Word: processing
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...proposal, Councillors Henrietta Davis and Jim Braude voted against the petition, which provides for the creation of six new residential districts, Floor-Area Ratio (FAR) reductions across the city, restrictions on the density of new building projects, the introduction of parking garages to FAR regulations and a design review process for new building projects...
...recycling ramps up, computer manufacturers are discovering new ways to make the process more efficient. Metal screws are being replaced with snap-open panels for quicker dismantling. Lead solder used to fasten parts to circuit boards is giving way to safer tin, silver and copper alloys. Spray-on flame retardants, which can be toxic when recycled, are being replaced with metal paneling. And those annoying plastic shipping peanuts are being replaced with packing material made of water-soluble starch...
...class you really needed was a nightmare? Well, Penn State now asks, "What's it worth to ya?" Each second-year student at the Smeal College of Business Administration is given 500 tokens (think Monopoly money) to bid on the classes he wants. It's an online process, and students can bid high for a seat in a must-have class--or for one they think they could barter later. Unpopular professors may feel as if they are on The Gong Show...
...catch bad guys. For the police, it was a chance to gauge FaceTrac's effectiveness as a crime-fighting tool. For Graphco and its partners, it was a chance to see whether the system could capture tens of thousands of faces in difficult lighting and random angles and process them in real time--while grabbing a little free publicity. "It was a phenomenal success," says Colatosti. "If you had told me the day before that we'd get one, that would be great. The fact that we caught 19, that's astounding...
...Napsters of the world weren't designed to make the Shawn Fannings of the world rich - more to Stick It To The Man, and change the music business from without. And it's already working. Back in October, while the appeals process was still underway, Napster and Big Fiver Bertelsmann cut a deal to turn the renegade into a profit-making (and officially sanctioned) music-selling arm of said Man, with funding by Bertelsmann and mechanics by Napster...