Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is an American actress, singer, producer, director, and screenwriter. In each decade of her career, she has been known for her leading American TV and film roles, most notably in Gidget (1965–66), The Flying Nun (1967–70), Sybil (1976), Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Hooper (1978), Norma Rae (1979), Absence of Malice (1981), Places in the Heart (1984), Steel Magnolias (1989), Not Without My Daughter (1991), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), Forrest Gump (1994), Eye for an Eye (1996), ER, Brothers & Sisters (2006–11), The Amazing Spider-Man, and Lincoln (20...
BASIC (an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use.
In 1964, John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz designed the original BASIC language at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. They wanted to enable students in fields other than science and mathematics to use computers. At the time, nearly all use of computers required writing custom software, which was something only scientists and mathematicians tended to do.
Versions of BASIC became widespread on microcompu...
:Or see Scientific terminology.
In computer programming, a scientific language is a programming language optimized for the use of mathematical formulas and matrices. (Though these functions can be performed using any language, they are more easily expressed in scientific languages.) Scientific languages include ALGOL, FORTRAN, and APL. Scientific language must be grammatically correct giving an concise and correct information.
References
* http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=scientific+language&i=50874,00.asp
While studying nature, scientists often encounter or create new material or immaterial objects and concepts and are compelled to name them. Most of those names are known only to professionals. However, due to popularization of science, they gradually become part of common languages. Several categories of scientific terminology can be distinguished.
New concepts
Those are specific notions and terms, e.g.,
*nanoarchitectonics,
*spintronics - a neologism meaning "spin transport electronics",
*spinplasmonics, which are often not yet big enough to create a new field of science. Arguably, i...
A Brief History of Time (subtitled "From the Big Bang to Black Holes") is a popular-science book written by British physicist Stephen Hawking and first published by the Bantam Dell Publishing Group in 1988. It became a best-seller and has sold more than 10 million copies. It was also on the London Sunday Times best-seller list for more than four years.
Overview
A Brief History of Time attempts to explain a range of subjects in cosmology, including the Big Bang, black holes and light cones, to the nonspecialist reader. Its main goal is to give an overview of the subject but, unusual for...
To be hanged, drawn and quartered was from 1351 a penalty in England for men convicted of high treason, although the ritual was first recorded during the reigns of King Henry III (1216–1272) and his successor, Edward I (1272–1307). Convicts were fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn by horse to the place of execution, where they were hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated, disembowelled, beheaded and quartered (chopped into four pieces). Their remains were often displayed in prominent places across the country, such as London Bridge. For reasons of public decency...
In multitasking computer operating systems, a daemon ( or ) is a computer program that runs as a background process, rather than being under the direct control of an interactive user. Traditionally daemon names end with the letter d: for example, syslogd is the daemon that implements the system logging facility and sshd is a daemon that services incoming SSH connections.
In a Unix environment, the parent process of a daemon is often, but not always, the init process. A daemon is usually created by a process forking a child process and then immediately exiting, thus causing init to adopt...
Daemon has an interesting usage in computing. From my local dictionary:
a background process that handles requests for services such as print spooling and file transfers, and is dormant when not required
Does anyone know where this came from? I assume its relation to the word demon is notab...
English and to name a positive and negative characteristic
A fleet of ships is going to attack other fleet and on the meeting of capitans of the ships from first fleet one capitan tells "Plunder for all!". What does that mean?
Ring Ring may refer to:
* Ring Ring (album), an album by Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid who would later become ABBA
** "Ring Ring" (song), a song by Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid
* "Ring Ring," a song by singer-songwriter Mika's which is a bonus track on his debut album Life in Cartoon Motion
* Ring Ring, a 14 year old girl in the Pucca TV series, see List of characters in Pucca
* "Ring Ring, I've Got To Sing", a song composed and performed by Ferre Grignard in the early 1960s
See also
* Ringtone
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Im Saarländischen ist „ei“ keine Interjektion, sondern ein Diskursmarker (vergleichbar mit dem englischen „well“ oder dem einleitenden „also“ im Hochdeutschen).
Interjektionen „drücken [...] eine bestimmte Empfindung, Bewertungs- oder Willenshaltung des Sprechers aus oder übermitteln eine an de...3
I'm finding in the non-touristy places in China where I'm spending my time in cheaper places etc that there's often no place to wash your hands, or it's dirty, or there's no soap.
I've been recommended to buy some hand sanitizer, but the Wikipedia page doesn't link to a Chinese equivalent and Wi...
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A chocolatier is someone who makes confectionery from chocolate. Chocolatiers are distinct from chocolate makers, who create chocolate from cacao beans and other ingredients.
Professional chocolatiers study topics including the following:
* the history of chocolate
* modern techniques of cultivation and processing
* the chemistry of chocolate's flavors and textures
* chocolate tempering, dipping, decorating, and molding
* confectionery formulae based on ganache and/or fondant
* business management skills of marketing and production. The operation of a chocolaterie is a common practice...
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