IN A recent Dilbert cartoon, the pointy-haired boss asks: "Who wants to hear about my golf game?" One of his underlings replies: "Maybe someone with locked-in syndrome who doesn't get any visitors".Golfers must constantly contend with two pernicious, false and yet widespread beliefs.
Adjustable aspect ratio settings mean we must constantly contend with issues such as stretching, smart zooming, errant subtitles, HDMI-mode toggling, "letterboxing" (horizontal black bars above and below a widescreen image), "pillarboxing" (vertical black bars either side of an older, square-formatted image) and even the dreaded "windowboxing" (both letterboxing and pillarboxing at same time).
Joshua's Trust, a nonprofit organization that owns or holds conservation easements for more than 3,000 acres of open space in 12 towns in eastern Connecticut, constantly contends with illegal A.T.V. use on its property, said Hill Bullard, who does boundary work for the organization.
Stability of resource allocation is important since it is desirable that RBs can be used by a user continuously, rather than be constantly contended for by a number of users.
And in Atlanta, Dan DiMaggio, chief executive of the Logistics Group of United Parcel Service, finds himself contending constantly with new obstacles to the smooth flow of commerce.
Mr. Iger constantly has to contend with the big-picture questions, like how people will consume media in the future and how a mature, enormous company grows.
Having to contend constantly with this assault on our self-esteem, we may lose our peace of mind, our contentment, our sense of purpose.
"We wrapped the game around his whole story of a man going through life trying to find his true love but constantly having to contend with evil and with Satan, which are probably the demons within himself," said Peter Franco, who designed the game since its inception.
In a pre-water-splitting world, an organism expressing PSII and living in an aquatic, Mn-rich environment would constantly have to contend with electrons flowing into its photooxidized chlorophyll.
