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Google Docs Google Docs a service provided by Google to easily share information that includes spreadsheets and presentations that can be edited by a group of people, such as co-workers. Google Earth Google Earth an application provided by Google that allows the user to browse satellite images of the world by street address. Google whackin [...]

FOAF that the length of the lines are allowed to vary. The right edge looks like a torn piece of paper—in other words, ragged. This is an example of some flush-left type. Flush left is how type is ordinarily arranged on a typewriter. Contrast CENTER; FLUSH RIGHT; JUSTIFICATION. Flush Right flush right an arrangement of [...]

Flowchart FIGURE 106. Flip-flop constructed from NAND gates flip horizontal a command that creates a mirror image of the original object. The image still appears right-side-up, but left and right are reversed. FIGURE 107. Flip horizontal; flip vertical Flip Vertical flip vertical a command that turns an image upside down, but maintains the image’s left-right [...]

Flash Memory FIGURE 103. Fit text to path Fixed Disk fixed disk a disk drive that cannot be removed from the computer in nor- mal use. See HARD DISK. Fixed-Pitch Type fixed-pitch type type in which all letters are the same width (e.g., I is the same width as M). Most typewriters and older printers [...]

Anchor anchor a marked position in an HTML document (web page), to which the user can jump from elsewhere. For example, the HTML command <A NAME=”Elephants”>All about Elephants</A> marks its position as an anchor named “Elephants,” and if it resides in file http://www.vet.uga.edu/animals.html, then the full address of the anchor is http://www.vet.uga.edu/animals.html#Elephants See HTML; WORLD [...]

Memory leak is one subtle type of error that can happen. There is another one. This other one is even more dangerous. This is dangling pointer. It has the inverse effect of the memory leak. Suppose, there was a pointer that was pointing to a chunk of memory, now by some reason that memory has [...]

C provides another set of functions relating to strings, called search functions. With the help of these functions, we can do different types of search in a string. For example, we can find at what position a specific character exists. We can search a character starting from any position in the string. We can find [...]

Some Natural Phenomena WHY SUN-HEAT VARIES IN INTENSITY. The more squarely parallel heat-rays strike a surface the greater will be the number that can affect that surface. This is evident from Figs. 228, 229, where A B is an equal distance in both cases. The nearer the sun is to the horizon, the more obliquely [...]

Water-Engines Before the invention of the steam-engine human industries were largely dependent on the motive power of the wind and running water. But when the infant nursed by Watt and Stephenson had grown into a giant, both of these natural agents were deposed from the important position they once held. Windmills in a state of [...]

The Air-Gun This may be described as a valveless air-pump. Fig. 168 is a section of a “Gem” air-gun, with the mechanism set ready for firing. In the stock of the gun is the cylinder, in which an accurately fitting and hollow piston moves. A powerful helical spring, turned out of a solid bar of [...]