Semi-fixed systems cannot withstand the assault of integrated capital markets: they are prone to self-fulfilling panics.
One is to turn back the clock on financial integration: then pure-floating or semi-fixed systems might once again be used successfully.
As the new century approaches, this has forced many of them to go from expiration after three years to expiration after two. (Visa and Mastercard say they have fixed their own systems, but plenty of sales terminals may still cause trouble.) Meanwhile, Hartford Insurance had to start fixing its systems as far back as 1988, when it realized that its 7-year bonds would crash its software from 1993 onwards.
Eye-tracking systems are fixed into screens to gather data so the images can be personalised.
Like other fixed exchange-rate systems, currency boards prevent governments from setting their own interest rates.
This process helps explain why equity and house prices reached peaks in recent years that were unknown under fixed exchange-rate systems.
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Other systems require fixed pipes of say 10 Mhz in each direction.
Eason's family fixed the pipe and raceway intake systems themselves and limped along for the next 14 months.
Compaq was late to PCs, but stole a lead on incumbents too fixed on high-margin proprietary systems to hassle with cheap systems.
Some defence sources say there were safety fears over the new Nimrods, after difficulties during manufacture, though BAE Systems insists those were easily fixed, the BBC's defence correspondent Caroline Wyatt said.
The systems may also be suitable for fixed installation inside buildings or tunnels.
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If you believe this transformation is occurring, if you believe the broken distribution systems are on the verge of being fixed, those recordings are dramatically undervalued.
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In fact, it signed up to a fixed-price contract to deliver the same trucks incumbent BAE Systems was building for 30 percent less per vehicle.
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Before you go getting any bad ideas, know that Benninger and Sobell haven't released the app for public use, and warned both transit systems in late 2011 (though neither region has fixed the exploit, the duo claim).
Operations people, such as the CTO for electronic equity order flow or the operations director for fixed income, equities or market data, will want to monitor systems in real-time.
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"With very few exceptions, all the major security systems being used by the studios today are either broken and can't be fixed, or they're not deployed widely enough to be worth hacking, " says Kocher.
Dell is moving its back-end applications from Sun Solaris systems to Linux, which could be indicative of what other companies are doing to slash their fixed costs.
"The problem stems from the way that the fixed internet has been designed, " said Prof Rahim Tafazolli, director of Surrey University's Centre for Communications Systems Research.
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