Thirty minutes later, the outrigger grated on sand and other girls, waiting on shore, rushed forward to pull it up on the beach and make it fast with vine ropes to a large boulder.

This video card would also support fast scrolling of high resolution color screens for games, because it had the indirection of the character pointers, so it was possible to quickly scroll the high resolution display, ( or use other effects ) by simply manipulating the 1920 / 1024 bytes of text video instead of the 24. 576 bytes of high resolution video memory.

While suitable media and raw pigments are available for the individual production of acrylic paint, due to the fast drying time and other technical issues, hand mixing may not be practical.

However, there are some Jews, particularly the Spanish and Portuguese Jews, who do hold public readings of the Book of Job on the Tisha B ' Av fast ( a day of mourning over the destruction of the First and Second Temples and other tragedies ).

The contagion spread fast ; everywhere sails were seen unfurling, and towers and other heavy fighting gear going by the board.

In contemporary usage, memory is usually semiconductor storage read-write random-access memory, typically DRAM ( Dynamic-RAM ) or other forms of fast but temporary storage.

Objects beyond the cosmological horizon are moving away so fast that light ( or other electromagnetic radiation ) is unable to reach the observer.

They are fast compared to other objects in the sky, but their movement is usually subtle in the eyepiece of a telescope.

Badgers, on the other hand, are not fast runners, but are well-adapted to digging.

As with other tasks performed in hardware, one would expect this to be rather fast ; however, mainstream operating systems, including Windows and Linux, do not use this feature.

While the Amorphs have the ability to move fast, quietly, and sprout appendages at will, they excel at ' closer-than-melee-range combat, primarily " meme-toxins " against other Amorphs.

The frequent memory accesses for operands of a typical CISC machine may limit the instruction level parallelism that can be extracted from the code, although this is strongly mediated by the fast cache structures used in modern designs, as well as by other measures.

Because this internal 1571 does not have an unused 8-bit input / output port on any chip, unlike most other Commodore drives, it is not possible to install a parallel cable in this drive, such as that used by SpeedDOS, Dolphin DOS and some other fast third-party Commodore DOS replacements.

Gold-doped diodes are faster than other p – n diodes ( but not as fast as Schottky diodes ).

( For example, in computations, it is often convenient to only implement a fast Fourier transform corresponding to one transform direction and then to get the other transform direction from the first.

" His slow motion, fast motion, and other camera techniques were a way to dissect the image, Mikhail Kaufman stated in an interview.

Eggs were originally forbidden during Lent as well as on other traditional fast days in Western Christianity ( this tradition still continues among the Eastern Christian Churches ).

They also see a possibility for standardized, efficient handling of mortgage loan by applying expert systems, appreciating that for the acceptance of mortgages there are hard and fast rules which do not always exist with other types of loans.

Later varieties of French fries include those which have been battered and breaded, and many U. S. fast food and casual-food chains have turned to dusting with kashi, dextrin, and other flavor coatings, for crispier fries with particular tastes.

The success of these Dunkirker vessels influenced the ship design of the Dutch and other navies contending with them but because most regular navies required ships of greater endurance than the Dunkirker frigates could provide, the term was soon applied less exclusively to any relatively fast and elegant sail-only war ship.

Carrying 60 guns, these vessels were as big and capable as ' great ships ' of the time ; however, most other frigates at the time were used as ' cruisers ': independent fast ships.

If the rate of spontaneous emission, or any of the other rates are fast, the lifetime is short.

Early European explorers noted the Chamorros ' fast sailing vessels used for trading with other islands of Micronesia.

Java applets run at very fast speeds comparable to, but generally slower than, other compiled languages such as C ++, but until approximately 2011 many times faster than JavaScript.

On Yom Kippur additional prohibitions are observed similar to the fast of Tisha B ' Av, as detailed in the Jewish oral tradition ( Mishnah tractate Yoma 8: 1 ) because the Torah stipulates that ועניתם את נפשתיכם " and you shall afflict your souls " and the Talmud therefore defines self-imposed " affliction " during Yom Kippur only, as follows:

Euroferries claim they are currently evaluating other alternative fast ferries which they believe will be able to commence service on their proposed route from Dover to Calais and Boulogne during the course of summer 2007, with an additional vessel to commence service during 2008.

In 2009 Gleave was replaced by fast bowler Stephen Oddy from Rochdale who will commence his fourth season as paid man in 2012.

For example, a Browning trap version of the Superposed over/under, the Broadway ( from $350 up, depending on grade ), differs from standard models in that it is equipped with a full beavertail fore end, a cushion recoil pad and a barrel-wide ventilated rib for fast sighting.

She was on the junk, and they slide fast when that happens.

Although she weighed only 108 pounds when she visited him, Carroll permitted her to go on a 10-day fast in which she took nothing but water.

Her mother would be fast asleep curled up against that wonderful, big, safe, solid shoulder next to her on the front seat.

Then hang up fast and come walking on down to the Perrin address.

Even with words coming too fast, they came on the music of the voice.

A bright sun and brisk wind had the track in a fast condition for the first time this week and 8,280 St. Patty Day celebrants bet $842,617 on the well-prepared program.

Both of those have had dynamic run-ups in price on the market in recent months, both were selling at higher price-earnings and yield bases than Morton was coming to market at, and everyone who knew anything about it expected the Morton stock to have a fast run-up.

No human being can write fast enough, or long enough, or small enough † ( †" smaller and smaller without limit ... you'd be trying to write on molecules, on atoms, on electrons ") to list all members of an enumerably infinite set by writing out their names, one after another, in some notation.

The Australians were greatly demoralised by the manner of their second-innings collapse, but fast bowler Fred Spofforth, spurred on by some gamesmanship by his opponents, refused to give in.

AES is based on a design principle known as a substitution-permutation network, and is fast in both software and hardware.

" When I am at Rome, I fast on a Saturday ; when I am at Milan, I do not.

Access to ROM memory occurred at 2 MHz regardless of graphics mode so theoretically programs released on ROM could run at least twice as fast as those released on tape or disc.

The pupils could download software from the teachers computer through a network based on a fast serial connection, as well as sending back their work to the teachers computer.

The emergence of mobile and man-portable radios after World War I had a major impact on artillery because it enable fast and mobile operations with observers accompanying the infantry or armoured troops.

The Abbasid army was fast on his heels, and laid siege to Carmona for approximately two months.

The language was fast enough that an extension called AMOS 3D could produce playable 3D games even on plain 7MHz Amigas.

Brazil's fast growing economy, and especially the growth in exports, will place increasing demands on the transport networks.

The expression " You can't steal first base " is sometimes used in reference to a player who is fast but not very good at getting on base in the first place.