Squeezed out by coupé-cabriolets, mainly, because carmakers considered the lure of a hard roof able to fold away in segments to be irresistible compared with the primitive alternative of fabric stretched over a frame.
The unit of information that expressed this primitive choice between two alternatives, or halving the residual uncertainty, was called the bit (short for the term binary digit).
If the pre-coordinated concept is a primitive concept, an alternative is to create a post-coordinated expression to ensure the necessary semantics are recorded.
For those who would rather suffer this sort of indignity and pain at their own hands, new waxing kits designed expressly for bikini lines offer an alternative to primitive drugstore brands.
The second factor had to do with the discovery of a better alternative as primitive living entity: ribozymes.
We introduce Byzantine set-union consensus (BSC) as an alternative communication primitive that allows this aggregation to be implemented more efficiently.
If the terminal minimum is deep and/or fluctuations in transcriptional status are small (for example, if they are suppressed by epigenetic or other means) then stochastic transitions from the terminal state to alternative (more primitive) states will be rare [90].
This paper investigates the use of Active Messages (AM) communication primitives as an alternative to the standard message passing in order to reduce communication overheads and to offer a good building block for higher layers of software.
The decline hit North America but was worse in the huge Chinese market, where pagers are often used as an alternative to the primitive phone system.
Still, misoprostol is generally considered a safer and more palatable alternative to more primitive methods of self-abortions, and demand is quickly increasing among women living in areas where abortion is illegal or impossible to access.
