A backhanded compliment, also known as a left handed compliment or asteism, is an insult that is disguised as a compliment. Sometimes, a backhanded compliment may be inadvertent. However, the term usually connotes an intent to belittle or condescend. A backhanded compliment may f...
HistoryBeginningsBackpack Vagabond Records is an independent hip-hop label out of Huntington, WV. The label was started by three friends: Jordan Andrew Jefferson aka Snowman, Matthew Pack aka Leonard, and Andrew Temple aka werD. These three were original members of the hip-hop gr...
Backslash is a web protocol designed to avoid server overload due to large influxes of traffic. It protects a loaded server by allowing it to be a member of a group of web servers which will mirror each others' content in the case of high load. It uses a distributed hash table to...
Backstage projects are online collaborative software enterprises which provide intellectual and technical infrastructure and support for the ongoing activities of collaborative online projects such as , wikiversity, etcetera. As various parties replicate the model, the best manag...
As of the year 2010 more than 70% of the stock shares traded on the NYSE and NASDAQ are generated from automated trading systems. Automated trading systems are computer software programs designed to trade stocks, futures and forex based on a predefined set of rules which determin...
A backtract undo series is undoing every edit in an edit history until the wanted edit is undone and the earlier revision is reached. This is done when undid edits are wanted to appear in an edit history rather than a restoration to an earlier revision. This is prompted when an e...
Backup Direct is a UK provider of online backup, business continuity, IT security and helpdesk services, often referred to as cloud computing or software-as-a-service (SaaS). Backup Direct supplies Iron Mountain services to SME businesses in the United Kingdom.The company has bee...
Introduction The "Multithreading Backup Utility" or "Backup Multithreading" is an alias for a free backup software utility simply named "Backup". The Backup software application is actually a by-product of an article published on the The Code Project that teaches and demonstrates...
BackUp MyPC (sometimes shown as BackupMyPC) was a Windows PC Backup Software package marketed by StompSoft (sometimes shown as StompInc).Due to changes in both product and company names, this article may help customers still holding a version of BackUp MyPC, or who formerly used ...
BackupChain, developed by FastNeuron Inc, is a backup software and FTP server for Microsoft Windows operating systems optimized to create backup copies of large files using in-file delta compression. The new technology in BackupChain saves storage space as well as bandwidth and t...
BackupRight is an online backup service for home, mobile, and business use. There are two different version of BackupRight's service. Pro designed for business use, it allows for multiple computers/servers to be backed up using one central account management system. Express is de...
The "backwards long jump" glitch (often abbreviated as BLJ) is a glitch used in the 1996 Nintendo 64 video game Super Mario 64, and is perhaps the most well known of several hyperspeed glitches in the game. The glitch is also known for being able to carry out sequence breaking in...
The Backwards Music StationThe Backwards Music Station (also known as "Whalesong") is a Numbers Station that plays a loud, grating sound and several high pitch whines in the background. Occasionally, what appears to be a voice can be heard in the background. The Backwards Music S...
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Backwell Karate is a Shotokan Karate school in Backwell, North Somerset.HistoryBackwell Karate, previously known as Backwell Shotokan Karate Club, was founded in 1978 by Bryan Gideon and Bob Padfield, on the invitation of two teachers at Backwell Secondary School. Established in ...
Backyard Monsters is a real-time strategy game released in March 2010 and developed and published by Kixeye, available as an application on the social networking website Facebook. , Backyard Monsters has nearly 4.6 million monthly active users on Facebook.Players in Backyard Mons...
BaCon (abbreviation for English BASIC to C converter expression) is an open source BASIC-like programming tool. BaCon itself was written in the form of a Bash script and your BaCon code can be compiled for unix-like systems such as Linux, MacOsX. You can write code with a user in...
Bacon Flavour Fries, more commonly abbreviated to simply ‘Bacon Fries’, is the name of a bacon-flavoured cereal-based snack sold in Britain. Although they are sold as Smith’s Bacon Flavour Fries, they are in fact made by Walkers, the UK’s l...
Bacon has appeared often on the TV series The Simpsons. The importance of bacon on the popular series has led, for instance, to recognition by the Royal Bacon Society, which compiled a list of the "Top 10 Bacon Quotes from Homer Simpson." Even conservative commentator Jonah Goldb...
Overview Bacteria Tower Defense is a puzzle/strategy game based on the popular tower defense genre of games in which the player assumes the role of a doctor. The goal of the game is to stop the oncoming waves of bacteria from infecting the patient(s). This is achieved by the use ...