Sentences with phrase «use flat world»

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He also said that when you get down to it, the world is «not that bad,» though it still isn't flat and could use some improvement.

The book's purpose is twofold: to explain how notions of leadership have changed in recent decades (with flat organizations, a more democratic world and individual - empowering technology, leaders — surprise — are not as powerful as they used to be), and to expose the faults — and propose some fixes — for her own industry.

My flat - world comment was to point out the illogic of believing something to be true without evidence, and using that belief to displace scientific theories that do have supportive evidence.

Makes much more sense to believe a book written 1850 years ago by a bunch of goat herders that thought the world was flat and didn't even have the sense not to use their drinking water as the toilet.

Some people used to believe that the world was flat and that the sun was carted across the sky by a «god».

The church once thought the world was flat, and I'm sure they used the Bible to support that view as well.

We don't want religion telling us that the world is flat, that slavery is ok, that women can't use birth control or any of the other millions of statements the church has made in history and been wrong on.

They had a word for sphere but didn't use it which means they thought the world was flat.

While the europeans thought, and blindly still think they were in charge they were being used, they thought the world was flat, but the edomite jew knew better, he knew this book, as he knew to conquer this world since the days of old, and of today, and why it is now called being illuminated.

Clubs and agents always use Arsenal to start the biding war, they lead us in to a false belief that we can pick up a player for a reasonable amount then a club like Chelsea, Manchester's, Barca, Reals's of this world come in with a huge offer to seal the deal and Arsenal fall flat on our faces, some of those teams buy players even if they don't need them just so not to go to the competition, they even unsettle players by pretending to want them for a higher salaries but often never put in a offer

I already own the Bummis AIO, and my favourite thing in the world right now is prefold diapers and covers (sometimes I even use flats).

The seat is reversing to face either the parent or the outside world and reclines fully flat to accommodate a newborn if you're not keen on using a car seat or bassinet.

This critique is often expressed as some variant on «right, and scientists also used to think the world was flat.»

«The opportunity for these projects to use significant time on the world's best scientific instruments is occurring in part because of the limitations in government funding for these facilities,» Worden says, noting that flat or shrinking NASA and National Science Foundation budgets for astronomy have left the Parkes and Green Bank radio telescopes — as well as many other observatories — scrambling for new sources of financial support.

I don't think there is a single statistician in the world who would argue that flat priors are a good way to represent lack of knowledge, or who would say that they should be used as a convention (except for location parameters... but climate sensitivity isn't a location parameter).

Let's face it, looks play a very important role in the world of online dating, experts suggest using flattering selfies without too much editing and filters.

Eric Chahi's Another World was a monumental achievement in 1991 featuring beautiful artwork, rotoscoped animation and cinematics that were animated using flat polygons instead of pixel art.

It shows you how artists have developed a window on a flat space through first of all basic means of overlapping, placement, symmetry and story telling and how this changed with Giotto and Masaccio (use of light and dark shading) and how Brunelleschi brought the grid and camera obscura to develop a window to the world in his paintings.

As the world becomes increasingly interdependent or «flat,» to use New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman's familiar terminology, enhancing human capital will become increasingly critical.

There's still plenty to draw you in, however, including the best manual shifter I've ever used and a high - strung flat - six that responds to inputs from your right foot with such immediacy that the 315 - hp Boxster feels quicker in the real world than a 545 - hp Nissan GT - R.

Packing the same upgraded engine used by the Veyron Super Sport (the world's fastest road car), this final incarnation of the modern - day Bugatti delivers an outrageous 1,183 hp and is said to reach 255 mph flat out in seventh gear.

It seems to be the way of the world that new car buyers increasingly want their car tech to rival their best home tech, so we archaic flat - earthers will just have to get used to it and fall in line.

Both Tundra transmissions use new Toyota «WS» (world - standard) fluid with a flat viscosity / temperature curve (cold viscosity is close to warm viscosity).

[dropcap style =» flat» size =» 5 ″] I [/ dropcap] n every round of author survey results — from Digital Book World's «What Authors Want» last January, to Dr. Florian Geuppert's report to us last week in Frankfurt on his study of 1,800 European authors using his Hamburg - based Books on Demand platform — entrepreneurial authors tell us that creative freedom and control of their business are top reasons for self - publishing.

Days in Guatemala — 29 Miles traveled — 477 Shuttle vans — 5 Hours on shuttle vans — 29 Flat tires — 1 Tuk - tuks — 2 (3 - wheeled motorbike taxis) Boat trips — 2 Trains — 0 Planes — 0 Cities visited — 5 Beds slept in — 8 Rooms with A / C — 0 Nights under mosquito net — 3 Beaches — 0 Lakes — 2 Rivers — 1 Natural Pools — 10 (Semuc Champey) Volcanoes climbed — 1 Volcano eruptions viewed — 1 (Volcan Fuego near Antigua) Earthquakes — 1 (Antigua) Ruins — 1 Horseback rides — 1 Pyramids climbed — 5 Traveler's stomach incidents — 1 Colds — 2 (1 each during a rainy week in Panajachel) Caves Explored — 2 Falls off a waterfall in a cave -1 (Heather at Semuc Champey — 12 feet high) Days on antibiotics (anti-malarial)-- 29 Churches & Cathedrals — 4 Ruins of Churches in Antigua — 6 World Cup Matches watched — 5 (Spanish Commentary), 1 (English) Coffee fincas — 1 Museums — 1 Restaurants — 49 Uses of hair dryer — 2 (Heather) Days / nights wearing makeup — 6 (yes, Heather again)

«What our developers want to achieve in this new Zelda game, is to reinvigorate the flat 2D world of A Link to the Past with a sense of height and volume using the three - dimensional display of the Nintendo 3DS,» explained Rils - Aime.

Eric Chahi's Another World was a monumental achievement in 1991 featuring beautiful artwork, rotoscoped animation and cinematics that were animated using flat polygons instead of pixel art.

The Hololens allows you to project your game using holograms on any wall and also gives you the ability to project your custom - built world on a table or other flat surfaces.

Using the gameplay loop from the Payday series, which developer Lion Game Lion has some experience with creating downloadable content for it in the past, RAID: World War II falls flat due to poor AI implementation and an overall buggy online experience.

The play between various lines, the use of expressive marks and the drip of the paint in comparison to the repetitive rhythm or creation of a flat and decorative surface, all covey a different understanding of the world and the different, in a sense, sound of the visual language.

and «Where was all the water going to come from» so I decided to have a go and try to work out how much water would be needed to allow the World Ocean to rise by just 1 meter, there are two variables that I can not solve, 1 is that the world is curved so as you go up then you need more water for the next meter than you needed for the preceding meter and this is an exponential issue as it gets worse the higher you go, the other is that even though there are many areas where you could get a large rise without any inland flooding, like the «White Cliffs of Dover» then there are also many areas where there would be massive inland flooding, like Holland, so I had to make two assumptions to kill off two variable issues that I can not solve, so assuming that the world is flat, which it's not, and that there would be no inland flooding, and there will be massive inland flooding then using them then I got an anWorld Ocean to rise by just 1 meter, there are two variables that I can not solve, 1 is that the world is curved so as you go up then you need more water for the next meter than you needed for the preceding meter and this is an exponential issue as it gets worse the higher you go, the other is that even though there are many areas where you could get a large rise without any inland flooding, like the «White Cliffs of Dover» then there are also many areas where there would be massive inland flooding, like Holland, so I had to make two assumptions to kill off two variable issues that I can not solve, so assuming that the world is flat, which it's not, and that there would be no inland flooding, and there will be massive inland flooding then using them then I got an anworld is curved so as you go up then you need more water for the next meter than you needed for the preceding meter and this is an exponential issue as it gets worse the higher you go, the other is that even though there are many areas where you could get a large rise without any inland flooding, like the «White Cliffs of Dover» then there are also many areas where there would be massive inland flooding, like Holland, so I had to make two assumptions to kill off two variable issues that I can not solve, so assuming that the world is flat, which it's not, and that there would be no inland flooding, and there will be massive inland flooding then using them then I got an anworld is flat, which it's not, and that there would be no inland flooding, and there will be massive inland flooding then using them then I got an answer.

What do movies like 40 Year - old Virgin and Greenberg point out about our nation's attitudes towards transportation?Hollywood does seem to typically use a character's not having a car as a way to bluntly point out that s / he's abnormal in some way — whether he's «quirky», a hippie, incapable of growing up (and therefore joining the adult world where people drive cars), or even flat - out disturbed.

I don't think there is a single statistician in the world who would argue that flat priors are a good way to represent lack of knowledge, or who would say that they should be used as a convention (except for location parameters... but climate sensitivity isn't a location parameter).

There use to be a consensus among the majority of scientists that the world was flat.

Anyway, as Miskolczi found, that laws taken out of context can't be used in the real world, for real applied science problems we need to know that an ideal gas is imaginary, like «average», and not real, and NASA and the Stefan - Bolzmann saga is another example, which uses flat earth physics thinking it describes a 3 - dimensional universe.

The way it doesn't fold flat, while not the end of the world or without purpose, does make it more cumbersome than it could be and the placement of the headphone jack, while great for using it as a tablet, feels slightly awkward for a laptop being at the top of the screen.