Such computers are more versatile in that they do not need to have their hardware reconfigured for each new program, but can simply be reprogrammed with new in-memory instructions ; they also tend to be simpler to design, in that a relatively simple processor may keep state between successive computations to build up complex procedural results.

For these reasons, rasterization is usually the approach of choice when interactive rendering is required ; however, the pixel-by-pixel approach can often produce higher-quality images and is more versatile because it does not depend on as many assumptions about the image as rasterization.

A prolific and versatile writer, he wrote more than 500 books, pamphlets and journals on various topics ( including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural ).

Though Palestrina represents late Renaissance music well, others such as Orlande de Lassus ( a Franco-Flemish composer who also spent some of his early career in Italy ) and William Byrd were arguably more versatile.

Although clearly a development of the hoplite, the Macedonian phalanx was tactically more versatile, especially used in the combined arms tactics favoured by the Macedonians.

A more versatile method is quartering, division of the field by both vertical and horizontal lines.

However, en route, the convoy is ambushed by Omutan-hired blackhawks, a type of living starship and variant of the voidhawk which is far more versatile in combat than its conventional opponents.

** keyboard-interactive ( RFC 4256 ): a versatile method where the server sends one or more prompts to enter information and the client displays them and sends back responses keyed-in by the user.

As the more versatile combination of a personal computer and separate printer became commonplace, most business-machine companies stopped manufacturing the word processor as a stand-alone office machine.

Later war hammers often had a spike on one side of the head, thus making it a more versatile weapon.

Advances in programming and computer hardware, notably solid modeling in the 1980s, have allowed more versatile applications of computers in design activities.

The Shillelagh was a disappointment compared to the later BGM-71 TOW anti-tank guided missile first produced in 1970 by the U. S. The TOW system, which could not fire gun rounds, and was guided by a wire which directly sent commands to the missile, proved simpler and more versatile.

CAMS is the world ’ s most versatile and productive accelerator mass spectrometry facility, performing more than 25, 000 AMS measurement operations per year.

Many choose to use a more mathematically versatile formulation that utilizes the complex number plane.

At the beginning of the game, it is more important to place pieces in versatile locations rather than to try to form mills immediately and make the mistake of concentrating one's pieces in one area of the board.

Aaton also released the A-Minima, which is about the size of a video camcorder and is used for specialized filming requiring smaller, more versatile cameras.

Therefore more versatile digital clocks are becoming increasingly popular.

In spite of the heroin chic movement, model Claudia Schiffer earned a staggering $ 12 million, proving the industry was more versatile than previous decades. The mid 1990s also saw many Asian countries establishing modeling agencies.

Soldiers soon began employing the bayonet as a knife as well as an attachment for the rifle, and bayonets were oftened shortened officially or unofficially to make them more versatile and easier to use as tools, or to manuever in close quarters.

Donald Freeland of Edmonton, Alberta pioneered the method, which helped to bring denim to a larger and more versatile market.

Smartcards are probably the most widely deployed form of secure cryptoprocessor, although more complex and versatile secure cryptoprocessors are widely deployed in systems such as Automated teller machines, TV set-top boxes, military applications, and high-security portable communication equipment.

He tried to find something easier, so he " dropped the voice down ", and developed it into a more versatile and humorous voice during the second and third season of the half-hour show.

* Programmable logic controller ( PLCs ) used as field devices because they are more economical, versatile, flexible, and configurable than special-purpose RTUs.

Wire is versatile, and wire clothes hangers are often used as cheap sources of semi-tough wire, more available than baling wire for all sorts of home projects.

In connection with our continuing development of new and more efficient mill machinery, a sounder U. S. income tax policy on depreciation of production equipment, enabling the mills to charge off the cost of new machines on a more realistic basis, could, if adopted, have favorable effects on Leesona's business in the next few years.

Basically, the foam machines that produce such stock consist of two or more pumping units, a variable mixer, a nozzle carriage assembly, and, in many cases, a conveyor belt to transport and contain the liquid during the reaction process and until it solidifies into foam.

There were some sweet machines other than women: an old Bugatti, a lean Farina coachwork on an American chassis, a Swallow, a type A40-AjK Mercedes and lots more.

Automated plate-measuring machines and more sophisticated computer technology of the 1960s allowed more efficient compilation of star catalogues.

It was not a Turing complete computer, which distinguishes it from more general machines, like contemporary Konrad Zuse's Z3 ( 1941 ), or later machines like the 1946 ENIAC, 1949 EDVAC, the University of Manchester designs, or Alan Turing's post-War designs at NPL and elsewhere.

It is quite conventional in principle in past and present computing machines of the most varied types, e. g. desk multipliers, standard IBM counters, more modern relay machines, the ENIAC " ( Goldstine and von Neumann, 1946 ; p. 98 in Bell and Newell 1971 ).

The PDP-11 introduced a more contemporary model of general registers, numbered R0-R7 or more, adopted by most later CISC and RISC machines.

The Apple II and TRS-80 each had two versions of BASIC, a smaller introductory version introduced with the initial releases of the machines and a more advanced version developed as interest in the platforms increased.

As of 2011, the BIOS is being replaced by the more complex Extensible Firmware Interface ( EFI ) in many new machines, but BIOS remains in widespread use.

In time, Burroughs was selling more than adding machines, including typewriters.

On large machines, CPUs require one or more printed circuit boards.

Although these encryption methods were more complex than previous schemes and required machines to encrypt and decrypt, other machines such as the British Bombe were invented to crack these encryption methods.

As more detailed knowledge of biology and biochemistry developed, the colloidal theory was replaced by the macromolecular theory, which explains an enzyme as a collection of identical huge molecules that act as very tiny machines, freely moving about between the water molecules of the solution and individually operating on the substrate, no more mysterious than a factory full of machinery.

These machines are self-replicating and, as is found out through the course of the movie, they are quite intelligent and have managed to " evolve " into newer, more dangerous forms, most notably human forms which the real humans in the movie cannot tell apart from other real humans except by trial and error.

Many more machines offered user-programmable writable control stores as an option ( including the HP 2100, DEC PDP-11 / 60 and Varian Data Machines V-70 series minicomputers ).

Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink sold in stores, restaurants, and vending machines in more than 200 countries.

Even on computers with more than one CPU ( called multiprocessor machines ), multitasking allows many more tasks to be run than there are CPUs.