A complicated watch has one or more functions beyond the basic function of displaying the time and the date ; such a functionality is called a complication.

During his first year as a graduate student at Harvard, Ted Nelson began implementing the system which contained the basic outline of what would become Project Xanadu: a word processor capable of storing multiple versions, and displaying the differences between these versions.

Because it is the primary means of displaying the files and directories on disk or other storage medium within a command window, the dir command is one of the most basic commands employed by users of the command line interface to MS-DOS and subsequent versions of Microsoft Windows.

WorldWideWeb was capable of displaying basic style sheets, downloading and opening any file type supported by the NeXT system ( PostScript, movies, and sounds ), browsing newsgroups, and spellchecking.

Attendee Fjalar Clemes suggested a triangle displaying basic foods at the base.

A record from Agent Smith's file on Anderson displaying basic facts about Anderson including his birthday and his early history.

The basic badge is unique in its design while the senior and master badges are similar in appearance with the master badge displaying the words " Peritus " in a gold arch at the top of the badge.

While no technical advances were required to achieve it, some games over 100 megabits, such as Top Hunter, followed this screen by displaying an animation proclaiming " THE 100MEGA SHOCK !".

The main scope for error comes in setting the parameter of first or third angle projection, and displaying the relevant symbol on the technical drawing.

In June 1999 Värttinä was awarded the BASF Master Award, given to artists, producers, recorders and studios for records gaining chart success and at the same time displaying high technical and artistic quality.

The front plate usually carries a round label displaying the month and year until when the technical inspection of the vehicle is valid.

Her stylistic hallmarks are said to be rich imagery, technical skill and musicality ; wit, passion and lyrical intelligence, with internal rhyme, half-rhyme and enjambment deployed to song-like effects, displaying unusual energy within and against the line, ' As if Wallace Stevens had hijacked Sylvia Plath with a dash of punk Sappho thrown in.

The music that is rehearsed and performed is at a greater difficulty level, and thus, requires that its members be more dedicated while displaying a high level of technical ability.

Breaking ( dancing ) | Breaking, an early form of hip hop dance, often involves battle ( dance ) | battles, showing off technical skills as well as displaying tongue-in-cheek bravado

Due to the Master System's technical capabilities, this version featured graphics improved over the NES version, using brighter colors and displaying up to three different enemies on-screen.

For example, BSD and GNU specify a < tt >- h </ tt > option, displaying disk usage in a format easier to read by the user, adding units with the appropriate SI prefix ( e. g. 10 MB ).

In order to copy 400K floppy disks using as few disk swaps as possible on a machine with only 128K of RAM, the original Disk Copy used the screen buffer to store binary data from the disk being copied ; as a result, the screen ( other than a small area at the bottom displaying the GUI ) filled with noise while copying was in progress.

A color code is a system for displaying information by using different colors.

* See Closed captioning for Closed Caption Display, a technology for displaying text information embedded in video signals

HyperText Markup Language ( HTML ) is the main markup language for displaying web pages and other information that can be displayed in a web browser.

Users of such services may also choose to display more generic location information ( i. e. " In the City " or " Philadelphia " or " Work ") to some of their more casual acquaintances while only displaying specific location information, such as their exact address, to closer contacts like spouse, relatives, and good friends.

Electronic program guides and interactive program guides provide users of television, radio, and other media applications with continuously updated menus displaying broadcast programming or scheduling information for current and upcoming programming.

Closed captioning or subtitling is the process of displaying text on a television, video screen or other visual display to provide additional or interpretive information to individuals who wish to access it.

An information system is a work system whose activities are devoted to processing ( capturing, transmitting, storing, retrieving, manipulating and displaying ) information.

Usually, each information source gets its dedicated area on the page for displaying information ( a portlet ); often, the user can configure which ones to display.

The intended purpose of Project Glass products would be the hands-free displaying of information currently available to most smartphone users, and allowing for interaction with the Internet via natural language voice commands.

A Nixie tube is an electronic device for displaying numerals or other information.

Nonetheless, views still differ on whether something displaying these attributes is meaningful without the information provided by the market price system.

If displaying color, all three channels are used, and the original RGB information can be decoded.

However today's modern television is capable of displaying more information than is contained in these lossy signals.

In 1974 all the services agreed a standard for displaying the information.

* Videotex: The generic term used, but not formally approved ( at the end of 1979 ), by CCITT for a two-way interactive service emphasizing information retrieved, and capable of displaying pages of text and pictorial material on the screens of adapted TVs.

* Teletext: A generic term used to describe one-way broadcast information services for displaying pages of text and pictorial material on the screens of adapted TVs.

In addition to advisors, a news ticker scrolls along the bottom of the screen, displaying pertinent information about the city in the form of news stories, such as indicating that the city needs more schools, or how well a particular city department is functioning.

The game's " exploration " mode uses a three-dimensional first-person perspective, with a rectangle in the top left of the screen displaying the party's current view ; the rest of the screen displays text information about the party and the area.

This technique is to distinguish from 3D displays that displaying an image in three full dimensions which gives the observer the possibility to increase information about the 3-dimensional objects being displayed by head and eyes movements.

* Numeric Pagers contain a numeric LCD display capable of displaying the calling phone number or other arbitrary numeric information generally up to 10 digits.

Since then, the term has come to be used specifically for graphic design for displaying information effectively, rather than just attractively or for artistic expression.

Computer displays in which the positions of individual pixels are permanently fixed by the design of the hardware — such as most modern flat panel displays — can show saw-tooth edges when displaying small, high-contrast graphic elements such as text.

DikuMUD had a key influence on the early evolution of the MMORPG genre, with EverQuest ( created by avid DikuMUD player Brad McQuaid ) displaying such Diku-like gameplay that Verant developers were made to issue a sworn statement that no actual DikuMUD code was incorporated.

As such, they exhibit wave-particle duality, displaying particle-like behavior under certain experimental conditions and wave-like behavior in others.

Puhua was known for his unusual behavior and teaching style so it is no wonder that he is associated with an event that breaks the usual prohibition on displaying such powers.

The ailments may be either purely physical afflictions — such as disease, which may be cured by gifting, flattering, threatening, or wrestling the disease-spirit ( sometimes trying all these, sequentially ), and which may be completed by displaying a supposedly extracted token of the disease-spirit ( displaying this, even if " fraudulent ", is supposed to impress the disease-spirit that it has been, or is in the process of being, defeated, so that it will retreat and stay out of the patient's body ) --, or else mental ( including psychosomatic ) afflictions — such as persistent terror ( on account of a frightening experience ), which may be likewise cured by similar methods.

Many thin clients offer options to turn off various graphics-rich user interface effects in order to increase performance, such as not showing the contents of a window while dragging or not displaying a desktop background.

Closed captions are also used in public environments, such as bars and restaurants, where patrons may not be able to hear over the background noise, or where multiple televisions are displaying different programs.

Halley is the most active of all the periodic comets, with others, such as Comet Encke and Comet Holmes, displaying activity one or two orders of magnitude weaker.

The stone dresser was regarded as the most important as it symbolically faces the entrance in each house and is therefore the first item seen when entering, perhaps displaying symbolic objects, including decorative artwork such as several Neolithic Carved Stone Balls also found at the site.

Colloquial definitions of war crime include violations of established protections of the laws of war, but also include failures to adhere to norms of procedure and rules of battle, such as attacking those displaying a peaceful flag of truce, or using that same flag as a ruse of war to mount an attack.

Windows Me featured the shell enhancements inherited from Windows 2000 such as personalized menus, customizable Windows Explorer toolbars, auto-complete in Windows Explorer address bar and Run box, Windows 2000 advanced file type association features, displaying comments in shortcuts as tooltips, extensible columns in Details view ( IColumnProvider interface ), icon overlays, integrated search pane in Windows Explorer, sort by name function for menus, Places bar in common dialogs for Open and Save, cascading Start menu special folders, some Plus!

Modern laws of war, such as the 1949 Geneva Conventions, also include prohibitions on attacking doctors, ambulances or hospital ships displaying a Red Cross, a Red Crescent or other emblem related to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

Some authors suggest that the idea of such portraits may be related to the custom among the Roman nobility of displaying imagines, images of their ancestors, in the atrium of their house.

Shows such as Doctor Who-most specifically in the episode " Robots of Death "-have also tackled the issue of technophobia, with a character in " Robots of Death " displaying a great fear of robots due to their lack of body language, described by the Fourth Doctor as giving them the appearance of " dead men walking ".

MPlayer also supports a variety of different output drivers for displaying video, including VDPAU, the X video extension, OpenGL, DirectX, Direct3D, Quartz Compositor, VESA, Framebuffer, SDL and rarer ones such as ASCII art and Blinkenlights.

At the time of King Henry VIII of England, such was the male fashion for displaying a well turned leg that even the king padded the calf area under his hose.

For shots displaying characters such as the Angels seated in aircraft cockpits, variations of the " under control " design, comprising just a head and torso, were manipulated by levers and wires positioned underneath the set.