Rafts in a sentence as a noun

Also those giant rafts of trash in the oceans.

Yes, they live on the rafts. Then they spend a month in the hospital when they get picked up.

And it continues to move with support, we know the rafts are safer than this boat...

Doesn't hurt aquatic life but breaks the surface tension which kills the mosquito rafts dead as they sink straight away. Source: I live next to a sewage farm.

They don't try by buying the rafts of expensive insurances that middle class people often insist on mostly because they simply can't. Its almost a zen thing.

Did he assume it was a bunch of poor Somalis on handmade rafts going out there and hijacking boats? Do most ships now employ private security onboard during their travels through that region?

People survive on life rafts eating flying fish and drinking rain water, for months at a time. Most people using soylent will not eat it for all their meals, and they will almost always be surrounded by other food they can eat if they start feeling bad.

All subsequent prints suffered from lifting rafts, or air printing, or just stopping for who knows why. I fought daily with the machine for a good month before recognizing that I wanted prints, not to be a tinkerer of 3d printers.

Or bundles of papyrus reeds or balsawood rafts, as Thor Heyerdahl demonstrated. I personally know several people who've rowed across oceans.

It just doesn't give as accurate results as Google in some searches, I assume due to the rafts of information collected about users - a trade off I will make happily.

If I buy logs and built rafts with them, which I then sell to people trying to cross a river, I'm creating wealth. If I own a strip of land up and down the river and charge people who want to cross it in their rafts, I'm extracting rents. If I patent the concept of raft building and require anyone building their own rafts to pay me, I'm extracting rents.

However, with a small team I've always felt it makes sense to have one, maybe two "rafts" at a time. You need to execute something completely to know if its effective. I've found if you are splitting your time between too many rafts, they're all going to prove to be unfruitful, regardless of their potential

A large number of the fatalities were due to drowning, because people inflated life rafts while still inside, which blocked them in so they drowned when the plane sank. This is probably not a good crash to use as a baseline for predicting what would be typical for an ocean landing attempt.

I really hate to be negative about this but isn't this highly unlikely considering the rafts on the planes have emergency locator radio beacons?

We have had a few issues such as air printing, the software printing rafts but then printing the object off the actual raft, and prints that get to 99% and then just completely **** up. These issue's should be expected hurdles for a hobbyist, but it shows that there is still plenty of work to do until 3D printers are consumer ready.

Also, the emergency locators in the life rafts would have most likely sent out the distress signals upon contact with water. The mystery of MH370 is that in most all previous cases of onboard fires, there was some successful attempt to make a form of emergency radio contact.

Continents are basically rafts of granite that float on more dense mantle rocks; oceanic crust is pretty close chemically and physically to the mantle, and is a lot thinner and more dense, and basically floats lower. This equilibrium is called isostasy[1], which is more or less Archimedes' principle[2] applied to the earth.

There is money to be made selling inflatable rafts before a tsunami, but it's pretty depressing work and pretty much everyone is still going to die. The only semi-workable answers are air gapping and drastically reducing the size of your code base, and neither are working that awesome for people or is anyone much willing to do it.

I think the key point that this article is missing, and maybe it's just assumed by the author, is that when you're sending out the life rafts in an uncharted direction you get enough user feedback to either work the feature into your product or not.

But the use case they appear to be focusing on is their in-browser collaborative IDE, which is all kinds of problematic for me in cases like using my own bash settings, coding on airplanes, simulating my production environment, coding on life rafts on approach to a refugee flotilla in the Pacific ocean, and just plain hating latency. Looks like a perfect for coding on a Chromebook or similarly handicapped machine.

We have huge tech giants throwing whole rafts of patents at each other and seeing time and time again 95% of them dismissed and the remainder get trivially worked around. Hopefully this starts to change the mentality into one where these companies realize that patents are fairly worthless protection for trivial ideas in the first place and the only way to truly protect yourself is to actually out-innovate and be one step ahead of where the competition is.

Rafts definitions

noun

a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed stacks of newspapers"