Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia - Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia is based on the Academic American Encyclopedia. This encyclopedia is available on the Internet for subscribers and is updated monthly. Statistics Words: 11,250,000 Articles: 39,000 Bibliographies: 16,800 Contributors: 3,000 External Links: 110,000+ Internal Links: 100,000+ Images: 7,100 Tables: 300 Fact Boxes: 300 Maps: 870 See also: List of encyclopedias External Links Grolier Online.
Revolution (Multimedia software) - Revolution (Multimedia software) Revolution is a multimedia authoring software in the tradition of Hypercard. The stacks produced with it run on Macintosh, Windows and Unix systems including Linux. It is compatible with Hypercard in the sense that it can read Hypercard stacks. It includes a scripting language called Transcript which is a superset of the scripting language of Hypercard Hypertalk. The basic version is free. Even if the number of lines in scripts is limited it allows to build fairly complex applications. Revolution is an environment where non-programmers feel at ease and programmers feel not too uncomfortable. http://www.runrev.com Web site http://wiki.macitworks.com/revdocs (wiki).
Q multimedia console - Q multimedia console The Panasonic Q multimedia console is at heart a Nintendo Gamecube with the ability to play DVDs, as well as several other features. It is licensed by Nintendo and was released in December 2001. The other consoles of this generation are the Sony Playstation 2 and the Microsoft XBox. Both of these have DVD capability, although the Q's DVD quality is greater than the other consoles. The Q was first listed as $439 US, but modified versions that allow users to play DVDs from all regions was listed $499 US. Panasonic Q Nintendo's uncharacteristic decision to license the gaming technology to Panasonic is a result of the deal brokered between Matsushita (more commonly known in the west via the Panasonic brand) and Nintendo..
KDE - to duplicate Qt). Qt was re-licensed to provide the GNU General Public License as an option, which has mitigated those concerns. KDE is highly configurable and features many cosmetic elements such as the translucency in menus and antialiasing, which are comparable to features in Windows and Mac OS X. A typical KDE session: the main menu (left), kmail (background), konqueror the KDE web browser and file manager (center/right) and noatun (top right), a multimedia player. () There is both competition and cooperation between KDE and GNOME, another free graphical desktop environment for Unix. KDE is developed in conjunction with KDevelop, a software development suite, and KOffice, a suite of office software. KDE is reported to be in open source development for the x86 (Intel chip) port of the Darwin OS system..
Klasky Csupo Inc. - Csupo Inc. Klasky Csupo Inc. is a multimedia entertainment production company located in Los Angeles, California, founded by artist/producer Arlene Klasky and master animator Gabor Csupo. Although the company is most famous for its animated cartoons for Nickelodeon, such as Rugrats, Rocket Power, and The Wild Thornberrys, "K-C" also played a key role in the success of The Simpsons. The company is also active in the production of recorded music. They have also lately produced a number of projects in commercial advertising, including a series of retail videos for the McDonald's hamburger chain. External Links The Klasky Csupo Home Page Cooltoons.com.
Knott's Berry Farm - brought here. The Bird Cage Theatre melodrama attraction (recently closed) has launched many acting careers, including Steve Martin's. Fiesta Village Fiesta Village is a Hispanic-themed area which features a number of carnival-style attractions, and the Montezooma's Revenge roller coaster. The Boardwalk Originally themed as a gypsy camp, and later re-themed to the "Roaring 20's" and "Knott's Airfield", this area is home to most of the park's major thrill rides, such as the recently constructed Xcelerator, Supreme Scream, and Perilous Plunge. It is also home to the Sky Cabin Tower, which was formerly the Parachute Jump attraction and was, at one time, the tallest structure in Orange County. Camp Snoopy Camp Snoopy is targeted towards younger visitors, with many of the rides and attractions being built specifically for children. It is themed.
Jay Miner - a famous chip designer, known primarily for his work in multimedia chips. He received a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley in 1958. He started with a number of designs in the medical world, including a remote-control pacemaker, but started working at Atari in the late 1970s. There he managed to combine an entire breadboard of components into a single chip, known as the TIA. The TIA was the display hardware for the Atari 2600, which would go on to sell millions. After working on the TIA he headed up the design of the follow-on chip set that would go on to be the basis of the Atari 8-bit family of home computers, known as ANTIC and GTIA. In the early 1980s Jay, along with other Atari staffers, had.
Japanese copyright law - reception by the public. In order to deal with the new context of the Internet, the (already existing) concept of interactive transmission (websites, video-on-demand, etc.) made a theoretical move and is now considered as residing under public transmission (besides wire diffusion and broadcasting) (Japan Copyright Office 2001, 30). Interactive transmission stands for "the public transmission made automatically in response to a request from the public" (read: in response to a click with the mouse on a hyperlink). Besides the definitions of both concepts, article 23 (1) of the Copyright Law provides that "(t)he author shall have the exclusive right to make the public transmission of his or her work (including the making transmittable of his or her work in the case of the interactive transmission)". We can consider this as an.
Video coding - not only contains visual information but also audio. Therefore, it is often referred to as multimedia. Modern video coding standards even include other multimedia data such as synthetic computer graphics, text and meta information for searching/browsing and digital rights management. They also often provide mechanisms for user interaction. However, the most intensive parts of video data in terms of data size (memory demand, transmission bandwidth) remain (visual) video and audio data. These parts have to be compressed. Unfortunately, this can hardly be done without loss of quality (lossy compression). There are two special research areas that deal with multimedia compression: video compression and audio compression. Video coding has two distinct goals: storing and transmission of video data. These two goals have much in common. Therefore, video file formats usually have the.
Video game publisher - quality and best-marketed in each game genre, and, by comparison, very few buying any other games in that genre. This has led to much larger game development budgets, as every game publisher tries to ensure that its game is #1 in its category. When publishing for game consoles, game publishers take on the burden of a great deal of inventory risk. All significant console manufacturers since Nintendo with its NES (1985) have required all publishers to pay a royalty for every game manufactured to run on their console. This royalty must be paid at the time of manufacturing, as opposed to royalty payments in almost all other industries, where royalties are paid upon actual sales of the product—and, importantly, are not payable for games that did not sell to a consumer..
Johnson Family Vacation - in Cursed which will be released in late 2004. If you would like to research more on Shannon Elizabeth you can visit her own website which has been very successful over the past years. It contains many pictures, multimedia, interviews and other information..
IA-32 - could accept an optional external coprocessor chip called the 80387 that enabled it to do floating point calculations via hardware. Some models of the 80486 had this coprocessor on-die. Pentium MMX added a set of extensions called MMX that can be used, among other things, to optimize multimedia software running on it. Pentium III adding SSE (Streaming SIMD Extensions) Pentium 4 adding SSE2 The 80386 has eight 32 bit general application registers (and LOTS of system controlling registers) data registers All of the four following registers may be used as general purpose registers. However each has some specialized purpose as well. eax (with a special interpretation for arithmetic instructions; a for accumulator) ebx (base register, used for addressing) ecx (with a special interpretation for loops, c for counter) edx (data register).
IA-64 - rather than the typical spill/fill or window mechanisms used in other processors, the Itanium can rotate in a set of new registers to accomodate for new function parameters or temporaries. The register rotation mechanism combined with predication is also very effective in executing automatically unrolled loops. The architecture also provides a versatile set of instructions that cater to a wide spectrum of usage. Thus we have explicit instructions for multimedia operations, and explicit instructions for floating point operations. Despite its great capabilities, the IA-64 instruction set is notoriously difficult to program directly. Intel has strongly recommended against the practice of assembly programming on Itanium, in general, and instead use their C++ compiler (which contains platform specific heuristics.) In order to support IA-32, the Itanium can switch into 32-bit mode with special.
Informix - like Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard would eventually follow up on. The two forms of parallelism made the product capable of market-leading levels of scalability, both for OLTP and data warehousing. Now known as Informix OnLine Dynamic Server (after briefing entertaining the name Obsidian), version 7 hit the market in 1994, just when SMP systems were becoming popular and Unix in general had started to become the server operating system of choice. In addition, version 7 consistently won performance benchmarks. As a result of its success, Informix vaulted to the #2 position in the database world by 1997, pushing Sybase out of that spot with surprising ease. Building on the success of Version 7, Informix made the fateful decision to split its core database development investment into two efforts. One effort, which.
Industrial Records - Genesis P-Orridge, were to release their experiments in non-entertainment sound and multimedia through the label; in addition to a host of other artists on the periphery of the music business including Clock DVA and The Leather Nun, plus outrage artist Monte Cazazza and the author William S. Burroughs. One of the most incongruous releases on the Industrial Records label was a version of the blues standard Stormy Weather sung by Elisabeth Welsh, taken from the soundtrack of Derek Jarman's film The Tempest. Industrial Records was perhaps even more important in P-Orridge's attack on the public consciousness than his band. Whereas contemporary Punk Rock bands were instantly co-opted into the music business, providing product for the teen-rebellion and fashion markets, Industrial Records output resolutely refused to compromise their stance, even to the.
Inverse discrete cosine transform - Transform, a transformation step commonly used in software that works with different multimedia formats such as MP3, Vorbis, MPEG or JPEG. One-dimensional iDCT can be thought of as moving a digitized signal from the frequency domain into the time domain, but in the case of e.g. JPEG the two-dimensional DCT makes this analogy somewhat invalid. Several hardware implementations exist for efficient iDCT, it is a common feature of MP3 players and some graphics cards, but iDCT can also be done in software, for example mpg123, a media player for UNIX, employ efficient assembler code for the iDCT step of MP3 decoding..
Internet art - happen outside the purely technical structure of the internet, when artists use specific social or cultural traditions from the internet in a project outside of it. Internet art is often, but not always, interactive, participatory and based on multimedia in the broadest sense. Internet art can take concrete form in artistic websites, e-mail projects, artistic Internet software, Internet-based or networked installations, online video, audio or radio works, networked performances and installations or performances offline. Internet art as a "movement" is part of media art and electronic art. A few sub-genres of Internet art are form art, net.radio, browser art, web-specific art, spam art and code poetry. Internet art as a subgenre is a dubious construction really, since the internet is used by all kinds of artists in many different ways. Art.
VideoLAN - VideoLAN The VideoLAN project targets multimedia streaming of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestial television channels and live videos on a high-bandwidth IPv6 or IPv4 network in unicast or multicast under many OSes. VideoLAN also features a cross-plaform multimedia player, VLC, which can be used to read the stream from the network or display video read locally on the computer under all GNU/Linux flavours, all BSD flavours, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, QNX, Familiar Linux... VideoLAN homepage.
Internet forum - post anonymously. A forum can be flat - meaning that each reply within a certain topic is listed in chronological order, and threaded where each post descends from a parent post. Sites often provide several different views which combine aspects of both flat and threaded modes. Many Internet Forum software packages are available, usually written in PHP, Perl or Java and running as a CGI or Java Servlet, backended by a SQL database or a series of text files. Each provides different features, the most basic allowing text mode only posting, the most advanced allowing users to insert multimedia elements and formatting in to their posts using HTML or BBCode. Packages are often integrated with Web logs or news posting scripts (such as PHP-Nuke) to allow people to post comments on.
Videodisc - circular disc that contains both audio and video forms of multimedia. Typically, it is a reference to any such media that predates the mainstream popularity of the DVD format. Such formats include: MCA DiscoVision (1978) Pioneer LaserDisc (1980) RCA Selectavision (1981) Unlike the battles between VHS and Beta, there was no serious format war between early video disc formats as the LaserDisc proved to be technologically superior to all challengers of its time. The modern DVD format prevailed with only a slight interest to its challenger format, DIVX..
