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" Sui-Nam Lee observed that " communication imperialism can be defined as the process in which the ownership and control over the hardware and software of mass media as well as other major forms of communication in one country are singly or together subjugated to the domination of another country with deleterious effects on the indigenous values, norms and culture.
Pre-rendering is a computationally intensive process that is typically used for movie creation, while real-time rendering is often done for 3D video games which rely on the use of graphics cards with 3D hardware accelerators.
IBM is designing hardware to process this information.
Some non-software industries are beginning to use techniques similar to those used in free software development for their research and development process ; scientists, for example, are looking towards more open development processes, and hardware such as microchips are beginning to be developed with specifications released under copyleft licenses ( see the OpenCores project, for instance ).
Unlike most Unix-like kernels, the Hurd uses a server – client architecture, built on a microkernel that is responsible for providing the most basic kernel services – coordinating access to the hardware: the CPU ( through process management and scheduling ), RAM ( via memory management ), and other various input / output devices ( via I / O scheduling ) for sound, graphics, mass storage, etc.
Computing hardware has become a platform for uses other than mere computation, such as process automation, electronic communications, equipment control, entertainment, education, etc.
Korotkov's GDV camera system consists of hardware and software to directly record, process and interpret GDV images with a computer.
Replacement was cost-prohibitive because of the expensive requirement for flight certification ; the legacy hardware used completed the expensive integration and certification requirement for flight, but any new equipment would have had to go through that entire process – requiring extensive tests of the new components in their new configurations – before a single unit could be used in the Space Shuttle program.
Motorola used the process shrink to pack more hardware on the die ; in this case it was the MMU, which was 68851 compatible.
The monolithic differs from other operating system architectures ( such as the microkernel architecture ) in that it defines alone a high-level virtual interface over computer hardware, with a set of primitives or system calls to implement all operating system services such as process management, concurrency, and memory management itself and one or more device drivers as modules. Structure of monolithic kernel, microkernel and hybrid kernel-based operating systems
The process containing Windows was given fairly extensive access to hardware, especially video, and the result was that switching between a full-screen WinOS / 2 session and the Workplace Shell could occasionally cause issues.
" Soft PLCs " running on desktop-type computers can interface with industrial I / O hardware while executing programs within a version of commercial operating systems adapted for process control needs.
The causes of the software crisis were linked to the overall complexity of hardware and the software development process.
The process can even be recursive: IBM debugged new versions of its virtual machine operating system, VM, in a virtual machine running under an older version of VM, and even used this technique to simulate new hardware.
Page tables are used to translate the virtual addresses seen by the application into physical addresses used by the hardware to process instructions ; such hardware that handles this specific translation is often known as the memory management unit.
While this requires more digital circuits to process the signals, each digit is handled by the same kind of hardware.
The CM process for both hardware and software configuration items comprises five distinct disciplines as established in the MIL – HDBK – 61A and ANSI / EIA-649.
It is the process of controlling modifications to the system ’ s design, hardware, firmware, software, and documentation.
* Configuration Status Accounting: Includes the process of recording and reporting configuration item descriptions ( e. g., hardware, software, firmware, etc.
Despite the many server-branded products available ( such as server versions of hardware, software or operating systems ), in theory any computerised process that shares a resource to one or more client processes is a server.
* Architectural Design: the process of defining a collection of hardware and software components and their interfaces to establish the framework for the development of a computer system.
The perceived complexity of programming routing functions in silicon, led to formation of several startups determined to find new ways to process IP and MPLS packets entirely in hardware and blur boundaries between routing and switching.
Eventually the runtime libraries became an amalgamated program that was started before the first customer job and could read in the customer job, control its execution, record its usage, reassign hardware resources after the job ended, and immediately go on to process the next job.
The crypto chip ( s ) may also be potted in the hardware security module with other processors and memory chips that store and process encrypted data.

process and accelerated
the process can be accelerated.
These ions, under the influence of the electric field, are accelerated into the cathode surface containing the sample, bombarding the sample and causing neutral sample atom ejection through the process known as sputtering.
In the industrial production of cream this process is accelerated by using centrifuges called " separators ".
However, once the applied electric field approaches the breakdown value, free electrons become sufficiently accelerated by the electric field to create additional free electrons by colliding, and ionizing, neutral gas atoms or molecules in a process called avalanche breakdown.
The process was accelerated by Dublin Corporation in the 1920s and the present shape of the suburb was firmly in place by 1930.
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 to 1991 leaves the United States as the world's single superpower and triggers the fall of the Iron Curtain, the reunification of Germany and an accelerated process of a European integration that is ongoing.
X-rays are generated by colliding accelerated electrons with a dense material ( target ) such as tantalum or tungsten in a process known as bremsstrahlung-conversion.
Ion implantation is a materials engineering process by which ions of a material are accelerated in an electrical field and impacted into a solid.
From 1959, in a process that accelerated in 1961, Nehru adopted the " Forward Policy " of setting up military outposts in disputed areas of the Sino-Indian border, including in 43 outposts in territory not previously controlled by India.
This process was accelerated when, in 1997, meteorites coming from both the Moon and Mars were found in Libya.
In a series of high-level meetings since the latter half of 1998, Slovenia and Croatia have been engaged in settling bilateral differences, a process which accelerated after the death of Croatian President Franjo Tuđman in 1999.
This process accelerated as the 1960s progressed into the 1970s, eventually leading to what was called the New Communist Movement in various countries.
Federal subsidies for suburban development accelerated this process as did the practice of redlining by banks and other lending institutions.
This process was accelerated after 2000, when the city underwent a property boom, and many Communist-era buildings in the city centre became prime real estate due to their location.
After the 9th century, the linguistic border began to shift north and east, a process accelerated by modern government policies that recognize French as the country's official language.
If the applied electric field is sufficiently high, free electrons from background radiation may become accelerated to velocities that can liberate additional electrons during collisions with neutral atoms or molecules in a process called avalanche breakdown.
Water has a tendency to diffuse to areas that are drier, and this process is accelerated when water can be wicked along a fabric with small spaces.
For the film The Empire Strikes Back, Richard Edlund created a ' quad optical printer ' that accelerated the process considerably and saved money.
These areas are exposed to the surface through the process of erosion accelerated by continental uplift acting over many tens of millions to hundreds of millions of years.
This form of erosion causes convex and relatively thin sheets of rock to slough off the exposed surfaces of batholiths ( a process accelerated by frost wedging ).
For example, in some states, the litigation process may be drastically accelerated if the plaintiff is dying from a terminal illness.
While Napoleon did renounce state claims to tribal lands, he also began a process of dismantling tribal land ownership in favour of individual land ownership over the course of three generations, though this process was accelerated by later administrations.
Residues resulting from the decaying of organic matter, a process often chemically accelerated with the use of lime, entered directly into the earth, creating a situation unacceptable for a city whose then-principal source of water was wells.
The devastation caused by the Second World War, and the demise in 1944 of the huge Späth nursery in Berlin, only accelerated the process.

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