In terms of the middleware layer, its main shortcomings are its lack of compatibility to a standard specification and its dependency on a specific technology platform.
In particular, why are so many British politicians getting so simultaneously publicly excited about such a specific technology?
The downside is that they can cost upward of $500, and they work only on networks that use a specific technology like GSM.
The rule sets a standard for flammability, rather than requiring a specific technology, but many airlines are expected to choose a system devised by the F.A.A.
Major e-reader companies like Amazon.com, which sells the Kindle, and Barnes & Noble, seller of the Nook, have not announced that they are offering color versions, or that they are committed to a specific technology for doing so.
Building a company around an idea, rather than a specific technology, makes it easier to adapt when industry "platform shifts" occur (see article).True, IBM's longevity is also due, in part, to dumb luck.
"It's a shift away from this being a decision about an appliance or a specific technology" but instead being "a personal issue and a health issue," Mr. Clark said.
DAVID B., ROCHESTER This is a situation in which our current relationship with a specific technology obfuscates the essence of the problem: who owns information, and when does that ownership start?
A governmental decision to favour a specific technology that disappoints is therefore doubly harmful; it attracts resources to projects that shouldn't get them, and it deprives other, more promising, projects of those resources.
But regulation tends to make polluters use a specific technology, rather than investing in cleaner production methods, and it often forces all polluters to undertake the same sort of clean-up although individual clean-up costs vary enormously.
In games, a team is working with a specific technology.
