To take an unusable space and make it usable again, or to empower someone to take charge of an aspect of their life that is not working for them is incredibly satisfying.
It comes at the bleeding edge: in the area of technologies that can be developed to treat waste water or desalinate water to make it usable or potable, or, alternatively, to develop ways to use less water in everything that we do now, from growing crops and making paper to producing iPhones.
Once your contract with your original carrier ended, you were free to "unlock" your phone — to make it usable on another wireless network — and switch to another carrier in order to get lower prices, faster service or better coverage.
Longer term, Teleborder has ambitions to take their software platform and make it usable outside the U.S. to tap into the wider movement of people to jobs worldwide.
"A metal ruler is on my desk all the time," he said, "but it never occurred to me that there are 12 inches, which could be 12 months, and 30 centimeters, which he tweaked to 31 to make it usable as a calendar.
Mr. Ditzel said on Friday that Mr. Torvalds had led an effort to modify Linux to run without a hard disk to make it usable by inexpensive consumer appliances.
I'm about as suntanned as Casper's backside in the middle of winter, so it's not too big of a deal for me – but for anyone who does, you know, go outside, know that you'll probably need to turn in such a way so as to shade your handset just to make it usable when the sun's on high.
Their original alphabet was based on a spelling reform for English known as the Romic alphabet, but in order to make it usable for other languages, the values of the symbols were allowed to vary from language to language.
While there's not currently any workaround in sight to bring Bluetooth connectivity to the Split, there is a plan to make it usable with mobile devices in the early stages of development.
The American position is that the United States and its allies would probably have considerable warning time if Iran moved to convert its growing stockpile of low-enriched nuclear fuel to make it usable for weapons.
