As a creative enterprise, its abilities are primarily in `` swallowing '' creative enterprises developed outside its own organization ( an ability made possible by us, and almost mandatory ).

The Amiga's native ability to simultaneously play back multiple digital sound samples made it a popular platform for early " tracker " music software.

The NewTek Video Toaster was made possible by the genlock ability of the Amiga.

CRM software provides a business with the ability to create, assign and manage requests made by customers.

The Wright brothers made their first successful test flights on December 17, 1903 and were distinguished by their ability to control their flights for substantial periods ( more so than the ability to produce lift from an airfoil, which was known ).

People began recognizing Flockhart's acting ability when William Esper ( Mason Gross ' theatre director and Flockhart's acting teacher ) made an exception to policy by allowing Flockhart to perform on the main stage.

Harvey Jay Fischer tested Dianetics therapy against three claims made by proponents and found it does not effect any significant changes in intellectual functioning, mathematical ability, or the degree of personality conflicts ; Jack Fox tested Hubbard's thesis regarding recall of engrams, with the assistance of the Dianetic Research Foundation, and could not substantiate it.

Vertov believed the camera — with its varied lenses, shot-counter shot editing, time-lapse, ability to slow motion, stop motion and fast-motion — could render reality more accurately than the human eye, and made a film philosophy out of it.

In 2012, he was awarded the Erasmus Prize, an annual award for a person who has made an exceptional contribution to European culture, society or social science, " for his ability to translate the cultural significance of science and technology to a broad audience.

He argued that if there is an omnipotent, good being who made the world, then it's reasonable to believe that people are made with the ability to know.

The bandwidth advantages, the slightly better isolation of devices from each other, the ability to easily mix different speeds of devices and the elimination of the chaining limits inherent in non-switched Ethernet have made switched Ethernet the dominant network technology.

The ability to determine the positions of atoms within materials has made the HRTEM an important tool for nano-technologies research and development.

In an interview with PACNEWS on 1 February 2006, Jeremaia Waqanisau, Fiji's Ambassador to Beijing, made a stinging attack on the efficiency of the Fijian civil service, saying that it negatively affected Fiji's ability to present itself to China.

But unlike the classical school and many economists today, Marx made a clear distinction between labor actually done and an individual's " labor power " or ability to work.

His military and diplomatic ability became known to the pope, who made him a cardinal-priest of S. Clemente in 1350.

The friction brake was adjusted according to a rower's weight to give an accurate appraisal of boat-moving ability ( drag on a boat is proportional to weight ). Inferior copies of Harrison's machine were produced in several countries utilising a smaller flywheel and leather straps-unfortunately the leather straps were sensitive to humidity, and the relatively large braking area made results far less accurate than Harrison's machine.

In most jurisdictions, involuntary commitment is specifically applied to individuals found to be suffering from a mental illness that impairs their reasoning ability to such an extent that the laws, state or courts find that decisions must or should be made for them under a legal framework.

John now had the additional ability to " cripple his vassals " on a significant scale using his new economic and judicial measures, which made the threat of royal anger all the more serious.

Initially, some users of the Kazaa network were users of the Morpheus client program, formerly made available by MusicCity, but once the official Kazaa client became more widespread, Kazaa developers used its automatic update ability to shut out Morpheus clients by changing the protocol in February 2002, when Morpheus developers failed to pay license fees.

The course is broken down into topics and made up of practice and learning games as well as the ability to test your skills with the speech recognition software.

The earliest karaoke-based music video game, called Karaoke Studio, was released for the Nintendo Famicom in 1985, but its limited computing ability made for a short catalog of songs and therefore reduced replay value.

The Commodore Amiga was the first personal computer to use a full-featured blitter, and the first US patent filing to use the term blitter was " Personal computer apparatus for block transfer of bit-mapped image data ," assigned to Commodore-Amiga, Inc. On top of the ability to copy and manipulate large areas of graphics, the hardware that contained the Amiga's blitter also included line drawing and area-filling hardware.

In 1985, the Commodore Amiga arrived with the ability to display 640x480 near-photorealistic 4096-color graphics that could be exported via the NTSC standard.

However, SCARE is an ANSI / ISO C secondary clone of jAsea and the project has resulted in the ability to play ADRIFT games on several platforms including Linux, Windows, DOS, Macintosh and Amiga.

The Commodore 64 and Amiga Action Replays included the ability to save the entire contents of a home computer's memory to floppy disk or compact audio cassette, and then to reload very quickly.

Another feature the Amiga and Commodore 64 versions had in common was the ability to add POKEs, or cheats.

Adapted from Michael Welch's earlier Amiga game Scorched Tanks, this newer version features modified physics, dozens of weapons ranging from simple explosive shells to homing missiles, and the ability to move the tank.

The ability for others to create custom levels and otherwise modify the game, in the form of custom WAD files ( short for Where is All the Data ), turned out to be a particularly popular aspect of Doom.

Biographer David Buckley writes, " The essence of Bowie's contribution to popular music can be found in his outstanding ability to analyse and select ideas from outside the mainstream — from art, literature, theatre and film — and to bring them inside, so that the currency of pop is constantly being changed.

Major web browsers soon incorporated the ability to run Java applets within web pages, and Java quickly became popular.

Prefix notation is especially popular with stack-based operations due to its innate ability to easily distinguish order of operations without the need for parentheses.

* 1984 – Roland Juno-106: Very popular programmable ( 128 patch memory locations ), digitally controlled 6-voice analog synthesizer, with MIDI and the ability to transmit button and slider information through SysEx.

By the early 1970s, the skinhead subculture started to fade from popular culture, and some of the original skins dropped into new categories, such as the suedeheads ( defined by the ability to manipulate one's hair with a comb ), smoothies ( often with shoulder-length hairstyles ), and bootboys ( with mod-length hair ; associated with gangs and football hooliganism ).

The estoc became popular because of its ability to thrust into the gaps between plates of armour.

Cyanoacrylate glue's ability to resist water has made it popular with marine aquarium hobbyists for fragging corals.

Parallels has become popular for its ability to run Windows as a guest under Mac OS X on the Apple – Intel architecture.

The use of markup tags and codes remains popular today in some applications due to their ability to store complex formatting information.

Although X-Factor was not as flashy or wildly popular as other X-books, David was applauded for his use of humor and cultural references, and his ability to flesh out characters that had previously only been background characters.

* In popular Warcraft III custom map " Defense of the Ancients ", Akasha is the name of a female hero with the ability to create waves of sound that damage multiple units.

Today's most popular rod tends to be graphite for its light weight characteristics and its ability to allow for further and more accurate cast.

Although small grocery stores and general merchandisers were present in the immediate area, Joe C. ' Jodie ' Thompson, Jr., the manager of the ice plant, discovered selling convenience items, such as bread and milk, was popular due to the ice's ability to preserve the items.

" Physical courage " is courage in the face of physical pain, hardship, death, or threat of death, while " moral courage " is the ability to act rightly in the face of popular opposition, shame, scandal, or discouragement.

Trivial Pursuit is a board game in which progress is determined by a player's ability to answer general knowledge and popular culture questions.

In the 1850s, Anglo-German concertina's ability to play both melody and accompaniment led English manufacturers to start developing the various Duet systems, and the popular Maccann system were developed towards the end of the century.

Two popular complications are the chronograph complication, which is the ability of the watch movement to function as a stopwatch, and the moonphase complication, which is a display of the lunar phase.

They were popular in trades that required speed and windward ability, such as slaving, privateering, and blockade running.

DivX is a brand name of products created by DivX, Inc. ( formerly DivXNetworks, Inc., later purchased by Sonic Solutions and currently part of the Rovi Corporation formerly known as Macrovision ), including the DivX Codec which became popular due to its ability to compress lengthy video segments into small sizes while maintaining relatively high visual quality.

Sports often make poor party games as limitations in a player's physical abilities may preclude participation ; however, some popular party games like relay races or Red light / Green light involve a significant physical aspect and are especially suitable for groups similar in age and ability.

* Its ability to print to a wide variety of devices, including PostScript, PCL, and InterPress laser printers and imagesetters, as well as certain popular dot-matrix printers.