It makes sense to switch: if you do, you double your chance of winning the car.
With the infrastructure UPS already has in place, it wouldn't make sense to switch to Oracle databases in a non-NT environment, he said.
That fear is shared by others, who say that it makes sense to switch into assets more tied to domestic markets, such as banks.
Based on that knowledge a company can then decide whether it would make economic sense to switch the whole accounting system from Sterling to euro.
With all the electronic devices in our lives these days, it makes environmental (and financial) sense to switch to rechargeable nickel metal hydride (NiMH) and lithium ion (Li-Ion) batteries.
Rather than installing more kiosks all over the place to handle peak demand, it makes more sense to switch from airline-specific kiosks to shared ones, which can handle passengers from several airlines.
While most researchers agree that light exposure and melatonin can help reduce the symptoms of jet lag after arriving at your destination, not everyone thinks it makes sense to switch sleep schedules before a trip, which can cut into social time with family and friends.
To get a sense of how big this Big Switch is, Carr points to a similar revolution: the advent of electricity.
"It is a long time in the sense of a click of a switch, but you are talking about every government service, " he said.
Making the switch from human labor to automation only makes sense when the cost (and benefits) of the technology is equal to or more than the cost of a worker.
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In 2002 MIT professors started a not-for-profit called BioBricks that has collected 2, 000 biological components, including gene sequences that sense light, produce light, send messages between cells and switch cell functions on and off.
One is that fund managers generally are paid to be long or short, not sitting in cash or Treasurys, even when a switch from stocks to cash or Treasurys might make sense according to moving-average momentum.
Professor DON KETTL (Political Science, University of Pennsylvania): The sense of hypocrisy of an argument in favor of moral values and then not living up to them in the minds of many voters, but just as important a sense that the Republican leadership was at best asleep at the switch, and at worst complicit in an effort to cover this up for sometime.
On the other hand, this conflation makes far more sense in the long term, as our electrical grid becomes more sophisticated, and as electric vehicles begin the inevitable switch from internal combustion engines to electric motors or some other renewable source of power.
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