After Charles awkwardly exits the room, Henrietta confronts him about his habit of " serial monogamy ", telling him that he is afraid of letting anyone get too close to him.

The CPU of the serial model, the PDP-8 / S, had only about 519 logic gates, while small microcontrollers ( as of 2008 ) usually have 15, 000 or more.

King's next book is Joyland, a novel about " an amusement-park serial killer ", according to an article in The Sunday Times published on April 8, 2012.

Poor ratings for a UK flagship serial sometimes brings with it questions about the associated channel.

" He had thought of using some of this material in a series of articles in the Pall Mall Gazette, until the publisher asked him if he could instead write a serial novel on the same theme ; Wells readily agreed, and was paid £ 100 ( equal to about £ today ) on its publication by Heinemann in 1895.

* Killer: A Journal of Murder, a 1996 film about serial killer Carl Panzram

Harrison's career and assassination are closely connected with the World's Columbian Exposition, and are discussed at some length as a subplot to the two main stories ( about the fair and serial killer H. H. Holmes ) in The Devil in the White City.

In about 1965, Reader's Digest and RCA collaborated to build an OCR document reader designed to digitize the serial numbers on Reader's Digest coupons returned from advertisements.

Brandt was dogged by scandals about serial adultery, and reportedly also struggled with alcohol and depression.

The information might be name / organization / e-mail address ( collected at ' product registration ' and retained internally ), or product copy serial number, or computer ID ( e. g., CPU serial number, or interface hardware address ( e. g., Ethernet MAC address, a unique in the world ID ), or ... One software program that claims to remove such information from files notes that there are about 30 different kinds in Word format files.

Because of the story's popularity, the publisher John Jewett contacted Stowe about turning the serial into a book.

Despite the rhetorical distaste all serial authors used the cliffhanger and Wilkie Collins is famous for saying about the technique: " Make ' em cry, make ' em laugh, make ' em wait – exactly in that order.

Nortia, I venerate you, I who sprang from a Volsinian lar, living now at Rome, boosted by the honor of a doubled term as proconsul, crafting many poems, leading a guilt-free life, sound for my age, happy with my marriage to Placida and jubilant about our serial fecundity in offspring.

A more recent example is Bret Easton Ellis's ( born 1964 ) seminal novel American Psycho ( 1991 ) about the double life of Patrick Bateman, a Wall Street yuppie and serial killer in the New York of the 1980s.

His first foray into the genre was a supporting role in the B-film When Strangers Marry, about newlyweds and a New York City serial killer.

" Instead, Dream finds his creation has walked the earth for about forty years, playing the role of a serial killer who removes his victims ' eyes.

All three of his brothers are also actors and the four of them starred together ( as four brothers ) in the 1995 television TV serial The Hanging Gale about the Irish Famine.

** Occupation ( TV serial ), a drama about the Iraq War

In 2005, it had about 39, 000 books and serial volumes in its collection, 85 subscriptions, 3, 200 videos, 1, 500 audio materials, and 21 Internet terminals.

These cartoons usually were about five minutes in length and were serial in nature, allowing stations to flexibly program them.

A DIMM's capacity and timing parameters may be identified with serial presence detect ( SPD ), an additional chip which contains information about the module type and timing for the memory controller to be configured correctly.

The Luck of Barry Lyndon is a picaresque novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in serial form in 1844, about a member of the Irish gentry trying to become a member of the English aristocracy.

In 1980, he also played Edward Teller, later developer of the US H-bomb, in the joint BBC-US TV serial about the US Manhattan Project called Oppenheimer.

Mirbeau then underwent a grave existential and literary crisis, yet during this time, he still published in serial form a pre-existentialist novel about the artist ’ s fate, Dans le ciel ( In the Sky ), introducing the figure of a painter directly modeled on Van Gogh, Lucien.

This connection appeared next in the 1988 serial Remembrance of the Daleks, where Omega's stellar manipulation device was dubbed the Hand of Omega and became the object of a struggle between two competing factions of Daleks.

The serial involves the TARDIS crew landing on the desolate planet Vortis, allying themselves with the alien Menoptra as they struggle to win back their planet from the malignant Animus.

Each questionnaire was audited for obvious mistakes and for comments, and was identified by a serial number, by the source list from which the company name was selected, and by the geographical location of the company as determined by the postmark on the return envelope.

In order to be able to properly relate the data for a single company each of the three cards comprising the set for each firm was identified with the appropriate serial number of the respondent.

< li > In November 2010, an Apple I with serial number 82 sold for £ 133, 250 ($ 210, 000 ) at Christie's auction house in London.

Other upgrades include genlocks, network cards for Ethernet, modems, sound cards and samplers, video digitizers, extra serial ports, and IDE controllers.

The initial default hardware implementation for AppleTalk was a high-speed serial protocol known as LocalTalk that used the Macintosh's built-in RS-422 ports at 230. 4 kbit / s.

The aster was chosen for Dutch schools by the Dutch ministry of education, in a set-up with eight disk-less Asters, and one Aster with high capacity floppy drives all connected by a LAN based on the Asters high-speed serial port hardware, and special cables that permitted that any single computer on the LAN could broadcast to all other computers.

Amdahl's law is a model for the relationship between the expected speedup of parallelized implementations of an algorithm relative to the serial algorithm, under the assumption that the problem size remains the same when parallelized.

Multidrop connections do not work well for fast serial buses, so most modern serial buses use daisy-chain or hub designs.

To ensure a ready supply of inexpensive cabling for its home computer peripherals, Commodore chose standard DIN connectors for the serial interface.

* Transfer protocols: Standard and fast serial ; burst mode ; and commands for parallel interface ( the latter not used )

In 2004, he played serial killer Ted Bundy in the A & E Network television film The Riverman, which was based on the book The Riverman: Ted Bundy and I Hunt for the Green River Killer written by Robert D. Keppel.

DEC hit an even lower price-point with the PDP-8 / S, the S for " serial ".

As the name implies the / S used a serial arithmetic unit, which was much slower but reduced costs so much that the system sold for under $ 10, 000.

It has many built-in functions, like a color and grayscale display controller, PC speaker sound, serial port with UART and IRDA support, UART bootstrap, real time clock, is able to directly access DRAM, Flash ROM, and mask ROM, and has built-in support for touch screens.

* SAX — serial access parser API for XML, an alternative to DOM.

For example, a serial port needs to handle standard communication protocols such as XON / XOFF that are common for all serial port hardware.

BBC Radio and Broadway investors subsequently rejected Rohmer's proposals for an original Fu Manchu radio serial and stage show during the 1940s.

Well-paid as the voice of Pallina in Fellini's radio serial, Cico and Pallina, Masina was also known for her musical-comedy broadcasts which cheered an audience depressed by the war.

Orwell was now working on Keep the Aspidistra Flying, and also tried unsuccessfully to write a serial for the News Chronicle.

Later versions of the Highway products also included built-in Universal serial bus ( USB ) sockets for direct computer access.