Linux, the MySQL database and other low-cost open-source software, first created by amateurs, have evolved at Internet speed and are now polished enough to rival products from Microsoft and Oracle.
Samuel Colman's watercolor "Wharf at Yonkers" (c.1869-70) takes a slightly different tack, his low viewpoint emphasizing the open sky and the broad stretch of Hudson waterway framed by the Palisades and the North Yonkers hills.
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If I walk outside the door today and these policies have been implemented, it would be as easy to go down the street, particularly if you're a low income, to open a savings account, to put some money aside as it is to, say, get a debit card or a store credit card or what?
Still, in such a new industry, talent is rare and quality low, leaving the door open to foreigners with more experience.
At the low-price end, open-source upstarts MySQL and Enterprisedb have hawked cheaper, nimbler databases for a few years, possibly squeezing Ingres out.
Laying down the rules of the game and being prepared to enforce them is a vital foundation for open economies, low taxes and free enterprise.
OpenAIRE builds on well-known and low cost technology for an Open Access infrastructure and bases its activities on the European network of institutional and thematic repositories.
While the residents of Samso can take advantage of their island's blustery weather, open spaces and low-population density to be carbon neutral, the success of wind energy on a global scale may come down to simple economics.
With our open borders, low tariffs, strong protections for intellectual property, low energy costs, integrated supply chains, and, most importantly, our skilled work force, our nations are working cooperatively to bring jobs back from remote shores, which is one reason why, for the first time in a decade, U.S. manufacturing job growth is again on the rise.
Mormon Idaho, with its open gun laws and low gun-death rate, is pretty homogeneous.
The store remains open despite stock running low as customers seek to ride out the storm with a drink.
They have left the low-end of the market open and ripe for entrants to come in and disrupt them.
It kept taxes low, regulations light, trade open and laws simple but rigorously enforced so as to encourage private investment.
He credited non-proprietary architecture, with its high rate of innovation and low cost, with helping break open the server market, once dominated by proprietary vendors such as Sun Microsystems Inc.
Parker does not see much of an impact on low-cost carriers from the Open Skies Agreement, a treaty in effect since March that allows carriers to fly new routes into other countries.
Jamila has spent the better part of the last year in New York, away from her family, working at a Brooklyn hospital as a house physician -- a low-paying and demanding position open to doctors in her situation -- in hopes it would help her land a residency this spring.
"We're thrilled to see Fusion-io launching ioScale in conjunction with the Open Compute Summit and making this high-performance, low-power technology more broadly available, " said Frank Frankovsky, Chairman of the Open Compute Foundation and Vice President of Hardware Design and Supply Chain at Facebook.
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Cotswold is a midwife-led unit for women with low-risk pregnancies and is still open to antenatal and postnatal patients.
We believe -- we believe in low taxes, spending discipline, and open markets.
Costs though have been kept low, first, by adopting an open policy in selecting devices and software and encouraging multiple private vendors.
Conflict-minded Apple fans argue that Android phones are less slick and uglier, and that they junk up the system with low-quality apps generated in its open developer community.
It explores the idea of a low-fuel-use plane that uses open-rotor engines mounted on what is called a Pi-tail in the stern of the ship.
Much more controversial is the ministry's suggestion that Japan should open its doors to lots of low-paid, low-skilled nursing assistants, a proposal championed by Nikkeiren, Japan's employers' federation.
The average room rates for luxury hotels are still too low in China, leaving little room to open midrange options that would operate at an attractive profit, Mr. Sorenson said.
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One wallet uses a motorised hinge to become physically harder to open when a monthly allowance is running low.
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Cyprus Popular has said its U.K. branches remained open but had "very, very low levels of outflows" of cash from them.
Comparable boutique sales are expected to increase in the low double digit range, as it plans to open 29 new boutiques.
Hopefully in the coming year, the Federal Reserve can find a happy medium between stimulating growth and not keeping rates too low for too long, and lenders will again open up credit lines but also hold borrowers to a higher standard.
At F2.8-4 wide open, this fast lens is perfect for low-light photography or scenes beckoning a beautiful bokeh effect.
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