This could, for instance, be " side effects " ( above conventional flags ), such as the setting of a register or memory location that was perhaps seldom used ; if this was done via ordinary ( non duplicated ) internal buses, or even the external bus, it would demand extra cycles every time, and thus be quite inefficient.

It is also used as a pro-democracy emblem in countries such as Belarus, where it has been used on protest marches alongside the banned former national flag and flags of opposition movements.

Their main responsibility is to work closely with the Electrical Department to put in the non-electrical components of lighting set-ups required for a shot, such as flags, overheads, and bounces.

The first flags were used to assist military coordination on battlefields, and flags have since evolved into a general tool for rudimentary signalling and identification, especially in environments where communication is similarly challenging ( such as the maritime environment where semaphore is used ).

Already during the high medieval period, and increasingly during the Late Middle Ages, city states and communes such as those of the Old Swiss Confederacy also began to use flags as field signs.

* The Soviet flag, with its golden symbols of the hammer and sickle on a red field, was an inspiration to flags of other communist states, such as East Germany, People's Republic of China, Vietnam, Angola, Afghanistan and Mozambique.

Many flags are dyed through and through to be inexpensive to manufacture, such that the reverse side is the mirror image of the obverse ( front ) side, generally the side displayed when the flag is flying from the observer's point of view from left, the side of the pole, to right.

Depictions of such flags may be marked with the symbol File: IFIS Equal. svg, indicating the reverse is congruent to ( rather than a mirror image of ) the obverse.

Depictions of such flags may be marked with the symbol File: IFIS Two-sided. svg.

System flags indicate state information such as whether a message has been read.

The instruction set of the i486 is very similar to its predecessor, the Intel 80386, with the addition of only a few extra instructions, such as CMPXCHG which executes the compare-and-swap atomic operation and the XADD which executes the fetch-and-add atomic operation returning the original value, unlike the ADD instruction that only returned some flags.

War flags ( also called military flags ) are used by military organizations such as Armies, Marine Corps, or Air Forces.

In practice, many countries ( such as the United States and the United Kingdom ) have identical flags for these three purposes ; national flag is sometimes used as a vexillological term to refer to such a three-purpose flag ( 23px ).

Sailors are required to be aware not only of the requirements for their own boat, but of all the other lights, shapes and flags that may be shown by other vessels, such as those fishing, towing, dredging, diving etc., as well as sound signals that may be made in restricted visibility and at close quarters, so that they can make decisions under the COLREGS in good time, should the need arise.

They routinely monitor such research publication for red flags.

Constituents pay for U. S. flags flown over the Capitol to commemorate a variety of events such as the death of a veteran family member.

Wikipedia prefers SVG for images such as simple maps, line illustrations, coats of arms, and flags, which generally are not like photographs or other continuous-tone images.

( This is perhaps because in the United States so-called fancy cancels were prevalent in this period, with the cancelling device often hand-cut from cork by the postmaster in elaborate shapes such as flags, stars or shapes that were seasonally-appropriate such as turkeys for Thanksgiving ).

After Whitney, bad tendency test continued to be used by the Court in cases such 1931's Stromberg v. California, which held that a 1919 California statute banning red flags was unconstitutional.

Exhibits include photographs from the three years stay of the Serbians in Corfu, together with other exhibits such as uniforms, arms and ammunition of the Serbian army, Serbian regimental flags, religious artifacts, surgical tools and other decorations of the Kingdom of Serbia.

The first records on the possible use of flags by indigenous peoples date back to the War of Arauco, the most famous being the use described in the late 16th century epic poem La Araucana.

These were standard Mongol tactics used in virtually all of their major battles ; they were made possible by continual training and superb battlefield communication, which used a system of flags.

The usual ALU status flags are available in a numbered register so operations such as " branch on carry clear " are possible.

The North American Vexillological Association ( NAVA ), in its 2001 survey of US state, US Territory and Canadian provincial flags rated the current Michigan flag 59th out of 72 flags evaluated ; it was given an average score of just 3. 46 out of a possible 10 points.

It is possible to overcome this disadvantage in a crude manner by using state flags or the lock and unlock commands during important routines ; however, this is likely to cause the object to miss out on signals.

Since broadcast flags could be activated at any time, a viewer who often records a program might suddenly find that it is no longer possible to save their favorite show.

In the wake of the FBI's consistent performance in handling red flags of possible terrorist threats after the Fort Hood shooting case, Clarice Feldman of The American Thinker asked " Aside from racing to the scene of the massacre and declaring that this was not an act of terrorism, what is the FBI's role in counter-intelligence?

Japanese police call them Maru-Sō ( police code マル走 or 丸走 ), and dispatch a police vehicle to trail any groups of bikes to prevent any possible incidents, which can include riding through suburbs at speeds of 5 – 10 miles an hour, creating a loud disturbance and waving imperial Japanese flags, to starting fights which can include weapons such as wooden swords, metal pipes, baseball bats and Molotov cocktails.

So, OAKKE took-in the main-the side of Israel in the battle that the latter gave in the summer of 2006 against Hezbollah, as OAKKE believes that anti-Semitism, today expressed by the request for the destruction of the state of Israel and the theory of " stateless Jewish capitalist " and " the Jewish conspiracy for world domination ," will be one of the flags of the Axis in a possible global war waged against first and foremost the peoples of the world, but also against the rivals of Russia, China, and Iran, thus the western imperialists.

Using both a telescope and signal flags, two-way communication between ship and shore was possible several hours before an incoming vessel reached the docks.

The objective is to kill as many people as possible and collect the flags that they drop, and then try to bring those flags back to a central " nexus " for points.

Searching for his father is always possible, but in order to succeed, the player will need to change his ship's flags a number of times.

Talking to each other is what intelligence agents do, often under assumed identities or ' false flags ,' looking for information or possible defectors.

A battle honour is an award of a right by a government or sovereign to a military unit to emblazon the name of a battle or operation on its flags (" colours "), uniforms or other accessories where ornamentation is possible.

A possible reconstruction of Liu Yongfu's command flags at Son Tay

As protection symbols, these emblems should be used without any additional specification ( textual or otherwise ) and in a prominent manner which makes them as visible and observable as possible, for example by using large white flags bearing the symbol.

The earliest examples of color codes in use are for long distance communication by use of flags, as in semaphore communication.

The increase of written means of informal communication brought about by the Internet has produced the practice of using quotations as personal flags, as in one's own signature block.

Techniques such as semaphore lines, ship flags, smoke signals, and beacon fires were the earliest form of technological optical communication.

Prior to about 1880, communication with the mainland was primarily with semaphore flags and flares.

Though flags were used by the watchmen for communication, these towers usually contained an alarm bell or bells built into a Bell-Cot, thus Middle English speakers thought berfrei had something to do with bells: they altered it to belfry, an interesting example of the process of folk etymology.

In 1931, the International Code of Signals, originally created for ship communication by signalling using flags, was expanded by adding a collection of five-letter codes to be used by radiotelegraph operators.

Interprocess communication information: various flags, signals and messages associated with the communication among independent processes may be stored in the PCB.

Inter-process communication ( IPC ) was done with messages, event flags, shared memory and shared files.

Additionally, Mongol battlefield communication utilized signal flags and horns and to a lesser extent, signal arrows to communicate movement orders during combat.

It lacked any communication devices, as communication between vehicles was intended to be expedited through the use of signal flags.