* Dolge, Alfred ( 1911 ) Pianos and Their Makers: A Comprehensive History of the Development of the Piano from the Monochord to the Concert Grand Player Piano.

Windows Media Player features universal brightness, contrast, saturation and hue adjustments and pixel aspect ratio for supported video formats.

In contrast to previous Double Dragon games, Jimmy Lee ( the Player 2 character ) has different punching attacks than Billy Lee ( Player 1 ).

Since it is possible to find exotic weapons early in Arcade Mode ( by contrast in Single Player, such weapons can only be bought at the end ), using this switch will allow such weapons to be brought over to Single Player.

Player versus environment, or PvE ( also known as Player versus Monster, or PvM in some communities ), is a term used in online games, particularly MMORPGs, CORPGs, MUDs, and other online role-playing video games, to refer to fighting computer-controlled enemies — in contrast to PvP ( player versus player ).

As he signed his scorecard and walked off the course, Player was almost in tears.

* Player is positioned to receive a hand-to-hand snap from the center ( almost always the quarterback )

He was voted Most Valuable Player almost unanimously ( one voter chose César Tovar of the Twins ).

In 1968 Bill Symons turned in a monstrous season ... rushing for 1107 yards, averaging almost 7 yards per carry and being named CFL Most Valuable Player.

* Player vs. player-A single server ( Mordred ) has been set up to allow free for all PvP combat in almost all areas.

After the end of the season there was to be personal success for Glen Jackson, whose league topping 400 points for the season and consistent high-level performances almost every week saw him awarded the PRA Player of the Year Award by his fellow professionals.

Particularly noteworthy is the role of the Dispatcher ; more than just a Game Master, the Dispatcher is an active participant in the game, being a member of the team and, in almost every respect, just another Player Character.

In sport, a Man of the Match or Player of the Game or Man of the Series award is given to the outstanding player, almost always the one who makes the most impact, in a particular match or series.

Skinner also developed and perfected automatic " Player " mechanisms of extraordinary complexity and stunning ingenuity, which allowed almost any individual to operate a large pipe organ in a manner similar to a player piano.

It featured significant bug fixes and performance improvements in almost all areas of the OS, bringing updated versions of the Opera web browser and Adobe Flash Player 7, an updated interface and various API and library updates.

Sosa won the National League Most Valuable Player Award for leading the Cubs into the playoffs in 1998, earning every first-place vote except for the two cast by St. Louis writers, who voted for McGwire.

Also, Kapp was known for being an extremely unselfish leader: when he was voted the Vikings Most Valuable Player, he turned the award down and said that every player on the team was equally valuable.

By the late 1960s Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player had both acquired clear ascendancy in their rivalry, but Palmer won a PGA Tour event every year from 1955 to 1971 inclusive, and in 1971 he enjoyed a revival, winning four events.

* won the NBL Most Efficient Player award every year from 1990 to 1997.

The Lou Boudreau Award is given every year to the Cleveland Indians ' Minor League Player of the Year.

North Carolina's Tyler Hansbrough is the most recent player to achieve this ; the consensus National Player of the Year in 2008, he won every major national award in addition to the conference Player of the Year award.

Despite not sponsoring conference schedules in team sports ( except football ), the league began awarding " Player of the Week " honors to student-athletes in every sport during the 2008-09 season.

In his final season with Rimouski, Richards won nearly every honor possible for a Canadian junior player in the QMJHL: he earned the Jean Béliveau Trophy after leading the league with 186 points, as well as the Telus Cup, given to the league's best offensive player ; he won the QMJHL and Canadian Hockey League Plus / Minus Awards with a plus-80 mark, and was a First-Team All-Star in both the Quebec circuit and the CHL, as well as the CHL Player of the Year and Leading Scorer.

The team was built around talented Danish players, and from 1987 to 1991 players from Brøndby won the Danish Player of the Year award every year.

In 2003, Kitna played every offensive down, and was named the NFL Comeback Player of the Year after throwing for over 3, 500 yards and 26 touchdown passes in leading the Bengals to a respectable 8 – 8 record, the team's first non-losing season since 1996.

On March 19, 1972, he moved into the pick market, reading every issue of Guitar Player magazine and noting musicians ’ comments concerning what they liked and didn't like about picks.

If Player A teed off on the first hole and Player B holed the final putt, Player B would not tee off at the second, meaning that Player A could, in theory, play every tee shot on the round.

" A continuing tradition at Ohio State is that at the end of every season, the team votes to award one teammate the " Bo Rein Most Inspirational Player Award.

The Clair Bee Coach of the Year Award is awarded every year to a coach who makes an outstanding contribution to the game of college basketball, and the Chip Hilton Player of the Year Award is awarded to a men's basketball player.

The NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award is given by the Associated Press to the league's most outstanding defensive player at the end of every NFL season since 1971.

As a starter he had a different offensive coordinator every year, finally finding success in his senior year when he led the Tigers to an undefeated season in 2004 and was named the SEC Player of the Year and MVP of the SEC Championship Game.

The Scottish PFA Young Player of the Year is named at the end of every Scottish football season.

In 1998 he was named the team's Most Consistent Defensive Player and started every game.

* Windows Media Player applets, used to display embedded video files in Internet Explorer ( and other browsers that support the plugin )

Some, like VirtualBox and VMware Player run on Windows and Linux hosts and can run many other operating systems.

EverQuest allows players to interact with other people through role-play, joining player guilds, and dueling other players ( in restricted situations -- EQ only allows Player versus Player ( PVP ) combat on the PvP-specific server, specified " arena " zones and through agreed upon dueling ).

* Author: The GM plans out ( in the loosest sense ) the plot of the story of which the Player Characters will become heroes ( or villains, or rich, or whatever ); creating ( or adapting, or just choosing ) the setting, populating that region with villains and other NPCs, and assigning them any necessary backgrounds, motivations, plans and resources.

* Director: During the game, while each of the other players typically controls the actions of one of the Player Characters, the GM decides the actions of all the NPCs as they are needed.

In some countries ( Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland ), there are other editions that lack some features such as Windows Media Player, Windows Media Center and Internet Explorer called names such as " Windows 7 N ."

A new edition of Star HERO was released in 2011, and other planned releases include a second Advanced Player Guide, a steampunk sourcebook, and a Cthulu Mythos book.

Flash content may be displayed on various computer systems and devices, using Adobe Flash Player, which is available free of charge for common web browsers, some mobile phones, and a few other electronic devices ( using Flash Lite ).

Windows Media Player also does not natively support Vorbis ; however, DirectShow filters exist to decode Vorbis in Windows Media Player and other Windows multimedia players that support DirectShow.

Apart from Windows Media Player, most of the WMA compression formats can be played using ALLPlayer, VLC media player, Media Player Classic, MPlayer, RealPlayer, Winamp, Zune Software ( with certain limitations — DSP plugin support and DirectSound output is disabled using the default WMA plugin ), and many other software media players.

In addition to being a media player, Windows Media Player includes the ability to rip music from and copy music to compact discs, burn recordable discs in Audio CD format or as data discs with playlists such as an MP3 CD, synchronize content with a digital audio player ( MP3 player ) or other mobile devices, and enable users to purchase or rent music from a number of online music stores.

This version of Windows, which was included with " Multimedia PC "- compatible machines but not available for retail sale, included the Media Player application, was capable of playing animation files, and could be extended to support other formats.

Windows Media Player 10 introduced support for aggregating pictures, Recorded TV shows, and other media into the library.

In Windows Media Player 11, the Quick Access Panel was removed and replaced with an Explorer-style navigation pane on the left which can be customized for each library to show the user selected media or metadata categories, with contents appearing on the right, in a graphical manner with thumbnails featuring album art or other art depicting the item.

Windows Media Player 10 and later feature integration with a large number of online music stores and selecting a music store switches the Info Center view, radio and other online features to use services from that store.

Microsoft has also released versions of Windows Media Player for other platforms including Windows Mobile, Mac OS, Mac OS X, Palm-size PC, Handheld PC, and Solaris.

While Windows Media Player 9 had added support for some files that use the WMV9 codec ( also known as the WMV3 codec by the FourCC ), in other aspects it was seen as having degraded in features from previous versions.

Microsoft now distributes a third-party plugin called WMV Player ( produced and maintained by Flip4Mac ) which allows some forms of Windows Media to be played within Apple's QuickTime Player and other QuickTime-aware applications.

For instance, there is a phonograph that destroys itself by playing a record titled " I Cannot Be Played on Record Player X " ( an analogy to Gödel's incompleteness theorems ), an examination of canon form in music, and a discussion of Escher's lithograph of two hands drawing each other.