As more and more programs enter the realm of firmware, and the hardware itself becomes smaller, cheaper and faster as predicted by Moore's law, elements of computing first considered to be software, join the ranks of hardware.

It is said that when Wittgenstein first heard this paradox one evening ( which Moore had earlier stated in a lecture ), he rushed round to Moore's lodgings, got him out of bed and insisted that Moore repeat the entire lecture to him.

The 1903 article The Refutation of Idealism is one of the first demonstrations of Moore's commitment to analysis.

Among Dayton Moore's first acts as General Manager was instating a new motto for the team: " True.

Moore's first regular television role was as a mysterious and glamorous telephone receptionist on Richard Diamond, Private Detective.

The Enterprise-D's end also appeared — the saucer crash had first been proposed as the cliffhanger for Moore's original seventh-season finale " All Good Things ...", which eventually became the series finale.

* C. L. Moore's Jirel of Joiry tales, beginning with " Black God's Kiss " ( 1934 ), which introduced the first notable sword and sorcery heroine.

This was Alan Moore's second re-invention of a comic book character, the first being Miracleman.

Moore's Swamp Thing had a profound effect on mainstream comic books, being the first horror comic to approach the genre from a literary point of view since the EC horror comics of the 1950s, and broadened the scope of the series to include ecological and spiritual concerns while retaining its horror-fantasy roots.

After Rogernomics, the New Zealand Labour Party was paralysed by infighting for most of the next six years, as former Trade Minister Mike Moore became Leader of the Opposition ( 1990 – 1993 ), followed by Helen Clark, whose first term as Leader of the Opposition was undermined by Moore's populist personal faction.

On July 29, 1897, the steamer Queen docked at Moore's wharf with the first boat load of prospectors.

Regarding the first claim, the series is, by Moore's own admission, didactic: " there are 1000 comic books on the shelves that don't contain a philosophy lecture and one that does.

Importantly, despite the fact that Moore's spirited defense led to more than a 4-to-1 ratio between North Vietnamese casualties and U. S. casualties in their first major engagement of the war, Moore considers the battle a draw because the U. S. forces left the area, allowing the North Vietnamese to reassert control.

The team of Charlton characters first planned for Moore's Watchmen became reality in 1999 with the DC miniseries L. A. W.

It was guitarist Gary Moore's first professional band.

However, Charlton was not Moore's first choice partner, with Everton's Brian Labone getting the nod after a sturdy series of displays during the European Championships two years earlier.

On 6 March 2011, Sir Patrick presented the 700th edition of the show, a special retrospective episode which included Jon Culshaw once again appearing as Moore's younger self, as well as Dr. Brian May and the first appearance on the show of Professor Brian Cox.

In 2011, Moore's genome was the first human genome sequenced on Ion Torrent's Personal Genome Machine platform, a massively parallel sequencing device.

* In a portrait that appears in the first volume of Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Fanny Hill is depicted as a member of the 18th century version of the League.

Philosophical interest in Moore's paradox, since Moore and Wittgenstein, has undergone a resurgence, starting with, though not limited to, Jaakko Hintikka, continuing with Roy Sorensen, David Rosenthal, Sydney Shoemaker and the first publication, in 2007, of a collection of articles devoted to the problem.

Despite being successful in numerous other countries, it failed to match the success of Moore's first two singles.

Four days later, Schmidt ended Montreal Expos pitcher Balor Moore's streak of 25 scoreless innings pitched with his first career home run.

Other examples of instrumental recitative in twentieth century music include the third movement of Douglas Moore's Quintet for Clarinet and Strings ( 1946 ), the first of Richard Rodney Bennett's Five Impromptus for guitar ( 1968 ), and the second of William Bolcom's 12 New Etudes for Piano ( 1977 – 86 ).

Thomas was responsible for Mary Tyler Moore's first " big break " in acting.

Moore's reward for good performance as Jamaica's governor was first to be made a Baronet, and then in 1764 he was named royal governor for New York.

* March 20 – Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore's Carolina militia launches a major offensive against Fort Neoheroka.

Another major target was the Foreign Secretary Lord Castlereagh who was repeatedly lampooned in Moore's works such as Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress which parodied the Aix-la-Chapelle diplomatic conference between Britain and her Allies portraying it as a boxing match.

One distinguishing characteristic of Douglas Moore's music is the modesty, grace and tender lyricism that mark the slower passages of his many works, especially his Symphony in A major and the clarinet quintet.

( Thorpe left in 1982, to be replaced by Alan Moore in one of Moore's first major ongoing strips.

The 1980s saw a number of television films to her credit, and a major film success, Dudley Moore's star vehicle Arthur ( 1981 ).

The song is heard in a choral rendition by Ken Darby in the 1968 John Wayne film, The Green Berets, based on Moore's book.

* The song is used to humorous effect in Michael Moore's film Canadian Bacon as ill-informed Americans prepare for an invasion by Canada.

Moore's future television castmate Ed Asner also appeared in that film ( as a cop ).

Gilliam has attempted twice to adapt Alan Moore's Watchmen comics into a film.

At that time Moore's film career was already on the wane.

Other roles included the doctor who grounds Michael Caine's character in Alfie, the unattainable Margaret Spencer in Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's film Bedazzled, and Hermione Roddice in Ken Russell's Women in Love.

The silent film star and stock market investor Colleen Moore's Fairy Castle is on display.

In July 2007, one month after the release of Michael Moore's film Sicko, Rudy Giuliani, the front-runner for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, attacked the health care plans of Democratic presidential candidates as socialized medicine that was European and socialist, Giuliani claimed that he had a better chance of surviving prostate cancer in the U. S than he would have had in England and went on to repeat the claim in campaign speeches for three months before making them in a radio advertisement.

There are various examples of remakes which are most associated with the reimagine or renovate terms, and these include Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes, Nora Ephron's Bewitched, Marcus Nispel's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th, Rob Zombie's Halloween, Samuel Bayer's A Nightmare on Elm Street, Ronald D. Moore's Battlestar Galactica, David Eick's Bionic Woman, Nelson McCormick's Prom Night, Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead, and Kenneth Johnson V. Tim Burton has denied that his 2010 film Alice in Wonderland is a renovation of Lewis Carroll's classic novel ; however, the plot line of the film bears very little resemblance to the original or derivatives of it, such as the classic 1951 animated film from Walt Disney.

More recently, film critic Dennis Schwartz gave the film a mixed review, writing, " The gallows humor was the melodramatic farce's saving grace ; the film uses its razor-sharp instruments to cut into the hides of the insensitive institutionalized health care providers like Michael Moore's Sicko does in 2007 to the fat-cat HMOs.

This film, financed partly by Moore's mortgaging of his home and partly by the settlement money from a lawsuit he filed against Mother Jones for wrongful termination, was meant to be a personal statement over his anger not just at GM, but also the economic policies and social attitudes of the United States government during the Reagan era, which allows a corporation to remove the largest source of income from an entire town.

The film proved to be the most successful documentary in American history at the time in its theatrical run ( since surpassed at the box office by Moore's later documentaries Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9 / 11 ) and enjoyed wide critical acclaim.

Critic Roger Ebert wrote an article entitled, " Attacks on ' Roger & Me ' completely miss point of film " that defends Moore's manipulation of his film's timeline as an artistic and stylistic choice that has less to do with his credibility as a filmmaker and more to do with the flexibility of film as a medium to express a viewpoint using the same methods that satirists have used.

Critic Billy Stevenson described the film as Moore's " most astonishing ", arguing that it represents an effort to conflate film-making and labor, and that " it's this fusion of film-making and work that allows Moore to fully convey the desecration of Flint without ever transforming it into a sublime or melancholy poverty-spectacle, thereby distancing himself from the retouristing of the town-as-simulacrum that occupies the last and most intriguing part of the film.

In addition to Moore's cover of " Only Hope ", Switchfoot ’ s songs “ You ”, “ Learning to Breathe ”, and “ Dare You to Move ” were showcased in the film, as well as their own original version of " Only Hope " towards the end of the film.

This was highlighted in Michael Moore's 2002 film Bowling for Columbine.

Using, among other sources, archive footage sourced by Michael Moore's archivist Carl Deal, the film explores the role of US intervention, overt and covert, in toppling a series of governments in the region since the 1950s.

The book was adapted into the 2002 film We Were Soldiers, which was filmed at Forts Benning and Hunter Liggett, depicting Moore's command of 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry, at Fort Benning and in the Battle of Ia Drang.