Modesitt is famous for several series of novels addressing ethics, ecology, and working principles of life in an entertaining and readable manner.

* His autobiography: Time to Speak ( 1990 ) is an excellent, readable and touching account of his life up to 1943 with two brief chapters on his later life, hastily penned after he discovered he had liver cancer which very quickly led to his death.

It is written in an engaging fashion and still readable to this day, containing many fascinating stories and glimpses in to 12th-century life.

The book ( or two, as many editions are split into two volumes ) has received good reviews in international press < ref > Editorial reviews :< be >" Superbly readable, rich in detail .... Davies understands and exquisitely conveys the importance of historical consciousness in Polish life ....

This material has the advantage of a much longer readable life and does not fade with time or heat.

Their accuracy has been called into question, however ( e. g., by Chauncey Brewster Tinker in The Translations of Beowulf, a comprehensive survey of 19th-century translations and editions of Beowulf ), and the extent to which the manuscript was actually more readable in Thorkelin's time is unclear.

* " James Tiptree's surface was often airy and at times hilarious, and her control of genre conventions allowed her to convey the bleakness of her abiding insights in tales that remain seductively readable ; but she was, in the end, incapable of dissimulation.

From him comes the translation of the New Testament, which was smoother, clearer, and more readable than the rendering of the Old Testament by his friend Nicholas of Hereford.

The direct execution of source code on historical computing platforms in an era of tiny disks, minuscule RAM and 300 baud serial connections led to a historical coding style that was terse, dense and expert friendly, even as more current MUMPS coding styles produce more readable code.

The site of his sepulchre was discovered by De Rossi in 1854, with some broken remnants of the Greek epitaph engraved on the narrow oblong slab that closed his tomb and only the Greek term for bishop readable.

In the late 1990s, a push to provide an alternative to the standard serialization protocols started: XML was used to produce a human readable text-based encoding.

While the book was readable enough to sell, its dryness ensured that it was seen as aimed at specialist scientists and could not be dismissed as mere journalism or imaginative fiction.

House's equipment could transmit around 40 instantly readable words per minute, but was difficult to manufacture in bulk.

The first was on the right side with the channel number, call signs and city, then the second was the blue bar and the call letters only By the late 1990s, the call signs were minimized to be just barely readable to meet FCC requirements, and the stations were simply known as " UPN ", then channel number or city ( e. g., WPWR-TV in Chicago had been referred to as " UPN Chicago " and WWOR-TV in New York was referred to as " UPN 9 " until The CW merger was announced in late January 2006 ).

The intent of the TNIV translators was to produce an accurate and readable translation in contemporary English.

Surveying Heinlein's juvenile novels, Jack Williamson noted that while Rocket Ship Galileo remains " readable, with Heinlein's familiar themes already emerging ," it was a " sometimes fumbling experiment.

The critic for Time magazine acknowledged the critical storm around Fleming and Dr. No, but was broadly welcoming of the book, writing that whilst " not all readers will agree that Dr. No ... is magnificent writing, ... pages of it, at least, qualify for Ezra Pound's classic comment on Tropic of Cancer: ' At last, an unprintable book that is readable '.

This " language ", referred to by the production team as " Gellerese ", was invented specifically to be readable by non-speakers of Slavic languages.

Suddenly, in the 1960s, professional typefaces started to appear that were not intended to be supremely readable, just in a style that was fashionable.

Bearing similarities to humanist sans-serif typefaces such as Frutiger, Verdana was designed to be readable at small sizes on a computer screen.

A single program was called by Zuse a Rechenplan ( i. e. computation plan ) and already in 1944 Zuse envisioned a device that should read and then automatically translate a mathematical formulation of a program into machine readable punched film stock – a device which he called Planfertigungsgerät ( i. e. plan construction device ).

In France, the full stop was already in use in printing to make Roman numerals more readable, so the comma was chosen.

The overall style of the language looked more like C and was seen as more readable.

A wide variety of personal and confidential information was found readable from the others.

Deciding to author a book on the subject, he wrote Keris and Other Malay Weapons, being encouraged to do so by anthropologist friends ; it would subsequently edited into a readable form by Betty Lumsden Milne and published by the Singapore-based Progressive Publishing Company in 1936.

Balguy wrote several other terse and readable tracts of the same nature, which he collected and published in a single volume in 1734.

Despite the aforementioned efforts to keep Gray's Anatomy readable by students, when the 39th edition was published, students were identified as a secondary market for the book, and companion publications such as Gray's Anatomy for Students, Gray's Atlas of Anatomy and Gray's Anatomy Review have also been published in recent years.

The most readable expressions of systematic ideology are Walford ’ s book Beyond Politics, published in 1990, and the pamphlet Socialist Understanding, published ten years earlier.

His works were published in 4 volumes, entitled Œuvres en rime ( 1573 ), consisting of Amours, Jeux, Passetemps, et Poemes, containing, among much that is now hardly readable, some pieces of infinite grace and delicacy.

He attempted to persevere with his astronomical work, in the course of which, as his obituary in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society noted, he published many papers that were " singularly readable, and often contained the most original and suggestive ideas.

In 2002 his first book presenting a historical episode was published, Latrun, employing his compelling, readable style.

: Of all the textbooks on elementary differential geometry published in the last fifty years the most readable is one of the earliest, namely that by D. J.

In 2003, Garfinkel and abhi shelat published an article in IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine reporting on an experiment in which they purchased 158 used hard drives from a variety of sources and checked to see whether they still contained readable data.

In 1977 Hirsch published The Philosophy of Composition, an investigation into the question of what makes writing more or less readable.

After it was first published, Fitzroy Maclean in The New York Times Book Review called The Thirteenth Tribe excellent, writing " Mr. Koestler's book is as readable as it is thought-provoking.

The ciphertext message contains all the information of the plaintext message, but is not in a format readable by a human or computer without the proper mechanism to decrypt it.

In June 1985, the computer readable CD-ROM ( read-only memory ) and, in 1990, CD-Recordable were introduced, also developed by both Sony and Philips.

A small file is generated that contains a condensed, computer readable digest of this description that can then be used by content filtering software to block or allow that site.

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This viewer application allows the content created by the proprietary authoring software to be readable on all supported operating-system platforms, free of charge, thus making it a more attractive solution.

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Very readable, albeit rather uncritical of its subject, by a former Member of Parliament.

With the popularity of telecine transfers and video edits, Kodak invented a machine readable edge number that could be recorded via computer, read by the editing computer and automatically produce a " cut list " from the video edit of the film.

Faint legible remains were read by eye before 20th-century techniques helped make lost texts readable.

Note, however, that this type of signature is not related to electronic signatures or digital signatures, which are more technical in nature and not directly readable by human eyes.

Binary XML has been proposed as a compromise which is not readable by plain-text editors, but is more compact than regular XML.

The output of "" is human readable ; it uses lists demarked by parentheses, for example:.

In telecommunications and computing a machine-readable medium ( automated data medium ) is a medium capable of storing data in a format readable by a mechanical device ( rather than by a human ).

In order to be processed by a computer, data needs first be converted into a machine readable format.

* It makes code less readable, by obfuscating the purpose of the variable with needless type and scoping prefixes.

This has been demonstrated by various Aquitanian names and words that were recorded by the Romans, and which are currently easily readable as Basque.

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