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Directional Michigan "Directional Michigan" is a term used in college football, often in a derogatory sense, to describe the three similarly named public universities competing at the Division I-A level in the Mid-American Conference's West Division. While staying competitive in their own conference and against non-BCS conference opponents, all three have traditionally been unsuccessful against BCS conference opponents (who by and large have higher funded football programs).
Directional Radio Tower Stuttgart-Möhringen The Directional Radio Tower Stuttgart-Möhringen is a 93 metre high lattice steel tower for directional radio services of the EnBW AG on the area of the substation Stuttgart-Möhringen at . The Directional Radio Tower Stuttgart-Möhringen was built in 1975 and is not accessible to the public.
Directional Sound Directional Sound refers to the notion of using various devices to create fields of sound which spread less than most traditional loudspeakers. Several techniques are available to accomplish this, and each has their benefits and drawbacks.
Directional-hemispherical reflectance Directional-hemispherical reflectance is the reflectance of a surface under direct illumination (with no diffuse component). Directional-hemispherical reflectance is the integral of the BRDF over all viewing directions.
Directionality (molecular biology) Directionality, in molecular biology, refers to the end-to-end chemical orientation of a single strand of nucleic acid. The chemical convention of naming carbon atoms in the nucleotide sugar-ring numerically gives rise to a 3' end and a 5' end.
Directions: The Plans Video Album Directions: The Plans Video Album was released on April 11, 2006 on Atlantic Records/Wea Records. Proposals from around the world were submitted to Death Cab for Cutie, and a budget was allowed for 13 finalists to create videos that would translate their visions of every song from Plans.
Directive 2000/43/EC on Anti-discrimination Since the Treaty of Amsterdam came into force in 1999, new EC laws, or Directives, have been enacted in the area of anti-discrimination.The Council Directive 2000/43/EC of the European Parliament implements the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin.
Directive 2001/19/EC The Directive 2001/19/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2001 controls the general system for the recognition of professional qualifications of nurses responsible for general care, dental practitioners, veterinary surgeons, midwives, architects, pharmacists and doctors in the European Union.
Directive 2001/20/EC Directive 2001/20/EC or Clinical Trials Directive of 4 April 2001, of the European Parliament and of the Council on the approximation of the laws, Regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to implementation of good clinical practice in the conduct of clinical trials on medicinal products for human use.
Directive 2001/83/EC Directive 2001/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 November 2001 on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use. The Directive dealt with the disparities between certain national
Directive 2005/28/EC The Directive 2005/28/EC or Good Clinical Practice Directive, of 8 April 2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council, lays down principles and detailed guidelines for good clinical practice as regards investigational medicinal products for human use, as well as the requirements for authorisation of the manufacturing or importation of such products.
Directive 2005/29/EC The Unfair Commercial Practices Directive Directive 2005/29/EC, Official Journal of the European Union, L149/22 - L149/39, 11th June 2005 the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, is a major reform of the law concerning unfair business practices in the European Union. It was intended to combine a high level of consumer protection with the removal of obstacles to cross-border trade within the European Union arising from differences in fair trading laws from country to country (see Article 1 of the Directive and the recitals to it).
Directive 65/65/EEC1 Directive 65/65/EEC1 was the first European pharmaceutical directive. The directive was a reaction to the Thalidomide tragedy in the early 1960s, when thousands of babies were born with deformities as a result of their mothers taking thalidomide during pregnancy.
Directive 67/548/EEC Council Directive 67/548/EEC of 27 June 1967 on the approximation of laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous substances (as amended) is the main European Union law concerning chemical safety. It was made under Art.
Directive 75/318/EEC Directive 75/318/EEC of 20 May 1975 on the approximation of the laws of Member States relating to analytical, pharmaco-toxicological and clinical standards and protocols in respect of the testing of proprietary medicinal products. This directive of the European Union sought to bring the benefits of innovative pharmaceuticals to patients across Europe by introducing the mutual recognition, by Member States, of their respective national marketing authorisations.
Directive 75/319/EEC Directive 75/319/EEC of 20 May 1975 on the approximation of the laws of Member States relating to analytical, pharmaco-toxicological and clinical standards and protocols in respect of the testing of proprietary medicinal products. This directive of the European Union sought to bring the benefits of innovative pharmaceuticals to patients across Europe by introducing the mutual recognition, by Member States, of their respective national marketing authorisations.
Directive 93/41/EEC Directive 93/41/EEC of 14 June 1993 on the approximation of national measures relating to the placing on the market of high- technology medicinal products, particularly those derived from biotechnology. The Directive offered two routes for authorising medicinal products, a "centralised" procedure and a procedure of "mutual recognition".
Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of personal data The full title of this directive is Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data. This article provides a general overview of the directive only.
Directive on Electricity Production from Renewable Energy Sources The Directive on Electricity Production from Renewable Energy Sources, officially 2001/77/EC and popularly better known as the 'RES Directive' is a European Union directive for promoting the use of renewable energy sources in EU electricity production. The directive entered into force in October 2001, and sets national "indicative" targets for renewable energy production from individual member states.
Directive on services in the internal market The Directive on services in the internal market (commonly referred to as the Bolkestein Directive) is an initiative of the European Commission aimed at creating a single market for services within the European Union (EU), similar to the single market for goods already present. Drafted under the leadership of the former European Commissioner for the Internal Market Frits Bolkestein, it has been popularly referred to by his name.
Directive on the Promotion of the use of biofuels and other renewable fuels for transport The Directive on the Promotion of the use of biofuels and other renewable fuels for transport, officially 2003/30/EC and popularly better known as the biofuels directive is a European Union directive for promoting the use of biofuels for EU transport. The directive entered into force in October 2001, and stipulates that national measures must be taken by countries across the EU aiming at replacing 5,75 % of all transport fossil fuels (petrol and diesel) with biofuels by 2010.
Directive Principles in India The Directive Principles of State Policy are guidelines to the central and state governments of India, to be kept in mind while framing laws and policies. These provisions, contained in Part IV of the Constitution of India, are not enforceable by any court, but the principles laid down therein are considered fundamental in the governance of the country, making it the duty of the State to apply these principles in making laws to establish a just society in the country.
Directives for Military Officers and Ministry Officials upon an Attack of Norway The Directives for Military Officers and Ministry Officials upon an Attack of Norway (Direktiver for militære befalingsmenn og militære sjefer ved angrep på Norge) is commonly referred to as “the poster on the wall” (plakaten på veggen) since it was posted in every military office wall until after the cold war ended. The poster on the wall is a directive which sets out the duties for all Norwegian commanding officers and Ministry Officials during any attack on Norway.
Directivity In electromagnetics, directivity is a property of the radiation pattern produced by an antenna. It is defined as the ratio of the power radiated in a given direction to the average of the power radiated in all directions; the gain pattern is the product of the efficiency of the antenna and the directivity.
DirectInput DirectInput is a library of objects for collecting input from the user, via input devices such the mouse, keyboard, joystick or game controllers. It also provides a system for action mapping, which allows you to assign specific actions within a game to the buttons and axis on your input devices.
Directlink Directlink is a high voltage direct current transmission line between Mullumbimby and Bungalora in Australia, used to trade power between New South Wales and Queensland. Directlink, built in 2000, is a 59-km bipolar HVDC cable route, implemented for environmental protection reasons as underground cables.
Directly amplifying receiver The Directly amplifying radio receiver is one example of the many different possible designs for a radio receiver. It contains a radio resonance filter, followed by a two-stage radio frequency (RF) amplifier, a diode detector, and a sound (audio) frequency amplifier.
Directly observed treatment Directly Observed Treatment (DOT) or Directly Observed Therapy is watching the patient take his/her medication to ensure medications are taken in the right combination and for the correct duration. It is used for diseases such as tuberculosis or HIV to assure compliance and avoid drug resistance.
DirectLink The DirectLink (also known as Link Cable) is device that allows two Sega Saturns to connect to each other so can players can play multiplayer games with more than two persons. To use the device, however, a player would need two televisions and two of the same games.
Directmedia Publishing Directmedia Publishing is a German publishing house created in January 1995 by Ralf Szymanski and Erwin Jurschitza as a publisher of digital media. The emphasis of the publishing house's content lies within the field of digital libraries, particularly scientific collections of texts, and encyclopaedias.
DirectMusic DirectMusic is a high-level set of objects, built on top of DirectSound, that allow you to play sound and music without needing to get quite as low-level as DirectSound. There is strong support for dynamic soundtracks - having music which changes in response to events in the game.
Directo a MĂ©xico Directo a MĂ©xico is a program launched in 2005 and operated by the Federal Reserve and Banco de Mexico, the central banks of the United States and Mexico, respectively. The program allows commercial banks in the U.
Director (education) A director is the chief executive officer of a university or other educational institution. Equivalent names in different countries are Vice-Chancellor] (many Commonwealth countries), Chancellor (United States), principal (Scotland and Canada), and University President.
Director for Security Liaison An office created in the Private Secretary's Office of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom in 2004. The first office-holder was Brigadier Jeffrey Cook, OBE MC, a former Special Air Service (SAS) officer.
Director of audiography The Director of Audiography (DOA) or Sound Director (SD) or Audio Director (AuD) is the designer and manager responsible for the audio experience in a filmmaking. The responsibilities range from the sound concept, design, planning and initial budgeting in pre-production through to recording and scheduling in production and coordinating the final mix in post-production and overall quality control of the audio process in filmmaking.
Director of Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation The Director of Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation (Director of Agriculture and Fisheries before 2000) is the head of the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (Agriculture and Fisheries Department before 2000) of the Hong Kong Government.
Director of Audit The role of the Director of Audit is to ensure the financial order of the Hong Kong Government and heads the Audit Commission. This role is similar to that of auditor generals or auditors in other jurisdictions.
Director of Corporate Enforcement The Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement in Ireland was set up by the Irish Government on November 28 2001 as a consequence of the proceedings and the conclusions of various review groups, courts, tribunals of inquiry and parliamentary committees in recent years. These have revealed evidence that provisions in Irish company law and other legislation have been regularly breached and that some entities and individuals have not been called to account.
Director of National Service The Director of National Service was a post that existed briefly in the British government. Although a political appointment, the initial holder was Neville Chamberlain who was not a Member of Parliament at the time.
Director of Passenger Rail Franchising The Director of Passenger Rail Franchising is a statutory office created in 1993 by the Railways Act 1993 and usually called the Franchising Director. It lasted from 5 November 1993 until 31 January 2001 when it was superseded by the Strategic Rail Authority.
Director of Policy Planning The Director of Policy Planning is the United States Department of State official in charge of the Department's internal think tank, the Policy Planning Staff. The position of Director of Policy Planning is one of the most prestigious in the State Department, and has traditionally been held by some of the most intellectual members of the U.
Director of Public Prosecutions (Fiji) The Director of Public Prosecutions was created under the Fiji Independence Act of 1970 and came into being that year. In 1990 and subsequently in 1997, the powers of the Office of the DPP were provided for in the Fiji Constitution, an entrenched document and the supreme law of the nation.
Director of Stores Director of Stores is a position in the Sears Holdings Corporation Full Line Store format. The Director of Stores oversees a number of Full Line Stores and is responsible for the financial performance of his or her district.
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (D/CIA) serves as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, which is part of the United States Intelligence Community. He reports to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI).
Director of the National Security Agency The Director of the National Security Agency, also known as DIRNSA, is the highest-ranking official within the National Security Agency and the Central Security Service. According to Section 201 of Title 10, the Director of the NSA/CSS is recommended by the U.
Director of the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance The Director of the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance was the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority after the fall of Saddam Hussein and before the creation of the interim Iraqi government in 2004.
Director of the United States House of Representatives Office of Interparliamentary Affairs The Director of Office of Interparliamentary Affairs is the head of the United States House of Representatives Office of Interparliamentary Affairs. The Director is appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and serves for as long as they are sanctioned by the Speaker.
Director telephone system The Director System was introduced to six cities in the UK from 1922 following the introduction of the automatic telephone exchange in the UK in 1912. It involved a device (the director) which received dialled digits and automatically translated them to route calls between exchanges in the city; in modern parlance a director incorporated a register-translator and a digit store.
Director's cut A director's cut is a specially edited version of a film - and less often TV series or video games - that is supposed to represent the director's own approved edit. 'Cut' explicitly refers to the process of film editing: the director's cut is preceded by the rough editor's cut and followed by the final cut meant for the public film release.
Director's Commentary Director's Commentary was a comedy show produced by Granada Television for ITV, shown on ITV 1 in 2004. It starred Rob Brydon as Peter de Lane, a fictional director who provided the audio commentary for the DVD releases of shows he had supposedly directed.
Director-general The term director-general is used worldwide to signify the highest executive officer within a governmental, statutory, NGO, third sector or not-for-profit institution. Commonly used in international organisations and government departments, though often called an Executive Director or Managing Director in the U.
Director-General of Investment Promotion The Director-General of Investment Promotion (formerly Director of the Business and Services Promotion Unit) is responsible for promoting investment in Hong Kong, and heads the InvestHK (formerly the Business and Services Promotion Unit) which reports to the Secretary for Commerce, Industry and Technology.
Director-General of MI5 The Director-General of MI5 is the head of the Security Service (MI5), the United Kingdom's internal counter terrorism and counter espionage service. The Director-General is assisted by a Deputy Director-General and an Assistant Director-General, and reports to the Home Secretary, although the Security Service is not formally part of the Home Office.
Director-General of New Netherland This is a list of Directors, appointed by the Dutch West India Company, of the 17th century Dutch province of New Netherland (Nieuw Nederland in Dutch) in North America. The largest settlement in New Netherland was New Amsterdam, which became the city of New York when the New Netherlanders ceded control provisionally to the English and renamed the Dutch province and city of New Amsterdam in June 1665.
Director-General of the World Trade Organization The Director-General of the World Trade Organization is responsible for supervising the administrative functions of the WTO. Because World Trade Organizations' decisions are made by member states (through either a Ministerial Conference or through the General Council), the Director-General has little power over matters of policy - the role is primarily advisory and managerial.
Directorate General of Forces Intelligence The Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) is Bangladesh's main intelligence agency. Along with the National Security Intelligence (NSI) these two agencies are the main components of the country's intelligence community.
Directorate of Civil Resistance Directorate of Civil Resistance (Polish Kierownictwo Walki Cywilnej, short KWC) was one of the branches of the Polish Government Delegate’s Office during World War II. Its main tasks were to maintain the morale of the Polish society, encourage passive resistance, report German atrocities and cruelties to the Polish Government in Exile, and to organize sabotage.
Directorate of Covert Resistance Directorate of Covert Resistance (Polish Kierownictwo Walki Konspiracyjnej, short KWK) was one of the departments of the Armia Krajowa Headquarters created in Poland in 1942 during World War II. Its main task was commanding the so-called current fight.
Directorate of Film Festivals The Directorate of Film Festivals in India is a government organisation set up to organise National and International film festivals in India. The Directorate facilitates the participation of India in festivals abroad, and arranges for foreign film programmes to be held in the country.
Directorate of Miscellaneous Weapons Development The Directorate of Miscellaneous Weapons Development (DMWD), known colloquially as the Wheezers and Dodgers, was a department of the Admiralty responsible for the development of various unconventional weapons during World War II. The nickname was derived from their original title, the Inspectorate of Anti-Aircraft Weapons and Devices, IAAWD, which was corrupted to Instigator of Anti-Aircraft Wheezes and Dodges.
Directorate of revenue intelligence DIRECTORATE OF REVENUE INTELLIGENCE or DRI is one of the premier Indian intelligence agencies and was set up in 1953 as the Central Revenue Intelligence Bureau. The organisation was charged with the responsibility of developing intelligence on matters connected with anti-smuggling and anti-corruption in the Customs and Central Excise formations all over the country.
Directorate of Underground Resistance Directorate of Underground Resistance (Polish Kierownictwo Walki Podziemnej, short KWP) was one of the agendas of the Polish Secret State created during the World War II. It was created in 1943 from the Directorate of Civil Resistance and Directorate of Covert Resistance.
Directorate-General In the European Union, the staff of the main institutions (Commission, Council and Parliament) are organized into a number of distinct departments, known as Directorates-General (DGs), each of which is responsible for specific tasks or policy areas The administrative head of a DG is known as the Director-General].
Directorate-General for Competition (European Commission) The Directorate-General for Competition (COMP) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission, located in Brussels, Belgium. The DG Competition is responsible for establishing and implementing a coherent competition policy for the European Union.
Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities (European Commission) The Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities is a Directorate-General of the European Commission. The Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities has the task of contributing to the development of a modern, innovative and sustainable European Social Model with more and better jobs in an inclusive society based on equal opportunities.
Directorate-General for External Relations (European Commission) The Directorate-General for the External Relations (DG RELEX) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission, responsible for the external policy. Although the DG is an institution in its own right, it is common that other DGs concerned with external policy are grouped with DG RELEX.
Directorate-General for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs (European Commission) The Directorate-General for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs or DG FISH is a Directorate-General of the European Commission, responsible for the policy area of fisheries, the Law of the Sea and Maritime Affairs of the European Union.
Directorate-General for Health and Consumer Protection (European Commission) The Directorate-General for Health and Consumer Protection is a Directorate-General of the European Commission. The Health & Consumer Protection DG is responsible for the implementation of EU laws on the safety of food and other products, on consumers' rights and on the protection of people's health.
Directorate-General for Internal Market and Services (European Commission) The Directorate-General for Internal Market and Services (DG MARKT) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission. The main role of the DG Internal Market and Services is to coordinate the European Commission’s policy on the European Single Market, which aims to ensure the free movement of people, goods, services and capital within the European Union.
Directorate-General for Justice, Freedom and Security (European Commission) The Directorate-General for Justice, Freedom and Security is a Directorate-General of the European Commission. The role of the DG Justice, Freedom and Security is to ensure that the whole European Union is an area of freedom, security and justice.
Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union (European Commission) The Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union is a Directorate-General of the European Commission. The DG Taxation and Customs manages, defends and develops the customs union as a vital part of protecting the external borders of the European Union.
Directorate-General for Translation (European Commission) The Directorate-General for Translation (DGT), located in Brussels and Luxembourg, provides translation of written text into and out of the European Union's twenty official languages. With an annual output of about 1.
Directorate-General for Transport and Energy (European Commission) The Directorate-General for Energy and Transport (DG TREN) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission. The DG TREN is in operation since 1 January 2000, it was created by merging the Directorate-General for Transport and the Directorate-General for Energy.
Directorate-General Joint Research Centre (European Commission) The Directorate-General Joint Research Centre (DG JRC), located in Brussels, Belgium, is a Directorate-General of the European Commission. Its current Commissioner is Janez PotoÄŤnik, and the Director General is Roland Schenkel.
Directorium Inquisitorum The Directorium Inquisitorum is Nicholas Eymerich's most prominent and enduring work, which he had composed as early as 1376. Eymerich had written an earlier treatise on sorcery, perhaps as early as 1359, which he extensively reworked into the Directorium Inqusitorum The Directorium Inquisitorum defined witchcraft, and described means for discovering witches.
Directors Guild of America Directors Guild of America (DGA) is the labor union which represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry. Founded as the "Screen Directors Guild" in 1936, the group became the DGA in 1960.
Directors Label The Directors Label is a series of DVDs devoted to notable music video directors. First released in 2003 by Palm Pictures, the series was created by Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham, and Michel Gondry, the subjects of the first three volumes.
Directors register In corporate law, the directors register is a list of the directors elected by the shareholders, generally stored in the company's minute book. By law, companies are required to keep this list up to date to remove those directors who are deceased or resign, and to add those who have been elected by the shareholders.
Directory (databases) The word directory is used in computing and telephony meaning a repository or database of information. A directory, as opposed to a conventional database, is heavily optimized for reading, with the assumption that data updates are very rare compared to data reads.
Directory (OpenVMS command) In computer software, specifically the command line interface of the OpenVMS operating system, the DIRECTORY command (often abbreviated as DIR) is used to list the files inside a directory. It is analogous to the DOS dir and Unix ls commands.
Directory (political) In political history, the term directory, in French directoire, applies to high collegial institutions of state composed of members styled director (French directeur, etc.) The most important of these by far was the French Directory.
Directory assistance Directory assistance (in the UK, directory enquiries) in telecommunications is a telephone call one can make to find out a specific phone number of a residence or business. Some systems also give the caller an address as well.
Directory for Family Worship The Directory for Family Worship is a book of general directions for private, family worship in the Calvinist tradition. While generally approving of the products of the Westminster Assembly (namely, the Westminster Standards), the Church of Scotland viewed it as incomplete without directions for private worship.
Directory hive A directory hive is a directory which is treated as a file by an application, it typically contains several files which are read by the application. A good example of this is the NIB file written by the Interface Builder application included with Mac OS X.
Directory Harvest Attack A Directory Harvest Attack or DHA is a technique used by spammers in an attempt to find e-mail addresses. It is usually carried out by generating a flood of messages to multiple addresses at a mail server that is known to be valid.
Directory of International Associations of the Faithful Published by the Pontifical Council for the Laity, this is a directory of the recognized lay ecclesial movements in the Catholic Church. The actual directory includes the official name, acronym, date of establishment, history, identity, organization, membership, works, publications, and website of the communities and movements.
Directory of Open Access Journals The Directory of Open Access Journals or DOAJ, lists open access journals, scientific and scholarly journals that meet high quality standards and are free to all from the time of publication. Because open access is a worldwide phenomenon, DOAJ includes publications from around the world in many languages.
Directory of Public Worship The Directory for Public Worship (known in Scotland as the Westminster Directory having been approved by the Scottish Parliament in 1645) was a manual of directions for worship approved by an ordinance of Parliament early in 1645 to replace the Book of Common Prayer (and which was denounced by a counter-proclamation from Charles I).
Directory service A directory service is a software application — or a set of applications — that stores and organizes information about a computer network's users and network resources, and that allows network administrators to manage users' access to the resources. Additionally, directory services act as an abstraction layer between users and shared resources.
Directory Services Restore Mode Directory Services Restore Mode (DSRM) is used on a Microsoft Windows Domain Controller to take the Active Directory on that machine offline. DSRM mode can be accessed by pressing the F8 key during the startup sequence of a Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003 system running Active Directory.
Directory traversal A directory traversal is to exploit insufficient security validation / sanitization of user-supplied input file names, so that characters representing "traverse to parent directory" is passed through to the file APIs.
Directory-based coherence protocols Directory-based coherence protocols are a set of cache coherence protocols, that is, protocols which ensure cache coherence or memory coherence between multiple nodes of multiprocessor or distributed shared memory systems, such as ccNUMA.
DirectPlay DirectPlay is part of Microsoft's DirectX API. DirectPlay is a network communication library intended for computer game development, although its general nature certainly allows it to be used for other purposes.
DirectShow DirectShow (sometimes abbreviated as DS or DShow), codename Quartz, is a multimedia framework and API produced by Microsoft for software developers to perform various operations with media files. It is a replacement for Microsoft's earlier Video for Windows technology.
DirectSkin DirectSkin is a software component that is used by software developers to add skinning capability to their applications, which may or may not be exposed to end-users. It is made by Stardock, and is derived from the WindowBlinds component of their software subscription package, Object Desktop.
DirectSound DirectSound is software a component of the DirectX library, supplied by Microsoft that resides on a computer with the Windows operating system. It provides the interface between applications and the sound card, enabling applications to produce sounds and music.
DirectX DirectX is a collection of APIs for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming, on Microsoft platforms. It is competing with OpenGL and with SDL and is widely used in the development of computer games for Microsoft Windows, Sega Dreamcast, Microsoft Xbox and Microsoft Xbox 360.
DirectX Media DirectX Media was an external API set that was used for media streaming applications. DirectX Media included the components required by Microsoft Windows music and audio applications that use DirectAnimation, DirectShow and DirectX Transform.
DirecTiVo "DirecTiVo" is an informal term for the implemented combination of DIRECTV satellite television programming service and the TiVo digital video recorder service. The full name, more properly using all the trademarked terms and phrases which belong to the two companies, is "DIRECTV® DVR with TiVo®".
Dired Dired is the name of an advanced directory editor for the Emacs text editor, which runs on any platform Emacs will. Its commands are generally more modal than most Emacs commands since Dired is a specialized major mode in and of itself.
Directional Radio Tower Stuttgart-Möhringen The Directional Radio Tower Stuttgart-Möhringen is a 93 metre high lattice steel tower for directional radio services of the EnBW AG on the area of the substation Stuttgart-Möhringen at . The Directional Radio Tower Stuttgart-Möhringen was built in 1975 and is not accessible to the public.
Directional Sound Directional Sound refers to the notion of using various devices to create fields of sound which spread less than most traditional loudspeakers. Several techniques are available to accomplish this, and each has their benefits and drawbacks.
Directional-hemispherical reflectance Directional-hemispherical reflectance is the reflectance of a surface under direct illumination (with no diffuse component). Directional-hemispherical reflectance is the integral of the BRDF over all viewing directions.
Directionality (molecular biology) Directionality, in molecular biology, refers to the end-to-end chemical orientation of a single strand of nucleic acid. The chemical convention of naming carbon atoms in the nucleotide sugar-ring numerically gives rise to a 3' end and a 5' end.
Directions: The Plans Video Album Directions: The Plans Video Album was released on April 11, 2006 on Atlantic Records/Wea Records. Proposals from around the world were submitted to Death Cab for Cutie, and a budget was allowed for 13 finalists to create videos that would translate their visions of every song from Plans.
Directive 2000/43/EC on Anti-discrimination Since the Treaty of Amsterdam came into force in 1999, new EC laws, or Directives, have been enacted in the area of anti-discrimination.The Council Directive 2000/43/EC of the European Parliament implements the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin.
Directive 2001/19/EC The Directive 2001/19/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2001 controls the general system for the recognition of professional qualifications of nurses responsible for general care, dental practitioners, veterinary surgeons, midwives, architects, pharmacists and doctors in the European Union.
Directive 2001/20/EC Directive 2001/20/EC or Clinical Trials Directive of 4 April 2001, of the European Parliament and of the Council on the approximation of the laws, Regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to implementation of good clinical practice in the conduct of clinical trials on medicinal products for human use.
Directive 2001/83/EC Directive 2001/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 November 2001 on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use. The Directive dealt with the disparities between certain national
Directive 2005/28/EC The Directive 2005/28/EC or Good Clinical Practice Directive, of 8 April 2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council, lays down principles and detailed guidelines for good clinical practice as regards investigational medicinal products for human use, as well as the requirements for authorisation of the manufacturing or importation of such products.
Directive 2005/29/EC The Unfair Commercial Practices Directive Directive 2005/29/EC, Official Journal of the European Union, L149/22 - L149/39, 11th June 2005 the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, is a major reform of the law concerning unfair business practices in the European Union. It was intended to combine a high level of consumer protection with the removal of obstacles to cross-border trade within the European Union arising from differences in fair trading laws from country to country (see Article 1 of the Directive and the recitals to it).
Directive 65/65/EEC1 Directive 65/65/EEC1 was the first European pharmaceutical directive. The directive was a reaction to the Thalidomide tragedy in the early 1960s, when thousands of babies were born with deformities as a result of their mothers taking thalidomide during pregnancy.
Directive 67/548/EEC Council Directive 67/548/EEC of 27 June 1967 on the approximation of laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous substances (as amended) is the main European Union law concerning chemical safety. It was made under Art.
Directive 75/318/EEC Directive 75/318/EEC of 20 May 1975 on the approximation of the laws of Member States relating to analytical, pharmaco-toxicological and clinical standards and protocols in respect of the testing of proprietary medicinal products. This directive of the European Union sought to bring the benefits of innovative pharmaceuticals to patients across Europe by introducing the mutual recognition, by Member States, of their respective national marketing authorisations.
Directive 75/319/EEC Directive 75/319/EEC of 20 May 1975 on the approximation of the laws of Member States relating to analytical, pharmaco-toxicological and clinical standards and protocols in respect of the testing of proprietary medicinal products. This directive of the European Union sought to bring the benefits of innovative pharmaceuticals to patients across Europe by introducing the mutual recognition, by Member States, of their respective national marketing authorisations.
Directive 93/41/EEC Directive 93/41/EEC of 14 June 1993 on the approximation of national measures relating to the placing on the market of high- technology medicinal products, particularly those derived from biotechnology. The Directive offered two routes for authorising medicinal products, a "centralised" procedure and a procedure of "mutual recognition".
Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of personal data The full title of this directive is Directive 95/46/EC on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data. This article provides a general overview of the directive only.
Directive on Electricity Production from Renewable Energy Sources The Directive on Electricity Production from Renewable Energy Sources, officially 2001/77/EC and popularly better known as the 'RES Directive' is a European Union directive for promoting the use of renewable energy sources in EU electricity production. The directive entered into force in October 2001, and sets national "indicative" targets for renewable energy production from individual member states.
Directive on services in the internal market The Directive on services in the internal market (commonly referred to as the Bolkestein Directive) is an initiative of the European Commission aimed at creating a single market for services within the European Union (EU), similar to the single market for goods already present. Drafted under the leadership of the former European Commissioner for the Internal Market Frits Bolkestein, it has been popularly referred to by his name.
Directive on the Promotion of the use of biofuels and other renewable fuels for transport The Directive on the Promotion of the use of biofuels and other renewable fuels for transport, officially 2003/30/EC and popularly better known as the biofuels directive is a European Union directive for promoting the use of biofuels for EU transport. The directive entered into force in October 2001, and stipulates that national measures must be taken by countries across the EU aiming at replacing 5,75 % of all transport fossil fuels (petrol and diesel) with biofuels by 2010.
Directive Principles in India The Directive Principles of State Policy are guidelines to the central and state governments of India, to be kept in mind while framing laws and policies. These provisions, contained in Part IV of the Constitution of India, are not enforceable by any court, but the principles laid down therein are considered fundamental in the governance of the country, making it the duty of the State to apply these principles in making laws to establish a just society in the country.
Directives for Military Officers and Ministry Officials upon an Attack of Norway The Directives for Military Officers and Ministry Officials upon an Attack of Norway (Direktiver for militære befalingsmenn og militære sjefer ved angrep på Norge) is commonly referred to as “the poster on the wall” (plakaten på veggen) since it was posted in every military office wall until after the cold war ended. The poster on the wall is a directive which sets out the duties for all Norwegian commanding officers and Ministry Officials during any attack on Norway.
Directivity In electromagnetics, directivity is a property of the radiation pattern produced by an antenna. It is defined as the ratio of the power radiated in a given direction to the average of the power radiated in all directions; the gain pattern is the product of the efficiency of the antenna and the directivity.
DirectInput DirectInput is a library of objects for collecting input from the user, via input devices such the mouse, keyboard, joystick or game controllers. It also provides a system for action mapping, which allows you to assign specific actions within a game to the buttons and axis on your input devices.
Directlink Directlink is a high voltage direct current transmission line between Mullumbimby and Bungalora in Australia, used to trade power between New South Wales and Queensland. Directlink, built in 2000, is a 59-km bipolar HVDC cable route, implemented for environmental protection reasons as underground cables.
Directly amplifying receiver The Directly amplifying radio receiver is one example of the many different possible designs for a radio receiver. It contains a radio resonance filter, followed by a two-stage radio frequency (RF) amplifier, a diode detector, and a sound (audio) frequency amplifier.
Directly observed treatment Directly Observed Treatment (DOT) or Directly Observed Therapy is watching the patient take his/her medication to ensure medications are taken in the right combination and for the correct duration. It is used for diseases such as tuberculosis or HIV to assure compliance and avoid drug resistance.
DirectLink The DirectLink (also known as Link Cable) is device that allows two Sega Saturns to connect to each other so can players can play multiplayer games with more than two persons. To use the device, however, a player would need two televisions and two of the same games.
Directmedia Publishing Directmedia Publishing is a German publishing house created in January 1995 by Ralf Szymanski and Erwin Jurschitza as a publisher of digital media. The emphasis of the publishing house's content lies within the field of digital libraries, particularly scientific collections of texts, and encyclopaedias.
DirectMusic DirectMusic is a high-level set of objects, built on top of DirectSound, that allow you to play sound and music without needing to get quite as low-level as DirectSound. There is strong support for dynamic soundtracks - having music which changes in response to events in the game.
Directo a MĂ©xico Directo a MĂ©xico is a program launched in 2005 and operated by the Federal Reserve and Banco de Mexico, the central banks of the United States and Mexico, respectively. The program allows commercial banks in the U.
Director (education) A director is the chief executive officer of a university or other educational institution. Equivalent names in different countries are Vice-Chancellor] (many Commonwealth countries), Chancellor (United States), principal (Scotland and Canada), and University President.
Director for Security Liaison An office created in the Private Secretary's Office of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom in 2004. The first office-holder was Brigadier Jeffrey Cook, OBE MC, a former Special Air Service (SAS) officer.
Director of audiography The Director of Audiography (DOA) or Sound Director (SD) or Audio Director (AuD) is the designer and manager responsible for the audio experience in a filmmaking. The responsibilities range from the sound concept, design, planning and initial budgeting in pre-production through to recording and scheduling in production and coordinating the final mix in post-production and overall quality control of the audio process in filmmaking.
Director of Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation The Director of Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation (Director of Agriculture and Fisheries before 2000) is the head of the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (Agriculture and Fisheries Department before 2000) of the Hong Kong Government.
Director of Audit The role of the Director of Audit is to ensure the financial order of the Hong Kong Government and heads the Audit Commission. This role is similar to that of auditor generals or auditors in other jurisdictions.
Director of Corporate Enforcement The Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement in Ireland was set up by the Irish Government on November 28 2001 as a consequence of the proceedings and the conclusions of various review groups, courts, tribunals of inquiry and parliamentary committees in recent years. These have revealed evidence that provisions in Irish company law and other legislation have been regularly breached and that some entities and individuals have not been called to account.
Director of National Service The Director of National Service was a post that existed briefly in the British government. Although a political appointment, the initial holder was Neville Chamberlain who was not a Member of Parliament at the time.
Director of Passenger Rail Franchising The Director of Passenger Rail Franchising is a statutory office created in 1993 by the Railways Act 1993 and usually called the Franchising Director. It lasted from 5 November 1993 until 31 January 2001 when it was superseded by the Strategic Rail Authority.
Director of Policy Planning The Director of Policy Planning is the United States Department of State official in charge of the Department's internal think tank, the Policy Planning Staff. The position of Director of Policy Planning is one of the most prestigious in the State Department, and has traditionally been held by some of the most intellectual members of the U.
Director of Public Prosecutions (Fiji) The Director of Public Prosecutions was created under the Fiji Independence Act of 1970 and came into being that year. In 1990 and subsequently in 1997, the powers of the Office of the DPP were provided for in the Fiji Constitution, an entrenched document and the supreme law of the nation.
Director of Stores Director of Stores is a position in the Sears Holdings Corporation Full Line Store format. The Director of Stores oversees a number of Full Line Stores and is responsible for the financial performance of his or her district.
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (D/CIA) serves as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, which is part of the United States Intelligence Community. He reports to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI).
Director of the National Security Agency The Director of the National Security Agency, also known as DIRNSA, is the highest-ranking official within the National Security Agency and the Central Security Service. According to Section 201 of Title 10, the Director of the NSA/CSS is recommended by the U.
Director of the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance The Director of the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance was the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority after the fall of Saddam Hussein and before the creation of the interim Iraqi government in 2004.
Director of the United States House of Representatives Office of Interparliamentary Affairs The Director of Office of Interparliamentary Affairs is the head of the United States House of Representatives Office of Interparliamentary Affairs. The Director is appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and serves for as long as they are sanctioned by the Speaker.
Director telephone system The Director System was introduced to six cities in the UK from 1922 following the introduction of the automatic telephone exchange in the UK in 1912. It involved a device (the director) which received dialled digits and automatically translated them to route calls between exchanges in the city; in modern parlance a director incorporated a register-translator and a digit store.
Director's cut A director's cut is a specially edited version of a film - and less often TV series or video games - that is supposed to represent the director's own approved edit. 'Cut' explicitly refers to the process of film editing: the director's cut is preceded by the rough editor's cut and followed by the final cut meant for the public film release.
Director's Commentary Director's Commentary was a comedy show produced by Granada Television for ITV, shown on ITV 1 in 2004. It starred Rob Brydon as Peter de Lane, a fictional director who provided the audio commentary for the DVD releases of shows he had supposedly directed.
Director-general The term director-general is used worldwide to signify the highest executive officer within a governmental, statutory, NGO, third sector or not-for-profit institution. Commonly used in international organisations and government departments, though often called an Executive Director or Managing Director in the U.
Director-General of Investment Promotion The Director-General of Investment Promotion (formerly Director of the Business and Services Promotion Unit) is responsible for promoting investment in Hong Kong, and heads the InvestHK (formerly the Business and Services Promotion Unit) which reports to the Secretary for Commerce, Industry and Technology.
Director-General of MI5 The Director-General of MI5 is the head of the Security Service (MI5), the United Kingdom's internal counter terrorism and counter espionage service. The Director-General is assisted by a Deputy Director-General and an Assistant Director-General, and reports to the Home Secretary, although the Security Service is not formally part of the Home Office.
Director-General of New Netherland This is a list of Directors, appointed by the Dutch West India Company, of the 17th century Dutch province of New Netherland (Nieuw Nederland in Dutch) in North America. The largest settlement in New Netherland was New Amsterdam, which became the city of New York when the New Netherlanders ceded control provisionally to the English and renamed the Dutch province and city of New Amsterdam in June 1665.
Director-General of the World Trade Organization The Director-General of the World Trade Organization is responsible for supervising the administrative functions of the WTO. Because World Trade Organizations' decisions are made by member states (through either a Ministerial Conference or through the General Council), the Director-General has little power over matters of policy - the role is primarily advisory and managerial.
Directorate General of Forces Intelligence The Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) is Bangladesh's main intelligence agency. Along with the National Security Intelligence (NSI) these two agencies are the main components of the country's intelligence community.
Directorate of Civil Resistance Directorate of Civil Resistance (Polish Kierownictwo Walki Cywilnej, short KWC) was one of the branches of the Polish Government Delegate’s Office during World War II. Its main tasks were to maintain the morale of the Polish society, encourage passive resistance, report German atrocities and cruelties to the Polish Government in Exile, and to organize sabotage.
Directorate of Covert Resistance Directorate of Covert Resistance (Polish Kierownictwo Walki Konspiracyjnej, short KWK) was one of the departments of the Armia Krajowa Headquarters created in Poland in 1942 during World War II. Its main task was commanding the so-called current fight.
Directorate of Film Festivals The Directorate of Film Festivals in India is a government organisation set up to organise National and International film festivals in India. The Directorate facilitates the participation of India in festivals abroad, and arranges for foreign film programmes to be held in the country.
Directorate of Miscellaneous Weapons Development The Directorate of Miscellaneous Weapons Development (DMWD), known colloquially as the Wheezers and Dodgers, was a department of the Admiralty responsible for the development of various unconventional weapons during World War II. The nickname was derived from their original title, the Inspectorate of Anti-Aircraft Weapons and Devices, IAAWD, which was corrupted to Instigator of Anti-Aircraft Wheezes and Dodges.
Directorate of revenue intelligence DIRECTORATE OF REVENUE INTELLIGENCE or DRI is one of the premier Indian intelligence agencies and was set up in 1953 as the Central Revenue Intelligence Bureau. The organisation was charged with the responsibility of developing intelligence on matters connected with anti-smuggling and anti-corruption in the Customs and Central Excise formations all over the country.
Directorate of Underground Resistance Directorate of Underground Resistance (Polish Kierownictwo Walki Podziemnej, short KWP) was one of the agendas of the Polish Secret State created during the World War II. It was created in 1943 from the Directorate of Civil Resistance and Directorate of Covert Resistance.
Directorate-General In the European Union, the staff of the main institutions (Commission, Council and Parliament) are organized into a number of distinct departments, known as Directorates-General (DGs), each of which is responsible for specific tasks or policy areas The administrative head of a DG is known as the Director-General].
Directorate-General for Competition (European Commission) The Directorate-General for Competition (COMP) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission, located in Brussels, Belgium. The DG Competition is responsible for establishing and implementing a coherent competition policy for the European Union.
Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities (European Commission) The Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities is a Directorate-General of the European Commission. The Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities has the task of contributing to the development of a modern, innovative and sustainable European Social Model with more and better jobs in an inclusive society based on equal opportunities.
Directorate-General for External Relations (European Commission) The Directorate-General for the External Relations (DG RELEX) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission, responsible for the external policy. Although the DG is an institution in its own right, it is common that other DGs concerned with external policy are grouped with DG RELEX.
Directorate-General for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs (European Commission) The Directorate-General for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs or DG FISH is a Directorate-General of the European Commission, responsible for the policy area of fisheries, the Law of the Sea and Maritime Affairs of the European Union.
Directorate-General for Health and Consumer Protection (European Commission) The Directorate-General for Health and Consumer Protection is a Directorate-General of the European Commission. The Health & Consumer Protection DG is responsible for the implementation of EU laws on the safety of food and other products, on consumers' rights and on the protection of people's health.
Directorate-General for Internal Market and Services (European Commission) The Directorate-General for Internal Market and Services (DG MARKT) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission. The main role of the DG Internal Market and Services is to coordinate the European Commission’s policy on the European Single Market, which aims to ensure the free movement of people, goods, services and capital within the European Union.
Directorate-General for Justice, Freedom and Security (European Commission) The Directorate-General for Justice, Freedom and Security is a Directorate-General of the European Commission. The role of the DG Justice, Freedom and Security is to ensure that the whole European Union is an area of freedom, security and justice.
Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union (European Commission) The Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union is a Directorate-General of the European Commission. The DG Taxation and Customs manages, defends and develops the customs union as a vital part of protecting the external borders of the European Union.
Directorate-General for Translation (European Commission) The Directorate-General for Translation (DGT), located in Brussels and Luxembourg, provides translation of written text into and out of the European Union's twenty official languages. With an annual output of about 1.
Directorate-General for Transport and Energy (European Commission) The Directorate-General for Energy and Transport (DG TREN) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission. The DG TREN is in operation since 1 January 2000, it was created by merging the Directorate-General for Transport and the Directorate-General for Energy.
Directorate-General Joint Research Centre (European Commission) The Directorate-General Joint Research Centre (DG JRC), located in Brussels, Belgium, is a Directorate-General of the European Commission. Its current Commissioner is Janez PotoÄŤnik, and the Director General is Roland Schenkel.
Directorium Inquisitorum The Directorium Inquisitorum is Nicholas Eymerich's most prominent and enduring work, which he had composed as early as 1376. Eymerich had written an earlier treatise on sorcery, perhaps as early as 1359, which he extensively reworked into the Directorium Inqusitorum The Directorium Inquisitorum defined witchcraft, and described means for discovering witches.
Directors Guild of America Directors Guild of America (DGA) is the labor union which represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry. Founded as the "Screen Directors Guild" in 1936, the group became the DGA in 1960.
Directors Label The Directors Label is a series of DVDs devoted to notable music video directors. First released in 2003 by Palm Pictures, the series was created by Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham, and Michel Gondry, the subjects of the first three volumes.
Directors register In corporate law, the directors register is a list of the directors elected by the shareholders, generally stored in the company's minute book. By law, companies are required to keep this list up to date to remove those directors who are deceased or resign, and to add those who have been elected by the shareholders.
Directory (databases) The word directory is used in computing and telephony meaning a repository or database of information. A directory, as opposed to a conventional database, is heavily optimized for reading, with the assumption that data updates are very rare compared to data reads.
Directory (OpenVMS command) In computer software, specifically the command line interface of the OpenVMS operating system, the DIRECTORY command (often abbreviated as DIR) is used to list the files inside a directory. It is analogous to the DOS dir and Unix ls commands.
Directory (political) In political history, the term directory, in French directoire, applies to high collegial institutions of state composed of members styled director (French directeur, etc.) The most important of these by far was the French Directory.
Directory assistance Directory assistance (in the UK, directory enquiries) in telecommunications is a telephone call one can make to find out a specific phone number of a residence or business. Some systems also give the caller an address as well.
Directory for Family Worship The Directory for Family Worship is a book of general directions for private, family worship in the Calvinist tradition. While generally approving of the products of the Westminster Assembly (namely, the Westminster Standards), the Church of Scotland viewed it as incomplete without directions for private worship.
Directory hive A directory hive is a directory which is treated as a file by an application, it typically contains several files which are read by the application. A good example of this is the NIB file written by the Interface Builder application included with Mac OS X.
Directory Harvest Attack A Directory Harvest Attack or DHA is a technique used by spammers in an attempt to find e-mail addresses. It is usually carried out by generating a flood of messages to multiple addresses at a mail server that is known to be valid.
Directory of International Associations of the Faithful Published by the Pontifical Council for the Laity, this is a directory of the recognized lay ecclesial movements in the Catholic Church. The actual directory includes the official name, acronym, date of establishment, history, identity, organization, membership, works, publications, and website of the communities and movements.
Directory of Open Access Journals The Directory of Open Access Journals or DOAJ, lists open access journals, scientific and scholarly journals that meet high quality standards and are free to all from the time of publication. Because open access is a worldwide phenomenon, DOAJ includes publications from around the world in many languages.
Directory of Public Worship The Directory for Public Worship (known in Scotland as the Westminster Directory having been approved by the Scottish Parliament in 1645) was a manual of directions for worship approved by an ordinance of Parliament early in 1645 to replace the Book of Common Prayer (and which was denounced by a counter-proclamation from Charles I).
Directory service A directory service is a software application — or a set of applications — that stores and organizes information about a computer network's users and network resources, and that allows network administrators to manage users' access to the resources. Additionally, directory services act as an abstraction layer between users and shared resources.
Directory Services Restore Mode Directory Services Restore Mode (DSRM) is used on a Microsoft Windows Domain Controller to take the Active Directory on that machine offline. DSRM mode can be accessed by pressing the F8 key during the startup sequence of a Windows 2000 or Windows Server 2003 system running Active Directory.
Directory traversal A directory traversal is to exploit insufficient security validation / sanitization of user-supplied input file names, so that characters representing "traverse to parent directory" is passed through to the file APIs.
Directory-based coherence protocols Directory-based coherence protocols are a set of cache coherence protocols, that is, protocols which ensure cache coherence or memory coherence between multiple nodes of multiprocessor or distributed shared memory systems, such as ccNUMA.
DirectPlay DirectPlay is part of Microsoft's DirectX API. DirectPlay is a network communication library intended for computer game development, although its general nature certainly allows it to be used for other purposes.
DirectShow DirectShow (sometimes abbreviated as DS or DShow), codename Quartz, is a multimedia framework and API produced by Microsoft for software developers to perform various operations with media files. It is a replacement for Microsoft's earlier Video for Windows technology.
DirectSkin DirectSkin is a software component that is used by software developers to add skinning capability to their applications, which may or may not be exposed to end-users. It is made by Stardock, and is derived from the WindowBlinds component of their software subscription package, Object Desktop.
DirectSound DirectSound is software a component of the DirectX library, supplied by Microsoft that resides on a computer with the Windows operating system. It provides the interface between applications and the sound card, enabling applications to produce sounds and music.
DirectX DirectX is a collection of APIs for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming, on Microsoft platforms. It is competing with OpenGL and with SDL and is widely used in the development of computer games for Microsoft Windows, Sega Dreamcast, Microsoft Xbox and Microsoft Xbox 360.
DirectX Media DirectX Media was an external API set that was used for media streaming applications. DirectX Media included the components required by Microsoft Windows music and audio applications that use DirectAnimation, DirectShow and DirectX Transform.
DirecTiVo "DirecTiVo" is an informal term for the implemented combination of DIRECTV satellite television programming service and the TiVo digital video recorder service. The full name, more properly using all the trademarked terms and phrases which belong to the two companies, is "DIRECTV® DVR with TiVo®".
Dired Dired is the name of an advanced directory editor for the Emacs text editor, which runs on any platform Emacs will. Its commands are generally more modal than most Emacs commands since Dired is a specialized major mode in and of itself.
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