The Model T couldn't have been the Model T unless the automobile were on its way to becoming too interesting a product for consumers ever to be satisfied with a single model, a single manufacturer, a single design statement.
Thanks to this sustained investment, myriad engineering challenges have been overcome that previously precluded a single aircraft design from taking-off and landing like helicopters and flying horizontally like conventional airplanes.
Ironically, it succeeded in keeping its options open by threatening to pick a single final design, which led contractors to cut prices to a point where continued purchase of both versions became feasible.
When it comes to improving on that, some leaked European retailer listings suggest NVIDIA might not wait on a completely next-gen architecture, but may instead try to deliver similar performance through a less power-hungry single GPU design.
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And unlike dual-drive designs, WD's hybrid technology provides single-unit design homogeneity that OEM system manufacturers have long sought from the storage industry.
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The inductor-free, single-stage design delivers the industry's highest system efficiency and saves up to 60-percent board space compared to a multi-stage implementation.
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And now, with the approval of Congress, it has decided to procure two different versions of the warship rather than settling on a single, final design.
At age 11 he decided he wanted his family to take a vacation traveling cross-country and persuaded his parents to let him single-handedly design and organize the entire trip, his father, Bruce Sagan, recalls.
At the top of the list is Project Runway, which although is not a single person or design collective is the biggest fashion reality TV series of the moment and has a huge presence this season in the tents.
Rather than building a federal system, it fills in two holes in the single currency's original design.
The car utilizes only a single windshield wiper, which design director Frank Stephenson insists cleans better than two.
Ask a factory today to make you a single hammer to your own design and you will be presented with a bill for thousands of dollars.
This primarily white ceramic toast cooker boasts a simplified design, a single-feed toaster, and a V-shaped rack to hold the toast for use on the kitchen table.
The plan has been followed, more or less, as construction has stumbled forward over the past decade, but, after winning the competition for the master plan, Libeskind never managed to get a commission to design even a single building himself.
With a wireless keyboard and mouse, the design requires only a single power cable, eliminating clutter and tangled cords.
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According to the Compete numbers, November, the first month of the new design, brought the single biggest one-month drop in unique visitors of 2010.
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With Samsung's One Body Form design, the F8500 is created from a single piece of metal while highlighted with a dark titan metal color for a futuristic design.
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Part of the problem is the open-world-plus-dungeons concept that weakens not only MMO game design, but also many single-player RPGs.
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Its premium design is created using a single piece of metal.
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Mr Joy says that his new design, which turns a single chip into a parallel-processing system, can handle huge amounts of video and audio data at speeds that would overwhelm the usual Intel chip.
Gamers do not have to worry about excess heat while having all of their settings cranked up, keeping the laptop cool is accomplished by an efficient and quiet design using a larger, single omni-directional blower fan and dual heat pipe and heat sink system, minimizing the noise and increasing the efficiency over other designs that utilize two smaller and louder blowers.
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One more thing about great design: It comes from a single vision, not a committee.
That's the dilemma faced each day by Cirrus Design, the fastest-growing single-engine aircraft maker in the world.
What this new architecture design highlights is the fact that single persons are now the largest segment of the U.S. population.
But the devolution of design isn't usually a single abrupt act.
"This time we are going to get it right, " said Mr Bennett, who has simplified the design to give Starchaser 3A a single, more powerful first stage motor.
Of course, Europe's problems are more deep-seated than America's, thanks to the principal flaw in the euro's design: that it is a single currency operating in a continent without fiscal union.
Just a few years ago researchers had naively hoped that they could design a drug to blast a single cancer-causing protein and send the disease into remission for years without forcing the patient to endure the side effects of prolonged toxic chemotherapy.
Researchers at MIT, led by Dr Mark Drela and tasked by NASA, have come up with a double-wide design: instead of the traditional single cylindrical body, two partial cylinders are joined together with three engines at the back of the plane between the double tail.
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