While costs on this order are sometimes separately charged for in residential and commercial rates, in the form of a mere `` service charge '', they are more frequently wholly or partly covered by a minimum charge which entitles the consumer to a very small amount of gas or electricity with no further payment.

While availability of mortgage money has been a factor in encouraging apartment construction, the generally high level of prosperity in the past few years plus rising consumer income are among the factors that have encouraged builders to concentrate in the apartment-building field.

While once the province of high-end print shops, dye-sublimation printers are now increasingly used as dedicated consumer photo printers.

While use of the term consumer is widespread among governmental, business and media organisations, many individuals and groups find the label objectionable because it assigns a limited and passive role to their activities.

While low-quality at first, consumer digital video increased rapidly in quality, first with the introduction of playback standards such as MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 ( adopted for use in television transmission and DVD media ), and then the introduction of the DV tape format allowing recording direct to digital data and simplifying the editing process, allowing non-linear editing systems ( NLE ) to be deployed cheaply and widely on desktop computers with no external playback / recording equipment needed.

While most of his proposals-" to abandon the gold standard, let international exchange rates float, use federal surpluses and deficits as macroeconomic policy tools that could counter cyclical trends, and establish bureaus of economic statistics ( including a consumer price index ) in order to facilitate this effort "-are now conventional practice, his critique of fractional-reserve banking still " remains outside the bounds of conventional wisdom ".

While the company performed strongly last year, registering a 17 % growth in client base ( to 7. 4m ) over the first three quarters of 2008, it began to falter as consumer spending slowed, resulting in a 1 % annual increase in turnover for Q2 2009.

While it did work to a degree, it also caused confusion to the consumer as to the difference between " Philips Magnavox " products and " Philips " products, resulting in Philips marketing the 2 brands separately again.

While any number of producers can send messages to the queue, each message is guaranteed to be delivered, and consumed by one consumer.

While many hippies made a long-term commitment to the lifestyle, some people argue that hippies " sold out " during the 1980s and became part of the materialist, consumer culture.

While the supply shortages of consumer goods characteristic of the 1980s went away ( see Consumer goods in the Soviet Union ), this was not only related to the opening of Russia's market to imports in the early 1990s but also to the impoverishment of the Russian people in the 1990s.

While effective non-legal debt counseling is usually the preferred-more economic and less disruptive-option, consumer default can end-up in legal debt settlement or consumer bankruptcy procedures, the last ranging from 1-year procedures in the UK to 6-year procedures in Germany.

While a direct tax should send a clear signal to the consumer, its use as an efficient mechanism to influence consumers ' fuel use has been challenged in some areas:

While some purists may condemn this practice, it allows the consumer to contribute his or her own creative processes to tailor a unique malt whisky that is truly his or hers.

While most thin clients developed in the mid-1990s were positioned as diskless workstations for corporate intranets, WebTV was positioned as a consumer device for web access.

While ( as of 2010 ) typical wireless devices for the consumer market can reach speeds of 300 Mbit / s ( megabits per second ) ( IEEE 802. 11n ) or 54 Mbit / s ( IEEE 802. 11g ), wired hardware of similar cost reaches 1000 Mbit / s ( Gigabit Ethernet ).

While exceptionally loyal to its original consumer base, Kaypro was slow to adapt to the changing computer market and the advent of IBM PC compatible technology.

While analog Hi8 video enjoyed widespread use by amateur home video, current affairs TV programs, and some professional news organizations, Digital8 seems to remain strictly a consumer ( amateur ) product.

While computer based Video editing software has been adopted throughout most of the commercial, film, industrial and consumer video industries, linear video tape editing is still commonplace in television station newsrooms for the production of television news, and medium-sized production facilities which haven ’ t made the capital investment in newer technologies.

While Mexico is the largest consumer of this spicy ingredient, its flavor and aroma have become increasingly popular all over the world.

While this occurred because the consumer was able to afford higher quality products, the resulting CPI increase can be a sign of economic difficulty.

While no longer used professionally, many consumer camcorders have the ability to record in black-and-white.

While the European Union enforces a common regulations for environmental protection, consumer protection and human rights, it has none for media pluralism.

While this may well be true in general, I believe it is also important to keep in mind that some recent developments suggest that over the next year or so military electronics may be one of the most strongly growing areas in an economy which is not expanding rapidly in other directions.

While it is theoretically possible to implement a full computer entirely mechanically ( as Babbage's design showed ), electronics made possible the speed and later the miniaturization that characterize modern computers.

While some items never get outdated, such as hammers and hand saws, electronics and computer items quickly become obsolete and unsalable.

While the concept of SDR is not new, the rapidly evolving capabilities of digital electronics render practical many processes which used to be only theoretically possible.

While serving at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base, Ed Roberts and Forrest M. Mims III decided to use their electronics background to produce small kits for model rocket hobbyists.

While electronics now provide the ‘ brains ’ for today ’ s advanced systems and products, micromechanical devices can provide the sensors and actuators — the eyes and ears, hands and feet — which interface to the outside world.

While the architectures differed, the machines in the same class shared electronics technologies and generally used the same peripherals.

While power electronics now allow for conversion between DC voltage levels, AC is preferred in distribution due to the economy, efficiency and reliability of transformers.

While he was studying to be an accountant, he continued to teach himself electronics, and tinker with radios and other electrical items but never took any kind of electronics course.

While these activities were important in the early 1990s, real growth was occurring in the electronics and high-technology industries.

" While there was a degree of cliche in that, wrote Loftus, it worked well, concluding: " Boine's voice, filtered at first behind the halting notes of a guitar, builds in strength over the brooding electronic rhythm, until her Joik overtakes the electronics completely, becoming fully responsible for the song's deep, chilly atmosphere.

While some homebrew pads use custom electronics built from scratch, most homebrew pads make use a circuit board from a standard controller to simplify the process of interfacing the pad with a gaming system.

While unveiling the Joint Venture's plans, Sanyo-BPL Pvt Ltd Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Ajit G Nambiar, said the company expected to post revenues of around Rs 2, 000 crore by 2009 and lead the market in consumer electronics and white goods in five years.

While most litter is associated with containers, wrappers and paper product ; dumped items may include furniture, appliances ( white goods ), old electronics ( e-waste ), abandoned vehicles or construction materials.

While in the Signal Corps, Silva studied advanced electronics and became an instructor.

While repairing electronic devices, an electronics technician uses electronic test equipment to " pin out " each component on a PCB.

While a Hound Dog with TERCOM was never deployed, this technology, with much better electronics and digital computers, was later used in both the Air Force's Air Launched Cruise Missile and the Navy's Tomahawk missile.

While the electronics differ from model to model these can also be exchanged if the aim is making a keyboard playable rather than restoring it.

While working full-time for an electronics firm, Goelz began dabbling with puppet building.

While the UE and the IUE won roughly equal number of elections through the first half of the 1950s, the IUE came away with larger numbers of members, particularly in the growing field of consumer electronics.

While the company states that it is " family run ", it is owned by a large Irish consumer electronics group, Glen Dimplex.

While agriculture remains a key industry in Dangyang, industrial production now includes output in the areas of foodstuffs, building materials, textiles, chemicals, electronics, machinery, energy and packaging.

While ceramics have traditionally been admired and used for their mechanical, thermal and chemical stability, their unique electrical, optical and magnetic properties have become of increasing importance in many key technologies including communications, energy conversion and storage, electronics and automation.