Jim is given the task of exploding the bombs, which he does by firing pistol shots into them.

Further themes are also present: the " sovereign freedom of Yahweh " ( God does not always do what is expected of him ); the " satirisation of foreign kings " ( who consistently underestimate Israel and Yahweh ); the concept of the " flawed agent " ( judges who are not adequate to the task before them ) and the disunity of the Israelite community ( which gathers pace as the stories succeed one another ).

In other words to " hack " at an original creation, as if with an axe, is to force-fit it into being usable for a task not intended by the original creator, and a " hacker " would be someone who does this habitually.

* " Professor Behe admitted in " Reply to My Critics " that there was a defect in his view of irreducible complexity because, while it purports to be a challenge to natural selection, it does not actually address " the task facing natural selection.

That way, finding the highest priority task to run does not require iterating through the entire list.

" Fraud upon the court " has been defined by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals to " embrace that species of fraud which does, or attempts to, defile the court itself, or is a fraud perpetrated by officers of the court so that the judicial machinery can not perform in the usual manner its impartial task of adjudging cases that are presented for adjudication ".

This task does not require the identification of a plausible explanation of evil, and is successful if the explanation provided shows that the existence of God and the existence of evil are logically compatible.

" One tool does it all " is a motto of some importance for workers who cannot practically carry every specialized tool to the location of every work task ; such as a carpenter who does not necessarily work in a shop all day and needs to do jobs in a customer's house.

When there are small time intervals in which the processing task does not require attention, this time can be used to refresh memory traces.

Note that the current EJB 3. 1 specification does not detail how an application server provides persistence ( a task delegated to the JPA specification ), but instead details how business logic can easily integrate with the persistence services offered by the application server.

The solution only produces a reduced-potency " God "; it does not deal with the matter at hand: God maintaining omnipotence even while performing a task, the success or failure of which seems to imply impotence.

Almost every recorder and camcorder includes the hardware to read and write to the MIC, but the firmware does not always have the code to actually perform the task.

– How much experience does the individual have in performing this task?

The double bowline accomplishes the same task, can be tied faster, and does not jam.

When Travis repeatedly fails to eliminate Blake, Servalan does not assign the task to another officer and does not use more resources to eliminate Blake.

This can be a time-consuming task given that different operating systems have different application programming interfaces or APIs ( for example, Linux uses a different API for application software than Windows does ).

* In Special Challenges ( or, Twist Challenges ), a change to the game is presented, such as a tribe switch or special task that does not result in a reward or an immunity.

The reinforcement does not always serve a purely structural task ( reinforcing the compound ), but is also used to change physical properties such as wear resistance, friction coefficient, or thermal conductivity.

In most other areas of the cortex, the participant does not consciously experience any effect, but his or her behaviour may be slightly altered ( e. g. slower reaction time on a cognitive task ), or changes in brain activity may be detected using sensing equipment.

However, finding this second cycle does not seem to be an easy computational task.

The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and the Equality Act 2010 make it clear that treating two people identically may not be sufficient to guarantee that they have been treated equally in law if the task, physical environment or service does not offer them equality of outcome.

In a version sent to another folklorist prior to the first edition, additionally, she does not order a servant to take her to the woods, but takes her there herself to gather flowers and abandons her ; in the first edition, this task was transferred to a servant.

It comes mainly in two varieties: trying to find something that does not exist, or trying to accomplish an impossible task.

But what a super-Herculean task it is to winnow anything of value from the mud-beplastered arguments used so freely, particularly since such common use is made of cliches and stereotypes, in themselves declarations of intellectual bankruptcy.

The saying " to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps " was already in use during the 19th century as an example of an impossible task.

that can be combined together to accomplish a task, much as one might use multiple hand tools to fix a physical object.

It is the task of every generation to reassess the tradition in which it lives, to discard what it cannot use, and to bring into context with the distant and intermediate past the most recent contributions to the Great Conversation.

This term, used as early as 1990, describes computer-based objects developed for collecting and storing specific information, in order to use that information to accomplish a specific task, and to enable sharing that information with other objects or processes.

Participants of this pastime may either use commercially prepared microscopic slides or engage in the task of specimen preparation.

The strategic task of the navy also may incorporate nuclear deterrence by use of nuclear missiles.

One can also use a " virtual drum " by selecting a task or group of tasks ( typically integration points ) and limiting the number of projects in execution at that stage.

However, a 2007 meta-analysis concluded that " pair programming is not uniformly beneficial or effective " because many other factors besides the choice of whether to use pair programming have large effects on the outcome of a programming task.

If the members of the task group agree that the name is appropriate, it can be retained for use when there is a request from a member of the scientific community that a specific feature be named.

Speech synthesizers are also commonly used for the same task, and a blind user may switch between the two systems or use both at the same time depending on circumstances.

While interrupts are masked, the current task has exclusive use of the CPU since no other task or interrupt can take control, so the critical section is protected.

Amundsen ’ s expedition benefited from careful preparation, good equipment, appropriate clothing, a simple primary task ( Amundsen did no surveying on his route south and is known to have taken only two photographs ), an understanding of dogs and their handling, and the effective use of skis.

Target Numbers were determined by adding Ability level + Skill level and multiplying or dividing that number by a factor determined by the task's difficulty ; if the task is Easy multiply Target Number result by 4, Average multiply by 2, Difficult use the number as normal, Formidable halves the number ( drop fractions ), and Impossible quarters the number ( drop fractions ).

He assigned to William Stanley the task of developing a device for commercial use in United States.

With their more specialized requirements, newspapers and magazines rely on compact, tightly fitted seriffed text fonts specially designed for the task, which offer maximum flexibility, readability and efficient use of page space.

Examining Web server log is tedious task therefore some administrators use tools such as CrawlTrack or SEO Crawlytics to identify, track and verify Web crawlers.

Of course, determining what constitutes an acceptable solution is part of the task of deciding which approach to use ; but broadly defined, an acceptable solution is one that is both reasonably good ( close to optimum ) and derived within reasonable effort, time, and cost constraints.

In 1978, The American Psychiatric Association released its first task force report in which new standards for consent were introduced and the use of unilateral electrode placement was recommended.

Having observed a sample of n data points from an unknown exponential distribution a common task is to use these samples to make predictions about future data from the same source.

However, as RISC computers normally require more and often longer instructions to implement a given task, they inherently make less optimal use of bus bandwidth and cache memories.

In essence, since they can use tools and operate equipment and vehicles designed for the human form, humanoids could theoretically perform any task a human being can, so long as they have the proper software.

All improvisers use feedback from their playing in order to judge what to play next ; the more feedback that exists, the easier the improviser's task is.

Many local operations use a reeling machine for this task, but some silk threads are still hand-reeled.