But wouldn't you agree that an understanding of finance, software or telecom is what's needed in 2001?
It is like trying to design a chair without understanding who will be sitting in it, or creating software without considering on what kind of computer it will be installed.
Half of the parents surveyed say they use parental controls on electronic devices or software to monitor, block, and filter what their kids see.
New software can keep screenshots showing what employees upload or copy and the edits they make on documents.
When you are tempted by one of these books, trading software programs, or seminars, ask yourself: What am I hoping to achieve with this system?
Its aim is to help early-stage companies develop or modify their software for financial services, and better understand what financial firms want, through an intensive 12-week program.
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Having raised the specter of a problem with antivirus software, what does FINRA tell us happened here or went wrong?
The backdoor could take the form of an installed program or subvert the system through what is known as a rootkit, a malicious software hard to detect.
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In theory, you can use books or software and websites that spew out documents for free or for a fraction of what lawyers charge.
You tell the software what to do by stating the end results you want to achieve or by describing the end result.
The applications transformation part offers products to assess, modernize and manage applications, in order to analyze a lot of different software within a single portfolio, and decide what to keep, change or retire.
Books lend themselves particularly well to an Internet-selling tool known as "collaborative filtering": Amazon and other Web vendors ask you to name some of your favorite products -- in Amazon's case, the books, authors, or genres you like best -- and then the retailers' software program tells you what other people with similar tastes liked so you can add to your shopping list.
No software told Donnelley what kinds of returns it was making on its printing jobs or how to price new contracts.
Perhaps most importantly, software can access and analyze significantly more data than what a single person (or even a group of people) can do on their own.
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When Raytheon isn't busy building a railgun or tinkering with exoskeletons, it apparently spends some time coding software to help keep tabs on what folks are doing online.
Even if a company made the best-tasting food or created the most elegant software package, there just might not be enough consumers to buy what that company was offering and its profits would plummet, as would its stock price.
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This year, I would love to attend a session run by a business person with an English Major background (instead of a PhD in Computer Science), showing what they did with Data at scale, without huge servers, without expensive software or cryptic languages.
But what does open sourcing look like in health care, government or everyday situations where there is no software code?
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No software to tell Donnelley what kinds of returns it was making on its printing jobs or how to price new contracts.
At the basic level, what social software allows people to do is capture their unstructured knowledge , either for themselves or for others.
Now, if Areva wanted to harm Siemens reputation or make it less attractive to Rosatom, what better way than to demonstrate the unreliability of its control system software?
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Google stated that it open to the handset manufacturers on what software they use, reminding us that Android is open source and they do not control OEM or carrier customisations.
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The new executive could equally propose that Nokia focus on developing own software products and other operating systems like Meego or WindowsPhone 7, so it may boil down to what Elop wants.
By looking at what the software does in its intended environment (usually Windows) FireEye can determine if it is malicious or not and then allow it through or block it.
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Instead, Facebook feeds any political commentary in status messages into a text analysis software program, the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count, which determines whether what you said was positive or negative.
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Silver Spring operates a hardware and software network designed to help utility companies create what is known as a "smart grid, " or a responsive electrical infrastructure that can provide data on usage to help lower costs and maximize efficiency.
In a November 2nd interview, CEO John Kish explained that Pano Logic designed what he calls a zero client endpoint a device with no processors, memory, operating system or software that lets employees get to their corporate applications and data securely via the so-called cloud.
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