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Button on taxis ::licensing law and practice /
No full text"The fourth edition of Button on Taxis completely updates the text to take account of changes to legislation, case law and Guidance since the publication of the third edition. These include important Senior Court decisions relating to adoption of legislation, local authority decision-making processes, licence fees, Hackney carriage ranks, suitability of drivers and action against licensed vehicles. The legislative changes include extensions to the duration of certain licences and the ability for private hire operators to subcontract across local authority boundaries. In addition, the impact of booking systems such as Uber is considered together with the Law Commission's proposals for reform of Hackney carriage and private hire legislation. This new edition will provide a timely update to what is acknowledged as an essential handbook for the taxi licensing practitioner."--Bloomsbury Publishing
button (n)
No full textbutton nOh,shut it through....turn a button.Well,that'd be the button there;well, you'd turn that crossways,see,an' it come down ....over the other lat. (fastening device on lobster trap)(fastening device on lobster trap)YesDNE-citJ. D. A. WIDDOWSON AUG 1973Used IUsed I1Used ISource appears in DNE I as T 250-6
Button.
No full textPatent for a new and improved button. This design consists "[i]n a detachable button, the combination, with the hollow threaded shank of the button-head, having end serrations, and the base-disk, having a central screw, of the loose clamp-disk, applied on the screw, and having a spring-pawl or projection to engage the serrations of the shank" (lines 70-76)
A PC parallel port button box provides millisecond response time accuracy under Linux
No full textFor psychologists, it is sometimes necessary to measure people's reaction times to the nearest millisecond. This article describes how to use the PC parallel port to receive signals from a button box to achieve millisecond response time accuracy. The workings of the parallel port, the corresponding port addresses, and a simple Linux program for controlling the port are described. A test of the speed and reliability of button box signal detection is reported. If the reader is moderately familiar with Linux, this article should provide sufficient instruction for him or her to build and test his or her own parallel port button box. This article also describes how the parallel port could be used to control an external apparatus
Letter, [Author unclear] to Paulina T. Merritt
No full textHandwritten letter to Paulina Merritt from an unknown author, October 1, 1876.
button (n); buttons
No full textbutton n....an' you tie it here,see an' have buttons up on top;you nail on buttons onto the two _ some used to (only) have one, some more _ I usually put two,late years.You'd unbutton your button,swing your door down then,put your hand in an' pick your lobster out. (fastening on door of lobster trap)(fastening on door of lobster trap)YesDNE-citJ. D. A. WIDDOWSON AUG 1973Used IUsed I1Used ISource appears in DNE I as T 246/7-66
The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
Investigation into standardising the graphical and operator input device modules for tactical command and control man-machine interfaces
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.The operating environment of a Tactical Command and Control system is a highly tense one in which the operator needs to perform certain complex tasks with minimum confusion, and be able to obtain an instant response from the system. Since many of the systems designed for these types of environments are similar in nature with regard to the user-interface, a need has arisen to try and standardise certain elements of the systems. This report looks specifically at standardising certain graphical display element and operator input device interfaces. It investigates the problem from a systems design level, identifying the elements required and their associated functions, discussing the results of work already undertaken in this field, and making recommendations on the use of the elements. The main objective to standardising the Man-Machine Interface (MMI) design elements is to make the code easily transferable between different hardware platforms. To transfer the code, one would ideally like to change only the interface code to the new platform, in particular, the interface to a different set of operator input devices and a different type of graphics card. Various topics related to the standardisation process are discussed, including a description of MMI design, some definitions of tactical command and control environment subjects, and a look at code reusability, rapid prototyping of systems, and object-oriented design
button
No full textbuttonBut the door to our fishin' room now _ we used to _ the little shack place we had built, it had a fashion when the dorr 'd fo to - we had a button on it - the button was loose, an' lots o' times the button 'd turn, you know, wi' the slang o' the door the button 'd go over itself, see.YesJ. D. A. WIDDOWSONNot usedNot usedWithdrawnbutton n appears in DNE referring to latch on a lobster trap door, similar in sense but this regular sense does not appear in the DN
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