"Our competition for Starfire is IBM and the nearest thing is a mainframe from IBM, and we are taking a chunk out of their business," says Shahin Khan, director of marketing for Sun's Data Center and High Performance Products Group.
Perhaps the nearest thing is the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, held each spring in Washington.
The nearest thing was automata whose behavior was easily recognizable as not fully human.
This work corroborates Tobler's first law of geography "Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things" but also provides practical guidance.
As the vote nears, things are getting nastier.For weeks, HP has been running newspaper advertisements defending the merger, spiked with thinly veiled attacks on Mr Hewlett.
As the end of the year nears, things are looking better.
This phenomenon occurs when observations located near one another are correlated or, as Tobler put it: 'everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things' [43].
The conceptual basis for this inverse distance weighting system is based on Tobler's [23] first law of geography, which states that "Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things".
Spatial autocorrelation was expected because, according to Tobler's first law of geography (Tobler 1970), "everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things".
Although individual HSAO values are treated as independent, in reality they are not; as Tobler's first law of geography states, "Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things" [ 19].
In 1969, W.R. Tobler, perhaps the most influential geographer of the last century, stated what became known as the first law of geography, "Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things" (1, 2).
