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The Link Men was an Australian television series shown in 1970.
Synopsis
The series was the first drama series made in-house by the Nine Network as part of an attempt to rival the cop shows produced by Crawford Productions such as Homicide and Division 4. The Link Men starred Kevin Miles, Bruce Montague and Tristan Rogers as three detectives working in the city of Sydney. The series was devised and produced by Glyn Davies who had created The Rat Catchers for ITV (Associated-Rediffusion Television).
The director (for the pilot episode and for many of the rest of the series) was Australian film director Jonathan Dawson.
Cast
Bruce Montague as Detective Sergeant Harry Sutton
Tristan Rogers as Detective Constable Ray Gamble
Kevin Miles as Detective Sergeant John Randall
Max Meldrum as Detective Russell
John Meillon as Bert Whitman
Maggie Dence as Edi Whitman
Jeanie Drynan aa Margherita Costello
Max Cullen as Mario Costello
Carmen Duncan as Carol Crane
Frankie Davidson as Frank
Lorraine Bayly
Peter Sumner
Peter Whitford as Seaman
Sandy Gore as Dale
Pat Bishop
Diana Perryman
Lionel Long
John Fegan
Production
The show lasted for thirteen episodes. The aforementioned Tristan Rogers would go on to greater fame on the American daytime serial General Hospital, where he has appeared as Robert Scorpio off and on since 1980.
External links
The Link Men episode guide at Memorable TV
The Link Men at Classic Australian Television
The Link Men at the National Film and Sound Archive
1970s Australian drama television series
Nine Network original programming
1970s Australian crime television series
1970 Australian television series debuts
1970 Australian television series endings
Black-and-white Australian television shows
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maui%20Cluster%20Scheduler
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Maui Cluster Scheduler is a job scheduler for use on clusters and supercomputers initially developed by Cluster Resources, Inc. Maui is capable of supporting multiple scheduling policies, dynamic priorities, reservations, and fairshare capabilities.
It improves the manageability and efficiency of machines ranging from clusters of a few processors to multi-teraflops supercomputers. Maui is available for use and modification for non-commercial usage.
Development and support
Maui was most heavily developed during the mid-90s. Development slowed into the 2000s, although an active community around the usage of Maui still exists. Its development was made possible by the support of Cluster Resources, Inc. (now Adaptive Computing) and the contributions of many individuals and sites including the U.S. Department of Energy, PNNL, the Center for High Performance Computing at the University of Utah (CHPC), Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), University of Southern California (USC), SDSC, MHPCC, BYU, NCSA, and many others. It may be downloaded, modified and redistributed.
Maui Cluster Scheduler is currently maintained and supported by Adaptive Computing, Inc., although most new development has come to a standstill. A next-generation non-open-source scheduler is part of the Moab Cluster Suite and borrows many of the same concepts found in Maui. Maui's developers state that the licence satisfies some definitions of open-source software and that it is not available for commercial usage.
Adaptive Computing's Maui project is not associated with the Maui Scheduler Molokini Edition, which was developed as a project on the SourceForge site independent of the original Maui scheduler, under the GNU Lesser General Public License. The Molokini Edition's most recent release was in 2005.
See also
HTCondor
Open Source Cluster Application Resources (OSCAR)
TORQUE Resource Manager
Beowulf cluster
References
External links
Maui Cluster Scheduler - SourceForge page
Job scheduling
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short%20Message%20service%20center
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A Short Message Service Center (SMSC) is a network element in the mobile telephone network. Its purpose is to store, forward, convert and deliver Short Message Service (SMS) messages.
The full designation of an SMSC according to 3GPP is Short Message Service - Service Center (SMS-SC).
Basic trajectories
SMS can be directed in several ways:
From mobile to another mobile - referred to as MO-MT (Mobile Originated - Mobile Terminated)
From mobile to a content provider (also known as Large Account / ESME) - referred to as MO-AT (Mobile Originated - Application Terminated)
From application to a mobile - referred to as AO-MT (Application Originated - Mobile Terminated)
Operation
The tasks of an SMSC can be described as
Reception of text messages (SMS) from wireless network users
Storage of text messages
Forwarding of text messages
Delivery of text messages (SMS) to wireless network users
Maintenance of unique time stamps in text messages
When a user sends a text message (SMS message) to another user, the message gets stored in the SMSC (Short Message Service Center), which delivers it to the destination user when they are available. This is a store and forward option.
An SMS center (SMSC) is responsible for handling the SMS operations of a wireless network.
When an SMS message is sent from a mobile phone, it will first reach an SMS center.
The SMS center then forwards the SMS message towards the destination.
The main duty of an SMSC is to route SMS messages and regulate the process. If the recipient is unavailable (for example, when the mobile phone is switched off), the SMSC will store the SMS CAR message.
It will forward the SMS message when the recipient is available and the message's expiry period is not exceeded.
SMSCs can be used to interface with other applications, for example a spreadsheet can interface with the SMSC allowing messages to be sent SMS from an Excel spreadsheet, or to send an SMS from Excel. Inbound messages to a long number or short code can also be passed through the SMSC allowing m2m communications or Telematics.
Validity period of an SMS message
An SMS message is stored temporarily in the SMS center if the recipient mobile phone is unavailable. It is possible on most mobile handsets to specify an expiry period after which the SMS message will be deleted from the SMS center. Once deleted, the SMS message will no longer be available for dispatch to the recipient mobile phone (even if it comes on line). The validity period should be regarded by the handset user as a request, as the SMSC itself can be configured to ignore or otherwise handle message delivery schedules.
Message status reports
The SMS sender needs to set a flag in the SMS message to notify the SMS center that they want the status report about the delivery of this SMS message. This is usually done by changing a setting on the mobile handset.
See also
Short Message Service technical realisation (GSM)
IS-41
SMPP
UCP/EMI
CIMD
Mobile technolo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyer%E2%80%93Moore
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Boyer–Moore may refer to:
Boyer–Moore majority vote algorithm
Boyer–Moore string-search algorithm
Boyer–Moore theorem prover
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20keyboards
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Apple Inc. has designed and developed many external keyboard models for use with families of Apple computers, such as the Apple II, Mac, and iPad. The Magic Keyboard and Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad designed to be used via either Bluetooth and USB connectivity, and have integrated rechargeable batteries; The Smart Keyboard and Magic Keyboard accessories for iPads are designed to be directly attached to and powered by a host iPad. All current Apple keyboards utilize low-profile key designs, and common modifier keys.
Layout and features
To serve the functionality of the Macintosh operating systems (and because of historical differences), the Apple Keyboard's layout differs somewhat from that of the ubiquitous IBM PC keyboard, mainly in its modifier and special keys. Some of these keys have unique symbols defined in the Unicode block Miscellaneous Technical. Features different from other keyboards include:
The Command key (⌘), used in most Mac keyboard shortcuts. The key functions as a Meta key or Super key in Unix-like environments, and is equally equivalent to the Windows key in Windows environments, although in common applications it performs the same function as the Windows Control key. Compared to their equivalents on the standard IBM PC keyboard layout the Command key and the Option key are located in reverse order.
The "open" (hollow) and separate "closed" (solid) Apple logo keys on the Apple II series, served functions similar to that of the Command key. The open-Apple key was combined with the Command key on Apple Desktop Bus keyboards (which were used on both the Apple IIgs and several years of Macintosh models) where it remained after the Apple II line was discontinued.
The Option key (⌥), for entering diacritics and other special characters. Like the Shift and Control keys, the Option key serves as a modifier for the Command key shortcuts, as well as being used to type many special characters. It serves the function of the solid-Apple key in Apple II applications. It functions as the Alt key in Unix and Windows environments. Compared to their equivalents on the standard IBM PC keyboard layout the Command key and the Option key are located in reverse order.
Full-sized desktop keyboards with a dedicated numpad have function keys that can range up to F15, F16, or F19. F17-F19 keys were introduced with the aluminium USB keyboard. Compact keyboards such as the bluetooth wireless aluminium keyboard and the built-in keyboards on all Intel-based Macintosh notebooks range from F1-F12 only, just like IBM PC keyboards.
A Clear key, instead of a Num Lock key, on models with full numeric keypads, as these are dedicated to numeric input and not generally used for cursor control. In Unicode, the Clear key is represented by , defined as "clear key".
An "equals" key (=) added to the numeric keypad.
A Help key, instead of an Insert key, or on the most recent aluminum keyboards, a fn key, which toggles the function of the function keys bet
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20DeKay
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Timothy Robert DeKay (born June 12, 1963) is an American actor. He starred in the USA Network series White Collar (2009–2014)
Early life
Tim DeKay was born June 12, 1963, to Jim DeKay and Jill Vaughn in Lansing, New York, where he and his brother Jamey grew up. He attended Lansing High School. Growing up, DeKay enjoyed athletics, having played both varsity basketball and baseball, the latter of which is a generational tradition in his family. He enjoyed the arts and performed in his high school's production of Oliver!. DeKay attended Le Moyne College to study business and philosophy, where he also played baseball, eventually deciding to pursue a career in theater.
DeKay planned for a career in business or law and graduated with a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1985. However, he realized that he wanted to work in theater instead. After taking a few courses in directing at Syracuse University, DeKay attended Rutgers University, where he received a Master of Fine Arts degree and met his wife, actress Elisa Taylor.
Career
DeKay has performed in plays both on Broadway and off, including Ridiculous Fraud at the McCarter Theatre, Billy Budd at the Circle in the Square Theatre, Someone to Watch Over Me with the Denver Theatre Company, The Merchant of Venice on the Hartford Stage, and the national tour of The Lion in Winter. In 2009, he was both director and producer of the short film This Monday. It was included in several short film festivals, including Cannes Short Film Corner and the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films.
His first onscreen acting job was as corporation head Larry Deon on seaQuest 2032. DeKay was a cast member of Party of Five from 1997 to 1999, Carnivàle from 2003 to 2005, and Tell Me You Love Me in 2007. He co-starred as Dean Stewart in the gay-themed comedy/drama film Big Eden in 2000. DeKay appeared in two episodes of Seinfeld: "The Soul Mate" and "The Bizarro Jerry", as Elaine's boyfriend, Kevin, who is seen as Jerry's exact opposite (and thus compared to Bizarro Superman from "the backwards bizarro world"). He would work with Julia Louis-Dreyfus again in The New Adventures of Old Christine, playing a temperamental boyfriend of Louis-Dreyfus's character in a three-episode story arc. DeKay has guest-starred on several other TV series, including Friends, CSI, My Name Is Earl, NCIS, Scrubs, and Chuck.
In 2009, he began starring in the USA Network comedy–drama White Collar as FBI agent Peter Burke. DeKay made his directorial debut in the episode "Stealing Home", which premiered in 2012. He played Duvall Pritchard in Fox Television's 2016 sci-fi drama series Second Chance.
DeKay is a member of the Actors Studio. He taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California.
Personal life
DeKay and his wife, actress Elisa Taylor, reside in Los Angeles, California. They have a daughter, Danna, and a son, Jamis.
In May 2010, he returned to Le Moyne College as the commencement speaker and
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Marriage%20%28American%20TV%20series%29
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The Marriage is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from July to August 1954. The series is noted as the first prime time network color television series. Broadcast live by NBC for seven episodes in the summer of 1954, the series stars real-life couple Hume Cronyn (who also produced the show) and Jessica Tandy as a New York lawyer and his wife with two children, played by Susan Strasberg and Malcolm Brodrick.
Synopsis
The half-hour show, written by Ernest Kinoy, debuted on July 8, 1954, originating from the Colonial Theatre in New York City, NBC's color television production facility.
The television series was adapted from an NBC radio series of the same title, also starring Cronyn and Tandy and written by Kinoy, that ran from October 1953 to February 1954. The television show was directed by Jack Garfein and Marc Daniels.
Reception
The New York Times television critic called the show "new and different and delightful," and wrote, "'The Marriage' is a sparkling, crisp portrayal of some charming people." The Washington Post called it among the best of the summertime replacement series, praising its "adult approach to situation comedy," with believable situations and intelligent characters.
The show was suspended after August 19, when Cronyn and Tandy left to tour on stage. There was talk in late 1954 of resuming the series, but it did not happen.
References
External links
1953 American television series debuts
1954 American television series endings
1950s American sitcoms
English-language television shows
American live television series
NBC original programming
Television shows set in New York City
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cscope
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cscope is a programming tool which works in console mode, text-based interface, that allows computer programmers or software developers to search source code of the programming language C, with some support for C++ and Java. It is often used on very large projects to aid code comprehension to find source code, functions, declarations, definitions, and regular expression. cscope is free and released under a BSD license. The original developer of cscope is Joe Steffen.
History
Joe Steffen began writing cscope in 1980, as an aid to his programming word on a PDP-11. The tool became very popular within Bell Labs, as fellow employees requested more features and improvements. The tool was later made part of the AT&T Unix distribution. It is still used by developers today, some of whom are most accustomed to using vi or other text-based editors, instead of GUI editors. The functions in cscope are available to varying degrees in modern graphical text editors.
Usage
cscope is used in two phases. First, a developer builds the cscope database of the source code. The developer can often use find or other Unix tools to get the list of filenames needed to index into a file called cscope.files. The developer then builds a database using the command cscope -b -q -k. The k flag is intended to build a database for an operating system or C library source code. It will not look in /usr/include. Second, the developer can now search those files using the command cscope -d. An index must be rebuilt whenever changes are made to indexed files.
cscope was created to search content within C code, but it can also be used (with some caveats) for C++ and Java code.
Derived software
KScope runs on KDE and integrates the Kate text editor. The KScope project is no longer being maintained.
Seascope runs on PyQt4 and integrates the Scintilla text editor.
Gscope is based on GTK2 and GTK3 and integrates with multiple text editors.
CCTree is a native Vim plugin that integrates with the Vim editor and offers functions similar to KScope and Seascope.
Csope is a fork with an altered TUI.
See also
ctags
Cross-reference (X-Ref)
LXR Cross Referencer, Web-based source code browsing with hyperlinks
OpenGrok
References
External links
Source code navigation tools
Code comprehension tools
Code navigation tools
Static program analysis tools
Linux programming tools
Unix programming tools
Software using the BSD license
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEARL%20%28programming%20language%29
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PEARL, or Process and experiment automation realtime language, is a computer programming language designed for multitasking and real-time programming. Being a high-level language, it is fairly cross-platform. Since 1977, the language has undergone several standardization iterations by the Deutsches Institut für Normung. The current version is PEARL-90, which was standardized in 1998 as DIN 66253-2.
Features
PEARL supports both fixed-point and floating-point numeric values, character and character string data as well as bit values. It also provides facilities for structures and multi-dimensional arrays. Both typed and untyped pointers are also supported, along with typecasting.
PEARL is a higher level programming language, which allows comfortable, secure and almost processor independent programming of multitasking and realtime solutions. It has been standardized since 1977 at various stages of its development. The last time was in 1998 as PEARL-90 (DIN 66253-2 1998, Berlin, Beuth-Verlag, 1998).
Besides the simple possibility to map process technical problems, an important principle in the development of PEARL was ease of learning by the programmer.
All basic data types and language structures of other procedural programming languages exist in PEARL. In addition PEARL offers comfortable language elements for the handling of multitasking- and realtime tasks.
Like most other high-level languages, PEARL supports procedures and functions, and passing parameters to these can be done by value or by reference (via pointers).
Example
MODULE (HELLOWORLD);
SYSTEM;
TERMINAL:DIS<->SDVLS(2);
PROBLEM;
SPC TERMINAL DATION INOUT ALPHIC DIM(,) TFU MAX FORWARD CONTROL (ALL);
MAIN:TASK;
OPEN TERMINAL;
PUT 'Hello World!' TO TERMINAL;
CLOSE TERMINAL;
END;
MODEND;
External links
Process and Experiment Automation Realtime Language
PEARL 90 - Language Report (PDF)
Procedural programming languages
Statically typed programming languages
Real-time computing
Programming languages created in 1977
Programming languages with a DIN standard
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAFM
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SAFM (official callsign: 5SSA) is a commercial FM radio station owned and operated by Southern Cross Austereo as part of the Hit Network. The station is broadcast to Adelaide, South Australia from studios in Franklin Street.
History
The station began broadcasting on 12 September 1980, on the frequency of 107.5 MHz, with a call sign of 5SSA and an original on-air branding of "Double SA-FM" which was very short-lived and soon replaced by "SA-FM". It was the first commercial radio station to broadcast on the FM band in Adelaide started by Paul Thompson of the Austereo Network. The first song played on air was "Sultans of Swing" by Dire Straits. Initially, SAFM was somewhat of a fringe operation, hampered largely by the fact that many houses, and more importantly most contemporary cars, did not have the ability to receive FM radio broadcasts.
In 1982 it changed its name to "SAFM" and in 1989 altered its frequency slightly to 107.1 MHz. A second frequency, 91.1 MHz, was added as what was the first of many repeater frequencies in Adelaide, required due to Adelaide's sometimes problematic television and radio reception idiosyncrasies. The frequency was later changed to 90.3 MHz and it continues to operate on that frequency.
SAFM was the first station in the world to have Black Thunder promotional vehicles and the annual Australia Day Sky-Show fireworks display was an Adelaide institution for many years.
Between 1984 and 1993 it was the highest rating station in Adelaide and achieving its best survey results in the late '80s, spearheaded by the "Morning Zoo" breakfast show. SAFM became number one again in 1999, holding that position until 2005, when it dropped back to third, behind the talk station FIVEaa and the music station Mix 102.3.
From its inception SAFM was an adult rock-based format, before switching to a contemporary hit radio (CHR) format in March 1996. In November 2003, the station adopted an adult contemporary music format, reverting to CHR in December 2004 following the launch of rival station Nova 919.
On 20 October 2014, the station was relaunched as Hit 107, but reverted to SAFM on 27 July 2020 as part of a network-wide relaunch, shifting to a "pop-based" Hot adult contemporary music format in an attempt to target a 30–54-year-old audience.
In October 2022, it was reported that Cosi and his show would be axed.
Programming
Local programming is produced and broadcast from the station's Franklin Street studios from 6am–3pm weekdays. The station's local output consists of a three-hour breakfast show, Bec and Soda, presented by Rebecca Morse and Mark Soderstrom, a three-hour morning show presented by Nicole and a three-hour afternoon show presented by Sean Craig Murphy. In addition, the station's breakfast show is also broadcast on its Mount Gambier sister station.
Networked programming originates from studios in Melbourne and Sydney.
Digital radio
SAFM is simulcast on DAB+ Digital radio in Adelaide.
See also
Hamish & Andy
List of
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armor%20Alley
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Armor Alley is a computer wargame for DOS and Mac OS published by Three-Sixty Pacific in 1991. It is modelled on the Apple II game Rescue Raiders. Player can compete against the computer or other humans via LAN. The game supports cooperative multiplayer of up to two players per side. The player controls a helicopter armed with a limited number of munitions, such as missiles, bombs, machine guns, and napalm. As the player requisitions computer-controlled tanks, infantry, engineers. Mobile missile platforms, and vans round out available firepower.
Gameplay
The objective is to destroy an opposing base at the opposite end of the play area. Various units are deployed for this purpose, which can be assisted by the player's helicopter. The enemy has the same arsenal as the player, so tactics and convoy composition are vital. Only the van, which contains electronic warfare equipment, can achieve victory by coming into contact with the enemy base. Its armor is quite weak, so these units must be protected at all times.
The two-dimensional battlefield is a long strip of ground, with the player's base on the left end and the enemy's base on the right. Every map has these two bases, but each map has a different pattern of fixed terrain features. The game ends when one of these two bases is captured.
The player's view is always focused on the central unit, the helicopter. The helicopter carries 2 guided missiles, 10 bombs and has a machine gun with 64 rounds of ammunition (at higher levels the machine gun is replaced by 6 unguided missiles). The helicopter's fuel is limited, so each player has to return to base before there is insufficient fuel left for the trip back. The helicopter is very vulnerable to enemy fire and so relies on its agility and the player's control to survive on the battlefield.
Budget
War funds slowly trickle into a spending account that allows purchase of units. Each unit has an associated cost. A helicopter costs 20, tanks 4, mobile missile launchers 3, vans 2, infantry and engineers 5. The player must spend carefully to ensure the purchase of equipment as needed. The farther the helicopter is from its landing pad, the higher the rate of funding. The more assets the player has on the ground at the end of a battle the more funds the player has to start the next battle.
All units must be purchased by the player, but once bought, they blindly advance to the right towards the enemy base. Extra lives may be purchased by buying more helicopters.
Reception
The game was reviewed in 1991 in Dragon #166 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 5 out of 5 stars. 1992 and 1994 Computer Gaming World surveys of wargames with modern settings gave the game one and a half stars out of five, describing it as "a short entertaining diversion, but little of serious import".
Remake
The game has been remade as a browser based game by Scott Schiller: http://www.schillmania.com/armor-a
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley%20R.%20Elsberry
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Wesley Royce Elsberry (born January 23, 1960) is a data scientist with an interdisciplinary background in marine biology, zoology, computer science, and wildlife and fisheries sciences. He also became notably involved in the defense of evolutionary science against creationist rejection of evolution.
Early life
Elsberry was born in Lakeland, Florida. He was brought up in the Evangelical United Brethren church, which merged with the Methodists in 1968 to form the United Methodist Church. He attended a public elementary school, an evangelical junior high, and a Catholic high school. He received a National Merit Scholarship and earned a B.S.(Bachelor) in zoology from the University of Florida in 1982. During that period, he worked as a staff photographer for the Independent Florida Alligator newspaper.
Career
After graduating from the University of Florida, he worked for Media Image Photography in Gainesville, Florida. In 1983, he became a lab technologist for the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Florida and in 1985 became a biologist in the Department of Physiological Sciences of the College of Veterinary Medicine. He worked with Professor Richard H. Lambertsen on the histology, physiology, and epidemiology of fin whales.
He then entered a program in artificial intelligence, obtaining an M.S.C.S. in computer science from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1989. Following graduation, he was employed by General Dynamics Data Systems Division, programming fire-control computers for F-16 fighters. In 1991, he became a research scientist at the Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, working on a mapping system for the U.S. Air Force.
In 1993, he began his doctoral studies in wildlife and fisheries sciences at Texas A&M University with Professor William Eugene Evans as his major advisor. He collaborated with the U. S. Navy Marine Mammal Program in 1995 to investigate marine mammal hearing at depth. He periodically traveled to San Diego to continue collaboration on temporary threshold shift in marine mammals, until he was employed as a Behavioral Research Programmer for Science Applications International Corporation. He collaborated with Ted W. Cranford on a study of dolphin biosonar sound production in 1999. In 2001, he was awarded the Society for Marine Mammalogy's Fred Fairfield Award for Innovation in Marine Mammal Research. He completed his Ph.D. in 2003.
Elsberry was a visiting researcher at Michigan State University from 2007 to 2009. There, he worked on the Avida artificial life project and extended the Avida-Ed software system.
Creationism
Elsberry became interested in the political controversy between creationism and science in February 1986, when he attended a lecture by a Young-Earth Creationist geologist. He found it superficially convincing and the lecturer gave him a copy of The Scientific Case for Creation by Henry M. Morris. Elsberry later recalled; "As I read that book, I started highlighting things
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QMAS
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QMAS may refer to:
Quality Management and Analysis System, a computer system used by the United Kingdom's National Health Service
Quality Migrant Admission Scheme, a points-based immigration system in Hong Kong
Quality Measurement Advisory Service, a non-profit health organisation in the United States
Queensland Music Awards, an annual music awards event held in Queensland, Australia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine%20Woman
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Medicine Woman is a documentary show first produced for the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, an aboriginal television network in Canada. A doctor's journey to investigate traditional healing in different cultures is the focus.
Created and directed by Shirley Cheechoo, it was co-produced by Gerry Sperling and 4 Square Productions in Saskatchewan.
See also
Medicine woman
References
External links
Medicine Woman
Medicine Woman on APTN
Aboriginal Peoples Television Network original programming
First Nations television series
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majordomo%20%28software%29
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Majordomo is a mailing list manager (MLM) developed by Brent Chapman. It is written in Perl and works in conjunction with sendmail on UNIX and related operating systems. The name majordomo is derived from the Latin "major domus" meaning "master of the house"; in English, the word is used to refer to a large household's chief servant.
The current version of Majordomo is 1.94.5, released 19 January 2000.
The official website warns that it will not work with Perl versions 5.001 and 5.005_01 specifically. It recommends to use Perl 4.036 or the latest version available. Support for Perl 4.036 may not be kept for the future.
History
With the advent of email, many mailing lists were maintained manually, with a list owner adding and removing participants by editing a text file. In 1984, LISTSERV was developed to run on IBM VM mainframes, and automated mailing lists on a large scale.
Most mailing lists moved to commercial mailing list hosting services, often with a stipend of $100 or more paid to the list owner by the hosting service in exchange for the transfer. Most of those hosting providers were subsequently bought out by Yahoo!, and merged into its Yahoo! Groups service.
Majordomo has been in widespread use since 1992, predating the popularity of the web browser, in an era when many people had access to email but the World Wide Web did not enjoy wide deployment. As a result, tasks such as subscribing and unsubscribing are only handled by sending mail messages.
There are front-ends, such as MajorCool, to provide a web interface. Many mailing lists still use Majordomo.
Majordomo 2
As of 18 May 2004, there was work being done to completely rewrite Majordomo with a focus on keeping the familiar email interface while greatly improving the web interface and other features. This coding effort is referred to as Majordomo 2 and is being used by the OpenBSD project.
Licensing
Majordomo is community-supported source available software; the license states "No part of Majordomo may be incorporated into any program or other product that is sold, or for which any revenue is received without written permission of Great Circle Associates". There are a few exceptions listed in the license to this: "You may install Majordomo at your site and run mailing lists for other (sic) using it, and charge for that service. You may install Majordomo at other sites, and charge for your time to install, configure, customize, and manage it. You may charge for enhancements you've made to the Majordomo software, subject to the distribution restrictions listed [in the license]. You may not charge for the Majordomo software itself".
See also
LISTSERV
GNU Mailman
ezmlm
References
External links
Majordomo FAQ
Majordomo Newsletters for the Novice
Majordomo 2
Perl software
Mailing list software
Computer-related introductions in 1992
Mailing list software for Linux
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20Squad%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29
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Special Squad is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for Network Ten in 1984.
Overview
The series focused on an elite division of the Victoria Police, which handled crimes either too sensitive or specialist for regular squads. The Special Squad was headed by Det. Insp. Don Anderson (Alan Cassell), with his main operatives being Det. Snr. Sgt. Greg Smith (Anthony Hawkins), and Det. Sgt. Joel Davis (John Diedrich).
Special Squad was seen by many as an Australian answer to the British series The Professionals both for its focus on action and violence, and the fact that both series were produced by Raymond Menmuir. However, in reality the characters and plotlines were less developed than the British series.
The series lasted for 43 episodes in total.
Cast
Main cast
Alan Cassell as Det. Insp. Don Anderson
Anthony Hawkins as Det. Snr. Sgt. Greg Smith
John Diedrich as Det. Sgt. Joel Davis
Guest stars
Abigail as Mrs Quinn (1 episode)
Alan David Lee as Jimmy Steele
Alfred Bell
Anne Phelan
Antoinette Byron (1 episode)
Bartholomew John
Ben Mendelsohn as Spud (episode 14: "Slow Attack")
Ben Roberts
Betty Bobbitt as Daisy (episode 32: "Until Death")
Billie Hammerberg (1 episode)
Briony Behets as Rhonda Watson (1 episode)
Bruce Spence as Professor (1 episode)
Bruno Lawrence as Arthur Poole
Bryan Marshall
Carmen Duncan as Lorraine (1 episode)
Christine Amor as Robyn Symons (1 episode)
Deborra-Lee Furness as Liz Jenkins (episode 6: "The Long Secret")
Dennis Grosvenor
Desiree Smith
Diane Craig (1 episode)
Elizabeth Alexander as Edith (episode 8: "The Wurzburg Link")
Frankie J. Holden (1 episode)
Gennie Nevinson as Kate (episode 32: "Until Death")
Gerard Kennedy as Harry Tait (1 episode)
Gerard Maguire as Hansen
Glenn Robbins (episode 22: "A Wild Oat")
Gosia Dobrowolska (1 episode)
Grigor Taylor as Bob Dailey
Ian McFadyen as Evans
Ilona Rodgers as Helen Anderson (episode 32: "Until Death")
Ivar Kants as Scalese (2 episodes)
Jackie Woodburne as Sharon (episode 22: "Mates")
Jane Clifton (1 episode)
Jane Menelaus as Penny (1 episode)
John Ewart as Mungo Lennox
John Orcsik
Jon Blake as Pig
Judith McGrath (episode 26: "Farewell to a Comrade")
Julianna Allan (episode 4:: "Easy Street")
Lesley Baker (episode 5: "Counterfeit Lady")
Leslie Dayman as Mr Fitzgerald
Liddy Holloway as Mrs. Tait (episode 1: "Trojan Horses")
Lorna Lesley as Sharon (1 episode)
Louise Siversen as Laura (1 episode)
Maggie Millar as Joyce (episode 30: "The Patchwork")
Maureen Edwards
Maxine Klibingaitis as Chico (episode 37: "Pigs")
Mercia Deane-Johns
Michael Long
Monica Maughan as Mrs Trane (1 episode)
Myra De Groot as Grace Kiddell (1 episode)
Nick Tate
Norman Coburn as Griffin (episode 5: "Counterfeit Lady")
Paul Karo as Scaffer / Skinny
Peter Fisher (1 episode)
Peter Sumner as Nick Hardy (1 episode)
Robert Coleby (1 episode)
Robert Grubb as Sims (1 episode)
Roger Ward
Roslyn Gentle as Judith Deans
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Bellamy was an Australian television series made by the Reg Grundy Organisation for the Ten Network in 1981.
Synopsis
The series focused on a maverick cop named Steve Bellamy (John Stanton). His partner was Detective Mitchell (Tim Elston). Recurring characters in the series were the disapproving Daley (James Condon) who appeared in 21 episodes, the forensics technician Clem (Brian Young) who was in 15 of the episodes. Adam Garnett as Ginger, a street-wise child who befriended Bellamy, appeared in six early episodes but was phased-out of the series. Later in the run Tom Richards appeared as Detective Burns over five episodes. In the story Burns was ultimately revealed to be corrupt.
The series was noticeably more violent than previous Australian police series such as those made by Crawford Productions during the 1970s.
Bellamy attracted only mediocre ratings and was shifted around the schedules several times. The series was not renewed beyond the initial series of 26 one-hour episodes.
Cast
Main
John Stanton as Steve Bellamy
Tim Elston as Detective Mitchell
Recurring
James Condon as Daley (21 episodes)
Brian Young as Clem (15 episodes)
Adam Garnett as Ginger (6 episodes)
Tom Richards as Detective Burns (5 episodes)
Guests
Anna Hruby as Beth (1 episode)
Anne Tenney as Eileen (1 episode)
Belinda Giblin as Julie (1 episode)
Betty Lucas as Rose (1 episode)
Brian Moll as Wilkes
Briony Behets as Sharon (1 episode)
Cornelia Frances as Aretha (1 episode)
Debra Lawrance as Lisa (1 episode)
Deborah Kennedy
Diane Craig as Connie (1 episode)
Gerard Kennedy as Blake (1 episode)
Ivar Kants as Ogden (1 episode)
Jacqui Gordon as Carol (1 episode)
Jill Forster as Mrs Baker (1 episode)
Joanna Lockwood as Toni Payne (1 episode)
John Howard as Priest (1 episode)
John Walton as Paul Turner (1 episode)
Ken James as Rego
Leslie Dayman as Peter Bellamy
Lisa Crittenden as Terri (1 episode)
Martin Vaughan as Hill
Max Phipps as Evans (1 episode)
Michael Long
Patrick Phillips
Penne Hackforth-Jones as Inez (1 episode)
Penny Cook
Peta Toppano as Meredith (1 episode)
Peter Adams
Richard Moir
Roger Ward as Rafe (1 episode)
Sean Scully
Serge Lazareff as Blake
Shane Porteous as Walt
Sigrid Thornton as Fiona (1 episode)
Wayne Jarratt as David Daie (1 episode)
References
External links
Bellamy at the National Film and Sound Archive
Bellamy at AustLit
Network 10 original programming
1981 Australian television series debuts
1981 Australian television series endings
1980s Australian crime television series
English-language television shows
Television series produced by The Reg Grundy Organisation
1980s Australian drama television series
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White Collar Blue is an Australian television series made by Knapman Wyld Television for Network Ten from 2002 to 2003.
Starring Peter O'Brien as Joe Hill and Freya Stafford as Harriet Walker, the series dealt with a division of the police force working in the city of Sydney and the personal and professional tensions affecting their work and lives.
In the pilot episode, Harriet is introduced as the new face to Kingsway station, transferring from the "White Collar" federal police to the "Blue Collar" New South Wales Police. Throughout the series Harriet must deal not only with her husband's brutal murder and the revelation of his adultery, but with learning to adjust and fit into her new surroundings.
Joe is Harriet's new partner, and isn't exactly welcoming to her as an addition to the team. With two daughters from previous marriages, Joe needs to juggle his homelife, his dedication to the job and his relationship with Nicole Brown, played by Jodie Dry.
The other cops at the station are Ted Hudson, played by Richard Carter, Sophia Marinkovitch (Brooke Satchwell) and Theo Rahme (Don Hany), and each have their own secrets and problems to deal with.
The series was canceled after two seasons; however, it can be found on cable TV both in Australia and overseas (notably in Canada and New Zealand).
Regular cast
Det. Joe Hill - Peter O'Brien
Det. Harriet Walker - Freya Stafford
Sophia Marinkovitch - Brooke Satchwell
Theo Rahme - Don Hany
Ted Hudson - Richard Carter
Nicole Brown - Jodie Dry
Magistrate Fran Hoffmann - Linda Cropper
Eliot Marinkovitch - Dylan Redlich
External links
White Collar Blue at the National Film and Sound Archive
White Collar Blue - Ep 21 at Australian Screen Online
Network 10 original programming
2000s Australian crime television series
Television shows set in Sydney
2002 Australian television series debuts
2003 Australian television series endings
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REFER, Rede Ferroviária Nacional, EP (i.e. National Railway Network) was the Portuguese rail infrastructure manager. It was a state-owned company and was created to manage the Portuguese rail infrastructure, previously under control of CP, which became exclusively a train service operator.
It was incorporated on 29 April 1997 by government decree no. 104/97 and was 100% owned by the Portuguese state.
As per a decree-law dated 29 May 2015 and taking effect as of 1 June 2015, Portugal's rail infrastructure manager REFER, EP has merged with Estradas de Portugal S.S., the Portuguese road manager, creating a new company called ‘Infraestruturas de Portugal, S.A.’
All duties and competences of Estradas de Portugal and REFER, EP, have therefore been transferred to Infraestruturas de Portugal.
Network
The Portuguese railway network consists (2010) of 2,843 km of track:
1,668 mm gauge: 2,650 km, of which 1,460 km are electrified at 25 kV 50 Hz AC and 25 km at 1.5 kV DC. Of this, 563 km are double track and 43 km multiple track
Metre gauge (1,000 mm, 3 ft 3⅜ in): 188 km not electrified.
The maximum extent of 3592 km was reached in 1949, but in the late 1980s and early 1990s some lines were shortened and some totally closed.
Historical summary
The first railway in Portugal was between Lisbon and Carregado, now referred to as the Linha do Norte; it opened on 28 October 1856. It was extended to Porto, joining Portugal's two largest cities, in 1877.
Meanwhile, on 1 February 1861 the lines between Barreiro Pinhal Novo and Vendas Novas (the Linha do Alentejo) and between Pinhal Novo and Setúbal (the Linha do Sul) followed.
The Linha do Sul, at 274 km was the principal main line in the south of the country, but it terminated short of Lisbon on the south side of the river Tagus (Tejo in Portuguese) but it received a considerable improvement when it was extended from Pinhal Novo to Lisbon over the Ponte 25 de Abril, which was provided with an additional railway deck.
The earliest railways in Portugal were built to standard gauge (1,435 mm) but were regauged in the nineteenth century for compatibility with the trains of the railways of Spain, which at that time used a track gauge of 1,668 mm.
First electrification in Portugal was the suburban line from Lisbon to Cascais, at 1,500 V d.c., but it was another 30 years before the next electrification, the Norte line between Lisbon and Carregado, on 28 October 1956, exactly 100 years from the line's opening. This electrification was at 25 kV 50 Hz.
Through routes to Spain are single-track and are not completely electrified.
New and upgraded railway lines
A number of new high speed lines are planned. These were to be built in standard gauge to allow easy connection with the Spanish high speed network but most have since been downgraded.
Lisbon - Évora - Elvas - Badajoz (Spain), forming a through route to Madrid; anticipated completion was 2013. Postponed during financial crisis, plans were announced in 20
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle%20%28chess%20machine%29
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Belle was a chess computer developed by Joe Condon (hardware) and Ken Thompson (software) at Bell Labs. In 1983, it was the first machine to achieve master-level play, with a USCF rating of 2250. It won the ACM North American Computer Chess Championship five times and the 1980 World Computer Chess Championship. It was the first system to win using specialized chess hardware.
In its final incarnation, Belle used an LSI-11 general-purpose computer to coordinate its chess hardware. There were three custom boards for move generation, four custom boards for position evaluation, and a microcode implementation of alpha-beta pruning. The computer also had one megabyte of memory for storing transposition tables.
At the end of its career, Belle was donated to the Smithsonian Institution. The overall architecture of Belle was used for the initial designs of ChipTest, the progenitor of IBM Deep Blue.
Origins
Following his work on the Unix operating system, Ken Thompson turned his attention to computer chess. In summer 1972, he began work on a program for the PDP-11, which would eventually become Belle. In competition, this early version encouraged Thompson to pursue a brute-force approach when designing Belle's hardware.
Design
Belle's design underwent many changes throughout its lifetime. The initial chess program was rewritten to utilize move-vs-evaluation quiescence search and evaluate positions by prioritizing material advantage. Belle also used a transposition table to avoid redundant examinations of positions.
Hardware move generator
In 1976, Joe Condon implemented a hardware move generator to be used with software version of Belle on the PDP-11. His design had several steps:
A 6-bit "from" register searches the board for friendly pieces.
Once a friendly piece is found, a ∆xy move-offset counter provides a bit-code for the move offset, e.g. (2,2) for a bishop or (2,0) for a rook.
This offset is combined with the contents of the "from" register and moved to a 6-bit "to" register. These two registers fully describe a potential move.
A test circuit compares the move to the existing board to determine whether the move is pseudo-legal. If it is, the "from" and "to" registers are output to software.
A similar series of steps uses the move generator to test whether the pseudo-legal move is in fact legal. This ensures that the move does not place the moving side in check.
Second generation
Belle's second generation was completed in 1978. It implemented several improvements over its predecessor.
The move generator had its own stack, which it used to store moves, rather than outputting them to software.
A hardware implementation of the position evaluator was added.
A hardware implementation of the transposition memory.
These changes reduced the role of the PDP-11 software. Now, the software controlled these three devices and ran the alpha-beta pruning algorithm. The second generation of Belle could search 5,000 positions per second.
Third ge
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuts%20%28TV%20series%29
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Cuts is an American sitcom that aired on UPN from February 14, 2005, to May 11, 2006, and is a spinoff of another UPN series, One on One. The show was canceled when UPN and The WB networks merged to form The CW.
Premise
For years, the Barnes' family-run barber shop was a place where guys could get a haircut while socializing and discussing anything. But when his older brother Flex sells the barber shop from underneath prodigal son Kevin Barnes (played by Houston), he finds himself co-managing the shop with the new owner's spoiled daughter Tiffany Sherwood (played by Elizabeth), a rich party girl who has never worked a day in her life. Despite their differing ideas of how to make the shop a success, Kevin and Tiffany together deal with the many challenges that arise when their very opposite worlds collide. The show is set in Baltimore, Maryland.
The series is set up in the 21st and 22nd episodes of the third season of One on One titled “The Prodigal Brother” and “ Phatheadz”.
Cast
Main
Marques Houston as Kevin Barnes, younger brother of One on Ones Flex Washington (Flex Alexander)
Shannon Elizabeth as Tiffany Sherwood
Shondrella Avery as Candy Taylor, girlfriend of One on Ones Duane Knox
Rashaan Nall as Walt Powell, Candy's former foster brother
Edward "Grapevine" Fordham Jr. as Ace Fields
Béatrice Rosen as Faith
Recurring
Corbin Bernsen as Jack Sherwood, Tiffany's father, previously played by David Garrison on One on One
Omarion Grandberry as Darius
Episodes
Season 1 (2005)
Season 2 (2005–06)
References
External links
2000s American black sitcoms
2005 American television series debuts
2006 American television series endings
English-language television shows
UPN original programming
Television series by CBS Studios
Television shows set in Baltimore
American television spin-offs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fits
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Fits may refer to:
FITS, a data format in astronomy
FITS (board game), a 2009 board game
Fits (album), a 2009 album by White Denim
The Fits, an album by Aly Tadros
The Fits, a British punk rock band
The Fits (film), a 2015 American drama film
Fury in the Slaughterhouse, a German rock band
See also
Fit (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-pass%20compiler
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A multi-pass compiler is a type of compiler that processes the source code or abstract syntax tree of a program several times. This is in contrast to a one-pass compiler, which traverses the program only once. Each pass takes the result of the previous pass as the input, and creates an intermediate output. In this way, the (intermediate) code is improved pass by pass, until the final pass produces the final code.
Multi-pass compilers are sometimes called wide compilers, referring to the greater scope of the passes: they can "see" the entire program being compiled, instead of just a small portion of it. The wider scope thus available to these compilers allows better code generation (e.g. smaller code size, faster code) compared to the output of one-pass compilers, at the cost of higher compiler time and memory consumption. In addition, some languages cannot be compiled in a single pass, as a result of their design.
Typical multi-pass compiler
Lexical analysis
This stage of a multi-pass compiler is to remove irrelevant information from the source program that syntax analysis will not be able to use or interpret. Irrelevant information could include things like comments and white space. In addition to removing the irrelevant information, the lexical analysis determines the lexical tokens of the language. This step means that forward declaration is generally not necessary if a multi-pass compiler is used.
This phase is focused on breaking a sequence of characters into tokens with attributes such as kind, type, value, and potentially others, as well.
Syntax analysis
Syntax analysis is responsible for looking at syntax rules of the language (often as a context-free grammar), and building some intermediate representation of the language. An example of this intermediate representation could be something like an abstract syntax tree or a directed acyclic graph.
Semantic analysis
Semantic analysis takes the representation made from syntax analysis and applies semantic rules to the representation to make sure that the program meets the semantic rules requirements of the language. For example, in the example below at the stage of semantic analysis if the language required that conditions on if statements were boolean expressions the cond would be type-checked to make sure it would be a valid boolean expression.
if (cond) {
...
} else {
...
}
In addition to performing semantic analysis at this stage of compilation, often symbol tables are created in order to assist in code generation.
Code generation
This final stage of a typical compiler converts the intermediate representation of program into an executable set of instructions (often assembly). This last stage is the only stage in compilation that is machine dependent. There can also be optimization done at this stage of compilation that make the program more efficient.
Other passes of compiler include intermediate code generation phase which takes place before code generation and code
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Kunskapskanalen (in English: The Knowledge Channel) is a Swedish language television channel broadcasting educational and factual programming between 9 a.m. and 01 a.m. all days of the week. The channel is operated by Sveriges Television (SVT) and Sveriges Utbildningsradio (UR) and is broadcast by satellite, cable and digital terrestrial television to Sweden as well as by cable to parts of Finland and terrestrially on Åland. Because Denmark and Sweden borders so close at the Øresund Strait, the channel can also be received over DVB-T in Copenhagen.
History
The channel officially started broadcasting on 27 September 2004, initially only between Sundays and Thursdays. Transmissions on Fridays and Saturdays started in January 2006. On weekdays, UR broadcast between 6-7:30 and 9:30-11 and SVT between 7:30-9:30. On weekends UR started at 6, handing over to SVT at 9. UR used in-vision presenters for their programmes until January 2007, when in-vision continuity was abolished. At night a simple caption is broadcast. The channel shares space with Barnkanalen, which broadcasts during the day.
On 1 September 2007 the channel got new broadcasting hours. Barnkanalen took over the 6-7 slot, while Kunskapskanalen extended its broadcasting time to 1 a.m.
In autumn 2008, Barnkanalen took over yet another hour of broadcast time. From 8 August 2008 Barnkanalen would broadcast until 7.30, and from on weekdays, and from 25 August 2008 Kunskapskanalen will commence it broadcasts at 8 p.m. every day of the week. SVT also cuts down on the amount of original programming they produce for Kunskapskanalen, letting the channel rerun programmes from SVT2 instead.
Starting 18 January 2010 Kunskapskanalen will have its broadcast hours dramatically increased when it takes over SVT24's channel space. It will then broadcast from 9 a.m. on Weekdays and from 12 p.m. on Weekends. During the daytime, it will broadcast SVT Forum (previously known as 24 Direkt) which broadcasts seminars, debates and coverage of the Riksdag and the European Parliament.
The channel's first and former logo was inspired by Oscar Reutersvärd's impossible figures.
Logos and identities
See also
List of documentary television channels
References
External links
Television channels in Sweden
Sveriges Television
Documentary television channels
Television channels and stations established in 2004
2004 establishments in Sweden
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20drilling
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Data drilling (also drilldown) refers to any of various operations and transformations on tabular, relational, and multidimensional data. The term has widespread use in various contexts, but is primarily associated with specialized software designed specifically for data analysis.
Common data drilling operations
There are certain operations that are common to applications that allow data drilling. Among them are:
Query operations:
tabular query
pivot query
Tabular query
Tabular query operations consist of standard operations on data tables.
Among these operations are:
search
sort
filter (by value)
filter (by extended function or condition)
transform (e.g., by adding or removing columns)
Consider the following example:
Fred and Wilma table (Fig 001):
gender, fname, lname, home
male, fred, chopin, Poland
male, fred, flintstone, bedrock
male, fred, durst, usa
female, wilma, flintstone, bedrock
female, wilma, rudolph, usa
female, wilma, webb, usa
male, fred, johnson, usa
The preceding is an example of a simple flat file table formatted as comma-separated values. The table includes first name, last name, gender and home country for various people named fred or wilma. Although the example is formatted this way, it is important to emphasize that tabular query operations (as well as all data drilling operations) can be applied to any conceivable data type, regardless of the underlying formatting. The only requirement is that the data be readable by the software application in use.
Pivot query
A pivot query allows multiple representations of data according to different dimensions. This query type is similar to tabular query, except it also allows data to be represented in summary format, according to a flexible user-selected hierarchy. This class of data drilling operation is formally (and loosely) known by different names, including crosstab query, pivot table, data pilot, selective hierarchy, intertwingularity and others.
To illustrate the basics of pivot query operations, consider the Fred and Wilma table (Fig 001). A quick scan of the data reveals that the table has redundant information. This redundancy could be consolidated using an outline or a tree structure or in some other way. Moreover, once consolidated, the data could have many different alternate layouts.
Using a simple text outline as output, the following alternate layouts are all possible with a pivot query:
Summarize by gender (Fig 001):
female
flintstone, wilma
rudolph, wilma
webb, wilma
male
chopin, fred
flintstone, fred
durst, fred
johnson, fred
(Dimensions = gender; Tabular fields = lname, fname;)
Summarize by home, lname (Fig 001):
bedrock
flintstone
fred
wilma
Poland
chopin
fred
usa
...
(Dimensions = home, lname; Tabular fields = fname;)
Uses
Pivot query operations are usef
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and are 2005 tactical role-playing video games developed and published by Capcom for the Game Boy Advance (GBA) handheld game console. They are the sixth and final games in the Mega Man Battle Network series, and involves Lan's family and MegaMan.EXE moving to Cyber City, only to need to stop the returning WWW (World Three) from re-awakening the Cybeasts.
Battle Network 6 marks the end of the Battle Network series, as shown in the ending, although this wasn't initially the case; the developers stated the decision to end the series was only made part-way through development, and after several of the graphics were re-done. The international versions of the games also removed a significant amount of content, primarily due to Konami not localizing Shin Bokura no Taiyō: Sabata's Counterattack for Western territories.
Like with the previous few games, Mega Man Battle Network 6 received a generally tepid reception from critics, who near-universally highlighted lack of improvements from previous installments in terms of graphics and gameplay, although some praised its story. Despite being considered the end of the series, one last game, Rockman.EXE: Legend of Network, released in 2006 in Japan for mobile phones. A successor to the Battle Network series, titled Mega Man Star Force, also released in 2006 for the Nintendo DS.
Plot
Lan and his family have moved to Cyber City. However, WWW has returned and is causing trouble that not even the Official NetBattlers can control, so MegaMan decides to investigate. Here, MegaMan discovers that the Cybeasts Gregar which is created out of the combination of multiple bugs (like Gospel) and Falzar which created as a means to counter Gregar but went out of control, have something to do with a mysterious conspiracy. When a WWW Navi, CircusMan, captures one of the Cybeasts, MegaMan captures the other Cybeast into his body. Lan and MegaMan must fight WWW and stop whatever they're up to. At first it seems that Baryl and Colonel were the culprits of the conspiracy, but later in the end he admits that he was working for Dr. Wily himself.
Dr. Wily raised Baryl when his own father was off fighting in a war, and in his kindness for Baryl, he was distracted from his plans for revenge of the Net society. He also created Colonel, the "perfect Navi" who had the ability to feel kindness and had powers of machine manipulation. However, once Baryl's father, his only true friend was killed in battle, Wily began to feel the past thoughts of revenge and modified Colonel to become a military grade Navi. The other programs were modified into a separate Navi named Iris. She was to be a military control Navi, until she met Lan, who showed her that humans were not bloodthirsty killers.
As a precaution, Wily planted a program forbidding these Navis to merge by having them explode if they were ever to do so. To hatch his latest scheme to destroy the Net and the world, he built 2 enormous Copybots and installed the Gregar and Falzar Cybe
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The term CDATA, meaning character data, is used for distinct, but related, purposes in the markup languages SGML and XML. The term indicates that a certain portion of the document is general character data, rather than non-character data or character data with a more specific, limited structure.
CDATA sections in XML
In an XML document or external entity, a CDATA section is a piece of element content that is marked up to be interpreted literally, as textual data, not as marked-up content. A CDATA section is merely an alternative syntax for expressing character data; there is no semantic difference between character data in a CDATA section and character data in standard syntax where, for example, "<" and "&" are represented by "<" and "&", respectively.
Syntax and interpretation
A CDATA section starts with the following sequence:
<![CDATA[
and ends with the next occurrence of the sequence:
]]>
All characters enclosed between these two sequences are interpreted as characters, not markup or entity references. Every character is taken literally, the only exception being the ]]> sequence of characters. In:
<sender>John Smith</sender>
the start and end "sender" tags are interpreted as markup. However, the code:
<![CDATA[<sender>John Smith</sender>]]>
is equivalent to:
<sender>John Smith</sender>
Thus, the "tags" will have exactly the same status as the "John Smith"; they will be treated as text.
Similarly, if the numeric character reference ð appears in element content, it will be interpreted as the single Unicode character 00F0 (small letter eth). But if the same appears in a CDATA section, it will be parsed as six characters: ampersand, hash mark, digit 2, digit 4, digit 0, semicolon.
Uses of CDATA sections
New authors of XML documents often misunderstand the purpose of a CDATA section, mistakenly believing that its purpose is to "protect" data from being treated as ordinary character data during processing. Some APIs for working with XML documents do offer options for independent access to CDATA sections, but such options exist above and beyond the normal requirements of XML processing systems, and still do not change the implicit meaning of the data. Character data is character data, regardless of whether it is expressed via a CDATA section or ordinary markup. CDATA sections are useful for writing XML code as text data within an XML document. For example, if one wishes to typeset a book with XSL explaining the use of an XML application, the XML markup to appear in the book itself will be written in the source file in a CDATA section.
Nesting
A CDATA section cannot contain the string "]]>" and therefore it is not possible for a CDATA section to contain nested CDATA sections. The preferred approach to using CDATA sections for encoding text that contains the triad "]]>" is to use multiple CDATA sections by splitting each occurrence of the triad just before the ">". For example, to encode "]]>" one would write:
<![CDATA[]]]]>
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Crow
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George L. Crow Jr. was a member of the original Apple Macintosh team in 1984 at Apple Computer. Crow left Apple in 1985 to become a co-founder of Steve Jobs' NeXT. Prior to working at Apple, Crow worked at HP; after leaving NeXT he worked for SuperMac and then Truevision. In 1999, Crow came back to Apple, recalling that the general atmosphere was still similar to how it was in the 1980s. In 2006, he retired.
He received a B.S. degree from the University of California, Berkeley and his master's degree from Santa Clara University.
References
George Crow talks Apple, then and now — March 24, 2004, MacMinute news story.
External links
Board President of Music for Minors
Opera San Jose, Board of Trustees, President
Merola Opera Program, Board of Directors, Treasurer
Living people
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
Santa Clara University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Gamer
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Computer Gamer was a video game magazine published in the United Kingdom by Argus Specialist Publications, covering home gaming from April 1985 to June 1987. It was a colourful relaunch of the failing magazine Games Computing, a more conservative magazine published throughout in monochrome.
Like many similar magazines, it contained sections of news, game reviews, previews, tips, help guides, columnists, reader's letters, and occasionally cover-mounted game demos.
When the magazine was relaunched, it was directly competing with Computer and Video Games but with only a fifth of the 100,000 monthly sales. It battled on for two years but, adding only 6,000 sales, it was eventually closed in 1987.
Although lost in the crowd of titles on the market in the mid-80s, Gamer did achieve the distinction of having an issue banned by W H Smith and other UK newsagents. The cover promoted a game called "Blood And Guts" but was considered to be too gory and was replaced by a plainer rush cover. The offending image, constructed from pink hessian, bubblewrap, red paint and a Turkish knife, was demoted to background art on the review pages - without complaint.
External links
Archived Computer Gamer magazines on the Internet Archive
1985 establishments in the United Kingdom
1987 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Defunct computer magazines published in the United Kingdom
Home computer magazines
Magazines established in 1985
Magazines disestablished in 1987
Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Video game magazines published in the United Kingdom
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Popular Computing Weekly was a computer magazine in the UK published from 1982 to 1990. It was sometimes referred to as PCW (although that abbreviation is more commonly associated with Personal Computer World magazine).
Overview
The magazine was first published on 23 April 1982. Its subject range was general, covering gaming, business, and productivity software. The founding company was Sunshine Publications based in London and the launch editor was Duncan Scot. During 1989 it incorporated Computer Gamesweek.
It was noteworthy for being the UK's only national weekly computer magazine of the time, and for its back page being dominated by an advertisement in the form of a comic strip, Piman, by the firm Automata UK between the years 1983 and 1986.
A further noteworthy feature of the early editions was the high-quality artwork on the magazine covers. These had disappeared by 1983.
One other noteworthy and regular column was about adventure games, notably text adventures. Reviews and cryptic spoilers were eagerly awaited. Readers who had completed the hugely successful text adventure The Hobbit, first released on the ZX Spectrum were invited to add their names to a "Hobbit Hall of Fame." The magazine folded with issue 415 published in June 1990.
References
External links
Popular Computing Weekly scanned issues on the Internet Archive
1982 establishments in the United Kingdom
1990 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Video game magazines published in the United Kingdom
Weekly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Defunct computer magazines published in the United Kingdom
Home computer magazines
Magazines published in London
Magazines established in 1982
Magazines disestablished in 1990
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Media%20Commons
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The Open Media Commons, sometimes referred to as the Open Media Commons initiative, is a computer industry group whose goal is to "develop open, royalty-free digital rights management and codec solutions". One of their largest supporters is Sun Microsystems, who released their internal digital rights management (DRM) project, Project DReaM, as part of the Open Media Commons initiative on 22 August 2005.
Project DReaM one of several project organized through the Open Media Commons initiative:
DRM-OPERA: An interoperable DRM architecture that is not dependent upon a specific hardware set or operating system.
Java Stream Assembly: Java-based server software that allows for distribution of video over a network.
OMS Video: a royalty-free codec loosely based on the H.261 with new tools & optimizations.
References
External links
OpenMediaCommons.org official homepage
Digital rights management standards
Sun Microsystems
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical%20Evaluation%20and%20Review%20Technique
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Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique, commonly known as GERT, is a network analysis technique used in project management that allows probabilistic treatment both network logic and estimation of activity duration. The technique was first described in 1966 by Dr. Alan B. Pritsker of Purdue University and WW Happ.
Compared to other techniques, GERT is only rarely used in complex systems. Nevertheless, the GERT approach addresses the majority of the limitations associated with PERT/CPM technique. GERT allows loops between tasks. The fundamental drawback associated with the GERT technique is the complex programme (Monte Carlo simulation) required to model the GERT system. Development in GERT includes Q-GERTS - allowing the user to consider queuing within the system.
General GERT rules
GERT uses activity-on-arrow notation only. That means that each activity is described on arrow. The nodes are used to connect activities, but also to determine type and conditions of relations between them.
Each task has two parameters: duration and probability of appearance.
There are three logical operators in GERT which concern activities incoming to the node:
XOR - alternative (only one path possible)
OR - alternative (one or more paths can be performed)
AND - all paths have to be performed
The most common is AND, which means that every incoming activity has to happen before the outcoming one start.
There are also two types of relations that concern activities outcoming from the node:
deterministic - every outcoming activity has probability equal to 1, which means that everyone will be performed
probabilistic - each outcoming activity has some probability of appearance.
GERT vs. other network diagrams
It's much less popular than PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique) or CPM (Critical Path Method). However, it has can offer much more than those methods. PERT or CPM are very popular in most projects, but they have their limitations. The main are:
there are no alternative paths - all activities have to be performed
there are no loops - it is not possible to repeat activity, next similar activity has to be added
there are no decisions in the diagram - no and, or, xor options which help to choose proper path
there is no scaling - it is not possible to replace some detailed group of activities with the one summary task.
GERT doesn't have those limitations. But it comes at a cost of more sophisticated diagram.
References
Project management techniques
Network analysis
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCTV
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WCTV (channel 6) is a television station licensed to Thomasville, Georgia, United States, serving the Tallahassee, Florida market as an affiliate of CBS and MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Gray Television alongside Live Oak, Florida–licensed MeTV affiliate WFXU (channel 57). Both stations share studios on Halstead Boulevard in Tallahassee (along I-10), while WCTV's transmitter is located in unincorporated Thomas County, Georgia, southeast of Metcalf, along the Florida state line.
History
WCTV was Tallahassee and southwest Georgia's first television station. On October 13, 1954, the Tallahassee Democrat reports that plans of a new television station and the first television station in the Tallahassee market was introduced to viewers in North Florida and South Georgia. The station held the call letters WCTV beginning on January 25, 1955, the same time WCTV's studios were constructed in Thomasville. On August 29, 1955, the station began airing a test pattern as its test broadcast. The station first signed on the air on September 15, 1955, using channel 6, from studios on North Monroe Street in Tallahassee. WCTV was originally owned by John H. Phipps. Although it has always considered itself a Tallahassee station, it was licensed to Thomasville because the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had allocated only one VHF channel to Tallahassee, channel 11.
Florida State University had managed to have the FCC reserve channel 11 for noncommercial use so it could put WFSU-TV on the air. UHF was not considered viable at the time. Until the 1964 FCC requirement that all new sets have all-channel capability, UHF stations were un-viewable without a converter, and even with one, the picture quality was marginal at best. Additionally, the FCC had just collapsed a large portion of southwest Georgia into the Tallahassee market, and UHF stations have never carried well across large areas.
Hoyt Wimpy, owner and founder of WPAX radio in Thomasville, persuaded the FCC to grant the Phipps family a license for channel 6 in Thomasville, the nearest city to Tallahassee that had a VHF allocation available. This could provide city-grade coverage of Tallahassee and north central Florida as well as southwestern Georgia. By this time, the FCC had changed its regulations to allow a station to operate its main studio outside its city of license. As a result, WCTV has been a Tallahassee station from the very beginning. However, it has always identified as serving "Thomasville/Tallahassee," and has operated a live studio/bureau in Thomasville for many years.
The station originally carried programming from all three networks, but was a primarily an NBC affiliate. After only a year on the air, it switched to CBS and has been affiliated with that network ever since. However, it carried a secondary ABC affiliation. It is still the only commercial VHF station in the market (the only other VHF stations are PBS members WFSU-TV, still on channel 11, and Georgia Public Broadcasting's
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%27s%20algorithm
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In electrical engineering and computer science, Lloyd's algorithm, also known as Voronoi iteration or relaxation, is an algorithm named after Stuart P. Lloyd for finding evenly spaced sets of points in subsets of Euclidean spaces and partitions of these subsets into well-shaped and uniformly sized convex cells. Like the closely related k-means clustering algorithm, it repeatedly finds the centroid of each set in the partition and then re-partitions the input according to which of these centroids is closest. In this setting, the mean operation is an integral over a region of space, and the nearest centroid operation results in Voronoi diagrams.
Although the algorithm may be applied most directly to the Euclidean plane, similar algorithms may also be applied to higher-dimensional spaces or to spaces with other non-Euclidean metrics. Lloyd's algorithm can be used to construct close approximations to centroidal Voronoi tessellations of the input, which can be used for quantization, dithering, and stippling. Other applications of Lloyd's algorithm include smoothing of triangle meshes in the finite element method.
History
The algorithm was first proposed by Stuart P. Lloyd of Bell Labs in 1957 as a technique for pulse-code modulation. Lloyd's work became widely circulated but remained unpublished until 1982. A similar algorithm was developed independently by Joel Max and published in 1960, which is why the algorithm is sometimes referred as the Lloyd-Max algorithm.
Algorithm description
Lloyd's algorithm starts by an initial placement of some number k of point sites in the input domain. In mesh-smoothing applications, these would be the vertices of the mesh to be smoothed; in other applications they may be placed at random or by intersecting a uniform triangular mesh of the appropriate size with the input domain.
It then repeatedly executes the following relaxation step:
The Voronoi diagram of the k sites is computed.
Each cell of the Voronoi diagram is integrated, and the centroid is computed.
Each site is then moved to the centroid of its Voronoi cell.
Integration and centroid computation
Because Voronoi diagram construction algorithms can be highly non-trivial, especially for inputs of dimension higher than two, the steps of calculating this diagram and finding the exact centroids of its cells may be replaced by an approximation.
Approximation
A common simplification is to employ a suitable discretization of space like a fine pixel-grid, e.g. the texture buffer in graphics hardware. Cells are materialized as pixels, labeled with their corresponding site-ID. A cell's new center is approximated by averaging the positions of all pixels assigned with the same label.
Alternatively, Monte Carlo methods may be used, in which random sample points are generated according to some fixed underlying probability distribution, assigned to the closest site, and averaged to approximate the centroid for each site.
Exact computation
Although embedding in ot
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy%20Weseluck
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Cathy Weseluck is a Canadian actress and comedian who frequently works with Ocean Productions in Vancouver, British Columbia and is known for her roles as Near in Death Note, Cybersix/Adrian Seidelman in Cybersix, and Spike in the Discovery Family animated TV series
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
Early life
Cathy Weseluck has Russian ancestry. Her relatives are from the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union (now territory Belarus).
Career
Radio
Before becoming a voice actress, Weseluck was an associate producer at CBC Radio until one of the hosts encouraged her to try voice acting. Her first voice work was a radio spot for the Vancouver Centre Mall.
Voice acting
Weseluck has provided voices for many cartoon and anime series. She has provided the voice of Mirai Yashima in Mobile Suit Gundam, Dorothy Catalonia and Catherine Bloom in Gundam Wing, Near in Death Note, Cybersix in Cybersix, Shampoo in Ranma , Kagome's mother in InuYasha, Verne in U.B.O.S., Misa Takatsuki in Project ARMS, and Kid Trunks, Chiaotzu, and Puar in Dragon Ball Z (among many others). She also voices Spike and several background characters in the animated children's series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
In addition to her voice-over work, she is also a voice director and instructor. She served as singing director on My Little Pony Tales, casting coordinator on Animated Classic Showcase for Film Roman, voice director for the English version of Spiff and Hercules, casting director on The Authentic Adventures of Professor Thompson and dubbing director on Billy the Cat.
Filmography
Web productions
#TweetIt: Featuring My Little Pony Staff and Bronies – Herself
Anime dubbing
B-Daman Fireblast – Riki Ryugasaki
Beyblade Burst - Jin Aizawa
Black Lagoon – Garcia Lovelace
Dragon Ball Z (Ocean Dub) – Chaozu, Puar, East Kai, Young Trunks, Android 19, Chiko, Lemilia, Marron, Erasa, Bra
Death Note – Near/Nate River, additional female voices
Funky Fables – Various Characters
Gintama° – Young Katsura Kotaro
Hamtaro – Snoozer, Laura's Mom, Omar
Hikaru no Go – Yuki Mitani, Hikaru's Mom
Kurozuka – Saniwa
MegaMan: NT Warrior - Kid Grave
Mega Man: Upon a Star – Mrs. Kobayashi
Mobile Suit Gundam and Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack – Mirai Yashima
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing – Catherine Bloom (35-49), Dorothy Catalonia
Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz – Catherine Bloom (Movie Version only), Dorothy Catalonia
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 – Kati Mannequin, Revive Revival
Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. Individual Eleven – Tachikoma
Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. Laughing Man – Tachikoma
The Hakkenden – Shinbei Inue/Daihachi
Hamtaro – Marian Haruna, Kylie's cousin Ethan, Snoozer, Omar, additional voices
Inuyasha – Kagome's mother/Mrs. Higurashi, Ayumi, Additional voices
Inuyasha: The Final Act - Kagome's mother/Mrs. Higurashi, Ayumi
Let's Go Quintuplets – Harold
Monkey Magic – Empress Dowager
The New Adventures of Kimba The White Lion – Additional Voices
Ogre Slayer – Setsuko
Po
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%20size
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File size is a measure of how much data a computer file contains or, alternately, how much storage it consumes. Typically, file size is expressed in units of measurement based on the byte. By convention, file size units use either a metric prefix (as in megabyte and gigabyte) or a binary prefix (as in mebibyte and gibibyte).
When a file is written to a file system, which is the case in most modern devices, it may consume slightly more disk space than the file requires. This is because the file system rounds the size up to include any unused space left over in the last disk sector used by the file. (A sector is the smallest amount of space addressable by the file system. The size of a disk sector ranges from several hundred to several thousand bytes.) The unused space is called slack space or internal fragmentation. Although smaller sector sizes allow for denser use of disk space, they decrease the operational efficiency of the file system.
Maximum size
The maximum file size a file system supports depends not only on the capacity of the file system, but also on the number of bits reserved for the storage of file size information. The maximum file size in the FAT32 file system, for example, is 4,294,967,295 bytes, which is one byte less than four gigabytes. The table below details the maximum file size for a number of common or historical file systems.
Units of information
Bytes are the typical base unit of information. Larger files will typically have their sizes expressed using kilobyte, megabyte or gigabyte depending upon how large the file is. While these larger units are not as accurate as the byte size, most operating systems will expose the true byte size of a file by inspecting the file properties directly. Command line tools can also expose the exact byte size as well.
A file system may display all sizes with the metric system with only 'kB' on small files indicating it, while some file systems/operating systems would display sizes in, the traditionally used on computers, binary system for all sizes, e.g. 'KB', while hard disk manufacturers use the metric system (for e.g. GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes and TB = 1000 GB).
Kilobyte (KB) (JEDEC), is sometimes referred to unambiguously as kibibyte (KiB)(IEC). Sometimes kB, with lower cased SI-prefix 'k-' for kilo (1000), is used, then always equaling 1000 bytes.
File transfers (e.g. "downloads") may use rates of units of bytes (e.g. MB/s) in binary rather than metric system, while networking hardware, such as WiFi, always uses the metric system (Mbit/s, Gbit/s etc.). of units of bits (and it needs to send more than the files themselves, so some overhead needs to be factored in), making superficially similar terms very incompatible.
See also
Units of information
Metric prefix
Notes
References
Computer files
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Finch%20%28comics%29
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David Finch is a comics artist known for his work on Top Cow Productions' Cyberforce, as well as numerous subsequent titles for Marvel Comics and DC Comics, such as The New Avengers, Moon Knight, Ultimatum, and Brightest Day. He has provided album cover art for the band Disturbed, and done concept art for films such as Watchmen.
Career
David Finch started his comics career drawing Top Cow Productions' Cyberforce, after series creator and studio founder Marc Silvestri ceased his run as writer/artist on that book. Finch co-created Ascension with Matt "Batt" Banning. He later worked on the first three issues of Aphrodite IX with David Wohl.
In 2003, Finch returned to comics for a year-long arc on Ultimate X-Men with writer Brian Michael Bendis. Following that, the duo moved on to The Avengers, where they destroyed Marvel's premiere superhero team and then relaunched it as The New Avengers featuring a radically different cast. On Avengers, David's presence doubled sales with starting with his first issue.
Finch worked on the revamped Moon Knight series with novelist Charlie Huston
His run on Moon Knight skyrocketed this title into the main Marvel universe and saw it sell over five times the titles previous releases.
he then illustrated Fallen Son: The Death of Captain America #4, featuring Spider-Man. This was followed by the Ultimatum limited series for the Ultimate Marvel line. In addition to interior comics work, he has drawn several covers including those of "World War Hulk"; X-Men #200 and the "X-Men: Messiah Complex" storyline; and the X-Infernus miniseries.
Finch illustrated the cover to Disturbed's 2008 album, Indestructible, as well as doing concept design for the film adaptation of Alan Moore's Watchmen.
In January 2010, Finch left Marvel and became a DC Comics exclusive artist. Finch collaborated with Grant Morrison on Batman #700 (Aug. 2010) an oversized anniversary issue. In July 2010 DC announced that Finch would be writing and drawing a new ongoing series entitled Batman: The Dark Knight, the first story arc of which deals with the detective's more supernatural cases. The series launched with a January 2011 cover date, but was relaunched in November of that same year as part of the company-wide reboot The New 52.
In July 2012, as part of the San Diego Comic-Con, Finch was one of six artists who, along with DC co-publishers Jim Lee and Dan DiDio, participated in the production of "Heroic Proportions", an episode of the Syfy reality television competition series Face Off, in which special effects were tasked to create a new superhero, with Finch and the other DC artists on hand to help them develop their ideas. The winning entry's character, Infernal Core by Anthony Kosar, was featured in Justice League Dark #16 (March 2013), which was published January 30, 2013. The episode premiered on January 22, 2013, as the second episode of the fourth season.
Finch and Geoff Johns launched a new Justice League of America series and the For
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In mathematics, the rational sieve is a general algorithm for factoring integers into prime factors. It is a special case of the general number field sieve. While it is less efficient than the general algorithm, it is conceptually simpler. It serves as a helpful first step in understanding how the general number field sieve works.
Method
Suppose we are trying to factor the composite number n. We choose a bound B, and identify the factor base (which we will call P), the set of all primes less than or equal to B. Next, we search for positive integers z such that both z and z+n are B-smooth — i.e. all of their prime factors are in P. We can therefore write, for suitable exponents ,
and likewise, for suitable , we have
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But and are congruent modulo , and so each such integer z that we find yields a multiplicative relation (mod n) among the elements of P, i.e.
(where the ai and bi are nonnegative integers.)
When we have generated enough of these relations (it's generally sufficient that the number of relations be a few more than the size of P), we can use the methods of linear algebra to multiply together these various relations in such a way that the exponents of the primes are all even. This will give us a congruence of squares of the form a2≡b2 (mod n), which can be turned into a factorization of n = gcd(a-b,n)×gcd(a+b,n). This factorization might turn out to be trivial (i.e. n=n×1), in which case we have to try again with a different combination of relations; but with luck we will get a nontrivial pair of factors of n, and the algorithm will terminate.
Example
We will factor the integer n = 187 using the rational sieve. We'll arbitrarily try the value B=7, giving the factor base P = {2,3,5,7}. The first step is to test n for divisibility by each of the members of P; clearly if n is divisible by one of these primes, then we are finished already. However, 187 is not divisible by 2, 3, 5, or 7. Next, we search for suitable values of z; the first few are 2, 5, 9, and 56. The four suitable values of z give four multiplicative relations (mod 187):
There are now several essentially different ways to combine these and end up with even exponents. For example,
()×(): After multiplying these and canceling out the common factor of 7 (which we can do since 7, being a member of P, has already been determined to be coprime with n), this reduces to 24 ≡ 38 (mod n), or 42 ≡ 812 (mod n). The resulting factorization is 187 = gcd(81-4,187) × gcd(81+4,187) = 11×17.
Alternatively, equation () is in the proper form already:
(): This says 32 ≡ 142 (mod n), which gives the factorization 187 = gcd(14-3,187) × gcd(14+3,187) = 11×17.
Limitations of the algorithm
The rational sieve, like the general number field sieve, cannot factor numbers of the form pm, where p is a prime and m is an integer. This is not a huge problem, though—such numbers are statistically rare, and moreover there is a simple and fast process to check whether a given number is of this
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%20requirements%20document
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The user requirement(s) document (URD) or user requirement(s) specification (URS) is a document usually used in software engineering that specifies what the user expects the software to be able to do.
Once the required information is completely gathered it is documented in a URD, which is meant to spell out exactly what the software must do and becomes part of the contractual agreement. A customer cannot demand features not in the URD, while the developer cannot claim the product is ready if it does not meet an item of the URD.
The URD can be used as a guide for planning cost, timetables, milestones, testing, etc. The explicit nature of the URD allows customers to show it to various stakeholders to make sure all necessary features are described.
Formulating a URD requires negotiation to determine what is technically and economically feasible. Preparing a URD is one of those skills that lies between a science and an art, requiring both software technical skills and interpersonal skills.
Pharmaceutical Industry Use
User Requirement Specifications (URS) are important in the pharmaceutical industry for regulatory and business purposes. URS support regulatory and business considerations for processes, equipment, and systems. For example, a business consideration could be the foot print of equipment prior to installation to ensure there is enough room. Likewise, a regulatory consideration could be the ability for the system to provide an audit trail to ensure the system meets regulatory requirements.
URS writing pitfalls
Commonly, when companies are purchasing systems, processes, and equipment - not everything is considered. URS ensure everything is considered and the supplier provides the components, features, and design required to meet the company needs. By considering more and having the components, features, and design required, the system, process, or equipment can be aligned with company interests and easily integrated.
See also
Product requirements document
Marketing Requirements Document
Requirements management
Use case
Use case survey
ISO 25065 "User requirements specification"
References
Software requirements
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiver%20%28disambiguation%29
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A quiver is a container for archery ammunition.
Quiver may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Quiver (video game), a 1997 first-person shooter video game
Quiver, the code-name for the computer game Half-Life during early development
Literature
Quiver (comics), a Green Arrow story arc
The Quiver, an English magazine published 1861–1956
Quiver, an imprint of the Quarto Group focusing on sex
Music
Quiver (band), a British 1970s rock band
Quiver (KTU album), 2009
Quiver (Ron Miles album), 2012
Quiver, a 1998 album by Wild Strawberries
Science and biology
Quiver (mathematics), a type of graph
Quiver diagram, a graph in physics
Vector field, a plot with arrows that indicate the direction and magnitude
Quiver tree, a South African succulent plant, Aloidendron dichotomum, related to aloes
A group of cobras
Places
Quiver Township, Mason County, Illinois, USA
Quiver Creek, a stream in Illinois, USA
Quiver River, a river in Mississippi, USA
Quiver Tree Forest, Namibia
Other uses
Quiverfull, a movement eschews all forms of contraception, including natural family planning and sterilization
See also
Surfboard quiver
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian%20algorithm
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The Hungarian method is a combinatorial optimization algorithm that solves the assignment problem in polynomial time and which anticipated later primal–dual methods. It was developed and published in 1955 by Harold Kuhn, who gave the name "Hungarian method" because the algorithm was largely based on the earlier works of two Hungarian mathematicians: Dénes Kőnig and Jenő Egerváry.
James Munkres reviewed the algorithm in 1957 and observed that it is (strongly) polynomial. Since then the algorithm has been known also as the Kuhn–Munkres algorithm or Munkres assignment algorithm. The time complexity of the original algorithm was , however Edmonds and Karp, and independently Tomizawa noticed that it can be modified to achieve an running time. One of the most popular variants is the Jonker–Volgenant algorithm. Ford and Fulkerson extended the method to general maximum flow problems in form of the Ford–Fulkerson algorithm. In 2006, it was discovered that Carl Gustav Jacobi had solved the assignment problem in the 19th century, and the solution had been published posthumously in 1890 in Latin.
The problem
Example
In this simple example, there are three workers: Alice, Bob and Dora. One of them has to clean the bathroom, another sweep the floors and the third washes the windows, but they each demand different pay for the various tasks. The problem is to find the lowest-cost way to assign the jobs. The problem can be represented in a matrix of the costs of the workers doing the jobs. For example:
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
!
! Cleanbathroom
! Sweepfloors
! Wash windows
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! Alice
| $8
| $4
| $7
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! Bob
| $5
| $2
| $3
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! Dora
| $9
| $4
| $8
|}
The Hungarian method, when applied to the above table, would give the minimum cost: this is $15, achieved by having Alice clean the bathroom, Dora sweep the floors, and Bob wash the windows. This can be confirmed using brute force:
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
!
! Alice
! Bob
! Dora
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! Alice
| —
| $17
| $16
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! Bob
| $18
| —
| $18
|-
! Dora
| $15
| $16
| —
|} (the unassigned person washes the windows)
Matrix formulation
In the matrix formulation, we are given a nonnegative n×n matrix, where the element in the i-th row and j-th column represents the cost of assigning the j-th job to the i-th worker. We have to find an assignment of the jobs to the workers, such that each job is assigned to one worker and each worker is assigned one job, such that the total cost of assignment is minimum.
This can be expressed as permuting the rows of a cost matrix C to minimize the trace of a matrix,
where P is a permutation matrix. (Equivalently, the columns can be permuted using CP.)
If the goal is to find the assignment that yields the maximum cost, the problem can be solved by negating the cost matrix C.
Bipartite graph formulation
The algorithm can equivalently be described by formulating the problem using a bipartite graph. We have a complete bipartite graph with worke
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture%20for%20Control%20Networks
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Architecture for Control Networks (ACN) is a suite of network protocols for control of entertainment technology equipment, particularly as used in live performance or large-scale installations. For example, lighting, audio or special effects equipment. ACN is maintained by Entertainment Services and Technology Association and its first official release was ANSI Standard E1.17-2006 - Entertainment Technology - Architecture for Control Networks. The standard was subsequently revised and released as ANSI E1.17-2010.
ACN was initially designed to be layered on top of UDP/IP and therefore will run over most IP transports including standard, inexpensive Ethernet and 802.11 (Wi-Fi) networks.
Protocol architecture
ACN defines a common protocol architecture, two major network protocols (SDT, DMP), a device description language (DDL) and a number of ‘E1.17 Profiles for Interoperability’ (known as EPIs or interoperability profiles) which define how elements of the ACN architecture must be used in a particular context to achieve interoperability. For example, by providing specific values or ranges for timing parameters to be used in a particular network environment.
The breakdown of ACN into sub-protocols, interoperability profiles and other small pieces has been criticized as making ACN hard to read and understand but it makes the architecture highly modular and cleanly layered and this has allowed many of the pieces to be operated in other contexts or replaced or revised without changing the other pieces. For example, DMP has been operated over TCP as well as over SDT as defined in the initial standard, DDL has been adapted with little change to describe devices accessed by DMX512 (ANSI E1.31/Streaming ACN), and several interoperability profiles have seen major revision or replacement without disturbing the other parts of the standard.
Common Architecture
The common architecture specification defines a format of nested protocol data units (PDUs), rather similar to TLV encoding, which are used in the main protocols. It then defines how a minimal Root Layer Protocol is used to splice the higher level protocols into a lower level transport and defines such a Root Layer Protocol using the PDU format for use on UDP/IP.
Session Data Transport
Session Data Transport (SDT) is a reliable multicast transport protocol which operates over UDP/IP which can be used to group peers within a network into sessions and deliver messages to them individually or as a group. Message delivery is ordered and messages may be selectively sent reliably or unreliably on a message-by-message basis (reliability is very important for some data while avoiding the time and resource overhead of the reliability mechanism is beneficial for others). The reliability mechanism also provides online status so a component will detect when a connection is broken. SDT provides a high degree of fine tuning over the trade-off between latency, reliability levels and resource requirements and av
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Girl%20in%20the%20Big%20Ten
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"Little Girl in the Big Ten" is the twentieth episode of the thirteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 12, 2002. In the episode, Lisa befriends two college students at a gym and attends college with them. Meanwhile, after being bitten by a mosquito from a Chinese-made toy, Bart is infected with the "panda virus" and is placed in a plastic bubble to prevent others from infection.
"Little Girl in the Big Ten" was directed by Lauren MacMullan and written by Jon Vitti. The episode's main plot was pitched by Vitti, who suggested an episode in which Lisa meets girls who thought she was a college student. The subplot was pitched by the Simpsons writing staff, who wanted it to be completely different from the main story. The episode features former three-time U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky as himself.
In its original broadcast, the episode was seen by approximately 6.8 million viewers and finished in 40th place in the ratings the week it aired.
Following its home media release on August 24, 2010, the episode received mixed reviews from critics.
Plot
Lisa finds herself unable to do any sports in PE class, taught by Brunella Pommelhorst, and finds herself failing physical education. She then signs up to do gymnastics with Coach Lugash. There, she receives encouragement from the ghost of John F. Kennedy in a vision. With boosted self-confidence, and her large head which gives her perfect balance, Lisa passes with flying colors. Lisa also meets two girls and becomes friends with them, but with their fractals and parking permits, she realizes they are college students "with small gymnast bodies!" They give Lisa a ride home, and she acts like a college student to fit in with them. The girls invite her to a poetry reading by former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky soon after. Lisa tries to keep up her double life, attending poetry readings at night with the girls while wearing a beret and falling asleep in her second grade class during the day.
Meanwhile, Bart gets bitten by a Chinese mosquito that was in his Krusty-saurus toy, and becomes infected with "Panda virus". To prevent others from getting sick, Dr. Hibbert puts Bart in a plastic bubble for the next few days. Bart initially has trouble adapting to life in the bubble; he has trouble eating and Homer gives him a bath by filling up the bubble with the hose and rolling Bart around the house. However, Bart soon finds that his bubble brings him a lot of popularity after he is able to bounce off the attacks from the bullies.
While going to Springfield University, Lisa is tracked by Milhouse, Martin, and Database who see her ride away. At a lecture on Itchy & Scratchy cartoons, Milhouse blows Lisa's cover and she flees at being unaccepted by her friends. Lisa tries to convince Homer and Marge that college suits her, but they tell her that college is no place for her at her age. Lisa is also ridiculed by Grou
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astalavista.box.sk was founded in 1994 as one of the first search engines for computer security information. In practice it turned out to be used as a search engine for security exploits, software for hacking, cracking and different keygenerators and software cracks.
In the early 1990s and 2000s, the site was popular among people interested in hacking or securing systems against hacking. The site is known for referencing things such as spyware and viruses and because of this the website is known to possibly contain data, links, downloadable files, and information some users would consider spyware, adware, or other unwanted programs. Besides possible links to viruses, the website used to display adult adverts.
Previously, the website was part of a larger network of websites all using the box.sk domain. These websites all catered to different downloads, including MP3 music, DVD rips, and digital graphics and other hacking websites, such as New Order.
Astalavista.box.sk is hosted in Slovakia. Astalavista is a pun on the Spanish phrase "hasta la vista" (meaning "see you later"). It has been speculated that the name was a play on the 90's web search engine Altavista, however, that was launched a year later in 1995.
Astalavista.box.sk was not affiliated to astalavista.com, which was a separate hacking community, found in 1997.
On April 7, 2021, an article was published on Medium.com by Dancho Danchev stating that the site is back up and running. Subsequent attempts to reach the site however lead to a 503 Service Unavailable error on the website.
References
External links
Computing websites
Internet search engines
Computer security software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit%20bureau
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A credit bureau is a data collection agency that gathers account information from various creditors and provides that information to a consumer reporting agency in the United States, a credit reference agency in the United Kingdom, a credit reporting body in Australia, a credit information company (CIC) in India, Special Accessing Entity in the Philippines, and also to private lenders. It is not the same as a credit rating agency.
Description
A consumer reporting agency is an organization providing information on individuals' borrowing and bill-paying habits. Such credit information institutions reduce the effect of asymmetric information between borrowers and lenders, and alleviate problems of adverse selection and moral hazard. For example, adequate credit information could facilitate lenders in screening and monitoring borrowers as well as avoiding giving loans to high risk individuals. Lenders use this to evaluate credit worthiness, the ability to pay back a loan, and can affect the interest rate and other terms of a loan. Interest rates are not the same for everyone, but instead can be based on risk-based pricing, a form of price discrimination based on the different expected risks of different borrowers, as set out in their credit rating. Consumers with poor credit repayment histories or court adjudicated debt obligations like tax liens or bankruptcies will pay a higher annual interest rate than consumers who don't have these factors. Additionally, decision-makers in areas unrelated to consumer credit, including employment screening and underwriting of property and casualty insurance, increasingly depend on credit records, as studies have shown that such records have predictive value. At the same time, consumers also benefit from a good credit information system because it reduces the effect of credit monopoly from banks and provides incentives for borrowers to repay their loans on time.
In the U.S., consumer reporting agencies collect and aggregate personal information, financial data, and alternative data on individuals from a variety of sources called data furnishers with which the reporting agencies have a relationship. Data furnishers are typically creditors, lenders, utilities, debt collection agencies (credit bureaus) and the courts (i.e. public records) that a consumer has had a relationship or experience with. Data furnishers report their payment experience with the consumer to the credit reporting agencies. The data provided by the furnishers as well as collected by the bureaus is then aggregated into the consumer reporting agency's data repository or files. The resulting information is made available on request to customers of the consumer reporting agencies' for the purposes of credit risk assessment, credit scoring or for other purposes such as employment consideration or leasing an apartment. Given the large number of consumer borrowers, these credit scores tend to be mechanistic. To simplify the analytical process for the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception%20chaining
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Exception chaining, or exception wrapping, is an object-oriented programming technique of handling exceptions by re-throwing a caught exception after wrapping it inside a new exception. The original exception is saved as a property (such as cause) of the new exception. The idea is that a method should throw exceptions defined at the same abstraction level as the method itself, but without discarding information from the lower levels.
For example, a method to play a movie file might handle exceptions in reading the file by re-throwing them inside an exception of movie playing. The user interface doesn't need to know whether the error occurred during reading chunk of bytes or calling eof(). It needs only the exception message extracted from cause. The user interface layer will have its own set of exceptions. The one interested in cause can see its stack trace during debugging or in proper log.
Throwing the right kind of exceptions is particularly enforced by checked exceptions in the Java programming language, and starting with language version 1.4 almost all exceptions support chaining.
In runtime engine environments such as Java or .NET there exist tools that attach to the runtime engine and every time that an exception of interest occurs they record debugging information that existed in memory at the time the exception was thrown (stack and heap values). These tools are called Exception Interception and they provide "root-cause" information for exceptions in Java programs that run in production, testing, or development environments.
References
Chained exceptions - Sun's Java tutorial
Software design patterns
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The 3480 tape format is a magnetic tape data storage format developed by IBM. The tape is wide and is packaged in a cartridge. The cartridge contains a single reel; the takeup reel is inside the tape drive.
Because of their speed, reliability, durability and low media cost, these tapes and tape drives are still in high demand. A hallmark of the genre is transferability. Tapes recorded with one tape drive are generally readable on another drive, even if the tape drives were built by different manufacturers.
Tape drives conforming with the IBM 3480 product family specification were manufactured by a variety of vendors from 1984 to 2004. Core manufacturers included IBM, Fujitsu, M4 Data, Overland Data, StorageTek and Victor Data Systems (VDS). Various models of these tape drives were also marketed under other brands, including DEC, MP Tapes, Philips, Plasmon, Qualstar, Tandem, and Xcerta.
IBM designated all versions of 3480 and 3490E tape drives as members of the 3480 Product Family.
Interfaces
Tape drives built for the 3480 formats were initially designed for IBM System/370 computers. Therefore, the first 3480 tape drives communicated through a bus and tag interface. Later models were able to take advantage of ESCON and high voltage SCSI interfaces. The advent of the SCSI interface made it possible to connect 3480 family tape drives to personal computers, which enabled mainframe-to-PC data exchange.
3480
The first 3480 tape drives were introduced in 1984. The IBM 3480 was the first tape drive to employ magnetoresistive (MR) heads and the first to use chromium dioxide tape.
One way the format stands out from earlier formats is that the gap between blocks is too small for the drive to stop the tape within it, so the drive must have a write buffer. When the drive does stop the tape during writing because the host is not sending data, it overshoots the gap, backs up the tape, and stops it well before the gap. During the seconds this is happening, if the host has resumed sending data, the drive stores it in the buffer. It then accelerates the tape, reaching speed before the place where the next block needs to be written, and proceeds to write the buffered data there.
Because it is not necessary to accelerate and decelerate the tape within the interblock gap, a 3480 tape drive does not need vacuum columns, and that allows it to be much smaller than tape drives for earlier formats.
It was also distinguished by a relatively high data transfer rate: 3 megabytes per second. This was because it was able to read and write linear data across 18 recording tracks simultaneously, or of tape. IBM's prior technology employed 9 recording tracks with a data density of of tape, so the 3480 format was greeted as a major breakthrough. The IBM 3480 cartridge stored 200 megabytes in a modest cartridge compared to the previous technology's 140 megabytes on a diameter ( length) reel of tape. The 3480 and its successors are streaming drives.
While IBM off
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitudinal%20data%20system
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Longitudinal data system is a data system capable of tracking student information over multiple years in multiple schools. The term appears in Federal law of the United States to describe such a system. Federal funding is provided to aid the design and implementation of such systems.
References
Student assessment and evaluation
American legal terminology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby-Doo%2C%20Where%20Are%20You%21
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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! is an American animated comedy television series created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears and produced by Hanna-Barbera for CBS. The series premiered as part of the network's Saturday morning cartoon schedule on September 13, 1969, and aired for two seasons until October 31, 1970. In 1978, a selection of episodes from the later animated series Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics and The Scooby-Doo Show were aired on ABC under the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! title name, and was released in a DVD set marketed as its third season. It also aired on BBC One in the UK from 1970 to 1973. The complete series is also available on Boomerang, HBO channels, and Tubi streaming services.
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! is the first incarnation of a long-running media franchise primarily consisting of animated series, several films, and related merchandise.
Overview
The show follows the adventures of teenagers Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy, and a dog named Scooby-Doo. They travel in a van known as The Mystery Machine, encountering and solving mysteries. Once solved, the group typically discovers that the perpetrator of the mystery is a disguised person who seeks to exploit a local legend or myth for personal gain.
Episodes
Voice cast
Don Messick as Scooby-Doo and miscellaneous characters
Casey Kasem as Shaggy Rogers and miscellaneous characters
Frank Welker as Fred Jones and miscellaneous characters
Stefanianna Christopherson as Daphne Blake (season 1)
Heather North as Daphne Blake (seasons 2 and 3)
Nicole Jaffe as Velma Dinkley (seasons 1 and 2)
Pat Stevens as Velma Dinkley (season 3)
Production
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! was the result of CBS and Hanna-Barbera's plans to create a non-violent Saturday morning program that would appease the parent watch groups that had protested the superhero-based programs of the mid-1960s. Originally titled The Mysteries Five and later Who's S-S-Scared?, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! underwent several changes from script to screen (the most significant being the downplaying of a musical group angle). However, the basic concept—a group of teenagers and their dog solving supernatural-related mysteries—was always in place.
Scooby-Doo creators Joe Ruby and Ken Spears served as the story supervisors on the series.
Home media
On June 4, 2002, Warner Home Video released four episodes from the series on a compilation DVD in Region 1 entitled Scooby-Doo's Creepiest Capers. They later released all 25 episodes on DVD in Region 1 on March 16, 2004 under the title Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! The Complete First and Second Seasons. A DVD entitled Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! The Complete Third Season was released on April 10, 2007, made up of episodes produced in 1978, added to the Scooby's All-Stars package, and later syndicated as part of The Scooby-Doo Show.
On November 9, 2010, Warner Home Video released Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!: The Complete Series. The eight-disc set features all 25 episodes of the series plus th
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Nazarene Youth United Kingdom (NYUK), is an organisation for the youth of the Church of the Nazarene of the United Kingdom.
The organisation supports young Christians in the UK through a network of friends and fellowship. Although the Nazarene youth in the UK have been active for many years, use of the term NYUK is fairly recent.
NYUK organises events from weekend sleepovers to a district youth holiday for 1 week each year. The main focus of these holidays is to give young people positive life experiences, to encourage Christian young people and to give others the opportunity to become informed about the beliefs and teachings of Christianity.
NYUK is led by a district council which are democratically elected by the members of the Church of the Nazarene. NYUK is split into 2 districts, the North encompassing Scotland and Northern Ireland, and the South encompassing England and Wales. Within these 2 districts there are sub-districts.
Evangelical parachurch organizations
Church of the Nazarene
Youth organisations based in the United Kingdom
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witness%20to%20a%20Prosecution
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Witness to a Prosecution is a Hong Kong television series produced by TVB. The original broadcast was on the TVB Jade network with 45-minute episodes airing five days a week from 20 December 1999 to 16 January 2000. The drama stars Bobby Au-yeung as the famous historical forensic medical expert Song Ci ("Sung Chee" in Cantonese romanisation). Set during the Southern Song Dynasty of Mid-Imperial China, Witness to a Prosecution tells a fictionalised account of Chee's modest beginnings and the events leading to the creation of his book Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified, the world's earliest documentation of forensic science.
Witness to a Prosecution was met with positive reviews and quickly became a popular success. Viewership ratings were consistently high, and the drama was the seventh most-viewed drama in 2000, drawing an average of 33 rating points, peaking at 44 points. The drama also yielded Au-yeung a "Best Actor" win at the 2000 TVB Anniversary Awards. A subsequent sequel was released in 2003, airing on the same channel from 24 February to 23 March 2003. Although viewership ratings peaked higher to 47 points, it was met with mixed reviews.
Synopsis
For 30 years, nighttime keeper Song Ci (Bobby Au-yeung) was despised in To Yuen village due to his posthumous birth in a coffin, having only the sickly scholar Sit Dan (Michael Tse) and the coolie Cha Siu-chaan (Lo Mang) as his friends.
After disputing with the village chief over his family's land, Ci, along with a homeless female thief Tong Sze (Jessica Hsuan), are accused for murdering the chief and are sentenced to death. The village's newly appointed magistrate Sung Yik (Frankie Lam) finds the case suspicious and investigates.
With the help of the mysterious yet experienced coroner Ma Kwai (Lau Kong), Yik successfully revokes Ci and Sze's sentences. Kwai becomes Ci's coroner master and Yik employs Ci to be his personal forensic medical doctor. The two become good friends and partners, successfully solving many murder cases in town.
Sze develops a crush on Yik, unaware that Yik and Nip Fung (Mariane Chan), daughter of chief constable Nip Yan-lung (Gordon Liu), are already in a relationship. Ci, on the other hand, falls for Lam Choi-dip (Eileen Yeow), the spoiled daughter of rich merchant Lam To (Lee Lung-kei). Choi-dip, however, has her eyes on Yik.
Several months later, a man also by the name of Sung Yik shows up and confronts Yik, calling him a traitor. After the two intensely quarrel, the fake Yik accidentally kills the real Sung Yik. In a panic, he buries Sung Yik's body in the garden of the Sung family rice shop. Yik's relatives then mysteriously die one by one; Ci eventually uncovers the body of the real Sung Yik and begins to grow suspicious of the current Yik, a man whom he has always respected and treated as a friend.
Cast
Note: Some of the characters' names are romanised via Cantonese pronunciation, instead of Mandarin.
Bobby Au-yeung as Song Ci (宋慈)
Frankie Lam as Magis
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Product and manufacturing information, also abbreviated PMI, conveys non-geometric attributes in 3D computer-aided design (CAD) and Collaborative Product Development systems necessary for manufacturing product components and assemblies. PMI may include geometric dimensions and tolerances, 3D annotation (text) and dimensions, surface finish, and material specifications. PMI is used in conjunction with the 3D model within model-based definition to allow for the elimination of 2D drawings for data set utilization.
Uses and visualization
The PMI annotation is created on the 3D CAD model, associated to edges and faces, and can be exported into neutral formats such as ISO 10303 STEP and 3D PDF. This information can then be used by a number of down-stream processes. PMI can be used to generate annotation on a traditional 2D drawing the data. However, generally, PMI is used to visualized product definition within the 3D model, thus removing the need for drawings. Some 3D model formats enable computer-aided manufacturing software to access PMI directly for CNC programming. The PMI also may be used by tolerance analysis and coordinate-measuring machine (CMM) software applications if the modeling application permits.
PMI items are often organized within annotation views. Annotation views typically view including camera/view position, selected and also the particular state of the assembly (visibility, rendering mode, sometime even position of each element of the assembly). CAD applications have different notions of PMI Views (for instance "Capture Views" and "Annotation
Views" are specific to Dassault Systems CATIA, etc.).
For anyone to be able to display any kind of PMI View, Adobe Systems has unified their format and added their description to the PDF format (version 1.7).
Communication deliverables
In an effort to unify the visualization of PMI across the different existing solutions, Adobe Systems has released a version of the Myriad CAD font that allows display of PMI information from almost any CAD application. Similarly, Siemens Digital Industries Software offers downloadable font sets for multiple languages such as for Asian character sets.
The ISO 10303 STEP standards also handle a wide range of PMI information. ISO 10303 is an ISO standard for the computer-interpretable representation and exchange of product manufacturing information. It is an ASCII-based format.[1]: 59 Its official title is: Automation systems and integration — Product data representation and exchange. It is known informally as "STEP", which stands for "Standard for the Exchange of Product model data". ISO 10303 can represent 3D objects in Computer-aided design (CAD) and related information.
Standards
Industry standards for defining PMI include ASME Y14.41-XXXX Digital Product Data Definition Practices and ISO 1101:2004 Geometrical Product Specifications (GPS) -- Geometrical tolerancing—Tolerances of form, orientation, location and run-out.
References
Exte
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WTAT-TV (channel 24) is a television station in Charleston, South Carolina, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. The station is owned by Cunningham Broadcasting, a partner company of the Sinclair Broadcast Group. However, although Sinclair effectively owns WTAT-TV (as the majority of Cunningham's stock is owned by the family of deceased group founder Julian Smith), it is one of two Cunningham-owned stations not to be operated by Sinclair (the other is fellow Fox affiliate WYZZ-TV in Peoria, Illinois, which is operated by the Nexstar Media Group as virtual sister station of that market's CBS affiliate WMBD-TV). WTAT-TV's studios are located on Arco Lane in North Charleston (with a Charleston postal address), and its transmitter is located in Awendaw, South Carolina.
History
The station began operations on September 7, 1985, as Charleston's first independent station, under the ownership of Charleston Television Community Ltd., a local group led by Terry Trousdale, who also had the construction permit for the station. It aired an analog signal on UHF channel 24 from a transmitter near Awendaw. On October 9, 1986, as part of a deal between WTAT's owner and News Corporation, it became a charter affiliate of the fledgling Fox network. WTAT would have been the obvious choice as Charleston's Fox affiliate even without that affiliation deal, as it was the area's only general-entertainment independent station at the time.
In 1987, Charleston Television Community Ltd. sold WTAT-TV to Act III Broadcasting, owner of WNRW-TV in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for $3.3-$3.7 million; this was Act III's second station acquisition.
Abry Communications bought the Act III group in 1995, and formed Sullivan Broadcasting to operate the stations. WTAT carried UPN as a secondary affiliation from 1995 until 1997 when former WB affiliate WMMP joined UPN. In 1998, Sullivan Broadcasting sold its stations to Sinclair Broadcast Group, which in turn, had to sell WTAT-TV, along with WRGT-TV and WVAH-TV to Glencairn, Ltd.
By the time Sinclair tried to acquire Sullivan's stations outright in 2001, it already owned WMMP, which it had purchased outright from Max Media Properties (a company partially related to the present-day Max Media) in July 1998. Sinclair could not legally own both WTAT and WMMP because Charleston has only six full-power stations—too few to legally permit a duopoly. Although WTAT was longer-established, Sinclair opted to keep WMMP and sold WTAT to Glencairn, Ltd. That company was owned by Edwin Edwards, a former Sinclair executive, and appeared to be a minority-owned company. However, nearly all of Glencairn's stock was controlled by the Smith family, founders of Sinclair. In effect, Sinclair now had a duopoly in the Charleston market in violation of FCC regulations. Glencairn and Sinclair further circumvented the rules by crafting a local marketing agreement with WMMP as the senior partner, allowing Sinclair to continue operating WTAT.
In 2001,
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Al Jazeera English (AJE; , , meaning "The Peninsula") is a globally recognized 24-hour English-language news channel. It operates under the ownership of the Al Jazeera Media Network, which, in turn, funded by the goverment of Qatar. It is the first English-language news channel to be headquartered in Western Asia. Al Jazeera broadcasts in over 150 countries and territories, and has a large global audience of over 430 million people.
Al Jazeera is known for its independent and in-depth reporting, particularly in conflict zones. It has been praised for its in-depth coverage of events such as the Arab Spring, the Gaza–Israel conflict, and others.
Al Jazeera's coverage of the Arab Spring won the network numerous awards, including the Peabody Award.
History
The channel was launched on 15 November 2006, at 12:00 pm GMT. It had aimed to begin broadcasting in June 2006 but had to postpone its launch because its HDTV technology was not yet ready. The channel was due to be called Al Jazeera International, but the name was changed nine months before the launch because one of the channel's backers argued that the original Arabic-language channel already had an international scope.
The channel was anticipated to reach around 40 million households, but it far exceeded that launch target, reaching 80 million homes. By 2009, the service could be viewed in every major European market and was available to 130 million homes in over 100 countries via cable and satellite, according to a spokeswoman for the network in Washington.
The channel, however, has poor penetration in the American market, where it has been carried by only one satellite service and a small number of cable networks. Al Jazeera English later began a campaign to enter the North American market, including a dedicated website. It became available to some cable subscribers in New York in August 2011, having previously been available as an option for some viewers in Washington, D.C., Ohio and Los Angeles. The channel primarily reaches the United States via its live online streaming. It is readily available on most major Canadian television providers including Rogers and Bell Satellite TV after the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approved the channel for distribution in Canada on 26 November 2009.
Al Jazeera English and Iran's state-run Press TV were the only international English-language television broadcasters with journalists reporting from inside both Gaza and Israel during the 2008–2009 Israel-Gaza conflict. Foreign press access to Gaza has been limited via either Egypt or Israel. However, Al Jazeera's reporters Ayman Mohyeldin and Sherine Tadros were already inside Gaza when the conflict began and the network's coverage was often compared to CNN's initial coverage from inside Baghdad in the early days of the 1991 Gulf War.
The channel may also be viewed online. It recommends online viewing at its own website or at its channel on YouTube. Al Jazeera English HD la
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Tonight Live with Steve Vizard was a nightly Australian comedy chat show broadcast on Seven Network in Australia, featuring live musical performances.
Synopsis
It was a one-hour live studio based show broadcast nationally 5 nights a week from 29 January 1990 to 26 November 1993, usually commencing at 10:30 pm every week night. Presented by Australian lawyer turned comedian and writer Steve Vizard, the show's format was an eclectic mix of a traditional Tonight Show, in the vein of US programs Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson or Jay Leno with more off-beat, often deconstructionist elements, such as broadcasting a rehearsal of the show, a rained out show, a parallel Tonight show, using the floor manager and cameramen as on air talent, using the studio audience to replace high-profile guests and the like.
Awards
The show won the late night ratings around Australia and won several awards, Television Society Awards, and Logie Awards, including the 1991 Gold Logie for host Steve Vizard as Most Popular Person on Australian Television, Vizard was also nominated on three other occasions.
Guest star appearances
One of the main features or fixtures of the show was the diversity of its guest stars, with both local and international personalities featuring. An average show featured at least three interviews with often unexpected disclosures. Over the show's history, in excess of 2,000 guests appeared on Tonight Live With Steve Vizard.
Some of the best known guests included Peter Allen, Steve Allen, Jeffrey Archer, Michael Aspel, Neil Aspinall, Anita Baker, Kathy Bates, David Bellamy, George Benson, Cilla Black, Deborah Blando, Lothaire Bluteau, John Bluthal, Victor Borge, Daryl Braithwaite, Marlon Brando, Michael Caine, Chevy Chase, Julian Clary, Jackie Collins, Pauline Collins, Phil Collins, Harry Connick Jr., Alice Cooper, Cindy Crawford, Russell Crowe, Billy Crystal, Macaulay Culkin, Jamie Lee Curtis, Charles Dance, Edward de Bono, Gérard Depardieu, Phyllis Diller, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas, Robert Downey Jr., Duran Duran, Sheena Easton, Clint Eastwood, Britt Ekland, Ben Elton, Gloria Estefan, Emilio Estevez, John Farnham, Sally Field, Bob Geldof, Mel Gibson, Whoopi Goldberg, Jill Goodacre, Elliott Gould, Jerry Hall, Daryl Hannah, Rolf Harris, Debbie Harry, Goldie Hawn, Audrey Hepburn, Bob Hope, Whitney Houston, Barry Humphries, Natalie Imbruglia, Jeremy Irons, Billy Joel, Elton John, Quincy Jones, Tom Jones, B.B. King, Kris Kristofferson, Cleo Laine, Don Lane, k.d. lang, Angela Lansbury, Rob Lowe, Robert Ludlum, Shirley MacLaine, Elle Macpherson, George Martin, Colleen McCullough, Malcolm McDowell, MC Hammer, Leo McKern, Craig McLachlan, Bette Midler, Kylie Minogue, Mark Mitchell, Rex Mossop, Sam Neill, Bert Newton, Olivia Newton-John, Brigitte Nielsen, Nick Nolte, Peter O'Toole, Guy Pearce, Gregory Peck, Priscilla Presley, Bonnie Raitt, Lou Rawls, Lynn Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Burt Reynolds, Debbie Reynolds, Denis
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Microsoft Diagnostics (MSD) was a software tool developed by Microsoft to assist in the diagnostics of 1990s-era computers. Users primarily deployed this tool to provide detailed technical information about the user's software and hardware and to print the gathered information, usually for use by support technicians in troubleshooting and resolving problems. The assumptions made by the program were valid until the late 1990s: it does not handle plug-and-play USB or other new technologies that appeared around 2000.
In PC DOS 6.1 and above, QCONFIG.EXE provides similar functionality. Commercial alternatives include Manifest MFT.EXE from Quarterdeck's QEMM.
History
MSD.EXE first shipped with Microsoft Word for Windows, and was later included in Windows 3, MS-DOS 6, and on the Windows 9x CD-ROMs. Because OS/2 and Windows NT contain code forked from DOS at the DOS 5 level, the versions of MSD.EXE included here correspond to that of that era (i.e. version 2.0).
Windows NT 3 and NT 4 have WINMSD, a program with similar features. However, the DOS/Windows specific functions were replaced by similar Windows NT concerns. WINMSDP.EXE, included in the resource kits, provides the print functionality of MSD.EXE for WINMSD. Since NT 5 (Windows 2000), WINMSD.EXE has been a loader for MSINFO32.EXE.
Usage
Users generally started the program from the DOS Command Prompt using the command MSD.EXE. Starting the program under a DOS window in either Windows or OS/2 shows only the DOS details allocated for that DOS session, not for the machine in general.
Scope
Aspects of the system for which MSD.EXE provided technical information:
computer brand and processor information
memory (total, EMS, and XMS)
video (type such as VGA and manufacturer)
network
operating-system versions
type of mouse (if installed)
disk drives (and partitions), excluding CD-ROM drives etc.
LPT ports
COM ports
IRQ status
Terminate-and-stay-resident programs
device drivers
other adapters
Successor software
Microsoft replaced MSD.EXE with MSINFO32.EXE. This has similar features, but targets more recent machines. It first appeared in MS-Word, and later was distributed with Plus! for Windows 95 and Windows 98. MSINFO32.EXE under Windows XP stores system history from WMI in the XML files in Windows\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Datacoll. In the interest of backward compatibility, WINMSD became a loader for MSINFO32.
See also
List of DOS commands
MS-DOS
PC DOS
System Information (Windows)
System profiler
References
Further reading
Diagnostics
DOS software
External DOS commands
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Annals%20of%20the%20History%20of%20Computing
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The IEEE Annals of the History of Computing is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the IEEE Computer Society. It covers the history of computing, computer science, and computer hardware. It was founded in 1979 by the AFIPS, in particular by Saul Rosen, who was an editor until his death in 1991.
The journal publishes scholarly articles, interviews, "think pieces," and memoirs by computer pioneers, and news and events in the field. It was established in July 1979 as Annals of the History of Computing, with Bernard Galler as editor-in-chief. The journal became an IEEE publication in 1992, and was retitled to IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. The 2020 impact factor was 0.741. The current editor in chief is Gerardo Con Diaz with the University of California, Davis.
See also
Technology and Culture
Information & Culture
Computer History Museum
Charles Babbage Institute
References
External links
Annals of the History of Computing
Computer science journals
History of computing
Quarterly journals
Academic journals established in 1979
English-language journals
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented%20analysis%20and%20design
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Object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD) is a technical approach for analyzing and designing an application, system, or business by applying object-oriented programming, as well as using visual modeling throughout the software development process to guide stakeholder communication and product quality.
OOAD in modern software engineering is typically conducted in an iterative and incremental way. The outputs of OOAD activities are analysis models (for OOA) and design models (for OOD) respectively. The intention is for these to be continuously refined and evolved, driven by key factors like risks and business value.
History
In the early days of object-oriented technology before the mid-1990s, there were many different competing methodologies for software development and object-oriented modeling, often tied to specific Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tool vendors. No standard notations, consistent terms and process guides were the major concerns at the time, which degraded communication efficiency and lengthened learning curves.
Some of the well-known early object-oriented methodologies were from and inspired by gurus such as Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson (the Three Amigos), Robert Martin, Peter Coad, Sally Shlaer, Stephen Mellor, and Rebecca Wirfs-Brock.
In 1994, the Three Amigos of Rational Software started working together to develop the Unified Modeling Language (UML). Later, together with Philippe Kruchten and Walker Royce (eldest son of Winston Royce), they have led a successful mission to merge their own methodologies, OMT, OOSE and Booch method, with various insights and experiences from other industry leaders into the Rational Unified Process (RUP), a comprehensive iterative and incremental process guide and framework for learning industry best practices of software development and project management. Since then, the Unified Process family has become probably the most popular methodology and reference model for object-oriented analysis and design.
Overview
The software life cycle is typically divided up into stages going from abstract descriptions of the problem to designs then to code and testing and finally to deployment. The earliest stages of this process are analysis and design. The analysis phase is also often called "requirements acquisition".
In some approaches to software development—known collectively as waterfall models—the boundaries between each stage are meant to be fairly rigid and sequential. The term "waterfall" was coined for such methodologies to signify that progress went sequentially in one direction only, i.e., once analysis was complete then and only then was design begun and it was rare (and considered a source of error) when a design issue required a change in the analysis model or when a coding issue required a change in design.
The alternative to waterfall models are iterative models. This distinction was popularized by Barry Boehm in a very influential paper on his Spiral Mod
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker%20v.%20Flook
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Parker v. Flook, 437 U.S. 584 (1978), was a 1978 United States Supreme Court decision that ruled that an invention that departs from the prior art only in its use of a mathematical algorithm is patent eligible only if there is some other "inventive concept in its application." The algorithm itself must be considered as if it were part of the prior art, and the claim must be considered as a whole. The exact quotation from the majority opinion is:
"Respondent’s process is unpatentable under §101, not because it contains a mathematical algorithm as one component, but because once that algorithm is assumed to be within the prior art, the application, considered as a whole, contains no patentable invention." "The fact that the algorithm may not have actually been known previously and that, when taken in combination with other claim elements, it might produce an invention that is novel
and nonobvious, plays no part in the analysis."
The case was argued on April 25, 1978 and was decided June 22, 1978. This case is the second member of the Supreme Court's patent-eligibility trilogy.
Prior history
The case revolves around a patent application for a "Method for Updating Alarm Limits". These limits are numbers between which a catalytic converter is operating normally. The numbers are determined by taking a time-weighted average of values of a relevant operating parameter, such as temperature inside the reactor, in accordance with a smoothing algorithm. When the values of these numbers leave this range an alarm may be sounded. The claims, however, were directed to the numbers (the "alarm limits") themselves.
Flook's method was identical to previous systems except for the mathematical algorithm. In fact, although the patent examiner assumed that Flook had originated the mathematical technique, someone else had published it a number of years earlier. In Gottschalk v. Benson, the court had ruled that the discovery of a new formula is not patentable. This case differed from Benson by including a specific application—catalytic conversion of hydrocarbons—for the formula as a claim limitation (a so-called field of use limitation). The patent examiner rejected the patent application as "in practical effect" a claim to the formula or its mathematics. When the decision was appealed, the Board of Appeals of the Patent and Trademark Office sustained the examiner's rejection.
Next, the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals (CCPA) reversed the Board's decision, saying that the patent only claimed the right to the equation in the limited context of the catalytic chemical conversion of hydrocarbons, so that the patent would not wholly pre-empt the use of the algorithm. Finally, the Government, on behalf of the (Acting) Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks, filed a petition for a writ of certiorari to the CCPA in the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court's decision
The law which is applicable to this case is section 101 of the Patent Act. If Flook's patent claim can meet the def
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Joint%20Conference%20on%20Artificial%20Intelligence
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The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) is the leading conference in the field of artificial intelligence. The conference series has been organized by the nonprofit IJCAI Organization since 1969, making it the oldest premier AI conference series in the world. It was held biennially in odd-numbered years from 1969 to 2015 and annually starting from 2016. More recently, IJCAI was held jointly every four years with ECAI since 2018 and PRICAI since 2020 to promote collaboration of AI researchers and practitioners. IJCAI covers a broad range of research areas in the field of AI. It is a large and highly selective conference, with only about 20% or less of the submitted papers accepted after peer review in the 5 years leading up to 2022. A lower acceptance rate usually means better quality papers and a higher reputation conference.
Awards
Three research awards are given at each IJCAI conference.
The IJCAI Computers and Thought Award is given to outstanding young scientists under the age of 35 in AI.
The Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award is given to honor senior scientists for their contributions and service to the field of AI.
The IJCAI Award for Research Excellence is given to scientists who have carried out a research program of consistently high quality throughout an entire career yielding several substantial results.
Additionally, IJCAI presents one or more Best Paper Awards at each conference to recognize the highest quality papers.
Organization
The International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization (IJCAI Organization) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1969 to promote science and education in the field of AI. It is the main organizer of the IJCAI conference series and is also responsible for handling related activities. The organization is also the official host for the editorial operations of the Artificial Intelligence journal (AIJ).
See also
The list of computer science conferences contains other academic conferences in computer science.
References
External links
IJCAI website
Artificial intelligence conferences
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Business%20Cloud
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The Business Cloud is an API enabled self-service platform, developed by Domo, that provides an array of services like data connection and data visualization.
History
Domo, Inc. was founded in 2010 by Josh James who also co-founded the web analytics software company Omniture in 1996, which he took public in 2006.
Domo launched the Domo Appstore, with a 1000 apps with social and mobile capabilities, in 2016. This appstore creates a network of business apps and an ecosystem of companies into a single, integrated business cloud. This decision came after Domo announced a $131 million round of funding from BlackRock.
According to the company, the concept behind The Business Cloud is to connect smaller clouds relating to apps or other functional areas of a business into a single business cloud that allows self-service and other social features to customers.
Services
The Business Cloud is offered as a free service, claimed to be the world's first business cloud with Domo appstore as one of its core services. This free package includes all of the Domo's features and functionality including Domo platform, Domo Apps, visualizations, alerts, company directories, org charts, profiles, tasks and Domo Mobile. The Business Cloud allows customers to leverage their preferred cloud as well as on-premises software and monitor all aspects of their business in routine.
The company is supported by a $500 million fund from investors all over the world.
References
External links
Business Cloud Official Website
Workday - Cloud Hosted Software
Cloud computing
Cloud applications
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find-a-drug
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Find-a-Drug (often abbreviated as 'FAD') was a not for profit volunteer computing project which was set up in April 2002 by Treweren Consultants, the company who developed the THINK software. Find-a-Drug aimed to run a series of projects in parallel addressing a number of diseases which have a major impact on health. The project sought to collaborate with the world's leading experts including academics in each therapeutic area.
The first internet based computing project which used the THINK virtual screening software was hosted on grid.org by United Devices in collaboration with the Oxford University. Funding for the original project came from the National Foundation for Cancer Research and Intel Corporation. The science for this project was directed by Keith Davies while he was an honorary research fellow at Oxford University. Davies was a founding Director of Treweren Consultants and Find-a-Drug. The Find-a-Drug cancer project was a reflection on Davies's personal motivations and interest in continuing the work begun with grid.org developing therapies for a disease which affects one in four individuals.
Find-a-Drug concluded on 16 December 2005, citing that "there are insufficient worthwhile protein queries to continue the project into 2006 and have decided to close the project."
See also
List of volunteer computing projects
References
External links
Free-DC FAD Stats - Unofficial stats site
TeamAT FAD Stats - Unofficial stats site
Volunteer computing projects
Projects established in 2002
2005 disestablishments
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MasPar
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MasPar Computer Corporation was a minisupercomputer vendor that was founded in 1987 by Jeff Kalb. The company was based in Sunnyvale, California.
History
While Kalb was the vice-president of the division of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) that built integrated circuits, some researchers in that division were building a supercomputer based on the Goodyear MPP (massively parallel processor) supercomputer. The DEC researchers enhanced the architecture by:
making the processor elements to be 4-bit instead of 1-bit
increasing the connectivity of each processor element to 8 neighbors from 4.
adding a global interconnect for all of the processing elements, which was a triple-redundant switch which was easier to implement than a full crossbar switch.
After Digital decided not to commercialize the research project, Kalb decided to start a company to sell this minisupercomputer. In 1990, the first generation product MP-1 was delivered. In 1992, the follow-on MP-2 was shipped. The company shipped more than 200 systems.
MasPar along with nCUBE criticized the open government support, by DARPA, of competitors Intel for their hypercube Personal SuperComputers (iPSC) and the Thinking Machines Connection Machine on the pages of Datamation.
Samples of MasPar MPs, from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, are in storage at the Computer History Museum.
MasPar offered a family of SIMD machines, second sourced by DEC. The processor units are proprietary.
There was no MP-3. MasPar exited the computer hardware business in June 1996, halting all hardware development and transforming itself into a new data mining software company called NeoVista Software. NeoVista was acquired by Accrue Software in 1999, which in turn sold the division to JDA Software in 2001.
Hardware
MasPar is unique in being a manufacturer of SIMD supercomputers (as opposed to vector machines). In this approach, a collection of ALU's listen to a program broadcast from a central source. The ALUs can do their own data fetch, but are all under control of a central Array Control Unit. There is a central clock. The emphasis is on communications efficiency, and low latency. The MasPar architecture is designed to scale, and balance processing, memory, and communication.
The Maspar MP-1 PE and the later binary-compatible Maspar MP-2 PE are full custom CMOS chips, designed in-house, and fabricated by various vendors such as HP or TI.
The Array Control Unit (ACU) handles instruction fetch. It is a load-store architecture. The MasPar architecture is Harvard in a broad sense. The ACU implements a microcoded instruction fetch, but achieves a RISC-like 1 instruction per clock. The Arithmetic units, ALUs with data fetch capability, are implemented 32 to a chip. Each ALU is connected in a nearest neighbor fashion to 8 others. The edge connections are brought off-chip. In this scheme, the perimeters can be toroid-wrapped. Up to 16,384 units can be connected within the confines of a cabinet. A globa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20Genome%20Size%20Database
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The Animal Genome Size Database is a catalogue of published genome size estimates for vertebrate and invertebrate animals. It was created in 2001 by Dr. T. Ryan Gregory of the University of Guelph in Canada. As of September 2005, the database contains data for over 4,000 species of animals. A similar database, the Plant DNA C-values Database (C-value being analogous to genome size in diploid organisms) was created by researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in 1997.
See also
List of organisms by chromosome count
References
External links
Animal Genome Size Database
Plant DNA C-values Database
Fungal Genome Size Database
Cell Size Database
Animal genetics
Genome databases
Biology websites
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega%20network
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An Omega network is a network configuration often used in parallel computing architectures. It is an indirect topology that relies on the perfect shuffle interconnection algorithm.
Connection architecture
An 8x8 Omega network is a multistage interconnection network, meaning that processing elements (PEs) are connected using multiple stages of switches. Inputs and outputs are given addresses as shown in the figure. The outputs from each stage are connected to the inputs of the next stage using a perfect shuffle connection system. This means that the connections at each stage represent the movement of a deck of cards divided into 2 equal decks and then shuffled together, with each card from one deck alternating with the corresponding card from the other deck. In terms of binary representation of the PEs, each stage of the perfect shuffle can be thought of as a cyclic logical left shift; each bit in the address is shifted once to the left, with the most significant bit moving to the least significant bit.
At each stage, adjacent pairs of inputs are connected to a simple exchange element, which can be set either straight (pass inputs directly through to outputs) or crossed (send top input to bottom output, and vice versa). For N processing element, an Omega network contains N/2 switches at each stage, and log2N stages. The manner in which these switches are set determines the connection paths available in the network at any given time. Two such methods are destination-tag routing and XOR-tag routing, discussed in detail below.
The Omega Network is highly blocking, though one path can always be made from any input to any output in a free network.
Destination-tag routing
In destination-tag routing, switch settings are determined solely by the message destination. The most significant bit of the destination address is used to select the output of the switch in the first stage; if the most significant bit is 0, the upper output is selected, and if it is 1, the lower output is selected. The next-most significant bit of the destination address is used to select the output of the switch in the next stage, and so on until the final output has been selected.
For example, if a message's destination is PE 001, the switch settings are: upper, upper, lower. If a message's destination is PE 101, the switch settings are: lower, upper, lower. These switch settings hold regardless of the PE sending the message.
XOR-tag routing
In XOR-tag routing, switch settings are based on (source PE) XOR (destination PE). This XOR-tag contains 1s in the bit positions that must be swapped and 0s in the bit positions that both source and destination have in common. The most significant bit of the XOR-tag is used to select the setting of the switch in the first stage; if the most significant bit is 0, the switch is set to pass-through, and if it is 1, the switch is crossed. The next-most significant bit of the tag is used to set the switch in the next stage, and so on until the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20DNA%20C-values%20Database
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The Plant DNA C-values Database (https://cvalues.science.kew.org/) is a comprehensive catalogue of C-value (nuclear DNA content, or in diploids, genome size) data for land plants and algae. The database was created by Prof. Michael D. Bennett and Dr. Ilia J. Leitch of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. The database was originally launched as the "Angiosperm DNA C-values Database" in April 1997, essentially as an online version of collected data lists that had been published by Prof. Bennett and colleagues since the 1970s. Release 1.0 of the more inclusive Plant DNA C-values Database was launched in 2001, with subsequent releases 2.0 in January 2003 and 3.0 in December 2004. In addition to the angiosperm dataset made available in 1997, the database has been expanded taxonomically several times and now includes data from pteridophytes (since 2000), gymnosperms (since 2001), bryophytes (since 2001), and algae (since 2004) (see (1) for update history). (Note that each of these subset databases is cited individually as they may contain different sets of authors).
The most recent release of the database (release 7.1) went live in April 2019. It contains data for 12,273 species of plants comprising 10,770 angiosperms, 421 gymnosperms, 303 pteridophytes (246 ferns and fern allies and 57 lycophytes), 334 bryophytes, and 445 algae.
A similar Animal Genome Size Database was created in 2001 by Dr. T. Ryan Gregory of the University of Guelph, Canada.
References
Bennett, M.D. and J.B. Smith. 1976. Nuclear DNA amounts in angiosperms. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 274: 227–274.
Bennett, M.D. and J.B. Smith. 1991. Nuclear DNA amounts in angiosperms. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 334: 309–345.
Bennett, M.D. and I.J. Leitch. 1995. Nuclear DNA amounts in angiosperms. Annals of Botany 76: 113–176.
Bennett, M.D. and I.J. Leitch. 1997. Nuclear DNA amounts in angiosperms — 583 new estimates. Annals of Botany 80: 169–196.
Bennett, M.D., P. Bhandol, and I.J. Leitch. 2000. Nuclear DNA amounts in angiosperms and their modern uses—807 new estimates. Annals of Botany 86: 859–909.
Bennett, M.D. and I.J. Leitch. 2005. Nuclear DNA amounts in angiosperms — progress, problems and prospects. Annals of Botany 95: 45–90.
Bennett, M.D. and I.J. Leitch. 2005. Genome size evolution in plants. In The Evolution of the Genome, edited by T.R. Gregory. San Diego: Elsevier. Pages 89–162.
Gregory, T.R. 2005. The C-value enigma in plants and animals: a review of parallels and an appeal for partnership. Annals of Botany 95: 133–146.
Leitch, I.J., D.E. Soltis, P.S. Soltis, and M.D. Bennett. 2005. Evolution of DNA amounts across land plants (Embryophyta). Annals of Botany 95: 207–217.
Murray, B.G. 1998. Nuclear DNA Amounts in Gymnosperms. Annals of Botany 82 (Suppl. A): 3–15.
Garcia S, Leitch IJ, Anadon-Rosell A, Canela MÁ, Gálvez F, Garnatje T, Gras A, Hidalgo O, Johnston E, Mas de Xaxars G, et al. 2014. Recent upd
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic%20Solutions
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Sonic Solutions was an American computer software company headquartered in Novato, California. In addition to having a number of offices in the U.S., the company also maintained offices in Europe and Asia. It was acquired by Rovi Corporation in 2010.
History
Sonic Solutions was created by former Lucasfilm employees Robert Doris, Mary Sauer and scientist Andy Moorer who developed the SoundDroid digital audio editing system as part of the Droid Works project at the Lucasfilm Computer Division. (Another notable spinoff of the division is Pixar.)
Sonic developed and marketed The Sonic System, a professional non-linear digital audio workstation for music editing, restoration and CD preparation.
Sonic received an Emmy Award for technical achievement in 1996. In the same year the company worked with numerous Hollywood studios and consumer electronic manufactures to introduce the first commercial DVD production system. Sonic extended its business to enterprise software areas with its DVD authoring systems for professional use (Sonic Scenarist and Sonic DVD Producer) as well as retail and PC OEM DVD software applications for home use (DVDit, MyDVD, and RecordNow).
In 2002, Sonic spun off their entire audio division as Sonic Studio, LLC, to concentrate solely on the DVD marketplace, enterprise software and licensing of IP and source code. Notable customers included Microsoft, Apple, Google, Adobe and Avid. Its middleware and embedded chip included deals with Texas Instruments, Broadcom, Scientific Atlanta/Cisco, Marvell, and Intel.
Sonic expanded to the consumer software business (photo, audio and video editing) in 2000, shipping roughly 50 million copies per year through direct web sales and over 15,000 retail store fronts including Apple Store, Walmart, Costco, Best Buy, Target, Dixon's and MediaMart. It grew to command a 64% market share in its category.
Since its IPO, the company has generated over $1.5 billion in revenue in the digital media category and has been named one of Forbes, Fortune and BusinessWeek's fastest growing companies on multiple occasions.
In 2005, Sonic began moving its consumer software business to a SAAS model.
By 2010 Sonic was one of the largest providers of premium movies via the Web and CE devices, in partnership with major movie studios. Sonic held the rights to the movies and provided cloud delivery as a white label provider.
Acquisitions
Sonic’s major acquisitions include the Desktop and Mobile Division (DMD) of VERITAS Software Corporation in 2002, Roxio in 2003 (consumer applications for Windows and Mac OS), and Simple Star (online slideshow creation) and CinemaNow in 2008 (digital movie delivery). In October 2010, the company acquired DivX Inc. in a $326 million stock and cash deal as the digital-media provider moves to enhance online video offerings.
Sale
On December 23, 2010, Rovi Corporation announced its intention to acquire the company. The sale was a cash stock deal for just under $1 billion. Accordi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSU%20Faculty%20of%20Computational%20Mathematics%20and%20Cybernetics
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MSU Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics (CMC) (), founded in 1970 by Andrey Tikhonov, is a part of Moscow State University.
Education
CMC is a Russian research and training center in the fields of applied mathematics, computing and software development . Education at CMC combines theoretical studies, practical exercises, and research.
Main 12 Master's programs:
Mathematical physics
Mathematical modeling
Computational diagnostics
Numerical methods
Theory of probability and mathematical statistics
Operations research and systems analysis
Optimization and optimal control
Mathematical cybernetics
Software for computers and computer systems
Networks software
System programming
Decision making in Economics and Finance
History
A group of professors and scholars from Department of Physics and Department of Mechanics and Mathematics led by Andrey Tikhonov founded CMC in 1970. The three departments are still closely connected.
The faculty houses the 33,072-processor Lomonosov supercomputer in Moscow. The system was designed by T-Platforms, and used Xeon 2.93 GHz processors, Nvidia 2070 GPUs, and an Infiniband interconnect.
Following companies work with CS MSU: Intel, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Borland, Software AG, Siemens, IBM/Lotus, Samsung, HP.
Following the school's support for the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Intel and AMD, the largest chip manufacturers in the world, whose processors are used in the Moscow State University supercomputer, as well as NVIDIA, reacted by suspending deliveries of their processors to Russia.
Deans
The deans of the faculty:
Andrey Tikhonov (1970–1990)
Dmitrij Kostomarov (1991–1999)
Evgeny Moiseev (1999-2019)
Igor Sokolov (since March 2019)
Structure
Departments
The faculty consists of 19 Academic departments:
Scientific laboratories
The faculty includes 18 research laboratories:
Laboratory of Mathematical Physics
Laboratory of Computational Electrodynamics
Laboratory of Heat and Mass Transfer Processes Simulation
Laboratory of Inverse Problems
Laboratory of Mathematical Methods of Image Processing
Laboratory of Mathematical Modeling in Physics
Laboratory of Difference Methods
Open Laboratory of Information Technologies
Laboratory of Statistical Analysis
Laboratory of Mathematical Problems of Computer Security
Laboratory of Computational Practice and Information Systems
The Computer Systems Laboratory
Laboratory of Information Systems Security
Computer Graphics and Multimedia Laboratory
Laboratory of Programming Technologies
Laboratory of Ternary Informatics
Research Laboratory of Computational Modeling Tools
Laboratory of Industrial Mathematics
Рrofessors
Faculty staff consists of more than 550 professors and research scientists. The list of scientists that worked in the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics includes:
Lev Pontryagin, the founder and the first chair of the department of Optimal Control.
Sergey Yablonsky, the founder an
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VXL
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VXL, the Vision-something-Library, is a large collection of open source C++ libraries for computer vision. The idea of the naming is to replace X with one of many letters to obtain the smaller library names, i.e. G (VGL) is a geometry library, N (VNL) is a numerics library, I (VIL) is an image processing library, etc. These libraries can be used for general scientific computing as well as computer vision. Some examples of usage can be seen online.
VXL is a larger-scale software engineering project with roots dating back to traditional computer vision environments from the 1990s, having libraries at multiple levels of complexities, many of them listing OpenCV as one of many dependencies. A similar approach at an even larger scale is taken by Kitware's KWIVER.
VXL core libraries are extremely stable and have been used in larger projects, both public and within companies, notably ITK.
See also
OpenCV
References
External links
VXL Home Page
VXD: extension of VXL with development/experimental code.
Hacking VXL: notes on programming with VXL on Mac OS and Linux.
Computer vision software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MotoMagx
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MotoMagx was a Linux kernel-based mobile operating system developed and launched in 2007 by Motorola to run on their mid-to-high-end mobile phones. The system was based on MontaVista's Mobilinux. Originally intended for 60% of their upcoming devices, it was soon dropped in favor of Android and Windows Mobile operating systems.
MOTOMAGX was only compatible with Motorola's GSM/UMTS devices (as shown below). This was due to the lack of an implementation compatible with Qualcomm CDMA2000 devices. As a result, Motorola often sold multiple device variants with radically different firmware. For example, the Motorola RAZR2 on T-Mobile shipped with MOTOMAGX, whereas the RAZR2 on Verizon Wireless shipped with Motorola's P2k firmware.
This created significant confusion for customers, as the user experience varied widely between two otherwise identical devices, simply based on which carrier they were on.
Devices
Phones based on this OS are:
Motorola EM30
Motorola ROKR E2
Motorola ROKR E8
Motorola ROKR/RIZR Z6
Motorola U9
Motorola RAZR2 V8
Motorola VE66
Motorola ZINE ZN5
Motorola Tundra V76r
Motorola ROKR EM35
Motorola ROKR ZN200
References
Introducing MOTOMAGX
MOTODEV > Technologies > MOTOMAGX
Embedded Linux distributions
Mobile operating systems
Linux distributions
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Hilleman
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Richard Hilleman is an American computer game and video game producer best known for his work creating the original Madden Football game for video game consoles for Electronic Arts. Apart from Madden, Hilleman was a key figure in building the massive EA Sports brand and has spent over 20 years working in product development at EA. He has directly or indirectly influenced a wide range of games and game designers.
Hilleman joined Electronic Arts in 1982, and was employee number 39. After several years working with producers and teams in a variety of roles (including Ray Tobey and Stewart Bonn on the early combat flight simulator Skyfox), he began producing his own titles in the late 1980s. His first credited title as producer was Indianapolis 500: The Simulation on PC in 1989.
In 1990, he was the producer of John Madden Football for the fast-growing Sega Genesis, a game developed by Troy Lyndon and Michael Knox of Park Place Productions, and co-designed by Scott Orr, the game that we still recognize today as Madden Football, the best-selling title in the history of games in North America.
A team member of the Madden team, Scott Orr joined Hilleman later at EA full-time in 1991 where both Hilleman and Orr were promoted to senior management roles in EA product development over the following few years. Hilleman was later named Vice President in charge of
Production for the company. An avid hockey player during his youth in Minnesota, Hilleman was Executive Producer or Producer for other successful EA Sports titles in the 1990s as well, including NHL Hockey, NHLPA Hockey, PGA Tour Golf and Tiger Woods Golf.
Rich Hilleman worked for Electronic Arts as Chief Creative Officer until May, 2016. He also serves on the board of directors of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.
References
External links
Hilleman's rap sheet at MobyGames; note that it is number 8 in the serial Moby system
American video game designers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inheritance%20%28object-oriented%20programming%29
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In object-oriented programming, inheritance is the mechanism of basing an object or class upon another object (prototype-based inheritance) or class (class-based inheritance), retaining similar implementation. Also defined as deriving new classes (sub classes) from existing ones such as super class or base class and then forming them into a hierarchy of classes. In most class-based object-oriented languages like C++, an object created through inheritance, a "child object", acquires all the properties and behaviors of the "parent object", with the exception of: constructors, destructors, overloaded operators and friend functions of the base class. Inheritance allows programmers to create classes that are built upon existing classes, to specify a new implementation while maintaining the same behaviors (realizing an interface), to reuse code and to independently extend original software via public classes and interfaces. The relationships of objects or classes through inheritance give rise to a directed acyclic graph.
An inherited class is called a subclass of its parent class or super class. The term "inheritance" is loosely used for both class-based and prototype-based programming, but in narrow use the term is reserved for class-based programming (one class inherits from another), with the corresponding technique in prototype-based programming being instead called delegation (one object delegates to another). Class-modifying inheritance patterns can be pre-defined according to simple network interface parameters such that inter-language compatibility is preserved.
Inheritance should not be confused with subtyping. In some languages inheritance and subtyping agree, whereas in others they differ; in general, subtyping establishes an is-a relationship, whereas inheritance only reuses implementation and establishes a syntactic relationship, not necessarily a semantic relationship (inheritance does not ensure behavioral subtyping). To distinguish these concepts, subtyping is sometimes referred to as interface inheritance (without acknowledging that the specialization of type variables also induces a subtyping relation), whereas inheritance as defined here is known as implementation inheritance or code inheritance. Still, inheritance is a commonly used mechanism for establishing subtype relationships.
Inheritance is contrasted with object composition, where one object contains another object (or objects of one class contain objects of another class); see composition over inheritance. Composition implements a has-a relationship, in contrast to the is-a relationship of subtyping.
History
In 1966, Tony Hoare presented some remarks on records, and in particular presented the idea of record subclasses, record types with common properties but discriminated by a variant tag and having fields private to the variant. Influenced by this, in 1967 Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard presented a design that allowed specifying objects that belonged to different
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD%20FirePro
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AMD FirePro was AMD's brand of graphics cards designed for use in workstations and servers running professional Computer-aided design (CAD), Computer-generated imagery (CGI), Digital content creation (DCC), and High-performance computing/GPGPU applications. The GPU chips on FirePro-branded graphics cards are identical to the ones used on Radeon-branded graphics cards. The end products (i.e. the graphics card) differentiate substantially by the provided graphics device drivers and through the available professional support for the software. The product line is split into two categories: "W" workstation series focusing on workstation and primarily focusing on graphics and display, and "S" server series focused on virtualization and GPGPU/High-performance computing.
The release of the Radeon Pro Duo in April 2016 and the announcement of the Radeon Pro WX Series in July 2016 marked the succession of Radeon Pro as AMD's professional workstation graphics card solution. Radeon Instinct is the current brand for servers.
Competitors included Nvidia's Quadro-branded and to an extent, Nvidia Tesla-branded product series and Intel's Xeon Phi-branded products.
History
The FireGL line was originally developed by the German company Spea Software AG until it was acquired by Diamond Multimedia in November 1995. The first FireGL board used the 3Dlabs GLINT 3D processor chip.
Deprecated brand names are ATI FireGL, ATI FirePro 3D, and AMD FireStream.
In July 2016, AMD announced it would be replacing the FirePro brand with Radeon Pro for workstations. The new brand for servers is Radeon Instinct.
Features
Multi-monitor support
AMD Eyefinity can support multi-monitor set-ups. One graphics card can drive up to a maximum of six monitors; the supported number depends on the distinct product and the number of DisplayPort displays. The device driver facilitates the configuration of diverse display group modes.
Differences with the Radeon Line
The FirePro line is designed for compute intensive, multimedia content creation (such as video editors), and mechanical engineering design software (such as CAD programs). Their Radeon counterparts are suited towards video games and other consumer applications. Because they use the same drivers (Catalyst) and are based on the same architectures and chipsets, the major differences are essentially limited to price and double-precision performance. However, some FirePro cards may have major feature differences to the equivalent Radeon card, such as ECC RAM and differing physical display outputs.
Since the 2007 series, high-end and ultra-end FireGL/FirePro products (based on the R600 architecture) have officially implemented stream processing. The Radeon line of video cards, although present in hardware, did not offer any support for stream processing until the HD 4000 series where beta level OpenCL 1.0 support is offered, and the HD 5000 series and later, where full OpenCL 1.1 support is offered.
Heterogeneous System Archite
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelton%20Flinn
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Kelton Flinn is an American computer game designer who is a major pioneer in online games. He is a co-founder (with his University of Virginia classmate John Taylor) of the seminal online game company Kesmai, which they began in 1982. His best known title is the first graphical multi-player online game offered by a major service, Air Warrior (1987).
1970s university mainframe games
Like Marc Blank, Will Crowther, Don Daglow and Gregory Yob, Flinn and Taylor were key innovators in the 1970s university gaming culture, where students played for free on college mainframe computers. Flinn took advantage of his pursuit of an advanced degree (a PhD in applied mathematics) to build a long series of games across his undergraduate and graduate school career. Most students lost all access to computers after graduation in the days before personal computers were invented, but Flinn's extended years of study gave him the chance to build a large body of major works.
Key games Flinn and Taylor created during this time include:
Air (1977–1979) — a text air combat game that foreshadowed Air Warrior. The first version was created in 1977 and worked on through 1979. As Flinn has said: "If Air Warrior was a primate swinging in the trees, AIR was the text-based amoeba crawling on the ocean floor. But it was quasi-real time, multi-player, and attempted to render 3-D on the terminal using ASCII graphics. It was an acquired taste."
S — a multi-player space colonization and combat game (1979). Flinn and Taylor wrote the game over their summer vacations at the University of Virginia. MegaWars III would be based on S after they founded Kesmai.
Dungeons of Kesmai (1980) — a text adventure game with very little puzzle solving and an emphasis on exploration and combat. The game's name would also appear later as a text-based online adventure from Kesmai. Flinn and Taylor had seen and played Adventure and Zork, but chose to emphasize action in their title, again written during their summer vacations as college students.
Island of Kesmai (1981) — expands on their gaming system, in this case trying to use all the power of the university's new VAX computer. They added rich text descriptions to the ASCII graphic maps and minimal combat feedback text of their prior games. The university reported—to its dismay—that the game did indeed use all the processing power of the new VAX.
Founding of Kesmai
In 1982 Flinn and Taylor founded the game developer Kesmai, and began working with CompuServe to offer multi-player games on a fee-per-hour basis. But once they began porting their code it turned out that the code that ran for free on the university's computer was hugely inefficient, and they burned $100,000 USD in computer time on CompuServe's system in three days before concluding they needed to rewrite their engine.
Kesmai's major titles include:
Mega Wars III (1983) — Ironically, it was the chance to create Mega Wars III for CompuServe in 1983 that allowed Kesmai
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Up-Late%20Game%20Show
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The Up-Late Game Show was a late night interactive television quiz program shown in Australia on Network Ten, written and hosted by Big Brother Australia 2005 contestant Simon Deering, commonly known by the nickname Hotdogs. The show's format had the host presenting simple puzzles which viewers could attempt to solve over the phone. Successfully solving a puzzle would result in a cash prize for the contestant.
The show debuted on 16 August 2005, the day after the Big Brother 2005 finale. The first caller in was Big Brother winner Greg Mathew, who congratulated Hotdogs on his new show. The first series ended 22 April 2006 to make way for Big Brother UpLate.
The second series started on 31 July 2006, the day of the Big Brother Australia 2006 finale, with Deering returning as host. From August 2006, Hotdogs was joined by co-hosts Big Brother 2006 housemate Rob Rigley and singer Chrissy Bray. On Monday 7 August and Tuesday 26 September former Big Brother contestant Krystal Forscutt co-hosted the show.
The show's format initially had the host sitting at a table, with a bowl of popcorn and a mug. After the Christmas and New Year break, the format had changed to Deering walking around the set.
In 2006, the show was made available via Internet streaming at QuizTV.com.au, the same site that Big Brother UpLate 2006 streamed from when Big Brother was in season, for the benefit of those not in states that receive The Up-Late Game Show live. It was also aired for a short period on Pay-TV channel the Expo Channel, featuring content not seen on the Network Ten version, and with a different host.
The Up-Late Game Show went to air for the final time on Friday 15 December 2006.
The show was broadcast from the Southern Cross Broadcasting studios in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.
Criticism
On 11 August 2006 satirical comedy series The Chaser's War on Everything featured a segment on the influx of late night phone-in quiz shows. The segment mocked the standard of all late night quiz programs and their questions. Accusing this style of programming of making money by "hardly ever letting callers through", therefore limiting the chances for people to win prizes. The segment showed taped footage of a Quizmania two-minute bonus round, where host Amy Parks stalled for the entire length of the round and no calls were taken, despite the claim of taking "as many calls as possible". To add further to this Julian Morrow and Chas Licciardello claimed to have been calling the Up-late Game Show hundreds of times during this segment. Many jokes were also made during the length of the first season about Hotdogs himself, Chris Taylor appearing shocked that Hotdogs failed to take out a Logie.
Similar complaints have been voiced by Australian entertainment critics.
Current affairs show Today Tonight also featured a segment in mid-2006 where viewers complained that despite calling numerous times, they were never put through to the show.
See also
List of Australian
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTSE%20Group
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FTSE International Limited trading as FTSE Russell ( "Footsie") is a British provider of stock market indices and associated data services, wholly owned by the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and operating from premises in Canary Wharf. It operates the well known UK FTSE 100 Index as well as a number of other indices. FTSE stands for Financial Times Stock Exchange.
History
The FTSE Group was created in 1995 by Pearson (former parent of the Financial Times) and the London Stock Exchange Group.
In 2005, together with Dow Jones, FTSE launched the Industry Classification Benchmark, a taxonomy used to segregate markets into sectors.
In 2010, the joint venture with Xinhua Finance was terminated, the index series was renamed into FTSE China Index Series; the Hong Kong incorporated company was renamed to "FTSE China Index Limited".
In 2011, Pearson sold its stake to LSE.
Main business
FTSE Group operates 250,000 indices calculated across 80 countries and in 2015 was the number three provider of indices worldwide by revenue. FTSE Group earns around 60 per cent of revenue from annual subscription fees and 40 per cent from licensing for index-based products.
Clients include both active and passive fund managers, consultants, asset owners, sell-side firms and financial data vendors. FTSE's products are used by market participants worldwide for investment analysis, performance measurement, asset allocation and hedging. Pension funds, asset managers, ETF providers and investment banks work with FTSE to benchmark their investment performance and use FTSE's indices to create ETFs, index tracking funds, structured products and index derivatives. FTSE also provides many exchanges around the world with their domestic indices.
Fees from the use of index information and associated services generate revenues necessary to continue operations. FTSE has offices in London, New York City, Paris, Frankfurt, Madrid, Milan, San Francisco, Beijing, Sydney, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Toronto.
Products
FTSE Group operates the well known FTSE 100 Index and FTSE 250 Index as well as over 200,000 other indices, including 600 real-time indices.
Other indices
FTSE Global Equity Index Series: series of various global stock indices
FTSE 350 Index
FTSE All-Share Index
FTSE SmallCap Index
FTSE4Good Index
FTSE AIM UK 50 Index
FTSE AIM 100 Index
FTSE AIM All-Share Index
FTSE MIB
See also
List of stock exchanges in the United Kingdom, the British Crown Dependencies and United Kingdom Overseas Territories
List of stock exchanges in the Commonwealth of Nations
Footnotes
References
External links
Official site
London Stock Exchange Group
Financial services companies based in the City of London
Privately held companies of the United Kingdom
Financial services companies established in 1995
British companies established in 1995
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job%20Submission%20Description%20Language
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Job Submission Description Language is an extensible XML specification from the Global Grid Forum for the description of simple tasks to non-interactive computer execution systems. Currently at version 1.0 (released November 7, 2005), the specification focuses on the description of computational task submissions to traditional high-performance computer systems like batch schedulers.
Description
JSDL describes the submission aspects of a job, and does not attempt to describe the state of running or historic jobs. Instead, JSDL includes descriptions of:
Job name, description
Resource requirements that computers must have to be eligible for scheduling, such as total RAM available, total swap available, CPU clock speed, number of CPUs, Operating System, etc.
Execution limits, such as the maximum amount of CPU time, wallclock time, or memory that can be consumed.
File staging, or the transferring of files before or after execution.
Command to execute, including its command-line arguments, environment variables to define, stdin/stdout/stderr redirection, etc.
Software support
The following software is known to currently support JSDL:
GridWay meta scheduler
Platform LSF 7
UNICORE 6
GridSAM
Windows HPC Server 2008
GRIA
Genesis II Project http://genesis2.virginia.edu/wiki/
Advanced Resource Connector (ARC v0.6 and above)
XtreemOS Grid Operating System
EMOTIVE Cloud
IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler Tivoli Workload Scheduler
See also
Resource Specification Language (See The Globus Resource Specification Language RSL v1.0)
Distributed Resource Management Application API
External links
JSDL working group project page
Windows HPC Server 2008
Grid computing
XML-based standards
Computer-related introductions in 2005
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder%20Call
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Murder Call is an Australian television series, created by Hal McElroy for the Southern Star Entertainment and broadcast on the Nine Network between 1997 and 2000. The series was inspired by the Tessa Vance novels by Jennifer Rowe, both of which were adapted as episodes, while Rowe also developed story treatments for 38 episodes throughout the series.
Synopsis
Murder Call focuses on cases confronted by an unconventional team of homicide detectives, Tessa Vance and Steve Hayden. Steve is an often light-hearted "man's man" who is moving up the career hierarchy. Tessa is more introspective and no-nonsense, and often solves the murder with her intuition and insight. Their team includes boss Inspector Malcolm Thorne, police Constable Dee Suzeraine, forensic services expert Lance Fisk, and unorthodox doctor Imogen "Tootsie" Soames.
Production
Murder Call was initially conceived as an adaptation of the Verity Birdwood murder mystery novels by Jennifer Rowe. Birdwood is an amateur private investigator, who spends her time as a freelance journalist for the ABC. Sigrid Thornton was attached to play the role, with the program given a 26-episode order by the Seven Network under the title Murder Calling. Ultimately, creative differences - reportedly over whether or not the series should adopt a cosy Murder, She Wrote-style approach - saw the Seven Network let go of the property. Production moved to the Nine Network, with a relocation from Melbourne to Sydney during which time Thornton dropped out. The series was retitled Murder Calls before settling on its final name. Ultimately, desiring to create a series with a darker vein than the Verity Birdwood novels, McElroy switched to Rowe's Tessa Vance series, comprising the novels Suspect/Deadline and Something Wicked. Rowe provided story treatments for 38 of the series' 56 episodes, which were then expanded upon by the screenwriters.
Murder Call was filmed in Sydney and often shot the less spectacular side of the city. The exterior of the Homicide station was filmed at Ashington House (formerly AFT House/Delfin House), on O'Connell Street in Sydney.
The first production season consisted of 22 episodes as well as a TV movie, Deadline, based on the novel of the same name by Rowe (which would ultimately air in two parts). The second production season consisted of 32 episodes, which were designed to be aired over two years.
Ultimately, Nine aired the episodes over three televised seasons, dramatically out of production order. The third season commenced airing in 1999 but was cancelled in August of that year to budget concerns. The series was taken off air, with the final 9 episodes airing in late 2000. When the episodes were added to the 7plus streaming service in 2021, they were available in the original two production seasons, in order of production.
Cast
Main
Lucy Bell as Detective Tessa Vance
Peter Mochrie as Detective Steve Hayden
Glenda Linscott as Dr. Imogen "Tootsie" Soames
Geoff Morrell as Serge
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consider%20Your%20Verdict
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Consider Your Verdict is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Seven Network originally screening from February 1961 through to June 1964. It was based on a radio series with the same name broadcast on 3DB in Melbourne from 1958 to 1960.
Production
The television series was recorded at the HSV-7 Fitzroy Tele-theatre in Melbourne. There were 163 one-hour episodes. The series was also popular in New Zealand.
Synopsis
The series made use of a revolving cast to portray various court cases. The actors were given the details of a given case and instructed to improvise their performances to give the series a more authentic, immediate feel.
Cast
Terence Donovan as Keith Upton (1961–63)
Robert Jewell as Dave Betts (1962/63, 2 episodes)
Edward Howell as Costella (1963, 2 episodes)
Sheila Florance as Jocelyn Matthews / Laura Radford (1962/63, 2 episodes)
Reg Gorman (1964/66, 2 episodes)
Anne Charleston (1962/64, 2 episodes)
Liz Harris as Kath Hutchins (1962, 1 episode)
Elspeth Ballantyne as Cynthia Martin (1 episode)
Annette Andre as The Other Woman (1961, 1 episode)
Harold Blair as Tommy Bent (1962, 1 episode)
Juliana Allen as Lynne Driscoll (1962, 1 episode)
Wynn Roberts as Defence Counsel Robert Winter (1962, 1 episode)
David Watt as Leslie Butler (1962, 1 episode)
Vernon Spencer as Graham Butler (1962, 1 episode)
Tommy Dysart as Jack McLean (1963, 1 episode)
Maggie Millar as Lydia Durant (1962, 1 episode)
James Scullin as Rocky Hawkins (1962, 1 episode)
Raymond Fedden as Ed Rowe (1962, 1 episode)
Isobel Kuhl as Gladys Willetts (1962, 1 episode)
George Fairfax as Crown Prosecutor John Taylor (1962, 1 episode)
Melissa Jaffer (1961, 1 episode)
Ian Turpie (1964, 1 episode)
James Elliott (1962, 1 episode)
Max Phipps (1964, 1 episode)
Tom Oliver (1964)
Leonard Teale
Nigel Lovell
Mark Edwards
Joe McCormick
Notable Episodes
Queen Versus Bent starring Harold Blair
Awards
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References
External links
Consider Your Verdict at Classic Australian Television
Consider Your Verdict at the National Film and Sound Archive
1960s Australian drama television series
Australian legal television series
Black-and-white Australian television shows
English-language television shows
Seven Network original programming
Television shows set in Victoria (state)
1961 Australian television series debuts
1964 Australian television series endings
Television series by Crawford Productions
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency%20%281959%20Australian%20TV%20series%29
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Emergency is an Australian television series produced by Nine Network Melbourne station GTV-9 in 1959.
Synopsis
The series was set in the busy casualty department of a major fictional Melbourne hospital, and is notable for being one of the first-ever dramas shown on Australian television.
Cast
Made by Melbourne's GTV-9 in co-operation with the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and based on Britain's Emergency Ward 10, Emergency starred Brian James as Dr. Geoffrey Thompson, Syd Conabere as orderly George Rogers, and Judith Godden as Nurse Jill Adamson. Moira Carleton also featured as Matron Evans.
Cast roles after series
Following the series demise, the actors went onto other roles Brian James went on to lead roles in the ABC serial Stormy Petrel in 1960, and ATN-7's period drama Jonah in 1962, later appearing as George Tippit in the drama serial Skyways (1979–81), before becoming best known for his role in cult series Prisoner
Moira Carleton appeared in guest roles in most of the Australian TV dramas on the 1960s and 1970s, with a permanent role as Olive Turner on Bellbird, whilst Syd Conabere starred in serial Sons and Daughters.
Production
The series was produced primarily in the GTV-9 studio, with brief (usually pre-credit) exterior sequences shot on 35mm film by newsreel cameramen. The episodes were not broadcast live, but were kinescoped to meet programming requirements, and facilitate later screening in Sydney.
The series' premise was simple: a basic dramatic exploration of cases passing through the Casualty ward. Scripts were written by GTV staffers Roland Strong (series producer) and Denzil Howson (series director) under pseudonyms.
Sponsorship came from British Petroleum, and a contract was signed for 52 half-hour episodes. The series debuted on GTV-9 on 16 February 1959, and on Sydney's ATN-7 a week later. Critics initially appeared fairly neutral, however a highly negative article on the series in a Sydney newspaper caused BP to withdraw sponsorship 16 weeks into the series run. Faced with having to carry the production expenses alone, GTV-9 discontinued production, with the final episode airing in Melbourne on 1 June 1959.
Patricia Kennedy called it "exhausting but exciting."
Reception
The Australian Women's Weekly called it "shudderingly bad."
See also
Autumn Affair - An earlier attempt at Australian television drama in 1958
Shell Presents - A series of one-off plays produced for Australian television in 1959-1960
The House on the Corner
References
External links
Australian medical television series
Nine Network original programming
1959 Australian television series debuts
1959 Australian television series endings
Black-and-white Australian television shows
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Melbourne
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Story%20of%20Peter%20Grey
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The Story of Peter Grey was an Australian television daytime soap opera produced by the Seven Network and first broadcast in July 1962 . James Condon starred in the title role as a church minister.
Produced at the Seven Network's ATN-7 studio's in Sydney, the series had a run of 156 fifteen-minute episodes, and was in black and white.
Plot
Peter Grey is a clergyman appointed to a new parish. He is married to neurotic Brenda. He forms a friendship with his predecessor, Rev Henry Marner and the latter's daughter Jane.
Main Cast
Production and broadcast
In 1959, the Seven Network (ATN7) announced they would produce three new television series, two 30-minute dramas and a 15-minute "woman's program". The 15 minute show was The Story of Peter Grey produced in the same style as there previous endeavor Autumn Affair which ended on 20 October 1959. Peter Grey was to be shown three times a week and run for 12 months
(The first of the 30-minute dramas was to be called The World of Marius Crump, the story of the devil in the disguise of a charming, whimsical character who wins or loses a soul in each episode, similar to Damn Yankees. Each episode was to be a self-contained story, but Mr Crump will be the central character every week. The series would be written by Richard Lane. It never became am on-going series. Nor did the other 30-minute drama.)
Peter Grey was shot on videotape at the Seven Network. ATN-7's studios. By 4 July 1960 the first four episodes had been taped. By August 1961 it was reportedly halfway through filming.
The show screened in mid-afternoon.
The Seven Network's Melbourne station HSV-7 repeated the series in 1964, accompanied by repeats of Autumn Affair.
The Seven Network, also aired the series in reruns on SAS10 in Adelaide in 1967 on Saturday evenings at 8.30pm.
Every episode of this series is held by the National Film and Sound Archive.
See also
List of television plays broadcast on ATN-7
External links
The Story of Peter Grey at the National Film and Sound Archive
Notes
Australian television soap operas
Seven Network original programming
1961 Australian television series debuts
1962 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows
Black-and-white Australian television shows
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCS%20algorithm
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For mathematical optimization, Multilevel Coordinate Search (MCS) is an efficient algorithm for bound constrained global optimization using function values only.
To do so, the n-dimensional search space is represented by a set of non-intersecting hypercubes (boxes). The boxes are then iteratively split along an axis plane according to the value of the function at a representative point of the box (and its neighbours) and the box's size. These two splitting criteria combine to form a global search by splitting large boxes and a local search by splitting areas for which the function value is good.
Additionally, a local search combining a (multi-dimensional) quadratic interpolant of the function and line searches can be used to augment performance of the algorithm (MCS with local search); in this case the plain MCS is used to provide the starting (initial) points. The information provided by local searches (local minima of the objective function) is then fed back to the optimizer and affects the splitting criteria, resulting in reduced sample clustering around local minima, faster convergence and higher precision.
Simplified workflow
The MCS workflow is visualized in Figures 1 and 2. Each step of the algorithm can be split into four stages:
Identify a potential candidate for splitting (magenta, thick).
Identify the optimal splitting direction and the expected optimal position of the splitting point (green).
Evaluate the objective function at the splitting point or recover it from the already computed set; the latter applies if the current splitting point has already been reached when splitting a neighboring box.
Generate new boxes (magenta, thin) based on the values of the objective function at the splitting point.
At each step the green point with the temporary yellow halo is the unique base point of the box; each box has an associated value of the objective, namely its value at the box's base point.
In order to determine if a box will be split two separate splitting criteria are used. The first one, splitting by rank, ensures that large boxes that have not been split too often will be split eventually. If it applies then the splitting point is easily determined at a fixed fraction of the length of the side being split. The second one, splitting by expected gain, employs a local one-dimensional parabolic quadratic model (surrogate) along a single coordinate. In this case the splitting point is defined as the minimum of the surrogate along a line segment and the box is split only if the interpolant value (serving as a proxy for the true value of the objective) is lower than the current best sampled function value.
Convergence
The algorithm is guaranteed to converge to the global minimum in the long run (i.e. when the number of function evaluations and the search depth are arbitrarily large) if the objective function is continuous in the neighbourhood of the global minimizer. This follows from the fact that any box will become arbitraril
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRST%20algorithm
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Boender-Rinnooy-Stougie-Timmer algorithm (BRST) is an optimization algorithm suitable for finding global optimum of black box functions. In their paper Boender et al. describe their method as a stochastic method involving a combination of sampling, clustering and local search, terminating with a range of confidence intervals on the value of the global minimum.
The algorithm of Boender et al. has been modified by Timmer. Timmer considered several clustering methods. Based on experiments a method named "multi level single linkage" was deemed most accurate.
Csendes' algorithms are implementations of the algorithm of [Boender et al.] and originated the public domain software product GLOBAL. The local algorithms used are a random direction, linear search algorithm also used by Törn, and a quasi—Newton algorithm not using the derivative of the function. The results show the dependence of the result on the auxiliary local algorithm used.
Background
Extending the class of functions to include multimodal functions makes the global optimization problem unsolvable in general. In order to be solvable some smoothness condition on the function in addition to continuity must be known.
The existence of several local minima and unsolvability in general are important characteristics of global optimization. Unsolvability here means that a solution cannot be guaranteed in a finite number of steps.
There are two ways to deal with the unsolvability problem. First, "a priori" conditions on f and A are posed which turns the problem into a solvable one or at least makes it possible to tell for sure that a solution has been found. This restricts the function class that is considered.
The second approach which allows a larger class of objective functions to be considered is to give up the solvability requirement and only try to obtain an estimate of the global minimum. In this "probabilistic" approach it would be desirable also to obtain some results on the goodness of an obtained estimate. Some of the solvable problems may fall in this class because the number of steps required for a guaranteed solution might be prohibitively large.
When relaxing the requirement on solvability it seems rational to require that the probability that a solution is obtained approaches 1 if the procedure is allowed to continue forever. An obvious probabilistic global search procedure is to use a local algorithm starting from several points distributed over the whole optimization region. This procedure is named "Multistart". Multistart is certainly one of the earliest global procedures used. It has even been used in local optimization for increasing the confidence in the obtained solution. One drawback of Multistart is that when many starting points are used the same minimum will eventually be determined several times. In order to improve the efficiency of Multistart this should be avoided.
Clustering methods are used to avoid this repeated determination of local minima. This is realiz
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWRL
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WWRL (1600 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to New York City. WWRL airs an all-news radio format as an affiliate of the Black Information Network (BIN). The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc.
By day, WWRL broadcasts at 25,000 watts; at night, to protect other stations on 1600 AM, it reduces power to 5,000 watts. It uses a directional antenna at all times. Its transmitter is on Radio Avenue in Secaucus, New Jersey, near the Hackensack River.
In addition to a standard analog transmission, WWRL programming is also carried on the third HD subchannel of WWPR-FM, and is available online via iHeartRadio.
Overview
Founded in 1926, WWRL originally had a multi-lingual format serving the various ethnic communities of New York City. The station took on a mostly Spanish identity in the 1950s, then became primarily oriented towards African Americans living in New York City in the mid-1960s, under the direction of news director Dick London, who invited community leaders to voice their concerns publicly on air, as the station became an advocate for legislative change. The music and news advocacy was an integral part of the Black American community. WWRL played R&B music from 1964 to 1982, before changing to urban contemporary gospel music and religious programming from 1982 to 1997.
After a brief return to R&B in the late 1990s, WWRL gradually de-emphasized music in favor of more talk radio programming. In 2006, WWRL replaced 1190 WLIB as the flagship station for the Air America Radio network and retained a progressive talk radio format for seven years.
From 2014 to 2016, WWRL had a regional Mexican music format before changing to South Asian programming as an affiliate of Radio Zindagi. Since November 2, 2020, the station has served as the New York City outlet for iHeartRadio's Black Information Network service.
History
Early history (1926–1963)
Founded by radio enthusiast William Reuman, doing business as Woodside Radio Laboratory, WWRL signed on at midnight on August 26, 1926, from a studio and transmitter located in his home at 41-30 58th Street in Woodside, Queens. It originally broadcast on 1160 kHz. In its first year of operation, WWRL broadcast live musical performances, usually from Reuman's friends and neighbors. Among them were Astoria singer Ethel Zimmerman, who would later achieve stardom as Ethel Merman.
WWRL began operations during a chaotic period when most government regulation had been suspended, with new stations free to be set up with few restriction. Following the reestablishment of government control by the formation of the Federal Radio Commission (FRC), the new regulators issued a series of temporary authorizations beginning on May 3, 1927, with WWRL at first continuing to be assigned to 1160 kHz, which a month later was changed to 1120 kHz. Stations were also informed that if they wanted to continue operating, they needed to file a formal license application by January 15, 1928, as the first step in determining wh
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Kingdom%20Warning%20and%20Monitoring%20Organisation
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The United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation (UKWMO) was a British civilian organisation operating to provide UK military and civilian authorities with data on nuclear explosions and forecasts of fallout across the country in the event of nuclear war.
The UKWMO was established in 1957 and funded by the Home Office and used its own premises which were mainly staffed by Royal Observer Corps (ROC) uniformed full-time and volunteer personnel as the fieldforce. The ROC was administered by the Ministry of Defence but mainly funded by the Home Office. The only time the combined organisations were on high alert in the Cold War was during Cuban Missile Crisis in October and November 1962. The organisation was wound up and disbanded in November 1992 following a review prompted by the government's Options for Change report.
Its emblem-of-arms was a pair of classic hunting horns crossing each other, pointed upwards, with the enscrolled motto "Sound An Alarm", a title also used for the latter of two contemporary public information films (the earlier one was called "Hole in the Ground"). Members of the UKWMO qualified for the Civil Defence Medal for fifteen years continuous years service, with a bar for each subsequent twelve years.
The task
The United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation had five main functions in the event of nuclear war. These were:
Warning the public of any air attack.
Providing confirmation of nuclear strike.
Warning the public of the approach of radioactive fall-out.
Supplying the civilian and military authorities in the United Kingdom and neighbouring countries in NATO with details of nuclear bursts and with a scientific assessment of the path and intensity of fall-out
Provision of a post-attack meteorological service
Operational organisation
Professional full-time staff
Headquarters UKWMO was located in a converted barracks building at Cowley Barracks in Cowley, Oxfordshire, and was headed by a Director and Deputy Director supported by a small administrative staff. Five professional Sector Controllers and five Assistant Sector Controllers were co-located at the five UKWMO Sector Controls.
Sparetime volunteers
At each of the twenty five UKWMO group controls the UKWMO was represented by volunteer and specially trained members. In the event of war the senior UKWMO volunteer present would command the group as Group Controller. Assessing the nuclear burst and fallout information and data provided by the ROC was a team of ten or more Warning Officers led by a Chief Warning Officer.
The members of the warning team were recruited from mainly local secondary school science teachers, or commercial engineers and technicians with a scientific education and background. They trained every two weeks from printed materials provided by the Home Office scientific branch and through lectures or practical training organised by the Assistant Sector Controller who was the area UKWMO training officer.
During operations
The D
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EGames%20%28video%20game%20developer%29
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eGames, Inc. was an American software publisher and developer for casual and traditional computer games based in Langhorne, Pennsylvania.
History
eGames was originally called Rom-Tech when it went public in 1996. The public company was formed by a merger between a software sales company (Romtech) and one of the first educational multi-media CD-ROM development companies called Applied Optical Media based in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Soon after going public, Romtech acquired a software development company based in San Luis Obispo, California that created SOHO software, and also shut down operations at Applied Optical Media.
eGames' flight simulator Xtreme Air Racing was a runner-up for GameSpots annual "Best Simulation on PC" award, which went to Flanker 2.5. In late 2005, eGames acquired Cinemaware, a game company founded in the eighties who produced a series of "interactive movie" games including widely acclaimed Defender of the Crown. In 2006, eGames released the first titles under its new affiliated label, Cinemaware Marquee. Through Cinemaware Marquee, eGames brought traditional games developed around the world to retail. Cinemaware Marquee titles include Space Rangers 2: Dominators, Independent Game Festival grand prize winner Darwinia, and Moscow to Berlin: Red Siege. eGames announced that it would be reviving many of the classic Cinemaware titles, beginning with Defender of the Crown.
With the September 2005 release of Boss Hunter: Revenge is Sweet!, an office-themed arcade-style game where the player chases their boss with a wide variety of work-related weaponry and early 2007 launch of Defender of the Crown: Heroes Live Forever, eGames began in-house game development efforts working primarily with Brazil-based TechFront Studios, Ltd. eGames' third internally developed title, Burger Island launched in May 2007 in conjunction with Sandlot Games. It was distributed by Yahoo! Games for a two-week period, and was the number one downloadable game in terms of sales and downloads on Yahoo! in its debut week.
Following the success of Burger Island, eGames developed several additional titles with TechFront, including sequel Burger Island 2: The Missing Ingredient (2009), hidden object vampire adventure The Dracula Files (2009), pet adoption time management game Purrfect Pet Shop (2008), city-building puzzler Puzzle City (2007), fashion design time management game Satisfashion (2008), licensed puzzler Rubik's Cube Challenge (2007), and licensed comic hidden object game Three Stooges: Treasure Hunt Hijinx (2008). In addition to PC publication, Burger Island was released for the Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, and iOS platforms. Satisfashion was released on the Nintendo DS and Wii, while Puzzle City made its way to the DS.
eGames became known as Entertainment Games, following the acquisition of Heyday Games in June 2011.
Following this, the company focused its efforts on creating a Facebook game known as Retro World, followed by an unsuccessful K
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technet
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Technet may refer to:
Technet (comics), a fictional group in the Marvel Comics universe
TechNet (computer network), Singapore's first Internet access provider
Microsoft TechNet, a former resource for IT professionals
See also
Technetium (symbol Tc), a chemical element with atomic number 43
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAD%20standards
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are a set of guidelines for the way Computer-aided drafting (CAD), or (CADD) Computer Aided Design and Drawing, drawings should appear, to improve productivity and interchange of CAD documents between different offices and CAD programs, especially in architecture and engineering.
AEC (Architecture Engineering and Construction) standards
CAD layer standards
Most common:
BS 1192, which relies heavily on the Code of Procedure for the Construction Industry
AIA Cad Layer Guidelines, 2nd edition (1997), has a great usage in the USA;
ISO 13567-1/3, International standard, common in Northern Europe;
AEC (UK), an adaptation of BS-1192 based on Uniclass.
A/E/C CAD Standard, Tri-service (USACE/Air Force/NAVFAC) CAD standard created/maintained by the CAD/BIM Technology Center for Facilities, Infrastructure, and Environment…
(1996), Swiss standard for engineers and architects, based on ISO 13567.
(2012), Austrian standard for digital documentation in technical drawings, based on ISO 13567.
Samples of standardised layers:
A-B374--E- (ISO13567: agent Architect, element Roof window in SfB, presentation graphic element);
A-37420-T2N01B113B23pro (ISO13567: agent Architect, element Roof Window in SfB, presentation Text#2, New part, floor 01, block B1, phase 1, projection 3D, scale 1:5(B), work package 23 and user definition "pro");
A-G25---D-R (ISO13567: agent Architect, element wall in Uniclass, presentation dimensions, status Existing to be removed);
A-G251-G-WallExtl-Fwd (AEC(UK): agent Architect, element External Wall in Uniclass, presentation graphic element, user definition "WallExtl" and view Forward);
A210_M_ExtWall (BS1192: agent Architect, element External Wall in SfB, presentation model, user definition "ExtWall");
A-E04---E- (ISO13567 SIA 2014: agent Architect, element Stair in SIA classification, presentation graphic element);
A-WALL-FULL (AIA: agent Architect, element Wall, Full height).
Line-thickness
Thickness for pens and plot: Gray, Red, White, Yellow, Magenta, Blue, Green. In AutoCAD usually parts to be printed in black are drawn in 1 to 7 basic colors. Color layer: Green-Center, Magenta-Measure of length and Blue-Hidden.
Text and dimension
Heights: , , , (stroke thickness (lineweight) should be 0.1 of the character height).
Font styles: "Romans.shx – Romantic Simplex", "ISOCPEUR.ttf". Exceptional use of screen fonts (arial, Times New Roman etc.).
Scales
2:1, 20:1, 200:1 ...
1:1, 1:10, 1:100 ...
in = 1 ft
in = 1 ft
in = 1 ft
in = 1 ft
in = 1 ft
1 in = 1 ft
in = 1 ft
3 in = 1 ft (QUARTER SCALE)
6 in = 1 ft (HALF SCALE)
1 ft = 1 ft (FULL SCALE)
File naming standards
BS 1192:
Discipline (1 char), Element (2 char, using SfB Table 1 or Uniclass), Drawing type (1 char, P=preliminary, X=special/xref, L=layout, C=component, S=schedules, A=assembly drawings, K=co-ordination drawing), Unique number (3 char), Revision (1 char, A=emission, B,C,D...= revisions).
Samples: A22P012G.dwg (architect, internal walls in SfB, prelim
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Care%20Bears%27%20Big%20Wish%20Movie
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The Care Bears' Big Wish Movie is a 2005 computer-animated musical fantasy film, produced by Nelvana Limited and released by Lions Gate Home Entertainment. Directed by Larry Jacobs and Ron Pitts, and written by Jeffrey Alan Schechter, the film is a follow-up to the Care Bears' previous efforts in 2004's Journey to Joke-a-lot. It was the fifth film to feature the Bears, and the second to be computer-animated.
The Big Wish Movie centers on Wish Bear, a Care Bear who can make and grant wishes. After some of them do not work, she feels worried that the other bears have overlooked her abilities, and wishes for a few new friends who care more than she does. Those three—Messy Bear, Me Bear and Too Loud Bear—cause further trouble for Wish Bear, her wishing star Twinkers, and all of Care-a-lot.
As with Journey to Joke-a-lot, Toronto's Nelvana produced and self-financed the Big Wish Movie; additional work was handled by India's Crest Animation Productions. Production involved various personnel from the previous film, among them Ron Pitts, composer Ian Thomas and various voice actors including Stephanie Beard, Stevie Vallance and Julie Lemieux. The Big Wish Movie was released on DVD by Lions Gate on October 18, 2005; prior to this, it premiered on U.S. and Canadian television, and was accompanied by a tie-in book from Scholastic Press. It subsequently received favourable reviews from Parenting magazine and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. This was Nelvana's final production with the Care Bears, before SD Entertainment of California assumed responsibility for future installments in the franchise.
Plot
This movie starts when, atop the roof of an observatory at their cloud-filled home of Care-a-lot, the Care Bears hear Wish Bear's story of how she (as a cub) found her new friend, a wishing star named Twinkers. The Care Bears are touched by this tale, but are a bit worried when she uses Twinkers' inherent power to wish them all some popcorn. Cheer Bear raises concern that this may be a frivolous use of Twinkers' power. Wish Bear, however, assures everyone that she is a trained professional.
The next day, Wish Bear uses the wishing power to help her friends. She wishes for plenty of rainbow sap for Share Bear, and for Grumpy Bear's rocket to have "zoom", but the wishes backfire when the sap overflows and the rocket spins out of control.
A monthly meeting of Care-a-lot's steering committee (with Champ Bear presiding) reveals a problem with the Caring Meter. The machine, which measures how much caring there is in Care-a-lot, has moved towards the rain-cloud side. Wish Bear suggests using her wishes, but is rejected since not all of them work as intended; they didn't like their wishes ("I Wish"). Disappointed, she decides to wish for other bears who like wishing as much as she does. This causes three new bears to arrive in Care-a-lot: Too Loud Bear, Me Bear, and Messy Bear.
Everyone is pleased to welcome the new neighbors at first, but things soon get out
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-assisted%20gaming
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Computer-assisted gaming (CAG) and computer-assisted wargaming (CAWG) refer to games which are at least partially computerized, but where on important part of the action is not virtual but performed in real life or on a miniature terrain. Regulation of the game can be done completely by a computer or partly deferred to a human referee. Computer-assisted gaming attempts to combine the advantages of PC games with those of face-to-face games. In computer-assisted gaming, computers are used for recordkeeping and sometimes for the resolution of combat, but a Human referee makes any decisions requiring judgement.
Variations
A computer-assisted game can be little more than a collection of rules and notes on computer, or as complete as a computer game, with a human referee needed only to make the non-random decisions. It can be played remotely or with everyone in the same room looking at one or more computer monitors. (The referee must have his own monitor; the players can share one, or each player can have his own. Or only the referee may have a monitor, with the players using paper as usual.) This flexibility allows players to combine the best aspects of paper-and-pencil and computer games while computerizing the game as much or as little as desired.
Computer-assisted games are mostly not designed toward recreating the battlefield inside computer memory, but employing the computer to play the role of game master by storing game rules and unit (wargames) or role (role playing games) characteristics, tracking unit or character status and positions or distances, animating the game with sounds and voice and resolving combat (shooting and close combat). All distance relationships are tracked on the tabletop. All record-keeping is tracked by the computer.
Role-playing games
Role-playing games were one of the first types of games for which computer-assisted gaming programs were developed. Computer-aided role-playing game programs are designed to help game masters and players alike. Those programs range from acting as convenient format for a character sheet; or other game materials; all the way up to full automation of the game mechanics of a role-playing game system . This is especially useful for character creation/maintenance and rules resolutions for complex simulationist games.
Poker
There are multiple poker tools that allow players to do statistical analysis of games. An example is a poker calculator, which determines the player's probability of winning, losing, or tying a hand.
Tabletop projection
Another example of computer-assisted gaming growing in popularity among role-playing game players is the use of a digital projector or flat screen monitors to present maps or other visual elements during game play. These elements may be used on their own, or in concert with miniatures to map out combats, and exploration or to introduce other visual media into the game without resorting to printing or drawing these items.;
Webcam data acquisition
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly%20Henneberg
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Mary Janne "Molly" Henneberg (born August 13, 1973) is an American former news reporter for the Fox News Channel. She had joined the network in 2001 and was based at the network's Washington, D.C. bureau. Henneberg left Fox News in December 2014. On October 3, 2015, she reported again on Fox News.
Biography
During her career at Fox News Channel, she has been a White House correspondent and covered the 2004 Presidential campaign. In 2003 she reported from Baghdad during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Recently, she presented live coverage of Hurricane Katrina from Mississippi and reported on the hurricane recovery efforts from Louisiana.
Prior to joining Fox News Channel, Henneberg was the medical reporter for WBRE-TV in Wilkes Barre/Scranton, Pennsylvania. She was also an early evening anchor and medical reporter at WPBN-TV in Traverse City, Michigan, and began her career as a reporter for WHAG-TV in Hagerstown, Maryland.
She is a 1991 graduate of George Mason High School in Falls Church, Virginia and received a bachelor's degree in English and elementary education from Vanderbilt University in 1995.
Henneberg grew up in Falls Church and is a member of the independent Anglican Falls Church, along with her parents Daniel and Jackie, younger brother Robert, younger sister Amanda, younger brother William, husband Chris, and best friend Allison Yates Gaskins. She also is an obsessive Washington Football Team (formerly Redskins) fan.
On Saturday, July 12, 2008, she married United States Marine Corps lawyer Captain Chris Nagel at the Falls Church. On August 31, 2011, Henneberg announced on Fox and Friends that she and her husband were expecting a child "and new [then-]Redskins fan." The due date was Christmas Day, and the couple intended to name their daughter Jaqueline in honor of Molly's mother.
References
External links
About The Falls Church
Bio on FOXNews.com
George Mason HS Feature
Fave Foods of the Famous
The Falls Church
American Anglican Church in North America members
American television reporters and correspondents
1973 births
People from Falls Church, Virginia
Living people
Fox News people
Vanderbilt University alumni
American women television journalists
Journalists from Virginia
Christians from Virginia
20th-century Anglicans
21st-century Anglicans
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20for%20the%20Development%20of%20Education%20in%20Africa
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The Association for the Development of Education in Africa, previously known as "Donors to African Education", is a "network and partnership" established by a World Bank initiative in 1988. It groups Ministries of Education, international Development Agencies, NGOs and education specialists.
It currently focuses on helping Ministers of Education and funding agencies to coordinate their efforts to create successful education policies based on African leadership. ADEA has also become aware of the informal sector's relevance, and thus recognized the need for increased vocational school training as a way to help the informal sector. "Diverse forms of learning"
ADEA is based in Tunis at the African Development Bank (AfDB) since August 1, 2008.
ADEA publishes a newsletter ADEA newsletter to inform about its activities.
Programs
Programs include:
The Africa Education Journalism Award, launched in 2001
Triennale (formerly Biennial) Meetings of Ministers of Education, development agency representatives and related professionals. Meetings:
2003: held in Grand Baie, Mauritius, with a theme of "Improving the Quality of Education in sub-Saharan Africa"
2001: held in Arusha, Tanzania with a theme of "Reaching Out, Reaching All: Sustaining Effective Policies and Practices for Education in Africa!".
1999: held in Johannesburg, South Africa, with a theme of "What works and Whats new in Education : Africa Speaks!"
Prospective, Stock-Taking Review of Education in Africa
Identifying Effective Responses to HIV/AIDS
Intra-African Exchanges
References
http://www.adeanet.org
International organizations based in Africa
Education in Africa
World Bank
Organizations established in 1988
Organisations based in Tunis
International organisations based in Tunisia
International educational organizations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPMD
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PPMD may refer to:
People
Kevin Nanney, an e-sports professional known by his gamer tag PPMD
Computer science
the compression algorithm PPMd, a variant of the Prediction by partial matching (PPM) compression technique
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twit
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Twit may refer to:
TWiT.tv, a podcast network
This Week in Tech, a podcast on the TWiT.tv network
The Twits, a children's book by Roald Dahl
Twit (song), a 2019 song by Hwasa
William "Twit" Scuttle, a fictional character; in the List of The Deptford Mice characters
See also
Upper Class Twit of the Year, a comedy sketch by Monty Python
Twitter
Tweet (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-to-many
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One-to-many may refer to:
Fat link, a one-to-many link in hypertext
Multivalued function, a one-to-many function in mathematics
One-to-many (data model), a type of relationship and cardinality in systems analysis
Point-to-multipoint communication, communication which has a one-to-many relationship
See also
Cardinality (data modeling)
Multicast
One Too Many (data modeling)
One-to-one (disambiguation)
Point-to-point (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernomor-Avia
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Chernomor Avia was a charter airline based in Sochi, Russia. It was established in 1994 and operates passenger charter services. Its main base was Sochi International Airport.
Code data
ICAO Code: CMK (not current)
Callsign: Cheravia
Fleet
The Chernomor Avia fleet consisted of the following aircraft (at January 2005):
3 Tupolev Tu-134AA
1 Tupolev Tu-154B
1 Tupolev Tu-154B-2
References
External links
Defunct airlines of Russia
Airlines established in 1994
Airlines disestablished in 2006
1994 establishments in Russia
Companies based in Krasnodar Krai
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series%2090
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Series 90 may refer to:
Aircraft
Express Series 90, an American homebuilt aircraft design
Computing
UNIVAC Series 90, mainframe computers
Series 90 (software platform), a platform for mobile phones that uses Symbian OS
UNIVAC Series 90, line of mainframe computers
Trains
JNR 90 series, prototype of JNR 101 series electric multiple unit
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radisys
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Radisys Corporation is an American technology company located in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States that makes technology used by telecommunications companies in mobile networks. Founded in 1987 in Oregon by former employees of Intel, the company went public in 1995. The company's products are used in mobile network applications such as small cell radio access networks, wireless core network elements, deep packet inspection and policy management equipment; conferencing, and media services including voice, video and data. In 2015, the first-quarter revenues of Radisys totaled $48.7 million, and approximately employed 700 people. Arun Bhikshesvaran is the company's chief executive officer.
On 30 June 2018, multinational conglomerate Reliance Industries acquired Radisys for $74 million.
It now operates as an independent subsidiary.
History
Radisys was founded in 1987 as Radix Microsystems in Beaverton, Oregon, by former Intel engineers Dave Budde and Glen Myers. The first investors were employees who put up $50,000 each, with Tektronix later investing additional funds into the company. Originally located in space leased from Sequent Computer Systems, by 1994 the company had grown to annual sales of $20 million. The company's products were computers used in end products such as automated teller machines to paint mixers. On October 20, 1995, the company became a publicly traded company when it held an initial public offering (IPO). The IPO raised $19.6 million for Radisys after selling 2.7 million shares at $12 per share.
In 1996, the company moved its headquarters to a new campus in Hillsboro, and at that time sales reached $80 million and the company had a profit of $9.6 million that year with 175 employees. Company co-founder Dave Budde left the company in 1997, with company revenues at $81 million annually at that time. The company grew in part by acquisitions such as Sonitech International in 1997, part of IBM's Open Computing Platform unit and Texas Micro in 1999, all of S-Link in 2001, and Microware also in 2001. Radisys also moved some production to China in order to take advantage of the lower manufacturing costs.
In 2002, the company had grown to annual revenues of $200 million, and posted a profit in the fourth quarter for the first time in several quarters. That year Scott Grout was named as chief executive officer of the company and C. Scott Gibson became the chairman of the board, both replacing Glen Myers who co-founded the company. The company sold off its signaling gateway line in 2003.
They raised $97 million through selling convertible senior notes in November 2003. In 2004, the company stopped granting stock options to employees and transitioned to giving restricted shares for some compensation. Radisys grew to annual revenues of $320 million by 2005. The company continued to grow through acquisitions such as a $105 million deal that added Convedia Corp. in 2006. Radisys continued buying assets when it purchased part of Intel's
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPYR
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WPYR (1380 AM) is an American radio station licensed to serve the community of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The station currently airs a Catholic programming format.
History
WPYR was originally WYNK, a country music outlet until its format was moved to the FM side. The station signed on in 1956 and was affiliated with ABC Radio and Mutual. In the 1990s, WYNK switched to Radio Disney and briefly held the WFMF call letters after the FM side became WLSS. Once WLSS returned to the WFMF call letters, 1380 reverted to WYNK. WYNK flipped to a syndicated talk format on April 22, 2002.
In 2005, WYNK became the Baton Rouge affiliate of Air America Radio and changed call letters to WPYR.
In late 2007, the station switched to Clear Channel's Hallelujah Contemporary Gospel music format.
In 2008, WPYR was sold to Michael Glitner, who then exchanged WPYR for station WBZK in York, South Carolina (now WULR), which was owned by Pamal Broadcasting and is near Glitner's new home in South Carolina.
Following the station swap, WPYR returned with a new Spanish format. The station was broadcasting a simulcast of WFNO's "La Fabulosa 830".
In August 2009, Catholic Community Radio, Inc. signed a purchase agreement with the Davidson Media Group intending to buy the station and switch to a Catholic format for the Baton Rouge area.
On December 11, 2009, Catholic Community Radio, Inc. completed the sale of WPYR with Davidson Media Group. The station is a lay apostolate owned and operated by Catholic Community Radio, Inc. within the Catholic Diocese of Baton Rouge.
The station currently hosts 24-hour Catholic Talk format, begun in the 1st Quarter of 2010 drawing from local and national sources such as EWTN Global Radio Network, Ave Maria Radio, and Relevant Radio.
WPYR began broadcasting a one-hour live morning program beginning at 7:00am called "Wake Up Baton Rouge! Live." When the live show began broadcasting in the New Orleans area via WQNO, the show's name changed to "Wake Up Louisiana."
References
External links
Catholic radio stations
Radio stations established in 1956
1956 establishments in Louisiana
Christian radio stations in Louisiana
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTK
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The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is an open-source software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing and scientific visualization.
VTK is distributed under the OSI-approved BSD 3-clause License.
Functionality
VTK consists of a C++ class library and several interpreted interface layers including Tcl/Tk, Java, and Python. The toolkit is created and supported by the Kitware team. VTK supports a various visualization algorithms including: scalar, vector, tensor, texture, and volumetric methods; and advanced modeling techniques such as: implicit modeling, polygon reduction, mesh smoothing, cutting, contouring, and Delaunay triangulation. VTK has an information visualization framework, has a suite of 3D interaction widgets, supports parallel processing, and integrates with various databases and GUI toolkits such as Qt and Tk. VTK is cross-platform and runs on Linux, Windows, Mac and Unix platforms. The core of VTK is implemented as a C++ toolkit, requiring users to build applications by combining various objects into an application. The system also supports automated wrapping of the C++ core into Python, Java and Tcl, so that VTK applications may also be written using these programming languages.
History
VTK was initially created in 1993 as companion software to the book The Visualization Toolkit: An Object-Oriented Approach to 3D Graphics. The book and software were written by three researchers (Will Schroeder, Ken Martin and Bill Lorensen) on their own time and with permission from General Electric (thus the ownership of the software resided with, and continues to reside with, the authors). After the core of VTK was written, users and developers around the world began to improve and apply the system to real-world problems.
With the founding of Kitware, the VTK community grew rapidly, and toolkit usage expanded into academic, research and commercial applications. A number of major companies and organizations, such as Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory funded the development of VTK and even developed a number of VTK modules themselves. VTK forms the core of the 3DSlicer biomedical computing application, and numerous research papers at IEEE Visualization and other conferences based on VTK have appeared. VTK has been used on a large 1024-processor computer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory to process nearly a Petabyte of data.
Later VTK was expanded to support the ingestion, processing and display of informatics data. This work was supported by Sandia National Laboratories under the 'Titan' project.
Criticism
In 2013, a survey paper on visualization for radiotherapy noticed that while VTK is a powerful and widely known toolkit, it lacked a number of important features, such as multivolume rendering, had no support of GPGPU libraries such as CUDA, no support of out-of-core rendering of huge datasets and no native support for visualization of time-dependent volumetric data.
However
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