It's interesting that John is, in a way, like a distant, more realistic cousin of Carrell's "40-Year-Old Virgin" character.
Following the rapid development of Internet, particularly web page interaction technology, distant e-learning has become increasingly realistic and popular.
"The threat we have now is either a distant threat or is not a realistic threat," he remarked.
Moreover, WPE is known to be relatively robust to the ambient noise that is inevitably present in distant speech recordings, making it suitable for realistic situations.
For instance, when sources are very close, the absence of mixture for thin-tailed kernels is only effective at very long distances, whereas it is effective at realistic distances when sources are distant enough.
Unless otherwise specified, a distance-dependent synaptic delay was introduced (3 ms between most distant neurons), endowing the network with a realistic connectivity regime for a local circuit (Hirsch and Gilbert 1991; Lin and Faber 2002).
It is likely that people are now beginning to feel a rate rise is a realistic prospect, and not just a distant theoretical possibility," Smee said.
Encouragingly, recent advances in probing RNA secondary structures and RNA protein interactions at high throughput have rendered the transcriptome-wide dissection of RNA chaperone-mediated buffering a realistic prospect for the not too distant future.
However, González is able to so seamlessly integrate them into the existing environment that the end result reads like a realistic vision of a not-so-distant, non-utopian future.
The Byzantines were more realistic about their Muslim neighbours than the distant popes and princes of the West.
