Mr. Schmitz tends to use his slender-nibbed fountain pens for tasks like marking up a spreadsheet.
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For tasks where color display is critical, the FlexScan T1751 includes 10-bit gamma correction.
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The average user in the survey reported using their phone eight times a day for tasks requiring connectivity.
Apple originally put its efforts into creating archetypical apps for tasks such as calling, browsing, email and mapping.
Some, such as herding sheepdogs, have been bred for tasks that seem to involve a lot of intelligence.
Exec, which provides prices upfront for tasks so customers know what to expect, also gives discounts if people get recurring cleaning services.
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However, the study found that many companies plan to make use of it for tasks where no electronic device is currently involved.
It is decontaminated before being used for tasks such as watering plants.
It is intended to deliver ambient light rather than directed light for tasks, and contains a nickel-metal-hydride battery, rather than a cheaper nickel-cadmium cell.
McKee Foods (maker of Little Debbie snack cakes) had 75 "bolt-ons, " or tweaks, for PeopleSoft for tasks including plant transfer requests and employee address changes.
It is ideal for tasks that require lots of interactivity, for example, calling up data from a hard drive in response to a command from a user.
The auxiliary screen notion combines a small LCD with some basic navigation controls for tasks such as looking up contacts, appointments, e-mail or starting a music jukebox.
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But for tasks that require a little bit of creativity, we seem to benefit from high ceilings, lots of windows and bright blue walls that match the sky.
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EU's original aim of creating a 60, 000-strong force, able to deploy at 60 days' notice for tasks ranging from disaster relief to crisis management, has been all but abandoned.
European-only defence efforts, they reckon, will work best for tasks that are endorsed by the American administration but fail to arouse enough enthusiasm from Congress to warrant direct American involvement.
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In September 2010, Intel launched its second-generation core architecture, Sandy Bridge, a 32-nanometer chip that can put CPUs and GPUs onto a single piece of silicon designed for tasks like handling high-definition video.
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While other technology companies focused on spreadsheets and processing speeds, while IBM and Burroughs built systems for tasks people had to do, Apple made very personal devices to help people do what they wanted to do.
Backers hope they will prove a cheaper alternative to helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft for tasks as varied as power and pipeline inspection, mapping, security, border surveillance, research, filming, fire fighting, search and rescue and delivering supplies.
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An April survey of 1, 500 business owners by the National Small Business Association, a Washington-based trade group, found that roughly 40% of small firms use outside payroll services for tasks ranging from issuing employee paychecks to paying state and federal employee taxes.
Lauren Zollinger, managing editor of GovSpot, described GovSpot as a one-stop bookmark that people will use for tasks ranging from finding the mailing address of the Interior Department to "pointing people towards information that will help them make better decisions" on Election Day, she said.
The company has two advanced applications (one for enterprise security and one for PCI compliance), several other purpose built applications for tasks such as running Microsoft Exchange, Cisco Iron Port, F5, and other products, and dozens of apps on Splunkbase that come from both Splunk and from its growing community of developers.
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Despite these caveats, iPads and other tablets are being used every day for productivity tasks once reserved for laptops.
It is ideal for tackling tasks that require lots of interactivity, for example, calling up data from a hard drive in response to a command from a user.
The guards employed by G4S will be responsible chiefly for such tasks as providing venue perimeter security, a spokesman for the contractor said.
It is used for niche tasks, such as running web servers, but it is generally deemed to be too immature for the most demanding environments, such as heavy-duty database systems.
As an industry, we had become an assembly line predictable and suitable only for certain tasks.
The company says it wants to produce easy-to-use, ergonomic designs suited for multiple tasks.
They used GE computers because the software required for their tasks is GE proprietary software.
It is more likely, he believes, that robots will be relatively dumb machines designed for particular tasks.
All payments for completed tasks are received by mobile phones, using M-PESA, a popular mobile banking service.
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