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.
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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He has put forward the concept of a weapons system controlled by a so-called "ethical governor".
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
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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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.
We were creating a new learning system, a new brand, and convincing some of our audience of a new concept, that 0-6 was the right time to start language learning.
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 of taxing cars by the mile would require some sort of measuring system in order to impose and collect the tax.
This mutual exchange concept is expanded more broadly in the LETS (Local Exchange Trading System) model of private currencies.
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This connection to a system context, and desire to contribute to it, is the essential foundation of a responsibility as a concept.
"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.
Garmin's new multi-controller concept provides a new and unique way of controlling essential functions of an in-car infotainment system, such as audio, apps, communications and navigation.
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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Regardless of all the systems out there that indicate ranking or even try to capture your degree of trust in others, the very notion of trust is a personal concept that is difficult or impossible to convey in a simple form that the system can quantify.
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