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unusual facts about Queue



Anti-pattern

Database-as-IPC: Using a database as the message queue for routine interprocess communication where a much more lightweight mechanism would be suitable

AQM

Active queue management, a technique for Internet routers that consists in dropping or marking packets before its queue is full

Buzz Lightyear attractions

The queue area is awash in the chartreuse, white, and bright blue hues of Buzz Lightyear himself (voiced by Pat Fraley, who does voice for Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters attraction).

Chav

A Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords on the Equality and Human Rights Commission Meral Hussein-Ece, Baroness Hussein-Ece in 2011 tweeted, "Help. Trapped in a queue in chav land. Woman behind me explaining latest EastEnders plot to mate while eating largest bun I've ever seen."

Early Morning

This made the play extremely scandalous, as did a scene in which the character Len eats another person standing in a queue in front of him.

Education in Russia

The degree of the problem varies between districts, e.g. Moscow's Fili-Davydkovo District (population 78,000) has lost all of its kindergartens (residents have to compete for kindergarten slots elsewhere) while Zelenograd claims to have short queue.

El Mongol

Molina completed the character's intimidating visual appearance with a Fu Manchu moustache, queue hairstyle and bare feet.

Event loop

X applications using Xlib directly are built around the XNextEvent family of functions; XNextEvent blocks until an event appears on the event queue, whereupon the application processes it appropriately.

Flash Pass

Universal Express Pass, the virtual queue system for the Universal parks

Hans Ehrich

The dish washing brush and the queue ticket dispenser, the folding stool, together with several more creations from A&E Design are part of the permanent collection of the Nationalmuseum.

Jean-Jacques Lebel

In 1967 he staged in Gassin at the Festival de la Libre Expression Pablo Picasso's 1941 surrealist theatrical farce in six acts Le Désir attrapé par la queue (Desire Caught by the Tail).

Josh Weller

In March 2010, Weller played Gaymers' Camden Crawl, filling the venue, with a 200-strong queue into the street during his performance.

Kung Lao

Kung Lao was also the centerpiece of Jeff Rovin's novelization of the first Mortal Kombat game, but his description therein completely differed from that of the games; he was depicted as being tall, bald save for a queue of long black hair (similar to Goro's), barefoot, and wearing a long white robe.

La Queue du Marsupilami

La queue du Marsupilami, written by Greg and drawn by Franquin and his collaborator Batem, is a comic album relating the adventures of the fictional character Marsupilami.

Lean laboratory

If this is not inherent in the order in which samples arrive, then the samples are taken from an incoming queue according to customer demand and thereafter processed in FIFO order with no overtaking.

Lim Boon Keng

In the same year, he also campaigned against the wearing of queues among Chinese men, with the intention of toppling the Qing Dynasty in China.

Manda una Señal

Later, a lone woman is shown waiting in an uninhabited queue line for the Revenge of the Mummy attraction.

Monitorix

MTA Mail statistics (including input and output connections, mail received, delivered, rejected, bounced, discarded, held, forwarded, virus, spam, current queue and Greylisting with milter-greylist).

Montfode Castle

It is suggested that the arms were the same as those of the Monfort family, namely; gules, a lion rampant queue fourchée argent.

Multilevel feedback queue

#At some stage the process reaches the head of the queue and is assigned the CPU.

Office for Judicial Complaints

On 23 January 2010 Cherie Booth QC, wife of Tony Blair (who until recently had been Prime Minister of the United Kingdom), was sitting as a Recorder in a case where a man was found guilty violent assault in which he broke another man's jaw in a queue in a bank.

Packet loss

Most basic networking equipment will use FIFO queuing for packets waiting to go through the bottleneck and they will drop the packet if the queue is full at the time the packet is received.

Patti Boulaye

Although she had hopes of becoming a nun, Boulaye auditioned for a musical after standing in what she believed was a queue for Madame Tussauds, and won a part in a production of Hair.

Prefetch input queue

# M/M/1 Model (Single Queue Single Server/ Markov process): In this model, elements of queue are served on first-come, first-served basis.

PSM3

The blog was also noteworthy during PS3's Japanese launch; one of the freelance writers, Joel Snape, was in the queue at the Asobits store in Akihabara and blogged live using his laptop.

SQS

Amazon Simple Queue Service, a hosted message queue service for web applications.

Steve Bartek

Bartek also contributed music to both the ride queue and exit of Disneyland's short-lived Rocket Rods attraction in 1998, including a synthesizer arrangement of Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild" and an arrangement of "World of Creativity".

Superstar Limo

Riders were introduced to animated figures modeled in the likeness of celebrities (some of whom appeared at the time on ABC shows.) The celebrities were Joan Rivers (appearing only in puppet-form on TV screens in the attraction's queue), Regis Philbin, Melanie Griffith, Antonio Banderas, Cindy Crawford, Tim Allen, Jackie Chan, Drew Carey, Cher, and Whoopi Goldberg.


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