New systems of proportional representation have been introduced for elections in Scotland and Wales, and for the European Parliament, in place of Britain's time-honoured system of first-past-the-post.
The more respectable reasons include his party's opposition to the time-dishonoured system of Proporz, whereby the two hitherto main parties carved up just about all public-sector jobs, from ambassadors to health inspectors, between them.
Real-time location system and radio-frequency identification technologies let staff easily locate kits with expired medication or in need of replenishing.
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Since 1992, the Canadian Investment Dealers Association has been trying to create a real-time price-information system for Canadian government bonds and treasury bills.
And, tapping his auto parts experience, he introduced the just-in-time inventory-control system and lean manufacturing, which emphasizes reducing wasteful processes in order to make better products and respond quickly to customers.
In a time-honoured system, an owner hires a captain who in turn provides the crew.
There are over 30 Assam and Chinese varieties (as well as a wide range of herbal teas), and tea production follows the time-honoured system of hand plucking the bushes.
This is a time-proven system that works very very well.
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When asked about bringing iPlayer to Windows Phone, the corporation's on-demand honcho, Daniel Danker, responded by saying it's not cost-or-time effective for the system -- thanks to a lack of support for HTTP Live Streaming.
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Why is a university spending any time at all running a big-time sports entertainment system?
It tests your system's BIOS, real-time clock and system clock, and more.
Called ARGUS-IS (both named after the mythological eye guy and an acronym for Autonomous Real-time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance - Imaging System) this guy straps a 1.8 gigapixel camera to the bottom of an A-160T Hummingbird robot helicopter.
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For instance, we assist Toyota's logistics department in managing their world-famous, just-in-time inventory system around snow and ice storms.
He pointed out that ETF costs soar quickly because of fees associated with a real-time recordkeeping system and trading costs which can add up dramatically with ETFs.
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Trying to develop with open source in the same way they did with a real-time operating system can be a very expensive (not to mention extremely frustrating) experience.
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With the second system acting almost like a co-pilot, watching the first system in real-time so that if anything were to happen the co-pilot could immediately take over.
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Needless to say, real-time data about system capacity and its impact on infrastructure assets.
We have also invested a substantial sum in a real-time electronic surveillance system that was commissioned in December 2001.
One of the major competitive strategies which engineered and sustains this colossal network of stores is the just-in-time inventory management system.
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This means that if energy is required on a constant basis then the system needs to be backed-up by conventional sources of power 73% of the time, and there are days when the back-up system is required for more than 90% of the time (In Germany, the industry association insists that renewables uptime averages 10%).
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Y2K Test examines your PC's system, BIOS, and real-time clocks, and tells you if your system passes or fails.
But Prof Cook said parts of the sea - and the whole canal system - froze at a time when canals were still being used to transport goods.
Last year, Dutch chip-maker NXP released a new type of mobile audio component -- the TFA9887 -- that allowed a mobile device to monitor its speaker system in real-time in order to max out volume without risking damage to the driver.
The Sony PS4 will have no boot-up time according to system architect Mark Cerny.
Nwokobia got his first taste of the power of this real-time monitoring when the system first got up and running.
Playing fast moving games over an internet connection poses a number of technical challenges, including latency - the time the remote system takes to execute a command.
If the system survives a likely copyright challenge in court, it will allow consumers to watch TV shows and football games without paying the broadcasters anything, and they can also speed past commercials by exploiting the time-delay feature of the system.
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The U.S. is still stalled in the research phase and the ITIF report calls for a federal approach comparable in scale to the Interstate Highway System launched in the 1950s, with national real-time traffic information in the 100 largest cities by 2014 and a mileage-based user fee system by 2020.
Yet the cheap system processed a trade in 50 milliseconds, one-fourth the time needed by the Sun system.
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