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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macleaya%20cordata | Macleaya cordata, the five-seeded plume-poppy, is a species of flowering plant in the poppy family Papaveraceae, which is used ornamentally. It is native to China and Japan. It is a large herbaceous perennial growing to tall by or more wide, with olive green leaves and airy panicles of buff-white flowers in summer.
Etymology
The Latin cordata means "heart-shaped", referring to the leaves. The common name plume poppy is used for plants of the genus Macleaya.
The Chinese name 博落回 (bóluòhúi) is derived from 簸邏迴 (bòluóhúi), the Xianbei name for a musical instrument also known as 大角 (dà jiǎo, "big horn"), because the sound of blowing the dried hollow stem resembles the instrument sound.
The Japanese name 竹似草 (takenigusa) means "bamboo-like herb", also referring to its hollow stem.
Cultivation
It self-seeds readily and can be invasive, so in cultivation requires space. It is a popular subject for flower arranging. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Macleaya × kewensis, bred at Kew Gardens, is a hybrid of M. cordata and M. microcarpa. The cultivar 'Flamingo' has pink tinged flowers, and has also received the Award of Garden Merit.
Other uses
Macleaya cordata is a source of a variety of chemical compounds, mainly isoquinoline alkaloids. The seed oil contains dihydrosanguinarine, dihydrochelerythrine, and twelve fatty acids of which linoleic, oleic, palmitic and stearic acids predominate.
Footnotes
References
External links
Papaveroideae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%205500%20Sport | Nokia 5500 Sport is a smartphone running Symbian v9.1 operating system and the S60 3rd Edition user interface, announced on May 10, 2006. This was the first Nokia handset ever to feature text to speech and motion sensor features.
Features include:
Built-in 3D accelerometer: allows phone to act as pedometer/step counter.
Swap key for quick one-key switching between phone, music, and sports modes.
Stainless steel body: Built to resist knocks, dust and water splashes.
Text to speech: Software to read aloud SMS and exercise data.
Sports tracking: plans, records, and schedules workout sessions.
Music: Unique tap commands for playing MP3 files.
Integrated 2-megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom.
Nokia 5500 Sport Music Edition
Nokia 5500 Sport Music Edition or XpressMusic announced in October 2006 is the music variant model of the Nokia 5500 Sport Model in different color scheme. Its sales package includes added accessories, such as a higher capacity memory card, bike mount and shoulder bag. Apart from that its identical hardware wise to the Nokia 5500 Sport Edition.
Specifications sheet
Known issues
Some users have complained on the Nokia Support Discussions Board that the Nokia 5500 keypad gets unglued only after a few weeks of light usage, however later release models appear to have had this problem fixed.
See also
List of Nokia products
Nokia Series 60
Smartphone
Symbian
References
External links
Nokia 5500 Sport Official Product page
Nokia smartphones
Mobile phones with infrared transmitter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perflubron | Perflubron (INN/USAN, or perfluorooctyl bromide; brand name Imagent) is a contrast medium for magnetic resonance imaging, computer tomography and sonography. It was approved for this use in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration in 1993.
Experimental research
Perflubron has also been tested experimentally for use in liquid breathing in premature infants with respiratory distress.
References
MRI contrast agents
Organofluorides
Orphan drugs
Organobromides
Haloalkanes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebration%20of%20Annihilation | Celebration of Annihilation was one of five singles Servotron released in 1996. It was released orange vinyl and black vinyl on Eastside Records. "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes" is about the 1969 Disney film starring Kurt Russell, later remade for TV with Kirk Cameron.
Track listing
Vic 20 Side: "Bad Birthday"
Commodore 64 Side: "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes"
Intelligent Artificial Subjugators
MACHINE 1: Z4-OBX: Self-replicating synthetic metronome
MACHINE 2: Proto Unit V3: Servo-controlled point to point melodic seduction
MACHINE 3: 00ZX1: Integrated binary guitar data, voice simulation
MACHINE 4: Gammatron: Continuous loop patch 4 low frequency fill out
Other credits
Recorded at Zero Return Sound Factory/Conveyor Belt B-7
All audible frequencies made from Realistic™ Electronic Products
Design/Illustration: Shag
Servotron albums
1996 EPs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderstrike | Thunderstrike may refer to:
Thunderstrike (Eric Masterson), a Marvel Comics character
Thunderstrike (Kevin Masterson), a Marvel Comics 2 character
Thunderstrike (video game), a 1990 computer game by Millennium Interactive
AH-3 Thunderstrike, a video game released by Core Design in 1992
Thunderstrike 2, a video game released by Core Design in 1995
Thunderstrike: Operation Phoenix, a video game released by Core Design in 2001
See also
Thunderstruck (disambiguation)
Lightning strike, an electric discharge between the atmosphere and the ground |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Wilson%20%28newsreader%29 | Ronald Wilson (born 25 October 1954) is a Northern Irish-born Australian television and radio news presenter and voice-over with a lengthy career in journalism and hosting, especially with Network Ten.
Wilson is currently a news presenter on FM radio network smoothfm, a division of NOVA Entertainment and previously worked at Network Ten in Sydney for over 33 years.
Personal life
Wilson was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland and emigrated to Australia with his family when he was a young child. He spent much of his childhood in Victoria and completed a law degree in Darwin, Northern Territory. When Cyclone Tracy destroyed Darwin in 1974, Wilson was on scene as host of a local radio program. Wilson admitted on the "Newsreaders Vs TV Hosts" episode of All Star Family Feud on 21 November 2016 that he still suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder from surviving Cyclone Tracy. He received Australian citizenship on 31 March 2008.
Wilson is married with three children. He supports the Sydney Swans AFL club.
Career
Television
Network 10
Wilson worked as a newsreader on Good Morning Australia from 1982 to 1991 alongside Kerri-Anne Kennerley and Gordon Elliott among others. During that time, he also presented for Ten on Sydney's weekend newscasts (variously called Ten Eyewitness News, Ten News, Eyewitness News and Ten Evening News). Wilson took the helm of Good Morning Australia alongside Sandra Sully in 1992. The pair moved from dawn to dusk a year later, presenting Ten's 5.00 pm newscast. From 1981 to 1982, Wilson had presented the evening 6.00 pm news with Katrina Lee. In 1994, Wilson was joined at the Sydney newsdesk by Juanita Phillips and, two years later, by Jessica Rowe in a partnership lasting 10 years. He also presented NEW-10 Perth's 5.00 pm news (broadcast from TEN-10's studios) from 2003 to 2005.
Wilson has reported and presented from the scene of some of Sydney's biggest news events. He covered the Ansett Australia 747 crash at Sydney Airport in 1994 – the only Sydney news presenter to broadcast from the airport that night – and broadcast from several of Sydney's major bushfires of the 1990s and early 2000s.
Wilson presented non-stop coverage of the start of Gulf War 1 on 17 January 1991 (AEDT) on Ten from mid-morning until 6.00 pm. He also presented live coverage of the first US strikes against Baghdad marking the commencement of the War in Iraq in 2003.
Wilson has joked that "everyone has had a read with Ron". His co-presenters have included Anne Fulwood, Sandra Sully, Katrina Lee, Juanita Phillips, Deborah Knight, Jessica Rowe, Natarsha Belling, Tracey Spicer, Charmaine Dragun, Celina Edmonds, Claudia Emery, Margaret Bates, Geraldine Doogue and Ann Sanders.
Wilson was replaced on Sydney's Ten News at Five bulletin by Bill Woods in January 2009.
Wilson was previously the presenter of Ten Early News and also Ten Morning News on Mondays and Tuesdays. He also previously presented Ten News at Five in Sydney al |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosoma | is a shooter video game developed by G-Artists and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. It was released in Japan in July 1995, North America in January 1996 and PAL territories in March 1996. It was re-released on the PlayStation Network in Japan on April 26, 2007. One of the earliest PlayStation games, it was met with mediocre reviews, with most critics assessing its graphics as dull and its gameplay as primitive.
Story
A recently colonized alien planet named Planet 220 reports a devastating attack by an unknown force and requires assistance. Alpha and Bravo teams are called in, but after enemy contact is made, the team fails to respond. The player assumes the roles of D3, a rookie pilot, as well as his commander and Charlie squadron Commander Nicolard Michau. Each are piloting the latest space fighter ships, the F/A-37 Strega, in an attempt to neutralize the unknown threat. However, a horrible secret hidden in the battle awaits them.
Gameplay
Philosoma plays like many scrolling shooters with the noticeable difference of its multiple perspectives. The camera switches several times during various levels from a vertical/top-down perspective to a rail shooter perspective (which is often reversed), to a horizontal scrolling perspective and an isometric scrolling perspective. The player ships have four weapons that can be upgraded thrice as well as side-arms consisting of homing missiles and rockets.
Development
Philosoma was one of the first games announced for the PlayStation. Japan Studio assisted on development. It suffered a prolonged development cycle with its release date being pushed back multiple times, before finally appearing in Japan at the end of June 1995.
Reception
On release, Famicom Tsūshin scored the game a 27 out of 40. Scary Larry of GamePro criticized the primitive gameplay, saying that "Philosoma tries hard to be a next-gen shooter, but in gameplay it barely surpasses Novastorm." He further remarked that while the FMVs are impressive, the graphics which are most important to the shooter experience - the backgrounds, explosions, and enemies - are all dull. He nonetheless gave the game a mild recommendation for shooter fans. Rich Leadbetter of Maximum made all the same remarks, calling the FMVs impressive but the gameplay visuals "dull", and saying that the "gameplay [harks] back to an archaic age". He concluded that even the retro release Gradius Deluxe Pack is a far better purchase. Like GamePro, Next Generation deemed the game a worthwhile purchase for shooter fans but no one else: "The graphics and sound really do nothing to take advantage of the advancing technology. If you want the next great experience in gameplay and graphics, Philosoma wouldn't even make a top 75 list. ... Still, there's plenty of explosions, balanced gameplay, fluid control, timely power-ups, and multiple weapon choices to keep any shooter fan happy." Philosoma was awarded Best Shooter of 1995 by Electronic Gaming Monthly.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAGT-CD | WAGT-CD (channel 26) is a low-power, Class A television station in Augusta, Georgia, United States, affiliated with NBC and The CW Plus. It is owned by Gray Television alongside dual CBS/MyNetworkTV affiliate WRDW-TV (channel 12). Both stations share studios at The Village at Riverwatch development in Augusta, while WAGT-CD's transmitter is located in Beech Island, South Carolina.
Due to WAGT-CD's low-power status, it can only be seen in the immediate Augusta area. Therefore, the station's main NBC channel is simulcast in 1080i full high definition on WRDW-TV's second digital subchannel to reach the entire market.
History
The license for W67BE (the call letters reflected its original location on UHF channel 67) was first granted on March 28, 1985. It was Augusta's first independent station, airing a collection of public domain black-and-white western movies, infomercials and programming such as Sewing with Nancy (unusual as that program was mainly offered for public television). It later became Augusta's first Fox affiliate before the emergence of WFXG (channel 54) in 1991. The station would eventually re-make itself, and on January 2, 1995, the station became WBEK-LP, an affiliate of The WB. During this period, the station was known locally as "The WB on WBEK 67".
In 1998, WBAU, a local affiliate of The WB 100+ Station Group, signed on, appearing on cable systems in the Augusta area; as a result, WBEK lost its WB affiliation. The station then became an affiliate of UPN, and for a few years sold advertising on WBAU, before these rights went to WRDW-TV (channel 12; this changed hands once more before The WB 100+ was replaced with The CW Plus). In 2001, WBEK moved to a new channel location, channel 16, and obtained Class A status (modifying its call sign to WBEK-CA).
After the affiliation switch, the station attempted to maintain its status as a "top" local affiliate. The station's move to channel 16 had come with a loss in power, and viewership began to decline. The station picked up a secondary affiliation with America One during this period. In 2004, the station lost the UPN affiliation to WRDW's digital subchannel 31.2 ("UPN Augusta"), and continued on with America One programming to very little viewer interest. In 2015, the station converted to digital broadcasting and became WBEK-CD. That same year, America One and cable network Youtoo TV merged to become Youtoo America.
On August 27, 2015, longtime owner AVN agreed to sell WBEK-CD to Gray Television, owner of WRDW-TV, for $550,000. The sale did not include the station's existing cable carriage on Comcast or the WBEK call letters; Gray thus applied to change the station's call letters to WRDW-CD. The sale was completed on October 27, 2015, at which time the call sign change to WRDW-CD took effect.
In September 2015, Gray announced its purchase of the television properties of Schurz Communications, including Augusta NBC affiliate WAGT. Gray proposed to merge the two stations' operations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20tz%20database%20time%20zones | This is a list of time zones from release of the tz database.
Legend
Type
Canonical - The primary, preferred zone name.
Link - An alternative name (alias) which links to a canonical zone.
Link - A standard Link (as above). The dagger symbol (†) signifies that the zone was canonical in a previous version of the database. Historical data for such zones is still preserved in the source code, but it is not included when compiling the database with standard options.
UTC offset
Standard Time (STD) and Daylight Saving Time (DST) offsets from UTC in hours and minutes.
For zones in which Daylight Saving is not observed, the DST offset shown in this table is a simple duplication of the STD offset.
The UTC offsets are based on the current or upcoming database rules. This table does not attempt to document any of the historical data which resides in the database.
Time Zone abbreviations
Time zone abbreviations for both Standard Time and Daylight Saving Time are shown exactly as they appear in the database. See strftime and its "%Z" field.
Some of zone records use 3 or 4 letter abbreviations that are tied to physical time zones, others use numeric UTC offsets.
List
See also
tz database
List of time zone abbreviations
Abolition of time zones
Notes
References
Further reading
For a complete and accurate history of each time zone, refer to the data and commentary in the TZ database itself. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAY-FM%20Network | The WayFM Network is a national, non-profit radio broadcasting network in the United States, primarily playing Christian adult contemporary music. While WayFM is based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, content creation and programming originates in Franklin, Tennessee and operates stations in 12 states (as of May 2018).
History
Origins in Fort Myers
WAY Media, Inc. was founded in 1987 by Bob Augsburg. The non-profit corporation began as a single FM radio station in Fort Myers, Florida.
In the early 1980s, Bob and Felice Augsburg were residing in Fort Myers, where Bob was working as the Program Director at WSOR, a Christian radio station formatted for older adults. Bob and Felice have said that they "were compelled by the burden to see a younger audience reached and Bob began producing a Saturday evening broadcast geared for youth." This program, which aired on WSOR, became the springboard for Christian Rock concerts in the area and the impetus for a 24/7 station with this type of format.
Much discussion with local parents and business people led to a non-profit Florida corporation and an application filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for an unused FM frequency.
On Christmas Eve (December 24) 1986, the group received its permit for the construction of a new non-commercial FM station in Fort Myers, WAYJ. On October 9, 1987, WAYJ, broadcasting as "WAY-FM", signed on the air.
Growth
By 1992, three WAY-FM radio stations were on the air—including Fort Myers; Nashville, Tennessee (WAYM); and West Palm Beach, Florida (WAYF).
In the mid-90s, WAY-FM stations, beginning with WAYF, began to sponsor and organize large Christian music concerts and day-long music festivals. Within a few years, Nashville and Fort Myers also began to sponsor major Christian music events.
After several years of planning, in 1996, WAY-FM began the Christian Hit Radio Satellite Network (CHRSN). The network was designed to help other stations who desired to reach the youth and young adults of their respective communities but lacked the manpower or resources to operate a station on their own.
Corporate office established
In 2001, WAY-FM Media Group established a corporate office in Colorado Springs, Colorado where Bob Augsburg, the president and founder now lives. Dusty Rhodes, former Station Manager of WAYF, joined Augsburg in Colorado as Chief Operating Officer and is now the ministry's Senior Vice President.
In 2005, Dar Ringling joined the ministry as Chief Financial Officer while Lloyd Parker, formerly General Manager of the K-LOVE & Air1 Radio Networks, became the Chief Operating Officer.
In 2012, WAY-FM shifted from its long time Christian CHR format to a Christian Adult Contemporary format, along with shifting their audience from 18- to 34-year-olds, to older adults (25-54), thus growing up with its original audience more or less. Since 2013 WAY-FM via flagship station WAYM, Nashville is a Christian AC reporter to the Nielsen BDS service, and became |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumodesmus | Pneumodesmus newmani is a species of myriapod that lived during the late Wenlock epoch of the Silurian period around . Although a 2017 study dates its occurrence based on zircon data analysis as the Early Devonian (Lochkovian), the 2023 study confirmed the age identification of the 2004 study through palynological, palaeobotanical and ziron analyses incorporating newly discovered additional data. It is one of the first myriapods, and among the oldest creatures to have lived on land. It was discovered in 2004, and is known from a single specimen from Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Discovery and naming
The fossil of P. newmani was found by Mike Newman, a bus driver and amateur palaeontologist from Aberdeen, in a layer of sandstone rocks on the foreshore of Cowie, near Stonehaven (Cowie Formation). The species was later given the specific epithet "newmani" in honour of Newman. The holotype is kept in National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. The genus name is said to be derived from the Greek pneumato, meaning "air" or "breath", in reference to the inferred air-breathing habit. The proper word in ancient Greek for "air" or "breath" is however pneuma (πνεῦμα).
Description
The single, 1 cm-long fragment of P. newmani depicts small paranota (keels) high on the body, long, slender legs. There are six body segments preserved, and the dorsal portion of each segment is ornamented with a horizontal bar and three rows of roughly hexagonal bosses (bumps). Myriapods are the group that include millipedes and centipedes, and Pneumodesmus newmani would have resembled a millipede in appearance. However it did not belong to the same branch of myriapods as modern millipedes.
Significance
The fossil is important because its cuticle contains openings which are interpreted as spiracles, part of a gas exchange system that would only work in air. This makes P. newmani the earliest documented arthropod with a tracheal system, and among the first known oxygen-breathing animal on land.
Trace fossils of myriapods are known dating back to the late Ordovician (the geologic period preceding the Silurian), but P. newmani may be the earliest body fossil of a myriapod, if it had been dated at (Silurian, late Wenlock epoch to early Ludlow epoch). However, if based on (Early Devonian (Lochkovian)) estimated from Zircon age estimate, it cannot be called as the oldest myriapod, or the oldest of air-breathing terrestrial arthropods, because records from Kerrera (425 millions years ago) and Ludlow (420 millions years ago) become older than that. In spite of the recent competing arguments, the 2023 study suggests that this taxon is still most likely the earliest body fossil of a myriapod, with its age reconfirmed as the late Wenlock epoch (around ) through various analyses.
During the Silurian, the rocks that would later be part of Scotland were being laid down on the continent of Laurentia, in a tropical part of the Southern Hemisphere.
References
Silurian myriapods
Prehis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luthfi%20Assyaukanie | Luthfi Assyaukanie (27 August 1967), is a cofounder of the Liberal Islam Network (Jaringan Islam Liberal, JIL) in Indonesia, a lecturer at Paramadina University, and a research associate at the Freedom Institute.
Biography
Born in Jakarta, Indonesia, Assyaukanie received his early education in religious institutions. He later continued his study at the University of Jordan specializing in Islamic Law and Philosophy. He obtained his Master's degree from the International Islamic University in Malaysia, and received his Ph.D degree in Islamic Studies from the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Before studying in Australia, Assyaukanie worked at Ummat magazine, an Islamic weekly magazine, as an editor. In 2001, together with Ulil Abshar Abdalla, he founded the Liberal Islam Network. While teaching at Paramadina University, he also works at the Freedom Institute in Jakarta.
Publications
Assyaukanie has published two books and has written hundreds of articles mostly in Indonesian. His articles appeared in national magazines and newspapers, including Tempo, Kompas, Media Indonesia, and Jawa Pos. He contributed approximately fifty entries in two Indonesian encyclopaedias published by Ichtiar Baru van Hoeve (Jakarta): Ensiklopedi Tematis Dunia Islam (Thematical Encyclopaedia of Islamic World). 7 vols., 2002; Ensiklopedi Islam Untuk Pelajar (Islamic Encyclopedia for Students). 6 vols., 2001.
Books
Freedom, the State, and Development: Arief Budiman's Essays (Editor and foreword). Jakarta: Pustaka Alvabet, 2006. Details
Faces of Liberal Islam in Indonesia (Editor and foreword). Jakarta: Jaringan Islam Liberal: Teater Utan Kayu, 2002. Details
Politics, Human Rights, and The Issues of Technology in Contemporary Islamic Law. Bandung: Pustaka Hidayah, 1998. Details
Journal articles
"Democracy and the Islamic State: Muslim Arguments for Political Change in Indonesia". Vol 20 (2004). The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies.
"Bringing Fiqh Back to Urban Areas: Making Sense of Professor Sahal Mahfudh's Idea of Social Fiqh". ICIP E-Journal, Volume 1, Number
Education
2006 Ph.D. in Islamic Studies, the University of Melbourne, Australia
2003 M.A. in Islamic Studies (leading to Phd), the University of Melbourne, Australia
1995 M.A. in philosophy, International Islamic University, Malaysia
1993 B.A. in Islamic Law (Major), the University of Jordan, Jordan
1993 B.A. in philosophy (Minor), the University of Jordan, Jordan
Awards
2002–2005 Australian Development Scholarship, Australia
2004 the Melbourne Abroad Travelling Scholarship, Australia
1993–1995 the Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization Scholarship, Malaysia
1988–1993 Ministry of Education Scholarship, Jordan
1987–1988 Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs Scholarship, Jordan
External links
Profile at JIL website
1967 births
Living people
People from Jakarta
Indonesian writers
Indonesian Muslims
21st-century Muslim scholars of Islam
Islamic philosophers
University of Jordan a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRR | TRR may refer to:
Society for Family Development (Towarzystwo Rozwoju Rodziny), a Polish organization
Target row refresh, a computer hardware feature used to prevent the row hammer effect in DDR4 memory
Taushiro language (ISO 639:trr), a language isolate of the Peruvian Amazon
Tehran Research Reactor, an Iranian nuclear research reactor, supplied by the U.S. in 1960
Thai Roong Ruang, a sugar producer
Three Rivers Review, a literary magazine published by the University of Pittsburgh
Tom Rhodes Radio, an interview podcast
TRR is the station code for Torre railway station in Devon, England
Trottoir roulant rapide, a moving walkway in the Montparnasse–Bienvenüe Metro station, France
Trusted Recursive Resolver, a DNS-resolving server operated by Mozilla for using DNS over HTTPS in the Firefox web browser
Tuckerton Railroad (reporting mark TRR), a former railroad that operated in New Jersey, United States
Tulsa Rig, Reel, and Manufacturing Company, a predecessor company of Flintco
China Bay Airport (IATA: TRR), near Trincomalee, Sri Lanka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Graphics%20Interface | General Graphics Interface (GGI) was a project that aimed to develop a reliable, stable and fast computer graphics system that works everywhere. The intent was to allow for any program using GGI to run on any computing platform supported by it, requiring at most a recompilation. GGI is free and open-source software, subject to the requirements of the MIT License.
The GGI project, and its related projects such as KGI, are generally acknowledged to be dead.
Goals
The project was originally started to make switching back and forth between virtual consoles, svgalib, and the X display server subsystems on Linux more reliable. The goals were:
Portability through a flexible and extensible API for the applications. This avoids bloat in the applications by only getting what they use.
Portability in cross-platform and in backends
Security in the sense of requiring as few privileges as possible
The GGI framework is implemented by a set of portable user-space libraries, with an array of different backends or targets (e.g. Linux framebuffer, X11, Quartz, DirectX), of which the two most fundamental are LibGII (for input-handling) and LibGGI (for graphical output). All other packages add features to these core libraries, and so depend on one or both of them.
Some targets talk to other targets. These are called pseudo targets. Pseudo targets can be combined and work like a pipeline.
One example:
display-palemu, for example, emulates palette mode on truecolor modes. This allows users to run applications in palette mode even on machines where no palette mode would be available otherwise. display-tile splits large virtual display into many smaller pieces. You can spread them on multiple monitors or even forward them over a network.
History
Andreas Beck and Steffen Seeger founded The GGI Project in 1994 after some experimental precursors that were called "scrdrv".
Development of scrdrv was motivated by the problems caused by coexisting but not very well cooperating graphics environments (mainly X and SVGAlib) under the Linux operating system at this time which frequently lead to lockups requiring a reboot. The first scrdrv design was heavily influenced by the graphics subsystem of the DJ DOS extender and some concepts from the SANE project. The basic problem that scrdrv solved was that it provided a kernel mode driver that knew enough of the video hardware to set up modes, thus allowing to get into a sane state even from a messed-up or crashed graphics application.
The first official version appeared in 1995. About 1996, GGI 1.0 was released under the LGPL license. GGI only consisted of the core lib named libggi. It included input handling, a set of 2d graphic primitives and some userspace drivers for graphic boards along with a Linux kernel patch with the userspace interface for the drivers. The patch was known as KGI, the Kernel Graphics Interface.
In 1997, GGI went into a complete re-design. Many new ideas and a decision from Linux made GGI to what it b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katarina%20L%C3%B6fstr%C3%B6m | Katarina Löfström (born 1970 Falun, Sweden) is a Swedish artist. She attended the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. Her work consists of computer-animated videos. She is best known for the short films "Hang Ten Sunset" (2000) and "Whiteout" (2001).
Notable works
An Island (2004)
Score (2004)
State (2003)
Pan A.M. (2002)
Red Light (2002)
Whiteout (2001)
Hang Ten Sunset (2000)
References
External links
1970 births
Living people
20th-century Swedish women artists
20th-century Swedish artists
21st-century Swedish women artists
21st-century Swedish artists
Swedish contemporary artists
Swedish video artists
Swedish animators
Swedish animated film directors
Swedish women animators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribute%20%28computing%29 | In computing, an attribute is a specification that defines a property of an object, element, or file. It may also refer to or set the specific value for a given instance of such. For clarity, attributes should more correctly be considered metadata. An attribute is frequently and generally a property of a property. However, in actual usage, the term attribute can and is often treated as equivalent to a property depending on the technology being discussed. An attribute of an object usually consists of a name and a value. For an element these can be a type and class name, while for a file these can be a name and an extension, respectively.
Rules and typing
Rules: Each named attribute has an associated set of rules called operations: For example, one doesn't sum characters or manipulate and process an integer array the same way as an image object. Neither does one process text as if it was type of floating point (decimal numbers).
Data types: It follows that an object definition can be extended by imposing data typing which can consist of a representation format, a default value, and legal operations (rules) and restrictions (e.g. "division by zero is not to be tolerated") are all potentially involved in defining an attribute, or conversely one may view them as attributes of that object's type.
Picture file formats (for example JPEG, PNG and BMP) are not decoded using the same operations (however similar the images look — these are all graphics data formats). Similarly, a programming language does not use the same operations to evaluate a floating point typed number and typed long integers.
For example, in computer graphics, line objects can have attributes such as thickness (with real values), color (with descriptive values such as brown or green or values defined in a certain color model, such as RGB), dashing attributes, etc. A circle object can be defined in similar attributes plus an origin and radius.
In reference to computer systems, attributes are defined particularly for read or write attributes for specific read or write.
Attribute usage
If the element in question could be considered a property (CUSTOMER_NAME) of another entity (let's say CUSTOMER), the element can have zero or more attributes (properties) of its own (CUSTOMER_NAME is of TYPE = "KINDOFTEXT").
C#
In the C# programming language, attributes are metadata attached to a field or a block of code like assemblies, members and types, and are equivalent to annotations in Java. Attributes are accessible to both the compiler and programmatically through reflection.
Users of the language see many examples where attributes are used to address cross-cutting concerns and other mechanistic or platform uses. This creates the false impression that this is their sole intended purpose.
Their specific use as metadata is left to the developer and can cover a wide range of types of information about any given application, classes and members that is not instance-specific. The decision to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodata | Biodata is the shortened form for biographical data.
The term has two usages: (1) In South Asia, the term carries the same meaning as a résumé or curriculum vitae (CV), for the purposes of jobs, grants, and marriage. (2) In industrial and organizational psychology, it is used as a predictor for future behaviours; in this sense, Biodata is "...factual kinds of questions about life and work experiences, as well as items involving opinions, values, beliefs, and attitudes that reflect a historical perspective."
In South Asia
In South Asia (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Nepal), a biodata (a shortened form of biographical data) is essentially a résumé or curriculum vitae (CV), for the purposes of jobs, grants, and marriage. The purpose is similar to that of a résumé—to choose certain individuals from the pool of prospective candidates. The biodata generally contains the same type of information as a résumé (i.e. objective, work history, salary information, educational background, as well as personal details with respect to religion and nationality), but may also include physical attributes, such as height, weight, hair/eye colour, and a photograph.
Industrial and organizational psychology
With respect to industrial and organizational psychology, since the respondent replies to questions about themselves, there are elements of both biography and autobiography. The basis of biodata's predictive abilities is the axiom that past behaviour is the best predictor of future behaviour. Biographical information is not expected to predict all future behaviours but it is useful in personal selection in that it can give an indication of probable future behaviours based on an individual's prior learning history. Biodata instruments (also called Biographical Information Blanks) have an advantage over personality and interest inventories in that they can capture directly the past behaviour of a person, probably the best predictor of his or her future actions. These measures deal with facts about the person's life, not introspections and subjective judgements.
Over the years, personnel selection has relied on standardized psychological tests. The five major categories for these tests are intellectual abilities, spatial and mechanical abilities, perceptual accuracy, motor abilities and personality tests. The mean correlation coefficient for a standardized test of g (intellectual ability) and job performance is 0.51. A review of 58 studies on biodata found coefficients that ranged from 0.32 to 0.46 with a mean validity of 0.35. The mean validity of interviews was found to be 0.19. research has indicated a validity coefficient of 0.29 for unstructured interviews and 0.31 for structured interviews but interview results can be affected by interviewer biases and have been challenged in a number of different court cases.
Biodata has been shown to be a valid and reliable means to predict future performance based on an applicant's past performance. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale%20analysis%20%28statistics%29 | In statistics, scale analysis is a set of methods to analyze survey data, in which responses to questions are combined to measure a latent variable. These items can be dichotomous (e.g. yes/no, agree/disagree, correct/incorrect) or polytomous (e.g. disagree strongly/disagree/neutral/agree/agree strongly). Any measurement for such data is required to be reliable, valid, and homogeneous with comparable results over different studies.
Constructing scales
The item-total correlation approach is a way of identifying a group of questions whose responses can be combined into a single measure or scale. This is a simple approach that works by ensuring that, when considered across a whole population, responses to the questions in the group tend to vary together and, in particular, that responses to no individual question are poorly related to an average calculated from the others.
Measurement models
Measurement is the assignment of numbers to subjects in such a way that the relations between the objects are represented by the relations between the numbers (Michell, 1990).
Traditional models
Likert scale
Semantic differential (Osgood) scale
Reliability analysis, see also Classical test theory and Cronbach's alpha
Factor analysis
Modern models based on Item response theory
Guttman scale
Mokken scale
Rasch model
(Circular) Unfolding analysis
Circumplex model
Other models
Latent class analysis
Multidimensional scaling
NOMINATE (scaling method)
References
Michell, J (1990). An Introduction to the logic of Psychological Measurement. Hillsdales, NJ: Lawrences Erlbaum Associates Publ.
Survey methodology
Sampling (statistics) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/PYQ-10 | The AN/PYQ-10 Simple Key Loader (SKL) is a ruggedized, portable, hand-held fill device, for securely receiving, storing, and transferring data between compatible cryptographic and communications equipment. The SKL was designed and built by Ralph Osterhout and then sold to Sierra Nevada Corporation, with software developed by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) under the auspices of the United States Army. It is intended to supplement and eventually replace the AN/CYZ-10 Data Transfer Device (DTD). The PYQ-10 provides all the functions currently resident in the CYZ-10 and incorporates new features that provide streamlined management of COMSEC key, Electronic Protection (EP) data, and Signal Operating Instructions (SOI). Cryptographic functions are performed by an embedded KOV-21 card developed by the National Security Agency (NSA). The AN/PYQ-10 supports both the DS-101 and DS-102 interfaces, as well as the KSD-64 Crypto Ignition Key. The SKL is backward-compatible with existing End Cryptographic Units (ECU) and forward-compatible with future security equipment and systems, including NSA's Key Management Infrastructure.
Between 2005 and 2007, the U.S. Army budget included funds for over 24,000 SKL units. The estimated price for FY07 was $1708 each. When released in May 2005, the price was $1695 each. This price includes the unit and the internal encryptor card.
References
Sierra Nevada SKL spec sheet
2005 US Army Weapons System Handbook
Key management
Encryption device accessories
National Security Agency encryption devices
Military electronics of the United States
Military radio systems of the United States
Military equipment introduced in the 2000s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BPN | BPN can stand for:
In business, governments and organizations
Banco Português de Negócios, a Portuguese bank
Business Partner Network, a source for vendor data for the US federal government
Places
Babiogórski Park Narodowy
Białowieski Park Narodowy
Biebrzański Park Narodowy
Bieszczadzki Park Narodowy
Computing
Business process network, a secure, distributed network service similar to a virtual private network
An authority control identifier issued by the Dutch Biografisch Portaal
Science
Boron-potassium nitrate, a pyrotechnic initiator
Transportation
National Rail station code for Blackpool North railway station
Sultan Aji Muhammad Sulaiman Sepinggan Airport, Balikpapan, Indonesia (IATA code) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Empowerment%20Television | National Empowerment Television (NET), later known as America's Voice and eventually The Renaissance Network, was a cable TV network designed to rapidly mobilize politically conservative individuals for grassroots lobbying on behalf of the movement's policy aims. It was created by Paul Weyrich, a veteran strategist for the paleoconservative movement. At its peak, NET claimed to reach more than 11 million homes on selected cable systems or, in some markets, low-powered television stations. It accompanied the contemporaneous explosion of the popularity of talk radio, practically all of which was dedicated to propagating conservative political positions, on numerous issues in the United States during the 1990s.
History
Weyrich had long believed that the mainstream news and entertainment media exhibited a liberal bias, opposed structurally, as well as in terms of content, to what figures in the conservative movement defined as traditional American culture and government. In an attempt to help counter the perceived phenomenon, he mobilized groups and donors who were equally concerned by the supposed lack of journalistic integrity, and who were disgusted by the complete dismissals of these concerns by established broadcasters and publishers. Coordinated by Weyrich's Free Congress Foundation (FCF), the activists and donors launched a Washington, D.C.-based satellite television network called National Empowerment Television (NET). Its logo featured a square of nine dots, referring to a puzzle that cannot be solved without drawing lines "outside the box." NET went on air for the first time on 6 December 1993.
Academics and representatives of the mainstream media roundly criticized NET, namely because of its drastic departure from the mainstream 20th-century paradigm of disinterested reportage, in favor of what they viewed as blatant propaganda. For instance, the Columbia Journalism Review observed in 1994 that it spurned "broadcast journalism's caveat against partisan news programming... One-third of the programs on NET are produced by 'associate broadcasters' — organizations handpicked by Weyrich to share NET's airtime. Among the dozen associate broadcasters on NET are Accuracy in Media, the National Rifle Association of America, and the American Life League, an anti-abortion group.
The CJR analysis referred to FCF's attempt to circumvent mainstream media opposition by using associate broadcasters (i.e., organizations not legally related to FCF), local broadcasting channels for television syndication, and other non-traditional means of marketing. Thus, NET became a broader resource for United States' social and economic conservative movements. Many advertisers from organizations that had been traditionally shunned by major broadcasters bought airtime on the channel. These included televangelists on local religious stations and networks like Christian Coalition, the Cato Institute, Accuracy in Media, and others.
Nevertheless, the network was inter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20Partner%20Network | The Business Partner Network (BPN) is the single source for vendor data for the United States Federal Government.
External links
bpn.gov - Official site.
Federal government of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlekamp%27s%20algorithm | In mathematics, particularly computational algebra, Berlekamp's algorithm is a well-known method for factoring polynomials over finite fields (also known as Galois fields). The algorithm consists mainly of matrix reduction and polynomial GCD computations. It was invented by Elwyn Berlekamp in 1967. It was the dominant algorithm for solving the problem until the Cantor–Zassenhaus algorithm of 1981. It is currently implemented in many well-known computer algebra systems.
Overview
Berlekamp's algorithm takes as input a square-free polynomial (i.e. one with no repeated factors) of degree with coefficients in a finite field and gives as output a polynomial with coefficients in the same field such that divides . The algorithm may then be applied recursively to these and subsequent divisors, until we find the decomposition of into powers of irreducible polynomials (recalling that the ring of polynomials over a finite field is a unique factorization domain).
All possible factors of are contained within the factor ring
The algorithm focuses on polynomials which satisfy the congruence:
These polynomials form a subalgebra of R (which can be considered as an -dimensional vector space over ), called the Berlekamp subalgebra. The Berlekamp subalgebra is of interest because the polynomials it contains satisfy
In general, not every GCD in the above product will be a non-trivial factor of , but some are, providing the factors we seek.
Berlekamp's algorithm finds polynomials suitable for use with the above result by computing a basis for the Berlekamp subalgebra. This is achieved via the observation that Berlekamp subalgebra is in fact the kernel of a certain matrix over , which is derived from the so-called Berlekamp matrix of the polynomial, denoted . If then is the coefficient of the -th power term in the reduction of modulo , i.e.:
With a certain polynomial , say:
we may associate the row vector:
It is relatively straightforward to see that the row vector corresponds, in the same way, to the reduction of modulo . Consequently, a polynomial is in the Berlekamp subalgebra if and only if (where is the identity matrix), i.e. if and only if it is in the null space of .
By computing the matrix and reducing it to reduced row echelon form and then easily reading off a basis for the null space, we may find a basis for the Berlekamp subalgebra and hence construct polynomials in it. We then need to successively compute GCDs of the form above until we find a non-trivial factor. Since the ring of polynomials over a field is a Euclidean domain, we may compute these GCDs using the Euclidean algorithm.
Conceptual algebraic explanation
With some abstract algebra, the idea behind Berlekamp's algorithm becomes conceptually clear. We represent a finite field , where for some prime , as . We can assume that is square free, by taking all possible pth roots and then computing the gcd with its derivative.
Now, suppose that is the fact |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20supplicant | A Wireless Supplicant is a program that runs on a computer and is responsible for making login requests to a wireless network. It handles passing the login and encryption credentials to the authentication server. It also handles roaming from one wireless access point to another, in order to maintain connectivity.
See also
Supplicant
wpa_supplicant
Xsupplicant
References
Wireless networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trip%20computer | A trip computer is a computer fitted to some cars; most modern trip computers record, calculate, and display the distance travelled, the average speed, the average fuel consumption, and real-time fuel consumption.
The first, mechanical trip computers, such as the Halda Speedpilot, produced by a Swedish taximeter manufacturer, were made in the 1950s as car accessories to enable the driver to maintain a given time schedule, particularly useful in rallying. One was installed as standard equipment in the 1958 Saab GT750. The 1952 Fiat 1900 came standard with a complex mechanical device, called mediometro in Italian, that showed the average speed. In 1978, the Cadillac division of General Motors introduced the "Cadillac Trip Computer", available on the Cadillac Seville; Chrysler also launched an electric trip computer on its low-end Omni/Horizon. They can range from basic to complex. The most basic trip computers incorporate average fuel mileage and perhaps an outside temperature display. Mid-range versions often include information on fuel, speed, distance, cardinal heading (compass), and elapsed time. The most advanced trip computers are reserved for high-end cars and often display average calculations for two drivers, a stop watch, tire-pressure information, over-speed warnings, and many other features.
Sometimes the trip computer's display is in the gauge cluster, the dashboard or navigation-system screen, or an overhead console. Some displays include information about scheduled maintenance. The current Acura TL does this in stages, first alerting the driver with a "Due Soon" message; once the programmed mileage is reached, the message is "Due Now"; when more time or distance has elapsed, the message changes to "Past Due". Mercedes-Benz vehicles constantly monitor the quality of the oil and alert the driver when the oil has degraded to a certain extent. GM and FCA vehicles provide oil change alerts based on the number and length of trips, engine temperature, and other factors. Some vehicles also use the trip computer to allow owners to change certain aspects of vehicle behavior, e.g. how the power locks work, but in most cars "setting preferences" is now done through a center screen also used for the backup camera and radio.
Some trip computers can display the diagnostic codes that mechanics use. This is especially useful when the mechanic wants to see the codes while driving the car. In 2004, Linear Logic developed the ScanGauge, which at the time was the only easily installed (via OBDII) accessory that worked as a trip computer, 4 simultaneous digital gauges, and a diagnostic trouble-code reader. This device has available 12 different measurements which can be used as the 4 digital gauges. The units of measure can be independently selected between miles/km, gallons/liters, Celsius/Fahrenheit, and PSI/kPa.
In 2008, the OBDuino project announced a low-cost DIY trip computer design using the OBDII interface and the Arduino hobbyist microcontro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency%20%281995%20TV%20program%29 | Emergency is a Philippine television documentary show broadcast by GMA Network. Originally hosted by Edu Manzano, it premiered on October 4, 1995. Arnold Clavio served as the host from 1996 to 2009. The show concluded on March 6, 2009 for 13 years with a total of 635 episodes. It was replaced by OFW Diaries in its timeslot.
Premise
The show features reports on natural calamities, man-made disasters, diseases, advancements in the medical field, successful operations of men in uniform, rescue operations of emergency response teams, safety tips, stories on heroic deeds of ordinary people and institutions and numerous other life-threatening situations. It also featured anniversary specials and reports regarding major issues, such as child labor.
Hosts
Edu Manzano
Arnold Clavio
Accolades
References
External links
1995 Philippine television series debuts
2009 Philippine television series endings
English-language television shows
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine documentary television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-Witness | i-Witness, formerly i-Witness: The GMA Documentaries is a Philippine television documentary show broadcast by GMA Network and GMA News TV. Originally hosted by Vicky Morales, Luchi Cruz-Valdes, Mike Enriquez, Cheche Lazaro and Jessica Soho, it premiered on January 18, 1999. It is the longest-running documentary program in Philippine television. The show concluded on GMA Network on April 29, 2020. The show moved to GMA News TV on August 14, 2020 on the network's Power Block line up. The show returned to GMA Network on January 16, 2021 on the network's Sabado Star Power sa Gabi line up. Kara David, Howie Severino, Sandra Aguinaldo, Atom Araullo, Mav Gonzales and John Consulta currently serve as the hosts.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Hosts
Kara David
Howie Severino
Sandra Aguinaldo
Atom Araullo
Mav Gonzales
John Consulta
Former hosts
Vicky Morales (1999–2004)
Luchi Cruz-Valdes (1999–2002)
Mike Enriquez (1999–2000)
Cheche Lazaro (1999–2004)
Jessica Soho (1999–2004)
Mel Tiangco (2000–02)
Raffy Tima (2001–04)
Jay Taruc (2004–19)
Maki Pulido (2002–04)
Guest hosts
Mariz Umali
Micaela Papa
Joseph Morong
Cesar Apolinario
Emil Sumangil
Pia Arcangel
Ivan Mayrina
Tina Panganiban-Perez
Oscar Oida
Production
In March 2020, production was halted due to the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The show resumed its programming on August 14, 2020.
Accolades
References
External links
1999 Philippine television series debuts
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
GMA News TV original programming
Peabody Award-winning television programs
Philippine documentary television series
Television productions suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100%25%20Pinoy%21 | 100% Pinoy! is a Philippine television informative show broadcast by GMA Network. Originally hosted by Kara David, Raffy Tima, Pia Arcangel, Rhea Santos and Ivan Mayrina, it premiered on July 5, 2006. The show concluded on September 25, 2008. Miriam Quiambao and Joaquin Valdes served as the final hosts.
Hosts
Kara David
Raffy Tima
Pia Arcangel
Rhea Santos
Ivan Mayrina
Miriam Quiambao
Joaquin Valdes
Chino Trinidad
Connie Sison
Accolades
References
External links
2006 Philippine television series debuts
2008 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporter%27s%20Notebook | Reporter's Notebook is a Philippine television documentary show broadcast by GMA Network, GMA News TV and GTV. Originally hosted by Jiggy Manicad and Maki Pulido, it premiered on June 1, 2004 on the network's Tuesday evening line up. The show concluded on GMA Network on April 25, 2020. The show moved to GMA News TV on August 6, 2020, on the network's Power Block line up. Pulido and Jun Veneracion served as the current hosts. The show returned to GMA Network on January 7, 2021 and again on February 4, 2023.
Hosts
Jiggy Manicad
Maki Pulido
Rhea Santos
Jun Veneracion
Production
In March 2020, production was halted due to the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The show resumed its programming on August 6, 2020.
Accolades
References
External links
2004 Philippine television series debuts
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
GMA News TV original programming
GTV (Philippine TV network) original programming
Philippine documentary television series
Television productions suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobol%20A%20sa%20Dobol%20B | Dobol A sa Dobol B () was a Philippine weekday morning radio show hosted by Arnold Clavio and Ali Sotto. It was aired over DZBB-AM in Metro Manila, the flagship AM radio station of GMA Network. The program was also shown live as a part of Dobol B sa News TV simulcast on GMA News TV.
Background
The program's title comes from the hosts names and the station's (DZBB) call sign letters. Prior to Dobol A, Clavio worked as a correspondent for the radio station DWIZ as a senate reporter. In 1988, he joined GMA Network, doing voice-over for news segments before eventually becoming a reporter. He was offered to co-host his first radio program alongside Sotto, fresh from her three-year stint as host of Katok Mga Misis! on GMA Network in 1998. During the show's first run, the program originally aired on 2 hours (from 8:00 am to 10:00 am). The program won a Golden Dove Award for Outstanding Public Affairs Program from the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas in 1999.
Upon Sotto's departure from the program in 2008, it was replaced by Morning Talk with Arnold Clavio, and later, One on One with Igan, which was hosted by Clavio and GMA News reporter Lala Roque.
It returned on January 13, 2014, as part of the revitalized programming of Super Radyo DZBB. As the radio program returned, it was shortened to 1 hour and instead starting at 10:00 am. Listeners of the show are referred to as "Jeng-Jengers", although"Text populi" was used during its first run.
On April 24, 2017, the program began its simulcast on television on GMA News TV under the Dobol B sa News TV block.
The second run of the program silently ended its broadcast on December 31, 2020, weeks after Ali Sotto left the network due to some issues regarding her status in the radio station. She even made an appearance on Eat Bulaga!'s "Bawal Judgmental" segment in the midst of her absence in the radio program. During its last episodes, Clavio was accompanied by Rowena Salvacion and Kathy San Gabriel as Sotto's substitute anchor. On January 4, 2021, the network revived the program One on One with Igan, which was renamed as One on One: Walang Personalan, hosted by Arnold Clavio and Rowena Salvacion (later on, with Connie Sison), as replacement for Dobol A.
Hosts
Arnold Clavio (1998–2008; 2014–2020)
Ali Sotto (1998–2008; 2014–2020)
Susan Enriquez (substitute for Sotto or Clavio; 2017–2020)
Rowena Salvacion (substitute for Sotto; 2017–2020)
Orly Trinidad (substitute for Clavio; 2020)
Kathy San Gabriel (substitute for Sotto; 2020)
Joel Reyes Zobel (substitute for Clavio; 2020)
Segments
Starpok/Istorbo! - Showbiz segment with former Startalk host, Lolit Solis.
Text Pabaon - Messages read on air by the hosts to conclude the program. Sotto often gives an inspirational message "Thought pabaon," while Clavio delivers a humorous message "Joke pabaon."
Metro Manila Hataw
Tunay na Pangbayan, Walang Personalan
Former segments
Jeng-Jeng - The title "Jeng-Jeng" is derived from the onomatopoeia of a drum ro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%E2%80%93Zassenhaus%20algorithm | In computational algebra, the Cantor–Zassenhaus algorithm is a method for factoring polynomials over finite fields (also called Galois fields).
The algorithm consists mainly of exponentiation and polynomial GCD computations. It was invented by David G. Cantor and Hans Zassenhaus in 1981.
It is arguably the dominant algorithm for solving the problem, having replaced the earlier Berlekamp's algorithm of 1967. It is currently implemented in many computer algebra systems.
Overview
Background
The Cantor–Zassenhaus algorithm takes as input a square-free polynomial (i.e. one with no repeated factors) of degree n with coefficients in a finite field whose irreducible polynomial factors are all of equal degree (algorithms exist for efficiently factoring arbitrary polynomials into a product of polynomials satisfying these conditions, for instance, is a squarefree polynomial with the same factors as , so that the Cantor–Zassenhaus algorithm can be used to factor arbitrary polynomials). It gives as output a polynomial with coefficients in the same field such that divides . The algorithm may then be applied recursively to these and subsequent divisors, until we find the decomposition of into powers of irreducible polynomials (recalling that the ring of polynomials over any field is a unique factorisation domain).
All possible factors of are contained within the factor ring
. If we suppose that has irreducible factors , all of degree d, then this factor ring is isomorphic to the direct product of factor rings . The isomorphism from R to S, say , maps a polynomial to the s-tuple of its reductions modulo each of the , i.e. if:
then . It is important to note the following at this point, as it shall be of critical importance later in the algorithm: Since the are each irreducible, each of the factor rings in this direct sum is in fact a field. These fields each have degree .
Core result
The core result underlying the Cantor–Zassenhaus algorithm is the following: If is a polynomial satisfying:
where is the reduction of modulo as before, and if any two of the following three sets is non-empty:
then there exist the following non-trivial factors of :
Algorithm
The Cantor–Zassenhaus algorithm computes polynomials of the same type as above using the isomorphism discussed in the Background section. It proceeds as follows, in the case where the field is of odd-characteristic (the process can be generalised to characteristic 2 fields in a fairly straightforward way ). Select a random polynomial such that . Set and compute . Since is an isomorphism, we have (using our now-established notation):
Now, each is an element of a field of order , as noted earlier. The multiplicative subgroup of this field has order and so, unless , we have for each i and hence for each i. If , then of course . Hence is a polynomial of the same type as above. Further, since , at least two of the sets and C are non-empty and by com |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic%20Information%20and%20Telecommunications%20Network | Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network, Inc. (HITN) is the largest Spanish-language public broadcasting network in the United States. It delivers educational programming to over 44 million homes nationwide, and reaches over 40% of US households.
Its distribution network includes Xfinity, DirecTV, DirectTV NOW, Verizon FiOS, Dish Network, Cablevision, AT&T U-verse TV, Charter Communications, Charter Spectrum, Mediacom, CenturyLink Prism, Altice, and a host of smaller distributors.
In 2017, the HITN network was nominated for three Emmy Awards in the arts, community, and public service categories.
HITN TV
HITN TV, established in 1981, is a branch of HITN and provides non-commercial Spanish-language educational programming in the United States.
HITN-TV is a leading Spanish-language media company that offers educational and cultural programming for the whole family. It reaches more than 44 million viewers in the US and Puerto Rico via DIRECTV, DISH Network, AT&T U-verse TV, Verizon FiOS TV, Comcast, Charter Spectrum, Frontier Mediacom, CenturyLink Prism and Cablevision.
Its most recent original productions include Estudio DC con Gerson Borrero (interviews with leading Latino figures in government, media, music, arts & entertainment, and sports).;Voces (Success stories of Hispanics who have transformed their community in the United States); Puerto Rico Contigo (about the solidarity work and the common effort of the people of the island in the face of adversity); En Foco con Neida Sandoval (interviews and research reports), Mundo CNET (information and the latest news from the technology industry) and Mundo Salvaje con Ron Magill (to discover and learn about the wild animals of the planet).
It also presents Centro Medico, a docudrama with recreations of medical cases in a hospital environment, accompanied by simple explanations and easy to understand medical issues relevant to the audience. The first season reached a visualization increase of more than 154%, according to Nielsen's measurements, positioning the show among the five largest audiences of the channel. Last September, HITN presented a 32-hour marathon of the first season. During the television marathon clues were offered for the audience to participate and win a trip for two to Madrid to meet the protagonists and the production team of the successful program.
The network also developed Corriente Cultural and En Foco, which highlighted the cultural and artistic achievements of Latinos in the US. Also, through Dialogo and Destination Casa Blanca, HITN has covered every US presidential election cycle since 2004. While providing this coverage, HITN also focused on the impact of each election, on Latinos living in the US.
In 2017, HITN TV was nominated for three Emmy Awards in the arts, community, and public service categories. In the arts category, HITN TV was nominated for the production Arte Desde 3 Perspectivas en un Mismo Idioma. In the community/public service categorie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20coding | Universal coding may refer to one of two concepts in data compression:
Universal code (data compression), a fixed prefix code that, for any probability mass function, has a data compression ratio within a constant of the optimal prefix code
Universal source coding, a data compression method that asymptotically approaches the data compression ratio of the optimal data compression method, e.g., LZ77 and LZ78 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XTS-400 | The XTS-400 is a multilevel secure computer operating system. It is multiuser and multitasking that uses multilevel scheduling in processing data and information. It works in networked environments and supports Gigabit Ethernet and both IPv4 and IPv6.
The XTS-400 is a combination of Intel x86 hardware and the Secure Trusted Operating Program (STOP) operating system. XTS-400 was developed by BAE Systems, and originally released as version 6.0 in December 2003.
STOP provides high-assurance security and was the first general-purpose operating system with a Common Criteria assurance level rating of EAL5 or above. The XTS-400 can host, and be trusted to separate, multiple, concurrent data sets, users, and networks at different sensitivity levels.
The XTS-400 provides both an untrusted environment for normal work and a trusted environment for administrative work and for privileged applications. The untrusted environment is similar to traditional Unix environments. It provides binary compatibility with Linux applications running most Linux commands and tools as well as most Linux applications without the need for recompiling. This untrusted environment includes an X Window System GUI, though all windows on a screen must be at the same sensitivity level.
To support the trusted environment and various security features, STOP provides a set of proprietary APIs to applications. In order to develop programs that use these proprietary
APIs, a special software development environment (SDE) is needed. The SDE is also needed in order to port some complicated Linux/Unix applications to the XTS-400.
A new version of the STOP operating system, STOP 7 has since been introduced, with claims to have improved performance and new features such as RBAC.
Uses
As a high-assurance, MLS system, XTS-400 can be used in cross-domain solutions, which typically need a piece of privileged software to be developed which can temporarily circumvent one or more security features in a controlled manner. Such pieces are outside the CC evaluation of the XTS-400, but they can be accredited.
The XTS-400 can be used as a desktop, server, or network gateway. The interactive environment, typical Unix command line tools, and a GUI are present in support of a desktop solution. Since the XTS-400 supports multiple, concurrent network connections at different sensitivity levels, it can be used to replace several single-level desktops connected to several different networks.
In support of server functionality, the XTS-400 can be implemented in a rackmount configuration, accepts an uninterruptible power supply (UPS), allows multiple network connections, accommodates many hard disks on a SCSI subsystem (also saving disk blocks using a sparse file implementation in the file system), and provides a trusted backup/save tool. Server software, such as an Internet daemon, can be ported to run on the XTS-400.
A popular application for high-assurance systems like the XTS-400 is to guard informatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20on%20One%20with%20Steve%20Adubato | One on One with Steve Adubato is produced by the Caucus Educational Corporation, which also produces Caucus: New Jersey and New Jersey Capital Report, and it is aired on NJTV, WNET (the network's sister station) and was formerly aired on FiOS1 New Jersey. One-on-One with four-time Emmy Award-winning anchor Steve Adubato gives insight into today's world. One-on-One discusses compelling, real-life stories and features political leaders, CEOs, television personalities, professors, artists and educational innovators who each share their experiences and accomplishments.
Steve Adubato, host of One-on-One, combines wide-ranging knowledge, a penetrating and inquisitive style and the appreciation for amiable conversation throughout the program. Steve asks questions that inspire the guests to talk beyond their expected route in a manner rarely seen on televised talk shows.
References
External links
Official website
American television talk shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Open%20Software%20Environment | The Common Open Software Environment (COSE) was an initiative formed in March 1993 by the major Unix vendors of the time to create open, unified operating system (OS) standards.
Background
The COSE process was established during a time when the "Unix wars" had become an impediment to the growth of Unix. Microsoft, already dominant on the corporate desktop, was beginning to make a bid for two Unix strongholds: technical workstations and the enterprise data center. In addition, Novell was seeing its NetWare installed base steadily eroding in favor of Microsoft-based networks; as part of a multi-faceted approach to battling Microsoft, they had turned to Unix as a weapon, having recently formed a Unix-related partnership with AT&T known as Univel.
Unlike other Unix unification efforts that preceded it, COSE was notable in two ways: it was not formed in opposition to another set of Unix vendors, and it was more oriented toward making standards of existing technologies than creating new offerings from scratch.
The initial members, (known as "The Big Six" or "SUUSHI"), were:
The Santa Cruz Operation
Unix System Laboratories
Univel
Sun Microsystems
Hewlett-Packard
IBM
These represented the significant Unix system and OS vendors of the time, as well as the holders of the Unix brand and AT&T-derived source code. They also represented almost all the key players in the two major Unix factions of the late 1980s and early 1990s, the OSF and Unix International (UI). Notable in its absence was OSF co-founder Digital Equipment Corporation; Digital did finally announce its endorsement of the COSE process the following June.
COSE's announced areas of focus were: a common desktop environment; networking; graphics; multimedia; object-based technology; and, systems management. On September 1, 1993 it was also announced that the COSE vendors were developing a unified Unix specification with the support of over 75 companies.
Unix standardization
Unlike OSF or UI, the COSE initiative was not tasked to create or promote a single operating system. Their approach was to instead survey and document the OS interfaces already in use by Unix software vendors of the time. This resulting list, originally known as "Spec 1170", evolved to become what is now known as the Single Unix Specification.
Spec 1170 (no relation to the SPEC benchmarking organization) was named after the results of the first COSE effort to determine which Unix interfaces were actually in use; inspection of a large sample of current Unix applications uncovered 1,170 such system and library calls. As might be expected, the actual number of interfaces cataloged continued to grow over time.
Management of the specification was given to X/Open. In October 1993, it was announced that the UNIX trademark, which was at that time owned by Novell, would be transferred to X/Open. These developments meant that the UNIX brand was no longer tied to one source code implementation; any company could no |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix%20International | Unix International (UI) was an association created in 1988 to promote open standards, especially the Unix operating system. Its most notable members were AT&T and Sun Microsystems, and in fact the commonly accepted reason for its existence was as a counterbalance to the Open Software Foundation (OSF), itself created in response to AT&T's and Sun's Unix partnership of that time. UI and OSF thus represented the two sides of the Unix wars in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
In May 1993, the major members of both UI and OSF announced the Common Open Software Environment (COSE) initiative. This was followed by the merging of UI and OSF into a "new OSF" in March 1994, which in turn merged with X/Open in 1996, forming The Open Group.
References
Chapter 11. OSF and UNIX International (Peter H. Salus, The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin)
UI / OSF merger announcements
Standards organizations in the United States
Unix history |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising%20Lands | Rising Lands is a fantasy-based real-time strategy computer game developed by Microïds, released in 1997.
Rising Lands takes place in a not too distant future, where earth has been devastated by a comet. The survivors have formed small tribes, and as the leader of one of these tribes, the player's mission is to guide their people to become rulers of the post-apocalyptic earth.
Gameplay is similar to most real-time strategy games. The player collects three different resources (food, stones and metal) and must utilize these to build new buildings, create armies, increase population and research new technologies.
External links
Microïds website
Microïds games
1997 video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Windows games
Windows-only games
Real-time strategy video games
Video games developed in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Bartelstein | Steve Bartelstein is an American former television journalist. He was previously a news anchor in New York City, first at WABC-TV (1999–2007), a flagship station of the ABC television network, WCBS-TV (2007–2009), a flagship station of CBS and later in Chicago at WBBM-TV (2010–2011), a television station owned and operated by the television network CBS.
Early life and education
Bartelstein was born in Evanston, Illinois, and graduated from Niles East High School, located in Skokie, Illinois. He attended the University of Evansville for two years. He is of Italian and Jewish descent.
Broadcasting career
He began his broadcasting career at age nineteen as a weekend news anchor in Evansville. He worked in Durham, North Carolina; Providence, Rhode Island; Indianapolis, Indiana; Charleston, South Carolina; and Portland, Oregon.
Following a period working at CNN in Atlanta, Georgia, he joined WABC-TV in New York City. Bartelstein was the anchor for WABC when they initially covered the September 11 attacks.
On March 14, 2007, the Daily News reported that Bartelstein had been "fired" from WABC-TV after "sleeping through a newsbreak he was to anchor". The Daily News article also reported that WABC-TV had previously suspended him several times for persistent tardiness.
On November 7, 2007, Mediaweek reported that WCBS-TV had announced that it had hired Bartelstein as a weekend news anchor. The station soon began airing promotional announcements featuring him and making reference to an upcoming feature story about his cancer illness.
On September 28, 2007, New York Post columnist Cindy Adams had reported that Bartelstein was being treated for testicular cancer.
On March 18, 2009, WCBS-TV announced that he had left the station. Bartelstein told the Daily News that he was unhappy and felt unappreciated with his job.
On August 12, 2010, it was announced that he would be joining WBBM-TV in Chicago as a morning-news anchor On July 3, 2011, it was announced that he left WBBM after only 10 months, putting an end to his broadcasting career.
After broadcasting
Bartelstein attended baseball umpire school and umpired in the Pecos League for the 2013 and 2014 seasons.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Television anchors from Chicago
CNN people
Living people
Television anchors from New York City
New York (state) television reporters
Television anchors from Portland, Oregon
American people of Italian descent
American people of Jewish descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol%20Bianca%3A%20The%20Legacy | is a Japanese OVA miniseries of six episodes loosely based on the OVA series Sol Bianca and employing computer generated animation. This version is a re-imagining of the ship and crew of Sol Bianca, and does not follow the continuity of the original (as well as leaving plot threads of the original show unresolved). Sol Bianca: The Legacy combines 3D graphics with 2D animation, particularly in rendering spaceships such as the Sol Bianca itself.
Plot
Thousands of years into the future, mankind has colonized other planets across the galaxy and completely forgotten about Earth. On one part of the galaxy, the female space pirates and their colossal starship Sol Bianca get a surprise when a young girl named May stows away on board the ship. The crew then embarks on a journey to Earth to find the whereabouts of May's parents and discover the secrets of the lost planet.
Characters
April Bikirk
Feb Fall
Janny Mann
June Ashel
May Jessica
Rammy
Theme music
The English opening theme is "To Be Free" by Stella Furst. The closing themes are "You're Not Alone" by Kryie and "To Be Free" by Stella Furst.
Novel
A novel was released on November 4, 1999 called by ASCII of Kenji Obayashi illustrated for Naoyuki Onda. The book has 221 pages. The story starts 4 hundreds of years after humanity spread out into the galaxy. This is different from the thousands of years reference in the original Sol Bianca.
References
Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy. The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917. New York: Stone Bridge Press (2001)
External links
"The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917"
1999 anime OVAs
Anime International Company
Geneon USA
NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan
Science fiction anime and manga |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse%20%28interbank%20network%29 | Pulse is an interbank electronic funds transfer (EFT) network in the United States. It serves more than 4,400 U.S. financial institutions and includes more than 380,000 ATMs, as well as POS terminals nationwide. Rivals of the network include First Data's STAR and Fidelity National Information Services's NYCE. It is owned by Discover Financial, issuer of the Discover Card, and is included in Discover's agreement with China UnionPay; cards can be used on each other's network leading to better acceptance outside large cities than the larger networks.
History
The Pulse system was based on software that operated the Take Your Money Everywhere (TYME) network operating in the central United States. The network was established as the banking rules that limited banks and branches ability to share services were removed. The data processing facilities were originally provided by First City Bank and later transitioned to Texas Commerce Bank.
In 1981, Pulse incorporated and began operating its regional EFT switching facility. In 1995, it launched Pulse Pay, a point-of-sale service where cardholders can use their ATM card at retailers.
Pulse announced the acquisition of Gulfnet, a Louisiana-based regional EFT network in 1997 and announced the acquisition of the Cincinnati-based MoneyStation network in 2000.
Pulse merged with Wisconsin-based Tyme Corporation in 2002, and was acquired by Discover Financial Services in 2005. Currently, Pulse is a California residential mortgage licensee (License Number MLS-18827).
See also
Interbank network
ATM usage fees
References
External links
Official website
Financial services companies established in 1981
Banking terms
Interbank networks
Financial services companies of the United States
Discover Financial |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial%20descriptive%20statistics | Spatial descriptive statistics is the intersection of spatial statistics and descriptive statistics; these methods are used for a variety of purposes in geography, particularly in quantitative data analyses involving Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
Types of spatial data
The simplest forms of spatial data are gridded data, in which a scalar quantity is measured for each point in a regular grid of points, and point sets, in which a set of coordinates (e.g. of points in the plane) is observed. An example of gridded data would be a satellite image of forest density that has been digitized on a grid. An example of a point set would be the latitude/longitude coordinates of all elm trees in a particular plot of land. More complicated forms of data include marked point sets and spatial time series.
Measures of spatial central tendency
The coordinate-wise mean of a point set is the centroid, which solves the same variational problem in the plane (or higher-dimensional Euclidean space) that the familiar average solves on the real line — that is, the centroid has the smallest possible average squared distance to all points in the set.
Measures of spatial dispersion
Dispersion captures the degree to which points in a point set are separated from each other. For most applications, spatial dispersion should be quantified in a way that is invariant to rotations and reflections. Several simple measures of spatial dispersion for a point set can be defined using the covariance matrix of the coordinates of the points. The trace, the determinant, and the largest eigenvalue of the covariance matrix can be used as measures of spatial dispersion.
A measure of spatial dispersion that is not based on the covariance matrix is the average distance between nearest neighbors.
Measures of spatial homogeneity
A homogeneous set of points in the plane is a set that is distributed such that approximately the same number of points occurs in any circular region of a given area. A set of points that lacks homogeneity may be spatially clustered at a certain spatial scale. A simple probability model for spatially homogeneous points is the Poisson process in the plane with constant intensity function.
Ripley's K and L functions
Ripley's K and L functions introduced by Brian D. Ripley are closely related descriptive statistics for detecting deviations from spatial homogeneity. The K function (technically its sample-based estimate) is defined as
where dij is the Euclidean distance between the ith and jth points in a data set of n points, t is the search radius, λ is the average density of points (generally estimated as n/A, where A is the area of the region containing all points) and I is the indicator function (1 if its operand is true, 0 otherwise). In 2 dimensions, if the points are approximately homogeneous, should be approximately equal to πt2.
For data analysis, the variance stabilized Ripley K function called the L function is generally used. The sa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon%20Senki | is a real-time tactics strategy video game developed by Lenar and published by Irem in March 1988 for the Family Computer. In August that same year, Broderbund announced that it would be released for the North American NES console as The Battlefields of Napoleon; which was eventually cancelled.
This video game allows the player to re-enact the Napoleonic Wars using a bird's-eye view. Starting with earliest battles against the Holy Roman Empire to grab territory for the fledgling French Republic during the French Revolutionary Wars in the year 1796, Napoleon would guide the French Revolutionary Wars until they ended in 1802. All the nations that were a participant in the Napoleonic Wars were included like the Russian Empire, Great Britain, and the Spanish Empire. Napoleon's first in-game battle would located in present-day Italy; making the battle equally important in Italian history as it was in French history. There are also battles in Egypt against the Ottoman Empire along with various other conquests in Europe.
Gameplay
Before each battle, a summary screen is revealed (stating the situation and the military strength of each of the forces). There is also a simple map of Europe with dots on it so the player always knows the exact location of all the possible battles. However, the map information is given out in Japanese. An interesting feature of the time was that the altitude of mountains were accurately depicted in the actual battlefields. The deeper the color was, the higher the altitude of the mountain was. For example, light brown represents small hills while dark brown either represents gigantic mountains or the large peaks of a mountain.
The object is to win each battle using late 18th and early 19th century warfare tactics so that Napoleon Bonaparte has a chance of conquering all of Europe. Infantry, artillery (cannonballs give them the ability to blow up walls), and cavalry must be properly used for victory and a successful re-enactment of France's unique and colorful past. Soldiers are divided into three categories: friendly soldiers, potential defects, and enemy soldiers. Friendly soldiers must be given commands of north, south, east, west or halt. When a player confront a group of potential defects, there is no battle and the soldiers in the unit of defects joins the platoon that discovered them. Enemy troops can be fought either automatically or manually (with commands of advance, retreat, sideways, or halt can be given to each individual soldier).
Each type of soldier has its own strengths and weaknesses. For example, the cavalry are the fastest while the swordsmen are the most powerful and the riflemen have the longest range. There is a Japanese language write-up about the history of each unit type, the tactics are used in-game, and a quick military parade with Napoleon Bonaparte leading his troops into battle.
References
External links
Napoleon Senki promotional flyer
1988 video games
Broderbund games
Irem games
Japan-ex |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Computer%20Connection | The Computer Connection is a science fiction novel by American writer Alfred Bester. Originally published as a serial in Analog Science Fiction (November, December 1974, January 1975, under the title The Indian Giver), it appeared in book form in 1975. Some editions give it the title Extro. The novel was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1975 and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1976.
Plot introduction
In the future, a band of immortals (some who are famous historical characters, some who have tried their best to avoid becoming so), including Herb Wells, Ned Curzon (nicknamed Grand Guignol), Hillel, and Sam Pepys have only one requirement for membership: don't die. Through their extensive social network, they come across a brilliant Cherokee physicist named Sequoya Guess, who himself has only very recently learned of his peculiarity and the catches and loopholes that come along with it. This creates a swift change in Guess's day-to-day life that is as much a shock to his friends as to himself. At the same time, the world's scientists are collaborating to bring together a supercomputer named Extro that will monitor and control all mechanical activity on Earth. The immortals create a plan to subtly harness Extro to aid them in their quest for knowledge and use some of the experience they have gained to assist it in its task. Working outside of expected behavior, Extro instead seizes control of Dr. Guess, leaving the only people who know what is going on—the Immortals and Guess's nearest friends—to grapple with the heart and mind of a malevolent machine in the body of an Immortal, a powerful and ingenious man who cannot be killed.
Reception
New York Times reviewer Gerald Jonas reported that Bester tried, but failed, "to make arbitrariness a virtue" in The Computer Connection, concluding that the novel "cannot possibly be as much fun" for the reader as it was for the writer. Arthur D. Hlavaty, a former editor of The New York Review of Science Fiction, wrote that the book gave "an unintentional example of his own theme of the unrecoverability of the past. His long-awaited novel, variously called The Indian Giver, Extro, and The Computer Connection, was a major disappointment—a confused farrago of old ideas and gimmicks." Patrick A. McCarthy, in a review of Carolyn Wendell's 1982 Alfred Bester, wrote that her coverage of The Computer Connection is "very brief but quite accurate in calling attention to this novel's many shortcomings."
References
External links
1975 American novels
1975 science fiction novels
American science fiction novels
Berkley Books books
Novels by Alfred Bester
Novels first published in serial form
Works originally published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodafone%20Direto | Vodafone Direto is a low-cost Mobile Virtual Network Operator, launched in 2005 in Portugal, over the network Vodafone.
External links
Vodafone
Telecommunications companies established in 2005
Mobile virtual network operators
2005 establishments in Portugal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TalkTalk%20Mobile%20%28Portugal%29 | TalkTalk Mobile is a mobile virtual network operator which was launched in 2006 in Portugal over the network Optimus Telecomunicações, S.A. It is the former sister company of TalkTalk from the United Kingdom.
TalkTalk were in talks with O2, Vodafone and Virgin Media in 2017 to sell off their mobile business to focus more on their broadband business, though this did not result in any formal offer.
References
TalkTalk Group
Telecommunications companies established in 2006
Mobile virtual network operators
2006 establishments in Portugal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itsy%20Pocket%20Computer | The Itsy Pocket Computer is a small, low-power, handheld device with a highly flexible interface. It was designed at Digital Equipment Corporation's Western Research Laboratory to encourage novel user interface development—for example, it had accelerometers to detect movement and orientation as early as 1999.
Hardware
CPU: DEC StrongARM SA-1100 processor
Memory: 16 MB of DRAM, 4 MB of flash memory
Interfaces: I/O interfaces for audio input/output, IrDA, and an RS232 serial port
Small 320 x 200 pixel LCD touchscreen for display and user input
10 general purpose push-buttons for additional user input purposes
Power supply: Pair of standard AAA alkaline batteries
References
Related WRL Technical Notes
The Itsy Pocket Computer Version 1.5: User's Manual (DEC WRL Technical Note WRL-TN-54)
The Memory Daughter-Card Version 1.5: User's Manual (DEC WRL Technical Note WRL-TN-55)
Power and Energy Characterization of the Itsy Pocket Computer (Version 1.5) (DEC WRL Technical Note WRL-TN-56)
A Simple CMOS Camera for Itsy (DEC WRL Technical Note WRL-TN-58)
Power Evaluation of Itsy Version 2.4 (DEC WRL Technical Note WRL-TN-59)
Interpreting the Battery Lifetime of the Itsy Version 2.4 (DEC WRL Technical Note WRL-TN-59)
The Itsy Pocket Computer, Joel F. Bartlett, Lawrence S. Brakmo, Keith I. Farkas, William R. Hamburgen, Timothy Mann, Marc A. Viredaz, Carl A. Waldspurger, Deborah A. Wallach, WRL Research Report 2000/6, Compaq Western Research Laboratory, 250 University Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94301.
External links
Itsy downloads at HP Labs
DEC computers
Personal digital assistants |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swap%20%28computer%20programming%29 | In computer programming, the act of swapping two variables refers to mutually exchanging the values of the variables. Usually, this is done with the data in memory. For example, in a program, two variables may be defined thus (in pseudocode):
data_item x := 1
data_item y := 0
swap (x, y);
After swap() is performed, x will contain the value 0 and y will contain 1; their values have been exchanged. This operation may be generalized to other types of values, such as strings and aggregated data types. Comparison sorts use swaps to change the positions of data.
In many programming languages the swap function is built-in. In C++, overloads are provided allowing std::swap to exchange some large structures in O(1) time.
Using a temporary variable
The simplest and probably most widely used method to swap two variables is to use a third temporary variable:
define swap (x, y)
temp := x
x := y
y := temp
While this is conceptually simple and in many cases the only convenient way to swap two variables, it uses extra memory. Although this should not be a problem in most applications, the sizes of the values being swapped may be huge (which means the temporary variable may occupy a lot of memory as well), or the swap operation may need to be performed many times, as in sorting algorithms.
In addition, swapping two variables in object-oriented languages such as C++ may involve one call to the class constructor and destructor for the temporary variable, and three calls to the copy constructor. Some classes may allocate memory in the constructor and deallocate it in the destructor, thus creating expensive calls to the system. Copy constructors for classes containing a lot of data, e.g. in an array, may even need to copy the data manually.
XOR swap
XOR swap uses the XOR operation to swap two numeric variables. It is generally touted to be faster than the naive method mentioned above; however it does have disadvantages. XOR swap is generally used to swap low-level data types, like integers. However, it is, in theory, capable of swapping any two values which can be represented by fixed-length bitstrings.
Swap through addition and subtraction
This method swaps two variables by adding and subtracting their values. This is rarely used in practical applications, mainly because:
It can only swap numeric variables; it may not be possible or logical to add or subtract complex data types, like containers.
When swapping variables of a fixed size, arithmetic overflow becomes an issue.
It does not work generally for floating-point values, because floating-point arithmetic is non-associative.
Swapping containers
Containers which allocate memory from the heap using pointers may be swapped in a single operation, by swapping the pointers alone. This is usually found in programming languages supporting pointers, like C or C++. The Standard Template Library overloads its built-in swap function to exchange the contents of containers efficiently this way.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GARP | GARP may refer to:
Acronyms
Generalised Axiom of Revealed Preference
Generic Attribute Registration Protocol, a communications protocol
Genetic Algorithm for Rule Set Production, to determine ecological niches
Global Atmospheric Research Programme, 1967-1982
Global Association of Risk Professionals, a globally recognized membership association for risk managers.
Gratuitous Address Resolution Protocol announcement
GARP Study (Genetics, osteoARthritis and Progression Study), an observational study
Other uses
Monkey D. Garp, a character in the Japanese anime One Piece
The World According to Garp, a 1978 novel by John Irving
The World According to Garp (film), a 1982 film based on Irving's novel
Torkild Garp (1883–1976), Danish gymnast |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Police%20ESWAT | is a side-scrolling run and gun video game developed and released by Sega for arcades in 1989. Players take control of Duke Oda, a member of the Liberty City Cyber Police Force tasked with finding and arresting the city's most wanted criminals, and eventually dismantling a terrorist organization planning world domination. In 1990, Sega released a Mega Drive/Genesis version known in North America as ESWAT: City Under Siege.
Gameplay
The gameplay is similar to Sega's own Shinobi (1987), as the player has the ability to jump up and down between planes where possible. The goal of each of the game's 15 stages is to find and arrest a specific wanted criminal, who is usually fought at the end of the stage as a boss. Duke is initially armed with only a single-shot pistol, but upon arresting the first three criminals and being promoted to ESWAT, Duke is equipped with a Power Suit with a mounted machine gun for the rest of the game. The suit also has access to limited-use special weapons which can be found within stages. However, both of Duke's standard weapons require ammunition, without which the player can only attack with a kick. Additional ammunition can be found in boxes throughout each stage.
Hardware/conversion
The game was issued on Sega's System 16-B which is built around the M68000 and uses a Z80 and a YM2151 for amplified mono sound generation. The System 16 pinout is not JAMMA compatible but JAMMA adaptors are available and fairly common. The game was released in a dedicated two player cabinet and also as a kit that contained the System 16 to JAMMA adaptor. Each player requires one start button, one joystick, and three action buttons (shoot, jump, special weapons). This game utilizes a standard resolution arcade monitor.
Reception
Computer and Video Games called the game a cross between NARC and RoboCop, but wrote that it "doesn't quite have the flair of either". Rating the game at 76% overall, they recommended only playing Cyber Police if they were bored with the two other games.
References
External links
1989 video games
Amiga games
Amstrad CPC games
Arcade video games
Atari ST games
Commodore 64 games
Sega video games
Sega arcade games
Master System games
Sega Genesis games
U.S. Gold games
Video games about police officers
Video games scored by Yasuhiro Kawakami
ZX Spectrum games
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siag%20Office | Siag Office is a tightly integrated free software office package for Unix-like operating systems. It consists of the spreadsheet SIAG ("Scheme In A Grid"), the word processor Pathetic Writer (PW), the animation program Egon Animator, the text editor XedPlus, the file manager Xfiler and the previewer Gvu.
Siag Office is known to be extremely light-weight, hence able to run on very old systems reasonably well, such as on i486 computers with 16MB RAM. Because it is kept light-weight, the software lacks many of the features of major office suites, like LibreOffice, Calligra Suite, or Microsoft Office. Siag Office is distributed under the terms of the GPL-2.0-or-later license.
Version 3.6.0 was released in 2003, and the latest version 3.6.1 was released in 2006.
Siag Office is included in Damn Small Linux, a lightweight Linux distribution.
Components
Siag
Siag is the spreadsheet based on the X Window System and the Scheme programming language (specifically using home-grown variant SIOD ("Scheme in One Defun")). The program has existed in several incarnations: text-based curses for SunOS, text-based hardcoded VT52 for Atari TOS, GEM-based for Atari, Turbo C for DOS, Xlib-based for Linux and now Xt-based for POSIX-compliant systems.
It supports import of CSV, Lotus 1-2-3 (.wk1), Scheme Code (.scm), ABScript (.abs), Siag (.siag) native format and partially also XLS files (very limited support) and OpenOffice.org XML (.sxc). It can export files to CSV, TXT, Postscript (.ps), HTML, Lotus 1-2-3 (.wk1), Troff table (.tbl), Latex table (.tex), PDF and its native Siag format.
PW
PW (Pathetic Writer) is an X-based word processor for Unix. Support for RTF (Rich Text Format) allows documents to be exchanged between Pathetic Writer and legacy Windows applications. External converters such as Caolan McNamara's wv can be used to read virtually any format, including Microsoft Word. HTML pages can be loaded and saved, making it possible to instantly publish PW documents on the web.
Egon Animator
Egon Animator is the X-based animation development tool for Unix. The idea is that "objects" (rectangles, lines, pixmaps and so on) are added to a "stage" where they are then made to perform by telling them where they should be and when. It can also edit MagicPoint files.
See also
Comparison of office suites
References
Review
Siag Office is far from pathetic, Linux.com, 2007
External links
Open-source office suites
Free 2D animation software
Office suites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essembly | Essembly was a non-partisan political social networking website that allowed its users to connect with one another based on political opinions, participate in unmoderated discussion, and organize for political action. It was founded in 2005 by Joe Green, a Harvard graduate and college roommate of Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of the collegiate social-networking site Facebook. Essembly differentiates itself from other social-networking sites by actively promoting intelligent discussion and debate while remaining (as the site's "About Us" page claims) "fiercely non-partisan." A July 2006 Newsweek article put the number of registered users at over 17,000
After its launch in 2005, Essembly membership was offered by invitation only, as the website was still in closed beta. In May 2006, Essembly opened membership to the public (to anyone with a valid email address), and began to run advertisements on Facebook. Starting in September 2006, Essembly remained in public beta, the staff of Essembly has, on the whole, moved on to a new venture called Project Agape.
On January 30, 2010 Essembly stopped working after a successful computer activist effort to shut the site down over alleged cyberbullying activity coordinated by several of the Chicago-based members. After being alerted to the problem, Joe Green restored the site by Valentine's Day. However, since May, 2010 the site has been down due to lack of resources to counter the evolving shutdown effort.
Features
Essembly contains a number of features common to social networking websites, such as the ability of the user to create a personal profile with information including a photo, contact information, non-political interests, voter information, and a brief resume for educational background and personal strengths. In addition to basic social-networking features, Essembly has several features which are unique.
Resolves
Interaction on Essembly centers around resolves, or "short ideological statements, designed to spawn debate." Members vote on resolves, by choosing to "agree, lean agree, lean against, or against." When a user votes on a resolve, this vote is recorded in their profile and added to their ideological calculation (see below).
Additionally, members have the option of adding a comment that appears with their vote, allowing them to explain their opinion further. Each comment (which users cannot edit after posting) can be discussed via a second link, and it is in these small discussions that most of the website's debate takes place. Any member can post up to five resolves in a day.
Groups
While social groups in and of themselves are not unique to Essembly, the roles they play are different than groups on more traditional social-networking websites. While members can create groups with any stated purpose, they are frequently created with members sharing a common political ideal or support for a specific issue. Groups can post internal resolves that only members can vote on and dis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IT%20Week | IT Week was a weekly magazine for the UK computing industry, published by Incisive Media.
History and profile
The magazine was launched on 18 May 1998. It was originally published by the UK subsidiary of American media company Ziff Davis. In late 2000, Ziff Davis sold all its UK print publications, including IT Week, to VNU. In January 2007, VNU's UK business was acquired by Incisive Media.
IT Week was originally envisaged as a UK equivalent of Ziff Davis's American computer trade weekly, PC Week (which was subsequently renamed eWeek).
References
External links
Incisive Media
Defunct computer magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 1998
Magazines with year of disestablishment missing
Weekly magazines published in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-list | C-list may refer to:
A category of celebrities, originally referring to Hollywood actors; see A-list
C-list (computer security), a list of capabilities that a process or protection domain has direct permission to access
CLIST, a procedural programming language |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapuso%20Mo%2C%20Jessica%20Soho | Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho (often abbreviated as KMJS) is a Philippine television news magazine show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Jessica Soho, it premiered on November 7, 2004 on the network's Sunday evening line up.
The show is streaming online on Facebook and YouTube.
Premise
The show features stories on events, pop culture, foods, celebrities, health and trends, as well as urban legends, ghost stories and supposed paranormal activities.
Accolades
References
External links
2004 Philippine television series debuts
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine documentary television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%20Taflove | Allen Taflove (June 14, 1949 – April 25, 2021) was a full professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering, since 1988. Since 1972, he pioneered basic theoretical approaches, numerical algorithms, and applications of finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) computational solutions of Maxwell's equations. He coined the descriptors "finite difference time domain" and "FDTD" in the 1980 paper, "Application of the finite-difference time-domain method to sinusoidal steady-state electromagnetic penetration problems." In 1990, he was the first person to be named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in the FDTD area. Taflove was the recipient of the 2014 IEEE Electromagnetics Award with the following citation: "For contributions to the development and application of finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) solutions of Maxwell's equations across the electromagnetic spectrum." He was a Life Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA). His OSA Fellow citation reads: "For creating the finite-difference time-domain method for the numerical solution of Maxwell's equations, with crucial application to the growth and current state of the field of photonics."
In 2011, Taflove was named as an inductee of the Amateur Radio Hall of Fame by CQ Magazine in recognition of his research achievements in computational electrodynamics. He had been an FCC-licensed amateur radio operator since 1963 holding the call sign WA9JLV, and had credited amateur radio with spurring his interest in electrical engineering in general, and electromagnetic fields and waves in particular. He had served for many years as the trustee of the Northwestern University Amateur Radio Society, which operates the FCC-licensed club station W9BGX.
Early life and education
Taflove was born in Chicago, Illinois on June 14, 1949. He received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Northwestern University in 1971, 1972, and 1975, respectively.
Finite-difference time-domain method
Since about 2000, FDTD techniques have emerged as a primary means to computationally model many scientific and engineering problems dealing with electromagnetic wave interactions with material structures. Current FDTD modeling applications range from near-DC (ultralow-frequency geophysics involving the entire Earth-ionosphere waveguide) through microwaves (radar signature technology, antennas, wireless communications devices, digital interconnects, biomedical imaging/treatment) to visible light (photonic crystals, nanoplasmonics, solitons, microscopy and lithography, and biophotonics). Both commercial FDTD software suites and free-software/open-source or closed-source FDTD projects are available which permit detailed Maxwell's equations modeling of electromagnetic wave phenomena and engineered systems spanning much of the electromagnetic spectrum. To a large degree, all of these software constru |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Young%20%28actor%29 | Chris Young is an American retired actor, best known for portraying child prodigy computer hacker Bryce Lynch in the Max Headroom series (1987–1988), and Buckley "Buck" Ripley in She's Having a Baby and The Great Outdoors (both 1988), and voicing Rob in The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (1988) and The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue (1997).
Life and career
Young's show business career started at the age of 15 when he played Bryce Lynch, a child computer hacker prodigy, in the Max Headroom science fiction television series. He starred in many other television shows and several feature-length films thereafter including PCU, Book of Love and The Great Outdoors.
Further to his acting, Young co-produced and starred in the NBC movie Killing Mr. Griffin in 1997, produced The Proud Family Movie in 2005 for the Disney Channel and supervised post-production for the romantic comedy Marigold. Young has also been affiliated with the music industry, having produced twelve music videos for American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson's 2006 tour, producing and directing thirteen music videos for American girl group Slumber Party Girls and directing the music video "Struggle" for indie pop band Ringside.
Filmography
External links
American male child actors
American male film actors
American male television actors
American male voice actors
Living people
20th-century American male actors
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuts%20Entertainment | Nuts Entertainment is a Philippine television sketch comedy show broadcast by GMA Network. Starring Joey de Leon, Janno Gibbs and Anjo Yllana, it premiered on April 30, 2003 on the network's KiliTV line up. The show concluded on December 27, 2008 with a total of 608 episodes. It was replaced by Kapuso Movie Festival in its timeslot.
Cast
Lead cast
Joey de Leon
Janno Gibbs
Anjo Yllana
Supporting cast
Richard Gutierrez
Pekto
John Feir
Iwa Moto
Alfred Vargas
Ehra Madrigal
Keempee de Leon
Ariel Villasanta
Maverick Relova
Baba Gee
Peejay
Rufa Mi
MC
Anne Curtis
Joyce Jimenez
Gelli de Belen
Carmina Villaroel
Sherwin Ordoñez
Brad Turvey
Aleck Bovick
Greg Turvey
Jacky Woo
Segments
Jak en Poy
Balakubak: Balita at Kuwentong Bakla
Kaso de Bola
Asar Talo
30 Gays
L.B.M. (Lusob Bahay Mo)
I Write the Songs
Korteng Mani
Here, Dare and Everywhere
Manibela / Manobela
Pu-Tetris Ka!
Pares Pares
Accolades
References
External links
2003 Philippine television series debuts
2008 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine television sketch shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Martelli | Alex Martelli (born October 5, 1955) is an Italian computer engineer and Fellow of the Python Software Foundation. Since early 2005, he works for Google, Inc. in Mountain View, California, for the first few years as "Über Tech Lead," then as "Senior Staff Engineer," currently in charge of "long tail" community support for Google Cloud Platform.
He holds a Laurea in Electrical Engineering from Bologna University (1980); he is the author of Python in a Nutshell (recently out in a fourth edition, which Martelli wrote with three co-authors), co-editor of the Python Cookbooks first two editions, and has written other (mostly Python-related) materials. Martelli won the 2002 Activators' Choice Award, and the 2006 Frank Willison award for outstanding contributions to the Python community.
Before joining Google, Martelli spent a year designing computer chips with Texas Instruments; eight years with IBM Research, gradually shifting from hardware to software, and winning three Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards; 12 as Senior Software Consultant at think3, Inc., developing libraries, network protocols, GUI engines, event frameworks, and web access frontends; and three more as a freelance consultant, working mostly for Open End AB, a Python-centered software house (formerly known as Strakt AB) located in Gothenburg, Sweden.
He has taught courses on programming, development methods, object-oriented design, cloud computing, and numerical computing, at Ferrara University and other schools. Martelli was also the keynote speaker for the 2008 SciPy Conference, and various editions of Pycon APAC and Pycon Italia conferences.
Bibliography
References
This article is based on autobiographical material at http://www.aleax.it/bio.txt, released as GFDL.
External resources
Much of Martelli's writing can be found at his personal home page.
Stack Overflow profile
1955 births
Living people
Google employees
Computer programmers
Italian computer scientists
Engineers from Bologna
Python (programming language) people
Italian emigrants to the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex%20Computer%202048 | The Timex Computer 2048 or TC 2048 is a 1984 computer developed by Timex Portugal (the Portuguese branch of Timex Corporation), at the time part of Timex Sinclair.
It was based on the Timex Sinclair 2048 prototype (see below), with a similar redesign case, composite video output, Kempston joystick interface, and additional video modes, while being highly compatible with the Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer (although ROM differences prevented 100% compatibility).
After connecting an external disk drive, Timex FDD3000, the computer could work under TOS - Timex Operating System or CP/M.
As Timex Portugal sold the Timex Sinclair models in Portugal and Poland under the Timex Computer brand, this computer is named "Timex Computer 2048", even though the "Timex Sinclair 2048" was never produced.
Timex Sinclair 2048 (prototype)
The Timex Sinclair 2048 was not released by Timex Sinclair because of the failure of the T/S 1500. According to an early Timex Sinclair 2000 computer flyer, it would be a cut-down Timex Sinclair 2068 with 16 KB of RAM. It had an added Kempston-compatible joystick interface and a monochrome high resolution mode for 80 column text.
History
In contrast with the ZX Spectrum, which was the best-selling computer in Britain at the time, the T/S 2068 and T/S 1500 were considered failures. Timex Corporation withdrew from the U.S. home computer market in February 1984.
Timex Portugal continued to manufacture and sell the TC 2048 in Portugal and Poland, where it was very successful, selling more than 10000 units.
Also, a NTSC version was sold in Chile.
TC 2048 started to be sold in Poland in 1986, with 5000 units available at the "Central Scouting Store" for a price of PLZ 106,000. It was the equivalent of 4 average salaries (24,095 PLZ), and slightly higher than a ZX Spectrum (PLZ 70,000-80,000).
Peripherals where also made available at the time of release:
Production of the computer ended in 1989.
Further developments
This computer forms the basis of a proposal for an improved Spectrum-compatible machine, the ZX Spectrum SE. Based on the Timex TC 2048 and the ZX Spectrum 128, with Timex graphic modes and 280K RAM, it was proposed by Andrew Owen and Jarek Adamski in 2000. A prototype was created and this configuration is supported by different emulators.
Two modifications of the TC 2048 exist: the TC 2128 (by STAVI) and the TC 2144 (by Jarek Adamski).
Both extend the RAM to 128K and upgrade the ULA to use four screen areas.
Technical specifications
CPU
Zilog Z80A @ 3.50 MHz
ROM
16 KB
RAM
48 KB
Display
Timex SCLD chip instead of the Spectrum's ULA, offering additional Extended Color, Dual Screen and High Resolution screen modes:
Text: 32×24 characters (8×8 pixels, rendered in graphics mode)
Graphics: 256×192 pixels, 15 colours (two simultaneous colours - "attributes" - per 8×8 pixels, causing attribute clash)
Extended Color: 256×192 pixels, 15 colors with colour resolution of 32×192 (two simultaneous colours - "attributes" - p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlace | Enlace is a Latin American Christian-based broadcast television network. The network primarily broadcasts faith-based programming targeted to the Hispanic community. Enlace's primary headquarters are in San José, Costa Rica, with studios, offices, and call centers in most Latin American countries.
In the United States, Enlace is distributed by Trinity Broadcasting Network (as Enlace TBN) and the broadcast facilities for Enlace's US feed are located in Irving, Texas.
Around the world, the channel is broadcast free-to-air via satellite as well on digital terrestrial television in Peru, Costa Rica, Spain, Panama and Bolivia.
History
Jonas González Rodriguez first got the idea for Enlace in 1981, and in 1984 Rodriguez sent a letter to Costa Rica's National Radio Control Department. On July 17, 1986, he was awarded a television license under Number 167 for use of the channel 23 UHF frequency in the Metropolitan region of Costa Rica.
In 1987, Rodriguez established an office for Enlace in San Antonio, TX in the Continental Building. In August 1988, TBN founder Paul Crouch donated a 10-watt transmitter to Channel 23, and engineer Ricardo Jarquín installed it. Channel 23 began transmitting on September 9, 1988. In January 1990 they installed a transmitter with 1000 watts in the Irazú volcano. In 1991 a trademark was filed for the name Enlace. In 1992, Channel 23 installed three repeaters in Limón, Santa Elena and Cerro de la Muerte. In 1994, Channel 23 opened its first studio, and on August 2 of that year, Channel 23 began transmitting via satellite during TBN's flagship program Praise the Lord.
In 1996 Enlace launched a 24/7 broadcast on the Mexican satellite Soldaridad 2, thus extending their signal all over Latin America. In 1998 they upgraded their satellite to Pas-5, thereby extending the network's reach all over Europe. In 2000 they upgraded their satellite once again to Pas-9, also on that year Enlace Juvenil TV was launched. In 2002 TBN Enlace USA was launched as part of TBN's digital lineup. In 2003, Enlace started transmitting on the satellites Hispasat-1C and Hotbird 6, thus extending to the Middle East. In 2005, Enlace started transmitting on Galaxy 23 and Galaxy 19 extending to North America. In 2006 they moved transmission to the satellite Galaxy 14.
In 2007, Enlace started retooling their infrastructure in Costa Rica, in addition to launching on the Nossa TV platform in Brazil transmitting from satellite Galaxy 28. In 2008, Enlace and Enlace Juvenil received new imagery and look, and they started transmitting on DirecTV Latin America for the first time from the satellite Galaxy 3C.
Background
The network's lineup consists of faith programs including church services, music videos, concerts, talk shows, children's programs, and movies. Over 80% of its programs are produced in Latin America by ministries such as Claudio Freidzon of Argentina, Cash Luna of Casa De Dios in Guatemala, and U.S. Hispanic organizations such as Guillermo M |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock%20recovery | In serial communication of digital data, clock recovery is the process of extracting timing information from a serial data stream itself, allowing the timing of the data in the stream to be accurately determined without separate clock information. It is widely used in data communications; the similar concept used in analog systems like color television is known as carrier recovery.
Basic concept
Serial data is normally sent as a series of pulses with well-defined timing constraints. This presents a problem for the receiving side; if their own local clock is not precisely synchronized with the transmitter, they may sample the signal at the wrong time and thereby decode the signal incorrectly. This can be addressed with extremely accurate and stable clocks, like atomic clocks, but these are expensive and complex. More common low-cost clock systems, like quartz oscillators, are accurate enough for this task over short periods of time, but over a period of minutes or hours the drift in these systems will make timing too inaccurate for most tasks.
Clock recovery addresses this problem by embedding clock information into the data stream, allowing the transmitter's clock timing to be determined. This normally takes the form of short signals inserted into the data that can be easily seen and then used in a phase-locked loop or similar adjustable oscillator to produce a local clock signal that can be used to time the signal in the periods between the clock signals. The advantage of this approach is that a small drift in the transmitter's clock can be compensated as the receiver will always match it, within limits.
The term is most often used to describe digital data transmission, in which case the entire signal is suitable for clock recovery. For instance, in the case of early 300 bit/s modems, the timing of the signal was recovered from the transitions between the two frequencies used to represent binary 1 and 0. As some data might not have any transitions, a long string of zeros for instance, additional bits are added to the signal, the start and stop bits. These ensure that there are at least two transitions every of a second, enough to allow the receiver to accurately set its local oscillator.
The basic concept is also used in a wider variety of fields, including non-digital uses. For instance, the pioneering Wireless Set Number 10 used clock recovery to properly sample the analog pulse-code modulation (PCM) voice signals it carried.
Another example of this concept is used in color television systems. Color information is carried at a very specific frequency that can drift from station to station. In order for receivers to accurately match the transmitter's own carrier frequency, the transmitter sends a short burst of the signal in the unused space before the start of a scan line. This colorburst signal is used to feed a local oscillator in the television, which then uses that local signal to decode the color information in the line. In these ex |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight%20Love%20%28TV%20series%29 | Midnight Love is a late-night music video block on the BET network that originally aired from August 10, 1985 until September 3, 2005. The show's creator, Alvin Jones, occasionally in voiceover, alongside various music artists. It showcased music videos of R&B/Soul ballads and Quiet Storm songs (Slow Jams).
Format and hosts
BET's former VJ/Producer Alvin "THE UNSEEN VJ" Jones was one of the producers of the show. Occasionally, there was a request line where viewers could request their favorite video. Throughout the years Jones was host, there were captions showing that viewers were able to write to the network (in care of Midnight Love) if they wanted to dedicate or request a video to a loved one. By 1992, a 1-900 request line was created for the viewers. In 1994, the dedication line was expanded. Although the show was cancelled in 2005, it was reformed under a new name, BET After Dark. Captain Paul Porter (also "then" host of Video Vibrations) hosted the show for a few years, as well as Sherry Carter.
Time slots
The time slot was often rotated back and forth from 12 a.m. to 1 a.m., but for the most part of the 1990s the show aired Monday to Friday at midnight, and Saturdays at 1:30 a.m. The show's duration also began to change in the late 1990s, going from two hours to one hour. From 1997 through mid–1998, it aired for 90 minutes, while on some Saturdays, it aired for two hours. By the fall of 1998, its duration remained an hour long, until it taken off the air in 2005.
External links
BET original programming
1985 American television series debuts
2005 American television series endings
1980s American music television series
1990s American music television series
2000s American music television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley%20Dollies | Trolley Dollies was a 20-part TV documentary series aired on British digital network LIVING in 2005. It followed the lives of a number of Cabin Crew at UK charter airline Excel Airways.
During the series, Excel Airways crew travelled to various countries. The show followed their lives both in and out of work, both on the aircraft and downroute on stop-overs at exotic destinations such as Tobago, Goa and Africa. The series was produced by Granada Productions for LIVING. It was narrated by Brian Dowling. The storylines included the relationship between gay couple Den and David, crew member Sally searching for her ideal man, and Janine's cosmetic surgery.
The show was cancelled after one series but continues to be popular in re-runs on both LIVING and LIVING2.
References
Documentary television series about aviation
Sky Living original programming
Television series by ITV Studios
2005 British television series debuts
2005 British television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden%20Siren%202 | Forbidden Siren 2 is a 2006 survival horror stealth game developed by Japan Studio's Project Siren team and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2 in 2006. It is a sequel to 2003's Siren (Forbidden Siren). A film inspired by the game but featuring a different plot and characters, Siren, was released that same year.
The game tells the story of several characters who become trapped on Yamijima Island, off the coast of mainland Japan. In 1976, during a blackout, the entire population of the island disappeared without a trace or explanation. Twenty-nine years later, in 2005, a journalist is visiting the island to conduct research for an article when the ferry he and a small group of other passengers are on capsizes. Shortly after this, a group of soldiers crash land on the island. The game is played from the perspective of these characters, and out of chronological order, as the protagonists attempt to survive the island's monsters and discover its mystery.
Gameplay
Like its predecessor, Forbidden Siren 2 is divided into numerous scenarios, organized chronologically in a table called the "Link Navigator". In order to complete a scenario, the player must accomplish a primary mission objective that usually involves reaching an exit point, finding an item, or subduing certain enemies (called and the ). Objectives are interconnected via a butterfly effect, and a character's actions in one scenario can trigger a secondary objective in another.
The game's defining feature is "sightjacking," to see and hear from the perspectives of nearby shibito, yamibito, humans, and other creatures. The process is similar to tuning into a radio frequency, with the left analog stick serving as the dial. The clarity of each target depends on the distance from the player, and the direction of the dial depends on the target's orientation to the player. Once a signal is found, it can be assigned to one of the controller's four face buttons to switch between signals. Via sightjacking, the player can discover a shibito's position, patrol route, locations and items of interest. However, the player is unable to move while sightjacking and is vulnerable to attack. In Forbidden Siren 2, the sightjack system was altered to allow automatic sightjacking to the closest enemy without having to tune into its frequency. Character-specific features have been added, such as Shu's ability to move while sightjacking, Ikuko's ability to control sightjacked enemies, and Akiko's ability to reveal psychic impressions from the past when sightjacking in certain areas.
Also added is the ability to crouch-walk, a proximity alert that warns the player of nearby enemies, a hint system that guides the player to the current mission objective, three selectable difficulty levels, and an optional first-person mode. Context-sensitive interactions now require only a single button press rather than having to bring up the list menu, and bringing up the menu for common interactions n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westwood%20Online | Westwood Online may refer to:
Westwood College, a for-profit institution of higher learning in the United States owned by Alta Colleges Inc
Westwood Studios, a computer and video game developer based in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Lano | Kevin C. Lano (born 1963) is a British computer scientist.
Life and work
Kevin Lano studied at the University of Reading, attaining a first class degree in Mathematics and Computer Science, and the University of Bristol where he completed his doctorate. He was an originator of formal object-oriented techniques (Z++), and developed a combination of UML and formal methods in a number of papers and books. He was one of the founders of the Precise UML group, who influenced the definition of UML 2.0.
Lano published the book Advanced Systems Design with Java, UML and MDA (Butterworth-Heinemann, ) in 2005. He is also the editor of UML 2 Semantics and Applications, published by Wiley in October 2009, among a number of computer science books.
Lano was formerly a Research Officer at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory (now the Oxford University Department of Computer Science). He is a reader at the Department of Informatics at King's College London.
In 2008, Lano and his co-authors Andy Evans, Robert France, and Bernard Rumpe, were awarded the Ten Year Most Influential Paper Award at the MODELS 2008 Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems for the 1998 paper "The UML as a Formal Modeling Notation".
Selected publications
Books
Reverse Engineering and Software Maintenance (McGraw-Hill, 1993)
Object-oriented Specification Case Studies (Prentice Hall, 1993)
Formal Object-oriented Development (Springer, 1995)
The B Language and Method: A Guide to Practical Formal Development (Springer, 1996)
Software Design in Java 2 (Palgrave, 2002)
UML 2 Semantics and Applications (Wiley, 2009), editor
Model-Driven Development using UML and Java (Cengage, 2009)
Agile MBD using UML-RSDS (Taylor & Francis, 2016)
Financial Software Engineering (Springer, 2019), with Howard Haughton
References
External links
Kevin Lano home page
1963 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Reading
Alumni of the University of Bristol
English computer scientists
Formal methods people
Computer science writers
Members of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
Academics of King's College London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incubation%3A%20Time%20Is%20Running%20Out | Incubation: Time Is Running Out (known in Europe as Incubation: Battle Isle Phase Four) is a turn-based tactics computer game from Blue Byte released in 1997. It is the fourth game in the Battle Isle series. In the game, the player controls a squad of soldiers in a campaign against an alien threat. An expansion pack, The Wilderness Missions, was released in 1998.
Gameplay
The single-player campaign includes around 30 missions set in futuristic interiors full of aliens, as a squad of space marines battles to save the civilians and themselves. The game has some head-to-head and co-op multiplayer support via LAN and software such as Kali. There are three difficulty levels which influence parameters like monster respawn and damage rates.
Outside of missions, the main decision is which weapons and equipment to purchase to outfit the squad. A variety of weapons are available. Some low-level guns feature bayonets for mêlée combat, which form a substantial element of the game. Equipment like jetpacks, scanners, improved armor, stimulants and medical kits becomes available as the space marines accumulate experience points.
Plot
Incubation is part of the Battle Isle series, though it is only loosely related to the other installments. The plot is told outside of combat, through cutscenes, and the main character's voiced weary, pessimistic monologues during mission briefings.
Cpl. Braddock is a space marine going stir crazy on a space station under Capt. Rachel Rutherford. He's at risk of hearing a fellow corporal's war story for the sixth time when the call comes to deploy to the planet below. Equipment failure has exposed the colonial city of Scay-Hallwa to the planet's environment and introduced a virus among the indigenous inhabitants, Scay'Ger, who are now turning into bloodthirsty monsters.
Braddock and his squad take part in a holding action to buy time for the city to be isolated again, and rescue a noted virologist. Gen. Urelis, the planetside commander, promotes Braddock to sergeant and sets to defending the city while the virologist cures the virus. Sadly, as Rutherford briefs her troops, this is the exact opposite of what the virologist actually tried to tell Urelis. The virus (herpes simplex) is common and endemic to humans, and has no cure. Urelis shows a flair for dramatic and counterproductive maneuvers, unveils a counterattack strategy entirely too late, authorizes lethal force against fleeing civilians to maintain order, and to Braddock's grim satisfaction, is overrun and killed. As the city falls the marines give up even the pretense of obeying Urelis and escort civilian evacuees to an airlift to safety, but Braddock and his squad are caught in a rearguard action, cut off, and stranded. Rutherford parachutes down to assist, and together they fight their way to a pick-up point. As the marines return to the station, an exhausted Braddock asks his chatty colleague for a story, rejects hearing any of the new ones, and tells him to take h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HKS | HKS may refer to:
Businesses and Organizations
HKS (company), Japanese automotive accessory company
HKS, Inc., an international architecture firm
HKSTV, a Hong Kong satellite television network
Hibbitt, Karlsson & Sorensen, now SIMULIA, a software company
HKS (American company), American company that makes speedloaders
Sport
Croatian Basketball Federation (Croatian: )
Hapoel Kfar Saba F.C., an Israeli football club
Hong Kong Scottish, a Hong Kong rugby union club
Hong Kong Squash, the national organization for squash in Hong Kong
Ruch Chorzów, a Polish football club
Transport
CHC Helikopter Service, a Norwegian helicopter operator
Hawkins Field (airport) in Jackson, Mississippi, United States
Hoogkarspel railway station, in the Netherlands
Other uses
HKS (colour system)
Croatian Conservative Party
Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University
Heat kernel signature
Hip-knee-shaft angle in orthopedics
Hong Kong Sign Language
Hezb-e Kargaran-e Socialist, the Socialist Workers' Party of Iran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunjax | Dunjax is the name of an early third-person shooter computer game. It was created by Jeff Mather for MS-DOS in the early 1990s. It was subsequently (2000) released for Microsoft Windows. The game is set on an alien planet, where the hero travels through caves searching for his spacecraft's lost engine. Along the way, he encounters gargoyles, tornadoes, evil doppelgängers, ninjas, lava, and bomb-dropping flower creatures, among other things. The game has six levels, which get progressively more difficult. As with many computer games, there are several hidden cheats. Mather's other games are Silmar and Navjet.
References
Official website
Third-person shooters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RANCID%20%28software%29 | RANCID (Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ) is a network management application released under a BSD-style license.
RANCID uses Expect to connect to the routers, send some commands and put the results in files.
Software which utilises RANCID-collected configs
LibreNMS
Observium
OpenNMS
See also
Network management system (NMS)
Console Server
Router
Switch
References
Shrubbery Networks, Inc. RANCID
External links
Website of RANCID: RANCID - Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ
Joe Abley and Stephen Stuart: Internet Software Consortium
Peter Harrison: Network Device Backups with Rancid at linuxhomenetworking.com
Free network management software
Configuration management
Software using the BSD license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen%20Petty | Kathleen Petty is a Canadian radio and television news journalist. She worked for almost two decades for the CBC News Network, where she was co-founder producer and host. When CBC Newsworld was launched in 1989 she was the anchor. She also hosted Canada Now for the Network and CBC News: Today from Calgary with co-host David Gray. She worked in Ottawa from 2006 until 2011, hosting CBC Radio Ottawa's , including Ottawa Morning, Ontario Today and the nationally-broadcast The House. In 2011, she announced that she was returning to Calgary. In February 2020, CBC announced the launch of a new podcast, West of Centre, with Petty as producer and host.
Background
In the 1980s, Petty was a co-founder producer and hosts for the CBC News Network where she worked for almost twenty years. She worked as CBC Newsworld's anchor from its launch in 1989 until 2006. In Calgary, Petty hosted CBC News Network's Canada Now and she co-hosted CBC News: Today from Calgary with David Gray.
In 2006, Petty moved to Ottawa to host programming for CBC Radio Ottawa, including the local morning show Ottawa Morning, the provincial Ontario Today and the nationally-broadcast The House, a programme about Canadian politics.
On May 31, 2011, Petty announced that, as of fall 2011, she would be giving up both roles to move back to her native Calgary to take a position hosting the CBC Radio Calgary morning program Calgary Eyeopener.
Petty has been a regular contributor to CBC's federal election coverage and has also appeared on Power and Politics.
By 2020, Kathleen Petty was the Executive Producer of News for CBC Calgary.
In 2019, CBC announced that Petty would be the producer and host of their new Calgary-based "election-focused pop-up bureau", West of Centre, a podcast that provides news and analysis with a western voice and perspective. Guests have included Cenovus Energy's CEO Alex Pourbaix, MEG Energy's CEO Derek Evans, Alberta's federal Senators, Paula Simons, and Doug Black.
Personal life
On August 11, 2011 during the last episode of Ottawa Morning, Petty announced that she was dealing with a health issue and that she would temporarily delay her move to Calgary. In a March 27, 2012 interview with the Ottawa Citizen's Shelley Page, Page described Petty as an "ace interviewer" who was used working "14-hour days" prior to her breast cancer diagnosis, which resulted in a double mastectomy. In the interview Petty said that at first she wanted to keep her health issues private, but as her cancer treatments progressed, she felt she could "give voice" to what many women have experienced.
References
External links
CBC Kathleen Petty Biography
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Calgary
Canadian radio news anchors
Canadian television news anchors
Canadian television producers
Canadian women television producers
Canadian talk radio hosts
Mass media people from Ottawa
CBC Radio hosts
CBC Television people
Canadian women television journalists
Ca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad%20TV%20%28season%2013%29 | The thirteenth season of Mad TV, an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on the Fox Network between September 15, 2007, and May 17, 2008.
Summary
The 13th season of Mad TV saw more changes in show format and cast members.
Repertory players Ike Barinholtz, Frank Caeti, and Nicole Randall Johnson and feature player Lisa Donovan were let go from the cast (Barinholtz left due to creative differences while Caeti, Johnson, and Donovan were fired). Johnny Sanchez (the first Latino male hired since season six's Nelson Ascencio) joined the cast as a repertory player, while Dan Oster, Anjelah Johnson, and Daheli Hall were hired as feature players.
The show format had also undergone major changes. Brian Fairlee giving an episode preview was phased out and replaced with the return of the cold opening sketches (mostly music video parodies, fake commercials, mock movie trailers, and TV show promos). John Crane and Bruce Leddy—the series showrunners, head writers, and executive producers — directed most of the episodes. The show itself was relocated to a new studio (The Henry Fonda Music Box Theater) in order to give the show the feel of a live event, due in part to FOX's extensive budget cuts and competition from Saturday Night Live and its growing popularity from The Lonely Island's "Digital Shorts" on that show. MADtv'''s pretaped sketches shown this season were very minimal, using little to no elaborate props, settings, or costumes.
Between November 24 and February 2, MADtv became one of many scripted, current (at the time) television shows to be put on hiatus due to the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike. Even though the strike did not end until February 12, 2008, three "new" episodes aired on February 2, February 9, and February 16. These "new" episodes were little more than pretaped sketches from canceled episodes and repeats of old sketches from seasons eight to ten (with no segments from the Music Box Theater). The show returned to its normal format on March 29, 2008.
This season was also the first of only two seasons to have "Best of..." clip shows a la Saturday Night Live, four of which aired prior to the show's official season premiere: Mad TV Ruined My Life (where Nicole Parker appears on a fictional episode of The Jerry Springer Show to defend the audience's claims that the sketch show's raunchy and politically incorrect sketches have traumatized and disgusted them), Survivor: Mad TV (where Jeff Probst and Keegan-Michael Key host a collection of the show's best TV and movie parodies), I Want My Mad TV (Perez Hilton and Bobby Lee's Johnny Gan character host a collection of MADtv's best celebrity caricatures and swipes at pop culture), and Mad TV's Most Wanted (where Michael McDonald and Susan Sarandon host a collection of the show's best recurring sketches and characters).
Notable celebrity appearances this season (besides the ones from the clip show episodes) include: Carlos Mencia, Neil Patrick Harris, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSJP-FM | WSJP-FM (100.1 FM) is a radio station licensed to Port Washington, Wisconsin, and licensed to Relevant Radio, Inc. It airs Catholic-based religious programming in a simulcast with WSJP (1640 AM). It is the only full-power radio station licensed to a community in Ozaukee County.
History
Prior to Starboard's purchase of the station, 100.1 was WGLB-FM, which aired a variety of programming over the years, including country, Top 40 and 70s hits. Most of these formats were also simulcast on its former AM sister station, WGLB (1560 AM).
For a time, WGLB-FM carried various satellite-delivered syndicated formats, but in later years were mostly live and local. The slogan was "Retro Radio". They briefly carried Don Imus's syndicated morning talk radio show in the late 1990s. The stations languished at the bottom of the Milwaukee area ratings due to its location and limited signal, which did not penetrate the southern half of Milwaukee County, though it maintained a small and dedicated fanbase in the market for its formats and program choices unique for the market.
WGLB-FM was owned by Joel Kinlow until he sold the station to Starboard. WGLB-FM signed off the air on May 21, 2003, and following a station upgrade, WPJP officially debuted on August 22, 2003. Kinlow continued to own 1560 AM, which retains the WGLB call sign and airs a gospel music format. WPJP's calls changed to WSJP on March 17, 2014, just over a month before Pope John Paul II, the station's namesake, was canonized as a saint on April 27 of the same year.
WSJP-FM airs much of the national content of Relevant Radio, but also airs some local programming, including Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki's Sunday Mass, and Marquette Golden Eagles men's basketball.
External links
SJP-FM
SJP-FM
Catholic radio stations
Radio stations established in 1969
1969 establishments in Wisconsin
Relevant Radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Files | S-Files is a Philippine television talk show broadcast by GMA Network. Originally hosted by Paolo Bediones and Lyn Ching, it premiered on June 7, 1998 replacing ETChing: Entertainment Today with Lyn Ching. The show concluded on April 22, 2007 with a total of 464 episodes. Pia Guanio, Richard Gomez, Joey Marquez and John Lapus served as the final hosts. It was replaced by Showbiz Central in its timeslot.
Hosts
Paolo Bediones
Lyn Ching-Pascual
Janice de Belen
Toni Gonzaga
Pia Guanio
Richard Gomez
Joey Marquez
John Lapus
Princess Violago
Accolades
References
External links
1998 Philippine television series debuts
2007 Philippine television series endings
Entertainment news shows in the Philippines
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine television talk shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive%20indexing | Recursive indexing is an algorithm used to represent large numeric values using members of a relatively small set.
Recursive indexing writes the successive differences of the number after extracting the maximum value of the alphabet set from the number, and continuing recursively till the difference falls in the range of the set.
Recursive indexing with a 2-letter alphabet is called unary code.
Encoding
To encode a number N, keep reducing the maximum element of this set (Smax) from N and output Smax for each such difference, stopping when the number lies in the half closed half open
range [0 – Smax).
Example
Let S = [0 1 2 3 4 … 10], be an 11-element set, and we have to recursively index the value N=49.
According to this method, subtract 10 from 49 and iterate until the difference is a number in the 0–10 range.
The values are 10 (N = 49 – 10 = 39), 10 (N = 39 – 10 = 29), 10 (N = 29 – 10 = 19), 10 (N = 19 – 10 = 9), 9. The recursively indexed sequence for N = 49 with set S, is 10, 10, 10, 10, 9.
Decoding
Compute the sum of the index values.
Example
Decoding the above example involves 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 9 = 49.
Uses
This technique is most commonly used in run-length encoding systems to encode longer runs than the alphabet sizes permit.
References
Khalid Sayood, Introduction to Data Compression 3rd ed, Morgan Kaufmann.
Coding theory
Data compression
Lossless compression algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unang%20Hirit | () is a Philippine television news broadcasting and talk show broadcast by GMA Network. It is the longest running morning show in the Philippines. Originally hosted by Ryan Agoncillo, Lyn Ching-Pascual, Arnold Clavio, Suzi Entrata, Mickey Ferriols, and Miriam Quiambao, it premiered on December 6, 1999 on the network's morning line up replacing Mornings @ GMA. Clavio, Entrata, Ching-Pascual, Susan Enriquez, Ivan Mayrina, Mariz Umali, and Matteo Guidicelli. currently serve as the hosts.
Overview
premiered on GMA Network on December 6, 1999, replacing Mornings @ GMA. Ryan Agoncillo, Lyn Ching, Arnold Clavio, Suzi Entrata, Mickey Ferriols and Miriam Quiambao served the show as the original hosts.
On July 15, 2002, the segment debuted. On April 11, 2011, Edu Manzano returned to the show.
On July 31, 2019, Rhea Santos announced her departure from the show to migrate in Canada. Santos was replaced by Mariz Umali in August 2019. In March 2020, the production was halted due to the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The show resumed its programming on April 13, 2020.
On February 28, 2023, Connie Sison left the show to focus on her family and health.
Hosts
Arnold Clavio
Suzi Entrata-Abrera
Lyn Ching-Pascual
Susan Enriquez
Ivan Mayrina
Mariz Umali
Matteo Guidicelli
UH Funliners
Shaira Diaz
Kaloy Tingcungco
Jenzel Angeles
Roxie Smith
Anjay Anson
Michael Sager
Kim Perez
Cheska Fausto
Sean Lucas
Segment hosts
Gaby Concepcion
Chef JR Royol
Anjo Pertierra
Former hosts
Ryan Agoncillo
Mickey Ferriols
Mon Isberto
Miriam Quiambao
Eagle Riggs
Martin Andanar
Hans Montenegro
TJ Manotoc
Arn-Arn
Rhea Santos
Lhar Santiago
Love Añover
Daniel Razon
Pia Arcangel
Atom Araullo
Edu Manzano
Tessa Nieto
Drew Arellano
Diana Zubiri
Jolina Magdangal
Oscar Oida
Paolo Bediones
Sunshine Dizon
Nikki Dacullo
Monica Verallo
Connie Sison
Luane Dy
Tonipet Gaba
Jun Veneracion
Nathaniel "Mang Tani" Cruz
Mikael Daez
Hiro Peralta
Former segment hosts
Jackie Lou Blanco
Cory Quirino
Luchi Cruz-Valdes
Oscar Orbos
Bea Binene
Manny Calayan
Pie Calayan
Kat Manalo
Fanny Serrano
Olen Juarez-Lim
Connie Sison
Regine Tolentino
Winnie Monsod
Juancho Trivino
John Philip Balang Bughaw
Boobay
Phytos Ramirez
Yuan Francisco
Klea Pineda
Clint Bondad
Joyce Pring
Donita Nose
Krissy
Angelica Ulip
Leanne Bautista
Chef Jose Sarasola
Rabiya Mateo
Ashley Rivera
Segments
All Prize Hike
All Access Pass
Bantay Presyo
Boses ng Masa
Buena Manong Balita
Cash Word
Cash Alarm
Cash-Sagot
GMA Integrated News Weather Center
I.M. Ready: GMA Weather
Hirit ni Mareng Winnie
Hirit Pa More ni Mareng Winnie
Hirit Trapiko
Kapuso sa Batas
Kapuso sa Kalusugan
Kitchen Hirit
#LagotCam
People, Places, and Events
Ronda Reports
Sala ni Igan, Sala ni Susan
Senior Moment
Showbiz Hirit / Showbiz Bullets
Siyanse ni Susan
Sp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinoy%20Meets%20World | Meets World () is a Philippine television travel documentary show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Paolo Bediones and Miriam Quiambao, it premiered on June 25, 2006. The show concluded on January 25, 2009.
Episodes
Accolades
References
External links
2006 Philippine television series debuts
2009 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine documentary television series
Philippine travel television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay%20Susan%20Tayo%21 | () is a Philippine television informative public affairs show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Susan Enriquez, it premiered on November 30, 2003, on the network's morning line up. The show concluded on October 25, 2009, with a total of 309 episodes. It was replaced by Eateria in its timeslot.
The show is streaming online on YouTube.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the final episode of scored a 7.8% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2003 Philippine television series debuts
2009 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20Display | In computing, Smart Display (originally codenamed Mira) was a Microsoft initiative to use a portable touchscreen LCD monitor as a thin client for PCs, connecting via Wi-Fi.
Smart Display was announced in early 2002, released in early 2003 and discontinued in December 2003, having never achieved more than negligible market penetration.
Technology
The Smart Display was a battery-powered 10" or 15" LCD monitor with a touchscreen (similar in size and shape to a Tablet PC), connecting to a PC over an 802.11b WiFi network, with input via Transcriber (similar to Graffiti) or a pop-up soft-keyboard for text entry, and built-in speakers. Some models had a docking unit with wired PC, keyboard and mouse connectors.
The display ran Smart Display OS or Microsoft Windows CE for Smart Displays, based on Windows CE and .NET. The remote technology was based on Windows Terminal Server. Smart Display OS 1.0 would only connect to a Windows XP Professional host system, although some reported that any version of Windows could be remote-controlled using NetMeeting.
ViewSonic was the first manufacturer to bring Smart Display to the market, with the airpanel V150 in early 2003. This included a 15" 1024×768 LCD, a 400 MHz Intel XScale processor, 32MB ROM, 64MB RAM and 802.11b wireless, and a USB wireless hub for the host PC.
Problems
Analysts flagged the problems with the Mira initiative very early on, as soon as it reached their notice in early 2002.
In Smart Display OS 1.0, the display would lock the host PC to it while in use. Microsoft variously attributed this to licensing issues (that Windows XP Professional was licensed for one user per running copy ) and resource management problems. The requirements of licensing — not to allow the devices to work standalone, not to allow the device to connect to the host PC while the PC's main screen was active and not to allow multiple Smart Displays to control one PC — were widely derided in the press.
Only one Smart Display could connect to a host PC at a time, preventing multiple devices being used in households with access to only one PC.
Although the devices had similar CPU and memory specifications and operating system to a large Pocket PC, weighed as much as a notebook and had similar battery life, they provided no standalone functionality and were not usable without a host PC. Analyst speculation was that Smart Display was crippled so as not to risk cannibalising the Tablet PC market.
Video streaming was not possible — the connection was not fast enough and Remote Desktop Protocol contained no enhancements to facilitate video.
Microsoft had intended the smart displays to sell at around US$500, but the devices eventually reached the market at $1000–1500, whereas comparable notebooks were around $600.
History
Mira was announced by Bill Gates at the 2002 Consumer Electronics Show:
The initial announcement mentioned technology partnerships with AboCom, Fujitsu, Intel, LG Electronics, National Semiconductor, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panther%20%281975%20video%20game%29 | Panther, a battle tank-driving simulation named after the Panther tank, was one of a handful of early first-person computer games developed by John Edo Haefeli and Nelson Bridwell in 1975 at Northwestern University. The game was developed for the multi-user interactive computer-based education PLATO system and programmed in the TUTOR programming language and utilized scalable vector graphics called linesets. A 1977 development of Panther, with more refined graphics, was named Panzer, the German word for armour and tank.
Nelson contributed the original concept of a tank combat game, which was inspired by Brand Fortner's Airfight, Jim Bowery's Spasim, and an unfinished tank game effort of Derek Ward. Nelson also provided the Panther tank artwork, the vehicle motion, view, and damage equations, and a significant fraction of the original code. John was a highly capable TUTOR IV programmer who created the overall game framework, providing key features such as team selection and messaging that turned the concept into a working game, later adding a number of refinements.
Version A (1975) of Panther has recently been restored to active status on the Cyber1 CYBIS-based (a PLATO descendant) system, with direct permission of the developer.
Gameplay
The game features team-based deathmatch. There are two teams, Squares and Triangles. The object of the game is to destroy the opposing team's base. Game play is straightforward; the player selects a pseudonym and a team, traverse the terrain looking for enemies to destroy on the way to their base. Perspective is maintained by the use of scalable vector graphics and visual interest is enhanced with special graphics for explosions using a custom character set to accomplish limited raster graphics animation.
When players enter the game their tanks are placed randomly in the playing arena near their bases and are temporarily camouflaged to allow time to orient themselves with the current map and state of play. The initial view of the game is in "on-board" mode, which is a first-person perspective of the arena. The other main view available is the map which shows the 5 mountains (Crag, Nixon, Og, Pathos, and Red) which vary in size and placement each time a new game is started. On the map view players can see all of their team members positions and can see enemies only when they are within range. Messaging between team members is available and broadcast-style messages (insults) to the opposing team are also allowed. Team coordination and cooperation is critical to winning in this game as each player has different skills, some players are better at hunting down and killing enemies (or at least engaging and distracting them), others are good at hiding and sneaking to the opposing base to begin bombardment. An interesting capability of the game is that players can donate ammunition and fuel to other players in order to facilitate their role in the game. Ammunition and fuel are loaded at the player's base.
See also
B |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewido%20Networks | Ewido Networks was a software company based in Germany known for creating Ewido Anti-Spyware. Ewido Anti-Spyware was software used to remove malware such as spyware, trojan horses, adware, dialers, and worms. It also featured real-time protection, automatic updates, and other privacy features. Ewido had both a free version, and a paid version which added realtime protection, and automatic updates.
History
Ewido networks was founded in Germany in 2004 by Andreas Rudyk, Peter Klapprodt and Tobias Graf. Their first product was Ewido Security Suite. Ewido was given Digital River's ICE award for "Best newcomer of the year".
Grisoft Acquisition
On April 19, 2006 it was announced that Czech Grisoft had acquired the German Anti-Malware company Ewido Networks. This was the birth of Grisoft's AVG Anti Spyware, an anti spyware based on Ewido's engine. Grisoft now includes ewido in many security suites and bundles and antivirus products.
Ewido Anti-Spyware
This software began life as Ewido Security Suite and the name was changed to Ewido Anti-malware in December 2005. With the release of 4.0, it was later changed again to Ewido Anti-Spyware.
Ewido Anti-Spyware included new features such as scheduled scans, file shredder, running process manager, and a new interface. It also included an LSP and BHO viewer. There was a free version with no realtime protection and automatic updates (Users could update manually). The last known price was $29.99.
After Grisoft's acquisition, however, Ewido's Anti-Spyware development has not stopped. It continues to exist as Ewido Online Scanner or Ewido Micro Scanner, using the full Ewido engine and signatures, without excluding heuristic detection options. As of AVG 8.0, AVG Anti-Spyware is integrated into AVG Anti-Virus and is no longer available as a standalone product. That means that AVG Anti-Spyware will no longer receive updates.
Ewido works with many popular antivirus and other spyware products such as:
AVG Anti-Virus
Ad-Aware
Avast! Antivirus
Avira Security Software
Comodo Internet Security
CounterSpy
Kaspersky Anti-Virus
McAfee
Norton AntiVirus
Sophos
Spybot Search & Destroy
Spyware Doctor
ZoneAlarm Security Suite
See also
Grisoft
Malware
Spyware
References
External links
Ewido's Official site
Software companies of Germany
Antivirus software
Spyware removal
Windows security software
Windows-only proprietary software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard%20disk%20drive%20failure | A hard disk drive failure occurs when a hard disk drive malfunctions and the stored information cannot be accessed with a properly configured computer.
A hard disk failure may occur in the course of normal operation, or due to an external factor such as exposure to fire or water or high magnetic fields, or suffering a sharp impact or environmental contamination, which can lead to a head crash.
The stored information on a hard drive may also be rendered inaccessible as a result of data corruption, disruption or destruction of the hard drive's master boot record, or by malware deliberately destroying the disk's contents.
Causes
There are a number of causes for hard drives to fail including: human error, hardware failure, firmware corruption, media damage, heat, water damage, power issues and mishaps. Drive manufacturers typically specify a mean time between failures (MTBF) or an annualized failure rate (AFR) which are population statistics that can't predict the behavior of an individual unit. These are calculated by constantly running samples of the drive for a short period of time, analyzing the resultant wear and tear upon the physical components of the drive, and extrapolating to provide a reasonable estimate of its lifespan. Hard disk drive failures tend to follow the concept of the bathtub curve. Drives typically fail within a short time if there is a defect present from manufacturing. If a drive proves reliable for a period of a few months after installation, the drive has a significantly greater chance of remaining reliable. Therefore, even if a drive is subjected to several years of heavy daily use, it may not show any notable signs of wear unless closely inspected. On the other hand, a drive can fail at any time in many different situations.
The most notorious cause of drive failure is a head crash, where the internal read-and-write head of the device, usually just hovering above the surface, touches a platter, or scratches the magnetic data-storage surface. A head crash usually incurs severe data loss, and data recovery attempts may cause further damage if not done by a specialist with proper equipment. Drive platters are coated with an extremely thin layer of non-electrostatic lubricant, so that the read-and-write head will likely simply glance off the surface of the platter should a collision occur. However, this head hovers mere nanometers from the platter's surface which makes a collision an acknowledged risk.
Another cause of failure is a faulty air filter. The air filters on today's drives equalize the atmospheric pressure and moisture between the drive enclosure and its outside environment. If the filter fails to capture a dust particle, the particle can land on the platter, causing a head crash if the head happens to sweep over it. After a head crash, particles from the damaged platter and head media can cause one or more bad sectors. These, in addition to platter damage, will quickly render a drive useless.
A drive also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullable%20type | Nullable types are a feature of some programming languages which allow a value to be set to the special value NULL instead of the usual possible values of the data type. In statically typed languages, a nullable type is an option type, while in dynamically typed languages (where values have types, but variables do not), equivalent behavior is provided by having a single null value.
NULL is frequently used to represent a missing value or invalid value, such as from a function that failed to return or a missing field in a database, as in NULL in SQL. In other words NULL is undefined.
Primitive types such as integers and Booleans cannot generally be null, but the corresponding nullable types (nullable integer and nullable Boolean, respectively) can also assume the NULL value. This can be represented in ternary logic as FALSE,NULL,TRUE as in three-valued logic.
Example
An integer variable may represent integers, but 0 (zero) is a special case because 0 in many programming languages can mean "false". Also this doesn't give us any notion of saying that the variable is empty, a need for which occurs in many circumstances. This need can be achieved with a nullable type. In programming languages like C# 2.0, a nullable integer, for example, can be declared by a question mark (int? x). In programming languages like C# 1.0, nullable types can be defined by an external library as new types (e.g. NullableInteger, NullableBoolean).
A Boolean variable makes the effect more clear. Its values can be either "true" or "false", while a nullable boolean may also contain a representation for "undecided". However, the interpretation or treatment of a logical operation involving such a variable depends on the language.
Compared with null pointers
In contrast, object pointers can be set to NULL by default in most common languages, meaning that the pointer or reference points to nowhere, that no object is assigned (the variable does not point to any object).
Nullable references were invented by C. A. R. Hoare in 1965 as part of the Algol W language. Hoare later described his invention as a "billion-dollar mistake". This is because object pointers that can be NULL require the user to check the pointer before using it and require specific code to handle the case when the object pointer is NULL.
Java has classes that correspond to scalar values, such as Integer, Boolean and Float. Combined with autoboxing (automatic usage-driven conversion between object and value), this effectively allows nullable variables for scalar values.
Compared with option types
Nullable type implementations usually adhere to the null object pattern.
There is a more general and formal concept that extend the nullable type concept, it comes from option types, which enforce explicit handling of the exceptional case.
Language support
The following programming languages support nullable types.
Statically typed languages with native null support include:
Ballerina
C#
Dart
Kotlin
Cey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenEV | OpenEV is an open-source geospatial toolkit and a frontend to that toolkit. OpenEV was developed using Python and uses the GDAL library to display georeferenced images and elevation data. The application also has image editing capabilities and uses OpenGL to display elevation data in three-dimensions.
History
The original version of OpenEV was developed by Atlantis Scientific (renamed Vexcel) as a prototype viewer for the Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure. Its development was supported by the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing GeoConnections program and J-2 Geomatics (Canadian Department of National Defense). The goal was to create a free, downloadable, advanced satellite imagery viewer that allowed users to work interactively with CGDI data.
Vexcel, Inc. was acquired in May, 2006 by Microsoft and left the software to Mario Beauchamp and a team of developers. OpenEV has since been used by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the American Museum of Natural History. It was also the base for the CIETmap software, which is now developed also by Mario Beauchamp.
Supported data
OpenEV supports numerous raster and vector formats such as shapefiles. Since it uses the GDAL library to display images, it supports the same formats.
See also
Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
References
External links
Free software programmed in Python
Free GIS software
Software that uses PyGTK
Remote sensing software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-Estradas%20do%20Atl%C3%A2ntico | Auto-Estradas do Atlântico, Concessões Rodoviárias de Portugal, S.A., is a highway management concessionaire in Portugal.
Network
Auto-Estradas do Atlântico operates two highways:
A8, from Lisbon to Leiria via Caldas da Rainha
A15 from Santarém to Óbidos and Caldas da Rainha via Rio Maior
External links
Autoestradas do Atlântico
Transport companies of Portugal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20socialist | Green socialist can refer to the movement or ideology Green socialism (see Eco-socialism) or to any of the following:
Socialist Resistance, a British ecosocialist network
Socialist Environment and Resources Association, an organization affiliated with the UK Labour Party
Socialist Green Unity Coalition, a former UK electoral alliance
Third International Theory, a type of socialist government ("Jamahariya") written in Muammar Gaddafi's Green Book. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHBR-TDT | XHBR-TDT is a television station in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The station carries Televisa's local programming in Nuevo Laredo.
History
XHBR received its concession on March 18, 1968 and came to air that October, broadcasting on analog channel 11. It was owned by Ramona Esparza González for 20 years until she transferred the station to Televisa subsidiary Televisión de Lerma, S.A., on July 19, 1988. Esparza González had bought XEFE-TV two years earlier. Televisa raised XHBR's effective radiated power from 3.5 to 325 kilowatts. In 2001, Televisión de Lerma was merged into Televimex, and in 2018 the concession was reassigned to Televisora de Occidente amid a major reorganization of concessions that saw them organized by service.
By the 2000s, XHBR was the local outlet of the Canal de las Estrellas network, a role now held by sister XHLAR-TDT. It was among the first stations in Mexico to broadcast in digital television.
Digital services
XHBR carries two subchannels:
References
External links
Television channels and stations established in 1968
HBR-TDT
Spanish-language television stations in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEFE-TDT | XEFE-TDT (channel 17) is a television station in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, known as XEFE, La Imagen Familiar. XEFE primarily carries programming from the public Canal Once network as well as local news, information and entertainment programming. XEFE was the last television station in the Laredo – Nuevo Laredo area to broadcast digitally, doing so for the first time in March 2014.
History
XEFE-TV signed on channel 2 on October 1, 1962, making it the first television station in Nuevo Laredo and second in the Laredo – Nuevo Laredo area after KGNS, which first went on the air January 7, 1956. In February 2013, XEFE received authorization from COFETEL to broadcast in digital on RF channel 17. XEFE began broadcasting in digital in March 2014, ten months ahead of the market's analog shutoff in January 2015.
In October 2016, changes to allotment of virtual channels required XEFE to vacate channel 2 and begin using virtual channel 17, as channel 2 was nationally allocated for Las Estrellas.
Previously carrying national Televisa programming from Gala TV/NU9VE and FOROtv, XEFE dropped Televisa programs on July 1, 2020, and picked up national news and some programs from public Canal Once, which does not have a transmitter in the market.
Digital television
XEFE began broadcasting in digital in March 2014, making it the last television station in the Laredo–Nuevo Laredo area to broadcast in digital, just ten months before analog shutoff in the Nuevo Laredo area in January 2015. It has one subchannel, 17.1, carrying its main programming.
References
External links
Official Facebook page
EFE-TDT
Television channels and stations established in 1962
Spanish-language television stations in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20terminal | Smart terminal may refer to:
Block-oriented terminal, which typically offloads form or panel editing from a mainframe computer
A computer terminal with capabilities for cursor positioning, or other display formatting capabilities beyond a text-mode teleprinter
A credit card terminal which supports various payment methods
Thin client computer, with local data processing capacity |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safra%20Group | The J. Safra Group is an international network of companies controlled by the Safra family, comprising banking and financial institutions and industrial operations. It is present in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, Asia and the Caribbean.
History
In the early nineteenth century, Safra Frères et Cie., the family's first financial institution, was founded in the Ottoman Empire in Aleppo, Syria. Further economic expansions prompted the family to open new branches in Beirut, followed by Istanbul and Alexandria. In the early 1900s, Beirut was chosen as headquarters of the newly founded Bank Jacob Safra. Following the end of World War II, Jacob Safra expanded the new banking activities toward Europe and later to Latin America and the United States.
In May 2011, it purchased 20% of the pulp and paper company Eco Brasil Florestas for R$160 million. In November 2011, it bought 46% of Swiss bank Sarasin for US$1.13 billion. In 2012, the J. Safra Group came to hold all of Sarasin's shares after making an offer to acquire stakes from minority shareholders.
In November 2014, it bought for 726 million pounds (or 2.9 billion reais) one of the largest buildings in London, 30 St Mary Ax or Gherkin.
Slogan
Each bank has its own slogan in its local language for marketing purposes. They all involve security and solidity.
However, the J. Safra Group general slogan is present in every Safra Company and has been kept graven in stone for over a century. Composed of a quote from the patriarch Jacob Safra that underlines the group's long term strategy, it reads:
If you choose to sail upon the seas of banking,
build your bank as you would your boat,
with the strength to sail safely through any storm.
Major companies
Safra National Bank of New York has a core business of private banking. It has branches in and around New York and in Florida, as well as representative offices in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. As a complement to its core business, the bank also offers securities trading through its independent registered broker-dealer, Safra Securities Corp.; global securities trading capabilities through its investment division; international correspondent banking services, and international trade finance. The bank is a member of both the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Safra Securities Corp. is a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). Within the United States, the privately owned Safra National Bank of New York serves high-net-worth individuals, local businesses, and international corporations through branches in New York and Miami. It offers CDs, investment funds, money market instruments, and alternative investments. In addition to wealth management, the bank also performs brokerage services, bond trading, and correspondent banking.
J. Safra Sarasin is the sixth largest Swiss Bank. J. Safra Sarasin is represented worldwide in 26 locations in Europe, A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel%20de%20Codage | The Manuel de Codage (), abbreviated MdC, is a standard system for the computer-encoding of transliterations of Egyptian hieroglyphic texts.
History
In 1984 a committee was charged with the task to develop a uniform system for the encoding of hieroglyphic texts on the computer. The resulting Manual for the Encoding of Hieroglyphic Texts for Computer-input (Jan Buurman, Nicolas Grimal, Jochen Hallof, Michael Hainsworth and Dirk van der Plas, Informatique et Egyptologie 2, Paris 1988) is generally shortened to Manuel de Codage. It presents an easy to use way of encoding hieroglyphic writing as well as the abbreviated hieroglyphic transliteration. The encoding system of the Manuel de Codage has since been adopted by international Egyptology as the official common standard for registering hieroglyphic texts on the computer.
Egyptologists have scheduled a revision for 2007 of the Manuel de Codage, in order to ensure broader implementation in current and future software.
List of Gardiner's fundamental uniliteral hieroglyphs and their transliteration
The MdC specifies a method for electronically encoding complete ancient Egyptian texts, indicating many of the features characterizing hieroglyphic writing such as the placement, orientation, colour, and even size of individual hieroglyphs. Hieroglyphs not included in the list of fundamentals are referred to by their Gardiner number. This system is used (though frequently with modifications) by various software packages developed for typesetting hieroglyphic texts (such as SignWriter, WinGlyph, MacScribe, InScribe, Glyphotext, WikiHiero, and others). It is loosely based on the common representation of algebraic formulae. Some of the rules are:
the "-"-sign concatenates the signs or group of signs between which it is placed.
the ":"-sign places the first sign or group of signs above the second sign
the "*"-sign juxtaposes two signs or groups of signs
the rounded brackets "( )" form a compact grouping of signs arranged according to the other rules, which is treated as if it were a single sign
the "< >"-brackets mark cartouches
the "!"-sign marks an end of line
the "!!"-sign marks an end of page
Examples
The name Amenhotep, in hieroglyphs i-mn:n-R4:t*p, would be transliterated thus: i-mn:n-R4:t*p, where mn stands for mn and R4 is the Gardiner number for the Htp hieroglyph. Instead of writing R4, one could use Htp, but not all signs in the Gardiner list can be transliterated in such a way, as there are many hieroglyphs transliterated with the same Latin character in the case of uniliterals and characters in the case of bi- and triliterals. The most frequently used hieroglyph was chosen to be represented by a certain letter or letter combination. Thus n stands for n rather than for S3, which phonetically is represented with n as well.
In order to add a cartouche, as seen in < i-mn:n-R4:t*p > , one would write < i-mn:n-R4:t*p > or < i-mn:n-:t*p >
See also
Gardiner's sign list of hieroglyphs
Note |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CW4 | CW4 may refer to:
U.S. television stations affiliated with The CW network
Current
KCWO-TV in Big Spring / Odessa / Midland, Texas
KOMO-TV-DT2 in Seattle, Washington
KRON-TV in San Francisco, California
KTIV-DT2 in Sioux City, Iowa
KTKB-LD in Tamuning, Guam (cable channel; broadcasts on channel 26)
WCBI-TV-DT3 in Columbus, Mississippi
WMOW in Wausau, Wisconsin
WOAI-TV-DT2 in San Antonio, Texas
Former
KXLF-TV-DT2 in Butte, Montana (CW affiliated from 2006 to 2023)
WTTV in Bloomington / Indianapolis, Indiana (CW affiliated from 2006 to 2014)
Other uses
CW4, a postcode district in the CW postcode area
Chief Warrant Officer 4, a rank of Warrant Officer (United States) in the United States military
HLA-Cw4 is a serotype within the HLA-C serotype group |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doron%20Tamir | Doron Tamir is a former top intelligence officer of the Israel Defense Forces who participated in the founding of the Israel National Cyber Bureau (INCB) in the office of the Prime Minister of Israel.
Military and intelligence career
In the INCB, Tamir was Senior Director of the Security Sector and also Head of International Cooperation. Among his roles in the INCB, he led the establishment of Israel National Security Operations Center (SOC). Formerly, Tamir served as the IDF Chief Intelligence Officer holding the rank of Brigadier General.
Following his retirement from the INCB, Tamir co-founded Security Group, where he serves as chairman. At Cyber Security Group, Tamir oversees the firm's work with governments around the world in developing National Cyber Security Strategies (NSCS) and related projects.
References
External links
Israel National Cyber Bureau (INCB) oversees the national efforts of Israel in cyber security, including the newly formed National Cyber Authority and the [https://cert.gov.il/CERT-IL/Pages/CERT-IL.aspx Israel National CERT.
Cyber Security Group
Israel National Cyber Bureau (INCB) in the Prime Minister Office.
International Experts: Cyber Threats Are Not As Scary As You Think" - General Tamir speaks at a conference by Georgetown University Institute for Law, Science and Global Security on the topic of "INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT ON CYBER: DEVELOPING INTERNATIONAL NORMS FOR A SAFE, STABLE & PREDICTABLE CYBER ENVIRONMENT".
Israel’s New National Cyber Operations Center (National Security Operations Center N-SOC).
Cyber Security Group team bios.
Doron Tamir LinkedIn profile.
Israeli generals
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Weapon designers
he:דורון תמיר |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Grim%20Adventures%20of%20Billy%20%26%20Mandy%20%28video%20game%29 | The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy is a fighting video game published by Midway Games based on the Cartoon Network animated television series of the same name. The game pits characters from the series against one another in 3D arena battles using various attacks, items, and environmental hazards to eliminate opponents and be the last one standing. The game was developed by High Voltage Software and released in North America on September 25, 2006, for the GameCube and PlayStation 2, and on November 19, 2006, for the Wii as a launch title. A companion game for the Game Boy Advance, featuring sidescrolling beat 'em up gameplay, was developed by Full Fat and released on October 31, 2006. The Wii version was released in Australia on March 15, 2007, and in Europe on March 16, 2007.
The game received mixed reception upon release, with critics praising its presentation, faithfulness to the source material, and multiplayer, but criticizing its shallow gameplay and lack of content.
Gameplay
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy is a 3D arena-based fighting game, similar to other games such as the Power Stone series. In the game, up to four players battle in a three dimensional arena and perform light and heavy style attacks in an attempt to deplete their opponents' health and knock them out. Each of the eight levels contains elements that can affect the battle, such as enemies that will attack the players or traps that can be triggered. Most levels include multiple sub-arenas and will transition from one to the next after a short amount of time has passed, such as rising lava in an Underworld cavern forcing players to ride a giant snake to escape. Players can pick up and wield different weapons that appear, such as a halberd or a club, to do additional damage. Treasure chests will spawn that contain items, including weapons, healing items, and Mojo Balls that fill the player's Mojo Meter, which can be filled up to two levels at a time. When the Mojo Meter fills to the first level, a Mojo Smackdown can be performed where the character attacks an opponent with a barrage of attacks that will knock them out if it connects; if the opponent's meter is also filled, they can perform a Mojo Counterattack to interrupt the Smackdown and deplete both characters' meters. When the Mojo Meter is filled to the second level, a Mojo Meltdown can be performed, instantly knocking out all opponents. Players have a limited number of lives in each battle, losing one each time their health is depleted; when a player runs out of both lives and health, they are temporarily stunned, at which point an opponent can attack them and trigger a quick time event sequence called a "finishing blow", which will eliminate them from the battle. If the finishing blow sequence is failed, the player will escape and resume battling, though they remain vulnerable to other finishing blow attempts.
Several gameplay modes are available. In Story Mode, players must complete five battles against a se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20Silico%20%28Deepsky%20album%29 | In Silico is an album by the American electronic music group Deepsky. It was released in 2002. The title refers to the largely computer-based production methods employed during its creation, where the bulk of the music was composed using softsynths and Emagic Logic Audio 5 rather than external hardware synthesizers and traditional multi-track recorders.
AllMusic gave In Silico three stars out of a possible five, with the reviewer John Bush writing that the album "has it all: the low attention span of funky breaks, the streamlined groove of progressive trance, even the intelligent production and frequent changeups of techno".
Track listing
"The Mansion World - Deepsky's Trippin' in Unknown Territory Mix" is a remix of the song "Mansion World", originally performed by Deadsy on the album Commencement.
The song "Ride" is used on the snowboarding game SSX3; the vocals were by J. Scott G.
References
2002 albums
Deepsky albums
Kinetic Records albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unihan%20%28disambiguation%29 | Unihan is an effort by Unicode/ISO 10646 to map Han characters into a single set, ignoring regional variations.
Unihan may also refer to:
Unihan Database, a web data file maintained by the Unicode Consortium
UniHan IME, an input method based on the IIIMF framework
Unihan font, a Unicode font developed by Ross Paterson in 1993
UNIHAN, Leibniz University Hannover
Unihan Corporation, Taiwanese contract manufacturer (but an old name for Pegatron) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-shadowing | Self-Shadowing is a computer graphics lighting effect, used in 3D rendering applications such as computer animation and video games. Self-shadowing allows non-static objects in the environment, such as game characters and interactive objects (buckets, chairs, etc.), to cast shadows on themselves and each other. For example, without self-shadowing, if a character puts his or her right arm over the left, the right arm will not cast a shadow over the left arm. If that same character places a hand over a ball, that hand will cast a shadow over the ball.
One thing that needs to be specified is whether the shadow being cast is dynamic or static. A wall with a shadow on it is a static shadow. The wall is not moving and so its geometric shape is not going to move or change in the scene. A dynamic shadow is something that has its geometry changes within a scene.
Self-Shadowing methods have trade-offs between quality and speed depending on the desired result. To keep speed up, some techniques rely on fast and low resolution solutions which could result in wrong looking shadows which may be out of place in a scene. Others require the CPU and GPU to calculate with algorithms the exact location and shape of a shadow with a high level of accuracy. This requires a lot of computational overhead, which older machines could not handle.
Techniques
Height Field Self-Shadowing
A technique was created where a shadow on a rough surface can be calculated quickly by finding the high points along from the light source's origin and ignoring any other geometric points underneath the peaks. Imagine a sunrise in the mountains where the light hits a peak behind you but you are still in the dark. The computer wouldn’t need to worry about you needing a shadow or light since you are below the peak behind you. “Height Field Self-Shadowing” renders self-shadows on dynamic height fields under dynamic light environments in real time.
3D Hair
Self-Shadowing can be used for interactive hair animation, which is normally very difficult for computers to render due to the major increase in individual geometric shapes that hair can take. Self shadowing is a major part of a 3d application that contributes to the impression of volume.
Shadow volume
Shadow volume is one way that self-shadowing can be used in a 3D image or scene. The method basically makes a 3D object occupy an enclosed volume in a scene where a shadow is being cast. This allows the renderer, or shader, to perform an analysis on whether or not the point or pixel is inside a shadowed area. This eventually allows the program to determine how the object will be lit.
Shadow Maps
3D shadow mapping is another method which creates approximate shadows from a set position to create very diffuse shadows that may not be entirely accurate.
Radiosity Normal Mapping
Chris Green of Valve, a video game maker, says that bump map data is derived from geometric descriptions of the objects surface significant lighting cues due to ligh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20La%20Salle%20University%20College%20of%20Computer%20Studies | The College of Computer Studies (CCS) is one of the eight colleges of De La Salle University. It was established in 1981 as the Center for Planning, Information, and Computer Science offering only a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. The department was formally declared as a college in 1984. In 1990, the college was transferred to its new building, the INTELLECT (Information Technology Lecture) Building, which was eventually renamed as the Gokongwei Building. In 1996 the college was granted semi-autonomous status along with the Graduate School of Business which led to the establishment of De La Salle-Professional Schools, Inc. The college became a part of De La Salle Professional Schools but later transferred back to the university.
Accreditation
The Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science program of the College was the first Computer Science program in the country to be given accreditation by the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges, and Universities in 1989. It was granted a Level II accreditation in 1993 and was re-accredited to Level II in 1998. In 2000, the College was named as one of the Commission on Higher Education's Center of Development and Excellence in Information Technology. In 2005, the Computer Science program of the college received a Level III accreditation by PAASCU, becoming the first Level III Accredited Computer Science Program in the Philippines . It is the highest accreditation granted in the Philippines to this date for Computer Science programs. In March 2007, the Commission on Higher Education recognized the college as Center of Excellence in Information Technology.
Academic Research Centers
Advanced Research Institute for Informatics, Computing and Networking (AdRIC)
Formerly known as Advanced Research Institute for Computing (AdRIC), the Advanced Research Institute for Informatics, Computing and Networking is the research center of the college. The center aims to produce both local and international research through faculty researchers. The center was established in 1994 to facilitate research directives of the college. It also has its research laboratories on the fourth floor of Gokongwei Hall. The following are the activities done by the center:
Symposium on Semantic Web and Ontology
2nd Natural Language Processing Research Symposium
Constraint-based Action Planning
De La Salle University Science and Technology Congress 2005
DOST Research Proposal Preparation
Machine Translation Project
Center for Complexity and Emerging Technologies (COMET)
The Center for Complexity and Emerging Technologies (COMET) is a multidisciplinary research and professional laboratory at the College of Computer Studies that investigate the science of complex adaptive systems and explores innovative ways of interacting with computing solutions. Aside from performing research, the center also functions as a development laboratory for the creation of various civic computing solutions, integrating resear |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behind%20the%20Scenes%20%28Canadian%20TV%20series%29 | Behind the Scenes is a Canadian television series on the Space network that debuted in 1997. It features behind-the-scenes looks at various television series and mini-series on Space, and interviews with their casts and crews.
Featured shows
Alienated
Battlestar Galactica (TV miniseries)
Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)
Charlie Jade
The Collector
The Dead Zone
Star Trek: Enterprise
First Wave
Relic Hunter
Smallville
Stargate SG-1
Starhunter
Supernatural
Tracker
External links
Space - Behind the Scenes
CTV Sci-Fi Channel original programming |
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