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# History of Embrun/2000 Onward/Embrun in 2005

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## 2000 Onward: Embrun in 2005

In 2005, Embrun was a bedroom community. Most people in Embrun worked in Ottawa. Highway 417 provided two exits, 88 and 79, each at a separate end of Embrun, which allowed citizens to get easy access to Ottawa. Embrun was still expanding in 2005. New streets and homes were being built in the Eastern parts of Embrun.
Also, businesses were now in large numbers. Restaurants, stores - Embrun had many business in 2005. Many of these businesses employed teenagers, senior citizens and students, a large part of the reason why Embrun is no longer entirely a bedroom community.
However, in 2005, Embrun didn't have any true industry, and residential homes were still a huge majority of Embrun's buildings.
In 2005, a large Community Complex was planned, but it remains in the planning stage.
Embrun was definitely a boomtown in 2005.
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# History of Embrun
## Contents

    Introduction

### Saint Augustine-de-Catherine

* The Start of the Settlement
* Life in Saint Augustine-de-Catherine from 1845-1848
* Saint Augustine-de-Catherine from 1848-1856

### Under a new name

* Life in Embrun in 1856
* Embrun from 1856-1867
* The Corporate Lumber Industry
* Life in Embrun in 1883

### Into a new century

* Prosperity from 1900-1914
* The Somber Period Starts
* Stagnant Years
* Recuperation

### 2000 Onward

* Expansion
* Embrun in 2005
* Power failure of December 1, 2006

### Biographies

* Louis Nèdère
* Jonathan Smithson
* Alice Francall

### Appendices

* List of neighborhoods in Embrun
* List of roads in Embrun

## Trans-Wiki Links

   * Wikipedia Entry: Embrun, Ontario

## Editing Guidelines

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# History of video games/Platforms/Wikipad
## History

Noted comic book artist Stan Lee recommended the console.

### Launch

The system has an odd legacy, notably in the decedent technology GameVice.

## Technology
### Hardware

The tablet portion of the console sported an IPS LCD with a resolution of 1280 pixels by 800 pixels measuring at 7 inches (18 cm).

### Software

The system ran Android 4.1 for it's operating system.

## References

* 1 2 McFerran, Damien (9 March 2019). "Remembering The Wikipad, Stan Lee's Favourite Nintendo Switch Forerunner". Nintendo Life. https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/03/feature_remembering_the_wikipad_stan_lees_favourite_nintendo_switch_forerunner.
* ↑ "Marvel's Stan Lee on why he loves his Wikipad!". Retrieved 12 September 2022.
* ↑ "Wikipad review" (in en-gb). www.pocket-lint.com. 5 September 2013. https://www.pocket-lint.com/games/reviews/123314-wikipad-review.
* ↑ McFerran, Damien (15 September 2013). "Wikipad review" (in en-gb). Eurogamer.net. https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-wikipad-review.
# History of video games/Platforms/XGP

* An XGP prototype at E3 2006, one of the few times the public had access to the XGP consoles.
* An XGP mini prototype next to other XGP consoles and a GP32 at E3 2006.

## History

The XGP was announced by 2005. The XGP was redesigned in 2006 and the XGP mini was also announced. The GamePark XGP kids was announced by September 7th, 2007.
XGP stands for Extreme Game Player.
The XGP was supposed to cost about $300. The XGP mini was supposed to cost about $150. The XGP Kids was supposed to cost about $75.
GamePark declared bankruptcy in 2007.

## XGP Technology

The XGP is powered by a VRender 3D SoC with an ARM920T CPU clocked at 266 megahertz. The system was supposed to be able to render 1.5 million polygons a second, enabling a high end mobile 3D experience for the time. The system was to have 64 megabytes of DDR SDRAM. An upgrade to 128 megabytes was rumored, though both would have been impressive amounts for the time.
The XGP had impressive connectivity for the time, sporting radios for Wi-Fi b/g, WiBro, and a DMB TV tuner. The inclusion of WiBro in particular is notable as it would have made the XGP one of the first mobile game consoles without cell phone functionality capable of high speed mobile data access. The TV tuner is also indicative of the national roots of the console, as mobile TV over digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) was relatively popular in South Korea. The four inch screen sported by the XGP, would have been considered rather large for a portable screen at the time, making the TV functionality of the console much more appealing.
The XGP was supposed to triple boot GPOS, Linux, and Windows CE.

## XGP Mini Technology

The XGP Mini has 32 megabytes of RAM.
The XGP mini has a 2.2 inch display.
The XGP mini has no wireless connectivity.

## XGP Kids Technology

The XGP Kids has an ARM 940T CPU clocked at 140 megahertz. The XGP Kids has eight megabytes of DDR RAM.
The XGP kids has two megabytes of NOR flash storage.
The XGP kids has a 2.2 inch display.
The XGP kids has no wireless connectivity.
The XGP Kids is powered by AA batteries.
The XGP kids only runs GPOS. This is likely in part to it's lower price and specifications.

## References

* ↑ "Gamepark XGP handheld game console". Engadget.
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Gamepark announces redesigned XGP and surprise XGP Mini". Engadget.
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Jenkins, David. "GamePark Unveils New Portable Console". www.gamasutra.com.
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Gamepark XGP - Ultimate Console Database". ultimateconsoledatabase.com.
# History of video games/Platforms/X68000
## History
### Development

Sharp announced the X68000 computer in 1986.

### Launch

The Sharp X68000 was launched on March 28th of 1987.

### Legacy

The platform was discontinued in 1993.

## Technology

Early systems had 1 megabyte of RAM.

## Gallery
### Models

* Sharp X68000 ACE-HD Front
* Sharp X68000 XVI Front
* Sharp X68000 XVI Rear
* X68000 Keyboard.

### Technology

* Cynthia Chipset
* VSOP Chipset
* Main Processor Board
* Video Board
* Sharp IX1048CE 8730 EO4

## References

* 1 2 "X68000-Computer Museum". museum.ipsj.or.jp. Retrieved 16 September 2021.
* 1 2 "Sharp X68000". Retrieved 16 September 2021.
# History of video games/Platforms/Xbox Game Pass cloud gaming
## History
### Development

In 2015 Microsoft and Duke University develop "Kahawai" technology that reduces latency and bandwidth needed to stream games by performing some of the game rendering on device and using server technology to improve local output.

### Launch

Microsoft xCloud officially launched on September 15th, 2020. The service was integrated with the Xbox Game Pass. Part of the reason xCloud was expanded was to improve the availability of the Xbox platform to those without the means to purchase a dedicated platform.
On February 15th, 2021, Microsoft began openly testing a browser version of the service.
In May 2021 the platform received media attention after Microsoft launched close integration of Xcloud with their dual screen Surface Duo mobile phone.
In 2022 compatibility expanded to the Valve Steam Deck handheld gaming device.

## Technology

xCloud servers are based on Xbox One hardware and thus use GPUs made by AMD.
By February 2021 server blades based on the Xbox One S home game console were used for the service, with plans to use Xbox Series X hardware later in the year.

## References

* ↑ "Microsoft Research cuts bandwidth needed for game streaming". Windows Central. 26 May 2015. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
* ↑ "More details on how Xbox Project xCloud will likely work". Windows Central. 21 December 2018. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
* ↑ Faulkner, Cameron (20 August 2020). "Microsoft xCloud launch: How to to play Xbox games from your phone". The Verge. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
* ↑ Schoon, Ben (16 September 2020). "Xbox Game Pass isn't supported on Android TV, for now". 9to5Google. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
* ↑ Patel, Nilay (24 November 2020). "Microsoft's Phil Spencer on launching the new Xbox and the future of games". The Verge. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
* 1 2 Warren, Tom (15 February 2021). "Here’s a first look at Microsoft’s xCloud for the web" (in en). The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/15/22283739/microsoft-xcloud-web-screenshots-cloud-gaming-streaming-browser-features.
* ↑ Warren, Tom (2021-05-24). "Microsoft has turned the Surface Duo into a handheld Xbox" (in en). The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/24/22450941/microsoft-surface-duo-xbox-mobile-xcloud-cloud-gaming-dual-screen.
* ↑ Plant, Logan (18 March 2022). "Steam Deck Now Supports Xbox Game Pass and Cloud Thanks To Help From Microsoft" (in en). IGN. https://www.ign.com/articles/steam-deck-supports-xbox-game-pass.
* ↑ "6 Things to Know About Amazon's Luna Cloud Gaming Service". Retrieved 25 November 2020.
* ↑ "Microsoft announces Project xCloud, its own AMD GPU-powered game streaming service". Retrieved 25 November 2020.
* ↑ Warren, Tom (18 June 2020). "Microsoft to upgrade its xCloud servers to Xbox Series X hardware in 2021" (in en). The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/18/21295326/microsoft-project-xcloud-xbox-series-x-servers-hardware-2021.
# History of video games/Platforms/Windows 9x
## History

Like previous versions of Windows, Windows 95 and 98 were based on MS-DOS. However unlike previous versions, starting with Windows 95 DOS became integrated with MS-DOS, rather then a separate product running on top of it. Windows 95 also introduced DirectX, an API that allowed game developers to avoid direct access to hardware. Windows 98 offered improvements related to networking.

## Notable games

* Wolfenstein 3D
* Doom
* Quake
* Duke Nukem 3D
* Myst
* Lionel Trains Presents Trans-Con!
* RollerCoaster Tycoon

## Gallery
### Computers

* The ThinkPad 365XD with a floppy drive attached, a laptop from 1995.
* An IBM Aptiva personal computer from the mid 1990s
* A Compaq Deskpro from the late 1990's.
* The Olivetti Envision, an Italian Windows 95 computer designed to be easy to use.

### Audio

- An example of MIDI music, a common choice for game music on Windows PCs at the time.

## Technology
### Computer components
#### CPUs

* 32-bit Pentium - (1993-2000)
* 32-bit AMD K5 - (1996)
* 32-bit Pentium II - (1997-2003)
* 32-bit AMD K6 - (1997)
* 32-bit Athlon Classic - (1999)
* Pentium 60 SX948
* AMD 386DX
* UMC Intel compatible 40MHz Green CPU.
* CPU Cyrix 486DRx²

#### Expansion cards

* Diamond Monster3D Voodoo 1 Graphics Card
* A GeForce 256
* SoundBlaster Pro, a common sound card of the era.

## References

* ↑ "What was the role of MS-DOS in Windows 95?". The Old New Thing. 24 December 2007. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
* ↑ Speed, Richard. "Happy birthday, you lumbering MS-DOS-based mess: Windows 98 turns 20 today". www.theregister.com. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
* 1 2 Manes, Stephen (1 August 1995). "PERSONAL COMPUTERS; Personal Computers: What Is Windows 95 Really Like? (Published 1995)". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
* ↑ "The History of DirectX » CodingUnit Programming Tutorials". Retrieved 28 November 2020.
* ↑ Lewis, Peter H. (30 April 1998). "Windows 98, The Tuneup (Published 1998)". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
# Game Creation with XNA/Kinect/Use Kinect to create Models
## Use Kinect to create Models

Starting with XNA 5.0 (maybe) also the rest of us maybe able to use the Kinect as an input device for our games. Meanwhile, there are many hacks showing how to use the Kinect to scan objects. This is a great way to create realistic models for new kinds of games. Imagine scanning yourself and your friend with the Kinect and use those models in your next boxing game. Or scan your living room and have all your personal furniture show up as interiors in your next game.

### Authors

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# Game Creation with XNA/Mathematics Physics/Physics Engines
## Physics Engines

Should introduce, and discuss some physics engines, compare and evaluate them, best with examples. Also show capabilities, maybe compare with non-XNA physics engines.
* Farseer 3.0, http://farseerphysics.codeplex.com/
* JigLibX is a specially for XNA designed C# port of the Physic Engine "JigLib" http://jiglibx.codeplex.com/
Other examples can be found here: http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/t/7574.aspx
XNA physics engine list can be found here: http://www.xnawiki.com/index.php?title=Physics_Engine
# Game Creation with XNA/Networking/Introduction
## Introduction

Playing along can be fun, but playing with others is even better. But for this you need to learn about techniques such as split-screen and networking. Also some network engines will be introduced in this chapter.

### More Details

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# Game Creation with XNA/Mathematics Physics/Introduction
## Introduction

Unfortunately, every good game, especially the 3D kind, needs a basic knowledge of vectors and matrices. Also collision detection, especially when dealing with thousands of objects requires special data structures. Ballistics and Inverse Kinematics are also topics covered here, as well as character animation. Last but not least, a couple of physics engines are introduced.

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# Game Creation with XNA/Mathematics Physics/Vectors and Matrices
## Vectors and Matrices

We need to recall some basic facts about vector and matrix algebra, especially when trying to develop 3D games. A nice introduction with XNA examples can be found in the book by Cawood and McGee.

### Right Triangle

Once upon a time there was little Hypotenuse. He had two cousins: the Opposite and his sister the Adjacent. Both were usually just known by their nick names 'Sine' and 'Cosine'. They lived together in a right triangle close to the woods. They were related through his mother's sister, aunty Alpha. His father, who was a mathematician, used to say that:
    $\sin \alpha ={\frac {\textrm {opposite}}{\textrm {hypotenuse}}}={\frac {a}{h}}$
    $\cos \alpha ={\frac {\textrm {adjacent}}{\textrm {hypotenuse}}}={\frac {b}{h}}.$
Sometimes he also referred to uncle Tangent (who was married to aunty Alpha) and said that
    $\tan \alpha ={\frac {\textrm {opposite}}{\textrm {adjacent}}}={\frac {a}{b}},$
so in a sense uncle Tangent of aunty Alpha was Sine divided by Cosine. To us that didn't make any sense, but Hypotenuse's father said that was how it always was.

### References

* ↑ S. Cawood and P. McGee (2009). Microsoft XNA Game Studio Creator’s Guide. McGraw-Hill.
* ↑ Wikipedia:Sine
* ↑ Wikipedia:Cosine
# Greek Mythology/Titans/Oceanus

Oceanus (In Greek: Ὠκεανός) , one of the Titans, was son of Uranus and Gaia. Oceanus was god of the seas; his mate was Tethys.
# Greek Mythology/Titans/Prometheus

Prometheus, whose name means "forethought", was the brother of Epimetheus. During the war of the Titans, Prometheus, foreseeing the victory of Zeus, fought on the Olympians side. Epimetheus, looking to the past, kept fighting with the Titans.
After the victory, Prometheus was given the task by Zeus of creating all life on Earth. He then also made humans from clay without Zeus' permission. This upset Zeus; but Prometheus was able to save humanity.
At the first animal sacrifices, Prometheus tricked Zeus into choosing the bones and entrails for the gods' portion by wrapping them in enticing fat, while the choice cuts were hidden under the stomach. This resulted in human celebrants receiving the choice meats at future animal sacrifices.
Prometheus was reputed to have felt pity on the early days of humanity, and decided to share with them the gift of fire, which only the deities knew. For this, he was punished by being chained to a pole on the side of a mountain and have his subsequently regenerating liver eaten day after day by an eagle. To punish humanity, Zeus sent Pandora along with Pandora's box.
After 30,000 years, Prometheus was released from his torture because he possessed a great secret. This secret was that Zeus could only be overthrown by a child he fathered by the nymph Thetis.
# Greek Mythology/Titans/Rhea

Rhea was a Titan, being a daughter of Uranus and Gaia. She, as many others, is an Earth goddess.
# Greek Mythology/Titans/Metis

Metis was the Titan-goddess of good counsel, planning, cunning and wisdom. She was a counsellor of Zeus during the Titan War and came up with the plan through which Kronos was forced to vomit his consumed children. She was the 1st wife of Zeus and the mother of Athena. Metis was an Oceanid, one of the daughters of Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys, who were 3000 in number. She was a sister of the Potamoi (river-gods), sons of Oceanus and Tethys, who also numbered 3000. Metis was the one who gave Zeus the idea to get the herbs (from Gaia) to cause Kronus to vomit out his siblings like I mentioned earlier. Husband: Zeus Offspring: Athena, Poros Parents: Oceanus and Tethys Siblings: Oceanids including Styx, Potamoi
# Greek Mythology/Titans/Mnemosyne

Mnemosyne was the goddess of memory and a Titan. Her parents were Uranus and Gaia. Mnemosyne is the only Titan who is associated with a human characteristic, while the others are associated with natural forces.
# Greek Mythology/Titans/Tethys

Tethys was a Titan; and was daughter of Uranus and Gaia. Her mate was Oceanus.
# Greek Mythology/Titans/Selene

Selene (In Greek: Σελήνη) was the goddess of the moon. Her parents were the Titans Hyperion and Theia, and her siblings were Helius, sun god, and Eos, the dawn. She is known to have many love affairs, the most known one is with the shepard Endymion. Others are with Zeus, which gave her three daughters, and with Pan, who gave her a herd of white oxen.
Selene appears as a young women who travels on a silver chariot drawn by two horses. She is said to wear robes, carry a torch, and wear a half moon on top of her head.
In Selene's affair with Endymion, she seduces him while he's asleep. This results in the birth of 50 daughters. It's said that her moon rays fall onto sleeping mortals, and her kisses on Endymion.
# Greek Mythology/Titans/Iapetus

Iapetus was a child of Uranus and Gaia; and was one of the Titans. Iapetus' role is no longer known.
# Greek Mythology/Titans/Phoebe

Phoebe was a child of Uranus and Gaia; and was one of the Titans. Phoebe's role is no longer known.
# Free Knowledge Culture Calendar/September 2

Unix für PCs
Today in 1992 the Gesellschaft für Software und Systementwicklung mbH was founded, which developed the influential german SuSE Linux distribution that got many people into Linux.
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# Free Knowledge Culture Calendar/September 14

Today in 2015 Stephanie Lenz wins against Universal Music after fighting for fair use of copyrighted content for over eight years. The verdict said that copyright holders must consider fair use in good faith before issuing a content takedown notice.
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# Free Knowledge Culture Calendar/September 17

Today in 1991 version 0.01 of the Linux kernel was published.
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# Free Knowledge Culture Calendar/September 12

Today the Day of Civic Hacking is celebrated in the USA. It is a day of action for programmers, designers and data scientists to develop solutions to problems and improve life within a community, for example by making processes in their environment more transparent or exposing problems, often enabled by Open Data. It is held since 2013, with hackathons and public events.
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# Free Knowledge Culture Calendar/September 16

Today in 2013 Valve co-founder and executive director Gabe Newell famously stated his conviction that “Linux and open source are the future of gaming“ and that the company helps game developers achieve Linux compatibility. Valve followed up on its promises with SteamOS, Steam Machine and Proton, among others.
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# Free Knowledge Culture Calendar/September 18

Today in 1992 the first JPEG standard was published. It allows perceptually nearly indistinguishable reproductions of natural images at a fraction of the uncompressed size of the original, while the degree of compression can also be increased until the image impression falls apart. This well-engineered open standard is ancestor to almost all following popular lossy (moving) image compression algorithms, having all their main building blocks already in place. For still images, it proved difficult to improve on. It is an example of particularly long-lived, so-called “golden formats” that are especially well suited for long-term archival. While the standard specifies additional features, only those not encumbered by patents got widely implemented. Nevertheless, even the patent status of the core technology had to be defended in court.
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# Free Knowledge Culture Calendar/September 13

Today in 1956 the world’s first commercial hard disk drive was shipped. Advances in the development of hard disk drives have made long-term data storage capacity exhibit the fastest growth of all the basic elements of a computer system. This made storage so incredibly cheap that most people fail to imagine the scale and enabling potential of today’s data storage capacities.
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# Free Knowledge Culture Calendar/September 15

Today in 2003 The Pirate Bay was founded, the most iconic and resilient of all file-sharing platforms. It was born in the context of a widespread sense of entitlement among Scandinavians who see the American content industries as an ungrateful beneficiary of the fertile breeding ground of pop music that Scandinavia is, with international names like Abba and Roxette.
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# Free Knowledge Culture Calendar/September 11

Today in 1995 the HP SureStore CD-Writer 4020i was announced. It was the first CD writer available for less than 1000 US dollars. CD recorders came within the reach of average consumers with prices eventually dropping below 100 dollars.
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# History of Technology
## Table of contents

* Preface
* Introduction
* Technological Determinism
** Great Men of History Accounts
* Cultural Determinism and Social Construction of Technology
** Economic Determinism
** Class Determinism
** Historical Materialism
** Hegelian Idealism
* Authors
* Glossary

## External resources

* Winston, Brian: Adventures in Cybersound: How are Media Born? (Cultural Determinist)
* Avery, John: Space-Age Science and Stone-Age Politics (Technological Determinist)
# History of Sylhet
## Table of Contents
### Introduction

* Brief overview of Sylhet's geographical location
* Significance of Sylhet in South Asian history

### Early History

* Prehistoric and ancient settlements in the Sylhet region
* Emergence of the Srihatta Kingdom

### Srihatta Rajya (Sylhet Kingdom)

* History, culture, and governance of the Sylhet Kingdom
* Notable rulers and dynasties
* Trade and cultural exchanges during this period

### Colonial Era

* Sylhet under British colonial rule
* Socio-economic changes and the impact on the region
* Role of Sylhet in the tea industry

### Partition of India

* Events leading to the partition in 1947
* Division of the Sylhet between India and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh)

### Post-Independence Period

* Sylhet's role in the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971
* Socio-economic development in Sylhet after independence

### Culture and Heritage

* Traditional music, dance, and art forms of Sylhet
* Historical landmarks and architecture
* Cuisine and traditions of the region

### Modern Sylhet

* Contemporary issues and challenges
* Sylhet region
* Economic developments, including remittances from the Sylheti diaspora
* Tourism in Sylhet
# History of Sylhet/Significance of Sylhet in South Asian history

Introduction

## Significance of Sylhet in Bangladeshi history
### History of the Sylhet region

References