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The AR-15 The AR-15, short for “ArmaLite Rifle-15,” has its roots in the late 1950s when American engineer Eugene Stoner designed it for the Armalite Corporation. Initially developed as a lightweight military rifle, Armalite soon sold the patent to Colt’s Manufacturing Company in 1959, which began mass-producing it. The AR-15 later became the basis for … Read more
What is a Javelin? The Javelin is an antitank missile system that locks onto a target’s thermal picture. The soldier peers through a command launch unit and selects different targets and attack types. When fired, the missile’s launch motor thrusts it out of the tube before its primary motor turns on and sends the rocket … Read more
The Lenovo ThinkBook and Lenovo ThinkPad are two popular business laptops that are often compared due to their similar designs and features. However, there are a few key differences between the two that set them apart and make each one better suited for different types of users and applications. In this article, we will explore … Read more
Both uTorrent and BitTorrent are common torrenting programs that enable you to upload files to the network for others to download or download files online uploaded by others. uTorrent and BitTorrent are literally based off of the exact same closed source codebase. In this article get to understand, how uTorrent and BitTorrent differ from one another, … Read more
What Are Monocarpic Plants? Monocarpic plants are flowering plants that produce flowers and seeds once in their life span. Most Monocarpic plants are annual plants. Annual plants start their life cycle from seeds to flowers to seeds within a single season. After one year, the roots, leaves and stems of an annual plant dies. What … Read more
In computer architecture, an interrupt is an input signal to the processor indicating an event that needs immediate attention. An interrupt signal alerts the processor and serves as a request for the processor to interrupt the currently executing code, so that the event can be processed in a timely manner. Therefore, if the request is … Read more
Process scheduling deals with the selection of a process for the processor; and removal of a process from the processor on the basis of a scheduling algorithm; there are many scheduling queues that are used in process scheduling. When the processes enter the system, they are put into the job queue. The processes that are … Read more
What Is Gouraud Shading? Gouraud Shading is an interpolation method used in computer graphics to produce continuous shading of surfaces represented by polygon meshes. Gouraud shading was developed by Henri Gouraud and was first published in 1971. In practice, Gouraud shading is most often used to achieve continuous lighting on triangle surfaces by computing the light … Read more
What Is G. fast? The name G.fast is an acronym for Fast Acess to Subscriber terminals. The letter G, stands for the ITU-T G series of recommendations. G. fast is a digital subscriber line (DSL) protocol standard for local loops shorter than 500 m, with performance targets between 100 Mbit/s and 1 Gbit/s, depending on … Read more
Microprocessor A microprocessor is an integrated circuit (IC) which performs the instructions and tasks involved in computer processing. It is a controlling unit of a micro-computer, fabricated on a small chip capable of performing Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU) operations and communicating with the other devices connected to it. Microprocessor consists of an ALU, register array … Read more