The use of telephone lines is restricted only to " urgent " calls, leaving short telegrams as the only means of communicating with friends or family outside the town.

It was developed by Tony Brooker and Derrick Morris as a variant of the ALGOL programming language, removing some Algol features such as " passing parameters by name " ( which in Algol 60 means passing the address of a short subroutine to recalculate the parameter each time it was mentioned ).

Following Desargues ' thinking, the sixteen-year-old Pascal produced, as a means of proof, a short treatise on what was called the " Mystic Hexagram ", Essai pour les coniques (" Essay on Conics ") and sent it — his first serious work of mathematics — to Père Mersenne in Paris ; it is known still today as Pascal's theorem.

The word, meaning " lightning war ", in its strategic means is associated with a series of quick and decisive short battles to deliver a knockout blow to an enemy state before it could fully mobilize.

All of the heavy elements that are derived solely through artificial means are radioactive, with very short half-lives ; if any atoms of these elements were present at the formation of Earth, they are extremely likely to have already decayed, and if present in novae, have been in quantities too small to have been noted.

This short half-life means the element is not found in significant quantities in the Earth's crust.

The term " contra " comes from the Spanish contra, which means against but in this case is short for, in English " the counter-revolution ".

“ The symbolism that Diophantus introduced for the first time, and undoubtedly devised himself, provided a short and readily comprehensible means of expressing an equation ...

Approximately 65 % of the water in the wet gluten is removed by means of a screw press ; the remainder is sprayed through an atomizer nozzle into a drying chamber, where it remains at an elevated temperature a short time to evaporate the water without denaturing the gluten.

An agent Conrad met when travelling in the Congo, Georges-Antoine Klein, could also have served as a model for Kurtz ( in German klein means " small " and kurz means " short ").

It is derived from the word “ bogaard ”, a short name for “ boomgaard ”, which means “ orchard ”.

The short lifetimes of many hedge funds means that there are many new entrants and many departures each year, which raises the problem of survivorship bias.

His main line of argument was that the tremendous displacements and changes he was seeing did not happen in a short period of time by means of catastrophe, but that processes still happening on the Earth in the present day had caused them.

The name Guanyin is short for Guanshiyin, which means " Observing the Sounds ( or Cries ) of the World ".

This means that a memory leak in a program that only runs for a short time may not be noticed and is rarely serious.

This means that multihulls are more prone towards hobby horsing especially when lightly loaded and of short overall length.

As an offensive weapon, the machine pistol has limited uses, because it fires pistol ammunition and has a short barrel, which means that it is both inaccurate and lacks power in open-country fighting at a several-hundred meter range.

While training doctrines for machine pistols vary between armies, in general, soldiers are instructed to use the weapon for short bursts, rather than for an uninterrupted period of automatic fire, because the weapon easily gets out of control in sustained firing, which means that many of the rounds may be off target.

Machine pistols also tend to have very short barrels, which means that the bullets are not accurate beyond a hundred meters or so.

Just upstream of the town of Commercy, the Canal de la Meuse connects with the Canal de la Marne au Rhin by means of a short diversion canal.

( The word γόνυ gónu, with a short o, is unrelated and means " knee ".

As mentioned, asymptotic freedom means that at large energy-this corresponds also to short distances-there is practically no interaction between the particles.

The word Shia ( Classical Arabic: ) means follower and is the short form of the historic phrase ( ), meaning " followers of Ali ", " faction of Ali ", or " party of Ali ".

The nature of calcium in the cytosol means that it is active for only a very short time, meaning its free state concentration is very low and is mostly bound to organelle molecules like calreticulin when inactive.

Following a series of screenings which he and the National Film Theatre programmer Karel Reisz organized for the venue of independently-produced short films by himself and others, he developed a philosophy of cinema which found expression in what became known, by the late-1950s, as the Free Cinema movement.

In short, the programmer never assumes a particular function call or library will work as advertised, and so handles it in the code.

graduating, he worked as a computer programmer at The Boeing Company in Seattle for a short period of time and also at the New York Institute of Technology, before returning to Utah to go to graduate school in fall of 1970.

* No particular attention is given to deadlines, the programmer can only attempt to make processes with deadlines as short as possible.

The school provided a curriculum that incorporated the principles of RE ( B ) T. Despite its relative short life, interest groups generally expressed satisfaction with its programmer.

As part of the changes that gave birth to Quantum, Case changed the company's strategy, creating an online service called Quantum Link ( Q-Link for short ) for the Commodore 64 in 1985 with programmer ( and AOL co-founder ) Marc Seriff.

Munnery had a short lived career as a video game programmer.

The new version of hping, hping3, is scriptable using the Tcl language and implements an engine for string based, human readable description of TCP / IP packets, so that the programmer can write scripts related to low level TCP / IP packet manipulation and analysis in very short time.

After a short stint at Warner Brothers, brought about by a chance meeting with Jack Warner, Ruddy moved on to become a programmer trainee at the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California.

It is reasonably straightforward to become a programmer at CKDU-one puts in approximately 10 hours of volunteer work doing things like staffing phones and putting up flyers and then one is eligible for CKDU membership and programming privileges after a short training course is completed.

Fasoulas's promising career as a game programmer was cut short when he was drafted into the Finnish Defence Forces.

In short, both his own declarations and his figural blindness, when he looked at objects, seem to present undeniable evidence that he had simply no visual memory at all.

His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!

Joel is part of a group of twelve prophetic books known as the Minor Prophets or simply as The Twelve ; the distinction ' minor ' indicates the short length of the text in relation to the larger prophetic texts known as the " Major Prophets ".

Special variants called aircraft catapults are used to launch planes from land bases and sea carriers when the takeoff runway is too short for a powered takeoff or simply impractical to extend.

Spending $ 478. 28 of that on purchasing the second-hand Bolex camera " of dreams ," Lynch produced a new animated short, but upon getting the film developed, realized that the result was simply a blurred, frameless print.

If the frame contains areas where nothing has moved, the system simply issues a short command that copies that part of the previous frame, bit-for-bit, into the next one.

The Evoluon is chiefly remembered in the UK from Bert Haanstra's wordless short film, titled simply Evoluon.

The Enchiridion, or Handbook of Epictetus, (), often shortened to simply " The Handbook ", is a short manual of Stoic ethical advice compiled by Arrian, who had been a pupil of Epictetus at the beginning of the 2nd century.

The Patterson-Gimlin film ( also referred to as simply the Patterson film ) is a famous short motion picture of an unidentified subject the film makers purported to be a " Bigfoot ", that was supposedly filmed on October 20, 1967, by Roger Patterson ( February 14, 1926 – January 15, 1972 ) and Robert Gimlin ( October 18, 1931 ) on the Klamath River outside of Orleans, California.

The monolithic " enemies " of the Shadowrun world ( borrowing heavily from cyberpunk mythos ) are the corporations, dubbed " megacorporations ", " megacorps ", or simply " megas " or " corps " for short.

The user would then be able to simply use < tt > l </ tt > for the most commonly used short listing.

Although the original meaning of " shogun " is simply " a general ", as a title, it is used as the short form of seii taishōgun ( 征夷大将軍 ), the governing individual at various times in the history of Japan, ending when Tokugawa Yoshinobu relinquished the office to the Meiji Emperor in 1867.

A similar quotation appears in Robert A. Heinlein's 1941 short story " Logic of Empire " (" You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity "); this was noticed in 1996 ( five years before Bigler identified the Robert J. Hanlon citation ) and first referenced in version 4. 0. 0 of the Jargon File, with speculation that Hanlon's Razor might be a corruption of " Heinlein's Razor ".

Judges of the Supreme Court or High Court are officially titled " The Honourable Mr / Mrs / Ms / Miss Justice N ", referred to for short as " Mr / Mrs / Ms / Miss Justice N " and addressed in Court by their respective titles or styles, as " The Court ", or simply " Judge ".

In Sardinian, for instance, ĭ and ŭ became more close, merging with their long counterparts ī and ū ; as a result, all corresponding short and long vowels simply merged with each other.

Also in 1994, Rhino Records released a CD containing some of Hanna-Barbera's famous sound effects, titled simply as Hanna-Barbera Cartoon Sound FX, and also included some answering-machine messages and birthday greetings and short stories starring classic Hanna-Barbera characters, and was hosted by Fred Flintstone.

A quarterstaff ( plural quarterstaves ), also short staff or simply staff is a traditional European pole weapon and a technique of stick fighting, especially as in use in England during the Early Modern period.

In fish, there is no true large intestine, but simply a short rectum connecting the end of the digestive part of the gut to the cloaca.

A digital display simply shows the time as a number, e. g., 12: 08 instead of a short hand pointing towards the number 12 and a long hand 8 / 60 of the way round the dial.

Short bowel syndrome ( SBS, also short gut syndrome or simply short gut ) can be caused by the surgical removal of the small intestines.

The Military of Bahrain ( well known as: Bahrain Defence Force, or BDF in short ) was under Bahrain's Ministry of Defence but now an independent entity and not part of the governmėnt and is simply Bahrain Defence Force under a field marshal who is the commander-in-chief.

In Disney's 1937 animated short Pluto's Quin-Puplets, Pluto has a son who is simply referred to as " Pluto Junior.

Originally known as Dippy Dawg, the character is more commonly known simply as " Goofy ," a name used in his short film series.

::: So I ’ m not going to throw away my short allotment of life on a futile, silly hope, searching for something there simply cannot be, a completely blameless man — not among us mortals who must win our bread from the broad earth.