It seems likely there were two sources for this term, causing some of the present confusion of meaning. One source is the old terms chicken-livered and chicken-hearted (Middleton used chicken-heart in 1602, according to the OED), giving the meaning of cowardly; of course, the ...
aFirefighters’ protective clothing is a general term which includes coats, pants, coveralls, helmets, gloves, footwear, and interface components. In this paper, the term firefighters’ protective clothing will be used to refer to coats and pants. Both coats and pants are made of similar fabrics...
Term of Office2015-Present Indian Origin CEO - George Kurian (NetApp) After serving as the executive vice president of product operations for two years at NetApp, George Kurian became theCEO and President of the companyin June 2015. Born in Kottayam district, Kerala, he pursued engineering at ...
The triplet third bit’s free information, attracting another duplet of bits, creates two bound triplets, which self-join and enclose another triplet, and so on. This continuing process creates the enclosed-nested levels of the bound triplets which self-organize an informational network with the ...
Unlike far too many modern prog bands, Moraine manage not to sound like anyone else: the closest term of comparison would be King Crimson circa Red, though more in terms of attitude than actual sound, especially as regards the coexistence of melody and angularity, and the presence of both ...
The termcolonization, although it may be convenient and widely used, is misleading. When applied toArchaicGreece, it should not necessarily be taken to imply the state-sponsored sending out of definite numbers of settlers, as the later Roman origin of the word implies. For one thing, it will...
To be clear, there is no such thing as a “book license”–at least, not in the sense that scammers use the term, meaning an item like a driver’s license or a fishing license that you have to take steps to acquire and must have in order to do the thing associated with the licen...
Though I hesitate to use the term “disappointment”, The Decemberists’ The King Is Dead did not resonate with me in the same way as its predecessors; its songs, however, acquired a new dimension when performed live. Some other high-profile 2011 releases have failed to register on my ...
In the short term, it is simple enough to make 9 separate scripts for the various fixed positions on the canvas (middle centre, lower right etc). These could be recorded into an action for a "quick n dirty GUI" selector. I'm sure it would also be ...
The term “Internet of Things” was firstly proposed by Kevin Ashton in his presentation at Procter & Gamble in 1999. During the presentation, Ashton envisioned the potential of Internet of Things by stating “The Internet of Things has the potential to change the world, just as the Internet ...