It was widely read ; though it was undoubtedly a piece of Arnulfing work, and its biases cause it to mislead ( for instance, concerning the two decades between the controversies surrounding mayors Grimoald the Elder and Ebroin: 652-673 ).

However, the meaning of the RTL is more-or-less independent of the target: it would usually be possible to read and understand a piece of RTL without knowing what processor it was generated for.

A disk drive can move to any position on the disk in a few milliseconds, but a tape drive must physically wind tape between reels to read any one particular piece of data.

One particularly memorable piece of tabloidesque worldplay parody, involving a fictional plot to assassinate Paul McCartney by a disgruntled former roadie, read ' Mop Top Pot Shot Plot Flops ', or with a gonad-focussed violent encounter with Mr T and a 70's playground toy, ' BA Baracus in Macca's clackers knackers fracas '.

Austen biographer Claire Tomalin speculates that Austen may have begun this book, which is more explicitly comic than her other works and contains many literary allusions that her parents and siblings would have enjoyed, as a family entertainment — a piece of lighthearted parody to be read aloud by the fireside.

In general, mail is read by a multiline optical character reader ( MLOCR ) that almost instantly determines the correct ZIP + 4 code from the address and — along with the even more specific delivery point — sprays a Postnet bar code on the face of the mail piece that corresponds to 11 digits — nine for the ZIP + 4 code and two for the delivery point.

Lucretia Mott read a humorous newspaper piece written by her sister Martha Wright in which Wright questioned why, after an overworked mother completed the myriad daily tasks that were required of her but not of her husband, she was the one upon whom written advice was " so lavishly bestowed.

The term " interpreter " often referred to a piece of unit record equipment that could read punched cards and print the characters in human-readable form on the card.

Because IRAM, XRAM, and PMEM ( read only ) all have an address 0, C compilers for the 8051 architecture provide compiler-specific pragmas or other extensions to indicate where a particular piece of data should be stored ( i. e. constants in PMEM or variables needing fast access in IRAM ).

Though many have read the play as having a strong anti-Nazi sentiment, the fact that the Vichy Regime allowed the piece to be performed without censure testifies to the fact that it was potentially seen as supportive of the occupation in its time.

Which isn ’ t something you can say for much of his other work — Variety ' is the most user-friendly piece of his I ’ ve read.

" After being read the list of revisions made to the piece, Ward acknowledged that the minor changes should not have qualified it as an eligible work, but he said that " the list you had here was not available to us, and we did not discuss it.

In the 1930s Beckett read Wolfgang Köhler ’ s book, The Mentality of Apes about the colony of apes in Tenerife, where experiments were conducted in which the apes also placed cubes on top of another in order to reach a banana ” and is clearly referenced in this piece.

' So I called my brother, and I'm like, ' You gotta come over and read a piece of your book in this song.

The note inside appeared to also be computer-generated, and was pasted on a blank piece of paper ; it read, " All three schools will be blown out on Thursday, Sept. 20th at 11: 30 a. m., with two other schools in near by towns.

It is described by Glyn Jones in The Dragon Has Two Tongues as a " staggering and accomplished piece of literary hokum " ( p. 51 ), " a book Jones finds impossible to take seriously, though much of it read with absorption " ( p. 53 ).

The piece succeeded, and Quinault followed it up, but he also read for the bar ; and in 1660, when he married a widow with money, he bought himself a place in the Cour des Comptes.

In 1949, part of the script for the War of the Worlds was read out over the radio in Quito, Ecuador without announcement, as if it were a major piece of breaking news.

It's an instrumental piece with a poem read over the music about a clown who accidentally discovers the bloodlust of the crowds and eventually kills himself in performance, as a major source of inspiration for the movie.

According to drummer and bandleader Daniel Denis, all members read the short story in the studio and promptly improvised the piece.

The style obtained for the poem's author, even among the ancients, the title of " obscure "; one modern scholar says the Alexandra " may be the most illegible piece of classical literature, one which nobody can read without a proper commentary and which even then makes very difficult reading.

Grove's musical analyses avoided all hint of technical jargon and tried to make to clear everyone who read them what, in Grove's opinion, listeners should be aware of in each piece.

When Tokugawa Ieyasu was on his deathbed, Masamune visited him and read him a piece of Zen poetry.

* Writing on the purely superficial westernization of Russian intellectuals in his travel journalism Winter Notes on Summer Impressions, Dostoevsky writes: ' There is no soil, we say, and no people, nationality is nothing but a certain system of taxation, the soul is a tabula rasa, a small piece of wax out of which you can readily mould a real man, a world man or a homunculus – all that must be done is to apply the fruits of European civilisation and read two or three books ’

I suppose you don't know anything about a piece of two-by-four, either ; ;

I started looking on the splintery truck bed for a piece of board, a dirt clod -- anything I could throw and with better aim than I had thrown the beer bottle.

I saw a piece the other day assailing William Buckley, author of Man And God at Yale and publisher of The National Review, as no conservative at all, but an old liberal.

Now, if you don't mind, I should like to hear my own piece performed ''.

`` Finally, all I needed was to throw a little piece of red wood that looked like a firecracker and that dumb dog would run ki-yi-ing for his life ''.

`` Why, I couldn't even cook a piece of antelope steak ; ;

I clamped a 30-inch piece of aluminum to the base of the planer with a pair of Sure Grips.

I took the piece of pipe from Charlie's hand and used it, harder than he had.

If I could put your body in an imaginary atomic press and squeeze you down, squeeze these holes out of you in the way we squeeze the holes out of a sponge, you would get smaller and smaller until finally when the last hole was gone, you would be smaller than the smallest speck of dust that you could see on this piece of paper.

Having been told what the plant produced, Whorf wrote a chemical formula on a piece of paper, saying to the director: " I think this is what you're doing ".

is probably the most important piece of film I ’ ve ever done .”

The sword pierces a piece of paper on which is written ‘ I vote the death of the tyrant ’, and as a tribute at the bottom right of the picture David placed the inscription ‘ David to Le Peletier.

Jones said of that night, " I watched the Beatles from the side of the stage, I saw the girls going crazy, and I said to myself, this is it, I want a piece of that.

I am not given to dogmatic judgments in the matter of literary creation, but if I had to make one I could say that Ecclesiastes is the greatest single piece of writing I have ever known, and the wisdom expressed in it the most lasting and profound.

The piece has enjoyed a number of major revivals, and several of its songs have become standards, including " Broadway Baby ", " I'm Still Here ", " Too Many Mornings ", " Could I Leave You?

In an autobiographical piece that Orwell sent to the editors of Twentieth Century Authors in 1940, he wrote: " The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence.

Gilbert said, " I cannot give you a good reason for our ... piece being laid in Japan.