When the PC starts up, the first job for the BIOS is the power-on self-test, which initializes and identifies system devices such as the CPU, RAM, video display card, keyboard and mouse, hard disk drive, optical disc drive and other hardware.

When there are no enemy discs on the board, many ( but not all ) rules also state that a player must shoot for the centre of the board, and a shot disc must finish either completely inside the 15-point guarded ring line, or ( depending on the specifics of the rules ) be inside or touching this line.

When playing without this rule, a player may generally make any shot desired, and as long as a disc remains completely inside the outer line of the playfield, it remains on the board.

When the clutch locked up the driven mechanism coasted and its inertia rotated the disc until a tooth on it engaged a pawl that kept it from reversing.

When the disc is stuck above ground ( including on top of baskets and those that land in the wrong basket ) are to be marked on the ground directly below the disc.

When the disc is being handled on their side of the field the two receivers make a series of tight cuts around the handler quickly moving the disc up the field in short increments.

When the handler with the disc does dump, the two defensive players slide over to cover them in the same way.

When used by an actor, musician, radio disc jockey, model or other performer a pseudonym is called a stage name, or, occasionally, a professional name, or screen name.

When watching a film that exceeds 74 minutes, which is the maximum video capacity of one disc, a viewer would have to stand up and change the disc upon reaching half-way ( unless the discs are played on a VCD changer that could hold multiple discs as well as playing them automatically in succession ), whereas a single VHS can hold 3½ hours of continuous video.

When a disc becomes full, the recorder can simply slot track data into sections where erased tracks reside.

When a male is courting a female, he will follow her closely, biting at her pectoral disc.

When the disc made initial contact with the friction surface, the balls would be forced up the holes forcing the discs further apart and augmenting the braking energy.

When the thicker section of the disc passes between the pads, the pads will move apart and the brake pedal will raise slightly ; this is pedal pulsation.

When the hotter sections of the discs reach extremely high temperatures ( 1200 – 1300 degrees Fahrenheit ), the carbon within the cast iron of the disc will react with the iron molecules to form a carbide known as cementite.

When the brake pedal of a modern vehicle with hydraulic brakes is pushed, ultimately a piston pushes the brake pad against the brake disc which slows the wheel down.

When cutting an outside start disc, a brush could be used to keep it out of the way by sweeping it toward the middle of the disc.

* 2000-88 / When Numbers Get Serious, re-release of 88 w / bonus disc containing various live tracks ( 1987 – 1998 )

When the accretion rate is sub-Eddington and the opacity very high, the standard thin accretion disc is formed.

When the THX Calibrator Blu-ray disc debuted, two new versions of the original Broadway trailer were released.

On Classic Disney: 60 Years of Musical Magic, " Pink Elephants on Parade " is included on the green disc, Baby Mine is on the purple disc, and When I See an Elephant Fly is on the orange disc.

When Gaye's album with his version of Grapevine was released in August 1968 radio disc jockeys were playing the song, so Gordy had it released as a single in November when it went to number one.

" When it first launched-92. 5 Jack-FM operated without disc jockeys in an effort to establish the " Playing What We Want " concept which was new to Toronto.

When it first launched, " Jack FM " operated without disc jockeys in an effort to establish the " Playing What We Want " concept which was new to Toronto.

When several minutes had passed and Curt hadn't emerged from the livery stable, Brenner reentered the hotel and faced Summers across the counter.

When I first came across Samuel Johnson's pronouncement, `` the remedy for the ills of life is palliative rather than radical '', it seemed to me to sum up the profoundest of political and social truths.

When the skies grew dark and thunder rolled across the valley, he was unafraid.

When the light went their way, they went on across the street.

When quoted unqualified, it usually refers to some appropriate average across the spectrum of visible light.

When Grant's spring campaigns turned into bloody stalemates and Union casualties mounted, the lack of military success wore heavily on the President's re-election prospects, and many Republicans across the country feared that Lincoln would be defeated.

When a metal wire is connected across the two terminals of a DC voltage source such as a battery, the source places an electric field across the conductor.

When representatives of Fulham first came across the land, in 1894, it was so overgrown that it took two years to be made suitable for football to be played on it.

When he moved to Salisbury, Allen met Thomas Young, a doctor living and practicing just across the provincial boundary in New York.

When faced with a new circuit, the software first tries to find a steady state solution, that is, one where all nodes conform to Kirchhoff's Current Law and the voltages across and through each element of the circuit conform to the voltage / current equations governing that element.

When a field travels across to different media, the properties of the field change according to the various boundary conditions.

When he began making longer films in 1902, he put a dissolve between every shot, just as Georges Méliès was already doing, and he frequently had the same action repeated across the dissolves.

* When scanning the fluorescent intensity across a plane one has fluorescence microscopy of tissues, cells, or subcellular structures, which is accomplished by labeling an antibody with a fluorophore and allowing the antibody to find its target antigen within the sample.

When the string vibrates, the shape of the crystal is distorted, and the stresses associated with this change produce tiny voltages across the crystal that can be amplified and manipulated.

When he complained, Orwell hit him a crack across the legs with a shooting stick and Heppenstall then had to defend himself with a chair.

" George Fenneman, his radio and TV announcer, good-natured foil, and lifelong friend, often related a story in subsequent years of one of his final visits to Groucho's home: When the time came to end the visit, Fenneman lifted Groucho from his wheelchair, put his arms around his torso, and began to " walk " the frail comedian backwards across the room toward his bed.

When the electric field applied across an insulating substance exceeds in any location the threshold breakdown field for that substance, the insulator suddenly becomes a conductor, causing a large increase in current, an electric arc through the substance.

When, via random mutation across the population, the photosensitive cells happened to have developed on a small depression, it endowed the organism with a better sense of the light's source.

When Bobby came across Mikhail Rasputin he used his mutant abilities on him.

When his longtime companion David Lewis died in 1987, his executor and Whale biographer James Curtis had his ashes interred in a niche across from Whale's.

When in 1999 Moldtelecom became a JSC the company began a rapid upgrade process of all of their equipment and installations across the country.

When she eventually came across the Wiccan religion many years later, she then found that it confirmed her earlier childhood experiences, and that " I never converted in the accepted sense.

When Trotsky arrived in New York in January 1917, Bukharin was the first to greet him ( as Trotsky's wife recalled, " with a bear hug and immediately began to tell them about a public library which stayed open late at night and which he proposed to show us at once " dragging the tired Trotskys across town " to admire his great discovery ").

Thus, personal involvement is linked with public opinion Proverbs that speak to the political disgruntlement include: “ When the Czar spits into the soup dish, it fairly bursts with pride ”; “ If the Czar be a rhymester, woe be to the poets ”; and “ The hen of the Czarina herself does not lay swan ’ s eggs .” While none of these proverbs state directly, “ I hate the Czar and detest my situation ” ( which would have been incredibly dangerous ), they do get their points across.