Sentences with phrase «rather than a disk»

We \'re trying to think of Burnout as an awesome game service, rather than a disk we ship and then move onto the next.

Not exact matches

Rather than fussily cutting the grapefruit into neat segments, chef Ignacio Mattos cuts them crosswise into disks; he likes the slightly bitter flavor of the membrane itself.

That began to change when one of Piazzi's rivals, the astronomer William Herschel, noted that Ceres only appeared as a point of light in his telescope rather than a resolved disk, like the other known planets.

Disks cool down more efficiently if their gas includes some molecular hydrogen — two hydrogen atoms bonded together — rather than atomic hydrogen, which consists of only one atom.

But carbonaceous chondrites are known to have formed later than other meteorites — so it was possible that their peculiar isotopic chemistry reflected changes over time in the disk, rather than a distinct place of origin.

The astronomers» goal is to finally reveal what our own Galaxy looks like if we could leave it, travel outward perhaps a million light - years, and view it face - on, rather than along the plane of its disk.

These wild swings indicated that the material from the accretion disk was falling onto the neutron star in fits and starts, rather than in a long and constant stream as astronomers theorized.

But rather than a uniform field of random ejections, they saw bright jets of atoms shooting together from the rim of the disk, like miniature fireworks.

This discovery extends the observation of protoplanetary disks to the high mass regime, where the dynamic is dominated by the mass of the disk rather than the mass of the central star.

Early black hole may have sucked matter in from all around, rather than just from an accretion disk.

Define «early - type» galaxy as any galaxy without visible spiral arms (e.g. our «smooth» category, which can include elliptical galaxies, and smooth disks), rather than as a galaxy that isn't a disk.

So called because the smaller varieties almost resemble planetary disks when viewed through a telescope, planetary nebulae represent a stage at the end of the stellar life cycle rather than one at the beginning.

In order to accurately model the behavior of the accretion disk that orbits our galaxy's supermassive black hole, the researchers used a method that tracked the motion and path of individual particles — rather than one that treats the motion of plasma as a macroscopic fluid.

As a result of gravitational interaction with the nearby galaxies, it has a notable S - shaped warp rather than a flat disk.

The developers describe Neo4j as «embedded, disk - based, fully transactional Java persistence engine that stores data structured in graphs rather than in tables».

The sun is now a featureless disk — a heat source, rather than an astronomical object.

Since droid hack uses the same font, rather than making multiple copies I'm using symlinks now so the hack uses less disk space on Kindle.

This is best performed when the disk herniation is slightly off to the side rather than straight upward.

The inherited conditions of aortic stenosis (a narrowing above the aortic heart valve or the aortic valve itself), atopy / allergic dermatitis (skin allergies), gastric dilatation volvulus (bloat / stomach dilation), early onset cataracts (a clouding of the lens inside the eye), dilated cardiomyopathy (enlargement of the chambers of the heart and thinning of the muscle wall), elbow dysplasia (abnormal growth of tissues that leads to malformation and degeneration of the joint), epilepsy (brain seizures), hypothyroidism (underactive production of thyroid hormones), intervertebral disk disease (problems with the disks between the vertebrae of the spine leading to neurological problems), and hepatic portosystemic shunt (an abnormal blood circulation where blood is diverted around the liver rather than into it) are more prevalent in purebred dogs than in mixed - breed.

It's a nice curio to have on the disk, we suppose, but any fans picking up Kingdom Hearts 1.5 will almost certainly be after a high - end version of the original rather than these frivolous extras.

With developers under less pressure to hit strict deadlines for each yearly release we could expect to see an improvement in the quality of features when they're first released rather than the «it's not quite finished but the disks need printing» situation we sometimes see now.

While voice elements within the gaming realm are nothing new, they're usually limited to devices, rather than the games themselves — you can, for example, turn your Xbox One on and off, and eject disks, using voice commands.

The Macintosh computer, from Apple, which, in a radical departure, used a 3.5 - inch floppy disk rather than the standard 5.25 - inch.

If organisations have chosen to back up data to tape rather than simply put old disks into storage, then a whole new set of challenges emerge for investigators.

-- one advantage of the «destroy the disk» (rather than wiping it) policy is that it takes very little skill to tell if the policy has been carried out.

So, if you're using BitLocker encryption or device encryption on a computer with the TPM, part of the key is stored in the TPM itself, rather than just on the disk.

Yet the tactic is also risky, because it positions Optane as an optional add - in rather than a straight replacement to a typical hard disk or solid state drive.

CHK files are fragments of corrupted data — rather than deleting any corrupted data it finds, Check Disk puts it in a folder for you.

While writing this data to your hard disk and reading it back later is much slower than using RAM, it's back - up memory — rather than throwing potentially important data away or having programs crash, the data is stored on your hard drive.

A modern MacBook might have a solid - state drive with just 128 GB of space, which means you'll be seeing the dreaded «Your startup disk is almost full» error sooner rather than later.

The other option in Windows is to use a «Dynamic Disk», which allows Windows to take control of your partitioning rather than using the partitioning specifications.

Rather than rely on clearing your page file, we recommend setting up full - disk encryption on your Windows PC, if possible.

Try to get a real copy of the software, not a demonstration disk, which tends to be a commercial for the product rather than a test run of the program, so that you can see how the real product runs.