Jack Loftus, a spokesman in New York for Nielsen Media Research, owned by the British-Dutch media conglomerate VNU, said yesterday that the people meters would provide a "much more accurate picture of actual viewing habits," which would benefit minority viewers in the long run.
We need a long-term system that makes sense, one that might include more cost-effective and environmentally benign ways to export our garbage to a regional landfill, mechanisms for reducing waste (perhaps a "pay as you throw" system that, like water meters, would provide a financial incentive), more efficient recycling, more composting and waste-to-energy plants.
"Tire tapping is not the right answer to overtime parking and congestion," he remarked, and went on to say that parking meters would provide a "much better solution for solving parking difficulties and that fantastic suggestions are already overplentiful!" This is not the time in the history of this city to pooh-pooh the fantastic.
Smart meters would provide customers a readout of their usage patterns, while the utility would learn to integrate the energy produced by thousands of rooftop solar systems with its own generation.
Just as the Internet served as the foundation upon which applications such as Web browsers and e-mail were built, a broad smart grid based on intelligent meters would provide the foundation for the innovation of new applications that could fuel electric vehicles, manage distributed generation and use demand response to broadly reduce energy use and the production of climate change gasses.
Measuring 8.4 meters, the telescope would "provide digital imaging of faint astronomical objects across the entire sky, night after night," according to the LSST Web site.
If China were to keep its current construction pace over the next five years, then 9 billion square meters of new housing would provide accommodation for 300 million more people by 2015.
Patients were told that using the meter and keeping records in a diary would provide information that would help them adjust their diet and lifestyle.
Indeed, most Americans in the early 1970s still believed nuclear power would provide energy too cheap to meter and do so without significant consequences.
The development of a global dataset of continuous measurements from sky brightness meters would allow for rigorous evaluation of the results of [14], would provide strong constraints for verifying light pollution models, and would be beneficial to ecologists and light pollution researchers everywhere.
