But one area where the new system could score points is speed.
Points to speed with which HP stitched Vertica into servers.
Over the summer, iAdvance released a study purporting to demonstrate that regions of the country served by non-Bell carriers -- those with no long-distance restrictions -- tend to enjoy more high-speed Internet backbone interconnection points.
This is the time saved by those people using high speed instead of medium speed (and the current rail network between the proposed points is medium, not low, speed) transport.
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The numbers speak for themselves at QPR - they are meant to have a five-year plan but, as Mark points out, the speed at which they get through managers shows how badly the board are getting things wrong.
At cruising speed, these blades were its only points of contact with the water.
Writing on his blog, he said he had paid a fine and attended a speed awareness course rather than accept penalty points.
And beginning this year, the ATP decided to more strictly enforce the 25-second rule between points in an effort to speed up play.
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Obviously designed for the workstation crowd, this CAD destroying GPU is equipped with more GDDR5 memory than our own four-year old Quake III server, but as HotHardware points out, the clock speed remains exactly the same as the entirely more affordable V8700.
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Traffic cameras do work for slowing cars at some points, but many drivers simply speed up afterwards.
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The difference in location at various points in time gives an indication of speed.
The time it takes for the vehicle to travel between both points is used to calculate the average speed.
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Ad hoc Wi-Fi networks can stretch the fabric of Internet connectivity, cheaply and painlessly, over any community to points where traffic is aggregated onto high-speed fiber backbone networks.
Now that we have widespread cellular coverage, with high speed data networks in many homes, offices and "points of congregation" such as coffee shops, we have all we need to signal to the mobile.
Even more simply, that's why the state trooper sits in wait along the highway to deter us from exceeding the speed limit and to punish us (with fines, points, etc.) when we're caught doing so.
"For mainstream storage applications, there is no product better suited in the industry than our Agility 4 SSDs, providing the ultimate in access speed, application performance, endurance and reliability, at price points that most cost-conscious users will find appealing, " said Ryan Petersen, CEO of OCZ Technology.
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The NYSE points to the former Cleveland broker as an example of the speed and aggressiveness of its enforcement actions.
The campaign is funded by money from speed awareness courses drivers attend when they are offered an alternative punishment to points on their driving licence.
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"Seb had a big top speed advantage, " said championship leader Webber, who is now on 93 points, five ahead of second-placed Button.
The company has bought additional spectrum, deployed improved High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) software and added fiber backhaul, which carries data to wireless distribution points.
Police figures suggest one in 12 people who attends a speed awareness course is likely to be stopped again for speeding, whereas one in four drivers who collects the points is likely to reoffend.
And there are, he points out, advantages to working with Microsoft: it can invest to offset risks and to help firms speed up broadband deployment.
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