Southwest Airlines, JetBlue Airlines and other low cost airlines use a point-to-point system, which allows for more direct flights.
Also important, this processing power combined with advanced digital radio interface and signaling capabilities enables small-cell base stations to operate in a more efficient and dynamic mesh network, as opposed to a relatively static, point-to-point macro only system.
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Currently, two writers from each of the 14 American League cities will name up to 10 ball players and allocate a weighted point system to each spot on the ballot where the names of the candidates appear.
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Eventually, Wang and his team were able to tinker with their system to the point where it could produce enough current to charge small electronic devices.
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The company used a performance-based point system to encourage good customer service and adroit massage skills.
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Matters of opinion perhaps but they do speak to the point of the system.
They point to a similar system which operates to regulate the sale of kosher food.
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Sony previously yanked its backwards compatibility feature in PlayStation 3 (a feature that, like Nintendo, Sony used as a hyping point to promote the system).
Fernandopulle created a point system to identify employees likely to have high recurrent costs, and they were offered the chance to join the new clinic.
In fact, both Australia and Canada use a point system to put the most-qualified immigrants at the front of the line, plans that the United States can and should emulate.
Some of these nimbler airlines specialize in point-to-point service, instead of the hub-and-spoke system used by the legacy carriers.
Instead, they are all too likely to let the system drift closer to the point at which the money runs out, then enact a series of emergency proposals -- and trust to luck.
"From early indications, it seems to be within our guidance navigation control system, seems to point toward hardware, " Olansen said.
But as Milton Friedman liked to point out, our economic system isn't just based on profit.
Critics of the asbestos-trust system point to examples like the Kananian case in Ohio, where lawyers were sanctioned for submitting conflicting work histories to multiple trusts on behalf of a man who died of mesothelioma, which is usually attributed to asbestos.
Critics of the existing system point to the year-on-year rises in the numbers of pupils achieving top grades as a sign that GCSEs have become easier, but supporters say teenagers are working harder than ever and teachers are getting better at preparing them for exams.
Pessimists worry that the descent to that point may do serious and lasting damage to the financial system.
Finally, Madoff's giant Ponzi scheme, some of which appears to be plain fraud, though system-wide irregularities also point to subtler forms of corruption and capture.
Dr Grant first tried to overcome this with a point-and-shoot system, in which he brought the analyser to the plastic instead.
But specialists are important at times of high volatility, as Thain is careful to point out in defending the auction system.
He is not the only one who finds it easier to point out the flaws in a system than to correct them.
Which the owners will most definitely point to as evidence that the system is indeed broken if profits dwindle as the product shines.
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But Cher recently indicated that the company could at some point decide to buy an operating system of its own, perhaps a signal to Google that it had better watch its step.
As Paul Volcker, a former chairman of the Federal Reserve, likes to point out, the entire banking system of many an emerging country is no bigger than a typical regional bank in the United States (the sort now considered too small for global financial markets, and merging furiously).
How are you going to do that, if the system right now is creaking to the point it can't take that money?
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Several other attempts to simulate keyhole surgery have foundered at this point, but Dr Kelly's system, according to early trials, gives a surprisingly realistic amount of feedback.
The reason: Even assuming that Japan's economy grows at a moderate rate (an optimistic assumption given its shrinking population), the deficit would continue to expand at least until 2005, at which point gaps in Japan's pension system would start to appear.
That was one reason he decided to employ the 100-point scoring system.
At that point, the system reverts to essentially guessing the location.
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In the event of a catastrophe, one can easily and quickly recover individual files, entire folders, or restore the complete system to a point in time.
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