What makes technology useful and usable?

Not usable for a YouTube video.

And that will turn it into actually usable water.

Contrary to some claims, the development of mini usable nukes or the so called bunker busters are not mere studies.

Likewise, countries not using but maintaining stockpiles, usable and obsolete, should be encouraged to participate.

(b) by any other means of communication that renders information accessible so as to be usable for subsequent reference.

Nonetheless, a number of civil society organizations have been carrying out periodic studies, with adequate coverage, which offer usable data.

There are also guidance documents prepared by HOAs, aimed primarily at the humanitarian community, that address the issue of military support for humanitarian activities, but they are not easily usable by the peacekeeping force and not binding for missions.

The threat of terrorism also suggests that we should contemplate the inclusion of certain weapon usable materials of somewhat lower purity.

Yeah, people used to say, Norman's OK, but if you followed what he said, everything would be usable but it would be ugly.

Several countries reporting use of DDT also reported usable stocks of DDT. Some of these stocks were not properly stored (e.g. open shed storage).

Without question, improving control of facilities capable of producing weapon usable material would go a long way towards establishing a better margin of security.

Aside from keeping the rain out and producing some usable space, architecture is nothing but a special effects machine that delights and disturbs the senses.

That we need an alternative to the automobile, at least for those 50 mile trips and more, so that the highways become usable in today's world.

About 121 incidents were reported to the Agency in 2004, some of which involved weapons usable highly enriched uranium or plutonium being smuggled across national borders.

To achieve such a treaty would fix the high water mark of nuclear weapons usable fissile material and set the stage for further reductions in future.

They taught me how to look and see, and they did not do the incredibly stupid thing of saying to a child, Of all these things we already make you, which do you like best? which gives you zero answers that are usable.

(c) Urging private entities that provide services to the general public, including through the Internet, to provide information and services in accessible and usable formats for persons with disabilities

Aquifer means a subsurface layer or layers of geological strata of sufficient porosity and permeability to allow either a flow of or the withdrawal of usable quantities of groundwater.

Law 9613 requires records to be kept in a manner and form that allows financial institutions to readily and speedily reproduce the records, information or documents in usable form.

The costs of environmentally unsustainable water use through pollution and excess water withdrawals are insufficiently recognized and quantified and are often very high water that has been clean and usable for generations has been rendered unfit for human consumption in a few short years, causing illnesses and death from water borne diseases.

On a purely technical basis, the renminbi s qualifications for inclusion in the SDR basket are questionable. Traditionally, the IMF has insisted on two criteria a currency s issuing country must be among the world s leading exporters, and the currency must be freely usable widely used and traded.

An RCT conducted under specific conditions does not generate usable hard evidence for policymakers in other settings. Learning requires some degree of extrapolation, converting randomized evaluations from hard evidence into soft evidence.

They're still probably usable. They could be re commissioned, but the way they count things, which is very complicated, we think we have about a third of the nuclear weapons we had before.

Over the course of last year, open source hardware hackers have come up with multiple models for usable, Linux based mobile phones, and the Earth Phone could spin off from this kind of project.

In your mind, Seth I mean, you must dream about this what is the kind of time scale on, let's start with HIV, for a game changing vaccine that's actually out there and usable?

Nature s water replenishment capacity is fixed, limiting the world s usable freshwater resources to about 200,000 cubic kilometers. But the human population has almost doubled since 1970, while the global economy has grown even faster.

The infectious diseases Cochrane Group, which are based in Italy, has been trying to get the full data in a usable form out of the drug companies so that they can make a full decision about whether this drug is effective or not, and they've not been able to get that information.

Every five years, the IMF reconsiders its composition, which currently is defined in terms of the dollar, euro, yen, and pound. China s renminbi is unlikely to be included in the basket now, because it is not freely usable.

As a result, fiscal uncertainty is affecting all major industrial countries, and producing political paralysis. So, while we understand very well what may have produced the financial crisis, we find ourselves helpless to draw usable lessons from it.

The airwaves are used for a variety of communications, including government use and public access like radio. The range of usable territory the spectrum is administered by governments as though it were real estate, and is broken up according to wavelength, with an amount apportioned for cell phones, other bits for military pilots, and so on.

Like most other central banks confronted with the recession, the SNB has reduced its policy interest rate all the way to the zero lower bound. Once there, traditional monetary policy becomes impotent, as the interest rate tool is no longer usable.

Moreover, many allies failure to respect the 2 of GDP target for their defense budgets exacerbates this dilemma, and also widens the capability gap with those allies that are investing in usable and deployable forces. But, while there is no substitute for appropriate defense budgets, we could get more from current spending levels, especially through a smarter approach to defense acquisition.

2. Where the law requires that a communication or a contract should be in writing, or provides consequences for the absence of a writing, that requirement is met by an electronic communication if the information contained therein is accessible so as to be usable for subsequent reference.

We need to understand better how our economies will evolve in the coming decades, and to redesign our educational systems to produce workers with usable skills. And, where it is clear that immigrants will be needed, we must be able to identify, welcome, integrate, and protect them.

For example, some countries want to develop smaller and usable nuclear weapons designed for pre emptive or preventive military action. Many non nuclear weapon states, particularly those from the developing world, remain frustrated with the fact that peaceful nuclear cooperation is yet to be fully realized.

Where the law requires that a communication or a contract should be in writing, or provides consequences for the absence of a writing, that requirement is met by an electronic communication if the information contained therein is accessible so as to be usable for subsequent reference.

Universal design means the design of products, environments, programmes and services to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design. Universal design shall not exclude assistive devices for particular groups of persons with disabilities where this is needed.

The situation on the ground remained unchanged 165,000 Saharans were living as refugees in extremely precarious conditions in four camps in Algeria, while Morocco was unlawfully occupying and exploiting what it called the usable Sahara despite the intense diplomacy conducted by OAU and from 1985 by the United Nations.

No single measure can resolve the burden sharing problem. But the range of initiatives now underway within NATO should help transformation efforts to increase the pool of usable and deployable forces wider use of multinational initiatives greater reliance on common funding to assist force generation and a comprehensive approach for sharing burdens more equitably across the entire international community.

The EU s Lisbon Treaty mentions permanent structured cooperation in security and defense policy, and an entire institutional apparatus of political and military committees exists to anticipate, prepare for, and implement military operations at the European level. But this mechanism lacks the common political will needed to activate it the less it is used, the less usable it will become.

Freely usable currencies means the euro, the Japanese yen, the pound sterling, the Swiss franc the United States dollar and any other currency which has been designated from time to time by a competent international monetary organization as being in fact widely used to make payments for international transactions and widely traded in the principal exchange markets.

The Working Group also agreed that it was necessary to retain the qualifying phrase, accessible so as to be usable for subsequent reference (inspired from article 6, paragraph (1), of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Commerce) in order to set out the conditions whereby any message, including data messages, might meet writing requirements established by the law (A CN.9 508, para.

(c) Writing means any form of information that is accessible so as to be usable for subsequent reference. Where this Convention requires a writing to be signed, that requirement is met if, by generally accepted means or a procedure agreed to by the person whose signature is required, the writing identifies that person and indicates that person's approval of the information contained in the writing

In continuing the approach adopted by the draft in not being restricted to a specific technological method, the draft did not impose a condition requiring that the communication or contract should have any particular form, but required that an electronic communication was to be granted the same credibility as a written communication and that the information contained therein was to be accessible so as to be usable for subsequent reference.