado, Colorado, and operates under a California-based corporation
Sources
"Referrals From God" by Carol Lloyd, San Francisco Chronicle, April 29, 2005
"Christian Businesses Gain in Popularity" by Eunice Moscoso, Cox Newspapers, April 24, 2005
"Looking for a Christian Real Estate Agent?" Inman News, June 18, 2004
"Religious Real Estate Referral Sites: Sending the Wrong Word?" by Blanche Evans, Realty Times, December 16, 2002
External links
Christian Real Estate Network Official Website
Real estate companies established in 2002
2002 establishments in the United States
Christian organizations established in 2002
Real estate services companies of the United States
Companies based in Orange, California
Christian organizations established in the 21st century
Privately held companies based in California
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedera%20Networks
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Speedera Networks, founded in 1999, was a content delivery network (CDN) company that emerged in the late 1990s to advance technology applications for Internet communications and collaboration and became the first CDN to turn a profit. On June, 2005, Akamai acquired Speedera Networks.
A CDN is a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery, and some of the advantages it brought to the Internet and online users was dynamic imaging, flash video, faster website download times, increased site performance and improved business continuity and uptime. Speedera added a layer of security to Web sites, resulting in reduction of risk of distributed denial-of-service attacks and bandwidth hijacking.
History
A provider of distributed application hosting and content delivery services, Speedera was founded by Ajit Gupta (CEO), Rich Day (chief architect), and Eric Swildens (CTO). The company was based in Santa Clara, California. Speedera opened its second headquarters in Bangalore, India in 2002 to offer 24x7 operations and customer support as well as sales, marketing and additional R&D capacity. Investors backing Speedera included Stanford University and Trinity Ventures.
Despite the end of the dot-com bubble in 2000 and a large number of competitors (30-plus at that time), Speedera had patented technology, a significant cost advantage and a customer focused sales philosophy that enabled the company to survive the economic downturn and grow rapidly enough to eventually achieve a profitable annual revenue run rate of $60 million. In 2003 and 2004, both Deloitte & Touche and PricewaterhouseCoopers recognized Speedera as one of the top 10 fastest growing private companies in Silicon Valley and in North America.
The company initially was created to cache static Web content through its vast network and direct users to the optimum server through intelligent traffic management and quickly transformed itself to deliver dynamic imaging, rich dynamic content and accelerated Web applications using the same platform.
Speedera enabled companies to offer bandwidth-intensive content, graphics, and streaming media over the Web. It operated servers on more than 1,000 backbone networks in the Americas, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, putting the content physically closer to users, and speeding up downloads and streaming. Speedera built its network to more than 100 points-of-presence (PoPs) within ata centers in 20 countries.
Speedera at acquisition had more than 400 customers, including large companies. They included Fox Broadcasting Corporation, Amazon.com, Apple, Sony Music Entertainment, Nokia, Comcast, NASA, the European Space Agency, Walmart, Bank of America, Lowes, The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, The Weather Channel, Nissan, NPR, iFilm, Atom Shockwave, Univision, Sirius Satellite Radio, the National Hockey League, the U.S. National Guard, Hoovers, Tag Heuer, Oracle, Microsoft, Cisco, Verizon, Yahoo, Intuit,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour%20Index%20International
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Colour Index International (CII) is a reference database jointly maintained by the Society of Dyers and Colourists and the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists. It currently contains over 27,000 individual products listed under 13,000 Colour Index Generic Names. It was first printed in 1925 but is now published solely on the World Wide Web. The index serves as a common reference database of manufactured colour products and is used by manufacturers and consumers, such as artists and decorators.
Colorants (both dyes and pigments) are listed using a dual classification which use the Colour Index Generic Name (the prime identifier) and Colour Index Constitution Numbers. These numbers are prefixed with C.I. or CI, for example, C.I. 15510. (This abbreviation is sometimes mistakenly thought to be CL, due to the font used to display it.) A detailed record of products available on the market is presented under each Colour Index reference. For each product name, Colour Index International lists the manufacturer, physical form, and principal uses, with comments supplied by the manufacturer to guide prospective customers.
For manufacturers and consumers, the availability of a standard classification system for pigments is helpful because it resolves conflicting historic, proprietary, and generic names that have been applied to colours.
List of Colour Index Constitution Numbers
The colour index numbers are 5-digit numbers grouped into numerical ranges according to the chemical structure.
Print editions
1st (-)
2nd (1956)
3rd (1971)
See also
Color chart
List of dyes
Pantone
References
External links
American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists
Colour Index International
Society of Dyers and Colourists
Color organizations
American companies established in 1925
1925 establishments in the United States
Business services companies established in 1925
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU%20time
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CPU time (or process time) is the amount of time for which a central processing unit (CPU) was used for processing instructions of a computer program or operating system, as opposed to elapsed time, which includes for example, waiting for input/output (I/O) operations or entering low-power (idle) mode. The CPU time is measured in clock ticks or seconds. Often, it is useful to measure CPU time as a percentage of the CPU's capacity, which is called the CPU usage. CPU time and CPU usage have two main uses.
The CPU time is used to quantify the overall empirical efficiency of two functionally identical algorithms. For example any sorting algorithm takes an unsorted list and returns a sorted list, and will do so in a deterministic number of steps based for a given input list. However a bubble sort and a merge sort have different running time complexity such that merge sort tends to complete in fewer steps. Without any knowledge of the workings of either algorithm a greater CPU time of bubble sort shows it is less efficient for particular input data than merge sort.
This type of measurement is especially useful when comparing like algorithms that are not trivial in complexity. In this case the wall time (actual duration elapsed) is irrelevant, the computer may execute the program slower or faster depending on real world variables such as the CPU's temperature, as well as other operating system variables, such as the process's priority.
The CPU usage is used to quantify how the processor is shared between computer programs. High CPU usage by a single program may indicate that it is highly demanding of processing power or that it may malfunction; for example, it has entered an infinite loop. CPU time allows measurement of the processing power a single program requires, eliminating interference, such as time executed waiting for input or being suspended to allow other programs to run.
In contrast, elapsed real time (or simply real time, or wall-clock time) is the time taken from the start of a computer program until the end as measured by an ordinary clock. Elapsed real time includes I/O time, any multitasking delays, and all other types of waits incurred by the program.
Subdivision
CPU time or CPU usage can be reported either for each thread, for each process or for the entire system. Moreover, depending on what exactly the CPU was doing, the reported values can be subdivided in:
User time is the amount of time the CPU was busy executing code in user space.
System time is the amount of time the CPU was busy executing code in kernel space. If this value is reported for a thread or process, then it represents the amount of time the kernel was doing work on behalf of the executing context, for example, after a thread issued a system call.
Idle time (for the whole system only) is the amount of time the CPU was not busy, or, otherwise, the amount of time it executed the System Idle process. Idle time actually measures unused CPU capacity.
Steal tim
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug%20Lee
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Doug Lee may refer to:
Doug Lee (basketball) (born 1964), US basketball player
Doug Lee (musician) in Mekong Delta (band)
See also
Doug Lea, professor of computer science
Douglas Lee (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports%20Time
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Sports Time was a regional sports network in the United States of America. It was owned by a limited partnership headed by Anheuser-Busch and was launched on April 2, 1984. Sports Time was available in 15 states from Colorado to West Virginia.
History
On July 18, 1983, the network was announced as a joint venture of Anheuser-Busch, Multimedia, Inc. (which notably owned TV stations KSDK and WLWT in the network's coverage footprint along with cable systems), and cable company Tele-Communications Inc. The cornerstone of the network's coverage would be games of the St. Louis Cardinals (then owned by the brewery), Kansas City Royals and Cincinnati Reds baseball teams. The network soon added Big Eight Conference college basketball, as well as St. Louis Blues hockey, Kansas City Kings basketball, a limited schedule of American Association minor-league baseball contests, and other collegiate and regional events. A two-year deal was reached to add Mid-American Conference basketball in December 1983, while Major Indoor Soccer League action (with five teams in the service area) was also added. The network maintained offices at 900 Walnut Street in St. Louis, near Busch Memorial Stadium, and Cincinnati facilities in the former WLWT studios at 2222 Chickasaw Street.
Sports Time was offered as a premium service that cost cable subscribers an additional $10 to $12 a month once it launched on April 3, 1984. That same day, Sports Time added the Cleveland Indians with a package of 25 to 30 games a year for two seasons, though the agreement did not cover Cleveland itself and Sports Time had no distribution in northeast Ohio. A month later, the Missouri Valley Conference signed a deal for college basketball telecasts on Sports Time.
Sports Time showed Reggie Jackson's 500th career home run on September 17, 1984. The Royals were playing the California Angels in Anaheim, California that night.
Distribution challenges
Sports Time was dogged throughout its year on air by distribution challenges. While not as acute as those faced by other premium sports cable channels, such as the short-lived Sportsvue in Wisconsin, issues cropped up. Warner Amex cable in the St. Louis area drew Sports Time's ire by making the channel available only to those who had "Super Qube" service, in violation of the contract between the two. Tavern owners in the St. Louis area also complained of high rates being charged to show Sports Time in their establishments. In Cincinnati, contractual problems between the Reds and the city of Cincinnati meant that a planned slate of 25 contests turned into fewer than a dozen.
As 1984 went on, the channel took increasing measures to boost its reach. Three months after claiming it had no interest in Florida, it debuted on some cable systems there. In October 1984, eager to increase circulation beyond its 45,000 subscribers in order to make the channel more attractive to advertisers, Sports Time allowed cable companies outside of the Cincinnati, Kansas
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolinas%20Sports%20Entertainment%20Television
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Carolinas Sports Entertainment Television, or C-SET, was a regional sports network in the United States that was in operation from October 2004 until June 2005. It was the primary television vehicle of the Charlotte Bobcats of the National Basketball Association during that team's first season in the league.
History
C-SET was a joint venture between Bobcats owner Robert L. Johnson, the executive who founded Black Entertainment Television and used the money to become the first majority African-American owner in NBA history, and Time Warner Cable, the largest cable provider in North Carolina. It was supposed to cover both North Carolina and South Carolina. An aspect that set C-SET apart from similar team-owned channels is that Time Warner Cable did not put the channel on analog cable, instead using it as an attraction to get customers for their digital cable services. Comporium Cable, the largest cable provider on the South Carolina side of the Charlotte market, simulcast C-SET's broadcasts on its local news channel, CN2. A package of 15 Bobcats games produced by C-SET aired on WJZY.
Other programming
In addition to the Bobcats, C-SET aired college sports programs, mostly from the Big South Conference and Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association, outdoors programming (hunting and fishing), auto racing, and action sports. C-SET also planned a nightly sportscast.
Closure and aftermath
C-SET lasted only one NBA season and folded on the day of the 2005 NBA draft. The lack of analog cable carriage, as well as the Bobcats' poor attendance, was seen as a primary reason. Additionally, despite being owned by North Carolina's largest cable provider, few other providers picked up C-SET. Time Warner Cable blocked satellite television providers from carrying the channel. As a result, cable customers without a digital package, as well as western North Carolina and most of South Carolina, were left to rely on radio coverage.
In 2005, the Bobcats moved their local cable broadcasts to News 14 Carolina in another complex and limiting deal which cut out viewers who did not have Time Warner or Comporium as a cable provider. In 2006–07, the team added over-the-air broadcasts on WMYT after one season on WJZY. In April 2008, Time Warner Cable allowed the Bobcats to exit the News 14 deal and sign a more accessible broadcasting agreement with SportSouth/FSN South in exchange for Time Warner Cable acquiring the naming rights for the Charlotte Bobcats Arena, which was later renamed as Time Warner Cable Arena.
The Carolinas would not have a dedicated regional sports network focused on the region until 2008, when Fox Sports South created Fox Sports Carolinas as a regional subfeed.
Sports television networks in the United States
Defunct local cable stations in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 2004
2004 establishments in North Carolina
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2005
2005 disestablishments in North Carolina
Forme
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Paramount%20Network
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The following is a list of programs that have aired on Paramount Network, an American pay television channel owned by the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global.
Original programming
Current original programming
Drama
Unscripted
Reality
Former original programming
Scripted
Docuseries
Unscripted
Reality
Sports
Original special programming
I Am Paul Walker (August 11, 2018)
I Am Patrick Swayze (August 18, 2019)
Upcoming original programming
Untitled Yellowstone sequel series (December 2023)
6666 (2023)
Syndicated programming
Current
Two and a Half Men (2018–present)
The Office (2019–present)
NCIS (2021–present)
Law & Order (2023–present)
Former
American Ninja Warrior (2018)
Friends (2018–2019)
M*A*S*H (2018)
Mom (2018–2022)
Roseanne (2018)
America's Most Musical Family (2019)
The King of Queens (2019–2020)
The New Adventures of Old Christine (2019)
Yes, Dear (2019)
Without a Trace (2020)
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (2021)
South Park (2022)
See also
List of programs broadcast by Spike
Notes
References
External links
Paramount
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callie%20Thorne
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Callie Thorne is an American actress known for her role as Dr. Dani Santino on the USA Network series Necessary Roughness. She is also known for past work such as her roles on Homicide: Life on the Street as Detective Laura Ballard, a role she held for two seasons, and the movie Homicide: The Movie, as well as for playing Sheila Keefe on Rescue Me and Elena McNulty in The Wire.
Life and career
Thorne was born in Boston, Massachusetts of Armenian and English descent. She studied theater and dramatic literature at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts and at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York City.
In addition to Rescue Me, Thorne has made guest appearances on television series such as ER (2005–2006); Law & Order: Criminal Intent, episode "Silver Lining", (2004); Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2003–2019); The Wire (2002–2008); Prison Break (2006); Royal Pains (2009); White Collar (2009); Burn Notice (2009–2010); Californication (2011); and Elementary (2012) among others.
In 1996, Thorne co-starred in the romantic comedy Ed's Next Move. In 1997 and 1998, she appeared as Det. Laura Ballard on the television series Homicide: Life on the Street and its subsequent TV movie. She has also had many small roles in film and TV movies and starred in the 1998 film, Chocolate for Breakfast.
She was the lead in the USA Network series Necessary Roughness, which premiered on June 29, 2011. She received a Golden Globe nomination for "Best Actress" for her role. The series remained on the air for three seasons. In 2012, she won Outstanding Female Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama Series at the Gracie Allen Awards for her role.
Thorne has also done work on stage, such as in the off-Broadway play The Country Club (1999), with Cynthia Nixon. Additionally, she appeared with Eric Bogosian and Sam Rockwell in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (2005), directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman. In 2015 she was set to portray Emme Haladjian in a TNT horror series entitled Breed.
Thorne portrayed Captain Nancy Santiani on the NBC police procedural drama The Mysteries of Laura. She left The Mysteries of Laura in 2016.
In a recurring role on NCIS: New Orleans she portrayed a nemesis of character Dwayne Pride.
Filmography
Film
TV
References
External links
Actresses from Boston
American film actresses
American people of Armenian descent
American people of English descent
American television actresses
Living people
People from Sudbury, Massachusetts
Wheaton College (Massachusetts) alumni
21st-century American actresses
20th-century American actresses
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware%20Workstation%20Player
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VMware Workstation Player, formerly VMware Player, is a virtualization software package for x64 computers running Microsoft Windows or Linux, supplied free of charge by VMware, Inc. VMware Player can run existing virtual appliances and create its own virtual machines (which require that an operating system be installed to be functional). It uses the same virtualization core as VMware Workstation, a similar program with more features, which is not free of charge. VMware Player is available for personal non-commercial use, or for distribution or other use by written agreement. VMware, Inc. does not formally support Player, but there is an active community website for discussing and resolving issues, as well as a knowledge base.
The free VMware Player was distinct from VMware Workstation until Player v7, Workstation v11. In 2015 the two packages were combined as VMware Workstation 12, with a free for non-commercial use Player version which, on purchase of a license code, either became the higher-specification VMware Workstation Pro, or allowed commercial use of Player.
Features
VMware claimed in 2011 that the Player offered better graphics, faster performance, and tighter integration for running Windows XP under Windows Vista or Windows 7 than Microsoft's Windows XP Mode running on Windows Virtual PC, which is free of charge for all purposes.
Versions earlier than 3 of VMware Player were unable to create virtual machines (VMs), which had to be created by an application with the capability, or created manually by statements stored in a text file with extension ".vmx"; later versions can create VMs. The features of Workstation not available in Player are "developer-centric features such as Teams, multiple Snapshots and Clones, and Virtual Rights Management features for end-point security", and support by VMware. Player allows a complete virtual machine to be copied at any time by copying a directory; while not a fully featured snapshot facility, this allows a copy of a machine in a particular state to be stored, and reverted to later if desired. By default changes (including proxy settings, passwords, bookmarks, installed software and malware) made in a VM are saved when it is shut down, but the .vmx configuration file can easily be edited to autorevert on shutdown, so that all changes are discarded.
VMware Player is also supplied with the VMware Workstation distribution, for use in installations where not all client users are licensed to use the full VMware Workstation. In an environment where some machines without VMware Workstation licences run VMware Player, a virtual machine created by Workstation can be distributed to computers running Player without paying for additional Workstation licenses if not used commercially.
Version history
Resources
Many ready-made virtual machines (VMs) which run on VMware Player, Workstation, and other virtualization software are available for specific purposes, either for purchase or free of charge. For exam
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janno%20Gibbs
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Janno Ronaldo Ilagan Gibbs (born September 16, 1969) is a Filipino singer-songwriter, actor, and comedian in the Philippines. He was a regular host of GMA Network television shows SOP Rules, Nuts Entertainment, Eat Bulaga!, Kakasa Ka Ba Sa Grade 5?, Power of 10, Party Pilipinas and Sunday All Stars.
Early career
Gibbs started out in 1986 as one of the members of the teen variety show That's Entertainment on GMA Network. Gibbs then played some minor film roles for Viva Films. He was co-host of the TV show "Small Brothers" in 1990. Gibbs is also known as "Late", "Mokong" and "Philippine's King of Soul".
Television career
Gibbs is known for his role in the '90s sitcom Ober Da Bakod and Beh Bote Nga, both with Anjo Yllana. Gibbs also played the character Geron Agular in Codename: Asero which was aired in 2008. In 2001, Gibbs hired as a co-host of the longest-running noontime variety show in the Philippines Eat Bulaga! until 2007 due to his late appearance in the show.
Gibbs has several television shows like Eat Bulaga!, SOP, Party Pilipinas, Sunday All Stars, Nuts Entertainment, Ober Da Bakod and Beh Bote Nga. Gibbs also hosted a show Kakasa Ka Ba Sa Grade 5?, the Filipino version of Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? from 2007 to 2009.
Gibbs moved to TV5 after being with GMA Network for 30 years. He is one of the hosts of TV5's game and musical variety show Happy Truck ng Bayan. In 2017, Gibbs appeared once again in his former network, GMA Network, through Meant to Be.
Later in the year, he appeared on some shows of ABS-CBN such as The Voice Teens and on the Magpasikat 2017 segment on It's Showtime, as one of the "hurados" along with Director Rory B. Quintos, actress Ina Raymundo, journalist Marc Logan, and Philippines' Diamond Star Maricel Soriano.
Gibbs returns to Kapamilya Network in 2018 following the returning also of his SOP colleagues Regine Velasquez and Jaya, and his also long time best friend Ogie Alcasid.
Gibbs moves to Net 25 for his comedy variety show Happy Time, with co hosts fellow comedian Kit Kat & comedian and long time best friend and former dabarkads host and former Parañaque Vice Mayor Anjo Yllana, and also marking their returning duo of Janno-Anjo Team since their last project together was a comedy gag show Nuts Entertainment in 2003 on GMA 7, Happy Time was premiered last August 2020 exclusively aired on NET 25 (an Iglesia Ni Cristo TV Network).
Film career
His first film was Kalabog en Bosyo Strike Again released in 1986 which stars comedy king Dolphy Quizon, and Panchito Alba, then his very first drama movie Payaso with Master Showman German "Kuya Germs" Moreno the same year in 1986, followed by his first VIVA Films movie, Puto with his co-star former Q.C. Mayor Herbert Bautista, Mia Pratts, Gelli De Belen, his real life wife Bing Loyzaga-Gibbs and Panchito Alba the comedy film was released in 1987. his first Regal Entertainment movie was Stupid Cupid a romantic comedy movie was released in 1988.
His following film
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagine%20Publishing
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Imagine Publishing was a UK-based magazine publisher, which published a number of video games, computing, creative and lifestyle magazines.
It was founded on 14 May 2005 with private funds by Damian Butt, Steven Boyd and Mark Kendrick, all were former directors of Paragon Publishing, and launched with a core set of six gaming and creative computing titles in the first 6 months of trading. It was taken over by Future plc on 21 October 2016.
In October 2005, it had acquired the only retro games magazine Retro Gamer, after its original publisher, Live Publishing went bankrupt. Early in 2006, it further acquired the rights to publish a considerable number of titles including gamesTM, Play, PowerStation, X360, Digital Photographer and iCreate, from the old Paragon Publishing stable of magazines when owner Highbury House Communications went into liquidation, following Future Publishing's withdrawal of its offer to buy the company, due to threats of a monopoly-investigation by the United Kingdom Competition Commission.
In May 2006, Imagine launched its first bookazines, initially focusing on technology content for Photoshop and Mac. This portfolio would become one of Imagine's core strengths, with worldwide distribution, notably in the US and Australia.
In 2007 Imagine launched SciFiNow, the Official Corel Painter Magazine, HD Review and Total PC Gaming.
Total 911 was acquired from 9 Publishing in 2008, and was purchased to demonstrate that Imagine's efficient publishing model could be applied to any market, not just technology.
2009 saw the company's most significant and successful new magazine launch - How It Works, which quickly became Imagine's flagship title and paved the way for the creation of a whole knowledge division. How It Works was the brainchild of CD Mark Kendrick, whose love of 70s Ladybird books spawned a desire to create a lavishly illustrated, simple-to-understand new educational magazine for families.
Linux User & Developer was acquired in 2009. 3D Artist was launched into the niche CGI magazine market. Imagine's main videogames website NowGamer.com went live in 2009 also.
In partnership with PixelMags, Imagine became the second publisher to migrate its entire portfolio as digital editions on the iPad/iPhone for the US launch in March 2010.
Imagine launched the world's third title for the Android OS - Android Magazine in 2011, following successful bookazine tests of this topic.
2011 also saw Imagine embrace digital publishing further by giving all employees a free iPad, or cash alternative.
In 2012 Imagine expanded its knowledge magazine division with new launch All About Space, followed in 2013 with All About History and World of Animals. A new digital editions publishing platform - Martini - went live in this year, with all Imagine titles migrating onto this bespoke platform, developed in partnership with Bournemouth-based tech company 3SidedCube.
Imagine was featured in the Sunday Times Profit Track 100 lists in 2013 a
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishbrain
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Fishbrain is a mobile app and online platform for anglers that provides map-based tools, social networking features, fishing forecasts, fishing forecasts including weather, lunar cycles, tidal charts, map functionality, predicted fish activity, previous user-catches, analysis of species behavior, and data-backed recommendations on fishing gear. Fishbrain is used by anglers to find new spots to fish and see exact catch locations on maps, which include depth information and user-generated tips and ratings.
In 2019, Fishbrain added a marketplace where anglers can buy fishing gear. This marketplace is offered online and in-app and features gear recommendations based on real-world catch data. This allows anglers to see which gear is best for catching specific species, or for specific fishing tactics.
The platform has a user base of over 11 million users, allowing it to achieve access to a variety of data on species, migratory patterns, and more. Fishbrain has worked with governmental agencies to help identify endangered fish species and how climate is impacting behavioral patterns. The company has promoted sustainable fishing by promoting a catch-and-release approach, as well as encouraging users to clean up and care for their local waterways.
Fishbrain was created by Jens Persson and Johan Attby, and launched in 2010 as a free mobile app, and has expanded to include utility functions for recreational fishing with some of its features available with a subscription. The Fishbrain app is downloadable from the App Store and Google Play, and has been made available for iPhone, iPad, and Android devices.
References
External links
2010 software
Android (operating system) software
Internet properties established in 2010
IOS software
Photo software
Image-sharing websites
Swedish social networking websites
Mobile software
Proprietary cross-platform software
Swedish brands
Companies based in Stockholm
Software companies of Sweden
Angling
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20photo%20frame
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A digital photo frame (also called a digital media frame) is a picture frame that displays digital photos without the need of a computer or printer. The introduction of digital photo frames predates tablet computers, which can serve the same purpose in some situations; however, digital photo frames are generally designed specifically for the stationary, aesthetic display of photographs and therefore usually provide a nicer-looking frame and a power system designed for continuous use.
Digital photo frames come in a variety of different shapes and sizes with a range of features. Some may even play videos as well as display photographs. Owners can choose a digital photo frame that utilizes a WiFi connection or not, comes with cloud storage, and/or USB and SD card hub.
Features
Digital photo frames range in size from tiny keychain-sized units to large wall-mounted frames spanning several feet. The most common sizes range from to . Some digital photo frames can only display JPEG pictures. Most digital photo frames display the photos as a slideshow and usually with an adjustable time interval. They may also be able to send photos to a printer, or have hybrid features. Examples are the Sony S-Frame F800, that has an integrated printer on its back, or the Epson PictureMate Show.
Digital photo frames typically allow the display of pictures directly from a camera's memory card, and may provide internal memory storage. Some allow users to upload pictures to the frame's memory via a USB connection, or wirelessly via Bluetooth technology. Others include support for wireless (802.11) connections or use cellular technology to transfer and share files. Some frames allow photos to be shared from a frame to another.
Certain frames provide specific application support such as loading images over the Internet from RSS feeds, photo sharing sites such as Flickr, Picasa and from e-mail.
Built-in speakers are common for playing video content with sound, and many frames also feature remote controls. Battery-operated units are also available for portable use.
A new generation of frame companies, such as Meural, is emerging that combines larger formats, built-in access to artistic content, and innovative control mechanisms.
Aspect ratio
The aspect ratio of the frames can vary. Common aspect ratios include: 4:3, 3:2 and 16:9. (Sometimes 16:9 frames are actually 15:9) Depending on the model and features, images which do not exactly fit the aspect ratio of the frame may be cropped, stretched, or shrunk to fit. This could result in, respectively, images that are missing content, distorted, or which have blank space around them. This can be avoided by buying a frame with an aspect ratio that exactly matches the camera, or editing photos to the target aspect ratio before transferring them to the frame.
Security issues
In February 2008, a number of digital photo frames, such as the Insignia brand digital frames manufactured in China, were found to be carrying a Trojan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure%20drop
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Pressure drop (often abbreviated as "dP" or "ΔP") is defined as the difference in total pressure between two points of a fluid carrying network. A pressure drop occurs when frictional forces, caused by the resistance to flow, act on a fluid as it flows through a conduit (such as a channel, pipe, or tube). This friction converts some of the fluid’s hydraulic energy to thermal energy (i.e., internal energy). Since the thermal energy cannot be converted back to hydraulic energy, the fluid experiences a drop in pressure, as is required by conservation of energy.
The main determinants of resistance to fluid flow are fluid velocity through the pipe and fluid viscosity. Pressure drop increases proportionally to the frictional shear forces within the piping network. A piping network containing a high relative roughness rating as well as many pipe fittings and joints, tube convergence, divergence, turns, surface roughness, and other physical properties will affect the pressure drop. High flow velocities or high fluid viscosities result in a larger pressure drop across a pipe section, valve, or elbow joint. Low velocity will result in less (or no) pressure drop. The fluid may also be biphasic as in pneumatic conveying with a gas and a solid; in this case, the friction of the solid must also be taken into consideration for calculating the pressure drop.
Applications
Fluid in a system will always flow from a region of higher pressure to a region of lower pressure, assuming it has a path to do so. All things being equal, a higher pressure drop will lead to a higher flow (except in cases of choked flow).
The pressure drop of a given system will determine the amount of energy needed to convey fluid through that system. For example, a larger pump could be required to move a set amount of water through smaller-diameter pipes (with higher velocity and thus higher pressure drop) as compared to a system with larger-diameter pipes (with lower velocity and thus lower pressure drop).
Calculation of pressure drop
Pressure drop is related inversely to pipe diameter to the fifth power. For example, halving a pipe's diameter would increase the pressure drop by a factor of (e.g. from 2 psi to 64 psi), assuming no change in flow.
Pressure drop in piping is directly proportional to the length of the piping—for example, a pipe with twice the length will have twice the pressure drop, given the same flow rate. Piping fittings (such as elbow and tee joints) generally lead to greater pressure drop than straight pipe. As such, a number of correlations have been developed to calculate equivalent length of fittings.
Certain valves are provided with an associated flow coefficient, commonly known as or . The flow coefficient relates pressure drop, flow rate, and specific gravity for a given valve.
Many empirical calculations exist for calculation of pressure drop, including:
Darcy–Weisbach equation, to calculate pressure drop in a pipe
Hagen–Poiseuille equation
See also
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Observation%20Research%20Initiative%20in%20Alpine%20Environments
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The Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments (GLORIA) established an international long-term monitoring program and site-based network dealing with high-mountain vegetation and its biological diversity. Its purpose is the in-situ observation and comparative assessment of alpine biodiversity patterns under the impact of accelerating anthropogenic climate change. GLORIA involves sets of permanent plots established at pristine or near-natural sites set aside and monitored to observe the migration of plant species due to climate change. Founded in 2001, the program has grown to more than 120 sites (status January 2016) around the world, distributed from the poles to the tropics."
History
The idea to monitor alpine plant communities in the context of anthropogenic climate and global change was first discussed in 1996 during a workshop of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme in Kathmandu. In consequence, the GLORIA monitoring approach was initiated by the Austrian ecologists Georg Grabherr, Michael Gottfried and Harald Pauli at the turn of the century, by running experiments in alpine habitats to determine what a good sample method might be. In 2001, GLORIA-Europe was launched. This major pilot project, with 18 sites in 13 different European nations, was a way to test out the idea before going worldwide. Since the spring of 2004, GLORIA has been successively expanding into other regions and across all major climate zones of the world.
Methods and structure
Comparability, simplicity and economy were the main considerations in designing GLORIA's standard recording design and method (Multi-Summit Approach), in order to build a world-wide network of operable sites. In each study region (target region) a suite of four monitoring locations in summit areas at different altitudes represents an elevation gradient from the treeline ecotone to the upper limits of plant life. At each location, vascular plant species and abundances are to be recorded in standardized permanent plots of different size at intervals of 5 to 10 years, along with continuous measurements of soil temperature. Several supplementary approaches, e.g., focusing on other organism groups, soil ecology or on socio-ecological features, are applied or are under development in some study regions. The network consists of dedicated ecologists and biologists from over hundred research institutions and many protected area authorities, distributed over six continents and it cooperates with other international efforts such as the Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment of the Future Earth programme and the LTSER network. GLORIA's head office and central data base is affiliated to at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research) and the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (Center for Global Change and Sustainability), Austria.
Recent findings
On a pan-European scale, repeated surveys showed widespread thermo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airwave%20Solutions
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Airwave Solutions Ltd. is a British mobile communication company that operates the Airwave network, a mobile communications network used by Great Britain's emergency services. The Airwave network is based on the specialist Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) specification. Airwave was acquired by Motorola Solutions in February 2016 and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary.
The Airwave network is due to be replaced by the LTE-based Emergency Services Network in 2026.
History
Airwave was established in 2000 by BT as BT Airwave. BT Airwave along with BT Quadrant secured a Public Private Partnership (PPP) contract worth £2.5bn to supply of Professional Mobile Radio (PMR) communications to the police and other ‘blue light’ services.
BT Airwave was part of the BT Wireless division which was spun off from BT Group in 2002 to ultimately become part of
O2 and became Airwave O2 Limited, commonly known as O2 Airwave.
In April 2007, Airwave was acquired by two Macquarie Group investment funds, Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund II (MEIF II) and Macquarie CPPIB Communications Pty Limited, for £1.9 billion.
On 3 December 2015 the company was acquired by Motorola Solutions for £817million. Some of the payment was deferred to the following year and Macquarie were supporting the transaction.
On 19 February 2016 Motorola Solutions announced it completed its acquisition of Airwave,
Airwave Network
Performance during 2011 England riots
During the 2011 England riots, several police officers experienced "significant difficulties" with the Airwave equipment and were forced to use their own personal mobile phones to coordinate strategy during the riots. The Police Federation review speaks of "significant local technical difficulties" and a "significant communications failure," which was quoted in the Guardian newspaper.
However, the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) responded that the network did manage to cover all 16,000 officers and that "[s]ome officers had to wait a few seconds for their calls to get through, but fundamentally, the network proved to be most resilient."
Performance during the 2012 Summer Olympics
On 27 January 2009, the organizing committee for the 2012 Summer Olympics confirmed that Airwave would provide private radio service for all venues during the Games using its Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) but with a new and independent communications infrastructure separate from the public safety infrastructure.
The PMR network, named Apollo, provided voice communications for over 18,000 staff and volunteers from the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) during the 2012 Games.
Replacement
In April 2014, the government announced the Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme (ESMCP) to migrate emergency services to a 4G based network to be called the Emergency Services Network (ESN). One of the intentions of this program is to switch from the private Airwave network, to an existi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova%20M%20Radio
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Nova M Radio, later known as On Second Thought, was a radio syndication service providing progressive talk programming. Founded as Nova M Radio by Sheldon and Anita Drobny in 2006, its stated purpose was to purchase, own, and operate underperforming radio stations in small and medium-sized markets. These stations would then broadcast progressive talk radio content, particularly programming from their own network, as well as from Air America Radio and other organizations. On February 18, 2009, the network was bought out by Mike Newcomb, a former on-air personality and business partner with the Drobnys; it was Newcomb who gave the company its final name.
On Second Thought had planned on using 1190 Nova M KNUV Phoenix as its flagship station, however on March 2, 2009, KNUV's doors were reported padlocked closed, and on March 5, 2009 KNUV returned to a Spanish-language news/talk/music format. Since the network's operations were based at the studios, the network was shut down.
History
In late March 2006, Nova M entered into a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Continental Broadcasting, owner of KPHX in Phoenix, Arizona, bringing the progressive talk programming formerly carried (since the fall of 2004) by KXXT (1010 kHz AM) with them.
On October 18 of the same year, following the Chapter 11 filing by Air America, Nova M announced that it would form its own radio network featuring personalities including Newcomb, Mike Malloy, and John Zogby. The eventual Nova M lineup had only two weekday hosts on the full network, Malloy and Randi Rhodes, and one Sunday program featuring Herb "Sarge" Phelps and King Daevid MacKenzie that aired on the Phoenix station and WQRZ-LP in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. KPHX served as the flagship of Nova M's new network until the end of 2008. Network General Manager, Arthur Mobley, facilitated the purchase of KNUV in order to save the network before the LMA with KPHX was due to terminate. Mobley coordinated the move to KNUV 1190 AM and the network was briefly simulcast on KNUV. When the LMA ended with KPHX, the station switched to an Adult standards music format and KNUV became the new Nova M flagship station on January 1, 2009.
The company operated KDXE in Little Rock, Arkansas, under a similar agreement until early 2007. Nova M originally planned to lease stations in other cities, but later, the Drobnys urged local groups to organize to purchase or lease stations for progressive talk radio.
Rhodes' last show on Nova M before an abrupt break was February 3, 2009. Political commentator and one-time Congressional candidate Nancy Skinner hosted the show in Rhodes' absence beginning February 5. Following this, Anita Drobny of Nova M Radio posted a message on the Nova M site saying that they were unable to disclose details of what is going on due to Rhodes' having complete control of the show, and that Rhodes "now has to make her decisions as to what she must do with her career". Mrs. Drobny has also said, "People are
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVP2
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TVP2 (TVP Dwa, Program II Telewizji Polskiej, "Dwójka") is a Polish public mainstream TV channel operated by TVP. Launched in October 1970, its varied line-up contains a variety of programming (documentary, history, talk-shows, game-shows) although it focuses on entertainment: stand up comedy, comic shows, cabaret, and themed talk shows (for example on travel or foreign cultures).
History
On October 2, 1970, when the second program of Telewizja Polska was broadcast, the chairman of the Radio Committee, Włodzimierz Sokorski, announced during a ceremonial speech that the launch of the new program was an expression of "concern for the nation's education and culture". The channel was initially an educational network that broadcast mainly science and education programs, including language learning; that is why "Dwójka" also broadcast foreign films in the original version in slots such as Kino wersji oryginalnej (Movies in their original version) or the slightly later Kino poliglotów (Films for Polyglots). It was intended to promote the achievements of theater, film and good entertainment.
The network also broadcast program blocks devoted to the countries of "people's democracy", such as Czechoslovakia Day on TP, Yugoslavia Day on TVP, where documentaries and fictional films as well as entertainment programs from these countries were broadcast, but some Western countries were also presented (such as French Day on TVP, Austrian Day on TVP).
After the final abolition of martial law in 1983 and the return to regular broadcasting, the concept of the network began to be implemented as a channel with its own, clearer face, which could significantly diversify the programming offer. At the beginning, the focus was mainly on documentary series about outstanding artists, in particular about writers (the Great Writers series), travel series and series devoted to the masterpieces of cinematography, both included in author's series (such as films by Woody Allen, Ingmar Bergman) and in series thematic (such as Latin American Cinema).
When Zbigniew Napierała became the director of the network, more classical music programs appeared on the air, which then took up as much as 11% of airtime. The channel gained a new "face" when Józef Węgrzyn became the director, who decided to introduce more entertainment and journalistic programs (his idea was, among others, Panorama dnia), an original announcer studio and a completely new team of announcers - presenters. At that time, they made their debut in Dwójka, among others Iwona Kubicz, Jolanta Fajkowska or Grażyna Torbicka. More and more interesting programs were broadcast, and the films were always presented in such a way that their broadcasting time did not coincide with the films on TP1.
Nowadays, TVP2 is a television channel with a very diverse line-up, however, despite the programming diversity, in recent years, the network was dominated by entertainment, but the line-up also includes various cultural programs.
TVP
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Storm%20%28computing%29
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Red Storm is a supercomputer architecture designed for the US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration Advanced Simulation and Computing Program. Cray, Inc developed it based on the contracted architectural specifications provided by Sandia National Laboratories. The architecture was later commercially produced as the
Cray XT3.
Red Storm is a partitioned, space shared, tightly coupled, massively parallel processing machine with a high performance 3D mesh network. The processors are commodity AMD Opteron CPUs with off-the-shelf memory DIMMs. The NIC/router combination, called SeaStar, is the only custom ASIC component in the system and uses a PowerPC 440 based core. When deployed in 2005, Red Storm’s initial configuration consisted of 10,880 single-core 2.0 GHz Opterons, of which 10,368 were dedicated for scientific calculations. The remaining 512 Opterons were used to service the computations and also provide the user interface to the system and run a version of Linux. This initial installation consisted of 140 cabinets, taking up of floor space.
The Red Storm supercomputer was designed to be highly scalable from a single cabinet to hundreds of cabinets and has been scaled-up twice. In 2006 the system was upgraded to 2.4 GHz Dual-Core Opterons. An additional fifth row of computer cabinets were also brought online resulting in over 26,000 processor cores. This resulted in a peak performance of 124.4 teraflops, or 101.4 running the Linpack benchmark.
A second major upgrade in 2008 introduced Cray XT4 technology: Quad-core Opteron processors and an increase in memory to 2 GB per core. This resulted in a peak theoretical performance of 284 teraflops.
Top500 performance ranking for Red Storm after each upgrade:
November 2005: Rank 6 (36.19 TFLOPS)
November 2006: Rank 2 (101.4 TFLOPS)
November 2008: Rank 9 (204.2 TFLOPS)
Red Storm is intended for capability computing. That is, a single application can be run on the entire system. This is in contrast to cluster-style capacity computing, in which portions of a cluster are assigned to run different applications. The performance of the memory subsystem, the processor, and the network must be in proper balance to achieve adequate application progress across the entire machine. System software plays a key role as well. The Portals network programming API is used to ensure inter-processor communication can scale as large as the entire system, and has been used on many different supercomputers, including the Intel Teraflops and Paragon. The compute processors use a custom lightweight kernel operating system named Catamount, which is based on the operating system of ASCI Red called "Cougar". A userspace implementation of the Lustre file system, named liblustre, was ported to the Catamount environment using the libsysio library to provide POSIX-like semantics. This filesystem client ran in the single-threaded Catamount environment without interrupts, and only serviced IO requests
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20Mar%C3%ADa%20C%C3%B3rdova
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José María Córdova Muñoz, also known as the "Hero of Ayacucho", was a General of the Colombian army during the Independence War of Colombia, Perú, and Bolivia from Spain.
Biographic data
Córdova was born in Concepción, Antioquia on September 8, 1799. He died in Santuario, Antioquia, on October 17, 1829.
Military career
Córdova's military career began in 1814, when he joined the newly formed Engineer Corps in the province of Antioquia, which had just been established by Francisco José de Caldas in Medellín. Cordova's interest in the military and the revolutionary cause had been stoked by the Colombian declaration of independence, as well as Antioquia's own declaration of independence as the "Republic of Antioquia" or the "Free and Sovereign State of Antioquia." In 1815, Córdova then also enrolled in the revolutionary army and was sent to Tunja. There he was appointed second lieutenant and fought under the French Colonel Emanuel Roergas Serviez, who became his mentor. Córdova's battalion assisted in the victory of the battle of “Río Palo” and Cordova himself rose to the rank of Lieutenant, when he was only 16 years old
Once the counter offensive by the Spanish troops began in 1815, Serviez was appointed as commander in chief of the Army, while Córdova continued to serve under him. In 1816, Serviez's forces, including Córdova's battalion, were defeated and forced to retreat to the Llanos Orientales. There, General Serviez was assassinated, presumably under orders from José Antonio Páez. Córdova himself was court martialed for desertion, but avoided execution, and was subsequently restored to his rank. He was then given a command post before Simón Bolívar's arrival to Venezuela in 1816. Córdova was then sent to the Guayana Region in 1817, and Bolivar later incorporated him in his senior staff.
In 1819, soon after the Battle of Boyacá, General Bolívar promoted Córdova to the rank of General and commissioned him to expel the Spanish forces from the province of Antioquia. The Spanish army of General Barreiro had been demolished at Boyacá, and Córdova’s mission was to prevent the regrouping of the Spanish forces in northern Colombia. Córdova embarked on his mission with 190 soldiers, arriving in Rionegro on August 25 and in Medellín on August 30.
Once there, Córdova became the Military Chief of Antioquia, while José Manuel Restrepo was named as the Civilian Chief in charge of the public administration. Córdova organized a small army of 700 volunteers, and on February 12, 1820, he defeated the Spanish army of General Warleta at the “Battle of Chorros Blancos”, in Yarumal, Antioquia. This victory marked the end of the presence of Spanish troops in Antioquia.
Having completed his mission in Antioquia, Córdova then took part in the battle for Cartagena in 1821, commanding his own Antioquia Battalion. After that, Córdova was order by Bolivar to join the Southern Campaign and headed to Ecuador, where he participated with distinction in the Battle o
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20max%20plus%20beta%20min%20algorithm
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The alpha max plus beta min algorithm is a high-speed approximation of the square root of the sum of two squares. The square root of the sum of two squares, also known as Pythagorean addition, is a useful function, because it finds the hypotenuse of a right triangle given the two side lengths, the norm of a 2-D vector, or the magnitude of a complex number given the real and imaginary parts.
The algorithm avoids performing the square and square-root operations, instead using simple operations such as comparison, multiplication, and addition. Some choices of the α and β parameters of the algorithm allow the multiplication operation to be reduced to a simple shift of binary digits that is particularly well suited to implementation in high-speed digital circuitry.
The approximation is expressed as
where is the maximum absolute value of a and b, and is the minimum absolute value of a and b.
For the closest approximation, the optimum values for and are and , giving a maximum error of 3.96%.
Improvements
When , becomes smaller than (which is geometrically impossible) near the axes where is near 0.
This can be remedied by replacing the result with whenever that is greater, essentially splitting the line into two different segments.
Depending on the hardware, this improvement can be almost free.
Using this improvement changes which parameter values are optimal, because they no longer need a close match for the entire interval. A lower and higher can therefore increase precision further.
Increasing precision: When splitting the line in two like this one could improve precision even more by replacing the first segment by a better estimate than , and adjust and accordingly.
Beware however, that a non-zero would require at least one extra addition and some bit-shifts (or a multiplication), probably nearly doubling the cost and, depending on the hardware, possibly defeat the purpose of using an approximation in the first place.
See also
Hypot, a precise function or algorithm that is also safe against overflow and underflow.
References
Lyons, Richard G. Understanding Digital Signal Processing, section 13.2. Prentice Hall, 2004 .
Griffin, Grant. DSP Trick: Magnitude Estimator.
External links
Approximation algorithms
Root-finding algorithms
Pythagorean theorem
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path%20MTU%20Discovery
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Path MTU Discovery (PMTUD) is a standardized technique in computer networking for determining the maximum transmission unit (MTU) size on the network path between two Internet Protocol (IP) hosts, usually with the goal of avoiding IP fragmentation. PMTUD was originally intended for routers in Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4). However, all modern operating systems use it on endpoints. In IPv6, this function has been explicitly delegated to the end points of a communications session.
As an extension to the standard path MTU discovery, a technique called Packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery works without support from ICMP.
Implementation
For IPv4 packets, Path MTU Discovery works by setting the Don't Fragment (DF) flag bit in the IP headers of outgoing packets. Then, any device along the path whose MTU is smaller than the packet will drop it, and send back an Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) Fragmentation Needed (Type 3, Code 4) message containing its MTU, allowing the source host to reduce its path MTU appropriately. The process is repeated until the MTU is small enough to traverse the entire path without fragmentation.
As IPv6 routers do not fragment packets, there is no Don't Fragment option in the IPv6 header. For IPv6, Path MTU Discovery works by initially assuming the path MTU is the same as the MTU on the link layer interface where the traffic originates. Then, similar to IPv4, any device along the path whose MTU is smaller than the packet will drop the packet and send back an ICMPv6 Packet Too Big (Type 2) message containing its MTU, allowing the source host to reduce its path MTU appropriately. The process is repeated until the MTU is small enough to traverse the entire path without fragmentation.
If the path MTU changes after the connection is set up and becomes lower than the previously determined path MTU, the first large packet will cause an ICMP error and the new, lower path MTU will be found. If the path changes and the new path MTU is larger, the source will not learn about the increase, because all routers along the new path will be capable of relaying all packets that the source sends using the originally determined, lower path MTU.
Problems
Many network security devices block all ICMP messages for perceived security benefits, including the errors that are necessary for the proper operation of PMTUD. This can result in connections that complete the TCP three-way handshake correctly, but then hang when data are transferred. This state is referred to as a black hole connection.
Some implementations of PMTUD attempt to prevent this problem by inferring that large payload packets have been dropped due to MTU rather than because of link congestion. However, in order for the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) to operate most efficiently, ICMP Unreachable messages (type 3) should be permitted. A robust method for PMTUD that relies on TCP or another protocol to probe the path with progressively larger packets has be
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Advanced%20Computing%20Center
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The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas at Austin, United States, is an advanced computing research center that is based on comprehensive advanced computing resources and supports services to researchers in Texas and across the U.S. The mission of TACC is to enable discoveries that advance science and society through the application of advanced computing technologies. Specializing in high performance computing, scientific visualization, data analysis & storage systems, software, research & development and portal interfaces, TACC deploys and operates advanced computational infrastructure to enable the research activities of faculty, staff, and students of UT Austin. TACC also provides consulting, technical documentation, and training to support researchers who use these resources. TACC staff members conduct research and development in applications and algorithms, computing systems design/architecture, and programming tools and environments.
Founded in 2001, TACC is one of the centers of computational excellence in the United States. Through the National Science Foundation (NSF) Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) project, TACC’s resources and services are made available to the national academic research community. TACC is located on UT's J. J. Pickle Research Campus.
TACC collaborators include researchers in other UT Austin departments and centers, at Texas universities in the High Performance Computing Across Texas Consortium, and at other U.S. universities and government laboratories.
Projects
TACC research and development activities are supported by several federal programs, including:
NSF XSEDE (formerly Teragrid) Program
Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), XSEDE is a virtual system that scientists can use to interactively share computing resources, data, and expertise. XSEDE is the most powerful and robust collection of integrated advanced digital resources and services in the world.
TACC is one of the leading partners in the XSEDE project, whose resources include more than one petaflop of computing capability and more than 30 petabytes of online and archival data storage. As part of the project, TACC provides access to Ranger, Lonestar, Longhorn, Spur, and Ranch through XSEDE quarterly allocations. TACC staff members support XSEDE researchers nationwide, and perform research and development to make XSEDE more effective and impactful. The XSEDE partnership also includes: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Carnegie Mellon University/University of Pittsburgh, University of Texas at Austin, University of Tennessee Knoxville, University of Virginia, Shodor Education Foundation, Southeastern Universities Research Association, University of Chicago, University of California San Diego, Indiana University, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Purdue University, Cornell University, Ohio State University, University of California Berkeley, Rice University, and the National Ce
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS%20in%20the%20Caribbean
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The Caribbean is the second-most affected region in the world in terms of HIV prevalence rates. Based on 2009 data, about 1.0 percent of the adult population (240,000 people) is living with the disease, which is higher than any other region except Sub-Saharan Africa. Several factors influence this epidemic, including poverty, gender, sex tourism, and stigma. HIV incidence in the Caribbean declined 49% between 2001 and 2012. Different countries have employed a variety of responses to the disease, with a range of challenges and successes.
According to The World Factbook, the Bahamas has an HIV/AIDS prevalence rate of 3.3%, which is the highest rate outside of Africa.
Overview
Although the exact origin of the disease is unknown, the HIV epidemic in the Caribbean most likely began in the 1970s. The first reported AIDS case occurred in Jamaica in 1982, followed by eight cases among gay and bisexual men in Trinidad and Tobago. In the early days of the epidemic, more men were affected than women. By 1985, HIV/AIDS was becoming a general population issue and was no longer a disease solely of gay or bisexual men.
Contrary to popular belief, the primary mode of HIV transmission in the region is heterosexual sex. The number of new HIV infections among women became and continues to be higher than those among men. Currently, the Caribbean is the only area outside of Sub-Saharan Africa where women and girls outnumber men and boys living with HIV.
Prevalence
Among adults aged 15–44, AIDS is the leading cause of death. Between 2001 and 2009, new infections slightly declined. There is a large degree of variation of HIV prevalence between the 21 Caribbean countries. Currently, there are two countries where the national prevalence is over 2 percent, those being the Bahamas, and Belize.
In Jamaica and Haiti, the HIV rate is estimated to be about 1.8 percent. In Trinidad and Tobago the rate is 1.5 percent. In the region, the rate in Guyana and Suriname is between 1 and 1.1%. In Barbados and the Dominican Republic, the rate is 0.9% and 0.7% respectively. Cuba has the lowest rate, which is under 0.2 percent. The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Caribbean appears to have been overshadowed by the seemingly more severe problems in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and the countries with more active and highly visible activism.
Causes and spread
Social factors
A variety of social factors have perpetuated the spread and worsened the severity of HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean. Many persons are at increased risk of HIV infection because of their social vulnerability, arising from poverty, illiteracy or limited education, unemployment, gender inequity, and sexual orientation. HIV/AIDS can weaken the national education system, perpetuating the spread of the disease by hindering efforts to educate the public about the disease. Furthermore, a weak political response by the government can result in ineffective programs.
Public policies in some countries openly discriminate against HIV-positi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal%20hydride%20fuel%20cell
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Metal hydride fuel cells are a subclass of alkaline fuel cells that have been under research and development, as well as scaled up successfully in operating systems. A notable feature is their ability to chemically bond and store hydrogen within the fuel cell itself.
Characteristics
Metal hydride fuel cells have demonstrated the following characteristics:
The ability to be recharged with electrical energy (similar to NiMH batteries)
Operating at low temperatures (down to −20 °C)
Fast "cold start" properties
Ability to operate for limited periods of time with no external hydrogen fuel source, enabling "hot swapping" of fuel canisters
Performance
Electrode active areas of metal hydride fuel cells have been scaled up from 60 cm2 to 250 cm2, enabling systems to be scaled up to 500 Watts. The scaling up of electrode active areas also provided capabilities to develop higher power fuel cell stacks, each with 1500 Watts of power. Metal hydride fuel cells have achieved a current density of 250 mA/cm2. To test durability, fuel cell stacks were successfully operated for more than 7000 hours.
Operating systems and applications
During the earlier phases of product development, there was a focus on single fuel cells and fuel cell stacks composed of multiple cells. The target applications included critical backup power for military and commercial applications. The next phase was to design and build complete fuel cell systems that could be taken outside of the laboratory. Initial 50 Watt laboratory-based demonstration systems were integrated into 50 Watt portable systems with more robust packaging and interfacing. Additional developments in both the fuel cell stack and system integration enabled a 1.0 kW system, complete with an inverter and onboard hydrogen storage using metal hydride storage canisters, to be operated and demonstrated in public. Further developments in metal hydride fuel cell systems were pursued for the field power needs of soldiers, resulting in a prototype system meeting deployment requirements. In tandem with product development, there was also a focus on developing capabilities for manufacturing and testing. Metal hydride fuel cell systems have been integrated into microgrid systems at military bases for testing and evaluation. Despite challenges, the military maintains an active interest in fuel cells for a broad range of applications, including unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous underwater vehicle, light-duty trucks, buses, and wearable technology systems. Development of metal hydride fuel cell systems is continuing for military applications, with onboard hydrogen generation and fuel cells up to 5.0 kW.
See also
Glossary of fuel cell terms
Hydrogen technologies
References
External links
Fuel Cell & Hydrogen Energy Association
United States Department of Energy: Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Technologies Office
Fuel Cell Seminar and Energy Exposition
Fuel cells
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellme%20Networks
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Tellme Networks, Inc. was an American company founded in 1999 by Mike McCue and Angus Davis, which specialized in telephone-based applications. Its headquarters were in Mountain View, California.
Tellme Networks was acquired by Microsoft on March 14, 2007, for approximately $800 million; the deal closed in late April 2007. In 2006, Tellme's phone network processed more than 2 billion unique calls.
Tellme established an information number which provided time-of-day announcements, weather forecasts, brief news and sports summaries, business searches, stock market quotations, driving directions, and similar amenities. Operating by voice prompts and speech-recognition software, it was set up in 2000 as a loss-leader service to demonstrate the Tellme functionality to U.S. consumers. The voice of the Tellme service is Darby Bailey.
In early 2012, Microsoft divested itself of Tellme Networks' interactive voice response (IVR) service and the majority of its employees to 24/7 Inc. The service was moved to a non-toll-free number.
History
In April 1999, the Tellme founding team, consisting of Mike McCue, Angus Davis, Rod Brathwaite, Jim Fanning, Kyle Sims, Brad Porter, Michael Plitkins, Hadi Partovi, John Giannandrea, Andrew Volkmann, Anthony Accardi, Patrick McCormick, Danny Howard, Vicki Penrose, and Emil Michael assembled in Mountain View, California.
In 2000, Tellme announced a service that delivered content to telephones—a concept called voice portals. Early competitors included TelSurf Networks, BeVocal, Hey Anita, and Quack.com. Quack.com was founded in 1999 and acquired in September 2000 by America Online for its competing service, AOLbyPhone. At least ten additional competitors appeared in 2000 in various attempts to mimic the funding success of Tellme.
Tellme was also featured in the 2001 documentary Wild at Start. and was referenced in a 2000 Malcolm Gladwell article in The New Yorker about recruiting.
In 2008 the company debuted a feature especially for Christmas Eve; callers can hear recorded messages from Santa Claus. If called on Christmas Eve, Santa will say what state he is traveling over, and exactly what he is doing. In 2009 they added a service that allows you to receive messages from Santa a week early which explain what he is doing to prepare for Christmas.
At the onset of service, as a way to gain more users, they offered a free long-distance call feature called Phone Booth. Callers would call Tellme and were given 2 free minutes of long-distance call time to their desired phone number. That service was later stopped while other services persisted.
Services
Voice portal customers build Internet-powered, voice-enabled applications on the Tellme Network using Tellme Studio. Tellme Studio is a web-based VoiceXML development tool. The Tellme platform is based on open standards like VoiceXML, CCXML, and VoIP.
The Tellme Voice Portal which includes directory assistance used to be accessed by calling (800) 555-TELL (8355). Whe
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataLounge
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DataLounge (also styled as Datalounge and The Data Lounge) is an internet forum. Its core community of predominantly anonymous posters share news, opinions, gossip, personal histories, and political views from a gay perspective. Main focus is exposing the large number of gay celebs.
While forum guidelines nominally require posters to be respectful of others, much of the site's appeal revolves around its appreciation of wit, satire, and "pointless bitchery", as well as a 25-plus-year shared history and its resulting in-jokes.
DataLounge has approximately 6.5 million page views each month, according to its webmaster (). Mediapolis, a New York City interactive media company, created the site in May 1995.
History
DataLounge was launched by Mediapolis, Inc. in May 1995. During the site's early years, content included gay-oriented news, gossip, links to other sites/services, and editorial content, making it a gay web portal. Content contributors included New York drag queen Trudy and journalist Chris Barillas. DataLounge affiliated itself via the DataLounge Network with other gay-and-lesbian-oriented websites, including the dating site Edwina.com, the web guide Homorama, and Gay Health. A weekly email subscription was also offered to users.
By 2000, the site had evolved to encompass several discussion forums covering topics such as lesbian, religious, and sexual issues, along with a "Flames and Freaks" forum to house threads that site administrators determined to be disruptive to general forum discussion. Special-interest subforums for fans of The Lord of the Rings and U.S. daytime drama aficionados were created as well but subsequently closed. The most popular forum was the Gossip Forum, which dwarfed all others in both traffic and number of discussion threads created.
A portion of DataLounge, and the DataLounge Network's content, derived from the integration of some of the 1995–97 content of Out magazine's website, which closed in March 1997 (but subsequently reactivated) to focus on print content. Out.com users were redirected to DataLounge, and DataLounge administrators adopted Out.com's discussion forums, dating service, and weekly survey.
Site policies and technical changes
In 2003, DataLounge instituted a subscription service that blocked all advertising for a $12 annual fee. This fee was subsequently raised to $15 and then to the present price of $18.
In 2005, DataLounge underwent a major redesign. All forum topics were collapsed into one general discussion forum called "The DataLounge Forum", and all news content, most references to the other sites in the DataLounge Network, and other features were discontinued. Editorial commentary discussing events continued to appear on the site. Users were also given the option to control aspects of the site's layout, including filtration of political, gossip, and/or "Flames and Freaks" (troll) threads.
The 2005 redesign also brought a policy change that limited access to the DataLounge Forum duri
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In computer science, a deterministic acyclic finite state automaton (DAFSA),
also called a directed acyclic word graph (DAWG; though that name also refers to a related data structure that functions as a suffix index)
is a data structure that represents a set of strings, and allows for a query operation that tests whether a given string belongs to the set in time proportional to its length. Algorithms exist to construct and maintain such automata, while keeping them minimal.
A DAFSA is a special case of a finite state recognizer that takes the form of a directed acyclic graph with a single source vertex (a vertex with no incoming edges), in which each edge of the graph is labeled by a letter or symbol, and in which each vertex has at most one outgoing edge for each possible letter or symbol. The strings represented by the DAFSA are formed by the symbols on paths in the graph from the source vertex to any sink vertex (a vertex with no outgoing edges). In fact, a deterministic finite state automaton is acyclic if and only if it recognizes a finite set of strings.
Comparison to tries
By allowing the same vertices to be reached by multiple paths, a DAFSA may use significantly fewer vertices than the strongly related trie data structure. Consider, for example, the four English words "tap", "taps", "top", and "tops". A trie for those four words would have 12 vertices, one for each of the strings formed as a prefix of one of these words, or for one of the words followed by the end-of-string marker. However, a DAFSA can represent these same four words using only six vertices vi for 0 ≤ i ≤ 5, and the following edges: an edge from v0 to v1 labeled "t", two edges from v1 to v2 labeled "a" and "o", an edge from v2 to v3 labeled "p", an edge v3 to v4 labeled "s", and edges from v3 and v4 to v5 labeled with the end-of-string marker. There is a tradeoff between memory and functionality, because a standard DAFSA can tell you if a word exists within it, but it cannot point you to auxiliary information about that word, whereas a trie can.
The primary difference between DAFSA and trie is the elimination of suffix and infix redundancy in storing strings. The trie eliminates prefix redundancy since all common prefixes are shared between strings, such as between doctors and doctorate the doctor prefix is shared. In a DAFSA common suffixes are also shared, for words that have the same set of possible suffixes as each other. For dictionary sets of common English words, this translates into major memory usage reduction.
Because the terminal nodes of a DAFSA can be reached by multiple paths, a DAFSA cannot directly store auxiliary information relating to each path, e.g. a word's frequency in the English language. However, if for each node we store the number of unique paths through that point in the structure, we can use it to retrieve the index of a word, or a word given its index. The auxiliary information can then be stored in an array.
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyFlex
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Syflex is a cloth simulator for use in 3D computer graphics. Syflex is available for Maya, Softimage, Houdini and LightWave 3D.
References
External links
Homepage
Computer graphics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmagate
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WilmaGate is a collection of open-source tools for Authentication, Authorization and Accounting on an Open Access Network. It has been initially developed by the Computer Networks and Mobility Group at the University of Trento (Italy).
Its development has been part of the locally funded Wilma Project and is now being pursued by the Twelve Project under the name Uni-Fy. It is currently being used for wireless authentication at the Faculty of Science at the University of Trento and by the UniWireless network of Italian research groups participating in the Twelve Project.
Features
The system has been designed in order to separate the user authentication phase (which is usually performed by a possibly remote ISP) from internet access provided at the user's current location by a local carrier.
Therefore, a multiplicity of authentication providers and of access providers is envisioned. The WilmaGate system provides code for both purposes and for a variety of authentication methods. Its modular and object-oriented structure allows programmers to easily add plug-in code for new authentication or accounting protocols. See this article for details.
Steps
The following steps are performed in a normal user connection.
The user's mobile terminal (laptop or PDA) physically connects to a network, either by plugging in a cable (Ethernet or FireWire) or by associating with a wireless access point via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth.
The terminal automatically issues a DHCP handshake in order to set up an appropriate configuration for the network it is entering. By this action, the mobile terminal's existence is recognized by the Gateway component.
The client starts some form of authentication process, either by opening a web browser and having it redirected to an authentication provider of the admin's choice, or through some pre-installed authentication program.
After authentication the client has possibly full Internet access; however, some authentication-based restrictions are applicable.
Code
The access gateway is written in C++ and is executable both in Linux and Windows/Cygwin environments. The sample Captive portal authentication system is written in PHP.
Further reading
Mauro Brunato, Renato Lo Cigno, Danilo Severina. Managing Wireless HotSpots: the Uni-Fy Approach. MedHocNet 2006, Lipari (Italy), June 14–17, 2006.
Mauro Brunato, Danilo Severina. WilmaGate: a New Open Access Gateway for Hotspot Management. ACM WMASH 2005, Cologne (Germany), September 2, 2005.
Roberto Battiti, Mauro Brunato, Renato Lo Cigno, Alessandro Villani, Roberto Flor, Gianni Lazzari. WILMA: An Open Lab for 802.11 Hotspots. Proceedings of PWC2003, Venice (Italy), September 23–25, 2003.
External links
The Uni-Fy page at the TWELVE Project
Computer access control
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocks%20Cluster%20Distribution
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Rocks Cluster Distribution (originally NPACI Rocks) is a Linux distribution intended for high-performance computing (HPC) clusters. It was started by National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) in 2000. It was initially funded in part by an NSF grant (2000–07), but was funded by the follow-up NSF grant through 2011.
Distribution
Rocks was initially based on the Red Hat Linux (RHL) distribution, however modern versions of Rocks were based on CentOS, with a modified Anaconda installer that simplifies mass installation onto many computers. Rocks includes many tools (such as Message Passing Interface (MPI)) which are not part of CentOS but are integral components that make a group of computers into a cluster.
Installations can be customized with additional software packages at install-time by using special user-supplied CDs (called "Roll CDs"). The "Rolls" extend the system by integrating seamlessly and automatically into the management and packaging mechanisms used by base software, greatly simplifying installation and configuration of large numbers of computers. Over a dozen Rolls have been created, including the Sun Grid Engine (SGE) roll, the Condor roll, the Lustre roll, the Java roll, and the Ganglia roll.
By October 2010, Rocks was used for academic, government, and commercial organizations, employed in 1,376 clusters, on every continent except Antarctica. The largest registered academic cluster, having 8632 CPUs, is GridKa, operated by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany. There are also a number of clusters ranging down to fewer than 10 CPUs, representing the early stages in the construction of larger systems, as well as being used for courses in cluster design. This easy scalability was a major goal in the development of Rocks, both for the researchers involved, and for the NSF:
Release history
See also
Scientific Linux – a Linux distribution by Fermilab and CERN
Cray Linux Environment
Compute Node Linux
CNK operating system
References
External links
Cluster computing
Computer-related introductions in 2000
Linux distributions
Parallel computing
RPM-based Linux distributions
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamath
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Metamath is a formal language and an associated computer program (a proof assistant) for archiving and verifying mathematical proofs. Several databases of proved theorems have been developed using Metamath covering standard results in logic, set theory, number theory, algebra, topology and analysis, among others.
, the set of proved theorems using Metamath includes 74 of the 100 theorems of the "Formalizing 100 Theorems" challenge, making it fifth after Isabelle, HOL Light, Coq, and Lean.
There are at least 19 proof verifiers that use the Metamath format.
The Metamath website provides a database of formalized theorems which can be browsed interactively.
Metamath language
The Metamath language is a metalanguage for formal systems. The Metamath language has no specific logic embedded in it. Instead, it can be regarded as a way to prove that inference rules (asserted as axioms or proven later) can be applied.
The largest database of proved theorems follows conventional first-order logic and ZFC set theory.
The Metamath language design (employed to state the definitions, axioms, inference rules and theorems) is focused on simplicity; it contains only a handful of keywords. Proofs are checked using an algorithm based on variable substitution. The algorithm also has optional provisos for what variables must remain distinct after a substitution is made.
Language basics
The set of symbols that can be used for constructing formulas is declared using $c (constant symbols) and $v (variable symbols) statements; for example:
$( Declare the constant symbols we will use $)
$c 0 + = -> ( ) term wff |- $.
$( Declare the metavariables we will use $)
$v t r s P Q $.
The grammar for formulas is specified using a combination of $f (floating (variable-type)
hypotheses) and $a (axiomatic assertion) statements; for example:
$( Specify properties of the metavariables $)
tt $f term t $.
tr $f term r $.
ts $f term s $.
wp $f wff P $.
wq $f wff Q $.
$( Define "wff" (part 1) $)
weq $a wff t = r $.
$( Define "wff" (part 2) $)
wim $a wff ( P -> Q ) $.
Axioms and rules of inference are specified with $a statements along with ${ and $} for block scoping and optional $e (essential hypotheses) statements; for example:
$( State axiom a1 $)
a1 $a |- ( t = r -> ( t = s -> r = s ) ) $.
$( State axiom a2 $)
a2 $a |- ( t + 0 ) = t $.
${
min $e |- P $.
maj $e |- ( P -> Q ) $.
$( Define the modus ponens inference rule $)
mp $a |- Q $.
$}
Using one construct, $a statements, to capture syntactic rules, axiom schemas, and rules of inference is intended to provide a level of flexibility similar to higher order logical frameworks without a dependency on a complex type system.
Proofs
Theorems (and derived rules of inference) are written with $p statements; for example:
$( Prove a theorem $)
th1 $p |- t = t $=
$( Here is its proof: $)
tt tze tpl tt weq tt tt weq tt a2 tt tze tpl
tt weq tt t
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin%20Sports%20Network
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Wisconsin Sports Network is a school and college sports website in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.
History
The website was created in 2002 by Nicholas Kartos, who was later joined by Rick Hamilton. Wishoops.net launched on November 18, 2002 as a resource for high school basketball information in the state of Wisconsin. Originally the network focused mostly on basketball, mainly gearing towards boys prep basketball. There was a subscription service called Courtside, that offered player ranking and analysis into teams and conferences. The launch also featured a message board. The initial message board was limited in features. It offered forums for basketball and football, and dedicated forums for each conference in the WIAA. The following year WisFootball.net, a high school football site, and WisSports.net, a general sports message board, were added. It later added coverage for boys and girls hockey, boys and girls track and field, baseball, softball, wrestling, and boys and girls swimming. Beginning in 2008, WSN published the official boys track and field honor roll for the Wisconsin Track Coaches Association.
In 2007 TDS Telecom purchased a majority ownership of WSN. In February 2012, TDS sold the company to TST Media, (now SportEngine) a company that produces the NGIN website platform, used by WisSports.net and more than 3,000 leagues and sports organizations in the U.S.
Content
The Wisconsin Basketball Yearbook is a resource for high school and college basketball in Wisconsin. Features include senior profiles and team previews of high school and college teams in the state
Fox Sports Net North Wisconsin, Wishoops, Prepfilms.com and When We Were Young Productions jointly broadcast a prep basketball game each week.
Wisfootball is Wishoops's football counterpart. Starting with the 2006 prep football season, it offered a subscription service called "Sideline". The subscription service ended in 2008 when all content became freely viewable. Much like Wishoops, Wisfootball offers player rankings, scouting reports, and team rankings and feature articles.
The Wisconsin Gridiron Guide contains information about football in Wisconsin. Features include profiles for every team, including schedule, returning players and other team info, conference previews, individual school player profiles, state tournament recaps, stat leaders and all-time records, and Division 1, 2 & 3 college previews for state teams. The Gridiron Guide was not published in 2008, as its content was moved to the website and WSN Illustrated.
In January 2007 WSN hired Laura Ritchie and began publishing her magazine Wisconsin Preps Illustrated, renaming it WSN Illustrated. WSNi promotes student-athletes in Wisconsin, with articles featuring athletes and coaches accompanied by action photos. WSN Illustrated is published four times during the school year and is distributed free to all high schools in the state.
References
External links
American sport websites
Sports in Wisconsin
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eri-TV
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Eri-TV (acronym for Eritrean Television) is an Eritrean state-owned television network. Headquartered in the nation's capital Asmara, it broadcasts 24 hours a day. The station offers around-the-clock news bulletins, talk shows, and propaganda programs. Eri-TV has a large viewership base outside of Eritrea, which the state-run channel acknowledges and utilizes to communicate with Eritreans living abroad. The network has an estimated 1–2 million weekly viewers. Eri-TV recognizes Eritrean Minority Culture and has largely adopted an equal time share between each of the country's spoken languages. Eri-TV is governed and funded by the Eritrean Ministry of Information.
Channel
Eri-TV 1
Eri-TV 1 broadcasts internationally via satellite along with its sister radio station, Dimtsi Hafash. Broadcasts on the channel are typically either news, music videos or dramas. It also airs both domestic and international films.
The station broadcasts mostly in Tigrinya, Arabic, Tigre and English. It also airs a few programs in Italian, Amharic and Somali
Eri-TV 2
Eri-TV 2 is the second television channel in Eritrea. It broadcasts only for domestic viewers. it provides mostly educational content. This includes English, mathematics and science programs.
Eri-TV 3
Eri-TV 3 is the third channel in Eritrea. It broadcasts national and international sports news.
Leadership
Following the Eritrean War of Independence, Seyoum Tsehaye, Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) member and war journalist became the first head of Eri-TV. He was arrested in 2001 after publishing a statement in favour of democracy.
See also
Media of Eritrea
References
External links
Television channels in Eritrea
Television channels and stations established in 1993
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence%20%28computer%20science%29
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In computer science, persistence refers to the characteristic of state of a system that outlives (persists more than) the process that created it. This is achieved in practice by storing the state as data in computer data storage. Programs have to transfer data to and from storage devices and have to provide mappings from the native programming-language data structures to the storage device data structures.
Picture editing programs or word processors, for example, achieve state persistence by saving their documents to files.
Orthogonal or transparent persistence
Persistence is said to be "orthogonal" or "transparent" when it is implemented as an intrinsic property of the execution environment of a program. An orthogonal persistence environment does not require any specific actions by programs running in it to retrieve or save their state.
Non-orthogonal persistence requires data to be written and read to and from storage using specific instructions in a program, resulting in the use of persist as a transitive verb: On completion, the program persists the data.
The advantage of orthogonal persistence environments is simpler and less error-prone programs.
The term "persistent" was first introduced by Atkinson and Morrison in the sense of orthogonal persistence: they used an adjective rather than a verb to emphasize persistence as a property of the data, as distinct from an imperative action performed by a program. The use of the transitive verb "persist" (describing an action performed by a program) is a back-formation.
Adoption
Orthogonal persistence is widely adopted in operating systems for hibernation and in platform virtualization systems such as VMware and VirtualBox for state saving.
Research prototype languages such as PS-algol, Napier88, Fibonacci and pJama, successfully demonstrated the concepts along with the advantages to programmers.
Persistence techniques
System images
Using system images is the simplest persistence strategy. Notebook hibernation is an example of orthogonal persistence using a system image because it does not require any actions by the programs running on the machine. An example of non-orthogonal persistence using a system image is a simple text editing program executing specific instructions to save an entire document to a file.
Shortcomings: Requires enough RAM to hold the entire system state. State changes made to a system after its last image was saved are lost in the case of a system failure or shutdown. Saving an image for every single change would be too time-consuming for most systems, so images are not used as the single persistence technique for critical systems.
Journals
Using journals is the second simplest persistence technique. Journaling is the process of storing events in a log before each one is applied to a system. Such logs are called journals.
On startup, the journal is read and each event is reapplied to the system, avoiding data loss in the case of system failure or shutdown.
The e
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevayler
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Prevayler is an open-source (BSD) system-prevalence layer for Java: it transparently persists plain old Java objects. It is an in-RAM database backed by snapshots of the system via object serialization, which are loaded after a system crash to restore state. Changes to data happen via transaction operations on objects made from serializable classes. Prevayler's development was started by Klaus Wuestefeld.
Read operations are three to four orders of magnitude faster with Prevayler when compared to traditional database systems since all objects are always in RAM and in-process.
Prevayler requires enough RAM to keep the entire system state.
References
Works cited
See also
memcached
External links
Official Website
SourceForge project
Free memory management software
Java (programming language)
Persistence
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighted%20majority%20algorithm%20%28machine%20learning%29
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In machine learning, weighted majority algorithm (WMA) is a meta learning algorithm used to construct a compound algorithm from a pool of prediction algorithms, which could be any type of learning algorithms, classifiers, or even real human experts.
The algorithm assumes that we have no prior knowledge about the accuracy of the algorithms in the pool, but there are sufficient reasons to believe that one or more will perform well.
Assume that the problem is a binary decision problem. To construct the compound algorithm, a positive weight is given to each of the algorithms in the pool. The compound algorithm then collects weighted votes from all the algorithms in the pool, and gives the prediction that has a higher vote. If the compound algorithm makes a mistake, the algorithms in the pool that contributed to the wrong predicting will be discounted by a certain ratio β where 0<β<1.
It can be shown that the upper bounds on the number of mistakes made in a given sequence of predictions from a pool of algorithms is
if one algorithm in makes at most mistakes.
There are many variations of the weighted majority algorithm to handle different situations, like shifting targets, infinite pools, or randomized predictions. The core mechanism remains similar, with the final performances of the compound algorithm bounded by a function of the performance of the specialist (best performing algorithm) in the pool.
See also
Randomized weighted majority algorithm
References
Machine learning algorithms
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis%20Tron
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Genghis Tron is an American four-piece cybergrind band formed in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States, and latterly based in Brooklyn, New York and San Francisco, California. The band signed to Relapse Records after releasing two recordings on Crucial Blast. The group went on an indefinite hiatus in 2010, but returned in 2020 and soon after announced a new album, Dream Weapon, in March 2021.
History
2006-2010: Dead Mountain Mouth, Board Up the House and hiatus
Around the same time of starting Genghis Tron, vocalist Mookie Singerman sang and played guitar in the two-piece project Glitter Pals with his friend Jake Friedman while they were attending Vassar College. Friedman also featured on the song "Laser Bitch" on Genghis Tron's EP Cloak of Love (2005).
Genghis Tron has toured with such bands as Behold... the Arctopus, Converge, Kylesa, Gaza, The Dillinger Escape Plan and The Faint.
In 2008 the band released an album, Board Up the House. It was named a "Critic's Choice" by The New York Times and was also awarded the title "Album of the Year" by the magazine Rock Sound.
In late 2010, the band members decided to take a break away from the band for a while, but assured fans in a Myspace message that they will be back with new material when they start playing together again.
2020-present: Return and Dream Weapon
On August 10, 2020, the band announced that they had returned from their hiatus and began recording their third album with Kurt Ballou. This return also saw the addition of drummer Nick Yacyshyn, who is the band's first drummer due to the band using a drum machine for previous releases. Founder and vocalist Mookie Singerman did not rejoin the band and was replaced by Tony Wolski.
In January 2021, the band announced their third album, Dream Weapon, would be released on March 26. The album marks a shift in the band's previously heavy/extreme sound, leaning towards a "more meditative, hypnotic, and maybe psychedelic" direction. The record is completely devoid of blast beats and screamed vocals.
Style
The band is noted for its creative combination of various types of metal and electronic music. Although often classified as cybergrind early in their career, Genghis Tron developed a more diverse sound, which included elements of IDM, doom metal, electronic and ambient, in addition to their core style of synth-laden metal.
Forgoing both a drummer and a bass guitarist, the band utilizes computer-based sequencers such as FL Studio and Ableton Live, as well as multiple synthesizers (Moog, Alesis and Novation) to produce its distinct sound.
Members
Current members
Michael Sochynsky – keyboards, programming
Hamilton Jordan – guitar
Tony Wolski – vocals
Nick Yacyshyn – drums
Past members
Mookie Singerman – vocals, keyboards
Timeline
Discography
Studio albums
Dead Mountain Mouth (2006, Crucial Blast / Lovepump United)
Board Up the House (2008, Relapse / Lovepump United)
Dream Weapon (2021, Relapse)
EPs
Cloak of Love (2005, Crucial Bla
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia%20BR02
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Nvidia's BR02 "High Speed Interconnect" ("HSI") chip was used in their early PCI Express graphics cards, where it acted as a bridge between the PCI Express connection to the computer and the natively AGP GPU. This allowed Nvidia to release a PCI Express graphics card without redesigning the graphics card's GPU for the new interface. It was introduced in 2004.
Nvidia has also developed an HSI chip which works in the opposite direction, allowing natively PCI Express GPUs to be used in graphics cards released for the AGP interface.
This chip is no longer used on modern Nvidia GPUs due to the obsolescence of the AGP standard.
References
Nvidia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable%20C%20Compiler
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The Portable C Compiler (also known as pcc or sometimes pccm - portable C compiler machine) is an early compiler for the C programming language written by Stephen C. Johnson of Bell Labs in the mid-1970s, based in part on ideas proposed by Alan Snyder in 1973,
and "distributed as the C compiler by Bell Labs... with the blessing of Dennis Ritchie."
Being one of the first compilers that could easily be adapted to output code for different computer architectures, the compiler had a long life span. It debuted in Seventh Edition Unix and shipped with BSD Unix until the release of 4.4BSD in 1994, when it was replaced by the GNU C Compiler. It was very influential in its day, so much so that at the beginning of the 1980s, the majority of C compilers were based on it. Anders Magnusson and Peter A Jonsson restarted development of pcc in 2007, rewriting it extensively to support the C99 standard.
Features
Key features of pcc are its portability and improved diagnostic capabilities. The compiler was designed so that only a few of its source files are machine-dependent. It is relatively robust to syntax errors and performs more thorough validity checks than its contemporaries.
The first C compiler, written by Dennis Ritchie, used a recursive descent parser, incorporated specific knowledge about the PDP-11, and relied on an optional machine-specific optimizer to improve the assembly language code it generated. In contrast, Johnson's pccm was based on a yacc-generated parser and used a more general target machine model. Both compilers produced target-specific assembly language code which they then assembled to produce linkable object modules.
Later versions of PCC, known within Bell Labs as "QCC" and "RCC," supported other target architecture models.
The language that PCC implements is an extended version of K&R C that Bjarne Stroustrup has called "Classic C", incorporating the void return type (for functions that don't return any value), enumerations and structure assignment.
Current version
A new version of pcc, based on the original by Steve Johnson, is now maintained by Anders Magnusson. The compiler is provided under the BSD licence and its development is funded by a non-profit organization called BSD Fund. According to Magnusson:
This new version was added to the NetBSD pkgsrc and OpenBSD source trees in September 2007, and later into the main NetBSD source tree. There had been some speculation that it might eventually be used to supplant the GNU C Compiler on BSD-based operating systems, though FreeBSD and NetBSD are both looking to Clang as a potential replacement, and Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD asserts that pcc is not ready yet to be a gcc replacement, and the disposal of gcc is not top priority. On December 29, 2009, pcc became capable of building a functional x86 OpenBSD kernel image.
pcc version 1.0 was released on 1 April 2011.
As of this release, the compiler supports x86 and x64 processor architectures and runs on NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta%20noise%20%28disambiguation%29
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Meta noise refers to inaccurate or irrelevant Metadata recorded in a computerised data repository.
Meta noise may also refer to:
Meta noise (Metadata tag), a Metadata tag to encapsulate or describe an audio event
See also
Noise (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noisy%20text%20analytics
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Noisy text analytics is a process of information extraction whose goal is to automatically extract structured or semistructured information from noisy unstructured text data. While Text analytics is a growing and mature field that has great value because of the huge amounts of data being produced, processing of noisy text is gaining in importance because a lot of common applications produce noisy text data. Noisy unstructured text data is found in informal settings such as online chat, text messages, e-mails, message boards, newsgroups, blogs, wikis and web pages. Also, text produced by processing spontaneous speech using automatic speech recognition and printed or handwritten text using optical character recognition contains processing noise. Text produced under such circumstances is typically highly noisy containing spelling errors, abbreviations, non-standard words, false starts, repetitions, missing punctuations, missing letter case information, pause filling words such as “um” and “uh” and other texting and speech disfluencies. Such text can be seen in large amounts in contact centers, chat rooms, optical character recognition (OCR) of text documents, short message service (SMS) text, etc. Documents with historical language can also be considered noisy with respect to today's knowledge about the language. Such text contains important historical, religious, ancient medical knowledge that is useful. The nature of the noisy text produced in all these contexts warrants moving beyond traditional text analysis techniques.
Techniques for noisy text analysis
Missing punctuation and the use of non-standard words can often hinder standard natural language processing tools such as part-of-speech tagging
and parsing. Techniques to both learn from the noisy data and then to be able to process the noisy data are only now being developed.
Possible source of noisy text
World Wide Web: Poorly written text is found in web pages, online chat, blogs, wikis, discussion forums, newsgroups. Most of these data are unstructured and the style of writing is very different from, say, well-written news articles. Analysis for the web data is important because they are sources for market buzz analysis, market review, trend estimation, etc. Also, because of the large amount of data, it is necessary to find efficient methods of information extraction, classification, automatic summarization and analysis of these data.
Contact centers: This is a general term for help desks, information lines and customer service centers operating in domains ranging from computer sales and support to mobile phones to apparels. On an average a person in the developed world interacts at least once a week with a contact center agent. A typical contact center agent handles over a hundred calls per day. They operate in various modes such as voice, online chat and E-mail. The contact center industry produces gigabytes of data in the form of E-mails, chat logs, voice conversation transcription
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XM%20%28disambiguation%29
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Xm or XM may refer to:
XM Satellite Radio, a US and Canadian radio company now merged into Sirius XM Holdings.
XM (file format), a computer file format for music
XM (album), a live-in-studio album recorded by Porcupine Tree
BMW XM, an upcoming full-size luxury performance SUV
Citroën XM, a discontinued executive car made by Citroën
C.A.I. First or Alitalia Express (IATA code XM, 1997-2005), an Italian airline
A nonstandard Roman numeral for 990 (standard is CMXC)
(6903) 1989 XM, a main belt minor planet
Cross-matching of blood products
See also
Includes several weapons and other military hardware
Includes many shows broadcast on XM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indy%20500%20%281977%20video%20game%29
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Indy 500 is a 1977 racing video game developed by Atari, Inc. for its Video Computer System (later known as the Atari 2600). It is themed around the Indianapolis 500, and is based on Atari's earlier 8-player arcade game, Indy 800.
Indy 500 was one of the nine launch titles offered when the Atari 2600 went on sale in September 1977. Sears Tele-Games later re-released it as Race. Included with each game was a set of two driving controllers, which were identical in appearance to the 2600 paddle controller but could rotate indefinitely in either direction, among other differences. The game was once again renamed to Race 500 in the 2022 compilation, Atari 50.
Gameplay
Though the packaging material claims it to have fourteen games, this number treats each of the various tracks as a "game". There are actually only three unique game modes, which are as follows. Each can be played with one or two players, and with either a time limit or a score limit.
Standard racing: Players can race against the clock to complete as many laps as they can, or compete to finish 25 laps (requires two players). A number of courses were featured, which all have "Ice Race" variations featuring slippery physics.
Crash and Score: This mode requires two players, but one can be computer-controlled. Either way, the goal is to seek out and drive into a white square randomly placed on the track; this will earn whichever player points, and the square will then be randomly placed elsewhere.
Tag: Similar to the above, this is a two-player mode only. This is essentially tag; whoever has the blinking car gains points by avoiding the other player's car who gains points by "tagging" the blinking car, after which the roles of the players are reversed.
Reception
In 1995, Flux magazine ranked the game 58th on their "Top 100 Video Games".
See also
List of Atari 2600 games
Dodge 'Em (1980)
Math Gran Prix (1982)
References
1977 video games
Atari games
Atari 2600 games
IndyCar Series video games
North America-exclusive video games
Top-down racing video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in Indianapolis
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UWB%20Forum
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The UWB Forum was an industry organization promoting interoperable ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless computer networking products from multiple vendors. It was founded in 2004 and disbanded around 2006.
History
The UWB Forum was founded in 2004, promoting acronyms such as DS-UWB and CSM.
Within the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the IEEE_802.15.3a effort attempted to provide a higher speed ultra-wideband enhancement amendment to IEEE 802.15.3 for applications which involved imaging and multimedia.
That standardisation attempt failed due to contrasting approaches between the WiMedia Alliance and UWB Forum. On January 19, 2006 IEEE 802.15.3a task group (TG3a) members voted to withdraw the December 2002 project authorization request (PAR) that initiated the development of high data rate wireless standards. The IEEE 802.15.3a did consolidate 23 physical layer specifications into two proposals: multi-band orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (MB-OFDM), supported by the WiMedia Alliance, and direct sequence - UWB (DS-UWB), supported by the UWB Forum.
Major members Motorola and Freescale Semiconductor left the group in April 2006 and the UWB Forum disbanded.
Its website remained into mid-2007.
UWB Alliance
On December 19, 2018, the UWB Alliance was officially launched to promote interoperable ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless computer networking products from multiple vendors. The founding members include: Hyundai, Kia, Zebra, Decawave, Alteros, Novelda, and Ubisense.
References
Standards organizations in the United States
Wireless networking standards
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varol%20Akman
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Varol Akman (born 8 June 1957, Antalya, Turkey) is Professor of Computer Engineering in Bilkent University, Ankara.
An academic of engineering background, Akman obtained his B.A in Electrical Engineering from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara. He then continued his graduate studies and obtained his Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute under the tutelage of influential logician William Randolph Franklin.
Among his research interests are artificial intelligence, linguistics, social aspects of the Internet, Donald Davidson's philosophy and pragmatics. His articles have been published in journals such as Pragmatics and Cognition, Computational Intelligence, Minds and Machines, and Language and Communication.
He was influential in the founding of the Department of Philosophy in Bilkent University.
References
External links
list of publications
dblp computer science bibliography profile
Web of Science profile
Scopus profile
Semantic Scholar profile
Google Scholar profile
PhilPeople profile
ORCID profile
ResearchGate profile
Turkish non-fiction writers
Turkish scientists
Turkish computer scientists
1957 births
Living people
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectrix
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Connectrix is the family name for EMC Corporation's brand of storage area network (SAN) switches (also called "directors" for larger models). EMC does not manufacture any of these devices, instead they rebadge several other brands.
In many cases the EMC version of a switch will have customized EMC firmware, which will improve larger SAN design and/or compatibility between multi-vendor products. These customizations are usually created by the original switch vendor to EMC's requirements.
Switch families
EMC switch families, based on performance and connectivity features, range from enterprise-class to edge devices.
The switch families are:
ED - Enterprise Director
DS - Departmental Switch
MP - Multi-Protocol Router
OEM identification
The original switch vendor can usually be deciphered from the EMC model name. Typically, model numbers are the same as the original number and the model name is suffixed with a letter denoting the original brand - B or M, for Brocade Communications Systems and McData (which was acquired by Brocade) respectively.
EMC also rebadges Cisco Systems MDS series switches. These have the prefix MDS and no suffix, clearly not conforming to the EMC nomenclature.
For example:
DS-4100B = Brocade Silkworm 4100
ED-10000M = McData Intrepid 10000
MDS 9216i = Cisco MDS 9216i
External links
EMC Connectrix official page
Brocade EFCM / EMC Connectrix Manager (fabric management software)
Dell EMC
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGill%20University%20Solarcar%20Team
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McGill University's Solar Car Team was composed of students from the faculties of Engineering and Computer Science. From 1990 - 2010, the team designed, built, tested and raced 3 generations of solar vehicles in international competitions. Under the brand Team iSun, the team placed 9th in the 2003 American Solar Challenge from Chicago to Los Angeles, and notably produced the lightest solar vehicle in the competition at 318 lbs. Through the production and racing of solar vehicles, the students on the team learn and exercise teamwork, personal initiative, and responsibility - not only in the engineering disciplines of design and analysis, but also in construction, marketing, project management, and promotion. Team members make an effort to promote engineering and computer science careers in their frequent meetings with elementary school, high school, and CEGEP students.
The Cars
Team RaPower
McGill University's first generation solar car
Team Northern Sun
McGill University's second generation solar car
Team iSun
iSun is McGill University's third generation solar car.
iSun raced in the 2002 Formula Sun Grand Prix in Topeka Kansas, and the 2003 American Solar Challenge from Chicago to Los Angeles where iSun was the lightest entry weighing in a 318 lbs.
Name:
No. of Passager: 1
Speed: Drove at 109 km/h during NASC, top achievable speed 130 km/h
Weight: 340 lb without driver; 520 lb with the driver.
Battery: 30 kg lithium polymer battery pack from Kokam
Motor: New Generation Motors at 6 hp
Size: 5 m long X 1.8 m wide
Power from Sun: 900 Watts
Max Driving distance at night: Expect 300 km at 40 km/h.
Worth: $600,000 without labour cost
Major cost:
Models for top shell, bottom shell and canopy
carbon fibre and other composites
Batteries
printed circuit board
autoclave time
precision metal fabrication
titanium and other metal
Race:
FSGP (Formula Sun Grand Prix)
NASC 2003 (North American Solar Challenge)
Environmental Events 2002-2003
Team iSun participated in the following environmentally focused events in 2002-2003.
Clean Air Day
Clean Air Day 2002 was a chance for the team to have the car on display in the heart of downtown Montreal. Thousands of spectators passed by to see the car, as well as other environmental projects sponsored by the city of Montreal, STCUM and Hydro Quebec.
McGill Envirofest
McGill Envirofest 2002 was an all day event on McGill Campus in the fall of 2002. The iSun car was featured alongside a hybrid electric vehicle. The day was spent educating the McGill student body and members of the public about environmental issues in transportation.
Forum on Advanced Transport and Urban Mobility
The 2002 Forum on Advanced Transportation and Urban Mobility was an event sponsored by the province of Quebec and Hydro Quebec. Held in St. Jerome over a weekend in the fall, the event saw thousands of students and members of the public in attendance.
Quebec Minister for Energy
The Quebec Minister for Energy, Rita Dione-Ma
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA%20Broadcasting
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USA Broadcasting was an American television broadcasting company owned by the veteran entertainment industry executive Barry Diller. This company was the over-the-air broadcasting arm of USA Networks. Before founding USA Broadcasting, Diller was a helper in Gulf+Western's failed Paramount Television Service and News Corporation's new Fox Broadcasting Company that was launched on October 9, 1986.
History
USAB dates back on in 1995 when Diller purchased Silver King Broadcasting from Lowell W. "Bud" Paxson and Roy Speer. Paxson and Speer had previously assembled the group to expand Home Shopping Network onto broadcast television. However, the Home Shopping Network split from Silver King Broadcasting in 1992 and not return until after Diller gained ownership of the company. Under an agreement which was made in August 1996, both Silver King Broadcasting and the Home Shopping Network would merge their stations. The stations carried the Home Shopping Club (now America's Store). Home Shopping Network, Inc. later brought Universal's television units from Seagram, renaming them USA Networks, Inc., and its broadcast television subsidiary USA Broadcasting in 1998.
Diller planned to remove shopping shows and infomercials from most of the stations' broadcast days and replace them with local and syndicated programs, including a few produced by sister production unit Studios USA Television that also aired nationally on USA Network. He wanted to tie each of the stations very closely to the communities they served, and to open up opportunities for locally produced programs. This format was dubbed "CityVision", and took heavy influence from the format used by CITY-TV in Toronto (and more prominently, that station's sister broadcast television properties that became charter stations of Citytv, when CHUM Limited expanded the format to other Canadian markets as a television system in 2002, and similar to USA's sale of its stations to Univision, suffered a similar fate when CHUM agreed to merge with CTVglobemedia (now Bell Media), owner of the CTV Television Network).
By 2000, four stations were transformed into Diller's new model: WAMI-TV (WAMI "Whammy" 69) in Miami, WHOT ("Hotlanta 34") in Atlanta, WHUB ("Hub" 66) in Boston, and KSTR ("K-Star" 49) in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. WAMI and KSTR aired local news, talk shows and sporting events. WHOT and WHUB broadcast syndicated programming as well as local sports. WAMI broadcast Miami Heat basketball and Florida Marlins baseball games. WHOT and KSTR also carried professional basketball games of, respectively, the Atlanta Hawks and Dallas Mavericks. WHUB acquired the rights to the annual Beanpot hockey tournament between four of Boston's colleges and also rights to Boston University's men's ice hockey games. HSC/America's Store continues to broadcast late at night and on weekends.
Financial issues and shutdown
There were also plans to convert stations in Newark and its Satellite in Smithtown (proposed callsign: WO
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20General%20Eclipse%20MV/8000
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The Eclipse MV/8000 was the first in a family of 32-bit minicomputers produced by Data General during the 1980s. Codenamed Eagle during development, its architecture was a new 32-bit design backward compatible with the previous 16-bit Eclipse series. The development of the computer and the people who worked on it were the subject of Tracy Kidder's book The Soul of a New Machine. The MV/8000 was succeeded by the MV/6000, MV/8000-II, MV/2000, MV/2500, MV/4000, MV/10000, MV15000, MV/20000, MV/30000 and MV/40000. Later models such as the MV/40000 were SMP systems with hot-swappable components.
The Eclipse MV was a 32-bit CISC architecture with a 4 GB address space. The 4 GB address space was divided into eight rings of 512 MB each with a privilege mechanism mapped onto the rings. The outermost ring, ring-7, was the least privileged. The inner-most ring, ring-0, was the most privileged.
The AOS/VS operating system supported the notion of lightweight "tasks" as well as processes. A single process could start various tasks that would all share a global address space (similar to modern "threads"). Tasks were very easy to use from Data General's FORTRAN compiler, and allowed faster context switching than using full processes. One could also start subtasks, using so-called "Son" batch process. This was done using the CLI (Command Line Interpreter). It resulted (de facto) in an online batch process. This process would, however be killed as soon as the user would log off. The MV/8000 had only two "true" batch processes, as not to frustrate the online processes. The "plus" of the online batches was that they ran with the same priority as the normal online processes.
See also
DG/UX
References
External links
ECLIPSE MV/8000 Principles of Operation
Minicomputers
Eclipse MV/8000
32-bit computers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20News
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World News may refer to one of the following sources that covers international news:
ABC World News Tonight, a television news program that airs on American television network ABC
BBC World News, the international news and current affairs television channel of the BBC
CNN World News, a television news program that airs on CNN International
ITN World News, a television news program that originated in the United Kingdom, and aired during the late-eighties and most of the nineties
SBS World News, a television news program that airs on the Australian network SBS
Sky World News, a television news program that airs on Sky News
World News by Don Lee Broadcasting, on W6XAO (now KCBS-TV; 1938–1948)
World News Now, an overnight news program that airs on American television network ABC
World News Network, an internet news aggregation service
World Magazine
The World In News, an Indonesian world news program
See also
Worldwide Television News, part of Associated Press Television News
See also
World news
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNN
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RNN or rnn may refer to:
Random neural network, a mathematical representation of an interconnected network of neurons or cells which exchange spiking signals
Recurrent neural network, a class of artificial neural networks where connections between nodes form a directed graph along a temporal sequence
rnn (software)
Recursive neural network, a kind of deep neural network created by applying the same set of weights recursively over a structured input
WRNN-TV, branded as Regional News Network, a television station licensed to New Rochelle, New York, United States
Rassd News Network, Egypt
Reserva Natural Nacional, national park in Colombia
IATA code for Bornholm Airport, Denmark
rnn, ISO 639-3 code for the Roon language
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television%20addiction
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Television addiction is a proposed addiction model associated with maladaptive or compulsive behavior associated with watching television programming.
Analysis
The most recent medical review on this model concluded that pathological television watching behavior may constitute a true behavioral addiction, but indicated that much more research on this topic is needed to demonstrate this. The compulsion can be extremely difficult to control in many cases. The television addiction model has parallels to other forms of behavioral addiction, such as addiction to drugs or gambling, which are also forms of compulsive behavior.
Recognition
Television addiction is not a diagnosable condition of DSM-IV.
Possible behavioral effects
Sleeping Problems
Sedentary Lifestyle
Anti-social Behavior
Weight Gain
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
See also
Addiction
Behavioral modernity
Evolutionary mismatch
Social aspects of television
Television consumption
Video game addiction
References
External links
Article by Michael D. Pollock "How I Overcame TV Addiction, Reclaimed My Life and Gained Two Extra Months Per Year"
Reader's Digest Article
Behavioral addiction
Addiction
Addiction
Digital media use and mental health
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systech%20Corporation
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Systech Corporation (Systech) is a California corporation founded in 1981 and headquartered in San Diego, California.
Product lines
Systech Corporation designs and manufactures a variety of network conversion gateways, device servers and switch products for Internet Protocol (IP) communications and in existing non-IP based systems and networks. The product lines also include payment gateways, dial to IP converters, cellular gateways, remote access and management software, remote access software and control automation software.
The SysLINK M2Mgateway was awarded M2M Evolution Magazine's 2014 Evolution Product of the Year, issued to Industry Innovators. The SysLINK Gateway is able to communicate and bridge a wide variety of protocols and standards while providing local intelligence to analyze, filter and take action.
SysSCRIPT enables customers to interconnect Industrial IoT devices without the need for software development teams. SysSCRIPT enabled Systech to win the Best Gateway Strategy Award in IoT Evolution's Eighth “Battle of the Platforms” on August 17, 2015.
Markets
The product lines serve the Internet of Things (IoT) market with particular emphasis on the Machine to Machine (M2M) submarket and the larger Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) submarket. Over 350,000 Systech devices are installed worldwide.
Interoperability
Systech is a member of the Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) whose objective is connecting the 25+ billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices across multiple platforms and Operating Systems using a common, interoperable approach that includes security. A recent World Economic Forum report notes the Lack of Interoperability or Standards is the greatest barrier inhibiting business from adopting the Industrial Internet (of Things) along with Security.
Systech was an early adopter when it completed certification of the SysLINK M2M Gateway as ThingWorx Ready as part of the ThingWorx Partner Program before PTC acquired ThingWorx.
Notable people
D. Mark Fowler is President and CEO of Systech. Previously Fowler was a Board Member of Amistar, President and General Manager of ITT’s Business Systems Group and Vice President of ITT's Information Systems Division. In 1983, he co-founded, as Chairman and President, Zaisan a Venture Capital funded manufacturer of integrated voice / personal computer workstations. Fowler started his technical career at Texas Instruments (TI), leaving after 12-years. Fowler supervised the 1981 program wherein the original LCD-based notebook computer was conceived and developed into a working prototype (T.O.P.S.) which became the forerunner for the TI Pro-Lite portable computer. TI's portable / notebook computer line was sold to Acer in 1997.
L. Vaughn Watts, Jr., former Technical Fellow at both Texas Instruments (TI) and Dell has developed a deep relationship with Systech and is author or co-author of a number of patent applications on Systech's behalf. Watts is author or co-author of over 15 patent
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zahn%27s%20construct
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Zahn's construct, in computer science, was a proposed structure for structured control flow in computer programming languages first described by Charles T. Zahn in 1974. The construct is primarily described in terms of an extension to looping constructs to recognize multiple means by which a loop could terminate. For example, a search loop might terminate early, when the target is found; or it might terminate after the search has been completed unsuccessfully. Zahn's construct can be used to avoid GO TO statements when determining which case was encountered. Zahn does this by introducing a new kind of variable called a situation indicator in a CASE-like construct following the loop.
Donald Knuth, in his paper "Structured Programming with Go To Statements", describes two forms of Zahn's construct as follows:
loop until <situation 1> or ... or <situation n>:
<statement list 0>
repeat;
then <situation 1> => <statement list 1>;
...
<situation n> => <statement list n>;
fi
and:
begin until <situation 1> or ... or <situation n>:
<statement list 0>;
end;
then <situation 1> => <statement list 1>;
...
<situation n> => <statement list n>;
fi
There must also be a statement to set a specific situation indicator and exit the body of the construct.
The following simple example involves searching a two-dimensional table for a particular item.
exitwhen found or missing;
for I := 1 to N do
for J := 1 to M do
if table[I,J] = target then found;
missing;
exits
found: print ("item is in table");
missing: print ("item is not in table");
endexit;
Try-catch blocks, used in modern programming languages for exception handling, are variations of Zahn's construct. The major difference is that the scope of Zahn's proposals were limited to individual loops within a program, whereas exception-handling capabilities often allow exceptions to be "thrown" from deep within a call stack and "caught" at a point higher up in the stack.
References
External links
Zahn, C. T. Structured Control in Programming Languages SLAC Pub-1530, January 1975
Control structures defined using Scheme; Zahn's construct is the last one in the list
Zahn's construct defined using GOTOs in Forth
Control flow
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberFlix
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CyberFlix Incorporated was a computer game company founded in 1993 by Bill Appleton. CyberFlix was based in Knoxville, Tennessee. They made many interactive story-telling games in the 1990s, but stopped any and all productions in 1998 before finally going out of business in 2006.
Two of its best known games were Titanic: Adventure Out of Time and Dust: A Tale of the Wired West.
CyberFlix also released the games Skull Cracker, Redjack: Revenge of the Brethren, Power Rangers Zeo vs. the Machine Empire, Lunicus, and Jump Raven.
CyberFlix's founder, Bill Appleton, is famous for his work with the SuperCard development environment and for the early World Builder adventure game production system. He also founded a company called DreamFactory in 1998. DreamFactory kept the trade mark for CyberFlix registered until November 25, 2006.
References
External links
Companies based in Knoxville, Tennessee
Video game companies established in 1993
Video game companies disestablished in 2006
Defunct companies based in Tennessee
Defunct video game companies of the United States
Video game development companies
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Herras
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Mark Angelo Santos Herras (born December 14, 1986) is a Filipino film and television actor. He won in the reality talent show StarStruck aired in GMA Network. He also appeared in Forever in My Heart, Encantadia, SOP, and I Luv NY, GMA Telebabad.
Filmography
Television
Films
References
External links
1986 births
Filipino male film actors
Filipino male television actors
Participants in Philippine reality television series
GMA Network personalities
Living people
Male actors from Laguna (province)
People from Santa Rosa, Laguna
StarStruck (Philippine TV series) participants
StarStruck (Philippine TV series) winners
Tagalog people
VJs (media personalities)
Filipino male comedians
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip%20bomb
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In computing, a zip bomb, also known as a decompression bomb or zip of death, is a malicious archive file designed to crash or render useless the program or system reading it. It is often employed to disable antivirus software, in order to create an opening for more traditional malware.
A zip bomb allows a program to function normally, but, instead of hijacking the program's operation, creates an archive that requires an excessive amount of time, disk space, or memory to unpack.
Most modern antivirus programs can detect whether a file is a zip bomb in order to avoid unpacking it.
Details and use
A zip bomb is usually a small file for ease of transport and to avoid suspicion. However, when the file is unpacked, its contents are more than the system can handle.
One example of a zip bomb is the file 42.zip, which is a zip file consisting of 42 kilobytes of compressed data, containing five layers of nested zip files in sets of 16, each bottom-layer archive containing a 4.3-gigabyte (; − ) file for a total of (; − ) of uncompressed data. This zip bomb is freely available for download online. In many anti-virus scanners, only a few layers of recursion are performed on archives to help prevent attacks that would cause a buffer overflow, an out-of-memory condition, or exceed an acceptable amount of program execution time.
Zip bombs often rely on repetition of identical files to achieve their extreme compression ratios. Dynamic programming methods can be employed to limit traversal of such files, so that only one file is followed recursively at each level, effectively converting their exponential growth to linear.
There are also zip files that, when uncompressed, yield identical copies of themselves. A sophisticated form of zip bomb exploits the specifications of zip files and the Deflate compression algorithm to create bombs without the use of nested layers as used in 42.zip.
See also
Billion laughs attack, a similar attack on XML parsers
Black fax
Busy beaver, a program that produces the maximal possible output before terminating
E-mail bomb
Fork bomb
Logic bomb
Online algorithm, limit discovered rather than declared
References
Types of malware
Algorithmic complexity attacks
Denial-of-service attacks
Computer archives
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian%20Television%20Network
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Cambodian Television Network (CTN) is a free-to-air terrestrial television channel launched in March 2003 as a joint venture between local conglomerate The Royal Group and Stockholm-based Modern Times Group, the network is now part of Mobitel.
CTN provides viewers with a variety of entertainment and educational programmes, which includes home-grown documentaries, computer learning programmes and sitcoms. The channel has also bought rights to Sunday English Premier League football matches, European comedies and Asian drama series and South American telenovelas. International news is transmitted to CTN's broadcast facility at Srok Takhmao via satellite from London, enabling the channel to offer international and Asian news. CTN is available through the website and mobile applications.
References
External links
Culture Profiles
CTN Official Website
Television stations in Cambodia
Television channels and stations established in 2003
Mass media in Phnom Penh
2003 establishments in Cambodia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Perez%20%28reporter%29
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Walter Perez is an Argentinian-American weekend evening anchor, journalist and a weekday reporter for WPVI, the ABC network affiliate in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He joined WPVI in September 2003 and continues to report for Action News, primarily assigned to the Lehigh Valley region.
Raised in Edison, New Jersey, as "Walter Percy", he played football at Edison High School.
Perez graduated from Duke University with a bachelor's degree in political science. He began broadcasting on the radio at WCTC News-Talk Radio 1450AM, which was the highest-rated radio talk show in Central New Jersey. He also broadcast for Princeton Football Radio Network as a color commentator for five years.
Perez later began reporting on television as an anchor and reporter for WPLG in Miami as well as News 12 New Jersey. He later worked as reporter and weekend morning anchor for WNBC in New York City before joining WPVI in 2003.
Perez's honors have included a New York City Press Club award, two New Jersey Associated Press awards, an Edward R. Murrow award for spot coverage and a New York State Broadcasters award.
He is a resident of the Monmouth Junction section of South Brunswick, New Jersey.
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External links
American television journalists
New York (state) television reporters
Television anchors from Philadelphia
Place of birth missing (living people)
Philadelphia television reporters
Duke University Trinity College of Arts and Sciences alumni
American journalists of Puerto Rican descent
Living people
American male journalists
People from Edison, New Jersey
People from South Brunswick, New Jersey
Edison High School (New Jersey) alumni
1970 births
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro%20Fantasia
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Astro Fantasia is a fixed shooter arcade video game released by Data East in 1981.
Gameplay
The player gets to pilot a single fighter spaceship against an armada of enemies.
There are two different play screens that alternate:
Wave 1 uses pseudo 3D graphics and has a large red bit of what appears to be part of a very large spaceship as background on the bottom half of the screen. Players can move their ship around anywhere on the red background, but the black area beyond is off limits. The game opens with a large mothership craft visible at the top of the screen, but shots cannot reach it at this point. Red aliens quickly begin attacking , swooping in line formations from the top area of the screen. They scale in size as they get closer. After the armada is gone, the mothership begins spewing out groups of red aliens, and a new green ship that fires at the player. Eventually the mothership will stop spewing fighters and the entire screen will scroll up, and the game will begin the second wave.
Wave 2 pits the player against the mothership directly. Multi shot is gone, and players can only have one shot on the screen at a time. The mothership has three areas that must be blasted away.
External links
Astro Fantasia at Arcade History
1981 video games
Arcade video games
Arcade-only video games
Data East video games
Fixed shooters
Video games developed in Japan
Data East arcade games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20Tasmania
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Rail transport in Tasmania consists of a network of narrow gauge track of reaching virtually all cities and major towns in the island state of Tasmania, Australia. Today, rail services are focused primarily on bulk freight, with no commercial passenger services being operated. The mainline railways of Tasmania are currently operated by TasRail, a Government of Tasmania-owned Corporation, who owns and maintains both rolling stock, locomotives, and track infrastructure.
Traffic
Tasmania has a small rail system by world standards. It currently carries no regular passenger services. Freight services are supported (in part) by state government funding. The main cargo carried is cement, which is carried from Railton to the port at Devonport. Other major commodities carried are coal, logs, containers and newsprint.
History
Routes
A "Irish gauge" railway line was opened between Deloraine and Launceston on 10 February 1871 by the private Launceston and Western Railway, on the basis of debt guarantees from landowners who stood to benefit. The line went bankrupt in 1872 and was taken over by the Tasmanian Government on 31 October 1873, which then attempted to recover the debt from the guarantors, leading to civil unrest.
On 1 March 1876, another private railway, the Tasmanian Main Line Company, which was guaranteed by the Tasmanian Government, opened a narrow gauge line from Hobart to Evandale, near Launceston. A further extension, opened on 1 November 1876, connected with the Launceston and Western Railway at a break-of-gauge at Western Junction with the line to Deloraine, however the line between Western Junction and Launceston was made dual gauge. The line between Western Junction and Deloraine was converted to dual gauge on 17 March 1885. On 30 May 1885, the line was extended to Devonport.
The Launceston - Deloraine was converted to solely narrow gauge on 18 August 1888, creating a single narrow gauge network. On 1 October 1890 the Tasmanian Government bought the Tasmanian Main Line Company, creating the Tasmanian Government Railways. On 15 April 1901 the Devonport line was extended to Burnie, connecting with the Emu Bay Railway's line to Zeehan, which was completed on 21 December 1900. The government railway was extended to Wynyard on 1 February 1913. The line was extended to Wiltshire Junction on 12 July 1922, connecting with the already existing line between Stanley and Smithton.
Trains no longer operate out of Hobart and under current plans the mainline will be severed from Hobart by 2024 with building of new road only bridge across Derwent replacing existing dual road-rail bridge.
Principal branch lines
Mole Creek Line - A branch line was opened from Deloraine (Lemana Junction) to Mole Creek on 5 April 1890. This line closed on 6 February 1985.
Scottsdale Line - Opened from Launceston to Scottsdale on 9 August 1889 and extended to Branxholm on 12 July 1911 and Herrick on 15 March 1919.(currently closed).
Fingal Line - Opened from Co
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stottler%20Henke%20Associates
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Stottler Henke Associates, Inc., founded in 1988, is a company headquartered in San Mateo, California, that develops artificial intelligence software applications and development tools for education and training, planning and scheduling, knowledge management and discovery, decision support, and computer security and reliability.
Scenario-based training simulations let students apply their knowledge and skills in realistically complex situations. Intelligent tutoring systems encode and apply subject matter and teaching expertise to evaluate student performance and provide individualized instruction automatically. Its Aurora scheduling system is used by NASA, United Space Alliance, the Boeing Company, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Clipper Windpower.
References
External links
Company Website
Publications
Aurora-CCPM Multi-Project Critical Chain Project Management with Intelligent Scheduling
SimBionic intelligent agent toolkit
SimVentive toolkit for developing serious games and training simulations
DataMontage data visualization system
NASA Hallmarks of Success video
Stottler Henke Associates Aurora scheduling system
Software companies established in 1988
Companies based in San Mateo, California
Software companies of the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkling%20%28Star%20Trek%3A%20Voyager%29
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"Darkling" is the 60th episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the 18th episode of the third season. This show focuses on the holographic Doctor, a self-aware computer program aboard the starship USS Voyager that is struggling with re-programming himself.
The episode debuted on UPN on February 19, 1997.
Plot
While Kes pursues a romantic interest, the Doctor attempts to improve his program by including elements of the personalities of famous people that he admires, taken from holocharacters of them. The darker, less well-known sides of these people's personalities form a second, evil personality. This evil version of the Doctor attempts to murder an alien from the planet being visited by Voyager by pushing him off a cliff. The evil twin also temporarily paralyzes Lt. Torres when she discovers it. It later jumps off a cliff with Kes but is beamed back to Voyager while falling. At the end of the episode, the Doctor's program is restored to normal. As the episode concludes, the Doctor is heard reciting part of the Hippocratic Oath.
Reception
In 2017 this episode was noted as featuring scary or eerie Star Trek content. In 2018, TheGamer ranked this one of the top 25 creepiest episodes of all Star Trek series. They note a series of disturbing behaviors by the EMH program in this episode, and were disappointed that many of the program's malfunctions were not addressed.
Media releases
This episode was released on DVD on July 6, 2004, as part of Star Trek Voyager: Complete Third Season, with Dolby 5.1 surround audio. The season 3 DVD was released in the UK on September 6, 2004.
In 2017, the complete Star Trek: Voyager television series was released in a DVD box set , which included it as part of the season 3 discs.
References
External links
1997 American television episodes
Star Trek: Voyager (season 3) episodes
Television episodes written by Brannon Braga
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anritsu
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is a Japanese multinational corporation in the telecommunications electronics equipment market. A global pioneer for producing the world's first wireless telephone network, Anritsu's revenue numbers near US$782 million.
History
In Japan, Anritsu's first predecessor, Sekisan-sha, was founded in 1895. Annaka Electric Company followed, producing wireless transmitters and the world's first wireless telephone service and Japan's first automatic public telephone.
Anritsu Corporation was formed with the merger of two companies, the Annaka Corporation and Kyoritsu Electric in Japan in 1931. In 1990, Anritsu acquired Wiltron Company in the United States for $180 million.
Currently, the Anritsu Group is composed of Anritsu Corporation, Anritsu Engineering, Anritsu Infivis, Anritsu Devices, and Anritsu Networks. Anritsu Corporation's American subsidiary, Anritsu Company, is a supplier of the United States Department of Defense.
Performance
Net sales in FY2008 were ¥84 billion (US$782 million). It has been listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange since 1968.
Products
Products include network call trace, service assurance, customer experience management, microwave, radio frequency (RF), and optical signal generators, spectrum analyzers, and network analyzers.
References
External links
Anritsu Corporation Global
Anritsu Company North America
Electronics companies of Japan
Electronic test equipment manufacturers
Companies based in Kanagawa Prefecture
Companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
Electronics companies established in 1895
Japanese companies established in 1895
Japanese brands
NEC subsidiaries
Companies based in Morgan Hill, California
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDTJ-LD
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WDTJ-LD is a low power digital television station in Toledo, Ohio, broadcasting locally on channel 18 as an owned-and-operated satellite repeater for the Daystar Television Network
On March 30, 2006, the station was granted a construction permit to begin converting operations to digital television.
A deal was reached to sell W22CO to Word of God Fellowship, owner of the Daystar Television Network, on March 19, 2010.
Per FCC Rules, on December 30, 2011 at 12 AM, WDTJ-LP (68) went silent. This was due to being out of the current DTV spectrum (channels 52 to 69) having to vacate their frequencies.
WDTJ-LD is now active (as received on December 30, 2012) on channel 18 as 68.1
References
FCC's Displacement Dismissal info
External links
Daystar Television Network
W22CO on Michiguide.com
WDTJ's Displacement Application (Dismissed)
DTJ-LD
Daystar Television Network affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 1989
Low-power television stations in Ohio
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Headroom%20%28disambiguation%29
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Max Headroom is a fictional computer-generated character played by comedian Matt Frewer.
Max Headroom may also refer to:
Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future (1985), British telefilm that introduced the character
The Max Headroom Show (1985–87), video, music and talk show which followed the 1985 telefilm
Max Headroom (TV series) (1987–88), American satirical science fiction series based on the British telefilm
See also
Max Headroom signal hijacking
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BCzg%C3%BCn%20TV
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Düzgün TV was a TV channel, based in Lünen, Germany that aired programming targeted at Turkish Germans. The channel filed for bankruptcy in 2007 and is no longer on air.
Format
Programming focused on assisting German Turks with integration into German society, as well as bringing them closer with Turkey. More broadly, it also promoted the democratization of Turkey and its admission into the European Union. A further stated goal was to provide coverage of Alevi lifestyle and culture, a religious group with many followers in both Germany and Turkey.
Programs were in Turkish, with German subtitles.
References
External links
Official Site
Mass media in Turkey
Defunct television channels in Germany
Television channels and stations established in 2006
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2007
2006 establishments in Germany
2007 disestablishments in Germany
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Headroom
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Max Headroom is a fictional character played by actor Matt Frewer. Advertised as "the first computer-generated TV presenter", Max was known for his biting commentary on a variety of topical issues, arrogant wit, stuttering, and pitch-shifting voice. The character was created by George Stone, Annabel Jankel, and Rocky Morton. Max was advertised as "computer-generated" and some believed this, but he was actually actor Frewer wearing prosthetic makeup, contact lenses, and a plastic moulded suit, and sitting in front of a blue screen. Harsh lighting and other editing and recording effects heighten the illusion of a CGI character. According to his creators, Max's personality was meant to be a satirical exaggeration of the worst tendencies of television hosts in the 1980s who wanted to appeal to youth culture yet weren't a part of it. Frewer proposed that Max reflected an innocence, largely influenced not by mentors and life experience but by information absorbed from television.
Max Headroom debuted in April 1985 on Channel 4 in the British-made cyberpunk TV movie Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future, his origin story. In the movie, Edison Carter (portrayed by Frewer) is a journalist fleeing enemies into a parking garage, crashing his motorcycle through the entrance barrier reading "Max. Headroom 2.3 metres". At the time, UK clearance height signs used the phrase "Max. Headroom" as opposed to "Max. Height". While Carter is unconscious, an AI program based on his mind is created. The AI develops a personality identified as "Max Headroom", and becomes a TV host who exists only on broadcast signals and computer systems. Like Carter, Max openly challenges the corporations that run his world, but using commentary and sarcastic wit rather than journalism.
Two days after the TV-movie was broadcast, Max hosted Channel 4's The Max Headroom Show, a TV programme where he introduces music videos, comments on various topics, and eventually interviews guests before a live studio audience. During its second and third year, it also aired in the US on Cinemax. Max Headroom became a global spokesperson for New Coke, appearing on many TV commercials with the catchphrase "Catch the wave!". After the cancellation of The Max Headroom Show, Matt Frewer portrayed Max and Carter in the 1987 American TV drama series Max Headroom on ABC. The series returns to Carter and Max challenging the status quo of a cyberpunk world, now portraying them as allies and providing a slightly altered version of Max's origin. The series was cancelled during its second year.
Max's appearance and style of speech has influenced and been referenced by different media, such as Ron Headrest, a fictional character in the comic strip Doonesbury who was a political parody of Ronald Reagan and Eminem's 2013 "Rap God" video, in which the rapper resembles Max. Max Headroom was emulated by an unknown person in a Max mask while hijacking a local television broadcast signal in 1987, later referred to as
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20727
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The IBM 727 Magnetic Tape Unit was announced for the IBM 701 and IBM 702 on September 25, 1953. It became IBM's standard tape drive for their early vacuum-tube era computer systems. Later vacuum-tube machines and first-generation transistor computers used the IBM 729-series tape drive. The 727 was withdrawn on May 12, 1971.
The tape had seven parallel tracks – six for data and one to maintain parity. Tapes with character data (BCD) were recorded in even parity. Binary tapes used odd parity. Reflective strips were glued several feet from the ends of the tape to serve as physical beginning and end of tape markers. Write protection is provided by a removable plastic ring in the back of the tape reel. Installing the ring enables writing, thus strictly speaking, it is a write enable ring, and removing it protects the tape from being written to.
References
727
Tape 727
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC%20Professional
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DEC Professional could refer to:
DEC Professional (computer), a line of PDP-11-based personal computers from Digital Equipment Corporation
The DEC Professional, a now-defunct magazine for administrators and managers of computer systems from Digital Equipment Corporation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Johnson%20%28journalist%29
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Wyatt Thomas Johnson (born September 30, 1941) is an American journalist and media executive, best known for serving as president of Cable News Network (CNN) during the 1990s and, before that, as publisher of the Los Angeles Times newspaper. He was a member of the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors from 1976 to 1980. In addition, Johnson is a long-time member of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation board of trustees and a former member of the Rockefeller Foundation board of trustees.
Biography
Johnson was born on September 30, 1941, in Macon, Georgia and graduated from Lanier High School. While in high school, he began working at the Macon Telegraph newspaper. He went on to earn a bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and a master's from Harvard Business School, both of which were largely financed by his employers at the Telegraph. President Lyndon B. Johnson (no relation) tapped Johnson as a White House Fellow, but he accepted only after being encouraged by the Telegraph'''s publisher and assured he had no further obligation to the paper.
LBJ
On the evening of April 4, 1968, it was Tom Johnson who walked into the Oval Office to hand President Johnson the news that Martin Luther King Jr. had been shot (it would be another hour before doctors in Memphis, Tennessee declared King dead). In the Oval Office with President Johnson at the time were former Georgia Governor Carl Sanders and former Coca-Cola CEO (and still a Board Member) Robert W. Woodruff. Tom Johnson shared that President Johnson signed the note and gave it to Governor Sanders. Johnson has said that one of his remaining goals in life is to obtain that signed news note from the Sanders estate and give it to the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.
He worked in various positions in the Johnson administration and continued to work for the former President after he retired to Texas. As "Thinking Big" by Robert Gottlieb and Irene Wolf noted in 1977, "when Lyndon Johnson returned to Texas in 1969, he brought Tom Johnson along to serve as executive assistant in charge of LBJ's Texas Broadcasting Company."
The same book also revealed that in 1970 the then-30-year-old Tom Johnson was elected executive vice-president of LBJ's Texas Broadcasting Company and "he joined the board of directors of the City National Bank of Austin, headed up LBJ's Austin station KTBC, and participated in the town's business-dominated civic groups."
The Austin TV station which Tom Johnson headed in the 1970s was profitable because LBJ "had friends in high places among those who controlled the broadcast industry," according to a 1978 book by another former LBJ aide, Bobby Baker, titled "Wheeling And Dealing: Confessions of a Capitol Hill Operator". The same book also revealed that "it is no accident that Austin, TX, was for years the only city of its size with only one television station" and "LBJ demanded, and received, the opportunity to
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students%20of%20Sustainability
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Students of Sustainability (SoS) is an annual conference of the Australian student environment and social justice movement and predates the Australian Student Environment Network (ASEN). The first Students of Sustainability conference was held at ANU in 1991 when it was called Students, Science and Sustainability. The name changed in 1995 to Students and Sustainability and then again in 2003 to Students of Sustainability. In each case the name changes were to make the conference open to a wider range of participants. Students of Sustainability always runs in July co-currently with NAIDOC week, Aboriginal and Islander politics and affairs play a major part in the SOS program.
History
The conference began in Canberra in 1991 under the name 'Students, Science and Sustainability'. This first conference (April 24–26, 1991) attracted more than 300 students from every Australian State and Territory to discuss matters of sustainability with respect to students and science. This first conference was organised by a small group of ANU undergraduates, including John Reynolds, Padma Raman, Tristan Armstrong, Naomi Flutter and Joely-Kym Sobott, among others. One of the many high profile speakers was the late Australian historian Manning Clark AC.
Since then, interest and enthusiasm for the conference has grown, and the number of participants has steadily increased. As SoS moves around the country, it spreads its unique, life-affirming, change-making energy to the University and community that hosts it.
Description
From the website www.studentsofsustainability.org which is run by the hosting crew each year:
Aims of SoS
• to inspire ecologically sustainable practices as an alternative - to current societal values
• to empower individuals and groups to bring about positive social and political change through open forums, skill sharing opportunities
• to create national and international networks of environmentally-minded people
• to integrate environmentalism with other progressive movements such as human rights and cultural awareness movements
• and to create a conference that is accessible to as many people as possible.
Organise - The SoS organising committee advocates supportive, respectful and constructive involvement in all aspects of the conference. All participants share their knowledge and learn from each other, bringing their own opinions, voices and ideas. This diversity of voices, ideas and opinions makes SoS what it is.
Locations
The location of SoS varies each year depending on the location of the bidding organising collective. Past and present SoS locations include:
2020 (January) - University of Sydney Cumberland Campus, Sydney
2018 - Melbourne Polytechnic Fairfield campus Melbourne
2017 - Tighes Hill TAFE, Newcastle
2016 - Musgrave Park, Brisbane
2015 - Flinders University, Adelaide
2014 - Australian National University, Canberra
2013 - University of Tasmania, Launceston
2012 - La Trobe University, Bendigo
2011 - Charles Sturt U
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apcupsd
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Apcupsd, short for APC UPS daemon, is a utility that runs on Linux, UNIX, macOS and Windows. It allows the computer to interact with APC UPSes. Apcupsd also works with some OEM-branded products (e.g. Hewlett-Packard) manufactured by APC.
Apcupsd is a free software equivalent of the APC's proprietary PowerChute software. As of version 3.14, Apcupsd has support for the PowerChute Network Shutdown function as well as many other features.
Apcupsd runs in daemon mode so to keep a live connection with the UPS. Depending on the settings and type of connection, Apcupsd either polls the UPS to learn about its current state, or receives messages from the UPS itself (e.g. via SNMP traps). Possible types of connections to the UPS are USB, RS-232 or Ethernet.
Apcupsd can communicate with other instances of Apcupsd on other computers and maintain a client-server relationship with them. This way it is possible to power multiple computers with one UPS, even though only one of them is connected to the data port of the UPS.
See also
APC Smart-UPS
Network UPS Tools, an alternative to Apcupsd, that supports some APC UPS
References
External links
Electrical device control software
Free software programmed in C
Linux software
Servers (computing)
Uninterruptible power supply
Unix software
Utilities for macOS
Utilities for Windows
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne%20d%27Arc%20%28video%20game%29
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Jeanne d'Arc is a tactical role-playing video game developed by Level-5 and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation Portable (PSP). The game was released in Japan on November 22, 2006, and was localized for a release in North America on August 21, 2007. Jeanne d'Arc was Level-5's first role-playing video game of this kind, as well as the studio's first production for the PSP. The title's narrative makes use of various fantasy elements, and is loosely based on the story of Joan of Arc and her struggles against the English occupation of France during the Hundred Years' War in the early 15th century.
The game met with positive reviews upon release, with praise directed at the storyline and historic significance of its events.
Gameplay
The player controls Jeanne and her party, moving them between major cities and features on a semi-historical map of France. Most new locations will lead to cutscenes and battles. Select points on the map are cities, allowing the player to shop for improved weapons, armor, and skills; other locations offer skirmish matches not part of the main story but allowing the player to improve their characters through battle.
Each character and enemy has an affinity to one of three phases; Sol, Luna and Stella, each which have strengths and weaknesses against the other phases, in a manner similar to rock, paper, scissors. For example, Sol is stronger against Stella, but weaker against Luna. Each character also has a number of skill slots; skill gems that can be purchased, won in battle, or produced by combining other gems together. These skills can improve a character's stats or bestow offensive, defensive, or recovery skills.
The battle system is turn-based. Prior to battle, the player can manage character equipment and abilities, and then select which characters to bring into battle. On each turn, for each character, the player can move and then perform an action such as attacking, using items or skills; each action awards a number of experience points to the character. Attacks can be met with counterattacks, and the facing of the attack will also influence how much damage is done. Unique to the game is the creation of a "Burning Aura" which forms on the space immediately behind the target of the attack; a second character can move into that space and strike for extra damage, or if a character is already in that space, the Aura will move with that character and increase the power of the attack on that turn only. Burning Auras disappear after one turn.
Once the player has moved all their characters, the enemy turn proceeds in the same manner. When an ally is targeted, all nearby allies one space away from the targeted ally or anyone already supporting them, participate in a "Unified Guard" that can reduce the chance of a hit or reduce the damage taken. This guard also applies to any counterattacks made during the offensive part of the player's turn.
Unique to Jeanne and selected other party member
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre%20Channel%20Protocol
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Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) is the SCSI interface protocol utilising an underlying Fibre Channel connection. The Fibre Channel standards define a high-speed data transfer mechanism that can be used to connect workstations, mainframes, supercomputers, storage devices and displays. FCP addresses the need for very fast transfers of large volumes of information and could relieve system manufacturers from the burden of supporting a variety of channels and networks, as it provides one standard for networking, storage and data transfer.
Some Fibre Channel characteristics are:
Performance from 266 megabits/second to 16 gigabits/second
Support both optical and copper media, with distances up to 10 km.
Small connectors (sfp+ are most common)
High-bandwidth utilisation with distance insensitivity
Support for multiple cost/performance levels, from small systems to supercomputers
Ability to carry multiple existing interface command sets, including Internet Protocol (IP), SCSI, IPI, HIPPI-FP, and audio/video.
Fibre Channel consists of the following layers:
FC-0 -- The interface to the physical media
FC-1 -- The encoding and decoding of data and out-of-band physical link control information for transmission over the physical media
FC-2 -- The transfer of frames, sequences and exchanges comprising protocol information units.
FC-3 -- Common services required for advanced features such as striping, hunt group and multicast.
FC-4 -- Application interfaces that can execute over Fibre Channel such as the Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI (FCS).
Unlike a layered network architecture, a Fibre Channel network is largely specified by functional elements and the interfaces between them. These consist, in part, of the following:
N_PORTs—The end points for traffic.
FC Devices—The devices to which the N_PORTs provide access.
Fabric Ports—The interfaces within a network that provide attachment for an N_PORT.
The network infrastructure for carrying frame traffic between N_PORTs.
Within a switched or mixed fabric, a set of auxiliary servers, including a name server for device discovery and network address resolution.
Fibre Channel network topologies consist of the following:
Arbitrated Loop—A series of N_PORTs connected together in daisy-chain fashion.
Switched Fabric—A network consisting of switching elements.
Mixed Fabric—A network consisting of switches and "fabric-attached" loops. A loop-attached N_PORT (NL_PORT) is connected to the loop through an L_PORT and accesses the fabric by way of an FL_PORT.
See also
Fibre Channel frame
References
http://hsi.web.cern.ch/HSI/fcs/spec/overview.htm
SCSI
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate%20Kendall
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Kate Kendall (born 27 July 1973) is an Australian actress and director. She played Angie Piper in the long-running Nine Network Australian drama Stingers from 1998 to 2004. Kendall has appeared in television series The Librarians (2007), Rush (2010) and Conspiracy 365. She joined the cast of television soap opera Neighbours in 2013 as Lauren Turner. After leaving the role in 2017, Kendall became a director, and later producer, on the serial.
Career
Kendall studied at the Centre for Performing Arts (CPA) (now the Adelaide College of the Arts) in Adelaide. There she was taught by her father, David Kendall, who then headed the acting course. Small parts in television shows such as Home and Away and Neighbours led to a guest role as Rosie Burgess in Blue Heelers in 1997. Her major television role has been as Angie Piper in Stingers, which role she played for 192 episodes from 1998 to 2004.
Kendall played a minor role as Lisa in the American mini-series The Starter Wife (2007) and also appeared in three episodes of the Australian produced comedy The Librarians (2007), as Jacinta McSweeney. Kendall appeared on the Australian drama Rush in 2010. In 2011 Kendall played the lead role of Diana in MTC's production of Next to Normal and appeared in the Australian musical premiere of An Officer and a Gentleman. She also played Emily Ormond in the twelve-part drama series Conspiracy 365, which was based on the book of the same name. Kendall took over the role of Lauren Carpenter on Neighbours in 2013.
As she was wrapping up the role of Lauren in 2017, Kendall began directing small scenes. She has since directed numerous episodes of the series. In June 2020, it was announced that Kendall would become a producer. She covered for series producer Natalie Lynch, while she was on maternity leave. David Knox of TV Tonight believed Kendall was the show's first actor, director, producer.
Kendall has directed the 2023 four-part series Heat, created by Jason Herbison.
Filmography
Personal life
Kendall is married to former Carlton Football Club AFL player Wayne Johnston and has a son and four stepchildren.
References
External links
Living people
1973 births
Australian television actresses
Australian soap opera actresses
Australian women television directors
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20Jr.%20%28British%20and%20Irish%20TV%20channel%29
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Nick Jr. is a British pay television channel owned and operated by Paramount Networks UK & Australia. The channel is aimed at preschool children.
History
Nick Jr. was first broadcast in the UK and Ireland on 1 September 1993 during the daytime hours from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. on weekdays on Nickelodeon, though these hours varied over time, particularly when Nick Jr. aired in a breakfast slot in the school holidays (mostly summer time), its programming was a mix of shows from the US version of Nick Jr and other imported shows, Later in the block's existence, syndicated British children's programmes would be a main focus of the channel as well. Its identity followed that of the US feed of the block as well. By the late 1990's it was mostly broadcast between 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
On 10 June 1999, it was announced that the block would be spun off into a channel, and its new branding was being finalised. The channel launched on 1 September 1999 as the world's first dedicated preschoolers' channel. On the Astra 1B satellite of Sky's analogue satellite service, the new channel timeshared with Sky Sports 3 and broadcast between 6 am and 10 am, although this schedule would sometimes be altered if sports were being covered in the early morning. On digital satellite and cable, Nick Jr. aired from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. A spinoff of the recently-launched American Noggin channel was proposed to timeshare with Nick Jr., but this never materialised.
The Nick Jr. block on Nickelodeon continued until July 2000, before it was closed due to the high uptake of Sky Digital. On 31 August 2000, Nick Jr ceased broadcasting on analogue satellite.
On 3 September 2001, MTV Dance started broadcasting during Nick Jr's downtime hours after it was spun off from MTV Extra.
The channel refreshed on 4 February 2002 – Dora the Explorer, The Hoobs and the channel's first homegrown produced series "You Do Too" had their premieres the same day of the rebrand.
On 19 July 2002, the channel moved its EPG slot on Sky to make way for the incoming Nicktoons channel.
On 13 August 2002, MTV Dance acquired its own separate channel. By December, Nick Jr. had gained another hour at the end of the broadcasting day, now operating from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.
On 31 May 2004, Nick Jr extended its runtime to end at 10 p.m., in order to launch Noggin, a block that showed classic British children's TV programmes from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., causing the exodus of these shows from the main daytime schedule leaving more space for new shows.
On 5 September 2005, the Noggin block was changed to Nick Jr Classics as part of a channel-wide refresh (see Identity). The Backyardigans had its linear UK premiere on the same day of the rebrand.
A version of Nick Jr. for Ireland was launched in 2006. This version, like the Irish version of Nickelodeon, shares the same schedule as the British version of the channel but has Irish adverts.
On 30 January 2006, a spinoff of the American Noggin, as a block showing Nick Jr programmes
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Generative Modelling Language (GML) in computer graphics and generative computer programming is a very simple programming language for the concise description of complex 3D shapes. It follows the "Generative Modelling" paradigm, where complex datasets are represented by "lists of operations" rather than by lists of objects, which is for instance the case in a relational database.
Overview
Usual 3D file formats describe a virtual world in terms of geometric primitives. These may be cubes and spheres in a CSG tree, NURBS patches, a set of implicit functions, a triangle mesh, or just a cloud of points. The term "generative 3D modelling" describes a different paradigm for describing shape. The main idea is to replace 3D objects by object-generating operations: A shape is described by a sequence of processing steps, rather than the triangles which are the result of applying these operations. Shape design becomes rule design. The approach can be generally applied to any shape representation that provides a basic set of generating functions, called in this context 'elementary shape operators'. Its effectiveness has been demonstrated, e.g., in the field of procedural mesh generation, with Euler operators as complete and closed set of invertible shape generating functions for meshes, operating on the half-edge level.
Generative modelling gains efficiency through the possibility of creating high-level shape operators from low-level shape operators. Any sequence of processing steps can be grouped together to create a new combined operator. It may use elementary operators as well as other combined operators. Concrete values can easily be replaced by parameters, which makes it possible to separate data from operations: The same processing sequence can be applied to different input data sets. The same data can be used to produce different shapes by applying different combined operators from, e.g., a library of domain-dependent modelling operators. This makes it possible to create very complex objects from only a few high-level input parameters, such as for instance a style library.
The Generative Modelling Language
The GML is a concrete implementation of the generative approach. It is a stack-based, interpreted programming language, very similar to Adobe's PostScript, but without any of the 2D layout operators. It provides instead a number of operators for creating 3D models (polygons, b-reps, subdivision surfaces). As a "shape programming language," it is a true generalization of "flat" 3D file formats like OBJ, DXF, or VRML that contain just lists of geometric primitives.
Together with its OpenGL-based runtime engine the GML can also be seen as a viewer with an integrated modeller, to overcome the usual separation of 3D modelling from interactive visualization. Both are interwoven instead. GML permits a concise representation of parameterized 3D objects which can be evaluated on-the-fly at runtime, rendered with adaptive level-of-detail, and allows fo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dentsu%20International
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Dentsu International (previously Dentsu Aegis Network) is a multinational media and digital marketing communications company headquartered in London, United Kingdom, and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Japanese advertising and public relations firm Dentsu. Its principal services are communications strategy through digital creative execution, media planning and buying, sports marketing and content creation, brand tracking and marketing analytics.
It is organised into ten main divisions: Carat, Dentsu (operations outside Japan), Dentsu media, mcgarrybowen, Merkle, Fountainhead MKTG, Posterscope, Isobar, Soap Creative, iProspect and Vizeum. Dentsu Aegis Network manages all the Dentsu inc. owned businesses outside the Japan market, which includes the former Aegis Group business that it acquired in 2013. It also includes 360i, Amplifi, Amnet, BJL, Grip Limited, The StoryLab, Data2Decisions, Mitchell Communications, Cardinal Path and psLIVE. It has 66,000 people across 143 countries.
Aegis' origins date back to the founding of the media agency Centrale d'Achats Radio, Affichage, Télévision (Carat) in France in 1966. Formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange and a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index, Aegis was acquired by the Japan-based advertising group Dentsu in March 2013.
History
The Carat business can be traced back to the founding in France in 1966 by Gilbert Gross of the media agency Centrale d'achats Radio, Affichage, Télévision (Carat). Gross died in March 2019.
In 1979 WCRS Group was formed as an advertising agency and in 1988 WCRS Group acquired Carat. WCRS Group became one of the fastest growing marketing services groups of the 1980s.
WCRS Group was led by Peter Scott—the "S" of WCRS—who went on to found Aegis in 1989 as a separate company based on the original WCRS media buying division which itself was centred on the French media business Carat.
The old WCRS agency has re-emerged as part of the Engine Group.
In 1990, the name of the company was officially changed from WCRS to Aegis Group.
In January 2012, Aegis acquired Singapore digital agency The Upper Storey.
In July 2012, the Japanese advertising company Dentsu agreed to acquire Aegis for £3.16 billion (US$5 billion). Aegis shareholders approved the transaction on 16 August 2012 and the acquisition was completed on 26 March 2013 following receipt of clearance from the antitrust authorities of China.
In January 2014, Dentsu established and launched Dentsu Aegis Network which comprises Aegis Business and all the Dentsu-owned companies outside Japan.
In January 2015, Dentsu Aegis Network acquired WATConsult, a digital and social media.
In February 2015, Dentsu Aegis Network acquired Soap Creative, a digital creative agency from Australia.
In December 2015, Dentsu Aegis Network acquired Aspac Creative Communications and Jayme Syfu group, advertising agencies based in the Philippines. In the same month, Dentsu Aegis Network also acquired Singapore-based business-to-business a
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VH1 Brasil was a music channel from Viacom-owned Viacom International Media Networks The Americas. The network was launched in November 2005 on some cable systems, but it was not until May 2006 that it was launched on DirecTV Brazil, replacing MTV Latin America.
It targets 25- to 44-year-olds and plays local and international music videos from the 1970s to the 2000s. It also airs famous "Top 20" and "Top 40" countdowns from VH1 USA. At its launch, VH1's Celebreality shows, such as The Surreal Life, Breaking Bonaduce, My Fair Brady, Supergroup and So NoTORIous, were not aired on VH1 Brasil, yet they did air on its sister network, VH1 Latin America. However, since September 2006, the network has started running those shows, starting with The Surreal Life.
VH1 Brasil also airs The Graham Norton Show, MTV-produced Next and Comedy Central-produced South Park.
VH1 Brasil replaced VH1 Soul on SKY Brasil, where it was available in the country since 2004, though, in 2013, SKY replaced VH1's standard-definition feed with the relaunched MTV, while retaining VH1 HD. In December 12, 2014, VH1 was also taken off from NET, being replaced with a local version of VH1 MegaHits. VH1 Brasil was replaced by Paramount Channel on November 14, 2014.
Programming on VH1 Brasil
Original VH1 programming:
I Could Kill For Dessert (original Brazilian series)
Esposas da Máfia (Mob Wives)
Audrina
Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew
Pop Up Video
Os Modelos Mais Inteligentíssimos da América (America's Most Smartest Model)
Flavor of Love: Sabores do Amor (Flavor of Love)
Rock of Love with Bret Michaels
Rock of Love Bus
Escola de Charme: Rock of Love (Rock of Love: Charm School)
I Love New York
New York Goes to Hollywood
I Love Money: Tudo por Dinheiro (I Love Money)
Papai Hogan Sabe Tudo (Hogan Knows Best)
Brooke Sabe Tudo (Brooke Knows Best)
Old Skool with Terry & Gita
A Escola de Rock de Gene Simmons (Gene Simmons' Rock School)
Celebridades Paranormais (Celebrity Paranormal Project)
A Vida Surrealista (The Surreal Life)
Meu Querido Brady (My Fair Brady)
A Glamurosa Vida de... (The Fabulous Life of...)
Behind the Music
Original VH1 specials:
VH1 Divas 2009
VH1 Storytellers
Other Viacom Media Networks programming:
Jennie Garth: De Casa Nova (Jennie Garth: A Little Bit Country, from CMT)
That Metal Show (from VH1 Classic)
Unplugged (MTV Unplugged, from MTV)
Bully Beatdown (from MTV)
Só Quero Minhas Calças (I Just Want My Pants Back, from MTV)
Meninas Malvadas (Niñas Mal, from MTV Latin America)
Popland! (from MTV Latin America)
South Park (from Comedy Central, also seen on MTV. Before airing in VH1 Brasil, it aired in Locomotion before Locomotion's closure and Animax's launch)
She's Got the Look (from TV Land, currently seen on E!)
Next (from MTV)
RuPaul e a Corrida das Loucas (RuPaul's Drag Race, from Logo TV)
Ugly Americans (from Comedy Central)
Beavis and Butt-Head (from MTV)
Ren e Stimpy Só para Adultos (Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon", from Spike TV, also seen on Multishow)
Othe
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAMD
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FAMD may refer to:
Factor analysis of mixed data
Mala Mala Airport, ICAO airport code FAMD
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is a Japanese television broadcasting company serving viewers in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Launched in March 1990 and broadcasting from London, it carries the programming from the NHK World Premium service in the regions served.
JSTV was set up in early 1990 by Marubeni-Iida in association with the Mitsukoshi department store chain. Test broadcasts were slated for a 15 February launch and were set to commence regular broadcasts on 1 March. The service was initially going to be free-to-air, eyeing for an encryption in 1991, when the channel would switch to a subscription system (£10 per month).
The channel initially broadcast for two hours each night from 8pm (GMT) on the Lifestyle transponder 5 on the Astra 1A satellite in analogue format (frequency 11.273 MHz, time-sharing with The Children's Channel, Lifestyle and The Lifestyle Satellite Jukebox). Later on 3 June 1991, it started using transponder 24 on Astra 1B, at frequency 11.567 MHz for 11 hours a day, using the Videocrypt II encryption (time-sharing with The Children's Channel and later with CMT Europe). It eventually moved to transponder 53 (frequency 10.773) to broadcast 24 hours a day. Analogue transmissions for JSTV on Astra ceased on 31 October 2001.
JSTV currently broadcasts in DVB-S on Eutelsat Hotbird 13G, encrypted in Conax, except some programmes, and broadcasts programs of NHK, Fuji TV, TV Tokyo and other main Japanese broadcasters. News programs are mostly direct and Live from the original broadcaster, however several other programs such as Anime and Variety shows are not up to date. Not all programs are encrypted; NHK News 7, News Watch 9 and some English programs are broadcast free-to-air.
JSTV currently operates two channels: JSTV1 which broadcasts TV programmes approximately 20 hours a day and JSTV2 which broadcasts TV programmes 24 hours a day.
On May 16, 2023, NHK Cosmomedia (Europe) announced on its website that it plans to shut down the JSTV service at the end of October 2023. They cited "a decline in the number of subscribing households and changes in the environment surrounding broadcasting" as key factors in the decision. From September, as part of a transitional measure, JSTV1 will relay NHK World Premium on an eight-hour delay and JSTV2, the same but live until the closure of the channels. Following the closure, NHK World Premium will replace JSTV.
Stockholders
NHK Enterprise, Inc.
Marubeni Corporation Plc
Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd.
All Nippon Airways, Co. Ltd
Mitsukoshi UK, Ltd.
NHK Global Media Services, Inc.
Encryption & Availability
Satellite
DVB-S2 MPEG-4: Hot Bird 13G (11179 MHz, Horisontal, 3/4, VPID 901, APID 902/903) Encrypted (Conax). Cryptoworks encryption was discontinued on 30 September 2019.
Analogue: ASTRA [Closed down on 31 October 2001]
Hotels
Currently, JSTV broadcasts in several hotels in Europe and the Middle East, Complete list available on the official web site of JSTV and NHK's English page "Overseas hotel
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmofon
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Founded in 2003, Cosmofon was the second GSM mobile phone operator in the Republic of Macedonia. The first call through the network of Cosmofon took place on May 16, 2003, and now its network codes are 075 and 076.
Cosmofon commenced its commercial operation on June 12, 2003.
Until March 2009, Cosmofon was a company owned 100% by the Cosmote Group from Greece, Romania Cosmofon, and Bulgaria with its team Cosmofon which is a member of national telecommunications provider of Greece OTE. As of March, Cosmofon had a 30% market share in the Republic of Macedonia, with about 650,000 subscribers.
In 2008, Deutsche Telekom bought a 25% stake in the Greek company, following that investment OTE had to sell Cosmofon, because it had large equity stakes in two large competitors in the Macedonian mobile phone market.
In March 2009, OTE sold its mobile phone unit Cosmofon for 190 million euros to Slovenia's Telekom. The deal also includes Cosmofon's main distribution network 'Germanos Telekom Skopje' with its 66 stores.
References
External links
Cosmofon website
Mobile phone companies of North Macedonia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy%20Bush
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This is the baseball player. For the computer scientist see Randy Bush (scientist)
Robert Randall Bush (born October 5, 1958) is a former Major League Baseball player and current front office member of the Chicago Cubs. He played 12 seasons for the Minnesota Twins from 1982 to 1993, mainly as an outfielder and designated hitter, compiling 96 home runs, 409 RBIs, and a career batting average of .251 in 1,219 games with Minnesota.
Amateur career
A native of Dover, Delaware, Bush played baseball at the University of New Orleans. In 1979, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Wareham Gatemen of the Cape Cod Baseball League.
Professional career
Bush was selected in the second round of the 1979 Major League Baseball Draft by the Minnesota Twins and spent the next three seasons in the minor leagues before making his major league debut in 1982. Although used primarily as the Twins' designated hitter his first three seasons, Bush saw most of his action in right and left field, but also saw time at first base and even one game in center field. However it was likely that his chief role with the Twins was as a pinch hitter, as he twice had 13 pinch hits in a season - leading the American League in that category in 1991 and finishing third in 1986 and 1992. In 1991, Bush tied an American League record with a pinch-hit in seven consecutive games. After resigning him in 1988, 1990, and 1993 as a free agent, Bush was given his unconditional release from the Twins on June 27, 1993.
Bush was one of seven Twins to be part of both the 1987 and 1991 World Series teams. The other six were Dan Gladden, Greg Gagne, Kirby Puckett, Al Newman, Gene Larkin, and Kent Hrbek.
Post-playing career
Bush was head coach of the University of New Orleans baseball team from 2000 through 2005.
In January 2005, he was named the special assistant to the general manager of the Chicago Cubs, during which time he served as an advance scout for the team charting other major league teams and players as well as the Cubs' own minor league system. In December 2006, he was promoted to the position of assistant general manager of the Cubs. On August 19, 2011, Bush was named the interim general manager of the Chicago Cubs replacing Jim Hendry. Bush was retained by new president of baseball operations Theo Epstein when he was hired, and continued in an assistant GM role. On October 4, 2012, it was announced that Cubs will have two assistant general managers with the promotion of Shiraz Rehman, with Bush continuing to in the same role. On October 20, 2021, it was announced that Bush would be transitioning out of the front office and take a new role as a senior advisor for baseball operations.
Personal
He has two sons, Jason and Ryan. And a grandson Jackson Bush.
See also
List of Major League Baseball players who spent their entire career with one franchise
References
External links
1958 births
Living people
Baseball players from Delaware
Chicago Cubs executives
Major League Baseba
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gage%20Academy%20of%20Art
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Gage Academy of Art is a fine art school located in Seattle, Washington, specializing in drawing, painting and sculpting. The core of its programming is traditional observational training, with an emphasis on the foundational skills of figure drawing and painting. Other classes include perspective, watercolor, still-life drawing and painting, cast drawing, egg tempera, design concepts, color theory and encaustic techniques.
History
Gage was conceived in 1989 by New York artist Gary Faigin and architect Pamela Belyea. The following summer, they began a month-long series of workshops held in Santa Fe. By 1992, after the founders moved to Seattle, it had expanded to scheduled workshops in New York, Seattle and Santa Fe.
In 1991, the school began operating year-round in Seattle under the name the Academy of Realist Art, offering a variety of classes and workshops for artists of all levels of ability. Two years later, Gage added summer art workshops for teens. This addition paved the way for year-round programs for children and teens offered presently both on-site and in the Seattle community
Over the next decade, Gage grew rapidly. In 2004, the school transitioned into the historic St. Nicholas Building in Seattle’s Capitol Hill area, quadrupling its square footage. This enabled the school to offer a broader range of educational and community events, specifically those tailored to serving emerging artists in the Seattle area.
Though the school became a nonprofit organization in 2000, adopting the name the Seattle Academy of Fine Art, it changed its name again in 2006 to Gage Academy of Art, thereby incorporating an old French-English word meaning "a challenge" or "a pledge."
Gage Academy of Art has earned awards for its contribution to the arts both in the local community and on a state-wide level. Most notably are the Mayor’s Small Business Award given in 1998 and the Governor’s Arts Award in 2007 for arts education across Washington State. In 2019, Gage celebrated 30 years in art education.
Community Events
Gage holds two major community events: Drawing Jam and Best of Gage. The former takes place in December, and features a cast of more than 50 models rotating throughout the building’s studios accompanied by musicians.
In June, Gage invites its adult artists to showcase their work for a month-long exhibition called Best of Gage, a Student Art Exhibition.
Every year Gage also hosts an art auction to support the nonprofit institution.
In addition to the large-scale community events, Gage holds numerous lunch-time professional development seminars. ArtTalk focuses on artists’ intentions, process and methods. Artist’s Toolkit centers on the "real world" of art.
Exhibitions
Gage offers free rotating exhibitions in three galleries within the school. Art from students, instructors and locally and nationally recognized guest artists have been displayed in the Steele Gallery, Rosen Gallery and Entry Gallery. Past artists have included Anna McKee,
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National Geographic is a British pay television channel that features documentaries produced by the National Geographic Society. It features some programming similar to that on the Discovery Channel such as nature and science documentaries. The channel was launched in Europe in September 1997 and time shared initially with the failing NBC Europe until NBC Europe's demise in 1998, at which point it began timesharing with Fox Kids (in the UK, replacing the failed first iteration of Sky 2); with analogue transmission of the channel ending, and the sale of Fox Kids to Disney, timesharing was eventually superseded by 24-hour broadcasting. It was later launched worldwide including in Asia and the United States. Today, the channel is available in over 143 countries, seen in more than 160 million homes and in 25 languages.
It is owned by a company called the "NGC-UK Partnership", which initially was jointly owned by the National Geographic Society and British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB), but in 2006, Sky's parent company News Corporation (now The Walt Disney Company) purchased 25 percent of the stake in the partnership, followed by the acquisition of BSkyB's remaining 50 percent stake by its sister company, the Fox Entertainment Group.
This includes an English-language version for the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta and Iceland. It also includes Dutch, Italian, Norwegian and Turkish speaking channels among others. The channel's musical signature is the Elmer Bernstein composed theme that has also appeared on the National Geographic broadcast-TV specials.
Company
The channel is owned by the NGC-UK Partnership, which was formed in 1997 as a joint venture between National Geographic Television & Film, a division of the National Geographic Society and British Sky Broadcasting through its Sky Ventures division. The NGS provides programming expertise, while BSkyB provides its expertise on distribution, marketing, commercial and advertising sales. The partnership builds and operates National Geographic channels and services across Europe. It is headquartered in London. In December 2006, News Corporation purchased 25 percent of the Society's stake in the company. This meant that BSkyB owned half company, while the National Geographic Society and News Corp held 25 percent share each. In December 2007, BSkyB sold its stake in the partnership to the Fox Entertainment Group, through its Fox Networks Group subsidiary.
HD feed
The channel launched its own high-definition feed on 22 May 2006 on Sky. The channel joined Virgin Media's cable TV line-up on 30 July 2009. On 5 August 2009, it was also made available on UPC Ireland's cable TV service. The HD version available in the UK and Ireland was not originally a simulcast of the standard definition version of the National Geographic Channel, with some of the content coming from Rush HD, however from 1 December 2010 National Geographic Channel HD became a simulcast feed.
Programmes
Air Crash Investigation
Ape Man
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Storage Technology Corporation (marketing as 'StorageTek' [one word]) created several magnetic tape data storage formats. These are commonly used with large computer systems, typically in conjunction with a robotic tape library. The most recent format is the T10000. StorageTek primarily competed with IBM in this market, and continued to do so after its acquisition by Sun Microsystems in 2005 and as part of the Sun Microsystems acquisition by Oracle in 2009.
Cartridge formats
Most (but not all) modern tape cartridges are format tape, first popularized by the IBM 3480 and DEC DLT formats. This is a small, rectangular and easily handled tape cartridge compared to the previously common 7-track and 9-track round tape reels. This form factor has proven to work well with stand alone drives and for use in automated tape libraries.
Nearly all 1/2" tape formats today are a single hub design, whereby the tape is wound onto a single hub, entirely within the external shell and presents one end for the tape drive to engage and thread into the tape drive for reading or writing. The mechanical design of this loading mechanism varies between different types of tape media and is a common source of failures. Usually the tape cartridge incorporates a switch that can be set to permit or forbid writing of data to the tape.
It is very common for the tape cartridge to be identified by an external label or sticker, which is normally both in human readable characters such as AB1023 and also in bar code, to be read by devices in an automated library.
At the end of the tape, the drive reversed the direction of tape motion, moved the read and write heads slightly vertically across the tape, and continued to write (or read) more data until the beginning of the tape was reached. This process could be repeated many times, laying down several track sets on the tape media in a serpentine recording mode. The StorageTek 9840, 9940 and T10000 drives are all serpentine recording drives.
The StorageTek SD3 drive was different, being based upon a modified video recording device. The tape advanced steadily, and data was recorded (or read) by a cylindrical head rotating at high speed and inclined at a small angle to the direction of tape motion, laying down (or reading back) a series of short data tracks very closely spaced together, helical scan.
The StorageTek 9840 series of drives used a relatively unusual dual tape hub mechanism within the 3480 format shell, similar to the familiar audio tape format. This reduced the length of tape that could be stored inside the shell, and hence reduced the data capacity of the cartridge. However, it made the loading or threading of the tape into the drive very fast, which was useful in business applications - and the drive price was very high in comparison to the contemporary LTO drive, despite having one fifth of its capacity.
These tape formats are popular in mainframe environments.
Drives used ESCON, FICON, Fibre Channel, or SCSI in
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Overland Storage is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sphere 3D Corp. It has acquired Tandberg Data shortly before being acquired by Sphere 3D itself. The two subsidiaries were later rebranded under the common Overland-Tandberg brand.
History
It was founded in 1980 as "Overland Data" in San Diego, California, and is a provider of data protection appliances for midrange and distributed enterprises. Overland’s products include NEO SERIES tape libraries, REO SERIES disk-based appliances with Virtual Tape Library (VTL) capabilities, Snap SAN storage area network-based appliances and SnapServer network-attached storage-based appliances. Overland sells its products through leading OEMs, commercial distributors, storage integrators and value-added resellers.
Overland originally manufactured IBM-compatible 9-track tape drives. In January 2000, Overland acquired Tecmar and its line of small system tape drives including the WangTek and WangDAT brands. Following smaller acquisitions of disk-based product lines (including startup Zetta Systems in 2005), in June 2008, Overland acquired Snap Server from Adaptec.
In January 2009, Eric Kelly, a board member since 2007 and the head of its recently acquired SnapServer NAS line, became CEO of Overland Storage. Other executive team changes in 2009 included Jillian Mansolf, formerly of Dell Inc., Maxtor and Data Robotics Inc., as the new vice president of worldwide sales and marketing; Geoff Barrall, formerly the CEO and founder of Data Robotics Inc. and BlueArc, as chief technology officer and vice president of engineering and Chris Gopal, most recently of Dell, as vice president of operations.
In February 2010, Overland debuted the latest in its SnapServer SAN line, Snap SAN S2000, the company's first iSCSI SAN. Later that month, Overland debuted LTO-5 technology across its NEO line of enterprise tape libraries, becoming the first company to offer the newer, faster tape technology to customers.
In mid-summer 2010, Overland opened the doors to a new Silicon Valley office in San Jose, California. In July 2010, Overland unveiled the SnapServer N2000, a block-and-file-level NAS or SAN package aimed at virtualized environments running VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V or Citrix XenServer. N2000 is integrated for Microsoft Windows and Unix and can scale up to 144 TB in a 2U form factor. Also in July, Overland unveiled the NEO 8000e, an enhanced version of the company's NEO 8000 series of enterprise tape libraries, that with LTO-5, scales up to 3 PB of capacity and has a data transfer rate of 24 TB per hour.
Current Products
SnapServer network-attached storage (NAS) and Snap SAN storage area network (SAN) are disk-based data storage from 1TB to hundreds of terabytes and are designed for remote offices, workgroups, departments, and distributed enterprises.
SnapSAN S5000
SnapSAN S3000
SnapServer N2000
SnapServer DX2
SnapServer DX1
SnapServer 410
SnapServer 210
REO Series: Disk-based backup and recovery
REO 4600
NEO
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20R.%20White
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Douglas R. White (1942 – 22 August 2021) was an American complexity researcher, social anthropologist, sociologist, and social network researcher at the University of California, Irvine.
Biography
Douglas White was born in Minneapolis in 1942. He attended the University of Michigan, Columbia University, and the University of Minnesota, where he received a B.A. in 1964, an M.A. in 1967, and a Ph.D. degree in 1969, all under advisor E. Adamson Hoebel and the Travelling Scholars Program.
White taught at the University of Pittsburgh from 1967 to 1976. Since then he has been a Social Science Professor at the University of California, Irvine, teaching in Social Relations, in Comparative Culture, in Social Networks and in Anthropology. He co-founded and chaired the Social Networks PhD program and within the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences chaired the Social Dynamics and Complexity research group and the UC four-campus videoconference group.
He was on the external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, was on the governing Council of the European Complex Systems Society, and served as President of the Social Science Computing Association and of the Linkages Development Research Council.
He founded the World Cultures electronic journal in 1985 as part of the movement for open access scientific data and publication and founded the open access and peer reviewed Structure and Dynamics electronic journal in 2005, where he continued as editor-in-chief.
He was a recipient of the U.S. Distinguished Scientist Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the "Best Paper in Mathematical Sociology of 2004" Award of the American Sociological Association (2004), and the 2007 "Viviana Zelizer Distinguished Scholarship Award" for the outstanding article published in the field of economic sociology in the previous two years.
Work
Major contributions of Douglas R. White:
White was known for Cross-cultural studies, studies of the division of labor, sexual division of labor, polygyny, marriage and kinship, his collaborative creation of the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample (SCCS), and public domain distribution of SCCS data, courseware and software, which has given way to the UCI Complex Social Science Gateway that hosts Anthropology's Ethnographics of the Lives of World Peoples along with software used in solving Galton's problem of autocorrelation for analysis of observational data, and for research on:
Longitudinal historical evolution and field studies of human groups, larger societies, and city systems
Mathematical modeling of social, economic, and historical dynamics, as well as statistical entailment analysis, Galton's problem, the Natchez Paradox, Structural endogamy and network simulation, regular equivalence, flow centrality, and structural cohesion,
Social networks, including, more specifically, the network realism paradigm,
Social complexity and complex-network system dynamics.
Standard Cross-Cultural Sample
System dynamics Studies of wo
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Space Empires IV is a turn-based 4X strategy computer game developed by Malfador Machinations and published by Strategy First as part of the Space Empires series in which players control an alien race in an attempt at galactic conquest.
Gameplay
The gameplay is similar to Civilization style games in the sense that one controls the overall organization of the alien race on a scale far above that of controlling individual persons. Combat is not necessitated by the game itself and players are free to engage in political negotiations with their rivals. The mechanics of the game allow players to either improve their planets' resource production through the construction of facilities or build more ships with which to defend their empires.
There are multiple ways that players can conquer other empires, depending on the setting enabled by the player during set up. The most direct way is destroying the colonies and home world of their rivals using ever more devastating weapons. Further along the tech tree this is facilitated by technology, allowing the player to destroy planets whole and manipulate stars turning entire systems into black holes or storms. Other ways to win include diplomatic allying with all races and maintaining peace throughout the universe (a difficult feat with rival computer players fighting amongst themselves).
Mechanisms
In Space Empires IV the galaxy is represented by a number of discrete areas called "systems" which represent complete star systems. These are usually connected to each other by "warp points" through which a ship or fleet can travel to another system. The standard system comprises a number of stars, planets, asteroids, storms and warp points. Some stars may be more prone to going supernova which will destroy the entire system, or may cause effects to ships passing by. Planets are either ice, rock or gas types, with an atmosphere of none, hydrogen, oxygen, methane or carbon dioxide. They range in size of tiny, small, medium, large, and huge. Planets also have "conditions", the quality of which affects the rate of reproduction for inhabitants and their happiness on the world. A planet also has a number of values for "mineral", "organic" and "radioactive" content. Once colonized, a player may build facilities to mine these resources on a world. The rate of production of each resource is modified by the values for each planet.
Races
Space Empires IV allows the player to select one of a variety of alien races to represent them and then compete against a selection of the others. As well as the usual human race, the Terrans, there are a number of races which are otherwise notable due to their propensity for successful play. The Praetorian empire will often become a very formidable rival due to their expansionist tendencies and peaceful nature. Likewise the Eee consortium's high intelligence will often grant them technological superiority in the late game. By contrast the Xi-Chung hive's aggressive tendencies and tec
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagot%20Ka%2C%20Isusumbong%20Kita
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() is a Philippine television situational comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. Starring Joey Marquez, Benjie Paras, Richard Gomez, and Raymart Santiago it premiered on October 20, 2003 on the network's KiliTV line up. The series concluded on April 9, 2007 with a total of 182 episodes.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Richard Gomez as Ric
Joey Marquez as Tsong
Benjie Paras as Junior
Raymart Santiago as Toto
Supporting cast
Pilita Corrales as Rosa/Mamita
Maureen Larrazabal as Tisay
Alicia Mayer as Sussy
Bearwin Meily as Tom
Toni Gonzaga as Toni
Nancy Castiglione as Trisha
Teri Onor as Romeo
Vangie Labalan as Tusha
Alyssa Alano as Shirley
Gladys Guevarra as Lyn Chin
Cogie Domingo as Kiko
References
External links
2003 Philippine television series debuts
2007 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine comedy television series
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola%20E770
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The Motorola E770 mobile phone (also known as the E770v denoting a Vodafone network specific variant of this handset) is a 3G phone that operates primarily on the third generation phone network; however, it can be downscable to GPRS 2.5 and below if required.
The E770v resembles very much by looks with Motorola's famous E398 model; still, the hardware differences are pretty substantial.
It was announced in 2005, 4th Quarter.
Performance
It weighs 108 grams The Standard Battery has 160 mins talktime and a standby time of 260 hours.
Features
Built-in antenna
Built-in handsfree
UMTS and GSM Triband - 900/1800/1900 MHz
WAP 2.0 / xHTML Browser
Data compatible via USB cable or Bluetooth
Internal Memory - 32MB
MicroSD TransFlash External Memory Card up to 1GB
Java MIDP 2.0
SyncML
Messaging: SMS, MMS, Email, Instant messaging.
MP3, MP4, WMA music support
Vibrate alert
TFT display, 176 x 220 pixels (30 x 38 mm), 65K colors.
Video capture, playback, download and streaming
2 built-in VGA digital cameras:
640x840 video camera.
Secondary VGA video call camera
Video messaging
Video playback full screen at 176/144 30fps
Data
GPRS: Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbit/s
HSCSD: No
EDGE: No
3G: Yes, 384 kbit/s.
WLAN: No
Bluetooth: v1.2 with A2DP
Infrared port: No
USB: miniUSB
Limitations
The phone has been found to have some limitations by its users, including bluetooth file transfer size limitations, non-removable or changeable operator settings such as logos and hotkeys, and music playback limitations (bitrates over 192 kbit/s are not supported).
References
Motorola E770 - Full phone specifications
External links
Motorola Website link to E770
Motorola.com
English forums for Motorola E770
E770
Videotelephony
Mobile phones introduced in 2005
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%20%28higher-order%20function%29
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In many programming languages, map is the name of a higher-order function that applies a given function to each element of a collection, e.g. a list or set, returning the results in a collection of the same type. It is often called apply-to-all when considered in functional form.
The concept of a map is not limited to lists: it works for sequential containers, tree-like containers, or even abstract containers such as futures and promises.
Examples: mapping a list
Suppose we have a list of integers [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] and would like to calculate the square of each integer. To do this, we first define a function to square a single number (shown here in Haskell):
square x = x * x
Afterwards we may call
>>> map square [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
which yields [1, 4, 9, 16, 25], demonstrating that map has gone through the entire list and applied the function square to each element.
Visual example
Below, you can see a view of each step of the mapping process for a list of integers X = [0, 5, 8, 3, 2, 1] that we want to map into a new list X' according to the function :
The map is provided as part of the Haskell's base prelude (i.e. "standard library") and is implemented as:
map :: (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b]
map _ [] = []
map f (x : xs) = f x : map f xs
Generalization
In Haskell, the polymorphic function map :: (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b] is generalized to a polytypic function fmap :: Functor f => (a -> b) -> f a -> f b, which applies to any type belonging the Functor type class.
The type constructor of lists [] can be defined as an instance of the Functor type class using the map function from the previous example:
instance Functor [] where
fmap = map
Other examples of Functor instances include trees:
-- a simple binary tree
data Tree a = Leaf a | Fork (Tree a) (Tree a)
instance Functor Tree where
fmap f (Leaf x) = Leaf (f x)
fmap f (Fork l r) = Fork (fmap f l) (fmap f r)
Mapping over a tree yields:
>>> fmap square (Fork (Fork (Leaf 1) (Leaf 2)) (Fork (Leaf 3) (Leaf 4)))
Fork (Fork (Leaf 1) (Leaf 4)) (Fork (Leaf 9) (Leaf 16))
For every instance of the Functor type class, fmap is contractually obliged to obey the functor laws:
fmap id ≡ id -- identity law
fmap (f . g) ≡ fmap f . fmap g -- composition law
where . denotes function composition in Haskell.
Among other uses, this allows defining element-wise operations for various kinds of collections.
Category-theoretic background
In category theory, a functor consists of two maps: one that sends each object of the category to another object , and one that sends each morphism to another morphism , which acts as a homomorphism on categories (i.e. it respects the category axioms). Interpreting the universe of data types as a category , with morphisms being functions, then a type constructor F that is a member of the Functor type class is the object part of such a functor, and fmap :: (a -> b) -> F a -> F b is the morphism part. The functor laws described above are precise
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20rollover
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Key rollover is the ability of a computer keyboard to correctly handle several simultaneous keystrokes. A keyboard with n-key rollover (NKRO) can correctly detect input from each key on the keyboard at the same time, regardless of how many other keys are also being pressed. Keyboards that lack full rollover will register an incorrect keystroke when certain combinations of keys are pressed simultaneously. Rollover has applications for stenotype, electronic music keyboards, gaming, and touch-typing generally.
Keyboard usage
During normal typing on a conventional computer keyboard, only one key is usually pressed at any given time, then released before the next key is pressed. However, this is not always the case. When using modifier keys such as Shift or Control, the user intentionally holds the modifier key(s) while pressing and releasing another key.
Rapid typists may also sometimes inadvertently press a key before releasing the previous one.
Certain unusual forms of keyboarding require multiple keys to be pressed or held down simultaneously;
for example:
Braille2000 keying requires as many as six keys to be pressed at once analogous to the six dot keys of a Braille typewriter.
Stenographic typing also requires the ability to press multiple keys at once to form "chords."
Some computer games require multiple keys (other than the usual modifier keys) to be held down while others are pressed and released, in order to perform actions simultaneously;
a common scenario would be the holding down of two Arrow keys or WASD keys in order to move the player in a diagonal direction.
Other scenarios might be pressing a key to interact with an object or item in the game while holding down an Arrow key to signify movement.
n-key rollover
Certain high-end keyboards have -key rollover (NKRO). This means that each key is scanned completely independently by the keyboard hardware, so that each keypress is correctly detected regardless of how many other keys are being pressed or held down at the time. Full -key rollover is required for stenotype, which relies on chording to input text far faster than conventional typing methods, allowing it to keep pace with the speed of human speech.
Most music keyboards use isolation diodes in their keyboard matrix to implement full -key rollover, making them immune to both key ghosting and key jamming.
For the user to get the benefit of the full -key rollover, the complete key press status must be transmitted to the computer. When the data is sent via the USB protocol, there are two operating modes: Human Interface Device (HID) "report protocol" and "boot protocol". The (optional) boot protocol, which is solely used by very limited USB host implementations such as BIOS, is limited to eight modifier keys (left and right versions of Ctrl, Shift, Alt, and Win), followed by maximum six key codes. This will limit the number of simultaneous key presses that can be reported. The (mandatory) HID report protocol, which is wha
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macleaya
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Macleaya, or plume poppy, is a genus of two or three species of flowering plants in the poppy family Papaveraceae, native to Japan (Macleaya cordata) and China (Macleaya microcarpa). They are large rhizomatous herbaceous perennials with palmately lobed, frilly leaves of olive green or grey colour, long, and tall stems with airy plumes of petal-less, tubular, off-white or cream flowers.
Macleaya is named after the Scottish entomologist Alexander Macleay (1767-1848).
Cultivation
Both of the known species and the hybrid are cultivated as ornamental plants. The individual flowers are insignificant, but the combined effect of multiple stems four to six feet high can give a striking architectural effect. The plants are unsuitable for small gardens because of their invasive tendencies, but can be very effective as features in large gardens. They spread both by underground suckers and by seeding, so can be difficult to get rid of in some situations.
The cultivar M. × kewensis ‘Flamingo’ has gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit.
Species and hybrids
Macleaya cordata
Macleaya microcarpa
Macleaya × kewensis (Macleaya cordata × Macleaya microcarpa)
References
Papaveroideae
Papaveraceae genera
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