Despite a highly promoted launch ( including being named Time magazine's " 1994 Product of the Year ") and a host of cutting-edge technologies, the 3DO's high price ( US $ 599 at launch ), limited third-party developer support, and an over-saturated console market prevented the system from achieving success comparable to competitors Sega and Nintendo.

Topps ' creative directors of Product Development, Woody Gelman and Len Brown, gave freelance assignments to leading comic book illustrators, such as Jack Davis, Wally Wood and Bob Powell.

It was awarded Software Publishers Association excellence in software awards in 1986 for Best Entertainment Product and Best New World, and inspired similar point-and-click games such as Maniac Mansion from LucasArts.

According to the Central Bank of Armenia, during the first half of 2008, cash remittances sent back to Armenia by Armenians working abroad rose by 57. 5 percent and totaled $ 668. 6 million USD, equivalent to 15 percent of the country's first-half Gross Domestic Product.

The case was designed by industrial designer Allen Boothroyd of Cambridge Product Design Ltd

Best Dance Product by The Edison Awards in the Netherlands.

Product ciphers were suggested and analyzed by Claude Shannon in his seminal 1949 publication Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems as a means to effectively improve security by combining simple operations such as substitutions and permutations.

In addition, because biomedical engineers often develop devices and technologies for " consumer " use, such as physical therapy devices ( which are also " medical " devices ), these may also be governed in some respects by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Edson de Castro was the Product Manager at Digital Equipment Corporation ( DEC ) of their pioneering PDP-8, a 12-bit computer generally considered by most to be the first true minicomputer.

The " 6. 0 " in DECT 6. 0 does not specify a spectrum band, but is a marketing term coined by Rick Krupka, Product Director with Siemens, for DECT devices manufactured for use in the U. S. and Canada.

* 1995: Thursday 27 April 1995, the purchase of a book by Paul Stanfield, Product Manager for CompuServe UK, from W H Smith ’ s shop within CompuServe ’ s UK Shopping Centre is the UK ’ s first national online shopping service secure transaction.

The MRP is calculated by multiplying the price of the end product or service by the Marginal Physical Product of the worker.

Macroeconomic output is usually measured by Gross Domestic Product ( GDP ) or one of the other national accounts.

However, Mexico was one of the Latin American nations most affected by the 2008 recession with its Gross Domestic Product contracting by more than 6 %.

First released in 1974, MVS was extended by program products with new names multiple times, first to MVS / SE ( System Extension ), next to MVS / SP ( System Product ) Version 1, next to MVS / XA ( eXtended Architecture ), next to MVS / ESA ( Enterprise Systems Architecture ), next to OS / 390 and finally to z / OS ( when 64-bit support was added with the zSeries models ).

Since the University of Illinois was unhappy with the company's use of the Mosaic name, the company changed its name to Netscape Communications ( thought up by Product Manager Greg Sands ) and named its flagship web browser Netscape Navigator.

Paint manufacturers began replacing white lead pigments with the less toxic substitute, titanium white ( titanium dioxide ), before lead was banned in paint for residential use in 1978 by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.

The economy of South Africa is the largest in Africa, accounts for 24 % of its Gross Domestic Product in terms of PPP, and is ranked as an upper-middle income economy by the World Bank, which makes the country one of only four countries in Africa represented in this category ( the others being Botswana, Gabon and Mauritius ).

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles was de facto developed by Square Enix's Product Development Division-2.

Product placement, for Snapple, was inserted as a parody of product placement ; when offered some by Elaine in the middle of a conversation, the character Babu Bhatt's ( owner of a Pakistani restaurant named " Dream Cafe ") brother declines, calling the drink " too fruity ".

A comprehensive study to date by Robert Freitas and Ralph Merkle has identified 137 design dimensions grouped into a dozen separate categories, including: ( 1 ) Replication Control, ( 2 ) Replication Information, ( 3 ) Replication Substrate, ( 4 ) Replicator Structure, ( 5 ) Passive Parts, ( 6 ) Active Subunits, ( 7 ) Replicator Energetics, ( 8 ) Replicator Kinematics, ( 9 ) Replication Process, ( 10 ) Replicator Performance, ( 11 ) Product Structure, and ( 12 ) Evolvability.

The year 2010 promises a Venezuela still in recession as Gross Domestic Product has fallen by 5. 8 % in the first quarter of 2010.

Based on Gross Domestic Product ( PPP ) figures for the year 2011, the most developed country in the grouping is the Czech Republic ( USD 25, 933 per capita ), followed by Slovakia ( USD 23, 384 per capita ), Poland ( USD 20, 136 per capita ) and Hungary ( USD 19, 647 per capita ).

The band continued this transformation with an unexpected cover of the Joy Division song " Love Will Tear Us Apart ", which was released in 1988 on Product Inc. in a confusing array of 7-and 12-inch formats.

Often packaging records with a caustic yet subtle sideswipe at consumerism ( for example, the image of a wall of gold discs on the cover of the Mekons ' second single ), Fast Product attempted to show that all aspects of the record business, from musicianship to design to distribution, could be taken out of the hands of the major labels.

The band also released another cassette entitled " Product " in 1985, a single, " I'm An Asshole ( For Your Love )", in 1986 and in 1989 its only full-length album, an eponymous effort which featured another Elvis cover, " All Shook Up " ( with the verb replaced with something more artistically accurate ), and a Replacements cover, " Here Comes a Regular ".

* Judges Guild Product list by type with cover pictures.

* Chief Product Officer or CPO – responsible for all product-related matters.

In 2002, the Call of Cthulhu 20th Anniversary Edition won the Origins Award for Best Graphic Presentation of a Book Product 2001.

Today, scan the barcode ( usually EAN or Universal Product Code ( UPC )) for each item, retrieve the price from a database, calculate deductions for items on sale ( or, in British retail terminology, " special offer ", " multibuy " or " BOGOF "), calculate the sales tax or VAT, calculate differential rates for preferred customers, actualize inventory, time and date stamp the transaction, record the transaction in detail including each item purchased, record the method of payment, keep totals for each product or type of product sold as well as total sales for specified periods, and do other tasks as well.

Product mixers can either up-convert or down-convert an input signal frequency, but they are more commonly used to down-convert to a lower frequency to allow for simpler filter designs, as done in superheterodyne receivers.

Utilizing alternative statistical measurements in addition to the Gross Domestic Product can provide greater context for the nation's poverty.

The Design Council awarded this project ' Millennium Product ' status for the renovation.

* 1974 – The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio

The demand for an additional amount of labour depends on the Marginal Revenue Product ( MRP ) and the marginal cost ( MC ) of the worker.

* Product optimization, in business and marketing, methodologies for improving the quality and desirability of a product or product concept

Product liability is the area of law in which manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, retailers, and others who make products available to the public are held responsible for the injuries those products cause.

In 2006, Version 1. 2 of the CMMI Product Suite included the release of CMMI for Development.

Key SEI tools and methods include the SEI Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method ( ATAM ) method, the SEI Framework for Software Product Line Practice, and the SEI Service Migration and Reuse Technique ( SMART ).

The fourth edition also won the prestigious independent Ennie Awards for Best Rules as well as for Best Product in 2006.

The General Product Safety Regulations which are part of a European Union wide consumer protection regime ( Directive 2001 / 95 / EC ) again provide criminal penalties for unsafe products.

Product liability insurance is not a compulsory class of insurance in all countries, but legislation such as the UK Consumer Protection Act 1987 and the EC Directive on Product Liability ( 25 / 7 / 85 ) require those manufacturing or supplying goods to carry some form of product liability insurance, usually as part of a combined liability policy.