Sentence examples for disc instead of from inspiring English sources

Insert the disc, restart the Mac and hold down the C key to have the computer start up from the disc instead of the hard drive.

In order for the conservative 2-dimensional specularly reflective boundary condition to be implemented conveniently, the discrete Maxwellian is approximated by a high order continuous formula with improved accuracy on a disc instead of on a square domain.

InPhase also plans to go after high-definition digital video broadcasting and movie distribution for digital theaters: companies such as the Turner Broadcasting System want to archive videos; and one can imagine the next George Lucas extravaganza being delivered to digital cinemas on one disc instead of a stack of 100.

His system, called self-protecting digital content, places the security on the disc instead of in the player.

The value is a "convenience factor," he said, in that someone can use a pre-made disc instead of burning their own or having the manufacturer provide it.

The sport of Ultimate uses a flying disc instead of a ball and combines some of the skills of soccer and basketball on a football-style field layout.

This year's list begins with inventor Emile Berliner, a pioneer of recorded sound, reciting the Lord's Prayer and "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star". A year earlier he had won his patent for a gramophone that played a flat-disc record instead of the wax cylinders that held the first sound recordings.

Sony, Hitachi and others already make cameras and camcorders that use discs instead of tapes.

It took a generation and the entry of a new rival, Emile Berliner, to prepare the phonograph for the mass market by making it easier to use (introducing discs instead of cylinders) and giving it a purpose (playing music).

Few of today's leading pianists have a wider range of repertory than Steven Osborne, and it's to the credit of Hyperion that he has been allowed to reflect that range in his discs, instead of being forced into the monoculture of recording a single composer.

He dreamed up a new way of shaping the screws, using two spinning discs instead of dies, but it would have required expensive new equipment and the writeoff of millions of dollars in old equipment.