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unusual facts about Tracker



Activity tracker

In the US, BodyMedia has developed a disposable activity tracker to be worn for a week, which is aimed at medical and insurance providers and employers seeking to measure employees' fitness.

ATS-6

This highly advanced (for the time) pointing subsystem used earth and sun sensors, a star tracker pointed to the pole star, Polaris, and three inertial sensors.

Barker lever

The Barker lever is a pneumatic system which multiplies the force of a finger on the key of a tracker pipe organ.

Blackline GPS

In 2007, Blackline GPS met with members of Calgary-based ENMAX Corporation to discuss the potential application of the Snitch device as lone worker safety monitoring device instead of a tracker.

Brood II

In 2013, to aid in accurately mapping the geographic range of Brood II, National Public Radio's science show Radiolab created the Cicada Tracker project.

Collective investment scheme

In 1998 Richard Branson (head of Virgin) publicly bet Nicola Horlick (head of SG Asset Management) that her SG UK Growth fund would not beat the FTSE 100 index, nor his Virgin Index Tracker fund over three years, nor achieve its stated aim to beat the index by 2% each year.

Diageo/Hotline Poll

The Diageo/Hotline Daily Tracker Poll is a daily tracking poll that surveyed important issues surrounding the 2008 general election.

Displacement receiver

Examples of displacement-responding sensors include the mechanical action of tracker organs, as well as the force-sensing resistors found in music keyboards that had polyphonic aftertouch capability.

DJ Anas

He makes electronic music being one of the first few young deejays in Italy, back in the 90's, who made dance music using a Personal Computer only thanks to the use of a software called Tracker and VST.

Frequency scanning interferometry

An FSI system is being used to monitor shape changes of the semiconductor tracker (SCT) on the ATLAS detector at CERN.

GVU

In the spring of 2009 this led to another spectacular lawsuit: After raids in Lüneburg, Wolfenbüttel and Braunschweig three men were arrested, who ran a tracker with 24.500 copied movies, TV shows, games, audiobooks, eBooks, music and software.

Hyde Park Reformed Dutch Church

In 1885 the last major renovation to the church, the addition of an Odell tracker pipe organ, came.

I Created Disco

All recording and producing for the album took place on an Amiga computer with audio tracker OctaMED

Jalkanen

If Finnish names were used to indicate a family's original trade (as with English and German names, like Miller, Shoemaker, Brewer, Smith, etc.) then the term "foot" or "Jalka" could refer to a profession such as a cobbler or tracker.

KNPN-LD

The station's Doppler weather radar is presented on-air as "Storm Tracker 26", operating at the main studios in Saint Joseph and utilizing live VIPIR data from several radars operated by regional National Weather Service forecast offices.

Maya Lahan

Because a GPS tracker was placed on Maya, Lucas leaves her body behind.

ModPlug

ModPlug Player, a module player developed in conjunction with the original ModPlug Tracker project and the original ModPlug browser plugin

PDAF

Probabilistic data association filter, a statistical approach to the problem of plot association in a radar tracker

PERDaix

PERDaix uses a time of flight system, a scintillating fiber tracker with SiPM readout, and a transition radiation detector in combination with a permanent magnet to measure particle fluxes.

Positioning system

Examples: Wii Remote with Sensor Bar, Polhemus Tracker, Precision Motion Tracking Solutions InterSense.

Reggie Abercrombie

Though he never materialized into a consistent option for the Marlins, on April 19, 2006, while playing against the Cincinnati Reds in the Great American Ballpark, Abercrombie, facing pitcher Mike Gosling, hit a home run 486 feet, according to Hit Tracker Online's Standard Distance (considered "the best way of comparing home runs hit under a variety of different conditions" by the website).

This home run was the furthest recorded distance of any home run since Hit Tracker has kept track of HR distances, until on September 27, 2008, Adam Dunn of the Arizona Diamondbacks hit a home run of Standard Distance 501 feet.

Rhodesian Air Force

Fireforce comprised units of Selous Scouts, an undercover tracker battalion of 1,500 troops on double pay, 80 percent black, (many recruited by Special Branch from captured guerrillas facing trial and execution) probing ahead of a parachute infantry battalion and up to 200 Special Air Service commandos.

Robert Ruark

It is interesting to note that Ruark was booked with Selby because of a desire to use a tracker named Kidogo, who had once hunted with Ernest Hemingway.

SB Nation

ComScore, the Reston-based tracker of consumer Internet habits, tallied 5.8 million unique visitors to SB Nation Web sites during the month of November 2010.

Support Incident Tracker

Support Incident Tracker (commonly abbreviated to "SiT!") is an Open Source (GPL) web based application which uses PHP and MySQL for tracking technical support calls/emails.

Torrent file

In the BitTorrent file distribution system, a torrent file is a computer file that contains metadata about files and folders to be distributed, and usually also a list of the network locations of trackers, which are computers that help participants in the system find each other and form efficient distribution groups called swarms.

Torrentproject

It indexes only publicly tracked torrents from various sources including the BitTorrent DHT bittorrent network and offers compilations of various trackers per torrent in magnet links that are not necessarily present in the original .torrent file, so that when a tracker is down, other trackers can be used to retrieve peer data.

Upstream Tracker

Upstream Tracker is a web service providing analysis of API changes from the backward compatibility point of view for a variety of C/C++ and Java libraries.

Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 6

In addition to the ranch, the Point Arguello lighthouse was based there, which has since then been replaced by an off-shore LORAN tracker.

VPRO Backlight

The organization released four documentaries in 2009 and 2010 under a Creative Commons license using the content distribution feature of the Mininova BitTorrent tracker.

WTEN

There is no on-air mention that WCDC exists besides in WTEN's legal identification, its EEO public file reports, and on WTEN-DT2 "News 10 ABC Storm Tracker Weather Channel".


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