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  2. Bliss (photograph) - Wikipedia

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    [10]: 4:40 After the rights to the photograph were bought by Microsoft, it was renamed Bliss and was chosen as the default wallpaper of the Luna visual style, [2] [26] the default graphical user interface of Windows XP. [27] The image was used extensively by Microsoft for promoting Windows XP and their $200 million advertising campaign. [2] [28]

  3. Windows Spotlight - Wikipedia

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    Windows Spotlight is a feature included with Windows 10 and Windows 11 which downloads images and advertisements from Bing and displays them as background wallpapers on the lock screen. In 2017, Microsoft began adding location information for many of the photographs.

  4. Wallpaper (computing) - Wikipedia

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    An animated wallpaper using Wallpaper Engine on Windows 11. Animated backgrounds (sometimes referred to as live backgrounds or dynamic backgrounds) refers to wallpapers which feature a moving image or a 2D / 3D scene as an operating system background rather than a static image, it may also refer to wallpapers being cycled in a playlist, often with certain transition effects.

  5. Background Intelligent Transfer Service - Wikipedia

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    learn.microsoft.com /en-us /windows /win32 /bits /background-intelligent-transfer-service-portal Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) is a component of Microsoft Windows XP and later iterations of the operating systems, which facilitates asynchronous, prioritized, and throttled transfer of files between machines using idle network ...

  6. Self-Reliance - Wikipedia

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay called for staunch individualism. "Self-Reliance" is an 1841 essay written by American transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson.It contains the most thorough statement of one of his recurrent themes: the need for each person to avoid conformity and false consistency, and follow his or her own instincts and ideas.

  7. Consistency (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, consistency of procedures, such as computing confidence intervals or conducting hypothesis tests, is a desired property of their behaviour as the number of items in the data set to which they are applied increases indefinitely.

  8. Thomas and the Magic Railroad - Wikipedia

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    Thomas and the Magic Railroad is a 2000 children's fantasy adventure film written and directed by Britt Allcroft and produced by Allcroft and Phil Fehrle; the cast includes Alec Baldwin, Peter Fonda, Mara Wilson, Didi Conn, Russell Means, Cody McMains, Michael E. Rodgers, and the voices of Eddie Glen and Neil Crone.

  9. Consistency (database systems) - Wikipedia

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    In database systems, consistency (or correctness) refers to the requirement that any given database transaction must change affected data only in allowed ways. Any data written to the database must be valid according to all defined rules, including constraints , cascades , triggers , and any combination thereof.