It has been said that at the peak of her popularity she had become a virtual cult figure.

A virtual cult of ' creatives ' have sprung up embodying and often describing and defending the post-industrial ethos.

The archaic cult statue, set on the podium that was constructed to enclose the chthonic altar dedicated to Hyakinthos, was surrounded by a virtual encyclopedia of Greek mythology, to judge from Pausanias ' enumeration of the subjects of the reliefs.

However, compared to leaders of face-to-face teams, virtual team leaders face the following difficulties: ( a ) logistical problems, including coordinating work across different time zones and physical distances ; ( b ) interpersonal issues, including an ability to establish effective working relationships in the absence of frequent face-to-face communication ; and ( c ) technological difficulties, including appropriate technology and ease-of-use.

Labour lost the general election to the Conservatives ( led by Margaret Thatcher ) in May 1979, following the Winter of Discontent in which Britain had been brought to a virtual standstill by endless public sector strikes.

The following characteristics may be found in virtual resources in mimicry of tangible property.

De Montfort's Institute of Creative Technologies will also advise Nanjing University on a digital recreation of medieval China, following the success of the institute in developing a virtual rendition of Leicester during its Roman occupation.

The concept of the virtual function solves the following problem:

Later the channel used a virtual reality studio at these times or, following ITN's takeover of the production of London Tonight, that studio.

During the following three years he consolidated his power with the building of his new palace on the outskirts of Córdoba, al-Madina az-Zahira, while at the same time completely isolating the young Caliph, who became a virtual prisoner in Medina Azahara.

Chirac, as president of France ( until 16 May 2007 ), enjoyed virtual immunity from prosecution for acts preceding his tenure as president, following from decision 98-408 DC of the Constitutional Council on 22 January 1999.

Although now a virtual ghost town, it had a rich history following construction of the Transcontinental Railroad.

: In the following description, the terminology used will be particular to the Windows NT OS, but the concepts are applicable to other virtual memory operating systems.

The Fourth Army was reformed in early 1918 — once again under Rawlinson — following the virtual destruction and subsequent disbanding of the Fifth Army during the German offensive known as Operation Michael.

Following Die Happy !, Guitar Vader was asked to contribute original music to the Dreamcast game RoomMania No. 203, a life sim following a virtual college student.

The following year marked the formation of Vizrt when Peak Broadcast Systems merged with RT-SET ( Real Time Synthesized Entertainment Technology ) Ltd, an Israeli virtual studio system developer.

There exist many technical solutions for creating virtual studios, but most of them include the following components:

Although they were granted increased rights following the revolts ( including control of Mars ), most Neosapiens still lived in virtual slavery.

The city of Atlanta was in a virtual lock down following the shootings.

WTVS's digital channel is 43, using PSIP to display its virtual channel as 56. it is multiplexed into the following digital subchannels.

Litblogs can also be used as virtual reading groups for focused discussion on a specific piece or pieces of literature, with some litblogs following a particular piece of literature through an entire reading, and others reprinting diaries or letters from authors.

In Japan, the Kagawa prefectural police arrested a Chinese foreign exchange student on 16 August 2005 following the reports of virtual mugging and the online sale of the stolen items.

For example, following a serious currency dupe exploit in EverQuest II, the developers removed large amounts of duped money from the game to address the rampant inflation it caused in the game's virtual economy.

On December 3, it was announced that the German FIFA duo of Daniel " hero " Schellhase and Dennis " styla " Schellhase would be retiring from eSports, following a joint brotherly career as the most-successful virtual sports players of all time.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of exclusively virtual universities.

Mention can be made of the technological components available in the following units: The SIU ( University Information System, acronym in Spanish ) with its " People Soft " platform for Academic Management ; the New Technologies-Aided Education Center ( CEANTIC ) that offers virtual courses support through its Blackboard platform ; the Centro Audiovisual Javeriano, with front edge technology in this field in Latin America, internationally accredited like Autodesk Training Center-ATC ; the Computer-Aided Architecture and Design Project, CAAD ; the Technological Industrial Automation Center ; the Geo-referenced Information Center, GIC, the Javeriana Center of Oncology ; the San Ignacio University Hospital, and the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center.

Newer treatment methods such as virtual reality and robotics remain under-researched ; however, there is reason to believe that virtual reality in upper limb rehabilitation may be useful, following an acquired brain injury.

In 1989, Autodesk, an American multinational corporation that focuses on 2D and 3D design software, developed a virtual design system called Cyberspace.

As a result of a long history of a strong landowning peasantry and the virtual absence of serfdom in most parts of Eritrea, the bulk of Eritreans had developed a distinct sense of cultural identity and superiority vis-à-vis Ethiopians.

They were particularly interested in virtual reality ( particularly the BattleTech Centers / Virtual World ) but also developed desktop computer games.

The original and reference implementation Java compilers, virtual machines, and class libraries were developed by Sun from 1995.

OpenGL was developed by Silicon Graphics Inc. in 1992 and is widely used in CAD, virtual reality, scientific visualization, information visualization, flight simulation, and video games.

A multiplayer flight simulator version of Knight Hawks Vector is being developed for Orbiter Space Simulator program, and a virtual tabletop version is also in the works.

Since the release of the original Tomb Raider in 1996, the series developed into a lucrative franchise of related media, and Lara went on to become a major icon of the virtual gaming industry.

One of the newer methods developed for conducting a synchronous remote usability test is by using virtual worlds.

* VirtualBox is an open source ( GPL )/ proprietary virtual machine developed by Sun Microsystems ( originally developed by Innotek GmbH and now owned by Oracle Corporation ).

In computing, virtual memory is a memory management technique developed for multitasking kernels.

* Ryan Chester's Virtually Reality ( 2011 ) depicts a future world in which most natural wonders have been destroyed and developed upon, and virtual reality systems provide the only way for humans to experience the nature they never knew for real.

Joel Berez and Marc Blank developed a specialized virtual machine to run Zork I, called the Z-machine.

The Z-machine is a virtual machine that was developed by Joel Berez and Marc Blank in 1979 and used by Infocom for its text adventure games.

Visual chat rooms add graphics to the chat experience, in either 2D or 3D ( employing virtual reality technology ). These are characterized by using a graphic representation of the user, an avatar ( virtualing elements such as games ( in particular massively multiplayer online games ) and educational material most often developed by individual site owners, who in general are simply more advanced users of the systems.

In 2006, Self was still being developed as part of the Klein project, which was a Self virtual machine written fully in Self.

Several just-in-time compilation ( JIT ) techniques were pioneered and improved in Self research as they were required to allow a very high level object oriented language to perform at up to half the speed of optimized C. Much of the development of Self took place at Sun Microsystems, and the techniques they developed were later deployed for Java's HotSpot virtual machine.

Symbolics developed a Genera version, named Open Genera, that included a virtual machine that enabled executing Genera on DEC Alpha based workstations, plus several Genera extensions and applications that were sold separately ( like the Symbolics S-Graphics suite ).

Cintpos is an experimental interpretive version of TRIPOS which runs on the Cintcode BCPL virtual machine, also developed by Martin Richards.

A number of other studios produced TV cartoons, such as Filmation ( Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, The Archies ) and DePatie-Freleng Enterprises ( The Pink Panther ), but Hanna-Barbera had developed a virtual lock on Saturday morning cartoons by the 1970s.

The software developed by the staff of the University of Michigan's academic Computing Center for the operation of the IBM S / 360-67, S / 370, and compatible computers can be described as a multiprogramming, multiprocessing, virtual memory, time-sharing supervisor ( University of Michigan Multiprogramming Supervisor or UMMPS ) that handles a number of resident, reentrant programs.

The units within the product line above the base-model TriCaster 2. 0 enables use of LiveSet 3D Live Virtual Set technology developed by NewTek, that replaces tens of thousands of dollars worth of conventional 3D virtual set equipment alone, and is also found in NewTek's venerable VT Integrated Production Suite, the modern-day successor to the original VideoToaster.

Information sharing should be considered synchronous in a virtual office and building processes to handle conflicts should be developed.

In 2005, the virtual world Second Life started to be used for foreign language tuition, sometimes with entire businesses being developed.