Additionally, many contemporary knitters have an interest in blogging about their knitting, patterns, and techniques, or joining a virtual community focused on knitting, such as Ravelry, affectionately known as Rav to fiber-lovers around the world.

Emerging collaborative P2P systems are going beyond the era of peers doing similar things while sharing resources, and are looking for diverse peers that can bring in unique resources and capabilities to a virtual community thereby empowering it to engage in greater tasks beyond that can be accomplished by individual peers, yet are beneficial to all the peers ..

The open Squeak implementation has an active community of developers, including many of the original Smalltalk community, and has recently been used to provide the Etoys environment on the OLPC project, a toolkit for developing collaborative applications Croquet Project, and the Open Cobalt virtual world application.

A sysop (; an abbreviation of system operator ) is an administrator of a multi-user computer system, such as a bulletin board system ( BBS ) or an online service virtual community.

The book served to demystify the subject, making it more accessible to less technical researchers and enthusiasts, with an impact similar to that which his book The Virtual Community had on virtual community research lines closely related to VR.

To the extent that organization is achieved in Falun Gong, it is accomplished through a global, networked, and largely virtual online community.

The extent of Falun Gong's reliance on the internet as a means of organizing has led to the group's characterization as " a virtual religious community.

Though virtual currencies are not ' local ' in the tradition sense, they do cater to the specific needs of a particular community, a virtual community.

* QuakerVille, the Quaker Parrot virtual community

* PortLudowToday-Digital Village A non profit organization providing a virtual collection of activities and current events surrounding this master planned community.

* Dulwich OnView, a local virtual community

The wide availability over the internet of freeware add-on files for the simulation package has encouraged the development of a large and diverse virtual community, linked up by design group and enthusiast message boards, online multiplayer flying, and ' virtual airlines '.

A virtual community is a social network of individuals who interact through specific social media, potentially crossing geographical and political boundaries in order to pursue mutual interests or goals.

One of the most pervasive types of virtual community include social networking services, which consist of various online communities.

The term virtual community is attributed to the book of the same title by Howard Rheingold, published in 1993.

However, if one considers communities to simply possess boundaries of some sort between their members and non-members, then a virtual community is certainly a community.

Early research into the existence of media-based communities was concerned with the nature of reality, whether communities actually could exist through the media, which could place virtual community research into the social sciences definition of ontology.

The embedding of virtual community in the experiences of everyday life and its reflection of and influence on the communication practices and patterns of identity formation make online community a colossal research enterprise which requires continuous investigation and theorizing.

Since the hero, a sterling and upright fellow, is a rich Brown senior, while two Yalies are cast as virtual rapists, I suppose I should disqualify myself from sitting in judgment on `` Where The Boys Are '', but I shall do nothing of the sort.

Also, a therapist might choose to have the subject partake in what is called " exposure therapy " where the person is exposed to virtual spiders and then eventually live spiders little by little until they have overcome the phobia.

Although the hardware is limited to four separate sound channels, software such as OctaMED uses software mixing to allow eight or more virtual channels, and it was possible for software to mix two hardware channels to achieve a single 14-bit resolution channel by playing with the volumes of the channels in such a way that one of the source channels contributes the most significant bits and the other the least.

The VPI is useful for reducing the switching table of some virtual circuits which have common paths.

If the traffic on a virtual circuit is exceeding its traffic contract, as determined by the GCRA, the network can either drop the cells or mark the Cell Loss Priority ( CLP ) bit ( to identify a cell as potentially redundant ).

Static circuits ( permanent virtual circuits or PVCs ) or paths ( permanent virtual paths or PVPs ) require that the circuit is composed of a series of segments, one for each pair of interfaces through which it passes.

In ATM this is called a virtual circuit ( VC ).

It can be a permanent virtual circuit ( PVC ), which is created administratively on the end points, or a switched virtual circuit ( SVC ), which is created as needed by the communicating parties.

This is because a virtual LAN ( or VLAN ) is technically a broadcast domain.

A virtual printer is a piece of computer software whose user interface and API resembles that of a printer driver, but which is not connected with a physical computer printer.

One hypothesis is that dark energy is the energy of virtual particles ( which mathematically must exist in a vacuum due to the uncertainty principle ).

Another option is to have virtual GKOS keys positioned towards the sides of a touch sensitive screen.

If a scene is to look relatively realistic and predictable under virtual lighting, the rendering software should solve the rendering equation.

Primary memory stored on secondary memory is called " virtual memory ".

Only the kernel deals with files, but it handles all user-space interaction with ( virtual ) files in a manner that is transparent to the user-space programs.

In the 21st century it is possible to find a map of virtually anything from the inner workings of the human body to the virtual worlds of cyberspace.

In mathematics, especially in category theory and homotopy theory, a groupoid ( less often Brandt groupoid or virtual group ) generalises the notion of group in several equivalent ways.

In the military ( and also the Police and GSU ), there is a virtual monopoly of President Moi ’ s ethnic group, the Kalenjin, in the top brass.

One can also use a " virtual drum " by selecting a task or group of tasks ( typically integration points ) and limiting the number of projects in execution at that stage.

A society, or a human society, is a group of people related to each other through persistent relations, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or virtual territory, subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations.

A virtual team is a group of people who work interdependently and with shared purpose across space, time, and organisation boundaries using technology to communicate and collaborate.

The lawsuit alleged that the game had " transformed No Doubt band members into a virtual karaoke circus act ", singing dozens of songs the group neither wrote, popularized nor approved for use in the game.

These business based worlds have stricter controls and allow functionality such as muting individual participants, desktop sharing, and / or access lists to provide a highly interactive and controlled virtual world to a specific business or group.

::* the group Γ has finite virtual cohomological dimension ;

Their success was such that the Frohmans bought Haverly's group and merged it with theirs, creating a virtual monopoly on the market.

The group is also known for their real world success, through a virtual band.

Rather than focus only on law enforcement and the current antiquities market, the group set its mission as being to ( 1 ) establish a comprehensive online catalog of all cultural artifacts in the museum's collection, ( 2 ) create a virtual Baghdad Museum that is accessible to the general public over the Internet, ( 3 ) build a 3D collaborative workspace within the virtual Baghdad Museum for design and fundraising purposes, and ( 4 ) establish a resource center within the virtual Baghdad Museum for community cultural development.

The main features in virtual online communities that attracts people is a shared communication environment, relationships formed and nurtured virtually, a sense of belonging to a group, an internal structure of the group, common space shared by people with similar ideas and interests.

A group of people will sit in a meeting but they will all be connected into a virtual world also, using online communities such as wiki.

In addition to maintaining an active website since October 1995, the Institute also maintains a virtual store of its entire in-print catalogue, a group weblog, numerous RSS feeds for weekly podcasts, and BitTorrent files for much of its video library.

With virtual channel numbering, many digital televisions group digital channels with their corresponding analog broadcasts.

It behaves similarly to a virtual private network by connecting to a group of trusted computers, as determined by the users.

The group launched a virtual Nordic Stock Exchange on October 2, 2006, after merging the individual lists of shares traded at its three wholly owned Nordic exchanges into a combined Nordic List.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of low-budget virtual reality exposure versus exposure in vivo in a within group design in ten individuals suffering from acrophobia ( phobia of heights ) ( Emmelkamp, Bruynzeel, Drost & van der Mast ).