Don’t-care

When no explicitly correct force constant is found, HyperChem proceeds to stage two and finally to stage three. In stage two, you can use wildcards to relax the explicitness of the match between the atom types of the torsion in question and the available MM-t parameters. In the torsional case, as many as three searches of the mmp.par file are performed. If the exact match between A-X-Y-B and entries in mmp.par fails, then a search in mmp.par looks for an entry labeled, -X-Y- where is the designation for wildcard, don t-care, any-atom-type, unknown, etc. This search looks... 

A schema employs a don t care symbol so, for example, the sixth generation of offsprings in Table 10.6 could have employed the template... 

I have lost all of my interest in other people and don t care about them at all. 

As 2 above - this is irresponsible, and shows a don t care attitude . 

Not just the house, I say, knowing I m sounding brutal and deciding I don t care. The whole lot. Gareth and I were sorting a few things out when you arrived. ... 

Dunnell, R. (1993), Why archaeologists don t care about archaeometry, Archaeomate-rials 7, 161-165. 

Stan Shostak No, I have much more respect for models than to call them analogies. Models are serious business. You allow a model to work and figure out the parts of the model. It is not a matter of taking the truck apart. You drive your truck up and it suddenly stops. Reductionist - Well, I ran out of gas. Put some gas into the tank, truck starts again, you drive off, you don t care whether that s the real explanation, but it works. Your computer breaks down, you have a crash, you can t put gas in the tank, you reboot. That s the model. Where reductionism doesn t work, you begin with modelling. 

Steven Rose I m not sure that I actually quite understand your question, Bob. What I was describing was systems which when you tried to reduce them you lost the sense of the system - you couldn t actually do it. Now that s an irreducible aspect of a particular form of living system, and it s one that you and I agree on. I don t care whether it s called holistic research or not, it s an example of finding the right level and finding the right type of description for the phenomenon that you want to study, and that seems to... 

Partial correctness is analogous to weak equivalence in that it is a sort of fail-safe condition. If A(a) = FALSE the input criterion is invalid and a presumably never occurs as input and so we make no claims as to the behavior of program (P,I) with "bad" input. If (P,I,a) does not halt there is no output and this is also regarded as a don t-care situation. There are fairly realistic situations where we would be perfectly satisfied with this sort of "correctness" -for example, in data security or protection systems. We presume - or have enpirical evidence - that the system does not fail often or catastrophically and wish to know that when it is working and output is given (of whatever kind, for the output could be just internal transfer of data) then the result is "good" or, more likely, nothing "bad" happens. 

Apathy or Indiffernce Sluggish, don t care, passive, not alert. Such attitude has a detrimental affect on co-workers in that it can infect the entire organization. 

When my doctor realized that I was extremely sensitive to mold he told me to go back to Colorado where it was drier. As soon as I was strong enough to sit, I got on a plane and went to Colorado, rented a room in the house owned by a wonderful woman named Ruth who led an MCS support group. She said she s never seen anyone as sick as I was, and she helped me a lot. But her house was so moldy that I got even worse and had to sleep outside. That was the start of living outside on and off for four years because I never could find housing that didn t make me worse. I had such a hard time in Colorado that I don t care if I ever go back to that state again. 

I don t care who you are, if you expose yourself to toxic products over a period of time, it will get you. There s no getting around it. 

I used to be quite shy and retiring, but now I m quite feisty. Well, there s something to be feisty about. Now I don t care what other people think. I ve gotten past that. 

There are also material losses. MCS has a real impact on the material settings of your life. I think the reason that part has not been difficult for me is that we re not real materially oriented to begin with. We re not avid consumers. If I was the type of guy who got upset because I can t have a new car or a lot of furniture, or because we can t paint the walls every two years, then I would have problems. But I don t care about that stuff. That s not to say that we wouldn t have some different things than we have, given the choice. 

These drawings first and foremost represent states. The same kind of drawing can be used to represent specific implementations of a state. For example, we could decide that each link represents a row in a relation in a relational database or they might be pointers in main memory or they might be rows in a chart at the hotel s front desk. But at the start of a design the most useful way is to say that we don t care yet we re interested in describing the states and not the detail of how they re implemented. We will make the less important representation decisions in due course as the design proceeds. 

When applied to analyzing the real world, modeling is never complete. There s more to say about a Person than which room he or she is in every type diagram can always be extended with more detail. This is just as true within software. We saw earlier that as a client of an object, you are interested in a model that helps explain the behavior you expect of it—but you don t care how it is actually implemented. The model can omit implementation detail and have a completely different structure from that of the implementation as long as the client gets an understanding to which the actual behavior conforms. 

Because these descriptions are black box ( I don t care how my parent gets the money as long as she or he provides it ), it would be nice if we could describe the actions entirely without reference to anything inside the object. That is possible for simple behaviors but not for complex ones. Why will my employees not work when I ask them to Because their pockets are empty. How can their pockets be filled You pay them. In this conversation, it is implicit that an Employee can have a pocket representing an amount of money. It doesn t... 

We ve also said before that it is a matter of local policy how formal your documentation must be. When you re plugging components together to get an early product delivery, you don t care about all this. But when you re designing a component you hope will be reused many times, it is worth the extra effort. And even if you don t go to the trouble of writing the abstraction functions, it is useful to do a mental check that you beheve they could be written if you were challenged to. 

At this stage, we mask, remove anything from the action specs that talks about the other participants in the actions. For example, we don t care about the state of the ATM user s pocket as long as the ATM dishes out the cash. In the spreadsheet example, we didn t say much about the user s state anyway. In an action involving two or more software components, the team working on each component would make its own version of the action spec that would define only its effect on the team s component. 

The framework in Figure 9.18 illustrates a relationship between a Trader who makes Orders from a Distributor. In the framework, we don t care how the Trader gets rid of stock, nor how the Distributor acquires it. We have shown this as a degenerate collaboration, as it will next be refined as a unit. (Notice that we ve made all the types substitutable except Date. So we would likely have Date defined as an actual type somewhere in the package in which this framework definition appears or in the packages it imports.)... 

I don t care what you use, pie charts or whatever, but make some attempt to convey a pictorial perspective of the information you have gathered. And this may make men translate some information."... 

I m no environmentalist. I use all the chemicals I can. I don t care about chopping forests down. There s plenty of wood and everything. I m not one of these organic farmer type guys. 

No, but what were they talking about Not money or politics or even scandal, because they had brought in the two religious, who don t care about those. They included Jacopo, whom the lady treats as a drudge but who probably knows more about her behavior and state of mind than anyone else now. Donna Alina was not invited because she was the agenda ... 

Weits I am not saying that its properties must account for the full action spectrum of phase-shifting — it need not be the sole photopigment. However, it is a novel mammalian opsin that has apparently been shown to behave like a photopigment. I don t care about the lambda max in this context. 

He s a hard person to be with...he s very selfish, very...I think when people, anybody, that starts using drugs, they totally lose all reality... they become totally different people... with people that takes drugs it s as if they don t care for life at all, and they don t care about anybody else except for theirselves basically. 

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