His 311 call system, a municipal customer-service line, has received 120m calls since 2003.
And during the crippling blizzard of 2010, the call system was overwhelmed as the city was preparing to install new technology.
At the end of the call the system recommends the best course of action, which might be a call back from a doctor, an appointment or a 999 call to the ambulance service.
Mr Hardwick also said that, if there were to be an emergency, "the dysfunctional cell call bell system gave us no confidence that officers would promptly attend".
Thus the bank is holding only a fraction of deposits in reserves and is lending out the rest: fractional reserve banking which is what we call the system.
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The "Dance Card" rankings, as Coleman and Lynch call their system, make a couple of assumptions: All teams ranked 25 or better in the RPI will make the tournament, and no team ranked below 80 will receive an at-large bid.
Given that there already is Skype out there (and any number of competing VOIP services) in the long term the only real hope for the telecoms and airtime providers is to entirely move away from the per call charging system.
Bring substantially more money into the Medicare pool via the premium payments ponied up by all the additional people in the system who are younger, healthier and, therefore, far less likely to call upon the system to pay for expensive illnesses.
We call that operating system elastic to signal the way that it breaks with the scale economics of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
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Serco's call-handling system lists questions for Serco staff to ask patients.
While technologies such as Solidcore (just acquired by McAfee) can be installed to make a Windows machine impervious to attack via essentially randomizing memory and system call registries and other randomizing in the network can add to the investment at attacker must make to be successful, there is one area that is ripe for exploration.
Lord Justice Leveson's call for a system of voluntary independent self-regulation of the press posed a problem for the politicians - how to make any new system independent enough to satisfy the victims whilst at the same time making it not so independent as to convince the press to walk away and refuse to take part.
It has also launched a new reputation system to call out important contributors.
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Applicants are submitting resumes into the black hole we call an applicant tracking system.
For non-lawyers who want an introduction to the judge-made system we call the common law, this book is the ideal primer.
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Each node in the flow is aware of the state or context of the session and has agreed or committed to the cause, so to speak, and thus we call it a stateful system.
In a conference call with reporters, system president Joe DiPietro and Katie High, vice president for academic affairs and student success, indicated students could send faculty e-mails and those on-campus could approach faculty with questions.
Unlike many media companies, Vox has invested significantly in building a proprietary publishing system which they call Chorus.
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The reason they call it a "family system" or a "layered defense" is that the tracking and targeting systems of each layer of technology enhance each others accuracy.
The Police Superintendents' Association, which has been examining the Dutch system, will call on the home secretary at its annual conference later this month to change the law to allow intercept evidence to be used as evidence in British courts.
During a video-conference call, for example, the system might decide not to notify you that a piece of spam had arrived in your mailbox.
When the person dialled answers the telephone, there is no agent available, resulting in silence on the line because the automated calling system has ended the call.
Conservative politicians have portrayed the Komoto incident as exposing what they call glaring loopholes in the welfare system and the need to raise the bar for receiving payments.
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But most of the history of the solar system--this is why the comet is so important--most of the history of this comet was spent out beyond Neptune, out where Pluto is at the very edge of the solar system, what we call the Kuiper belt.
Yet, she and her call center compatriots are fettered by a system that neither enables nor encourages them to think outside the box.
All of this makes sense, given the reluctance of most people to expend the mental energy, and the infrequency with which people change their minds once System One has made the call.
HP's newest 11.6-inch not-quite-a-netbook (or a notbook as we like to call it) is the first Fusion system to hit the market, and with a dual-core 1.6GHz E350 Zacate processor and AMD Radeon HD 6310 GPU on the same chip it promises... well, everything AMD has promised for so long.
In effect, executives and employees were given a call option on the markets by the banking system.
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