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Driver
Driver may refer to: Transportion * A person whose occupation is driving ** Chauffeur, a person who drives an automobile as a job ** Motorman (locomotive), an electric vehicle driver ** Bus driver ** Truck driver * SS ''Empire Driver'' or SS ''Driver'', a cargo ship * Driver (sail), a type of sail * Driver Group, an Australian bus company People * Driver (surname) Places * Driver, Arkansas, United States *Driver, Northern Territory, Australia *Drivers, Illinois, United States *Driver, Virginia, United States Sport * Wood (golf), a golf club * Driver, a type of disc golf disc * Driver, a position in water polo * Driver, a kind of throw in professional wrestling Computing and electronics * Device driver, software used to interact with hardware devices *Driver (software), a general term for a programming interface to control and manage lower level interface(s) * Database driver, application programming interface software used to interact with databases in accordance with Ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Driver 76
''Driver '76'' is a video game for the PlayStation Portable, which was released on 8 May 2007 in the US, and on 11 May 2007 in the EU. The game is a prequel to '' Driver: Parallel Lines'', and is set two years prior. It is the first and only game in the '' Driver series'' for the PSP. It was developed by Ubisoft Reflections and Sumo Digital, and published by Ubisoft. Plot In New York City 1976, the story starts with Ray, a wheelman. He falls in love with Chen Chi, but she's already got someone, Jimmy. After gaining respect from her father, Ray is betrayed and has to earn money in the meantime. He eventually meets back with Zhou, Chen Chi's father, he tells him of how Jimmy is a traitor and for the remainder of the game you must take down Jimmy's empire. After Jimmy is presumably killed in an explosion, Zhou gives Ray his blessing to go out with Chen Chi, but finds out that she has been kidnapped by a scarred Jimmy, however Ray manages to save Chen Chi and shoot down Jimmy's helico ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Driving
Driving is the controlled operation and movement of a vehicle, including cars, motorcycles, trucks, buses, and bicycles. Permission to drive on public highways is granted based on a set of conditions being met and drivers are required to follow the established road and traffic laws in the location they are driving. The word driving, has etymology dating back to the 15th century and has developed as what driving has encompassed has changed from working animals in the 15th to automobiles in the 1800s. Driving skills have also developed since the 15th century with physical, mental and safety skills being required to drive. This evolution of the skills required to drive have been accompanied by the introduction of driving laws which relate to not only the driver but the driveability of a car. Etymology The origin of the term ''driver'', as recorded from the 15th century, refers to the occupation of driving working animals, especially pack horses or draft horses. The verb ' '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Device Driver
In computing, a device driver is a computer program that operates or controls a particular type of device that is attached to a computer or automaton. A driver provides a software interface to hardware devices, enabling operating systems and other computer programs to access hardware functions without needing to know precise details about the hardware being used. A driver communicates with the device through the computer bus or communications subsystem to which the hardware connects. When a calling program invokes a routine in the driver, the driver issues commands to the device (drives it). Once the device sends data back to the driver, the driver may invoke routines in the original calling program. Drivers are hardware dependent and operating-system-specific. They usually provide the interrupt handling required for any necessary asynchronous time-dependent hardware interface. Purpose The main purpose of device drivers is to provide abstraction by acting as a translator be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parallel Lines
''Parallel Lines'' is the third studio album by American rock band Blondie, released on September 23, 1978, by Chrysalis Records to international commercial success. The album reached No. 1 in the United Kingdom in February 1979 and proved to be the band's commercial breakthrough in the United States, where it reached No. 6 in April 1979. In ''Billboard'' magazine, ''Parallel Lines'' was listed at No. 9 in the top pop albums year-end chart of 1979. The album spawned several successful singles, notably the international hit " Heart of Glass". Background Blondie's second studio album ''Plastic Letters'' was their last album produced by Richard Gottehrer, whose sound had formed the basis of Blondie's new wave and punk output. During a tour of the west coast of the US in support of ''Plastic Letters'', Blondie encountered Australian producer Mike Chapman in California. Peter Leeds, Blondie's manager, conspired with Chrysalis Records to encourage Chapman to work with Blondie on n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Driver 3
''Driver 3'' (stylized as ''DRIV3R'') is a 2004 action-adventure game, the third installment in the ''Driver'' series. It was developed by Reflections Interactive, published by Atari, and released on PlayStation 2, Xbox and mobile phones in June 2004, Microsoft Windows in March 2005, and Game Boy Advance in October 2005. The game's story focuses on players assuming the role of John Tanner, an undercover FBI agent, as he investigates a car-smuggling ring across three countries, in order to identify and arrest its boss and learn who they are planning to sell a cache of stolen cars to. The game expanded upon its predecessors with on-foot sections, gun combat, and drive-by shooting, with virtual recreations of three major cities - Miami, Nice, and Istanbul - free-roam game mode, and an improvement to the series' film-making "director mode". The game received mixed reviews upon release, except for the PC edition which received negative feedback from critics. Further ports for GameCub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Driver 2
''Driver 2: Back on the Streets'' (named ''Driver 2: The Wheelman Is Back'' in North America) is a 2000 action driving video game and the second installment of the ''Driver (series), Driver'' series. It was developed by Reflections Interactive and published by Infogrames for PlayStation (console), PlayStation. A port to the Game Boy Advance, titled ''Driver 2 Advance'', was released in 2002, developed by Sennari Interactive and released under Infogrames' ''Atari'' range of products. Gameplay ''Driver 2'' expands on ''Driver (video game), Driver''s structure, as well as adding the ability of the character John Tanner to step out of his car to explore on foot and commandeer other vehicles in the game's environments. The story missions are played separately from the 'Take a Ride' mode where the player can explore the cities in their own time. Missions in the game are generally vehicle-oriented, and involve trailing witnesses, ramming cars and escaping from gangsters or cops. A c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Driver (video Game)
''Driver'' (known as ''Driver: You Are the Wheelman'' in North America) is an action driving video game and the first installment in the ''Driver'' series. Developed by Reflections Interactive and published by GT Interactive, it was released on the PlayStation on 25 June 1999. The game, inspired by movie car chases, sees players driving around four real-life cities – Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York – using a variety of vehicles, with the plot focusing on the work of an undercover police officer, John Tanner, who infiltrates a criminal outfit to investigate their operations, only to discover a plot by their boss to assassinate the President of the United States. The game proved a commercial hit upon release, and received favorable reviews from critics. Additional versions were created and released at later dates – two ports for Microsoft Windows and Mac were released on 11 October 1999 and in December 2000 respectively; and handheld remakes for the Game Boy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Driver (series)
''Driver'' is a video game series developed by Reflections Interactive (now Ubisoft Reflections), and originally published by GT Interactive, later by Atari and now by Ubisoft. The gameplay consists of a mixture of action-adventure and driving in open world environments. Since the series began in 1999, there have been five main installments released. As of August 2011, the series has sold more than 16 million units worldwide. Games ''Driver'' The first game of the ''Driver'' series was released for the PlayStation on 25 June 1999 in Europe and 30 June in the U.S. It was later released in 2000 for Game Boy Color in April, Windows in September, Mac in December, and iOS in December 2009. In the game, the player controls a former racecar driver turned undercover police detective named John Tanner. It featured a storyline inspired by 1960's/70's car chase movies such as ''Bullitt'' (1968) and ''The Driver'' (1978) and based in four real-life cities; Miami, San Francisco, Los An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Driver (rank)
{{unreferenced, date=October 2012 Driver (Dvr) was a military rank used in the British Army and the armies of other Commonwealth countries. It was equivalent to the rank of private. The rank was initially used in the Royal Artillery for the men who drove the teams of horses which pulled the guns. It was phased out after the First World War (when all Royal Artillerymen of the lowest rank were redesignated as gunners). It was also used in the Royal Australian Artillery and Royal Canadian Artillery. It was also used by all the private-equivalents of the Royal Army Service Corps and later the Royal Corps of Transport, no matter what their trade. When the RCT amalgamated to form the Royal Logistic Corps in 1993 the rank finally disappeared from the British Army. See also *Corps of Royal Artillery Drivers The Corps of Royal Artillery Drivers was a British Army corps founded (as the 'Corps of Captain Commissaries and Drivers') in 1793 and disbanded in 1822. It was established to p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Driver
Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Driver'': * was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1797, one of three ordered from builders in Bermuda (the others being and . Between 1822 and 1825 ''Driver'' served in the West Africa Squadron and succeeded in capturing a Spanish slave ship. Beginning in 1825 she was used as a convict ship, and was broken up in 1834. * was a wooden paddle sloop launched in 1840. She was wrecked in 1861 near Mariguana Island Mayaguana (from Taíno language ''Mayaguana'', meaning "Lesser Midwestern Land") is the easternmost island and district of The Bahamas. Its population was 277 in the 2010 census. It has an area of about . About north of Great Inagua and southe .... Source * {{DEFAULTSORT:Driver Royal Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speaker Driver
An electrodynamic speaker driver, often called simply a speaker driver when the type is implicit, is an individual transducer that converts an electrical audio signal to sound waves. While the term is sometimes used interchangeably with the term ''speaker'' (''loudspeaker''), it is usually applied to specialized transducers which reproduce only a portion of the audible frequency range. For high fidelity reproduction of sound, multiple loudspeakers are often mounted in the same enclosure, each reproducing a different part of the audible frequency range. In this case the individual speakers are referred to as ''drivers'' and the entire unit is called a ''loudspeaker''. Drivers made for reproducing high audio frequencies are called tweeters, those for middle frequencies are called mid-range drivers, and those for low frequencies are called woofers, while those for very low bass range are subwoofers. Less common types of drivers are supertweeters and rotary woofers. The el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Driver Circuit
In electronics, a driver is a circuit or component used to control another circuit or component, such as a high-power transistor, liquid crystal display (LCD), stepper motors, SRAM memory, and numerous others. They are usually used to regulate current flowing through a circuit or to control other factors such as other components and some other devices in the circuit. The term is often used, for example, for a specialized integrated circuit that controls high-power switches in switched-mode power converters. An amplifier can also be considered a driver for loudspeakers, or a voltage regulator that keeps an attached component operating within a broad range of input voltages. Typically the driver stage(s) of a circuit requires different characteristics to other circuit stages. For example, in a transistor power amplifier circuit, typically the driver circuit requires current gain, often the ability to discharge the following transistor bases rapidly, and low output impedance to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
