Proton Exora Body Control Module
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SEPANG: Pengarah sukan Vodafone McLaren Mercedes dan veteran Dave Ryan telah digantung oleh pasukan yang berpangkalan di Britain itu berikutan perlucutan kelayakan pemandunya Lewis Hamilton oleh badan pengawal motorsport dunia, Persekutuan Automobil Antarabangsa (FIA) kerana menipu steward berhubung satu insiden di Grand Prix Australia baru-baru ini.
Ini diumumkan secara rasmi oleh ketua pasukan McLaren, Martin Whitmarsh pada sidang akhbar di akhir sesi latihan Grand Prix Petronas Malaysia ke 11 di Sirkit Antarabangsa Sepang hari ini.
"Ryan tidak bercakap benar sepenuhnya dalam jawapan kepada steward ketika itu, jadi kita tidak ada pilihan selain menggantungnya," kata beliau.
Dear Straight Dope:
Why does my computer keyboard have this "Scroll Lock" key that seems to serve no purpose whatsoever? In 15 years I don't remember ever pushing that button. I'm almost scared to touch it
— Insanegrey, Lawrence, KS
Although your mother told you that there are many things to avoid touching (like downed electric lines, scorpions, and the "naughty place"), don't be afraid to touch the Scroll Lock key. Nothing bad will happen - in fact, probably nothing at all will happen. Once upon a time, however, something did.
The Scroll Lock key has appeared on the keyboards of IBM personal computers since the original 83-key PC/XT and the 84-key AT layouts, and remains on the 101-key and greater "enhanced" keyboards currently in use. The Scroll Lock key wasn't on the original Macintosh keyboards but appears on the Mac's "enhanced" keyboard.
The main intent of the Scroll Lock key was to allow scrolling of screen text up, down and presumably sideways using the arrow keys in the days before large displays and graphical scroll bars. You can see where this might have been handy in the DOS era, when screen output typically was limited to 80 characters wide by 25 rows deep. For some types of programs, spreadsheets being the obvious example, it's still handy now. In Microsoft Excel, Scroll Lock allows you to scroll a spreadsheet with the arrow keys without moving the active cell pointer from the currently highlighted cell. In Quattro Pro, another spreadsheet program, Scroll Lock works in a similar manner, although in contrast to Excel it's not possible to scroll the active cell pointer completely off the screen.
Other programs use Scroll Lock for special functions. It's said (although I haven't personally verified this) that the Linux operating system as well as some early mainframe and minicomputer terminals employed Scroll Lock to stop text from scrolling on your screen in command-line sessions - pausing the scrolling, in effect. The ancient DOS adventure game "Rogue" (one of my all-time favorites) used Scroll Lock to scroll your character's movement through the ASCII dungeons on the display. I'm told some computers in the late 1980s used the Scroll Lock key to halt the scrolling of the boot-up messages that appeared when you started the computer. This last use may be apocryphal, as I could find no examples of computers that displayed this behavior. The point is, Scroll Lock sometimes does something besides make that little light light up.
Majlis mengangkat sumpah taat setia dan menyimpan rahsia Perdana Menteri Malaysia ke VI akan dilakukan di Balai Rong Seri, Istana Negara, Kuala Lumpur pada 1100pagi, Jumaat 3 April 2009.
DYMM Seri Paduka Baginda Yang DiPertuan Agong ke XIII Tuanku Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Ibni Almarhum Sultan Mahmood akan berkenan untuk mencemar duli dan menerima sumpah taat setia dan menyimpan rahsia Perdana Menteri Malaysia Mke VI Dato’ Seri Mohd. Najib Tun Razak
Proton’s first 7-seater MPV the Proton Exora will be launched on the 15th of April 2009, if everything goes well. That is very close, less than a month from now!
Proton has pulled many unexpected but welcome and pleasant moves with the launch of this MPV. The first is of course letting a few journalists try the MPV out. Another is actually letting customers who have taken the leap of faith and placed a RM1,000 deposit for the MPV without even seeing it yet, actually see it!
