In this scenario, the gamma ray burst was caused by a large, comet-like object that fell into a neutron star.
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Like fixing any jumble, software gets organized by putting like things in boxes--a process called "abstraction"--and it flourished in the coming years through techniques like object-oriented programming, which shapes the Internet's Java language.
The design looks like an object the informed user would want to pick up and hold.
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"As much as Baghdad might like to object, economy (sic) reality necessitates that it go along with the Kurds -- for now, " wrote Joost Hiltermann, an Iraq expert with the International Crisis Group, in a recent article on Foreign Policy.com.
Like Andy, I came up against a seemingly immovable object like Nadal when I played Pete Sampras in my first two semi-finals.
In general, if a touchscreen element looks or behaves like a physical object, people will try to interact with it like one.
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This would enable the hand, for example, to recognise an object like an egg and know how to pick it up without breaking it.
An object like a torch could easily excite a child's curiosity.
To make sure adults inserted the pouch into the heating unit the right way, Embrace shaped the pouch like a familiar object: the cellphone SIM card.
According to the physicists, when a large black hole captures a smaller object like a medium-sized star the process causes gravitational radiation to be emitted in a preferential direction.
With touchscreen interfaces, though, designers can create the illusion of acting on information and content directly, manipulating it like a physical object that you can touch and stretch and drag and nudge.
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While 1km-size and bigger asteroids are thought to hit only once every 500, 000 years, on average, rocks 50-100 metres across, like the Tunguska object, are thought to hit the planet once every thousand years.
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Marks imagines the potential for user-generated content when users can use the controllers to take a standard 3-D object like a sword, and grab, stretch and deform it on-screen to create new custom objects with new properties.
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The Earth appears to have cooling properties that exceed the previously thought ones, and computer models are inadequate to try to foretell a chaotic object like the climate, where actual observations are the only way to go.
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This may sound faintly ridiculous, but the finished object looks like a deeply satisfying classical column.
Mr. Smit's conclusion: locks should be able to wrap around a stationary object, like a tree.
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As we discussed in previous chapters, every object, like a computer, can also be a part of a private cyber space.
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In this example, the surface is not simply connected and any smoothed-out object looks like a torus with at least one hole.
Because the Mac team has always understood that really great design makes an object seem like a hitherto-unknown part of oneself, a new way to encounter and express yourself in the outside world.
Even though apps, mobile phones and 3D printing have made things easier for us and gives more people access to activities they might not normally engage in, what happens to our psyche when we no longer know what it feels like to sculpt an object, feel clay between our fingers or touch objects to acknowledge our existence.
But not everyone appreciated the sculpture, with Conservative backbencher Neil Marten asking in the House of Commons why "this lovely part of Westminster should be littered with something that looks like a crashed unidentified flying object".
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The near object's gravity bends the light rays from the more distant object and magnifies them like a lens.
Microlensing occurs when a massive object in space, like a star, crosses in front of another star shining in the background.
"With this new data, it now looks like we have a fairly solid object, " says Near radio science team leader Dr Donald Yeomans.
Are you signaling that you are object to the democratic process like Eli?
Three years later, they've got a phone on the market: a cute, palm-sized object that looks a bit like it's derived from the original Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iMac, all curves and transparent tinted plastic.
Eventually, scientists would like prosthetic hands to provide information about an object's surface directly to the user, so he or she can consciously feel what the hand touches, Loeb said.
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As an object or image looks and behaves more like a human, the viewer's level of shinwakan increases.
The prosthetic hand of the future would also, like a real hand, tighten its grip on an object when it feels that it's about to slip, Loeb said.
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