Sentences with phrase «faster than stone»

Ceramic tends to chip faster than stone and porcelain, and limestone in particular is quite porous and prone to being damaged by water and road salt.

Not exact matches

The Forum: PopTech, the annual technology - and - society conference held in October The Speakers: Futurist John Naisbitt, investor John Sculley, and Microsoft visionary Linda Stone, among others The Insights: The times they are a-changing, and technology is changing faster than our poor human selves can handle it.

We have far superior stone - cutting technology that makes perfectly flat, perfectly smooth, perfectly square sides on stone that allows far more surface to surface contact than any stone in whatever pyramid you could mention, and we can do it on much harder stone much much faster.

Political ramblings poured unrestricted out of that speaker, echoing off buildings and stone - paved streets as it ran down the length of each avenue — faster and louder than I'm sure anyone in our family's hometown in Southern Italy cared for.

S. latifolia produces a tuber that tastes like a potato, cooks as fast or faster than a potato and does not need to be processed with stone tools.

Oliver Stone) Cast: Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Johnson, Blake Lively, Benicio Del Toro, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Demian Birchir, Salma Hayek, Emile Hirsch With Universal recently moving the picture out of the fall, into a prime summer release date (opposite «The Amazing Spider - Man» of all things) it likely means Oliver Stone has got this picture wrapped up faster than usual.

In addition, this Avalon comes standard with Toyota's Entune system, which not only linked my phone with the car faster than Arthur pulling Excalibur from the stone, but also provided convenient use of entertainment options as well as navigation tools.

Creatures When dropping Toki in a nest, birds now have a «cooldown», so they won't instantly pick you up again when walking out of the nest Birds don't stop anymore when they sense vibration, making them less annoying when accidentically stomping near them No more random sorting of creatures: they all appear on their assigned depth value, preventing smaller creatures from sometimes getting lost behind bigger creatures Fixed the «spawning multiple camera birds» bug Slug corpses can't kill anymore, so no more accidentally walking into them and dying Bugs When stomped, berrybugs and copybugs now always hop the same distance (3 tiles), making their behavior more predictible Berrybugs now briefly stop if they detect an edge above their heads while walking on the floor, making it easier to stomp them onto a wall Copybugs and berrybugs get stunned when they're in the trajectory of a to be spawned bubble, so they can't hop / roll away before bubble is spawned Glowy berrybugs now use the same turn animation as normal berrybugs, so no more faster glow bugs Frogs and bubbles Bubbles now prioritize Toki Tori over other entities, so no more accidental berrybug ballooning Added a small delay before catching an entity in a bubble to allow for catching Toki Tori, even if he's a little further away than an entity Added possibility to queue a «turn by whistle» while the frog is running towards a berrybug, so you don't have to wait before being able to let the frog face the desired direction Fixed a problem where a fat frog won't belch anymore Achievements In - menu achievements system, including progress achievements Added a number of new achievements Tokidex completion is now a progress achievement (you can see how far along you are) Fixed the Fried Chicken achievement, so it's less hard to get All electrocuted entities now count for the X-Ray Enthusiast achievement Menu Completely new, streamlined and fast to access menu system Ability to set language from menu New font Graphics Improved presentation of telepathic Ancient Frog messages, fixed a problem where sometimes they'd spawn multiple times Fixed black flickering when buttonbashing during fades and level transitions Screenfades are now 100 % black Added button prompts to the first time you need to use whistle and stomp Areas and puzzles Added l - ife area for Ife < 3 Added an extra landing stone in the wasteland area Added more snow globes: — RRB - Water mountain approach: berrybug in the «pro» puzzle can no longer be lost Water mountain top: frog for Ancient Frog puzzle now starts bloated, added light to make «pro» puzzle easier to execute Shaft top: Small tweak to make sure berrybug isn't killed by the slugs midway through the level Water cave: made the light shaft where you need to whistle the hermit crab a bit wider, created hole for frogs at end of level to prevent them from falling down, made some «pro» puzzles a bit more forgiving Dark forest: lowered warp when entering dark area, so it's easier to travel up with a bubble Lava cave: improved bat puzzle Meadow: made some pro puzzles less difficult Hideout: removed alternative solution for Ancient Frog puzzle Descent: made it easier to pick up fat frog at beginning

I thank god I made friends fast on the first night because with no money you will sleep on cold stone floors rather than a more acceptable thin mattress and by morning your shoes will be gone and possibly your life.

By designing an air space between the firebox and stonework, along with room air vent openings high and low in the stone surround, I get much faster warm - up than the traditional masonry stove.

The other available vehicles are a Sabrecat steed (summoned with a magic bell), which moves much faster than the hero, allowing the party to move further between random encounters (although they still occur at the same rate), and a stone, which allows the party to turn into birds.

Although this growth estimate is quite a bit faster than many other jobs, it is not set in stone.