Although the majority of WADs contain one or several custom levels mostly in the style of the original game, others implement new monsters and other resources, and heavily alter the gameplay ; several popular movies, television series, other video games and other brands from popular culture have been turned into Doom WADs by fans ( without authorization ), including Aliens, Star Wars, The X-Files, The Simpsons, South Park, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z, Red Faction, The Thing, Pokémon and Batman.

With the increased costs of good kits moving upward and entertainment competition for youth moving more towards computers and video gaming in the home, the average age of the avid hobbyist is now much older than ever before — with adults making up the vast majority of enthusiasts.

When PNG development started in early 1995, developers decided not to incorporate support for animation, because the majority of the PNG developers felt that overloading a single file type with both still and animation features is a bad design, both for users ( who have no simple way of determining to which class a given image file belongs ) and for web servers ( which should use the image / foo MIME type for stills and video / foo for animations -- GIF notwithstanding ).

Despite these problems, the VESA Local Bus became very commonplace on later 486 motherboards, with a majority of later ( post 1993 ) 486-based systems featuring a VESA Local Bus video card.

( born March 21, 1959 ) is a Japanese video game composer, best known for scoring the majority of titles in the Final Fantasy series.

Video sampling tends to work on a completely different scale altogether thanks to the highly nonlinear response both of cathode ray tubes ( for which the vast majority of digital video foundation work was targeted ) and the human eye, using a " gamma curve " to provide an appearance of evenly distributed brightness steps across the display's full dynamic range-hence the need to use RAMDACs in computer video applications with deep enough colour resolution to make engineering a hardcoded value into the DAC for each output level of each channel impractical ( e. g. an Atari ST or Sega Genesis would require 24 such values ; a 24-bit video card would need 768 ...).

Nintendo popularized it for use in video games with the Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS ; other systems including the Tapwave Zodiac as well as the vast majority of PDAs have also included this feature.

Meyer owned the rights to nearly all of his films and spent the majority of the 1980s and 1990s making millions reselling his films on the home video and DVD market.

The majority of the video is made with clips from Lost Highway.

The majority of his video game soundtracks are for role-playing games, but he likes projects that are different from what he has done before and is interested in working in other genres.

In addition to the Paramount film, television, home video, and music publishing divisions, the company continued to own the Madison Square Garden properties ( which also included MSG Network ), a 50 % stake in USA Networks ( the other 50 % was owned by MCA / Universal Studios, which incidentally became the owner of the Famous Music Group catalog when it bought ABC Records in 1979 and a majority of the pre-1950 Paramount sound feature film library when it bought it in 1958 ) and Simon and Schuster ( which itself acquired Prentice Hall a few years before, and later Gousha ).

is a fictional character from the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam and its sequels, Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam and Char's Counterattack, voiced by Tōru Furuya ( Japanese ), Brad Swaile ( English dub of the original TV series, Char's Counterattack, and the majority of the licensed Gundam video games ), Michael Lindsay ( English dub of Movies I-III ) and Matthew Erickson ( English dub of Zeta Gundam and the Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Zeta Gundam video game ).

As a result of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, Irem canceled the majority of its remaining video game projects, including Zettai Zetsumei Toshi 4: Summer Memories and Poncotsu Roman Daikatsugeki Bumpy Trot 2.

The leading trade paper for the industry, AVN Magazine, is based in the Northwest Valley, as are a majority of the nation's adult video and magazine distributors.

* Nobuo Uematsu ( born 1959 ) is a video game composer, best known for scoring the majority of titles in the Final Fantasy series.

The majority of devices that are capable of recording video are camera phones and digital cameras primarily intended for still pictures, but the term " camcorder " is often restricted to mean a portable, self-contained device having video capture and recording as its primary function.

Thus, the majority of devices capable of functioning as camcorders are camera phones or compact digital cameras, for which video is only a feature or a secondary capability.

The majority of video games come from either the United States, Canada, or Japan.

The majority of the video clips are short ( 5 – 30 seconds ) and are mostly related to the host's monologues.

In particular, the film was released on a special widescreen edition format on home video to preserve the films original theatrical aspect ratio, which was uncommon for videotapes at the time, with majority of them being pan and scan, a technique that crops a portion of the image to focus on the more important composition.

Further burial and metamorphic compression ( but little extra heat ) will lead to granulite facies metamorphism ; with more advanced heating the majority of rocks begin melting in excess of 650 to 700 ° C in the presence of water.

The vast majority of authentic casino chips are " clay " chips but can be more accurately described as compression molded chips.

The majority of mechanical markers employ a simple blowback design utilizing a poppet valve ( also known as a “ pin valve ”), which is opened when struck by a compression force, provided in the form of a hammer propelled by a spring.

A large number of algorithms proposed for solving non-convex problems – including the majority of commercially available solvers – are not capable of making a distinction between local optimal solutions and rigorous optimal solutions, and will treat the former as actual solutions to the original problem.

In accordance with Kerckhoffs's principle, the majority of civilian cryptography makes use of publicly known algorithms.

After a weak learner is added, the data is reweighted: examples that are misclassified gain weight and examples that are classified correctly lose weight ( some boosting algorithms actually decrease the weight of repeatedly misclassified examples, e. g., boost by majority and BrownBoost ).

For Monte Carlo decision algorithms with two-sided error, the failure probability may again be reduced by running the algorithm k times and returning the majority function of the answers.

More practically, the Chernoff bound is used in randomized algorithms ( or in computational devices such as quantum computers ) to determine a bound on the number of runs necessary to determine a value by majority agreement, up to a specified probability.

The vast majority of the National Security Agency's work on encryption is classified, but from time to time NSA participates in standards processes or otherwise publishes information about its cryptographic algorithms.

The majority of solutions provide a large set of algorithms.

The k-nearest neighbor algorithm is amongst the simplest of all machine learning algorithms: an object is classified by a majority vote of its neighbors, with the object being assigned to the class most common amongst its k nearest neighbors ( k is a positive integer, typically small ).

" The Republicans gained majorities in both House and Senate for the first time since Democrats in the 1856 elections, they were to be seated in numbers which Lincoln might use to govern, a national parliamentary majority even before pro-slavery House and Senate seats vacated.

The Whigs in the House sought, by use of a joint session majority, to dictate the choice of the two U. S. senators.

The discovery of chlorpromazine's psychoactive effects in 1952 led to greatly reduced use of restraint, seclusion, and sedation in the management of agitated patients, and also led to further research that resulted in the development of antidepressants, anxiolytics, and the majority of other drugs now used in the management of psychiatric conditions.

By that time, the majority of black people were U. S .- born, so use of the term " African " became problematic.

# the Mozarabic Breviary, once in use throughout all Spain, but now confined to a single foundation at Toledo ; it is remarkable for the number and length of its hymns, and for the fact that the majority of its collects are addressed to God the Son ;

While they had the same skin color and religion as the majority, in the Churches, they had to use segregated doors, drink from segregated fonts, receive communion on the end of long wooden spoons.

The overwhelming majority of those who describe their use of Datura find their experiences extremely unpleasant both mentally and physically and often physically dangerous.

Members of a particular faction in a legislature may use the power of the majority or supermajority ( passing criminal laws, defining the electoral mechanisms including eligibility and district boundaries ) to prevent the balance of power in the body from shifting to a rival faction due to an election.

In May 1565 she wrote to Cecil, urging that the money from family properties set aside for Oxford's use during his minority by his father's will should be entrusted to herself and other family friends to protect it and ensure that he would be able to meet the expenses of furnishing his household and suing his livery when he reached his majority ; this last would end his wardship though cancelling his debt with that Court, and convey the powers attached to his title.

Planes fly in, and sometimes use Guinea-Bissau's 88 remote islands, the majority of which are uninhabited.

Those texts characterized the tactic of guerrilla warfare as, according to Che Guevara's text, being " used by the side which is supported by a majority but which possesses a much smaller number of arms for use in defense against oppression ".

The commission was only consultative but did make a report to Paul VI approved by a majority of members, proposing that he might use his authority to approve at least some form of contraception for married couples.

Experts emphasize that the overwhelming majority of those who use these informal networks are doing so for legitimate purposes, and simply choose to use a transaction medium other than state-supported banking systems.

In the process, many fragments of classical learning are preserved which otherwise would have been hopelessly lost ; " in fact, in the majority of his works, including the Origines, he contributes little more than the mortar which connects excerpts from other authors, as if he was aware of his deficiencies and had more confidence in the stilus maiorum than his own " his translator Katherine Nell MacFarlane remarks ; on the other hand, some of these fragments were lost in the first place because Isidore ’ s work was so highly regarded — Braulio called it quecunque fere sciri debentur, " practically everything that it is necessary to know "— that it superseded the use of many individual works of the classics themselves, which were not recopied and have therefore been lost: " all secular knowledge that was of use to the Christian scholar had been winnowed out and contained in one handy volume ; the scholar need search no further ".

The majority of large, industrial pottery kilns now use natural gas, as it is generally clean, efficient and easy to control.

Most stations on the surface have at least a short flight of stairs to gain access from street level, and the great majority of below-ground stations require use of stairs or some of the system's 410 escalators.

In the vast majority of Known Space material, hyperdrive requires that a ship be outside a star's gravity well to use.

The majority of Italian regions require " zero upward light ", which usually implies use of overall full cut-off lamps for new luminaries, but violations are common.

The Japanese use different kanji for two closely allied meanings of " seinen "— for " youth, young man " and for " adult, majority "— the second referring to sexually overt manga aimed at grown men and also called seijin (" adult " ) manga.

The majority of microcontrollers in use today are embedded in other machinery, such as automobiles, telephones, appliances, and peripherals for computer systems.

On April 25, 2008, the Dutch government, backed by a majority of members of parliament, decided to ban cultivation and use of all magic mushrooms.