At the same time, many vacant properties around the city -- and particularly in Queens, the borough with the most crowded school districts and a rapidly growing immigrant and minority population -- are former industrial properties that are chemically contaminated and undesirable, if not unusable, for schools.
Whereas coal is fed into a power station when wet (it quickly dries out when milled into dust for the furnace), the wood pellets become unusable if damp.
A few lines of text can take its time arriving, but applications sending voice calls or streaming video become unusable if there is too much delay in delivery.
Material is reformatted into narrow columns that are better suited to a tiny screen, and some graphics and other features that would be unusable if shrunk are blocked.
The new stickers will also be made so that they break into pieces and will be unusable if someone tries to remove them.
"That's ludicrous," said Mr. Colatosti, adding that in the real world many data points were unusable if the lighting was imperfect and the face was not directly facing the camera.
"Unless we act now, Sodaconstructor will soon become unusable!" If successful, the new app will be launched under Soda's umbrella Sodaplay brand, which also includes racing simulation Sodarace and children's creativity site Moovl.
IN SEPTEMBER 2013 a group of institutional investors with $3 trillion of assets under management asked the 45 biggest quoted oil firms how climate change might affect their business and, in particular, whether any of their oil reserves might become "stranded assets"—unusable if laws to curb emissions of carbon dioxide became really tight.
These steps add various amounts of uncertainty that can cumulatively render the geophysical parameter imprecise and potentially unusable if the objective is to analyze trends and/or seasonal variability.
Data may be accurate in terms of representing real-world conditions such as ambient air temperature, yet that data becomes unusable if the metadata associated with it such as location or time are incorrect.
