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In one application, it is actually a benefit: the password-hashing method used in OpenBSD uses an algorithm derived from Blowfish that makes use of the slow key schedule ; the idea is that the extra computational effort required gives protection against dictionary attacks.
As a brute-force method, ray tracing has been too slow to consider for real-time, and until recently too slow even to consider for short films of any degree of quality, although it has been used for special effects sequences, and in advertising, where a short portion of high quality ( perhaps even photorealistic ) footage is required.
Others contend that there never was a golden age of jury trials, but rather that juries in the early nineteenth century ( before the rise of plea bargaining ) were " unwitting and reflexive, generally wasteful of public resources and, because of the absence of trained professionals, little more than slow guilty pleas themselves ," and that the guilty-plea system that emerged in the latter half of the nineteenth century was a superior, more cost-effective method of achieving fair outcomes.
Methadone can provide a method of stable treatment of the symptoms associated with withdrawal and mental anguish, and, with a proper slow taper, can be discontinued after the patient feels he or she is ready, often after a year or more, which gives the addict time to get away from old habits or triggers.
A simple but slow method of verifying the primality of a given number n is known as trial division.
In medieval Europe, the slow crushing of body parts in screw-operated " bone vises " of iron was a common method of torture, and a tremendous variety of cruel instruments were used to savagely crush the head, the knee, the hand, and, most commonly, either the thumb or the naked foot.
Munroe's method of making pencils was painstakingly slow, and in the neighbouring town of Acton, a pencil mill owner named Ebenezer Wood set out to automate the process at his own pencil mill located at Nashoba Brook along the old Davis Road.
After the Industrial Revolution, towing became obsolete when engines were fitted on boats and when railway transportation superseded the slow towing method.
This method of barbecue has a varying duration ( depending on whether a slow cooker or pressure cooker is used ), and is generally slower than regular grilling or baking, but faster than pit-smoking.
A rod effective for trolling should have relatively fast action, as a very " whippy " slow action rod is extremely frustrating to troll with, and a fast action ( fairly stiff ) rod is generally much easier to work with when fishing by this method.
This method would lead to slow, painful, death.
Some foods are surrounded with moisture during baking by placing a small amount of liquid ( such as water or broth ) in the bottom of a closed pan, and letting it steam up around the food, a method commonly known as braising or slow baking.
Boiling can also be a slow method of cooking food.
All were slow, cumbersome, and had problems with the limited computer horsepower of the time, but the mid-to-late-1980s saw a trend towards non-linear editing, moving away from film editing on Movieolas and the linear videotape method ( usually employing 3 / 4 " VCRs ).
However, progress has been slow, and earth shelter construction is often viewed by architects, engineers, and the public alike as an unconventional method of building.
Stewing is suitable for the least tender cuts of meat that become tender and juicy with the slow moist heat method.
This method does not give an easy understanding if a twist rate is relatively slow or fast when bores of different diameters are compared.
Roasting over a slow fire was a customary method.
The division is then done starting from those values so that only a small remainder has to be divided, but the amount of bookkeeping makes this method too slow on most systems.
Another method is to slow the robot ’ s travel speed, thus reducing the speed required for the wrist to make the transition.
In agriculture, a terrace is a leveled section of a hilly cultivated area, designed as a method of soil conservation to slow or prevent the rapid surface runoff of irrigation water.
This method uses very nearly the smallest possible amount of fuel, but is very slow — it can take over a year to travel from Earth to Mars ( fuzzy orbits use even less fuel, but are even slower ).
The method is inherently slow, and is unusable in most automated situations ( i. e., with computers ).

method and interstellar
It has also been proposed that higher frequency signals, such as lasers operating at visible light frequencies, may prove to be a fruitful method of interstellar communication ; at a given frequency it takes surprisingly small energy output for a laser emitter to outshine its local star from the perspective of its target.
However, any such application of time dilation during interstellar travel would require the use of some new, advanced method of propulsion.
RKVs have been proposed as a method of interstellar warfare, especially in settings where faster than light travel or sensors are impossible.
Space hulks may house more than just Genestealers ; other threats aboard can include followers of Chaos ( who do not mind traveling in the Warp ), Warp Daemons, and Orks who use space hulks as their " standard " method of interstellar travel.

method and travel
The subspace radio, best known today from Star Trek and named for the method used in the series for achieving faster-than-light travel, was the most commonly used name for such a faster-than-light communicator in the science fiction of the 1930s to the 1950s.
Public long distance coach networks are also often used as a low-cost method of travel by students or young people travelling the world.
These codes provides a method to link international travel network with internations suppliers.
It is possible to travel from Melilla to Morocco on foot and then further using an ONCF train from nearby Beni Ansar (= Nador Port Railway station ) which is probably the most convenient method of travel to Taourirt, Fez and Casablanca or Tangier.
This new method of propulsion allowed steam ships to travel at a much greater speed without using sails thereby making ocean travel faster.
Buses are a major method of transportation for people and packages, and are the most popular means of long distance travel.
They have also served as a method for time travel.
This concept, called a laser-pushed lightsail, was analyzed by physicist Robert L. Forward in 1989 as a method of Interstellar travel that would avoid extremely high mass ratios by not carrying fuel.
The Star Trek television series used the term " warp drive " to describe their method of FTL travel.
The safari method of hunting was a development of sport hunting that saw elaborate travel in Africa, India and other places in pursuit of trophies.
The TDR method is a transmission line technique, and determines an apparent TDR permittivity ( Ka ) from the travel time of an electromagnetic wave that propagates along a transmission line, usually two or more parallel metal rods embedded in a soil or sediment.
Thus, his response to Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court was to write a similar time travel novel ( Lest Darkness Fall ) in which the method of time travel was rationalized and the hero's technical expertise both set at a believable level and constrained by the technological limitations of the age.
However, there are episodes that seem to contradict this view, or at least to point to a relaxation of it: " Genesis of the Daleks ," where the Time Lords ask the Doctor to prevent the creation of the Daleks or at least change them into a less violent race, " Image of the Fendahl ," where the Time Lords destroyed the fifth planet of Sol and then used a Time Loop to hide all records of its existence, and " Two Doctors ," where the Time Lords enlist the aid of the Doctor to prevent the independent development of their method of time travel.
On long distances, such as Oslo-Bodø and longer, air travel is the by far leading travel method.
Most modern-day pilgrims travel by bus, rarely choosing the old-fashioned method of going by foot.
Slipstream is the primary mode of travel for ships in the Andromeda universe, and the only known method of traveling faster than the speed of light.
Further, slipstream is a non-linear method of travel ; the best and swiftest way to get from Point A to Point B ( though they might be in the same galaxy ) may very well involve hopping to another galaxy entirely.
In practice, different definitions of world circumnavigation are used, in order to accommodate practical constraints depending on the method of travel.
Long before there were roads in this area of the country, the best method of travel was by water.
These night trains are a prime method of travel, with ticket prices quite reasonable by Western standards, and with the distances between the capitals of Moscow and Kiev and many outlying cities being ideal for overnight trips that depart in late evening and arrive at their destinations in the morning.

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