Since the adoption of a new constitution, early in 2010, the politics of Angola takes place in a framework of a presidential republic, whereby the President of Angola is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system.

Historically almost all early computers were accumulator machines ; and many microcontrollers still popular as of 2010 ( such as the 68HC12, the PICmicro, the 8051 and several others ) are basically accumulator machines.

The recent winter of 2009 / 2010 was an exception as there was a permanent snow cover from late December till early March.

In early 2010, Watterson was interviewed by The Plain Dealer on the 15th anniversary of the end of Calvin and Hobbes.

Prior to 31 December 2010, deposits with building societies of up to £ 50, 000 per individual, per institution, were normally protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme ( FSCS ), but Nationwide and Yorkshire Building Societies negotiated a temporary change to the terms of the FSCS to protect members of the societies they acquired in late 2008 / early 2009.

The first single from Nobody's Daughter was " Skinny Little Bitch ", which was the most added song on alternative rock radio in early March 2010.

By the early 2000s, the CD largely replaced the audio cassette player as standard equipment in new automobiles, with 2010 being the final model year for any car in the US to have a factory-equipped cassette player.

OpenCDE, an open source project to replicate CDE, was started in early 2010.

With the development of the internet, by the late 1990s and early 2000, much of that regulation had been replaced where newer industry technologies developed, offering viewers alternate choices for local events and programming leading to what is today, that being Digital Cable, Internet, and Phone being offered to consumers, bundled, by 2010.

However, in early 2010, the College announced that it would re-introduce loans to its financial aid packages beginning in the 2011 – 2012 school year due to its changed financial situation.

The project is anticipated to begin detailed design in early 2010, with water delivery by 2017.

In early 2010, a new Morris documentary had been submitted to several film festivals, including Toronto International Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, and Telluride Film Festival.

Since early 2010, an agreement was established between the General Council, responsible for organizing transport between the towns, and some carriers Taxi Co.

The following U. S. listing tabulates the early 2010 ranking of major franchises along with the number of sub-franchisees ( or partners ) from data available for 2004.

As of early 2010, AI said that at least two senior military officers named by the United Nations as potentially having individual criminal responsibility for events constituting crimes against humanity, remain in positions of influence in the Guinean Presidential Cabinet, despite the formation of a new transitional government.

The only party convention in 2003 was planned for November 2003, but about 20 % of the local organisations forced the federal party to hold a special party convention in Cottbus early to discuss the party position regarding Agenda 2010, a major reform of the German welfare programmes planned by Chancellor Schröder.

Shanghai claimed in particular to have a geographical advantage, and a municipal government that dreams of turning the city into China's main economic centre by as early as 2010.

In 2010 stone tools were discovered on Flores dating from 1 million years ago, which is the oldest evidence anywhere in the world that early man had the technology to make sea crossings at this very early time.

In early 2010, Spacey went to China to star in writer-director Dayyan Eng's black-comedy film, Inseparable, alongside Hong Kong star Daniel Wu.

However, a poor series of results at the start of the 2010 – 11 season led to Liverpool fans calling for Dalglish's return as manager as early as October 2010,

The economic situation was particularly dynamic in late 2010 and early 2011 but there were signs of a slowdown, both in the international economic environment and in terms of national indicators.

Ulipristal acetate ( known as ella in the US and Ellaone in Europe ) was approved as an ECP in Europe in early 2009 and in the US in August 2010.

* Guadalupe Portal ; Aliosvi Rodriguez Whole body magnetic resonance imaging in early diagnosis in Trinidad BMJ ( 2010 ) ISSN 1756-1833 url = http :// www. bmj. com / rapid-response / 2011 / 12 / 19 / re-whole-body-magnetic-resonance-imaging

The Amiga's native ability to simultaneously play back multiple digital sound samples made it a popular platform for early " tracker " music software.

* Atanasoff – Berry Computer, an early electronic digital computer

The encoding of text by bits was also used in Morse code ( 1844 ) and early digital communications machines such as teletypes and stock ticker machines ( 1870 ).

In the early 1960s, AT & T introduced digital telephony first on long-distance trunk lines.

The use of 8-bit codes for digital telephony also caused 8-bit data octets to be adopted as the basic data unit of the early Internet.

The same team behind the BBC's digital text service also launched the early incarnations of the BBC's Interactive Wimbledon and Interactive Open Golf services in 2000, which were awarded an Interactive BAFTA that year.

Some early digital computers used an electrical model of the common decimal ( base ten ) numeral system to represent numbers internally.

Another precursor was the early development of the theory of computation and the digital computer in the 1940s and 1950s.

Theoretical chemists became extensive users of the early digital computers.

As early as 1886 he saw that logical operations could be carried out by electrical switching circuits ; the same idea as was used decades later to produce digital computers.

A variant of Coral 66 was developed during the late 1970s / early 1980s by the British GPO, in conjunction with GEC, STC and Plessey, for use on the System X digital telephone exchange control computers, known as PO-CORAL.

The cost of digital synthesizers soon began falling rapidly in the early 1980s.

Introduced in 1983, the Yamaha DX7 was an early all digital synthesizer that obtained relatively broad commercial success.

A slightly earlier, surprisingly reliable version of the same concept was to bundle a sequence of audio digital " signal " and " no signal " information ( i. e. " sound " and " silence ") on magnetic cassette tape for use with early home computers.

Starting in the late 1970s to the early 1980s, several types of video production equipment were introduced, such as time base correctors ( TBC ) and digital video effects ( DVE ) units ( one of the former being the Thomson-CSF 9100 Digital Video Processor, an internally all-digital full-frame TBC introduced in 1980, and two of the latter being the Ampex ADO, and the Nippon Electric Corporation ( NEC ) DVE ).

Bosch's machine used a modified 1 " Type B transport, and recorded an early form of CCIR 601 digital video.

Key highlights in the development of digital cinema would likely include: demonstrations by TI of their DMD technology, real-time playback of compressed hi-resolution files by various vendors, and early HD presentations from D5 tape to digital projectors.

Many instances of video or digital playback occurred during the early 2000s and claims to significance for the development of the industry vary.

Since the early 1990s, the Britannica has faced new challenges from digital information sources.

The studio went on to become an early adopter of digital filmmaking, including some of the earliest uses of HDTV.

* The DuPont Company on the Brandywine A digital exhibit produced by the Hagley Library that covers the founding and early history of the DuPont Company powder yards in Delaware

Analog computers had an advantage over early digital computers in that they could be used to solve complex problems using behavioral analogues while the earliest attempts at digital computers were quite limited.

Defining a single point in the series as the " first computer " misses many subtleties ( see the table " Defining characteristics of some early digital computers of the 1940s " below ).