Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Future Century Mobile Units


  
  Universal Century - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Universal Century (or UC for short) is one of the timelines of the Gundam anime metaseries.
The Universal Century starts after humans begin to populate space, after construction of the first space colony at Side 1 was completed.
Therefore the first year of the Universal Century calendar is deduced on the official Gundam website in North America as being 2053, 2081, 2109, or possibly later, meaning UC 0079 would correspond to 2131, 2159, 2187, or later.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Universal_Century   (721 words)

  
 The U.S. Army Professional Writing Collection
Heretofore, the division was the smallest unit capable of sustaining itself in combat for extended periods.
The designation of units as light or heavy is largely a reflection of the degree of their mechanization, particularly the number of tanks and IFVs they possess, but also artillery and support vehicles.
So-called medium-weight vehicles and units such as the Stryker brigades and, in the future, the FCS Unit of Action (UAs), represent a departure from the traditional understanding of light and heavy forces.
www.army.mil /professionalwriting/volumes/volume2/november_2004/11_04_1.html   (7383 words)

  
 Press Release on: "Hong Kong (China) and Denmark top ITU Mobile/Internet Index"
Mobile phones are already pervasive in all major developed economies and in an increasing number of developing ones as well.
Future medical devices may be so small that they could be swallowed to provide health status reports from inside the body, for instance on blood pressure or on the workings of a heart pacemaker.
The major uses of mobile data tend to be "flirtatious and frivolous", such as downloading cartoon animations or ‘avatars’ to represent the user when entering chat rooms or sending messages.
www.itu.int /newsroom/press_releases/2002/20.html   (1645 words)

  
 frontline: the future of war: interviews: general eric k. shinseki
As we look forward to the next century, we've seen a bit of what that next century is going to look like, and the kinds of deployments we've had in the last ten years.
For those future objective vehicles, it may be wheels; it may be tracks; it may be neither But I think it's a legitimate discussion to have.
The future readiness of the force and the current readiness of the force is the responsibility of the chief--to insure that we got those requirements properly balanced.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/future/interviews/shinseki.html   (10166 words)

  
 Mobile Fighter G Gundam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Premiering in 1994, Mobile Fighter G Gundam was the first of the alternative Gundam Universe series that would be unrealated to the Universal Century Gundam series.
Although it was ruined during the battle against Mirabeau, the Butler was repaired and was later used to retrieve Dr. Kasshu's space capsule at the end of series and Raymond later sat next to Maria Louise in the gun turret that was next to her during the attack against the Devil Gundam colony.
The final battle of G Gundam includes numerous cameo appearances by prominent mobile suits from previous Gundam series such as the original Mobile Suit Gundam, Zeta Gundam, Gundam 0083, Gundam F91, and the manga Crossbone Gundam.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/G_Gundam   (5276 words)

  
 CTheory.net
Whereas the philosophy of biology (especially in the 20th century) is increasingly concerned with reducing life to number (from mechanism to genetics), biophilosophy sees a different kind of number, one that runs through life (a combinatoric, proliferating number, the number of graphs, groups, and sets).
The process of individuation is central to thinking about life, whether it be about the 'building blocks of life' or the 'code of life.' There are always 'powers of ten' in biology, a huge, ontological microscope that stratifies individuals (the 'DNA makes RNA makes proteins, and proteins make us' mantra of molecular genetics).
This 'bare life' serves as the alpha and the omega of social and political life, at once safeguarding the security of 'the population' while also producing a state of exception, a state of emergency, in which 'bare life' is both under attack and the object of preemptive strikes.
www.ctheory.net /articles.aspx?id=472   (4535 words)

  
 Mobile Library Literacy: Solutions for a Rural Environment
Mobile library outreach services such as bookmobiles have traditionally been a means to provide library and information services to rural citizens.
This project seeks to discover if mobile library service is a viable means of serving rural and suburban populations in the 21st century.
Vermont is small and rural; in fact, it is rated the most rural state in the nation (according to the 1990 census, and this is unlikely to change with the 2000 census) [4].
firstmonday.org /issues/issue6_4/mcshane   (5004 words)

  
 Bi, Autumn 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Among the reforms are newly established naval-air-ground rapid-response logistics units, which synchronize support for mobility-oriented combat units that rely on speed, lethality, and seizure of the initiative.
Japanese joint development with the United States in the area of theatre missile defence will enhance its capabilities against ballistic and battlefield missiles—though there are those who fear that once it has this defence system, it may be tempted to deploy an offensive weapons system, which would disrupt the balance of power in East Asia.
The United States has in South Korea one infantry division, two brigades, and a fighter wing; stationed in Japan are a Marine expeditionary force, an amphibious squadron, an Army Special Forces battalion, an aircraft carrier and escort ships, and one and a half fighter wings.
www.nwc.navy.mil /press/Review/1999/autumn/art2-a99.htm   (12447 words)

  
 Public Safety Mobile Data Systems
At that point mobile data was defined by proprietary, small-screen (30 lines x 24 chars) terminals and agency-owned radio systems, supplied by just a handful of companies that specialized in mobile data.
Suddenly, the proprietary nature of mobile data disappeared, replaced by a scores of companies offering both individual components of mobile data and entire end-to-end networks that could span the country.
Now, in the 21st century, mobile data is common among ordinary consumers and every size of American business—there are dozens of PDAs, cellular phones and laptops that can transmit data wirelessly from anywhere.
www.911dispatch.com /information/mobiledata.html   (2364 words)

  
 The Electromagnetic Telegraph   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The current forced through 1 Ω by 1 V was the unit of current, the ampere, A. Then, the current I in amperes through any part of a circuit is equal to the voltage V applied across the part of the circuit, divided by the resistance R of the part.
By 1850 the United States and Britain had extensive networks, the telegraph was spreading to the European continent, having crossed under the Channel in that year, and by 1870 formed a world-wide telecommunications system.
In the United States, the usual telegraph line battery was the Grove cell, invented by (Sir) William Robert Grove in England, which was used on the first Morse telegraph in 1844.
www.du.edu /~jcalvert/tel/morse/morse.htm   (23003 words)

  
 Future of Music - music industry, music business, and free music downloads
Artists of the future are going to need musician businesses built around them that attract audience without relying on recordings to finance the machine.
Today lots of small companies are planting the seeds of the future music industry by focusing on artist promotion and creating do-it-yourself tools for bands and their managers.
The future of music distribution is going to be mobile and oriented toward mobile devices.
www.futureofmusicbook.com   (9163 words)

  
 Database Nation (Paperback): The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century: Chapter 3: Absolute Identification
A century later, American lawmakers are still looking for a strong identification system to enforce immigration laws, eliminate consumer fraud, and identify the dead.
In the United States, the photo driver's license is the most common form of identification for both private industry and government.
Future systems should be able to recognize a person in a crowd, the same way that people do (and probably with similar rates of success).
www.oreilly.com /catalog/dbnationtp/chapter/ch03.html   (11927 words)

  
 GeckoSystems Robot History
When a cop is almost killed in the line of duty, the corrupt corporation that runs the police department decides to use his near-dead body as the basis for a specially constructed cyborg - the first in what they intend to be a line of super-efficient, crime-fighting machines.
Over the next two centuries the resulting dealings with his adopted family and new acquaintances provide ample opportunities to raise important questions about individual human existence, as Andrew seeks to become human.
Most people think it would be great to have a personal mobile robot to do menial or unpleasant tasks such as vacuum the floor, do the dishes, pick up the clothes, clean the toilet or mow the lawn.
www.geckosystems.com /industries/robot_history.php   (7371 words)

  
 Some Computer Science Issues in
Ubiquitous Computing
The research method for ubiquitous computing is standard experimental computer science: the construction of working prototypes of the necessary infrastructure in sufficient quantity to debug the viability of the systems in everyday use, using ourselves and a few colleagues as guinea pigs.
When a number of mobile units share a single basestation, that basestation may be a bottleneck for communication.
To help prevent future oppressive employers or governments from taking this power away, we are also encouraging the wide dissimenation of information about location systems and their potential for harm.
www.ubiq.com /hypertext/weiser/UbiCACM.html   (6355 words)

  
 WHY MOBILE COMPUTING? WHERE CAN IT BE USED?
Mobile data communications has become a hotly debated issue.
For many years people have longed for a truly mobile system that would allow them to move where they pleased, and yet still be able to make calls, and more challengingly, receive calls.
Packets of data, though, have to be sent from the same place, that is one can take his/her mobile computer wherever he/she likes and send or receive information from there, but once connected must remain stable until the end of the exchanging of data.
www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk /~nd/surprise_96/journal/vol1/vk5/article1.html   (1222 words)

  
 Asia | MocoNews.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Its shares lost more than half of their value today after the UK mobile content group warned that changes to subscription rules at China’s largest mobile phone operator China Mobile could have a significant negative impact on its business in the second half of this year.
Mobile TV is doing OK in Japan…the service, at least — the business model still needs to be hammered out.
There is a lot of mobile TV action in Asia, which is predicted to be the biggest market for the technology.
www.moconews.net /index.php?cat=10   (4618 words)

  
 Creating Learning Communities
The concept of a futures orientation is illustrated well in the descriptive metaphor of the hockey puck, which symbolizes the increasingly fast-paced changes of life today.
A futures context requires that the idea of a “mindset” be discarded and replaced with the concept of “mindflex.” All learners will need to become comfortable with rethinking, reorganizing, and redesigning.
In the future, the emerging complexity of society and the real-time information available due to improved technologies ensures that more and more people will have the opportunity to be involved with decisions that affect their lives.
www.creatinglearningcommunities.org /book/roots/smyre.htm   (9354 words)

  
 Rotten Tomatoes: The Vine: I WANT TO EAT A NUT OF LAERMA! satellite blog...
Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket is a 6-episode, self-contained side story that was the first Gundam Original Video Animation (direct-to-video) series, produced in 1989 to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of the original Mobile Suit Gundam TV series.
Not wanting the other members of the unit to kidnap or even murder Al and cause an uproar, Steiner, the captain of the Zeon unit, makes Al a "member" of the unit to keep him quiet and to enable Bernie to closely monitor him.
Al takes his role as a member of the unit to heart, and, using his insider knowledge as a resident of the colony, he even manages to find the Federation's hidden base in what is supposedly a neutral colony, where he and Bernie are able to photograph the prototype ALEX Gundam.
www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/journal_view.php?journalid=28061&entryid=49473&view=public   (2338 words)

  
 Cell Phone Radiation and Mobile Phone Safety News - Do cell phones need warnings?
More than 400 million mobile phones are in use worldwide, and manufacturers expect to sell another 400 million units this year.
In England a blue-ribbon panel of experts recently called for "a precautionary approach" that includes discouraging children from making nonessential calls and using headsets to keep radiation away from the brain.
If you do have to use a mobile phone, you should seriously look into a hands-free extension" to minimize the risk.
www.sarshield.com /news/cellphonewarnings.html   (1206 words)

  
 TwHP Lesson Plans--Time Period Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Examine the changing lifeways of the inhabitants of this village from the 7th century to the arrival of the Spanish in the early 17th century.
Evaluate several centuries of dramatic changes to an adobe ranch house and its surroundings in suburban Long Beach to analyze the interaction between Spanish and Anglo culture in California.
Discover how the first arboretum in the United States became part of the burgeoning urban park movement in the second half of the 19th century.
www.cr.nps.gov /nr/twhp/period.htm   (5925 words)

  
 Hazara.org
Loving one another and promoting Atehad amongst yourselves is the best investment for your future, and for your children's future, so that they can live and study at a calm and secured atmosphere and appreciate it.
In one operation, he and his unit were completely surrounded by Mojahedeens, who apparently were Hazaras, and had no way out but fight to death.
In Modern Mongolian language, aiymaq is used to refer to the provincial units of administrative and territorial divedings.
www.hazara.org   (10592 words)

  
 CBC News: RBC sells 135 U.S. mortgage outlets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
New Century is a real estate investment trust based in Irvine, Calif. The company said its subsidiary, Home123 Corporation, will buy the branches from RBC (TSX:RBC).
New Century said the cash deal is expected to boost its earnings-per-share within the first 12 months following the close of the transaction, which is anticipated to occur in the third quarter of this year.
Jonathan Threadgill, the president and CEO of RBC Mortgage, will be joining New Century when the deal is finished.
www.cbc.ca /story/business/national/2005/05/27/newcentury-050527.html   (743 words)

  
 Combat Reform   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
When performing its missions, its fully self-sufficient using ISO containerized "BATTLEBOXES" and aircraft-delivered (forced entry) ground maneuver units that are tracked, mechanized and x-country capable to execute decisive 3D maneuver alone or in concert with enhanced 2D maneuver forces.
America's Army must face facts and upgrade some of its 14,000+ lighter, far more x-country mobile, armor protected and firepower capable tracked 11-ton M113 Gavins to attain a truly air and sea mobile 3D maneuver CAVALRY force to dominate future asymmetric combats.
Why tracked TANKS are suitable combat vehicles for ALL Soldiers and units in an excellent U.S. military not the current corrupt, incompetent and narcissistic one.
www.combatreform.com   (793 words)

  
 Editorial: The phoneless phone - infoSync World
Against-the-face ergonomics and in-the-hand ergonomics are simply too different for one device to do both as well as dedicated devices can, although the Treo 600 comes pretty close.
But wasting a hand to hold something against your face is so 20th century (yes, we do like abusing that phrase).
That includes supporting both the headset and handsfree Bluetooth profiles on both handheld and headset (since, unfortunately, the industry can't decide which to use).
www.infosyncworld.com /news/n/4476.html   (790 words)

  
 Phil H. Webber, 1938-2006: For 50 years, he captured Seattle with camera, style
For decades, Webber knew most of the cops and firefighters, tow-truck operators and ambulance drivers in the city by first name.
Saturday, 10 paramedics and two police units responded to Downs' 911 call.
Webber was as usual already on the scene, but this time he was the center of it.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/263569_philobit20.html?source=rss   (1586 words)

  
 CircleID   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Jul 10 dotMobi, the first and only Internet address created for mobile phones, today announced it is extending the Trademark Sunrise Registration period to September 22.
Jul 10 Supported by leading industry organizations, dotMobi began registering doman names, individual users can start filing for registration starting August 28.
Jul 01 ICANN has signed an exchange of letters with United Kingdom country code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) manager, Nominet, becoming the seventh registry to formalize their relationship with ICANN in the past two months.
www.circleid.com /article/809_0_1_0_C   (981 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.