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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMM386 | EMM386 is the expanded memory manager of Microsoft's MS-DOS, IBM's PC DOS, Digital Research's DR-DOS, and Datalight's ROM-DOS which is used to create expanded memory using extended memory on Intel 80386 CPUs. There also is an EMM386.EXE available in FreeDOS.
Overview
EMM386.EXE can map memory into unused blocks in the upper memory area (UMA), allowing device drivers and terminate-and-stay-resident programs to be "loaded high", preserving conventional memory.
The technique probably first appeared with the development of CEMM, included with Compaq's OEM MS-DOS for the Compaq Deskpro 386 in 1986. Microsoft's version first appeared, built-in, with Windows/386 2.0 in 1987 and as standalone EMM386.SYS with MS-DOS 4.0 in 1988; the more flexible EMM386.EXE version appeared in MS-DOS 5.0 in 1991.
EMM386 uses the processor's virtual 8086 mode. This forces memory accesses made by DOS applications to go through the processor's MMU (introduced in the 386), and the page table entries used by the MMU are configured by EMM386 to map certain regions in upper memory to areas of extended memory (obtained by EMM386 through the extended memory manager HIMEM.SYS). This technique enabled both EMS (expanded memory) as well as UMBs - both of which appear to DOS applications to be memory in the upper area but are in fact mapped to physical memory locations beyond 1MB.
It temporarily shuts down during a Windows session in 386 Enhanced mode, with Windows' protected mode kernel taking over its role.
Windows uses the GEMMIS API to take over memory management from EMM386.EXE. Global EMM Import Specification (GEMMIS) is supported via a document available to a select number of memory-manager vendors ("Windows/386 Paging Import Specification").
Only a few memory managers implemented the GEMMIS API, some of the ones that include it are: EMM386.EXE, Quarterdeck QEMM, Qualitas 386MAX, Helix Netroom and DOSBox builtin DOS. Notably missing are FreeDOS's memory managers.
None of the FreeDOS memory managers (HIMEMX.EXE, JEMM386.EXE, JEMMEX.EXE) implement the GEMMIS API and Windows fails to start when running in conjunction with JEMMxxx since Windows fails to take over the memory management role. Windows ME, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows for Workgroups 3.1x, and Windows 3.xx, all will fail with JEMMxxx displaying:
Cannot run Windows while the currently installed protected-mode software is
running.
Quit the protected-mode software, and then try again.
You may need to restart your computer.
With JEMMxx, it is possible to run Windows 3.x and Windows for Workgroups 3.1x in limited capabilities by forcing Windows to use Standard Mode; i.e. using 80286 Protected Mode, not 80386 Enhanced Mode. Three conditions are required:
limit total XMS to 64MB
EMS must be enabled, can't use NOEMS option. For example JEMMEX X2MAX=65422
Windows operate in Standard Mode only, WIN /S or WIN /2
Note that Windows in standard mode is limited in functionality, it lacks virtual memory, it sk |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan%20Alcorn | Allan Alcorn (born January 1, 1948) is an American pioneering engineer and computer scientist best known for creating Pong, one of the first video games.
Atari and Pong
Alcorn grew up in San Francisco, California, and attended the University of California, Berkeley, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and computer sciences in 1971.
He worked for the pioneering video company Ampex, where he met Ted Dabney and several other people that would end up being constants through the Atari, Inc., Apple, Cyan Engineering and Pizza Time Theater (now known as Chuck E. Cheese's) companies.
Alcorn was the designer of the video arcade game Pong, creating it under the direction of Nolan Bushnell and Dabney. Pong was a hit in the 1970s.
In addition to direct involvement with all the breakout Atari products, such as the Atari 2600, Alcorn was involved at some of the historic meetings of Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs (at that time an Atari employee) presenting their Apple I prototype.
Alcorn was the person who hired Steve Jobs when he applied for a job at Atari in 1974. Jobs had seen a help-wanted ad in the San Jose Mercury newspaper for Atari that said "Have fun, make money." He showed up in the lobby of the video game manufacturer wearing sandals and disheveled hair, and told the personnel director that he wouldn't leave until he was given a job.
Al Alcorn, then chief engineer at Atari, was called and told, "We’ve got a hippie kid in the lobby. He says he’s not going to leave until we hire him. Should we call the cops or let him in?" Alcorn said to send him in. Despite Jobs's startling appearance, Alcorn hired him. As Alcorn described it, "He just walked in the door and here was an eighteen-year-old kind-of a hippy kid, and he wanted a job, and I said ‘Oh, where did you go to school?’ and he says ‘Reed,’ ‘Reed, is that an engineering school?’ ‘No, it’s a literary school,’ and he'd dropped out. But then he started in with this enthusiasm for technology, and he had a spark. He was eighteen years old so he had to be cheap. And so I hired him!"
Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell noted that Jobs was "brilliant, curious, and aggressive," but soon it was apparent that Jobs could also be very difficult to work with, openly mocking other employees and making several enemies in the process. To make matters worse, he had significant body odor. Jobs adhered to a fruitarian diet, and believed (incorrectly) that it prevented body odor, so he did not shower regularly or use deodorant. Unfazed by the complaints, Alcorn resolved the problem by having Jobs work only at night.
Alcorn's work on Cosmos leaving Atari
When Ray Kassar replaced Bushnell as president, Atari became a marketing company. The old leadership took risks and pioneered new technologies. Instead of developing new technologies, Kassar preferred to push existing ideas to their fullest. Alcorn wanted to begin work on the next generation of home video-game hardware, but Kassar di |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham%20Zelmanowitz | Abraham J. Zelmanowitz (December 30, 1945 – September 11, 2001) was an American computer programmer who worked for Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield on the 27th floor of Tower One of the World Trade Center in New York City, who died in the collapse of that building during the September 11 attacks in 2001.
September 11 attacks
On September 11, 2001, Abraham Zelmanowitz (who was also known as "Avrame" and "Abe") and his co-worker, computer programmer Ed Beyea, a computer programmer at Empire BlueCross BlueShield, were on the 27th floor of the North Tower, waiting for evacuation following the collision of American Airlines Flight 11 with the building. According to Zelmanowitz's sister-in-law Evelyn Zelmanowitz, Beyea, who was one of Zelmanowitz's friends and a quadriplegic, could not evacuate the building on his own, and so Zelmanowitz phoned her at 9:30am and told her over the phone that he would remain with Beyea until a rescue team arrived to help carry Beyea from the building. Both men were killed when the North Tower collapsed.
President Bush mentioned Zelmanowitz's choice (although not Zelmanowitz by name) at the memorial prayer ceremony three days later, describing his action as heroic.
Nearly one year after his death, Zelmanowitz's remains were positively identified among the debris, and he was brought to the Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery in Jerusalem, where he was interred beside his parents.
At the National 9/11 Memorial, Zelmanowitz is memorialized at the North Pool, on Panel N-65.
References
External links
Josie Byzek and Tim Gilmer. "September 11, 2001: A Day to Remember". New Mobility magazine
1945 births
2001 deaths
American Orthodox Jews
Victims of the September 11 attacks
Murdered American Jews
Terrorism deaths in New York (state)
People murdered in New York City
Male murder victims
Burials at the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep%20in%20the%20Big%20City | Sheep in the Big City is an American animated television series created by Mo Willems for Cartoon Network. The 9th of the network's Cartoon Cartoons, the series' pilot first premiered as part of Cartoon Network's "Cartoon Cartoon Summer" on August 18, 2000, before its official debut on November 17, 2000 where it aired until April 7, 2002, with repeats until 2003.
Willems previously created The Off-Beats for Nickelodeon's KaBlam! before working on this animated show. The series follows a runaway sheep named Sheep in his new life in "the Big City", where he tries to avoid a secret military organization. It also features several unrelated sketches and shorts, similar to those from The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends. With an emphasis on sophisticated (in particular, literal) humor, using different forms of rhetoric from characters to plots, it included comic references to filmmaking and television broadcasting.
At the time, the premiere of Sheep in the Big City was the highest-rated premiere for a Cartoon Network original series.
The animation services for the series were handled by the Korean animation studio Rough Draft Korea. This was Cartoon Network's first original series produced by the animation studio Curious Pictures, who would later go on to produce Codename: Kids Next Door in 2002.
Premise
Sheep lives happily on a farm with his friends. Unfortunately, a Secret Military Organization, led by General Specific, needs Sheep for its Sheep-Powered Ray Gun (with a sheep-shaped hole in it).
General Specific will get Sheep at any cost, and, knowing that the farm is at stake, Sheep is forced to leave for the big city. Now Sheep is on the run from General Specific, who is assisted by his henchmen, Private Public, the Angry Scientist (who in the show is often wrongly referred to as 'Mad Scientist'), a bunch of other military types, and the Plot Device.
In addition, Sheep has to come to grips with the Big City and trying to romance his love, Swanky the Poodle. All the while, he has to avoid the attentions of a host of unwelcome characters—Lisa Rentel and Swanky's owner, the sheep-hating Lady Richington, wielding a stainless-steel wig.
Characters
Sheep (voiced by Kevin Seal) is an anthropomorphic sheep, who is the main protagonist of the series. He is owned by Farmer John, who named him Sheep due to the fact that he was a plucky little sheep. Sheep has a hard time with life—between getting chased by the military and trying to see Swanky the Poodle, the poodle that Sheep loves, without getting bonked on the head by Lady Richington with her stainless steel wig. Yet, he still makes time to act in dishwashing commercials, travel through time, get a job at a hip club, and also makes a living jumping over fences for insomniacs. Sheep bleats but does not speak in any intelligible human language. As he is a normal sheep, aside from possibly higher intelligence, he has trouble resisting his animal urges, such as eating grass, even when he |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cineon | The Cineon System was one of the first computer based digital film systems, created by Kodak in the early 1990s. It was an integrated suite of components consisting a Motion picture film scanner, a film recorder and workstation hardware with software (the Cineon Digital Film Workstation) for compositing, visual effects, image restoration and color management.
The system was first released in September 1992 to Cinesite Hollywood. The workstations were initially built on Sun-Transputer based hardware. In July 1993 version 2.1.3 of the software was released for Silicon Graphics Inc, SGI Onyx hardware. The software was withdrawn from sale by 1997, although a number of customers continued to use it beyond that date.
As an end-to-end solution for 4K resolution, 10 bit digital film production and Digital intermediate, the system was one of the first. The three major components of the system (scanner, workstation software, and recorder) have all received separate AMPAS Scientific and Technical Awards.
The Cineon project was also responsible for the creation of the Cineon ( .cin) 10 bit log file format, designed to handle digital film frames. Although the product is no longer for sale, Cineon file format that Kodak defined was for a long time commonly used in the film visual effects world, and formed the basis for the newer SMPTE-standardised Digital Picture Exchange (DPX) format.
Cineon file format
The Cineon file format was designed specifically to represent scanned film images, and thus has some differences from other formats such as TIFF and JPEG:
The pixel data represents "printing density", the density that is seen by the print film. Thus, Cineon files are assumed to operate as part of a reproduction chain keeping whatever values are originally scanned from a negative or positive film. Any negative can be reproduced on the recorder retaining the original neg's characteristics (such as color component crosstalk and gamma correction) — and thereby retaining the negative's "look" if it were directly printed. The original Cineon color data metric printing densities were based upon 5244 intermediate film. Conversion of Cineon Printing Density (CPD) to Status-M can be estimated with a 3x3 matrix or by using tables contained in the Kodak "Digital LAD" document. This document shows a specific relation between Cineon Code values and Status-M densities.
The data is stored in log format, directly corresponding to density of the original negative. Since the scanned material is likely a negative, the data can be said to be "gamma with log encoding".
To evaluate original scene luminances from Cineon data, the camera negative characteristics must be known. (Such characterization is known as "unbuilding.") Such characterization is aided by exposing a sensitometric strip so that the actual developing gamma can be determined. The film can be unbuilt by using the unique per-layer contrasts of the color negative.
In a Cineon (.cin) file, each channel (R, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th%20Daytime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 16th Daytime Emmy Awards were held on Thursday, June 29, 1989, on NBC to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from March 6, 1988-March 5, 1989. The awards aired from 3-5 p.m. EST, preempting Santa Barbara. Again this year, the awards ceremony was a joint presentation of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) on the East Coast and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS) on the West Coast. The ceremonies and live telecast was held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. The non-televised Daytime Emmy Awards presentation for programs and individual achievement, primarily for excellence in creative arts categories, was held four days earlier on June 25. The ceremony did not have a formal host, but was announced by Don Pardo.
Winners in each category are in bold. Two winners were recorded in the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Daytime Drama Series category, as a tie was recorded in the race between actresses Debbi Morgan and Nancy Lee Grahn.
Outstanding Daytime Drama Series
All My Children
As the World Turns
General Hospital
Guiding Light
Santa Barbara
The Young and the Restless
Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Series
David Canary (Adam Chandler and Stuart Chandler, All My Children)
James Mitchell (Palmer Cortlandt, All My Children)
Douglass Watson (Mac Cory, Another World)
Larry Bryggman (Dr. John Dixon, As the World Turns)
A Martinez (Cruz Castillo, Santa Barbara)
Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series
Susan Lucci (Erica Kane, All My Children)
Elizabeth Hubbard (Lucinda Walsh, As the World Turns)
Marcy Walker (Eden Capwell, Santa Barbara)
Jeanne Cooper (Katherine Chancellor, The Young and the Restless)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Daytime Drama Series
David Forsyth (Dr. John Hudson, Another World)
Joseph Campanella (Harper Deveraux, Days of Our Lives)
Justin Deas (Keith Timmons, Santa Barbara)
Quinn Redeker (Brian Romalotti, The Young and the Restless)
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Daytime Drama Series
Debbi Morgan (Angie Hubbard, All My Children)
Nancy Lee Grahn (Julia Wainwright, Santa Barbara)
Jane Elliot (Anjelica Deveraux, Days of Our Lives)
Arleen Sorkin (Calliope Jones, Days of Our Lives)
Robin Mattson (Gina Blake, Santa Barbara)
Outstanding Young Man in a Daytime Drama Series
Andrew Kavovit (Paul Ryan, As the World Turns)
Darrell Utley (Benjy Hawk, Days of Our Lives)
Justin Gocke (Brandon Capwell, Santa Barbara)
Outstanding Ingenue in a Daytime Drama Series
Anne Heche (Marley Hudson and Vicky Hudson, Another World)
Martha Byrne (Lily Walsh, As the World Turns)
Kimberly McCullough (Robin Scorpio, General Hospital)
Noelle Beck (Patricia Alden, Loving)
Outstanding Daytime Drama Series Writing
Another World
Santa Barbara
As the World Turns
Guiding Light
Outstanding Daytime Drama Series Directing
As the World Turns
The Young and the Restless
Family Medical Center
Loving
One Life to Live
Outstanding Game Show
The $25,000 Pyramid - A Bob Stewart-Sande |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/29th%20Daytime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 29th Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony, commemorating excellence in American daytime programming from 2001, was held on May 17, 2002 at the theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Hosted by Bob Barker, it was televised in the United States by CBS. It was also the first time the ceremonies were simulcast in Spanish.
Creative Arts Emmy Awards were presented on April 29, 2002.
Mistakes
When Susan Flannery's name was announced as the winner of the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Award, the "Flannery" part was unintelligible. Everybody in the television production booth thought it was Susan Lucci who was named, and therefore cut to a shot of Lucci (who was backstage at the time after presenting the previous award), cued the All My Children theme song, and told her to go on stage. Once the producers realized their mistake, they immediately cut to Flannery coming towards the stage, and Lucci returned backstage. The producers apologized for their mistake the following day.
Nominations and winners
The following is a partial list of nominees, with winners in bold:
Outstanding Drama Series
All My Children
As the World Turns
One Life to Live
The Young and the Restless
Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series
Peter Bergman (Jack Abbott, The Young and the Restless)
Hunt Block (Craig Montgomery, As the World Turns)
Vincent Irizarry (David Hayward, All My Children)
Robert Newman (Joshua Lewis, Guiding Light)
Jack Scalia (Chris Stamp, All My Children)
Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series
Martha Byrne (Lily Walsh Snyder, As the World Turns)
Susan Flannery (Stephanie Forrester, The Bold and the Beautiful)
Finola Hughes (Anna Devane, All My Children)
Susan Lucci (Erica Kane, All My Children)
Colleen Zenk Pinter (Barbara Ryan, As the World Turns)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Mark Consuelos (Mateo Santos, All My Children)
Josh Duhamel (Leo du Pres, All My Children)
Benjamin Hendrickson (Hal Munson, As the World Turns)
Paul Leyden (Simon Frasier, As the World Turns)
Cameron Mathison (Ryan Lavery, All My Children)
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Crystal Chappell (Olivia Spencer, Guiding Light)
Beth Ehlers (Harley Cooper, Guiding Light)
Kelley Menighan Hensley (Emily Stewart, As the World Turns)
Kelly Ripa (Hayley Vaughan, All My Children)
Maura West (Carly Snyder, As the World Turns)
Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series
Jesse McCartney (JR Chandler, All My Children)
Brian Presley (Jack Ramsey, Port Charles)
Justin Torkildsen (Rick Forrester, The Bold and the Beautiful)
Jordi Vilasuso (Tony Santos, Guiding Light)
Jacob Young (Lucky Spencer, General Hospital)
Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series
Jennifer Finnigan (Bridget Forrester, The Bold and the Beautiful)
Jessica Jimenez (Catalina Quesada, Guiding Light)
Lindsey McKeon (Marah Lewis, Guiding Light)
Eden Riegel (Bianca Montgomery, All My Children)
Kristina Sisco (Abigail Williams, As the World Turns)
Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team
Al |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balls%20of%20Steel%20%28video%20game%29 | Balls of Steel is a pinball computer game developed by Wildfire Studios and released on December 12, 1997. It is the only game to be published under the Pinball Wizards label, a division of Apogee Software (today known as 3D Realms).
When the game was originally released, it was possible to upload high scores to the WorldScores server, for a global ranking. This feature has since been discontinued.
Tables
Balls of Steel features five original pinball tables:
Darkside: Set on a remote space station under attack by alien creatures.
Barbarian: A classic medieval fantasy quest with a huge dragon on the table.
Firestorm: Set in a crime-ridden US city, a mad bomber is on the loose.
Mutation: Set in an underground science lab where a bio-hazardous accident has occurred and a large, slimy monster has taken over the lab.
Duke Nukem: A special table featuring the Apogee video game character Duke Nukem.
Another table, Devil's Island, was dropped from the game when Wildfire was given the opportunity by Apogee to include a Duke Nukem table. Devil's Island was later released as a standalone game.
Duke Nukem tie-in
The game includes a table based on the Apogee/3D Realms video game Duke Nukem 3D including graphics from that game and original voice-overs by Nukem actor Jon St. John. Pinball missions include fighting monsters like octabrains and pig-cops, and using powerups such as jetpacks and the Holoduke, from the Duke Nukem 3D video game.
Graphics of a pinball game named Balls of Steel appear in Duke Nukem 3D itself, in the first level, "Hollywood Holocaust", when Duke encounters the table. Balls of Steel reappears in Duke Nukem Forever.
Development
Balls of Steel was in development since 1995. The game was showcased at E3 1997.
Reception
Balls of Steel was a finalist for Computer Games Strategy Pluss 1998 "Classic Game of the Year" award, which ultimately went to Centipede. The editors wrote that Balls of Steel "demonstrated that you can do the Bally table on the PC, and do it well."
References
External links
Official website
Balls of Steel on MobyGames
Classic Mac OS games
Windows games
Pinball video games
1997 video games
3D Realms games
Video games scored by Bobby Prince
Video games developed in Australia
Wildfire Studios games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Information%20Model | Common Information Model may refer to:
Common Information Model (computing), a standard that defines how managed elements in an IT environment are represented as a common set of objects and relationships between them
Common Information Model (electricity), a standard used by electricity transmission network operators to communicate status information with other operators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates%20with%20Attitudes | Pirates With Attitudes (PWA) was a major international warez release group between 1992 and 2000. The group was established by two former International Network of Crackers members known by the pseudonyms Orion and BarManager. PWA was also very well known during the tail end of the BBS-era for their development of modifications and enhancements ("mods") for the PCBoard BBS software.
On May 4, 2000, the United States Department of Justice released a press report stating that conspiracy and copyright infringement charges had been brought against several members of PWA under the NET Act (No Electronic Theft Act). The day after the DOJ's report, PWA released a .nfo file officially announcing their retirement. PWA was one of the first groups ever to be prosecuted under this act of law.
Members
Alleged members of Pirates with Attitudes according to U.S. Department of Justice:
Robin Rothberg, aka "Marlenus," (9/11/67) 32, of Newburyport, Massachusetts (pleaded guilty)
Mark Veerboken, aka "Shiffie," of Belgium
Steven Ahnen, aka "Code3," (4/13/58) 42, of Sarasota, Florida (pleaded guilty)
Christian Morley, aka "Mercy" (4/13/73) 27, of Salem, Massachusetts (convicted)
Justin Robbins, aka "Warlock," (2/10/76), 24, of Lake Station, Indiana (pleaded guilty)
Jason Slater, aka "Technic," (4/28/70) 30, of Sunnyvale, California (pleaded guilty)
Todd Veillette, aka "Gizmo," (11/21/59) 40, of Oakdale, Connecticut (pleaded guilty)
Thomas Oliver, aka "RAMBONE," (7/14/65) 34, of Aurora, Illinois (pleaded guilty)
Mark Stone, aka "Stoned," (3/24/66) 34, of California (pleaded guilty)
Dionne, aka "akasha", of West Palm Beach, Florida (pleaded guilty)
Chowdery, real name unknown
James Tinner, aka inspector gadget, Spokane WA
References
U.S. INDICTS 17 IN ALLEGED INTERNATIONAL SOFTWARE PIRACY CONSPIRACY- Archive of US DoJ website posting
"Pirates with Attitude (PWA) is a group organized and dedicated to making copyrighted software available over the Internet."
348 F.3d 666: United States of America, Plaintiff-appellee, v. Jason Slater and Christian Morley, Defendants-appellants
Warez groups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hew%20Raymond%20Griffiths | Hew Raymond Griffiths (born 8 November 1962, UK) has been accused by the United States of being a ring leader of DrinkOrDie or DOD, an underground software infringement network, using the online identity of "Bandido". Griffiths was living in Berkeley Vale in the Central Coast Region of NSW, Australia before he was placed on remand at Silverwater Correctional Centre. After fighting extradition for almost 3 years, Griffiths was finally extradited from Australia to the United States and on 20 February 2007, he appeared before Magistrate Judge Barry R. Portez of the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia. On 20 April, it was announced by the U.S. Department of Justice that Griffiths had entered a plea of guilty.
His case is of interest in that he is an Australian resident who has been indicted by a court in Virginia, United States for copyright infringement and conspiracy to infringe copyright under the US Code. Hew Raymond Griffiths, born in the United Kingdom, had never at any point physically left Australia since arriving in his adopted country at an early age. This is an unusual situation as the US extradition has not targeted a fugitive or a dangerous person who financially profited from his activities. However, the Australian courts and executive government have agreed to treat Griffiths' activities as having taken place in a US jurisdiction. The case therefore highlights the serious consequences for Australian Internet users who are charged with distributing US copyright-protected material.
Griffiths' extradition was very controversial in Australia, where his actions were not criminal. The matter of USA v Griffiths has been cited as an example of how bilateral arrangements can lead to undesirable effects such as a loss of sovereignty and what some have described as draconian outcomes.
On 22 June 2007 Hew Griffiths was sentenced to 51 months in prison for conspiracy to commit copyright infringement. Taking into account the 3 years he spent in Australian and US prisons prior to sentencing, he served a further 15 months in the US. Griffiths' sentence attracted significant attention in Australia, and some attention in the United States and other countries which have recently signed, or are currently negotiating, bilateral Free Trade Agreements with the USA.
Griffiths finally returned to Australia on 2 March 2008, after 5 weeks as an illegal alien in the US immigration detention system following his release from prison on 26 January 2008 (Australia Day). A condition of his repatriation to Australia was that he never again re-enter the United States, a country he had never visited before being extradited to it.
See also
Copyright infringement
DrinkOrDie
Operation Buccaneer
Warez
References
Aussie software pirate extradited, Sydney Morning Herald, 7 May 2007
Software pirates not safe at home, The New Zealand Herald, 7 September 2004.
Accused web pirate back behind bars, Sydney Morning Herald, 8 July 2004.
The unsolicited views of Inte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiquinquir%C3%A1%20Delgado | María Chiquinquirá Delgado Díaz (born August 17, 1972 in Maracaibo, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan TV host, model, and actress. She was a co-host of Mira Quien Baila on the Univision network in the United States. Prior to that, she was the host of ¡Despierta América!, the morning show on Univision, from 2010 until 2012.
Biography
Named after the Virgen de Chiquinquirá, Delgado grew up in a devout Roman Catholic family in Maracaibo, Venezuela. Delgado was first runner-up in the 1990 Miss Venezuela beauty pageant and has appeared in several soap operas and hosted a number of programs on Venezuelan television. From 1991 until 1999, she was married to singer and actor Guillermo Dávila, with whom she has a daughter, actress María Elena Dávila. From 2004 until 2010, she was married to Venezuelan television host Daniel Sarcos, with whom she also has a daughter. Delgado has been dating Univision news anchor Jorge Ramos since 2011.
Delgado recently launched her own fashion apparel line in collaboration with David Lerner. It is available at ChiquiDelgado.com as well as at select boutiques and department stores.
Filmography
TV shows host
TV series
Calypso, 1999
María Rosa, búscame una esposa, 2000
Mambo y canela, 2002
Cosita Rica, 2003
High Seas, 2019
Movies
Pimp Bullies, Victimas de un Prostíbulo", 2011 Director Alejandro Peña
Cuento sin Hadas'', 2011 Director Sergio Briones
External links
Chiquinquirá Delgado Official web site
Chiquinquira Delgado Height
References
1972 births
Living people
People from Maracaibo
Venezuelan television personalities
Venezuelan telenovela actresses
Venezuelan beauty pageant winners
Venezuelan film actresses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20Dispatch%20Protocol | The Media Dispatch Protocol (MDP) was developed by the Pro-MPEG Media Dispatch Group to provide an open standard for secure, automated, and tapeless delivery of audio, video and associated data files. Such files typically range from low-resolution content for the web to HDTV and high-resolution digital intermediate files for cinema production.
MDP is essentially a middleware protocol that decouples the technical details of how delivery occurs from the business logic that requires delivery. For example, a TV post-production company might have a contract to deliver a programme to a broadcaster. An MDP agent allows users be able to deal with company and programme names, rather than with filenames and network endpoints. It can also provide a delivery service as part of a service oriented architecture.
MDP acts as a communication layer between business logic and low-level file transfer mechanisms, providing a way to securely communicate and negotiate transfer-specific metadata about file packages, delivery routing, deadlines, and security information, and to manage and coordinate file transfers in progress, whilst hooking all this information to project, company and job identifiers.
MDP works by implementing a 'dispatch transaction' layer by which means agents negotiate and agree the details of the individual file transfers required for the delivery, and control, monitor and report on the progress of the transfers. At the heart of the protocol is the 'Manifest' - an XML document that encapsulates the information about the transaction.
MDP is based on existing open technologies such as XML, HTTP and TLS. The protocol is specified in a layered way to allow the adoption of new technologies (e.g. Web Services protocols such as SOAP and WSDL) as required.
Since early 2005, multiple implementations based on draft versions of the Media Dispatch Protocol have been in use, both for technical testing, and, since April 2005, for real-world production work. The experience with these implementations, both at the engineering level, and at the practical production level, has been rolled into the 1.0rcX specification.
A newer, and more complete, open-source reference implementation is now available on SourceForge.
Media Dispatch Protocol (MDP) has been standardized by a SMPTE Working Group under the S22 Committee. This work has been published as SMPTE 2032-1-2007 (MDP specification), 2032-2-2007 (MDP/XML/HTTP mapping specification) and 2032-3-2007 (MDP Target pull profile specification). MDP is also supported by SMPTE Engineering Guideline EG 2032-4-2007 covering the use of MDP.
External links
Pro-MPEG homepage
Sourceforge project page
SMPTE standards page
Broadcast engineering
Film and video technology
Network file transfer protocols
SMPTE standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arriva%20Colchester | Arriva Colchester (formerly Network Colchester) is a bus company operating services around Colchester. It is a subsidiary of Arriva. The company was, until March 2015, part of the Tellings-Golden Miller company, which was owned by Arriva at the time, under the name of Network Colchester.
History
Network Colchester's origins can be traced to 1904 with the establishment of Colchester Corporation Tramways, operating at its peak, four routes and 18 trams. Bus operation commenced in 1928 as Colchester Corporation Transport to replace the trams. To comply with the Transport Act 1985 in 1986 the assets were transferred to a new legal entity, Colchester Borough Transport.
In 1993, during a bus war with Eastern National, the company was sold to British Bus for £1, but the new owners took on considerable debts. After discussions the bus war ended in 1994 with a share out of routes between the two companies. In August 1996 British Bus was purchased by the Cowie Group, which in November 1997 was renamed Arriva, with Colchester Borough Transport being rebranded as Arriva Colchester. The tuscan red and cream livery was replaced by Arriva corporate colours. Profits did not improve and in 2004 the company was sold to Tellings-Golden Miller, placed under the control of Burton's Coaches and rebranded as Network Colchester.
In 2008 Tellings-Golden Miller was sold to Arriva resulting in it once again owning the Colchester services. It continues to trade as Network Colchester. In early 2010 the Burton's Coaches business was sold to Yellow Star Travel Services in a management buy out but ownership of Network Colchester remained with Tellings-Golden Miller.
Depots
The depot was at Magdalen Street, Colchester until March 2008 when relocated to expanded premises at Heath Business Park, Grange Way in the Old Heath district of Colchester. The depot was later used by First Essex, but in November 2018 sold for redevelopment.
References
External links
Company website
Colchester
Bus operators in Essex
Transport companies established in 1904
1904 establishments in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanadu%20Houses | The Xanadu Houses were a series of experimental homes built to showcase examples of computers and automation in the home in the United States. The architectural project began in 1979, and during the early 1980s three houses were built in different parts of the US: one each in Kissimmee, Florida; Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin; and Gatlinburg, Tennessee. The houses included novel construction and design techniques, and became popular tourist attractions during the 1980s.
The Xanadu Houses were notable for their easy, fast, and cost-effective construction as self-supporting monolithic domes of polyurethane foam without using concrete. They were ergonomically designed, and contained some of the earliest home automation systems. The Kissimmee Xanadu, designed by Roy Mason, was the most popular, and at its peak was attracting 1000 visitors every day. The Wisconsin Dells and Gatlinburg houses were closed and demolished in the early 1990s; the Kissimmee Xanadu House was closed in 1996 and demolished in October 2005.
History
Early development
Bob Masters was an early pioneer of houses built of rigid insulation. Before conceiving the Xanadu House concept, Masters designed and created inflatable balloons to be used in the construction of houses. He was inspired by architect Stan Nord Connolly's Kesinger House in Denver, Colorado, one of the earliest homes built from insulation. Masters built his first balloon-constructed house exterior in 1969 in less than three days during a turbulent snowstorm, using the same methods later used to build the Xanadu houses.
Masters was convinced that these dome-shaped homes built of foam could work for others, so he decided to create a series of show homes in the United States. Masters's business partner Tom Gussel chose the name "Xanadu" for the homes, a reference to Xanadu, the summer capital of Yuan, which is prominently featured in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem Kubla Khan. The first Xanadu House opened in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. It was designed by architect Stewart Gordon and constructed by Masters in 1979. It was in area, and featured a geodesic greenhouse. 100,000 people visited the new attraction in its first summer.
Popularity
The most popular Xanadu house was the second house, designed by architect Roy Mason. Masters met Mason in 1980 at a futures conference in Toronto. Mason had worked on a similar project prior to his involvement in the creation of the Kissimmee Xanadu House — an "experimental school" on a hill in Virginia which was also a foam structure. Both Mason and Masters were influenced by other experimental houses and building concepts which emphasized ergonomics, usability, and energy efficiency. These included apartments designed by architect Kisho Kurokawa featuring detachable building modules and more significant designs including a floating habitat made of fiberglass designed by Jacques Beufs for living on water surfaces, concepts for living underwater by architect Jacques Rougerie an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasab%20Airlines | Dasab Airlines was an airline based in Abuja, Nigeria.
Code data
ICAO Code: DSQ
Callsign: DASAB AIR
History
The Nigerian government set a deadline for airlines operating in the country to re-capitalize on April 30, 2007. Dasab Airlines, along with six others, failed to make the deadline, and was therefore disallowed from Nigeria's airspace.
Corporate affairs
The airline's head office was in Abuja. Its Lagos office was in Agege, Lagos State.
Fleet
As of August 2006 the Dasab Airlines fleet included:
2 Boeing 727-200
References
External links
Dasab Airlines (Archive)
Defunct airlines of Nigeria
Airlines disestablished in 2007
2007 disestablishments in Nigeria
Economy of Abuja |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaughan%20Pratt | Vaughan Pratt (born April 12, 1944) is a Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, who was an early pioneer in the field of computer science. Since 1969, Pratt has made several contributions to foundational areas such as search algorithms, sorting algorithms, and primality testing. More recently, his research has focused on formal modeling of concurrent systems and Chu spaces.
Career
Raised in Australia and educated at Knox Grammar School, where he was dux in 1961, Pratt attended Sydney University, where he completed his masters thesis in 1970, related to what is now known as natural language processing. He then went to the United States, where he completed a Ph.D. thesis at Stanford University in only 20 months under the supervision of advisor Donald Knuth. His thesis focused on analysis of the Shellsort sorting algorithm and sorting networks.
Pratt was an assistant professor at MIT (1972 to 1976) and then associate professor (1976 to 1982). In 1974, working in collaboration with Knuth and James H. Morris, Pratt completed and formalized work he had begun in 1970 as a graduate student at Berkeley; the coauthored result was the Knuth–Morris–Pratt pattern matching algorithm. In 1976, he developed the system of dynamic logic, a modal logic of structured behavior.
He went on sabbatical from MIT to Stanford (1980 to 1981), and was appointed a full professor at Stanford in 1981.
Pratt directed the SUN workstation project at Stanford from 1980 to 1982. He contributed in various ways to the founding and early operation of Sun Microsystems, acting in the role of consultant for its first year, then, taking a leave of absence from Stanford for the next two years, becoming director of research, and finally resuming his role as a consultant to Sun and returning to Stanford in 1985.
He also designed the Sun Microsystems logo, which features four interleaved copies of the word "sun"; it is an ambigram.
Pratt became professor emeritus at Stanford in 2000.
Major contributions
A number of well-known algorithms bear Pratt's name. Pratt certificates, short proofs of the primality of a number, demonstrated in a practical way that primality can be efficiently verified, placing the primality testing problem in the complexity class NP and providing the first strong evidence that the problem is not co-NP-complete.
The Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm, which Pratt designed in the early 1970s together with fellow Stanford professor Donald Knuth and independently from Morris, is still the most efficient general string searching algorithm known today. Along with Blum, Floyd, Rivest, and Tarjan, he described median of medians, the first worst-case optimal selection algorithm.
Useful tool building
Pratt built some useful tools. In 1976, he wrote an MIT AI Lab working paper about CGOL, an alternative syntax for MACLISP that he had designed and implemented based on his paradigm for top-down operator precedence parsing. His parser is sometimes called a "Pratt parser" and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Wattenberg | Martin Wattenberg is the name of:
Martin Wattenberg (political scientist), professor at the University of California, Irvine
Martin M. Wattenberg (born 1970), computer scientist and artist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic%20File%20System | The Logic File System is a research file system which replaces pathnames with expressions in propositional logic. It allows file metadata to be queried with a superset of the Boolean syntax commonly used in modern search engines.
The actual name is the Logic Information Systems File System, and is abbreviated LISFS to avoid confusion with the log-structured file system (LFS). An implementation of the Logic File System is available at the LISFS website.
It is intended to be used on Unix-like operating systems and is a bit difficult to install, as it needs several non-standard OCaml modules.
References
Notes
Ferré, Sébastian and Ridoux, Olivier (2000). "A File System Based on Concept Analysis."
Padioleau, Yoann and Ridoux, Olivier (2003). "A Logic File System."
Padioleau, Yoann and Ridoux, Olivier (2005). "A Parts of File File System."
External links
LFS new homepage
Computer file systems
Semantic file systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Trance%20Network | Global Trance Network is the German parent label of several smaller labels including d.Drum, Liquid Audio Soundz, Sector, and Velvet Inc.
It is a sublabel of Nova Tekk Records.
Some of the best-known psychedelic trance artists has releases on GTN, including X-Dream and Koxbox.
Also a trance radio show "Global Trance" with Brett James and DJ Contagious.
See also
List of record labels
German record labels
Psychedelic trance record labels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groove%20Networks | Groove Networks was a software company based in Beverly, Massachusetts. Founded by Ray Ozzie, the creator of IBM's Lotus Notes application, the privately held company specialized in productivity software that allows multiple users to work collaboratively on computer files simultaneously.
On March 10, 2005, Microsoft announced that they had purchased Groove Networks for $120 million. Microsoft has first used the collaboration software as Microsoft SharePoint Workspace, which is discontinued. The technology is now used in OneDrive within Microsoft 365.
, the servers hosting Groove 2.5n, a DropBox-like application, were still operational.
References
External links
Microsoft SharePoint Workspace
Software companies based in Massachusetts
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20Reference%20Library | Electronic Reference Library (ERL) is a client to server approach to networking CD-ROM and magnetic databases by SilverPlatter. It enables access from Mac and UNIX machines. At present, there are only UNIX clients for workstations running Solaris 2.3 or greater, AIX and OpenServer, but it will be ported to other Unixes eventually. In the meantime, it is possible for Unix and other users for whom there is no client software to access ERL by telnet or the World Wide Web.
Computer networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy%20Inc.%20%28Canadian%20TV%20series%29 | Comedy Inc. is a Canadian sketch comedy television series. It aired on CTV, A-Channel and The Comedy Network from 2003 until 2007.
Cast
The show starred Roman Danylo, Aurora Browne, Jen Goodhue, Albert Howell, Terry McGurrin, Winston Spear, Jennifer Robertson, Renee Percy, Gavin Stephens, Ian Sirota and Nikki Payne.
Awards
The cast received a Gemini Award nomination for Best Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Program or Series at the 22nd Gemini Awards in 2007. Danylo was nominated for Best Individual Performance in a Comedy Program or Series at the 19th Gemini Awards in 2004, and Sirota was nominated in the same category at the 23rd Gemini Awards in 2008.
Comedy Inc. was nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award for Best Writing in a Television Series in 2006. The series won the Gold World Medal at the New York Festivals for Best TV Variety Program in both 2005 and 2006.
References
External links
CTV Television Network original programming
CTV 2 original programming
2003 Canadian television series debuts
2000s Canadian sketch comedy television series
CTV Comedy Channel original programming
2007 Canadian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E6B | The E6B flight computer is a form of circular slide rule used in aviation. It is an instance of an analog calculating device still being used the 21st century.
They are mostly used in flight training, because these flight computers have been replaced with electronic planning tools or software and websites that make these calculations for the pilots. These flight computers are used during flight planning (on the ground before takeoff) to aid in calculating fuel burn, wind correction, time en route, and other items. In the air, the flight computer can be used to calculate ground speed, estimated fuel burn and updated estimated time of arrival. The back is designed for wind vector solutions, i.e., determining how much the wind is affecting one's speed and course. They are frequently referred to by the nickname "whiz wheel".
Construction
Flight computers are usually made out of aluminum, plastic or cardboard, or combinations of these materials. One side is used for wind triangle calculations using a rotating scale and a sliding panel. The other side is a circular slide rule. Extra marks and windows facilitate calculations specifically needed in aviation.
Electronic versions are also produced, resembling calculators, rather than manual slide rules. Aviation remains one of the few places that the slide rule is still in widespread use. Manual E6Bs/CRP-1s remain popular with some users and in some environments rather than the electronic ones because they are lighter, smaller, less prone to break, easy to use one-handed, quicker and do not require electrical power.
In flight training for a private pilot or instrument rating, mechanical flight computers are still often used to teach the fundamental computations. This is in part also due to the complex nature of some trigonometric calculations which would be comparably difficult to perform on a conventional scientific calculator. The graphic nature of the flight computer also helps in catching many errors which in part explains their continued popularity. The ease of use of electronic calculators means typical flight training literature does not cover the use of calculators or computers at all. In the ground exams for numerous pilot ratings, programmable calculators or calculators containing flight planning software are permitted to be used.
Many airspeed indicator (ASI) instruments have a movable ring built into the face of the instrument that is essentially a subset of the flight computer. Just like on the flight computer, the ring is aligned with the air temperature and the pressure altitude, allowing the true airspeed (TAS) to be read at the needle.
In addition, computer programs emulating the flight computer functions are also available, both for computers and smartphones.
Calculations
Instructions for ratio calculations and wind problems are printed on either side of the computer for reference and are also found in a booklet sold with the computer. Also, many computers have Fahrenheit to Cels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20speakers | Computer speakers, or multimedia speakers, are speakers sold for use with computers, although usually capable of other audio uses, e.g. for an MP3 player. Most such speakers have an internal amplifier and consequently require a power source, which may be by a mains power supply often via an AC adapter, batteries, or a USB port. The signal input connector is often a 3.5 mm jack plug (usually color-coded lime green per the PC 99 standard); RCA connectors are sometimes used, and a USB port may supply both signal and power (requiring additional circuitry, and only suitable for use with a computer). Battery-powered wireless Bluetooth speakers require no connections at all. Most computers have speakers of low power and quality built in; when external speakers are connected they disable the built-in speakers. Altec Lansing claims to have created the computer speaker market in 1990.
Computer speakers range widely in quality and in price. Computer speakers sometimes packaged with computer systems are small, plastic, and have mediocre sound quality. Some computer speakers have equalization features such as bass and treble controls. Bluetooth speakers can be connected with a computer by using an Aux jack and compatible adaptor prove instrumental.
More sophisticated computer speakers can have a subwoofer unit to enhance bass output. The larger subwoofer enclosure usually contains the amplifiers for the subwoofer and the left and right speakers.
Some computer displays have rather basic speakers built-in. Laptop computers have built-in integrated speakers, usually small and of restricted sound quality to conserve space.
See also
PC speaker
Loudspeaker enclosure
References
American inventions
Computer peripherals
Loudspeakers
Boombox culture
tl:Speaker |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20B.%20Whinston | Andrew B. Whinston (born June 3, 1936) is an American economist and computer scientist. He is the Hugh Roy Cullen Centennial Chair in Business Administration, Professor of Information Systems, Computer Science and Economics, and Director of the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce (CREC) in the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.
In the late 1950s, he was Sanxsay Fellow at Princeton University. Whinston finished his PhD from the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1962, at which time he also received its Alexander Henderson Award for Excellence in Economic Theory. He started work at the Yale University economics department, where he was a member of the Cowles Foundation. He became an associate professor of economics at the University of Virginia in 1964. By 1966 he was a full professor at Purdue University, where he became the university's inaugural Weiler Distinguished Professor of management, economics, and computer science.
He began his contributions to the academic world in 1961 when he published a paper in a law journal on the topic of urban renewal. In 1962 he published his first two papers. The first was in the Journal of Political Economy where he showed how non-cooperative game theory could be applied to issues in microeconomics. In the second paper entitled "A Model of Multi-Period Investment under Uncertainty" which appeared in Management Science he used nonlinear optimization methods to determine optimal portfolios over time.
Publications
Whinston has papers in economics journals such as American Economic Review, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Mathematical Economics, in multidisciplinary journals such as Management Science, Decision Sciences, and Organization Science, in operations journals such as Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Production Research, and Naval Research Logistics, in mathematics journals such as Journal of Combinatorics, SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, and Discrete Mathematics, in accounting journals such as the Accounting Review and Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, in marketing journals such as Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, and Journal of Retailing, in the premier journals devoted to information systems – Management Science, Decision Support Systems, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, and Information Systems Research - and in computer science journals such as Communications of the ACM, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, ACM Transactions, IEEE Computing on Internet Technology, and ACM Journal on Mobile Networking and Applications.
His publication record consists of more than 25 books and 400 refereed publications.
Awards
In 1995, Whinston was honored by the Data Processing Manager's Association with its IS Educator of the Year Award. In |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside%20Dish | Inside Dish with Rachael Ray, hosted by Rachael Ray was a hybrid cooking/talk show on the Food Network. In each episode Ray chats with a celebrity as they cook or eat at a restaurant. Inside Dish is the third of Ray's four shows on Food Network, and premiered on November 5, 2004. It is no longer in production.
List of celebrity guests
Dennis Franz
Morgan Freeman
Tony Danza
Cheech Marin
Mariel Hemingway
Brett Ratner
Mekhi Phifer
Jill Hennessy
Raven-Symoné
Gloria Estefan
Aisha Tyler
Adam Carolla
Joe Perry
Daisy Fuentes
Penn & Teller
Rick Nielsen
Mario Cantone
External links
2004 American television series debuts
2005 American television series endings
2000s American cooking television series
Food Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20F.%20Moore | Edward Forrest Moore (November 23, 1925 in Baltimore, Maryland – June 14, 2003 in Madison, Wisconsin) was an American professor of mathematics and computer science, the inventor of the Moore finite state machine, and an early pioneer of artificial life.
Biography
Moore received a B.S. in chemistry from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Virginia in 1947 and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in June 1950. He worked at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1950 to 1952 and was a visiting professor at MIT and visiting lecturer at Harvard University simultaneously in 1961-1962. He worked at Bell Labs from 1952 to 1966. After that, he was a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1966 until he retired in 1985.
He married Elinor Constance Martin and they had three children.
Scientific work
He was the first to use the type of finite state machine (FSM) that is commonly used today, the Moore FSM. With Claude Shannon he did seminal work on computability theory and built reliable circuits using less reliable relays. He also spent a great deal of his later years on a fruitless effort to solve the Four Color Theorem.
With John Myhill, Moore proved the Garden of Eden theorem characterizing the cellular automaton rules that have patterns with no predecessor. He is also the namesake of the Moore neighborhood for cellular automata, used by Conway's Game of Life, and was the first to publish on the firing squad synchronization problem in cellular automata.
In a 1956 article in Scientific American, he proposed "Artificial Living Plants," which would be floating factories that could create copies of themselves. They could be programmed to perform some function (extracting fresh water, harvesting minerals from seawater) for an investment that would be relatively small compared to the huge returns from the exponentially growing numbers of factories.
Moore also asked which regular graphs can have their diameter matching a simple lower bound for the problem given by a regular tree with the same degree. The graphs matching this bound were named Moore graphs by .
Publications
With Claude Shannon, before and during his time at Bell Labs, he coauthored "Gedanken-experiments on sequential machines", "Computability by Probabilistic Machines", "Machine Aid for Switching Circuit Design", and "Reliable Circuits Using Less Reliable Relays".
At Bell Labs he authored "Variable Length Binary Encodings", "The Shortest Path Through a Maze", "A simplified universal Turing machine", and "Complete Relay Decoding Networks".
"Machine models of self-reproduction," Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics, volume 14, pages 17–33. The American Mathematical Society, 1962.
"Artificial Living Plants," Scientific American, (Oct 1956):118-126
"Gedanken-experiments on Sequential Machines," pp 129 – 153, Automata Studies, Annals of Mathematical Studies, no. 34, Princeton University Press, Prince |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna-Barbera%20Superstars%2010 | Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 is a series of 10 syndicated made-for-television animated films produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions as part of The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera programming block from 1987 to 1988, featuring the studio's popular animated characters: Yogi Bear, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Scooby-Doo, Huckleberry Hound and Top Cat. The first 8 films used traditional cels, while the last 2 films used digital ink and paint.
Films
Crew
Executive Producers: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
Directors: Arthur Davis, Oscar Dufau, Bob Goe, John Kimball, Don Lusk, Charles A. Nichols, Ray Patterson, Jay Sabry, Paul Sommer, Carl Urbano, Rudy Zamora
Executive in Charge of Production: Jayne Barbera
Creative Designer: Iwao Takamoto
Show Editor: Gil Iverson
Supervising Director: Ray Patterson
Character Designer: Scott Jeralds
Casting Director: Andrea Romano
Recording Director: Gordon Hunt
Graphics Iraj Paran, Tom Wogatzke
Music Composed and Conducted by: Hoyt Curtin, Sven Libaek
Director of Music Supervision: Joanne Miller
Home media
All of the films except Yogi and the Invasion of the Space Bears were released on VHS shortly after their original broadcasts by Worldvision Home Video (a sister division of then-Hanna-Barbera owner Taft Broadcasting), Invasion of the Space Bears finally saw a VHS release in 1991. To date, the Yogi Bear and Scooby-Doo television movies in the series have been released on DVD from Warner Home Video. On December 7, 2010, Warner Bros. released Yogi's Great Escape on DVD via their Warner Archive Collection. This is a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release, available exclusively through Warner's online store and only in the U.S. Warner Home Video also released Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers on DVD, in Region 1 on May 6, 2003. and Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School on DVD, in Region 1 on June 4, 2002.
The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones has been released on VHS three times, first by Worldvision Home Video in 1988, then by Kid Klassics, the children's video arm of GoodTimes Entertainment (using the same cassette as the previous release) on October 20, 1989, and later by Warner Home Video on July 3, 2001. The film was finally released on DVD for the first time on June 14, 2011.
On , Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose was released on VHS videocassette in the United States. On December 7, 2010, Warner Home Video released Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose on DVD via their Warner Archive Collection, a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) label, available exclusively through Warner's online store and only in the U.S. As of August 2011, all of the Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 episodes are available on DVD through Warner Archive. While all 10 movies have appeared on Cartoon Network and Boomerang, two cable channels primarily dedicated to classic Hanna-Barbera material, only the Scooby-Doo films in the series still appear in regular rotation on Cartoon Network and Boomerang, as part of Cartoo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommaso%20Toffoli | Tommaso Toffoli () is an Italian-American professor of electrical and computer engineering at Boston University where he joined the faculty in 1995. He has worked on cellular automata and the theory of artificial life (with Edward Fredkin and others), and is known for the invention of the Toffoli gate.
Early life and career
He was born in June, 1943 in Montereale Valcellina, in northeastern Italy, to Francesco and Valentina (Saveri) Toffoli and was raised in Rome. He received his laurea in physics (equivalent to a Master's degree) from the University of Rome La Sapienza in 1967.
Toffoli moved to the United States in 1969.
In 1976 he received a Ph.D. in computer and communication science from the University of Michigan, then in 1978 he joined the faculty of Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a principal research scientist, where he remained until 1995, when he joined the faculty of Boston University.
Books
Cellular Automata Machines: A New Environment for Modeling, MIT Press (1987), with Norman Margolus. .
See also
Billiard-ball computer
Block cellular automaton
CAM-6
Computronium
Critters (cellular automaton)
Programmable matter
Reversible cellular automaton
References
External links
Homepage
Google Scholar profile
1943 births
Italian electrical engineers
Italian emigrants to the United States
Living people
Cellular automatists
University of Michigan alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
Boston University faculty
Sapienza University of Rome alumni
New England Complex Systems Institute
Quantum information scientists
American electrical engineers
Computer engineers
People from Friuli-Venezia Giulia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan-Carlos%20Cruz | Juan-Carlos Cruz (born ca. 1962) is a Dominican American chef and the former host of Calorie Commando and Weighing In on the Food Network. Cruz lost 43 pounds on the Discovery Health Channel show Discovery Health Body Challenge, which encouraged him to change directions from being a pastry chef to do low-calorie cooking. In 2010, Cruz was sentenced to prison for nine years in California for soliciting homeless people to murder his wife, Jennifer Campbell.
Early life and education
Juan-Carlos Cruz was born around 1962 in the Dominican Republic. He has two older brothers. He moved to the United States with his family when he was three, settling in California. He learned how to cook watching Graham Kerr, Jeff Smith, and Julia Child on television.
Cruz graduated in 1993 from the California Culinary Academy with a focus on pastry and found work in Los Angeles.
Career
After graduation from the Culinary Academy in 1993, Cruz joined Hotel Bel Air as a pastry sous-chef. While at the Bel Air he created pastries for celebrities such as Jack Nicholson, Oprah Winfrey and Julia Roberts.
Cruz struggled with weight gain due to his work with pastries. In 2000, he appeared on the Discovery Health Channel program "Discovery Health Body Challenge" and lost 43 pounds. He called himself the "Calorie Commando" and began focusing on low calorie cooking. In 2004, he began starring in the Food Network show named after his nickname, "Calorie Commando." The following year, 2005, he began hosting Food Network's "Weighing In." As a result, he published a cookbook, "The Juan-Carlos Cruz Calorie Countdown Cookbook," in 2006.
Personal life
Cruz was married to Jennifer Campbell, who he met in high school.
Legal issues
On Thursday, May 13, 2010, Cruz was arrested in Santa Monica, California at Cheviot Hills Park on suspicion of murder for hire after three homeless individuals reported Cruz soliciting them to kill his wife, Jennifer Campbell. Cruz had asked the men to slit Campbell's throat or to strangle her for $1,000 and gave one of the men, Big Dave, the security code to Cruz's apartment so he could kill Campbell. He was held on a $5 million bail, which was eventually lowered to $2 million.
Cruz's motivation to have Campbell killed stemmed from the couple's struggle to have a child due to fertility issues. The couple spent over $200,000 on fertility treatments, resulting in Campbell struggling with depression. Cruz believed having Campbell killed would be a "merciful" way to help her end her life. Cruz was charged with murder for hire and attempted murder. On December 13, 2010, Cruz pleaded "no contest" to murder for hire and the attempted murder count was dropped. As a result of a plea agreement, Cruz was ordered to pay $1,870 in restitution and to serve nine years in prison.
Works by Juan-Carlos Cruz
with Martha Rose Shulman. The Juan-Carlos Cruz Calorie Countdown Cookbook: A 5-Week Eating Strategy for Sustainable Weight. New York: Gotham Publishing (2006).
Referen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy%20Mech%20Fight | , sometimes called Joy Mecha Fight, is a fighting game developed and published by Nintendo for the Family Computer, released in Japan on May 21, 1993. The game was released during the generation shift between the Famicom and the newer Super Famicom, and Joy Mech Fight is counted among the most important late Famicom games for utilizing the console's audio and visual capabilities to the fullest extent. It is also Nintendo's first attempt in the fighting game genre since Urban Champion after the success and craze of Capcom's Street Fighter II, which inspired other companies to create their own 2D fighters. The game was released on Wii Virtual Console in March 2008 in Japan, Wii Virtual Console in March 2009 in South Korea, Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console in September 2013 in Japan, Wii U Virtual Console in May 2014 in Japan, Nintendo Switch Online in January 2019 in Japan and Hong Kong, and in September 2023 in North America, the PAL region, and South Korea (which was the first time it had officially been released in the West).
Though the game's development is credited to Nintendo's R&D1 team, it was originally conceived by two programmers, Koichi Hayashida and Koichiro Eto, who met at a programming seminar hosted by Nintendo. The two completed the game while working at the seminar, naming it , and Nintendo released the game under its current title after both had started to work for the company.
The game has received high praise from reviewers in recent years for its impressive graphics and physics, as well as its straightforward and accessible gameplay style and simple control set - something that separates it from its contemporaries. On December 15, 2000, an English fan translation was released on the website ROMhacking.net, allowing non-Japanese-speaking players to experience the game to the fullest.
In November 2021, a ROM hack, entitled Joy Mech Fight Special, aimed to improve the game's mechanics to better suit the competitive community the game has. These changes included balancing the robots' move sets (as some were overpowered compared to others), refining the controls to mitigate mis-inputs, providing various colour schemes for the robots, and a full re-translation of the game, fixing the multiple typos the original patch had.
Plot
Once upon a time there were two scientists, Dr. and Dr. (renamed to "Ermin" and "Warner" in an English fan translation), who worked together to create the world's most spectacular robots. One day, Dr. Walnuts disappeared with the laboratory's seven military robots before appearing on TV to declare his intention to conquer the world. , an owarai robot who had been training in the Kansai region, is called back to the laboratory by Dr. Emon, who remodels Sukapon into a military robot in a last-ditch effort to stop his evil counterpart.
Sukapon's first task was to defeat the seven other robots and allow Dr. Emon to reprogram back to their original selves. All eight robots then proceed to take on Dr. Walnuts's m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete%20modelling | Discrete modelling is the discrete analogue of continuous modelling. In discrete modelling, formulae are fit to discrete data—data that could potentially take on only a countable set of values, such as the integers, and which are not infinitely divisible. A common method in this form of modelling is to use recurrence relations.
Applied mathematics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh%20Quadra%20950 | The Macintosh Quadra 950 (also sold with additional software as the Workgroup Server 95) is a personal computer designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer from March 1992 to October 1995. It replaced the Quadra 900 that was introduced several months earlier, increasing the CPU clock rate of its 68040 CPU from to , and improving the graphics support. The two computers were otherwise identical, including the price. With a Macintosh Processor Upgrade Card installed, this computer is known as the Power Macintosh 950.
In 1993, the 950 was overtaken in performance by the less expensive Quadra 800 and 840AV. The newer Quadras had the addition of interleaved RAM, as well as an enhanced video system and SCSI bus. However, their more compact (mini-tower) case offered less expansion capability, so the 950 (due to its mid-tower case allowing 6 slots to be supported) was kept in continued production for the server market, outliving the 800 and 840AV. Also, the Quadra 800 was not capable of operating at 24-bit color, regardless of how much VRAM is installed or whether an external video card is used, while the Quadra 900 and 950 were capable of 24-bit color.
The Quadra 950 was replaced by the PowerPC-based Power Macintosh 9500 in May 1995, with sales continuing until October. It was the last Macintosh Quadra sold by Apple, and one of the last 68k models to be discontinued, due to its high RAM capacity and large number of NuBus slots. The Workgroup Server 95 was succeeded by the Workgroup Server 9150.
Hardware
The logic board has five NuBus slots and a Processor Direct Slot, but due to the positioning of the PDS it is not possible to use one of the NuBus slots when a PDS card is installed. The NuBus-90 standard is partially supported, allowing for cards to run at 20 MHz, and two of the slots provide 25 watts of power instead of the usual 15 watts.
The logic board has 1 MB of on-board video RAM, with 4 SIMM slots that allow for upgrading to 2 MB.
The 950 includes a key to limit access to various subsystems depending on the computer's use environment. The key switch has three positions labelled OFF, ON and SECURE. The OFF position immediately cuts the power and prevented the computer from being powered on. The ON position allows the computer to operate normally. The SECURE position was intended for use as a server – power was always applied in this position. If the computer lost power, it immediately starts up when power was restored. Also, this position disables the keyboard, mouse and floppy disk drive.
The Workgroup Server 95 models include the "Workgroup Server PDS Card", which provides three capabilities: Two SCSI controllers with two internal SCSI connectors (plus one external connector); a DMS SCSI control chip that reduces I/O load on the main CPU; and 128 KB of SRAM which is used as an L2 cache. There are three additional slots that provide the ability further expand the L2 cache to 512 KB.
Models
The Quadra 950 was announced on Mar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most%20Recently%20Used | Most Recently Used (MRU) may refer to:
A specific menu in Microsoft Windows, see Common menus in Microsoft Windows
An uncommon method of caching disk access, see Cache algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20emergency%20response%20team | A computer emergency response team (CERT) is an expert group that handles computer security incidents. Alternative names for such groups include cyber emergency response team, computer emergency readiness team, and computer security incident response team (CSIRT). A more modern representation of the CSIRT acronym is Cyber Security Incident Response Team.
History
The name "Computer Emergency Response Team" was first used in 1988 by the CERT Coordination Center (CERT-CC) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). The term CERT is registered as a trade and service mark by CMU in multiple countries worldwide. CMU encourages the use of Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) as a generic term for the handling of computer security incidents. CMU licenses the CERT mark to various organizations that are performing the activities of a CSIRT.
The histories of CERT and CSIRT, are linked to the existence of malware, especially computer worms and viruses. Whenever a new technology arrives, its misuse is not long in following. The first worm in the IBM VNET was covered up. Shortly after, a worm hit the Internet on 3 November 1988, when the so-called Morris Worm paralysed a good percentage of it. This led to the formation of the first computer emergency response team at Carnegie Mellon University under a U.S. Government contract. With the massive growth in the use of information and communications technologies over the subsequent years, the generic term 'CSIRT' refers to an essential part of most large organisations' structures. In many organisations the CSIRT evolves into an information security operations center.
Global associations and teams
National or economic region teams
See also
Computer security
Digital humanitarianism
Emergency prevention
Critical infrastructure protection
Proactive cyber defence
White hat (computer security)
Incident management
Information security
Responsible disclosure
Vulnerability (computing)
References
External links
CERT-CC website
FIRST website
Carnegie Mellon University
Emergency services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV4 | ITV4 is a British free-to-air television channel which was launched on 1 November 2005. It is owned by ITV Digital Channels, a division of ITV plc, and is part of the ITV network. The channel has a line-up that consists of sports, cult classic films such as James Bond, US dramas and classic ITV action series of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
History
It was expected that ITV4 would replace the existing Men & Motors channel (which was replaced by ITV HD), in the same way Granada Plus was rebranded into ITV3, until ITV plc stated that the two channels would run alongside each other, forcing the ITV News Channel on Freeview to timeshare with ITV4. ITV replaced the failing News Channel with CITV. Both channels were on Freeview until ITV plc took Men & Motors off Freeview (although it remained on other platforms for some time until April 2010) and replaced it with the live quiz channel ITV Play. Some programming from Men & Motors was transferred to ITV4.
ITV4 was the first channel to use the new on-screen look that was rolled out across the rest of ITV plc's channels on 16 January 2006. Red Bee Media designed the new logos and presentation for the entire corporation that saw the end of the yellow and blue squared look designed for ITV, ITV2 and the cube look for ITV3. An ITV 2005 interim results presentation revealed that an old style logo was designed for the channel but was never used on air.
The channel initially broadcast early in the evenings, but had its hours extended to cover daytime programming in February 2008, following previous trials where CITV handed over to ITV4 early in the weekends, closing at 12.30pm instead of the usual 6pm handover.
ITV4 was launched on UPC Ireland in Ireland on 4 January 2010, marking the first time the channel has been officially available in the country. The channel had already been (and remains) available to Irish viewers on free-to-air satellite for some time, but it has not been listed in the Sky electronic programme guide since its removal on 25 January 2006. On 1 April 2011, ITV4 was removed from UPC Ireland along with ITV2 and ITV3 due to the expiry of a carriage agreement between UPC and ITV. UPC Ireland claim that ITV is not in a position to renegotiate the deal because ITV had struck a deal with another channel provider to provide it with exclusive rights to air certain content from the channels. Conversely, UPC Ireland also claims to have been in discussions right up to the last moment in order to continue broadcasting the channels. ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4 were restored to the UPC Ireland line-up on 20 December 2011. Virgin Media One and its sister channel Virgin Media Two already hold carriage agreement to air certain ITV content within the Republic of Ireland, alternatively UTV is available within the Republic. ITV2 is available along with ITV3 and ITV4 within Switzerland, all three channels are available on SwisscomTV and UPC Cablecom. ITV4 is registered to broadcast within the European Union/EEA throu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkina%20Airlines | Burkina Airlines was an airline based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. It was established in 2003 and started operations in 2004. It operated services between Burkina Faso and France.
Code data
IATA Code: 3B
ICAO Code: BFR
Callsign: BURKLINES
See also
List of defunct airlines of Burkina Faso
Defunct airlines of Burkina Faso
Airlines established in 2003
Ouagadougou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojiky%C5%8D | (), also known by its full name , is a character encoding scheme. The , which published the character set, also published computer software and TrueType fonts to accompany it. The Mojikyō Institute, chaired by , originally had its character set and related software and data redistributed on CD-ROMs sold in Kinokuniya stores.
Conceptualized in 1996, the first version of the CD-ROM was released in July 1997. For a time, the Mojikyō Institute also offered a web subscription, termed " WEB" (), which had more up-to-date characters.
, Mojikyō encoded 174,975 characters. Among those, 150,366 characters (86%) then belonged to the extended Chinese–Japanese–Korean–Vietnamese (CJKV) family. Many of Mojikyō's characters are considered obsolete or obscure, and are not encoded by any other character set, including the most widely used international text encoding standard, Unicode.
Originally a paid proprietary software product, as of 2015, the Mojikyō Institute began to upload its latest releases to Internet Archive as freeware, as a memorial to honor one of its developers, , who died that year. On December 15, 2018, version 4.0 was released. The next day, Ishikawa announced that without Furuya this would be the final release of Mojikyō.
Premise
The encoding was created to provide a complete index of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese characters. It also encodes a large number of characters in ancient scripts, such as the oracle bone script, the seal script, and Sanskrit (Siddhaṃ). For many characters, it is the only character encoding to encode them, and its data is often used as a starting point for Unicode proposals. However, has much looser standards than Unicode for encoding, which leads to have many encoded glyphs of dubious, or even unintentionally fictional, origin. As such, while many non-Unicode characters are suitable for addition to Unicode, not all can become Unicode characters, due to the differing standards of evidence required by each.
Composition
The fonts () are TrueType fonts that come in a ZIP file and are each around 25 megabytes; the different fonts contain different numbers of characters. Also included is a Windows executable that implements a graphical character map, the " Character Map" (), . allows users to browse through the fonts, and copy and paste characters in lieu of typing them on the keyboard. As opposed to the regular Windows character map, or for that matter KCharSelect, which both support TrueType fonts, displays the numbered encoding slot of the requested character. In order for to work, all fonts must be installed.
Encoding
When referring to a character encoded in , the format MJXXXXXX is often used, similar to the U+XXXX format used for Unicode. For example, hentaigana has encoding MJ090007 and Unicode encoding U+1B008. A difference, however, is that encodings displayed this way are decimal, while Unicode's U+ encoding is hexadecimal.
From the earliest days of Unicode, has both influenced—and been in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screencast | A screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, also known as a video screen capture or a screen recording, often containing audio narration. The term screencast compares with the related term screenshot; whereas screenshot generates a single picture of a computer screen, a screencast is essentially a movie of the changes over time that a user sees on a computer screen, that can be enhanced with audio narration and captions.
Etymology
In 2004, columnist Jon Udell invited readers of his blog to propose names for the emerging genre. Udell selected the term "screencast", which was proposed by both Joseph McDonald and Deeje Cooley.
The terms "screencast" and "screencam" are often used interchangeably, due to the market influence of ScreenCam as a screencasting product of the early 1990s. ScreenCam, however, is a federal trademark in the United States, whereas screencast is not trademarked and has established use in publications as part of Internet and computing vernacular.
Uses
Screencasts can help demonstrate and teach the use of software features. Creating a screencast helps software developers show off their work. Educators may also use screencasts as another means of integrating technology into the curriculum. Students can record video and audio as they demonstrate the proper procedure to solve a problem on an interactive whiteboard.
Screencasts are useful tools for ordinary software users as well: They help filing report bugs in which the screencasts take the place of potentially unclear written explanations; they help showing others how a given task is accomplished in a specific software environment.
Organizers of seminars may choose to routinely record complete seminars and make them available to all attendees for future reference and/or sell these recordings to people who cannot afford the fee of the live seminar or do not have the time to attend it. This will generate an additional revenue stream for the organizers and makes the knowledge available to a broader audience.
This strategy of recording seminars is already widely used in fields where using a simple video camera or audio recorder is insufficient to make a useful recording of a seminar. Computer-related seminars need high quality and easily readable recordings of screen contents which is usually not achieved by a video camera that records the desktop.
In classrooms, teachers and students can use this tool to create videos to explain content, vocabulary, etc. Videos can make class time more productive for both teachers and students. Screencasts may increase student engagement and achievement and also provide more time in which students can work collaboratively in groups, so screencasts help them to think through cooperative learning.
In addition, screencasts allow students to move at their own pace since they can pause or review content anytime and anywhere. Screencasts are excellent for those learners who just need an oral as well as a visual explanation of t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA%20Suite%20B%20Cryptography | NSA Suite B Cryptography was a set of cryptographic algorithms promulgated by the National Security Agency as part of its Cryptographic Modernization Program. It was to serve as an interoperable cryptographic base for both unclassified information and most classified information.
Suite B was announced on 16 February 2005. A corresponding set of unpublished algorithms, Suite A, is "used in applications where Suite B may not be appropriate. Both Suite A and Suite B can be used to protect foreign releasable information, US-Only information, and Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI)."
In 2018, NSA replaced Suite B with the Commercial National Security Algorithm Suite (CNSA).
Suite B's components were:
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) with key sizes of 128 and 256 bits. For traffic flow, AES should be used with either the Counter Mode (CTR) for low bandwidth traffic or the Galois/Counter Mode (GCM) mode of operation for high bandwidth traffic (see Block cipher modes of operation) symmetric encryption
Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) digital signatures
Elliptic Curve Diffie–Hellman (ECDH) key agreement
Secure Hash Algorithm 2 (SHA-256 and SHA-384) message digest
General information
NIST, Recommendation for Pair-Wise Key Establishment Schemes Using Discrete Logarithm Cryptography, Special Publication 800-56A
Suite B Cryptography Standards
, Suite B Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile
, Suite B Cryptographic Suites for Secure Shell (SSH)
, Suite B Cryptographic Suites for IPsec
, Suite B Profile for Transport Layer Security (TLS)
These RFC have been downgraded to historic references per .
History
In December 2006, NSA submitted an Internet Draft on implementing Suite B as part of IPsec. This draft had been accepted for publication by IETF as RFC 4869, later made obsolete by RFC 6379.
Certicom Corporation of Ontario, Canada, which was purchased by BlackBerry Limited in 2009, holds some elliptic curve patents, which have been licensed by NSA for United States government use. These include patents on ECMQV, but ECMQV has been dropped from Suite B. AES and SHA had been previously released and have no patent restrictions. See also RFC 6090.
As of October 2012, CNSSP-15 stated that the 256-bit elliptic curve (specified in FIPS 186-2), SHA-256, and AES with 128-bit keys are sufficient for protecting classified information up to the Secret level, while the 384-bit elliptic curve (specified in FIPS 186-2), SHA-384, and AES with 256-bit keys are necessary for the protection of Top Secret information.
However, as of August 2015, NSA indicated that only the Top Secret algorithm strengths should be used to protect all levels of classified information.
In 2018 NSA withdrew Suite B in favor of the CNSA.
Quantum resistant suite
In August 2015, NSA announced that it is planning to transition "in the not too distant future" to a new cipher suite that is resistant to quantum attacks. "Unfortunately, the gr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20neighborhoods%20in%20Fort%20Worth%2C%20Texas | Fort Worth neighborhood profile data
East
Eastchase
Eastern Hills
Eastwood
Echo Heights
Ederville
Haltom City, TX is bordered by Watauga Blvd on the North, Beach Street on the West, US Hwy 377 on the East and Belknap on the South. The zip code is 76117.
Handley
Meadowbrook
Parker Essex Boaz (PEB)
Polytechnic Heights
Texas Wesleyan University is located in Polytechnic Heights.
River Trails
Sagamore Hill
Stop Six
White Lake Hills
Woodhaven
North
Diamond Hill
Northside
River Oaks
River Oaks is a separate, incorporated city.
Rock Island
Sansom Park
Sansom Park is a separate, incorporated city.
Stockyards
The Fort Worth Stockyards are a National Historic District north of Downtown. The Stockyards was once among the largest livestock markets in the United States and played a vital role in the city's early growth. Today the neighborhood is characterized by its many bars, restaurants, and notable country music values such as Billy Bob's. Fort Worth celebrity chef Tim Love of Iron Chef America and Top Chef Masters operates multiple restaurants in the neighborhood.
Northeast
Riverside
The neighborhood of Riverside lies east of I-35W and north of 121 Airport Freeway, and is divided into four sections :
Bonnie Brae
Oakhurst
Springdale
United Riverside
Northbrook
Far North
Crawford Farms
Fossil Creek
Harriet Creek Ranch
Heritage
Lake Country
Lost Creek Ranch
Marine Creek
Park Glen
Summerfields
Woodland Springs
Timberland Estates
Harvest Ridge
Rolling Meadows
West
Alamo Heights
Alamo Heights is a neighborhood that is generally bound by Interstate 30 to the north, Vickery Boulevard to the south and west, Hulen to the west, and South University Drive to the east. Arlington Heights High School is located within the neighborhood.
Arlington Heights
Arlington Heights is a neighborhood that is generally bound by Camp Bowie Boulevard to the north and west, Interstate 30 to the south, and Montgomery to the east. Most of the homes in Arlington Heights were built in the 1920s and are of either a Bungalow or Tudor architectural style. It is a well maintained neighborhood with many families, young professionals, and retirees. Property values here have risen in recent years due to its proximity to the Cultural District, Downtown, Camp Bowie Boulevard, and its location on Fort Worth's Westside, which makes it adjacent to many of the city's most elite neighborhoods.
Bomber Heights
Camp Bowie West
Como
The Como neighborhood is located on the west side of Fort Worth. It was named after Como, Italy. It is a historically African-American neighborhood. One of many famous Como residents was the neighborhood activist Viola Pitts, who served as Chair of the Como NAC and a Precinct Chair. The Como Lake was built in 1889. Originally the neighborhood was conceived as a resort. In the early 1900s Lillian Russell visited the resort and was impressed by it.
Lake Worth
Markum Ranch
Montserrat
North Benbrook
Ridglea
Ridglea Hills
Ridglea West
Ridgmar
Rivercrest
Rivercrest is t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealNetworks%20Community%20Source%20License | The RealNetworks Community Source License (RCSL) is a software license. Developers pick this license when they do not want to open source their resultant Helix DNA-based application. RCSL has a free R&D license and commercial terms for distribution.
The RCSL is used by the Helix project.
External links
Complete text of the RCSL license
Software licenses
Year of introduction missing
Community Source License |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCW | PCW can stand for:
Science and technology
Polycrystalline Wool, a fiber mainly used for thermal insulation
Computing
Amstrad PCW series of word processing computer systems
Personal Computer World, a British computer magazine
Popular Computing Weekly, another British computer magazine
PC World (magazine), a computer magazine originated in the US
Other
Canada's Wonderland, a theme park in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada, formerly named Paramount Canada's Wonderland
Park Chan-wook, a South Korean film director
Preston City Wrestling, a British professional wrestling promotion
Portuguese Colonial War, an armed conflict
Post-consumer waste, a waste type
Price Comparison Website |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquesan%20Nature%20Reserves | The Marquesan Nature Reserves are a network of small nature reserves in the Marquesas Islands. The reserves were declared by the government of French Polynesia in 1992, as a first step toward preserving the native flora and fauna of some of the smaller islands of the group.
The reserve system presently consists of four units:
Eiao Island Nature Reserve, encompassing Eiao and its surrounding rocks ()
Hatutu Nature Reserve, including the island of Hatutu and its surrounding rocks ()
Motane Nature Reserve, including the islands of Moho Tani and Terihi, as well as a few surrounding rocks ()
Motu One Reserve, covering the coral reef and sandy island network of Motu One ()
In 1996 Lucien Kimitete, the Mayor of Nuku Hiva, proposed that the Marquesas become a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In May 2022 public consultations on their listing began.
See also
Flora of the Marquesas Islands
List of animals of the Marquesas Islands
References
Environment of the Marquesas Islands
Nature reserves |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20%28economics%29 | In statistics, economics, and finance, an index is a statistical measure of change in a representative group of individual data points. These data may be derived from any number of sources, including company performance, prices, productivity, and employment. Economic indices track economic health from different perspectives. Examples include the consumer price index, which measures changes in retail prices paid by consumers, and the cost-of-living index (COLI), which measures the relative cost of living over time.
Influential global financial indices such as the Global Dow, and the NASDAQ Composite track the performance of selected large and powerful companies in order to evaluate and predict economic trends.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 primarily track U.S. markets, though some legacy international companies are included. The consumer price index tracks the variation in prices for different consumer goods and services over time in a constant geographical location and is integral to calculations used to adjust salaries, bond interest rates, and tax thresholds for inflation.
The GDP Deflator Index, or real GDP, measures the level of prices of all-new, domestically produced, final goods and services in an economy. Market performance indices include the labour market index/job index and proprietary stock market index investment instruments offered by brokerage houses.
Some indices display market variations. For example, the Economist provides a Big Mac Index that expresses the adjusted cost of a globally ubiquitous Big Mac as a percentage over or under the cost of a Big Mac in the U.S. in USD. Such indices can be used to help forecast currency values.
Index numbers
An index number is an economic data figure reflecting price or quantity compared with a standard or base value. The base usually equals 100 and the index number is usually expressed as 100 times the ratio to the base value. For example, if a commodity costs twice as much in 1970 as it did in 1960, its index number would be 200 relative to 1960. Index numbers are used especially to compare business activity, the cost of living, and employment. They enable economists to reduce unwieldy business data into easily understood terms.
In contrast to a cost-of-living index based on the true but unknown utility function, a superlative index number is an index number that can be calculated. Thus, superlative index numbers are used to provide a fairly close approximation to the underlying cost-of-living index number in a wide range of circumstances.
Some indexes are not time series. Spatial indexes summarize real estate prices, or toxins in the environment, or availability of services, across geographic locations. Indexes may also be used to summarize comparisons between distributions of data within categories. For example, purchasing power parity comparisons of currencies are often constructed with indexes.
There is a substantial body of economic analysis concerning t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC%20TV%20Plus | ABC TV Plus (formerly ABC2 and ABC Comedy) is an Australian free-to-air television channel owned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and part of its ABC Television network. The channel broadcasts a range of general entertainment programming. Between the hours of 5am and 7:30pm daily, the channel's bandwidth is used for the ABC Kids channel for young children.
The channel was launched on 7 March 2005 as ABC2. It was rebranded as ABC Comedy on 4 December 2017, with a format focused on comedy programming. On 1 January 2021, it was rebranded as ABC TV Plus and returned to a general entertainment format.
History
Origins
The history of the channel can be traced back to 1998 when the Australian Broadcasting Authority released a report, titled Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting, recommending that the Australian Government support the early introduction of digital broadcasting as a free-to-air service with the loan of a 7 MHz channel for each broadcaster. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation stated that it wished to run up to four multichannels at different times of the day or alternatively offer a high-definition television channel. The corporation claimed that up to A$100 million would be needed to prepare for these services, half of which would need to be government-funded.
In August 2001 the Australian Broadcasting Corporation launched the ABC Kids channel, with Fly TV following in November 2001. The two multichannels, available only through digital terrestrial television, broadcast a range of programming targeted at younger and teenage viewers. Funding issues meant that, in June 2003, ABC Television closed ABC Kids and Fly TV.
Unlike its predecessors, ABC2 launched on 7 March 2005 on channel 21, independent of government funding, instead running on a budget of A$3 million per year. The first programme in the launch schedule was an episode of Landline – although scheduled to begin at 6.25am, the programme was delayed ten minutes. The channel was officially inaugurated by former Minister for Communications, Senator Helen Coonan, at the Australian Parliament House in Canberra on 10 March 2005.
Late 2000s
Weekly video gaming and technology programme Good Game was launched on 19 September 2006, becoming one of the first programmes in its genre to be broadcast on free-to-air television in Australia. Similarly in the same year, programmes produced included Australia Wide, Short and Curly, dig tv and Late Night Legends.
Genre restrictions imposed by the Australian government on digital multichanneling were lifted along with the media ownership laws passed through the Australian parliament on 18 October 2006. Previously limited in the subjects it could cover, ABC2 was henceforth able to carry shows identified as comedy, drama, national news, sport or entertainment.
On 1 January 2008 the Australian Broadcasting Corporation announced the introduction of live coverage and programme content on ABC2 from the Australian Film Commission, O |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meanings%20of%20minor%20planet%20names%3A%2085001%E2%80%9386000 |
85001–85100
|-id=004
| 85004 Crombie || || M. Katherine Crombie (born 1970), a member of the OSIRIS-REx science team with responsibility for data management and archiving. ||
|-id=014
| 85014 Sutter || || Brian Sutter (born 1961), an engineer at Lockheed Martin Company and the Mission Designer for the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission. ||
|-id=015
| 85015 Gaskell || || Robert Gaskell (born 1945), a Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute ||
|-id=030
| 85030 Admetos || 2804 P-L || Admetus (Admetos), from Greek mythology. The King of Pherae was saved by Apollo from his fated death when his wife Alcestis offers to die in his place, father of Eumelos, the best charioteer in the Greek army during the Trojan war ||
|-id=047
| 85047 Krakatau || 6255 P-L || The island of Krakatau, Indonesia. It partly collapsed beneath the sea in 1883 during one of the largest volcanic eruptions in historic times. ||
|-id=095
| 85095 Hekla || 5192 T-2 || Hekla, a prominent volcano in the south of Iceland ||
|}
85101–85200
|-id=119
| 85119 Hannieschaft || 1972 RD || Hannie Schaft (1920–1945) was a member of the Dutch Resistance during World War II. Her nickname was "Het meisje met het rode haar" (the girl with the red hair), which is also the title of a book and film about her. Born as Jannetje Johanna Schaft, her secret name in the resistance movement was "Hannie". She was executed three weeks before the end of the war. ||
|-id=121
| 85121 Loehde || || Franklin C. Loehde (born 1936) is a retired Canadian science educator in Edmonton. He was involved in successful efforts to build the Queen Elizabeth Planetarium in 1960 and the Edmonton Space Sciences Centre (now the Odyssium) in 1984. He served as National President of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada during 1982–1984 (Src). ||
|-id=158
| 85158 Phyllistrapp || || Phyllis Trapp (born 1952) has been an inspiration to many with her indomitable spirit during her courageous 18-year battle with breast cancer. Devoted to her family, she volunteered in her grandsons' school, encouraging and teaching students through her love and patience, and playing the piano for kindergarten performances. ||
|-id=168
| 85168 Albertacentenary || || Centenary of the provincehood of Alberta (in 2005). Alberta was named after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, fourth daughter of Queen Victoria (Src). ||
|-id=179
| 85179 Meistereckhart || || Meister Eckhart (ca. 1260–1327/28), a German theologian and mystic from Thuringia. His philosophy is unique, although it combines Greek, Neoplatonic, Arabic and Scholastic elements. Because part of his theological writings are in German, he influenced German language and terminology. ||
|-id=183
| 85183 Marcelaymé || || Marcel Aymé (1902–1967) was a French novelist, screenwriter and theater playwright. Educated at the College de Dole, he worked as a journalist in Paris while publishing his first novel Brûlebois (1926). His novel La Table aux crevés won the Pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going%20Home%20%28TV%20series%29 | Going Home was a drama television series produced by the SBS network in Australia that aired from 2000 to 2001.
Scripted, filmed, edited and broadcast on the same day, Going Home was set in a nightly inter-urban commuter train. A group of regular train travelers are featured on their daily commute in a blend of up-to-the-minute commentary on the news and events of the day, together with the unfolding dramas in their lives. Viewer feedback was encouraged, including plot and character suggestions that were regularly incorporated into subsequent episodes.
Towards the very end of the 2001 season, we see Australian character actor Stuart Rawe, before Swift and Shift Couriers, in one of his very early roles as a 'Silent Football Fan'.
Actress Rhonda Doyle is best known for playing “Jan” in the infamous Yellow Pages commercial with the quote “Not happy, Jan”.
The concept has been used later in other countries: in Canada (Train 48), in France (Le train - The train) and in Italy (Andata e Ritorno - Roundtrip).
Cast
Camilla Ah Kin
Arthur Angel
David Callan
Jason Chong
Rhonda Doyle
John Gibson
Brian Meegan
Lyn Pierse
Khristina Totos
Stuart Rawe as Silent Football Fan
See also
List of Australian television series
External links
Australian Television Information Archive
2000s Australian comedy television series
2000s Australian drama television series
Special Broadcasting Service original programming
2000 Australian television series debuts
2001 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%20Dale%20Harris | Ronald Dale Harris is a computer programmer who worked for the Nevada Gaming Control Board in the early 1990s and was responsible for finding flaws and gaffes in software that runs computerized casino games. Harris took advantage of his expertise, reputation and access to source code to illegally modify certain slot machines to pay out large sums of money when a specific sequence and number of coins were inserted. From 1993 to 1995, Harris and an accomplice stole thousands of dollars from Las Vegas casinos, accomplishing one of the most successful and undetected scams in casino history.
Towards the end of his stint, Harris shifted his focus to the probability game Keno, for which he developed a program that would determine which numbers the game's pseudorandom number generator would select beforehand. When Harris' accomplice, Reid Errol McNeal, attempted to redeem a high value winning keno ticket at Bally's Atlantic City Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey, casino executives became suspicious of him and notified New Jersey gaming investigators. The investigation led authorities to Harris and after a trial was sentenced to seven years in prison. He was released from prison after serving two years and currently resides in Las Vegas.
Harris is listed in the Nevada Gaming Control Board's black book and prohibited from entering casinos.
Harris’ story can be seen on the Biography Channel, History Channel and Discovery Channel program Breaking Vegas, which features interviews and reenactments of some of Harris' casino-breaking scheme. The Travel Channel's Vegas Cheaters Exposed also briefly explains his story.
See also
Gambling
Cheating in casinos
References
External links
Nevada Exclusion List record
New Jersey Exclusion List record
American computer programmers
1956 births
Living people
American people convicted of fraud |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOOM%20%28ontology%29 | Loom is a knowledge representation language developed by researchers in the artificial intelligence research group at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute. The leader of the Loom project and primary architect for Loom was Robert MacGregor. The research was primarily sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Loom is a frame-based language in the tradition of KL-ONE. As with KL-ONE, Loom has a formal semantics that maps declarations in Loom to statements in set theory and First Order Logic. This formal semantics enables a type of theorem prover engine called a classifier. The classifier can analyze Loom models (known as ontologies) and deduce various things about the model. For example, the classifier can discover new classes or change the subclass/superclass relations in the model. The classifier can also detect inconsistencies in the model declaration. This is a very powerful and fairly unusual capability in that it is capable of doing analysis at the ontology level, the level of declarations rather than at the implementation level as most inference engines do.
The Loom project's goal is the development and fielding of advanced tools for knowledge representation and reasoning in artificial intelligence. Specifically to enable code to be generated from provably valid domain models.
Loom is a language and environment for constructing intelligent applications. At its heart is a knowledge representation and reasoning system that combines a Frame-based language with an automatic classifier engine. Declarative knowledge in Loom consists of definitions, rules, facts, and default rules. A deductive engine called a classifier utilizes forward chaining, semantic unification, and object-oriented truth maintenance technologies in order to compile the declarative knowledge into a network designed to efficiently support on-line deductive query processing.
The Loom system implements a logic-based pattern matcher that drives a production rule facility and a pattern-directed method dispatching facility that supports the definition of object-oriented methods. The high degree of integration between Loom's declarative and procedural components permits programmers to utilize logic programming, production rule, and object-oriented programming paradigms in a single application. Loom can also be used as a deductive layer that overlays an ordinary CLOS (Common Lisp Object System) network. In this mode, users can obtain many of the benefits of using Loom without impacting the function or performance of their CLOS-based applications.
Loom has recently been succeeded by PowerLoom.
References
External links
Loom
PowerLoom Knowledge Representation & Reasoning System
Knowledge representation languages
Declarative programming languages
Common Lisp (programming language) software
Ontology (information science) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipmunk%20Basic | Chipmunk Basic is a freeware interpreter for the BASIC programming language maintained by Ron Nicholson.
Chipmunk basic was originally developed for the Macintosh and has been ported to Linux and Microsoft Windows. The "windowed" Macintosh version includes a wide variety of graphics drawing commands. It also has object-oriented capabilities.
The current version of Chipmunk Basic (and its spinoff products for Palm OS, cBasPad and HotPaw BASIC) was based on a public domain, Pascal implementation by David Gillespie.
In January 2015, a Cocoa version was released that may lack features from the older Carbon-based OS X port. The most recent release is Version 1.368.2210, published Nov 11, 2022.
References
External links and/or references
Ron's Basic Programming and Chipmunk Basic Home Page
public domain source code for the original Chipmunk Basic
Category:Chipmunk Basic Tasks implemented in Chipmunk Basic on rosettacode.org
BASIC interpreters
Free compilers and interpreters
BASIC programming language family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Lopez | Robert Lopez (born February 23, 1975) is an American songwriter for musicals, best known for co-creating The Book of Mormon and Avenue Q, and for co-writing the songs featured in the Disney computer-animated films Frozen, its sequel Frozen II, and Coco, with his wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez. He is one of only eighteen people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award, nicknamed by Philip Michael Thomas in 1984 as the "EGOT". He additionally holds the distinctions of being the youngest person to win an EGOT, and winning the awards across the shortest period of time: he won all four in the span of ten years and completed the set at the age of 39. He is also the only person to have won all four awards more than once, having won two Oscars, three Tonys, three Grammys, and four Emmys. With a second set of competitive wins beginning with his June 27th, 2010 Emmy and concluding with his March 4th, 2018 Academy Award, he has broken his own 'fastest to complete' record, establishing a new fastest EGOT interval at 7 year, 8 months.
Early life
Robert Lopez was born in Manhattan, to Katherine (Lowe) and Frank Lopez. He is partly of Filipino descent through his father (who was born on a ship in the middle of the ocean after departing Manila); his paternal grandfather was Filipino, and his paternal grandmother was of half Filipino and half Scottish-American descent (both originally resided in Manila). His father was director of publications for NYU Langone Medical Center.
Lopez spent much of his childhood in Greenwich Village, except for one year in Massachusetts while his father was working for Clark University. Upon their return to New York City when he was six years old, "it was a fluke" that he started piano lessons at Greenwich House Music School. The apartment they were subletting at the time happened to have a piano; his mother asked if he was interested in taking lessons, and he said yes. At age seven, his parents bought a piano for him, he saw his first Broadway show, and he wrote his first song. At age 11, he wrote his first opening number. At around age 12, he briefly moved away from the piano and tried playing the saxophone, as well as taking courses in musical composition at other music schools.
Lopez went to Hunter College Elementary School and Hunter College High School, and then on to Yale University where he graduated in 1997 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English (the type of academic degree expressly discussed in the second song of Avenue Q). While at Yale, he wrote three plays (of which two were musicals) and was a member of the Yale Spizzwinks a cappella group, and was influenced by professors such as Vincent Scully, John Hollander and Harold Bloom. During his time at Yale, he vaguely hoped to make a living writing musicals and "had no [other] career options"; towards that end, he avoided courses that would prepare him for a career in something more secure like law or medicine.
Career
1998-2004: Early work and bre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlancer | Starlancer is a space-based science fiction flight simulator computer game, created by Erin and Chris Roberts, and developed by Warthog Games under the auspices of Digital Anvil.
Plot
It is the year 2160. Mankind has colonized the solar system and two political entities have emerged: the Alliance consisting of American, Australian, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, British and German forces, and The Coalition of Russian, Chinese and Middle-Eastern interests. The game begins with a surprise attack on Fort Kennedy, where a peace treaty turns into a bloodbath: all of the inner four planets are overrun, including Terra herself, and the Italian and French fleets are utterly lost. The Alliance fleet regroups at Triton, Neptune's moon, and attempts to regain lost territory. The player takes the role of a rookie pilot in the international 45th Volunteers squadron, under the command of Captain Robert Foster and Wing Commander Maria Enriquez, aboard the re-commissioned British carrier ANS Reliant.
Gameplay
As with Wing Commander: Prophecy, the pilot's flying ability is the only measure by which success and failure are defined, though Starlancer does not feature as many branching mission paths. As in Wing Commander I the pilot may be promoted throughout the course of the campaign; unlike WCI, their rank determines which fighters and missiles they may choose to employ during each mission. The game provides a "virtual carrier" through which to navigate, including nearby crewmembers whose reaction to you depends on your current rank and standing. The game uses textual and video news broadcasts to keep the player informed as to the status of the rest of the war. Players frequently find themselves flying alongside squadrons and pilots they have heard about on the news just recently, providing a dose of "celebrity exposure" and this gives the sense that the player is just one part of a much larger war effort.
Starlancers story is continued in Chris Roberts' Freelancer project, though the two belong to different subgenres (the first is purely focused on action, the latter also features trading and the player can freely move through the game's universe when they are not on a mission).
The game allows the player to take control of 12 fighter-class ships, advancing in different areas, such as top speed, agility, armor, and shield power. Each have a number of hard points which can be used to mount weapons like guided missiles and dumb rockets. Ships are issued to the player as his or her achievements increase.
Starlancer was also available on the Dreamcast console. GameSpy hosted its online play with up to six players at once. Although most of the graphics and frame rate were intact, the game did not include the intricate menu system and options that the PC had. The Dreamcast supported eight players online and can still be played online today via private servers.
Reception
The game received "generally favorable reviews" on both platforms according to the rev |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20AMD%20Turion%20processors | Turion 64 is the name of a family of CPUs designed by AMD for the mobile computing market.
Features overview
Single-core mobile processors
Turion 64
"Lancaster" (90 nm)
All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!
"Richmond" (90 nm)
All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD-V
Sempron (Turion 64-based)
"Sable" (65 nm)
All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!
Athlon (Turion 64-based)
"Sable" (65 nm)
All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD-V
Sempron (Turion X2-based)
"Huron" (65 nm)
All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64
Sempron (Turion II-based)
"Caspian" (45 nm)
All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4a, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD-V
Dual-core mobile processors
Turion 64 X2
"Taylor" (90 nm)
All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD-V
"Trinidad" (90 nm)
All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD-V
Athlon 64 X2
"Tyler" (65 nm)
All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD-V
Turion 64 X2
"Tyler" (65 nm)
All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD-V
Turion X2 / Turion X2 Ultra
"Lion" (65 nm)
All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD-V
"Conesus" (65 nm)
All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, AMD-V
Turion Neo X2 L625 supports AMD PowerNow! technology
Turion II / Turion II Ultra / Turion II Neo
"Caspian" (45 nm)
All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4a, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD-V
All models are to be used with DDR2 memory (Socket S1g3 default design)
"Champlain" (45 nm)
All models support: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4a, Enhanced 3DNow!, NX bit, AMD64, PowerNow!, AMD-V
All models are to be used with DDR3 memory (Socket S1g4 default design)
"Geneva" (45 nm)
Notes
See also
AMD mobile platform
List of AMD mobile microprocessors
Table of AMD processors
References
Turion
Lists of microprocessors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20tree%20frog | The European tree frog (Hyla arborea) is a small tree frog. As traditionally defined, it was found throughout much of Europe, Asia and northern Africa, but based on molecular genetic and other data several populations formerly included in it are now recognized as separate species (for example, H. intermedia of Italy and nearby, H. molleri of the Iberian Peninsula, H. meridionalis of parts of southwestern Europe and northern Africa, and H. orientalis of parts of Eastern Europe, Turkey and the Black Sea and Caspian Sea regions), limiting the true European tree frog to Europe from France to Poland and Greece.
Description
European tree frogs are small; males range from in length, and females range from in length. They are slender, with long legs. Their dorsal skin is smooth, while their ventral skin is granular. Their dorsal skin can be green, gray, or tan depending on the temperature, humidity, or their mood. Their ventral skin is a whitish color, and the dorsal and ventral skin is separated by a dark brown lateral stripe from the eyes to the groin. Females have white throats, while males have golden brown throats with large (folded) vocal sacs. The head of H. arborea is rounded, the lip drops strongly, the pupil has the shape of a horizontal ellipse, and the tympanum is clearly recognizable. The discs on the frog's toes, which it uses to climb trees and hedges, is a characteristic feature of H. arborea . Like other frogs, their hind legs are much larger and stronger than the fore legs, enabling the frogs to jump rapidly.
Distribution and habitat
Members of the H. arborea species complex are the only representatives of the widespread tree frog family (Hylidae) indigenous to mainland Europe. and are found across most of Europe (except Ireland), northwest Africa, and temperate Asia to Japan. This species complex is native to these countries:
Albania; Armenia; Austria; Azerbaijan; Belarus; Belgium; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Cyprus; the Czech Republic; Denmark; France; Georgia; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Israel (found in the Ayalon Valley); Italy; Liechtenstein; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Macedonia, the Republic of; Moldova; Montenegro; the Netherlands; Poland; Portugal; Romania; the Russian Federation; Serbia; Slovakia; Slovenia; Sweden; Switzerland; Turkey; Ukraine.
It has also been introduced to the United Kingdom, (although at least one British population, now thought to be extinct, may have been native), and it has been reintroduced to Latvia.
European tree frogs can be found in marshlands, damp meadows, reed beds, parks, gardens, vineyards, orchards, stream banks, lakeshores, or humid or dry forests. They tend to avoid dark or thick forests, and they are able to tolerate some periods of dryness; therefore, sometimes they are found in dry habitats.
Behavior
Historically, tree frogs were used as barometers because they respond to approaching rain by croaking.
Depending on subspecies, temperature, humidity, and the frog's 'mood' |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Transformation%20Services | Data Transformation Services (DTS) is a Microsoft database tool with a set of objects and utilities to allow the automation of extract, transform and load operations to or from a database. The objects are DTS packages and their components, and the utilities are called DTS tools. DTS was included with earlier versions of Microsoft SQL Server, and was almost always used with SQL Server databases, although it could be used independently with other databases.
DTS allows data to be transformed and loaded from heterogeneous sources using OLE DB, ODBC, or text-only files, into any supported database. DTS can also allow automation of data import or transformation on a scheduled basis, and can perform additional functions such as FTPing files and executing external programs. In addition, DTS provides an alternative method of version control and backup for packages when used in conjunction with a version control system, such as Microsoft Visual SourceSafe.
DTS has been superseded by SQL Server Integration Services in later releases of Microsoft SQL Server though there was some backwards compatibility and ability to run DTS packages in the new SSIS for a time.
History
In SQL Server versions 6.5 and earlier, database administrators (DBAs) used SQL Server Transfer Manager and Bulk Copy Program, included with SQL Server, to transfer data. These tools had significant shortcomings, and many DBAs used third-party tools such as Pervasive Data Integrator to transfer data more flexibly and easily. With the release of SQL Server 7 in 1998, "Data Transformation Services" was packaged with it to replace all these tools. The concept, design, and implementation of the Data Transformation Services was led by Stewart P. MacLeod (SQL Server Development Group Program Manager), Vij Rajarajan (SQL Server Lead Developer), and Ted Hart (SQL Server Lead Developer). The goal was to make it easier to import, export, and transform heterogeneous data and simplify the creation of data warehouses from operational data sources.
SQL Server 2000 expanded DTS functionality in several ways. It introduced new types of tasks, including the ability to FTP files, move databases or database components, and add messages into Microsoft Message Queue. DTS packages can be saved as a Visual Basic file in SQL Server 2000, and this can be expanded to save into any COM-compliant language. Microsoft also integrated packages into Windows 2000 security and made DTS tools more user-friendly; tasks can accept input and output parameters.
DTS comes with all editions of SQL Server 7 and 2000, but was superseded by SQL Server Integration Services in the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 release in 2005.
DTS packages
The DTS package is the fundamental logical component of DTS; every DTS object is a child component of the package. Packages are used whenever one modifies data using DTS. All the metadata about the data transformation is contained within the package. Packages can be saved directly in a SQL Serve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse%20proxy | In computer networks, a reverse proxy is an application that sits in front of back-end applications and forwards client (e.g. browser) requests to those applications. Reverse proxies help increase scalability, performance, resilience and security. The resources returned to the client appear as if they originated from the web server itself.
Large websites and content delivery networks use reverse proxies, together with other techniques, to balance the load between internal servers. Reverse proxies can keep a cache of static content, which further reduces the load on these internal servers and the internal network. It is also common for reverse proxies to add features such as compression or TLS encryption to the communication channel between the client and the reverse proxy.
Reverse proxies are typically owned or managed by the web service, and they are accessed by clients from the public Internet. In contrast, a forward proxy is typically managed by a client (or their company) who is restricted to a private, internal network, except that the client can ask the forward proxy to retrieve resources from the public Internet on behalf of the client.
Reverse proxy servers are implemented in popular open-source web servers such as Apache, Nginx, and Caddy. This software can inspect HTTP headers, which, for example, allows it to present a single IP address to the Internet while relaying requests to different internal servers based on the URL of the HTTP request. Dedicated reverse proxy servers such as the open source software HAProxy and Squid are used by some of the biggest websites on the Internet.
Uses
Reverse proxies can hide the existence and characteristics of origin servers. This can make it more difficult to determine the actual location of the origin server / website and, for instance, more challenging to initiate legal action such as takedowns or block access to the website, as the IP address of the website may not be immediately apparent. Additionally, the reverse proxy may be located in a different jurisdiction with different legal requirements, further complicating the takedown process.
Application firewall features can protect against common web-based attacks, like a denial-of-service attack (DoS) or distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS). Without a reverse proxy, removing malware or initiating takedowns (while simultaneously dealing with the attack) on one's own site, for example, can be difficult.
In the case of secure websites, a web server may not perform TLS encryption itself, but instead offload the task to a reverse proxy that may be equipped with TLS acceleration hardware. (See TLS termination proxy.)
A reverse proxy can distribute the load from incoming requests to several servers, with each server supporting its own application area. In the case of reverse proxying web servers, the reverse proxy may have to rewrite the URL in each incoming request in order to match the relevant internal location of the requested r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine%20Brown | Maxine Brown may refer to:
Maxine Brown (country singer) (1931–2019), American country singer
Maxine Brown (soul singer) (born 1939), American soul singer
Maxine D. Brown, American computer scientist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing%20tree | In computer science, a dancing tree is a tree data structure similar to B+ trees. It was invented by Hans Reiser, for use by the Reiser4 file system. As opposed to self-balancing binary search trees that attempt to keep their nodes balanced at all times, dancing trees only balance their nodes when flushing data to a disk (either because of memory constraints or because a transaction has completed).
The idea behind this is to speed up file system operations by delaying optimization of the tree and only writing to disk when necessary, as writing to disk is thousands of times slower than writing to memory. Also, because this optimization is done less often than with other tree data structures, the optimization can be more extensive.
In some sense, this can be considered to be a self-balancing binary search tree that is optimized for storage on a slow medium, in that the on-disc form will always be balanced but will get no mid-transaction writes; doing so eases the difficulty of adding and removing nodes during a transaction. Instead, these slow rebalancing operations are performed at the same time as the much slower write to the storage medium.
However, a negative side effect of this behavior manifests in cases of unexpected shutdown, incomplete data writes, and other occurrences that may prevent the final balanced transaction from completing. In general, dancing trees pose greater difficulty than conventional trees for data recovery from incomplete transactions, though this can be addressed by more thoroughly accounting for transacted data.
References
External links
Software Engineering Based Reiser4 Design Principles
Description of the Reiser4 internal tree
Computer file systems
B-tree |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%E2%80%93Waterman%20algorithm | The Smith–Waterman algorithm performs local sequence alignment; that is, for determining similar regions between two strings of nucleic acid sequences or protein sequences. Instead of looking at the entire sequence, the Smith–Waterman algorithm compares segments of all possible lengths and optimizes the similarity measure.
The algorithm was first proposed by Temple F. Smith and Michael S. Waterman in 1981. Like the Needleman–Wunsch algorithm, of which it is a variation, Smith–Waterman is a dynamic programming algorithm. As such, it has the desirable property that it is guaranteed to find the optimal local alignment with respect to the scoring system being used (which includes the substitution matrix and the gap-scoring scheme). The main difference to the Needleman–Wunsch algorithm is that negative scoring matrix cells are set to zero, which renders the (thus positively scoring) local alignments visible. Traceback procedure starts at the highest scoring matrix cell and proceeds until a cell with score zero is encountered, yielding the highest scoring local alignment. Because of its cubic time complexity, it often cannot be practically applied to large-scale problems and is replaced in favor of computationally more efficient alternatives such as (Gotoh, 1982), (Altschul and Erickson, 1986), and (Myers and Miller, 1988).
History
In 1970, Saul B. Needleman and Christian D. Wunsch proposed a heuristic homology algorithm for sequence alignment, also referred to as the Needleman–Wunsch algorithm. It is a global alignment algorithm that requires calculation steps ( and are the lengths of the two sequences being aligned). It uses the iterative calculation of a matrix for the purpose of showing global alignment. In the following decade, Sankoff, Reichert, Beyer and others formulated alternative heuristic algorithms for analyzing gene sequences. Sellers introduced a system for measuring sequence distances. In 1976, Waterman et al. added the concept of gaps into the original measurement system. In 1981, Smith and Waterman published their Smith–Waterman algorithm for calculating local alignment.
The Smith–Waterman algorithm is fairly demanding of time: To align two sequences of lengths and , time is required. Gotoh and Altschul optimized the algorithm to steps. The space complexity was optimized by Myers and Miller from to (linear), where is the length of the shorter sequence, for the case where only one of the many possible optimal alignments is desired. Chowdhury, Le, and Ramachandran later optimized the cache performance of the algorithm while keeping the space usage linear in the total length of the input sequences.
Motivation
In recent years, genome projects conducted on a variety of organisms generated massive amounts of sequence data for genes and proteins, which requires computational analysis. Sequence alignment shows the relations between genes or between proteins, leading to a better understanding of their homology and functionality. Se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animalympics | Animalympics is a 1980 animated television film directed by Steven Lisberger and produced by Lisberger Studios for the NBC network. Originally commissioned as two separate specials, it spoofs the Summer and Winter Olympic Games and features the voices of Billy Crystal, Gilda Radner, Harry Shearer and Michael Fremer.
Plot
The film is a series of vignettes presented as the broadcast of the first animal Olympic Games through the fictional ZOO television network. The Games combine summer and winter Olympic events.
The event is covered mostly by Barbara Warblers, a songbird, and "anchorturtle" Henry Hummel. The 100-meter dash is covered in the style of a drag race by Jackie Fuelit.
Unlike the real Olympics, continents are represented rather than countries. The continents featured are North America, South America, Eurasia, Europe, Africa, Australia, and Asia. Eurasia represents the USSR, whereas Europe represents Western and Central Europe.
The only mention of areas other than continents are the New York City Rats soccer team, Dean Wilson being from California, a Central American marathon runner named Pepé Repanosa, an Acapulco cliff diver named "Primo Cabeza", marathon runner Terry Hornsby being from Boulder, Colorado, René Fromage being from France, and Kurt Wüfner appearing at the downhill event right before a Scandinavian is given a gold medal.
Although many of the segments stand alone, there are some recurring events and important characters. The largest such story is the coverage of the marathon, where competitors René Fromage and Kit Mambo are the favorites to win. Both are determined to win – Fromage having devoted his entire life to the marathon, Mambo determined to make a name for herself – they find themselves surprised when their minds wander to thoughts of mutual admiration and then to love, culminating in the pair holding hands for the rest of the race and crossing the finish line together. Another important story is that of Kurt Wüffner, a West German dachshund skier, and his disappearance to Dogra-la during a mountain climbing expedition shortly after the slalom event.
There are even cases of players attempting to cheat in the games, only to end up losing disgracefully while their honorable opponents take home the victory. During the ice hockey game, the Eurasian Longhorns have rigged the entire ice rink with explosives in order to help take out their rivals; the North American Kodiaks, led by their coach Bear McLane. Yet in spite of the foul play, the Kodiaks still emerge victorious due to the efforts of their star player Guy Lafluke. With the boxing game, viscous brawler Janos Brushteckel is known for overpowering his opponents with excessive force; yet aspiring boxer Joey Gongolong manages to outmaneuver him with clever strategy and out-boxer style to wear him down and ultimately deal the winning blow. For the fencing game, Count Maurice Boar-Deaux uses underhanded moves to take out all other fencers; only to be outsmarted by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo%20Airlines | Congo Airlines was an airline based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In 1998, it merged with Zaire Airlines and Zaire Express to form Hewa Bora Airways.
Code data
IATA code: EO
ICAO code: ALX
Callsign: ALLCONGO
See also
Transport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
References
Defunct airlines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Airlines disestablished in 1994 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circus%20Circus%20Reno | Circus Circus Reno is a hotel and casino located in Downtown Reno, Nevada. It anchors a network of connected hotel-casinos in the downtown Reno core that includes Silver Legacy Reno and Eldorado Reno and are owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment. It includes a 1,620 room hotel and a casino which features free circus acts on a regular basis throughout the day over the midway which also offers 33 carnival games.
It is the second-largest hotel in downtown Reno (and third-largest in the Reno area overall) by number of rooms.
Previous owners of Circus Circus Reno were Mandalay Resort Group, formerly known as Circus Circus Enterprises (1978–2005) and MGM Resorts International, formerly known as MGM Mirage (2005–2015).
History
The main structure was originally built as a Gray, Reid & Wright department store which, at the time, was the only department store in the state of Nevada. Originally opened on November 7, 1957, the structure replaced a prior store location which was destroyed by a gas explosion on February 5, 1957, and is now the site of the Palladio condominiums. The new store contained of retail space and of storage space in a basement and 2 retail floors accessible by escalators, and had 45 departments including an electronics shop selling televisions and radios, a bookstore, record store, and wine shop, as well as a restaurant, beauty salon, and cobbler.
1977 brought about plans to enlarge the store, adding 2 additional floors, 102 hotel rooms and a casino. The casino would have been known as Camp 14 and would have had a logging theme. The south portion of the first floor would have remained under the name Grey Reid's, but would sell only woman's clothing and would contain an expanded beauty salon. The plan never materialized and Grey Reid's moved to a new location in the Old Town Mall (now known as the Reno Town Mall) in July of that year. Instead, the owners were approached by Circus Circus Enterprises, the operating company of Circus Circus Las Vegas. After about a year of renovations, the casino opened on July 1, 1978, about a decade after its Las Vegas counterpart, and on the same day as the opening of the Sahara Reno and the expanded Money Tree Casino. Circus Circus Reno was inspired by the gaming boom spurred by the new MGM Grand Reno, casino companies wanted to gain some of that momentum. The Reno Circus opened with a small hotel and very similar attractions to its Las Vegas counterpart.
It has three hotel towers: The North Tower, the Casino Tower and the Sky Tower. The North Tower, with 625 rooms, was opened in 1981 and has a height of 225 ft (68 m) and 22 floors. The Sky Tower, with 905 rooms, was opened in 1985 and has a height of 278 ft (84 m) and 27 floors. In 1995, extensive renovations were completed, including the remodel of the mezzanine level where the restaurants are located, the midway, and a sky bridge connecting to the Silver Legacy. The towers are connected by a custom made monorail. known as the Sky Tower |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20de%20Wavrin | Jean de Waurin or Wavrin (c. 1400c. 1474) was a medieval French chronicler and compiler, also a soldier and politician. He belonged to a noble family of Artois, and witnessed the Battle of Agincourt from the French side, but later fought on the Anglo-Burgundian side in the later stages of the Hundred Years' War. As a historian, he put together the first chronicle intended as a complete history of England, very extensive but largely undigested and uncritical.<ref name=ODNB>; "Jean de Wavrin" in Medieval France; in Encyclopedia</ref> Written in French, in its second version it extends from 688 to 1471, though the added later period covering the Wars of the Roses shows a strong bias towards Burgundy's Yorkist allies. Strictly his subject is Great Britain, but essentially only England is covered, with a good deal on French and Burgundian events as well.
Life
He was illegitimate, the son of Robert de Wavrin, Lord of Wavrin, a town in France near the present Belgian border, and Michielle de Croix. His father was hereditary seneschal of Flanders and "conseiller-chambellan" of the Duke of Burgundy. Wavrin was legitimated in 1437 by Philip the Good and knighted five years later. He fought for the Burgundians at the Battle of Verneuil and elsewhere, and then occupying a high position at the court of Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, was sent as ambassador to Rome in 1463. His first documented visit to England was in 1467, long after he produced the first version of his work, when he was present at the famous tournament between Anthony, bastard of Burgundy, and Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers.
Recueil des croniques et anchiennes istories de la Grant Bretaigne
Jehan compiled the Recueil des croniques et anchiennes istories de la Grant Bretaigne ("Account of the chronicles and old histories of Great Britain"), a collection of the sources of English history from the earliest times to 1471. For this work, he borrowed from Froissart, Monstrelet and others; but for the period between 1444 and 1471 the Recueil is original and valuable, although somewhat untrustworthy with regard to affairs in England itself. It also includes an off-topic contemporary chronicle relating to the Crusade of Varna. He gives a valuable account of the impulsive love marriage of Edward IV to the obscure widow Elizabeth Woodville, and the horrified reaction of the Privy Council who told the King with great frankness that "he must know that she was no wife for a prince such as himself".
The first version in four volumes was apparently completed around 1445, ending in 1413 with the death of Henry IV of England; This relied heavily on other works and covered French and Burgundian affairs also. A second "edition" took events to 1469 in six volumes, with more original material as Wavrin covered his own lifetime. The text remained in manuscript. The only complete version was in the library of Louis de Gruuthuse, now in the BnF in Paris, with a second nearly complete one in the library of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20300 | The HP 300 "Amigo" was a computer produced by Hewlett-Packard (HP) in the late 1970s based loosely on the stack-based HP 3000, but with virtual memory for both code and data. The HP300 was cut-short from being a commercial success despite the huge engineering effort, which included HP-developed and -manufactured silicon on sapphire (SOS) processor and I/O chips.
The HP300 was initially designed as a single-user workstation by a totally separate program within the General Systems Division (GSD), the Cupertino, California home of the HP 3000 business computers (the division was later renamed Computer Systems Division CSY). Later, the HP300 design team developed multi-user abilities, and an ahead of its time inter-unit processor interconnect that let one HP300 change registers in other inter-connected HP300's system.
Features
The circuit boards were in a floor pedestal box, with CRT on top with built-in soft keys, and fixed keyboard protruding in front. It pioneered such ideas as built-in networking, automatic spelling correction, multiple windows (on a character based screen), and labels adjacent to vertically stacked user function keys, now used on ATMs and gas pumps.
The HP300 featured HP-IB (later IEEE-488) interface (IF) as the I/O bus, an 8" floppy disk, and a built-in fixed 12M hard drive. Later drivers for HP7970E tape drive allowed for easier HP300 system back ups. It also had a native system programming language, a database, BASIC, and featured screen editing for RPG.
Production
HP Computer Systems Division General Manager (GM), Doug Spreng, decided the file system differences between the division's money making HP3000 line and the burgeoning HP300 would keep the HP300 from being successful and killed the product. HP built two semi-truck loads of units before shutting down the HP300 production line to meet customer contractual agreements (i.e.: in case LLNL wanted more Amigos).
Design reuse
HP commonly reused the work of killed products in other product designs to save money and keep design-team morale up. The processor board and I/O boards were used in later HP 3000 systems that used the HP300's advanced designs: HP3000 model 30 (project name: Koala - a single card bay stand-alone box) and model 33 (project name: Toothpick - a double card bay table design) reused many of HP300's designs. The HP300 diagnostics (DUS) were ported over and used in these and future HP3000 models.
Later, the HP300 design team over came the first generation HP300 slower TTL circuitry with a SOS design (project name: Sizzler). Again the GM killed its release and reused its designs in a new HP3000 model 40 (project name: Cub - single card bay stand-alone box) and the model 44 (project name: Grizzly - double card bay table design).
The HP3000 models 30, 33, 40, 44, 42, & 48 went on to great success using what was developed in the HP300. The HP300's change to one (at the time) high speed interface HP-IB channel from HP3000's previous use of many different type |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCAD | TCAD may stand for one of the following:
TCAD (Borland), a component of Borland Delphi and C++ Builder to facilitate writing vector graphics applications
Technology CAD, computer-aided design for semiconductor process technology and semiconductor device design
Traffic Collision Avoidance Device
Tricyclic antidepressants, a class of medications which block serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake in the brain. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Virginia%20locations%20by%20per%20capita%20income | Virginia has the sixth highest per capita income of any state in the United States of America, at $23,975 (2000). Its personal per capita income is $33,671 (2003).
Note: Data is from the 2010 United States Census Data and the 2006-2010 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates.
References
Virginia
Economy of Virginia
Income |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%20Varney | Stuart A. Varney (born July 7, 1948) is a British-American talk show host and conservative political commentator who works for Fox News and the Fox Business Network. Born in the United Kingdom, he worked as a journalist before joining Fox News in January 2004 as a business contributor, such as on Your World with Neil Cavuto.
Early life
Varney was born in Derby, Derbyshire, England. After secondary school, Varney spent a year working in Nairobi, Kenya, before graduating from the London School of Economics.
Journalism career
After arriving in Hong Kong, He became a broadcaster for Radio Hong Kong. During this time, He would help cover various events and had a short stint working as a voice actor for Voicetrax, a dubbing company founded by Matthew Oram. He continued to work for Radio Hong Kong before he began his broadcast journalism career at KEMO-TV (now KOFY-TV) in San Francisco. He was then recruited to join the Manhattan bureau of the newly formed 24-hour news network CNN, which launched on June 1, 1980. He hosted the CNN shows Business Day, Business Asia, and Moneyline with Willow Bay. In 2001, he left CNN to host CNBC's "Wall Street Journal Editorial Board with Stuart Varney."
He joined Fox News's business team in January 2004, and joined Fox Business Network as an anchor when the network launched in October 2007.
Fox Business Network
Varney currently co-hosts Varney & Co. on the Fox Business Network, which airs from 9:00 a.m. to noon ET every weekday. The show is also co-hosted by Lauren Simonetti, Susan Li and Ashley Webster. He is also a regular panel member on the Fox Business program Cashin' In.
Varney has appeared on and guest-hosted "Your World with Neil Cavuto."
On August 30, 2023, Fox Business announced that Varney would be a moderator of the second GOP Primary Debate alongside Dana Perino.
Notable commentaries
In an interview on June 5, 2013 on Fox News, Varney said "We hand down $79 billion dollars every January on these so-called poor people." "You’re not being mean to poor people?" host Gretchen Carlson asked Varney, who responded, "I am. I am being mean to poor people. Frankly, I am." This exchange of words gained brief popularity when it was cited on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central, with journalists from The Washington Post reporting on his comments afterwards.
On the July 19, 2011 edition of Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto, Varney criticized the view that America's poor are "starving and living in squalor," citing a Heritage Foundation report on how the ownership of household appliances demonstrates how well-off America's poor really are. Varney concluded by saying, "The image we have of poor people as starving and living in squalor really is not accurate. Many of them have things; what they lack is the richness of spirit. That's my opinion."
In 2013 Varney generated controversy for his commentary on Pope Francis, who had criticized the wealth gap and denounced unfettered capitalism as a syste |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch%20Game%20Pocket%20Computer | The is a second-generation handheld game console released by Epoch Co. in Japan in 1984 for 12,800 Japanese yen. It is also known as Pokekon and was one of the very few truly handheld systems to be released in the early 1980s, preceding the Game Boy by 5 years.
The system was a commercial failure in Japan, and as a result, only 5 games were made for it. A puzzle game and a paint program were built into the system. It was powered by 4 AA batteries, and screen's contrast could be adjusted by the user. Input and output controls included four buttons, an 8-way joypad, a contrast dial, and a sound on-off switch.
Because the Game Pocket Computer failed in Japan, and was never released internationally, the device is extremely rare, and units on eBay can go for hundreds of US dollars.
Technical specifications
LC display: monochrome, 75 × 64 pixels
Power supply: 4 AA batteries
Battery life: Not clear; >70 hours or 60 hours
CPU: NEC uPD78c06 clocked at 6 MHz
RAM: 2 KB
ROM (cartridges): 8 or 16 KB
Sound: 1 sound channel
Games
There were a total of 7 different games released for the system.
2 were built into the system. The cartridge included with the system only serves as instructions and to occupy the cartridge slot, containing no game data, as it doesn't need to be inserted into the system to play the games;
, an 11 tile version of Fifteen puzzle.
, a Raster graphics editor paint program.
The other 5 were released separately for 2,980 Japanese yen each, excluding Pocket Computer Mahjong which was 3,800 yen;
See also
Barcode Battler, another handheld game console released by Epoch Co.
References
External links
Pictures and info about the Game Pocket Computer
Other handheld games made by Epoch
More pictures and info for the Game Pocket Computer
Discontinued handheld game consoles
Handheld game consoles
Monochrome video game consoles
Products introduced in 1984 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%20Interface%20Toolkit | User Interface Toolkit (UIT) is a discontinued object-oriented layer that was implemented in C++ programming language atop the XView graphical toolkit. It was developed by Sun Microsystems employees Mark Soloway and Joe Warzecha as an internal tools project for Sun's Computer Integrated Manufacturing organization in 1990.
In 1991, Soloway received permission from Sun to contribute the UIT to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) X Window System (X11) distribution. Soloway continued development on the UIT, subsequently creating and releasing UITV2 in 1992. The source code is freely available.
References
Sun Microsystems software
Widget toolkits |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tufts%20University%20School%20of%20Engineering | The School of Engineering is one of the ten schools that comprise Tufts University. The school offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in several engineering disciplines and computer science fields. Along with the School of Arts and Sciences (A&S) and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the School of Engineering is located on the university's main campus in Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. Currently, the engineering school enrolls more than 800 full-time undergraduates and 600 graduate students. The school employs over 100 full-time and part-time faculty members.
History
Engineering instruction began at Tufts College in academic year 1865 - 1866, with the introduction of a three-year degree program in civil engineering. Students in this program received the degree of civil engineer. In 1890, the Department of Electrical Engineering was created, and in academic year 1892-1893, the course of study was extended to four years. With the advent of the four-year program the degrees granted were bachelor of civil or electrical engineering. Tufts College added the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Chemical Engineering in 1894 and 1898, respectively. In 1898, the trustees voted to formally establish an undergraduate College of Engineering with Gardner C. Anthony as the first dean. As part of an administrative reorganization in 1904, the College of Engineering became part of the new Faculty of Arts and Sciences, along with the School (later the College) of Liberal Arts, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and after 1910, Jackson College for Women.
To accommodate a high demand for facilities in engineering programs, Anderson Hall opened in 1960 to host facilities and an engineering library. The College of Engineering added graduate study to its curriculum beginning in 1961, with master's degrees available in all four departments. It added Ph.D. programs in mechanical engineering in 1963, electrical and chemical engineering in 1964, engineering design in 1981, and civil engineering in 1985. The College also offered a combined bachelor's/master's degree program. In 1992, the Gordon Institute, the first organization dedicated to the training of leaders in engineering, became part of Tufts University. In 1999, the College of Engineering became the School of Engineering when oversight of graduate engineering programs was transferred from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. As part of the same reorganization the Faculty of Arts and Science became the Faculty of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering (AS&E).
Admissions
For the School of Engineering Class of 2023, 4,371 students applied and 667 were accepted, resulting in an acceptance rate of 15%. Of those accepted 41% chose to enroll. For students entering the School of Engineering as part of the Class of 2024, the average verbal/critical reading SAT score was 711 and the average math SAT score was 764. The average ACT composite score was 34. Additionally the percent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TestNG | TestNG is a testing framework for the Java programming language created by Cédric Beust and inspired by JUnit and NUnit. The design goal of TestNG is to cover a wider range of test categories: unit, functional, end-to-end, integration, etc., with more powerful and easy-to-use functionalities.
Features
TestNG's main features include:
Annotation support.
Support for data-driven/parameterized testing (with @DataProvider and/or XML configuration).
Support for multiple instances of the same test class (with @Factory)
Flexible execution model. TestNG can be run either by Ant via build.xml (with or without a test suite defined), or by an IDE plugin with visual results. There isn't a TestSuite class, while test suites, groups and tests selected to run are defined and configured by XML files.
Concurrent testing: run tests in arbitrarily big thread pools with various policies available (all methods in their own thread, one thread per test class, etc.), and test whether the code is multithread safe.
Embeds BeanShell for further flexibility.
Default JDK functions for runtime and logging (no dependencies).
Dependent methods for application server testing.
Distributed testing: allows distribution of tests on slave machines.
Data provider
A data provider in TestNG is a method in a test class, which provides an array of varied actual values to dependent test methods.
Example:
//This method will provide data to any test method that declares that its Data Provider is named "provider1".
@DataProvider(name = "provider1")
public Object[][] createData1() {
return new Object[][] {
{ "Cedric", new Integer(36) },
{ "Anne", new Integer(37) }
};
}
// This test method declares that its data should be supplied by the Data Provider named "provider1".
@Test(dataProvider = "provider1")
public void verifyData1(String n1, Integer n2) {
System.out.println(n1 + " " + n2);
}
// A data provider which returns an iterator of parameter arrays.
@DataProvider(name = "provider2")
public Iterator<Object[]> createData() {
return new MyIterator(...);
}
// A data provider with an argument of the type java.lang.reflect.Method.
// It is particularly useful when several test methods use the same
// provider and you want it to return different values depending on
// which test method it is serving.
@DataProvider(name = "provider3")
public Object[][] createData(Method m) {
System.out.println(m.getName());
return new Object[][] { new Object[] { "Cedric" } };
}
The returned type of a data provider can be one of the following two types:
An array of array of objects (Object[][]) where the first dimension's size is the number of times the test method will be invoked and the second dimension size contains an array of objects that must be compatible with the parameter types of the test method.
An Iterator<Object[]>. The only difference with Object[][] is that an Iterator lets you create your test data lazily. TestNG will invoke the iterator |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paned%20window%20%28computing%29 | A paned window is a windows (or build-ups) in a graphical user interface that has multiple parts, layers, or sections. Examples of this include a code browser in a typical integrated development environment; a file browser with multiple panels; a tiling window manager; or a web page that contains multiple frames. Simple console applications use an edit pane for accepting input and an output pane for displaying output.
The term task pane is used by Microsoft to identify any area cordoned off from the main screen area of an application and used for a specific function, such as changing the displayed font in a word processor.
Three-pane interface
A Three-pane interface is a category of graphical user interface in which the screen or window is divided into three panes displaying information. This information typically falls into a hierarchal relationship of master-detail with an embedded inspector window. Microsoft's Outlook Express email client popularized a mailboxes / mailbox contents / email text layout that became the norm until web-based user interfaces rose in popularity during the mid-2000s. Even today, many webmail scripts emulate this interface style.
References
Microsoft Windows
Graphical user interface elements |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Games%20%28song%29 | "Computer Games" is a song by New Zealand band Mi-Sex, released in September 1979 in Australia and New Zealand as the second single from their debut studio album, Graffiti Crimes (1979). The song peaked at number 1 in Australia and 5 in New Zealand. The music video was filmed on location at what was at the time Control Data Corporation's North Sydney centre and included gameplay from the 1979 arcade games Speed Freak, Basketball and Star Fire. The single won the award for Best Australian Single at the 1979 TV Week/Countdown Music Awards.
The single was also released in Europe and North America, as well as South Africa where the band's name was altered to MS to satisfy censorship.
The song was also re-recorded as the final track for the band's 1983 album Where Do They Go?, a dub version was the 12" B-side of their 1983 single "Lost Time" and again on the 2016 EP Extended Play.
Reception
Musicologist Ian McFarlane opined that it was an "electro-pop anthem... with its simplistic, brain-teasing riff and Gilpin's mannered vocal yelps, "Computer Games" boasted little substance but was constructed for maximum effect. It came to epitomise the one word which has plagued the memory of Mi-Sex: 'contrived'."
Stewart Mason from AllMusic said "Steve Gilpin's theatrical vocals, full of Brian Connolly-style hiccups and leaps into falsetto, are an interesting counterpoint to the unvarying electronic rhythm, particularly on the memorable stuttering chorus." Cash Box said, "This avant-pop band has taken the sound first pioneered by Eno and Ultravox and molded it into more of a hard rock sound. The band employs witty future-orientated lyrics to augment the swirling synthesized sounds."
Track listings
Australia/New Zealand 7" (BA 222563)
"Computer Games" – 3:54
"Wot Do You Want?" – 2:55
Australian 12"
"Computer Games" (Disco Version) – 4:41
"Graffiti Crimes" – 3:49
Spanish version "Juego De Computadoras (Computer Games)" – 3:54
"Que Queres? (Wot Do You Want?)" – 2:55United Kingdom dance version'''
"Computer Games" (Special Dance Mix) – 6:17
"Wot Do You Want?" – 2:55
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
See also
List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1970s
References
New Zealand songs
Mi-Sex songs
1979 singles
1981 singles
1979 songs
Number-one singles in Australia
CBS Records singles
Music based on video games
Song recordings produced by Peter Dawkins (musician)
Songs about video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN%20homograph%20attack | The internationalized domain name (IDN) homograph attack is a way a malicious party may deceive computer users about what remote system they are communicating with, by exploiting the fact that many different characters look alike (i.e., they are homographs, hence the term for the attack, although technically homoglyph is the more accurate term for different characters that look alike. For example, the Cyrillic, Greek and Latin alphabets each have a letter that has the same shape but different meaning from its counterparts.)
This kind of spoofing attack is also known as script spoofing. Unicode incorporates numerous writing systems, and, for a number of reasons, similar-looking characters such as Greek Ο, Latin O, and Cyrillic О were not assigned the same code. Their incorrect or malicious usage is a possibility for security attacks. Thus, for example, a regular user of may be lured to click on it unquestioningly as an apparently familiar link, unaware that the third letter is not the Latin character "a" but rather the Cyrillic character "а" and is thus an entirely different domain from the intended one.
The registration of homographic domain names is akin to typosquatting, in that both forms of attacks use a similar-looking name to a more established domain to fool a user. The major difference is that in typosquatting the perpetrator attracts victims by relying on natural typographical errors commonly made when manually entering a URL, while in homograph spoofing the perpetrator deceives the victims by presenting visually indistinguishable hyperlinks. Indeed, it would be a rare accident for a web user to type, for example, a Cyrillic letter within an otherwise English word such as "citibаnk". There are cases in which a registration can be both typosquatting and homograph spoofing; the pairs of l/I, i/j, and 0/O are all both close together on keyboards and, depending on the typeface, may be difficult or impossible to distinguish.
History
An early nuisance of this kind, pre-dating the Internet and even text terminals, was the confusion between "l" (lowercase letter "L") / "1" (the number "one") and "O" (capital letter for vowel "o") / "0" (the number "zero"). Some typewriters in the pre-computer era even combined the L and the one; users had to type a lowercase L when the number one was needed. The zero/o confusion gave rise to the tradition of crossing zeros, so that a computer operator would type them correctly. Unicode may contribute to this greatly with its combining characters, accents, several types of hyphen, etc., often due to inadequate rendering support, especially with smaller font sizes and the wide variety of fonts.
Even earlier, handwriting provided rich opportunities for confusion. A notable example is the etymology of the word "zenith". The translation from the Arabic "samt" included the scribe's confusing of "m" into "ni". This was common in medieval blackletter, which did not connect the vertical columns on the letters i, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category%206%20cable | Category 6 cable (Cat 6) is a standardized twisted pair cable for Ethernet and other network physical layers that is backward compatible with the Category 5/5e and Category 3 cable standards.
Cat 6 must meet more stringent specifications for crosstalk and system noise than Cat 5 and Cat 5e. The cable standard specifies performance of up to 250 MHz, compared to 100 MHz for Cat 5 and Cat 5e.
Whereas Category 6 cable has a reduced maximum length of when used for 10GBASE-T, Category 6A cable is characterized to 500 MHz and has improved alien crosstalk characteristics, allowing 10GBASE-T to be run for the same maximum distance as previous Ethernet variants.
History
Cat 6, an unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) design, emerged as an advancement of the UTP Cat 5e and was formalised in 2001. The design of Cat 6 required more stringent precision in manufacturing, which enabled reduced noise and crosstalk, thereby improving performance. The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) published Cat 6 in June 2002.
Description
Cat 6 cable can be identified by the printing on the side of the cable sheath. Cable types, connector types and cabling topologies are defined by ANSI/TIA-568.
Cat 6 patch cables are normally terminated in 8P8C modular connectors, using either T568A or T568B pin assignments; performance is comparable provided both ends of a cable are terminated identically.
If Cat 6-rated patch cables, jacks and connectors are not used with Cat 6 wiring, overall performance is degraded and may not meet Cat 6 performance specifications.
The Cat 6 specification requires conductors to be pure copper. The industry has seen a rise in non-compliant or counterfeit cables, especially of the copper-clad aluminium wire (CCA) variety. This has exposed the manufacturers or installers of such fake cable to legal liabilities.
Category 6A
The standard for Category 6A (augmented Category 6) is ANSI/TIA-568.2-D (replaces 568-C.2), defined by TIA for enhanced performance standards for twisted pair cable systems. It was defined in 2018. Cat 6A performance is defined for frequencies up to 500 MHz—twice that of Cat 6. Cat 6A also has an improved alien crosstalk specification as compared to Cat 6, which picks up high levels of alien noise at high frequencies.
The global cabling standard ISO/IEC 11801 has been extended by the addition of amendment 2. This amendment defines new specifications for Cat 6A components and Class EA permanent links. These new global Cat 6A/Class EA specifications require a new generation of connecting hardware offering far superior performance compared to the existing products that are based on the American TIA standard. The most important point is a performance difference between ISO/IEC and EIA/TIA component specifications for the NEXT transmission parameter. At a frequency of 500 MHz, an ISO/IEC Cat 6A connector performs 3 dB better than a Cat 6A connector that conforms with the EIA/TIA specification (3 dB equals 50% reduction of near-en |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20of%20Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist%20Parties%20and%20Organizations | The International Conference of Marxist–Leninist Parties and Organizations (ICMLPO) is a name used by two unrelated networks of communist groups:
International Conference of Marxist–Leninist Parties and Organizations (International Newsletter): A now defunct grouping of parties and organizations which adhered to Marxism–Leninism–Mao Zedong Thought. Main organizer was the Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany.
International Conference of Marxist–Leninist Parties and Organizations (Unity & Struggle): A grouping of parties and organizations that uphold the line of Enver Hoxha and the Party of Labour of Albania. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGCOMM%20Award | The SIGCOMM Award recognizes lifetime contribution to the field of communication networks.
The award is presented in the annual SIGCOMM Technical Conference.
The awardees have been:
2022 Deborah Estrin and Henning Schulzrinne
2021 Hari Balakrishnan
2020 Amin Vahdat and Lixia Zhang
2019 Mark Handley
2018 Jennifer Rexford
2017 Raj Jain
2016 Jim Kurose
2015 Albert Greenberg
2014 George Varghese
2013 Larry Peterson
2012 Nick McKeown
2011 Vern Paxson
2010 Radia Perlman
2009 Jon Crowcroft
2008 Don Towsley
2007 Sally Floyd
2006 Domenico Ferrari
2005 Paul Mockapetris
2004 Simon S. Lam
2003 David Cheriton
2002 Scott Shenker
2001 Van Jacobson
2000 Andre Danthine
1999 Peter Kirstein
1998 Larry Roberts
1997 Jon Postel
1997 Louis Pouzin
1996 Vint Cerf
1995 David J. Farber
1994 Paul Green
1993 Robert Kahn
1992 Sandy Fraser
1991 Hubert Zimmermann
1990 David D. Clark
1990 Leonard Kleinrock
1989 Paul Baran
See also
List of computer science awards
List of pioneers in computer science
References
External links
SIGCOMM Award Recipients
Computer science awards
Awards of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signedness | In computing, signedness is a property of data types representing numbers in computer programs. A numeric variable is signed if it can represent both positive and negative numbers, and unsigned if it can only represent non-negative numbers (zero or positive numbers).
As signed numbers can represent negative numbers, they lose a range of positive numbers that can only be represented with unsigned numbers of the same size (in bits) because roughly half the possible values are non-positive values, whereas the respective unsigned type can dedicate all the possible values to the positive number range.
For example, a two's complement signed 16-bit integer can hold the values −32768 to 32767 inclusively, while an unsigned 16 bit integer can hold the values 0 to 65535. For this sign representation method, the leftmost bit (most significant bit) denotes whether the value is negative (0 for positive or zero, 1 for negative).
In programming languages
For most architectures, there is no signed–unsigned type distinction in the machine language. Nevertheless, arithmetic instructions usually set different CPU flags such as the carry flag for unsigned arithmetic and the overflow flag for signed. Those values can be taken into account by subsequent branch or arithmetic commands.
The C programming language, along with its derivatives, implements a signedness for all integer data types, as well as for "character". For Integers, the modifier defines the type to be unsigned. The default integer signedness is signed, but can be set explicitly with modifier. By contrast, the C standard declares , , and , to be three distinct types, but specifies that all three must have the same size and alignment. Further, must have the same numeric range as either or , but the choice of which depends on the platform. Integer literals can be made unsigned with suffix. For example, gives −1, but gives 4,294,967,295 for 32-bit code.
Compilers often issue a warning when comparisons are made between signed and unsigned numbers or when one is cast to the other. These are potentially dangerous operations as the ranges of the signed and unsigned types are different.
See also
Sign bit
Signed number representations
Sign (mathematics)
Binary Angular Measurement System, an example of semantics where signedness does not matter
External links
Computer arithmetic
Data types
Sign (mathematics) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versaterm | Versaterm Inc. is a Canadian company based in Ottawa, Ontario that develops computer-aided dispatch (CAD) and records management systems for police, fire, and other public safety agencies. Former Royal Canadian Mounted Police employees established the company in 1977; the group had previously developed the Canadian Police Information Centre, a national police database. Versaterm and its rival Niche Technologies, also based in Canada, have "cornered much of the market" for records management in North American police forces, according to The Globe and Mail. Despite its dominance, many of its systems have been criticised by officers for their unwieldiness and unreliability, and several police agencies have abandoned their use.
Products
CAD software
Police agencies that have employed Versaterm's CAD system include Portland, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, and Seattle. An inquiry by KXAN News into Austin's use of the system found that several critical hardware and software failures between 2008 and 2010 disabled the system for hours at a time, forcing operators to instead handwrite information when receiving emergency calls.
Portland adopted Versaterm's system in 2011, at a cost of $14.5 million. Officers made hundreds of complaints in the months following the launch; reported problems included "system-wide crashes", incorrect dispatches to calls outside officers' jurisdictions, failures in tracking officers' locations, and issues with the font size and functionality of the user interface. Agencies were also irritated by the $2.5 million annual maintenance costs they were required to contribute, and, in a "near-mutiny", some considered not paying to employ the system, due to its reported problems. However, most of the issues had been fixed by 2013, and Portland defended the launch, pointing out that issues were to be expected in such a new system. Versaterm said "very few" of the reported problems were related to its software.
Records management
Versaterm's record management software has been used by police forces from Austin, British Columbia, Minneapolis, Portland and Seattle.
References
Law enforcement in Canada
Companies based in Ottawa
1977 establishments in Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADN | ADN may refer to:
Technology
Application Delivery Network, a suite of technologies for improved delivery of applications across the Internet
Aircraft Data Network, a proposed network standard for commercial aircraft installations
Abbreviated Dialing Numbers, two or three digits sequence to reach specific telephone numbers, such as those of public services
App.net, an online social networking service
Digital Negative (file format), a raw image format designed by Adobe Systems
Science
Ammonium dinitramide, a rocket propellant
DNA, as abbreviated in various languages (particularly Romance languages such as Spanish and French)
Auditory Disability with Normal hearing, a term for King-Kopetzky syndrome
Adiponitrile
Politics
Nationalist Democratic Action (Spanish: ), a political party of Bolivia
National Democratic Alliance (Italy) (Italian: ), a former political party of Italy
Media
ADN (newspaper), a Spanish free daily newspaper
, the state news agency of East Germany
Anchorage Daily News, an Alaskan newspaper
ADN, the original French title of DNA, a 2020 drama film
ADN Radio Chile, a Chilean Radio station
Education
Associate Degree in Nursing, similar to Associate of Science in Nursing
A common term for the student section of Athens Drive High School
Other uses
Abbreviated dialing number
ADN , the stock symbol of Aberdeen Asset Management
Adang language, a Trans-New Guinea language of Indonesia
Ardrossan Town railway station, UK
Ashley, Drew and Northern Railway, a defunct railroad in Arkansas
Andes Airport in Andes, Antioquia, Colombia
European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Inland Waterways, part of the UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20quality | Data quality refers to the state of qualitative or quantitative pieces of information. There are many definitions of data quality, but data is generally considered high quality if it is "fit for [its] intended uses in operations, decision making and planning". Moreover, data is deemed of high quality if it correctly represents the real-world construct to which it refers. Furthermore, apart from these definitions, as the number of data sources increases, the question of internal data consistency becomes significant, regardless of fitness for use for any particular external purpose. People's views on data quality can often be in disagreement, even when discussing the same set of data used for the same purpose. When this is the case, data governance is used to form agreed upon definitions and standards for data quality. In such cases, data cleansing, including standardization, may be required in order to ensure data quality.
Definitions
Defining data quality is difficult due to the many contexts data are used in, as well as the varying perspectives among end users, producers, and custodians of data.
From a consumer perspective, data quality is:
"data that are fit for use by data consumers"
data "meeting or exceeding consumer expectations"
data that "satisfies the requirements of its intended use"
From a business perspective, data quality is:
data that are "'fit for use' in their intended operational, decision-making and other roles" or that exhibits "'conformance to standards' that have been set, so that fitness for use is achieved"
data that "are fit for their intended uses in operations, decision making and planning"
"the capability of data to satisfy the stated business, system, and technical requirements of an enterprise"
From a standards-based perspective, data quality is:
the "degree to which a set of inherent characteristics (quality dimensions) of an object (data) fulfills requirements"
"the usefulness, accuracy, and correctness of data for its application"
Arguably, in all these cases, "data quality" is a comparison of the actual state of a particular set of data to a desired state, with the desired state being typically referred to as "fit for use," "to specification," "meeting consumer expectations," "free of defect," or "meeting requirements." These expectations, specifications, and requirements are usually defined by one or more individuals or groups, standards organizations, laws and regulations, business policies, or software development policies.
Dimensions of data quality
Drilling down further, those expectations, specifications, and requirements are stated in terms of characteristics or dimensions of the data, such as:
accessibility or availability
accuracy or correctness
comparability
completeness or comprehensiveness
consistency, coherence, or clarity
credibility, reliability, or reputation
flexibility
plausibility
relevance, pertinence, or usefulness
timeliness or latency
uniqueness
validity or reaso |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSDE | Microsoft SQL Server Data Engine (MSDE, also Microsoft Data Engine or Microsoft Desktop Engine) is a relational database management system developed by Microsoft. It is a scaled-down version of Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 or 2000 which is free for non-commercial use as well as certain limited commercial use. It was introduced at Microsoft TechEd in May 1999, and was included as part of Microsoft Office 2000 Developer Edition. Its successor, SQL Server Express was released in November 2005. Vendor support of MSDE ended on April 8, 2008.
Overview
Microsoft Desktop Engine
MSDE was initially designed by (then) Microsoft Program Manager Jeff Alger and later implemented by Peter Byrne (core), Ronald Martinsen (core/setup), and Mike Maringas (setup). Alger and Martinsen are the co-inventors who hold the patent.
The initial release of MSDE is called the "Microsoft Desktop Engine", which is based on SQL Server 7.0 and was positioned as an alternative to using the Jet Database Engine used by Microsoft Access with a focus on its ability to operate as a client–server application instead of requiring direct access to the file system which the Jet database resided on. Microsoft Access, the company's most popular database tool at the time, was expanded for its Office 2000 release to incorporate using Microsoft Desktop Engine as its back-end data store. This design was promoted by Microsoft as a solution for small workgroups that may eventually grow to require the full SQL Server product. This initial release of MSDE also included the Data Transformation Services Wizard, which provided the ability to use OLE DB and ODBC data sources to transfer data between SQL Server 7.0 and MSDE. Supported operating systems at the time of its release included Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 4, and was available for both x86 and Alpha architectures.
Microsoft Data Engine can be found in Microsoft Access 2000 and other Microsoft products.
MSDE toolkit for Visual Studio 6.0 can be found in October 2000 MSDN DVD Office Test Platform and Development Tools, English Pack as MSDE for Visual Studio., or in October 2000 MSDN CD Office Test Platform and Development Tools (English Pack, European Pack I, Japanese Pack, Latin American pack).
Microsoft SQL Server Data Engine
It is based on SQL Server 2000. System requirement was changed to Windows 98.
MSDE could be distributed with commercial products by registering with Microsoft — in most cases this distribution is also free of charge. SQL Server's server licence includes right to distribute MSDE.
MSDE 2000 includes following resource kits: MSDE 2000 Deployment Resource Kit, MSDE 2000 Web Resource Kit.
MSDE 2000 is also found in various products, such as Microsoft Office XP (Professional, Developer), Visual Studio .NET 2002-2003.
Features
Compared with the full server editions of SQL Server 7.0 and 2000, MSDE has some restrictions: a limit of 2 GB databases, and has a workload governor which reduces its speed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward-confirmed%20reverse%20DNS | Forward-confirmed reverse DNS (FCrDNS), also known as full-circle reverse DNS, double-reverse DNS, or iprev, is a networking parameter configuration in which a given IP address has both forward (name-to-address) and reverse (address-to-name) Domain Name System (DNS) entries that match each other. This is the standard configuration expected by the Internet standards supporting many DNS-reliant protocols. David Barr published an opinion in RFC 1912 (Informational) recommending it as best practice for DNS administrators, but there are no formal requirements for it codified within the DNS standard itself.
A FCrDNS verification can create a weak form of authentication that there is a valid relationship between the owner of a domain name and the owner of the network that has been given an IP address. While weak, this authentication is strong enough that it can be used for whitelisting purposes because spammers and phishers cannot usually by-pass this verification when they use zombie computers for email spoofing. That is, the reverse DNS might verify, but it will usually be part of another domain than the claimed domain name.
Using an ISP's mail server as a relay may solve the reverse DNS problem, because the requirement is the forward and reverse lookup for the sending relay have to match, it does not have to be related to the from-field or sending domain of messages it relays.
Other methods for establishing a relation between an IP address and a domain in email are the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and the MX record.
ISPs that will not or cannot configure reverse DNS will generate problems for hosts on their networks, by virtue of being unable to support applications or protocols that require reverse DNS agree with the corresponding A (or AAAA) record. ISPs that cannot or will not provide reverse DNS ultimately will be limiting the ability of their client base to use Internet services they provide effectively and securely.
Applications
Most e-mail mail transfer agents (server software) use a FCrDNS verification and if there is a valid domain name, put it into the "Received:" trace header field.
Some e-mail mail transfer agents will perform FCrDNS verification on the domain name given on the SMTP HELO and EHLO commands. This can violate RFC 2821 and so e-mail is usually not rejected by default.
The Sender Policy Framework email anti-forgery system uses a FCrDNS check in its "ptr:" mechanism. However, the use of this "ptr:" mechanism is discouraged since the first standardization of SPF in 2006 (in RFC 4408).
Some e-mail spam filters use FCrDNS checks as an authentication method for domain names or for whitelisting purposes, according to RFC 8601, for example.
SpamCop uses the FCrDNS check, which sometimes causes problems for SpamCop users who are also customers of Internet service providers who do not provide properly matching DNS and rDNS records for mail servers.
Some FTP, Telnet and TCP Wrapper servers perform FCrDNS checks.
Some IRC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen%20Kelly | Galen G. Kelly (born c. 1947) is a "deprogrammer", associated with the Cult Awareness Network. He served as CAN's "security advisor." Prior to this he was a director for the Citizens' Freedom Foundation, a precursor to the CAN. Kelly was raised in Accord, New York.
Deprogramming and anti-cult litigation issues
According to a 1977 court case, Merylee Kreshour, a member of ISKCON, was subjected to a deprogramming by Kelly and her mother Edith Kreshour on 7 September 1976. On 8 September 1976, a Grand Jury voted not to indict either of them, but told the District Attorney to continue investigating potential criminal actions.
In 1980, Kelly along with three other people – Elizabeth Kelly (Galen's wife), Eric Shufelt, and Paul Stuart-Kregor – were arrested by New York State Police after Kevin Vallee (also spelt "Valle" or "Valee") escaped their false imprisonment in an attempt to deprogram him from the Unification Church. The charges were eventually dismissed in late 1980.
In May 1982, Kelly was sued for 9 million USD in damages from Unificationist Anthony Colombrito. Colombrito alleged that Kelly kidnapped him and brought him to an isolated farm in New York for eighteen hours in 1979 in order to deprogram him. Colombrito's mother obtained a temporary court order in New Jersey that granted her custody of her adult son, and she hired Kelly to deprogram Colombrito. Kelly and his attorney, Robert Iseman, sought the testimony of Reverend Sun Myung Moon in the case in order to demonstrate that the Unification Church was a fraudulent organization, which they received with protest from Sun Myung Moon's attorney, Charles A. Stillman. Colombrito got approval from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to drop the case on 28 May 1977.
In 1983, Kelly drafted up a report to the founder of the Citizens' Freedom Foundation, Priscilla Coates, in order to investigate and eradicate a new religious movement called the Island Pond Community Church (formally the Northeast Kingdom Community Church), located in Island Pond, Vermont. The Vermont community would eventually be raided by Vermont State Police in June 1984 that alleged child abuse in the community.
In 1992, Kelly was indicted for allegedly planning to kidnap du Pont heir and Lyndon LaRouche follower Lewis du Pont Smith. The trial ended with acquittal.
In 1993, Kelly was convicted to a seven-year three-month sentence in federal prison for the 1992 kidnapping of Debra Dobkowski, the head of the Washington DC group called The Circle of Friends. Kelly had mistaken the victim for her roommate Beth Bruckert, who had been the intended target. During the trial it was also established that the Cult Awareness Network, contrary to its publicly stated policy, in which it dissociated itself from deprogramming, had for many months during the 1990s paid Kelly a monthly stipend for preparing a pamphlet on Lyndon LaRouche.
Kelly's conviction was overturned in 1994 by the appeals court because of prosecutorial misconduct: A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GfK | GfK (originally ) is the largest German market research company. It provides data and intelligence to the consumer goods industry and is headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany.
History
GfK was founded as GfK-Nürnberg Gesellschaft für Konsumforschung e. V. in 1934 by university lecturers from Nuremberg, among them the future German Minister of Economic Affairs and Federal Chancellor Ludwig Erhard. The concept was developed by co-founder Wilhelm Vershofen.
Initially, the association conducted 71 different studies, including:
Awareness of trademarks
Personal care and soap consumption in Germany
Structure of beverage consumption in Germany
Patient and pharmaceuticals
The motorist assesses the road maps from fuel companies
After the war, GfK’s activities from 1934 to 1945 were investigated by the American occupying powers. Following this investigation, GfK received a license to continue its activities in 1947.
In 1984, commercial activities were spun off into GfK GmbH, which was renamed GfK AG on January 23, 1990. At that time, the “GfK Association” was limited to promoting market and sales research.
In 2010, the company was the world's fourth-largest market research company by revenue.
In December 2016, investment company American private equity group Kohlberg Kravis Roberts made a takeover bid for 18.54 percent of the company's shares.
Since March 2017, GfK SE has been majority-owned (96.7%) by the investment fund Acceleratio Capital N.V., a holding company of KKR.
In the autumn of 2018, GfK’s French competitor Ipsos acquired a division of GfK with 1,000 staff dealing with client-specific projects for 105 million euros.
In 2020, GfK launched gfknewron, a new AI-powered platform. Therefore, customers can access relevant data in real time and receive recommendations for action based on predictions.
In 2023 NielsenIQ acquired Gfk.
Acquisitions
In April 2005, it acquired NOP World (originally National Opinion Polls), based mostly in the United Kingdom, the United States and Italy, which was rated the world's ninth largest market research business.
In May 2008, it acquired an equity stake in Deep-Packet Inspection company Qosmos in order to track and monitor Internet usage for marketing research.
Organisation
The management team consists of six individuals (as of 27 June 2023):
Lars Nordmark (Interim CEO)
Lars Nordmark (CFO)
Jutta Suchanek (CHRDO)
Joshua Hubbert (COO)
Benjamin Jones (CTO)
Warren Saunders (Global President Sales & Marketing)
Services
GfK's core business is collecting and processing data on consumer behavior. It includes advising companies using technology-based applications.
GfK industry area include technology and consumer durables, retail, consumer goods, automotive, financial services, media and entertainment.
It collects data on over 180 million SKUs and surveys over two million people in 15 countries, working in compliance with market and social research associations (such as the ESOMAR Standards) which c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleo | Teleo was a peer-to-peer Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network founded in by Wendell Brown, Andy Moeck and Craig Taro Gold in 2004.
Teleo provided internet telephony applications that bridged the gap between computer desktops, land line phones, and cell phones. Teleo's software allowed users to place and receive phone calls from Microsoft Outlook, Internet Explorer, and other applications.
Teleo users could place free PC-to-PC calls to other Teleo users worldwide; calls from regular telephones were also free. Calls to regular telephones were "pay as you go," at a 2-cent-per-minute rate worldwide. Users could avoid fees by encouraging friends and business associates to install Teleo.
Teleo launched their product at the DEMO conference in early 2005, earning a DEMO God award and garnering significant press coverage.
Teleo was acquired by Microsoft in August 2005, and became part of Microsoft's MSN group in 2006.
Related Services:
Teleo SMS is a company in India providing peer-to-peer mobile messaging service related to this category.
To know more visit Teleo SMS website.
References
External links
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2005/aug05/09-30msnteleopr.aspx
VoIP software
VoIP services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform%20data%20access | Uniform data access is a computational concept describing an even-ness of connectivity and controllability across numerous target data sources.
Necessary to fields such as Enterprise Information Integration (EII) and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), it is most often used regarding analysis of disparate data types and data sources, which must be rendered into a uniform information representation, and generally must appear homogenous to the analysis tools—when the data being analyzed is typically heterogeneous and widely varying in size, type, and original representation.
Data management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax%20%28programming%29 | Ajax (also AJAX ; short for "asynchronous JavaScript and XML") is a set of web development techniques that uses various web technologies on the client-side to create asynchronous web applications. With Ajax, web applications can send and retrieve data from a server asynchronously (in the background) without interfering with the display and behaviour of the existing page. By decoupling the data interchange layer from the presentation layer, Ajax allows web pages and, by extension, web applications, to change content dynamically without the need to reload the entire page. In practice, modern implementations commonly utilize JSON instead of XML.
Ajax is not a technology, but rather a programming concept. HTML and CSS can be used in combination to mark up and style information. The webpage can be modified by JavaScript to dynamically display—and allow the user to interact with the new information. The built-in XMLHttpRequest object is used to execute Ajax on webpages, allowing websites to load content onto the screen without refreshing the page. Ajax is not a new technology, nor is it a new language. Instead, it is existing technologies used in a new way.
History
In the early-to-mid 1990s, most Websites were based on complete HTML pages. Each user action required a complete new page to be loaded from the server. This process was inefficient, as reflected by the user experience: all page content disappeared, then the new page appeared. Each time the browser reloaded a page because of a partial change, all the content had to be re-sent, even though only some of the information had changed. This placed additional load on the server and made bandwidth a limiting factor in performance.
In 1996, the iframe tag was introduced by Internet Explorer; like the object element, it can load or fetch content asynchronously. In 1998, the Microsoft Outlook Web Access team developed the concept behind the XMLHttpRequest scripting object. It appeared as XMLHTTP in the second version of the MSXML library, which shipped with Internet Explorer 5.0 in March 1999.
The functionality of the Windows XMLHTTP ActiveX control in IE 5 was later implemented by Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera, Google Chrome, and other browsers as the XMLHttpRequest JavaScript object. Microsoft adopted the native XMLHttpRequest model as of Internet Explorer 7. The ActiveX version is still supported in Internet Explorer, but not in Microsoft Edge. The utility of these background HTTP requests and asynchronous Web technologies remained fairly obscure until it started appearing in large scale online applications such as Outlook Web Access (2000) and Oddpost (2002).
Google made a wide deployment of standards-compliant, cross browser Ajax with Gmail (2004) and Google Maps (2005). In October 2004 Kayak.com's public beta release was among the first large-scale e-commerce uses of what their developers at that time called "the xml http thing". This increased interest in Ajax among web program developers. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goo%20Goo%20Gai%20Pan | "Goo Goo Gai Pan" is the twelfth episode of the sixteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 13, 2005. The episode focuses on Selma Bouvier adopting a Chinese orphan after experiencing menopause. Lucy Liu guest stars. The original closing credits feature the show's director David Silverman giving viewers a quick lesson on how he draws Bart Simpson. The episode was banned in China and Hong Kong.
Plot
While giving Mr. Burns a driving test to replace his long-expired license, Selma experiences a hot flash. She finds out she has entered menopause, meaning she can no longer have children. Afraid of dying alone, she turns to adoption. She almost manages to adopt one of Cletus's many children through a misunderstanding, but that fails when Brandine wants the baby back. Lisa advises Selma to adopt a girl from China. Since the Chinese government only allows married couples to adopt, Selma puts on her application that she's married to Homer Simpson.
Selma sponsors a trip to China for the Simpsons. Homer is reluctant to pretend to be married to her, but agrees to do it for Marge. When they arrive in China, Selma claims Bart and Lisa are her children, while Marge is their nanny, ″Ms. October.″ The Chinese adoption agent, Madam Wu, tells them they will get a baby in a few days, as she wants to detail the "marriage relationship" between Homer and Selma, much to both Homer and Selma's dismay. The family then spends time touring through several landmarks in China, including visiting the mummified body of Mao Zedong, whom Homer likens to a "little angel who killed 50 million people." Selma eventually gets a daughter, whom she names Ling. Having lied to Wu on a whim about being an acrobat, Homer is forced into substituting for a performer in a Chinese acrobatics display, being hospitalized after unwittingly pulling off the stunt successfully. Following Selma's adoption, the ruse is quickly revealed when Wu catches Homer and Marge kissing and talking about the false marriage whilst spying on Homer's hospital room.
As they are about to leave for Springfield, Wu angrily arrives and takes Ling away, stating that Homer and Selma are not married. As the Simpsons try to console her, Lisa plots with them to get the baby back. At the nursery, they dress and spray-paint Homer to look like a cross-legged golden Buddha statue. According to the customs of feng shui, the Buddha statue must be taken indoors, so Chinese guards drag him into the nursery (by his nose with a hook). When the guards leave, Homer goes inside the nursery and grabs Ling.
The Simpsons, Selma and Ling pass through Tiananmen Square, a place where, according to the marker shown in the episode, "nothing happened" in 1989. Wu, in a Type 59 Tank, confronts them and demands the baby back in a way similar to the tanks confronting the Tank Man. After an impassioned speech from Selma and Homer, Wu then agrees to al |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise%20messaging%20system | An enterprise messaging system (EMS) or messaging system in brief is a set of published enterprise-wide standards that allows organizations to send semantically precise messages between computer systems. EMS systems promote loosely coupled architectures that allow changes in the formats of messages to have minimum impact on message subscribers. EMS systems are facilitated by the use of structured messages (such as using XML or JSON), and appropriate protocols, such as DDS, MSMQ, AMQP or SOAP with web services.
EMS usually takes into account the following considerations:
Security: Messages must be encrypted if they travel over public interfaces. Messages must be authenticated or digitally signed if the receiver is to have confidence that the messages have not been tampered with in transit.
Routing: Messages need to be routed efficiently from the sender to the receiver. Intermediate nodes may need to route the messages if the body of the message is encrypted.
Metadata: The body of the document contains information that must be unambiguously interpreted. Metadata registries should be used to create precise definitions for each data element.
Subscription: Systems should be able to subscribe to all messages that match a specific pattern. Messages with a specific content may be routed differently. For example, some messages may have different priority or security policies.
Policy: Enterprise messaging systems should provide some consideration for a centralized policy of messages such as what classes or roles of users can access different fields of any message.
EMS are also known as Message-Oriented Middleware (MOM)
Separation of message header and message body
The design of an EMS is usually broken down into two sections:
Message header design – Message headers contain the information necessary to route messages. Message headers are usually coded in clear text so that intermediate nodes receive all the necessary information they need to route and prioritize the message. Message headers are analogous to the information printed on the outside of a letter (to, from, priority of message etc.)
Message body semantics – Message body semantics include the precise definition of all of the data elements in the body of the message. Message semantics can be aided by the use of a precise data dictionary that documents metadata.
Comparisons
The commonalities between messaging systems (in terms of capabilities and architecture) have been captured in a platform-independent fashion as enterprise integration patterns (a.k.a. messaging patterns).
Although similar in concept to an enterprise service bus (ESB), an EMS places emphasis on design of messaging protocols (for instance, using DDS, MSMQ or AMQP), not the implementation of the services using a specific technology such as web services, DDS APIs for C/C++ and Java, .NET or Java Message Service (JMS).
Note that an Enterprise Messaging System should not be confused with an electronic mail sys |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Night%20That%20Panicked%20America | The Night That Panicked America is an American made-for-television drama film that was originally broadcast on the ABC network on October 31, 1975. The telefilm dramatizes events surrounding Orson Welles' famous - and infamous - War of the Worlds radio broadcast (based on the 1898 novel of the same name by English author H. G. Wells) of October 30, 1938, which had led some Americans to believe that an invasion by Martians was occurring in the area near Grover's Mill in West Windsor, New Jersey.
The Welles broadcast and the reaction to it had been earlier dramatized on television as The Night America Trembled, a live presentation that aired September 9, 1957, on Studio One.
Plot
The Night That Panicked America tells the story of the 1938 broadcast from the point of view of Welles and his associates as they create the broadcast live, as well as from the points of view of a number of different fictional American families, in a variety of locations and from a variety of social classes, who listened to the broadcast and believed the imaginary Martian invasion was actually occurring, with some people even about to commit suicide.
Cast
Paul Shenar as Orson Welles
Vic Morrow as Hank Muldoon, Ann's husband
Eileen Brennan as Ann Muldoon, Hank's wife
Cliff DeYoung as Stefan Grubowski
Michael Constantine as Jess Wingate, Walter's father
John Ritter as Walter Wingate, Jess' son
Walter McGinn as Paul Stewart
Will Geer as Reverend Davis, Linda's father
Meredith Baxter as Linda Davis, the Reverend's daughter
Tom Bosley as Norman Smith
Casey Kasem as Mercury Theatre player
Reception
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction praised the film's recreation of events in the radio studio, but was unimpressed by its depiction of the resulting panic, calling it "a routine disaster movie with hackneyed characters reacting in predictable ways." Through the 1980s, some local stations in various areas of the United States made an annual tradition of rebroadcasting Night on October 30 (the anniversary of the original radio broadcast) or on October 31 (Halloween).
The movie received three Emmy Award nominations, winning for Outstanding Achievement in Film Sound Editing – For a Single Episode of a Regular or Limited Series in 1976.
Home media
The film was released on DVD by CBS Home Entertainment on October 28, 2014.
See also
The War of the Worlds, 1898 novel by H. G. Wells
List of American films of 1975
The Night America Trembled - the earlier dramatization. The cast included Alexander Scourby, Ed Asner, and Warren Oates. James Coburn made his television debut, and, in one of his earliest acting roles, Warren Beatty appeared in the bit part of a card-playing college student.
References
External links
Illustrated summary of The Night That Panicked America
1975 television films
1975 films
1975 drama films
American drama television films
Films about Orson Welles
Films about radio
Films based on The War of the Worlds
Films directed by Joseph Sargent
Films set i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944%3A%20The%20Loop%20Master | 1944: The Loop Master is a vertical scrolling shooter scrolling arcade game made by Capcom in 2000 that uses a horizontal 4:3 screen. Unlike previous games, the programming for this arcade was done by a separate company called 8ing/Raizing. The game is the fifth of a series of World War II vertical shooters made by Capcom, the 194X series. The game takes place in the heated battles of 1944 during the Second World War as two super ace pilots, P-38 Lightning and Mitsubishi A6M Zero are attempting to defeat an entire army. It is the sequel to 19XX: The War Against Destiny and uses the arcade cabinet CP System II.
Gameplay
The arcade operates and plays like most standard shooters. The objective of every level is to shoot enemy planes, tanks, trains, turrets, battleships, and defeat the boss after each level. Unlike its predecessor, 19XX: The War Against Destiny, the game plays more like the early games in the series. Despite the opening description of the plane stats, both planes operate equally, and are only available to the first or second player respectively. The game borrows from 19XX in that it has a form of charge up system. By holding the fire button down, the charge bar will fill, and when full, the plane will fly up and become temporarily invincible. The game also has the standard bomb button, which causes Tomahawk Missiles to fly up the screen doing major damage to any enemies they hit.
The health system in the game also works unlike the previous games in the series. The plane has a health bar which decreases after every hit. However, players start with only one life, and the game sparingly gives health boosts.
Wingmen
The option of wingmen is much more present in this game than others in the series. A small golden plane icon flies down the screen at certain times which releases a wingmen icon. Wingmen add some extra firepower, but are vulnerable to enemy fire.
Beginning with stage 8, wingmen fire laser shots.
Stages
There are 15 stages in this game.
As an arcade board option, Stage select allows the player to start the game at stage 1, 6, or 11. If stage layout is set to endless, the player can also choose round number 1, 2, or 3, with a higher round being more difficult.
During any boss battle, there is an invisible time limit for each battle. The mission is failed when there is at least one core among all boss units are not destroyed within the time limit. Mission failure does not change game progress, but it prevents the player from getting the stage clear bonus.
Bosses include Nagi, a high speed destroyer, Akane, a prototype attacker, and Kai, an anti-submarine battle cruiser. After destroying the stage 15 boss Appare Toride, the game ends if the stage layout is set to 1 loop, or the game continues to stage 1 with enemies firing more rapidly if the stage layout is set to endless.
Release
In February 2021, it was included as part of pack 3 in the Capcom Arcade Stadium compilation for Nintendo Switch.
Reception
In Japan, Gam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronika%20Bromov%C3%A1 | Veronika Bromova, born on 12 August 1966 in Prague, is a Czech new-media artist who focuses on computer manipulating photographs by using the program Photoshop. She lives and works in Prague. She is working with genre themes, feminism, pedophilia and mystery, and she has exhibited in Europe and the United States. She has received grants and awards, including a Czech "Grammy" for the best CD cover and the International Studio Program in New York, 1998. She represented the Czech Republic at the 1999 Venice Biennale in the Czechoslovakia building.
Life and career
Bromova was discovered as a two-year-old by a well-known Socialist Realist sculptor, Lidicky, who used her as the model for the child in a monumental sculpture of the "Ideal Socialist Family." The sculpture was placed beside the national memorial building on a hill in central Prague, where the mummified body of Czechoslovakia's first Communist president, Klement Gottwald, was housed. The statue for which she modelled still stands there, but the building is virtually abandoned.
The core of Bromova's work is photographic; she often uses computer manipulation or adds objects. Her models are herself or those around her. The results go beyond mere portraiture or narcissism, however; rather, she is able to keep a distance from her subjects in the process of exploration of human body, its limitations, desires, and different forms.
See also
Digital art
References
External links
Bromova's Web site
Czech artists
Czech feminists
Czech photographers
1966 births
Living people
Czech women photographers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20segment | In computing, a data segment (often denoted .data) is a portion of an object file or the corresponding address space of a program that contains initialized static variables, that is, global variables and static local variables. The size of this segment is determined by the size of the values in the program's source code, and does not change at run time.
The data segment is read/write, since the values of variables can be altered at run time. This is in contrast to the read-only data segment ( segment or .rodata), which contains static constants rather than variables; it also contrasts to the code segment, also known as the text segment, which is read-only on many architectures. Uninitialized data, both variables and constants, is instead in the BSS segment.
Historically, to be able to support memory address spaces larger than the native size of the internal address register would allow, early CPUs implemented a system of segmentation whereby they would store a small set of indexes to use as offsets to certain areas. The Intel 8086 family of CPUs provided four segments: the code segment, the data segment, the stack segment and the extra segment. Each segment was placed at a specific location in memory by the software being executed and all instructions that operated on the data within those segments were performed relative to the start of that segment. This allowed a 16-bit address register, which would normally be able to access 64 KB of memory space, to access 1 MB of memory space.
This segmenting of the memory space into discrete blocks with specific tasks carried over into the programming languages of the day and the concept is still widely in use within modern programming languages.
Program memory
A computer program memory can be largely categorized into two sections: read-only and read/write. This distinction grew from early systems holding their main program in read-only memory such as Mask ROM, EPROM, PROM or EEPROM. As systems became more complex and programs were loaded from other media into RAM instead of executing from ROM, the idea that some portions of the program's memory should not be modified was retained. These became the .text and .rodata segments of the program, and the remainder which could be written to divided into a number of other segments for specific tasks.
Code
The code segment, also known as text segment, contains executable code and is generally read-only and fixed size.
Data
The data segment contains initialized static variables, i.e. global variables and local static variables which have a defined value and can be modified. Examples in C include:
int i = 3;
char a[] = "Hello World";
static int b = 2023; // Initialized static global variable
void foo (void) {
static int c = 2023; // Initialized static local variable
}
BSS
The BSS segment contains uninitialized static data, both variables and constants, i.e. global variables and local static variables that are initialized to zero or do not hav |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.nato | The domain .nato was a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. The domain was added in 1990 by the Network Information Center for use by NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, based on the rationale that none of the then-existing top-level domains adequately reflected its status as an international organization. Soon after this addition, however, Paul Mockapetris, the designer of the DNS, suggested to NATO representatives that nato.int would be a better choice. The TLD .int was created for the use of international organizations, and NATO switched to using nato.int. Without use, the TLD .nato was removed in July 1996.
References
External links
nato.int - NATO homepage
Generic top-level domains
NATO |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word%20%28computer%20architecture%29 | In computing, a word is the natural unit of data used by a particular processor design. A word is a fixed-sized datum handled as a unit by the instruction set or the hardware of the processor. The number of bits or digits in a word (the word size, word width, or word length) is an important characteristic of any specific processor design or computer architecture.
The size of a word is reflected in many aspects of a computer's structure and operation; the majority of the registers in a processor are usually word-sized and the largest datum that can be transferred to and from the working memory in a single operation is a word in many (not all) architectures. The largest possible address size, used to designate a location in memory, is typically a hardware word (here, "hardware word" means the full-sized natural word of the processor, as opposed to any other definition used).
Documentation for older computers with fixed word size commonly states memory sizes in words rather than bytes or characters. The documentation sometimes uses metric prefixes correctly, sometimes with rounding, e.g., 65 kilowords (KW) meaning for 65536 words, and sometimes uses them incorrectly, with kilowords (KW) meaning 1024 words (210) and megawords (MW) meaning 1,048,576 words (220). With standardization on 8-bit bytes and byte addressability, stating memory sizes in bytes, kilobytes, and megabytes with powers of 1024 rather than 1000 has become the norm, although there is some use of the IEC binary prefixes.
Several of the earliest computers (and a few modern as well) use binary-coded decimal rather than plain binary, typically having a word size of 10 or 12 decimal digits, and some early decimal computers have no fixed word length at all. Early binary systems tended to use word lengths that were some multiple of 6-bits, with the 36-bit word being especially common on mainframe computers. The introduction of ASCII led to the move to systems with word lengths that were a multiple of 8-bits, with 16-bit machines being popular in the 1970s before the move to modern processors with 32 or 64 bits. Special-purpose designs like digital signal processors, may have any word length from 4 to 80 bits.
The size of a word can sometimes differ from the expected due to backward compatibility with earlier computers. If multiple compatible variations or a family of processors share a common architecture and instruction set but differ in their word sizes, their documentation and software may become notationally complex to accommodate the difference (see Size families below).
Uses of words
Depending on how a computer is organized, word-size units may be used for:
Fixed-point numbers Holders for fixed point, usually integer, numerical values may be available in one or in several different sizes, but one of the sizes available will almost always be the word. The other sizes, if any, are likely to be multiples or fractions of the word size. The smaller sizes are normally used only for e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FNS | FNS may refer to:
Television
Food Network Star, an American reality television series
Fox News Sunday, an American television news show
Fuji Network System, a Japanese television network
WWE Friday Night SmackDown, an American sports television show
Other uses
Factorial number system
Federal News Service, an American transcription service
Federated Naming Service
Finnish Navy Ship, a ship prefix
Fire and Skoal, a student society at Dartmouth College
Food and Nutrition Service, an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture
Frontier Nursing Service, an American nursing organization
FN FNS, a semi-automatic pistol
National Salvation Front (Russia), a defunct political coalition
Swiss National Science Foundation (French: )
See also
FN (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated%20Naming%20Service | In computing, the Federated Naming Service (FNS) or XFN (X/Open Federated Naming) is a system for uniting various name services under a single interface for the basic naming operations. It is produced by X/Open and included in various Unix operating systems, primarily Solaris versions 2.5 to 9.
The purpose of XFN and FNS is to allow applications to use widely heterogeneous naming services (such as NIS, DNS and so on) via a single interface, to avoid duplication of programming effort.
Unlike the similar LDAP, neither XFN nor FNS were ever popular nor widely used. FNS was last included in Solaris 9 and was not included with Solaris 10.
External links and references
Overview of FNS (Solaris 9 man page)
Overview of the XFN interface (Solaris 9 man page)
X/Open Federated Naming - specification for uniform naming interfaces between multiple naming systems (Elizabeth A. Martin, Hewlett-Packard Journal, December 1995)
Federated Naming Service Programming Guide (Sun Microsystems 816–1470–10, September 2002)
Sun Microsystems software
Identity management
Solaris software |
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