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A prototype is an early sample or model built to test a concept or process or to act as a thing to be replicated or learned from. It is a term used in a variety of contexts, including semantics, design, electronics, and software programming. A prototype is designed to test and trial a new design to enhance precision by system analysts and users. Prototyping serves to provide specifications for a real, working system rather than a theoretical one.
The word prototype derives from the Greek πρωτότυπον (prototypon), "primitive form", neutral of πρωτότυπος (prototypos), "original, primitive", from πρῶτος (protos), "first" and τύπος (typos), "impression".
In semantics, prototypes or proto instances combine the most representative attributes of a category. Prototypes are typical instances of a category that serve as benchmarks against which the surrounding, less representative.
In many fields, there is great uncertainty as to whether a new design will actually do what is desired. New designs often have unexpected problems. A prototype is often used as part of the product design process to allow engineers and designers the ability to explore design alternatives, test theories and confirm performance prior to starting production of a new product. Engineers use their experience to tailor the prototype according to the specific unknowns still present in the intended design. For example, some prototypes are used to confirm and verify consumer interest in a proposed design whereas other prototypes will attempt to verify the performance or suitability of a specific design approach.
Prototype is an action-adventure open world video game developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Activision. The game was released in North America on June 9, 2009, and in southwestern parts of North America as well as Oceania on June 10, and was released in Europe on June 12.
The game is set in New York City, where a virulent plague known as Blacklight is spreading through Manhattan. Those infected are mutated into hideous monsters of varying form, with an uncontrollable urge to kill all uninfected life-forms. At the center of it is the protagonist, Alex Mercer, an incredibly powerful shapeshifter with no memory of his past. Parallel to the game's storyline is the ability to play the game as a sandbox-style video game giving the player freedom to roam Manhattan.
Many reviewers compared and contrasted it with Infamous, another action-adventure open world game released one month prior to Prototype, by Sucker Punch Productions which features a superpowered protagonist with developing powers in an urban world. However, the gameplay of Prototype is very similar to The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, also by Radical Entertainment.
Actors: Leon Russom (actor), Greg McDonald (actor), America Young (actress), Jack Kehler (actor), C. Thomas Howell (actor), Octavia Spencer (actress), Dale Dickey (actress), Randy Tobin (actor), Jane Kaczmarek (actress), Jeremy Ratchford (actor), David Ross Paterson (actor), Alyshia Ochse (actress), Darrell Mapson (actor), Michael Patrick McGill (actor), Michelle Lang (actress),
Plot: Our story takes place in the fertile, San Joaquin Valley. Fueled by gin and sheer determination, Elizabeth James (Ms. Liz) operates her third generation dairy farm outside the region's domineering co-ops. To help keep the place afloat, she's employed five renegade ranch hands. These boys have put a pin in responsibility and opted to stretch out the party as long as possible. Unfortunately, women, booze, and fisticuffs can only lead to one outcome: trouble. With the dairy farm reporting its third straight deficit year, Ms Liz is attracting some unwanted attention. Delbert Furgeson, the owner of the area's largest co-op, is pushing to buy her out. This only incenses the prideful Ms Liz and starts a volatile feud between the two. Sharing the narrative are the ranch hands. Randel and Rooker Lee are brothers caught in the crossfire of their parents' separation. Leslie Williams and Jackie Remmington are aspiring musicians, trying not to get caught up in their own success. Wade Kitchanski is at ends with his father, striving to find his own path outside the family paint business. As the boys struggle to find direction, Ms Liz and Delbert Furgeson launch into a full-blown war. When the dust settles, we realize it's not simply a story about winners and losers or finding your way. It's about purpose: to find what you believe in, through change, through loss, even if it's the small things. Then hold on to it and fight for it, because in the end that's all you have.
Genres: Drama,Actors: Emilio Kauderer (composer), Phillip J. Roth (writer), Phillip J. Roth (writer), Phillip J. Roth (director), Harold Cannon (actor), Phillip J. Roth (producer), Kato Kaelin (actor), Marcus Aurelius (actor), Raymond Storti (actor), Kristen Wilson (actress), Woon Young Park (actor), Gian-Carlo Scandiuzzi (producer), Allen Perada (actor), Gian-Carlo Scandiuzzi (actor), Talaat Captan (producer),
Plot: In a post-apocolyptic Los Angeles, a wheelchair bound veteren volunteers for an experimental cybergenic program that wil allow him to walk again only to find that it turns him into a lethal killing machine pre-programmed to kill the last remaining member of the resestance - the woman he loves.
Keywords: balisong, compound-bow, independent-film, post-apocalypse, robot, wheelchairActors: Emilio Kauderer (composer), Phillip J. Roth (writer), Phillip J. Roth (writer), Phillip J. Roth (director), Harold Cannon (actor), Phillip J. Roth (producer), Kato Kaelin (actor), Marcus Aurelius (actor), Raymond Storti (actor), Kristen Wilson (actress), Woon Young Park (actor), Gian-Carlo Scandiuzzi (producer), Allen Perada (actor), Gian-Carlo Scandiuzzi (actor), Talaat Captan (producer),
Plot: In a post-apocolyptic Los Angeles, a wheelchair bound veteren volunteers for an experimental cybergenic program that wil allow him to walk again only to find that it turns him into a lethal killing machine pre-programmed to kill the last remaining member of the resestance - the woman he loves.
Keywords: balisong, compound-bow, independent-film, post-apocalypse, robot, wheelchair