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A protocol running over TCP/IP port 123 that is designed to synchronize clocks on servers. You can have NTP servers and NTP clients. Clients receive time data from the NTP server, and can adjust their clocks as necessary. Ideally the server is connected to some type of atomic clock that keeps regular time.
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NTP - Penelope Patsuris, 05.05.04, 8:00 AM ETNEW YORK - While we're busy comparison shopping for flat-screen TVsand upgrading to high definition broadcasts, the consumer electronicsindustry is readying a whole new television proposition to sell us.The new "new thing" is three-dimensional television viewing, sansglasses. And although it sounds more sci-fi than Circuit City (nyse:CC - news - people ), engineers who are working on bringing thistechnology to the masses say it should arrive within the next tenyears. For the most part, the technology already exists, but with theexception of some videogames and scientific and engineering modelingprograms, the content does not. With the technology ready long beforethe content, it's an evolution that's similar to that of HDTV, and itwill require equally daunting upgrades to the infrastructure thatdelivers television signals into homes.Nevertheless, a small New York startup called X3D Technologydemonstrated a 3-D 50- inch plasma screen at the Consumer ElectronicsShow in Las Vegas in January, and it had a roomful of analysts andattendees transfixed. "It was the coolest thing I've ever seen, andI've been in technology for 20 years," says Andrew Shulklapper, ananalyst with DisplaySearch, which is not doing or seeking to dobusiness with X3D. X3D is starting out by shopping its screens toretailers looking for displays that are literally eye-catching, withits sights set on 3-D TV down the line.http://www.forbes.com/2004/05/05/cx_pp_05053dtv_ii.html
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