Sentences with phrase «rendered obsolete»

Travel agents, for example, were almost rendered obsolete by Orbitz and Expedia.

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

As the company gradually upgrades telecom equipment in those buildings from copper wiring to fiber - optic cables, a huge chunk of the space is rendered obsolete, according to Vazquez.

You just got laid off, let go, subject to a Reduction in Force (RiF), discharged, rendered obsolete, made redundant, terminated, part of an «Involuntary Employee Resource Program», you have been «promoted to being a customer», right - sized, been offered the opportunity explore new career options, your job was outsourced, the operation was moved off - shore, restructured out, involuntarily separated, been returned to the talent pool, denied tenure, managed out, caught in the last round, offered the opportunity to spend more time with family, issued your walking papers, or just plain fired.

In the place of the vulnerable exchanges we use today, the idea behind atomic swaps is that these large repositories of customer money could be rendered obsolete by code.

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.

Currently, there are only a few well - known hardware wallet manufacturers that produce cryptocurrency storage devices such as Trezor, Opendime, Ledger, and Keepkey, and they all employ open - source code (meaning that the devices would not be rendered obsolete even if the companies were to fold).

The arrival of the feature on lower - end devices also entails that the home button will soon be rendered obsolete since the device's front will be covered mostly by the display.

If digital currency really does continue to grow in the way many enthusiasts believe it will, physical trading floors could be rendered obsolete even more rapidly.

Towns are almost non-existent and functionally replaced by shops that can be accessed from save points while inns are rendered obsolete by auto - healing.

In any case, the count is still higher than the client's Bitcoin XT, Bitcoin Classic, and Bitcoin Unlimited predecessors among other clients, many of which the hard - fork rendered obsolete.

That way, ChronoBank will never be rendered obsolete in the way that some other projects that launched on Blockchains the market eventually deemed wanting have been.

No tariffs or government intervention, middle men are kept to a minimum, and surplus managers rendered obsolete with automation.

Gauge orphans are out - of - service rail lines that have been rendered obsolete as a result of the rail gauge change (upgrade) on the main feeder lines.

All NDAs are have been rendered obsolete and ineffective due to the Hacking Team hack.

Some may say that this approach be rendered obsolete if the federal estate tax is repealed.

At the beginning of 2007, law marketing guru Larry Bodine urged lawyers to cancel their yellow pages ads, which had been rendered obsolete in an Internet era.

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.

I have seen clients released from custody after much shorter sentences and being handed other relics from their property bags rendered obsolete by the passage of time during their sentences: subway tokens long since expired, keys to a home long since repossessed.

A relic of «70s - era energy scarcity, the ban was rendered obsolete by the American energy revolution, and studies show that maintaining it would have meant missing out on significant economic benefits — an estimated 300,000 American jobs and $ 5.8 billion per year in consumer savings by 2020 in gasoline, heating oil and diesel costs, according to ICF International.

«David Archer's 2010 comment that «so far no one has seen or proposed a mechanism to make that (a catastrophic methane release) happen» is also rendered obsolete by the Semiletov / Shakhova field experiments — the seeing — and the mechanism described above — the proposing.

``... Observational and computational progress in physical oceanography, however, over the last 30 years has rendered obsolete the old idea that the fluid ocean is a slowly changing, passive, almost geological system.

Mural is not a work to be looked at — an «easel painting», as Pollock's critical champion Clement Greenberg dismissively called all the polite little European pictures it rendered obsolete — but to be embraced by.

An important blueprint for the exhibition is Bouchet's observation that Surrealism was rendered obsolete by the explosion of advertising in the middle of the last century — effectively outshining the artists with a more sophisticated and depraved dream - machine.

The abundance of subjects has increased just as swiftly as gadgets have been rendered obsolete.

Square Enix had been shown the basics of the Playstation 4 hardware, and were panicking over their decision to release the game on the PS3, which would be rendered obsolete in 2013.

Towns are almost non-existent and functionally replaced by shops that can be accessed from save points while inns are rendered obsolete by auto - healing.

Two fresh faces join the roster — Taka and Jean — while the old crew have been overhauled to the point where familiar tactics have been rendered obsolete.

Not much comes out of YTMND these days except for death rattles: It was rendered obsolete long ago by the rise of social media and the demise of Flash.

Older weapons, aptly named Year One weapons, are almost rendered obsolete compared to the new arsenal from The Taken King.

They're not artistic works, but even philosophical texts have multiple published editions due to different interpretations, and collections of knowledge are periodically updated with new information (or rendered obsolete).

You should also consider if you are going to add anything to your set up down the line, like another monitor, the last thing you want is to spend your hard earned money on something that gets rendered obsolete just months later because you added to your setup.

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.

But the advent of efficient discount brokers, combined with major economic sea changes, have rendered them all obsolete in many ways.

There's no point wasting time researching a stock if the company's main product has just been rendered obsolete by the competition.

Some may say that this approach be rendered obsolete if the federal estate tax is repealed.

This document may be updated, replaced, or rendered obsolete by other documents at any time.

Such statements reflect the current views of Barnes & Noble with respect to future events, the outcome of which is subject to certain risks, including, among others, the effect of the proposed separation of NOOK Media, the general economic environment and consumer spending patterns, decreased consumer demand for Barnes & Noble's products, low growth or declining sales and net income due to various factors, possible disruptions in Barnes & Noble's computer systems, telephone systems or supply chain, possible risks associated with data privacy, information security and intellectual property, possible work stoppages or increases in labor costs, possible increases in shipping rates or interruptions in shipping service, effects of competition, possible risks that inventory in channels of distribution may be larger than able to be sold, possible risks associated with changes in the strategic direction of the device business, including possible reduction in sales of content, accessories and other merchandise and other adverse financial impacts, possible risk that component parts will be rendered obsolete or otherwise not be able to be effectively utilized in devices to be sold, possible risk that financial and operational forecasts and projections are not achieved, possible risk that returns from consumers or channels of distribution may be greater than estimated, the risk that digital sales growth is less than expectations and the risk that it does not exceed the rate of investment spend, higher - than - anticipated store closing or relocation costs, higher interest rates, the performance of Barnes & Noble's online, digital and other initiatives, the success of Barnes & Noble's strategic investments, unanticipated increases in merchandise, component or occupancy costs, unanticipated adverse litigation results or effects, product and component shortages, risks associated with the commercial agreement with Samsung, the potential adverse impact on the Company's businesses resulting from the Company's prior reviews of strategic alternatives and the potential separation of the Company's businesses (including with respect to the timing of the completion thereof), the risk that the transactions with Pearson and Samsung do not achieve the expected benefits for the parties or impose costs on the Company in excess of what the Company anticipates, including the risk that NOOK Media's applications are not commercially successful or that the expected distribution of those applications is not achieved, risks associated with the international expansion previously undertaken, including any risks associated with a reduction of international operations following termination of the Microsoft commercial agreement, the risk that NOOK Media is not able to perform its obligations under the Pearson and Samsung commercial agreements and the consequences thereof, the risks associated with the termination of Microsoft commercial agreement, including potential customer losses, risks associated with the restatement contained in, the delayed filing of, and the material weakness in internal controls described in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, risks associated with the SEC investigation disclosed in the quarterly report on Form 10 - Q for the fiscal quarter ended October 26, 2013, risks associated with the ongoing efforts to rationalize the NOOK business and the expected costs and benefits of such efforts and associated risks and other factors which may be outside of Barnes & Noble's control, including those factors discussed in detail in Item 1A, «Risk Factors,» in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended May 3, 2014, and in Barnes & Noble's other filings made hereafter from time to time with the SEC.

I don't know how common this practice is now, it may have been rendered obsolete by print - on - demand distribution.

Such statements reflect the current views of Barnes & Noble with respect to future events, the outcome of which is subject to certain risks, including, among others, the general economic environment and consumer spending patterns, decreased consumer demand for Barnes & Noble's products, low growth or declining sales and net income due to various factors, possible disruptions in Barnes & Noble's computer systems, telephone systems or supply chain, possible risks associated with data privacy, information security and intellectual property, possible work stoppages or increases in labor costs, possible increases in shipping rates or interruptions in shipping service, effects of competition, possible risks that inventory in channels of distribution may be larger than able to be sold, possible risks associated with changes in the strategic direction of the device business, including possible reduction in sales of content, accessories and other merchandise and other adverse financial impacts, possible risk that component parts will be rendered obsolete or otherwise not be able to be effectively utilized in devices to be sold, possible risk that financial and operational forecasts and projections are not achieved, possible risk that returns from consumers or channels of distribution may be greater than estimated, the risk that digital sales growth is less than expectations and the risk that it does not exceed the rate of investment spend, higher - than - anticipated store closing or relocation costs, higher interest rates, the performance of Barnes & Noble's online, digital and other initiatives, the success of Barnes & Noble's strategic investments, unanticipated increases in merchandise, component or occupancy costs, unanticipated adverse litigation results or effects, product and component shortages, the potential adverse impact on the Company's businesses resulting from the Company's prior reviews of strategic alternatives and the potential separation of the Company's businesses, the risk that the transactions with Microsoft and Pearson do not achieve the expected benefits for the parties or impose costs on the Company in excess of what the Company anticipates, including the risk that NOOK Media's applications are not commercially successful or that the expected distribution of those applications is not achieved, risks associated with the international expansion contemplated by the relationship with Microsoft, including that it is not successful or is delayed, the risk that NOOK Media is not able to perform its obligations under the Microsoft and Pearson commercial agreements and the consequences thereof, risks associated with the restatement contained in, the delayed filing of, and the material weakness in internal controls described in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, risks associated with the SEC investigation disclosed in the quarterly report on Form 10 - Q for the fiscal quarter ended October 26, 2013, risks associated with the ongoing efforts to rationalize the NOOK business and the expected costs and benefits of such efforts and associated risks and other factors which may be outside of Barnes & Noble's control, including those factors discussed in detail in Item 1A, «Risk Factors,» in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, and in Barnes & Noble's other filings made hereafter from time to time with the SEC.

Those rules required Google to release Honeycomb's source code in a timely fashion, but Google did not do so until after Honeycomb was rendered obsolete.

Was Flip being rendered obsolete by the iPhone and Android phones with their always - ready HD video?

Well Bird, there may come a time when page proofs, author's alterations, and widows and orphans are rendered obsolete, but for the vast majority of people publishing today, they are all too real, involving real delays, real money and real work.

It may be updated, replaced, or rendered obsolete by other documents at any time.

Fans of print books, who have long lived in fear that their neighborhood bookstore will be rendered obsolete by the ubiquity of ebooks in a matter of years, can take comfort in new numbers from Nielsen Books & Consumer showing that ebooks were outsold by both hardcovers and paperbacks in the first half of 2014.

Much of the Section 333 exemption process was rendered obsolete when the FAA issued the «small UAS rule» (part 107), effective August 29, 2016.

Considering this, I really have no idea what specific skills will allow my children to find happiness and success in a future where the academics they're currently learning may, in many cases, be rendered obsolete.

I'd love a world where our mathmatics instruction focused more holistically on mathematically modeling and less on the kinds of computational tasks that make up much of standardized testing, but have been rendered obsolete in the real world by computers.

Get ready to breathe a sigh of relief, fellow humans, because at least one of our human jobs is in no danger of being rendered obsolete by machines just yet.

Stark has to not only defeat this villain but also reconcile that mission with the fact that Thanos's plan is horrifyingly adjacent to Stark's dream of a universe so safe that Avengers are rendered obsolete.