For their test run in Croatia, they had in mind the diametric opposite of the aims of most tourists: they wanted to be wherever the locals were not.
Mathematical modeling of cellular regulatory networks is a challenge due to two opposite requirements: the aim to describe the biological complexity in all necessary detail and the need for simplicity that makes model analysis and simulation feasible.
But experts say just the opposite is true if the aim is to put the nuclear weapon atop a missile.
Another alternative is to find out what a given object will do to incident light beams and create a cloak that does the exact opposite - that's the aim of what are known as plasmonic metamaterials.
But while companies want to resolve boycotts quickly, activists often have the opposite aim.
Mr Eichel's initiative seems more concerned with making German finance competitive by keeping foreigners out than by luring them in.London's Big Bang in 1986 had the opposite aim and effect although, as a Bundesbank official points out, most British merchant banks disappeared as a result.
If the aim is to suggest suave world-weariness, the effect is the exact opposite.
If the aim was to achieve collaboration by increasing the complexity, it had the opposite effect.
"One is to find your way…how do you remove all the information except [what] you really need to answer your question?" The other is the "opposite of the cartographic aim: to create a sense of reality, a completely comprehensive representation of the world".To do the first, you have to do the second.
Quite the opposite: He aims to be the content creator's best friend, offering an alternative, low-cost distribution system that could strengthen the program producers' hand against the dominant cable operators and satellite services DirecTV and EchoStar.
(Such a strategy is very unlikely to work, but that's a discussion for another day). If you are pursuing a policy of regime change, you have no interest in engagement or diplomacy; just the opposite, since you aim to vilify the autocrats in power to justify overthrowing them.
