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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device | A device is usually a constructed tool. Device may also refer to:
Technology
Computing
Device, a colloquial term encompassing different types of computers, such as desktops, laptops, tablets, smartphones, etc.
Device file, an interface of a device driver
Peripheral, any device attached to a computer that expands ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saatchi%20%26%20Saatchi | Saatchi & Saatchi is a British multinational communications and advertising agency network with 114 offices in 76 countries and over 6,500 staff. It was founded in 1970 and is currently headquartered in London. The parent company of the agency group was known as Saatchi & Saatchi PLC from 1976 to 1994, was listed on th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20Language%20for%20Business | Programming Language for Business or PL/B is a business-oriented programming language originally called DATABUS and designed by Datapoint in 1972 as an alternative to COBOL because Datapoint's 8-bit computers could not fit COBOL into their limited memory, and because COBOL did not at the time have facilities to deal wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDO | PDO can refer to:
Chemistry
1,3-Propanediol, an industrial chemical
Palladium(II) oxide (PdO)
Polydioxanone, a synthetic polymer
Computing
PHP Data Objects, a PHP extension that can be used as a database abstraction layer
Portable Distributed Objects, a version of Cocoa's Distributed Objects for remote use
Proc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHODAN | SHODAN (Sentient Hyper-Optimized Data Access Network) is a fictional artificial intelligence and the main antagonist of the cyberpunk-horror themed video games System Shock, System Shock 2, and System Shock 2023.
SHODAN has a god complex and a malevolent demeanor. Created as the AI for TriOptimum Corporation's Citadel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contacts%20%28Apple%29 | Contacts is a computerized address book included with the Apple operating systems iOS, iPadOS, watchOS and macOS, previously Mac OS X and OS X. It includes various cloud synchronization capabilities and integrates with other Apple applications and features, including iMessage, FaceTime and the iCloud service (and previ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplayer%20video%20game | A multiplayer video game is a video game in which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time, either locally on the same computing system (couch co-op), on different computing systems via a local area network, or via a wide area network, most commonly the Internet (e.g. World of Warcraf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layer%202%20Tunneling%20Protocol | In computer networking, Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) is a tunneling protocol used to support virtual private networks (VPNs) or as part of the delivery of services by ISPs. It uses encryption ('hiding') only for its own control messages (using an optional pre-shared secret), and does not provide any encryption or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maude%20%28TV%20series%29 | Maude is an American sitcom television series that was originally broadcast on the CBS network from September 12, 1972, until April 22, 1978.
Maude stars Bea Arthur as Maude Findlay, an outspoken, middle-aged, politically liberal woman living in suburban Tuckahoe, New York with her fourth husband, household appliance ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen | Nielsen may refer to:
Business
Nielsen Gallery, an American commercial art gallery
Nielsen Holdings, global information, data, and measurement company
Nielsen Corporation, a marketing research firm
Nielsen Audio, formerly Arbitron, which measures radio listenership
Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, a service also k... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Reiser | Hans Thomas Reiser (born December 19, 1963) is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and convicted murderer. In April 2008, Reiser was convicted of the first-degree murder of his wife, Nina Reiser, who disappeared in September 2006. He subsequently pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of second-degree murder, as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20protection%20dongle | A software protection dongle (commonly known as a dongle or key) is an electronic copy protection and content protection device. When connected to a computer or other electronics, they unlock software functionality or decode content. The hardware key is programmed with a product key or other cryptographic protection me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer%20Eye%20%282003%20TV%20series%29 | Queer Eye is an American reality television series that premiered on the Bravo network in July 2003, initially broadcast as Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. The series was created by executive producers David Collins and Michael Williams along with David Metzler through their company, Scout Productions. Each episode fe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource%20Directory%20Description%20Language | In computing, Resource Directory Description Language (RDDL) is an extension of XHTML Basic 1.0. An RDDL document, called a Resource Directory, provides a package of information about some target. The targets which RDDL was designed to describe are XML namespaces. The specification for RDDL has no official standing and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral%20marketing | Viral marketing is a business strategy that uses existing social networks to promote a product mainly on various social media platforms. Its name refers to how consumers spread information about a product with other people, much in the same way that a virus spreads from one person to another. It can be delivered by wor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOM%20Group | TOM Group Limited () is a technology and Media listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. TOM Group has technology operations in Social Network, Mobile Internet; and investments in E-Commerce, Fintech and Advanced Data Analytics sectors.
History
The TOM Group was founded in October 1999 as a joint... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparency%20%28human%E2%80%93computer%20interaction%29 | Any change in a computing system, such as a new feature or new component, is transparent if the system after change adheres to previous external interface as much as possible while changing its internal behaviour. The purpose is to shield from change all systems (or human users) on the other end of the interface. Conf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Network | The National Cycle Network (NCN) was established to encourage cycling and walking throughout the United Kingdom, as well as for the purposes of bicycle touring. It was created by the charity Sustrans who were aided by a £42.5 million National Lottery grant. However Sustrans themselves only own around 2% of the paths on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed%20directive%20on%20the%20patentability%20of%20computer-implemented%20inventions | The Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions (Commission proposal COM(2002) 92), procedure number 2002/0047 (COD) was a proposal for a European Union (EU) directive aiming to harmonise national patent laws and practices concerning the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systolic%20array | In parallel computer architectures, a systolic array is a homogeneous network of tightly coupled data processing units (DPUs) called cells or nodes. Each node or DPU independently computes a partial result as a function of the data received from its upstream neighbours, stores the result within itself and passes it dow... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Network%20Computing | Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a graphical desktop-sharing system that uses the Remote Frame Buffer protocol (RFB) to remotely control another computer. It transmits the keyboard and mouse input from one computer to another, relaying the graphical-screen updates, over a network.
VNC is platform-independent – there... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename | A filename or file name is a name used to uniquely identify a computer file in a file system. Different file systems impose different restrictions on filename lengths.
A filename may (depending on the file system) include:
name – base name of the file
extension – may indicate the format of the file (e.g. .txt for pl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen%20capture | Screen capture may refer to:
Screenshot, an image file which shows the content of a computer's screen at the moment of shot
Screencast, also known as a video screen capture, a digital recording of computer screen output, often containing audio narration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%20informatics | Health informatics is the study and implementation of computer structures and algorithms to improve communication, understanding, and management of medical information. It can be view as branch of engineering and applied science.
The health domain provides an extremely wide variety of problems that can be tackled usin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slrn | slrn is a console-based news client for multiple operating systems, developed by John E. Davis and others. It was originally developed in 1994 for Unix-like operating systems and VMS, and now also supports Microsoft Windows. It supports scoring rules to highlight, sort or kill articles based on information from their h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic%20Names%20Information%20System | The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and location information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories, Antarctica, and the associated states of the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau. It is a typ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bravo%20%28American%20TV%20network%29 | Bravo is an American basic cable television network, launched on December 8, 1980. It is owned by the NBCUniversal Media Group division of Comcast's NBCUniversal. The channel originally focused on programming related to fine arts and film. The network's brand is focused on reality series targeted at 25-to-54-year-old w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly%20artificial%20intelligence | Friendly artificial intelligence (also friendly AI or FAI) is hypothetical artificial general intelligence (AGI) that would have a positive (benign) effect on humanity or at least align with human interests or contribute to fostering the improvement of the human species. It is a part of the ethics of artificial intelli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PICT | PICT is a graphics file format introduced on the original Apple Macintosh computer as its standard metafile format. It allows the interchange of graphics (both bitmapped and vector), and some limited text support, between Mac applications, and was the native graphics format of QuickDraw.
The PICT file format consists ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntax | In logic and computer science, a metasyntax describes the allowable structure and composition of phrases and sentences of a metalanguage, which is used to describe either a natural language or a computer programming language. Some of the widely used formal metalanguages for computer languages are Backus–Naur form (BNF)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remington%20Rand | Remington Rand, Inc. was an early American business machine manufacturer, originally a typewriter manufacturer and in a later incarnation the manufacturer of the UNIVAC line of mainframe computers. Formed in 1927 following a merger, Remington Rand was a diversified conglomerate making other office equipment, electric s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAC%20%28programming%20language%29 | TRAC (for Text Reckoning And Compiling) Language is a programming language developed between 1959–1964 by Calvin Mooers and first implemented on the PDP-1 in 1964 by L. Peter Deutsch. It was one of three "first languages" recommended by Ted Nelson in Computer Lib. TRAC T64 was used until at least 1984, when Mooers upda... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronika%2060 | The Electronika 60 () is a computer made in the Soviet Union by Elektronika in Voronezh from 1978 until 1991. It is a rack-mounted system with no built-in display or storage devices. It was usually paired with a 15IE-00-013 terminal and I/O devices. The main logic unit is located on the M2 CPU board.
The original imp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooley%E2%80%93Tukey%20FFT%20algorithm | The Cooley–Tukey algorithm, named after J. W. Cooley and John Tukey, is the most common fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm. It re-expresses the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) of an arbitrary composite size in terms of N1 smaller DFTs of sizes N2, recursively, to reduce the computation time to O(N log N) for hig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay%20slot | In computer architecture, a delay slot is an instruction slot being executed without the effects of a preceding instruction. The most common form is a single arbitrary instruction located immediately after a branch instruction on a RISC or DSP architecture; this instruction will execute even if the preceding branch is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokaido%20Shinkansen | The Tokaido Shinkansen () is a Japanese high-speed rail line that is part of the nationwide Shinkansen network. Along with the Sanyo Shinkansen, it forms a continuous high-speed railway through the Taiheiyō Belt, also known as the Tokaido corridor. Opening in 1964, running between Tokyo and Shin-Ōsaka, it is the world'... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art%20line | Art line may refer to:
Arterial line, a catheter placed into an artery to measure blood pressure
Artificial transmission line, a four-terminal electrical network
See also
Artline (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCF | TCF can mean:
Facilities and structures
TCF Center, Detroit, Michigan, USA; a convention center
TCF Stadium, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; of the University of Minnesota
Computing
Trenton Computer Festival, US
Tor Carding Forum, stolen credit card marketplace
Technical control facility in telecommunications
Transparen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%20number%20%28programming%29 | In computer programming, a magic number is any of the following:
A unique value with unexplained meaning or multiple occurrences which could (preferably) be replaced with a named constant
A constant numerical or text value used to identify a file format or protocol; for files, see List of file signatures
A distinct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EROS%20%28microkernel%29 | Extremely Reliable Operating System (EROS) is an operating system developed starting in 1991 at the University of Pennsylvania, and then Johns Hopkins University, and The EROS Group, LLC. Features include automatic data and process persistence, some preliminary real-time support, and capability-based security. EROS is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roads%20in%20Ireland | The island of Ireland, comprising Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, has an extensive network of tens of thousands of kilometres of public roads, usually surfaced. These roads have been developed and modernised over centuries, from trackways suitable only for walkers and horses, to surfaced roads including m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%20Roundabout | Magic Roundabout may refer to:
The Magic Roundabout, a 1963 children's television series (originally Le Manège Enchanté)
The Magic Roundabout (film), a 2005 computer-animated film, based on the series
The Magic Roundabout, a 1979 project to build a full scale Millennium Falcon in Pembroke for a Star Wars film
A spec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlisp | Interlisp (also seen with a variety of capitalizations) is a programming environment built around a version of the programming language Lisp. Interlisp development began in 1966 at Bolt, Beranek and Newman (renamed BBN Technologies) in Cambridge, Massachusetts with Lisp implemented for the Digital Equipment Corporation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20art | Computer art is any art in which computers play a role in production or display of the artwork. Such art can be an image, sound, animation, video, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, video game, website, algorithm, performance or gallery installation. Many traditional disciplines are now integrating digital technologies and, as a result... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20Kids%20%28Canadian%20TV%20channel%29 | BBC Kids was a Canadian specialty television channel carrying programming for children and teenagers. It was a joint venture between Knowledge West Communications, which managed the network and held the majority 80% interest and was a subsidiary of Knowledge Network, with BBC Studios licensing the BBC brand and holding... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Point%20%28radio%20network%29 | The Point ("Independent Radio, The Point") is a radio network operating in the state of Vermont. The flagship station is WNCS (104.7 FM) in Montpelier, which signed on in 1977. It was started by Jeb Spaulding who later served as Chancellor of the Vermont State Colleges, State Treasurer of Vermont, and Secretary of Admi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Oregon%20Trail%20%281971%20video%20game%29 | The Oregon Trail is a text-based strategy video game developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 and produced by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) beginning in 1975. It was developed as a computer game to teach school children about the realities of 19th-century pioneer ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBLP | DBLP is a computer science bibliography website. Starting in 1993 at Universität Trier in Germany, it grew from a small collection of HTML files and became an organization hosting a database and logic programming bibliography site. Since November 2018, DBLP is a branch of Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical%20Kernel%20System | The Graphical Kernel System (GKS) was the first ISO standard for low-level computer graphics, introduced in 1977. A draft international standard was circulated for review in September 1983.
Final ratification of the standard was achieved in 1985.
Overview
GKS provides a set of drawing features for two-dimensional vect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Boehm | Barry William Boehm (May 16, 1935 – August 20, 2022) was an American software engineer, distinguished professor of computer science, industrial and systems engineering; the TRW Professor of Software Engineering; and founding director of the Center for Systems and Software Engineering at the University of Southern Calif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable%20desk | The portable desk had many forms and is an ancestor of the portable computer, the modern laptop an atavistic grandchild of the 19th-century lap desk.
Medieval era and Renaissance
All desks were portable to some extent, from medieval times to the end of the Renaissance, with the exception of built-in tables and inclin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20London | Capital London is an Independent Local Radio station owned and operated by the Global media company as part of its national Capital FM Network. As Capital Radio it was launched in the London area in 1973 as one of Britain's first two commercial radio stations. Its brief was to entertain, while its opposite number, Lon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KERNAL | KERNAL is Commodore's name for the ROM-resident operating system core in its 8-bit home computers; from the original PET of 1977, followed by the extended but related versions used in its successors: the VIC-20, Commodore 64, Plus/4, Commodore 16, and Commodore 128.
Description
The Commodore 8-bit machines' KERNAL con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank%20switching | Bank switching is a technique used in computer design to increase the amount of usable memory beyond the amount directly addressable by the processor instructions. It can be used to configure a system differently at different times; for example, a ROM required to start a system from diskette could be switched out when ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen%20Digital | Gen Digital Inc. (formerly Symantec Corporation and NortonLifeLock) is a multinational software company co-headquartered in Tempe, Arizona and Prague, Czech Republic. The company provides cybersecurity software and services. Gen is a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&P 500 stock-market index. The company also h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Norton | Peter Norton (born November 14, 1943) is an American programmer, software publisher, author, and philanthropist. He is best known for the computer programs and books that bear his name and portrait. Norton sold his software business to Symantec Corporation in 1990.
Norton was born in Aberdeen, Washington, and raised i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numa | Numa or NUMA may refer to:
Non-uniform memory access (NUMA), in computing
Places
Numa Falls, a waterfall in Kootenay National Park, Canada
15854 Numa, a main-belt asteroid
United States
Numa, Indiana
Numa, Iowa
Numa, Oklahoma
Numa Peak, a mountain in the Glacier National Park, Montana
People
Numa Andoire (1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sports%20Network | The Sports Network (TSN) is a Canadian English language discretionary sports specialty channel owned by CTV Specialty Television, owned jointly by Bell Media (70%) and ESPN Inc. (30%). The company was established by the Labatt Brewing Company in 1984 as part of the first group of Canadian specialty cable channels. TSN ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon%20%28computing%29 | In computing, an icon is a pictogram or ideogram displayed on a computer screen in order to help the user navigate a computer system. The icon itself is a quickly comprehensible symbol of a software tool, function, or a data file, accessible on the system and is more like a traffic sign than a detailed illustration of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automata%20%28disambiguation%29 | Automata are self-operating machines.
Automata may also refer to:
Computing
Cellular automata, a discrete model studied in computability theory and other disciplines
Von Neumann cellular automata, the original expression of cellular automata
Automata theory, the study of abstract machines
Automata UK, a former so... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransLink%20%28British%20Columbia%29 | TransLink, formally the South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority, is the statutory authority responsible for the regional transportation network of Metro Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada, including public transport, major roads and bridges. Its main operating facilities are located in the city of New ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20DOS%20commands | This article presents a list of commands used by DOS operating systems, especially as used on x86-based IBM PC compatibles (PCs). Other DOS operating systems are not part of the scope of this list.
In DOS, many standard system commands were provided for common tasks such as listing files on a disk or moving files. So... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20regulatory%20network | A gene (or genetic) regulatory network (GRN) is a collection of molecular regulators that interact with each other and with other substances in the cell to govern the gene expression levels of mRNA and proteins which, in turn, determine the function of the cell. GRN also play a central role in morphogenesis, the creati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided%20maintenance | Computer-aided maintenance (not to be confused with CAM which usually stands for Computer Aided Manufacturing) refers to systems that utilize software to organize planning, scheduling, and support of maintenance and repair. A common application of such systems is the maintenance of computers, either hardware or softwa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lookup%20table | In computer science, a lookup table (LUT) is an array that replaces runtime computation with a simpler array indexing operation, in a process termed as direct addressing. The savings in processing time can be significant, because retrieving a value from memory is often faster than carrying out an "expensive" computatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varian%20Fry | Varian Mackey Fry (October 15, 1907 – September 13, 1967) was an American journalist. Fry ran a rescue network in Vichy France that helped 2,000 to 4,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees to escape Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. He was the first of five Americans to be recognized as "Righteous Among the Nations", an honor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-playing%20video%20game | A role-playing video game, commonly referred to as a role-playing game (RPG) or computer role-playing game (CRPG), is a video game genre where the player controls the actions of a character (or several party members) immersed in some well-defined world, usually involving some form of character development by way of rec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVD | HVD may refer to:
High-voltage differential signaling, an electrical signalling method
Hosted Virtual Desktop, a type of computer desktop virtualization
High-Definition Versatile Disc, a DVD format
Holographic Versatile Disc, an optical disc technology
High-value detention site, a type of United States military pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine%20code%20monitor | A machine code monitor ( machine language monitor) is software that allows a user to enter commands to view and change memory locations on a computer, with options to load and save memory contents from/to secondary storage. Some full-featured machine code monitors provide detailed control ("single-stepping") of the exe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%B6bner%20basis | In mathematics, and more specifically in computer algebra, computational algebraic geometry, and computational commutative algebra, a Gröbner basis is a particular kind of generating set of an ideal in a polynomial ring over a field . A Gröbner basis allows many important properties of the ideal and the associated alg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correctness%20%28computer%20science%29 | In theoretical computer science, an algorithm is correct with respect to a specification if it behaves as specified. Best explored is functional correctness, which refers to the input-output behavior of the algorithm (i.e., for each input it produces an output satisfying the specification).
Within the latter notion, p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic%20evaluation | A heuristic evaluation is a usability inspection method for computer software that helps to identify usability problems in the user interface design. It specifically involves evaluators examining the interface and judging its compliance with recognized usability principles (the "heuristics"). These evaluation methods... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYSLINUX | The Syslinux Project is a suite of five different boot loaders for starting up Linux distros on computers. It was primarily developed by H. Peter Anvin.
Components
The Syslinux Project consists of five different boot loaders:
The eponymous SYSLINUX, used for booting from the FAT filesystem
ISOLINUX, used for bootin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component%20Pascal | Component Pascal is a programming language in the tradition of Niklaus Wirth's Pascal, Modula-2, Oberon
and Oberon-2.
It bears the name of the language Pascal and preserves its heritage, but is incompatible with Pascal. Instead, it is a minor variant and refinement of Oberon-2 with a more expressive type system and bui... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20software%20engineering | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to software engineering:
Software engineering – application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software; that is the application of engineering to software.
The ACM Computing Classi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promiscuous%20mode | In computer networking, promiscuous mode is a mode for a wired network interface controller (NIC) or wireless network interface controller (WNIC) that causes the controller to pass all traffic it receives to the central processing unit (CPU) rather than passing only the frames that the controller is specifically progra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer%20General | Panzer General is a 1994 computer wargame developed and published by Strategic Simulations Inc. (SSI). It simulates conflict during World War II. The designers of Panzer General were heavily influenced by the Japanese wargame series Daisenryaku.
Panzer General was a major commercial hit: 250,000 units were sold at ful... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unionville | Unionville is the name of some places in North America:
Canada
Unionville, Ontario
Unionville GO Station, a station in the GO Transit network located in the community
South Unionville, a community in Markham, Ontario
United States
Unionville, Connecticut
Unionville, Georgia
Unionville, Illinois (disambiguation)
Union... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma%207 | Sigma 7 may refer to:
the callsign of the spacecraft used in the 1962 Mercury-Atlas 8 mission
the SDS Sigma 7 computer, made by Scientific Data Systems (SDS), later known as Xerox Data Systems (XDS)
Sigma Seven, a Japanese company
Sigma 7 (video game), 1987 computer game by Durell Software
Sigma 7 AC servo drive s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Duck%3A%20Goin%27%20Quackers | Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers (known as Donald Duck: Quack Attack in Europe) is a platform video game developed and published by Ubi Soft for various consoles and Windows-based personal computers. A different game with the same title was first released for the Game Boy Color, as well as on Game Boy Advance, the latter be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostankino%20Tower | Ostankino Tower () is a television and radio tower in Moscow, Russia, owned by the Moscow branch of unitary enterprise Russian TV and Radio Broadcasting Network. Standing , it was designed by Nikolai Nikitin. , it is the tallest free-standing structure in Europe and 12th tallest in the world. Between 1967 and 1974, it ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method%20of%20complements | In mathematics and computing, the method of complements is a technique to encode a symmetric range of positive and negative integers in a way that they can use the same algorithm (or mechanism) for addition throughout the whole range. For a given number of places half of the possible representations of numbers encode t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast%20flag | A broadcast flag is a bit field sent in the data stream of a digital television program that indicates whether or not the data stream can be recorded, or if there are any restrictions on recorded content. Possible restrictions include the inability to save an unencrypted digital program to a hard disk or other non-vola... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COCOMO | The Constructive Cost Model (COCOMO) is a procedural software cost estimation model developed by Barry W. Boehm. The model parameters are derived from fitting a regression formula using data from historical projects (63 projects for COCOMO 81 and 163 projects for COCOMO II).
History
The constructive cost model was d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-structured%20file%20system | A log-structured filesystem is a file system in which data and metadata are written sequentially to a circular buffer, called a log. The design was first proposed in 1988 by John K. Ousterhout and Fred Douglis and first implemented in 1992 by Ousterhout and Mendel Rosenblum for the Unix-like Sprite distributed operati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20exchange%20point | Internet exchange points (IXes or IXPs) are common grounds of IP networking, allowing participant Internet service providers (ISPs) to exchange data destined for their respective networks. IXPs are generally located at places with preexisting connections to multiple distinct networks, i.e., datacenters, and operate ph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-readable%20medium%20and%20data | In computing, a human-readable medium or human-readable format is any encoding of data or information that can be naturally read by humans, resulting in human-readable data. It is often encoded as ASCII or Unicode text, rather than as binary data.
In most contexts, the alternative to a human-readable representation i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lempel%E2%80%93Ziv%E2%80%93Markov%20chain%20algorithm | The Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm (LZMA) is an algorithm used to perform lossless data compression. It has been under development since either 1996 or 1998 by Igor Pavlov and was first used in the 7z format of the 7-Zip archiver. This algorithm uses a dictionary compression scheme somewhat similar to the LZ77 algor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7z | 7z is a compressed archive file format that supports several different data compression, encryption and pre-processing algorithms. The 7z format initially appeared as implemented by the 7-Zip archiver. The 7-Zip program is publicly available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License. The LZMA SDK 4.62... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Crawford%20%28game%20designer%29 | Christopher Crawford (born June 1, 1950) is an American video game designer and writer. Hired by Alan Kay to work at Atari, Inc., he wrote the computer wargame Eastern Front (1941) for the Atari 8-bit family which was sold through the Atari Program Exchange and later Atari's official product line. After leaving Atari, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin%20Public%20Radio | Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR) is a network of 34 public radio stations in the state of Wisconsin. WPR's network is divided into two distinct analog services, the Ideas Network and the NPR News & Music Network, as well as the All Classical Network, a digital-only, full-time classical music service.
History
In 1932, WHA ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF | UTF may refer to:
Computing
Unicode Transformation Format
UTF-1
UTF-7
UTF-8
UTF-16
UTF-32
Other uses
U.T.F. (Undead Task Force), an American comic book title
Underground Test Facility, used for testing and developing enhanced oil recovery technology in northern Canada
Unión del Trabajo de Filipinas, in the P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question%20answering | Question answering (QA) is a computer science discipline within the fields of information retrieval and natural language processing (NLP) that is concerned with building systems that automatically answer questions that are posed by humans in a natural language.
Overview
A question-answering implementation, usually a c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold%20%28British%20TV%20channel%29 | Gold is a British pay television channel from the UKTV network that was launched in late 1992 as UK Gold before it was rebranded UKTV Gold in 2004. In 2008, it was split into current flagship channel Gold and miscellaneous channel, W, with classic comedy based programming now airing on Gold, non-crime drama and enterta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergerac%20%28TV%20series%29 | Bergerac ( ) is a British crime drama television series. Set in Jersey, it ran from 18 October 1981 to 26 December 1991. Produced by the BBC in association with the Australian Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Jim Bergerac, who is initially a detective sergeant in L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unary | Unary may refer to:
Unary numeral system, the simplest numeral system to represent natural numbers
Unary function, a function that takes one argument; in computer science, a unary operator is a subset of unary function
Unary operation, a kind of mathematical operator that has only one operand
Unary relation, a mathemat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Flannery | Sarah Flannery (born 1982, County Cork, Ireland) was, at sixteen years old, the winner of the 1999 Esat Young Scientist Exhibition for her development of the Cayley–Purser algorithm, based on work she had done with researchers at Baltimore Technologies during a brief internship there. The project, entitled "Cryptograph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UB | UB or Ub may refer to:
Organizations
Basel University Library, , abbreviated UB.
UltimateBet, a defunct online poker site
Ungermann-Bass, a computer networking company in California
United Biscuits, a British and European food manufacturer
United Breweries Group, a brewery conglomerate in India
Urząd Bezpieczeństwa (1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planisphere | In astronomy, a planisphere () is a star chart analog computing instrument in the form of two adjustable disks that rotate on a common pivot. It can be adjusted to display the visible stars for any time and date. It is an instrument to assist in learning how to recognize stars and constellations. The astrolabe, an inst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdoor%20%28computing%29 | A backdoor is a typically covert method of bypassing normal authentication or encryption in a computer, product, embedded device (e.g. a home router), or its embodiment (e.g. part of a cryptosystem, algorithm, chipset, or even a "homunculus computer"—a tiny computer-within-a-computer such as that found in Intel's AMT t... |
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