The assumption of differentiability or even continuity is questionable since the Boolean algebra of statements may only be finite.

It should be noted however that even much more sensitive radio telescopes than the currently available on Earth would not be able to detect non-directional radio signals even at a fraction of a light year, so it's questionable whether any such signals could be detected by an extraterrestrial civilization.

He seems to accept any task, even morally questionable ones, as long as he is allowed to have the freedom to play with technology however he sees fit.

He was studied by Bajoran scientist Dr. Mora Pol, whom Odo disliked due to Mora's questionable ( but effective ) practice of inducing pain as a motivator in encouraging Odo to assume different shapes before, and even after, Odo was recognized as sentient.

The relevance of the theory is questionable — the probability of a monkey exactly typing a complete work such as Shakespeare's Hamlet is so tiny that the chance of it occurring during a period of time even a hundred thousand orders of magnitude longer than the age of the universe is extremely low ( but not zero ).

Some may have benevolent or good spirited intentions, even if their actions are dangerous or questionable, which can make them accidental villains.

Given the number of unpleasant, harmful or even fatal consequences of coming out in world societies, it is questionable to call being closeted a choice.

Valentinian was less excusable, since he had passions without virtues: even his religion was questionable ; and though he never deviated into the paths of heresy, he scandalised the pious Christians by his attachment to the profane arts of magic and divination.

Joseph Breen, director of the Production Code Authority, which administered the Hays Code, wrote the producers that " To attempt to translate such a story to the screen, even though it be re-written to conform to the provisions of the Production Code is, in our judgment, a very questionable undertaking from the standpoint of the good and welfare of this industry.

Some ancient sources infer that women were banned from offering blood-and-wine sacrifice in their own right ; even banned from handling such materials ; both claims are questionable.

Although " silver products were infrequently promoted for oral use, benefits have been even more questionable.

SC membership, even more difficult to obtain ( and attributed only by invitation ) is seen as still more desirable ; while SC often deals with ( and sometimes furthers ) what Culture citizens hate the most ( barbarity, violence and actions of questionable ethics ), it is also seen as romantic and dashing.

Owing to the essentially arbitrary nature of orthographic classification and the existence of variant authorities and local house styles, questionable capitalization of words is not uncommon, even in respected newspapers and magazines.

Another found the poem " emotionally convincing " even if its logic may be questionable.

However, Cioran's pessimism ( in fact, his skepticism, even nihilism ) remains both inexhaustible and, in its own particular manner, joyful ; it is not the sort of pessimism which can be traced back to simple origins, single origins themselves being questionable.

For instance, according to Kramer's DAD theory, religious identity for a predominantly idolic person, is not perceived by them as arbitrary, not even questionable.

Other, even more questionable photos exist as well.

Many commentators conclude that, lacking significant reason, Montresor must be insane, though even this is questionable because of the intricate details of the plot.

For example, in the 19th century, Charles Babbage described the importance of having " a few simply honest men " on a committee who could be temporarily eliminated when " a peculiarly delicate question arises " so that one of them could " declare truly, if necessary, that he never was present at any meeting at which even a questionable course had been proposed.

A number of other questionable shootings followed, including those of Dr. John Davis ( said by some to have been told to run and then shot when he did ) and Lt. Col. Frisby McCullough — a subordinate of Porter who had no part in the battle, but was tried and sentenced to death as a bushwhacker, even though he was captured wearing a regular Confederate uniform and carrying letters authorizing him to recruit troops.

It is further questionable how much the symbolism of white and black representing good and evil — a fairly Christian concept — was important to polytheist Slavs, if they even considered it.

Later assessment of usurpation events demonstrated that some are questionable or even fictitious.

The belief in the priority, stability, and even detectability, of oral traditions is now recognised to be so deeply questionable as to render tradition history largely useless, but form criticism itself continues to develop as a viable methodology in biblical studies.

Both had blonde hair and blue eyes, and there was even a faint similarity of features.

For example for any ( even infinite ) collection of pairs of shoes, one can pick out the left shoe from each pair to obtain an appropriate selection, but for an infinite collection of pairs of socks ( assumed to have no distinguishing features ), such a selection can be obtained only by invoking the axiom of choice.

The peoples of the Tarim Basin in northern China are now known to be Caucasian and there were widespread attempts to keep western archeologists from testing samples such as deliberately replacing the mummies or decapitating them, even defacing ancient cave painting depictions of these people with large amounts of body hair and features such as red colored hair and blue eyes.

Whatever the truth behind this, the young king was forced to depend heavily on his Ptolemaic support and even struck portraits with the characteristic features of king Ptolemy I.

Based on dental features and braincase sizes, it is now known that Carnivora must have evolved from a form even more primitive than Creodonta, and thus these two orders may not even be sister groups.

Writing in 1889, Alfred Russel Wallace remarks " It was formerly a very general belief, even amongst geologists, that the great features of the earth's surface, no less than the smaller ones, were subject to continual mutations, and that during the course of known geological time the continents and great oceans had again and again changed places with each other.

* Catherine Asaro's Saga of the Skolian Empire prominently features cyborgs called " Jagernauts ", who are empaths or even telepaths, who serve as elite fighter pilots.

Context menus have received some criticism from usability analysts when improperly used, as some applications make certain features only available in context menus, which may confuse even experienced users ( especially when the context menus can only be activated in a limited area of the application's client window ).

This means that when interworking two PBXs features invoked on PBX A must be acknowledged by PBX B even if that feature is not supported.

Surveying the entire range of French filmmaking today, Tim Palmer calls contemporary cinema in France a kind of eco-system, in which commercial cinema co-exists with artistic radicalism, first-time directors ( who make up about 40 % of all France's directors each year ) mingle with veterans, and there even occasionally emerges a fascinating pop-art hybridity, in which the features of intellectual and mass cinemas are interrelated ( as in filmmakers like Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Olivier Assayas, Maïwenn, Sophie Fillières, Serge Bozon, and others ).

The mathematical concept is difficult to formally define even for mathematicians, but key features can be understood with little mathematical background.

Portability was a problem in the early days because there was no agreed standard — not even IBM's reference manual — and computer companies vied to differentiate their offerings from others by providing incompatible features.

A minority of students – such as David Sox – are, however, suspicious of the apparent ' Turkish ' features of the Italian manuscript ; especially the Arabic annotations, which they adjudge to be so riddled with elementary errors as to be most unlikely to have been written in Istanbul ( even by an Italian scribe ).

The modernization programme also contains standardized features that allow GPS III and Galileo systems to inter-operate, allowing receivers to be developed to utilise GPS and Galileo together to create an even more precise GNSS system.

As a result, all previous hypertext systems were overshadowed by the success of the Web, even though it originally lacked many features of those earlier systems, such as an easy way to edit what you were reading.

Programming features such as randomization, variables, and intermap script activation enable smooth hub gameplay and are responsible for most of the special effects within the game: On-screen messages ; random sound effect and monster spawning ; sidedef texture changes ; versatile control of polyobjects ; level initialization for deathmatch ; and even complex environment changes such as earthquakes manipulating floor levels and textures.

INTERCAL has many other features designed to make it even more aesthetically unpleasing to the programmer: it uses statements such as " READ OUT ", " IGNORE ", " FORGET ", and modifiers such as " PLEASE ".

Recent advances in computing have made it possible to exploit many more features of the gravity fields of astronomical bodies and thus calculate even lower-cost trajectories.

It is organized by the students of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology in the month of March with the aim of promoting the spirit of innovation and discovery among the participants and features competitions in coding, robotics, hardware designing, and even mathematical puzzles.

It features a down-draft design that enabled to reach high temperature in shorter time, even with wood-firing.

The vast majority of Mongols have black hair and brown eyes, although a certain number of Mongols, particularly the Oirat tribe in western Mongolia tend to exhibit lighter features such as fair skin, blue or green eyes, varying shades of brown hair, and sometimes even red or blonde hair.

If the input feature vectors have very high dimension, the learning problem can be difficult even if the true function only depends on a small number of those features.

Many microcontrollers are so quirky that they effectively require their own non-standard dialects of C, such as SDCC for the 8051, which prevent using standard tools ( such as code libraries or static analysis tools ) even for code unrelated to hardware features.