This video card would also support fast scrolling of high resolution color screens for games, because it had the indirection of the character pointers, so it was possible to quickly scroll the high resolution display, ( or use other effects ) by simply manipulating the 1920 / 1024 bytes of text video instead of the 24. 576 bytes of high resolution video memory.

The character of Don Quixote became so well known in its time that the word quixotic was quickly adopted by many languages.

Responding to a frantic distress call from the overrun scientists, the Martian marine unit is quickly sent to Phobos to investigate, where the player character is left to guard the hangar with only a pistol while the rest of the group proceeds inside.

He noted, ' Captains ... to be successful must possess, in a marked degree, initiative, resource, determination, and no fear of accepting responsibility ', and particularly regarding wartime conditions '... as a rule instructions will be of a very general character so as to avoid interfering with the judgement and initiative of captains ... The admiral will rely on captains to use all the information at their disposal to grasp the situation quickly and anticipate his wishes, using their own discretion as to how to act in unforeseen circumstances ..' The approach outlined by Beatty contradicted the views of many within the navy, who felt that ships should always be closely controlled by their commanding admiral, and harked back to reforms attempted by Admiral George Tryon.

He also performed several stunts for the film, including the scene where Lee's character quickly climbs a rooftop at night.

After the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915, public anti-German sentiment was widespread, and Marx's German character was booed, so he quickly dropped the accent and developed the fast-talking wise-guy character that became his trademark.

He quickly developed a reputation as a character actor, and was cast in bigger roles, including one-half of the bickering Connecticut couple in the dark comedy The Ref ( 1994 ), a malicious Hollywood studio boss in the satire Swimming with Sharks, and the malevolent office manager in the all-star ensemble film Glengarry Glen Ross ( 1992 ), gaining him positive notices by critics.

" The audience cheers this bit of breaking character, but Palin quickly composes himself and Cleese declares " Now, look!

Medical technology was also advanced — characters could recover quickly from wounds with appropriate medical attention and a dead character could be " frozen " and revived later.

The character was thereafter quickly and quietly dropped.

The first Parliament of Australia quickly moved to restrict immigration to maintain Australia's " British character ", and the Pacific Island Labourers Bill and the Immigration Restriction Bill were passed shortly before parliament rose for its first Christmas recess.

Further novels featuring this character quickly followed in Horse Under Water ( 1963 ), Funeral in Berlin ( 1964 ), and Billion-Dollar Brain ( 1966 ).

The traditional method of resolving the ambiguity is to observe whether or not another character quickly follows the escape character.

" Tree's versatility, however, was a two edged sword: he quickly tired of characters after a brief run and sought to add business and details to the part to sustain his interest, which led to further character inconsistencies in long runs.

Despite the song's name, Poison Ivy wasn't the inspiration for this song but, due to the lyrics describing a girl with a very similar attitude to Ivy, it was quickly associated to the character.

However, the character quickly faded away and has made only a handful of comics appearances since the mid-1930s.

While Timely Comics ' quickly forgotten Flexo the Rubber Man had preceded " Plas " as comics ' first stretching hero, Cole's character became an immediate hit, and Police Comics lead feature with issue # 5.

These rumours quickly spread across Dublin, gathering momentum until they are turned into a song penned by the character Hosty called " The Ballad of Persse O ' Reilly ".

In the season 13 ( 2009 ) episode " Fishsticks ", Cartman subconsciously believes that he solely created a joke that quickly becomes a nationwide sensation, despite the fact that the character Jimmy Valmer writes the joke without any assistance.

Furthermore, the furnishing of these prototypes of Old Comedy with accents, costumes, or props illustrated the desire of the playwright to have the audience readily recognize and relate with the character quickly.

Things would quickly devolve into his character shouting and making crazy accusations about Dave before being forcibly removed from the set by two goons.

* Coeur d ' Alene was mentioned in Sam Bourne's novel: The Righteous Men as a spot that the main character quickly drove past.

The character of Timmy was intended to become an angel and remain a presence on the show, but this entire storyline was quickly rewritten after Evans's death to excise the character ( although one already-filmed scene was eventually aired, showing Timmy in Heaven, as a sort of coda ).

The " space " character had to come before graphics to make sorting easier, so it became position 20 < sub > hex </ sub >; for the same reason, many special signs commonly used as separators were placed before digits.

His younger brother Elliot Caplin also became a comic strip creator, best known for co-creating the soap opera strip The Heart of Juliet Jones with artist Stan Drake, and conceiving the comic strip character Broom-Hilda with cartoonist Russell Myers.

The Daria character had been created for Beavis and Butt-Head by Glenn Eichler and originally designed by Bill Peckmann of J. J. Sedelmaier Productions, Inc. Eichler then became a producer for Daria.

* The fifth UK edition introduced the " Evil " touch, whereby the authority character " Big Brother " became almost a villain.

He became a highly regarded character actor and guest-starred in many 1960s TV series including Ben Casey, The Twilight Zone, The Andy Griffith Show, Dr. Kildare and Hennesey.

The film was Mabel's Strange Predicament, but " The Tramp " character, as it became known, debuted to audiences in Kid Auto Races at Venice — shot later but released two days earlier.

When the character was spun off into Frasier, his father became a central character with, in a case of retroactive continuity, the explanation that Frasier was embarrassed about his father's lowbrow attitudes and thus claimed his death.

* Cygwin 1. 7 introduced comprehensive support for POSIX locales and many character encodings, whereby the UTF-8 Unicode encoding became the default.

In 1983, Shirley Armitage became the first major black character in her role as machinist at Baldwin's Casuals.

Following the company-wide " Dark Reign " and " Siege " story arcs, the Steve Rogers character became part of the " Heroic Age " arc.

In 1953, Day appeared as the title character in the comedic western-themed musical, Calamity Jane, winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song for " Secret Love " ( her recording of which became her fourth U. S. No. 1 recording ).

He became popular in his lifetime, and remained popular after his death ; partly due to his larger than life character, and his reputation for drinking to excess.

" With satisfaction came severe personal difficulties: acting the same role over an extended period, it became impossible for him to separate Ziggy Stardust — and, later, the Thin White Duke — from his own character offstage.

From this time he became one of the most celebrated orators in Rome, but sacrificed his character by conducting accusations for the government.

Arden's quick wit made her a natural talent for radio ; she became a regular on Danny Kaye's short-lived but memorably zany comedy-variety show in 1946, which also featured swing bandleader Harry James and gravel-voiced character actor-comedian Lionel Stander.

The character of Fu Manchu became a stereotype often associated with the Yellow Peril.

Along with Russell, he led the turn away from idealism in British philosophy, and became well known for his advocacy of common sense concepts, his contributions to ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics, and " his exceptional personality and moral character.

Arthur, the next oldest, donned a curly red wig and became " Patsy Brannigan ", a stereotypical Irish character.

If Matthew's prime concern was to preserve the Jewish character of the church, he failed: Christianity became a Gentile religion, and Christianity and Judaism came to view each other as opposites.

After his career in music, Brood turned to painting and became a well-known character in Amsterdam art circles.

Although not attested in the Biblical account of the Partriarch's life, it became an important aspect of Abraham's character in later Jewish tradition.