A MOS Technology 6502 chip that operates at 894 kHz and a speech synthesizer by Votrax generates the sound effects and Q * bert's incoherent expressions, respectively.

Their sound featured lightning-fast melodies, tight, chunky rhythms, and violently incoherent vocals.

He came out of hospital and addressed the public outside the hospital on TV in a visibly incoherent manner, and speculation since then is that he had suffered a stroke, his second, the first being said to have occurred sometimes in the 1970s.

According to an interview on NPR's Fresh Air, the group's name " the Black Keys " came from a schizophrenic artist named Alfred McMoore that the pair knew ; he would leave incoherent messages on their answering machines referring to their fathers as " black keys " such as " D flat " when he was upset with them.

This, however, cannot be done by a community whose very experience of truth is confused and incoherent: it has no absolute standard, and consequently cannot distinguish the absolute from the contingent.

Sir Robert Watson-Watt's `` rebuttal '' of Sir Charles Snow's Godkin Lectures is marred throughout by too forceful a desire to defend Lindemann and apparently himself from Sir Charles' supposed falsehoods while stating those `` falsehoods '' in an unclear incoherent argument.

" She recalled returning home to Beirut from a sight-seeing trip in Jordan to find Philby " hopelessly drunk and incoherent with grief on the terrace of the flat ," mourning the death of a little pet fox which had fallen from the balcony.

The pink-orange glow running through the center of the tube is from the electric discharge which produces incoherent light, just as in a neon tube.

The photons are emitted stochastically, and there is no fixed phase relationship between photons emitted from a group of excited atoms ; in other words, spontaneous emission is incoherent.

The analysis of " mainstream Puritanism " in terms of the evolution from it of separatist and antinomian groups that did not flourish, and others that continue to this day such as Baptists and Quakers, can suffer in this way, as well as risking an incoherent view of where the burden of belief lay for the " godly ".

Singer Darby Crash often arrived onstage nearly incoherent from drugs, singing everywhere but into the microphone and taunting the audience between songs, yet nevertheless, delivering intense theatrical and increasingly musical performances.

In either case, the operation of summing the components corresponds to the incoherent superposition of waves from the two components.

Although not usually a factor in the thermal radiation of stars, polarization is also present in radiation from coherent astronomical sources ( e. g. hydroxyl or methanol masers ), and incoherent sources such as the large radio lobes in active galaxies, and pulsar radio radiation ( which may, it is speculated, sometimes be coherent ), and is also imposed upon starlight by scattering from interstellar dust.

In other words, if one maintains the supposedly ' initial ' position that the necessary conception of omnipotence includes the ' power ' to compromise both itself and all other identity, and if one concludes from this position that omnipotence is epistemologically incoherent, then one implicitly is asserting that one's own ' initial ' position is incoherent.

Amateur radio operators have achieved significantly farther distances using incoherent sources of light from high-intensity LEDs.

In his autobiography, Liddy describes an " Ellsberg neutralization proposal " originating from Howard Hunt, which involved drugging Ellsberg with LSD, by dissolving it in his soup, at a fund-raising dinner in Washington in order to " have Ellsberg incoherent by the time he was to speak " and thus " make him appear a near burnt-out drug case " and " discredit him ".

Once the series was established, the creators quickly dropped the idea and instead turned the show into a surreal sitcom, with humor derived from intentionally incoherent plots and absurd visual gags.

Decoherence shows how a macroscopic system interacting with a lot of microscopic systems ( e. g. collisions with air molecules or photons ) moves from being in a pure quantum state — which in general will be a coherent superposition ( see Schrödinger's cat )— to being in an incoherent mixture of these states.

When coherent light from the laser strikes a pit the material glows, giving off incoherent light of a different wavelength.

Louis brings the doctor from the hospital to treat her, but she is incoherent.

Some of these shows were held during the 1995 Lollapallooza festival, where the incoherent performances received a hostile reaction from many audiences.

Fearing the film would turn out incoherent, Vidal distanced himself from the project.

In 2004 on the BBC TV political magazine programme This Week he gave incoherent and slurred answers to questions from Janet Street-Porter about the public smoking ban in Ireland.

Under Gregory VII the pope's legates traversed France from north to south, they convoked and presided over numerous councils, and, in spite of sporadic and incoherent acts of resistance, they deposed bishops and excommunicated princes just as in Germany and Spain.

In physics, Bragg's law gives the angles for coherent and incoherent scattering from a crystal lattice.

He ranted and prophesied the doom of his enemies, walking in circles in and out of his living place, drinking stolen whisky in great, gasping draughts until finally, incoherent and sick, he fell into his own oblivion.

His writings on behalf of that movement, however, are heavily criticized for being incoherent.

Now rescued, he was almost incoherent in his joy.

This is incoherent ( for Kant ) for the following reason.

While most people have a strong intuition for the existence of what they refer to as consciousness, skeptics argue that this intuition is false, either because the concept of consciousness is intrinsically incoherent, or because our intuitions about it are based in illusions.

Other thinkers, such as Douglas Hofstadter, dismiss this argument as incoherent.

Chancery cases on group litigation after 1700 were a totally incoherent mess, which Yeazell has explained by pointing to the trends towards fragmentation and individualism in English society during that period ; the resulting societal pressures ultimately led to the Reform Act 1832.

In plain English, it seems incoherent to actually doubt that one exists and is doubting.

All LEDs produce incoherent, narrow-spectrum light ; " white " LEDs are actually combinations of three LEDs of a different color, or a blue LED with a yellow scintillator coating.

Moral nihilists maintain that any talk of an objective morality is incoherent and better off using other terms.

Historian Isabelle Dervaux has described the reception this painting received when it was first exhibited at the official Paris Salon of 1874: " Visitors and critics found its subject baffling, its composition incoherent, and its execution sketchy.

The major data sources are the worldwide network of ionosondes, the powerful incoherent scatter radars ( Jicamarca, Arecibo, Millstone Hill, Malvern, St. Santin ), the ISIS and Alouette topside sounders, and in situ instruments on several satellites and rockets.

Light which is randomly polarized, partially polarized, or incoherent must be treated using Mueller calculus.

A beam produced by a thermal or other incoherent light source has an instantaneous amplitude and phase which vary randomly with respect to time and position, and thus a very short coherence length.

A number of economists ( for example Pierangelo Garegnani, Robert L. Vienneau, and Arrigo Opocher & Ian Steedman ), building on the work of Piero Sraffa, argue that that model, even given all its assumptions, is logically incoherent.

Pantheism, he argues, is incoherent, and atheism too simple.

One point he makes is that it is incoherent to talk of knowing that one is in some particular mental state.

Although Wittgenstein certainly argues that the notion of private language is incoherent, because of the way in which the text is presented the exact nature of the argument is disputed.