spaceball
spaceball A graphical input device that is based on a fixed spherical ball. It inputs six different values defined by the orientation of the ball and the pressure together with the direction that is applied to it. It allows complex objects to be positioned and rotated in three-dimensional space using the single input device. Internally a spaceball is normally made from a set of strain-gauges.
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A Widow Paints A Health Care Protest
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 11/9/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...well, you can go to medical records and request them. I went down...who could provide the missing records. And as a result, Fred went...of a busy avenue. Important players in the health care debate drive...with the dark screen: because records aren't shared with patients...
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Favre Gets A Bye Week — But Will He Ever Say Bye?
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 11/11/2009; ; 628 words
; ...English language whom this bothers? So just to get it on the record, be advised that this is a total misuse of the word bye...game off. A bye is like a bonus you get that other teams or players in the tournament don't necessarily receive. In other words...
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 "48 Hours (CBS)")
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For September 26, 2009, CBS
Transcript from: 48 Hours (CBS); 9/26/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...father. MAN #3: That`s his kid. VICTORIA GOTTI: John was a player in that world WOMAN #2 (Reporter): Guns drawn, New York...father`s sins. VICTORIA GOTTI: Now it`s time to set the record straight. No one knows John Gotti better than his family does...
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Race: The Non-Issue That Is
Transcript from: NPR Tell Me More; 9/21/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...the line judge during last week's U.S. Open. Ms. SERENA WILLIAMS (Tennis Player): I didn't say I would kill you. Are you serious? MARTIN: For the record, they were both wrong. So wrong. And I could even argue on a personal level...
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Richard Thompson, Looking Back
Transcript from: NPR Fresh Air; 10/2/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...play a lot with an acoustic bass player, Danny Thompson, who's no...you know, Django Reinhardt records and Les Paul records. Then my oldest sister, you...came along, she had Buddy Holly records and Gene Vincent records. So...
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Fleck, Meyer, Hussain: Border Crossing
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday; 10/4/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...and Edgar Meyer are three players who regularly cross the frontiers...competently with both bluegrass players and philharmonic orchestras...marveled at the way that banjo players can with the right hand play...played with the legendary sitar player Bobby Shankar. Your father...ball rolling when he ...
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Recapping The Baseball Season
Transcript from: NPR Weekend All Things Considered; 10/4/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...RAZ: and they ended up with the best record in regular season baseball. But as they...baseball history and probably has the best player in the game right now in Albert Pujols...most memorable thing about that was the player called He Hate Me. Other than that...
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Danny Gatton: 'World's Greatest Unknown Guitarist'
Transcript from: NPR Weekend All Things Considered; 10/4/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...for 18 years. Mr. JOHN PREVITI (Bass Player): You know, when he played country...signed a seven-album deal with Elektra Records. He only lasted two. Again, Ralph Heibutzki...tour as much as he should to support the records, and therefore, they end up dropping...
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Baseball Playoffs Almost Set
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 10/5/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...year? PESCA: I'm sure Twins fans and the Twins coaches and players were like why can't we establish a lead, say, in August...yeah, it would be so Now, the Dodgers do have the best record in the National League. And should Joe Torre play his former...
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Nicole Mitchell's 'Renegade' Jazz
Transcript from: NPR Fresh Air; 10/8/2009; ; 588 words
; ...Flutist Nicole Mitchell is a key player on Chicago's jazz scene...blend. The group is new to record, her Black Earth Strings flute...The band is new. But two players are long time Mitchell allies...sound and the excellent bass player, Josh Abrams, ties everyone...Mixing jazz and classical ...
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Phonograph Records
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
...and collection of phonograph records. Also called phonophily...and collector of phonograph records. gramophone British. phonograph...for reproducing sound from records; a phonograph; a gramophone. nickelodeon a juke-box, record-player, or player piano operated...
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Son, Trinh Cong
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...to be drifting from some battered tape player in a cafe or at an army checkpoint on...earned the fugitive songwriter a gold record award. Recordings Banned in South Vietnam...unofficial releases. Khanh Ly continued to record his songs, and copies of her recordings...
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Gainsbourg, Serge
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...for himself, paid for him to take lessons from a gypsy guitar player so he could make money performing. While Gainsbourg spent a...spread about Gainsbourg's talent. He was signed to the Philips record label and recorded the 1958 album "Du Chant à la une...
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Peel, John
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...poorly there in classes and on exams but was a star soccer player. School authorities, he was quoted as saying in the Daily...small slot (called "Kats Karavan") playing rhythm and blues records on Dallas radio station WRR. For several years he made ends...
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Digital Recording
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...Similar techniques are used to record a wide range of scientific...disc players, video disc players, and CD-ROM (Compact Disc...x2013;Read-Only Memory) players in home computers utilize...like long-playing (LP) records, eight-track tapes (on...computers, optical discs, laser players, ...
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