To be considered a ' hack ' was an honour among like-minded peers as " to qualify as a hack, the feat must be imbued with innovation, style and technical virtuosity " ( Levy, 1984 p. 10 ) The MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club Dictionary defined hack in 1959 ( not yet in a computer context ) as " 1 ) an article or project without constructive end ; 2 ) a project undertaken on bad self-advice ; 3 ) an entropy booster ; 4 ) to produce, or attempt to produce, a hack ( 3 ).

Mike Clark of USA Today said, " Just about any golden age Hollywood hack could have made a zestier drama about one of the greatest rescue missions in U. S. military history ," and criticized " Franco's droning voice-over " for spelling out " every sliver of historical context ", and also said " a huge chunk of time is given to an uncompelling romance between a major ... and a widowed nurse.

In this context, the word hack denotes a clever trick ( as in programming ), not an exploit or break-in ( as in security ).

The term " Islamic " refers not only to the religion, but to any form of art created in an Islamic culture or in an Islamic context.

Bandwidth typically refers to baseband bandwidth in the context of, for example, sampling theorem and Nyquist sampling rate, while it refers to passband bandwidth in the context of Nyquist symbol rate or Shannon-Hartley channel capacity for communication systems.

In recent usage, especially in the context of environmental policy, the term " climate change " often refers only to changes in modern climate, including the rise in average surface temperature known as global warming.

In an Australian context, the term " Commonwealth " ( capitalised ) thus refers to the federal government and " Commonwealth of Australia " is the official name of the country.

They also believe that the phrase Holy Spirit sometimes refers to God's character / mind, depending on the context in which the phrase appears, but reject the orthodox Christian view that we need strength, guidance and power from the Holy Spirit to live the Christian life, believing instead that the spirit a believer needs within themselves is the mind / character of God, which is developed in a believer by their reading of the Bible ( which, they believe, contains words God gave by his Spirit ) and trying to live by what it says during the events of their lives which God uses to help shape their character.

Methanides in general chemical context refers to any compound that hydrolyzes to methane, which might include also salts with hydrogenated anions such as,, and.

In the context of mysticism, the phrase refers metaphorically to the end of ordinary reality and reunion with the Divine.

However, in the context of explosives, stability commonly refers to ease of detonation, which is concerned with kinetics ( i. e., rate of decomposition ).

In this context the term " professional " ( used for the first category ) as opposed to " amateur " ( used for the second and third ) refers only to the professionalism of the used medium, and not to the professionalism of the language itself or its creator.

The term gaming in this context typically refers to instances in which the activity has been specifically permitted by law.

In the context of the English language gnosis generally refers to the word's meaning within the spheres of Christian mysticism, Mystery religions and Gnosticism where it signifies a ' spiritual knowledge ' or religion of knowledge, in the sense of mystical enlightenment or ' insight '.

Chrétien refers to his object not as " The Grail " but as " a grail " ( un graal ), showing the word was used, in its earliest literary context, as a common noun.

In this context, the term usually refers to the Shannon entropy, which quantifies the expected value of the information contained in a message.

The word literally means " blown out " ( as in a candle ) and refers, in the Buddhist context, to the imperturbable stillness of mind after the fires of desire, aversion, and delusion have been finally extinguished.

The musical terms " piano " and " forte " mean " quiet " and " loud ," and in this context refers to the variations in volume of sound the instrument produces in response to a pianist's touch on the keys: the greater a key press's velocity, the greater the force of the hammer hitting the string ( s ), and the louder the note produced.

In this context, linguists today use jargon to denote a particularly rudimentary type of pidgin ; however, this usage is rather rare, and the term jargon most often refers to the words particular to a given profession.

A sect as used in an Indian context refers to an organized tradition.

In the context of business information exchanges, standardisation refers to the process of developing data exchange standards for specific business processes using specific syntaxes.

In the context of customer service, standardisation refers to the process of developing an international standard that enables organizations to focus their attention on delivering excellence in customer service, whilst at the same time providing recognition of success through a third party organization, such as British Standards Institution ( BSI ).

In a sexual context, scatology refers to the romanticism of fecal matter, whether in passing admiration, the use of feces in various sexual acts, or simply the act of seeing it.

In such constructions tradition refers to specific values and materials particular to the discussed context, passed through generations.

When the first program reached an instruction waiting for a peripheral, the context of this program was stored away, and the second program in memory was given a chance to run.

" He chose the context of psychotherapy to " sidestep the problem of giving the program a data base of real-world knowledge ", the therapeutic situation being one of the few real human situations in which a human being can reply to a statement with a question that indicates very little specific knowledge of the topic under discussion.

A memory leak, in computer science ( or leakage, in this context ), occurs when a computer program consumes memory but is unable to release it back to the operating system.

* attempting to access memory the program does not have rights to ( such as kernel structures in process context )

Understanding a program with side effects requires knowledge about the context and its possible histories ; and therefore can be hard to read, understand and debug.

Scholasticism is a method of critical thought which dominated teaching by the academics ( scholastics, or schoolmen ) of medieval universities in Europe from about 1100 – 1500, and a program of employing that method in articulating and defending orthodoxy in an increasingly pluralistic context.

In the context of client-server architecture, a server is a computer program running to serve the requests of other programs, the " clients ".

In the context of Internet Protocol ( IP ) networking, a server is a program that operates as a socket listener.

Shortly thereafter, the notion of a ' program ' was expanded to the notion of an ' executing program and its context '.

Interpreting code is slower than running the compiled code because the interpreter must analyze each statement in the program each time it is executed and then perform the desired action, whereas the compiled code just performs the action within a fixed context determined by the compilation.

In computer programming, a scope is the context within a computer program in which a variable name or other identifier is valid and can be used, or within which a declaration has effect.

John Mauchly has also been credited for being the first one using the verb " to program " in his 1942 paper on electronic computing, although in the context of ENIAC, not in its current meaning.

According to Enthoven and Smith, the basic ideas of PPBS were: " the attempt to put defense program issues into a broader context and to search for explicit measures of national need and adequacy "; " consideration of military needs and costs together "; " explicit consideration of alternatives at the top decision level "; " the active use of an analytical staff at the top policymaking levels "; " a plan combining both forces and costs which projected into the future the foreseeable implications of current decisions "; and " open and explicit analysis, that is, each analysis should be made available to all interested parties, so that they can examine the calculations, data, and assumptions and retrace the steps leading to the conclusions.

Institutional or Production dramaturgs may make files of materials about a play's history or social context, prepare program notes, lead post-production discussions, or write study guides for schools and groups.

In a very broad context, the program built on existing ideas: the philosophy of cusp forms formulated a few years earlier by Harish-Chandra and the work and approach of Harish-Chandra on semisimple Lie groups, and in technical terms the trace formula of Selberg and others.

Understanding the community context in which programs serving the community function has an important influence on program sustainability and success.

In the context of programming languages, reification is the process by which a user program or any aspect of a programming language that was implicit in the translated program and the run-time system, are expressed in the language itself.

Denton Corker Marshall manipulates sculptural forms to meet the constraints of the buildings context and program.

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