Wednesday, August 29, 2007

 

Theatre

Theatre is the branch of the stage arts defined as simply as what occurs when one or more human beings cut off in time and/or space; present themselves to another or others. By this broad definition, theater has existed since the dawn of man, as a result of human tendency for story telling. Since its inception, theater has come to take on many forms, often utilizing elements such as speech, gesture, music, dance, and spectacle, combining the other performing arts, often as well as the visual arts, into a single creative form. Modern Western theater is dominated by realism, although many other forms, including traditional and experimental forms, as well as Eastern form, are frequently performed.
The most recognizable figures in theatre are the directors, playwrights, and actors, but theatre is a highly collaborative endeavor. Plays are usually produced by a production team that frequently includes a scenic or set designer, lighting designer, costume designer, sound designer, dramaturg, stage director, and production manager. The artistic staff is assisted by technical theatre personnel who handle formation and execution of the production.

Friday, August 17, 2007

 

IPL

IPL is Initial program load, used in operating system. In computing, booting is a bootstrapping method that starts operating systems when the user turns on a computer system. A boot series is the set of operations the computer performs when it is switched on that loads an operating system.
Most computer systems can only complete code found in the memory (ROM or RAM). Modern operating systems are stored on hard disks, or occasionally on Live CDs, USB flash drives, or other non-volatile storage devices. When a computer is first power-driven on, it doesn't have an operating system in memory. The computer's hardware alone cannot perform complex measures such as loading a program from disk, so an apparent paradox exists, to load the operating system into memory, one appears to need to have an operating system already loaded. The System/360 IPL function reads 24 bytes from an operator-specified or pre-configured machine into memory starting at location zero. The second and third groups of eight bytes are treated as Channel Command Words (CCWs) to maintain loading the startup program. When the I/O channel instructions are complete, the first group of eight bytes is then loaded into the Program Status Word (PSW) register and the startup program begins completing at the designated location.

Wednesday, August 08, 2007

 

Hamlet

Prince of Denmark is a calamity by William Shakespeare. It is one of his best-known works, and also one of the most-quoted writings in the English words. Hamlet has been called Shakespeare's greatest playand it is commonly included on lists of the world's greatest books. It is also one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays, judging by the figure of productions. Hamlet is a tragedy of the retribution genre, in which the title character, and two other characters as well, seek retribution for their fathers' deaths. It incorporate other major human themes, including love, justice, good and evil, and most notably, madness.
Hamlet begins with Francisco on watch task at Elsinore Castle, on a cold, shady night, at midnight. Barnardo approaches Francisco to relieve him on duty, but is not capable to recognize his friend at first in the darkness. The darkness and the mystery, of the set an worrying tone to start the play.

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