Circuit-switched telephone systems have been replaced by packet-switched networks (most notably the Internet).
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He clung to a shipwreck on the Goodwin Sands before being rescued by a fishing boat, transferred to an RAF launch and brought ashore at Ramsgate, where he was greeted by a large crowd and presented with a packet of cigarettes by an elderly woman.
The apparent hack attack follows the approval of a new standard for deep packet inspection by a meeting last month of the World Telecommunication Standardisation Assembly.
Japanese users pay by the packet for the data they use on DoCoMo's networks, but Americans, accustomed to flat-fee Net and phone deals, may balk at pay-per-use pricing that can result in month-end sticker shock.
Once a complete packet is confirmed by the lender, it is then reviewed.
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Picture quality will likely be sacrificed at first to keep the data downloads smaller (customers will pay by the data packet, rather than the minute).
However, unlike the Bell South packet network used by such devices as the RIM pager and handheld products, the Palm operating system is not able to have e-mails pushed down to it automatically.
It's complex, but the purpose in designing such a pay packet is summed up by Kenneth Clarke, the chairman of BAT's remuneration committee and a former chairman of the exchequer.
The same reflex may even inhibit Dominique Strauss-Kahn, boss of the IMF and the Socialists' most competent leader, from running for the presidency in 2012: he is damaged by his big pay packet and the link to Washington money.
We judge CD-RW packet-writing performance by copying a folder containing 100MB of files to a CD-RW disc three times: first to the newly formatted blank disc, again after deleting the files from the first copy operation, and finally by overwriting the files from the second operation.
As a waiter or bartender, a light pay packet can at least be supplemented by tips.
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In recent weeks Dr Smith and Dr Sample, working with Scott Southwood, another researcher at the University of Washington, have built a weather sensor that measures temperature and light levels and sends a packet of data every five seconds by radio.
"Some children say they have had last night's KFC for breakfast or a packet of custard creams and you can tell by their behaviour and hyperactivity, " he said.
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The new protocol also offers enhanced security, by providing a cryptographic means of checking that a particular packet really does come from the machine it claims to.
The profession in the Alsace region has been deeply hurt by increases in cigarette taxes since 2002, which mean that a packet on the French side of the border is 20% more expensive than in neighbouring Germany.
By contrast, 35% voted under the old system, when the packet automatically came in the mail.
Since the mid-1990s, the proportion of 12th-grade pupils who believe smoking a packet or two of cigarettes a day carries a great risk has risen by about ten percentage points.
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There is also evidence that the United Kingdom has had success reducing suicide attempts involving the pain reliever acetaminophen, also called paracetamol, by restricting the number of tablets of medication that could be sold in a packet, Gould said.
Over the next year, general packet radio services, or GPRS, will be phased in, to be followed by even speedier third generation, or 3G, technology.
The packet was found in a cupboard in the minister's bathroom office during a routine check by bomb squad officials, who considered it suspicious.
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