According to a famous 2007 blogpost by Marc Andreessen a platform is "a system that can be programmed and therefore customised by outside developers – users – and in that way, adapted to countless needs and niches that the platform's original developers could not have possibly contemplated, much less had time to accommodate".
In many respects, synthetic biology -- a field that "aims to apply standardized engineering techniques to biology and thereby create organisms or biological systems with novel or specialized functions to address countless needs," as the U.S. Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues defined it -- is still very much in its infancy.
Teachers know that behind such outbursts lie countless unmet needs, especially mental health ones.
Leaving aside the fact that those pregnancies didn't occur spontaneously in the absence of males, the problem with this argument is that there are countless medical needs an insurance policyholder will never have, but for which they pay premiums.
The risible inadequacy of the government's £40m "extra" spending on flood defences (Cameron's £40m flood money criticised as 'sticking plaster', 4 January) means that it's time to seriously address how to find the countless billions needed to effectively mitigate this inevitable consequence of climate change.
Since countless companies need help with hiring, he forecasts "billions of dollars of potential annual recurring revenue".
As home theaters have become increasingly complex, remotes have become burdened by the weight of the countless buttons needed to control complexities.
Countless details need to be addressed in the plan of care from deciding who will be accountable for medications, determining how day to day care will be provided, ordering and delivering the needed medical equipment to assessing the family dynamics, discussing funeral plans, and establishing long term goals for the patient and his or her family and friends.
Unfortunately, some politicians, commentators and activists have sought to capitalize on these troubling times by perpetuating myths about federal employees -- public servants who are on the front lines every day protecting our national security, caring for veterans, safeguarding our food and medicine supplies, and providing countless services needed and expected by the American people.
Among the shows 52 episodes are countless villages that need saving, robots that need slashing, and eccentric friends and foes that make or break Jack's adventures.
Chiron lives for the moments when he can get away from his mother's countless recriminations and needs, and swim in the unfamiliar waters of love with Juan and Teresa.
