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The murky figure twisted into itself as the fire engulfed it. It hissed and howled. Bits of burning shadow fluttered off in the wind.

In the last few years we have found that some stars seem to be circled by clouds of small bits of matter.

He took some paper and a few bits of wood and soon made a fire.

The superstition seems to arise from the belief that mirrors don't just reflect your image; they hold bits of your soul.

Had it been a tried and tested technology, there was no need for trust as you would have already known the bits and pieces of it.

With all the extra complimentary bits on the side, the meal ends up to be a filling one.

By mapping stretches of Neanderthal DNA to its human equivalent, the researchers were able to complete bits of the jigsaw.

Bits of you seem to be popping up all over the shop! ! !

After a while, Haw made his way back to Cheese Station C and found Hem. He offered Hem bits of New Cheese, but was turned down.

Groove. If the nail inside of the groove, so that the nails and fingers with good, feel good, easy to move bits. Recommended use this.

Assets were bundled into a pool, securitised, stuffed into a CDO, bits of that plugged into the next CDO and so on and on.

These bits of awareness came one after another, like fast cuts in a film. There was no sensation of time passing between them.

When we got out of the car, our cat Val was sitting in the front garden soaking up the last bits of sunlight. Val rolled on to her back.

Use the little bits that you know about her and apply it to the date.

But how much should spending be cut or taxes raised, and which specific bits on either side of the ledger should be changed?

Minification basically involves stripping out the extra bits of your source code to produce a lean and smaller file.

He took a bit of paper and a few bits of wood and made a fire.

It was the bits of snow that kept rousing him when he did not want to be roused.

Sometimes, when you live through an unbelievable, traumatic experience, your brain sort of covers up the darker bits with false memories.

Although it may have only been a few days, there were several interesting bits and pieces learned about this reconstructed line up.

So, if you were to read off the bits of information on the CD player without decoding it you would not get music.

To an unusual degree, the reader is left to make sense of a disjointed plot in which key bits of information are either missing or vague.

spu_rlmaskqw operates on the whole quadword at a time, but only up to 7 bits (it performs a modulus on count to put it in the proper range).

He took some paper and a few bits of wood and made a fire.

Then, two years ago, he saw three of his daughters literally blown to bits by an Israeli tank that had aimed its shells at their bedroom.

"We're going to see your mother, in Toronto, Ontario. " He said as he cut his steak into bits.

The fire was once more opened from the woods, and a rifle- ball sang through the doorway, and knocked the doctor's musket into bits.

We couldn't determine how the new bits were working, so we decided to avoid confusion and went back to what we had in Turkey.

Since they were in a hurry, the shredders tended to stuff all the bits of a given document into a single bag.

The next three bits (shown in blue) represent your right to read, write, and execute the file, respectively.

in the evenings we'd watch the state-run TV station, trying to spot bits of real news through the haze of official propaganda.

The rate of a frame is the bits used to encode it, but the distortion can be evaluated only after the decoding process.

she kissed him on the breast , and made two bits of forget - me - not lodge one over each nipple , kissing him again.

The remaining bits of him, locks of hair and pieces of bone among them, are sacred.

By changing the upper five bits to any other code, other port addresses may be generated.

It may conceivably knock the British empire to bits and leave England as primitive as she was when Julius Caesar landed in Kent.

What is sad, we do not understand, his face wearing a trace of laughter is often a collection of bits of joy.

Bits and pieces of things he'd read and heard were coming together, and he began to understand.

for the simple reason that I was left with several curiously shaped bits of metal which did not seem to fit anywhere.

Oil the metal cups in the popover pan and place a tiny bit of butter in the bottom of each cup from the bits you cut up.

As these continue to transmit, they take root and become bits of the code with which youth cultures from around the world communicate.

Just as a glass can only hold so much water, a buffer can only hold so many bits.

and get the bits together, the fat tail, every good part, the leg and the top part of it: make it full of the best bones.

The team at Crew seems to have deviated very little from the Arnage design formula if the little bits we see are anything to go by.

Note that these do not have to be the actual extents of the shape - just the bits the train should not pass through.

the dwarf asked him as they stuffed themselves with cold capon and a relish made of carrots, raisins, and bits of lime and orange.

But still he could not get away, there was nothing for it but to let himself be thrust into a black-pudding with the bits of bacon.

If these altered bits of DNA could be picked up in a patient's bloodstream, they would serve as a direct and sensitive marker of cancer.

At the end of the day, hardware is just a bunch of cold transistors and software code is just a bunch of bits to control them.

He knew that the Countess Olenska had brought some of her possessions with her-bits of wreckage, she called them.

I'm always looking at painters and contemporary illustrations and graphic design and just lifting bits out of that.

As far as language implementation is concerned, the current C language standard allows the "long long" data type to be at least 64 bits.

Any goal you want to accomplish: get yourself a calendar. Break the task down into little bits of time. Make it a game.

He did not care much for ready-made toys, and was very anxious to break them into bits, to satisfy his childish curiosity.

He shook his head. Any Chinese wanting to read them, he said, could find the worthwhile bits in pirated versions.

Yet Iceland is special in another way: it did not issue a blanket bail-out to its banks, but rather let bits of them go bust.

The time passed. It was the bits of snow that kept rousing him when he did not want to be roused. At last his will clicked into action.

After I finished ripping it up, I looked on my desk to see my brainstorming paper fully intact, and my essay torn into bits.

When represented in a sequence of data bits, the most significant bit of a byte is first.

When the new arrivals got to Rio, often the only way to find a home was to build one out of orphaned bits of timber and masonry.

One of the only bits of good news amid this doom and gloom is the steady rise in digital music sales.

Little bits of fairy dusts shimmering worldwide with a counter up top and an hourly time series chart on the bottom.

One remained faced by the fact of a man blown to bits for nothing even most remotely resembling an idea, anarchistic or other.

'binary' - A legacy encoding. Used to store raw binary data in a string by only using the first 8 bits of every character. Don't use this.

Viewers to select the number of its bits and 10 added up to arrive any number of phase, it sent a few cards.

Just now, when he was told to pick up a few bits of paper lying round on the floor, he wanted to ring the police.

Potter Drilling is trying to commercialize a new drilling technique that replaces drill bits with . . . hot water.

When it had been raining, thou didst float bits of straw on the gutters , and watch them pass away.

The basic idea of a macroscope is to link myriad bits of natural data into a larger, readable pattern.

The basic idea of a macroscopy is to link myriad bits of natural data into a larger, readable pattern.

This type of converter is usually quit linear and converters up to 20 bits can be obtained, but the conversion time is relatively long.

Cutting tools made of it are of high smoothness and are suitable for making bits for geological drilling purposes.

From his pockets, he got out his bits of toys, marbles and rubbish.

He learned New Testament Greek and spent a great deal of time rewriting the Gospels, taking out the miracles, all the supernatural bits.

Curled up in a corner of the seat I amused myself for hours making funny little holes in bits of cardboard.

The following table shows a few examples of the number of colors that can be assigned to a pixel represented by a given number of bits.

people push, run up and down the steps, drop bits of litter, and perhaps take a small stone as a souvenir.

A rectangular grid of cores containing a given number of words each of a given number of bits making up the rectangular array.

THE Horn of Africa is one of the last populated bits of the planet without a proper connection to the world wide web.

Scientists have known for a while that when a body becomes starved for sustenance, cells start eating bits and pieces of themselves.

You've had a glimpse at the attention given to business context in XBRL, but the bits in Listing 1 are the merest fraction of it all.

How? We seem to be stealing ever more bits of free time throughout the day.

I don't know whether they were searching for small bits of food at the bottom or just lingering in the coolness of the water below.

These DNA bits would serve as a time bomb of sorts, deleting a critical piece of the gene when given a chemical signal.

ClickOnce may have detected the update in the background, but will prompt you to install the bits on the next activation.

Above all, Toll Collect and its suppliers were unable to develop the software to marry together all the bits of their elaborate system.

The introduction of filter searches can eliminate time browsing hundreds of matches, if you know any bits of information about the file.

All the information they're used to comes served up in digital bits.

We seem to be stealing ever more bits of free time throughout the day.

Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine pointed this out in a smart essay in February's issue, entitled "Atoms Are the New Bits. "

Moulds can be made of your limbs and new bits and bobs grown in a Petri dish while you wait.

Probably the story is one of those mysterious bits of folklore that reappear every few year, to be told anew in one form or another.

To make it easy to find these later, surround both bits of text within spans.

But of course we haven't finished because we have to remove all sort of bits and pieces.

It's not particularly exciting, but it will serve as a quick test to see if the Flash bits are already on the machine.

but it litters up her desk to such an extent that every time she opens it, loose bits of paper fall out in every direction.

Probably the story is one of those mysterious bits of folklore that reappear every few years, to be told a new in one form or another.

Digestive enzymes work to break down large pieces of food into smaller, readily absorbable bits that can be properly used by the body.

Russia doesn't seem to care two bits about global warming, and it's not hard to see why.

From bits from scratch to the spectacular in the grand finale of every episode will all be well documented here.

You can strain this drink, if you don't like the texture of the ginger and mint bits, but I prefer mine whole.

Equity markets have responded warmly, perhaps because an announcement with important bits missing is better than no announcement at all.

What they are trying to say is that bits fall off machines - especially when they start to break down.

You then become indecisive. Take in information, and then filter the good bits while synthesizing them to be a part of your overall plan.

GTI-inspired bits include the chrome horizontal stripes on the front grille, standard fog lights and twin chrome tailpipes.

The villagers chanted to call the spirits home and tied bits of white string on to my wrists with three knots.

The BIO library is a little complicated to fully explain here, so I will introduce bits and pieces of it as it becomes necessary.

The smallest bits of jetsam, like the most transient incidents in a life, can be the most evocative.

A bit or series of bits with two stable states , used in software to indicate a single piece of information .

A proprietary bit driver combines with a bit holder integrated into the handle to provide six screw bits.

DES, the United States Data Encryption Standard, is a block cipher algorithm with 8-byte long blocks and a key length of 56 bits.

you would have let old john be cut to bits , and never given it a thought , doctor.

Hexadecimal constants without a suffix are defined as an unsigned int if it will fit into 32-bits and if the high order bit is turned on.

Bits Per Pixel. The number of bits used to represent the color value of each pixel in a digitized image.

Or, to put it slightly differently, two bits of nature disagree with each other.

My translator is only able to decipher bits and pieces of this.

Die-cut pages through which bits of a monster are revealed are designed to help a child control nighttime fears of monsters.

As Saul Hansell points out on the New York Times Bits blog, eBay is currently suffering from a major identity crisis.

It only uses the least four significant bits of the address in the register (the ones ignored by the load) to determine how far to rotate.

He felt in his pockets and pulled out all that was inside, throwing the handful of bits and bobs on the table.

and the tessellated bits of this substance are, as it were, similar in regard to position to a scale.

The firm has "cut off" the bits that made aggressive bets with its own capital, says Mr Gorman.

I mean getting into CSE of Thapar is anytime better than getting into Civil of IT BHU or Mechanical of Bits Pilani.

The code word of the optimal RLC should be equal to the actual length of run length that is corresponding to the total bits of binary code.

It takes some energy, but if you deconstruct it, you take it all apart, you use the bits, you can get some of that energy back.

What's more, a decay process that would leave a large-scale bit of data readable could destroy some smaller-scale bits.

These IMs typically featured short bits of analysis and did not involve the spread of insider information.

You know all the bits and pieces of trifles of other families. You are really well-informed!

I've no patience trying to get bits of Ikea flat pack to fit together, let alone boulders.

About the size of a grain of rice, the microchip can be encoded with bits of information and implanted in humans under a layer of skin.

Laws that govern radio and television broadcasts already give the American authorities the right to shut bits of the internet, they argue.

Don't bastard up abaft me like that. You afraid the bits out of me.

Men can get very involved in the bits that used to be "just for girls" . Like planning the wedding and looking at catalogues.

When you put some on your hands you can feel little grainy bits that I guess are supposed to help remove styling residue?

Instead we appear to be operating from the thought-form of shattering into smaller bits and pieces than one thought possible.

But gradually, "all the bits fell into place like a well-made piece of furniture. All the drawers slotted in, " he told the Times.

Don't worry if you didn't catch all of that conversation - but let's listen back now to a few interesting bits.

It's just the basics -- none of the flashy graphics, or other bits that run alongside your usual Web page.

Meanwhile, like any demigod, he made bits of legend: that he failed math in school (not true).

Well, as I said we're continually looking for little bits here and little bits there to throw into the default UI.

As soon as the dragon started sleeping off its binge, Susanoo got to work hacking it to bits.

How bits of dust and ice and gobs of gas came together to form the planets without the sun devouring them all is still unclear.

Countervailing bits of evidence suggest the economy has not suddenly grown a pair of wings.

These days bits are cheap. Unfortunately that means you've got to spend more time sorting through them.

On stripping down a damaged motor, the tappets are invariably found to be heavily pitted and bits of metal broken off the camshaft lobes.

in an unchecked context , the result is truncated by discarding any high - order bits that do not fit in the destination type.

Certain bits in the bitmap are used to indicate locks that are held until the end of a transaction, even if their reference count equals 0.

In the long days, weeks and months that followed, I gathered bits and pieces of old beliefs and tried to assemble them into something whole.

Putting all this energy into flipping bits, the computer can do 1051 operations per second, slowing down gradually as the energy degrades .

He took my best toy and chewed it to bits , and now it, s wrecked.

NASA has been trying to keep an eye on space junk since 1979, but the small bits can't be tracked with current technologies.

The main problem with this example was that DNA lengths greater than 32 bits were hard to manage.

The next three bits (in green) represent a group's right to read, write, and execute the file.

Electronic money (in the form of digital bits) requires a complex set of codes, passwords, firewalls, etcetera.

the soap and all my bits and pieces kept falling off the sink because the train was rocking so much.

One of the best bits of advice ever about perfectionism comes from Melody Beattie's book Codependent No More.

Byte Conversion Program - Conversion across all different types of units, from bits up to petabytes.

The Solar Probe Cup will scoop up bits of the sun's corona and solar wind to continuously measure its speed, temperature and density.

Prow and bouldered sea slugged it out all night, a clattering succession of growlers and bergy bits nudged aside, slowly but surely.

Do action plans exist for investigating and reducing broken bits? Does objective evidence exist that this is in control?

Little bits of these efforts are strewn through the stimulus legislation, the pending climate legislation and elsewhere.

I hope these little bits of gold I've brought down from the sky will help the wolf from the door.

A certain dimensional space-time holographic is fully equivalent to the arrangement of a number of quantum bits holographic.

It works by first putting the in and out bits into a superposition of four basis states.

I go in and there are peas and broken bits of plate in the passage, the fat secretary has locked herself in her room, she's screaming.

Anyways - I still haven't got the hang of it and needed to use the clone stamp to go over a few ugly bits.

A byte consists of a string of eight consecutive Bits and makes up the Basic information-processing unit of a computer.

In 2007 it was chopped up and repackaged as the Lisbon treaty, shorn of fancy bits like the anthem.

A haiku for you, my dear. 'Night of falling stars. Blasted into tiny bits. The whale soars the sky. '

Bits of it dropped from the branches of the trees and made little holes in the softening snowbanks below.

This coding concept is called UCS-4; four octets of bits are used to represent each character specifying the group, plane, row and cell.

He took some paper and bits of wood and soon made a fire.

PowerPC provides a set of instructions for performing boolean operations on specific bits of the CR as well as copying CR fields.

In bits and pieces, over the next months, I gathered what Arsenius's life was like.

Media Center is unable to repair this image. Media Center can only fix images that are 24 bits per pixel .

The only sound is tearing flesh and chittering as they compete for the best bits.

If there is a first law of digital technology, it would be this: whatever can be, will be transformed to bits.

It is inefficient; by using only 6 bits of each byte, it adds about a third to the length of a message.

Few bits of furniture are so rich in symbolic meaning as the door: it can be an opening or an exit, a beginning or an ending.

Hanging over the patient was a big ball made of bits of brightly colored paper, folded into the shape of tiny birds.

I pushed the mass around with a wooden spoon, but it refused to crumble into the delicious bits I remembered my grandmother making.

There was an error opening or initializing the video output. Please verify that you are using a color depth of 24 or 32 bits per pixel.

Watson isn't strong AI, but if strong AI happens, it will arrive gradually, bit by bit, and this will have been one of the bits.

"More of people's lives will be captured in future, " says Mr Bell, "simply because more bits and bytes are flowing out of these devices. "

This year Mr Brown, governor once again, signed the last bits of that goal into law.

The larger disks in use today have forced an extension to LBA known as LBA48, which reserves up to 48 bits for sector numbers.

Enumeration documentation to understand the effects of changing the control style bits before calling the.

Broadcasts can be directed to specific portions of a network by setting all bits of the host identifier.

Damn you, I'll pull your filthy roots out of the wall, I'll smash your smug black face in little bits.

The decoder is unable to tell which bits represent which character.

Years go by, and the scab develops into a fatty deposit, filled with cholesterol, proteins and bits of cellular detritus .

Indicates that the calling convention is described by the bottom four bits.

For the technology to work like a disk, though, the same bits of data will have to pass repeatedly under the reading and writing heads.

You are strong enough to do the tough bits of parenting. You're wise enough to know how important a strong parent is.

"So many bits of the rocket engine fall off that it would be dangerous to aircraft if [flights] were allowed. "

Byte-aligned: A bit in a bitstream is byte-aligned when its position is an integer multiple of 8 bits from the first bit in the bitstream.

Bury the ashes, the cinders, and bones. The bits of the box that did not burn.

Until then, she said, schools will be hampered by the need to invest simultaneously in books and bits.

Liu Rui, a project manager at IBM, suggests fans of these books focus on the little bits of wisdom they provide.

The robot can easily be taken to bits and moved to the next job in another part of a factory.

Bits of fluffy gently dance and are frolicly carried by the wind in the air.

Bits of her dress floated down to the bottom but not her shoes?

But the magpie culture, picking the sparkly bits out of the dying tapestry of western late-modernism, is leaving an incoherent landscape.

The bits of fur left over she was sewing together to cover him a greatcoat . She was sewing it, this night.

If the exponent is all zero bits, then the first bit is zero.

The best rate control can be decided by the appropriate allocation of bits and precision of the bit rate control.

that had been probing the gorilla feces for edible seeds or other leftover plant bits.

Some bits, known as hammer bits, pound the rock vertically in much the same fashion as a construction site air hammer.

Dr. Brinks in Mexico once showed a photograph of a small galaxy called HO2 that had been blown almost to bits by starbursts.

When I made a division of the five cakes of bread among the five thousand, what number of baskets full of broken bits did you take up?

Both it and its companions would then decay almost instantly into a plethora of less fleeting bits, some of which could be detected.

We have three days of testing in Malaysia before the next race, there are a few new bits coming as always, so we're working from there.

A vigorous argument about whether to open pristine bits of coastline to drilling had already been under way in Norway.

Some people may ask, if it's only bits and bites of life, Why do we have to advertise and promote it?

She pounded the arms of her chair in fury , so that bits of stuffing leaked out of the holes .

Transmitted information is in the form of binary digits, or bits, which the computer's electronic circuitry can process.

The cost of bits consumption is an important part of drilling cost in the down the-hole drilling.

This was what the residents use for a stove. The fuel comprised coal bits as well as other bits of wood and combustible materials.

It looks like a unified binary containing bits of a number of different programs.

A packet typically contains three elements : control information , data to be transferred, and error detection and correction bits .

As a consequence the bits of lower significance and the correction bits or correction capacitors are likely to reside in a sub array.

Data bits to be encoded are split into a plurality of subgroups.

The last thing he saw before him dashed bits some ground below was the rain falling into the spare room.

It removes color and impure bits from used oil, which is then used for up to 10 more days.

The number of bits to be shifted and the value are popped from the stack; the value is shifted right by the specified number of bits.

Therefore, you just shift the contents to the left by four bytes into a new register to get the low-order bits in the preferred slot.

If the operand registers of a processor are 16 bits wide, the processor is said to be a 16-bit processor.

In one embodiment, N is specified as an input parameter to a microprocessor instruction that stores the random bits selected.

Sigh gently, by hand fondle the clock bits of glass, your image has been blurred, the you who would like to see me once.

As the size of objects is limited, the top 2 bits can be used for flags.

A few times he added further bits of information and clarified the message he had already delivered.

Only about a third of Barclays' activity is in Britain, partly thanks to its purchase of bits of Lehman Brothers in 2008.

It's further evidence that RAGE is one of the best bits of technology in gaming right now.

Gosh, that was a bit emotional, wasn't it? Umm. . . Yeah, that were some embarrassing bits in that, just look away.

Beyond banking and housing, other bits of the American and European economies managed for much of the year to struggle on.

For hours afterwards, the sea was strewn with bits of wood for miles around -- all of this was from the houses in the slum.

They scoop up insects and larvae, shellfish, and worms in their bill along with bits of gravel and mud from the bottom.

The number of bits being moved around, the size of the Internet.

Generally , each bit or set of bits within the register controls some behavior of the larger device.

Tools are also available to help reorganize directories and files, but these tools keep us safe from bits, bytes, and sectors.

Glancing at the bits of WOOD AND METAL that lay around him , the man SADLY picked up the mattress and carried it into his house .

Winter city side, crystal bits of snowflakes all around my head in the wind.

No. These tears that you're seeing are the very same ones that keep our eyes moist and comfortable, and wash out bits of dust and debris.

Or toss bits of your favorite cheeses (including a little cream cheese or feta) in with green beans, spinach, or kale.

Do not use namespaces as mere carriers of bits of information for related elements; use attributes instead.

However cold start-up can be painfully slow as the OS seeks the various bits it needs in the sometimes very large Java libraries.

Our 'road movie' is taking shape in bits and pieces by an expressway off-ramp two hours south of Buenos Aires.

And so we got two bits of information, one that came from physics that said the flow goes from high concentration to smaller concentration.

The first time I looked at the map I spent the better part of an hour reading and then rereading the bits of information in those boxes.

Researchers assembled flat ribbons of nanoparticles - tiny bits of matter only billionths of a meter long - in a darkened laboratory.