No surprise then that investment banks would rather have the system delivered plug-ready.
Zambrano says Cemex plans to extend the GPS system to its ready-mix operations in large cities around the world.
Bearing that in mind, an Italian cotton waffle bathrobe or an iPod-ready music system to flood the room with relaxing sounds would please even the most stressed-out executive.
For instance, in response to Syria's medium-range missiles, Israel is developing the David's Sling anti-missile system that should be ready in eight years.
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Now that Microsoft has freed Windows Vista from the shackles of a five year development process, the company is attempting to the wow starts now us by revealing that it plans to have its next major operating system ready within the next two-and-a-half years, giving Vista's successor an expected release date of late 2009.
Of course, if there were instead systems of assessments in a competency-based learning system built for students to take an assessment on-demand when they were ready to demonstrate mastery on specific competencies, we would see a different picture develop with assessments that left no doubt that they were different.
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The system could be ready for production vehicles by mid-decade.
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Now, next time you sync your iPod you'll get the latest posts (assuming you set up iTunes to sync the playlist you chose) in audio format, as read in the ever-engaging style of the operating system voices, ready to take with you on the go.
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Stephen Baker, an analyst at research firm NPD, said Google is "certainly out in front of a number of trends that will be impacting the market, " but the Chromebook Pixel's price tag was "a big jump" from the earlier generation of Chromebooks and the Chrome operating system doesn't appear ready to compete head-on with Apple laptops or those powered by Windows 8.
As Mr Borio at the Bank for International Settlements points out, many of the ideas around countercyclicality (setting aside more capital in good times) and macroprudential regulation (safeguarding the stability of the whole banking system as well as of individual banks) were oven-ready, having been worked on by a coterie of central bankers, academics and regulators for a number of years.
Last fall he was ready to unveil it as a 288-satellite system very much like Iridium.
When Google acquired the Blogger Web publishing system from Pyra Labs in 2003, it got itself a ready-made network of hundreds of thousands of regularly updated blogs.
In times of low power demand, Schmitz says the the system gradually re-stores the battery power so it is able and ready to be used when the customer again needs power.
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Microsoft is getting ready to finally launch its long-delayed new Longhorn operating system next year.
Players coming through the academy system get thrown into the England set-up too early and they're not ready for international rugby.
"Every developer is dusting off his old plans and getting ready to put them back into the planning system again, " says Sean Traverse-Healy, the vice-chairman of the eastern branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE).
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The B612 group believes such a system could be ready for use by 2015, and suggests it should be tested shortly thereafter on a non-threatening asteroid.
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Tap the menu subset for Mobile Applications, and the Navigation System touch screen will then list the current SYNC-enabled apps found on the SYNC-paired smartphone that are ready for launch by voice command.
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We'll admit: we would have preferred to just tap the home button instead of click on it, especially when we were ready to switch apps, but nonetheless, Android makes for an intuitive-enough desktop operating system, what with the home screen full of shortcuts.
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