The drive to be a vertical player starts at the top of Google.
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It had a circular elevator shaft for the round elevators that he believed would be the vertical transportation of the future, although it did not receive one that fit until a 1970s renovation.
The real incentive, I see would be to encourage vertical integration, since intrafirm transactions would not be subject to the tax.
It will be drilled to vertical depths of 8, 000 to 12, 000 feet below surface.
Plastic PV, say the company, can absorb sunlight from "all sorts of ranges" allowing it to be installed onto vertical walls.
This raises an interesting debate: should collaboration technologies be a separate vertical stack of tools with links to and from existing tools?
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Cutting out the sometimes distracting glare of glossy displays, the matte screen is still sufficiently bright and horizontal viewing angles continue to be better than vertical ones.
So, horizontal monopolies would be forbidden, but vertical integration encouraged.
But he acknowledged that there could be a pilot trial of vertical integration in Scotland.
There would also be smaller turbines, possibly vertical ones, perched on our homes, steadily and reliably complementing our solar panels and contributing to a smart grid which in turn powered our food and factory production and transportation networks.
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With one slight exception, perhaps of at least curiosity interest to Mathematica aficionados: he suggested that cells in Mathematica notebook documents (now CDFs) should be indicated not by simple vertical lines but instead by brackets with little serifs at their ends.
That is, a vertical spread can only be worth the difference between the strikes.
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Since they are built on to a flat wafer, rather than etched out of it, layers of vertical transistors could even be constructed on top of one another, raising the intriguing possibility of multi-storey semiconductors.
Vertical thrust alone may not be the most appropriate memorial or the most fitting gauge of capitalism's resilience.
They will be powerless to stop it. n Vertical integration is kaput.
The monitors provide plug- and-play convenience from a simple USB key and can be set in either a horizontal or vertical position for more flexible placement options.
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Vertical exploration is supposed to be a major component of the level design in the game, and traversing the depths, torch clutched tight in hand, is something we can all look forward to.
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Vertical shafts meant the loads could be winched up to the factory.
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While Silicon Valley has been the bastion of the tech vertical, New York could yet be the bastion of the tech horizontal.
And since the Apple screen is now taller but no wider, the usability of the extra space is very much in the to-be-determined category (the screen shape is more vertical or oblong depending on how you are holding the phone, closer to a widescreen TV than before).
For example, the company hopes that it will be able to benefit from SpectraLink's strength within key vertical markets such as retail, hospitality and health care.
"There is going to be a bit of a fight, " said Chip Dillon of Vertical Research.
As you might guess, big cities can be particularly hard hit because of the inherent closeness that comes of vertical living, mammoth office buildings, and mass transit.
Vertical acquisitions usually make good sense, so what companies could be considered within this area?
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If approved by Lancashire County Council the well will be 8.5in (22cm) in diameter and extend approximately 1km from the current vertical well, more than a mile beneath the surface.
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Dickson Despommier, a longtime Columbia University professor who is the author of The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century thinks the concept will be initially viable in rich, arid places like Dubai and Saudi Arabia.
"Let's be honest, I think it's the younger generation who like the idea of a vertical pier and the not-so-young generation who like the idea of a traditional pier, " Mr Dunning said.
They enable water to be pumped in a network that runs between the horizontal layers of a stack and the thousands of vertical interconnections that carry information between its layers.
Drilling a 2 or 3 foot hole can be done with normal equipment, while drilling a ten, fifty, or one hundred foot diameter vertical hole would require an entirely new invention.
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By drawing on ability from all echelons, with communications characterized by interaction, both vertical and horizontal, rather than one-way and top-down, acceptable decisions can be made faster.
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