In most high-tech fields today, the know-how needed to make a component, sub-assembly or finished product has progressed too far and too fast for the average worker to be able to propose any useful innovations.
Bonuses, which make up the biggest component of annual compensation for most Wall Street executives, rose 15% last year, Johnson says.
So, why did the company feel the need to make touch a mandatory component of Haswell-running Ultrabooks, given the added cost and power-demands associated with the hardware.
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All that goes towards exposing our players more but, just as important, it provides value to the sponsors who invest in the LPGA, particularly title sponsors of tournaments, which are the necessary component to make a tournament work.
The company's component divisions that make semiconductor products and display panels also benefited from a rise in demand for smartphones.
Apple is the largest customer for Samsung's component divisions, which make display screens and chips.
Apple is the largest customer for Samsung's component divisions, which make chips and displays for smartphones and tablets.
This low-budget project has no military component and may not make much of a difference, says Fyodor Lukyanov, a Russian foreign-policy pundit.
However, should customers embrace the playback capabilities that marginal component costs will soon make a standard feature of their handsets, Apple will need to take a more active role if it wants to preserve the portable digital music experience it has executed so well.
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Then you would need to know the foreign country well and make sure you can be an important component in its development.
My assumption would be that while the 4 and 4S have lower component costs they would not make up for the lower revenue.
But he has already made his own valve radio and is convinced there will be enough British-made component parts for him to make his own mobile phone.
Possible explanation: There's a legitimate emotional component to the economic decisions people make about their lives.
And they help make capital work harder, an increasingly important component of growth in advanced economies.
Solid enough to make me wish for a single-player component other than simply bot-battling.
Imagine a car manufacturer that decided to buy a key engine component for its cars rather than make them.
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But also with the development of specialized hardware to make installation faster and therefore more economic this component should drop, for sure putting 8KW on a roof unless it is tile or something cumbersome.
It wants to make ethanol and other biocomponents or biodiesels a major component of the fuel mix going forward.
But I think my reaction in Belize also has a more behavioral component: Home displays of energy use make this use more salient and may reduce our usage even if prices do not change.
So, last point I'll make on this -- there is also a cultural component to this, though.
The second and frequently over-looked component is the responsibility of the communicator to make sure the communication was received and understood.
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But there is a cultural component too, a set of assumptions employers make about married women, even ones who have supportive spouses doing their share of the housework or the daycare duty.
Weight loss surgery, since it has a cosmetic component, can be controversial at best so make sure that you have great documentation to prove that it was medically necessary and ordered by a doctor.
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It should make for some great short-selling opportunities among the tablet component makers later this year.
In order to make wind energy cost-effective, one has to keep initial component costs as low as possible.
Or, to put it another way, could the component supplier play its customers off against each other to make new product lines inevitable?
Make sure the HD STB is connected to the HDTV via either component or HDMI and look at what input you are plugged into, many HDTV have multiples of each.
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For example, microchips will be a major component in renewable resource technology such as solar panels, helping make the collection of solar power and the subsequent production of usable energy as efficient as possible.
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The hope is that pairing up researchers and businesses will hasten the development of material and component manufacturing processes for the carbon-based substance, and make it possible for graphene to find its way into products such as flexible electronics, batteries and faster processors.
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