Sentence examples for out of commodity from inspiring English sources

Linux, which plays a major role in that world, has been used to assemble high-performance parallel computers built largely out of commodity hardware components.

That's why cities are so desperate to snag mega-events; they hope to establish themselves as great hosts, in the eyes of the world — to brand their way out of commodity hell.

No one's quite sure what to do about this – software radios are built out of commodity components, the sort of thing that would be nearly as expensive and impractical to regulate as a paper clip.

Although it's certainly cheaper to build supercomputers out of commodity parts, many computational scientists suspect that the cost of developing parallel software actually makes it more expensive to run scientific applications on such a machine.

Michael Lewis, of Deutsche Bank, estimates that the value of such funds has risen from about $20 billion in 2002 to $90 billion today.Normally, index-tracking funds do particularly well out of commodity booms, since they profit not just from rising prices overall, but also from the difference between the price for prompt and deferred delivery.

And in perhaps the most politically painful measure, in a country that is the world's largest cocoa producer and seventh-largest exporter of coffee, the agreement stipulates that the Government must get out of commodity marketing altogether, removing the hand of politicians from the most lucrative game in the land.

Burlington Industries and other American textile giants have built massive foreign plants in recent years to crank out miles of commodity fabrics such as denim that were once the mainstays of shuttered Southeastern mills.

As demonstrated in similar settings, resource constraints such as limited transportation to escort mothers and stock-outs of commodities hindered the community's trust on them.

Food companies in the United States said they could "virtually run out" of the commodity and warned of job cuts unless the government eased restrictions on imports of tariff-free sugar.

In this sense he has gotten the most mileage out of the commodity-minded tactics of the late-1980s trendlet known here as Neo-Geo, with its shiny surfaces, expensive materials and startling rearrangements of pieces of reality.

To ensure history is not repeated, urgent global action is needed to cancel debts owed to reckless lenders, tackle tax avoidance and evasion, and change global trade rules to enable countries to diversify out of basic commodities," said Jones.