Sentences with phrase «by obsolete technology»

Legal innovation is a popular topic this month, but it's worth noting that most law offices are still weighed down by obsolete technology — or technology that ought to be obsolete, at least.

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Other top executives in the field, such as Deutsche Bank CEO John Cryan, have warned in the past that technology will result in plenty of banking jobs becoming obsolete as automation replaces roles once occupied by people.

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

Weinberg:»... not only our political organizations are being rendered obsolete by the march of military technology, but also our economic organizations are being rendered obsolete by the march of civilian technology.

«Investing in more speed and capacity than is necessary not only increases costs today without a corresponding benefit but it also adds the risk that if and when projected growth is achieved, the once modern machinery may be worn to the point that repair or replacement is needed or worse, it may be made obsolete by new technology.

As explained in detail by David Bowie, when new technologies arrive certain jobs become obsolete, but this also creates jobs that didn't exist before.

And I am not suggesting that tweets from the chamber should be protected by parliamentary privilege... But in this age of immediate crowd - sourced mass communication, the idea that the Commons chamber can cut itself off from modern technology and social media is as doomed as when written reports of Commons debates were banned in the 18th century, or when discussion of current Commons business on the radio was not allowed until the 1950s, or, indeed, as obsolete as the ban on television itself before 1989.

NAVS hopes that with the continued development of alternative methods, «animal tests, like the slide rule, will someday be made obsolete by advancements in technology.»

The extended Sleipner area has more than enough capacity to store all of Norway's CO2 emissions for many years and potentially could also store a portion of the rest of Europe's CO2 emissions well into the future — by which time clean energy technologies may have rendered CCS obsolete.

Holtec is also versed in enhancing existing SSCs equipment supplied by another vendor that is now an obsolete technology.

Both are captured in glorious 16 mm, shot through with grain and lit by natural light; both are suffused with a magical, twilit glow that only really happens in exactly this way when you use old, some would say obsolete, technology.

Also, obsolete rules on student - teacher ratios, school funding formulas, and other key education areas should be revamped to acknowledge the possibilities created by the education technology revolution.

But for whatever all that is worth, I agree with Thompson — an electronic READING device without WiFi and a decent web browser is at best like a sailboat — maybe not without its charms, but just counting the days until it's made laughably obsolete by relatively obvious technology.

You seriously think ebooks are based on obsolete technology and should be supplanted by one that's 21 years old?

The concern is that DRM - protected books might also become obsolete as the technologies are superseded by new approaches in the future.

There is the risk that this company goes out of business due to competition, their product could be rendered obsolete by new technology, a poor economy in general, you name it.

Horn follows Rachel from Roman - occupied Jerusalem, where she and her first love, Elazar, make a fateful bargain to save their son by sacrificing their own deaths, to 2018, when everyone but Rachel looks to technology to make death obsolete.

Any hardware improvements would be constrained by technology and cost, with NEO serving as an improvement to the PS4, but not to the extent that Sony's current console would become obsolete.

Unfortunately, Yahoo! has a long history of acquiring interesting technologies, especially those used by artists, and then shutting them down or neglecting them until they become obsolete -LSB-...]

Unfortunately, Yahoo! has a long history of acquiring interesting technologies, especially those used by artists, and then shutting them down or neglecting them until they become obsolete (case in point — see Flickr.com).

Amalia Pica «s (b. 1978 in Neuquén, Argentina) work explores the problem of communication by setting everyday objects alongside obsolete technologies such as shutter telegraphs, slide projectors, and 16 mm film.

Noting that these test patterns have been made obsolete by digital satellite images with resolutions of up to one foot per pixel, the video suggests ways to evade new, high - technology surveillance.

The Transience exhibition by Michael Craig - Martin (b. Dublin, 1941) at the Serpentine Gallery brings together works from 1981 to 2015, including his era - defining representations of once familiar yet obsolete technology; laptops, games consoles, black - and - white televisions and incandescent lightbulbs that highlight the increasing transience of technological innovation.

This exhibition by Michael Craig - Martin (b. Dublin, 1941) brought together works from 1981 to 2015, including his era - defining representations of once familiar yet obsolete technology; laptops, games consoles, black - and - white televisions and incandescent lightbulbs that highlighted the increasing transience of technological innovation.

There is a paradox evident here in the concept of this piece: through the act of recording Hession has skilfully obliterated the contemporary technology by treating it as one would a vinyl record thus rendering it ironically obsolete.

Additionally, observational programs are faced with the challenge of sustaining historical time series by sampling with seemingly obsolete instruments in order to maintain comparability over the decades while also utilizing the newest technologies.

High level of support for the deployment leads also often to large scale investments to the readily available technology even in cases where it's virtually certain to become obsolete by development of new alternatives not yet ready for investment.

As for destruction of the economy, tell me, what should a fiscal conservative believe more harmful to the economy: obsolete technology propped up by corrupt governments, subsidies and tax gifts while a scarce private resource goes to whatever wastrel wants it for free; or, applying the Law of Supply and Demand to the scarce, capitalizable, rivalrous, excludable, marketable carbon cycle to let the democracy of Free Enterprise decide the right level of its exploitation?

«2nd Solutions, a global leader in the trade of these technologies, is driven by our desire to maximize the residual value in obsolete equipment, thereby providing payback to help defray the cost of new technology.

Funds will have to be taken and sunk into technology products, which given government's history in such projects will be 1) awkward to use 2) underutilized and 3) expensive and 4) obsolete by the time they are implemented.

If Site C lasts 80 years (the expected lifespan of the dam) perhaps solar, geothermal, wind and other technologies will catch up and make the dam obsolete by 2100.

• Use technology neutral language that captures the intent of the legislation and will not be made obsolete by newly emerging technologies.

Patten's musings arise out of this article, The Future's Bright... but Not For Lawyers and Accountants (Daily Telegraph 5/9/07), which posits that lawyers may eventually be rendered obsolete by offshoring to less - skilled workers and technology.

Many aspects of the existing E.U. legislation have been made obsolete by advances in technology, Fleischer said, referring to the E.U.'s cornerstone law, the 1995 data protection directive.

In this case, while the company provided a well - defined contract waterfall and new business pipeline, CSP were required, among other issues, to determine: how many units were likely to be procured by US and allied foreign military customers, and when; whether the company's technology was at risk of being obsoleted; and, whether new business capture probabilities driving forecast growth were based on sound assumptions.

These obsolete methods have been replaced by our up - to - date interactive technology, instructors that are the most talented in the industry, and the latest drivers safety curriculum available.

That said, there exists a non-zero risk of Bitcoin failing (for a variety of reasons) or being rendered obsolete by some other monetary technology.

Knowledge becomes quickly obsolete in this age of technology; those who keep learning and use that knowledge in their careers are the employees who will be most productive and get noticed by management.

Every company fears being obsolete, and the candidate offers a solution to those fears by discussing his talents for transitioning legacy systems to new technology.

But by 2003, database technology was fast making print directories obsolete.

In any case, banks, which could have used the same technology to compete, weren't only held back by their obsolete mindset and the drag of «legacy» expenses on nostalgic infrastructure.

Fortunately, well - managed MLS corporations are no more in danger of being rendered obsolete by technology today than they were when they were launched.