IP telephony is a modern form of telephony which uses the TCP / IP protocol popularized by the Internet to transmit digitized voice data.

* Voice over Internet protocol ( VOIP ) vs. conventional telephony: Although conventional telephony systems are easily tapped and recorded, modern VOIP technology can employ low cost strong cryptography to evade surveillance.

Howard Rheingold ( born July 7, 1947 ) is a critic, writer, and teacher ; his specialties are on the cultural, social and political implications of modern communication media such as the Internet, mobile telephony and virtual communities ( a term he is credited with inventing ).

Mobile radio telephone systems preceded modern cellular mobile telephony technology.

Such sightings and stories may simply be a more modern manifestation of earlier stories of mythical black dogs and other such creatures in remote areas of Britain, such as those that inspired The Hound of the Baskervilles.

The memex proposed by Bush would create trails of links connecting sequences of microfilm frames, rather than links in the modern sense where a hyperlink connects a single word, phrase or picture within a document and a local or remote destination.

After securely establishing this position as his mistress, she divorced Otho and had the Emperor send him away as governor to the remote province of Lusitania ( which is now parts of both modern Portugal and Extremadura, Spain ).

While remote, rural areas still largely depend on non-mechanized means of transport, a modern maglev train system was built in China to connect the city center of Shanghai with its international airport.

In the Christmas 2009 episode " The End of Time, Part One ", the Doctor uses a remote locking system to lock the TARDIS, similar to the remote-control locking system used on modern cars.

Azerbaijan's telephone system is a combination of old Soviet era technology used by Azerbaijani citizens and small-to medium-size commercial establishments, and modern cellular telephones used by an increasing middle class, large commercial ventures, international companies, and most government officials ; the average citizen waits on a 200, 000-person list for telephone service ; Internet and e-mail service are available in all major cities and some remote towns.

The idea of a confrontation between a modern Christian and a remote, pagan community continued to intrigue Shaffer, who performed painstaking research on paganism.

Yeoman or gauman within the definition of both land and / or service of a young man appeared mostly settled around the border regions or remote countrysides of their districts, or kingdoms ( both modern and ancient ); thus a connection or association with pagus ( pages ), or rustics to the term yeoman.

In a modern square rigged design the crew can furl and unfurl its sails by remote control from the deck.

Automation in the modern context began in the early 1980s, made possible firstly by the construction of lantern top helipads at remote rock lighthouses, to enable the rapid transfer of technicians to a lighthouse in the event of a breakdown, and secondly, by the development of remote control technology, which enables all lighthouses and lightvessels to be monitored and controlled from the Trinity House Operations and Planning Centre, in Harwich, Essex.

The Amish and some Mennonites speak Pennsylvania German also known as Pennsylvania Dutch, a West Central German dialect, which is very remote from modern Standard German.

In fact, for the majority of modern devices with this kind of control, the remote contains all the function controls while the controlled device itself only has a handful of essential primary controls.

Many specialists, including Jakob Nielsen, a renowned usability specialist, and Robert Adler, the inventor of the modern remote, note how confusing, unwieldy and frustrating the multiplying remotes have become.

Campers can stay in either the two campgrounds, remote hike-in or modern drive-in rental cabins.

Although some systems for remote control are based on narrowband signaling, modern high-speed systems use broadband signaling to achieve very high data rates.

As it was written in a program note that accompanied the movie's premier " It is a modern poem presented with medieval material that has been very freely handled ... The script in particular — embodies a mid-twentieth century existentialist angst .... Still, to be fair to Bergman, one must allow him his artistic license, and the script's modernisms may be justified as giving the movie's medieval theme a compelling and urgent contemporary relevance ... Yet the film succeeds to a large degree because it is set in the Middle Ages, a time that can seem both very remote and very immediate to us living in the modern world .... Ultimately The Seventh Seal should be judged as a historical film by how well it combines the medieval and the modern.

The ancient fortress of Siwa, built on natural rock ( an inselberg ), made of salt, mud-brick and palm logs and known as the Shali Ghadi (" Shali " being the name of the town, and " Ghadi " meaning remote ), although now mostly abandoned and ' melted ', remains a prominent feature, towering five stories above the modern town.

Today, implementations of the dBase language have expanded to include many features targeted for business applications, including object-oriented programming, manipulation of remote and distributed data via SQL, Internet functionality, and interaction with modern devices.

The key requirements that must be met by modern POS systems include: high and consistent operating speed, reliability, ease of use, remote supportability, low cost, and rich functionality.

Ranke later wrote " I see the time approaching when we shall base modern history, no longer on the reports even of contemporary historians, except in-so-far as they were in the possession of personal and immediate knowledge of facts ; and still less on work yet more remote from the source ; but rather on the narratives of eyewitnesses, and on genuine and original documents.

Numerous modern civilian aircraft have a floatplane variant, usually for light duty transportation to lakes and other remote areas.

This family of methods are used for the Wii Remote, GunCon 3, and modern arcade light gun games.

The Geography Department has created a modern Remote Sensing and Geographical Information System ( RS / GIS ) unit ( as a Central facility ) during the Ninth Plan, for research, database development and the conduct of a Post-graduate Diploma course in RS / GIS.

Since the replacement in the 1980s and 90s of electromechanical exchanges by modern digital ones, the function of a Class 5 switch in rural areas is often performed by some form of remote switch or Remote Digital Terminal installed at the original switch site to handle local switching or concentration, respectively.

In 2012, the Mezcal Jazz Unit of Montpellier, France, collaborated by Internet with Grayhawk Perkins, a historian of the Muskogean nation, to make a recording titled Thirteen Moons which features " the soulful chants of ancient folk tales and more modern stories told in Mobilian.

Unit construction since its introduction has defined the development of the modern kitchen, with pre-manufactured modules using mass manufacturing techniques developed during World War II greatly bringing down the cost of a kitchen.

In November 2011 tests conducted at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit in England on what were previously thought to be Neanderthal baby teeth, which had been unearthed in 1964 from the Grotta del Cavallo, were identified as the oldest modern human remains discovered anywhere in Europe, dating from between 43, 000 to 45, 000 years ago.

In modern car engines the ignition timing is managed by an electronic Engine Control Unit.

In addition, modern firefighting SCBAs incorporate a PASS device ( Personal Alert Safety System ) or an ADSU ( Automatic Distress Signal Unit ) into their design.

A modern unit of account is the European Currency Unit, used in the European Union from 1979 to 1998 ; its replacement in 1999, the euro, was also just a unit of account until the introduction of notes and coins in 2002.

Motion uses pixel shaders which move the processing of video effects to the Graphics Processing Unit ( GPU ) of a modern graphics card.

He was the first modern Georgia governor nominated in the Democratic primary by the popular vote after the abolition of the County Unit System, a kind of electoral college formerly used to elect Georgia governors.

Major Avi Nardia ( Unit 216 Sayeret Matkal and Yamam Hand to Hand Combat instructor ) developed many of the techniques now seen in modern Krav Maga, very specifically many of the gun disarms which were not in historical KAPAP and therefore Krav Maga.

In a modern engine with an engine management system and direct ignition, the Engine Control Unit ( ECU ) takes care of the correct firing sequence.

The Planning Unit aimed to fuse architectural space and its contents by not only creating a consistent visual language of the modern office space, but also making it inhabitable and responsive to the changing needs of everyday living and working.

Jacobs, like the other photographers in the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit, followed Steichen's advice to concentrate on the human side of modern war.

The reason that it is safe to run the removal phase concurrently with RCU readers is the semantics of modern CPUs guarantee that readers will see either the old or the new version of the data structure rather than a partially updated reference.

Concurrent RCU readers can then continue accessing the old versions, and can dispense with the atomic operations, memory barriers, and cache misses that are so expensive on modern SMP computer systems, even in absence of lock contention.