Flash mobs, like this pillow fight flash mob in Downtown Toronto ( 2005 ), are designed to surprise passers-by.

Flash mobs are organized via telecommunications, social media, or viral emails.

In 1973, the story " Flash Crowd " by Larry Niven described a concept similar to flash mobs.

Flash mobs began as a form of performance art.

Flash mob was added to the 11th edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary on July 8, 2004 where it noted it as an " unusual and pointless act " separating it from other forms of smart mobs such as types of performance, protests, and other gatherings.

Flash mobs are a specific form of smart mob, originally describing a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, do something unusual and pointless for a brief period of time, then quickly disperse.

Flash mobs and Critical Mass style " bike block " actions are examples experimented with, with mixed results, notably during the 2004 Republican National Convention.

Flash mobs in Taiwan are often generated by this culture.

Flash floods are a constant threat ; destructive hurricanes can be expected during the late summer months

For example, in Adobe Systems Flash, the animator can specify, in keyframes, the starting and ending position of an object, such as a circle.

In Adobe Flash, shape hints can be added to both original and transformed shapes to give the program a better idea of the interpolation.

Examples include: employee manuals, benefits documents, company policies, business standards, news feeds, and even training, can be accessed using common Internet standards ( Acrobat files, Flash files, CGI applications ).

Flash memory is a non-volatile computer storage chip that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed.

Speex in Flash Player can be used for both kind of communication, through Flash Media Server or P2P.

Speex can be decoded or converted to any format unlike Nellymoser audio, which was the only speech format in previous versions of Flash Player.

Speex can be also used in the Flash Video container format (. flv ), starting with version 10 of Video File Format Specification ( published in November 2008 ).

StarOffice supports the OpenOffice. org XML file format, as well as the OpenDocument standard, and can generate PDF and Flash formats.

Designers can create Flash content including sound, video, animation and interactivity without programming.

When Mario first acquires FLUDD ( an acronym for Flash Liquidizing Ultra Dousing Device ), he can spray and hover in the air using its nozzles.

* Flash Tank: High pressure blowdown enters this vessel where the steam can ' flash ' safely and be used in a low-pressure system or be vented to atmosphere while the ambient pressure blowdown flows to drain.

The animation often appears to have a cartoon style due to the nature of the content, though some Flash creations can be quite sophisticated and realistic.

Flash animated greeting cards can include interactivity, for example, asking the viewer to choose a picture to animate ; however, most Flash e-cards are designed to convey the sentiment of the sender through simple observation.

Flash 10 technology now enables sites to develop bespoke applications which can upload photos, manipulating them and cut out the head from it.

* Flash distracts people, limiting the number of pictures that can be taken without irritating them.

Well-known techniques, and libraries such as SWFAddress and History Keeper, now exist that website creators using Flash or AJAX can use to provide deep linking to pages within their sites.

Flash flooding can also be caused by extensive rainfall released by hurricanes and other tropical storms, as well as the sudden thawing effect of ice dams.

Macromedia Flash and Macromedia Director movies can also be integrated into an Authorware project.

Moving beyond the templates, however, requires either the importing of interactive Flash or Director movies, or scripting, which can be done in Authorware's native scripting language or in JavaScript.

One personification of death is the Black Flash, who can represent Death as an internal figure for the speedsters in the DC Universe.

# Flash memory has a finite number of erase-write cycles, ( see Limitations of flash memory ), and the smallest amount of data that can be erased at once might be very large ( 128 KiB for an Intel X25-M SSD ), seldom coinciding with pagesize.

* Maximal possible number of writes ( of any specific bit or specific group of bits ; could be constrained by the technology used ( e. g., " write once " or " write twice "), or due to " physical bit fatigue ," loss of ability to distinguish between the 0, 1 states due to many state changes ( e. g., in Flash memory )).

* Maximal possible number of writes ( of any specific bit or specific group of bits ; could be constrained by the technology used ( e. g., " write once " or " write twice "), or due to " physical bit fatigue ," loss of ability to distinguish between the 0, 1 states due to many state changes ( e. g., in Flash memory )).

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 ).

became only the second hip hop group in history to be inducted, after Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.

became the second rap act to be awarded the honor ( after Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, who were inducted in 2007 ).

Other children's series of note in the 1950s would be Captain Z-Ro which was broadcast starting in 1951, Rocky Jones, Space Ranger, and Flash Gordon ( 1954 TV series ) syndicated in 1954.

* 1979 – The Vela Incident ( also known as the South Atlantic Flash ) is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.

There are currently orders for four new vessels which are being built and would be handed over mid to late 2010. They have now arrived named: Carnival Runner, Calypso sprinter, Paria Bullet and the Trini Flash

* September 22 – The South Atlantic Flash is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.

This allows the entire OS and all applications to be placed in ROM or Flash memory, and eases memory management requirements when programs are loaded into RAM and run.

Flash memory allows firmware to be updated without physically removing an integrated circuit from the system.

NOR Flash continues to be the technology of choice for embedded applications requiring a discrete non-volatile memory device.

Ming insists that Flash fight a Tournament of Death against a masked opponent, revealed to be Barin, and then a vicious orangopoid.

#: Ming orders that the Earth people be caught and killed, but Flash and his friends escape from the Emperor's clutches, and Ming is apparently killed in a crematorium.

Problems of this sort began to be addressed in the 1961 story " Flash of Two Worlds ", which featured a meeting between Barry Allen, the then-currently published version of the Flash, and Jay Garrick, the version originally published by the company.