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String functions are used in computer programming languages to manipulate a string or query information about a string (some do both).
Most programming languages that have a string datatype will have some string functions although there may be other low-level ways within each language to handle strings directly. In object-oriented languages, string functions are often implemented as properties and methods of string objects. In functional and list-based languages a string is represented as a list (of character codes), therefore all list-manipulation procedures could be considered string functions. However such languages may implement a subset of explicit string-specific functions as well.
For function that manipulate strings, modern object-oriented languages, like C# and Java have immutable strings and return a copy (in newly allocated dynamic memory), while others, like C manipulate the original string unless the programmer copies data to a new string. See for example Concatenation below.
The most basic example of a string function is the length(string) function. This function returns the length of a string literal.
e.g. length("hello world") would return 11.
Other languages may have string functions with similar or exactly the same syntax or parameters or outcomes. For example, in many languages the length function is usually represented as len(string). The below list of common functions aims to help limit this confusion.
Common string functions (multi language reference)
String functions common to many languages are listed below, including the different names used. The below list of common functions aims to help programmers find the equivalent function in a language. Note, string concatenation and regular expressions are handled in separate pages. Statements in guillemets (« … ») are optional.
CharAt
{ Example in Pascal }
var
MyStr: string = 'Hello, World';
MyChar: Char;
begin
MyChar := MyStr[2]; // 'e'
# Example in ALGOL 68 #
"Hello, World"[2]; // 'e'
// Example in C
#include <stdio.h> // for printf
char MyStr[] = "Hello, World";
printf("%c", *(MyStr+1)); // 'e'
printf("%c", *(MyStr+7)); // 'W'
printf("%c", MyStr[11]); // 'd'
printf("%s", MyStr); // 'Hello, World'
printf("%s", "Hello(2), World(2)"); // 'Hello(2), World(2)'
// Example in C++
#include <iostream> // for "cout"
#include <string.h> // for "string" data type
using namespace std;
char MyStr1[] = "Hello(1), World(1)";
string MyStr2 = "Hello(2), World(2)";
cout << "Hello(3), World(3)"; // 'Hello(3), World(3)'
cout << MyStr2[6]; // '2'
cout << MyStr1.substr (5, 3); // '(1)'
// Example in C#
"Hello, World"[2]; // 'l'
# Example in Perl 5
substr("Hello, World", 1, 1); # 'e'
# Examples in Python
"Hello, World"[2] # 'l'
"Hello, World"[-3] # 'r'
# Example in Raku
"Hello, World".substr(1, 1); # 'e'
' Example in Visual Basic
Mid("Hell
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John Stewart Shawe-Taylor (born 1953) is Director of the Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning at University College, London (UK). His main research area is statistical learning theory. He has contributed to a number of fields ranging from graph theory through cryptography to statistical learning theory and its applications. However, his main contributions have been in the development of the analysis and subsequent algorithmic definition of principled machine learning algorithms founded in statistical learning theory. This work has helped to drive a fundamental rebirth in the field of machine learning with the introduction of kernel methods and support vector machines, including the mapping of these approaches onto novel domains including work in computer vision, document classification and brain scan analysis. More recently he has worked on interactive learning and reinforcement learning. He has also been instrumental in assembling a series of influential European Networks of Excellence (initially the NeuroCOLT projects and later the PASCAL networks). The scientific coordination of these projects has influenced a generation of researchers and promoted the widespread uptake of machine learning in both science and industry that we are currently witnessing. He has published over 300 papers with over 42000 citations. Two books co-authored with Nello Cristianini have become standard monographs for the study of kernel methods and support vector machines and together have attracted 21000 citations. He is Head of the Computer Science Department at University College London, where he has overseen a significant expansion and witnessed its emergence as the highest ranked Computer Science Department in the UK in the 2014 UK Research Evaluation Framework (REF).
Publications
He has written with Nello Cristianini two books on the theory of support vector machines and kernel methods:
An introduction to support vector machines N.C. and J. S.T. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Kernel methods for pattern analysis J. S.T and N.C. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
He has published research in neural networks, machine learning, and graph theory.
Schooling
He was educated at Shrewsbury and graduated from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
External links
Professional homepage
1953 births
British computer scientists
Living people
British statisticians
Artificial intelligence researchers
John
University of Ljubljana alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia%20Orin%20Lyris
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Sonia Orin Lyris is the author of several novels and various science fiction and fantasy stories and articles in computing and literary journals. She is the author of The Seer. and the sequel novels forming "The Stranger Trilogy". She has published fiction for Wizards of the Coast, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, and Pulphouse.
In 1996, she co-founded eMarket Group, Ltd., an online merchandise company, and worked with them as Executive Vice President. She also helped to build systems for e-commerce sites like Viz Media.
Lyris has been a contributing editor to the C-spot and associate editor at the Journal Of Universal Rejection (JofUR). In 2012, she was interviewed in an episode of The Tomorrow Project podcast, where she discussed the relationship between real-world science and science fiction.
Lyris lives in Seattle, Washington.
Bibliography
Novels and series
The Seer Saga
A short prequel to The Seer, previously published as part of
The Stranger Trilogy is the sequel to The Seer.
Magic: The Gathering
And Peace Shall Sleep has translations in German, French, and Polish.
Shorter fiction
Republished:
Republished separately in 2012:
Collections
This anthology contains the stories Descent, The Green, and Motherhood.
Nonfiction
See also
References
External links
20th-century American novelists
20th-century American short story writers
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American novelists
21st-century American short story writers
21st-century American women writers
American science fiction writers
American women novelists
American women short story writers
Living people
Women science fiction and fantasy writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20Beast%20%28video%20game%29
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Battle Beast is a side-scrolling fighting game released for the PC in 1995.
Gameplay
In the style of Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter, a player can play against another human opponent or computer-controlled opponents in different levels using hand-to-hand combat, special moves and weapons to defeat each other.
Development
Battle Beast was developed by the American studio 7th Level.
Reception
Reviewing the Windows version, a Next Generation critic called Battle Beast "an incredibly fun and visually stunning fighting game". He complimented the play control, numerous secrets, and most especially the cute, humorous animation, concluding that "At its heart it's still just another 2D fighter, but its light-hearted feel gives it an edge over many of the others out there." He awarded it 3 out of 5 stars. The game received a positive review from Computer Game Review, which concluded, "Finally, a quality fight game worth owning."
Entertainment Weekly gave the game a B.
PC Gamer rated the game a 69 of 100 stating that" It's a decent fighting game, but one with significant flaws.
The game shipped more than 50,000 units.
References
External links
1995 video games
DOS games
Classic Mac OS games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Fighting games
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
BMG Interactive games
7th Level games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject-matter%20expert%20Turing%20test
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A subject matter expert Turing test is a variation of the Turing test where a computer system attempts to replicate an expert in a given field such as chemistry or marketing. It is also known, as a Feigenbaum test and was proposed by Edward Feigenbaum in a 2003 paper.
The concept is also described by Ray Kurzweil in his 2005 book The Singularity is Near. Kurzweil argues that machines who pass this test are an inevitable consequence of Moore's Law.
See also
Notes
References
, p. 503-505
Further reading
Turing tests
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca%20MacKinnon
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Rebecca MacKinnon (born September 16, 1969) is an author, researcher, Internet freedom advocate, and co-founder of the citizen media network Global Voices. She is notable as a former CNN journalist who headed the CNN bureaus in Beijing and later in Tokyo. She is on the board of directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a founding board member of the Global Network Initiative the founding director of the Ranking Digital Rights project at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, and is the Vice President for Global Advocacy at the Wikimedia Foundation.
Early life and education
MacKinnon was born in Berkeley, California. When she was three years old, MacKinnon's family moved to Tempe, Arizona, where her father Stephen R. MacKinnon took a job as Professor of Chinese History at Arizona State University. Her parents' academic research careers led her to pass most of her primary school years in Delhi, India, Hong Kong, and Beijing, China, before moving back to Arizona for middle and high school. She graduated from Tempe High in 1987.
She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1991 with a B.A. in Government. After graduating, she served as a Fulbright scholar in Taiwan, where she also worked as a Newsweek stringer.
Career
CNN
MacKinnon joined CNN in 1992 as Beijing Bureau Assistant and moved up to Producer/Correspondent by 1997 and Bureau Chief by 1998. In 2001 she became Tokyo Bureau Chief. During her time with CNN, she interviewed notable leaders including Junichiro Koizumi, Dalai Lama, Pervez Musharraf, and Mohammad Khatami.
Fellowships
In the spring of 2004, MacKinnon was a fellow of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. That summer, she joined Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society as a Research Fellow, where she remained until December 2006. Among her projects at the Berkman Center, MacKinnon founded Global Voices Online in collaboration with Ethan Zuckerman.
In January 2007 she joined the Journalism and Media Studies Center at the University of Hong Kong, where she remained until January 2009. From February 2009 to January 2010, she conducted research as an Open Society Fellow, funded by George Soros' Open Society Institute. Then in February 2010 she joined Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy where she was a visiting fellow, working on a book about the future of freedom in the Internet age. Regarding the Middle East, MacKinnon wrote that "the Internet empowers people and helps to bring about the peaceful changes associated with the Arab Spring".
In September 2010, MacKinnon became a Bernard L. Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation. She is the Founding Director of the think tank's Ranking Digital Rights project which ranks the world's most powerful Internet, mobile, and telecommunications, companies on their respect for users' rights, with a focus on free expression and privacy.
Wikimedia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting%20circle%20method
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In mathematics, the splitting circle method is a numerical algorithm for the numerical factorization of a polynomial and, ultimately, for finding its complex roots. It was introduced by Arnold Schönhage in his 1982 paper The fundamental theorem of algebra in terms of computational complexity (Technical report, Mathematisches Institut der Universität Tübingen). A revised algorithm was presented by Victor Pan in 1998. An implementation was provided by Xavier Gourdon in 1996 for the Magma and PARI/GP computer algebra systems.
General description
The fundamental idea of the splitting circle method is to use methods of complex analysis, more precisely the residue theorem, to construct factors of polynomials. With those methods it is possible to construct a factor of a given polynomial for any region of the complex plane with a piecewise smooth boundary. Most of those factors will be trivial, that is constant polynomials. Only regions that contain roots of p(x) result in nontrivial factors that have exactly those roots of p(x) as their own roots, preserving multiplicity.
In the numerical realization of this method one uses disks D(c,r) (center c, radius r) in the complex plane as regions. The boundary circle of a disk splits the set of roots of p(x) in two parts, hence the name of the method. To a given disk one computes approximate factors following the analytical theory and refines them using Newton's method. To avoid numerical instability one has to demand that all roots are well separated from the boundary circle of the disk. So to obtain a good splitting circle it should be embedded in a root free annulus A(c,r,R) (center c, inner radius r, outer radius R) with a large relative width R/r.
Repeating this process for the factors found, one finally arrives at an approximative factorization of the polynomial at a required precision. The factors are either linear polynomials representing well isolated zeros or higher order polynomials representing clusters of zeros.
Details of the analytical construction
Newton's identities are a bijective relation between the elementary symmetric polynomials of a tuple of complex numbers and its sums of powers. Therefore, it is possible to compute the coefficients of a polynomial
(or of a factor of it) from the sums of powers of its zeros
,
by solving the triangular system that is obtained by comparing the powers of u in the following identity of formal power series
If is a domain with piecewise smooth boundary C and if the zeros of p(x) are pairwise distinct and not on the boundary C, then from the residue theorem of residual calculus one gets
The identity of the left to the right side of this equation also holds for zeros with multiplicities. By using the Newton identities one is able to compute from those sums of powers the factor
of p(x) corresponding to the zeros of p(x) inside G. By polynomial division one also obtains the second factor g(x) in p(x) = f(x)g(x).
The commonly used regions are
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AETC
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AETC may stand for:
AIDS Education and Training Centers, a US network of sites that provide education on HIV and related co-morbidities
Air Education and Training Command, of the U.S. Air Force's nine major commands
Armoured Engineer Training Centre, a battalion of the Singapore Combat Engineers
Alabama Educational Television Commission, the state government agency which owns Alabama Public Television
Arkansas Educational Television Commission, the state government agency which owns Arkansas PBS
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga%20Zorro%20II
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Zorro II is the general purpose expansion bus used by the Amiga 2000 computer. The bus is mainly a buffered extension of the Motorola 68000 bus, with support for bus mastering DMA. The expansion slots use a 100-pin connector and the card form factor is the same as the IBM PC. Zorro II cards implement the Autoconfig protocol for automatic address space assignment (similar to the later PCI technology on the PC).
The prototype "Zorro bus" expansion box for the Amiga 1000 was the basis for the initial Amiga 2000-A model design. This box connected to the Amiga 1000 unbuffered CPU bus card edge connector.
Zorro II was succeeded by Zorro III, a 32-bit, asynchronous bus.
Amiga memory map
External links
Amiga Hardware Database - Descriptions and photos of Zorro II cards.
Discussion about speed of Zorro
Zorro II
Computer buses
Motherboard expansion slot
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic%20congestion%20map
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A traffic congestion map is a graphical, realtime or near-realtime representation of traffic flow for some particular area. Data is typically collected via anonymous GPS datapoints and loop sensors embedded in the roadways, then processed by computer at a central facility and distributed as a map view to users.
Many web sites, news channels and mobile apps show these maps to help commuters avoid congested areas. Sometimes they are displayed directly to motorists using electronic signs, such as those on the 2nd Ring Road in Beijing. Frequently these show conditions on highways, but local streets can also be shown.
External links
New York City Department of Transportation Flowmap with cameras
Road traffic management
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIMACS
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The Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) is a collaboration between Rutgers University, Princeton University, and the research firms AT&T, Bell Labs, Applied Communication Sciences, and NEC. It was founded in 1989 with money from the National Science Foundation. Its offices are located on the Rutgers campus, and 250 members from the six institutions form its permanent members.
DIMACS is devoted to both theoretical development and practical applications of discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science. It engages in a wide variety of evangelism including encouraging, inspiring, and facilitating researchers in these subject areas, and sponsoring conferences and workshops.
Fundamental research in discrete mathematics has applications in diverse fields including Cryptology, Engineering, Networking, and Management Decision Support.
Past directors have included Fred S. Roberts, Daniel Gorenstein, András Hajnal, and Rebecca N. Wright.
The DIMACS Challenges
DIMACS sponsors implementation challenges to determine practical algorithm performance on problems of interest. There have been eleven DIMACS challenges so far.
1990-1991: Network Flows and Matching
1992-1992: NP-Hard Problems: Max Clique, Graph Coloring, and SAT
1993-1994: Parallel Algorithms for Combinatorial Problems
1994-1995: Computational Biology: Fragment Assembly and Genome Rearrangement
1995-1996: Priority Queues, Dictionaries, and Multidimensional Point Sets
1998-1998: Near Neighbor Searches
2000-2000: Semidefinite and Related Optimization Problems
2001-2001: The Traveling Salesman Problem
2005-2005: The Shortest Path Problem
2011-2012: Graph Partitioning and Graph Clustering
2013-2014: Steiner Tree Problems
2020-2021: Vehicle Routing Problems
References
External links
DIMACS Website
1989 establishments in New Jersey
Combinatorics
Discrete mathematics
Rutgers University
Mathematical institutes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full%20disclosure
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Full disclosure or Full Disclosure may refer to:
Computers
Full disclosure (computer security), in computer security the practice of publishing analysis of software vulnerabilities as early as possible
Full disclosure (mailing list), a mailing list about computer security
Film and television
Full Disclosure (2001 film), a 2001 thriller film
Full Disclosure (2005 film), a 2005 comedy/romance short film
"Full Disclosure" (The West Wing), an episode of the TV series The West Wing
"Full Disclosure" (Alias episode), an episode of the TV series Alias
"Full Disclosure" (Steven Universe), an episode of the TV series Steven Universe
"Full Disclosure" (Girls), an episode of the TV series Girls
Books
Full Disclosure (book), 2018 memoir by Stormy Daniels
Full Disclosure (novel), a 1978 novel by William Safire; see List of fictional presidents of the United States (E–F)
Music
"Full Disclosure", a song by Fugazi from their 2001 album The Argument
"Full Disclosure (Part 1)" and "Full Disclosure (Part 2)", musical numbers in The Addams Family musical
See also
Disclosure (disambiguation)
Conflict of interest, a situation in which a person or organization is involved in multiple interests, which may require disclosure
Disclosure of evidence, in common law jurisdictions, procedure to obtain evidence from the other party or parties before a lawsuit
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautiful%20People%20%28American%20TV%20series%29
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Beautiful People is an American drama television series about a family that moves from New Mexico to New York City to make a fresh start on their lives. The series aired on the ABC Family network from August 8, 2005, to April 24, 2006, lasting sixteen episodes. Its executive producer was Paul Stupin, who played the same role for Dawson's Creek.
Plot
An academically gifted teen Sophie Kerr (Sarah Foret), her model-beautiful older sister Karen Kerr (Torrey DeVitto) and their newly single mother Lynne Kerr (Daphne Zuniga) leave small town New Mexico in search of a new life in New York City. After their father runs off with his teenage mistress, Sophie and Karen decide their family needs a fresh start. They convince their mother that the big city holds promise for all of them. Sophie has received a scholarship to a Manhattan private school, Karen can pursue her dreams of modeling, and Lynn can leave the painful memories of her failed marriage behind her, while reviving the ambitions of becoming a fashion designer which she put on hold to raise a family.
Characters
Lynne "Lynn" Kerr (Daphne Zuniga): Lynne leaves New Mexico after her husband leaves her for her daughter Karen's best friend. When she arrives in New York City she is a retailer at first, until she gets a jump start in the fashion world and starts working for a prominent sportswear designer. She bumps into her college sweetheart Julian Fiske, for whom she still has feelings.
Karen Kerr (Torrey DeVitto): Beautiful and vivacious, Karen is an aspiring model who is usually confident, but she loses some of that confidence when she begins taking diet pills to be thinner at the suggestion of one of her agents. Her first modeling gig is when she poses for the cover of a Brighton School magazine in a school business competition. She also worked wearing a chicken suit, among other odd gigs.
Sophie Kerr (Sarah Foret): Gifted and intelligent, Sophie is a talented photographer who wins a scholarship to the prestigious Brighton School, a hub for the children of Manhattan's elite. She meets her good friend Gideon Lustig, who ends up falling for Sophie and Annabelle. Sophie finds herself in a romantic dilemma between elitist Nicholas Fiske and artistic Gideon.
Gideon Lustig (Ricky Mabe): Sensitive and adorable Gideon is a vulnerable artist who is constantly put down by his wealthy, world-renowned artist father. Gideon believes that just because he has money doesn't mean he's better than others who aren't as fortunate. He develops a crush on Sophie Kerr and is caught in a love triangle with her and long-time best friend, Annabelle Banks.
Annabelle Banks (Kathleen Munroe): An aspiring photographer, Annabelle is in the shadow of Gideon, her long-time crush, when Sophie Kerr rolls into town. Her parents are divorced and both her parents left six months after it was finalized, leaving Annabelle with a babysitter. Annabelle explores her sexuality, ultimately realizing that she is bisexual.
Nicholas Fis
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cis-Lunar
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Cis-Lunar was a manufacturing company that produced automatic computer-controlled closed-circuit rebreathers for scuba diving.
History
The firm's initial plan was to develop spacesuit kits. The dot com crash in the early 2000, however, prevented Cis-Lunar from financing mass production of the MK5 rebreather. The MK5 included design elements aimed at preventing system and mission failures.
In 2005, Poseidon, a Swedish diving equipment manufacturer that is a subsidiary owned by DP Scandinavia, acquired Cis-Lunar's technology. They retained its founder, Bill Stone of Stone Aerospace, to lead an international engineering team to design a new closed circuit rebreather, the Cis-Lunar Mark VI Discovery.
The Cis-Lunar Mark VI rebreather had various changes, such as discarding the customary three oxygen sensors and their voting logic in favor of a primary oxygen sensor with constant auto-cell validation and auto-calibration through the entire dive envelope, with a secondary oxygen sensor for redundancy. The Mark VI also uses a four-computer design that correlates data over its digital communications network to its controlling resource algorithm to monitor such data as exact values, gas cylinder low or excessive consumption or metabolic rates, sensor values, privative sensor values, calculated response data values, etc.
Bill Stone of Cis-Lunar and Richard Pyle have been interviewed by ScubaMagazine to explain the design philosophy behind the Mark VI and its operation.
Etymology
The word cis-lunar came from Latin and means "on this side of the Moon" or "not beyond the Moon", and may refer to the scuba sets described here, or it may refer generically to space travel or astronomy.
See also
References
External links
http://www.nwdesigns.com/rebreathers/CisLunar.htm (Mk VP images)
https://web.archive.org/web/20050104195047/http://www.photosub.dk/stock_specials_CIS.htm (images)
http://poseidon.com/rebreather (Poseidon rebreathers)
Rebreathers
Rebreather makers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynna%20stone
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The Dynna Stone is a runestone from the late Viking Age that was originally located in Gran, Norway.
Description
The Dynna Stone, listed as N 68 under Rundata, is a roughly 3-meter-tall, triangular slab of pinkish-red sandstone with runic inscriptions running down one of its edges, and with carved images on the front. The stone was erected ca. AD 1040 – 1050, and its imagery is considered among the first Christian pictorial art in Norway. The rather crude images on the front of the stone slab depict the nativity scene of Matthew 2:1–12, including the infant Jesus, the Star of Bethlehem and the three wise men on horseback. The two women mentioned in the runic inscription were likely familiar with the story of the Epiphany. It has been suggested that the use of the term "handiest" (or "most skilled") in the runic text for the dead girl was a reference to her textile or embroidery designs, and that the images on the stone may represent these designs.
The Stone's inscription is in the younger futhark, although their use is inconsistent with long-branch and short-twig runes used in some places. Sometimes the carver used both the long-branch and short-twig forms of the same rune within the same word.
The reference to bridge-building in the runic text is fairly common in rune stones during this time period. Some are Christian references related to passing the bridge into the afterlife. At this time, the Catholic Church sponsored the building of roads and bridges through the use of indulgences in return for intercession for the soul. There are many examples of these bridge stones dated from the eleventh century, including runic inscriptions Sö 101, U 489, and U 617. Although the Dynna Stone uses Christian imagery and text, the stone was raised among the old family grave mounds, an indication of cultic continuity even after the conversion to Christianity.
The Dynna stone shows that Hadeland was closely connected to countries abroad such as Scotland as stones similar to this one are found in Scotland. In one of the twin churches at Gran (Nicolai church) a stone similar to the Dynna stone was found in the wall above the door between the top of the door and ceiling. It was seen in 1823 and last in 1828.
The Dynna stone was acquired by the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History in Oslo in 1879. Until then it had been used as a salt lick for cattle at the Nordre Dynna farm near Gran. The stone is still part of the museum’s permanent medieval exhibition. A copy of the stone can be found atop a Viking Age grave mound at the Hadeland Folkemuseum in Gran.
Inscription
A transliteration of the runic inscription reads:
× kunuur × kirþi × bru × þririks tutir × iftir osriþi × tutur × sina × su uas mar hanarst × o haþalanti
Translated to English, the inscription reads: "Gunnvôr, Þryðríkr's daughter, made the bridge in memory of her daughter Ástríðr. She was the handiest maiden in Haðaland."
See also
List of runestones
Runic alphabet
Notes
References
Norges
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20TAC
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was a Japanese animation and computer graphics studio located in Shibuya, Tokyo, and founded in 1968 from former Mushi Pro staff. They worked on movies, videos, TV shows, and commercials, and contributed to all stages of the process, including planning, production, sound effects, and so on. The company was headed by Atsumi Tashiro until his death in July 2010. In September 2010, Group TAC filed for bankruptcy, and liquidated all of its assets. Diomedéa was formed after a split from Group TAC. Group TAC's remaining animation project, Hana Kappa, was taken over by OLM, Inc. and XEBEC.
Projects
References
External links
(in Japanese)
Animation studios in Tokyo
Mass media companies disestablished in 2010
Mass media companies established in 1968
Companies that have filed for bankruptcy in Japan
Defunct mass media companies of Japan
Japanese animation studios
Japanese companies disestablished in 2010
Japanese companies established in 1968
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Sky
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My Sky or 'MySky may mean:
SKY Network Television's "My Sky" brand DVR
Mead's mySky telescope control
MySky Aircraft, an American aircraft manufacturer of the MySky MS One
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager%20%28computer%20worm%29
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The Voyager worm is a computer worm that was posted on the Internet on October 31, 2005, and is designed to target Oracle Databases.
Known variants
First, non-malicious, example: October 31, 2005.
Second example: December 29, 2005; attempts to stop remote Oracle listeners on machines that have not been properly secured.
Affected platforms
Any Operating System running Oracle Databases
Actions
The October 31 variant has a harmless payload, but could easily be modified.
The December 29, 2005 version attempts to create private database links in affected databases, but the procedure to spread is missing. If activated, it will grant DBA to PUBLIC. An AFTER LOGON trigger may run, which performs a Google search for its own code. The worm code tries to mail the username and password hashes to [email protected] and oracle@. It tricks the user to reset the password for a well known database user. The clear intention is to increase the chances of successfully creating a private link to the database.
Spread
The October 31 variant tries to find other Oracle databases in the same subnet and uses private database links to connect to remote databases. The December 29 variant was posted incomplete, without a spreading mechanism.
Outbreaks
October 31, 2005 – First posted on the Internet
December 29, 2005 – Malicious variant (incomplete) posted on the Internet
References
External links
Analysis Voyager worm at Red-Database-Security GmbH
Computer worms
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%20double
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In C and related programming languages, long double refers to a floating-point data type that is often more precise than double precision though the language standard only requires it to be at least as precise as double. As with C's other floating-point types, it may not necessarily map to an IEEE format.
long double in C
History
The long double type was present in the original 1989 C standard, but support was improved by the 1999 revision of the C standard, or C99, which extended the standard library to include functions operating on long double such as sinl() and strtold().
Long double constants are floating-point constants suffixed with "L" or "l" (lower-case L), e.g., 0.3333333333333333333333333333333333L or 3.1415926535897932384626433832795029L for quadruple precision. Without a suffix, the evaluation depends on FLT_EVAL_METHOD.
Implementations
On the x86 architecture, most C compilers implement long double as the 80-bit extended precision type supported by x86 hardware (generally stored as 12 or 16 bytes to maintain data structure alignment), as specified in the C99 / C11 standards (IEC 60559 floating-point arithmetic (Annex F)). An exception is Microsoft Visual C++ for x86, which makes long double a synonym for double. The Intel C++ compiler on Microsoft Windows supports extended precision, but requires the /Qlong‑double switch for long double to correspond to the hardware's extended precision format.
Compilers may also use long double for the IEEE 754 quadruple-precision binary floating-point format (binary128). This is the case on HP-UX, Solaris/SPARC, MIPS with the 64-bit or n32 ABI, 64-bit ARM (AArch64) (on operating systems using the standard AAPCS calling conventions, such as Linux), and z/OS with FLOAT(IEEE). Most implementations are in software, but some processors have hardware support.
On some PowerPC systems, long double is implemented as a double-double arithmetic, where a long double value is regarded as the exact sum of two double-precision values, giving at least a 106-bit precision; with such a format, the long double type does not conform to the IEEE floating-point standard. Otherwise, long double is simply a synonym for double (double precision), e.g. on 32-bit ARM, 64-bit ARM (AArch64) (on Windows and macOS) and on 32-bit MIPS (old ABI, a.k.a. o32).
With the GNU C Compiler, long double is 80-bit extended precision on x86 processors regardless of the physical storage used for the type (which can be either 96 or 128 bits), On some other architectures, long double can be double-double (e.g. on PowerPC) or 128-bit quadruple precision (e.g. on SPARC). As of gcc 4.3, a quadruple precision is also supported on x86, but as the nonstandard type __float128 rather than long double.
Although the x86 architecture, and specifically the x87 floating-point instructions on x86, supports 80-bit extended-precision operations, it is possible to configure the processor to automatically round operations to double (or even single) pr
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YJ
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YJ or yJ may refer to:
Arts and entertainment:
Yahoo! Japan, a website
Young Justice, a DC comic series
Young Justice (TV series), TV series aired on Cartoon Network
Young Justice: Legacy, video games based on the TV series
Yakitate!! Japan, an anime
Weekly Young Jump, a magazine
Other uses:
Yoctojoule (yJ = 10−24 J), an SI unit of energy
Yottajoule (YJ = 1024 J), an SI unit of energy
Jeep Wrangler, an SUV
Young Judaea, a Zionist youth movement
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Thomas%20%28programmer%29
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Dave Thomas (born 1956) is a computer programmer, author and editor. He has written about Ruby and together with Andy Hunt, he co-authored The Pragmatic Programmer and runs The Pragmatic Bookshelf publishing company. Thomas moved to the United States from England in 1994 and lives north of Dallas, Texas.
Thomas coined the phrases 'Code Kata' and 'DRY' (Don't Repeat Yourself), and was an original signatory and author of The Manifesto for Agile Software Development. He studied computer science at Imperial College London.
Works
The Pragmatic Programmer, Andrew Hunt and David Thomas, 1999, Addison Wesley, .
Programming Ruby: A Pragmatic Programmer's Guide, David Thomas and Andrew Hunt, 2000, Addison Wesley,
Pragmatic Version Control Using CVS, David Thomas and Andrew Hunt, 2003, The Pragmatic Bookshelf,
Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java with JUnit, Andrew Hunt and David Thomas, 2003, The Pragmatic Bookshelf,
Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with Nunit, Andrew Hunt and David Thomas, 2004, The Pragmatic Bookshelf,
Programming Ruby (2nd Edition), Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, and Andrew Hunt, 2004, The Pragmatic Bookshelf,
Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with Nunit, 2nd Edition, Andy Hunt and David Thomas with Matt Hargett, 2007, The Pragmatic Bookshelf,
Agile Web Development with Rails, Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson, Andreas Schwarz, Thomas Fuchs, Leon Breedt, and Mike Clark, 2005, Pragmatic Bookshelf,
Agile Web Development with Rails (2nd edition), Dave Thomas, with David Heinemener Hansson, Mike Clark, Justin Gehtland, James Duncan Davidson, 2006, Pragmatic Bookshelf,
Programming Elixir: Functional |> Concurrent |> Pragmatic |> Fun, Dave Thomas, foreword by José Valim the creator of Elixir, and edited by Lynn Beighley, 2014, Pragmatic Bookshelf,
References
External links
pragprog.com, website for the Pragmatic Programmers
Dave Thomas's Blog
CodeKata
Dave Thomas Interview: The Corruption of Agile; Ruby and Elixir; Katas and More, Dr.Dobb's, March 18, 2014.
Computer programmers
American technology writers
British emigrants to the United States
1956 births
Living people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UD
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UD or ud may refer to:
Companies
UD Trucks, a Japanese truck manufacturer
United Devices, a commercial distributed computing company
United Distillers, a whiskey holding company
Upper Deck, a manufacturer of collectibles and trading cards
Hex'Air (IATA airline designator UD), a French regional airline
Organizations
Unificación Democrática, the Democratic Unification political party in Honduras
Unión Democrática, a political party in Guatemala
Unlock Democracy, a British political organization
Utenriksdepartementet, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Utrikesdepartementet, the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Schools
U.S.
University of Dallas, Texas
University of Dayton, Ohio
University of Delaware
University of Dubuque, Iowa
University of Detroit Mercy, a Catholic university in Michigan
University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy, a Catholic secondary school in Michigan
Elsewhere
University of Dammam, Saudi Arabia
University of Dublin, Ireland
University of Durham, U.K.
Other
, an abbreviation of the Spanish personal pronoun
Udonis Haslem, American basketball player nicknamed UD and Captain UD
Ud (cuneiform), a sign in cuneiform writing
Universal Dependencies, a project in analyzing syntax
Unanimous decision, in combat sports
Unlawful detainer, or eviction, in property law
Urban Dictionary, a crowdsourced online slang dictionary
See also
Oud (sometimes spelled as ud), a short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped, fretless stringed instrument
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppliers%20and%20Parts%20database
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The Suppliers and Parts database is an example relational database that is referred to extensively in the literature and described in detail in C. J. Date's An Introduction to Database Systems, 8th ed. It is a simple database comprising three tables: Supplier, Part and Shipment, and is often used as a minimal exemplar of the interrelationships found in a database.
The Supplier relation holds information about suppliers. The SID attribute identifies the supplier, while the other attributes each hold one piece of information about the supplier.
The Part relation holds information about parts. Likewise, the PID attribute identifies the part, while the other attributes hold information about the part.
The Shipment relation holds information about shipments. The SID and PID attributes identify the supplier of the shipment and the part shipped, respectively. The remaining attribute indicates how many parts where shipped.
Referential constraints known as Foreign keys ensure that these attributes can only hold values that are also found in the corresponding attributes in the Supplier and Parts relations.
It is assumed that only one shipment exists for each supplier/part pairing, which isn't realistic for real world scenarios. This is intentionally oversimplified for pedagogical purposes, as is the entire database.
SQL
The following SQL schema is one possible expression of the Suppliers-and-Parts database.
CREATE TABLE Supplier (
SID int primary key,
SName varchar(10) NOT NULL,
Status int NOT NULL,
City varchar(10) NOT NULL
)
CREATE TABLE Part (
PID int primary key,
PName varchar(10) NOT NULL,
Color int NOT NULL,
Weight real NOT NULL,
City varchar(10) NOT NULL
)
CREATE TABLE Shipment (
SID int NOT NULL FOREIGN KEY REFERENCES Supplier(SID),
PID int NOT NULL FOREIGN KEY REFERENCES Part(PID),
Qty int NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (SID, PID)
)
Notes:
The ID attributes are simple integers, but they could be (among other things) UUIDs or a system-defined identifier type that holds system-generated values.
The choice of VARCHAR(10) is arbitrary and would be too small for real-world use.
The application of the NOT NULL constraint to all attributes is a design decision based on the view that NULLs are to be avoided. It is not, strictly speaking, a requirement of the schema.
References
Procurement
Types of databases
Relational model
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Boyd%20%28IT%20security%29
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Christopher Boyd, also known by his online pseudonym Paperghost, is a computer security researcher.
Boyd was Director of Malware Research for security company FaceTime, before becoming a Senior Threat Researcher at Sunbelt Software (later known as GFI Software). In December 2013 Malwarebytes announced Boyd had joined their Malware Intelligence team to research new threats.
Computer security
In July 2004, Boyd launched Vitalsecurity.org, a website bringing to the public attention issues of privacy and spyware.
In November 2004, a modular hacking technique was employed to compromise Windows end-users by hacking Apache servers. When hacked, the servers would redirect a user on any of the server's websites, leading them to a set of ever-changing infection pages. These pages employed recoded viruses, trojans, malware and
spyware. This technique is used heavily today by the groups behind the spyware CoolWebSearch (CWS).
The idea that alternative browsers such as Opera and Firefox could somehow enhance end-user security was cut down in March 2005 with the discovery of a Java applet that, if agreed to, would install a large (and varied) adware bundle onto the end-user's PC. It was found that having the "rogue" site in the user's blocklists and security tools would do nothing, the install bypassing these tactics completely if the end-user clicked "Yes". An updated Firefox .XPI installer (which infected Internet Explorer) was also deployed in some of these installs.
BitTorrent controversy
In June 2005, it was discovered that more and more Adware makers were turning to alternative sources for their installs, as more end-users become aware of the more common install tactics. A reliance on crude social engineering and P2P systems that were previously clean was now on the rise. Boyd discovered that BitTorrent forums and file-sharing sites were used as a major source of distribution for Aurora (a program produced by Direct Revenue) and a number of other major adware programs, wrapped up in bundles produced by Metrix Marketing Group (MMG), a company who lost control of their own network. Potentially copyright infringing files, illegal pornography and incorrect / absent disclosure was exposed on such a scale as to cause the companies involved (Direct Revenue, 180solutions and others) to publicly declare their discontinuation of these methods.
This story caused such an uproar that numerous media pundits weighed in, and (in some cases) made a delicate situation worse. An article by John C. Dvorak of PC Magazine alleged Boyd was part of some "Grand Microsoft Conspiracy" to bad-mouth BitTorrent to the benefit of their planned P2P tool, Avalanche. Furious P2P users (who were not familiar with the backstory of the investigation) even went as far to say Boyd was in league with the RIAA, out to create further problems for file-sharers by bringing these bundles to light. However - Dvorak's piece caused something approaching outrage on the other side of the fenc
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambit
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Ambit or AMBIT may refer to:
Ambit (magazine), a literary magazine
AMBIT, a family of pattern matching programming languages
AMBIT (Adolescent Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment), a form of therapy
Ubee Interactive (formerly Ambit Broadband), a producer of cable modem, ADSL, and IPTV products
Ambit claim, an extravagant initial demand made in expectation of an eventual counter-offer and compromise
Ambit Energy, a U.S. electricity and natural gas provider
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector%20Lovers
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Vector Lovers is the moniker used by British electronic music producer Martin Wheeler. Wheeler, as described by Soma Records (his current label) is a "computer nerd" and "80s-obsessed knob-twiddler" and creates music which falls into the intelligent dance music (IDM) and electro genres. His music has been compared to and is influenced by such acts as Kraftwerk and Depeche Mode.
As Vector Lovers, Wheeler has released several singles and EPs, as well as four albums. Early Vector Lovers' releases were through his own Iwari record label (one very early release was made as 'Balloon' - the name was changed to Vector Lovers when he discovered that there already was a band called Balloon). Music has also been released under the names Rosenbaum and Badly Born Droid.
In 2006, Wheeler contributed production duties to Tracey Thorn's album Out of the Woods, released in March 2007.
Discography
Albums
Vector Lovers (2004)
Capsule For One (2005)
Afterglow (2007)
Electrospective (2011)
iPhonica (2013)
Capsule For One (Special Edition) (2022)
EPs
Roboto Ashido Funk (2003)
Electrobotik Disco (2004)
Suicide Android (2004)
Comptrfnk (2005)
Boulevard (2005)
Microtron (2005)
Piano Dust (2007)
Raumklang (2008)
Ping Pong (2008)
Remixed & Remastered 01 (2011)
Solistice (2015)
Carousel (2016)
Pale Blue Star (2017)
Road / To Ruin (2018)
Singles
"Post Arctic Industries" (2006)
"A Field" (2007)
"Late Shift" / "Babette" (2008)
"Night Train Memories" (2012)
"Kissing Princess Leia" (2015 mix) (2015)
"Night Riding (Crash Premonition)" (2017)
References
External links
Vector Lovers on Myspace
Vector Lovers Official Site
Vector Lovers Bandcamp
British electronic musicians
British record producers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roar%20%281997%20TV%20series%29
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Roar is a fantasy adventure television series created by Shaun Cassidy and Ron Koslow. The series originally aired on the Fox network from July 14 until September 1, 1997. It is set in the year 400 AD, following a young Irish man, Conor (Heath Ledger), as he sets out to rid his land of the invading Romans, but in order to accomplish this, he must first unite the Celtic clans. The series also starred Vera Farmiga, Lisa Zane, John Saint Ryan, and Sebastian Roché. Roar was cancelled after 8 episodes due to low ratings, and the final 5 episodes were not broadcast by the network until 2000.
Plot
Roar chronicles the life of Conor (Ledger), a 20-year-old orphaned prince who must rise above tragedy to lead his people to freedom. Conor takes on a band of ragtag allies that include Tully (Greer), a teenage apprentice magician; Catlin (Farmiga), a beautiful former slave; and Fergus (Ryan), Conor's big-hearted, ebullient protector. Their primary struggle is against Longinus (Roché), a supernatural creature whose true essence is that of a 400-year-old Roman centurion ready to do the bidding of evil Queen Diana (Zane), who is an emissary of the Romans. In this fight for freedom, what is most important for Conor and his people is the Roar – the roar of the land, the roar of the people – a voice that echoes through every living creature and is the power of life.
Production
Development
The show was created by Shaun Cassidy on the heels of the success of the syndicated programs Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess. However, Roar was not very well received in the United States and lasted for only one season (8 of the 13 episodes were aired in 1997, with the last 5 not broadcast until 2000).
Alignment with Christian tradition
One of the major villains in the program was Longinus, played by Sebastian Roché, an immortal cursed by God for interfering with his plans. By Christian tradition, Longinus was the centurion who stabbed Jesus Christ with his spear during the Crucifixion. This spear, the Spear of Destiny, was supposedly the only weapon that could release Longinus from his curse. The show freely mixed Christian mythology, Celtic mythology, Druidism, and smatterings of history.
Show notes
While the original airing of the show in North America did not broadcast all of the episodes, when syndicated to Australia, Canada and the UK, all episodes were aired.
Roar: The Complete Series was released on DVD on September 19, 2006. The 3-disc set includes all thirteen episodes.
According to Sebastian Roché, the show was cancelled because it was up against Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Cast
Main
Heath Ledger as Conor
Lisa Zane as Queen Diana
Sebastian Roché as Gaius Cassius Longinus
Vera Farmiga as Catlin
John Saint Ryan as Fergus
Alonzo Greer as Tully
Recurring
Michael Roughan as The Slavemaster
Melissa George as Molly
Carl Snell as Glas (The Father)
Keri Russell as Claire
Daniel Gecic as King Derek
Peter McCauley as Culann / Brach
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentient%20computer
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Sentient computer, may refer to:
Artificial general intelligence, a hypothetical machine that exhibits behavior at least as skillful and flexible as humans do
Computational theory of mind, the view that human minds are (or can be usefully modeled as) computer programs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As%20%28Unix%29
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as is a generic command name for an assembler on Unix.
Implementations
More than one assembler for Unix and Unix-like operating systems has been implemented with an executable called as. Users may be able to determine which implementation (if any) is present on their system by consulting the system's manuals, or by running as --version.
AT&T / Bell Labs
As of November 1971, an assembler invoked as as was available for Unix. Implemented by Bell Labs staff, it was based upon the Digital Equipment Corporation's PAL-11R assembler.
GNU Assembler
Circa 1986, the GNU Assembler ("GAS") became available. As with the original UNIX assembler, GAS's executable is simply named as. As of 2018, GAS implements many features that were not present in the 1971 Bell Labs implementation.
References
Assemblers
Unix programming tools
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atropos%20scheduler
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In computer science, Atropos is a real-time scheduling algorithm developed at Cambridge University. It combines the earliest deadline first algorithm with a best effort scheduler to make use of slack time, while exercising strict admission control.
External links
The Atropos Scheduler
Scheduling algorithms
Real-time computing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TM%20Network%3A%20Live%20in%20Power%20Bowl
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is a Japanese-only Nintendo Family Computer game featuring the J-Pop group TM Network. The song used as the background music is "Come On Everybody" from their album Carol -A Day In a Girl's Life 1991- (using the 8-bit sound chip of the Family Computer). The game uses Atlus NES sound engine by Tsukasa Masuko.
Story
The story starts on New Year's Eve in the year 1999 with the player lounging around in his room generally doing nothing early in the morning. After turning on his computer, he suddenly acquires information that the strategic defense satellite "Colosseum" has picked up some nuclear weapons being fired.
These nuclear weapons are being fired at a rapid pace between two forces (presumably the Americans and the Russians). Without knowing it, World War III is breaking out in front of the player. All the major cities in the world end up getting catastrophically damaged; including Paris, New York City and Washington, D.C. A nuclear blast mysteriously sends the player back to December 22, 1989; with only two days remaining until the official launch of the satellite system.
The nuclear war will not be prevented and civilization will destroy itself unless the player can manage to get the TM Network band to a concert for world peace even if he has to drive a truck to get them to their destination.
Gameplay
Using his musical influence inspired by rock music, the player must persuade the world to declare global peace so that the nuclear war never happens. Using an interface that is utilized in graphic adventure games, the player interacts with the various members of the all-male band and various strangers. These people include the security guard, the office lady, and normal citizens of Japan. While some action components exist in the game, Live in Power Bowl: TM Network is mostly an adventure game in the vein of the classic time travel stories. However, the player has to watch how much information they let out. If he tells the wrong person that he is from 1999, then the game ends with him going to prison and the world is destroyed anyway due to World War III. Japanese literacy is required, as the entire game is in Japanese with only a few words of English spoken.
The game also includes a maze using 3D computer graphics (although not related to the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron game 3D Maze) and mini-games such as car chases.
Players can continue their game at any time using a 14-symbol password system consisting of common Japanese characters. They can also memorize telephone numbers from different sources (never actually shown on the screen) to use in an in-game telephone directory; it is possible to dial these numbers anytime while the game is in session.
Characters
Murata - The manager of the TM Network band who decides what the group has to do.
Mark - The son of Mr. Guzausuki; one of the developers of the strategic defense satellite "Colosseum."
Mitsuko - A journalist who ends up covering the world peace concert for the national media.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive%20Image%20%28software%29
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Drive Image (PQDI) is a software disk cloning package for Intel-based computers. The software was developed and distributed by the former PowerQuest Corporation. Drive Image version 7 became the basis for Norton Ghost 9.0, which was released to retail markets in August 2004. Ghost was a competing product, developed by Binary Research, before Symantec bought the company in 1998. This also explains the different file extensions used for Ghost image files: formerly it was .gho, now in versions 9.0 and above it is .v2i.
Product history
Drive Image version 7 was the last version published under the PowerQuest corporate banner. It was also the first version to include a native Windows interface for cloning an active system partition; prior versions required a reboot into a DOS-like environment in order to clone the active partition. In order to clone active partitions without requiring a reboot, Drive Image 7 employed a volume snapshot device driver which was licensed from StorageCraft Technology Corporation.
Drive Image 2002 (version 6) is the last release that allows the creation of a rescue set on floppy disk, which can be used to create and restore an image.
See also
List of disk cloning software
References
External links
Symantec Corporation website
Drive Image v7 review by PCWorld
Storage software
Gen Digital software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegas%20Connection%3A%20Casino%20Kara%20Ai%20wo%20Komete
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is a 1989 Nintendo Family Computer video game that was released exclusively in Japan.
Plot
The player-controlled character Roberto is staying in Las Vegas with his girlfriend Marian in a motel room on a romantic vacation. He is summoned to the motel clerk to pay his hotel bill only to discover that Marian was apparently kidnapped by a mysterious person under the employment of Akiko.
He must then solve the mystery. Roberto must be able to pay the $800,000 in ransom money for the location of his girlfriend to be revealed. Key people show up in the adventure component of the game and give out advice whenever he makes a notable amount of money at blackjack. The first informant shows up after increasing Roberto's bankroll to $5,000 and the final informant appears once Roberto has $100,000 in his pocketbook.
Gameplay
The player can either choose to solve the mystery or go straight to the gambling games of blackjack, slot machines, and roulette instead. Most of the adventure component of the game is to find Marian's kidnapper and apprehend him. Key aspects of the game include searching everywhere, playing some gambling games to improve the financial situation, and grabbing clues in order to solve the mystery. Ultimately, Marian tells the player to give up gambling. Otherwise, she dumps Roberto even after he rescued her.
A female dealer officiates the table games. All the options are clearly in English, while dialogue is in Japanese. Up to $10,000,000 can be earned in the game. If the player runs out of money, the game instantly ends.
References
External links
Closing credits for Vegas Connection: Casino Kara Ai wo Komete
Adveristing for Vegas Connection: Casino Kara Ai wo Komete at the Game Advertising Museum
1989 video games
Digital card games
Graphic Research games
Japan-exclusive video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Point-and-click adventure games
Sigma games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games set in Nevada
Video games set in the Las Vegas Valley
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartan%20X%202
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is a 1991 beat 'em up video game developed by Tamtex and published by Irem exclusively in Japan for the Family Computer. It is a sequel to Irem's 1984 coin-operated video game Spartan X (released internationally by Data East under the title of Kung-Fu Master), which was later ported to the Family Computer by Nintendo in 1985. In turn, Spartan X was originally a tie-in to the 1984 Jackie Chan film Wheels on Meals (released as Spartan X in Japan).
It was originally planned to be released in North America as Kung Fu II in the fall of 1991, but ended up not being released there. Spartan X 2 did not receive a North American release until 2016, when it was included as a built-in title for the Retro-Bit Generations retro video game console under the name Kung-Fu Master 2.
Plot
Translated from the game's manual
The city has been corrupted by drugs for some time. Johnny Thomas, a man who lost his mother and sister as a result of his father being used as an experiment for a new kind of drug, is the only man who opposes the drug syndicates. After the incident, Thomas left the corrupted police department he was working for and became a private secret agent in order to investigate the illegal trafficking routes in his city. During his investigation, he learns that an international criminal organization known as "Hawk" is responsible for the majority of the drugs that have sneaked into the country.
Gameplay
The player takes control of Johnny Thomas, an undercover investigator tasked with fighting a drug syndicate. There are a total of six stages in the game, each with its own boss. Whereas the original game was set entirely in a five-story pagoda, the stages of Spartan X 2 consist of different locations which include a train, a warehouse, a boat, an airplane, a mansion, and a drug plant. When the player clears a stage, only a certain portion of the player's vitality will be restored. However, the player can also restore their vitality during the course of each stage by picking up the Stamina X potions left behind by certain enemies. In addition to all of Thomas's moves from the original game, the player can also perform two new moves while crouching for an extended period: an uppercut and an over-the-shoulder throw.
References
External links
Spartan X 2 at I-Mockery.com
1991 video games
Beat 'em ups
Irem games
Jackie Chan video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Organized crime video games
Side-scrolling video games
Single-player video games
Video game sequels
Video games developed in Japan
Video games set in the 1990s
Video games set in Europe
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keycode
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Keycode or may refer to:
Scancode, the sequence of data generated when pressing a key on a computer keyboard
Keykode, an Eastman Kodak's a bar coding placed at regular intervals on negative films
Keycode, for a lock
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy%20mode
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In computing, legacy mode is a state in which a computer system, component, or software application behaves in a way that is different from its standard operation in order to support older software, data, or expected behavior. It differs from backward compatibility in that an item in legacy mode will often sacrifice newer features or performance, or be unable to access data or run programs it normally could, in order to provide continued access to older data or functionality. Sometimes it can allow newer technologies that replaced the old to emulate them when running older operating systems.
Examples
x86-64 processors can be run in one of two states: long mode provides larger physical address spaces and the ability to run 64-bit applications which can use larger virtual address spaces and more registers, and legacy mode. These processors' legacy mode allows these processors to act as if they were 16- or 32-bit x86 processors with all of the abilities and limitations of them in order to run legacy 16-bit and 32-bit operating systems, and to run programs requiring virtual 8086 mode to run in Windows.
32-bit x86 processors themselves have two legacy modes: real mode and virtual 8086 mode. Real mode causes the processor to mostly act as if it was an original 8086, while virtual 8086 mode allows the creation of a virtual machine to allow the running of programs that require real mode in order to run under a protected mode environment. Protected mode is the non-legacy mode of 32-bit x86 processors and the 80286.
Most PC graphic cards have a VGA and a SVGA mode that allows them to be used on systems that have not loaded the device driver necessary to take advantage of their more advanced features.
Operating systems often have a special mode allowing them to emulate an older release in order to support software applications dependent on the specific interfaces and behavior of that release. Windows XP can be configured to emulate Windows 2000 and Windows 98; Mac OS X can support the execution of Mac OS 9 applications on PowerPC-based Macintoshes.
Computer buses emulated through legacy mode:
Emulated bus (Host bus)
ISA (LPC)
PCI (PCI Express)
PS/2 or RS-232 mouse (USB mouse)
PS/2 or AT keyboard (USB keyboard)
Many SATA disk controllers offer a legacy mode of operation for compatibility i.e. parallel ATA emulation
Some niche markets have enabled Compact Flash and SD cards to emulate IDE hard drives for old DOS and Windows 95 computers.
The Wii U can be run in a special "Wii Mode" that activates an emulated version of the Wii Menu as a means of playing games made for the latter system (it is not compatible with GameCube games without system modification, however).
See also
Dongle
Legacy system
Backward compatibility
Compatibility mode
Backward compatibility
Legacy hardware
Legacy systems
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo%20C%2B%2B
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Turbo C++ is a discontinued C++ compiler and integrated development environment originally from Borland. It was designed as a home and hobbyist counterpart for Borland C++. As the developer focused more on professional programming tools, later Turbo C++ products were made as scaled down versions of its professional compilers.
History
Borland Turbo C++
Turbo C++ 1.0, running on MS-DOS, was released in May 1990. An OS/2 version was produced as well. Version 1.01 was released on February 28, 1991, running on MS-DOS. The latter was able to generate both COM and EXE programs and was shipped with Borland's Turbo Assembler for Intel x86 processors. The initial version of the Turbo C++ compiler was based on a front end developed by TauMetric (later acquired by Sun Microsystems and their front end was incorporated in Sun C++ 4.0, which shipped in 1994). This compiler supported the AT&T 2.0 release of C++.
Turbo C++ 3.0 was released on November 20, 1991, amidst expectations of the coming release of Turbo C++ for Microsoft Windows. Initially released as an MS-DOS compiler, 3.0 supported C++ templates, Borland's inline assembler and generation of MS-DOS mode executables for both 8086 real mode and 286 protected mode (as well as 80186). 3.0 implemented AT&T C++ 2.1, the most recent at the time. The separate Turbo Assembler product was no longer included, but the inline-assembler could stand in as a reduced functionality version.
Soon after the release of Windows 3.0, Borland updated Turbo C++ to support Windows application development. The Turbo C++ 3.0 for Windows product was quickly followed by Turbo C++ 3.1.
It's possible that the jump from version 1.x to version 3.x was in part an attempt to link Turbo C++ release numbers with Microsoft Windows versions; however, it seems more likely that this jump was simply to synchronize Turbo C and Turbo C++, since Turbo C 2.0 (1989) and Turbo C++ 1.0 (1990) had come out roughly at the same time, and the next generation 3.0 was a merger of both the C and C++ compiler.
Starting with version 3.0, Borland segmented their C++ compiler into two distinct product lines: "Turbo C++" and "Borland C++". Turbo C++ was marketed toward the hobbyist and entry-level compiler market, while Borland C++ targeted the professional application development market. Borland C++ included additional tools, compiler code optimization, and documentation to address the needs of commercial developers. Turbo C++ 3.0 could be upgraded with separate add-ons, such as Turbo Assembler and Turbo Vision 1.0.
Turbo C++ 4.0 was released in November 1993 and is notable (among other things) for its robust support of templates. In particular, Borland C++ 4 was instrumental in the development of the Standard Template Library, expression templates, and the first advanced applications of template metaprogramming. With the success of the Pascal-evolved product Borland Delphi, Borland ceased work on their Borland C++ suite and concentrated on C++Builder fo
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Relevant Radio (corporate name Relevant Radio, Inc.) is a radio network in the United States, mainly broadcasting talk radio and religious programming involving the Catholic Church. Relevant Radio broadcasts "talk radio for Catholic life" over a network of 206 stations. Relevant Radio owns and operates 133 stations, and distributes programs to an additional 73 affiliates.
Relevant Radio is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered in Lincolnshire, Illinois, with additional studios in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
The network airs a variety of programming aimed at Catholics and others interested in the Catholic Church.
History
The network was founded by a group of Catholic businessmen, including Bob Atwell and John Cavil (who founded WJOK in 2000) and Mark Follett, who had been the owner of Anchor Foods, an Appleton, Wisconsin-based distributor of frozen appetizers. Starboard Media Foundation, Inc. bought the license to a radio station in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, that had been carrying all-sports programming, and turned it into an all-Catholic station, saying the call letters stood for "Jesus Our King". The station received its license from the Federal Communications Commission on December 12, 2000, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, who is the patron saint of Relevant Radio along with Pope John Paul II.
"Morning Air", which the network describes as "a classic drive-time format that combines inspiration & entertainment" was the first program developed by Relevant Radio in 2003.
On October 13, 2016, Relevant Radio announced that it would merge with Loomis, California-based Immaculate Heart Radio, which owned and operated 36 stations in the western United States at the time of the merger. The merger was completed on July 31, 2017, with all stations being licensed to Immaculate Heart Media, Inc., while Relevant Radio continued as the on-air branding. The corporate name was changed to Relevant Radio, Inc. in February 2020.
In 2019, Immaculate Heart Media purchased 13 AM stations and seven translators from Salem Media Group.
In October 2019, Immaculate Heart purchased the 6 radio stations owned by Northern Michigan-based Baraga Broadcasting, as well as assuming the LMA of affiliate station WMQU, which is currently owned by Blarney Stone Broadcasting. On May 17, 2021, the five stations carrying Relevant Radio's Spanish-language service began carrying the English-language network.
In 2022 and 2023, Relevant Radio acquired stations in Baltimore, Maryland; Seattle, Washington; Tucson, Arizona; Honolulu, Hawaii; Toledo, Ohio; Detroit; Chicago; Austin, Texas and Houston.
Station list
English language stations
Former Spanish language stations
See also
Sheila Liaugminas
Sources
"Catholic network calls Green Bay home", Green Bay News-Chronicle, date uncertain, 2004. (Newspaper now defunct)
References
External links
Catholic News Service reports on troubled times at Relevant Radio
American radio networks
Christian mass media companies
Christi
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is a 1996 video game developed and published by Sega. A 3D shooting and fighting game featuring robots, it was released in arcades and for Sega Saturn and PC, in both America and Japan. There were also two-player online versions of the game released in America and Japan for the Sega Saturn using the NetLink and XBAND services. Initially the game was to be released under the title "Virtual On" in Japan and "Cyber Troopers" in North America, but ultimately these two names were combined into a single title for both regions.
A remake was released for the PlayStation 2 on October 25, 2007, as part of the Sega Ages 2500 line, featuring improved framerates, music and additional features not found in the original versions. The original game was also rereleased on Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network as a part of the Sega Model 2 Collection in 2012 in Japan and 2013 in the West. In 2018 Sega announced that they would be releasing the game for the PlayStation 4.
A twin stick controller was developed and released for the Saturn specifically to be used with Virtual On.
Gameplay
Virtual On is set up similar to a Versus fighting game. Two virtuaroids (Mecha) face each other on a stage. The player(s) use a variety of firearms, explosives, melee weapons, and other techniques to destroy the enemy for a set number of rounds, usually a single battle, or best two out of three rounds, like fighting games.
The game is made to be played with a two-joystick setup, known as the twin-sticks. Each stick is equipped with a trigger and a button on top of the stick.
The twin sticks control the virtuaroid on screen much like a bulldozer. Pushing or pulling both sticks in one direction makes it move in that direction, while pushing one stick forward and pulling the other back makes it turn in the forward direction. Pulling the sticks apart causes the virtuaroid to jump into the air, and automatically turn to face the opponent. Pulling them towards each other while pulling a trigger causes the virtuaroid to prone while firing.
The top buttons are Turbo buttons. Pressing a Turbo button while moving causes the virtuaroid to dash for a few seconds. Dashing is used to avoid enemy fire, or to maneuver quickly around the map. Virtuaroids can fire while dashing. While dash-firing, as with during a jump, the virtuaroid turns to face the enemy before shooting.
Each virtuaroid is armed with three weapons, which are different for each virtuaroid. Two of those weapons are associated with either the left or the right trigger, and are referred to as the Left Weapon (LW) and Right Weapon (RW) respectively. The Right Weapon is generally a Virtuaroid's main weapon, usually a rifle or gun. The Left Weapon is commonly a support weapon, often an explosive. Left weapons usually have a blast radius and can inflict splash damage even if they miss the target directly. The third weapon is called the Center Weapon (CW), and is activated by pulling both triggers simultaneously. Depending on the
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is a 1998 Japanese Sega Model 3 arcade action game that was later ported to the Sega NAOMI arcades and the Dreamcast home console in Japan in 1999 and North America in 2000. Oratorio Tangram is a 3D fighting game where the player assumes control of a giant humanoid robot, and is a sequel to the 1996 video game Virtual On: Cyber Troopers. A re-release of the game, entitled , was released worldwide for Xbox 360 on April 29, 2009.
Plot
The game starts 20 years after the events of Operation Moongate. After the defeat of Z-Gradt, the mightiest VR and the final boss of the first game, humans continued to battle in their VR's, searching for supremacy. However an unknown AI known as Tangram has awakened and became self-conscious. With the directive to destroy humanity, Tangram infected Earth's mother computer with a virus called "Tangram Virus" and hacked into all VR systems, except for the player's VR. It plans to use the infected VRs to destroy the last human colonies that survived the previous war. The player begins the mission to defeat all VRs and destroy Tangram to stop its evil ambitions once and for all.
After defeating all VRs, the player is teleported to the Earth's mother computer system to fight Tangram. Depending on the final battle outcome, there are two endings available.
Good Ending: Tangram is erased from the computer and the player's VR is teleported back to Earth's stratosphere, where its armour is critically damaged during the fall but is saved by VRs that came on the Floating Carrier. Fei-Yen is saved by Angelan or the opposite and the others (Temjin, Raiden, Dodray, Bal-Bados, Specineff, Cypher, and Apharmd) are saved by the same model VRs.
Bad Ending: If the player's time counter reaches 0, Tangram hacks into the player's VR system and shuts it down, resulting in a Game Over screen.
Reception
The Dreamcast version received favorable reviews, while Ver.5.66 received "average" reviews, according to the review aggregation websites GameRankings and Metacritic. Stephen Frost of NextGen called the Japanese import of the former console version "an impressive game, and practically a perfect conversion, marred by difficult controls and a lack of 'compatibility' with the standard Dreamcast controller. However, if you're willing to invest the necessary time, you'll eventually discover that the game provides one of the most addictive and deep gaming experiences currently available on Dreamcast." Jake The Snake of GamePro said in one review, "For dedicated gamers longing for a fast-paced clast of metal, Virtual-On: Oratorio Tangram will deliver many hours of mech-smashing mayhem." In another review, Cheat Monkey called it "a must buy-if you have the Twin Sticks. If not, the game will still be fun, but it will not feel quite right to arcade veterans." GameZone gave the same Dreamcast version seven out of ten, saying, "If there were Twinsticks or cerebral implants available in the US for use with the Dreamcast, then it would have scored h
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is a 3D mecha fighting game developed by Sega AM3 (formerly Hitmaker) and published by Sega. It was released in Japanese arcades only on the Sega Hikaru arcade system board in 2001. Following its initial release, there was initially no home console port of the game due to the Hikaru's superior graphical capabilities. A region free home port of the game was released for Xbox 360 on December 22, 2010.
Gameplay
Force differs from previous versions of the series in that it features 4-players, 2-on-2 team matches. The battle system is heavily simplified from the game's predecessor, Oratorio Tangram, in order to balance the increased number of players. The left-turbo function is removed, and the speed is significantly slower. The game website states this as a side-effect of the V-converters being less efficient than the Mars crystals. The machine uses a magnetic card system to record player data, with the cards being called a "VO4 Pilot's License". Players start by choosing a base Virtuaroid, which will open up other variants in its family tree as the player plays more of the game. Because of this design, a large number of Virtuaroid variants exist, and the game has the largest VR roster of any game in the series name so far.
The VO4 Pilot's License can be used with the VO4 Terminal, which lets players view records, set the pilot name, swap color schemes or use another available Virtuaroid. During the lifespan of the game, an upgraded version named Virtual On Force M.S.B.S. Ver7.7, with new Virtuaroids, new stages and new magnetic card face designs.
Virtual-On Marz can be considered the spiritual home console version of Force, since Marz took its rules, stages and the Virtuaroids from Force, though without support for 4-player matches and only taking a select few Virtuaroids, while leaving most of the variants out due to storage constraints of the game.
Xbox 360 version
The Xbox 360 version retains the same gameplay as the original series, only with a few inclusions: 2 on 2 Leader Battles, co-op boss fight mode, a Mission mode and Xbox Live support for online play. Battles have local 2 player splitscreen or up to 4 player over System Link. The game also has a special Collector's edition which includes a booklet called Virtual On Chronicle 15, that looks back at 15 years of Virtual-On, and a six disc soundtrack called Virtual On Official Sound Data. All of the items come packaged in a box with artwork from Hajime Katoki. Jaguarandi is now available as a hidden character, along with Apharmd the Hatter based on Apharmd J. However, Ajim, which was a playable character in Oratorio Tangram, is not playable in this Force version. The split-screen gameplay, which was absent from Xbox Live Arcade version of Oratorio Tangram, makes a return in this version. Preordering of the games allows access and download a special "Thorax" item that adjusts the bust sizes of both female Virtualoids: Fei-Yen and Angelan.
References
External links
Virtual-ON Force Offic
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is a 3D Mecha action-adventure game developed by Hitmaker and published by Sega. The game was first released on the PlayStation 2 in North America and Japan, and is the fourth game in the Virtual On franchise. MARZ expands upon the basic gameplay rules of Virtual-On Force, and reuses most of the game's assets; from the stages down to models of the Virtuaroids, the game's enemies.
MARZ was not well received, receiving many negative responses from reviewers and players alike. Some stores in North America, expecting poor sales, only sold the game to those who reserved it. The game was re-released on the PlayStation 3 in Japan on March 21, 2013, to commemorate the game's ten-year anniversary.
Plot
Mars, once a peaceful society, has deteriorated into a planet of war. Shady corporations have deployed giant robots called Virtuaroids to cause chaos around the planet for their own nefarious gain.
As part of the Marz Special Investigation Unit, the player must take control of their own robots (armed with a variety of explosive weaponry) and lay waste to the Virtuaroid enemy in battle.
Battling their way through hordes of Virtuaroid armies, the Marz Special Investigation Unit must find out who this shady corporation is and end the chaos on Mars, once and for all.
Gameplay
Virtual-On Marz retains the Twin Stick control layout of the series, mapping the two stick to the analogue sticks on the DualShock controller, and the turbo and weapon buttons to the four L and R buttons.
A new Auto controller layout was provided, as well as several variants for players who did not like the twin-stick format.
The match rules follow that of Virtual-On: Force, that is two-on-two matches with a leader on each team. Fallen teammates can be given half the other's life gauge through the "rescue tag" maneuver, and the first pair to fall loses the round.
The "Challenge Mode" is a single match setup that is akin to a stage in Virtual-On: Force, with the player tagged with an NPC partner against two other NPC opponents or bosses.
New to the PlayStation 2, Marz is the "Dramatic Mode" which is a story mode with a linear sequence of missions with various objectives such as exploration, target destruction, beat 'em up, and boss battles. When certain requirements are met, such as passing certain stages, or destroying a number of certain Virtuaroids in "beat 'em up missions", new Virtuaroids are open for selection and play in the other modes.
A split-screen two-player mode is available, with the choice of playing on the same team or against each other.
In the Japanese version, the Database mode is available, and the databases can be collected throughout the Dramatic Mode. These databases include stories, characters, and items associated with them. Some of the databases include a description of the particular subjects. This mode is not available in the English localization of the game.
Characters
The following characters are non-playable characters that appear in the single-
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Alfonso de Nigris Guajardo (born March 3, 1976) is a Mexican television presenter, entrepreneur and influencer. He hosted various shows for the Monterrey-based regional network Multimedios Televisión. His brothers are the former football players Antonio and Aldo de Nigris.
De Nigris first came to prominence in the second season of Big Brother México in 2003, where he placed third in the competition. He would later be the contestant in the 2011 cycle of Multimedios's dating competition Mitad y Mitad involving a season-long process of finding him a partner, and hosted Pura Gente Bien on sister channel XHSAW-TDT, along with El Club del Italiano for Televisa Regional's MTYtv; the latter would be cancelled in 2013 after making jokes targeting the station's anti-bullying campaign.
He returned to television in February 2015 with the premiere of Poncho en Domingo on Multimedios, where he was paired with co-host Marcela Mistral. The two fell in love and after a proposal to Mistral by de Nigris was accepted. De Nigris and Mistral were married in a televised ceremony on the network recorded on November 23, 2015, and aired on November 25.
Filmography
External links
Official Website
References
1976 births
Living people
Mexican male models
Mexican people of Italian descent
People from Monterrey
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In mathematics and computer science, a primality certificate or primality proof is a succinct, formal proof that a number is prime. Primality certificates allow the primality of a number to be rapidly checked without having to run an expensive or unreliable primality test. "Succinct" usually means that the proof should be at most polynomially larger than the number of digits in the number itself (for example, if the number has b bits, the proof might contain roughly b2 bits).
Primality certificates lead directly to proofs that problems such as primality testing and the complement of integer factorization lie in NP, the class of problems verifiable in polynomial time given a solution. These problems already trivially lie in co-NP. This was the first strong evidence that these problems are not NP-complete, since if they were, it would imply that NP is subset of co-NP, a result widely believed to be false; in fact, this was the first demonstration of a problem in NP intersect co-NP not known, at the time, to be in P.
Producing certificates for the complement problem, to establish that a number is composite, is straightforward: it suffices to give a nontrivial divisor. Standard probabilistic primality tests such as the Baillie–PSW primality test, the Fermat primality test, and the Miller–Rabin primality test also produce compositeness certificates in the event where the input is composite, but do not produce certificates for prime inputs.
Pratt certificates
The concept of primality certificates was historically introduced by the Pratt certificate, conceived in 1975 by Vaughan Pratt, who described its structure and proved it to have polynomial size and to be verifiable in polynomial time. It is based on the Lucas primality test, which is essentially the converse of Fermat's little theorem with an added condition to make it true:
Lucas' theorem: Suppose we have an integer a such that:
an − 1 ≡ 1 (mod n),
for every prime factor q of n − 1, it is not the case that a(n − 1)/q ≡ 1 (mod n).
Then n is prime.
Given such an a (called a witness) and the prime factorization of n − 1, it's simple to verify the above conditions quickly: we only need to do a linear number of modular exponentiations, since every integer has fewer prime factors than bits, and each of these can be done by exponentiation by squaring in O(log n) multiplications (see big-O notation). Even with grade-school integer multiplication, this is only O((log n)4) time; using the multiplication algorithm with best-known asymptotic running time, the Schönhage–Strassen algorithm, we can lower this to O((log n)3(log log n)(log log log n)) time, or using soft-O notation Õ((log n)3).
However, it is possible to trick a verifier into accepting a composite number by giving it a "prime factorization" of n − 1 that includes composite numbers. For example, suppose we claim that n = 85 is prime, supplying a = 4 and n − 1 = 6 × 14 as the "prime factorization". Then (using q = 6 and q = 14):
4 is co
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Apple 1 or variation, may refer to:
Apple I, the first home computer from Apple Computer (Apple Inc.)
Apple One, the subscription service from Apple, Inc.
APPLE 1, a single released by Apple Records; see Apple Records discography
Apple-1 (1955), a nuclear bomb test, part of Operation Teapot
See also
Apple (disambiguation)
1 (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NETtalk%20%28artificial%20neural%20network%29
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NETtalk is an artificial neural network. It is the result of research carried out in the mid-1980s by Terrence Sejnowski and Charles Rosenberg. The intent behind NETtalk was to construct simplified models that might shed light on the complexity of learning human level cognitive tasks, and their implementation as a connectionist model that could also learn to perform a comparable task.
NETtalk is a program that learns to pronounce written English text by being shown text as input and matching phonetic transcriptions for comparison.
The network was trained on a large amount of English words and their corresponding pronunciations, and is able to generate pronunciations for unseen words with a high level of accuracy. The success of the NETtalk network inspired further research in the field of pronunciation generation and speech synthesis and demonstrated the potential of neural networks for solving complex NLP problems.
The network is designed to handle the complexity of the English language, including its irregular spelling-to-sound relationships, and was trained in a purely unsupervised manner, without the use of any annotated data.
Achievements and limitations
NETtalk was created to explore the mechanisms of learning to correctly pronounce English text. The authors note that learning to read involves a complex mechanism involving many parts of the human brain. NETtalk does not specifically model the image processing stages and letter recognition of the visual cortex. Rather, it assumes that the letters have been pre-classified and recognized, and these letter sequences comprising words are then shown to the neural network during training and during performance testing. It is NETtalk's task to learn proper associations between the correct pronunciation with a given sequence of letters based on the context in which the letters appear. In other words, NETtalk learns to use the letters around the currently pronounced phoneme that provide cues as to its intended phonemic mapping.
References
External links
Original NETtalk training set
New York Times article about NETtalk
Artificial neural networks
Speech synthesis
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Bruce Lawrence Horn (born 1960) is a programmer and creator. He created the original Macintosh Finder and the Macintosh Resource Manager for Apple Computer. His signature is amongst those molded to the case of the Macintosh 128K. He is a distinguished engineer at Siri and Language Technologies at Apple since June 2022.
A member of the original Apple Macintosh design team, Horn received a B.S. in Mathematical Sciences from Stanford University in 1982 and a M.S. and Ph.D. from Carnegie-Mellon University in Computer Science in 1994. Horn was a student in the Learning Research Group (1973–1981), where Smalltalk was developed. While there, he worked on various projects including the NoteTaker, a portable Smalltalk machine, and wrote the initial Dorado Smalltalk microcode for Smalltalk.
He owns, and programs software for, Ingenuity Software. He was employed by Powerset as the principal development manager of the Natural Language Technology group. Powerset was acquired by Microsoft in the fall of 2008 and is part of Bing.
Horn was an Intel Fellow and Chief Scientist for Smart Device Innovation in the New Devices Group then became CTO, Saffron Technology Group at Intel Corporation.
Horn serves on the board of advisors of The Hyperwords Company Ltd of the UK, which works to make the web more usefully interactive and which has produced the free Firefox Add-On called 'Hyperwords'.
References
External links
Home page
Bruce Horn on 1984, Today, and Beyond - April 26, 2004
Joining the Mac Group: The Reality Distortion Field changes Bruce's mind about working at Apple, written by Bruce Horn
The Grand Unified Model (1) - Resources
1960 births
Apple Inc. employees
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Stanford University alumni
Living people
Scientists at PARC (company)
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Red Hat, an IBM subsidiary specializing in computer software, offers different level of certification programs, most of which specialize in system administration. Certifications can be validated through Red Hat webpage, and expire after 3 years.
Certifications
Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
RHCSA is an entry-level certification that focuses on competencies at system administration, including installation and configuration of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system and attach it to a live network running network services.
To achieve the RHCSA certification the student must pass EX200, a 3-hour hands-on lab exam. The minimum passing score for the exam is 210 out of 300 possible points (70%). There is no prerequisite for the exam, but Red Hat recommends preparing for the exam by taking courses in Red Hat System Administration (RH124 and RH134) if one does not have previous experience.
RHCSA was launched in 2002 as Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT). As of July 2009 there were 30,000 RHCTs. In November 2010 it was renamed to RHCSA.
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
Self-titled "the flagship" certification, RHCE is a mid- to advanced-level certification that builds on topics covered in the RHCSA certification to include more advanced topics such as security and installing common enterprise networking (IP) services. The certification has a heavy focus on automation using Ansible.
To achieve the RHCE certification, the student must pass the RHCSA exam, EX200, and in addition EX300, a 3.5-hour hands-on lab exam. Red Hat recommends preparing for the exam by taking courses in Linux essentials (RH124), Linux administration (RH134), and Linux networking and security (RH254) if one does not have previous experience. Previous real-world experience is also advised.
RHCE was the first Red Hat certificate launched, in 1999. As of July 2009 there were 40,000 RHCEs. It was named the Hottest Certification for 2006 by CertCities.com.
Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)
Self-titled "the capstone certificate", RHCA is the most complete certificate in the program, adding an enterprise-level focus.
There are concentrations inside the RHCA on which a candidate may choose to focus, however choosing to do so is not required. The focuses are:
Datacenter: skills with tasks common in an on-premises datacenter
Cloud: skills with tasks common to cloud infrastructure
Devops: skills and knowledge in technologies and practices that can accelerate the process of moving applications and updates from development through the build and test processes and on to production
Application Development: skills in enterprise application development, integration, and architecture
Application Platform: skills with tasks common for building and managing tools and applications
RHCA was launched in 2005.
Red Hat Certified Virtualization Administrator (RHCVA)
RHCVA is a certification that focuses on Virtualization administration.
To achieve the RHCVA certification the st
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Tamara Leitner (born July 3, 1972) is an American network correspondent and investigative TV reporter. The journalist won a George Foster Peabody and Edward R. Murrow for the documentary Toxic Secrets. She also won 12 Emmys for investigative news stories and co-founded Volition Films with Dr. Jordan Schaul.
Education
Leitner graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a bachelor's degree in English, before eventually completing her master's degree in journalism from Boston University in Massachusetts.
Career
She established her reputation as a hard-nosed journalist, writing for newspapers in New York and Arizona, including the New York Post. Leitner was honored by the Associated Press Managing Editors for stories she did when she was a police reporter for the East Valley Tribune in Mesa, Arizona.
As a journalist, Leitner has burst into a burning building, worked as a member of a NASCAR pit crew, gone one-on-one with trained attack dogs and volunteered to be shot by a Taser. Leitner has earned multiple awards in Arizona and New York for crime reporting, including Arizona Press Club Awards for coverage of a serial rapist, the Arizona angle on the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and legendary mob informant Sammy "The Bull" Gravano's arrest in Arizona. She was also honored in 1999 by the city of Scottsdale, Ariz., for saving a drowning man.
Leitner joined the news staff of KPHO, the CBS affiliate in Phoenix, Arizona, as a crime reporter on September 3, 2002. She has won twelve Rocky Mountain Emmy Awards - the first in 2004 for a piece she did on Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's notorious tent city, the second in 2006 for a breaking news story, her third in 2007 for continuing coverage of an investigative story, and her fourth and fifth for a weeklong series called "Assault on Arizona", which focused on crime and illegal immigration issues at the Arizona-Mexico border. Leitner has 19 Rocky Mountain Emmy nominations to her credit.
Leitner joined WCBS-TV in New York City as an investigative reporter in June 2013. Leitner joined WMAQ-TV in Chicago in March 2014 as an investigative reporter. Leitner joined NBC Nightly News in early June, 2016. Leitner is currently a contributor with MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show.
Survivor
Marquesas
Leitner was a participant on the 4th season of Survivor, Survivor: Marquesas, which was filmed in late 2001 and aired in 2002.
Leitner was initially placed on the Rotu tribe, alongside Gabriel Cade, John Carroll, Robert DeCanio, Neleh Dennis, Paschal English, Kathy Vavrick-O'Brien and Zoe Zanidakis. Leitner successfully survived the first nine days through under-the-radar gameplay and Rotu's winning streak.
Things changed on day ten when a tribe switch took place. Leitner remained on Rotu alongside Cade, Carroll, DeCanio, and Zanidakis, now joined by Rob Mariano, Sean Rector and Vecepia Towery. The new Rotu was highly dysfunctional but won two of the three following challenges. During t
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Formal science is a branch of science studying disciplines concerned with abstract structures described by formal systems, such as logic, mathematics, statistics, theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence, information theory, game theory, systems theory, decision theory, and theoretical linguistics. Whereas the natural sciences and social sciences seek to characterize physical systems and social systems, respectively, using empirical methods, the formal sciences use language tools concerned with characterizing abstract structures described by formal systems. The formal sciences aid the natural and social sciences by providing information about the structures used to describe the physical world, and what inferences may be made about them.
Branches
Principal branches of formal sciences are:
logic (also a branch of philosophy);
mathematics;
and computer science.
Differences from other sciences
Because of their non-empirical nature, formal sciences are construed by outlining a set of axioms and definitions from which other statements (theorems) are deduced. For this reason, in Rudolf Carnap's logical-positivist conception of the epistemology of science, theories belonging to formal sciences are understood to contain no synthetic statements, instead containing only analytic statements.
See also
Philosophy
Science
Rationalism
Abstract structure
Abstraction in mathematics
Abstraction in computer science
Formalism (philosophy of mathematics)
Formal grammar
Formal language
Formal method
Formal system
Form and content
Mathematical model
Mathematics Subject Classification
Semiotics
Theory of forms
References
Further reading
Mario Bunge (1985). Philosophy of Science and Technology. Springer.
Mario Bunge (1998). Philosophy of Science. Rev. ed. of: Scientific research. Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1967.
C. West Churchman (1940). Elements of Logic and Formal Science, J.B. Lippincott Co., New York.
James Franklin (1994). The formal sciences discover the philosophers' stone. In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 513–533, 1994
Stephen Leacock (1906). Elements of Political Science. Houghton, Mifflin Co, 417 pp.
Bernt P. Stigum (1990). Toward a Formal Science of Economics. MIT Press
Marcus Tomalin (2006), Linguistics and the Formal Sciences. Cambridge University Press
William L. Twining (1997). Law in Context: Enlarging a Discipline. 365 pp.
External links
Interdisciplinary conferences — Foundations of the Formal Sciences
Branches of science
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine%20Early%20Warning%20Systems%20Network
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FEWS NET, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, is a website of information and analysis on food insecurity created in 1985 by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the US Department of State, after famines in East and West Africa. In 2008, Molly E. Brown argued that during its twenty years of activity, FEWS NET had been extremely successful. She said that it was widely viewed as "the most effective program in existence for providing information to governments about impending food crises".
Aims
FEWS NET aims at providing information to governments, international relief agencies, NGOs, journalists, and researchers planning for, responding to, and reporting on humanitarian crises. With support from a technical team in Washington, D.C., FEWS NET staff based in more than 20 country offices collaborate with US government agencies, national government ministries and international partners to collect data and produce objective, forward-looking analysis on the world's most food-insecure countries. Using an integrated approach that considers climate, agriculture production, prices, trade, nutrition, and other factors, together with an understanding of local livelihoods, FEWS NET forecasts most likely outcomes and anticipates change six to twelve months in advance. To help decision-makers and relief agencies plan for food emergencies, FEWS NET publishes monthly reports (available on its web site) on current and projected food insecurity, up-to-the-minute alerts on emerging or likely crises, and specialized reports on weather hazards, crops, market prices, and food assistance.
In 2010, to mark its 25th anniversary, FEWS NET produced a video to document its work.
Methodology
FEWS NET reporting focuses on acute food insecurity—sudden and/or short-term household food deficits caused by shocks—rather than chronic food insecurity, ongoing or cyclical food deficits related to persistent poverty and a lack of assets.
In general, food insecurity is rarely the result of one causal factor. The strength and reliability of FEWS NET forecasting lies in its integrated consideration of the diversity of factors that lead to risk. Along with agricultural production, climate and weather, FEWS NET places analytical importance on markets and trade, livelihoods and sociopolitical issues such as conflict and humanitarian response. Key elements of FEWS NET's methodology include:
Classifying food insecurity: FEWS NET describes the severity of food insecurity using the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification version 2.0 (IPC 2.0), an international five-level scale. FEWS NET representatives were among the international food security leaders who designed the scale.
Scenario development is at the heart of FEWS NET's analytical process. In the simplest terms, scenario development can be described as a sophisticated “if-then” statement. In practice, this nine-step methodology relies on the creation of specific, informed assumptions abou
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardust%40home
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Stardust@home is a citizen science project that encourages volunteers to search images for tiny interstellar dust impacts. The project began providing data for analysis on August 1, 2006.
From February to May 2000 and from August to December 2002, the Stardust spacecraft exposed its "Stardust Interstellar Dust Collector" (SIDC), a set of aerogel blocks about 0.1 m2 (1 ft²) in total size, to interstellar dust. The collector media consist of 130 blocks of 1 and 3 cm thick silica-based aerogel mounted in aluminum cells.
In order to spot impacts of interstellar dust, just over 700,000 individual fields of the aerogel will have to be visually inspected using large magnification. Each field, which is composed of 40 images, will thus be termed a "focus movie". Stardust@home will try to achieve this by distributing the work among volunteers. Unlike distributed computing projects, it does not try to harness the processing power of many computers. It uses them only to distribute and present the tasks to humans. This approach is similar to the earlier Clickworkers project to find Martian craters.
Participants must pass a test to qualify to register to participate. After registering and passing the test, participants have access to the web-based "virtual microscope" which allows them to search each field for interstellar dust impacts by focusing up and down with a focus control.
As an incentive for volunteers, the first five phases of Stardust@home allowed the first individual to discover a particular interstellar dust particle to name it. Also, the discoverer could appear as a co-author on any scientific paper announcing the discovery of the particle. As of 2023, numerous peer-reviewed papers summarizing the results of the Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination (ISPE) that include these volunteers as co-authors have been published in Meteoritics & Planetary Science.
Phases
Stardust@home has been divided into six phases. Phase I became publicly available on August 1, 2006, Phase II in August 2007, Phase III in March 2010, Phase IV in July 2011, Phase V in May 2012, and Phase VI in June 2013.
Phase VI includes over 30,000 new "movies" representing eight aerogel tiles. The scoring method was also upgraded and, unlike the other phases, Stardust@home can no longer guarantee first finders of particles will be listed as co-authors on any scientific papers written about the discoveries.
See also
Clickworkers
Crowdsourcing
Zooniverse
Galaxy Zoo
SETI@home
References
External links
stardust@home
NASA Stardust Mission Homepage
Human-based computation
Citizen science
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank%20AL%20Habib
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Bank Al Habib Limited () is a Pakistani commercial bank owned by the Dawood Habib Family and is based in Karachi, Pakistan. It is one of the largest bank in Pakistan.
The bank has a branch network of 1075+ branches in 408+ cities across Pakistan with six branches in countries across the world.
They also have wholesale branches in Bahrain, Seychelles and Malaysia and offices in UAE, Turkey (Istanbul), China (Beijing), and Kenya. As of December 2021, the assets of the bank saw a 68% increase from last year to .
History
Habib Group's involvement in banking services dates back to the 1930s. The original Habib Bank began modestly in Bombay in 1941 when it commenced operations with a fixed capital of 25,000 rupees. Impressed by its initial performance, Muhammad Ali Jinnah asked the Habib Bank to move its operations to Karachi after the independence of Pakistan.
After the privatization scheme was announced in 1991 by the Pakistani Government, Habib Group was the first to be granted permission to start a private bank, the Bank AL Habib Limited.
In 2002, HBL has been jointly owned by the government and the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development. It was nationalized in 1974.
Under the privatization policy of the Government of Pakistan, the Dawood Habib Group was granted permission to set up a commercial bank. Bank AL Habib was incorporated as a Public Limited Company in October 1991 and started banking operations in 1992. (Late) Hamid D. Habib, grandson of the founder a Habib Group, was the first Chairman of Bank AL Habib Limited. He was a Director in Habib Bank Limited from 1954 and its chairman from 1971 until nationalization. After the death of Hamid D. Habib in May 2000, Ali Raza D. Habib, who was Director on the Board, was appointed the Chairman of the Bank.
Rashid D. Habib, who was the managing director of Habib Bank Limited from 1953 till its nationalization, was appointed as the managing director and chief executive of Bank AL Habib Limited until he died in 1994. After his death, Abbas D. Habib who was the joint managing director and closely associated with the bank since its inception in 1991, was appointed as the managing director and Chief Executive of the Bank. On 1 November 2016, he was appointed as chairman.
In 2005, Bank AL Habib began offering internet banking, with accounts and records visible online. In 2006, Bank AL Habib became partners with MasterCard, allowing them to issue credit cards for the first time.
Bank Al Habib has decided to purchase from TPL Properties, Centrepoint, a high-rise building in Karachi.
Services
The bank maintains correspondent relations with American Express Bank, USA; Banco di Roma, Italy; Commerzbank and Dresdner Bank, Germany; The Royal Bank of Canada, Canada; and The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Hong Kong.
The bank follows the internet banking code NetBanking and security is entrusted by Verisign. This was launched with a contract made with TPS Pakistan. The bank supports the MNET S
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldreich
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Goldreich is an Ashkenazi-Jewish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Arthur Goldreich (1929–2011), South African activist
Oded Goldreich, computer scientist
Peter Goldreich, astrophysicist
Tova Sanhadray Goldreich, Israeli politician
German-language surnames
Surnames of Jewish origin
Yiddish-language surnames
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/96FM%20%28Perth%20radio%20station%29
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96FM (call sign: 6NOW) is a commercial FM radio station broadcasting in Perth, Western Australia owned by ARN since January 2015. It was formerly part of the Fairfax Media and Village Roadshow networks.
History
96FM began broadcasting on 96.1 MHz on 8 August 1980 as Perth's first commercial FM radio station. The first record played at the 4 pm launch was FM (No Static at All) by Steely Dan, with Gordon O'Byrne the first live disc jockey to air. Gary Roberts was its first Program Director.
Throughout the 1980s, 96FM provided groundbreaking innovation for Perth radio listeners. In 1981, the highly successful Gold Pass was launched. This provided holders access to obtain discounts at retailers for goods such as CDs (Compact Disks), clothing, concert tickets, car audio and security to name but a few. The rationale for launching the Gold Pass was so the station could raise extra revenue (minimum was a $5,000 spend) without doing outside broadcasts.
In 1982, 96FM became the first radio station in Australia to play music from CD. The song was Toto's Rosanna. From then on the station's old library of vinyl records and carts (cartridge tapes) were replaced with CDs. Radio announcers were quick to spruik their use of CD's, often using the term "...from compact...".
Amongst some of the most successful radio promotions in the stations history include 'Rockwords' where listeners could win $10,000 cash for correctly completing a cross-word in The West Australian newspaper. The station broadcast the clues on an hourly basis. Another hallmark promotion was the 'Top 96 Albums of alltime' and what was then the annual Skyshow.
By 1985, 96FM had reached number one in the Perth radio ratings for the first time although 6PM on the AM band continued to be a strong number two for the remainder of the decade until 6PM converted to FM in 1991 as 92.9 6PMFM, then PMFM and now Triple M.
96FM was the sole commercial FM station in Perth until 1991. 6PM and 6KY successfully bid for the right to convert from the AM band to FM in the early 1990s.
In 1993, Village Roadshow, owners of the Triple M network in the eastern states, took over the financially stricken FM Australia (formerly Hoyts Media). No more than six months later 96FM was relaunched as a Triple M, albeit with the Today Network Top 40 (CHR) music format, as opposed to the harder rock format of its eastern Triple M counterparts. The revamped station failed to make a major impact up against its FM rivals. In 1996 as Triple M, with flagging ratings and finances the station dropped organising the annual Skyshow. The event was subsequently handed over to both the State Government and the City of Perth. Due to copyright ownership restrictions associated with the name the event has been rebranded 'Skyworks'. The format of the event was not significantly changed.
In 1997, Village Roadshow subsidiary Austereo purchased PMFM and KYFM from local entrepreneur Jack Bendat. Australian media ownership laws required the dive
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos%20Overlords
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Chaos Overlords is a turn-based strategy computer game developed by Stick Man Games and published by New World Computing for Microsoft Windows and classic Mac OS in 1996. Chaos Overlords was re-released for Windows in downloadable format by GOG.com in May, 2013.
Setting
Chaos Overlords is set in a dystopian cyberpunk future. By 2046, private industries started to purchase bankrupt national governments. By 2050, all governments had merged under one corporation, the World United Solidarity (WUS). WUS became a corrupt monopoly, and attempted to control the population by instituting censorship and banning ownership of weapons, drugs and pornography. Former crime lords and corporate heads arose to exploit the people by creating "chaos": selling drugs, guns, and pornography, running the numbers, and engaging in extortion and blackmail. These criminals, known as Chaos Overlords, bribed WUS to avoid crackdowns. As gangs joined them and they grew in power, cities became battlegrounds for their struggles to destroy each other in pursuit of money and power.
Gameplay
The player takes the role of a Chaos Overlord attempting to control a city. Gameplay involves hiring mercenary gangs and deploying them on an 8-by-8 grid of city sectors to generate income, occupy sectors and take over the city. The player can choose from 10 different victory conditions. The four timed scenarios involve attaining the most cash, sectors, support, or all three. The six objective scenarios have no time limit and require the player to fulfill a specific goal, ranging from killing all other Chaos Overlords to controlling specific sectors of importance.
Reception
Chaos Overlords attracted mixed reviews from the gaming press. GameSpot praised its addictive qualities, while Allgame noted its ability to generate strategic depth from a simple game concept. Computer Gaming World criticized the game's rough presentation and monotonous graphics, but commented that dedicated gamers with the patience to look past first impressions would be rewarded with a "novel, truly strategic wargame". Next Generation found the turn-based, menu-driven gameplay made it less exciting than Syndicate, but praised the variety of scenarios and support for online play, and concluded, "It's no replacement for the likes of Warcraft 2 or Duke Nukem 3D, but it's a decent showing from the creators of Heroes of Might and Magic." Inside Mac Games rated the game 3 out of 5, calling it a "very challenging strategic wargame" with a "strong and honest AI opponent." The review felt the game became fun only after spending hours learning the game's mechanics and interface.
Andy Butcher reviewed Chaos Overlords for Arcane magazine, rating it a 5 out of 10 overall. Butcher comments that "If you've got the luxury of a multi-player link-up, Chaos Overlords has a lot to recommend it. Otherwise, there are much better strategy games around."
In a retrospective for IGN, gaming journalist Tom Chick praised the clarity of the gam
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco%20certifications
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Cisco Certifications are the list of the Certifications offered by Cisco Systems. There are four or five (path to network designers) levels of certification: Associate (CCNA/CCDA), Professional (CCNP/CCDP), Expert (CCIE/CCDE) and recently Architect (CCAr: CCDE previous), as well as nine different paths for the specific technical field; Routing & Switching, Design, Industrial Network, Network Security, Service Provider, Service Provider Operations, Storage Networking, Voice, Datacenter and Wireless. There are also a number of the specialist technician, sales, Business, data center certifications, CCAI certified instructor (Cisco Academy Instructor).
The Paths to the primary Certification
The table below shows the different paths and levels for Cisco Certifications. All Certifications, except for CCAr, require passing one or more theoretical exams offered by Pearson VUE. CCIE Certifications also require a hands-on exam administered at special labs around the world.
As of October 1, 2023, Cisco altered their certification structure.
2 entry level certificate: CCST Cybersecurity, CCST Networking
3 associate level certificates: CCNA, CC DevNet Associate, and CC CyberOps Associate.
7 professional level certificates : CCNP DevNet, CCNP Enterprise, CCNP Collaboration, CCNP Data Center, CCNP Security, CCNP Service Provider, and CC CyberOps Professional
8 expert level certificates : CCIE Collaboration, CCIE Data Center, DevNet Expert, CCDE, CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure, CCIE Enterprise Wireless, CCIE Security, CCIE Service Provider
Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/training-events/training-certifications/certifications.html
Primary Certifications
Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician (CCENT)
Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician {CCENT} represents the lowest level of certification which covers basic networking knowledge. Until its introduction, CCNA represented the first level of the certification program. It has appropriate use for an entry-level network support position. CCENT certified staff can install, manage and troubleshoot a small enterprise network, including basic network security. The first step towards a CCNA certification must start by having a CCENT.
In 2017, Cisco introduced new ICND1 and ICND2 exams (needed for the new CCNA Routing and Switching). ICND1: 100-105 (Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices Part 1 v3.0) became the new exam required for CCENT. With this change, CCENT became a sufficient pre-requirement for CCNA Security, CCNA Voice and CCNA Wireless.
Exam Blueprints can be found here: https://web.archive.org/web/20170301190947/https://learningcontent.cisco.com/cln_storage/text/cln/marketing/exam-topics/100-105-icnd1-v3.pdf
Valid for 3 years.
Cisco Certified Technicians (CCT)
Cisco Certified Technicians have the skills to diagnose, restore, repair, and replace critical Cisco networking and system devices at customer sites. Technicians work closely with the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TA
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CILM-FM
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CILM-FM is a French-language Canadian radio station located in Saguenay, Quebec. The station carries adult contemporary format as part of the Rythme FM network.
Owned by Cogeco, it broadcasts on 98.3 MHz using a directional antenna with an average effective radiated power of 51,000 watts and a peak effective radiated power of 100,000 watts (class C1). The station broadcasts from the CBC Tower on Warren Street in Chicoutimi.
History
CKRS originally went on the air at 1240 kHz on
AM band on June 24, 1947. In 1952, CKRS changed frequencies from 1240 kHz to 590 kHz.
CKRS remained at 590 kHz on the AM band on 590 with a daytime power of 25,000 watts and a nighttime power of 7,500 watts as a class B station, using a directional antenna with slightly different daytime and nighttime directional patterns in order to protect various other stations on that frequency. On November 24, 2006, 591991 B.C. Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Corus Entertainment Inc. received approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to convert CKRS from the AM band (590 kHz) to the FM band at 98.3 MHz. CKRS moved to 98.3 FM in 2007.
It was previously part of the Corus Québec (formerly Radiomédia) network which operates across Quebec. In March 2009, Corus announced plans to drop the talk format on CKRS, CJRC-FM in Gatineau, CHLN-FM in Trois-Rivières and CHLT-FM in Sherbrooke in favour of a hybrid talk / classic hits-oldies format branded as "Souvenirs Garantis", effective March 28, 2009.
In early 2010, the local morning news show featuring Myriam Ségal (previously before for several years by Louis Champagne) was removed in favor of Puisqu'il faut se lever, a province-wide news and discussion program from CHMP-FM in Montreal, hosted by Paul Arcand. Puisqu'il faut se lever was dumped by CKRS-FM a year later, in February 2011, and the station returned to a local morning news show.
On June 25, 2010 it was reported that Corus has agreed to sell CKRS-FM to a local business group known as Radio Saguenay, whose owners include former NHL player and coach Guy Carbonneau. The acquisition received CRTC approval on March 1, 2011. However, the commission has approved the transfer of the station's management to Radio Saguenay on an interim basis; the station would be rebranded as "FM 98", but maintaining its classic hits format. The sale to Radio Saguenay was fully approved in November 2010.
In March 2011, CKRS-FM changed its music content from classic hits to mainstream rock, while retaining its talk programming. The station's playlist, however, was heavy on classic rock.
In 2012, the station was sold to Attraction Radio, and was rebranded as "CKRS 98,3". Its music and talk programming continued, though at this point, most of its talk programs are networked from Cogeco.
In May 2014, CKRS filed an application with the CRTC, which would amend its licence to reduce spoken word requirements and enable them to carry more music-based programmi
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerplay%20Cruiser
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The Powerplay Cruiser was a joystick released in 1986, during the time that the Commodore 64 and Commodore Amiga were both popular home computers. It was compatible with many 8-bit and 16-bit machines, and boasted many features that were considered high end at the time:
Fully microswitch-based operation (clicking with every move or shot)
8-directional control
Ambidextrous design (symmetrical with two fire buttons positioned at the front end, away from the joystick shaft)
Adjustable torque control (a 3-position rotating collar at the base of the shaft, giving manual resistance)
Rugged plastic body & sturdy, long-lasting design (working examples appear for auction on eBay and similar sites to this day)
Available in a range of colours/models (all with black cable):
All Black
Blue body, red stick, white fire buttons
Pastel green body, with pastel yellow fire buttons, pastel pink joystick shaft and pastel blue torque controller
Transparent body, black stick and buttons featuring a rare autofire working-type, as it operates automatically when any of the 2 buttons is held down
The black and red Cruiser Turbo, featuring an autofire facility(the pastel version was arguably the most popular, matching the fashions of the era, followed by the sleek black model)
Other features included a cable that was longer than that used by many other joysticks, and four strong suction cups to attach the unit to a flat surface, for general stability or to enable control of rare (at the time) games that used the keyboard and other input devices to control play, such as Gunship.
The joystick had two DE-9 connectors. The primary connector was Atari compatible, with a shorter grey cable and connector attached to this. The secondary connector is compatible with the non-standard Amstrad built ZX Spectrum computers; the Sinclair Interface II and other popular ZX Spectrum joystick interfaces were Atari compatible.
Market value
The Cruiser retailed in the UK at £14.99 when released, at a time when this was two or three times as expensive as many joysticks with lower manufacturing or design standards, and when most C64 games (on cassette) would cost less than £15 (their disk-based counterparts usually costing £15 or more) and with Commodore Amiga games costing approximately £20-£30. It was therefore a "luxury" joystick, aimed at serious gamers who required style and resilience in their peripherals.
External links
Game controllers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed%20Roberts
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Ed Roberts may refer to:
Ed Roberts (activist) (1939–1995), American leader of the disability rights movement
Ed Roberts (computer engineer) (1941–2010), American computer pioneer
Ed Roberts (poet) (born 1958), American poet, writer and publisher
Ed Roberts (Emmerdale), fictional character on the television series Emmerdale
See also
Eddie Roberts (disambiguation)
Ed Robertson (born 1970), Canadian lead singer of Barenaked Ladies
Edward Roberts (disambiguation)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poem%20Field
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Poem Field is the name of a series of 8 computer-generated animations by Stan Vanderbeek and Ken Knowlton in 1964-1967. The animations were programmed in a language called Beflix (short for "Bell Flicks"), which was developed by Knowlton.
It is notable as a feature of one of the earlier SIGGRAPH conferences.
References
External links
Tate Intermedia Art: La Mode, Science Friction, Breath Death, Poemfield # 2. Artist biography and streamable films (Flash video format).
Computer art
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Bird%20%28computer%20scientist%29
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Richard Simpson Bird (4 February 1943 – 4 April 2022) was an English computer scientist.
Posts
He was a Supernumerary Fellow of Computation at Lincoln College, University of Oxford, in Oxford England, and former director of the Oxford University Computing Laboratory (now the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford). Formerly, Bird was at the University of Reading.
Research interests
Bird's research interests lay in algorithm design and functional programming, and he was known as a regular contributor to the Journal of Functional Programming, and as author of several books promoting use of the programming language Haskell, including Introduction to Functional Programming using Haskell, Thinking Functionally with Haskell, Algorithm Design with Haskell co-authored with Jeremy Gibbons, and other books on related topics. His name is associated with the Bird–Meertens formalism, a calculus for deriving programs from specifications in a functional programming style.
Other organisational affilitations
He was a member of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) IFIP Working Group 2.1 on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi, which specified, supports, and maintains the programming languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68.
References
External links
, laboratory
1943 births
2022 deaths
English computer scientists
English non-fiction writers
Computer science writers
Members of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
Fellows of Lincoln College, Oxford
Academics of the University of Reading
Programming language researchers
Formal methods people
English male non-fiction writers
People educated at St Olave's Grammar School
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Lotus%20Approach
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Lotus Approach is a relational database management system included in IBM's Lotus SmartSuite for Microsoft Windows.
As a start-up company, Approach was formed in 1991 and won over 30 awards the first year, including "best of show" at Comdex. The program was considered the first "end-user relational database" that did not introduce yet another file format.
Approach was sold to Lotus in 1994; Lotus was subsequently purchased by IBM.
See also
Comparison of office suites
External links
Lotus Approach home page
Lotus SmartSuite home page
Approach User Support
IBM Fix list for SmartSuite for Windows 9.8 and fix packs
Desktop database application development tools
Approach
Approach
OS/2 software
Proprietary database management systems
Office suites for Windows
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberut%20National%20Park
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Siberut National Park comprises 1,905 km2 (47%) of the island of Siberut in the Mentawai Islands of West Sumatra, Indonesia. The whole island including the national park is part of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves.
The notable aspects of the park are its endemic fauna, flora, and indigenous inhabitants, the Mentawai, who still live according to hunter-gather traditions. The Mentawai Islands are thought to have been isolated from mainland of Sumatra for over 500,000 years, thereby producing unique ecosystems.
Flora and fauna
The dominant ecosystem type is Dipterocarpaceae rainforest, but the park comprises also four other ecosystems: mixed primary forest, swamp forest, coastal forest, and mangrove forest. A total of 864 plant species have been recorded in the park.
The park protects four endangered endemic primate species: Kloss's gibbon (Hylobates klossii), Siberut macaque (Macaca siberu), Siberut langur (Presbytis potenziani ssp. siberu) and pig-tailed langur (Simias concolor ssp. siberu). Among the 31 species of mammals in the park there are four endemic species of squirrel.
The park also protects 134 species of bird of which 19 are endemic, including the Mentawai scops owl.
Conservation and threats
Protection of the island's environment started in 1976 with the creation of the 6,500 ha Teitei Batti Wildlife Refuge. In 1979 this has been expanded to 56,500 ha and upgraded to Nature Reserve status. In 1981 the whole island has been declared a biosphere reserve. In 1993 the 190,500 ha large Siberut National Park has been declared.
Logging concessions threaten 70% of the forests outside the national park, and thus endanger the entire ecosystem of the island.
See also
List of national parks of Indonesia
References
External links
National parks of Indonesia
Mentawai Islands Regency
Geography of West Sumatra
Protected areas of Sumatra
Protected areas established in 1992
1992 establishments in Indonesia
Tourist attractions in West Sumatra
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFED
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WFED (1500 AM) is a 50,000-watt Class A radio station in the Washington, D.C. region. The station, branded as "Federal News Network", broadcasts a news talk format focused on issues and news pertaining to members and staff of the United States government. Owned by Hubbard Broadcasting, the current WFED is the second in the Washington area to carry the Federal News Network format as WFED, as from 2004 until a transfer in 2008, this format and related call letters were used by a Silver Spring, Maryland station broadcasting on 1050 kHz.
WFED's studios are located at Hubbard's broadcast complex in northwest Washington, while its transmitter site is located at a three-tower array in Wheaton, Maryland. The station transmits fulltime with a power of 50,000 watts. A single transmitter tower, with a non-directional signal, is used during the day, providing at least secondary coverage to large portions of Maryland (including Baltimore) and Virginia. At night, all three towers are used for a directional pattern, that mutually protects KSTP in St. Paul, Minnesota. This results in areas of Northern Virginia getting only marginal coverage at best. Even with this restriction, WFED's signal can be heard across most of the eastern half of North America with a good radio.
WFED became a Primary Entry Point station for the Emergency Alert System in 2014. In 2006, the station began broadcasting in digital "HD Radio".
Programming
WFED's weekday programming consists primarily of original news and talk content for federal government employees, the Senior Executive Service, and contractors. While most of this airs on a daily basis, various programming is rotated in the midday hours.
WFED is the flagship station for George Washington Colonials basketball. It also carries selected Navy Midshipmen football, basketball and lacrosse games as an affiliate station. WFED is also the flagship station of the Washington Wizards. The station is a Capitals' network affiliate station, which allowed fans up and down the East Coast to hear the Capitals' run to the 2018 Stanley Cup Finals.
History
Establishment in Brooklyn, New York
The station was first licensed on September 25, 1926, as WTRC, to the Twentieth Assembly District Regular Republican Club, Inc., 62 Woodbine Street in Brooklyn, New York. It was established during a chaotic period when most government regulation had been suspended, with new stations free to be set up with few restrictions. As of the end of 1926, WTRC was reported to be at 1250 kHz, with a power of 50 watts. In March 1927, government oversight of radio stations was reestablished, with the formation of the Federal Radio Commission (FRC).
Move south
On August 2, 1927, the station's owner was changed to the Independent Publishing Company, the call sign was changed to WTFF, reflecting its affiliation with The Fellowship Forum newspaper, in addition to a relocation to Mount Vernon Hills, Virginia, a southern suburb of Washington, D.C. In the fall of 1928,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Land
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is a 1988 platform video game produced by Data East in association with the McDonald's Corporation for the Family Computer based on the McDonaldland franchise.
Gameplay
Unlike the commonly compared M.C. Kids, Donald Land is simply a platformer without any puzzle elements to it. The game centers on Ronald McDonald (often known in Japan as Donald McDonald) Most of Ronald's companions have been kidnapped and all the animals have turned feral. His brainwashed companions will occasionally attack. Ronald can defend himself using apple bombs, thrown in a carefully calculated parabola. Being hit by an enemy causes damage, which decreases Ronald's "Life" meter. During various parts of a stage, players have the opportunity to collect up to 100 hamburger icons throughout the game. This will result in gaining a bonus life along with the hamburger counter resetting itself to zero. It is also possible to play a mini-game challenge, to earn commodities that the player orders from McDonald's. as he attempts to bring peace to McDonaldland by making the player control the famous fast food clown.
Ronald can replenish his life bar by finding heart icons that are scattered throughout the level; the maximum number of hits that he can withstand before dying is five. From the second stage onward, the levels become more demanding with emphasis on making jumps from platform to platform while avoid bottomless pits. Items also become more difficult to reach and falling into a pit results in instantly losing a life. An enemy appears in the second level that resembles Little Red Riding Hood, although she causes damage like a normal enemy and cannot be destroyed by the player's apple bombs. A few of the bosses look like something out of a horror film instead of a kid-friendly 2D platforming action game. The third boss looks like a giant mechanical dragon while the boss of level 5 is a bone dragon and players encounter a disembodied head at the end of the eleventh level.
Characters
Ronald (Donald) McDonald: The protagonist, who uses apple bombs as weapons. On the demo screen and the game's ending, Ronald is seen throwing soap bubbles into the air as entertainment.
Mayor McCheese: A character resembling a cheeseburger. As the mayor of Donald Land, he wishes Ronald good luck on his quest.
Birdie the Early Bird: A character resembling a breakfast meal (the "Morning Mac"). She is taken captive by a tribe of natives and Ronald must force its leader to surrender, freeing Birdie from her prison.
Fry Guys: Characters resembling a box of French fries. Three of them are held hostage by a large animated skeletal snake.
Grimace: One of Ronald's close friends, who is locked inside a jail cell by an evil red cyclops Grimace.
Captain Crook: A character who tried to steal Filet-O-Fish sandwiches from citizens of McDonaldland. He is cloned into an evil Captain Cook that attacks Ronald at the harbor, while the real Captain Cook is locked in a cage being guarded by an octopus.
Officer Big Ma
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalize%20%28JavaScript%20library%29
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Globalize is a cross-platform JavaScript library for internationalization and localization that uses the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR).
Overview
Globalize provides number formatting and parsing, date and time formatting and parsing, currency formatting, unit formatting, message formatting (ICU message format pattern), and plural support.
Design Goals:
Leverages the Unicode CLDR data and follows its UTS#35 specification.
Keeps code separate from i18n content. Doesn't host or embed any locale data in the library. Empowers developers to control the loading mechanism of their choice.
Allows developers to load as much or as little data as they need. Avoids duplicating data if using multiple i18n libraries that leverage CLDR.
Keeps code modular. Allows developers to load the i18n functionalities they need.
Runs in browsers and Node.js, consistently across all of them.
Makes globalization as easy to use as jQuery.
Globalize is based on the Unicode Consortium's Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR), the largest and most extensive standard repository of locale data available. CLDR is constantly updated and is used by many large applications and operating systems, to always have access to the most accurate and up-to-date locale data.
Usage
Since Globalize doesn't bundle any localization data, it has to be first initialized using some CLDR content:
var Globalize = require( "globalize" );
Globalize.load( require( "cldr-data" ).entireSupplemental() );
Globalize.load( require( "cldr-data" ).entireMainFor( "en", "es" ) );
Globalize("en").formatDate(new Date());
// > "11/27/2015"
Globalize("es").formatDate(new Date());
// > "27/11/2015"
History
Globalize was first announced in October 2010 by John Resig and originally developed by David Reed, sponsored by Microsoft, under the name jQuery Globalization plugin, built on top of an export of the .net locale database. From there the dependency on jQuery was removed and the project renamed to Globalize. In a much larger effort, the project was entirely rewritten on top of Unicode's CLDR, making use of its comprehensive and accurate coverage of all kinds of localization data.
References
Free software programmed in JavaScript
JavaScript libraries
Software using the MIT license
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Coad
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Peter Coad (born December 30, 1953) is a software entrepreneur and author of books on programming. He is notable for his role in defining what have come to be known as the UML colors, a color-coded notation chiefly useful for adding breadth and depth to a design, using four major archetypes.
Biography
Coad received a Bachelor of Science with Honors in Electrical Engineering from OSU (Stillwater) in 1977 and a Master of Science in Computer Science from USC in 1981.
In 1988, Peter Coad founded Object International, a software consulting firm where he served as president.
From 1989 through the 1990s, Coad co-authored six books on the analysis, design, and programming of object-oriented software. During this time Coad became famous through his work on the Coad/Yourdon method for Object-oriented analysis (OOA) which he had developed together with Edward Yourdon. He is considered a supporter of the lightweight methodology called Feature Driven Development (FDD), which was developed primarily by co-author Jeff De Luca.
In 1999, Coad was co-founder of the software company TogetherSoft, where he served as chairman, chief executive officer, and president.
From about 2000 to 2004 Coad was editor-in-chief of the Coad Series of books from Prentice Hall. This series of books were in the field of software development.
Coad became senior vice president and chief strategist of Borland Software Corp. when Borland bought TogetherSoft in January 2003. Coad left Borland before the end of 2003 and turned his attention to interests outside of the software development field, especially simplified teaching techniques for learning to read The Bible in its original languages.
Coad is co-founder of TheBible.org, a nonprofit developer of the Parallel Plus® Bible-study app (iOS, Android, web), where he serves as president, 2004–present.
Coad and his spouse, Judy, have been married since 1978.
In 2022, Peter Coad started a new project dedicated to a night-sky photography. Many artworks can be found at coad.com
Publications
Books
Java Modeling In Color With UML, Peter Coad, Eric Lefebvre, and Jeff De Luca, June 1999,
Java Design: Building Better Apps and Applets (2nd Edition), Peter Coad, Mark Mayfield, and Jon Kern, 1998,
Object Models: Strategies, Patterns, and Applications, (2nd Edition) Peter Coad, Mark Mayfield, and David North, 1996,
Object-Oriented Programming, Peter Coad and Jill Nicola, 1993, pages 582,
Object Oriented Design, Peter Coad and Ed Yourdon, 1991,
Object Oriented Analysis (1st Edition), Peter Coad and Edward Yourdon, 1990,
Object Oriented Analysis (2nd Edition), Peter Coad and Ed Yourdon, 1990, pages 233,
Selected Papers
Amplified Learning pdf A practical guide to applying the "seven intelligences" theory, so that your presentations can be more engaging, effective, and fun.
References
External links
TheBible.org website
Living people
1953 births
American computer scientists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93Intel%20architecture
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The Apple–Intel architecture, or Mactel, is an unofficial name used for Macintosh personal computers developed and manufactured by Apple Inc. that use Intel x86 processors, rather than the PowerPC and Motorola 68000 ("68k") series processors used in their predecessors or the ARM-based Apple silicon SoCs used in their successors. As Apple changed the architecture of its products, they changed the firmware from the Open Firmware used on PowerPC-based Macs to the Intel-designed Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI). With the change in processor architecture to x86, Macs gained the ability to boot into x86-native operating systems (such as Microsoft Windows), while Intel VT-x brought near-native virtualization with macOS as the host OS.
Technologies
Background
Apple uses a subset of the standard PC architecture, which provides support for Mac OS X and support for other operating systems. Hardware and firmware components that must be supported to run an operating system on Apple-Intel hardware include the Extensible Firmware Interface.
The EFI and GUID Partition Table
With the change in architecture, a change in firmware became necessary. Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) is the firmware-based replacement for the PC BIOS from Intel. Designed by Intel, it was chosen by Apple to replace Open Firmware, used on PowerPC architectures. Since many operating systems, such as Windows XP and many versions of Windows Vista, are incompatible with EFI, Apple released a firmware upgrade with a Compatibility Support Module that provides a subset of traditional BIOS support with its Boot Camp product.
GUID Partition Table (GPT) is a standard for the layout of the partition table on a physical hard disk. It is a part of the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) standard proposed by Intel as a substitute for the earlier PC BIOS. The GPT replaces the Master Boot Record (MBR) used with BIOS.
Booting
To Mac operating systems
Intel Macs can boot in two ways: directly via EFI, or in a "legacy" BIOS compatibility mode. For multibooting, holding down "Option" gives a choice of bootable devices, while the rEFInd bootloader is commonly used for added configurability.
Legacy Live USBs cannot be used on Intel Macs; the EFI firmware can recognize and boot from USB drives, but it can only do this in EFI mode–when the firmware switches to BIOS mode, it no longer recognizes USB drives, due to lack of a BIOS-mode USB driver. Many operating systems, such as earlier versions of Windows and Linux, could only be booted in BIOS mode, or were more easily booted or perform better when booted in BIOS mode, and thus USB booting on Intel-based Macs was for a time largely limited to Mac OS X, which can easily be booted via EFI.
To non-Mac operating systems
On April 5, 2006, Apple made available for download a public beta version of Boot Camp, a collection of technologies that allows users of Intel-based Macs to boot Windows XP Service Pack 2. The first non-beta version of Boot Camp is in
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manila%20Christian%20Computer%20Institute%20for%20the%20Deaf
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Manila Christian Computer Institute for the Deaf (MCCID) is a non-sectarian, post-secondary, Christian foundation school for the deaf in the Philippines authorized by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) to offer non-degree computer and other technical training programs.
It is also the only institute in the Philippines authorized by the government through TESDA to offer sign language and interpreting programs as well as courses for the deaf.
Manila Christian Computer Institute for the Deaf Foundation, Inc. was incorporated on September 9, 1993, by the Securities and Exchange Commission (Philippines) (SEC) as a non-stock, non-profit foundation. It was through the idea of two young Christian computer professionals, one hearing and one deaf, that they decided to establish an educational institution that focuses on improving the computer skills of the deaf.
On November 4, 2008, MCCID became MCCID College of Technology, Inc.
Programs
These are the courses available for the deaf as authorized by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority
Diploma in Arts and Computer Design Technology - 3 years
Diploma in Business Technology - 3 years
Diploma in Business and Entrepreneurship - 3 years
Certificate in Sign Language and Interpreting - 1 year
Computer Software Operations Technology - 5 months
Campus
Main Rizal Campus
From its old rented building in Cubao, Quezon City, the main campus is now permanently housed in a 400 square meter building in San Mateo, Rizal. It sits on a 6,000 sq.m rolling hills prime property site in Bgy. Silangan near the Marikina - San Mateo border. San Mateo is a first class urban municipality in the Province of Rizal. The construction has been undergoing since 2009 after the property was acquired. Current facilities available include sports area, mini-library, animation design room and computer laboratory.
Quezon Campus
In 2009, MCCID College opened its first community based campus in Tiaong, Quezon in partnership with Bartimaeus Center for Alternative Learning (Bethsaida, Inc.), a Community Based School for the Disabled Persons established in early 90s. The 1,400 sq. m. property housed a small school building with a computer lab and classrooms. The school services the deaf communities of Quezon Province as well as in lower parts of Laguna and the whole of Batangas. The school is partially funded by Liliane Foundation Philippines.
Pampanga Campus
After careful study from among key partners of Liliane Foundation Philippines (LFP) in Central Luzon, MCCID opened its second campus in City of San Fernando, Pampanga this 2010. The 300 sq.m prime property is owned by Innocencio Magtoto Memorial Foundation, Inc. As a flagship project of LFP under its Region III Cluster, MCCID will open its IT program to deaf high school graduates from Bulacan, Pampanga, Nueva Ecija and Zambales. Its main goal is to produce top quality deaf trainers who will then be deployed to different LFP partner-org
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DZRJ-AM
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DZRJ (810 AM) Radyo Bandido is a radio station owned and operated by Rajah Broadcasting Network through its licensee Free Air Broadcasting Network, Inc. Its studio is located at the 2nd Floor, Ventures Building 1, General Luna St. cor. Makati Ave., Poblacion, Makati, while its transmitter is located along KM 21, Quirino Highway, Brgy. Pasong Putik, Novaliches, Quezon City.
History
1963 - 1986: Boss Radio
In 1963, the 17-year-old Ramon "RJ" Jacinto started operating the station in the backyard of his house together with his classmates from Ateneo. Originally broadcast on the frequency of 770 kHz, it carried the tagline, "DzRJ: Boss Radio", which later evolved into "DzRJ, The Rock of Manila" as it hosted a daily show called "Pinoy Rock 'n' Rhythm" (later shortened to "Pinoy Rock"), which was conceived by DzRJ's original station manager, Alan Austria ("Double-A") and its program director, Emil Quinto ("Charlie Brown"). DzRJ's radio personalities, the "Bossmen", then the "RockJocks", became celebrities in Manila's counterculture.
Pinoy Rock 'n' Rhythm
The daily Pinoy Rock 'n' Rhythm radio show, which was hosted by Bob Lopez-Pozas ("Bob Magoo") and later by Dante David ("Howlin' Dave"), featured the early vinyl releases of pioneering Filipino rock groups such as RJ and the Riots', the Juan Dela Cruz Band and Anakbayan, as well as submissions (on cassette tapes) of recordings from Manila's unsigned bands and independent artists. The earliest contributions were from groups such as Maria Cafra ("Kamusta Mga Kaibigan"/"How Are You, Friends?"), Petrified Anthem ("Drinking Wine"), Destiny ("A Taste Of Honey"), and the nascent Apolinario Mabini Hiking Society.
A mobile recording studio was set up by Alan Austria in 1974, using the station's 4-track tape recorder and mixing board, for "live-in-the-booth" recordings to facilitate the entries of contestants for one of its sponsors, RC Cola and its First National Battle of the Bands (produced by RC Cola's then COO, Cesare Syjuco). More than 200 new songs were said to have been recorded for the Pinoy Rock 'n' Rhythm show, and these entries were aired in succession through many weeks, as the participating bands worked their way into the elimination rounds. These demos paved the way for recording artists such as Florante, Heber Bartolome of Banyuhay, Johnny Alegre of Hourglass, Bob Aves of Destiny, and many others, who thrived prominently in the Philippine record industry during later years.
DzRJ's premises, the J&T Building, was the site for rock concerts which were organized by the station; first on the building's roofdeck, and later in its open-air parking lot. The emergence of Pinoy Rock as a popular musical genre was the springboard for artists to emerge commercially, as their key recordings reached a wide listening public. The best examples of such artists and their hits are the Juan Dela Cruz Band ("Himig Natin"), Sampaguita ("Bonggahan"), Mike Hanopol ("Laki Sa Layaw"), and even Eddie Munji III ("Pinoy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Cyberchase%20episodes
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Cyberchase is an animated mathematics series that currently airs on PBS Kids. The show revolves around three Earth children (Jackie, Matt, and Inez), who use mathematics and problem-solving skills in a quest to save Cyberspace from a villain known as The Hacker. The three are transported into Cyberspace by Motherboard, the ruler of this virtual realm. Together with Motherboard's helper, Digit (a robotic bird), the three new friends compose the Cybersquad.
Each animated episode is followed by a live-action For Real interstitial before the credits, hosted by young, comedic actors who explore the episode's math topic in the real world. The show is created by the Thirteen Education division of WNET (channel 13), the PBS station for Greater New York.
After the fifth episode of Season 8 in 2010, Cyberchase went on hiatus. However, on April 3, 2013, it was announced on the show's official Facebook page that it would return for a ninth season during the fall.
On February 10, 2015, Gilbert Gottfried, the voice of Digit, announced that five new episodes were expected to be broadcast in the half of that year as the show's tenth season. In April 2015, the show's Twitter account retweeted a photo indicating that the season would focus on health, math, and the environment.
In January 2017, it was announced that Cyberchase would be returning for an eleventh season, with ten new episodes set to air later in the year. In May, producer Kristin DiQuollo and director Meeka Stuart answered questions about the show in a 19-minute video.
In October 2018, it was announced that Cyberchase would air for a twelfth season. The season premiered with a movie special on April 19, 2019, with the remaining episodes set to begin airing in the fall; However, all but two of the episodes premiered in 2020.
A thirteenth season was confirmed by Robert Tinkler, the voice actor of Delete, on Twitter, which premiered on February 25, 2022.
A fourteenth season premiered on April 21, 2023.
Series overview
Episodes
Webisodes (2001, 2003, and 2005)
Preceding the televised animated episodes, in December 2001, three webisodes called "How It All Started" were added to the website.
Webisode 1 had 16 panels.
Webisode 2 had 13 panels.
Webisode 3 had 13 panels.
By April 13, 2003, the trilogy was expanded into "Web Adventures", with a 4th webisode called NUMBERLESS PUDDLES! which had 20 panels.
On December 14, 2005, a 5th webisode called HACKER JACK was added, which had 4 panels.
The "Web Adventures" webisodes page was still up in December 2012, but as of March 8, 2014, it was changed into a redirect to the Math Games page introduced in 2011.
Season 1 (2002)
In the pilot episode "Lost My Marbles", Hacker infects Motherboard with a computer virus. At a library on Earth, while looking at a computer, Jackie, Matt, and Inez (who accidentally let Hacker unleash the virus by touching the computer map simultaneously) are sucked through an interdimensional portal into Cyberspace. In their fir
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DZRJ
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DZRJ is the callsign of Rajah Broadcasting Network's three flagship stations in Metro Manila:
DZRJ-AM, AM radio 810 kHz
DZRJ-FM 100.3 MHz, branded on-air as RJ 100.3
DZRJ-TV television, channel 29
Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive%20data%20type
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Inductive data type may refer to:
Algebraic data type, a datatype each of whose values is data from other datatypes wrapped in one of the constructors of the datatype
Inductive family, a family of inductive data types indexed by another type or value
Recursive data type, a data type for values that may contain other values of the same type
See also
Inductive type
Induction (disambiguation)
Type theory
Dependently typed programming
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gan%20Israel%20Camping%20Network
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The Gan Israel Camping Network (, 'Garden of Israel') is a group of Chabad-Lubavitch summer camps. The network claims a total enrolment of over 100,000 children.
History
The first Chabad-affiliated summer camp was a girls' overnight camp, Camp Emunah, in Greenfield Park, New York (where it still located), founded in 1953 by Rabbi Jacob J. Hecht. In 1956, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, directed some young men by the name of Rabbi Moshe Lazar, Rabbi Yossi Weinbaum And Rabbi Shemtov to open a parallel boys' overnight camp under the auspices of the Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch organization. The young men chose the name Gan Yisroel ("Garden of Israel") for this camp and went to the Rebbe for approval, after the founder of Chassidism, Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov. Camp Gan Israel moved to its current location in Parksville, New York in 1969.
Rabbi Schneerson visited both of these camps in 1956 (before the camp season began), 1957 and 1960 (during the camp season). Since the early 1990s, the Rebbe's visits have formed an important part of the oral history of Camp Gan Israel in Parksville (and the other camps in the network), and are frequently referred to in song and in print.
Other branches of Gan Israel overnight camps were founded near Montreal
(1958, in Labelle, Quebec), London (), Detroit (1961, in Kalkaska Township, Michigan), Melbourne (1960s), Florida (2007), Kfar Tzvi Sitrin (2004), Toronto (2012), and others. In addition, several hundred Gan Israel day camps exist around the world.
Activities
The majority of the children that attend Chabad-Lubavitch summer camps are from unaffiliated Jewish homes. To this end, camps offer introductory classes and programs in Judaism. In addition, a growing number of Chabad-Lubavitch summer camps are now equipped to aid children with special needs.
Many camps offer cyber art, wilderness survival, tennis, karate, and mountain biking. Special trips to theme parks, bowling and creative Shabbat overnights complement the spiritual programs that are the hallmark of Chabad-Lubavitch, namely daily study and prayer, Jewish song and dance, ritual arts and crafts, and a wide variety of activities designed to generate interest and excitement in Jewish history, observance and the performance of good deeds.
External links
Camp Gan Israel Directory
References
Jewish summer camps
Chabad organizations
Jewish organizations established in 1956
Chabad-Lubavitch (Hasidic dynasty)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reel%20to%20Real%20%28Canadian%20TV%20series%29
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Reel to Real was a Canadian television series, which aired on the Rogers TV network of cable community channels, as well as nationally on Canada's Independent Film Channel. The series was hosted by a variety of Toronto-area film critics over the course of its run, including Christopher Heard, John Foote, Katrina Onstad, Richard Crouse and Geoff Pevere.
Originally produced by Rogers Cable's division in Oshawa, the series premiered in 1992 and was picked up for provincewide distribution the following year. Heard and Foote were the original hosts. The program later moved its production location from Oshawa into Toronto; later in the 1990s, the program's distribution was further expanded to all Rogers TV outlets across Canada.
Although a weekly series for most of the year, beginning in 1997 the show ran daily during the annual Toronto International Film Festival.
It was cancelled in 2008, after Bell Canada's new sponsorship deal with TIFF largely shut Rogers out from being able to offer any substantive coverage of the festival.
References
External links
TVArchive.ca profile
Entertainment news shows in Canada
Canadian community channel television shows
Film criticism television series
1992 Canadian television series debuts
2008 Canadian television series endings
Rogers TV original programming
1990s Canadian television talk shows
2000s Canadian television talk shows
Canadian motion picture television series
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freestyle%20%28radio%20program%29
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Freestyle was a radio program on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio One network, which aired from 2005 to 2007. For the first year, the program's hosts were Cameron Phillips and Kelly Ryan; in December 2006, Ryan left the program and was replaced by Marsha Lederman. Freestyle combined contemporary popular music, predominantly but not exclusively by Canadian artists, with generally irreverent "water cooler" chat. The show also featured regular commentators including "music guy" Daniel Levitin and book reviewer Sara O'Leary. It first aired on November 9, 2005, replacing The Roundup.
The show received some criticism for purportedly sounding too much like commercial radio programming. Conversely, Kate Taylor of The Globe and Mail called the show relatively inoffensive and safe, but supported the CBC's desire to attract a younger listening audience.
Freestyle had its final broadcast on April 13, 2007, and was replaced on the CBC Radio One schedule by Q.
Scheduling
Officially, Freestyle aired weekdays from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. However, it was also one of the most variably-scheduled programs on the network — some stations aired only the first hour of the program, while others shifted the program to the 1:00 to 3:00 slot, and still others didn't air the program at all.
Only the first hour of Freestyle aired in Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver. In each of those markets, the local afternoon program started at 3:00 p.m. instead of 4:00. However, the stations' rebroadcast transmitters outside of the main markets aired all of Freestyle and then joined the host station's local program in progress at 4:00.
In Winnipeg, Freestyle aired from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m., airing the whole program but preempting the final hour of the regional noon-hour show. Again, however, rebroadcast transmitters outside of Winnipeg aired all of the noon show, then ran Freestyle in its normal time slot and joined the local afternoon show in progress at 4:00 p.m.
The program did not air at all in the Northwest Territories or Nunavut, as the CBC North stations in those territories entirely preempted the program in order to offer special local programming in aboriginal languages.
References
CBC Radio One programs
Canadian music radio programs
2005 radio programme debuts
2007 radio programme endings
2000s Canadian radio programs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nettalk
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Nettalk may refer to the following:
NETtalk (artificial neural network)
Nettalk (IRC client)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsters%20HD
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Monsters HD was a 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week, linear horror film and monster movie network. It was launched on October 1, 2003, in the United States and premiered exclusively on the Voom DTH satellite platform, owned by Cablevision. The home theatre webzine, Widescreen Review, alluded to Voom's Monsters HD as having "the largest collection of HD Horror films" when Echostar's Dish Network picked up Rainbow Media's Voom Suite of High Definition Channels.
Rainbow Media's AMC Network and its annual October "Monsterfest" (now known as "Fear Fest") programming of horror films served as the springboard and promotional platform for the launch of Monsters HD. Monsters HD commissioned the digital restoration of its film library, bringing them to high definition, and presented world television premieres of films like the Director's Cut of the Stuart Gordon film version of H.P. Lovecraft's From Beyond.
High Definition Horror: Restoration and Remastering
In an interview with Video Watchdog editor Tim Lucas, Monsters HD's David Sehring reflected on the restoration and high definition process, "As you know, Monsters HD's tagline is 'It's Alive!' We really take that to heart as we remaster films, like From Beyond." For its 25th Anniversary issue, the Horror magazine Fangoria featured additional interviews with Monsters HD's senior vice president of acquisitions and programming, David Sehring, and creative director, Jason Bylan at their Rainbow Media Offices in New York City for an article entitled "The New Future of Fear: Meet 13 Rising Talents Who Promise To Keep Us Terrified For The Next 25 Years ". On the topic of Monsters HD's initiative to restore and remaster films in the high definition format, Sehring related, "With Monsters HD, you're going to see more movies that have been recently transferred from 35mm interpositives or negatives. We've been going back to all the studios, which is obviously a very labor intensive process because it's all brand new. They don't even have a format established for the HD DVD market yet. It's always a challenge to work with something that's still being developed. Monsters HD's Bylan added "We want people to go to hi-def, because that's the way television's going. That's why we made it, to present Octaman or The Boogens in HD. A lot of people aren't realizing what they're missing until they see it." Bylan also noted, "You can see the wires on Rodan much clearer now." In the April 2005 issue of Video Watchdog, The Perfectionist's Guide to Fantastic Video editor Tim Lucas praised the horror and creature feature channel by noting that "Monsters HD continues to thrill with spectacular high definition masters of movies which can't be found on disc or anywhere else."
Film Acquisitions, Programming and Scheduling: Zombiethons to Killer Toy Stories
For its May 2006 issue, the Canadian horror publication Rue Morgue featured a cover story on the Monsters HD network reporting that the channel also "aired t
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This article compares computer software tools which are used for accomplishing comparisons of files of various types. The file types addressed by individual file comparison apps varies, but may include text, symbols, images, audio, or video. This category of software tool is often called "file comparison" or "diff tool", but those effectively are equivalent terms — where the term "diff" is more commonly associated with the Unix diff utility.
A typical rudimentary case is the comparison of one file against another. However, it also may include comparisons between two populations of files, such as in the case of comparing directories or folders, as part of file management. For instance, this might be to detect problems with corrupted backup versions of a collection of files ... or to validate a package of files is in compliance with standards before publishing.
Note that comparisons must be made among the same file type. Meaning, a text file cannot be compared to a picture containing text, unless an optical character reader (OCR) process is done first to extract the text. Likewise, text cannot be compared to spoken words, unless the spoken words first are transcribed into text. Additionally, text in one language cannot be compared to text in another, unless one is translated into the language of other.
A critical consideration is how the two files being compared must be substantially similar and thus not radically different. Even different revisions of the same document — if there are many changes due to additions, removals, or moving of content — may make comparisons of file changes very difficult to interpret. This suggests frequent version saves of a critical document, to better facilitate a file comparison.
A "diff" file comparison tool is a vital time and labor saving utility, because it aids in accomplishing tedious comparisons. Thus, it is a vital part of demanding comparison processes employed by individuals, academics, legal arena, forensics field, and other professional endeavors — to identify sometimes hard to spot differences needed for detecting.
These uses include:
Revisions of texts, plans, or drawings.
Edit changes in media.
Omission of credit for quotes, citations, extracts, or exemplars.
Plagiarism.
Alteration of legal documents.
Fraud.
Forgery.
Fakery, or "deepfake" to impersonate.
Disputes over ownership or credit for cooperative efforts.
Chronology of evolution of a project or effort.
Detect steganography (the practice of hiding data in plain sight).
Uncover removal of watermarks.
Intentional defacement.
Identification of graffiti, tattoo, or other cultural mark with a signature style.
Unintentional or incidental damage.
Changes in health of living being.
Risk evaluation of propagation of structural damage.
Evaluation for restoration.
Degradation due to effects of environmental exposure over time, including natural entropy (decline over time):
Oxidation.
Rain exposure.
Abrasion from wind-driven sand.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATV%20%28Turkish%20TV%20channel%29
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ATV (stylized as atv) is a Turkish free-to-air television network owned by Turkuvaz Media Group.
As of August 2013, ATV was Turkey's most popular channel with a market share of 22%.
ATV was founded by Sabah Group, who is the original owner of the channel. The channel changed its ownership to Ciner Media Group in 2002 and TMSF in 2007. ATV was owned by Çalık Holding's Turkuvaz Media Group, but in 2013, its ownership changed again to Md Melar Hossain Akndo.
Current shows
TV series
2007-2009: Elveda Rumeli
2004-2009: Avrupa Yakası
2012: Son Yaz Balkanlar 1912
2012-2015: Karadayı
2018-2021: Beni Bırakma
2018-2022: Bir Zamanlar Çukurova
2019-2021: Hercai
2019-: Kuruluş: Osman
2021-: Kardeşlerim
2021-: Destan
2022-: Yalnız Kurt
2022-: Bir Küçük Gün Işığı
2022-: Aldatmak
2022-: Ben Bu Cihana Sığmazam
2023-: Safir
Cinema
1993-: atv Yabancı Sinema Kuşağı
Quiz
2021-: Mutfak Bahane (Derya Taşbaşı)
2011-: Kim Milyoner Olmak İster (Kenan İmirzalıoğlu)
Life style
2008-: Müge Anlı ile Tatlı Sert
2015-: Esra Erol'da (transferred from FOX)
Religious programs
2011-: Nihat Hatipoğlu Sorularınızı Cevaplıyor (Nihat Hatipoğlu) (transferred from Star TV)
2012-: Nihat Hatipoğlu ile Dosta Doğru (Nihat Hatipoğlu) (transferred from Star TV)
2013-: Nihat Hatipoğlu ile Kuran ve Sünnet (Nihat Hatipoğlu)
Magazine entertainment
2010-: Dizi TV (Didem Uğurlu)
News programming
1993-: atv Ana Haber (Cem Öğretir)
1993-: Hafta Sonu atv Ana Haber (Nihan Günay)
2015-: Gün Ortası (Deniz Türe) (transferred from Yeni Asır TV)
2016-: Kahvaltı Haberleri (Nihan Günay)
2016-: Son Durak (Melih Altınok)
2016-: atv'de Hafta Sonu (İbrahim Sadri)
Sports
2011-: Turkish Cup
2012-: Turkish Super Cup
2020-: Bundesliga (via A Spor only)
Children
2016-: Minika Kuşağı
References
External links
Official website
ATV Turkey at LyngSat Address
ATV Distribution
Television stations in Turkey
Television channels in North Macedonia
Television channels and stations established in 1993
Mass media in Istanbul
Eyüp
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMN
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MMN may refer to:
Mismatch negativity
Multifocal motor neuropathy
Mystery meat navigation
Matematikmaskinnämnden, the Swedish Board for Computing Machinery
Mamanwa language, a Central Philippine language (ISO 639-3 code)
Ticker symbol for Mannesmann AG, a German corporation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evans%20Hall%20%28UC%20Berkeley%29
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Evans Hall is the statistics, economics, and mathematics building on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
Computer History importance
Evans Hall also served as the gateway for the entire west coast's ARPAnet access during the early stages of the Internet's existence; at the time, the backbone was a 56kbit/s line to Chicago.
Because of its proximity to the engineering school, and the location of both the departments of Computer Science, and Mathematics, Evans Hall was the building in which the original vi text editor was programmed, as well as the birthplace of Berkeley Unix (BSD), and Rogue, which was further developed there by Glenn C Wickman, and Michael Toy. Rogue's origins included the curses library, which Rogue was originally written to test. Additionally, both Ingres and Postgres were originally coded in Evans, under Prof. Michael Stonebraker's direction.
The office of Professor Doug Cooper, who wrote the widely used programming textbook "Oh! Pascal!", was in this building.
Architecture
Construction
Evans Hall is situated at the northeast corner of campus, just east of Memorial Glade. It was built in 1971 and is named after Griffith C. Evans, chairman of mathematics from 1934 to 1949 who combined the fields of mathematics and economics. The architect was Gardner Dailey.
In the 1990s, this building saw significant renovation including seismic retrofits and a new paint job. Today, the building sports a blue-green exterior with orange-red accents.
Safety concerns
As part of the University's New Century Plan, the building is recommended for demolition and replacement, due in part to its unsafe earthquake readiness rating. In 2000, it was proposed that two shorter buildings replace Evans Hall.
Although Evans Hall's seismic rating is poor, the rating is common on the UC Berkeley campus with over fifty buildings sharing the rating. A rating of poor translates to that a major earthquake would likely cause "significant structural damage and appreciable life hazards".
During the early 2000s, because of rusting of the frame of the building, "large pieces of concrete began falling off the face of Evans Hall without warning". Repairing the building cost two million dollars.
In February 2022, the University announced that due to cost, Evans Hall will not be seismically renovated and will be demolished.
Aesthetic complaints
Evans Hall was voted one of the ugliest buildings in UC Berkeley by its student body.
Evans Hall is known for its large number of windowless classrooms. The Chronicle of Higher Education has called it "an imposing concrete structure that most people on the campus would like to see demolished". Former chancellor Robert M. Berdahl has described the building as without "stirrings of pride in placement, or massing, or architectural design". Some complain the building disturbs the view of the San Francisco Bay.
Math related murals have been painted inside the building in protest against its aesthetics.
Evan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bairstow%27s%20method
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In numerical analysis, Bairstow's method is an efficient algorithm for finding the roots of a real polynomial of arbitrary degree. The algorithm first appeared in the appendix of the 1920 book Applied Aerodynamics by Leonard Bairstow. The algorithm finds the roots in complex conjugate pairs using only real arithmetic.
See root-finding algorithm for other algorithms.
Description of the method
Bairstow's approach is to use Newton's method to adjust the coefficients u and v in the quadratic until its roots are also roots of the polynomial being solved. The roots of the quadratic may then be determined, and the polynomial may be divided by the quadratic to eliminate those roots. This process is then iterated until the polynomial becomes quadratic or linear, and all the roots have been determined.
Long division of the polynomial to be solved
by yields a quotient and a remainder such that
A second division of by is performed to yield a quotient and remainder with
The variables , and the are functions of and . They can be found recursively as follows.
The quadratic evenly divides the polynomial when
Values of and for which this occurs can be discovered by picking starting values and iterating Newton's method in two dimensions
until convergence occurs. This method to find the zeroes of polynomials can thus be easily implemented with a programming language or even a spreadsheet.
Example
The task is to determine a pair of roots of the polynomial
As first quadratic polynomial one may choose the normalized polynomial formed from the leading three coefficients of f(x),
The iteration then produces the table
After eight iterations the method produced a quadratic factor that contains the roots −1/3 and −3 within the represented precision. The step length from the fourth iteration on demonstrates the superlinear speed of convergence.
Performance
Bairstow's algorithm inherits the local quadratic convergence of Newton's method, except in the case of quadratic factors of multiplicity higher than 1, when convergence to that factor is linear. A particular kind of instability is observed when the polynomial has odd degree and only one real root. Quadratic factors that have a small value at this real root tend to diverge to infinity.
The images represent pairs . Points in the upper half plane t > 0 correspond to a linear factor with roots , that is . Points in the lower half plane t < 0 correspond to quadratic factors with roots , that is, , so in general . Points are colored according to the final point of the Bairstow iteration, black points indicate divergent behavior.
The first image is a demonstration of the single real root case. The second indicates that one can remedy the divergent behavior by introducing an additional real root, at the cost of slowing down the speed of convergence. One can also in the case of odd degree polynomials first find a real root using Newton's method and/or an interval shrinking method, so that after
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watering%20hole%20attack
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Watering hole is a computer attack strategy in which an attacker guesses or observes which websites an organization often uses and infects one or more of them with malware. Eventually, some member of the targeted group will become infected. Hacks looking for specific information may only attack users coming from a specific IP address. This also makes the hacks harder to detect and research. The name is derived from predators in the natural world, who wait for an opportunity to attack their prey near watering holes.
Defense techniques
Websites are often infected through zero-day vulnerabilities on browsers or other software. A defense against known vulnerabilities is to apply the latest software patches to remove the vulnerability that allowed the site to be infected. This is assisted by users to ensure that all of their software is running the latest version. An additional defense is for companies to monitor their websites and networks and then block traffic if malicious content is detected.
Examples
2012 US Council on Foreign Relations
In December 2012, the Council on Foreign Relations website was found to be infected with malware through a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer. In this attack, the malware was only deployed to users using Internet Explorer set to English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Russian.
2013 Havex ICS software supply chain attack
Havex was discovered in 2013 and is one of five known Industrial Control System (ICS) tailored malware developed in the past decade. Energetic Bear began utilizing Havex in a widespread espionage campaign targeting energy, aviation, pharmaceutical, defense, and petrochemical sectors. The campaign targeted victims primarily in the United States and Europe.
Havex exploited supply chain and watering-hole attacks on ICS vendor software in addition to spear phishing campaigns to gain access to victim systems.
2013 US Department of Labor
In mid-early 2013, attackers used the United States Department of Labor website to gather information on users that visited the website. This attack specifically targeted users visiting pages with nuclear-related content.
2016 Polish banks
In late 2016, a Polish bank discovered malware on the institution's computers. It is believed that the source of this malware was the web server of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority. There have been no reports on any financial losses as a result of this hack.
2017 Montreal-based International Civil Aviation Organization attack
There was an organization-level watering-hole attack in Montreal from 2016-2017 by an unknown entity causing a data breach.
2017 CCleaner attack
From August to September 2017, the installation binary of CCleaner distributed by the vendor's download servers included malware. CCleaner is a popular tool used to clean potentially unwanted files from Windows computers, widely used by security-minded users. The distributed installer binaries were signed with the developer's certif
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PQS
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PQS can refer to:
Personnel Qualification Standard, a set of tasks and examinations in the United States Navy
Passive Q-switching
Parallel Quantum Solutions, a computational chemistry computer program
The Protein Quaternary Structure Server, an important resource in structural biology
Potential Quadruplex-forming Sequence, in molecular biology a DNA or RNA sequence capable of forming a G-quadruplex
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bette%20%28TV%20series%29
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Bette is an American sitcom television series which premiered on October 11, 2000, on the CBS network. The show was the debut of Bette Midler in a lead TV series role. Sixteen episodes were aired on CBS, with its final telecast on March 7, 2001. Eighteen episodes in total were produced, with the final two only broadcast on HDTV simulcasting and in foreign markets. Bette was created by Jeffrey Lane, with Midler serving as one of the executive producers.
Synopsis
The sitcom had Midler playing herself – a "divine celebrity" who is adored by her fans. To apply some ambiguity, neither Bette's last name nor that of her on-screen family's was used, to create the offset that there was some difference between the star's real-life and TV persona. There were several similarities to Midler's actual career through the show's run, as the character of Bette had – and directly performed – many of the real-life Midler's past hit songs and achievements. The core of the stories focused on Bette's personal life in her luxurious Los Angeles home. Her husband of nearly 20 years, Roy (Kevin Dunn, eps. 1–12; Robert Hays, eps. 16–18) was an earnest college history professor, and their 13-year-old daughter, Rose (Lindsay Lohan, pilot episode; Marina Malota, eps. 2–18) was bright, active, and not the least bit fazed by her mother's celebrity. Embarking with Bette on her long, wild journey around showbiz was her hardworking best friend and manager Connie Randolph (Joanna Gleason). Refined Englishman Oscar (James Dreyfus) was Bette's veteran musical director/accompanist, who had an obsession with tabloid media and was always on the lookout for new, strange exploitations of Bette. During the series' run, slightly fictional Bette recorded a new album, engaged in hijinks at awards shows, won a Grammy, made guest roles on series such as JAG and Family Law (a cross promotion by CBS), and starred in a TV Halloween special with Dolly Parton (who appeared as herself and was said to be a longtime friend of the Bette character; Parton and Midler are friends in real life). Other stories were out of the spotlight and closer to home; in one, Bette volunteered at Rose's school with surprising results, and in another, flashbacks were shown depicting the first time Bette met Connie, Roy, and Oscar (in that order), along with one featuring the birth of Rose.
Cast
Bette Midler as Bette
Kevin Dunn (eps. 1–12) and Robert Hays (eps. 16–18) as Roy
Lindsay Lohan (pilot) and Marina Malota (eps. 2–18) as Rose
Joanna Gleason as Connie Randolph
James Dreyfus as Oscar
Many of Midler's celebrity friends appeared as themselves during the show's short run. Guest stars included Danny DeVito, George Segal, Brenda Song, Sharon Lawrence, Tim Curry, David James Elliott, Oprah Winfrey, Ashley Tisdale, Tony Danza, Dolly Parton, Olivia Newton-John, Jon Lovitz, Kobe Bryant and the ladies from rival network ABC's The View all as themselves.
Production
Recasts
When Bette went into production, Lindsay Lohan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20widget%20engines
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This is a comparison of widget engines. This article is not about widget toolkits that are used in computer programming to build graphical user interfaces.
General
Operating system support
Technical
Languages
Which programming languages the engines support. Most engines rely upon interpreted languages.
Formats and Development
Development Tools
As widgets are largely combinations of HTML or XHTML, CSS, and Javascript in most cases, standard AJAX tools, such as Eclipse ATF, can be used for development. Specialized tools may give access to additional capabilities supplied by frameworks such as Dojo or Openrico.
References
Widget engines
Widget Engines
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Babel
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Open Babel is computer software, a chemical expert system mainly used to interconvert chemical file formats.
About
Due to the strong relationship to informatics this program belongs more to the category cheminformatics than to molecular modelling. It is available for Windows, Unix, Linux, macOS, and Android. It is free and open-source software released under a GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0.
The project's stated goal is:
"Open Babel is a community-driven scientific project assisting both users and developers as a cross-platform program and library designed to support molecular modeling, chemistry, and many related areas, including interconversion of file formats and data."
History
Open Babel and JOELib were derived from the OELib cheminformatics library. In turn, OELib was based on ideas in the original chemistry program Babel and an unreleased object-oriented programming library called OBabel.
Major features
chemical expert system
interconversion of many chemical file formats
substructure search, based on simplified molecular-input line-entry system (SMILES)
fingerprint calculation
3D coordinate generation
wrappers for Python, Perl, Java, Ruby, C#
See also
Avogadro – molecular builder and editor based on Open Babel
Ghemical – molecular mechanics program based on Open Babel
JOELib – Java version of Open Babel and OELib
XDrawChem – 2D drawing program based on Open Babel
Comparison of software for molecular mechanics modeling
Blue Obelisk
List of free and open-source software packages
References
External links
E-BABEL – interactive version of the Open Babel at Virtual Computational Chemistry Laboratory
chemCast Episode 003 – project lead developer Geoff Hutchison was interviewed on the podcast
Computational chemistry software
Free chemistry software
Free software programmed in C++
Chemistry software for Linux
Software that uses wxWidgets
File conversion software
2005 software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalin%20no%20Tsurugi
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is an action-RPG developed by XTALSOFT and published by DOG for the Family Computer Disk System in Japan in 1987.
The story
Kalin no Tsurugi takes place in the peaceful Altenia Kingdom. Recently, however, monsters have been appearing. To help combat these monsters, the King calls forth his best knight: the player, who must find the mage Gladrif and defeat the monsters terrorizing the townspeople.
External links
Square Enix Kalin no Tsurugi Page
Role-playing video games
Action role-playing video games
Famicom Disk System games
Famicom Disk System-only games
Japan-exclusive video games
Square (video game company) games
1987 video games
Video games developed in Japan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescript
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Telescript may refer to:
Teleprompter, a display device that prompts the person speaking with an electronic visual text
Telescript (programming language), a programming language developed by General Magic
Telescript, a name sometimes used to refer to the script written for a teleplay
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreachable%20memory
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In computer programming, unreachable memory is a block of dynamically allocated memory where the program that allocated the memory no longer has any reachable pointer that refers to it. Similarly, an unreachable object is a dynamically allocated object that has no reachable reference to it. Informally, unreachable memory is dynamic memory that the program cannot reach directly, nor get to by starting at an object it can reach directly, and then following a chain of pointer references.
In dynamic memory allocation implementations that employ a garbage collector, objects are reclaimed after they become unreachable. The garbage collector is able to determine if an object is reachable; any object that is determined to no longer be reachable can be deallocated. Many programming languages (for example, Java, C#, D, Dylan, Julia) use automatic garbage collection.
In contrast, when memory becomes unreachable in dynamic memory allocation implementations that require explicit deallocation, the memory can no longer be explicitly deallocated. Unreachable memory in systems that use manual memory management results in a memory leak.
Some garbage collectors implement weak references. If an object is reachable only through either weak references or chains of references that include a weak reference, then the object is said to be . The garbage collector can treat a weakly reachable object graph as unreachable and deallocate it. (Conversely, references that prevent an object from being garbage collected are called strong references; a weakly reachable object is unreachable by any chain consisting only of strong references.) Some garbage-collected object-oriented languages, such as Java and Python, feature weak references. The Java package java.lang.ref supports soft, weak and phantom references, resulting in the additional object reachability states softly reachable and phantom reachable.
Unreachable memory (in languages, like C, that do not reclaim) is often associated with software aging.
External links
Automatic memory management
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCN
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MCN may refer to:
Media
MCN (journal), a peer-reviewed journal of obstetrical and neonatal nursing
Multi-channel network, a type of organization working with video platforms to assist their owners
Metro Chinese Network, a Rockville, Maryland Chinese-language TV station
Music Center the Netherlands, promotes and archives Dutch professional music
Motor Cycle News, a British motorcycling newspaper
Motorcycle Consumer News, American motorcycling monthly
Organizations
Government
Muscogee (Creek) Nation, a federally recognized Native American tribe based in the U.S. state of Oklahoma
Military
Military Counseling Network, a free source of information for U.S military concerning regulations and discharges
Mountain Corps Norway, a German army unit during World War II
Multinational Corps Northeast, military group in Szczecin, Poland
Computing and technology
Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication, nanotechnology headquarters in Victoria, Australia
Microcomputer Club Nederland, Dutch computer club in the 1980s–90s
Museum Computer Network, concentrates on use of computer technology for museums
Media Catalog Number, a type of Compact Disc subcode
Transportation
Machynlleth railway station, National Rail station code
Middle Georgia Regional Airport, IATA airport code
Medicine
Pancreatic mucinous cystic neoplasm, type of cystic lesion that occurs in the pancreas
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum%20Computer%20Network
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The Museum Computer Network (MCN) is a US-based non-profit organization for professionals with an interest in the use of computer technology for museums.
Overview
MCN was established in 1967 in the New York City area. The history of MCN spans a period during which information technology developed at an exponential pace. The organization began as an informal grouping of museums with the goal of automating registration records. With funding from the New York Council on the Arts, MCN developed a prototype mainframe network that was shared by participants from 1968 to 1971. When the funding ended in 1971, MCN was formally incorporated as a nonprofit organization that has since attracted members from around the world. As new technology superseded the original shared registration system, MCN evolved into a network of professionals wishing to improve their means of developing, managing, and conveying museum information through the use of automation.
MCN organizes an annual conference, the MCN-L discussion forum, special interest groups, an online directory of museum websites, etc. Members include individuals, institutions and companies. The organization is run by a Board of Directors. Officers include a president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer.
Conference
MCN has held an annual conference since 1979.
Recent Conferences:
2015 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 4–7, 2015, with the title of The Invisible Architectures of Connected Museums.
2014 in Dallas, Texas with the title of Think Big, Start Small, Create.
2013 in Montreal, Canada with the title of Re:making Museums
2012 in Seattle, Washington with the title of Shifting Perspective, Evolving Spaces, Disruptive Technologies
2011 in Atlanta, Georgia with the title of Hacking the Museum: Innovation, Agility and Collaboration
2010 in Austin, Texas with the title of I/O: The Museum Inside-out/Outside-in
Complete list of MCN Conferences
Spectra
MCN published Spectra, established in 1974. For example, the Computer Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI) Standards Framework was published in Spectra.
See also
Museums Computer Group, United Kingdom
Museum informatics
Everett Ellin
References
External links
MCN website
Museum Sites Online
Mustech Central, MCN Project Registry
1967 establishments in New York (state)
Information technology organizations based in North America
Museum informatics
Museum organizations
Museums in the United States
Non-profit organizations based in Washington, D.C.
Organizations established in 1967
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kure%20Software%20Koubou
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Kure Software Koubou (呉ソフトウェア工房), or KSK, is a Japanese game development company founded in 1985 that creates games for many platforms, but focusing mostly on home computers. KSK's games are well known for the "Gochyakyara" (ゴチャキャラ "Multiple Character") system which KSK invented, which was a unique hybrid between the real-time strategy, action role-playing game and tactical role-playing game genres. Some of their games also used a European art style in addition to a Japanese anime style. KSK is also famous for having most of the cover art for their games created by renowned artist Yoshitaka Amano.
History
One year after being founded, KSK released their first game Argo for the NEC PC-88. It was a first-person view role-playing video game. Two years later in 1988, KSK released two games, Silver Ghost and First Queen, for the PC-88. These games established the new style of RPG that KSK would then use as the basis of most of their further productions, this was the concept of the 'Gochyakyara' system (Multiple Character System). This was basically an action role-playing game system, but it let the player have a huge amount of party members and allowed for enormous battles as well as strategy video game elements, such as army formations and real-time tactics. This system was very simple yet highly dynamic, and gained such popularity that by 1995, KSK released a further seven titles using this system (Duel98, First Queen 2, Kawanakajima Izuroku, Early Kingdom, First Queen 3, First Queen 4 and Dark Seraphim).
In 1996 KSK then released a game called Duel Succession. This incorporated many elements from the 'Gochyakyara' system, but removed the RPG and action elements making it strictly a war strategy game. In the same year, a PlayStation version of First Queen 4 was released featuring enhanced graphics and sound.
After this KSK then released a new First Queen game in 1999 called First Queen: The New World. This brought the 'Gochyakyara' system into 3D but was not very popular and fans preferred the old style. This resulted in KSK's next game being a remake of First Queen, which was released in 2001. This featured the original game completely redone with new 2D graphics and sound. A year after this in 2002, KSK released a Windows version of First Queen 2, but was just the original First Queen 2 updated to work in Windows, and did not feature remade graphics and sound. Two years later in 2004, a compilation pack of First Queen 3 and 4 was released. This pack included First Queen 3 updated to work in Windows, as well as First Queen 4 updated to work in Windows and featuring the updated graphics from the PlayStation version of First Queen 4 released in 1996.
Also released in 2004 was a game very different from anything KSK had done before. It was a game called Tennis, which was just a tennis game. However, it was not released as a boxed game available in stores, instead it was only available to buy over the internet as a download for a small price. KSK f
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museums%20Computer%20Group
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The Museums Computer Group (MCG) is a British group which provides a forum for discussion between museum, gallery, archive, and higher education professionals who work with computers and new technologies.
Overview
The group meets at different museums throughout the United Kingdom. The organization is run by a committee with a chair, secretary and treasurer.
The MCG provides a forum for debate and a source of practical help through the possibilities it provides.
UK Museums on the Web
The MCG organizes the annual United Kingdom Museums on the Web conference, aimed at museum website managers and those working with web content in museums.
See also
Collections Trust
Culture24
Museum Computer Network, USA
Museum informatics
References
External links
MCG website
Email list
Jodi Award
Museum organizations
Information technology organisations based in the United Kingdom
Museums Computer Group
Museum informatics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint%20Expressway
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SPRINT Expressway (Malay: Sistem Penyuraian Trafik Kuala Lumpur Barat, English: System of Traffic Dispersal in Western Kuala Lumpur) is the main expressway network in Klang Valley, Malaysia. The expressway is divided into three sections: the Kerinchi Link, Damansara Link and Penchala Link. It is a three-lane dual carriageway that was built to disperse traffic from congested inner city roads and narrow residential streets leading into Kuala Lumpur from the western suburbs, including Petaling Jaya, Damansara, and surrounding areas. It is one of the busiest expressway during rush hour to and from the city centre.
Route background
Kerinchi Link
The sections from Seputeh Interchange at Federal Highway to NKVE at Jalan Duta. The Kilometre Zero of the Kerinchi Link's section is located at Mont Kiara-NKVE Interchange.
Damansara Link
The sections from Kayu Ara to Jalan Duta-Semantan Interchange. The Kilometre Zero of the Damansara Link's section is located at Kampung Kayu Ara in Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
Penchala Link
The sections from Damansara–Puchong Expressway at Penchala, Penchala Tunnel to Mont Kiara. The Kilometre Zero of the Penchala Link's section is located at Mont Kiara Interchange
History
The proposal to build the expressway was motivated by heavy traffic on Jalan Damansara. The concession for the expressway was awarded to Sistem Penyuraian Trafik KL Barat Sdn Bhd (SPRINT). On 23 October 1997, the concession agreement was signed between the Government of Malaysia and Sprint for the privatisation of the improvement, upgrading, design, construction, maintenance, operations, and management of the expressway.
A supplementary agreement was subsequently signed on 4 September 1998 to defer the construction of the Penchala Link. The concession period is for 33 years and commenced on the effective date on 15 December 1998. After this period, the toll collection will cease and the highways will be handed over to the government. Construction began in 1999, which included acquiring and upgrading several major roads, such as Jalan Damansara, Jalan Kayu Ara, Jalan Sri Hartamas, and Jalan Semantan. The Kerinchi Link and Damansara Link were opened in 2001, followed by the Penchala Link in 2004.
This expressway also featured its own toll collection system known as the "FasTrak". On 1 July 2004, the FasTrak electronic payment system was replaced by Touch 'n Go and Smart TAG electronic payment systems.
Pioneer roads
The construction of the SPRINT Expressway included acquiring and upgrading several major roads:
Kerinchi Link
Damansara Link
Features
The expressway has several notable features:
Kerinchi Link, the first double deck carriageway in Malaysia.
Penchala Tunnel, the widest road tunnel in Malaysia.
The former Damansara Town Centre on Damansara Link as the "island" of separated carriageway.
The 3 km toll-free road at Damansara Link as an alternative to residents who live in Sections 16 and 17 of Petaling Jaya
The Speed Indicator Display (SID
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skew%20heap
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A skew heap (or self-adjusting heap) is a heap data structure implemented as a binary tree. Skew heaps are advantageous because of their ability to merge more quickly than binary heaps. In contrast with binary heaps, there are no structural constraints, so there is no guarantee that the height of the tree is logarithmic. Only two conditions must be satisfied:
The general heap order must be enforced
Every operation (add, remove_min, merge) on two skew heaps must be done using a special skew heap merge.
A skew heap is a self-adjusting form of a leftist heap which attempts to maintain balance by unconditionally swapping all nodes in the merge path when merging two heaps. (The merge operation is also used when adding and removing values.)
With no structural constraints, it may seem that a skew heap would be horribly inefficient. However, amortized complexity analysis can be used to demonstrate that all operations on a skew heap can be done in O(log n).
In fact, with denoting the golden ratio, the exact amortized complexity is known to be logφ n (approximately 1.44 log2 n).
Definition
Skew heaps may be described with the following recursive definition:
A heap with only one element is a skew heap.
The result of skew merging two skew heaps and is also a skew heap.
Operations
Merging two heaps
When two skew heaps are to be merged, we can use a similar process as the merge of two leftist heaps:
Compare roots of two heaps; let be the heap with the smaller root, and q be the other heap. Let be the name of the resulting new heap.
Let the root of r be the root of (the smaller root), and let r's right subtree be p's left subtree.
Now, compute r's left subtree by recursively merging p's right subtree with q.
template<class T, class CompareFunction>
SkewNode<T>* CSkewHeap<T, CompareFunction>::Merge(SkewNode<T>* root_1, SkewNode<T>* root_2)
{
SkewNode<T>* firstRoot = root_1;
SkewNode<T>* secondRoot = root_2;
if (firstRoot == NULL)
return secondRoot;
else if (secondRoot == NULL)
return firstRoot;
if (sh_compare->Less(firstRoot->key, secondRoot->key))
{
SkewNode<T>* tempHeap = firstRoot->rightNode;
firstRoot->rightNode = firstRoot->leftNode;
firstRoot->leftNode = Merge(secondRoot, tempHeap);
return firstRoot;
}
else
return Merge(secondRoot, firstRoot);
}
Before:
after
Non-recursive merging
Alternatively, there is a non-recursive approach which is more wordy, and does require some sorting at the outset.
Split each heap into subtrees by cutting every path. (From the root node, sever the right node and make the right child its own subtree.) This will result in a set of trees in which the root either only has a left child or no children at all.
Sort the subtrees in ascending order based on the value of the root node of each subtree.
While there are still multiple subtrees, iteratively recombine the last two (from right to left).
If the root of the second
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takedown
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Takedown or take down may refer to:
Books
Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw, by John Markoff and Tsutomu Shimomura
The Takedown: A Suburban Mom, a Coal Miner's Son, and the Unlikely Demise of Colombia's Brutal Norte Valle Cartel, by Jeffrey Robinson
Film and television
Film
Take Down (1979 film), about a high school wrestling team
Track Down, a 2000 film known as Takedown outside the U.S., based on the book titled Takedown
Takedown (2010 film), also known as Transparency
Take Down (2016 film), also known as Billionaire Ransom
The Takedown, 2022 film
TV
"Takedown", a Rookie Blue TV series episode
Legislation
Notice and take down, a process operated by online hosts in response to court orders
Words taken down, an objection to speech in the United States House of Representatives
Video games
Takedown: Red Sabre
Bad Boys: Miami Takedown
Burnout 3: Takedown
Other uses
Takedown (grappling), a martial arts technique
Takedown gun, a rifle or shotgun designed for easy disassembly
Colostomy takedown, a surgical procedure
See also
Right to be forgotten
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Last%20Train%20%28TV%20series%29
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The Last Train (Cruel Earth in Canada) is a British six-part serial, a post-apocalyptic drama first broadcast on the ITV network in 1999. It has since been repeated on ITV2 in 1999/2001 and on numerous occasions on the UK Sci-Fi Channel. The serial was written by Matthew Graham and produced for ITV by Granada Television.
The series has not been released on DVD or any other format, and has never aired in the US.
Plot synopsis
A random group of individuals on a train travelling between London and Sheffield are cryogenically frozen when the train crashes inside a tunnel and a canister of gas being carried by a passenger is released in their carriage. They unfreeze to find the United Kingdom in ruins. Unbeknownst to them, 52 years have passed. They wrongly believe weeks, then months, then just 14 years have passed whilst they were frozen in time before eventually finding out the devastating truth. They are some of the few humans to have survived an apocalyptic asteroid strike and are alone in the British countryside. It is revealed that the passenger with the gas canister, Harriet Ambrose (Nicola Walker), knew of the incoming asteroid strike and had been on her way to a top-secret government project known as Ark.
Harriet wishes to track down the Ark team to find her boyfriend, scientist Jonathan Geddes (Ralph Brown). The rest of the group agrees to join her, since it seems like their best chance to find other survivors and a safe haven. On the way, they must deal with the dangers of the post-apocalyptic world, such as feral dog packs and tribes of seemingly hostile humans... children of the few original survivors.
Cast and crew
Main characters
Supporting cast
Ordered alphabetically by actors' surnames
Guard (Roger Bingham) – Episode 1
Johnathan Geddes (Ralph Brown), Arks chief scientist and Harriet's lover, who gave her the cryogenic canister, government clearance, a security badge/swipe card, and directions to meet at his government bunker and later, at Ark. He appears as Harriet remembers him in a video in Episode 2, and in person having aged 40 years at the end of Episode 6.
Karen (Joy Carradice) – Episode 6
Mark (Kenneth Colley), Gillian's father and leader of the Mareby village group; he wants Hild and the train group to stay with him and, to that end, sabotages the van – Episode 5
Darren (Chris Cook)
Archie (Robert Dunn) – Episode 1
Danny (Justin Ellery) – Episode 1
Gillian (Deborah Findlay), Mark's daughter; she's had several still-born babies – Episode 5
Sam (John Flitcroft) – Episode 1
Becky (Abigail Hayes) – Episode 1
Teenager (Chris Hoyle) – Episode 1
Miss. Eversleigh (Mary Jones)
Coats (Josh Moran) – Episode 1
Behemoth (David Nicholls) – Episode 6 (not credited in episode 5)
Hornrim (Phil Smeeton) – Episode 6 (not credited in episode 5)
Midwife (Flo Wilson) – Episode 4
Episodes
Production
In Canada, the series aired under its working title: Cruel Earth.
The series was written by Matthew Graham, who went on to c
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