) For the same reason, a porting of Lotus 1-2-3 to mainframes with 3279 screens did not meet success because its programmers were not able to properly adapt the spreadsheet's user interface to a " screen at a time " rather than " character at a time " device.

Part of the team's spotty performance might have been that the new coach and the new owner did not really get along well, and Belichick came to serve during the 1996 season as the head coach's interface with the Kraft family and the non-football operations side of the business.

On the user interface front, it did not prevent screensavers from running during playback, it did not support file drag-and-drop, nor did it support playlists.

However, it did criticize the puzzles, the lightsaber interface and complained that " the game starts too slowly ".

While the BIOS video interface routines were adequate for rudimentary output, they were inefficient ; they did not have " string " output ( only output by individual character ) and they inserted delay periods to compensate for CGA hardware " snow " ( a display artifact of CGA cards produced when writing directly to screen memory )-- an especially bad artifact since they were called by IRQs, thus making multitasking very difficult.

The first version shown at ECTS 1999 had no interface however did have portraits for the heroes.

All VGA timings can be varied widely by software that bypasses the VGA firmware interface and talks directly to the VGA hardware, as many MS-DOS based games did.

FrameMaker versions 5. x through 7. 2 ( from mid-1995 to 2005 ) did not contain updates to major parts of the program ( including its general user interface, table editing, and illustration editing ), concentrating instead on bug fixes and the integration of XML-oriented features ( previously part of the FrameMaker + SGML premium product ).

Unlike most minicomputers of the era, Alto did not support a serial terminal for user interface.

), " waveform processing " modules actually performed the modem functions, " key processing " and " cryptographic processing " managed the cryptographic functions, a " multimedia " module did voice processing, a " human interface " provided local or remote controls, there was a " routing " module for network services, and a " control " module to keep it all straight.

Released in 1987, the unit had an innovative interface that attracted much interest but it did not become a commercial success.

Due to Apple's smaller market share the number of third-party providers was more limited than for the competing IBM PC platform ( though larger than for the Amiga, which had similarly unusual components ), and third-party providers sometimes had to license elements of the interface technology, meaning that Apple made money on every peripheral sold, even if they did not manufacture it.

The difference was that Jet did not use SQL ; the entire interface was in C and consisted of data structures and function calls.

The EMU10K1 ( and its successors ) did not use on-card RAM / ROM storage for instrument samples, instead it used a high-speed PCI DMA interface to access sample-data stored in the host-PC's system memory.

One review noted that Generals was the first ever Command & Conquer real-time strategy game that did not include full-motion video cutscenes to tell the story and that it departed from the unique interface and base-building mechanics that had characterized all of the previous C & C RTS titles.

He did much to actually initiate all that through his funding of research which led to a great deal of it, including today's canonical graphical user interface, and the ARPANET, the direct predecessor to the Internet.

While these specialized hard drives were relatively slow due to the nature of how data was transferred through this interface ( designed primarily for floppy drives ) they did allow for true mass storage.

The first telephony application that did not deploy a dial pad is Blink ( a screenshot of the pad-less audio interface is available here ).

The WinG interface was also supported in Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT 4. 0, but Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows 2000 and later versions of the operating system did not support it.

However, the Plus / 4 did not have the parallel interface built-in ; it was provided by a plug-in cartridge supplied with the drive.

* a rich notebook user interface metaphor: Documents existed as pages in a notebook with tabs ( this was not new in PenPoint, but PenPoint was the first to make it a primary OS interface ; Microsoft later did it in Windows for Pen Computing )

Windows 8 features a redesigned user interface, designed to make it easier for touchscreen users to use Windows.

There is no graphical user interface ( GUI ) to customize the individual toolbars, so users will need to edit the toolbar configuration file to make any changes in the button layouts, although one can move around the toolbars by simply dragging their handles.

* Asymmetrical definitions of the two ends of the link make the assignment of the role of a newly developed device problematic ; the designer must decide on either a DTE-like or DCE-like interface and which connector pin assignments to use.

The development of wearable items has taken several steps of miniaturization from discrete electronics over hybrid designs to fully integrated designs, where just one processor chip, a battery and some interface conditioning items make the whole unit.

The Direct Rendering Infrastructure ( DRI ), which aims to provide a reliable kernel-level interface to the framebuffer, may make these efforts redundant.

With the help of a web browser interface, users can access data held in any database the organization wants to make available, anytime and — subject to security provisions — from anywhere within the company workstations, increasing employees ' ability to perform their jobs faster, more accurately, and with confidence that they have the right information.

This helped reduce the incidence of spiral fractures, but the lack of standardization in measurements and the always-changing mechanical interface with leather boots make these less than foolproof.

This implies that, while the surfaces of constant real phase are planes whose normals make an angle equal to the angle of refraction with the interface normal, the surfaces of constant amplitude, in contrast, are planes parallel to the interface itself.

Other devices that make up a complete microcomputer system include batteries, a power supply unit, a keyboard and various input / output devices used to convey information to and from a human operator ( printers, monitors, human interface devices ).

To make a BIOS call for every point drawn or modified also increased overhead considerably, making the BIOS interface notoriously slow.

One or more paper clips can make a loopback device for a RS232 interface ( or indeed many interfaces ).

Whereas graphics programmers had earlier relied on hand-coded assembly to make their programs run fast, most modern programs are written to interface with one of the existing graphics APIs, which drives a dedicated GPU.

The MCS-51 UARTs make it simple to use the chip as a serial communications interface.

One key concern of the REST Web service developers is that the SOAP WS toolkits make it easy to define new interfaces for remote interaction, often relying on introspection to extract the WSDL, since a minor change on the server ( even an upgrade of the SOAP stack ) can result in different WSDL and a different service interface.

When the interface clock rate is increased to a point where its inverse ( i. e., its clock period ) is shorter than the largest possible time between signal arrivals, the signals no longer arrive with sufficient coincidence to make recovery of the transmitted word possible.

Apple often makes use of new or unusual hardware systems ; they were the first vendor to make widespread use of Sony's 3. 5 " floppy drive, and they devised their own Apple Desktop Bus system for keyboards and mice, their own LocalTalk networking system, the high-speed FireWire serial interface for storage and video transfer, the 30-pin iPod dock connector, and non-standard display interfaces such as ADC, Mini-DVI, and Mini DisplayPort.

While it is a computer interface which makes the final musical conversation with the alien guests possible, the characteristics bringing Neary to make his way to Devils Tower have little to do with technical expertise or computer literacy.

Therefore the baroclinic vector is nonzero, and the sense of the baroclinic vector is to create vorticity to make the interface level out.

The pull-down menu interface also generates command syntax ; this can be displayed in the output, although the default settings have to be changed to make the syntax visible to the user.

Applying a skin changes a piece of software's look and feel — some skins merely make the program more aesthetically pleasing, but others can rearrange elements of the interface, potentially making the program easier to use.

There are many tools available that make executable files made for one operating system work on another one by implementing a similar or compatible application binary interface.

The toolkit itself is a piece of software which is usually built on the top of an operating system, windowing system, or window manager and provides programs with an application programming interface ( API ), allowing them to make use of widgets.

That heat and the clamping force will soften and smooth out the material at the electrode-material interface and make better contact ( that is, lower the contact resistance ).