Appliances

1. Appliances https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

2. Database Database machines and appliances • In the 1970s and 1980s attempts were made to build database systems with integrated hardware and software. The underlying philosophy was that such integration would provide higher performance at lower cost. Examples were IBM System/38, the early offering of Teradata, and the Britton Lee, Inc. database machine. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

3. Database Database machines and appliances • Another approach to hardware support for database management was ICL's CAFS accelerator, a hardware disk controller with programmable search capabilities https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

4. Live CD - Live CD software appliances • Packaging a software appliance as an installable live CD, or live ISO, can often be beneficial as a single image can run on both real hardware and on most types of virtual machines. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

5. Live CD - Live CD software appliances • This allows developers to avoid the complexities involved in supporting multiple incompatible virtual machine images formats and focus on the lowest common denominator instead. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

6. Live CD - Live CD software appliances • Typically after booting the machine from the live CD, the appliance either runs in non-persistent demo mode or installs itself, at the user's request, to an available storage device. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

7. Efficient energy use - Appliances • Many countries identify energy-efficient appliances using energy input labeling. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

8. Efficient energy use - Appliances • The impact of energy efficiency on peak demand depends on when the appliance is used. For example, an air conditioner uses more energy during the afternoon when it is hot. Therefore, an energy efficient air conditioner will have a larger impact on peak demand than off-peak demand. An energy efficient dishwasher, on the other hand, uses more energy during the late evening when people do their dishes. This appliance may have little to no impact on peak demand. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

9. Technological convergence - Appliances • Some expect that we will eventually access all media content through one device, or "black box". As such, media business practice has been to identify the next "black box" to invest in and provide media for. This has caused a number of problems. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

10. Technological convergence - Appliances • Firstly, as "black boxes" are invented and abandoned, the individual is left with numerous devices that can perform the same task, rather than one dedicated for each task. For example, one may own both a computer and a Video Games console, subsequently owning two DVD players. This is contrary to the streamlined goal of the "black box" theory, and instead creates clutter. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

11. Technological convergence - Appliances • Secondly, technological convergence tends to be experimental in nature https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

12. Technological convergence - Appliances • Furthermore, although consumers primarily use a specialized media device for their needs, other "black box" devices that perform the same task can be used to suit their current situation. As a 2002 Cheskin Research report explained: https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

13. Technological convergence - Appliances • ...Your email needs and expectations are different whether you're at home, work, school, commuting, the airport, etc., and these different devices are designed to suit your needs for accessing content depending on where you are- your situated context. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

14. Technological convergence - Appliances • Despite the creation of "black boxes", intended to perform all of one's tasks, the trend is to use devices that can suit the consumer's physical position. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

15. Technological convergence - Appliances • Due to the variable utility of portable technology, convergence occurs in high end mobile devices. They incorporate multimedia services, GPS, Internet access, and mobile telephony into a single device, heralding the rise of what has been termed the "Smart Phone," a device designed to remove the need to carry multiple devices. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

16. Technological convergence - Appliances • Convergence of media occurs when multiple products come together to form one product with the advantages of all of them, also known as the black box. This idea of one technology, concocted by Henry Jenkins, has become known more as a fallacy because of the inability to actually put all technical pieces into one. For example, while people can have e-mail and Internet on their phone, they still want full computers with Internet and e-mail in addition. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

17. Technological convergence - Appliances • For example, the Wii is not only a games console, but also a web browser and social networking tool. Mobile phones are another good example, in that they increasingly incorporate digital cameras, mp3 players, camcorders, voice recorders, and other devices. This type of convergence is popular. For the consumer, it means more features in less space; for media conglomerates it means remaining competitive. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

18. Technological convergence - Appliances • However, convergence has a downside https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

19. Technological convergence - Appliances • Since technology has evolved in the past ten years or so, companies are beginning to converge technologies to create demand for new products. This would include phone companies integrating 3G on their phones. In the mid 20th century, television converged the technologies of movies and radio, and television is now being converged with the mobile phone industry and the Internet. Phone calls are also being made with the use of personal computers. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

20. Technological convergence - Appliances • Converging technologies combine multiple technologies into one. Newer mobile phones feature cameras, and can hold images, videos, music, and other media. Manufacturers now integrate more advanced features, such as video recording, GPS receivers, data storage, and security mechanisms into the traditional cellphone. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

21. Productivity improving technologies (historical) - Home economics: Public water supply household gas supply and appliances • Before public water was supplied to households it was necessary for someone annually to haul up to 10,000 gallons of water to the average household. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

22. Productivity improving technologies (historical) - Home economics: Public water supply household gas supply and appliances • Gas utilities first supplied synthetic gas, mainly for lighting. In the late 19th century natural gas began being supplied to households. This saved many hours of feeding wood fires for heating and cooking. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

23. Productivity improving technologies (historical) - Home economics: Public water supply household gas supply and appliances • Household appliances followed household electrification in the 1920s, with consumers buying electric ranges, toasters, refrigerators and washing machines. As a result of appliances and convenience foods, time spent on meal preparation and clean up, laundry and cleaning decreased from 58 hours/week in 1900 to 18 hours/week by 1975. Less time spent on housework allowed more women to enter the labor force. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

24. LG Electronics - Home Appliances division • The Home Appliances division manufactures refrigerators, washing machines, stoves, microwave ovens, vacuum cleaners, compressors, and motors. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

25. LG Electronics - Home Appliances division • Its 2007 sales totaled KRW 11.8 trillion, accounting for 29% of the company's total revenue. The division's profit was KRW 717.1 billion. About 35% of the company's home appliance revenue comes from the North American market. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

26. Computer appliance - Types of appliances • The variety of computer appliances reflects the wide range of computing resources they provide to applications. Some examples: https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

27. Computer appliance - Types of appliances • Storage appliances provide massive amounts of storage and additional higher level functionality (ex: Disk mirroring and Data striping) for multiple attached systems using the transparent local storage area networks paradigm. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

28. Computer appliance - Types of appliances • Network appliances are general purpose routers which provide firewall protection, Transport Layer Security (TLS), messaging, access to specialized networking protocols (like the ebXML Message Service) and bandwidth multiplexing for the multiple systems they front-end. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

29. Computer appliance - Types of appliances • Virtual machine appliances consist of a "hypervisor style" embedded Operating System running on appliance hardware. The hypervisor layer is matched to the hardware of the appliance, and cannot be varied by the customer, but the customer may load other Operating Systems and applications onto the appliance in the form of virtual machines. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

30. Computer appliance - Consumer appliances • Aside from its deployment within data centers, many computer appliances are directly used by the general public. These include: https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

31. Computer appliance - Appliances in industrial automation • The world of industrial automation has been rich in appliances. These appliances have been hardened to withstand temperature and vibration extremes. These appliances are also highly configurable, enabling customization to meet a wide variety of applications. The key benefits of an appliance in automation are: https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

32. Computer appliance - Appliances in industrial automation • Reduced downtime - a failed appliance is typically replaced with a COTS "commercial off-the-shelf" replacement and its task is quickly and easily reloaded from a backup. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

33. Computer appliance - Appliances in industrial automation • Highly scalable - appliances are typically targeted solutions for an area of a plant or process. As the requirements change, scalability is achieved through the installation of another appliance. Automation concepts are easily replicated throughout the enterprise by standardizing on appliances to perform the needed tasks, as opposed to the development of custom automation schemes for each task. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

34. Computer appliance - Appliances in industrial automation • Low TCO (total cost of ownership) - appliances are developed, tested and supported by automation product vendors and undergo a much broader level of quality testing than custom designed automation solutions. The use of appliances in automation reduce the level of testing needed in each individual application. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

35. Computer appliance - Appliances in industrial automation • Reduced design time - appliances perform specific functions and although they are highly configurable, they are typically self documenting. This enables appliance based solutions to be transferred from engineer to engineer with minimal need for training and documentation. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

36. Computer appliance - Appliances in industrial automation • Types of automation appliances: https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

37. Computer appliance - Appliances in industrial automation • PLC (programmable logic controller) - Programmable logic controllers are appliances that are typically used for discrete control and offer a wide range of Input and Output options. They are configured through standardized programming languages such as IEC-1131. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

38. Computer appliance - Appliances in industrial automation • SLC (single loop controller) - Single loop controllers are appliances that monitor an input variable and effect change on a control output (manipulated variable) to hold the input variable to a setpoint. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

39. Computer appliance - Appliances in industrial automation • PAC (programmable automation controller) - Programmable automation controllers are appliances that embody properties of both PLCs and SLCs enabling the integration of both analog and discrete control. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

40. Computer appliance - Appliances in industrial automation • Universal gateway - A universal gateway appliance has the ability to communicate with a variety of devices through their respective communication protocols, and will affect data transactions between them. This in increasingly important as manufacturing strives to improve agility, quality, production rates, production costs and reduce downtime through enhanced M2M (machine to machine) communications. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

41. Computer appliance - Appliances in industrial automation • EATMs (enterprise appliance transaction modules) - Enterprise appliance transaction modules are appliances that affect data transactions from plant floor automation systems to enterprise business systems. They communicate to plant floor equipment through various vendor automation protocols, and communicate to business systems through database communication protocols such as JMS (Java Message Service) and SQL (Structured Query Language). https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

42. Database management system - Database machines and appliances • Another approach to hardware support for database management was International Computers Limited|ICL's Content Addressable File Store|CAFS accelerator, a hardware disk controller with programmable search capabilities https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

43. Google Search Appliance - Older appliances • Google used to sell a 1U appliance (GB-1001) capable of indexing up to 5,000,000 documents, a half-rack cluster (GB-5005) of five 2U nodes capable of indexing up to 10,000,000 documents, and a full-rack cluster (GB-8008) of eight and later twelve nodes capable of indexing up to 30,000,000 documents. Some models were based on Dell PowerEdge 2950 2U rackmount servers. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

44. Busybox - Appliances • BusyBox is used by several Operating Systems running on embedded systems. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

45. Netgear - Network appliances • Netgear also markets various network appliances for the business sector, such as managed switches and wired and wireless Virtual Private Network|VPN firewalls. The firewalls compete in the SoHo and SMB market with Linksys, as well as with software distributions such as pfSense, m0n0wall, SmoothWall, and Untangle. The managed switches compete with HP ProCurve Networking and 3Com. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

46. Netgear - Security appliances • 2009 Netgear launched the ProSecure product range with all-in-one gateway solutions for small businesses and branch-offices(UTM series) and stream-scanning-appliances for 100-600 concurrent users. They use the Stream-Scanning technologies by CP-Secure. In combination with the managed layer 3 switches and professional NAS devices in 19, Netgear addresses value added resellers new security resellers. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

47. Classes of computers - Information appliances • Information appliances are computers specially designed to perform a specific user-friendly functionmdash;such as playing music, photography, or text editor|editing text. The term is most commonly applied to mobile computing|mobile devices, though there are also portable and desktop devices of this class. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

48. Sustainable living - Indoor home appliances • Housing and commercial buildings account for 12 percent of America’s freshwater withdrawals. A typical American single family home uses about per person per day indoors. This use can be reduced by simple alterations in behavior and upgrades to Home appliance|appliance quality. https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

49. ICD-9-CM Volume 3 - Replacement and removal of therapeutic appliances/nonoperative removal of foreign body or calculus • * ( ICD9proc|97 ) Replacement and removal of therapeutic appliances https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html

50. ICD-9-CM Volume 3 - Replacement and removal of therapeutic appliances/nonoperative removal of foreign body or calculus • ** ( ICD9proc|97.1 ) Nonoperative replacement of musculoskeletal and integumentary system therapeutic appliances|appliance https://store.theartofservice.com/the-appliances-toolkit.html