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Demagogues of this sort found communist bogeys lurking behind any new idea that would run counter to stereotyped notions.
The very idea of there being `` count rules '' implies that there is some sort of proportion to be expected between the amount of congestive activity and the extent of the breakaway ( run up or run down ) movement.
Instead of records being stored in some sort of linked list of free-form records as in Codasyl, Codd's idea was to use a " table " of fixed-length records.
In this sense, the term has no real positive connotations, except for the idea that the hacker is capable of doing modifications that allow a system to work in the short term, and so has some sort of marketable skills.
He described Jack Benny as " very warm and approachable [...] He was a guy who dug the idea of other people on the show getting laughs, which sort of spoiled me for other people in comedy.
The idea of a solid that did not interact with other matter seemed a bit odd, and Augustin-Louis Cauchy suggested that perhaps there was some sort of " dragging ", or " entrainment ", but this made the aberration measurements difficult to understand.
Mind maps have many applications in personal, family, educational, and business situations, including notetaking, brainstorming ( wherein ideas are inserted into the map radially around the center node, without the implicit prioritization that comes from hierarchy or sequential arrangements, and wherein grouping and organizing is reserved for later stages ), summarizing, as a mnemonic technique, or to sort out a complicated idea.
According to the foreword of Ubik: The Screenplay ( by Tim Powers, a friend of Dick's and fellow science fiction writer ), Dick had an idea for the film which involved " the film itself appearing to undergo a series of reversions: to black-and-white, then to the awkward jerkiness of very early movies, then to a crookedly jammed frame which proceeds to blacken, bubble and melt away, leaving only the white glare of the projection bulb, which in turn deteriorates to leave the theater in darkness, and might almost leave the moviegoer wondering what sort of dilapidated, antique jalopy he'll find his car-keys fitting when he goes outside.
The idea behind this technique is that the primary mouthpiece is known to be working, and the diver donating the air has more time to sort out his / her own equipment after temporarily losing ability to breathe.
There is no contemporary evidence of any sort of quilt code, and quilt historians such as Pat Cummings and Barbara Brackman have raised serious questions about the idea.
This was as opposed to cattle, which then meant any sort of domestic livestock that was easy to collect and remove from the land, from the idea of personal-property ownership ( rather than real estate property ) and related to modern chattel ( property ) and capital.
Many philosophical theories of determinism frame themselves with the idea that reality follows a sort of predetermined path
To give them some idea of what sort of PC they would need to operate their software, the Multimedia PC ( MPC ) standard was set during 1990.
Only Liza's mother, who is a drunkard and a very simple sort of person, has no idea what is going on.
" The idea of Pliny as a model is not consistent with any sort of decline ; moreover, Pliny did his best work under emperors at least as tolerant as Augustus had been.
Antitheism by this definition does not necessarily imply belief in any sort of god at all, it simply stands in opposition to the idea of theistic religion.
Reports from passengers tended to confirm the idea that some sort of antimissile defence system had been deployed ; eyewitnesses reported seeing a small explosion above one of the plane's wings, suggesting that decoy flares had been fired.
The idea was that he would randomly select a page and blindly point his finger somewhere, seeing if it would render him some sort of sign.
" Originally I had this idea that it should be possible to create some kind of community around this kind of work, and I think by muddying the titles – not having " you are the composer, you are the arranger, you are the orchestrator " – it just sort of helped us to work more collaboratively.
The basic idea is to eliminate turtles, or small values near the end of the list, since in a bubble sort these slow the sorting down tremendously.
The basic idea of comb sort is that the gap can be much more than 1 ( Shell sort is also based on this idea, but it is a modification of insertion sort rather than bubble sort ).

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However, for convenience we will stick to the idea that information can be classified according to Table 1.
Seemingly, with an unrestricted flow of ideas, all will be well, and we are even assured that `` an idea a day will keep the sheriff away ''.
Have we not actually developed idea worship??
Are we better off for having Shakespeare's idea of Shylock??
As a Humanist, Dr. Huxley interests himself in the possibilities of human development, and one thing we can say about this suggestion, which comes from a leading zoologist, is that, so far as he is concerned, the scientific outlook places no rigid limitation upon the idea of future human evolution.
So when textbooks, like that of Baker set out drawings of the ' Ptolemaic System ', complete with earth in the center and the seven heavenly bodies epicyclically arranged on their several deferents, we have nothing but a misleading 20th-century idea of what never existed historically.
To get an idea of the embarrassment and chagrin that was heaped upon Wright and Olgivanna, we should bear in mind that the raids were sometimes led by Miriam in person.
It is true that this distinction between style and idea often approaches the arbitrary since in the end we must admit that style and content frequently influence or interpenetrate one another and sometimes appear as expressions of the same insight.
At this point a working definition of idea is in order, although our first definition will have to be qualified somewhat as we proceed.
Finally we may note that the idea appears in educational theory where its influence is at present widespread.
In presenting it to other governments and to the United Nations, we could propose that every nation consider the formation of its own peace corps and that the United Nations sponsor the idea and form an international coordinating committee.
But although the idea of communism is very old even in More's day and did not spring full-clad from his imagination in 1515, it is not communism as such that we are concerned with.
If we look at the situation this way, we can get an idea of Khrushchev's nightmarish worries -- or, at least, of the worries he might have if his enemies were disposed to exploit their advantage.
When we see the steady and methodical inculcation into humanity of the idea of man's worthlessness -- until redeemed -- the necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon, a weapon designed and used time and time again in every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church or church-state ''.
Later, we shall see what happened when an emperor took this idea too literally.
To see this vision in perspective, we need first of all a clear idea of the magnitude of this new power from the atom.
Lincoln rejected the idea, saying, " I will suffer death before I consent ... to any concession or compromise which looks like buying the privilege to take possession of this government to which we have a constitutional right.
Idealists are skeptics about the physical world, maintaining either: 1 ) that nothing exists outside the mind, or 2 ) that we would have no access to a mind-independent reality even if it may exist ; the latter case often takes the form of a denial of the idea that we can have unconceptualised experiences ( see Myth of the Given ).
Bob Jones III has argued that the university is not so much anti-Catholic or anti-Mormon as it is opposed to the idea that all men, regardless of religious beliefs, will eventually get to heaven: " Our shame would be in telling people a lie, and thereby letting them go to hell without Christ because we loved their goodwill more than we loved them and their souls ….
::" We have no idea how consciousness emerges from the physical activity of the brain and we do not know whether consciousness can emerge from non-biological systems, such as computers ... At this point the reader will expect to find a careful and precise definition of consciousness.
Richard McGregor, author of The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers, recalled that when he asked Lu Weidong, a teacher at the party school in Yan ' an, why this is the case, Lu responded that the idea of the party having its own website was " redundant " and that " All the important media is owned by the Party, so we have no need to set up a website.

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