Like it or not, the Internet has become the operating system of choice for software developers.
Linux is effectively free, so many high schools and universities are making it their operating system of choice.
The only downside is that it is running Symbian, the platform Nokia is in the process of dumping, rather than its operating system of choice, Windows Phone.
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But Motorola was not investing as it should have been in software integration systems that would allow it to retain its role as the system provider of choice.
Workstations and servers are on their way to becoming generic boxes, waiting for the customer to install their operating system and applications of choice.
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To get cost saving with greater choice and high quality care, Gingrich relies upon the market which puts the patient at the center of the system where choice can be made by knowing the actual price and quality like everywhere else in the free market.
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And of course, for all you early adopters, the time to buy is always now -- through the end of the year, the system comes with a free game of your choice as well.
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The system starts with your choice of the professional Scarlet or "master professional" EPIC brains which can then be bunged into about 2, 251, 799, 813, 685, 248 possible camera configurations, RED only half-jokingly chides.
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Carping about or in some cases ignoring the failures of the current IVF system, seems the preferred choice for those opposed to even debating the benefits and challenges of a for-profit embryo market.
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The closer we get to the cloud, the less important our choice of operating system.
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Yet in America's system of checks and balances, a choice between presidents cannot reliably be made by combing through policy programmes.
That's the incentive of a system that allows increased choice and competition.
All it needs is a green paint job, a big number "2" on both sides and you've set up every Thunderbirds fan in the country for a month of restless nights: this pointlessly excessive system definitely makes it the Tracy family's day tripper of choice.
Key to his platform were a flat tax, medical savings accounts, a new Social Security system for working Americans, parental choice of schools for their children, term limits and a strong national defense.
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One virtue of a private system is that competition allows choice and experimentation.
"I doubt whether we should have a system whereby the quality of the bar drives student choice and student choice drives the survival of our institutions in higher education, " she said.
They all reckon the Welsh Government is right to build on the current system, right to give schools the choice of pinning everything on one set of exams or letting pupils pick up marks during the school year.
If the moves in those other states are any indication, collective-bargaining is next in line followed by the expansion of school choice and the injection of more corporate money and influence into the public education system.
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Young people should have the choice of staying in the current system or of investing part-and eventually the bulk-of their Social Security levies in their own PRAs.
This is especially true in the province's capital of Edmonton, which is noted for its innovative system stressing choice, accountability and competition.
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It is also the only major country that continues to maintain a health-care system with substantial elements of competitive supply, pricing freedom, patient choice, and diversity in approaching complex and uncertain medical problems.
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The council rightly does not oppose such a system on ethical grounds, because it would leave the choice of donation or non-donation entirely in the hands of individuals and their families, as it is now.
And yet, they have so mismanaged their affairs - with such devastating potential consequences for the global economy and its financial system - that the rest of the world believes it has no choice but to come to its rescue.
Now, as its implementation begins, those critics have the choice of working with regulators to make the system safer, or simply to roll back sensible reforms, such as the creation of an agency to protect consumers from the kind of abusive practices that spawned this crisis in the first place.
Molyneux would famously promise that you could do ANYthing in his games, as he was one of the first to really expand on the moral choice system that now pervades most titles.
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Carlos Larrain, head of the conservative National Renewal party, said a Bachelet candidacy "will be healthy for the system" by giving voters a choice between the social welfare policies of her previous term and those of Pinera's right-of-center government.
Capital will also be the method of choice to rein in firms big enough to rock the system.
Chile inherited from the dictatorship a voucher system under which the government pays money to the school of the parents' choice.
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By making Windows virtually the only operating-system choice available to computer manufacturers, Microsoft was a principal benefactor of the boom in desktop computing.
Counter intuitively, the hardest part of realizing a decent data infrastructure is not the hardware or technology choice, but the design and architecture of your information system.
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