Rogers ' main competitors are the satellite television provider Bell TV ; and the two main television companies controlled by Shaw Communications: Shaw Cable, and Shaw Direct ( Satellite ).

Its major competitors include satellite service Shaw Direct, as well as various cable and communications companies across Canada, such as Rogers Communications, Eastlink, Shaw Communications, Telus and Vidéotron.

Direct competitors to the Super Chief during its lifetime were the City of Los Angeles, a streamlined passenger train jointly operated by the Chicago and North Western Railway and the Union Pacific Railroad, and ( to a lesser extent ) the Golden State, a streamlined passenger train jointly operated by the Rock Island and Southern Pacific railroads.

This savings account is Canada's second high-interest savings account with no fees and unlimited access ( ING Direct Canada was the first to offer such an account ) but Coast Capital Savings offers a lower rate than competitors such as ING Direct or ICICI Bank.

Direct competitors to Rolls Royce, Sunbeams were considered to be a car for those who thought an RR a little ostentatious.

Its primary competitors are cable television and other DTH service providers — Airtel digital TV, BIG TV, Dish TV, Sun Direct, TATA Sky and Videocon D2H.

* Direct cable connection, for networking two computers together

* Direct numerical control or distributed numerical control, in manufacturing, a common term for networking CNC machine tools

* Direct connect ( disambiguation ), various methods of telecommunications and computer networking

Direct conversion of the kinetic energy of the fusion products into electricity is in principle possible and would mitigate this problem.

: Direct selling is marketing and selling products to consumers directly, away from a fixed retail location.

Raiffeisen Bank is a top universal bank on the Romanian market, providing a complete range of products and services to private individuals, SMEs and large corporations via multiple distribution channels: banking outlets ( more than 350 throughout the country ), ATM and EPOS networks, phone-banking ( Raiffeisen Direct ) and mobile-banking ( myBanking ).

In short, notwithstanding its representation to the PTO that it would only use Tiger in connection with their unique computer operating system software, Apple Computer has in recent weeks used a family of Tiger marks in connection with a substantially broader group of products and services, including the very products and services currently offered by Tiger Direct under its famous family of Tiger marks.

Direct selling is the sale of products by face-to-face contact with the customer, either by having salespeople approach potential customers in person, or through indirect means such as Tupperware parties.

AA tries to establish Direct Connect's to have the full control over the distribution of its products and to reduce GDS segment fees.

Direct labor and materials are relatively easy to trace directly to products, but it is more difficult to directly allocate indirect costs to products.

* West Direct delivers industry-specific solutions designed to sell products and services to consumers responding to mass media advertisements.

* Canadian Direct Insurance Inc. ( 100 % ownership ) – insurance products and services.

Direct email involves sending an email solely to communicate a promotional message ( for example, an announcement of a special offer or a catalog of products ).

In 2001 the company's assets were acquired by the audiophile products company Music Direct, of Chicago, operated by Jim Davis.

Direct drive mechanisms are present in several products:

Direct Revenue did not charge fees to consumers ; instead, it charges fees to the companies whose products it advertises.

Subsidiary companies of the Royal Bank, such as Direct Line, UKI and Lombard Direct helped Tesco Personal Finance provide insurance products.

On August 4, 2011, a nationwide class action was filed against Columbia House ( Direct Brands Inc .) seeking monetary damages and an injunction stopping Direct Brands Inc. alleged business practices of unauthorized credit card charges, inability to cancel, unwanted products being mailed to homes and several other alleged issues.

Direct distribution of dairy products began in 1982 under the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program of the Food and Nutrition Service.

In order to organize Direct Distance Dialing ( DDD ) American Telephone & Telegraph divided the various switches in the U. S. Public Switched Telephone Network ( PSTN ) into a hierarchy containing five levels ( or classes ).

Direct contempt is an unacceptable act in the presence of the judge ( in facie curiae ), and generally begins with a warning, and may be accompanied by an immediate imposition of punishment.

Zubrin and Baker pitched Mars Direct at the Marshall Spaceflight Center, where reception was generally positive.

Direct investments generally range from million to million.

Direct broadcast satellites generally operate in the upper portion of the microwave K < sub > u </ sub > band.

Direct microwave exposure is not generally possible, as microwaves emitted by the source in a microwave oven are confined in the oven by the material out of which the oven is constructed.

Direct methods are preferred because they are generally less costly in time and money.

* Direct administration funded through taxation ; the delivering organization generally has no specific requirement to meet commercial success criteria, and production decisions are determined by government.

Direct manipulation, as well as user interface design in general, for 3D computer graphics tasks, is still an active area of invention and innovation, as the process of generating CG images is generally not considered to be intuitive or easy in comparison to the difficulty of what the user wants to do, especially for complex tasks.

Direct intrahypothalamic administration of the drugs ( 16 micrograms procaine / animal ) induces a pattern of responses which is generally opposite to that observed for intravenous injection.

Direct push techniques are generally limited to shallow soil sample recovery in unconsolidated soil materials.

Most of BNSF Railway's and Union Pacific Railroad's track operates under CTC ; the portions that are generally lighter-traffic lines that are operated under Track Warrant Control ( BNSF and UP ) or Direct Traffic Control ( UP ).

Direct thermal printers are generally less expensive, but they produce labels that can become illegible if exposed to heat, direct sunlight, or chemical vapors.

Direct experience generally denotes experience gained through immediate sense perception.

Direct activation of an AAC system is generally the first choice of access method as it is faster and cognitively easier.

Direct translations from the Sanskrit name Avalokitasvara include:

Direct translations from the Sanskrit name Avalokiteśvara include:

Speech recognition applications include voice user interfaces such as voice dialing ( e. g., " Call home "), call routing ( e. g., " I would like to make a collect call "), domotic appliance control, search ( e. g., find a podcast where particular words were spoken ), simple data entry ( e. g., entering a credit card number ), preparation of structured documents ( e. g., a radiology report ), speech-to-text processing ( e. g., word processors or emails ), and aircraft ( usually termed Direct Voice Input ).

Others include Rolling Stone, Bill Wyman, Arsenal and England footballer, Kenny Sansom, and founder of Direct Line, Peter Wood.

Some of the major programs managed by the center include the Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile, High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile, HARM Targeting System, Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile, Joint Direct Attack Munition, Miniature Air Launched Decoy, Sensor Fuzed Weapon and the Small Diameter Bomb.

Examples include Thomas H. Bailey, founder and former chairman of Janus Capital Group, Geoff Beattie, president of The Woodbridge Company and chairman of CTVglobemedia, George Cope, president and CEO of Bell Canada Enterprise, Edward Rogers III, deputy chairman of Rogers Communications, and former president of Rogers Cable, Arkadi Kuhlmann, chairman of ING Direct, Rob McEwen, chairman and CEO of US Gold Corporation, Minera Andes and the founder, chairman and former CEO of Goldcorp Inc., John Thompson, former chairman of Toronto-Dominion Bank and chancellor of Western, Prem Watsa, chairman, CEO of Fairfax Financial, Lee Seng Wee, former chairman of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Galen Weston, chairman and president of George Weston Limited.

Direct fire sights may include mechanisms to compensate for some of these.

Examples of companies that produce comic figures and merchandise almost exclusively include Toy Biz and DC Direct.

Facilities on campus include the " Union Pub and Bar ", a concert and disco venue called " The LCR ", a canteen called " Zest ", a cafe / coffee shop called " The Blend ", a bar / coffee shop called " The Hive ", a graduate bar called the " Graduate Students Club " and " The Street " with a 24-hour launderette, the Union Food Outlet, Union Paper Shop, Union Post Office, a coffee shop called " Cafe Direct ", branches of NatWest and Barclays, and a Waterstone's book shop.

Direct descendants of Ebenezer Howard include his cricket manager grandson Geoffrey Howard as well as his great granddaughter, the poet and publisher Joy Bernardine Howard.

Direct proof methods include proof by exhaustion and proof by induction.

Others include glow discharge, field desorption ( FD ), fast atom bombardment ( FAB ), thermospray, desorption / ionization on silicon ( DIOS ), Direct Analysis in Real Time ( DART ), atmospheric pressure chemical ionization ( APCI ), secondary ion mass spectrometry ( SIMS ), spark ionization and thermal ionization ( TIMS ).

Winners include Hyundai, First Direct, Bosch, Canon and Philips.

Direct examples of single-file virtual file systems include emulators, such as PCTask and WinUAE, which encapsulate not only the filesystem data but also emulated disk layout.

Direct emissions include all pollution from manufacturing, company owned vehicles and reimbursed travel, livestock and any other source that is directly controlled by the owner.

The books include Lawmaking by the People ( 1981 ), The People ’ s Mandate ( 1992 ), Direct Democracy In Canada ( 1993 ) and Boyer's Ontario Election Law ( 1996 ).

More advanced neural engineering technologies include the experimental Direct Neural Interface ( DNI ), a system that provides a MechWarrior fuller mental control over a ' Mech than offered by a standard neurohelmet.

The bank is currently ( December 2003 ) in the process of reorganizing as Grupul Financiar BT (" The BT Financial Group ") which will also include companies in which the bank has invested: insurance and re-insurance company BT Asigurări ( formerly SAR Transilvania ), BT Leasing ( formerly Leasing Transilvania ), BT Securities, BT Asset Management, Compania de Factoring and BT Direct ( that will round out the offering in the consumer finance sector ).

Commercial implementations of LCoS technology include: Sony's SXRD ( Silicon X-tal Reflective Display ) and JVC's D-ILA ( Digital Direct Drive Image Light Amplifier ), and Epson's " reflective 3LCD ".

Firms that currently use Portland House for office space include American Express, Crossrail, Caxton FX, HomeAway UK / Owners Direct, NetBooster, TradeDoubler, uSwitch, Upmystreet. com, Rentokil Initial, AkzoNobel and Regus.

Current freight train operators other than EWS include Freightliner ( UK ) ( purchased by a management buyout ) and two open access freight operators: Direct Rail Services and FirstGBRf.

In 2008, the Kingdom secured sophisticated weapon systems, which include the Joint Direct Attack Munitions.

Direct descendants of the Curonians include the Kuršininkai of the Curonian Spit and the so-called Curonian Kings of Courland.

Other businesses from this time now part of Shop Direct include Kays Catalogues.