The user can adjust how far the blade extends from the handle, so that, for example, the knife can be used to cut the tape sealing a package without damaging the contents of the package.

A good user document can also go so far as to provide thorough troubleshooting assistance.

The alternative of allowing the user to operate the computer directly was generally far too expensive to consider.

The location of the DSLAM depends on the telco, but it cannot be located too far from the user because of attenuation, the loss of data due to the large amount of electrical resistance encountered as the data moves between the DSLAM and the user's DSL modem.

Although Version 6 was released and some effort was made to unify the user interface between WordPerfect and QPW, the effort was far from complete.

Most trainers believe the conventional style is a better defence and that the cross-arm leaves the user open far too often.

Once the far end sends the supervision flash, the user would use the blue box to dial a " Key Pulse " or " KP ", the tone that starts a routing digit sequence, followed by either a telephone number or one of the numerous special codes that were used internally by the telephone company, then finished up with a " Start " or " ST " tone.

A web browser will give no warning to the user if a web site suddenly presents a different certificate, even if that certificate has a lower number of key bits, even if it lacks Extended Validation, even if it has a different provider, and even if the previous certificate had an expiry date far into the future.

The whole maze is far from being user friendly — don't count on full protection from autumn showers or sudden gusts of wind generated by the buildings themselves.

A virtual device in Unix is a file such as :/ dev / null or :/ dev / urandom, that is treated as a device, as far as user level software is concerned, but is generated by the kernel without reference to hardware.

Another famous user of the pitch was Gaylord Perry, who went so far as to title his autobiography Me and the Spitter.

Though its use has never been properly advertised, its capabilities are far ahead of their time and there is still a strong enthusiastic user community.

The earliest, such as the " psychologist " program ELIZA, did little more than identify key words and feed them back to the user, but even forty years ago Colby's PARRY program at Stanford university, far superior to ELIZA, exhibited many of the features researchers now seek to put into a dialog system, above all some form of emotional response and having something " it wants to say ", rather than being completely passive like ELIZA.

Ideas were written on index cards ; features that seemed simple enough to implement in the short term ( like adding color to the user interface ) were written on blue cards, longer-term goals like multitasking on pink cards, and " far out " ideas like an object-oriented file system on red cards.

Most portknocks are stateful systems in that if the first part of the " knock " has been received successfully, an incorrect second part would not allow the remote user to continue and, indeed, would give the remote user no clue as to how far through the sequence they failed.

It is far easier for a user to simply log onto a webpage without registering than to have to spend time registering and downloading often large applications.

Cryptoperiods were much longer, at least as far as the user was concerned.

The user then squats over the hole, as close to the front as possible, as excrement tends to fall onto the rear edge of the in-floor receptacle if the user squats too far back ; for this reason many public squat toilets have signs reminding the user to " Please take one step closer.

Other more far reaching concerns arise around the packaging and end user license agreement – specifically the level of intrusion on the local machine and the disclaimers that users implicitly agree to future changes in the license agreement without actually being able to see them immediately.

When these modified pickups come up for sale these modified pickups are viewed as rather unpleasant to the eye of the collector or professional user today and sell for far less than their original counterparts.

However, if the client-side location is not too far, a new position between the client-side and server-side is interpolated ; this position is set to be within some small step delta from the client-side location, which is generally judged to be " small enough " to be unintrusive to the user.

It is far more difficult in many communities to obtain admission to an apprentice program which involves union approval than to get into the most selective medical school in the nation.

Progress will take place far less through what is done in any `` summit conference '' of the National Council or the World Council, or even in offices of the denominational boards, than through what happens in the communities where Christian people live together as neighbors.

As of 2012, both the Kurile Ainu and Kurile Kamchadal ethnic groups lack the fishing and hunting rights which the Russian government grants to the indigenous tribal communities of the far north.

In addition, many speech communities on the East Coast have existed in their present locations for centuries, while the interior of the country was settled by people from all regions of the existing United States and developed a far more generic linguistic pattern.

Prior to the internet, virtual communities ( like social or academic organizations ) were far more limited by the constraints of available communication and transportation technologies.

Thus far, the origins of the word remain inconclusive, as the term is not used outside Mexican-American communities, further indicating that the term is primarily self-identifying.

The councils of Gaul held in the first half of the sixth century had given to bishops absolute authority over religious communities, even going so far as to order the abbots to appear periodically before their respective bishops to receive reproof or advice, as might be considered necessary.

Although noting in the introduction to ' The Protestors ' that ' Some recorded herein perhaps did not have " all the truth " — so the writer has been reminded ', Eyre nevertheless claimed that the purpose of the work was to ' tell how a number of little-known individuals, groups and religious communities strove to preserve or revive the original Christianity of apostolic times ', and that ' In faith and outlook they were far closer to the early springing shoots of first century Christianity and the penetrating spiritual challenge of Jesus himself than much that has passed for the religion of the Nazarene in the last nineteen centuries '.

The scientific and medical communities were far less enthusiastic about Dianetics, viewing it with bemusement, concern, or outright derision.

The Druzes and their Christian Maronite neighbors, who had thus far lived as religious communities on friendly terms, entered a period of social disturbance in the year 1840, which culminated in the civil war of 1860.

The Sami, having a non-wheat or-rye diet, eating fish and reindeer meat, living in communities detached from the Norwegians, and being only weakly connected to the European trade routes, fared far better than the Norwegians.

Prior to the southwards migration of the Tai people from Yunnan in the 10th century, the Indochina peninsula had been a home to various indigenous animistic communities for as far back as 500, 000 years ago.

" In the same book, Bono reported that Cher, who was both a gay icon and ally to LGBT communities, was quite uncomfortable with the news at first, and " went ballistic " before coming to terms with it: " By August 1996, one year after I came out publicly, my mother had progressed so far that she agreed to ' come out ' herself on the cover of The Advocate as the proud mother of a lesbian daughter.

In societies where immigration is high ( USA ) or where ethnic heterogeneity is high ( Eastern Europe ), it was found that citizens lacked in both kinds of social capital and were overall far less trusting of others than members of homogenous communities were found to be.

Records exist of a sign language existing within deaf communities in Britain as far back as 1570.

While the history of the term Judenrat itself is unclear, Jewish communities themselves had established councils for self-government as far back as the Medieval Era.

City status in Ireland was granted to far fewer communities than in England and Wales, and there are only two pre nineteenth century cities in present-day Northern Ireland.

On the north and east benches, the houses sometimes climb as far as halfway up the mountain, to the boundary of the national forest, and new communities are also being constructed on the southern and western slopes.

While civilian communities had organized ways to deal with the care and transportation of the sick and dying as far back as the bubonic plague in London between 1598 and 1665, such arrangements were typically temporary.

By the late 18th century and into the mid-19th century, Russian settlers had established several posts and communities on the northeast Pacific coast, eventually reaching as far south as Fort Ross, California.

The process of their selection and their relationship to Ceres ' older, entirely male priesthood is unknown ; but they far outnumbered her few male priests, and would have been highly respected and influential figures in their own communities.

The citizens stated that the distance from their courthouses was too far to service the citizens of those communities.

Various phenomena throughout Greek history ( the extensive colonization by classical Greek city states, the vast expansion of Greek culture in Hellenistic times, the large dominions at times held by the Greek-speaking Byzantine Empire, and the energetic trading activity by Greeks under the Ottomans ) all tended to create Greek communities far beyond the boundaries of modern Greece.

Talkeetna has a local newspaper, the Good Times, which has a distribution of 7, 500 year-round and serves the communities of Talkeetna, Trapper Creek, Willow, Houston and Big Lake, with additional distribution along the Parks Highway as far north as Nenana during the summer months.