An often-used analogy to explain the Domain Name System is that it serves as the phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly computer hostnames into IP addresses.

In addition, the domain serves technical purposes in the infrastructure of the Domain Name System.

It may be a member of a new population of small Solar System bodies that serves as the source of Halley-type comets.

The Superintendent of Schools administers the Garrett County Public School System, and serves as executive officer, secretary, and treasurer of the Board of Education.

The Howard County Public School System manages 71 schools and serves approximately 49, 000 students.

DISA serves as the single senior manager for all Defense Information System Network ( DISN ) activities.

The library also serves as headquarters of the Galveston County Library System and its librarian also functions as the Galveston County Librarian.

MPR also serves as the radio backbone for the radio portion of the state's Emergency Broadcasting System, and as the backbone for the state's AMBER Alert System.

Recently, exercise enthusiasts have observed that an advanced Global Positioning System receiver ( GPSr ) with an odometer mode serves as a very accurate pedometer for outdoor activities.

Denmark Tech, part of the state Technical College System, serves the county from its location in Bamberg County, 25 miles from Allendale.

The Muskingum County Library System serves the communities of Muskingum County from its administrative offices in Zanesville, Ohio.

Charlotte Area Transit System ( CATS ) bus service serves all of Mecklenburg County, including Charlotte, and the municipalities of Davidson, Huntersville, Cornelius, Matthews, Pineville, and Mint Hill.

* The Catawba County Library System serves the residents of Catawba County.

Monroe City School System serves areas within Monroe.

Branstad serves on the boards of, among others, Conmed Health Management Inc, American Future Fund, Iowa Health System, Liberty Bank, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and Living History Farms.

The Madison City School System, formed in 1998, serves over 8, 400 students from the city of Madison and town of Triana.

The Troup County School System serves Hogansville, LaGrange, and West Point.

The Martin County School System serves Inez.

Iberia Parish School System serves Jeanerette.

Jefferson Parish Public School System serves Waggaman.

The Union Beach School System serves public school students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade.

The Long Hill Township School System serves public school students in Pre-K through eighth grade.

The library serves the residents of the Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk Central School District in southeastern Albany County, New York State and is a part of the Upper Hudson Library System.

The Locust Valley Central School System is a K – 12 public system which serves a large geographic area covering the Incorporated Villages of Brookville, Lattingtown, Matinecock, Bayville, portions of Mill Neck, Muttontown, Old Brookville and unincorporated Locust Valley.

Some of these elements, notably thorium ( atomic number 90 ) and uranium ( atomic number 92 ), have one or more isotopes with half-lives long enough to survive as remnants of the explosive stellar nucleosynthesis that produced the heavy elements before the formation of our Solar System.

Ken Uston reviewed 32 games in his book Ken Uston's Guide to Buying and Beating the Home Video Games in 1982, and rated some of the Channel F's titles highly ; of these, Alien Invasion and Video Whizball were considered by Uston to be " the finest adult cartridges currently available for the Fairchild Channel F System.

Only a very few comparable DOSes were stored elsewhere than floppy disks ; among these exceptions were the British BBC Micro's optional Disc Filing System, DFS, offered as a kit with a disk controller chip, a ROM chip, and a handful of logic chips, to be installed inside the computer ; and Commodore's CBM DOS, located in a ROM chip in each disk drive.

Many of the text elements are found in the 1988 ISO technical report TR 9537 Techniques for using SGML, which in turn covers the features of early text formatting languages such as that used by the RUNOFF command developed in the early 1960s for the CTSS ( Compatible Time-Sharing System ) operating system: these formatting commands were derived from the commands used by typesetters to manually format documents.

The most visible difference in these views was in the design of the MIT hackers ' Incompatible Timesharing System, which deliberately did not have any security measures.

In the Anglo-Saxon System of labour market regulation, the government ’ s legislative role is much more limited, which allows for more issues to be decided between employers and employees and any union and / or employers ’ associations which might represent these parties in the decision-making process.

In the charted regions of the Solar System, these effects are negligible compared to the gravity of the Sun.

The effect of these added interactions on the stability of the Solar System is very small, but at first it was not known whether they might add up over longer periods to significantly change the orbital parameters and lead to a completely different configuration, or whether some other stabilising effects might maintain the configuration of the orbits of the planets.

Because these changes occur very rapidly they define an upper limit on the volume of a quasar ; quasars are not much larger than the Solar System.

In the Bell System, these telephones were referred to as non-dial.

To explain why these stars exerted no net gravitational pull on the Solar System, Isaac Newton suggested that the stars were equally distributed in every direction, an idea prompted by the theologian Richard Bentley.

Prior to the construction of these infrastructures, transbay transportation was dominated by fleets of ferryboats operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Key System transit company.

Many researchers have recognized these kinds of supply network structures as a new organization form, using terms such as " Keiretsu ", " Extended Enterprise ", " Virtual Corporation ", " Global Production Network ", and " Next Generation Manufacturing System ".

In 1988, these standards became IEEE 1003 ( also registered as ISO / IEC 9945 ), or POSIX, which loosely stands for Portable Operating System Interface for uniX.

For compatibility with older systems, Apple shipped these fonts, a TrueType Extension and a TrueType-aware version of Font / DA Mover for System Software 6.

Despite these limitations, several software packages have managed to provide virtualization on the x86 architecture, even though dynamic recompilation of privileged code, as first implemented by VMware, incurs some performance overhead as compared to a VM running on a natively virtualizable architecture such as the IBM System / 370 or Motorola MC68020.

It is believed that these may provide clues to the origin of the Solar System.

The vessel's exhaust would contain radioactive isotopes, but these would be rapidly dispersed after traveling only a short distance ; the exhaust would also be travelling at high speed ( in Zubrin's scenario, faster than Solar escape velocity, allowing it to eventually leave the Solar System ).

Several possible replacements for the M551 were tested as a part of the XM8 Armored Gun System effort of the 1980s, but none of these entered service.

The Domain Name System maintains the domain namespace and provides translation services between these two namespaces.

For traditional business programming languages such as RPG, COBOL, and C, the IBM System i provides an interface to the integrated database that allows these languages to treat database files much like other platforms treat ISAM or VSAM files.

The founder of management cybernetics, Stafford Beer, applied these ideas most notably in his Viable System Model.

During the 20th century, efforts were made to rationalise these units and in 1960 the CGPM published the International System of Units (" Système international d ' unités " in French, hence " SI ") which, since then, has been the internationally recognised standard metric system.

Using Global Positioning System ( GPS ) technology as a reference, these antennas automatically re-aim to the satellite no matter where or how the vehicle ( on which the antenna is mounted ) is situated.

In his book, The Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System in General, and of the Brain in Particular, Gall claimed that a larger bump in one of these areas meant that that area of the brain was used more frequently by that person.