Each of Iridium's 66 satellites has its own phone-switching system, boosting coverage and performance at a cost of complexity and weight.
These lasers use a novel switching system to compress their power into the tiny but immensely energetic bursts needed to explode the carbon-containing molecules.
His nearly 100 patented creations include a dictionary, a train-switching system and, most recently, a service that turns an ordinary pager into a personal security device.
The battery-switching system also couldn't be transposed to other vehicles.
But one could imagine switching to a system like the one in Washington DC, where fares are regulated, but anyone who meets minimum service criteria can go into the taxi business.
The government has proposed switching to a system of "presumed consent" for donation after death - meaning everyone would be regarded as a potential donor unless they had specifically opted out.
This morning, Milunovich wrote in a research note that he switching to a stock rating system with just two choices: Buy and Underperform.
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Because of the profligacy of its predecessor, the government of President Fernando de la Rua felt obliged, on taking office last December, to tighten fiscal policy, even though the budget deficit was relatively modest (and was due partly to the transition costs of switching to a private pension system).
Switching to an investor-pays system might seem the obvious solution, but it is not clear that enough investors would cough up to make the business viable.
He said Thursday's referendum was a rare opportunity to "modernise our democracy - move with the times" and repeated his argument that switching to AV would make voting system "a bit fairer" and make politicians work harder for a broader selection of votes.
It features improved performance throughout the system, including faster orientation changes, faster responses when switching between recent apps, and smoother and more consistent rendering across the system through v-sync and triple buffering.
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It services hundreds of global firms, including Goldman Sachs, Visa and DHL. Infosys has developed switching software for Cisco, a factory management system for Nestl and an inventory tracking application for Nordstrom.
Much in the way the phone system migrated from operators hand-switching every call to users dialing directly, Intentional Software could let a marketing executive create the code needed for a product campaign with just minimal mediation from a programmer.
But it is notoriously ill-suited to high-tech industries that have to tailor each item to a customer's specific needs (as in a data-switching centre or air-traffic-control system) or in which it is crucial that thousands of interrelated components all work correctly together (as in a rocket vehicle).
Mr Zedillo reformed pensions, switching from a pay-as-you-go system to Chilean-style individual capitalised accounts for new workers, but with one embellishment.
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In other words: Switching from old-style incandescents to the Hue LED system is like jumping from a horse and buggy to a Tesla Roadster.
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Although Monsanto has promised to put its terminator-gene system in deep-freeze, the molecular switching that underlies it remains a hot topic at many of the world's leading agri-biotechnology firms.
Officials feared the brackish storm water that poured into tunnels could corrode vulnerable signal and switching systems, complicating the task of reopening a bus and rail system that ferries 8.5 million passengers on a typical workday.
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Officials feared the brackish storm water that poured into subway tunnels and onto tracks could corrode vulnerable signal and switching systems, adding to the time workers will need to reopen the MTA's full system, which ferries 8.5 million passengers on a typical workday.
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