When Bram Cohen first authored the BitTorrent spec in 2001, the intent was to improve file-sharing performance of existing single-source arenas -- Napster, KaZaA and their ilk.
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We'll hold off on calling this thing a winner until we see it in person, but other than the lack of HSDPA 1900, there's nary a spec in the list that we find ourselves frowning over.
Targeting consumer applications, and extra skinny tablets and laptops in particular, this cabled variety of PCI Express will start off based on the 3.0 spec in 2013, but will then move on from there to PCI Express 4.0 and, potentially, optical data conveyance.
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It is still the product spec leader in smartphones and tablets but competition has deep pockets and is getting better at the game of quality and timely new products.
Oh, Ford is selling the Euro-spec Focus ST in the U.S. now?
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"It's the same thing as people who own Ferraris and Lamborghinis, " says Bob Rubino, owner of Mil-Spec Vehicle Restorations in Belvidere, N.
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Rebuffed by Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences (many of whose members were then enamoured of Alexander Wilson, another American bird-sketcher), he set sail on spec for England in 1826.
But Ford was careful to pick the member of the Prius family that is most vulnerable to being defeated in spec comparisons that the company wanted to make with C-Max.
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In Popemobile spec the G500 features a fold-down windscreen along with the pope's traditional Mystic White paint.
It's in the spec department that these two laptops start to differ.
Computex may be an appropriate venue to launch the first 802.11ac-capable computer, but it's certainly not the best place to demo any flavor of wireless technology, so we look forward to putting the new spec through its paces in a slightly less saturated setting.
He played a key role in developing the RSS spec at the age of 14, and he made his fortune by selling his stake in Reddit to Conde Nast before he was old enough to drink.
Not even the customary navigation key changes that Samsung has implemented in US-spec Galaxy phones to avoid uncomfortable comparisons.
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He started his career as a high school English teacher and football coach, building spec houses on the side in the summer.
Not only are people making ever more graphics-hungry demands on your servers, but NVIDIA and AMD are locked in an unending spec war that can make it hard to keep up with the market.
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Surely the most underappreciated number in the Ram spec sheet is its 0.36 coefficient of drag, given that the 2013 Ram's grille is larger, higher and more bluff than before, recalling the big-rig aesthetics of the mid-1990s.
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While other teams have added new parts to their car over the course of the first four races, Brawn's car is in the same spec as it was for the Australian Grand Prix at the start of the season.
In the case of the U.S.-spec iQ, there's some packaging giveback in the engine compartment.
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The Answer would have been a re-spec option for gold that increases in cost in some way.
It's actually just a quadband EDGE handset (despite what we'd previously heard) with a 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, and a 220 x 176 display -- pretty much the same spec sheet as the T639, in fact.
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If you're holding out on upgrading from a 3G to a 3G S, go ahead and crack a smile -- because for now, anyway, this is one spec bump that means precisely zilch in the real world.
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In addition to unveiling full spec and pricing information for the Yoga 13, Lenovo is announcing an 11-inch version.
China also built a whole city, Ordos, in Inner Mongolia, on spec for one million residents who never appeared.
Volano has submitted this benchmark to the SPEC Open Systems Group for possible use in the group's server-side Java benchmark suite.
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Sharon Ballas, an agent in Houston, says many spec homes are selling "at the Sheetrock stage" that buyers then customize to their tastes.
Frank McKinney, a real-estate developer, says he regrets the number of water features he put into a 15, 000-square-foot spec house he built several years ago in Palm Beach County, Fla.
Beyond the job spec, start-ups require pitch in types that are as ready to empty the trash and book bargain rate flights, as they are to bring in the next customer or deliver the next product.
It's as if most wine stores these days are like developers who built homes on spec and now refuse to lower prices even in the face of weak demand.
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