Encyclopedia - Bbc Micro: Encyclopedia - Bbc Micro
The BBC Micro, affectionately known as the Beeb, was an early home computer. It was designed and built by Acorn Computers Ltd for the Bri...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Micro-pk: Parapsychology Dictionary On Micro-pk
Micro-PK: Psychokinetic effects that cannot be directly observed, but only inferred from the statistical analysis of data.   (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bbc Micro: Encyclopedia Ii - Bbc Micro - Background
The BBC wanted to base its project on a microcomputer capable of performing various tasks which they could then demonstrate in their TV s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Microorganism: Encyclopedia - Microorganism
A microorganism or microbe is an organism that is so small that it is microscopic (invisible to the naked eye). Microorganisms are often ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ask And Embla: Encyclopedia - Ask And Embla
In Norse Mythology Ask and Embla were the first two humans created by the gods, analogous with Adam and Eve. Odin and his brothers, Ve an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Endocarditis: Encyclopedia - Endocarditis
Endocarditis is an inflammation of the inner layer of the heart, the endocardium. The most common structures involved are the heart valve...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acorn Computers: Encyclopedia - Acorn Computers
Acorn Computers was a British computer company established in Cambridge, England, in 1978. The company produced a number of computers whi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Danish Beer: Encyclopedia - Danish Beer
The Danish beer market is dominated by Carlsberg and Royal Unibrew. However, in recent years a number of micro breweries have sprung up. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bolesław Prus: Encyclopedia - Bolesław Prus
Bolesław Prus (pronounced: [bɔ'lεswaf 'prus]; August 20, 1847 – May 19, 1912), born Aleksander Głowacki, was a Polish journalist, s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Venture Capital Firm: Encyclopedia - Venture Capital Firm
A venture capital firm is a financial intermediary that pools the resources of its partners and uses the funds to help entrepreneurs star...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bbc Micro: Encyclopedia Ii - Bbc Micro - Trivia
Musician Vince Clarke of the British synth pop bands Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and Erasure used a BBC Micro (and later a BBC Master) with UMI ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bbc Micro: Encyclopedia Ii - Bbc Micro - Description
BBC Micro - Hardware features Models A and B. The Model A had 16 KB of user RAM; the Model B had 32 KB of user RAM. A particularly nice...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bbc Micro: Encyclopedia Ii - Bbc Micro - Specifications
Four independent sound channels (one noise and 3 melodic) using the Texas Instruments SN76489 sound chip Built-in hardware support incl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Game Boy Micro: Encyclopedia Ii - Game Boy Micro - Reaction
Game Boy micro - Criticism. Because the Micro is so small, it relies heavily on proprietary (nonstandard) ports. There has been much cr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bbc Micro: Encyclopedia Ii - Bbc Micro - Market Impact
The machine was released as the BBC Microcomputer in early 1982. The machine was wildly popular in the UK; as with Sinclair's ZX Spectrum...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Game Boy Micro: Encyclopedia Ii - Game Boy Micro - Packaging
In Japan, the handheld is available in seven colors/styles; black, blue, purple, and silver, along with three limited edition styles: one...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Micro Precision Products: Encyclopedia Ii - Micro Precision Products - Products
MPP's first major product was the Micro-Technical Camera, in 1948. This was far in advance of any other camera produced in Britain. Mark ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Micro-encapsulation: Encyclopedia Ii - Micro-encapsulation - Techniques To Manufacture Microcapsules
Micro-encapsulation - Physical Methods. The pan coating process, widely used in the pharmaceutical industry, is among the oldest indus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Micro-encapsulation: Encyclopedia Ii - Micro-encapsulation - Release Methods And Patterns
Even when the aim of a microencapsulation application is the isolation of the core from its surrounding, the wall must be ruptured at the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Game Boy Micro: Encyclopedia Ii - Game Boy Micro - Design And Specifications
The Game Boy micro retains most of the functionality of the Game Boy Advance SP, but with an updated form factor. It is smaller than prev...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bbc Micro: Encyclopedia Ii - Bbc Micro - Successor Machines And The Retro Scene
A cut-down version of the BBC Micro, intended more for game playing was the Acorn Electron (1983); games were written specially for the E...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Micro Black Hole: Encyclopedia Ii - Micro Black Hole - The Planck Mass
The maximum mass of a micro black hole in which quantum mechanical effects play a dominant role is the Planck mass. This mass is also the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Micro Channel Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Micro Channel Architecture - Why The Interface Was Created
Micro Channel architecture - Overview of the technology issues of that time. Micro Channel was an attempt to address, once and for all,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Micro Channel Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Micro Channel Architecture - Why Mca Was Not Widely Adopted
Although MCA was a huge technical improvement over ISA, it was not properly introduced and marketed by IBM. Implementation in products wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Microchp: Encyclopedia Ii - Microchp - Micro-chp Systems
Micro-CHP systems’ chief difference from their larger-scale kin is in the operating parameter driving demand. In many cases industrial ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Micro Channel Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Micro Channel Architecture - Design Features
MCA was primarily a 32-bit bus, but the system also supported a 16-bit mode designed to lower the cost of connectors and logic in Intel-b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Micro Channel Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Micro Channel Architecture - Data Transmission Features
The basic data rate of MCA was increased from ISA's 8 MHz to 10 MHz. This isn't a large signalling speed increase, but the communications...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Qr Code: Encyclopedia Ii - Qr Code - Micro Qr Code
Micro QR Code is a smaller version of the QR Code standard for applications with less ability to handle large scans. There are different ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Microtechnology: Encyclopedia Ii - Microtechnology - Micro Electro Mechanical Systems
The term MEMS, for Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, was coined in the 1980’s to describe new, sophisticated mechanical systems on a ch...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gas Turbine: Encyclopedia Ii - Gas Turbine - Micro Turbines
Also known as: Turbo alternators Gensets MicroTurbine® (registered trademark of Capstone Turbine Corporation) Turbogenerator® (registe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Real-time Strategy: Encyclopedia Ii - Real-time Strategy - Micro-management Games
Micro-management games allow an army and base to be built, but they limit the size of the army (sometimes, rather severely). The purpose ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atc Code A07: Encyclopedia Ii - Atc Code A07 - A07f Antidiarrheal Micro-organisms
ATC code A07 - A07FA Antidiarrheal micro-organisms. A07FA01 Lactic acid producing organisms A07FA02 Saccharomyces boulardii A07FA51 La...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Insect Flight: Encyclopedia Ii - Insect Flight - Current Research
Scientists study insect flight for a variety of reasons: biological development and understanding of the animals, a purely scientific int...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Endocarditis: Encyclopedia Ii - Endocarditis - Infective Endocarditis
As the valves of the heart do not actually receive any blood supply of their own, which may be surprising given their location, defense m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Microchp: Encyclopedia Ii - Microchp - Overview
Recognizing that in a number of situations, consumers need both heat and electrical power, Combined Heat and Power (CHP) systems (also ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Xara: Encyclopedia Ii - Xara - Products
Xara - BBC Micro products included:. Wordwise - a ROM based word processor Disc Doctor - utility software Graphics ROM - graphics util...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acorn Archimedes: Encyclopedia Ii - Acorn Archimedes - Description; Early Models
The first models were released in June 1987, as the 300 and 400 series. The machines differed primarily in that the 400 series included m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Minicomputer: Encyclopedia Ii - Minicomputer - History
Minicomputer - 1960s: Origin; 1970s: Market entrenchment. The term "minicomputer" evolved in the 1960s to describe the "small" third ge...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Degrees Of Freedom Physics And Chemistry: Encyclopedia Ii - Degrees Of Freedom Physics And Chemistry - A More General Definition
In statistical mechanics, a degree of freedom is a single scalar number describing the classical micro-state of a system. The micro-state...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ask And Embla: Encyclopedia Ii - Ask And Embla - Symbolism
The idea that the first humans were shaped from tree-trunks is apparently a part of the cyclic notions, where light and darkness relieve ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Creative Zen: Encyclopedia Ii - Creative Zen - Players
Currently, there are nine main models of Zen: Zen Touch, Zen Micro, Creative Zen, Zen Neeon, Zen MicroPhoto, Zen Vision, Zen Vision M, Ze...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Manic Miner: Encyclopedia Ii - Manic Miner - Ports
Official ports exist for the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, Dragon 32/64, Commodore Amiga, Oric 1, Game Boy Advance and SAM Coupé...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gas Turbine: Encyclopedia Ii - Gas Turbine - Advances In Technology
Gas turbine technology has steadily advanced since its inception and continues to evolve; research is active in producing ever smaller ga...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Qr Code: Encyclopedia Ii - Qr Code - Use
NFGman demonstrated how one could turn virtually anything into a QR Code by transforming a 1.5k (kilobyte) PNG file into an 8-part QR. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Game Boy Advance: Encyclopedia Ii - Game Boy Advance - Models
Game Boy Advance - Game Boy Advance original model. The Game Boy Advance sold at a base price of $100 USD when it was released in North...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gas Turbine: Encyclopedia Ii - Gas Turbine - Theory Of Operation
Gas turbines are described thermodynamically by the Brayton cycle, in which air is compressed isentropically, combustion occurs at consta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gas Turbine: Encyclopedia Ii - Gas Turbine - Theory Of Operation
Gas turbines are described thermodynamically by the Brayton cycle, in which air is compressed isentropically, combustion occurs at consta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Real-time Strategy: Encyclopedia Ii - Real-time Strategy - Gameplay
Because of the generally faster-paced nature (and in some cases a smaller learning curve), RTS games have surpassed the popularity of con...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Game Boy Advance Sp: Encyclopedia Ii - Game Boy Advance Sp - Backlit Model
In North America during September 2005, around the time of the Game Boy Micro's release, Nintendo released an improved version of the Gam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Microorganism: Encyclopedia Ii - Microorganism - Habitats And Ecology
Microorganisms are found everywhere in nature. Even in hostile environments, like the poles, deserts, geysers, rocks, and the deep sea, s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Creative Zen: Encyclopedia Ii - Creative Zen - Marketing Campaign
In November 2004, Creative Labs announced a $100 million marketing campaign to promote their digital audio products, including the Zen ra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acorn Computers: Encyclopedia Ii - Acorn Computers - Acorn Computer Group Plc 1983–85
The BBC Micro sold spectacularly well – so much so that Acorn's profits rose from a mere £3000 in 1979 to £8.6m in July 1983. In Sept...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ibm Personal System/2: Encyclopedia Ii - Ibm Personal System/2 - Technology
IBM's PS/2 was designed to remain software compatible with their PC/AT/XT line of computers upon which the booming PC clone market was bu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ibm Personal System/2: Encyclopedia Ii - Ibm Personal System/2 - Models
The PS/2 Models 25 and 30 (IBM 8530) were ISA-based (in other words, essentially IBM PC/AT-like systems in a different form factor). The ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ibm Personal System/2: Encyclopedia Ii - Ibm Personal System/2 - Marketing
The PS/2's controversial hardware design was tied to a marketing strategy that was similarly unsuccessful. During the 1980s, IBM's advert...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Game Boy Advance: Encyclopedia Ii - Game Boy Advance - Models
Game Boy Advance - Game Boy Advance original model. The Game Boy Advance sold at a base price of $100 USD when it was released in North...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Manic Miner: Encyclopedia Ii - Manic Miner - Gameplay
At the time, its stand-out features included in-game music and sound effects, excellent playability, and colourful graphics, which were w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nursing Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Nursing Theory - Universal Features Of Nursing Models
All nursing models involve some method of assessing a patient's individual needs and implementing appropriate patient care. An essential ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nursing Theory: Encyclopedia Ii - Nursing Theory - Examples Of Nursing Models
The models used vary greatly between institutions and countries. However, different branches of nursing have different "preferred" nursin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Game Boy Advance: Encyclopedia Ii - Game Boy Advance - Screenshots
Advance Wars Intelligent Systems/Nintendo (2001) Golden Sun Camelot (2001) Mario Kart Super Circuit Nintendo (2001) Metroid Fusion Ninten...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Game Boy Advance: Encyclopedia Ii - Game Boy Advance - Screenshots
Advance Wars Intelligent Systems/Nintendo (2001) Golden Sun Camelot (2001) Mario Kart Super Circuit Nintendo (2001) Metroid Fusion Ninten...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Game Boy Advance: Encyclopedia Ii - Game Boy Advance - Screenshots
Advance Wars Intelligent Systems/Nintendo (2001) Golden Sun Camelot (2001) Mario Kart Super Circuit Nintendo (2001) Metroid Fusion Ninten...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Game Boy Advance: Encyclopedia Ii - Game Boy Advance - Models
Game Boy Advance - Game Boy Advance original model. The Game Boy Advance sold at a base price of $100 USD when it was released in North...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Creative Zen: Encyclopedia Ii - Creative Zen - Criticisms
Some Zen Xtra and Zen Micro (5 GB version, first model) players have been prone to the headphone socket breaking, although the exact inci...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Game Boy Advance: Encyclopedia Ii - Game Boy Advance - Models
Game Boy Advance - Game Boy Advance original model. The Game Boy Advance sold at a base price of $100 USD when it was released in North...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Game Boy Advance: Encyclopedia Ii - Game Boy Advance - Accessories
Nintendo has released many add-ons for the Game Boy Advance (GBA). These include: Wireless Adapter - Released in 2004, this adapter hooks...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Game Boy Advance: Encyclopedia Ii - Game Boy Advance - Accessories
Nintendo has released many add-ons for the Game Boy Advance (GBA). These include: Wireless Adapter - Released in 2004, this adapter hooks...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Game Boy Advance: Encyclopedia Ii - Game Boy Advance - Games
The Game Boy Advance has become the modern flagship of sprite based games. With hardware superior to the Super Nintendo it has proven tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Game Boy Advance: Encyclopedia Ii - Game Boy Advance - Games
The Game Boy Advance has become the modern flagship of sprite based games. With hardware superior to the Super Nintendo it has proven tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pure Pwnage: Encyclopedia Ii - Pure Pwnage - The World Of Pure Pwnage
Pure Pwnage takes the audience to a fantastic world where the power and importance of video games is revealed to be far greater than the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Game Boy Advance: Encyclopedia Ii - Game Boy Advance - Accessories
Nintendo has released many add-ons for the Game Boy Advance (GBA). These include: Wireless Adapter - Released in 2004, this adapter hooks...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Game Boy Advance: Encyclopedia Ii - Game Boy Advance - Accessories
Nintendo has released many add-ons for the Game Boy Advance (GBA). These include: Wireless Adapter - Released in 2004, this adapter hooks...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Game Boy Advance: Encyclopedia Ii - Game Boy Advance - Games
The Game Boy Advance has become the modern flagship of sprite based games. With hardware superior to the Super Nintendo it has proven tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Game Boy Advance: Encyclopedia Ii - Game Boy Advance - Games
The Game Boy Advance has become the modern flagship of sprite-based games. With hardware superior to the Super NES it has proven that spr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acorn Computers: Encyclopedia Ii - Acorn Computers - Final Break Up Of Acorn 1998–2000
Acorn's last real hopes of becoming a major player in the computer industry had fizzled out: set-top boxes were not taking off as expecte...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acorn Computers: Encyclopedia Ii - Acorn Computers - Olivetti Subsidiary 1985–98
The dire financial situation was brought to a head in February 1985, when one of Acorn's creditors issued a winding-up petition. After a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Os-tans: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Os-tans - The Os Girls
List of OS-tans - Windows. The more cutesy personification of the much maligned and infamously unreliable Windows Me OS, ME-tan's appe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pure Pwnage: Encyclopedia Ii - Pure Pwnage - Miscellaneous
Pure Pwnage - Trivia. The four games that Teh_Masterer is playing simultaneously in Episode 4 are (in order from top-left to bottom-ri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gas Turbine: Encyclopedia Ii - Gas Turbine - Gas Turbines For Electrical Power Production
Industrial gas turbines range in size from truck-mounted mobile plants to enormous, complex systems. The power turbines in the largest in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ensemble Average: Encyclopedia Ii - Ensemble Average - Canonical Ensemble Average
Ensemble average - classical statistical mechanics. For a classical system in thermal equilibrium with its environment, the ensemble av...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gas Turbine: Encyclopedia Ii - Gas Turbine - Gas Turbines For Electrical Power Production
Industrial gas turbines range in size from truck-mounted mobile plants to enormous, complex systems. The power turbines in the largest in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Real-time Strategy: Encyclopedia Ii - Real-time Strategy - Others
Some games, especially on the video game consoles, use RTS merely as a vehicle to tell the story. For example, in the PlayStation 2 game ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Out-of-order Execution: Encyclopedia Ii - Out-of-order Execution - Basic Concept
Out-of-order execution - In-order processors. In earlier processors, the processing of instructions is normally done in these steps: I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pure Pwnage: Encyclopedia Ii - Pure Pwnage - Character Bios
In order of appearance: Pure Pwnage - Jeremy teh_pwnerer. Twenty-three year old Jeremy is a stereotypical pro gamer and the protagonist...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amstrad Cpc: Encyclopedia Ii - Amstrad Cpc - The Amstrad Cpc Sold As A Complete System
Amstrad initially promoted the CPC as being an improvement on the competing ZX Spectrum and C64 because it was a complete system - includ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amstrad Cpc: Encyclopedia Ii - Amstrad Cpc - Hardware Tricks On The Cpc Series
Simple reprogramming of the Motorola 6845 CRTC could produce extended graphics modes up to 784×384 pixels through overscan. Careful timi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pure Pwnage: Encyclopedia Ii - Pure Pwnage - The Episodes
There are currently nine episodes, with more planned to be released in the future. They are all available for download in DivX-encoded av...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amstrad Cpc: Encyclopedia Ii - Amstrad Cpc - Software
Amstrad CPC - Built-in BASIC and operating system. Like most home computers at the time, the CPC had its OS and a BASIC interpreter bui...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amstrad Cpc: Encyclopedia Ii - Amstrad Cpc - The Amstrad Cpc Vs. Its Competitors
Since the Amstrad CPC was specifically built to compete with the ZX Spectrum and C64, and was a relatively late entrant into the 1980s 8-...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gas Turbine: Encyclopedia Ii - Gas Turbine - Gas Turbines In Vehicles
Gas turbines are used on ships, locomotives, helicopters, and in tanks. A number of experiments have been conducted with gas turbine powe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Real-time Strategy: Encyclopedia Ii - Real-time Strategy - Brief History
The first RTS game was the 1983 Stonkers by Imagine Software for the ZX Spectrum. [1] But the game that first exemplified the genre was t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Real-time Strategy: Encyclopedia Ii - Real-time Strategy - Graphics
As the category grew, some RTS games, most notably Stronghold (1993), Myth (1997, which pioneered the use of 3D in real-time wargames, bu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Real-time Strategy: Encyclopedia Ii - Real-time Strategy - Future Games
Future games are likely to further enhance the realism of RTS games, giving each unit a limited intelligence, similar to how it's done in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Out-of-order Execution: Encyclopedia Ii - Out-of-order Execution - History
Out-of-order execution is a restricted form of data flow computation, which was a major research area in computer architecture in the 197...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Out-of-order Execution: Encyclopedia Ii - Out-of-order Execution - Execute And Writeback Decoupling Allows Program Restart
The queue for results is necessary to resolve issues as branch mispredictions and exceptions/traps. The results queue allows programs to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amstrad Cpc: Encyclopedia Ii - Amstrad Cpc - The Cpc Family
Amstrad CPC - The Amstrad CPC 464 472 664 6128. The original CPC was sold in the following configurations: CPC 464 – Tape deck, 64 K...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Insect Flight: Encyclopedia Ii - Insect Flight - Evolution And Purpose
Some time in the Carboniferous Period, when there were only two major land masses, insects began flying. This was 350 million years ago. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Danny Phantom Episodes: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Danny Phantom Episodes - Season 2
List of Danny Phantom episodes - Memory Blank. This episode starts off with Sam rushing Tucker and Danny because they are going to be l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atc Code A07: Encyclopedia Ii - Atc Code A07 - A07a Intestinal Anti-infectives
ATC code A07 - A07AA Antibiotics. A07AA01 Neomycin A07AA02 Nystatin A07AA03 Natamycin A07AA04 Streptomycin A07AA05 Polymyxin B A07AA06...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Atc Code A07: Encyclopedia Ii - Atc Code A07 - A07b Intestinal Adsorbents
ATC code A07 - A07BA Charcoal preparations. A07BA01 Medicinal charcoal A07BA51 Medicinal charcoal, combinations ATC code A07 - A07BB...   » Read the article