Although these names suggest it is a ligature or a diacritical variant of the letter o, it is considered a separate letter in Norwegian and Danish, and it is alphabetized after " z "— thus z, æ, ø, and å.

** what is written in pinyin as i after z, c, s. ( Although this use of z has a tonal diacritic on it and is always final.

Although appearances of skinks vary from island to island, a subspecies from the western islands of the Solomons Archipelago was described by Dr. Gunther Köhler in 1996 as C. z. alfredschmidti, its trinomial name was in honor of Alfred Schmidt.

Although the maximum size of a z / OS VSAM dataset increased to 128 TB a few years ago, IMS still limits a VSAM dataset to 4 GB ( and OSAM to 8 GB ).

Although written much earlier than Martwa natura z wędzidłem, the last volume of essays Labirynt nad morzem ( Labyrinth on the Sea-Shore ) was published only after the poet ’ s death.

Although c, j, x and z are not used alone, variations such as ch, chh, ch ', kh and qh are included.

Although movement is restricted along a two-dimensional plane, the stages are rendered in three dimensions and frequently wind along the z coordinate — earning the game 2. 5D status similar to Yoshi's Story and the Super Smash Bros. series.

Although Dio is the earliest writer to mention them, Ammianus Marcellinus used the name to refer to Germans on the Limes Germanicus in the time of Trajan's governorship of the province shortly after it was formed, circa 98 / 99.

Although he was in charge of the project for the papal villa, the Villa Pamphili, now Villa Doria Pamphili, outside the Porta San Pancrazio in Rome, he may have had professional guidance on the design of the casino from the architect / engineer Girolamo Rainaldi and help with supervising its construction from his assistant Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi.

Although there are no set minimum admissions criteria for Barrett College, the average GPA of incoming freshmen was 3. 84, with average SAT scores of 1314 / 1600 and ACT scores of 29.

Although every Major League Baseball team cultivates fans from outside its immediate metropolitan area, and even though the greater Phoenix area has 2 / 3 of the statewide population, Colangelo still decided to call the team the " Arizona Diamondbacks " rather than the " Phoenix Diamondbacks ".

Although clubs from other states were at times invited, the final was almost always between the premiers from the two strongest state competitions of the time — South Australia and Victoria — and the majority of matches were played in Adelaide at the request of the SAFA / SAFL.

Although there are few examples of such systems competitive with traditional analysis techniques, potential advantages include size / portability, speed, and cost.

Although the VPI / VCI values are not necessarily consistent from one end of the connection to the other, the concept of a circuit is consistent ( unlike IP, where any given packet could get to its destination by a different route than the others ).

Although the Atari 5200's internal design was extensively based on that of the 400 / 800 home computers, the differences were sufficient that games designed for one would not run directly on the other.

Although it's increasingly common for couples – particularly younger couples – to have " power neutral " relationships and / or play styles, activities and relationships within a BDSM context are often characterized by the participants ' taking on complementary, but unequal roles ; thus, the idea of informed consent of both the partners becomes essential.

Although Hole's sound changed over the course of the band's career, the pretty / ugly dynamic has often been noted as a consistent theme in Love's music, most prominently in Hole's first two studio albums.

Although the ČSLA, as formed in 1945, included both Soviet-and British-equipped / trained expatriate troops, the " Western " soldiers had been purged from the ČSLA after 1948 when the communists took power.

Although mesoclisis is extremely formal in Brazilian Portuguese and tends to be circumscribed in lesser formal registers by avoiding synthetical future / conditional verb forms, European Portuguese still allows clitic object pronouns to surface as mesoclitics in colloquial situations:

Although the film was less than successful at the box office in the wake of 9 / 11, it reached cult film status after the DVD release, inspiring numerous websites devoted to unraveling the plot twists and meanings.

Although ditheism / bitheism imply moral dualism, they are not equivalent: ditheism / bitheism implies ( at least ) two gods, while moral dualism does not imply any-theism ( theos = god ) whatsoever.

Although the disorder varies from person to person, common characteristics among people with dyslexia are difficulty with spelling, phonological processing ( the manipulation of sounds ), and / or rapid visual-verbal responding.

Although it never uses the term, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( The Mormon Church ) is episcopal, rather than presbyterian or congregational, in the sense that it has a strict hierarchy of leadership from the local bishop up to a single prophet / president, believed to be personally authorized and guided by Jesus Christ.

Although Johnson would attest in a 1984 radio interview that the " two tribes " of the song potentially represented any pair of warring adversaries ( giving the examples of " cowboys and Indians or Captain Kirk and Klingons "), the song does contain the line " On the air America / I modelled shirts by Van Heusen ", a clear reference to then US President Ronald Reagan, who had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 ( briefly reviving the association in the early 1980s ), and whose first film had been titled Love Is On The Air.

Although the Australian Official History of 24th Brigade's 2 / 32 battalion describes the counterattack force as " German ", the Australian historian Mark Johnston reports that German records indicate that it was the Trento Division that overran the Australian battalion.

Although these reforms have sparked massive protests they are now credited with being in part responsible for the economic downswing and the rise of unemployment in Germany in the years 2006 / 7.

Although the problem is not known to be in NC, parallel algorithms with time superior to the Euclidean algorithm exist ; the best known deterministic algorithm is by Chor and Goldreich, which ( in the CRCW-PRAM model ) can solve the problem in O ( n / log n ) time with n < sup > 1 + ε </ sup > processors.

Although his career in computing spanned more than two decades, he is mainly remembered in connection with IBM's unsuccessful attempt in 1980 to license CP / M for the IBM PC.

Although occupying fewer seats than the Tory / Conservatives, the Whigs had a chance to draw support from the minor parties and independents who were also elected in July 1852.

Although 3. 3 or 3. 9 mmol / L ( 60 or 70 mg / dL ) is commonly cited as the lower limit of normal glucose, symptoms of hypoglycemia usually do not occur until 2. 8 to 3. 0 mmol / L ( 50 to 54 mg / dL ).

Although this market segment is now much reduced, the technologies developed in this area continue to be influential on the Internet and in both Linux and Apple Mac OS X networking — and the TCP / IP protocol has now almost completely replaced IPX, AppleTalk, NBF, and other protocols used by the early PC LANs.

Although IBM began indicating shortly after the release of Warp 4 that OS / 2 would eventually be withdrawn, the company did not end support until December 31, 2006.

Although Apple iTunes does not natively support Vorbis, the Xiph. Org Foundation provides a QuickTime component which can be used in iTunes and QuickTime on both Microsoft Windows and Mac OS.

Although the platform was eventually supported by several Unix flavours as well as Windows NT and OS / 2, these operating systems generally ran just as well on Intel-based hardware so there was little reason to use the PReP systems.

Although, under its original name of Mac OS X, it was officially designated as simply " version 10 " of the Mac OS, " version 9 " had a completely different codebase, file system, design, and hardware support.

Although the Series / 1 is grossly underpowered by today's standards, a robust multi-user operating environment ( RPS ) was available along with several additional high level languages for the RPS OS.

Although UUCP was originally developed on Unix and is most closely associated with Unix-like systems, UUCP implementations exist for several non-Unix-like operating systems, including Microsoft's MS-DOS, Digital's VAX / VMS, Commodore's AmigaOS, classic Mac OS, and even CP / M.

Although revenue from the initial OS / 2 release was never paid by the bankrupt publisher, popular support encouraged Stardock to release Shipyards, an add-on pack that allowed users to design their own starships, and this provided enough revenue to support further development, with a simplified version being sold to IBM in 1995 as Star Emperor.

Although Mac OS X provides various Bonjour services, Bonjour also works on other operating systems.

Although intended only for use with Microsoft Windows, Microsoft SideWinder game controllers can also be used with Apple's Mac OS X and Linux.

Although many of the companies were interested ( such as AT & T, for the use of the OS in their own equipment — they were so interested in this idea that the then-CEO of AT & T made a personal phone call to Sculley ), Gassée would have none of it, and so the idea of licensing the Mac OS was shelved.

Although the reasons for this switch remain unclear, Quartz also included better support for the existing QuickDraw model from the classic OS, as well ( as it was later learned ) as Java2D.

* System performance — Although system performance in version 10. 1 was greatly improved, it was still deemed ' not enough ' for many to adopt Mac OS X as their main operating system.

Although quite adept at handling small to mid-size databases, a common problem for Helix is that for much of its lifetime, it has run only in the co-operative multitasking environment of the Classic Mac OS, making it rather unstable for large databases.

Although a direct x86 port of Mac OS was never released to the public, one could run the classic Mac OS on non-Mac computers through emulation and the development of these was spurred by the failure of the Star Trek project.

Although used OS / 2 name, the system was not a true OS / 2 operating system and not capable to run native OS / 2 applications but a rather GUI at the top of Windows.

Although this is Apple's preferred delivery method for Mac OS X, previously purchased licenses can not be transferred to the Mac App Store for downloading or automatic updating.