Michael Atkinson, writing for Sight & Sound, reviewed Aronofsky's endeavor, " It's difficult to recall another American film that, in pursuing a passionate and personal vision, goes so maddeningly, uproariously wrong.

The idea that one butterfly could eventually have a far-reaching ripple effect on subsequent historic events first appears in " A Sound of Thunder ", a 1952 short story by Ray Bradbury about time travel ( see Literature and print here ).

In the Doctor Who episode " The Sound of Drums ", The Master says to the American President, " Anything I could do?

The ADC / DAC, which became known as the " Tandy DAC " in games that supported it, was broadly similar in function to sound devices which connected to the parallel port ( such as the Disney Sound Source ), but unlike those devices it was integrated onto the motherboard, supported DMA transfers and could sample at frequencies up to 48 kHz.

The Matterhorn is a subwoofer model completed in March 2007 by Danley Sound Labs in Gainesville, Georgia after a U. S. military request for a loudspeaker that could project infrasonic waves over a distance.

The Dano-Norwegian Kingdom grew wealthy during the 16th century, largely because of the increased traffic through the Øresund, which Danes could tax because Denmark controlled both sides of the Sound.

In a letter to Francis I, Verrazzano wrote that he was convinced the Sound was the beginning of the Pacific Ocean, from which an access could be gained to China.

Nineteenth-century tourists, arriving by steamer from the mainland, could also choose from a wide range of secular attractions: shops, restaurants, ice cream parlors, dance halls, band concerts, walks along seaside promenades, or swims in the waters of Nantucket Sound.

Throughout the mid-to-late 18th century, the Island was home to a number of especially skilled schooner pilots, who could get smaller ships through the inlet to the Pamlico Sound.

As part of the Washington State Growth Management Act of 1990 ( GMA ), Federal Way, along with other Puget Sound suburban cities have identified Potential Annexation Area's ( PAA's ) as areas of unincorporated King County that they feel could best be serviced by them.

Although the treaty ensured that the Hudson's Bay Company could continue to operate and had free access to navigate the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Puget Sound, and the Columbia, company operations were effectively stifled by the treaty and became unprofitable and were soon closed down.

Owners of previous revision Sound Blaster boards could upgrade their board by purchasing the V2. 00 DSP chip from Creative Labs, and swapping the older DSP with the newer replacement.

Since existing DOS programs expected to be able to initiate host-controlled ISA DMA for producing sound, backward compatibility with the older Sound Blaster cards for DOS programs required a software driver work-around ; since this work-around necessarily depended on the virtual 8086 mode of the PC's CPU in order to catch and reroute accesses from the ISA DMA controller to the card itself, it failed for a number of DOS games that either were not fully compatible with this CPU mode or needed so much free conventional memory that they could not be loaded with the driver occupying part of this memory.

But it is now repaired ... hey could not get a mate for this so a plain ordinary warship is being converted into a second aircraft carrier ..." The information matched damage done to the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, which had seen repairs in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard before being transferred to the Naval Base at San Diego, California.

Sound could be stored in either analog or digital format and in a variety of surround sound formats ; NTSC discs could carry two analog audio tracks, plus two uncompressed PCM digital audio tracks, which were CD encoded channels ( EFM, CIRC, 16-bit and 44. 1 kHz sample rate ).

The first versions of the Dash 7 could support flights from the Island to smaller centers, such as Sarnia, Kingston, Peterborough and Owen Sound, with a larger version able to support flights to larger centers such as London, North Bay, Ottawa and Windsor.

Some of the first images taken by Lauterbur included those of a clam his daughter had collected on the beach at the Long Island Sound, green peppers and two test tubes of heavy water within a beaker of ordinary water ; no other imaging technique in existence at that time could distinguish between two different kinds of water.

The Wall of Sound fulfilled the band's desire for a distortion-free sound system that could also serve as its own monitoring system.

Titled Viata Noastra ( Our Life ), recording sessions for the album started in 2003 at the Ines Sound and Video studios in Bucharest and carried on throughout 2004 before being halted so the group could work on the " Băieţi buni " ( Good Guys ) soundtrack.

When Cantelon could no longer finish the project, Jones picked it up as her own record and hired Rob Schnaf to finish the production at Sunset Sound in 2007, and the result was The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard, released on the independent New West Records in February 2007.

In the 1950s, much of what he did could be seen as in the West Coast style: performing in tightly arranged compositions in what was a cool style, as in his 1953 album named The West Coast Sound, for which he commissioned several original compositions.

As older maps confirm, Spanish authorities and local residents were well aware where the actual northern terminus of the Gulf of California lay, but by extending the coastline north past Cape Mendocino and eventually even into Puget Sound, Drake's claim of Nova Albion for England ( 1579 ) could be invalidated by the priority of Cortes ' claim ( 1533 ).

He suggests that the Muirbolcmar ( great sea bag ) referred to in texts about Hinba could refer to the Seil Sound and narrows at Clachan Bridge where the " bag " captures the rapidly flowing water that floods under the bridge and also argues for this location on etymological grounds.

From the hilltop in North Stratford, now Abraham Nichols Park, one could easily see for seventy miles past Long Island Sound to New York and beyond.

Roger Ebert considers it to be the finest film on the Vietnam war and included it on his list for the 2002 Sight and Sound poll for the greatest movie of all time.

By late March or early April, the returning animals can be seen from Everett, Washington, to Puget Sound to Canada.

There are movements for considering Malmö as part of the Copenhagen metropolitan area or an even larger metropolitan area, which would be called Örestad in Swedish and Ørestad in Danish, since it would consist of all the towns around the Sound.

Sound pressure can be measured using a microphone in air and a hydrophone in water.

Carved by glaciers, Somes Sound is considered to be the only fjord on the eastern seaboard and reaches depths of.

Sound modules are typically designed to be mounted in a 19-inch rack.

It is separated from mainland Orkney by the Eynhallow Sound, and, like its neighbours Egilsay and Wyre, can be reached by a ro-ro ferry ( MV Eynhallow ) from Tingwall, on the mainland of Orkney, which takes 20 – 25 minutes.

Although the British Army had established a base at King George Sound ( later Albany ) on the south coast of western Australia in 1826 in response to rumours that the area would be annexed by France, Perth was the first full-scale settlement by Europeans in the western third of the continent.

Sound functionality can also be integrated onto the motherboard, using basically the same components as a plug-in card.

Sound changes can be environmentally conditioned, meaning that the change in question only occurs in a defined sound environment, whereas in other environments the same speech sound is not affected by the change.

Sound change is usually assumed to be regular, which means that it is expected to apply mechanically whenever its structural conditions are met, irrespective of any non-phonological factors ( such as the meaning of the words affected ).

In May of that year, Royal Navy officers and members of Vancouver's expedition, Joseph Whidbey and Peter Puget, began to map and explore the areas of what would later be named Puget Sound.

The user interface ( UI ) for Audio Compression Manager may be accessed through various programs that use it, including Sound Recorder in some versions of Windows.

Sound effects are often custom recorded for each project, but to save time and money a recording may be taken from a library of stock sound effects ( such as the famous Wilhelm scream ).

Meyer Sound suggests that its 650-R2 Concert Series Subwoofer, a enclosure with two 18-inch drivers, can be used for bass instrument amplification.

Second was the discovery of Smith Sound, by which the North Pole would eventually be reached.

Third was the discovery of Lancaster Sound, through which the Northwest Passage would eventually be found three centuries later.

Sound dampening enclosures may have to be used in quiet environments.

The area began to be served by a small fleet of steamboats known as the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet.

It was the last region in the Canadian High Arctic to be depopulated during the " Little Ice Age ," attesting to its general economic importance as part of the Smith Sound culture sphere of which it was occasionally a part and sometimes the principal settlement component.

First-person narrators can also be multiple, as in Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's In a Grove ( the source for the movie Rashomon ) and Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury.

First person narrators are often unreliable narrators since a narrator might be impaired such as Benjy in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury ), lie ( as in The Quiet American by Graham Greene, or The Book of the New Sun series by Gene Wolfe ), or manipulate his or her own memories intentionally or not ( as in The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, or in Ken Keasey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ).

" De Forest's process continued to be used through 1927 in the United States for dozens of short Phonofilms ; in the UK it was employed a few years longer for both shorts and features by British Sound Film Productions, a subsidiary of British Talking Pictures, which purchased the primary Phonofilm assets.

By 1663, activists from Virginia persuaded the Virginia Assembly to declare that the Virginia-Maryland border to be 30 miles north of the Pocomoke Sound, at the mouth of the Wicomico River ; and ordered the securing of allegiance of all settlers south of the Wicomico River-including the Annemessex and Manokin settlements-to Virginia.