# The ability for players familiar with the system's quirks to use the system to decrease the point cost of powers, leading to one character being much more powerful than another character of similar point value.

The closer a system's measurements are to the accepted value, the more accurate the system is considered to be.

Just as RCA had entered the movie business to maximize its recording system's value, Tobis also established its own production operations.

One can test a value system's integrity either:

A physical property is any property that is measurable whose value describes a physical system's state.

The command can be used instead of at to only run scheduled jobs if the system's load average is below a certain value.

* Use the value of the system's clock at the start of a transaction as the timestamp.

This provides a mechanism whereby a subsystem, such as the system's mail subsystem, can create files which have a common file group value so that set-GID processes within that subsystem are then able to read or write the file.

The internal energy is the mean value of the system's total energy, i. e., the sum of all microstate energies, each weighted by their probability of occurrence:

He felt that it was a waste of time anyway, as the system's value was in its online nature, which Micro-PLATO lacked initially.

In the theory of dynamical systems, and control theory, a continuous linear time-invariant system is marginally stable if and only if the real part of every pole in the system's transfer-function is non-positive, and all poles with zero real value are simple roots ( i. e. the poles on the imaginary axis are all distinct from one another ).

Realizing that the price was too steep for many consumers ( the system's price was driven up by the then-high costs involved in CD-ROM drive production ), TTI included a lavish set of pack-ins to add value to the console, which they valued at the cost of the unit.

The special value of the parameter at which the system changes its phase is the system's critical point.

The 10-year exclusive contract to provide cellular coverage in 277 of the system's almost 500 stations is estimated to value between US $ 50 million and $ 100 million, and would include two 5-year renewal options.

Research has found that users prefer a non-verbal visual indication of an embodied system's internal state to a verbal indication, demonstrating the value of additional non-verbal communication channels.

But the exchange of commodities is evidently an act characterised by a total abstraction from use value.

Those who reconstruct the theory of value in this manner see the determinants of natural prices as being explained by the Classical economists from within the theory of economics, albeit at a lower level of abstraction.

Hence did Karl Marx apply the concepts of fetish and fetishism, derived from economic and ethnologic studies, to the development of the theory of commodity fetishism, wherein an economic abstraction ( value ) is psychologically transformed ( reified ) into an object, which people choose to believe has an intrinsic value, in and of itself.

All three currency systems seem to imply a direct link to the value of resources ( such as the energy needed to replicate items or the Gold Standard-like valuation of latinum, rather than the abstraction of modern currency systems.

Although saturation arithmetic is less popular for integer arithmetic in hardware, the IEEE floating-point standard, the most popular abstraction for dealing with approximate real numbers, uses a form of saturation in which overflow is converted into " infinity " or " negative infinity ", and any other operation on this result continues to produce the same value.

* The Cambridge economist Piero Sraffa returned to the classical economic meaning of " surplus ", but his concept differs from Marx's in at least three important ways: ( 1 ) The substance of Sraffa's surplus is not a claim on the surplus labour of others but a physical surplus, i. e. the value of physical output less the value of physical inputs used up to produce it, in abstraction from price changes ( roughly, like a " standard valuation " in national accounts ); ( 2 ) The magnitude of the surplus in Sraffa's model is exclusively technologically determined by the physical replacement requirements of the economy – and not by power or class relationships – so that the more efficient the economy becomes, the more surplus is created ; ( 3 ) The form of Sraffa's surplus includes both the gross profit component and the value of goods and services consumed by workers, so that the distribution of the physical surplus between capitalists and workers occurs after a fixed quantity of surplus has already been produced.

The fundamental abstraction mechanism is the virtual tree, whose value is lazily computed, and whose behavior is generated by coherent reactions.

One possible solution to the " transformation problem ", ignored in the literature, is that Marx tried to sketch a redistribution of value in too simplistic terms, considering the profitability of different production capitals in abstraction from the total circuit of capital.

Therefore, Marx argues, the exchange process itself involves the making of a real abstraction, namely abstraction from the particular characteristics of concrete ( specific ) labour that produced the commodities whose value is equated in trade.

If the production process itself becomes organised as a specifically capitalist production process, then the abstraction process is deepened, because production labour itself becomes directly treated and organised in terms of its commercial exchange value, and in terms of its capacity to create new value for the buyer of that labour.

Other factors, such as water temperature, depth of water, the fish life it supports, wave action, flooding, etcetera, will affect its recreation value.

The instance method should return a object containing all the information necessary to reconstitute objects of this class and all referenced objects up to a maximum depth given as an integer parameter ( a value of-1 implies that depth checking should be disabled ).

Opinions vary on the artistic value of the resulting production: some see Welles's mercilessly pared-down script ( the running time was around 100 minutes without an interval, several characters were eliminated, dialogue was moved around and borrowed from other plays, and the final two acts were reduced to a single scene ) as a radical and innovative way of cutting away peripheral elements of Shakespeare's tale ; others thought Welles's version was a mangled and lobotomised version of Shakespeare's tragedy which lacked the psychological depth of the original.

The z buffer is a 2d array corresponding to the image plane which stores a depth value for each pixel.

Whenever a pixel is drawn, it updates the z buffer with its depth value.

Any new pixel must check its depth value against the z buffer value before it is drawn.

When these assumptions are violated there is an unknown amount of uncertainty introduced into the reported value of what the 100-year flood means in terms of rainfall intensity, or river flood depth.

For example, D3DFMT_R8G8B8 format value means a 24 bits colour depth ( 8 bits for red, 8 bits for green and 8 bits for blue ).

# Pixel Shader: Determines the final pixel colour to be written to the render target and can also calculate a depth value to be written to the depth buffer.

The study of encoding techniques has been examined in depth in an area of computer science characterized by a method known as Kolmogorov complexity where a value known as (' K ') is accepted as ' not a computable function '.

Instead of interpolating the texture coordinates directly, the coordinates are divided by their depth ( relative to the viewer ), and the reciprocal of the depth value is also interpolated and used to recover the perspective-correct coordinate.

At the start of a new scene, the z-buffer must be cleared to a defined value, usually 1. 0, because this value is the upper limit ( on a scale of 0 to 1 ) of depth, meaning that no object is present at this point through the viewing frustum.

Their immediate result was to show that gravity at the bottom of the mine exceeded that at the top by 1 / 19286 of its amount, the depth being 383 m ( 1, 256 ft ) From this he was led to the final value of Earth's specific density of 6. 566.

For practical purposes, the thickness of the photic zone is typically defined by the depth at which light reaches 1 % of its surface value.

The blonde sandstone however was still considered to be of such value that in the 1850s when the depth of overburden became too great for opencast quarrying, it was mined using the traditional pillar and stall technique.

The original researchers note that, in an effort to keep the theory simple, existing theories to integrate were selected based on their shared attributes, and that these theories are still of value, as TMT does not contain the same depth of detail as each individual theory.

The determination of the Rockwell hardness of a material involves the application of a minor load followed by a major load, and then noting the depth of penetration, vis a vis, hardness value directly from a dial, in which a harder material gives a higher number.

That decline in current density is known as the skin effect and the skin depth is a measure of the depth at which the current density falls to 1 / e of its value near the surface.