Word: beaming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...when that prediction proved wrong, many were left wondering why the polls were off beam...
Within the confines of a small blue room—whistling and singing to the tune of “Hollywood”—a jovial Frank T. Pasquarello awaits the countdown that will beam his image over local television to homes throughout Cambridge...
...good tool for this for two reasons. First, it’s stronger than the phone networks. Huge amounts of money are spent yearly deploying routers and switches and fancy fiber cables all over the world, and in sending up geostationary satellites to rest above sub-Saharan Africa and beam Internet access (albeit at high cost) to Internet cafes in developing countries. And digitized voice itself is efficient: A standard telephone Internet connection over the same wire that carries a single analog conversation can carry five or six equivalent digital conversations with minimal perceived signal degradation...
...Yitzhak Rabin, who once said that, “The pain of peace is preferable to the agony of war.” Mr. Peres, you and I have a lot in common. I am still optimistic, and I still see another sun being born tomorrow and a new beam of light emerging like a final shout for peace and reconciliation. I hope you share my belief...
...Engineers, however, rarely agree on the best migration routes when it's time to move to a new technology. The industry has settled on this much: the hardware used in current DVD players, which emit red-laser beams to read data, should be replaced with gear that uses blue lasers. That's because a blue laser's narrower, more efficient beam enables far more information to be packed onto discs. Blue-laser DVDs promise sharper picture quality suitable for display on advanced flat-screen high-definition TVs and computer monitors. Previously, they were too expensive and unreliable...