" Since the term " CPU " is generally defined as a device for software ( computer program ) execution, the earliest devices that could rightly be called CPUs came with the advent of the stored-program computer.

Since the advent of the Internet, the concept of community has less geographical limitation, as people can now gather virtually in an online community and share common interests regardless of physical location.

Since the advent of satellite positioning, such coordinate systems are typically geocentric: the axis is aligned with the Earth's ( conventional or instantaneous ) rotation axis.

Since the advent of the World Wide Web and computer software development, many graphic designers have become involved in interface design.

Since the 1950s, hydrology has been approached with a more theoretical basis than in the past, facilitated by advances in the physical understanding of hydrological processes and by the advent of computers and especially geographic information systems ( GIS ).

Since the advent of the World Cup in 1930, two trophies have represented victory: the Jules Rimet Trophy from 1930 to 1970, and the FIFA World Cup Trophy from 1974 to the present day.

Since the advent of digital video and computerized video processing, optical disc media and digital video recorders can now perform the same role as videotape.

Since the advent of technology, it is possible for aircraft and boats to parade.

Since the advent of the Global Positioning System, highly precise, yet affordable timing is available from many commercial GPS receivers.

Since the advent of radio, and then television, the speech has been broadcast live on most networks, preempting scheduled programming.

Since the advent of the internet, various people in both China and abroad have begun to argue online that the Cultural Revolution had many beneficial qualities for China that have been denied by both the post-Mao Chinese Communist Party and the Western media.

Since the advent of silicification, diatoms have made a significant impression on the fossil record, with major deposits of fossil diatoms found as far back as the early Cretaceous, and some rocks ( diatomaceous earth, diatomite, kieselguhr ) being composed almost entirely of them.

Since the 1980s, with the advent of flexible, yet stiff graphite ferrules, travel rod technology has greatly advanced, and multi-piece travel rods that can be transported in a suitcase or backpack constitute a large share of the market.

Since the advent of microcontrollers ( monolithic integrated circuits containing RAM, ROM and CPU all onboard ), the term " micro " is more commonly used to refer to that meaning.

Since the 1950s, the advent of mass tourism has transformed the island into a centre of attraction for foreign visitors and attracting workers from mainland Spain.

Since the advent of ham satellites in 1969, each has always been known as Orbital Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio – OSCAR.

Since the 1950s, the advent of mass tourism radically changed the face of both the city and island, transforming it into a centre of attraction for visitors and attracting workers from mainland Spain.

Since the advent of world cruises in 1922, by Cunard's Laconia, thousands of people have completed circumnavigations of the globe at a more leisurely pace.

Since the advent of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989 ( children defined as under 18 ), almost every country ( except the U. S. & Somalia ) in the world has become voluntarily legally committed to advancing an anti-discriminatory stance towards young people of all ages.

Since the advent of the Interstate Highway System, Interstate 40 has largely diverted long-distance travel away from Wynne.

Since then, better transport and the advent of tourism has helped the city regain its fortunes.

Since the advent of high-power rocketry, which began in the mid-1980s with the availability of G-through J-class motors ( each letter designation has twice the energy of the one before ), a number of companies have shared the market for larger and more powerful rockets.

Since the advent of computer controlled systems this is accomplished by an automated systems in professional and even amateur equipment.

Since the advent of organized Matchbox collectors ' clubs ( see below, " Matchbox collectors "), models and their variations have been coded and catalogued, and values have been roughly established.

Since version 20, GNU Emacs has included a " Customize " facility which allows users to set common customization variables through a graphical interface.

Since it provides the graphical elements surrounding the area in which the engine paints documents, the term chrome is sometimes used to refer to it.

Since late July 2010, when Fox began to broadcast their sports programming with graphics optimized for 16: 9 displays rather than the 4: 3 safe area, the network has asked cable and satellite providers to comply and use the No. 10 Active Format Description code they now send out over Fox programming, which has 16: 9 content display in letterboxed mode on 4: 3 screens and has graphical elements optimized for the 16: 9 screen.

Since LyX's main target platform was Linux, he started to explore different ways to improve the graphical user interface, which ultimately led him to the KDE project.

Since the Unihan standard encodes " abstract characters ", not " glyphs ", the graphical artifacts produced by Unicode have been considered temporary technical hurdles, and at most, cosmetic.

Since root locus is a graphical angle technique, root locus rules work the same in the z and s planes.

Since the merger, CNBC Europe has leaned generally on the US CNBC on-air graphical look.

Since Windows 3. 1 and earlier was merely a graphical interface for MS-DOS, most text applications that ran on earlier Windows versions were actually MS-DOS applications running in " DOS boxes ".

Since most modern Famiclones are based on the NES-on-a-chip ASIC, they automatically inherit all of its powers and limitations, which includes graphical glitches and compatibility issues.

Since ClamAV does not include a graphical user interface ( GUI ) but instead is run from the command line, a number of third-party developers have written GUIs for the application for various platforms and uses.

Since a web browser may be retrieving graphical elements from an external source, it may be necessary for the browser to perform dithering on images with too many colors for the available display.

Since 1999 Eurex provides its market participants a graphical user interface for trading.

Since the standard deviation of the filter is, details which are significantly smaller than this value are to a large extent removed from the image at scale parameter, see the following figure and for graphical illustrations.

Since January of 2009, Spertus has spent her time at Google working on App Inventor for Android, a block based development platform with a graphical user interface that lets developers and amateurs alike create applications for Android.

Since early BBSes were frequently run by computer hobbyists, they were typically technical in nature with user communities revolving around hardware and software discussions.

Since Version 0. 7 ( 2008 ), it offers two modes of operation: a darknet mode in which it connects only to friends, and an opennet-mode in which it connects to any other Freenet user.

Since the pump user is responsible to manually start a bolus, this provides an opportunity for the user to pre-bolus to improve upon the insulin pump's capability to prevent post-prandial hyperglycemia.

Since the query contained no variables, no bindings are reported to the user.

Since TPF can run as a second level guest under IBM's z / VM, a user can employ the VM trace facility to closely follow the execution of code.

Since each user will normally have their own IP address, commercial testing products ( such as HP's Loadrunner software ) can use IP spoofing, allowing each vuser its own " return address ", as well.

Since late 1980s, digital communication to the end user has been possible using Integrated Services Digital Network ( ISDN ) services.

Since users are not assigned permissions directly, but only acquire them through their role ( or roles ), management of individual user rights becomes a matter of simply assigning appropriate roles to the user's account ; this simplifies common operations, such as adding a user, or changing a user's department.

Since the IP address itself does not necessarily provide location information presently, today a " best efforts " approach is to use an available database to find that user and the physical address the user chose to associate with that telephone number — clearly an imperfect solution.

Since the flag sequence could appear in user data, such sequences must be modified during transmission to keep the receiver from detecting a false frame delimiter.

Since the existing MIDI file format already supported embedded " tagging " information, the advantages to the user of having a new format were not obvious.

Since moving a region of text required first removing it from its initial location and then inserting it into its new location various schemes had to be invented to allow for this multi-step process to be specified by the user.

Since the redesigned version 4 was released there have been three remote code execution flaws and one conceptual flaw concerning how much trust it is appropriate to place in the run-time user ; the latter was fixed in a security lockdown in revision 4. 73, one of the very rare occasions when Exim has broken backwards compatibility with working configurations.

Since epidemics are a problem, the wardens try to fill cells entirely with people with AIDS, or with tuberculosis ; however, this avails little, since almost every inmate is a user, and there is at most one needle per cell.

Since people with disabilities often require non-standard devices and browsers, making websites more accessible also benefits a wide range of user agents and devices, including mobile devices, which have limited resources.

Since players of these games are willing to substitute real economic resources of time and money ( monthly fees ) in exchange for these resources, by definition they have demonstrated utility to the user.

Since a user may wish to log in from multiple locations, they may specify a resource.

Since terminals were connected through various types of front-end processors ( as per common IBM timesharing practice both then and now ), and could therefore function without CPU attention for a considerable amount of time, MUSIC used variable-length time slices, which could, on compute-bound processing, reach a maximum of several seconds per time slice ; conversely, if a user filled the output buffer or reached a conversational read, the timeslice would end immediately.

Since voice and user data are intermittent, the traffic channels support variable-rate operation.