Bits (TV series)
Bits is a British entertainment television series that aired on Channel 4 from 1999 to 2001, with both late night and edited morning versions of the show.
Five series were produced and uniquely at the time for a show about computer games, had an all female presentation team.
There were also a number of special episodes, notably a three parter in early 2000 titled the Bits 'Super Console Tour' which primarily featured the girls challenging various "pro" gamers in 1v1 battles around the UK in each episode (London, Blackpool, and one other location), as well as their usual sketches and short reviews/newsclips. The games chosen were usually new releases on various consoles, one of which was FantaVision on the newly launched Playstation 2, at which Emily Booth was defeated by Alek Hayes, who was employed at the time at BarrysWorld.
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Bits (album)
Bits is the fourth and final album by Oxford Collapse. Two singles were released from the album, "The Birthday Wars" and "Young Love Delivers".
Track listing
All tracks by Oxford Collapse
Personnel
32-bit
In computer architecture, 32-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are at most 32 bits (4 octets) wide. Also, 32-bit CPU and ALU architectures are those that are based on registers, address buses, or data buses of that size. 32-bit is also a term given to a generation of microcomputers in which 32-bit microprocessors are the norm.
Range for storing integers
A 32-bit register can store 232 different values. The range of integer values that can be stored in 32 bits depends on the integer representation used. With the two most common representations, the range is 0 through 4,294,967,295 (232 - 1) for representation as an (unsigned) binary number, and -2,147,483,648 (-231) through 2,147,483,647 (231 - 1) for representation as Two's complement.
One important consequence is that a processor with 32-bit memory addresses can directly access at most 4 GiB of byte-addressable memory (though in practice the limit may be lower).
Some historical and technical perspective
Dana, Jordan
Dana
Dana (ضانا) is a small village near the city of Tafilah, in central-western Jordan. It is situated on the edge of a large natural gorge, Wadi Dana and enjoys spectacular view over Wadi Araba.
Dana is about 500 years old, and preserves many aspects of Jordanian villages of the 19th century villages of Jordan. It hosts Dana nature reserve, one of Jordan's premier nature reserves with eco-tourism facilities.
Dana is home to several hotels including the RSCN's Guest House and a hotel run by and for the benefit of the local community known simply as the Dana Hotel (operated by Dana and Qadisiyah Local Community Cooperative ::جمعية أبناء ضانا والقادسية التعاونية http://www.facebook.com\dana.cooperative )
External links
Dana Hotel: http://www.facebook.com\dana.hotel.jordan Dana and Qadisiyah Local community cooperative:http://www.facebook.com\dana.cooperative
Coordinates: 30°39′N 35°36′E / 30.650°N 35.600°E / 30.650; 35.600
Dana (car)
Dana was the brand name of a car built by Hakon Olsen, who had created the Maskinfabriken Dana in Copenhagen, Denmark. The car had a Peugeot air-cooled 6 hp engine and was built between 1908 and 1914 with minor modifications. The end of its (limited) production has been attributed to different company priorities after the outbreak of World War I.
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Dana Rosemary Scallon
Dana Rosemary Scallon (born Rosemary Brown on 30 August 1951), known in her singing career as Dana, is an Irish singer and former Member of the European Parliament (MEP).
While still a schoolgirl she won the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest with "All Kinds of Everything". It became a worldwide million-seller and launched her music career.
She entered politics in 1997, as Dana Rosemary Scallon, running unsuccessfully in the Irish presidential election, but later being elected as an MEP for Connacht–Ulster in 1999. Scallon was again an independent candidate in the Irish 2011 presidential election, but was eliminated on the first count.
Background
Scallon was born in Frederica Street, Islington, North London, to Robert and Sheila Brown (née Sheerin). Her father worked as a porter at nearby King's Cross station. A hairdresser by trade, he'd relocated his family from his native Derry in Northern Ireland because of the high unemployment there after the war. She was five when her parents were advised by their doctor to return to Derry because of the London smog, and the harmful effect it had on some of their children. (London had not yet benefited from the Clean Air Act 1956.) Their new home was on Derry's Creggan housing estate where they stayed until 1967, when they moved to the newly built Rossville Flats complex in the Bogside, an area overlooked by the historic city walls.
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