A great many writers are bewitched by the apparently overwhelming advantage an attacker would have if he were to strike with complete surprise using nuclear rockets.

According to the director, the advantage of using this technique was " the incredible amount of interaction between the background, which doesn't exist, and the foreground, which is usually your character ".

There was a flaw in Bernard's version of the game in which players could exploit the casino using fixed dice and taking advantage of the way players can bet with or against the dice thrower.

The readings of the Vatican manuscript were given with more exactness and certainty than had been possible in the earlier editions, and the editor had also the advantage of using the published labours of his colleague and friend Samuel Prideaux Tregelles.

To prevent Charles using this unrest to his own advantage, Plectrude had him imprisoned in Cologne, the city which was destined to be her capital.

Successful development, implementation, use and support of customer relationship management systems can provide a significant advantage to the user, but often there are obstacles that obstruct the user from using the system to its full potential.

In modern design, a system is represented to the greatest advantage as a set of decoupled first order differential equations defined using state variables.

Another advantage of using reinforced concrete structure is that it is more flexible to cope with changes in structural layout, sizes and height according to the site conditions by using table form system.

Counter-Strike received a major technology update and refresh on November 1, 2004 with the release of Counter-Strike: Source, which was heavily updated using Valve's Source game engine to take advantage of more modern graphics and audio hardware.

The advantage of doing this is that then all of the euclidean transformations become linear transformations and can be represented using matrix multiplication.

Babbage was able to take advantage of ideas developed for the analytical engine to make the new difference engine calculate more quickly while using fewer parts.

A direct evaluation of either summation ( above ) requires operations for an output sequence of length N. An indirect method, using transforms, can take advantage of the efficiency of the fast Fourier transform ( FFT ) to achieve much better performance.

An exploit ( from the verb to exploit, in the meaning of using something to one ’ s own advantage ) is a piece of software, a chunk of data, or sequence of commands that takes advantage of a bug, glitch or vulnerability in order to cause unintended or unanticipated behaviour to occur on computer software, hardware, or something electronic ( usually computerised ).

A digital IIR filter can generally approximate a desired filter response using less computing power than a FIR filter, however this advantage is more often unneeded given the increasing power of digital processors.

In 1991 the performance of some Italian teams attracted attention-they had started using Agip's " jungle juice " Formula One fuel, worth an estimated 15 bhp — giving their drivers a significant advantage.

An advantage of writing a narrative using hypertext technology is that the meaning of the story can be conveyed through a sense of spatiality and perspective that is arguably unique to digitally networked environments.

Many advocate using the more recent and nuanced alternate terms when describing criminals and others who negatively take advantage of security flaws in software and hardware.

This type of attack defeats the security provided by HTTPS by changing the < tt > https :</ tt > link into an < tt > http :</ tt > link, taking advantage of the fact that few Internet users actually type " https " into their browser interface: they get to a secure site by clicking on a link, and thus are fooled into thinking that they are using HTTPS when in fact they are using HTTP.

Analog computers had an advantage over early digital computers in that they could be used to solve complex problems using behavioral analogues while the earliest attempts at digital computers were quite limited.

Hannibal capitalized on the eagerness of Varro and drew him into a trap by using an envelopment tactic, which eliminated the Roman numerical advantage by shrinking the combat area.

However, comparison with a rocket vehicle using similar construction techniques failed to show much advantage, and funding for the vehicle ceased.

Funds using a " short bias " strategy take advantage of declining equity prices using short positions.

This method continued even when cathode ray tubes were manufactured as rounded rectangles ; it had the advantage of being a single number specifying the size, and was not confusing when the aspect ratio was universally 4: 3.

Impressionists took advantage of the mid-century introduction of premixed paints in lead tubes ( resembling modern toothpaste tubes ), which allowed artists to work more spontaneously, both outdoors and indoors.

This method continued even when cathode ray tubes were manufactured as rounded rectangles ; it had the advantage of being a single number specifying the size, and was not confusing when the aspect ratio was universally 4: 3.

Although somewhat inconvenient, an advantage of the spaceframe is that the same lack of bending forces in the tubes that allow it to be modelled as a pin-jointed structure also means that such a removable section need not reduce the strength of the assembled frame.

Their advantage over flued boilers with a single large flue is that the many small tubes offer far greater heating surface area for the same overall boiler volume.

An advantage of this type of boat compared with similar-sized rigid boats is that the inflated tubes make the boat very stable during the entry and exit of the divers.

Sacrifice will have to be made in some cases, but it is to the municipality's advantage to finance the change-over for a short period of time rather than pay interest on tax anticipation notes indefinitely.

Various factors in the setting can still be of great advantage in making the first intercourse a good rather than a bad memory for one or both.

`` The primary objective of non-violence '', writes the outstanding Mennonite ethicist, `` is not peace, or obedience to the divine will, but rather certain desired social changes, for personal, or class, or national advantage ''.

The primary advantage of AGP over PCI is that it provides a dedicated pathway between the slot and the processor rather than sharing the PCI bus.

Some consider it an advantage of the Kimball method, that the data warehouse ends up being " segmented " into a number of logically self-contained ( up to and including The Bus ) and consistent data marts, rather than a big and often complex centralized model.

Perennialists freely acknowledge that any particular selection of great books will disagree on many topics ; however, they see this as an advantage, rather than a detriment.

The theory of comparative advantage argues that in an unrestricted marketplace ( in equilibrium ) each source of production will tend to specialize in that activity where it has comparative ( rather than absolute ) advantage.

Although Maria had well-off kin, they were concerned with protecting their own inheritances and taking advantage of investment opportunities rather than settling their mother's estate so Maria's family would be more secure with Herman's younger brother, Thomas Melville, who eventually became a governor of Sailors Snug Harbor.

Taking advantage of liberalization by the unpopular ruling leftist / nationalist FLN regime, it used its preaching to advocate the establishment of a legal system following Sharia law, education in Arabic rather than French, and gender segregation, with women staying home to alleviate the high rate of unemployment among young Algerian men.

Indeed, in these countries, a jury trial is seen as a failing of some foreign legal system rather than an advantage ; this is despite the fact that both nations are common law countries.

The first few seasons of the series were rather even, with the Cardinals holding a slight advantage with a 14 – 13 record through the 2003 season.

Taking advantage of the flexibility of MUD server software, some MUDs are designed for educational purposes rather than gaming or chat.

Such models have the advantage that they can express the relative certainty of many different possible answers rather than only one, producing more reliable results when such a model is included as a component of a larger system.

Because the act of folding a losing hand rather than showing it down is so common, some players can take advantage of others who do this with a rare play called a call-bluff.

While English law recognised simony as an offence, it treated it as merely an ecclesiastical matter, rather than a crime, for which the punishment was forfeiture of the office or any advantage from the offence and severance of any patronage relationship with the person who bestowed the office.

The major advantage of this approach is the complete sequencing set can be performed in a single reaction, rather than the four needed with the labeled-primer approach.

The advantage of this method of " encryption " is that no ' signal ' is sent, but rather envelopes of the bandpass filters.

The Zeppelin company tended to use spark-ignition engines fuelled by Blaugas, a form of Naphtha, named after its inventor, Dr. Hermann Blau rather than its colour, which had the advantage of being stored in a gaseous state at roughly the same density as air, resolving issues of buoyancy and trim found when using liquid fuels.

Many have questioned the evolution of overt menstruation in humans and related species, speculating on what advantage there could be to losing blood associated with dismantling the endometrium rather than absorbing it, as most mammals do.

* Another advantage, important in satellite ground antennas, is that because the feed antenna is directed forward, rather than backward toward the dish as in a front-fed antenna, the spillover sidelobes caused by portions of the beam that miss the secondary reflector are directed upwards toward the sky rather than downwards towards the warm earth.

This means that an advantage of keeping documents in digital form rather than on paper is that they can be more easily searched for specific contents.

Most of the popular open source ORBS, such as TAO and JacORB also support bidirectional GIOP, which gives CORBA the advantage of being able to use callback communication rather than the polling approach characteristic of web service implementations.

An important advantage of standard gauge is that standard railway maintenance equipment can be used on it, rather than custom-built machinery.