Sentences with phrase «even fractions of seconds»

But we are aware of a process of making decisions in terms of seconds and even fractions of seconds.

If an athlete hits his or her head and is then slower than baseline by even a fraction of a second at reading off the numbers, Dr. Galetta said, it is very probable he or she has a concussion and needs to be taken from play and seen by a doctor.

Not exact matches

«I certainly don't have time to deal with these ridiculous rumours, not even half a fraction of a second,» the French leader told British reporters after being peppered with personal questions during a recent press conference with U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Essentially, even a small task like cutting off the engines a fraction of a second too late can make the missile go miles off course.

Second, and perhaps more importantly, the vulnerabilities we know of (even those the CIA knows) are only a fraction of the universe of total vulnerabilities in information technology.

Our most sophisticated models can't predict movements in 60 seconds (consistently, didn't stop us from trying as a joke activity) and it is sad that retail traders who don't even have a fraction of the tools or computing power think they can outperform, except of course the lucky ones (elementary 1st year university statistics predicts that, so they are lucky not talented).

Second, even if you give that these scenarios are «voluntary» (really... if the state allows a scenario where slavery is the only employment option????) they were just a fraction of the slave population.

At the outset we noted that the nineteen and a half centuries we have covered are only a small fragment of the course of Homo sapiens and even of what we call civilization; when viewed against cosmic time they constitute only a fraction of a second and embrace a small planet which is a mere speck in the vast universe.

All right all you God - mockers out there, I would like you to consider the following, even for a fraction of a second, which is probably your attention span: You are all suffering from what the ancient Greeks called HUBRIS.

This is the pleasure that comes from an expertly weighted cross-court lob, or a perfectly squared - off dove joint, or that moment when the crumpled envelope doesn't even touch the edges of the bin and you feel, just for one blessed fraction of a second, like the greatest human being in the history of the universe.

You can scan a crowded lobby and pick out a familiar face in a fraction of a second, a task that pushes even today's best computers to their limit.

Despite the complexity of the stimulus, the elicited brain activity patterns show remarkable similarities across different people — even at the time scale of fractions of seconds.

A preview of the data from the balloon mission, presented at a recent meeting on cosmology, hints that the new, sharper view of the ripples will provide even more evidence of a flat universe, created by an extraordinarily fast inflation of space within a fraction of a second after the big bang.

A computational theory published Feb. 24 in the journal Physical Review Letters demonstrates that any two systems can be made to look alike, even if just for the smallest fraction of a second.

Depending on the mass of the black holes, they could have anywhere from a fraction of a second together (for a black hole the mass of a planet or star) to days or even weeks (for a black hole with the mass of a small galaxy or more).

In early 2010, when physicists announced the creation of the superheavy element ununseptium, even the handful of atoms that were made decayed into smaller ones in a fraction of a second.

Even on the track you will never be able to enjoy that power for more than a fraction of a second, and I doubt most (99.99999 %) of owners will take this car to a track, forget about the reporters, even they, if they had the money, would NEVER take a car like that to the REven on the track you will never be able to enjoy that power for more than a fraction of a second, and I doubt most (99.99999 %) of owners will take this car to a track, forget about the reporters, even they, if they had the money, would NEVER take a car like that to the Reven they, if they had the money, would NEVER take a car like that to the Ring.

It gives the B4 Bi-Turbo the ability to sprint from 0 to 62 mph in just 4.2 seconds, up to a top speed of 189 mph (at least on a closed circuit, as we have trouble seeing even a fraction of that ability exercised on U.K.'s speed - camera infested roads).

Adjustment of the four - wheel drive system to the ever changing driving and road conditions is performed — in typical BMW xDrive manner — within fractions of a second, thus guaranteeing consistently neutral and safe handling even in difficult conditions.

Even long messages that took a while to open with other SMS apps, ChompSMS had no problem pulling up in a fraction of a second.

When you whip through dozens of book and author interview requests sent to your department's general publicity email address each day, being able to forward a request to the correct publicist or department in a fraction of a second without even reading the message in its entirety — or at all, for that matter — is a handy skill).

However, i request you to tell us the one whose chart price never lags behind the market price even by a fraction of a second, and in which order placement is easiest with fast execution.

Even if your second income is only a fraction of your primary income, if you were to lose that first income, your second income could help you survive by paying for the essentials.

To me, even though it only a fraction of a second of lag it it still very noticable and really makes me enjoy Pinball Arcade less than other pinball games like Zen Pinball which has instantaneous flipper action.

Now let me state most emphatically, that I am not talking about people for whom English is a second language; we have many here at WUWT, and I just wish I had any skills at all, in any other language, even a fraction of the English skills, some of our ESLs here have.

Even if you assume that the water is murky enough that almost all the absorption is by mud particles or living cells, the energy still almost all ends up heating the bulk water within a fraction of a second.

However, on both odd and even days, I think whatever CO2 can do, a fraction of a second after the sun disappears over the horizon, it's done.

I've used GameStream for years on Nvidia's Shield Portable and first - generation Shield TV, and while the experience is passable overall, it does introduce a small fraction of a second of input lag, even under the best network conditions.

While this isn't an issue for music streaming, even nominal lag can create sync issues between the on - screen video and the audio, meaning the actions on screen will occur a few fractions of a second before you hear any sound.

Such a feature could solve a frustrating problem central to the very nature of slow - motion video: Pressing the shutter button at a fraction of a second's notice is much, much harder than you might think, even with the best hardware.

In contrast, cryptocurrency transactions can be completed in a fraction of the time, sometimes minutes or even seconds.