Yet the cheap system processed a trade in 50 milliseconds, one-fourth the time needed by the Sun system.
This may make sense as a way to judge a state (although there may be legitimate questions if it makes sense when moving to a competency-based learning system and away from one based on time), but it creates some problems for judging schools to where students are transferring in the midst of their high school experience.
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Since the robot could hang out in the dark, it could conceivably be equipped with a microphone or tracking system to gather intelligence for longer investigations, rather than one-time interdictions.
Such a system could pave the way for games to be installed using a one-time code that would effectively kill used games for the console.
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And the result is we have a system that minority students graduate on time from high school -maybe one out two or about 50 percent.
Yes, they claim to have a new operating system and things like one-swipe email access from any app, but time and technology wait for no man.
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Managed care has largely achieved one-time savings by squeezing out irrationalities and high margins from the traditional fee-for- service system.
Mix in colds, which are prevalent this time of year, and the immune system of Americans could be dealt a one-two punch.
But I do think that, although we've stabilized the financial system, one of the problems that we're still seeing all the time -- and I heard about it when it was in Allentown just this past week -- was the fact that small businesses and some medium-sized businesses are still feeling a huge credit crunch.
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One solution, of course, is upgrading to a 240-volt power system, which would cut charging time to about four hours.
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The new system, he figures, can be run on one-third of a single staffer's time.
Using a grid of 14-kilometer cells, the new system will be able to simulate from one to five years per day of computing time, up from the three months or so that Jaguar was able to churn through in a day.
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