Despite this, a small community of enthusiasts are still using it.

Despite the popularization of these five events, there is no fine line separating them from other extinction events ; indeed, using different methods of calculating an extinction's impact can lead to other events featuring in the top five.

Despite the definitions of these new prefixes for binary-based quantities of storage by international standards organizations, memory semiconductor chips are still marketed using the metric prefix names to designate binary multiples.

Despite its controversial subject, the film is still recognized for its revolutionary approach to using music and cinematography.

Despite his reputation as a democrat, Chaves imposed a state of siege three weeks after he took office, using his emergency powers to attack the supporters of González and ex-President Felipe Molas López.

Despite great initial excitement, the seed was found to be that of a European Juncaceae or Rush plant that had been glued into the fragment and camouflaged using coal dust.

Despite Moog Music's closing in 1993, Moog did not have the rights to market products using his own name throughout the 1990s.

Despite friction between the African National Congress and Biko throughout the 1970s the ANC has included Biko in the pantheon of struggle heroes, going as far as using his image for campaign posters in South Africa's first non-racial elections in 1994.

Despite his advanced age, he himself hauled most of his 32, 000 books a quarter of a mile to their new home, using his wheelbarrow.

Despite using old systems of classification that incorrectly separated plantains as a different species solely because of their culinary use, they are now known to belong to the same species as dessert bananas.

Despite the legal disputes surrounding this invention, it is unquestionable that Campbell was the first to actually construct a telephone circuit using loading coils.

Despite the fact that optical fiber had been invented in 1970, this cable was still using coaxial cable technology.

Despite his concerns, Aman continued using Elad for intelligence operations until 1956, when he was caught trying to sell Israeli documents to the Egyptians.

Despite using an irrational number base, when using standard form, all non-negative integers have a unique representation as a terminating ( finite ) base-φ expansion.

Despite not using an engine, paraglider flights can last many hours and cover many hundreds of kilometres, though flights of 1 – 2 hours and covering some tens of kilometres are more the norm.

Despite improvements, the road was still considered a challenging drive ; the Victorian Police motor school even using it for training around 1966.

Despite accepting the above arrangements, Stalin dominated the conference, using the Soviet victory at the Battle of Kursk and military might, as well as key positions on the German front, to get his way.

Despite his family's disbelief, Elliott lures the alien from the forest to his bedroom using a trail of Reese's Pieces candy.

Despite these setbacks, in 1947 he took up natural farming again with success, using no-till farming methods to raise rice and barley.

Despite this, they can often be verified using information from folklore.

Despite using the Tetris name, this game has no resemblance to its Russian namesake.

Despite this, wherries were using the navigation until 1912, when a disastrous flood damaged the locks.

Despite such examples of a similar construction that uses a participle instead of a gerund, using a noun or pronoun in anything except the possessive case as the subject of a gerund ( He affected me going there ) is incorrect in formal writing.

Despite having a simple architecture, Berkeley DB supports many advanced database features such as ACID transactions, fine-grained locking, hot backups and replication.

" Despite being significantly more advanced than its predecessors, the Armstrong gun was rejected soon after its integration, in favor of the muzzle-loading pieces that had been in use before.

Despite the shift to a medical model, brain science has not advanced to the point where scientists or clinicians can point to readily discernible pathologic lesions or genetic abnormalities that in and of themselves serve as reliable or predictive biomarkers of a given mental disorder.

Despite the Crash which caused much data corruption, technology in the game is advanced.

Despite the volcanic activity, the termini of the glacier have still advanced, with a slight advance on the western lobe and a more considerable advance on the more shaded eastern lobe.

Despite the metaphysical basis for the term, academics in science, aesthetics, heuristics, psychology, and gender-based sociological studies have advanced their causes under the banner of Essentialism.

Despite the challenge of its size, complexity, and advanced CMOS process, the first tape-out version of the processor was able to be shipped, and it had leadership floating point performance at the time it was announced.

Despite funding problems, work began in December 1949 and by May 1950 was well advanced.

Despite popular claims that LeMay advanced the notion of preventive nuclear war, the historical record indicates LeMay actually advocated justified preemptive nuclear war.

Commerce Department regulations virtually required pilots to have flown in the military to acquire sufficient flight hours, and until the 1970s, the U. S. Air Force and Navy barred women from flying, thus also preventing them from moving into commercial piloting Despite women being trained by the US Army Air Corps and flying every advanced military aircraft the US built ( including every bomber, pursuit plane, and the first jet ) during WWII as Women Airforce Service Pilots ( WASP ), this program was disbanded in December 1944 and commercial jobs were not generally available to women, though these highly trained women flew as instructors and pilots for flying services throughout the United States.

Despite being outshot a majority of the series, the Flyers upset Montreal in 5 games and advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time since 2003 – 04 to face Pittsburgh.

Despite losing in the first round in their first seven attempts, the Timberwolves won their first division title in 2004 and advanced to the Western Conference Finals.

Despite its relatively small size, Bristol, Virginia boasts one of the most advanced broadband networks in the country.

Despite their name, however, practice sets are used not only by beginning players but also by some advanced players when they wish to play just the chanter with other musicians, either live or in recording sessions.

Despite the current lack of a traditional college, a relatively high percentage of residents hold advanced degrees and perform significant research, largely thanks to the presence of the INL.

Despite steadily working in pictures, Lucy's movie career never advanced to the level of a headlining feature-film actress ; nevertheless she remained popular with movie audiences.

Despite Constantine's best efforts, his fear of an attack from Hispania did come to pass the following year, when Gerontius advanced with the support of his barbarian allies.

Despite the colonists ' advanced weapons and larger numbers, ten people are killed just to drive the grendel away.

Despite he and Kariya's success playing with each other, the Ducks had advanced to the second round of the playoffs just once in their tenure together.

Despite this, Plantinga does accept that some philosophers before Gettier have advanced a justified true belief account of knowledge, specifically C. I.

Despite being a relatively new member of the percussion family, steelpan tuning techniques have advanced rapidly.

Despite his lack of military experience and his relatively advanced age of 42, Hampton was a natural cavalryman — brave, audacious, and a superb horseman.

Despite its origins in the NCP, The Leninist advanced sharp criticisms of the Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc countries, while strongly opposing movements it considered to be in support of capitalism.