Instead he resorts to a debunking device: Gylfi, king of Sweden before the Æsir, travels to Asgard and finds there a large hall ( Valhalla ) in Section 2.

Instead of enabling the guest operating system to dialog with hardware, virtual device drivers take the opposite role and emulate a piece of hardware, so that the guest operating system and its drivers running inside a virtual machine can have the illusion of accessing real hardware.

Instead, a device signals its request for service by sending a short message over some communications medium, typically a computer bus.

Instead they fall back to an error condition displaying messages to the operator, and enter an infinite loop waiting for the user to either respond to a prompt to continue, or to reset the device.

Instead of a linear driving device, one may use a nonlinear update function.

Instead, Carter used frequent, informal meetings as a decision-making device, typically his Friday breakfasts, usually attended by the Vice President, the secretaries of State and Defense, Brzezinski, and the chief domestic adviser.

Instead of using a ten-yard chain strung between two sticks for measuring first down yardage, the WFL used a device called the " Dickerod ," ostensibly named for its inventor.

Instead, Carter used frequent, informal meetings as a decision-making device, typically his Friday breakfasts, usually attended by the Vice President Walter Mondale, Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance, Secretary of Defense Harold Brown, the NSC Adviser, and the chief domestic adviser.

Instead it is commonplace for a server to load its initial operating system from a TFTP server or local boot device, and then use iSCSI for data storage once booting from the local device has finished.

Instead of logically tying the endpoint of the network tunnel to the physical IP address, each tunnel is bound to a permanently associated IP address at the device.

Instead Blaug argues that Old Poor Law was a device " for dealing with the problems of structural unemployment and substandard wages in the lagging rural sector of a rapidly growing but still underdeveloped

Instead of a text parser interface to control the hero, the use of the mouse to point and click was the main input device.

Instead of a machine port representing an actual device, it would represent a " virtual " device, which could be managed by the operating system.

Instead, he wields a " cosmic staff ", a device invented by Jack's father Ted, the original Starman.

Instead of attempting to build a single operating system that could support real-time and non-real-time capabilities, RTLinux was designed to share a computing device between a real-time and non-real-time operating system so that ( 1 ) the real-time operating system could never be blocked from execution by the non-real-time operating system and ( 2 ) components running in the two different environments could easily share data.

Instead of relying on the device of the implied author and a text-centered analysis of unreliable narration, Ansgar Nünning gives evidence that narrative unreliability can be reconceptualized in the context of frame theory and of readers ' cognitive strategies.

Instead he finds that the trends, within Ancient Greek aesthetics, toward agonistic expression, subtly in language, and love of symmetry, helped to give rise to stichomythia as a popular dialogue device.

Instead they built an Ancient Egyptian device: boats were rolled across the isthmus on logs, as the Egyptians had rolled blocks of granite to make their pyramids.

Instead, the device for doing the correlation computations was to be an optical correlator.

Instead, he is a metaphorical representation of Will's mother, a device he used to cope with the loss that apparently occurred several years before the trip ( rather than alive and in contact with Will as in his version ).

Instead of having the strings hit by the fingers or a pick, they are moved by the electromagnetic field created by the device, producing a sound reminiscent of using a bow on the strings.

Instead, he receives instructions and parts to build a complex communication device called an interocitor.

" Instead, equating anti-monarchism with patriotism, they desire a Canadian citizen to act as head of state, and promote the national flag and / or the " country " as a more fitting locus of allegiance.

Instead it has purchased US delivery systems for UK use, fitting them with warheads designed and manufactured by the UK's Atomic Weapons Establishment and its predecessor.

Instead, a street elbow has a female fitting ( hub or FIP ) on one end and a male pipe or MIP fitting on the other end.

Instead of the cradle trunnions fitting to the fixed carriage they were mounted in a rotating saddle fitted to the trail.

Instead, they pioneered an approach to a study of long-term historical structures ( la longue durée ) over events and political transformations.

Instead they focused on regions in France over long stretches of time.

Instead of seeing it as a fair system under which ' everyone ' has equal rights, they saw it as the numerically preponderant poor tyrannizing over the rich.

Instead, the ratio of the speed of the wind and that of the cups, the anemometer factor, depends on the dimensions of the cups and arms, and may have a value between two and a little over three.

Instead, the phrase appears to have originated in the early 19th century United States ( particularly in the sense " pull oneself over a fence by one's bootstraps "), to mean an absurdly impossible action, an adynaton.

Instead of creating a unique title screen for the movie, as had been done with the previous international versions of Godzilla films, the international title for the film was simply superimposed over the Japanese title.

Instead, the Reichsgut was increasingly pawned to local dukes, sometimes to raise money for the Empire, but more frequently to reward faithful duty or as an attempt to establish control over the dukes.

Instead of focusing on talking to the Turks, Ribbentrop and Papen became entangled in a feud over Papen's demand that he by-pass Ribbentrop and send his dispatches straight to Hitler.

Instead the UIM took over the series ' management and renamed it Powerboat GPS ( Grand Prix of the Sea ), continuing the championship.

Instead of aiming to gain land from non-Muslims, Orhan took over a Turkish principality, Karesi ( present Balikesir and surrounds ).

Instead, over time, the species wobbles about its phenotypic mean.

Instead, Joachim Åkerman, the head of the School of Mining in Falun and a former professor of chemistry at KTH, took over.

Instead, the name Seattle Seahawks (" Seahawk ", another name for Osprey ) was selected on June 17, 1975 after a public naming contest which drew more than 20, 000 entries and over 1, 700 different names.

Instead, physics has proceeded by a series of " successive approximations " allowing more and more accurate predictions over a wider and wider range of phenomena.

Instead, by entering the Union, Texas was found to have surrendered control over the water and the soil under it to Congress.

Instead, the cosmological constant gradually diminishes over many cycles to the small value observed today.

Instead, a simpler transient encoding technique called gain control is used, in which the gain of different subbands is varied during a transient prior to MDCT and then restored during decoding after the inverse MDCT to try to smooth over transients.

Instead, they were shot, the only survivor being a small girl who had a cape thrown over her to conceal her.

Instead of taking over key people, they have absorbed the entire human population of the occupied territory.

Instead of making the dominion of Wessex over Mercia seem like a conquest, Alfred married Æthelflæd to Æthelred of Mercia and gave his son-in-law the title Ealdorman or Earl of Mercia, thus allowing some ongoing autonomy.

Instead of asking what constitutes the specificity of European thought he asks what constitutes the differences developed within it and over time.

Instead, the male lyrebird's tail is fanned over the lyrebird during courtship display, with the tail completely covering his head and back — as can be seen in the image at the top of this page, where the Superb Lyrebird's tail ( in courtship display ) is portrayed accurately.

Instead, junior senators from the majority party are designated acting president pro tempore to preside over the Senate.