For the first time in history the entire world is dominated by two large, powerful nations armed with murderous nuclear weapons that make conventional warfare of the past a nullity.

Certain pianistic traits are common to all five Schnabelian renditions, most notably the `` Schnabel trill '' ( which differs from the conventional trill in that the two notes are struck simultaneously ).

And there is less rhythmic difference between progressive jazz, no matter how progressive, and Dixieland, than there is between two movements of many conventional symphonies.

In The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Poirot operates as a fairly conventional, clue-based detective, depending on logic, which is represented in his vocabulary by two common phrases: his use of " the little grey cells " and " order and method ".

The 1983 revision of the Atari 5200 has two controller ports instead of four, and a change back to the more conventional separate power supply and standard non-autoswitching RF switch.

Although α and − α produce the same differential equation, it is conventional to define different Bessel functions for these two orders ( e. g., so that the Bessel functions are mostly smooth functions of α ).

Where both sides are bidding, 4NT is likely to be a conventional takeout asking partner to help choose one of two or three suits, similar to a lower-level takeout double or cue reply to a double.

For example, he painted two rail-mounted coastal guns, one in conventional style, one countershaded.

Conventional warfare is a form of warfare conducted by using conventional military weapons and battlefield tactics between two or more states in open confrontation.

Were two conventional armies to fight, the loser would have redress in its nuclear arsenal.

Thus, no two nuclear powers have yet fought a conventional war directly, with the exception of brief skirmishes between for example, China and Russia in the 1969 Sino-Soviet conflict and between India and Pakistan in the 1999 Kargil War.

It has two main groups: " straights ", now the minority, emphasize vitalism, innate intelligence and spinal adjustments, and consider vertebral subluxations to be the cause of all disease ; " mixers ", the majority, are more open to mainstream views and conventional medical techniques, such as exercise, massage, and ice therapy.

The conventional account would insert two generations between Áed Find and Domangart: Eochaid mac Echdach, father of Áed Find, who died c. 733, and his father Eochaid.

The conventional view in biology is that there are two major drives in love: sexual attraction and attachment.

Microfluidic fuel cells can use laminar flow to separate the fuel and its oxidant to control the interaction of the two fluids without a physical barrier as would be required in conventional fuel cells.

A standard ATX motherboard will typically have one PCI-E 16x connection for a graphics card, two conventional PCI slots for various expansion cards, and one PCI-E 1x ( which will eventually supersede PCI ).

The complaints of the two main preaching orders of the period, the Dominicans and the Franciscans, against the moral corruption of the Church, to some extent echoed those of the heretical movements, but they were doctrinally conventional, and were enlisted by Pope Innocent III in the fight against heresy.

Despite his criticisms of Eysenck's tough-tender axis, Rokeach also postulated a basic similarity between communism and nazism, claiming that these groups would not value freedom as greatly as more conventional social democrats, democratic socialists and capitalists would, and he wrote that " the two value model presented here most resembles Eysenck's hypothesis.

The conventional roller-ball mouse uses a ball to create this action: the ball is in contact with two small shafts that are set at right angles to each other.

The prerequisites for quantum teleportation are a qubit that is to be teleported, a conventional communication channel capable of transmitting two classical bits ( i. e., one of four states ), and means of generating an entangled EPR pair of qubits, performing a Bell measurement on the EPR pair, and manipulating the quantum state of one of the pair.

The Head Standard sandwiched a conventional wood laminate ski between two thin layers of aluminum sheet on the top and bottom.

This word has two levels of meaning: ( 1 ) on the ideal ( arya ) level, it denotes all of the Buddha ’ s followers, lay or ordained, who have at least attained the level of srotapanna ; ( 2 ) on the conventional ( samvtri ) level, it denotes the orders of the Bhiksus and Bhiksunis ”

Furthermore Denby Transport asserted that two Eco-Links would replace three standard articulated lorries while if limited to the current UK weight limit of 44 tonnes, it was claimed the Eco-Link would reduce carbon emissions by 16 per cent, and could still halve the number of trips needed for the same amount of cargo carried in conventional lorries.

Smallfilms was resultantly able to produce two minutes of film per day, ten times as much as a conventional animation studio, with Postgate moving the cardboard pieces himself, and working his 16mm camera frame-by-frame with a home-made clicker.

ATM defines two different cell formats: UNI ( User-Network Interface ) and NNI ( Network-Network Interface ).

* Milestone Radio: In two separate rounds of license hearings in the 1990s, the CRTC rejected applications by Milestone Radio to launch a radio station in Toronto which would have been Canada's first urban music station ; in both cases, the CRTC instead granted licenses to stations that duplicated formats already offered by other stations in the Toronto market.

With digital terrestrial television ( DTV ) broadcasting, the range of formats can be broadly divided into two categories: high definition television ( HDTV ) for the transmission of high-definition video and standard-definition television ( SDTV ).

Digital video cameras come in two different image capture formats: interlaced and deinterlaced / progressive scan.

The UNIVAC 1100 / 2200 series, introduced in 1962, supported two floating-point formats.

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It was broadcast in two formats ; an edited version shown in the daytime on Toonami and an uncut version shown past midnight as part of Toonami's " Midnight Run.

GIF was one of the first two image formats commonly used on Web sites, the other being the black and white XBM.

There are two different formats for laparoscopic surgery.

MPEG-2 includes a Systems section, part 1, that defines two distinct, but related, container formats.

MFM or GCR were the two most commonly used formats though in theory any run-length limited code could be used.

The North American and European versions include all eight levels while the Japanese release is split between two downloads, mirroring the original release formats for each region respectively.

The APIs are similar ( storeBinary / readBinary ), but the encoding details are different, making these two formats incompatible.

Another criticism of the semantic web is that it would be much more time-consuming to create and publish content because there would need to be two formats for one piece of data: one for human viewing and one for machines.

The Steinsaltz Edition is available in two formats: one with the traditional Vilna page and one without.

Some VCRs have an auto selection between the two formats to provide the highest accuracy.

If there exist four ways to sort images, three choices of thumbnail size, two file formats, and an option to disable user-provided content, then the same set of content can be accessed with 48 different URLs, all of which may be linked on the site.

Though supplanted by the two aforementioned formats, VCDs are still popular, particularly in the low cost market.

The two formats store identical information, so the term SAT file is generally used to refer to either ( when no distinction is needed ).

A photo of a 35 mm film print featuring all four audio formats ( or " quad track ") — from left to right: Sony Dynamic Digital Sound | SDDS ( blue area to the left of the sprocket holes ), Dolby Digital ( grey area between the sprocket holes labelled with the Dolby " Double-D " logo in the middle ), analog optical sound ( the two white lines to the right of the sprocket holes ), and the Digital Theater System | DTS time code ( the dashed line to the far right ).

Because the modern musical tends to be published in two separate but intersecting formats ( i. e., the book and lyrics, with all the words, and the piano-vocal score, with all the musical material, including some spoken cues ), both are needed in order to make a thorough reading of an entire show.

The first two installments are generally available only as HTML, while the last includes all formats supported.

Some works of prose do contain traces of metrical structure or versification and a conscious blend of the two literature formats is known as prose poetry.

The two chief racing formats used in dirt speedway karting are heat races and timed laps qualification: