"Usually," Mr. Altman said, "there are, like, three or four actors in the movie, then there's a bunch of bit players, and the actors try to stay away from those bit players because they always say, 'I hope I'm in your next picture.' " BUT, he added, "when they all come in as peers, they tend to police themselves".
Even engineers like to call bunches of bits getting from place to place, "traffic".
"What we do first is shear the DNA into a bunch of little bits and pieces, the mix of DNA is sequenced and we then try to figure out how the genomes were originally assembled," said Dudek.
Comcast is using a whole bunch of Adobe Primetime bits and pieces for Xfinity, including the player, DRM, ad insertion, ad serving and analytics.
After all, how much damage could a bunch of little bits do?
Hairs fall down, hands go unwashed, flowers fall on the ground--and that's just the processing: cultivation's a whole nother bunch of elephant bits.
It's a problem that vexxed Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, best known for working on the Manhattan Project: Why do dry spaghetti noodles never snap cleaning in two pieces, instead flying everywhere in a bunch of little bits?
As is the custom when you sell your serialisation to the Sunday Times, Darling had come to the studios primed with a bunch of juicy bits, front-loading everything worthwhile from his book into a few tasty bullet points.
That and just a bunch of details and bits of dialogue that I had an instinct belonged together.
