And because timing is normally controlled by widgets installed in each light, rather than remotely managed, U-turns would be costly.
Dorset Council contractor SSE Contracting is now changing the light sensor on each light to a timed version in the town's quiet roads.
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Now they have something that works like a flatbed document scanner, with a scanning head containing either six or 12 light-emitting diodes, each emitting light of a specific wavelength between 350 nanometres (ultraviolet) and 800 nanometres (infra-red).
The new lights, which would not be legal in the UK, allow for a maximum setting of up to three minutes between each red light.
Each chip contains a number of channels - IBM would not specify the number - that can each handle light-encoded data at speeds of up to 25 gigabits per second (Gbps).
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The most physical demonstration of this rivalry is, famously, the annual University Boat Race: one spring Saturday each year the Light Blues (Cambridge) and Dark Blues (Oxford) each send their finest eight oarsmen to row the 4 miles and 374 yards along the Thames between Putney and Mortlake in west London.
But as someone steeped in corporate reputation management, I find the afterglow of each competition also shines a light on the cultures of each agency involved.
The effect seems to depend on processing each face in light of the others.
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Like the Kopelmans, they have a Christmas tree with dreidel ornaments and a menorah, which they light each night.
Because of this, Ross and his team had to light each scene for both color and black and white, a nearly impossible process.
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And one of the things that a company like ARC Energy is doing is trying to bring down the unit cost for each of those light bulbs.
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He argued Marshall had suffered enough, paying a price greater than any sentence a judge could hand down -- seeing his son turn on him during the trial and being portrayed in a negative light each day.
We actually record and average millions of photos to get enough light, each photo made to look the same via carefully timed synchronization with the light pulse.
Comparing the amount of CFR (regulatory) language directed at each might shed some light on the differences.
To measure the energy in question, he used two successive pulses of laser light, each 250 attoseconds long.
Normal vision is based on more than one hundred million receptors in each eye that process light, say experts.
It insists that it adjusts rates each month in the light of the economic news since its last meeting.
The atoms in the gas will absorb certain colours of light, each of which corresponds to a particular wavelength.
And it's important that we shed this light on each and every one of you over the course of this year.
Combining stout defence with some dazzling attacking play, the Giants ran in 26 points in each half to make light of captain Brett Hodgson's absence.
Red, green and blue filters then allow different colours to show within each pixel, but light has to be shone through them for this to happen.
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It also helps that the keys have a soft finish, along with some crisp backlighting (there's a light underneath each key, similar to HP's Radiance setup).
By comparing the amount of light in each unit of the grid with reliable sources of economic data from advanced economies, Chen and Nordhous established a clear and compelling relationship between radiance levels at night and GDP.
By wirelessly connecting the lights, a computer with Enlighted software can adjust the brightness of the light for each cubicle and automatically lower or cut off the amount of electricity going to the lights at different times of the day.
For that to work, each lens must respond to light coming from only one direction.
Cook and stir until the rice is light golden and each grain is coated with oil.
The tape is designed to increase the spreading of light in the light guide from each LED, which greatly increases the allowable LED spacing.
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Light passing through each microlens focuses at a point a few tenths of a millimetre beyond it, and thereafter spreads out as a cone.
Rather than being routinely emptied out 60 times a second regardless of light levels, each pixel on the Pixim chip is checked 128 times a second.
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