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"This report sets out the findings of a review exploring how distributed ledger technology can revolutionise services, both in government and the private sector. It covers the: technology governance and regulation security and privacy disruptive potential applications in government global perspectives It recommends 8 actions for government to maximise the opportunities and reduce the risks of this new technology."

"In the opening chapter of his famous Lectures on Physics, Richard Feynman pondered the nature of science, the laws of physics, and the best way to teach it all. He emphasized that much of the vast accumulation of scientific knowledge could be condensed into some essential principles that allowed all sorts of sophisticated deductions."

"TeamViewer - the All-In-One Software for Remote Support and Online Meetings Remote control any computer or Mac over the internet within seconds or use TeamViewer for online meetings. Find out why TeamViewer has been activated on more than a billion devices."

"One of the biggest issues concerning UHD/4K is how it will be encoded/compressed and what bit rate will be required to convey a high-quality image. As I've written before, everyone at NAB 2014 seems to have settled on H.265 (aka HEVC or High-Efficiency Video Coding) as the codec of choice for UHD/4K. HEVC is said to offer up to 50 percent greater efficiency than H.264 (aka AVC or Advanced Video Coding), which is often used for high-def content, and even greater gains in efficiency over MPEG-2.   So I was particularly interested in a presentation called "Bit Rate Requirements for HEVC: Comparing H.265, H.264, and MPEG-2" by John Pallett, Director of Product Marketing for Enterprise Products at Telestream, a company that provides video capture, encoding, transcoding, and network-based delivery. The testing he discussed was based on SD and HD content, not UHD, but the findings should apply similarly."

"I've got a Panasonic HC-V750 camcorder which supports AVCHD and MP4. The highest quality AVCHD settings are called "1080/60p", while the highest quality MP4 settings are called "1080/50M" (also at 60p). Both are 1920x1080 full HD resolution.   When I check out some sample files recorded in those 2 formats with MediaInfo, I see the AVCHD bitrate is variable and seems to be in the 22.8 - 25.0 mbps range, while the MP4 bitrate is close to the advertised "50M" at a variable 45.4 - 49.2 mbps.   So, although I know the answer is a bit subjective, I am interested in which format people think has better video quality.  By bitrate and file size alone, I would be inclined to say MP4 in this scenario.  But the instruction manual implies that the AVCHD is better quality.   FYI: on the audio side, the AVCHD has AC3 384 kbps 6 channel audio, while the MP4 has AAC 128 kbps 2 channel, so the AVCHD AC3 audio clearly seems superior."

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"Gatekeeper is new security feature starting in Mac OS 10.8. See http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5290 for more information about Gatekeeper features and benefits. If you are unsure what version of the Mac OS you are running, see http://its.uiowa.edu/support/article/101460.  You can find Gatekeeper settings in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General. To disable Gatekeeper, click on the lock on the lower left of the window and type in your system password. By default Gatekeeper will only open apps purchased and downloaded from the Mac App Store or from a list of "identified developers" that have been given the ok from Apple by obtaining an unique Developer ID.  To install other apps, select the option to install from Anywhere."

"Connect your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac using Continuity Continuity lets you seamlessly move between your iPhone, iPad, and Mac, or use them together. Continuity features include Handoff, Phone Calling, Instant Hotspot, and SMS. You can start an email or document on iPhone, for example, and then pick up where you left off on your iPad. You can use your iPad or Mac to make and receive phone calls through your iPhone."

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" 1 down vote Instead of writing the very long: =OFFSET(INDIRECT(ADDRESS(ROW(), COLUMN())),0,-1) You can simply write: =OFFSET(*Name of your Cell*,0,-1) Thus for example you can write into Cell B2: =OFFSET(B2,0,-1) to reference to cell B1"

"How To Sync Multiple Shared Google Calendars On Windows 8 By Brian. Filed in How-To Guides Windows 8 now syncs with a Microsoft account (Outlook, Hotmail, MSN) and retrieves all your contacts, email and also your calendar information from it. If, however, you have most of your schedules and calendar information on a Google account, you can opt to add that account to the Calendar app instead. If you have more than one Google account, particularly those that are shared, after adding your Google calendar to Windows 8, you might notice that only the main account calendar is synced, while the shared ones are not."

Python runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, OS/2, Amiga, Palm Handhelds, and Nokia mobile phones. Python has also been ported to the Java and .NET virtual machines. Python is distributed under an OSI-approved open source license that makes it free to use, even for commercial products.

If you're a support professional, you know all about having multiple versions of software on your system. You need to cover the bases by having all the versions that your users may blow up. However, even if you're not a techie, you may be one of those more cautious people who would like to keep the old version of your software running while installing/learning the new version...just in case!

To create a master document (master document: A "container" for a set of separate files (or subdocuments). You can use a master document to set up and manage a multipart document, such as a book with several chapters.), you start with an outline and then you create new subdocuments or add existing documents to it.

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Python is an easy to learn, powerful programming language. It has efficient high-level data structures and a simple but effective approach to object-oriented programming. Python's elegant syntax and dynamic typing, together with its interpreted nature, make it an ideal language for scripting and rapid application development in many areas on most platforms.