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The Xbox 360 video game console is subject to a number of technical problems and failures that can render it unusable. However, many of the issues can be identified by a series of glowing red lights flashing on the face of the console; the three flashing red lights nicknamed the " Red Ring of Death " or the " RRoD " [1] [2] being the most ...
At around 9:30 pm on September 11, 2001, George Tenet, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) told President George W. Bush and U.S. senior officials that the CIA's Counterterrorism Center had determined that Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda were responsible for the September 11 attacks.
An occulting light is a rhythmic light in which the duration of light in each period is longer than the total duration of darkness. In other words, it is the opposite to a flashing light where the total duration of darkness is longer than the duration of light. It has the appearance of flashing off, rather than flashing on.
Agrajag. Agrajag is a tragic and piteous creature who is continually reincarnated and subsequently killed, each time unknowingly, by Arthur Dent.Agrajag is first identified in the novel Life, the Universe and Everything, but it is revealed that several of Arthur's encounters in the first and second novels (and in previous chapters of the third) were with previous incarnations of Agrajag.
Satellite flare. Top: a simulated animation of a typical Iridium flare. Bottom: Both images show a flare of an Iridium satellite. Comet Holmes can be seen in the right image, slightly above the tree branch. Satellite flare, also known as satellite glint, is a satellite pass visible to the naked eye as a brief, bright "flare".
Blinking twelve problem. In software design, the blinking twelve problem [1] is when features in software or computer systems are rendered unusable to most users by the complexity of the interface to them. The usage emanates from the 'clock' feature provided on many VCRs manufactured in the late 1980s or early 1990s.
It's like flashing tasty images of popcorn and sodas between frames at movie theaters, only much less subtle." Ben Shapiro wrote, "The American left can't restrict Internet usage or ban talk radio, so it de-legitimizes these news sources. Ripping alternative news sources as illegitimate is the left's only remaining option—it cannot compete ...
“And even when they’re caught in their own lies, they won’t blink, they don’t sweat. They’ll just look you in the eye and demand, ’Pay no attention, you folks. Look the other way.'”