As cofounder, president and CEO of Synaptics, F. Faggin contributed also to the creation of the Synaptics I1000, the world ’ s first single-chip optical character recognizer ( 1991 ), and the Synaptics Touchpad ( 1994 ).

Touchpad functionality is available for desktop computers in keyboards with built-in touchpads.

In late 2008 Apple's revisions of the MacBook and MacBook Pro incorporated a " Tactile Touchpad " design with button functionality incorporated into the tracking surface .. Beginning in the second generation of Macbook Pro, the entire touchpad surface acts as a clickable button.

In 2008, Apple's MacBook and MacBook Pro started incorporating a " Tactile Touchpad " design with button functionality and haptic feedback incorporated into the tracking surface.

After three months of research, I can state unequivocally that Los Angeles drivers are considerably more courteous and competent than any other drivers I've ever encountered.

Drivers unused to dirt roads should be especially cautious – it is recommended that drivers reduce their speed, drive with extra care, and avoid driving at night because animals can stray on to roads.

In Linux environments, programmers can build device drivers either as parts of the kernel or separately as loadable modules.

The advantage of loadable device drivers is that they can be loaded only when necessary and then unloaded, thus saving kernel memory.

Even drivers executing in user mode can crash a system if the device is erroneously programmed.

Device drivers, particularly on Microsoft Windows platforms, can run in kernel-mode ( Ring 0 on x86 CPUs ) or in user-mode ( Ring 3 on x86 CPUs ).

Instead of enabling the guest operating system to dialog with hardware, virtual device drivers take the opposite role and emulate a piece of hardware, so that the guest operating system and its drivers running inside a virtual machine can have the illusion of accessing real hardware.

The best example for virtual device drivers can be " Daemon Tools ".

Grenada's roads can pose hazardous driving conditions, including aggressive drivers and sharp curves.

; Drivers: A one-year long study, conducted by a firm that provides statistical information to insurance companies so they can determine rates, found that drivers of H2 and H3 Hummers receive about five times as many traffic tickets as the national average for all vehicles ( standardized based on the number of violations per 100, 000 miles driven ).

One potential reason for this is that locals are permitted to start driving at the age of sixteen, when they are limited to 50mph for two years ( indeed all drivers are limited to 50mph in the first two years after passing their driving test ) and some are not used to having to make progress in the same way that drivers using a larger road network like in the UK are ( even an awful driver can get from anywhere in the island to anywhere else in ninety minutes ).

An ISIS interface can run scanners at or above their rated speed by linking drivers together in a pipe so that data flows from a scanner driver to compression driver, to packaging driver, to a file, viewer, or printer in a continuous stream, usually without the need to buffer more than a small portion of the full image.

Truck stop chain Pilot Travel Centers program Driver Payback Points rewards truck drivers for fueling up by giving them points that can be used for purchase inside the store.

In many cases it can automatically replace drivers without affecting running processes.

Device drivers frequently perform direct memory access ( DMA ), and therefore can write to arbitrary locations of physical memory, including over kernel data structures.

While running a device driver in user space does not necessarily reduce the damage a misbehaving driver can cause, in practice it is beneficial for system stability in the presence of buggy ( rather than malicious ) drivers: memory-access violations by the driver code itself ( as opposed to the device ) may still be caught by the memory-management hardware.

Furthermore, many devices are not DMA-capable, their drivers can be made untrusted by running them in user space.

Everything else can be done in a usermode program, although device drivers implemented as user programs may on some processor architectures require special privileges to access I / O hardware.

It has been shown in the meantime that user-level device drivers can come close to the performance of in-kernel drivers even for such high-throughput, high-interrupt devices as Gigabit Ethernet.

These electronic signs can show a lower speed limit, as low as 50 km / h, to warn drivers for upcoming traffic jams and accidents.

It can also shows the length of various traffic jams near large interchanges, so drivers can choose an alternative route.

All the drivers knew about the plates and they also knew about the big floppy straw hat with shredded edges, the kind natives in travel ads wear when they are out joyfully chopping cane.

One common replacement for LocalTalk was PhoneNet, a 3rd party solution ( from a company called Farallon, now called Netopia ) that also used the RS-422 port and was indistinguishable from LocalTalk as far as Apple's LocalTalk port drivers were concerned, but ran over the two unused wires in standard four-wire phone cabling.

The drivers of the NDR are also called the motive forces and are defined as the elements within society that gain from the success of the NDR.

This season also saw problems with driver changes-the cost of F3000 was escalating to the point that teams were finding it difficult to run drivers for a whole season.

Custom OpenGL drivers were also released by PowerVR and Rendition for running Hexen II with their respective ( and also now defunct ) products.

Still, much of the system had 16-bit code internally which required, among other things, device drivers to be 16-bit code also.

) This also allows user-mode drivers to become untrusted.

* Traffic sign: a sign that instructs drivers ; see also stop sign, speed limit sign, cross walk sign

On the Apple II, unlike modern computers that use standardized device drivers to manage device communications, the operating system directly controlled the step motor that moves the floppy drive head, and also directly interpreted the raw data called nibbles read from each track to find the data sectors.

Thus, in evaluating a collision between two vehicles, the court must not only make a finding that both drivers were negligent, but it must also apportion the contribution made by each driver as a percentage, e. g. that the blame between the drivers is 20 % attributable to the plaintiff / claimant: 80 % to the defendant.

Travellers can also negotiate with car taxi drivers to go off-route for short distances for an additional charge if one's destination is not exactly on the car taxi's route.

Windows 2000 also introduced USB device class drivers for USB printers, Mass storage class devices, and improved FireWire SBP-2 support for printers and scanners, along with a Safe removal applet for storage devices.

Windows 2000 is also the first Windows version to support hibernation at the operating system level ( OS-controlled ACPI S4 sleep state ) unlike Windows 98 which required special drivers from the hardware manufacturer or driver developer.

Nevertheless, it also led to negative social implications such as " cyberbullying " and the rise of traffic collisions caused by drivers who were distracted as they were texting while driving.

* August 4 – Juan Manuel Fangio, driving for Maserati, wins the Formula One German Grand Prix, clinching ( with 4 wins that season ) his record 5th world drivers championship, including his 4th consecutive championship ( also a record ); these 2 records endure for nearly half a century.

However Prost has also stated that he has no intention of racing at the famous Le Mans 24 Hours sportscar race held annually near Le Mans, France due to concerns about the skill and experience of other drivers along the nature of the multiple class racing that occurs at Le Mans, a factor that was supported by Scotsman and two time LeMans winner Allan McNish's horror crash in the Audi R18 in the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Miniaturized mass drivers can also be used as weapons in a similar manner as classic firearms or cannon using chemical combustion.

Some experts also attribute the increase to the above road structural problems, lack of buckling up, the use of alcohol, excessive speed, and unaccustomed drivers such as expats returning home.

Other Minardi drivers also came close to scoring points, including Shinji Nakano who finished 7th at the 1998 Canadian Grand Prix.

There are also unwritten local rules of the road, which are generally understood by local drivers.

The day for each vehicle is taken from the license plate number, and this rule is enforced by traffic police and also by hundreds of strategically positioned traffic cameras backed by computerized image-recognition systems that issue tickets to offending drivers.

Economic drivers leading to increased donation are not limited to areas such as India and Africa, but also are emerging in the United States.