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The Government Machine from Miles J. Breuer 's short story "Mechanocracy" (1932). The Brain from Laurence Manning 's novel The Man Who Awoke (1933). The Machine City from John W. Campbell 's short story "Twilight" (1934). The Mechanical Brain from Edgar Rice Burroughs 's Swords of Mars (1934).
Avatar (computing) In computing, an avatar is a graphical representation of a user, the user's character, or persona. Avatars can be two-dimensional icons in Internet forums and other online communities, where they are also known as profile pictures, userpics, or formerly picons (personal icons, or possibly "picture icons"). Alternatively, an ...
1 Control-C has typically been used as a "break" or "interrupt" key. 2 Control-D has been used to signal "end of file" for text typed in at the terminal on Unix / Linux systems. Windows, DOS, and older minicomputers used Control-Z for this purpose. 3 Control-G is an artifact of the days when teletypes were in use.
Top row, from left to right: Pearl, Plankton, and Karen. Bottom row: Sandy, Mr. Krabs, SpongeBob, Squidward, Gary, Patrick, and Mrs. Puff. The characters in the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants were created by artist, animator, and former marine biologist Stephen Hillenburg. The series chronicles the adventures of the ...
Mavolio Bent. Mr Mavolio Bent is the Head Cashier and all but in charge of the Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork. He was introduced to the discworld series in the 36th Discworld novel, Making Money. He has been in employment at the bank since he was thirteen, when he came to the city with a group of travelling accountants.
It relates to both computer hardware and computer software. Names of many computer terms, especially computer applications, often relate to the function they perform, e.g., a compiler is an application that compiles (programming language source code into the computer's machine language). However, there are other terms with less obvious origins ...
The character's name (and aspects of its appearance) is derived from creature designer Phil Tippett's drunken mispronunciation of the word "shoelaces" and an homage to underground comix cartoonist Robert Crumb. [19] [20] The character has been performed by Tim Rose in Episode VI, with his voice provided by Mark Dodson. Rose's antics controlling ...
Damon Baird. Crash Bandicoot (character) Barry Burton. Bayek of Siwa. Niko Bellic. Simon Belmont. Big Boss (Metal Gear) Birdie (Street Fighter) Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd.