2.5D 2.5D ("two-and-a-half-dimensional"), ¾ perspective and pseudo-3D are terms, mainly in the video game industry, used to describe either 2D graphical projections and similar techniques used to cause a series of images (or scenes) to simulate the appearance of being three-dimensional (3D) when in fact they are not, or gameplay in an otherwise three-dimensional video game that is restricted to a two-dimensional plane. Common in video games, these projections have also been useful in geographic visualization (GVIS) to help understand visual-cognitive spatial representations or 3D visualization.[1] The terms ¾ perspective and ¾ view trace their origins to portraiture and facial recognition, where they are used to describe a view of a person's face which is partway between a frontal view and a side view.[2]
FTSE KLD 400 Social Index This FTSE KLD 400 Social Index was launched in 1990 and is designed to help socially conscious investors weigh social and environmental factors in their investment choices. The eligible universe for the KLD400 is the 3,000 largest U.S. companies (by float-adjusted market capitalization) in the U.S. equity market. KLD selects the eligible universe index on April 15 (or closest business day) of each year. KLD defines U.S. equity as follows: U.S. headquarters Primary market listing is the NYSE or NASDAQ Companies with non-U.S. incorporation for tax or regulatory purposes are evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Ethical banking An ethical bank, also known as a social, alternative, civic, or sustainable bank, is a bank concerned with the social and environmental impacts of its investments and loans. Ethical banks are part of a larger societal movement, called "Banktivism," which calls for a move towards more social and environmental responsibility in the financial sector. This movement includes: ethical investment, socially responsible investment, corporate social responsibility, and is also related to such movements as the fair trade movement, ethical consumerism, etc. The most notable association for ethical banking is the Global Alliance for Banking on Values. Increasingly, the practice of ethical banking, or banktivism, is being taught and supported within university business schools. History[edit]
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Investors - GTSO Resources New joint venture partner GTSO finalizes joint venture agreement with Chilerecicla, a top recycling company in Latin America, to expand its current operations in Chile to surrounding countries in Latin America. This new joint venture Chilerecicla E-Waste is a major step for GTSO Resources to expand its operations globally in an explosive region such as South America. Researchers Discover Twitter-Controlled Bitcoin Bot F-Secure has discovered a bot that commands Twitter accounts to help in the generation of Bitcoins. Security firm F-Secure has discovered a bot that compromises Twitter accounts to help in the generation of Bitcoins. Bitcoin is a decentralized virtual currency that was formed by programmers in 2009, and is generated by programming computers to calculate highly complex math problems. The more computing power you have, the faster you can create Bitcoins; this is why Bitcoin rigs often look like massive sculptures of connected servers. According to an F-Secure blog post, the Twitter-based command below generates a bot that can control the Twitter user's computer and add it to a bitcoin mining rig. F-Secure identified bots generated with this command as Trojan.Generic.KD.
Information Warfare Monitor The Information Warfare Monitor (IWM) was an advanced research activity tracking the emergence of cyberspace as a strategic domain. It closed January 2012. It was a public-private venture between two Canadian institutions: The SecDev Group, an operational think tank based in Ottawa (Canada), and the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. The Principal Investigators and co-founders of the Information Warfare Monitor are Rafal Rohozinski (The Secdev Group) and Ronald Deibert (Citizen Lab). Virtual private network VPN connectivity overview A virtual private network connection across the Internet is similar to a wide area network (WAN) link between sites. From a user perspective, the extended network resources are accessed in the same way as resources available within the private network.[2]
Channel Master CM3000A - Channel Master CM 3000 Suburban Outdoor Amplified Omnidirectional HDTV Channel Master CM 3000 Suburban Outdoor Amplified Omnidirectional HDTV Channel Master CM 3000 Suburban Outdoor Amplified Omnidirectional HDTV Channel Master CM3000 SMARTenna antenna represents the continued advancement of TV reception equipment that customers have come to expect from Channel Master. Object-oriented programming Overview[edit] Rather than structure programs as code and data, an object-oriented system integrates the two using the concept of an "object". An object has state (data) and behavior (code).