Stories earlier in the timeline feature technology such as Bussard ramjets, Drouds ( wires capable of directly stimulating the pleasure centers of the brain ) and explore how organ transplantation technology enables the new crime of organlegging ( as well as the general sociological effects of widespread transplant technology ), while later stories feature hyperdrive, invulnerable starship hulls, stasis fields, molecular monofilaments, transfer booths ( teleporters used only on planetary surfaces ), the lifespan-extending drug boosterspice, and the tasp which is an extension of the wirehead development which works without direct contact.

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ALE is a feature in an HF communications radio transceiver system, that enables the radio station to make contact, or initiate a circuit, between itself and another HF radio station or network of stations.

In telecommunication, a called-party camp-on is a communication system service feature that enables the system to complete an access attempt in spite of issuance of a user blocking signal.

In telecommunication, a calling-party camp-on is a service feature that enables the telephone exchange to complete an access attempt in spite of temporary unavailability of system transmission or switching facilities required to establish the requested access.

In telecommunication, a group alerting and dispatching system is a service feature that ( a ) enables a controlling telephone to place a call to a specified number of telephones simultaneously, ( b ) enables the call to be recorded, ( c ) if any of the called lines is busy, enables the equipment to camp on until the busy line is free, and ( d ) rings the free line and plays the recorded message.

A Hopper feature, called AutoHop, enables customers to view these programs without commercials, subject to time restrictions.

Each game in the collection is given a 16-bit graphical and sound upgrade, as well as a save feature which enables players to restart from any level if all lives are lost, not just the beginning of the World.

This feature usually does not allow for continuous, concurrent data updates, but rather enables point-in-time updating between different computers, including desktop computers, laptop computers, and personal digital assistants.

In computing, bus mastering is a feature supported by many bus architectures that enables a device connected to the bus to initiate transactions.

Those shipped with ATI Radeon Video cards feature the Catalyst Control Centre, which enables the user to adjust the various video features such as brightness, contrast, resolution etc., and also enables connection to an external display.

Many of Clark Ashton Smith's short stories feature powerful wizards whose magic enables them to return from the dead.

This feature enables a bottoming tap to cut threads to the bottom of a blind hole.

The series is replete with cultural allusions to Japanese media, pop culture, dialects, stereotypes, businesses, games, anime, and even puns and train routes, so much so that the American DVD release includes a special feature which enables pop-up glosses: AD Vid-Notes.

This feature enables their use as very simple voltage regulators or overvoltage protection devices.

This feature enables the building of binary packages on one system ( using Portage's < tt > buildpkg </ tt > or < tt > quickpkg </ tt >) followed by quick installation on other, identical systems ( with Portage's < tt > getbinpkg </ tt > or < tt > emerge-K </ tt >).

) This feature enables a direct visual representation of BPEL process descriptions in the form of structograms, in a style reminiscent of a Nassi – Shneiderman diagram.

It also included Jam Session, a feature that enables up to 4 iPhones, iPod touches, and / or iPads with GarageBand installed to play simultaneously.

This feature enables Memcheck to detect off-by-one errors where a program reads or writes outside an allocated block by a small amount.

With the so-called " GFX overlays " that enables to use Nvidia or ATI 3D graphics driver in live mode, Kanotix-Hellfire provides this new feature first time.

The Native POSIX Thread Library ( NPTL ) is a software feature that enables the Linux kernel to run programs written to use POSIX Threads efficiently.

He is most widely known in Hollywood for having written, directed and starred in several improvisational " mockumentary " films that feature a repertory-like ensemble cast.

This first digital delivery and exhibition of a full-length feature film to paying audiences is widely considered to be the defining moment for digital cinema's commercial viability.

Another feature of Erewhon is the absence of machines ; this is due to the widely shared perception by the Erewhonians that they are potentially dangerous.

The 89a specification also supports incorporating text labels as text ( not embedding them in the graphical data ), but as there is little control over display fonts, this feature is not widely used.

Although now acclaimed and widely influential as an urban design feature, Mies had to convince Bronfman's bankers that a taller tower with significant " unused " open space at ground level would enhance the presence and prestige of the building.

The inability to pin an idea or cultural feature to quantifiable key units is widely acknowledged as a problem for memetics.

Another feature, not widely supported for machines of the era, in operating systems or in computer hardware, was multitasking, which was also built into the language itself.

Nintendo of America and Nintendo of Europe went further in that games released for Nintendo consoles could not feature nudity, sexuality, profanity ( including racism, sexism or slurs ), blood, graphic or domestic violence, drugs, political messages or religious symbols ( with the exception of widely unpracticed religions, such as the Greek Pantheon ).

They feature excellent VHF and UHF performance plus low noise figures, and were widely used throughout the 1960s in television sets ( beginning with RCA's " New Vista " line of color sets in 1961 with the CTC-11 chassis ) and radio equipment and high-fidelity equipment, primarily in RF sections.

The most widely used is the Transport Layer Security ( TLS, previously called SSL ) feature built into most current Internet browsers.

Although widely reported as the death knell of the Star Trek franchise, the cancellation of Enterprise was followed within months by the announcement that Paramount was in pre-production on an 11th Star Trek feature film.

Fighting games widely feature life bars, which are depleted as characters sustain blows.

The feature film was filmed in 1983, released to theaters in 1989 ( though it was never widely distributed ), and was later released on VHS and laserdisc.

It is these campaigns of conquest that are the most widely known feature of Wales during the Roman era due to the spirited but unsuccessful defense of their homelands by two native tribes, the Silures and the Ordovices.

Not all revision control systems have atomic commits ; notably, the widely used CVS lacks this feature.

The carbon burner, a " most important feature of a practical lamp " differs widely from Edison's filament.

Though the music produced by free jazz composers varied widely, the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the limitations of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz, which had developed in the 1940s and 1950s.

The Symphonies also changed the course of Disney Studio history when Walt's plans to direct his first feature cartoon became problematic after his warm-up to the task The Golden Touch was widely seen ( even by Disney himself ) as stiff and slowly paced.

SDS-PAGE, sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, describes a technique widely used in biochemistry, forensics, genetics and molecular biology to separate proteins according to their electrophoretic mobility ( a function of the length of a polypeptide chain and its charge ) and no other physical feature.

Many art historians argue that there is not: " The best evidence, perhaps, that Giorgione's pictures were not particularly esoteric in their meaning is provided by the fact that while his stylistic innovations were widely adopted, the distinguishing feature of virtually all Venetian non-religious painting in the first half of the 16th century is the lack of learned or literary content ".

Unique amongst all games of the time was the faux 3-D graphics of Phantasy Star's Dungeons, a widely praised technological feature.

Although the human soul was sometimes symbolically or literally depicted in ancient cultures as a bird or other animal, it was widely held that the soul was an exact reproduction of the body in every feature, even down to clothing the person wore.

Though well established and widely respected in the classical music world – modules on his music now feature in many university undergraduate music courses – Birtwistle was relatively unknown to the general public until the mid-1990s.

It is often believed that savannas feature widely spaced, scattered trees.

Audio quality and feature sets vary widely, with high-end models providing features and sound comparable to some home stereo systems.