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Because program stream packets are variable-length, the player can end up reading a significant amount of data, only to discover that the timecode tells it that it's badly off, and it has to seek again.
Archive 2010-03-01 Farnz 2010
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Because program stream packets are variable-length, the player can end up reading a significant amount of data, only to discover that the timecode tells it that it's badly off, and it has to seek again.
How a 1980s telecoms compromise helped set the Bluray video format. Farnz 2010
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Others were studying new technologies, such as variable-length rotor blades, that might improve those used in the Osprey and the BA609.
The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010
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Others were studying new technologies, such as variable-length rotor blades, that might improve those used in the Osprey and the BA609.
The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010
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Others were studying new technologies, such as variable-length rotor blades, that might improve those used in the Osprey and the BA609.
The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010
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Then in the discussion about extensibility I discussed memory allocation, and in particular pointed out the heap stream interface for building variable-length objects; and the observant may have noticed that heap streams seemed a logical implementation choice for the compiler building up a native-code subroutine.
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It has nine pairs of variable-length, lateral processes, which bear the stinging hairs.
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It takes a variable-length input -- anywhere from a single byte to a file terabytes in length -- and converts it to a fixed-length string: 20 bytes, for example.
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Using an unsupervised pattern-discovery method, we processed the human intergenic and intronic regions and catalogued all variable-length patterns with identically conserved copies and multiplicities above what is expected by chance.
IBM Discovery Could Shed New Light on Workings of the Human Genome - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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The Right Thing to do is to serve all your web pages as UTF-8, an ASCII-compatible variable-length Unicode encoding.
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