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19 unusual facts about Commercial off-the-shelf


AN/SLQ-25 Nixie

Several engineering changes resulted in COTS equipment being utilised extensively in the system.

Commercial off-the-shelf

All these considerations lead to compare a simple solution (such as "paper & pencil") to avoid overly complex solutions creating a "Rube Goldberg" system of creeping featurism, where a simple solution would have sufficed instead.

Applying the lessons of processor obsolescence learned during the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II planned for processor upgrades during development, and switched to the more widely supported C++ programming language.

COMMStellation

Due to the low Earth orbit, the microsatellites can use commercial-grade parts that are not affected by temperature and radiation which impact satellites that orbit the earth above 5,000 km.

COTS

Commercial off-the-shelf, products that are commercially available and can be bought "as is"

Elevator:2010

No competing tether surpassed the commercial off-the-shelf baseline and the prize was increased to $200,000 in 2006.

IBM System x

Starting out as IBM PC Server, rebranded Netfinity, then eServer xSeries and now System x, these servers are distinguished by being based on off-the-shelf x86 CPUs; IBM positions them as their "low end" or "entry" offering.

Institute for Unmanned Space Experiment Free Flyer

SERVIS-2 was a 900 kg (1,984 lb) technology test mission with COTS parts.

The aim of USEF is technology development, especially the testing of commercial off-the-shelf parts (COTS), robotics, material sciences and technology for optical earth observations.

Iterative design

As far as possible off the shelf components are used, but where necessary for space or performance reasons, custom made components may be developed.

JACK Intelligent Agents

The JACK platform was written for commercial application of the multi-agent paradigm (a COTS product) to complex problem solving and was the basis for starting the company Agent Oriented Software (AOS) where it remains the flagship product.

OSSI-1

He worked on it for seven years, designing and building the satellite using off-the-shelf components rather than equipment that had been certified for use in space.

SIMbox

It allows companies to create simulation-based training which is commercial off-the-shelf software (COTS), HLA, and SCORM compliant.

St. Louis YPT-15

The PT-15 was a development of the "off-the-shelf" PT-1W for use by the U.S. Army Air Corps, ordered for stop-gap duty in the training of airmen in the build-up to World War II.

Standard Army Maintenance System – Enhanced

Hardware: COTS notebooks, host, printer and AIT equipment (handheld device, wireless access point, encoder/decoder)

Styrsö-class mine countermeasures vessel

The class is built exclusively with civilian technology, so called (COTS), everything from diesel engines to the computers on board have been bought from the civilian market.

Three-dimensional face recognition

This allows for good recognition accuracy with low cost off-the-shelf components.

UltraCSDB

UltraCSDB is intended to be Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) application and as such requires minimum installation efforts.

United States Military Standard

In their place, the DOD encouraged the use of industry standards, such as ISO 9000 series for quality assurance (see COTS), SAE standards such as the AS and AMS series (e.g., AS9100, AMS 2404), and others.


Applefest

The festival donates $5,000 per year on average to groups such as Ambulance Corps, local libraries, village parks, the Food Shelf, Camp Good Days and Special Times, the Historical Society, Braddock Bay Raptor Research, and other community center projects.

Aqua regia

De Hevesy placed the resulting solution on a shelf in his laboratory at the Niels Bohr Institute.

Associated Electrics

A modified RC10 with an off-the-shelf Parma International 1963 Chevrolet Corvette body was used in the famous chase scene in the 1988 motion picture, The Dead Pool.

Benihana

The Beastie Boys song "Putting Shame in Your Game" from the album Hello Nasty features the lyric "I'm the Benihana chef on the SP12/ I chop the **** out the beats left on the shelf."

Biodiversity of Borneo

During Pleistocene glacial maxima, the sea level was lower than at present and the islands of the Sunda shelf (Sumatra, Borneo and Java) and the Asian mainland were connected by lowlands traversed by rivers.

Borders of Malaysia

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Calving

Ice calving, the process by which an iceberg breaks off from an ice shelf or glacier

Cheriton, Kent

Cheriton sits on a level shelf halfway up the escarpment of Folkestone Downs, between Cheriton Hill on the landward side and Sandgate Hill going down to the sea.

Chili oil

(Warning: if garlic is used, the shelf life is significantly shortened because the anaerobic conditions in the oil can lead to germination of Clostridium botulinum, found naturally in soil, which could then lead to botulism in the consumers of the chili oil.)

Cintra Bay

Contrasts to land, waters in this area are parts of the Canary Current System, a highly productive ocean current and the Nouadhibou Upwelling, one of major upwelling zones locates just off the continent shelf.

College of the Redwoods

Situated on a naturally occurring, elevated shelf on the southwest side of Humboldt Hill, the campus has a commanding view of some of California's most fertile dairy and ranch land, the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Table Bluff, and the southern portion of Humboldt Bay.

Crown Coach Corporation

Working with Tanner Grey Line of Los Angeles, Crown designed the well-known Art Deco coach that eventually led to a school coach using unibody construction, mid-ship underfloor mounted commercial truck engines (often by Detroit Diesel or Cummins; a handful of them had Caterpillar engines) and off-the-shelf Class 8 truck parts, which made them economical to operate.

CTV Two Atlantic

Despite the then-pending CTVglobemedia/CHUM merger, CHUM content was actually lowered during the 2006-07 season compared to previous years, with other series from the CTV library – including repeats, "shelf" series like What About Brian, programming from MTV Canada, and timeshifted CTV programming for simsub purposes – making up the balance.

Diabolic Video

In April 2008 Diabolic released its first Blu-ray title, Top Shelf, starring Amy Ried, Courtney Cummz, Jenna Haze, Sarah Vandella, Brianna Love, Audrey Bitoni and Shawna Lenee.

Diseconomies of scale

In addition to CGS, GM also used CADAM, UNIGRAPHICS, CATIA and other off-the-shelf CAD/CAM systems, thus increasing the cost of translating designs from one system to another.

Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act

This Act enables simplified procurement procedures where the procurement is limited, facilitates reliance of Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technology, and promotes the use of fixed-price Performance Based Contracting.

George Metesky

-- it didn't make the Times--> A bomb hung beneath a phone booth shelf exploded on the main floor of Macy's department store, with no injuries.

Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition

This expedition set out from Vahsel Bay, following a route which avoided the Beardmore Glacier altogether, and bypassed much of the Ross Ice Shelf, reaching McMurdo Sound via a descent of the Skelton Glacier.

Indonesia–Malaysia border

Indonesia claimed that it was ready to begin negotiations to determine the border but said that the Malaysians, which relies on its 1979 territorial waters and continental shelf limit map as the basis for its claim in the area, were not ready as they wanted to settle its maritime border with Singapore adjacent to the area first following the International Court of Justice's award of the sovereignty of Pedra Branca to Singapore.

It's Gonna Be Me

Army men rappel down from a higher shelf, destroy their boxes, and laugh at them when they are purchased.

Lake Disappear

About its late Whaingaroan (about 27 million years ago) creation, it says, “The change from estuarine, shallow brackish water conditions (Mangakotuku Formation), to fully marine, open sea, aerobic conditions (Glen Massey Formation) is evidenced by near shore accumulation of the bioclastic Elgood Limestone, onlap of the succeeding Dunphail Siltstone, and subsequent deposition of Ahirau Sandstone in an inner to mid shelf environment.”

Max Damage

While there, he trained with Jesse Hernandez at the School of Hard Knocks, and wrestled for the Empire Wrestling Federation, first in a winning effort against El Gran Maravilla, and secondly in a losing effort to "Top Shelf" Jeremy Jaeger.

Mobius Motors

Mobius Motors is an automaker that started in Mombasa, Kenya but is now based in Nairobi, Kenya that builds inexpensive vehicles "by integrating off-the-shelf parts within a durable and safe tubular steel frame"

On the Shelf

"On The Shelf" is a disco dance song from in the 1978 motion picture soundtrack of Goin' Coconuts, featuring Donny and Marie Osmond.

Osprioneides

Osprioneides probably occurred only in large hard substrates of relatively deepwater muddy bottom open shelf environments.

Oxana Zubakova

Zubakova stated "I got back late one night about 11:30pm. I came to the door and it fell down on one side. It had been broken down with force. I walked in and everything was turned upside down. The computer was missing, the telephone. I thought I’d been robbed. But I looked at the shelf where my watches were – there were some expensive ones such as Rolex and Cartier – and they were still there."

Pacific cod

A bottom dweller, it is found mainly along the continental shelf and upper slopes with a range around the rim of the North Pacific Ocean, from the Yellow Sea to the Bering Strait, along the Aleutian Islands, and south to about Los Angeles, down to the depths of 900 meters (~ 3000 feet).

Plasan Sand Cat

It is based on a commercial Ford F-Series chassis shortened to a 2.84 m (112 in) wheelbase by Ford Qualified Vehicle Modifier, Manning Equipment of Louisville, Kentucky, United States.

Sahul

Sahul Shelf, part of the continental shelf off the northern Australian coast, under the Arafura Sea and the Timor Sea

Second Indian Expedition to Antarctica

Studies were carried out near the base camp and far inland up to Schirmacher Hills which covered the recording of snow accumulation and ablation at the shelf,

Shelvock

Shelvock is a name of Saxon origins - from the Old English scelf meaning a shelf of level ground, or flat topped hill, and ac meaning oak, taken from the ancient Manor of Shelvock, near Ruyton-XI-Towns, Shropshire, England originally pronounced "shelf'ac", "shelv'ak" or "shelv'oak", but today as "shel'vock".

Svalbard Treaty

In addition, it argues that the continental shelf is a part of mainland Norway's continental shelf and should be governed by the 1958 Continental Shelf Convention.

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

He takes care of the books, even saving the life of an early French edition of Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon after it suffers a catastrophic injury falling from a shelf.

UA 8699

UA 8699 lacks a cingulid (ridge) resembling a shelf on the lingual (inner) side, indicating that is not a member of Australosphenida (the proposed clade uniting monotremes and some ancient Gondwanan mammals, including the Jurassic Madagascan Ambondro); thus, it can be identified as representing Boreosphenida, which includes marsupials, placentals, and their extinct relatives.

Vespasian Psalter

The volume was the first in the Vespasian shelf section in the part of the library indexed by the names from a set of busts of the Roman Emperors on top of the shelves.

Woodward, Oklahoma

Woodward also lies in an oil and natural-gas area on the shelf of Oklahoma's Anadarko Basin.