Company

A company is an association or collection of individuals, whether natural persons, legal persons, or a mixture of both. Company members share a common purpose and unite in order to focus their various talents and organize their collectively available skills or resources to achieve specific, declared goals. Companies take various forms such as:

  • Voluntary associations which may include nonprofit organization
  • A group of soldiers
  • Business entities with an aim of gaining a profit
  • Financial entities and banks
  • A company or association of persons can be created at law as legal person so that the company in itself can accept Limited liability for civil responsibility and taxation incurred as members perform (or fail) to discharge their duty within the publicly declared "birth certificate" or published policy.

    Because companies are legal persons, they also may associate and register themselves as companies – often known as a corporate group. When the company closes it may need a "death certificate" to avoid further legal obligations.

    Company (Heroes)

    The Company refers to a fictional covert international organization in the NBC drama Heroes. Its primary purpose is to identify, monitor and study those individuals with genetically-derived special abilities. The Company played a central role in the plot of Volume Two, during the second season of the series. It is a very notable organization in the series and is connected to several of the characters.

    Founders

    In season two, Kaito Nakamura revealed that there were twelve founders of the Company, and a photo of the twelve is later seen (listed below under "Group photo"); it did not include Adam Monroe, an immortal human with the ability of rapid cellular regeneration, who is described as the one who "brought them all together." The Company began sometime between January 1977 and February 14, 1977. Monroe was locked away for thirty years on November 2, 1977, concluding that he only spent about 10 to 11 months with the Company. In the first season of the show, Daniel Linderman heads the Company until his demise. He is substituted in the second season by Bob Bishop, who is implied to be the Company's financial source. However, when Sylar kills him in the beginning of Season 3, Angela Petrelli takes over. Several of the founders have children who are posthumans and who are main characters within the series.

    Company (disambiguation)

    A company is a group of more than one persons to carry out an enterprise and so a form of business organization.

    Company may also refer to:

  • Company (military unit), a group of typically 75–200 soldiers
  • Opera company, an instituted company that performs operas
  • Theatre company, of touring actors, singers and/or dancers
  • In titles and proper names:

  • Company (band)
  • Company (film), a 2002 Hindi film directed by Ram Gopal Varma
  • Company (free improvisation group), a jazz collective founded in 1968
  • Company (Heroes), a fictional covert international organization in the NBC drama Heroes
  • Company (LGBT magazine), the only existing LGBT print magazine in Hungary, published monthly
  • Company (magazine), a monthly fashion, celebrity and lifestyle magazine published in the United Kingdom
  • Company (musical), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by George Furth
  • Company (novel), a 2006 book by Max Barry
  • Company (song), the title song from the Broadway musical, Company
  • "Company" (short story), by Samuel Beckett
  • Video Coding Engine

    Video Coding Engine (VCE, sometimes incorrectly referred to as Video Codec Engine) is AMD's video encoding ASIC implementing the video codec H.264/MPEG-4 AVC. Since 2012 it is integrated into all of their GPUs and APUs.

    Video Coding Engine was introduced with the Radeon HD 7900 on 22 December 2011. VCE occupies a considerable amount of the die surface and is not to be confused with AMD's Unified Video Decoder (UVD).

    Overview

    The handling of video data involves computation of data compression algorithms and possibly of video processing algorithms. As the template Compression methods shows, lossy video compression algorithms involve the steps: Motion estimation (ME), Discrete cosine transform (DCT), and entropy encoding (EC).

    AMD Video Codec Engine (VCE) is a full hardware implementation of the video codec H.264/MPEG-4 AVC. The ASIC is capable of delivering 1080p at 60 frames/sec. Because its entropy encoding block is also separately accessible Video Codec Engine can be operated in two modes: full mode and hybrid mode.

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