Vernor Vinge - Vinge could write a classic space opera despite his belief that the technology required for such stories would push us past the singularity. Fire includes a large number of additional ideas making for an unusually complex and rich universe and story. A Deepness in the Sky (1999) was a prequel to Fire, following competing groups of humans in The Slow Zone as they struggle over who has the rights to exploit a technologically emerging alien culture. Deepness also won a Hugo Award. Vinge retired in 2002 from teaching at San Diego State University in order to write full-time. His ex-wife Joan D. Vinge is also an accomplished science fiction author. Bibliography Novels Grimm's World (1969), revised as Tatja Grimm's World (1987) The Witling (1976) The Peace War (1984) Marooned in Realtime.
Kansas (band) - a constant presence on the burgeoning AOR radio format, as was the followup Point of Know Return (1977). After a few more albums, Kansas began to fall apart in the early 1980s. Hope and Livgren became born-again Christians and Walsh formed a new band, replaced by John Elefante. In spite of a successful 1982 album called Vinyl Confessions, the group split in 1983, only to reform in 1986 with the album Power. The 1990s saw a string of barely noticed releases, and Kansas has continued to tour sporadically, but the band has never been able to regain any mass popularity or critical notice..
Karelian language - the boundaries of another state, a conclusion might be, that Karelian has a similar relation to Finnish, as has Finland-Swedish to Scandinavian Swedish. Finnish and Karelian were suppressed and out-lawed during Stalin's Great Purges. Attempts to standardize Karelian with a Cyrillic alphabet were unsuccessful, and today the Karelian republic (of the Russian federation) consider Karelian a dialect of Finnish. Finnish, and not Karelian, was the second official language of Karelia from the Winter War 1940 up until the 1980s[1], when perestroika began. Since the late 1990s there have been moves to pass special language legislation, which would give Karelian an official status. Finnish has also again been proposed as a second official language for the republic, but the proposal has never taken wind..
Kanuni i Lekë Dukagjinit - mostly in northern Albania from the 15th century until the 20th century and revived recently after the fall of the communist regime in the early 1990s. This set of laws was a customary one, passed down through the generations, and not codified and written down until the 19th century by Shtjefën Gjeçov. Although Kanuni is attributed to the Albanian prince Lekë Dukagjini, the rules evolved over time as a way to bring laws and rule to these lands. The code was divided into several sections: Church, Family, Marriage, House, Livestock and Property, Work, Transfer of Property, Spoken Word, Honor, Damages, Law Regarding Crimes, Judicial Law, and Exemptions and Exceptions. Some of the most infamous rules specified how murder was supposed to be handled, and it often led to blood feuds that.
Kathleen Hanna - Lady Records) and former lead singer of Bikini Kill (early 1990s) in between which she had a solo project as Julie Ruin. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Very long instruction word - trace, and so on until the schedule was complete. The second innovation of Fisher was the notion that the target CPU architecture should be designed to be a reasonable target for a compiler; that the compiler and the architecture for VLIW must be develoiped hand in hand. This was partly inspired by the difficulty Josh observed at Yale of compiling for architectures like Floating Point Systems FPS164, which had a complex instruction set architecture that separated instruction initiation from the instructions that saved the result -- leading to the need for infeasible scheduling algorithms. Josh developed a set of principles characterizing a proper VLIW, such as self draining pipelines, wide multi-port register files, and memory architectures, which allowed an architecture to be a good compiler. The first VLIW compiler was described.
Kath and Kim - who wants to enjoy time with her "hunk of spunk" Kel and her her twenty-something daughter Kim. Kim's husband Brett and Kim's second best friend Sharon add chaos. The characters were originally developed in the early 1990s with the highly succesful "Fast Forward" comedy sketch show. The strong script and highly developed alternative vocabulary and mis-pronunciation of words by the two main characters was a feature of the show. "It's ny-oice, it's different, it's un-ewes-yewl!" The theme song is Anthony Newley's "The Joker", and is peformed by Gina Riley. Characters Kathleen Darleen Day (Jane Turner) -- An empty nester who is proud of her home and how she looks. She likes to keep herself trim. Kim Craig (Gina Riley) -- Despite her "people skills" her call centre employer can somehow do.
Vector processor - a time – the vast majority of CPUs are scalar (or close to it). Vector processors were common in the scientific computing area, where they formed the basis of most supercomputers through the 1980s and into the 1990s, but general increases in performance and processor design have since made the dedicated vector processor a thing of the past. History The first successful implementations of a vector processor appears to be the CDC Cyber 100 and the Texas Instruments Advanced Scientific Computer. The Cyber was otherwise slower than CDC's own supercomputers like the CDC 7600 (but much smaller too), but at those data related tasks they could be quite a bit faster. However the machine also took considerable time decoding the vector instruction and getting ready to run the process, so it.
Kenya - to make on that page. Ethnic divisions account for many of Kenya's problems. During the early 1990s, tribal clashes killed thousands and left tens of thousands homeless. Ethnically split opposition groups allowed the regime of Daniel arap Moi, in power from 1978 until 2002, to be reelected for four terms. Kenya is well placed to serve as an engine of growth in East Africa, but its economy is stagnating because of poor management and uneven commitment to reform. In 1993, the government of Kenya implemented a program of economic liberalization and reform that included the removal of import licensing, price controls, and foreign exchange controls. With the support of the World Bank, IMF, and other donors, the reforms led to a brief turnaround in economic performance following a period of negative.
Kelly Freas - for Weird Tales in 1950, his art has graced the covers of hundreds of books and magazines, including Astounding/Analog from the 1950s through the 1990s; Mad Magazine covers from 1955 to 1962; cover art for DAW, Signet, Ballantine, Avon, all 58 Laser Books (which are now collectors' items) and over 90 covers for Ace books alone. He was editor and artist for the first ten Starblaze books. He was commissioned to paint the Skylab I insignia design and posters promoting the space program (used by NASA and now hanging in the Smithsonian Institution); pinup girls on bombers while in the US Army Air Corps; comic book covers; the cover of Queen's first two-million-selling album News of the World; the covers of the GURPS worldbooks Lensman and Planet Krishna; and many others,.
Kendall Square Research - pile of spare parts, and kept their machines running for years after the demise of KSR. KSR, along with many of its competitors (see below) went bankrupt during the collapse of the supercomputer market in the mid-1990s. KSR's competitors included Thinking Machines and Meiko, in addition to various old-line (and still surviving) companies like IBM, Intel, and Sun Microsystems..
Kemp-Roth Tax Cut - cuts. These cuts are widely blamed for the deficits in the budget of the United States government in the 1980s and early 1990s, although deficits had been around since 1969. They are credited with helping the 1980s economic expansion however. The theory underlying the tax cut, the Laffer Curve suggested that there was a revenue maximizing tax rate, tax too much, and output (and tax revenue) decrease, tax too little and though output increases, tax revenue still falls. Controversy still remains as to whether in 1981 the United States was over- or under-taxed..
Veronica Castro - Pequena Soledad, where she had to play both a 40 year old victim of rape who became pregnant and later was paralyzed in a car crash, and her 20 year old daughter (Soledad), who was the product of the rape. Miss Castro embarked during the 1990s into the world of variety show hosting, and she has done that successfully for 12 years now. Her son, Cristian Castro, is a teen idol singer all over Latin America. She was married to the famous Mexican comedian El Loco Valdez and many of her private life's details have become items for papparazi photographers and gossip magazines to feast on. She is rumored to have dated Los Temerarios member Adolfo Angel..
Kenny Baker - even played an additional role in 1983's Return of the Jedi, when he played one of the furry Ewoks. Other films Baker has appeared in include 1980's The Elephant Man, 1981's Time Bandits, 1984's Amadeus and the 1986 Jim Henson film Labyrinth. In the late 1990s, Baker launched a stand up comedy career..
Ken Russell - Women in Love, based on the novel by D. H. Lawrence. More work in a similar vein followed, including The Music Lovers (1970), a biopic of Tchaikovsky which drew attention to his homosexuality, and The Devils, based on Aldous Huxley's book The Devils of Loudun, starring Vanessa Redgrave in a highly controversial role as a nun. By the 1990s, Russell's work had attracted so much media attention that he was widely regarded as unemployable, and he is now largely reliant on his own finances to continue making films. He and late ex-wife, Shirley (now deceased), converted to Roman Catholicism together..
Keith Thibodeaux - age of 21, he received the final payment of $8,000 from a trust fund set up during his days on I Love Lucy. He spent half of that payment on a sports car and the rest on sound equipment for the band. Thibodeaux married his wife, Kathy, a talented ballet dancer in 1976. The couple then moved to Southern California. It was around this time that Thibodeaux converted to Christianity. Thibodeaux returned to the southern United States in 1979 to rejoin the band David and the Giants only to learn that the other band members had also become Christians. The band released nearly ten albums in the 1980s, and 1990s for Epic Records and the band's own label Giant Records. In 1990, became the manager for his wife’s company, Ballet Magnificat..
Kefallinia - to be the fastest growing part of Greece with a growth rate of 35% to 40% in 10 years, reaching 30,000 in the 1990s. The size of the island is around 800 km² (300 sq miles), and the present population density is 55 people per km² (140 per sq mile). Argostoli is home to one-third of the island's habitants. Lixouri is the second major city. The two cities account for almost two-thirds of the prefecture's population. In ancient times, before it was named Cephallonia, only around 100 to 300 people lived there. When Cephallonia was founded in ancient times, the population had trebled to around 500 - 1,000 people. The population steadily grew until the 1900s, when the population reached 10,000 in the mid-20th century, and over 20,000 in the 1970s..
Keelung - nicknamed "The Rainy Port" (雨港). Area: 132 km² Population: 347,828 (late 1990s) (More historical data at #Population) Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Administration 3 Population 4.
Keith Henson - with a religion." Henson is currently residing in Canada, seeking political asylum based on his belief that his life would be threatened by Scientology if he returned to the United States to serve his sentence. The Church, on the other hand, has repeatedly declared that Henson is a criminal, a terrorist, and a fugitive from justice. Henson entered the Scientology battle when it was at its most heated, in the mid-1990s. In 1996, the most secret of Scientology's "secret writings" (see Scientology beliefs and practices) were released onto the Internet, and Scientology embarked on a massive worldwide campaign to keep them from being spread to the four corners of the earth. Henson examined these writings, entitled New Era Dianetics (known as NOTS in Scientology, and to the organization's critics), and from.
Kevin Ayers - Canterbury scene. He has recorded a series of albums as a solo artist. Long resident in Spain, he returned to the United Kingdom in the mid-1990s. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
