Since it is the master that chooses which slave to address, whereas a slave is ( in theory ) supposed to listen in each receive slot, being a master is a lighter burden than being a slave.

As her vehicle toward that end, she chooses Will, a gentle and illiterate master shoemaker working in Hobson's basement.

After the drow retreat from their assault on Mithral Hall, due to the instability that would likely plague House Baenre after the disastrous failed conquest of Mithral Hall ( and the likelihood that Triel would soon give birth to a son she would groom to replace Berg ' inyon as the weapons master, which among the drow would likely mean Berg ' inyon's death ), Berg ' inyon chooses to accept Jarlaxle's offer to join Bregan D ' aerthe as a lieutenant of the renegade drow band.

Josh eventually chooses Azalea and pairs off Selena with a senior master sergeant.

With him, rigid and orthodox but no crowd master, the Church chooses isolation.

They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.

He chose a medieval legend of incest, Gregorius Vom Stein, and freely borrowed and parodied other myths of the West, mixing themes, language, peoples and times in a master myth in which the old forms continually renew themselves, as in his previous treatment of Joseph.

A true university, like most successful marriages, is a unity of diversities Without forcing all components into a single pattern, the preparation of a master plan is an opportunity to consider interrelation of knowledge at its highest level, which a university -- in contrast to a multiversity -- should stand for.

And like this English master, Mason realizes his subjects in large, simplified masses which, though they seem effortless, are in reality the result of skilled design born of hard work and a thorough distillation of the natural form that inspired them.

At the same time, however, I availed myself of the services of that great English actor and master of make-up, Sir Gauntley Pratt, to do a `` quickie '' called The Mystery of the Mad Marquess, in which I played a young American girl who inherits a haunted castle on the English moors which is filled with secret passages and sliding panels and, unbeknownst to anyone, is still occupied by an eccentric maniac.

In Psalm 27: 1 you read those beautiful words which you must have in your heart if you are to master the fears that surround you, or to drive them out if they have you in their grip: `` The Lord is my light and my salvation ; ;

The young Ampère, however, soon resumed his Latin lessons, which enable him to master the works of Leonhard Euler and Daniel Bernoulli.

Two of Ammonius's students-Origen the Pagan, and Longinus-seem to have held philosophical positions which were closer to Middle Platonism than Neoplatonism, which perhaps suggests that Ammonius's doctrines were also closer to those of Middle Platonism than the Neoplatonism developed by Plotinus ( see the Enneads ), but Plotinus does not seem to have thought that he was departing in any significant way from that of his master.

He is by no means an impartial source: he is prejudiced against the Saracens, against the French, and against all the rivals or enemies of his master, including the Polein party which supported Conrad of Montferrat against Guy of Lusignan.

This master returned to Venice, where he soon afterwards died ; but by the high terms in which he spoke of his pupil to Falier, the latter was induced to bring the young artist to Venice, whither he accordingly went, and was placed under a nephew of Torretto.

The 9th-10th century master of the religious system known as " the nondual Shaivism of Kashmir " ( or " Kashmir Shaivism ") and aesthetician, Abhinavagupta brought rasa theory to its pinnacle in his separate commentaries on the Dhvanyāloka, the Dhvanyāloka-locana ( translated by Ingalls, Masson and Patwardhan, 1992 ) and the Abhinavabharati, his commentary on the Nātyashāstra, portions of which are translated by Gnoli and Masson and Patwardhan.

Alexander was also one of the first scholastics to participate in the Quodlibetal, a university event in which a master had to respond to any question posed by any student or master over a period of three days.

He is regarded as the " first master of the desert and the pinnacle of holy monks ", however, and there are monastic communities of the Maronite, Chaldean, and Orthodox churches which state that they follow his monastic rule.

Packet exchange is based on the basic clock, defined by the master, which ticks at 312. 5 µs intervals.

The Bluetooth Core Specification provides for the connection of two or more piconets to form a scatternet, in which certain devices simultaneously play the master role in one piconet and the slave role in another.

In 1979, the title to the landfill was transferred from the city to the Battery Park City Authority, which financially restructured itself and created a new, more viable master plan, designed by Alex Cooper and Stanton Eckstut.

Intent on learning the secrets of Wudang fighting style, she poisons Li Mu Bai's master and steals a manual to learn Wudang fighting on her own, which sets in motion the events of the film.

Goldoni gave to his country a classical form, which, though it has since been cultivated, has yet to be cultivated by a master.

Their art, though varying in style and technique, was the antithesis of the type of Academic art in which Beaux was trained and of which her teacher William-Adolphe Bouguereau was a leading master.

The gift was a beautiful young slave girl, but Abd al-Rahman humbly returned her to her previous master.

Inspired by the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus ( 251 – 183 BC ), specifically Pseudolus, Miles Gloriosus and Mostellaria, the musical tells the bawdy story of a slave named Pseudolus and his attempts to win his freedom by helping his young master woo the girl next door.

* Pseudolus: A Roman slave, owned by Hero, who seeks to win his / her freedom by helping his / her young master win the heart of Philia.

In the simple case of single-slot packets the master transmits in even slots and receives in odd slots ; the slave, conversely, receives in even slots and transmits in odd slots.

Packets may be 1, 3 or 5 slots long but in all cases the master transmit will begin in even slots and the slave transmit in odd slots.

The devices can switch roles, by agreement, and the slave can become the master ( for example, a headset initiating a connection to a phone will necessarily begin as master, as initiator of the connection ; but may subsequently prefer to be slave ).

Being a master of seven slaves is possible ; being a slave of more than one master is difficult.

The active method makes use of a specially constructed message that must be inserted at a specific point in the protocol, to make the master and slave repeat the pairing process.

Chuck D stated that rap is devolving so much into a commercial enterprise, that the relationship between the rapper and the record label is that of slave to a master.

A concubinus was a young male slave chosen by his master as a sexual partner.

An authoritative name server can either be a master server or a slave server.

A slave server uses an automatic updating mechanism of the DNS protocol in communication with its master to maintain an identical copy of the master records.

A master Bluetooth device can communicate with a maximum of seven devices in a piconet ( an ad-hoc computer network using Bluetooth technology ), though not all devices reach this maximum.

At any given time, data can be transferred between the master and one other device ( except for the little-used broadcast mode ).

This can be accomplished by using a generator that generates both black burst and video-resolved word clock, or by synchronizing the master digital device to video, and synchronizing all subsequent devices to the word clock output of the master digital device ( and to LTC ).

* Always put slowest device as a master

The first Bluetooth device in the piconet is the master, and all other devices are slaves that communicate with the master.

In G. hn, a " master " device allocates " Contention-Free Transmission Opportunities " ( CFTXOP ) to other " slave " devices in the network.

A tape recorder, digital audio editor, or other device that is online is one whose clock is under the control of the clock of a synchronization master device.

When the sync master commences playback, the online device automatically synchronizes itself to the master and commences playing from the same point in the recording.

When a large number of devices are connected to a sync master it is often convenient, if one wants to hear just the output of one single device, to take it offline because, if the device is played back online, all synchronized devices have to locate the playback point and wait for each other device to be in synchronization.

A master interface can be used by the device to perform DMA transactions to / from system memory without heavily loading the CPU.

Any device on the bus could be a master or a slave, and a protocol is defined for selecting which one a device should use under any particular circumstance.

# Although conceptually a single-master bus, a slave device that supports the " host notify protocol " acts as a master to perform the notification.

A is the UPnP-server ( a ' master ' device ) that provides media library information and streams media-data ( like audio / video / picture / files ) to UPnP-clients on the network.

* Cable select, an ATA device setting for automatic master / slave configuration