Last year 1 billion RFID chips were sold; this year the number may rise to 1.7 billion, according to IDTechEx, a consultancy.All this means that many formerly self-contained things have become capable of communicating.
The nominalism (or "terminism") of William of Ockham, an English Franciscan, his rejection of "useless entities," his metaphysics of a world of individual self-contained things, and his conceptualism gave neat, though extreme, expression to Aristotle's theory of language, the economy of nature, and the primacy of individuals in existence and of universals in intellectual knowledge.
Lastly, the LCD screen is not some self-contained little thing.
I look forward to seeing him whenever I can but he's very self-contained and does things when he chooses.
ThingWorld.com employs a technology that allows content producers to copyright small self-contained multimedia animations called Things.
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel," a lavish trove of sharp perceptions and firm opinions, includes the author's vision of her next novel — that is, the present one, foreseen as "spherical and self-contained, but jammed with things, like a spaceship made of Venetian glass, shining, intricate, and full of colors".
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel," a lavish trove of sharp perceptions and firm opinions, includes the author's vision of her next novel that is, the present one, foreseen as "spherical and self-contained, but jammed with things, like a spaceship made of Venetian glass, shining, intricate, and full of colors".
SIZE -- How small, self-contained and pocketable is the thing?
Thankfully the entire thing is self-contained so you won't have much of a mess on your hands.
Well, I don't mean it's perfect, but it's a small, narrow thing that's self-contained".
