It said it would compensate players with 30 days of extra time on their subscriptions, on top of one day for each that the system is down.
For example, if a consumer goes into the Gap to make a purchase and the First National Bank of Omaha's computer system is down, the Gap will be unable to make the sale.
Its mechanical hardtop roof system is hands down the best I have seen, opening or closing completely at the touch of a single button in less than 15 seconds.
India's regulatory system is slowing down product development.
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And the system is breaking down.
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The problem is, all that data is still buried in an electronic medical recording system that is slowing us down, is not yet showing improvement in care, and is still largely fragmented and in its infancy.
We have smaller leaks all the time, you know, a fax number is wrong by a digit, and the number that is loaded into the system is not the pharmacy down the street, but some law firm.
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Also sadly, nobody's saying nothing about ATI's Hollywood graphics chip that's coming to the system, either out of ignorance or NDA-ance, but the general feel is that the system should thrown down about triple the graphics of the GameCube, but won't really be the same league as the energy loving 360 or the largish PS3.
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Hadley's other pet project is a system that breaks down hydrogen sulfide in sewer lines.
That crisis is the whole system goes down, and I think we've lost sight that what was at risk was the system, not individual firms.
Instead, it is drawing up new rules that would allow it to intervene in its banking system and close down troubled banks, which is raising questions since the whole purpose of the bailout of its banks was so they could continue to operate.
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It is further down the ladder that Germany's banking system is proving inadequate to satisfy the Mittelstand's thirst for credit.
And the most notable thing about the introduction of that system there, down from the almost impenetrable Soviet tax system, is that revenue collection went up when this low rate and simple system came in.
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What is likely to replace the current model is a new system of scaled down agencies.
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Though three others remain, the system shuts down when an anomaly is detected, he said.
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"I think the bullet train system is not stable and may break down in extreme weather conditions, " said Professor Zhao Jian, a transportation expert with Beijing Jiaotong University.
Jolicloud is a stripped down operating system that, instead of running software, connects to Web services using their application programming interface (API).
Among the largest underlying components of IYT, in trading today FedEx Corp ( NYSE: FDX) is down about 0.2%, Norfolk Southern Corp. ( NYSE: NSC) is down about 0.7%, and Ryder System, Inc. ( NYSE: R) is lower by about 1.4%.
Only a modest amount of reserve capacity is needed to keep the system from going down when one or a few power plants crash.
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On the topic of software, we've got to hand it to Lenovo for understanding that digging through Win 7's menus with a finger can be more than frustrating -- its SimpleTap application provides shortcuts to system controls, which is helpful for quickly turning down the volume or launching a program or website.
Aldly said government support of industries in clean energy, defined broadly, is part of transforming the energy system and bringing down the cost of alternative energy.
The way to get true integration is to control everything from the operating system down to what kind of saw you are going to use on the glass.
However, unlike the Bell South packet network used by such devices as the RIM pager and handheld products, the Palm operating system is not able to have e-mails pushed down to it automatically.
In Europe the trucking industry has settled on a technology called selective catalytic reduction, in which urea is periodically injected into the exhaust system to break down the NOx, converting nitrogen oxides into (somewhat) harmless ammonia.
But this is why we need a system to shut these firms down with the least amount of collateral damage to innocent people and innocent businesses.
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Despite an overhaul of the bankruptcy laws in 1998, it is still awesomely difficult to foreclose on debts: the definition of bankruptcy turns on net worth, as opposed to cash flow, and the process is slowed down by a two-track system that separates forced restructurings from forced liquidations.
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