At the same time, every device that can be employed to reduce the number of variables is of the greatest value, and it is one of the attractive features of dynamic programming that room is left for ingenuity in using the special features of the problem to this end.

Their computer-in-a-keyboard design prominently features an integrated storage device, either a compact cassette deck or 3 " floppy disk drive.

After his patent was rejected by the Telegraph Administration, Mimault modified his device to incorporate features from the Meyer telegraph and obtained a new patent which was also rejected.

They share many common features, often opening with praise of the greenwood and relying heavily on disguise as a plot device, but include a wide variation in tone and plot.

The novel Dreams of Empire by Justin Richards, set after The Ice Warriors and before Fury from the Deep, features the Second Doctor utilising the device to break through a concrete wall.

* The Eighth Doctor Adventures novel, Father Time, features an amnesiac Doctor attempting to recreate the sonic screwdriver with 1980s technology, eventually producing a bulky device nicknamed the " sonic suitcase ".

These models also use new power management features which give the device a three-hour battery life after only three minutes of charging.

David Sobel and Alison Gopnik from the Psychology Department of UC Berkeley designed a device known as the blicket detector, which suggests that " when causal property and perceptual features are equally evident, children are equally as likely to use causal powers as they are to use perceptual properties when naming objects ".

Common reasons for updating firmware include fixing bugs or adding features to the device.

This refers to delivering mobile content, such as mobile internet to a mobile phone, agnostic of the features of said device.

Auto Sync allows users to specify criteria such as recently added music or highest rated songs, by which media will be automatically synchronized with the portable device and other advanced features like setting the clock on the portable device automatically, communicating with the device to retrieve the user's preferences.

The Sancai Tuhui, a Chinese encyclopedia published in 1609, features the next known picture of a fishing reel and vividly shows the windlass pulley of the device.

RSX-11 provided features to ensure less than a maximum necessary response time to peripheral device input ( i. e. real-time processing ), its intended use.

A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma, or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode of serialized fiction.

Fox had worked on the Hawkman, Flash and Sandman features in All-Star for its first two issues ( Summer and Autumn, 1940 ), but from issue # 3 ( Winter ), he assumed full writing duties for the issue, with all features ( by different artists ) working within the framing device wherein the characters were described as part of a " Justice Society ".

Two of the more specific features associated with this text are ( 1 ) a preference for reason over authority in matters of science and nature ( in other words, seeking solutions via reason and logic rather than through faith ) and ( 2 ) the use of the literary device of invoking Arab teachings when presenting very controversial topics ( i. e. that brute animals may possess knowledge and souls ) Curiously, Adelard didn't think that the use of reason to seek knowledge was in anyway contradictory with Christian faith in God.

Unlike prior versions of the API, Direct3D 10 no longer uses " capability bits " ( or " caps ") to indicate which features are supported on a given graphics device.

The Direct3D runtime in Windows 8 features DXGI 1. 2 and requires new WDDM 1. 2 device drivers.

More recently, high-end hobby systems using Pulse-Code Modulation ( PCM ) features have come on the market that provide a computerized digital bit-stream signal to the receiving device instead of analog type pulse modulation.

Besides the sound device drivers, ALSA bundles a user space library for application developers who want to use driver features through an interface that is higher level than the interface provided for direct interaction with the kernel drivers ; unlike the kernel API, which tries to reflect the capabilities of the hardware directly, ALSA's user space library presents an abstraction which remains as standardized as possible across disparate underlying hardware.

APM-aware applications ( which include device drivers ) talk to an OS-specific APM driver.

These concepts include one-to-one correspondence ( the basis of counting ), comparison to a standard ( used for measurement ), and the 3-4-5 right triangle ( a device for assuring a right angle ).

His robotic parts include an eye with enhanced vision, an arm with tools and weapons stored inside, a leg which stores a mini cannon, and a device where his ear should be.

Makedev includes a list of the devices in Linux: ttyS ( terminal ), lp ( parallel port ), hd ( disk ), loop ( loopback disk device ), sound ( these include mixer, sequencer, dsp, and audio )...

Common levels of abstraction for device drivers include:

Common modifications include value changes in capacitors or resistors, adding true-bypass so that the effect's circuitry is no longer in the signal path, substituting higher-quality components, replacing the unit's original operational amplifiers ( op-amps ), or adding functions to the device such as allowing additional control of some factor or adding an additional output jack.

* 1998 – India conducts three underground atomic tests in Pokhran to include a thermonuclear device.

System messages do not include channel numbers, and are received by every device in the MIDI chain.

Possible interrupt sources are device dependent, and often include events such as an internal timer overflow, completing an analog to digital conversion, a logic level change on an input such as from a button being pressed, and data received on a communication link.

This process is known as wavefunction collapse, a controversial and much-debated process that involves expanding the system under study to include the measurement device.

Not only were there rival machines with " down-stroke " and " frontstroke " positions that gave a visible printing point, the problem of typebar clashes could be circumvented completely: examples include Thomas Edison's 1872 electric print-wheel device which later became the basis for Teletype machines ; Lucien Stephen Crandall's typewriter ( the second to come onto the American market ) whose type was arranged on a cylindrical sleeve ; the Hammond typewriter of 1887 which used a semi-circular " type-shuttle " of hardened rubber ( later light metal ); and the Blickensderfer typewriter of 1893 which used a type wheel.

Separate from the router may be a firewall or VPN handling device, or the router may include these and other security functions.

Some feature additions include multiple window support, multiple input device support ( many mice, many keyboards, etc.

General Franks ' awards include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal ; Distinguished Service Medal ( two awards ); Legion of Merit ( four awards ); Bronze Star with Valor device and two oak leaf clusters ; Purple Heart ( two oak leaf clusters ); Air Medal with Valor Device ; Army Commendation Medal with Valor Device ; and a number of U. S. and foreign service awards.

Subpoenas issued to Internet Service Providers were expanded to include not only " the name, address, local and long distance telephone toll billing records, telephone number or other subscriber number or identity, and length of service of a subscriber " but also session times and durations, types of services used, communication device address information ( e. g. IP addresses ), payment method and bank account and credit card numbers.

* Open Firmware allows plug-in hardware to include boot-time diagnostics, configuration code, and device drivers that will run on any kind of CPU.

As of 2006, most new Palm handhelds include Photos, which creates a digital photo album used to view pictures on a Palm OS device.

The device may include a stateful firewall, a VPN concentrator, or be an IPSec security gateway.

This includes electronic noise, but can also include external events that affect the measured phenomenon — wind, vibrations, gravitational attraction of the moon, variations of temperature, variations of humidity, etc., depending on what is measured and of the sensitivity of the device.

More recent authors who have used damnatio memoriae as a plot device include Milan Kundera in his 1979 novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, R. A. Salvatore in the 1990 novel Homeland, Lois Lowry in her 1993 novel The Giver ( a version in which the damned name is never given to any new baby ever again ), and Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson in their 1999 Prelude to Dune trilogy.

These may include pressor beams ( a stronger pressor beam will counteract a weaker tractor beam ) or plane shears aka shearing planes ( a device to " cut " the tractor beam and render it ineffective ).

Resources include memory, file handles, sockets, device handles, and windows.

Starfleet transporters from the TNG era onward include a device that can detect and disable an active weapon ( TNG: " The Most Toys "), and a bio-filter to remove contagious microbes or viruses from an individual in transport ( TNG: " Shades of Gray ").