When asked later why he had stopped writing about Greek poetry, he responded, " I found that I could not attain to excellence in both.

When writing the scientific name of an organism, it is proper to capitalize the first letter in the genus and put all of the specific epithet in lowercase.

When the Greek astronomer Ptolemy's Almagest was translated from Greek to Arabic, the translator Johannitius ( following Alberuni ) did not know the Greek word and rendered it as the nearest-looking Arabic word, writing العصى ذات الكلاب in ordinary unvowelled Arabic text " al -` aşā dhāt al-kullāb ", which means " the spearshaft having a hook ".

When the Arabic text was translated into Latin, the translator Gerard of Cremona ( probably in Spain ) mistook the Arabic word كلاب for kilāb ( the plural of كلب kalb ), meaning " dogs ", writing hastile habens canes (" spearshaft having dogs ").

When Harley was ousted from the ministry in 1708 Defoe continued writing it to support Godolphin, then again to support Harley and the Tories in the Tory ministry of 1710 to 1714.

When his colleague Richard Courant wrote the now classic Methods of Mathematical Physics including some of Hilbert's ideas, he added Hilbert's name as author even though Hilbert had not directly contributed to the writing.

When Martin Gardner retired from writing his " Mathematical Games " column for Scientific American magazine, Hofstadter succeeded him in 1981 – 1983 with a column entitled Metamagical Themas ( an anagram of " Mathematical Games ").

When writing solo passages for the bass in orchestral or chamber music, composers typically ensure the orchestration is light so it doesn't obscure the bass.

When Auckland refused to put the agreement in writing, Dost Mohammad turned his back on the British and began negotiations with Vitkevich.

: When God decreed the Creation He pledged Himself by writing in His book which is laid down with Him: My mercy prevails over My wrath.

When the shell was warmed, milk would turn brown therefore the writing would appear on what looked like blank paper.

When Bosman was sixteen, he started writing short stories for the national Sunday newspaper ( the Sunday Times ).

When either writing through or directly to physical device registers, this may, but not necessarily, cause a real interrupt to occur at the device's central processor unit ( CPU ), if it has one.

" When he was repatriated, he was allowed to keep the manuscript of a book he had been writing, and his pet starling.

When writing to memory, the CPU writes data from MDR to the memory location whose address is stored in MAR.

When Nash wasn't writing poems, he made guest appearances on comedy and radio shows and toured the United States and the United Kingdom, giving lectures at colleges and universities.

When he first started writing songs for the Pixies, Francis says he was listening to nothing but Hüsker Dü, Captain Beefheart, and Iggy Pop ; Other influences associated with Francis include The Gun Club and The Cars.

When writing against Photius, he begged the emperor to send warships and soldiers to enable him to ward off the assaults of the Saracens.

* When writing RPN on paper ( something that some users of RPN may not do ) adjacent numbers need a separator between them.

When she received the news, his mother attempted to contain her sorrow by writing down her feelings in a notebook her husband had been using to take notes on a relativity textbook he had been reading.

When Claudette walked in the room where Dees and Orbison were writing to say she was heading for Nashville, Orbison asked if she had any money.

When they started writing the script, the Coens wrote only 40 pages and then let it sit for a while before finishing it.

When writing about these picturing situations, Wittgenstein used the word " Bild ," which may be translated as " picture " or " model ".

When Beckett started writing he did not have a visual image of Vladimir and Estragon.

# When writing gateway software of any kind, take pains to disturb the data stream as little as possible — and never throw away information unless the recipient forces you to!

When a beam of silver atoms was passed through a specially shaped magnetic field, the beam was split based on the direction of an atom's angular momentum, or spin.

When a chain in which a player owns stock is acquired by a larger chain, players earn money based on the size of the acquired chain.

When AppleNet was cancelled in October, Sidhu led an effort to develop a new networking system based on the AppleBus hardware.

When the current through the device is reversed, the electrodes switch functions, so anode becomes cathode, while cathode becomes anode, as long as the reversed current is applied, with the exception of diodes where electrode naming is always based on the forward current direction.

When debates polarise between techniques, the methods are often referred to by a colour code, based on the colours of the bindings of the two volumes from the first Oxford Conference, where the approaches were first distinguished.

When Quinney states " crime is a social phenomenon " he envisages both how individuals conceive crime and how populations perceive it, based on societal norms.

When using biologically based regenerative practices, this dramatic benefit can be accomplished with no decrease in yields or farmer profits.

When Compaq introduced the first PC based on Intel's new 80386 microprocessor, the Compaq Deskpro 386, in 1986, it marked the first CPU change to the PC platform that was not initiated by IBM.

When DEC introduced the PDP-1, they also mentioned larger machines at 24, 30 and 36-bits, based on the same design.

When Microsoft later set out to develop a gaming console, the X was used as the basis of the name Xbox to indicate that the console was based on DirectX technology.

When, three years later, 3D Realms released Duke Nukem 3D, a tongue-in-cheek science fiction shooter based on Ken Silverman's technologically similar Build engine, id Software had nearly finished Quake, its next-generation game, which mirrored Dooms success for the remainder of the 1990s and significantly reduced interest in its predecessor.

When ephemeris time was first adopted, time scales were still based on astronomical observation, as they always had been.

When the molecules collide, they transfer energy to each other in varying degrees, based on how they collide.

When the mind makes a generalization, it extracts the essence of a concept based on its analysis of similarities from many discrete objects.

When the probability of different events is not independent, the probability of future events can change based on the outcome of past events ( see statistical permutation ).

When the insider buys or sells based upon company owned information, he is violating his obligation to the shareholders.

When the film was released, Snyder reportedly asked how Cagney had so accurately copied his limp, but Cagney himself insisted he had not, having based it on personal observation of other people when they limped: " What I did was very simple.

When released on May 1, 1941, Citizen Kane — based in part on the life of William Randolph Hearst — did not do much business at theaters ; Hearst owned numerous major newspapers, and forbade them to carry advertisements for the film.

When no more reproducible material was available in 2001, Per Sanderhage, the editor of the Danish comic strip agency PIB, negotiated a deal where Ferd ’ nand cartoonist Henrik Rehr would redraw 32 pages loosely based on old magazine clippings for the annual.

When it was established, it was based entirely on the Chinese Kuomintang and was pro Chinese.

When ' millimetres of mercury ' or ' inches of mercury ' are quoted today, these units are not based on a physical column of mercury: they have been given precise definitions that can be expressed in terms of SI units.

When Exxon Corporation merged with Mobil Corporation in 1999, the newly merged company ended enrollment in Mobil Corporation's domestic partner benefits for same-sex partners of employees, and it rescinded formal prohibitions against discrimination based on sexual orientation by removing it from the company's Equal Employment Opportunity policy.

When a plea agreement has been made, the judge's factual basis inquiry is usually perfunctory, and the standard for finding that the plea is factually based is very low.

When the expense of mechanisms to provide QoS is justified, network customers and providers can enter into a contractual agreement termed a service level agreement ( SLA ) which specifies guarantees for the ability of a network / protocol to give guaranteed performance / throughput / latency bounds based on mutually agreed measures, usually by prioritizing traffic.

When the practice of treating certain groups preferentially, or denying rights or benefits to certain groups, based on racial characteristics is institutionalized, it is termed “ institutional racism ”.