Sony officially discourages the payment of real-world money for online goods, except on certain " Station Exchange " servers in EQ2, launched in July 2005.

In 1985, the very advanced Cray-2, capable of 1. 9 GFLOPS peak performance, succeeded the two first models but met a somewhat limited commercial success because of certain problems at producing sustained performance in real-world applications.

For instance, particle simulations may produce a certain amount of " noise ", where due to the small number of particles simulated, the simulation exhibits undue statistical fluctuations which don't reflect the real-world system.

In real-world terms, Tolkien's inspiration for the word Arda may be certain cognates of the English word " Earth " in the other Germanic languages, specifically the Afrikaans " Aarde " which has equivalent pronunciation and meaning, and unsurprising in use given Tolkien's South African origins.

In Assassin's Creed II, it is revealed that certain powerful artifacts that the Templars seek in their quest for power are remnants of a secret " First Civilization ", the basis for most of our real-world religion and mythology.

In the IDEF5 method, an ontology is constructed by capturing the content of certain assertions about real-world objects, their properties and their interrelationships, and representing that content in an intuitive and natural form.

Some unique units are based on units that those factions had, if certain nations were not destroyed in real-life history: for example, the Native American nations ( the Aztecs, Maya, and Inca ) have unique units in the Modern and Information ages which resemble real-world Iberian-South American guerrillas.

On January 5, 2008, after a long period of planning and negotiation, VATSIM held a major simulation event as part of a cooperative effort with CAASD to assess the viability of VATSIM as a platform for certain categories of real-world air traffic simulation.

In certain mixtures it is not uncommon for this sensitivity to spontaneously change over time, or due to change in the environment, or to other unknowable factors in either the original manufacturing, or in real-world storage.

Although certain names tend to be historically associated with a particular variations, real-world naming is not necessarily consistent between various users and applications.

For example, the word " bears " has semantic features ( it denotes real-world objects, bears ), category features ( it is a noun ), number features ( it is plural and must agree with verbs, pronouns, and demonstratives in its domain ), phonological features ( it is pronounced a certain way ), etc.

The nest itself, the structure that in some cases housed about 2,000 individuals when the season was at its peak, is now rapidly destroyed by the scavenging larvae of certain beetles and moths.

We can do this through the characteristic values and vectors of T in certain special cases, i.e., when the minimal polynomial for T factors over the scalar field F into a product of distinct monic polynomials of degree 1.

In most cases we recognize certain words, persons, animals or objects.

In certain cases, as in Dick Stewart's, a child's personality is affected.

In Anglo-American common law courts, appellate review of lower court decisions may also be obtained by filing a petition for review by prerogative writ in certain cases.

Irregular past tense forms, such as " broke " or " was / were ", can be seen as still more specific cases ( since they are confined to certain lexical items, like the verb " break "), which therefore take priority over the general cases listed above.

Specific exceptions are made for cases in which the addition of a period or comma could create confusion, such as the quotation of web addresses or certain types of data strings.

The inability — or unwillingness — of the author to accurately recall memories has in certain cases resulted in misleading or incorrect information.

A person may in certain cases be convicted as an abettor in the commission of an offence in which he or she could not be a principal, e. g. a woman or boy under fourteen years of age in aiding rape, or a solvent person in aiding and abetting a bankrupt to commit offences against the bankruptcy laws.

Sometimes the sale of certain types of merchandise was prohibited, and in some cases all retail and business activity.

Likewise, for litigation of commercial disputes arising out of unpredictable torts ( as opposed to the prospective choice of law clauses in contracts discussed in the previous paragraph ), certain jurisdictions attract an unusually high fraction of cases, because of the predictability afforded by the depth of decided cases.

In certain cases, there are several codons ( DNA triplets ) that code for the same amino acid.

In certain cases, extensive " feeder canals " were built to bring water from sources located far from the canal.

Even in cases of real crimes, the positive laws frequently punish only the particular offence, while in public opinion the offender, even after he has undergone punishment, is still incapacitated for certain honours and distinctions which are granted only to persons of unblemished character.

The practice of withholding the cup from the laity was confirmed ( twenty-first session ) as one which the Church Fathers had commanded for good and sufficient reasons ; yet in certain cases the Pope was made the supreme arbiter as to whether the rule should be strictly maintained.

:: If patients fail to experience the healing power of Christian Science, and think they can be benefited by certain ordinary physical methods of medical treatment, then the Mind-physician should give up such cases, and leave invalids free to resort to whatever other systems they fancy will afford relief.

* Polish :-by ( conditional mood particle ), się ( reflexive, also modifies meaning of certain verbs ), no ( emphasis ),-m ,-ś ,-śmy ,-ście ( personal auxiliary ), mi, ci, cię, go, mu & c. ( unstressed personal pronouns in oblique cases )

Some error-correcting codes are based on special checksums that not only detect common errors but also allow the original data to be recovered in certain cases.

However, the new rules also stated that exceptions to the rule would be allowed in certain cases.

In Northern Ireland the Criminal Justice Act 2003, effective 18 April 2005, makes certain " qualifying offence " ( including murder, rape, kidnapping, specified sexual acts with young children, specified drug offences, defined acts of terrorism, as well as in certain cases attempts or conspiracies to commit the foregoing ) subject to retrial after acquittal ( including acquittals obtained before passage of the Act ) if there is a finding by the Court of Appeals that there is " new and compelling evidence.

Though attractive in many cases, a general-purpose DBMS is not always the optimal solution: When certain applications are pervasive with many operating instances, each with many users, a general-purpose DBMS may introduce unnecessary overhead and too large " footprint " ( too large amount of unnecessary, unutilized software code ).

Nobody can be absolutely certain of the answers.

Similarly experience itself can be conventionalized so that people react to certain preconceived clues for behavior without awareness of the vitality of their experiential field.

Underlying these conceptions of mimesis are certain presuppositions concerning the nature of primary human experience which require some exposition before the main argument can proceed.

Criticism is as old as literary art and we can set the stage for our study of three moderns if we see how certain critics in the past have dealt with the ethical aspects of literature.

As Sir Charles Oman once said, `` it is no longer fashionable to declare that we can say nothing certain about Old English origins ''.

Many readers of this department no doubt discount certain of my opinions for the simple reason that they can guess pretty accurately, even if they have never actually been told, what my age is.

As the President has said, `` only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain that they will never be employed ''.

Nor can anyone be certain that Prokofieff would have done better, or even as well, under different circumstances.

Nomia melanderi can be found in tremendous numbers in certain parts of the United States west of the Great Plains, for example, in Utah and central Washington.

The mechanism of this coupling has been studied in some detail with non-enzymatic systems in vitro and can be simulated by certain di-iodotyrosine analogues ( Pitt-Rivers and James, 1958 ).

The mechanism of action of these drugs has not been completely worked out, but certain of them appear to act by reducing the oxidised form of iodine before it can iodinate thyroglobulin ( Astwood, 1954 ).

In the following paper it is shown that in a certain definite sense, exactly an odd number of squares can be inscribed in every such curve which does not contain an infinite number of inscribed squares.

I can now better see just what processes provoked certain actions from me in the past.

This push to confine the study of mass behaviour to the measurements of parameters involved in differential equations has led sociology perilously close to the reduction of the word `` mass '' to mean a small group in which certain relations between all pairs of individuals in such a group can be studied.

The point is that in a system such as Fromm's which recognizes unconscious motivations, and which rests on certain ethical absolutes, empirical data can be used to support whatever proposition the writer is urging at the moment.

From the dated poems we can venture certain conclusions about Hardy's career in poetry, always remembering that conclusions based on a fraction of the whole must remain tentative.

The convoluted sheets can be combined to attain certain cushioning effects mechanically rather than chemically.

Beyond a certain point, of course, no woman can be dominant -- nature has seen to that.

You can keep your machinery investment down by buying good secondhand machinery, by sharing the cost and upkeep of machinery with a neighbor, and by hiring someone with machinery to do certain jobs.

This conclusion is based on two propositions: that man by the use of his reason can ascertain God's purpose in the universe and that God makes known His purpose by certain `` given '' physical arrangements.

R. Sargent Shriver Jr., director of the corps, is certain that they can.

`` You can always tell a real gentleman -- they got a certain je ne say quok ''.

However, certain critical interlocutory court orders, such as the denial of a request for an interim injunction, or an order holding a person in contempt of court, can be appealed immediately although the case may otherwise not have been fully disposed of.

In standard Spanish, it is possible to tell the pronunciation of a word from its spelling, but not vice versa ; this is because certain phonemes can be represented in more than one way, but a given letter is consistently pronounced.