A man named John H. Winn introduced the " don't pass " betting option in order to fix this problem and it is this version of craps that still exists today.

Finally, after Nobita's pleading and / or goading, Doraemon produces a futuristic gadget out of his aforementioned pouch to help Nobita fix his problem, enact revenge, or flaunt to his friends.

During the offseason, the Astros made an effort to fix some of their problem areas.

Those, like Madison, who thought democracy in the state legislatures was excessive and insufficiently " disinterested ", wanted sovereignty transferred to the national government, while those ( like Patrick Henry ) who did not think this a problem, wanted to fix the Articles of Confederation.

Note that a hack might be a kludge, but that ' hack ' could be, at least in computing, ironic praise, for a quick fix solution to a frustrating problem.

A kludge is often used to fix an unanticipated problem in an earlier kludge ; this is essentially a kind of cruft.

Rather than continue to struggle to find out exactly what is causing the bug and how to fix it, the programmer may hack the problem by the simple kludge of writing new code which compensates.

To fix the problem, former Minister of Telecommunications Charbel Nahas signed an 18 month contract with Consolidated Engineering & Trading and French / American Company Alcatel-Lucent to install a Fiber Optics grid.

The first step to fix this problem came with the introduction of various signs written above the chant texts, called neumes.

La Forge once impressed Captain Jean-Luc Picard by staying up all night to fix a shuttle craft that Picard mentioned had a superficial problem.

For example, if a problem in the requirements is found only post-release, then it would cost 10 – 100 times more to fix than if it had already been found by the requirements review.

Since the Laplace operator appears in the heat equation, one physical interpretation of this problem is as follows: fix the temperature on the boundary of the domain according to the given specification of the boundary condition.

* The 2008 Canadian film Control Alt Delete is about a computer programmer at the end of 1999 struggling to fix bugs at his company related to the year 2000 problem.

Often, a fix for a problem will be " fragile " in that it fixes the problem in the narrow case where it was first observed but not in more general cases which may arise over the lifetime of the software.

Frequently, a fix for a problem in one area inadvertently causes a software bug in another area.

The problem with early maces was that their stone heads shattered easily and it was difficult to fix the head to the wooden handle reliably.

# Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone.

# Lack of an open standard can also become problematic for the customers, as in case of the original vendor's inability to fix a certain problem that is an artifact of technical limitations in the original product.

:* A set of files is branched, a problem that existed before the branching is fixed in one branch, and the fix is then merged into the other branch.

In spite of the successful fix of the problem, the affectionate " wobbly bridge " epithet remains in common usage amongst Londoners.

v2. 3. 1. 0 is most notable for containing a fix for this security problem.

The law states that " given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow "; or more formally: " Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix will be obvious to someone.

Microsoft released an update to fix this problem.

New tools have been developed to help plumbers fix problems more efficiently.

He developed the notion that capitalism finds a " spatial fix " for its periodic crises of overaccumulation through investment in fixed assets of infrastructure, buildings, etc.

Sound editing developed out of the need to fix the incomplete, undramatic, or technically inferior sound recordings of early talkies, and over the decades has become a respected filmmaking craft, with sound editors implementing the aesthetic goals of motion picture sound design.

Gandil enlisted several of his teammates, motivated by a dislike of club owner Charles Comiskey whom they perceived as a tightwad, to implement the fix ; Comiskey had developed a reputation for underpaying his players for years ( under the MLB reserve clause, players either had to take the salary they were offered, or couldn't play Major League Baseball, as they were property of the original team, and no other team was allowed to sign them ).

In an attempt to fix this error, some have developed a modified system in which negative win shares are indeed possible.

Recently a method was developed allowing to fix metaphase plates from single blastomeres.

Similar window-mounted measurement techniques were being pursued by Caffey in Texas, and door-mounted test fans were being developed by Harrje, Blomsterberg and Persily at Princeton University to help them find and fix air leaks in homes in a Twin Rivers, New Jersey housing development.

The long routes developed in Yosemite made it impractical and costly to fix routes, and the soft pitons were not durable enough to be placed and removed more than a few times.

In the late Edo era, another design was developed, with the ink box attached to the pen shaft by a chain ; the ink box was used as a netsuke to fix the yatate to the belt, while other yatate are simply put in the belt like a fan.

Replacements to fix both problems were developed.

The stirrup fix became the standard reinforcement until a more permanent fix for the problem was developed.

Terry Corbin, writing in the Criminal Law and Justice Weekly, notes that the result of the Act has been that many more employers have developed internal processes for reporting issues ; partially due to their desire to fix problems before they become publicly reports, and partially because if an employee chooses to not use these processes and instead act under the 1998 Act, there is a greater chance the employer can depict his behaviour as " unreasonable ".

It was at this time ( breed description and showing of these dogs ) that some breeders used standard schnauzers to help fix the schnauzer type and developed the central German type Giant Schnauzer.

The game was developed by Warthog Games and set out to fix some of the problems encountered in the previous game such as loading time.

He has developed the technology to connect his village in Western Europe to various points in time, called Frankenholes, that allow various people from history to time travel to visit Dr. Frankenstein in the hopes he will do some sort of miraculous surgery to fix physical and mental flaws.

Its growing base is made of cell-free bone, which sometimes developed anchorage structures to fix it in the side of the fish.

Even a small addition of zinc-white ( oxide of zinc ) to the reddish varieties especially causes a considerable diminution in the intensity of the color, while dilution with artificial precipitated sulfate of lime (" annalin ") or sulfate of baryta (" blanc fix ") acts pretty much as one would expect.

A successful strategy for preventing vandalism, say the book's authors, is to fix the problems when they are small.

This phenomenon could, unless rapidly remedied ( perhaps by the temporary fix of dredging, which the IEPA cannot legally order in this case ), soon interfere with the small municipality's efforts to keep its remaining revenue source for most supplemental projects, the competition.

Meanwhile, low genetic diversity ( see inbreeding and population bottlenecks ) can cause reduced biological fitness and an increased chance of extinction, although as explained by genetic drift new genetic variants, that may cause an increase in the fitness of organisms, are more likely to fix in the population if it is rather small.

As a small coincidence, McMullin was a former teammate of " Sleepy " Bill Burns, who had a minor role in the fix.

The fix that was implemented by McDonnell Douglas after the American Airlines Flight 96 incident was the addition of a small window that allowed the baggage handlers to visually inspect the pins, confirming they were in the correct position, and placards were added to show the correct and incorrect positions of the pins.

Because the word " patch " carries the connotation of a small fix, large fixes may use different nomenclature.

The navigator will have more confidence in a position fix that is formed by a small cocked hat with angles close to those of an equilateral triangle.

The city of Irondale can't afford to fix it by itself and it may not be cost effective for the small town.

A small firm that has found a profitable niche may keep older equipment in service for years because " if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

However, with the exception of coastal waters, it can be argued, that iron ( Fe ) is the most limiting nutrient because it is required to fix nitrogen, but is only available in small quantities in the marine environment, coming from dust storms and leaching from rocks.

He then sought to fix the month, but found that the same was true of each month ; thus, Nisan was favorable to the Jews because of the Passover sacrifice ; Iyyar, because of the small Passover.

The fix is to take the unit apart and put a very small piece of electrical tape over that portion of the ribbon cable.

The interpretation of his meaning by Penrose and other authorities is generally assumed to be the addition which it was necessary to leave on the lower frusta of the Doric column, or on the lower portion of the base of the Ionic column, so as to give them a proper bearing on the curved surface of the stylobate ; when levelling ground, however, it is sometimes the custom to fix at intervals small bricks or tiles which are piled up until the upper surfaces of all of them are absolutely level.

However, he was prepared for this because he brought a small hammer to fix the irregularities.

In small or isolated populations, genetic drift can fix unusual traits such as aberrant coloration.

A small amount of mortar, mixed with small flat discs of metal, was used to help fix the tenon into the mortise.

Massa entered the pits on lap 42, spending several laps as the team attempted to fix the damage caused by a small fire due to a fuel spill.

Typically, after beginning the repair work, Holmes and his crew of contractors often find that their small repair project has escalated into a larger one due to surprises that they find and are forced to fix ; only on rare occasions has the show's crew not been forced to tear everything down and start over.

In 2001 Jock Brandis traveled to Mali to fix a small village's water treatment system.

As a quick fix the system switched to printing checks ( not normally used in German financial transactions ), but since the field for the street name chosen was too small, many of the checks could not be delivered to the intended recipients.

In 2001, he traveled to Mali to fix a small village's water treatment system.