In some cyberpunk writing, much of the action takes place online, in cyberspace, blurring the border between actual and virtual reality.

The modern historian Timothy Barnes takes his official birthday, 22 December, as his actual birthdate.

In this case the actual functionality might be defined in a single generic function, which takes a string and returns the errors.

However, while this may suggest that perceived OBEs are a type of lucid dream which takes place in a dream environment that mimics the actual environment of the dreamer, this falls short of supporting the idea that some conscious form of the dreamer actually leaves the body and perceives their external environment while still in a sleeping state.

Using object oriented programming to model the interactions of 28 categories of molecules including DNA, RNA, proteins, and metabolites, and running on 128-core Linux cluster, the simulation takes 10 hours for a single M. genitalium cell to divide once — about the same time the actual cell takes — and generates half a gigabyte of data.

Although the practice of selling " Chametz " dates back many years, some contemporary rabbinical authorities have come to regard it with disdain – since the supposed " new owner " never takes actual possession of the goods.

It is commonly used in textbooks and scientific publications that are documenting various algorithms, and also in planning of computer program development, for sketching out the structure of the program before the actual coding takes place.

The logical classification of network topologies generally follows the same classifications as those in the physical classifications of network topologies but describes the path that the data takes between nodes being used as opposed to the actual physical connections between nodes.

By instead comparing the radiated power in a given direction to the actual power that the antenna receives from the transmitter, the power gain takes into account that poorer efficiency, making it a more useful figure of merit for the ability of a transmitter in sending a radio wave toward a receiver.

A typical rally course consists of a sequence of relatively short ( up to about ), timed " special stages " where the actual competition takes place, and untimed " transport stages " where the rally cars must be driven under their own power to the next competitive stage within a generous time limit.

In London Below the various familiar names of London all take on a new significance: for example Knightsbridge becomes " Night's Bridge ", a stone bridge whose darkness takes its toll in human life ; The Angel, Islington is an actual angel.

Even though the effort that it takes to pronounce a word does not hold any influence in writing, a word or phrase may be spelled the same as it is spoken, for example, in poetry or in the script for a theatre play, in order to show the actual speech of a character.

E-learning, however, also has implications beyond just the technology and refers to the actual learning that takes place using these systems.

The show takes its name from an actual police term, a " dragnet ", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.

Active probing is advantageous in that the paths returned by probes constitute the actual forwarding path that data takes through networks.

Rewrite men are common at large national magazines, where reporters handle the reporting of the story while a writer takes the material and writes the actual article.

She then takes off her engagement ring and asks Peter to use it to propose to M. J. May is also present alongside Peter when Captain Stacy tells them that Flint Marko, his uncle's " actual " killer, is on the run.

The CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless takes place in a fictional setting also called Genoa City, Wisconsin, which is otherwise unlike and unrelated to the actual village.

Typically, the post-production phase of creating a film takes longer than the actual shooting of the film, and can take several months to complete because it includes the complete editing, color correction and the addition of music and sound.

The actual installation of the tree then takes place in the afternoon or evening.

However, the actual selection process takes place in the summer shortly after the second semester.

The connection between McDowell's general metaphysics and this particular claim about moral properties is that all claims about objectivity are to be made from the internal perspective of our actual practices, the part of his view that he takes from the later Wittgenstein.

The action takes place in and around New York City, New Rochelle, and Atlantic City in the 1900s ( decade ), and includes fictionalized references to actual people and events of the time.

Middletown bases its claim on the general provision of the law that `` all rateable property, both tangible and intangible, shall be taxed to the owner thereof in the town in which such owner shall have had his actual place of abode for the larger portion of the twelve ( 12 ) months next preceding the first day of April in each year ''.

The actual surface becomes both ground and background, and it turns out -- suddenly and paradoxically -- that the only place left for a three-dimensional illusion is in front of, upon, the surface.

Nevertheless, he regards the case in " The Chocolate Box ", which took place in 1893, as his only actual failure of detection.

As if she were weighed down with old age and worn out by grief, she walked slowly and when she approached the actual entrance to the sanctuary made two genuflections ; on the third she sank to the floor and taking firm hold of the sacred doors, cried in a loud voice: " Unless my hands are cuff off, I will not leave this holy place except on one condition: that I receive the emperor's cross as guarantee of safety ".

semantics are very strong: they guarantee that the read and write operations to the variable behave exactly as if they happened instantaneously in some point in time which is within the actual time where the operation took place.

While it was not the actual " Birthplace of Hip Hop " – the genre developed slowly in several places in the 1970s – it was verified to be the place where one of the pivotal and formative events occurred.

" Actuality has taken the place of existence, but Aristotle is no longer seeking to know what the actual is ; he accepts it without question as something generated from the potential.

The actual battle took place in mountainous country north of the town of Adwa.

It leads Hamlet to a secluded place, claims that it is the actual spirit of his father, and discloses that he — the elder Hamlet — was murdered by his brother Claudius pouring poison in his ear.

Nineteenth-century newspaper reports of actual gypsy weddings indicate that they took place in church.

Their first actual multi-song concert billed as Jan and Dean took place in 1978 in New York City at The Palladium as part of the Murray the K Brooklyn Fox Reunion Show.

With his primary heir dead, Henry rearranged the plans for the succession: Richard was to be made King of England, albeit without any actual power until the death of his father ; Geoffrey would retain Brittany ; and John would now become the Duke of Aquitaine in place of Richard.

( This comment seems to be contradicted by data on his actual passport application — on his 1924 passport application, he listed his date of birth as June 2, 1904, and his place of birth as Windbar, Pennsylvania.

The frame lock works in a manner similar to the liner lock but uses a partial cutout of the actual knife handle, rather than a separate liner inside the handle to hold the blade in place.

It was claimed by the United States under the Guano Islands Act of 1856, though little actual mining of guano took place.

However, no actual compression took place, and the information stored in the names of the files was necessary in order to reassemble them in the correct order into the original file, and this information was not taken into account in the file size comparison.

Thomas Hunt Morgan and his assistants later integrated the theoretical model of Mendel with the chromosome theory of inheritance, in which the chromosomes of cells were thought to hold the actual hereditary material, and create what is now known as classical genetics, which was extremely successful and cemented Mendel's place in history.

From April – July, Soviet and German officials made statements regarding the potential for the beginning of political negotiations, while no actual negotiations took place during that time period.

There does not have to be a formal agreement for collusion to take place ( although for the act to be illegal there must be actual communication between companies )– for example, in some industries there may be an acknowledged market leader which informally sets prices to which other producers respond, known as price leadership.

It also contained much material that could be considered background for his other novels, including a detailed description of the protagonist's treatment to avoid being banned to Coventry ( a place in the Heinlein mythos where unrepentant law-breakers are sent to experience actual anarchy ).

The holes themselves don't move, but a neighboring electron can move to fill the hole, leaving a hole at the place it has just come from, and in this way the holes appear to move, and the holes behave as if they were actual positively charged particles.