Sentences with phrase «arcane points»

«4 debates over arcane points substituted for real debate of politics and values.»

To be blunt, our institutions have failed us... We can't move quickly enough to compete (or even to collaborate when appropriate) with new entrants to our industry when we're bogged down fighting the last war or arguing arcane points of future standards that we needed yesterday.

Mr Campbell, victim of a coded kicking in the book, had counterstruck this very day, in this very newspaper, by calling Mandelson a liar, or manager, over an arcane point regarding the Lib - Lab coalition talks he attended.

Obviously, in - house counsel asking you to test some arcane point of law might see language different from a business client seeking guidance on a transactional matter.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, the arcane content distribution channels, controlled by online travel agents and the global distribution systems that sit behind them (i.e., Orbitz, Travelocity, Sabre, Travelport) had no access to the data that would enable the product differentiation at the point of sale.

It's odd that they find so many folks to demonize because of arcane biblical passages yet continue to pray in public despite the pointed criticism of such actions by their Creator.

It appears Bercow is now, more than ever, granting Labour spurious SO24 debates, Points of Order and even advising them on how to use arcane parliamentary procedures to whack the government, in an attempt to shore up the support he needs on the Labour benches.

While Netflix likely will have to keep evolving its model to have more of a theatrical presence, it is doing too many risky things on the feature front to be defined derogatorily at this point, especially by a French festival that risks rendering itself arcane by not using its clout to change French chronology rules that keep French - distributed films from SVOD for three years.

Well, one, they want the author to believe it, and think they have no recourse if things go pear shaped, and two, it's something to point to if authors ever complain that the more arcane provisions of the contract granting Amazon near omnipotence are misleading.

Where things can really get complicated is that these annuities use arcane methods to calculate their gains (daily average, monthly point - to - point, annual point - to - point) and typically impose spreads, participation rates or caps that limit the share of the market's return you receive.

They say it's because they have mastered information that most of us find arcane: award chart nuances, airline alliances, credit card point transfer partners and ticketing rules.

It's worth pointing out that getting a direct - feed output from any iOS device is a bit of an arcane art (the GPU has to serve two screens, effectively) so while the vid gives a great impression of the level of technical and artistic quality Epic has achieved, the frame - rate in the actual demo is smoother than what you see here.

From murky low resolution images through complicated and seemingly arcane processes to point and shoots, game photography has moved to a world where discrete «share» buttons exist on every controller.

Arcane and Bloodtinge (which effect spells and fire arms respectively) just were not worth puting many points into.

The beautiful artwork, the rich and immersive environments, and the strategic depth are all high points that I know will have me coming back for more and more this October when the world will be able to enter the arcane punk wonderland of Battle Chasers: Nightwar.

For World, however, Capcom has taken great pains to emphasize how they've sanded down some of the sharper points for a whole new generation of Hunters, simplifying the arcane tracking mechanics and adding in more traditional RPG elements, such as damage numbers and a crude health bar for player characters.

Grabner often references the suburban — using embroidery, wallpaper, or gingham patterns as models — or utilizes arcane geometry, such as Archimedes spirals, wherein each point in a spiral is equidistant from the point that preceded it and the one that follows.

That, plus the observation that there is no actually ambiguity or confusion in what is being communicated, makes the point somewhat technical and even arcane.

Couple with that the apparently cumbersome, intricate, and in many cases arcane nuances of continually adjusting mixed quality point measurements so as to average across space and time (and hence across thermodynamic regimes) and I am unconvinced that such GATs represent much more than the adjustment process evolution.

Good points but if something is blindingly obvious, like AGW is supposed to be, then why is it necessary to develop such arcane statistical analyses to prove it?

So far, here in the United States, public debate over climate change has been little more than an endless series of arcane scientific and political talking points tossed back and forth on the Internet between those who believe AGW will destroy the planet and those who believe the whole thing is a massive hoax.

If this is Everyday Law, a site designed to make common legal issues intelligible, law review journals are like Never - y - day Law, meant to grind fine legal points completely into dust — and dust bins — as they marinate on shelves, obscure, arcane and unread.

So while the web page you're looking at might be www.somestreamingsite.com/funnymovie/, the actual URL that points at the streaming video content is most likely a very long, arcane, and hidden URL embedded in the code of the website.