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  2. Windows 10 - Wikipedia

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    Windows 10 is a major release of Microsoft 's Windows NT operating system. It is the direct successor to Windows 8.1, which was released nearly two years earlier. It was released to manufacturing on July 15, 2015, and later to retail on July 29, 2015. [20]

  3. QR code - Wikipedia

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    The QR code system was invented in 1994, at the Denso Wave automotive products company, in Japan. The initial alternating-square design presented by the team of researchers, headed by Masahiro Hara, was influenced by the black counters and the white counters played on a Go board; the pattern of position detection was found and determined by applying the least-used ratio (1:1:3:1:1) in black ...

  4. Sound Recorder (Windows) - Wikipedia

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    This version of Sound Recorder was included in Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, but did not make it to Windows 10. A second, different Sound Recorder was introduced in Windows 8.1, thus Windows 8.1 has two distinct apps called Sound Recorder. This second app was a Windows Store app and adhered to the design tenets of the Metro design language.

  5. Discount window - Wikipedia

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    Discount window. The discount window is an instrument of monetary policy (usually controlled by central banks) that allows eligible institutions to borrow money from the central bank, usually on a short-term basis, to meet temporary shortages of liquidity caused by internal or external disruptions. The interest rate charged on such loans by a ...

  6. Lossless compression - Wikipedia

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    Lossless compression is a class of data compression that allows the original data to be perfectly reconstructed from the compressed data with no loss of information. Lossless compression is possible because most real-world data exhibits statistical redundancy. [1] By contrast, lossy compression permits reconstruction only of an approximation of ...

  7. Portable application - Wikipedia

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    An alternative strategy for achieving application portability within Windows, without requiring application source code changes, is application virtualization: An application is "sequenced" or "packaged" against a runtime layer that transparently intercepts its file system and registry calls, then redirects these to other persistent storage ...

  8. Wikipedia:Database download - Wikipedia

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    Start downloading a Wikipedia database dump file such as an English Wikipedia dump. It is best to use a download manager such as GetRight so you can resume downloading the file even if your computer crashes or is shut down during the download. Download XAMPPLITE from [2] (you must get the 1.5.0 version for it to work).

  9. Nintendo - Wikipedia

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    Nintendo Co., Ltd. [b] is a Japanese multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto. It develops, publishes and releases both video games and video game consoles . Nintendo was founded in 1889 as Nintendo Koppai [c] by craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi and originally produced handmade hanafuda playing cards.