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Mark David Nicholas

Michael Thomas Wheatley

Alan Roeder Elderon

William Augustus Carter

Timothy David Magee

Henry Y Saade

Grant Sutherland

Timothy Edward Weinmann

Jeffrey Ramesh Urs

William Nicholas John Tindall

William Nicholas Tindall

Jose Pinela

A photography workstation comprises a base and a working platform defining an inner region and an outer region having a plurality of accessory mounting stations constructed to removably secure a variety of image capturing accessories, the workstation further including an object positioner to removably secure an object to be photographically captured wherein at least one image capturing accessory may be removably secured to a mounting station and used to cooperate with an image capturing device to capture one or more images or videos of the object when the object is removably secured to the object positioner.

Photography workstation

A method, apparatus, and article for solving the year 2000 problem involves limited modifications in the data definition portions of the source code and compiler support for processing the modified source code. Fields in the source code that contain a year or date values are identified and, for each such field, the user selects an appropriate technique (for example, expansion, compression or windowing). The user modifies the data definition for each identified field, by adding new attributes to request the selected technique. The user then compiles the program and resolves any ambiguous references to the variables whose definitions were modified. This procedure is applied, module by module, and each processed module is merged into production, after testing, by using a compiler option to disable the use of the new attributes. A compiler option provides for the generation of debugger hooks for each statement that has been affected by modified declarations, which may be used with a suitably equipped debugger or other run-time analysis tool.

Compiler-assisted or interpreter-assisted windowing solution to the year 2000 problem for computer programs

Compiler-assisted or interpreter-assisted solution to the year 2000 problem with debugging option for computer programs

Compiler-assisted or interpreter-assisted compression solution to the year 2000 problem for computer programs

Compiler-assisted or interpreter-assisted solution to the year 2000 problem with flagging option for computer programs

Compiler-assisted or interpreter-assisted expansion solution to the year

Compiler-assisted solution to the year 2000 problem for computer programs

A method, apparatus, and article for solving the year 2000 problem involves limited modifications in the data definition portions of the source code and compiler or interpreter support for processing the modified source code. Fields in the source code that contain a year or date values are identified and, for each such field, the user selects an appropriate technique (for example, expansion, compression or windowing). The user modifies the data definition for each identified field, by adding new attributes to request the selected technique. The user then compiles or interprets the program and resolves any ambiguous references to the variables whose definitions were modified. This procedure is applied, module by module, and each processed module is merged into production, after testing, by using a compiler option to disable the use of the new attributes. A compiler or interpreter option provides for the generation of debugger hooks for each statement that has been affected by modified declarations, which may be used with a suitably equipped debugger or other run-time analysis tool.

Compiler-assisted or interpreter-assisted solution to the year 2000

Compiler-assisted or interpreter-assisted windowing solution to the year

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