IT IS the sort of nightmare that managers of big firms expect to encounter only during "what if" games at corporate weekends: imagine that your company all of a sudden loses most of its profits.
Users encounter ads only if they are engaged with the site, which could mean clicking a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" to a song or changing a station.
The general principle is that when a node with a buffered packet encounters another node, the packet is forwarded to the encountered node only if it is more likely (than the node currently buffering the packet) to visit the destination node.
Occasionally, the community will encounter especially resistant problems, or anomalies, but if a paradigm encounters only a few anomalies there is little reason for anxiety among its proponents.
The players testified under immunity and could encounter legal problems only if they are found to have committed perjury in their testimony.
President Bush could meet with the Palestinian leader, Yasir Arafat, in New York later this month, but the encounter most likely would happen only if some progress were made in high-level talks between the Palestinians and Israelis, administration officials and diplomats said today.
That means the gold particles will anchor themselves to the chip only if they encounter the agent's DNA.
They would be visible only if they encounter interstellar gas clouds to feed on, in which case they would heat some of the gas and cause it to emit x-rays.
Thus, they can progress towards the oligodendroglial lineage only if they encounter the proper sequence of signals in the appropriate time-window.
Carl Sagan, who had the initial idea for the record, wrote in the 1970s: "The spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only if there are advanced spacefaring civilisations in interstellar space.
Officials indicated this weekend that the money would be used only if Brazil encountered problems in its balance of payments this year or next, after which the new accord is scheduled to expire.
