Without hardware modifications, some " fast loader " utilities managed to achieve speeds of up to 4 kB / s.

Without stack permutation or hardware multithreading, relatively little useful code can be put in between while waiting for the Load B to finish.

Without dedicated audio hardware, digital audio on these machines were usually limited to title screens in games ( at higher sampling rates ) or games which did not feature heavy animation which left enough CPU time to play lower quality samples.

Without hardware support, debuggers have to implement breakpoints in software.

Without any hardware overlays, only one chunk of video memory exists which all applications must share-and the location of a given application's video memory moves whenever the user changes the position of the application's window.

Without ACPI functionality, as seen on older hardware, sleep mode is usually restricted to turning off the monitor and spinning down the hard drive.

Without it, a panel of experts set up to ‘ rationalise production ’, likely closely linked to the cobblers for expertise, would tend to support the cobblers interests in a ‘ conspiracy against the public ’.

Without his support, the senate might have remained too frightened to even meet.

Without naval support, Hamilcar Barca was cut off from Carthage and forced to negotiate peace and agree to evacuate Sicily.

Without support from the nobility, the practice gradually shifted toward abandoned children.

Without a home in either of the two major parties, Tyler sought an issue that could create a viable third party to support his bid for the presidency in 1844.

Without the demand for technicians that mines and railroads supplied, no support was available to keep boilers running.

Without it, there might not have been either That Was the Week That Was or Private Eye magazine, which originated at the same time, and that partially survived due to financial support from Peter Cook, and served as the model for the later American Spy Magazine.

Without the support of the trapped molecules, the lattice structure of hydrate clathrates would collapse into conventional ice crystal structure or liquid water.

Without Austrian aggression, the French could not intervene ; and without French support, Cavour was unwilling to risk war.

Without the line-item veto, Presidents have often felt compelled to sign controversial riders into law even if they did not support them.

Without United States support, it's possible that the 1986 moratorium would have been substantially limited, as nations such as Iceland, Japan, Norway and the Soviet Union would have opted out and continued commercial whaling.

Without the revenues of the empire, Maxentius was forced to resume taxation in Italy to support his army and his building projects in Rome.

Without strong fiscal plans to support his new policy of centralization, Toledo had to continue decentralizing power and recognizing more regions.

Without an urgent, effective and active international support, the unique Istro-Romanian language will probably become extinct in the next generation or two.

Without an incorporated government or a commercial base to support a sales tax, the residents of the community assessed themselves a community service fee to pay for services normally provided by municipalities.

Without further qualification, a 64-bit computer architecture generally has integer and addressing registers that are 64 bits wide, allowing direct support for 64-bit data types and addresses.

Without Lorenzo's support it is doubtful that Pico would have survived even the 10 more years that he did.

Following the albums release, the quintet set out on the " Not Without a Fight Tour " with support from Set Your Goals, Bayside and Shai Hulud.

Scannell was upset that RCA didn't support the album, saying " Without the label behind us, it just floundered and sort of withered on the vine, which is just a heartbreaker.

While touring in support of El Cielo, Dredg began work on their third album, Catch Without Arms, spending 8 months writing material before taking another 10 months to record and mix the album.

Dredg headlined several tours in support of Catch Without Arms, playing with bands such as Circa Survive, Day One Symphony, Delta Activity, Vedera, Ours and Ambulette.

Without prejudice to this objective, the Bank shall support the general economic policy in the EC.

Without direct air support, and short of ammunition, Brigade 2506 ground forces retreated to the beaches in the face of considerable onslaught from Cuban government artillery, tanks and infantry.

Without the support of the US, the anticommunist elements in the government had little choice other than to gradually allow the Pathet Lao to take power.

Without the extra support of tanks and war machines the guardsmen are not able to win a fight.

Without such precautions, most programs may compile only on a certain platform or with a particular compiler, due, for example, to the use of non-standard libraries, such as GUI libraries, or to the reliance on compiler-or platform-specific attributes such as the exact size of certain data types and byte endianness.

Without inline functions, however, the compiler decides which functions to inline.

Without any definite plan in mind, she went to a judge to see what could be done.

Without documents, they could not be employed, educated, treated in hospitals, travel outside of the country, or vote, among other hardships.

Without much added cost, these devices could be designed to also harvest BSFL.

Without valves, the player could only produce a harmonic series of notes like those played by the bugle and other " natural " brass instruments.

Without that extra money, he could not make a living drawing comic books.

Without a president, the parliament could not conclude the session.

Without being closely connected with the rest of fandom, a budding faned could read fanzine reviews in prozines, and fanzines reviewed other fanzines.

** Without a mirror, the great self-portraits by Dürer, Frida Kahlo, Rembrandt, and Van Gogh could not have been painted.

Without their existence, the nuclear chain-reaction would be prompt critical and increase in size faster than it could be controlled by human intervention.

Without this mechanism, many ecologists believe, the species could not survive.

Without the possibility of studying anatomy or drawing from life ( it was considered unacceptable for a lady to view nudes ), she could not undertake the complex multi-figure compositions required for large-scale religious or history paintings.

Without obtaining approval from his boss, Vogel bought the rights to the script, despite the high price of US $ 2 million and the stipulation that Shyamalan could direct the film.

Without a formula clause, the unified credit could be wasted.

Without an earthquake I do not see how such an accident could happen.

Without water, these particular metabolic processes could not exist.

Without the transfer of these rights, Tufts could come in at any time and demand the removal of buildings to obtain minerals.

Without commercial fertilizers it is estimated that about one-third of the food produced now could not be produced.

Without any payload, such a reactor could drive a photon rocket at nearly 10 < sup >− 4 </ sup > m / s² ( 10 < sup >− 5 </ sup > g ; see g-force ).

Without a stiff core, the wicks of a container candle could sag and drown in the deep wax pool.

Without halftoning, the three primary process colors could be printed only as solid blocks of color, and therefore could produce only seven colors: the three primaries themselves, plus three secondary colors produced by layering two of the primaries: cyan and yellow produce green, cyan and magenta produce a purplish blue, yellow and magenta produce red ( these subtractive secondary colors correspond roughly to the additive primary colors ) plus layering all three of them resulting in black.

Without this detachment the municipal population of Cagliari could be of 228, 347.

Without occupying Manchuria, the Japanese probably could not have carried out their plan for conquest over Southeast Asia or taken the risk to attack Pearl Harbor on the 7th of December, 1941.

Without en passant, a pawn could simply march past squares guarded by opposing pawns ; en passant preserves the restrictive ability of pawns that have reached the fifth rank.