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Acme and text
Rather, HTML can only say that the span of text " X586172 " is something that should be positioned near " Acme Gizmo " and "€ 199 ", etc.
Acme is a text editor and graphical shell from the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system, designed and implemented by Rob Pike.

Acme and editor
es: Acme ( editor )
* The Acme programmer's editor / windowing system / shell program in Plan 9 is a tiling window manager.

Acme and is
The Acme :: hierarchy is reserved for joke modules ; for instance, Acme :: Don't adds a function that doesn't run the code given to it ( to complement the built-in, which does ).
Even outside the Acme :: hierarchy, some modules are still written largely for amusement ; one example is Lingua :: Romana :: Perligata, which can be used to write Perl programs in a subset of Latin.
But the first public screening of film ever is due to Jean Aimé " Acme " Le Roy, a French photographer.
The HTML of this catalog page can make simple, document-level assertions such as " this document's title is ' Widget Superstore, but there is no capability within the HTML itself to assert unambiguously that, for example, item number X586172 is an Acme Gizmo with a retail price of € 199, or that it is a consumer product.
There is no way to say " this is a catalog " or even to establish that " Acme Gizmo " is a kind of title or that "€ 199 " is a price.
This can be seen directly at least in two references to the Acme Corporation from Looney Tunes: in the world-map for episode two, which is the blueprints of the Vorticon Mothership, there is a small sign in the Standard Galactic Alphabet that says " Blueprint — Acme ".
Another whistle that is widely used for games such as touch football, rugby league and rugby union is called the " Thunderer 58. 5 ", and it is made by the Acme Whistles company.
The Acme Corporation is a fictional corporation that features prominently in the Road Runner / Wile E. Coyote cartoons as a running gag featuring outlandish products that fail catastrophically at the worst possible times.
The company name in the Road Runner cartoons is ironic, since the word acme is derived from Greek ( ακμή ; English transliteration: acmē ) meaning the peak, zenith or prime, and products from the fictional Acme Corporation are both generic and failure-prone.
While their products leave much to be desired, Acme delivery service is second to none ; Wile E. can merely drop an order into a mailbox ( or enter an order on a website, as in the Looney Tunes: Back in Action movie ), and have the product in his hands within seconds.
In one of the later episodes, it is revealed that Acme is " A Owned Subsidiary Of Roadrunner Corporation.

Acme and development
It also borrows other ideas, for example a limited form of plumbing, from the Acme development environment.

Acme and environment
It is based on Acme, the mouse-centric editing environment for the Plan 9 operating system.

Acme and originally
Ware's first major graphic novel, Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, was originally serialized in Acme Novelty Library between 1995 and 2000.
Acme Mill, that was so important in shaping Lowry's perceptions and which was the first cotton spinning mill in the UK to be entirely electrically powered, was situated south of the Manchester-Wigan railway line on the eastern side Swinton Hall Road ( originally called " Bury Lane ").

Acme and for
Naked City photographer Weegee and 60 Minutes creator and producer Don Hewitt worked for UP Newspictures predecessor Acme Newsphotos.
The name Acme became popular for businesses by the 1920s, when alphabetized business telephone directories such as the Yellow Pages began to be widespread.
Many of its products appear to be produced specifically for Wile E. Coyote ; for example, the Acme Giant Rubber Band, subtitled "( For Tripping Road Runners )".
* Acme Markets for a history of Acme Markets.
North of the Westfield shopping centre itself, the grade II listed Dimco Buildings ( 1898 ), now refurbished as a bus depot were used as the location for theAcme Factory ’ in the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit ?.
Acme is home to Kwikee Kwiver, the manufacturer of a popular bow quiver used for deer hunting.
Among the most significant is the closure of an Acme Supermarket, which has been an anchor tenant in the Windsor Plaza Shopping Center for 50 years.
Francis Marion Gunter, Jr. ( June 23, 1919 – July 30, 2012 ), a native of Willis near Conroe in Montgomery County, Texas, was for thirty-five years the depot agent of the Quanah, Acme and Pacific Railroad, first in Roaring Springs and after 1960 in Floydada.
Lowry later recalled: " At first I detested it, and then, after years I got pretty interested in it, then obsessed by it ... One day I missed a train from Pendlebury-( a place ) I had ignored for seven years — and as I left the station I saw the Acme Spinning Company's mill ...
It was also parodied in Tiny Toons Adventures episode " Acme Cable TV " in a commercial for " Foot Loops " which featured Gogo Dodo ( parodying Toucan Sam ) trying to convince Shirley to eat them as an alternative to granola, without success.
Finally, the Coyote scatters some Acme Earthquake Pills on the road, hoping that the Road Runner can mistake them for birdseed.
In 1997, Acme Communications was created as a chain of real television stations ; the firm is named for the fictional Acme Corporation of Warner Brothers fame.

Acme and Plan
" It has yet to appear in more commonplace operating systems, although it strongly inspired Rob Pike's Acme system under Plan 9 from Bell Labs.
Development and usage of Wily has been deprecated in favour of the port of Acme to Unix systems as part of Plan 9 from User Space.

Acme and from
United Press had no direct wirephoto service until 1952, when it absorbed co-owned Acme Newsphotos, under pressure from parent company Scripps to better compete with AP's news and photo services.
Ajax, sometimes called the Ajax Corporation, is a name brand which makes several appearances in Mickey Mouse stories ( probably parodying The Acme Corporation from Warner Bros .' s Looney Tunes.
Coicidentally, the Acme brand was used in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, a Disney film that included cameos from Looney Tunes characters ).
Acme was established by L. S. Hoxie from Saratoga County, New York, who, after arriving here in 1864, purchased land and platted the settlement.
In 1912, the community was laid out in the anticipation of service from the Quanah, Acme and Pacific Railway, operated by Samuel Lazarus ( 1855-1926 ).
* wmii, a window manager with much inspiration from Acme.
A nefarious supervillain named " Doctor Maybe " ( a pun on the name of Dr Julius No, the villain in the film Dr. No ) has overtaken the ruthless megacorporation Acme Oil Co, and is not only filling the oceans with radiation and toxic waste but even threatening all the world from his underwater lair.
" Heavy " was the final single to be released from Acme in August 1999.
In 2009 it was announced that the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion would release the 22 track retrospective compilation Dirty Shirt Rock ' n ' Roll: The First Ten Years followed by expanded reissues of the albums Extra Width, Orange, Acme, Now I Got Worry, Controversial Negro and tracks from the early releases ( the original Kramer and Steve Albini recordings ) Year One.
Acquiring the remainder of the PSFS branches from Meritor in 1992, Mellon continued to expand in the 1990s including the construction of combination Mellon PSFS and Acme Markets branches, the first of which opened in 1994.
Born in Acme, Alberta, to James Edgar Hunley and Esta May Hunley, Hunley served as a town councilor from 1960 to 1966 and then mayor of Rocky Mountain House, Alberta from 1966 to 1971.
Elmyra is quite young and obsessed with animals and cute things ( which is probably why she works as a nurse at Acme Looniversity ), even chasing after animals whom she knows are her classmates at Acme Looniversity, obliviously causing great discomfort or serious injury to potential pets from her overenthusiastic affection and complete lack of even the most rudimentary knowledge of pet care.
Although she has essentially the same personality and lives in Acme Acres, her character on Pinky, Elmyra, and the Brain is different from her character on Tiny Toon Adventures in several ways: she goes to school with other human kids rather than her Tiny Toons co-stars, her family is absent, and she harbors an unrequited crush on a different boy, Rudy Mookich ( voiced by Nancy Cartwright ), who does not return her affections either.
Fifi also hugged Hamton like a Teddy Bear at the end of " The Acme Bowl ," and in " The Just-Us League of SuperToons " Hamton ( as Decoy, a parody of Robin from the Batman series ) makes a pass at Fifi ( as Scentanna, a parody of Zatanna from the DC universe ), but she rejects Decoy by blasting him with a shot from her tail, causing him to crumble to the floor.

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