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He patented the pump in 1952 [10] and began marketing it between 1955 and 1956 as a therapeutic aid. [14] The pump was a portable device that could turn any regular bathtub into a spa. [15] From 1968, a whirlpool bath was produced, which included jets that mixed air and water.
The 'bathtub curve' hazard function (blue, upper solid line) is a combination of a decreasing hazard of early failure (red dotted line) and an increasing hazard of wear-out failure (yellow dotted line), plus some constant hazard of random failure (green, lower solid line).
Installation (or setup) of a computer program (including device drivers and plugins), is the act of making the program ready for execution. Installation refers to the particular configuration of software or hardware with a view to making it usable with the computer. A soft or digital copy of the piece of software (program) is needed to install it.
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Adaptive tile refresh is a computer graphics technique for side-scrolling video games. It was most famously used by id Software 's John Carmack in games such as Commander Keen to compensate for the poor graphics performance of PCs in the early 1990s.
The Tub (1886) is a pastel artwork by Impressionist artist, Edgar Degas (1834–1917). It is currently housed in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.. Moving away from the traditional depictions of nude women, usually in reference to Aphrodite or Venus, Degas provides a snapshot to the intimate activities among average women in their day to day life.
10.2 is the surround sound format developed by THX creator Tomlinson Holman of TMH Labs and the University of Southern California (schools of Cinematic Arts and Engineering). Developed along with Chris Kyriakakis of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering , 10.2 refers to the format's slogan: "Twice as good as 5.1".