Midtown Direct, initiated in 1996, offers service directly into Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan, and has since caused a surge in real estate prices as the commute time to midtown dropped from about 50 minutes to 30, as the service eliminated the need for passengers to transfer to PATH trains at Hoboken.

After completion of sale a gradual transfer will see the ING Direct Canada name disappear from the Canadian banking sector, but it will not impact the day to day business operations.

On October 8, 2008, ING purchased the savings accounts of the collapsed Icelandic bank, Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander, the UK Treasury used the Banking ( Special Provisions ) Act 2008 to transfer the Kaupthing Edge deposit business to ING Direct.

* Direct Client-to-Client, a protocol for file transfer and direct chat on Internet Relay Chat ( IRC )

* Characters per second is a measurement of the data transfer rate during a Direct Client-to-Client file transfer, like bytes per second

Direct deposit also known as Direct credit is a banking term used to refer to certain payment systems used to transfer money where a payment is initiated by the payer not the payee, namely:

Direct Entry is used to transfer funds between Australian bank accounts.

Direct Cable Connection ( DCC ), is a feature of Microsoft Windows that allows a computer to transfer and share files ( or connected printers ) with another computer, via a connection using either the serial port, parallel port or the infrared port of each computer.

* Direct electron transfer in one-electron reduction with the Birch reduction as example

Direct realism defines perception as perception of external objects where an ' external object ' is allowed to be a photon in the eye but not an impulse in a nerve leading from the eye.

Tektronix solved this problem by developing the Direct View Bistable Storage Tube ( DVBST ) CRT, which allowed the use of a slower serial data connection combined with a vector graphics generator that only needed to write the vectors ( the graphic data ) to the CRT once.

Direct examination must be done on stool that is freshly collected and not allowed to cool down, because hookworm eggs hatch on cooling and the larvae are very difficult to distinguish from strongyloides.

In Microsoft's implementation, an underlying framework called J / Direct provided a base mechanism that allowed J ++ applications to completely circumvent Java's class libraries and API media in accessing the underlying operating system.

Speech recognition applications include voice user interfaces such as voice dialing ( e. g., " Call home "), call routing ( e. g., " I would like to make a collect call "), domotic appliance control, search ( e. g., find a podcast where particular words were spoken ), simple data entry ( e. g., entering a credit card number ), preparation of structured documents ( e. g., a radiology report ), speech-to-text processing ( e. g., word processors or emails ), and aircraft ( usually termed Direct Voice Input ).

Direct distance dialing ( DDD ) or direct dial is a telecommunications term for a network-provided service feature in which a call originator may, without operator assistance, call any other user outside the local calling area.

Some time after, DClite was rewritten as Open Direct Connect with goals of having an MDI user interface and using plug-ins for file sharing protocols ( similar to MLDonkey ).

In NeoModus Direct Connect, passive mode users receive other passive mode users ' search results, while the user will not be able to download anything.

Direct manipulation, as well as user interface design in general, for 3D computer graphics tasks, is still an active area of invention and innovation, as the process of generating CG images is generally not considered to be intuitive or easy in comparison to the difficulty of what the user wants to do, especially for complex tasks.

Some LAN parties actively support file sharing for legitimate purposes ( game patches, updates, user contributed content ), and may run Direct Connect hubs or other P2P service servers.

Direct Connect allows personal financial management software to connect directly to a bank OFX server, whereas in Web Connect, the user needs to login and manually download a. qfx file and import it into Quicken.

Direct feedback from a user, usually in the form of a like or dislike button, can be used to assign higher or lower weights on the importance of certain attributes ( using Rocchio Classification or other similar techniques ).

The NHS Direct website can be found at www. nhsdirect. nhs. uk, and has a variety of symptom checkers, based on the same system used on the telephone service and can either give self care advice or direct a user to another NHS service.

In computing, the Direct Rendering Infrastructure ( DRI ) is an interface and a free software implementation used in the X Window System to securely allow user applications to access the video hardware without requiring data to be passed through the X server.

High Voltage Direct Current ( HVDC ) was chosen both because this technique allows long transmission lines with little loss compared to other systems ( like AC ), and also allows interchange of the Paraguayan 50 Hz input and the Brazilian 60 Hz input and user grid.

One line of attack by the New York Attorney General focused on Direct Revenue ’ s “ click-wrapped ” ( where the user clicks on “ I accept ”) end-user license agreement ( EULA ) and Direct Revenue ’ s alleged deceptive and illegal practices.

He developed the prinicples of Direct manipulation interface design in 1982, and applied this to develop the user interface for highlighted phrases in text, that became the hot link of the Web.

* the X Direct Save Protocol ( XDS ), an additional feature of the X Window System graphical user interface for Unix-like computer operating systems

Other forms of Direct Access Storage Device ( DASD ), such as drum memory devices or the IBM 2321 Data Cell, might give blocks addresses that include a cylinder address, although the cylinder address doesn't select a ( geometric ) cylindrical slice of the device.

The members of the task group were not able to come to an agreement choosing between two technology proposals, Multi-band Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing ( MB-OFDM ) and Direct Sequence UWB ( DS-UWB ), on the table backed by two different industry alliances and was withdrawn in January 2006.

Direct copying was supported between any two 8-bit registers and between any 8-bit register and an HL-addressed memory cell.

Since it was first proposed as a part of Mars Direct, the Mars Habitat Unit has been adopted by NASA as a part of their Mars Design Reference Mission, which utilizes two Mars Habitat Units-one of which flies to Mars unmanned, providing a dedicated laboratory facility on Mars, together with the capacity to carry a larger rover vehicle.

Direct gap semiconductors are particularly important in optoelectronics because they are much more efficient as light emitters than indirect gap materials ; an electron movnig between two bands need not exchange momentum with phonons in the crystal lattice.

Direct maritime shipping commenced between the two countries in 2008 to supplement rail connections that remained uncertain.

The simplest loosely coupled system would be two IBM mainframes sharing one DASD ( Direct Access Storage Device ).

This structure is obtained by reversing the order of the numerator and denominator sections of Direct Form I, since they are in fact two linear systems, and the commutativity property applies.

The band then took a short break after finishing the Ozzfest 2000 Tour, playing two acoustic shows at Artist Direct Studios.

Only two prototypes were ever built, and one was publicly displayed for historical interest at the RISC OS 2001 show in Berkshire, England ; the remaining cases were bought by CTA Direct who sold them off to the public.

In 2000 Aprilia launched the 50 cc DiTech ( Direct Injection Technology ) two stroke engine for scooters which provides high mileage and low emissions, and also the RST Futura, a sport tourer, and the ETV 1000 Caponord ; an adventure touring motorcycle.

Direct copying is supported between any two 8-bit registers and between any 8-bit register and a HL-addressed memory cell.

" Direct Action " has also served as the moniker of at least two groups: the French Action Directe as well as the Canadian group more popularly known as the Squamish Five.

* Direct antiglobulin test, one of two Coombs tests

Direct comparisons between Jōmon and Yayoi skeletons show that the two peoples are noticeably distinguishable.

Steering is either through a single handlebar linked with tie rods to the front wheels ' stub axle assemblies ( Indirect ) or with two handlebars ( rather, two half-handlebars ) each bolted to a steerer tube, usually through a bicycle-type headset and connected to a stub axle assembly ( Direct ).

However, two major companies offer direct broadcast satellite delivery as an alternative to cable: Bell TV, which is a division of BCE Inc., and Shaw Direct, which is a division of Shaw.

The evening before Al-Sistani arrived in the city, two F-16's, flying out of Balad, dropped four two-thousand pound JDAMs ( Joint Direct Attack Munitions ) on two hotels in close proximity to the Imam Ali Shrine.

* Direct branches of the vertebral artery: The vertebral artery supplies an area between the other two main arteries, including the nucleus solitarius and other sensory nuclei and fibers.

Direct members fall into two categories with their annual dues as follows:

Direct comparison is, however, almost impossible due to the sheer size differences between the two media.

Direct bus services started between these two cities after the construction of NH-17.

* Direct cable connection, for networking two computers together