In his most straightforward comment to date on the power that comes from optimizing hardware and software from the ground up, Ballmer sounds a lot like Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who launched the the engineered-system concept about four years ago with the first version of the Oracle Exadata Database Machine.
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Slashdot, an early social news site powered by community submissions, codified much of this in their moderation system and concept of Karma.
Mathematicians, their number system included the concept of zero, an idea unknown to the old Greeks, expert mathematicians themselves.
Bats stands for "better alternative trading system, " a concept that Cummings says the investing world badly needs.
While such a system has been shown in concept cars, Nissan would be the first automaker to migrate the technology to mass-produced models.
He has put forward the concept of a weapons system controlled by a so-called "ethical governor".
Special Stage Systems' Ming Mecca system is built entirely around that concept -- and will definitely appeal to anyone with a fondness for analog electronics.
Mr Gove was referring to the concept of a global system that would allow researchers anywhere to share information which was first proposed by Sir Tim while he was working at the Cern particle physics laboratory in Geneva in the 1980s.
In 2000, Congress directed a reconfiguration of the program and shifted funding from the FSCS to a more ambitious concept known as Future Combat System (FCS).
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The concept of a global ocean observing system grew from the realisation that understanding and forecasting climate change would require a long-term, multivariate ocean observing system.
As the collaboration developed, the team constructed a new business model to overcome the lack of sanitation infrastructure and solve the issue of waste removal: the concept of a service-based system.
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Pictured at left above, Easton started working at the Naval Research Laboratory in 1943, and later helped develop MINITRACK, the very first satellite tracking system, which in turn led to the concept Easton dubbed TIMATION (short for "time navigation").
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Anne Lauvergeon, chief executive of the French nuclear giant Areva, hinted last week during a meeting in Forbes offices that Areva is developing a hybrid solar power plant concept that combines a solar thermal system with solar photovoltaic (PV) panels.
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The concept of trying to quell the immune system attack on pancreas cells in diabetics goes back decades, but it has been beset by failure so far.
The purely electric drive system was factored into the equation as early as the concept phase when the gullwing model was being developed.
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What you see below are possible concept mock-ups of the new Nintendo system and controllers, and alongside that, IGN took it upon themselves to render what it could look like in real life.
These avenues would be effectively eliminated, and such a move could hamstring either a specific system (Xbox in this case), or the entire concept of consoles if they all colluded to eradicate used games sales.
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The training provided the participants with the overview of the grid network, the architecture of the gLite middleware, an introduction to job submission, data management and grid workflows, the concept of virtual organizations and the virtual organisation management system, as well as practical exercises on the use of gLite on the GILDA testbed.
That's an alien concept for most people that come out of our education system.
In the system we have, ACOs are conceptually right, in that the concept inches toward differential pricing for quality, and Don should be congratulated.
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It is not only the laser-beam projectors and their visible cooling system with rotating vents that make the shimmering blue headlamps of the Concept GLA such an interesting feature.
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Nance, of Weatherford, Texas, uses a saline rinse system that is not a "pot, " but is the same concept.
And several companies had concept and prototype devices that envisioned digital cameras and global positioning system expansion devices that would fit into the SD card slot.
This mutual exchange concept is expanded more broadly in the LETS (Local Exchange Trading System) model of private currencies.
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"Beercade uses a custom-made system that re-utilizes certain retro nostalgic arcade machine user actions for its concept, " explains McKinney Creative Technologist Adam Carroll.
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"Their concept for the club involves hugely increasing supporter involvement through a trust system on the lines of that in place at Barcelona, " said Farquhar.
The innovative ticketing concept for individual days of the trade fair and the entry management system worked without a hitch and contributed significantly to the improved quality of the event.
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The concept, called "Harmolodic, " Coleman says, removes the caste system from sound.
The concept of taxing cars by the mile would require some sort of measuring system in order to impose and collect the tax.
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