Anyone can agree to arbitrate a disagreement or legal issue, but the key word is agree. Simply because one of the parties in a dispute desires to enter into arbitration does not take away another party's right to go to court.
Part of the Nanotechnology glossary: (This definition follows U.S. usage in which a billion is a thousand million and a trillion is a 1 followed by 12 zeros.). A nanosecond (ns or nsec) is one billionth (10 -9) of a second and is a common measurement of read or write access time to random access memory (RAM).
Introduction. As some of you may know, Microsoft tends to use time intervals to calculate what the time is based on the number of days, hours,minutes and seconds from December 31st 1899 and this is stored as a double-precision floating point number (i.e. 21:00 Dec 24, 2003 would be 37979.875).