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It met these problems by the creation of the state automobile maintenance unit ( more popularly called the motor pool ), a centralized operation for the maintenance and control of all state transportation.
The Analytical Engine incorporated an arithmetic logic unit, control flow in the form of conditional branching and loops, and integrated memory, making it the first design for a general-purpose computer that could be described in modern terms as Turing-complete.
An operator was needed to operate the control switches to set up its functions, much like the electro-mechanical calculators and unit record equipment of the time.
However, command problems ensued, as the assault guns were considered to be artillery by the Wehrmacht and therefore the assault guns were not under the control of the Panzer unit's commanding officer, reducing unit effectiveness.
* Some curves that seem simple, such as the circle, cannot be described exactly by a Bézier or piecewise Bézier curve ; though a four-piece cubic Bézier curve can approximate a circle ( see Bézier spline ), with a maximum radial error of less than one part in a thousand, when each inner control point ( or offline point ) is the distance horizontally or vertically from an outer control point on a unit circle.
More generally, an n-piece cubic Bézier curve can approximate a circle, when each inner control point is the distance from an outer control point on a unit circle, where t is 360 / n degrees, and n > 2.
Two typical components of a CPU are the arithmetic logic unit ( ALU ), which performs arithmetic and logical operations, and the control unit ( CU ), which extracts instructions from memory and decodes and executes them, calling on the ALU when necessary.
The control unit of the CPU contains circuitry that uses electrical signals to direct the entire computer system to carry out stored program instructions.
The control unit does not execute program instructions ; rather, it directs other parts of the system to do so.
The fundamental components of a general-purpose computer are arithmetic logic unit | arithmetic and logic unit, control unit | control circuitry, storage space, and input / output devices.
In a general sense a control unit ( CU ) is a central ( or sometimes distributed but clearly distinguishable
The algorithm for the microprogram control unit is usually specified by flowchart description.
The main advantage of the microprogram control unit is the simplicity of its structure.
The control unit implements the architecture of the CPU.
On some processors the control unit may be further broken down into other units, such as a scheduling unit to handle scheduling and a retirement unit to deal with results coming from the pipeline ; It is the main function of CPU.

control and must
Thus, if corporations are not to run away with us, they must become quasi-governmental institutions, subject to public control and needs.
and for this human beings must be firmly in control of the economics on which our society rests.
They know that they must depend heavily on factors outside their own control.
They felt that they were relaxing as much as they could and that any control factors which might be present to prevent response must be on an unconscious level.
If a substitute mechanism is needed for the control of a fictitious impersonal market, quite obviously some method must be devised for representing the public interest.
# The hijacking or control takeover of an aircraft must be a result of unlawful use of violence or an attempt to use violence ;
To guarantee smoothness, the control point at which two curves meet must be on the line between the two control points on either side.
The Baron then manipulates Hawat into his service, insuring his control over the Mentat by secretly administering to him a residual poison invented by De Vries ; to avoid death, the antidote for this poison must be taken regularly and continuously.
Within the circle, after putting, a player must not advance beyond the marked lie toward the pin until establishing balance and control, normally by picking up the marker disc.
Proponents argue that the competition spurred by vouchers and education tax credits increases the quality and efficiencies of both eligible private schools and local public schools, as they both must perpetually improve in order to maintain enrollment caused by the competitive nature of dollar voting and the swift accountability that results from increasing consumer sovereignty-allowing individuals to control what product or service they prefer to buy as opposed to a bureaucracy.
The teacher must control the students with distributions of rewards and penalties.
Common to all gridiron codes is the notion of control — a receiver must demonstrate control of the ball in order to be ruled in possession of it, while still in bounds, as defined by his code.
Second, the freedom to change a program, so that you can control it instead of it controlling you ; for this, the source code must be made available to
At a lunch with fifteen Indian directors and producers, he stressed that " they must preserve freedom as artists, and that any government control would hinder that freedom.
Although pesticides advertise the control of garden pests, gardeners must recognize that garden " friends " like bees, ladybugs, and birds can also be affected by pesticides.
Public authorities should oppose laws which undermine natural law ; scientists should further study effective methods of natural birth control ; doctors should further familiarize themselves with this teaching, in order to be able to give advice to their patients, priests must spell out clearly and completely the Church's teaching on marriage.
Other interrupts exist to transfer data bytes using UARTs or Ethernet ; sense key-presses ; control motors ; or anything else the equipment must do.
The control of medium and big companies must be made by one or several independent auditors of companies, appointed by the general assembly among the members of the Institute of Independent Auditors of Companies.
The control of small companies must be made by an accountant appointed by the general assembly for definite duration.
As Noam Chomsky put it, a consistent libertarian " must oppose private ownership of the means of production and wage slavery, which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.
The second group of mandates, or Class B mandates, were all former Schutzgebiete ( German territories ) in West and Central Africa which were deemed to require a greater level of control by the mandatory power: "... the Mandatory must be responsible for the administration of the territory under conditions which will guarantee freedom of conscience and religion.

control and communicate
Expansion boards were made by Richmond Sound Design that allow their show control and sound design software to communicate with their custom hardware frames either by ribbon cable or fiber optic cable for long distances, allowing the Amiga to control up to eight million digitally controlled external audio, lighting, automation, relay and voltage control channels spread around a large theme park, for example.
To communicate to air traffic control that an aircraft is being hijacked, a pilot under duress should squawk 7500 or vocally, by radio communication, transmit "( Aircraft callsign ); Transponder seven five zero zero.
In 2006, ADT asked the FCC to extend the AMPS deadline due to many of their alarm systems still using analog technology to communicate with the control centers.
There is the ability to opt-out of APM control on a device-by-device basis, which can be used if a driver wants to communicate directly with a hardware device.
Role-playing fanzines allowed people to communicate in the 1970s and 1980s with complete editorial control in the hands of the players, as opposed to the game publishers.
Jean's telepathy allows her to read, influence, control, and communicate with the minds of others, project her mind into the astral plane, and generate telepathic force blasts that can stun or kill others.
MIDI was invented so that musical instruments could communicate with each other, and that one instrument can control another.
Systems with IP readers usually do not have traditional control panels and readers communicate directly to PC that acts as a host.
The method of establishing the connection and monitoring its progress and termination through the network may also utilize a separate control channel as in the case of links between telephone exchanges which use CCS7 packet-switched signalling protocol to communicate the call setup and control information and use TDM to transport the actual circuit data.
The technology behind these methods have evolved, from panels at the fire department ( which could trigger and control green lights for certain major corridors ) to optical systems ( which the individual fire apparatus can be equipped with to communicate directly with receivers on the signal head ).
Therapists develop computer-aided adaptive equipment and teach clients with severe limitations how to use that equipment in order to communicate better and control various aspects of their environment.
" DiNardo cited the effective way in which Longstreet delegated responsibilities for control of battlefield movements to his staff and how they were able to communicate with him more effectively during battles than the staffs of other Confederate generals during the war.
Early intervention with this clientele often targets situations in which children communicate with others, so that they learn that they can control people and objects in their environment through this communication, including making choices, decisions and mistakes.
* Display Data Channel ( DDC ), a data link protocol which allows a host device to control an attached display and communicate EDID, DPMS, MCCS and similar messages
For these reasons, software that relies on the BIOS and operating system to communicate with the hard drive is often unsuccessful in data recovery imaging ; separate hardware control of the source hard drive is required to achieve the full spectrum of data recovery imaging.
B. F. Skinner, noted psychologist, commented on medical notation as a form of multiple audience control, which allows the doctor to communicate to the pharmacist things which might be opposed by the patient if they could understand it.
As the size and number of the armies grew and the technology to communicate and control improved, the difference between " military strategy " and " grand strategy " shrank.
* Lilliput Gooney ( voiced by Frank Welker )-Owned the miniature golf course, Gooney Golf, and was using a strange hat to communicate with and control ants.
The majority of locked-in syndrome patients do not regain motor control, but devices are available to help patients communicate.
Able at first only communicate by blinking — once for " Yes " and twice for " No "— with the use of technology, he eventually gains control not only over his own mind, but that of others.
Also, many control towers still have an Aldis lamp to communicate with planes whose radio failed.

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