Fifty years ago, Japanese electricity was generated by smaller, discrete coal- and oil-fired plants.

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The proposals do not provide an "unfair choice" by combining "discrete" or "material" choices, Apple said.

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Ultimately, better management could set the stage for software applications sold not through big packages but by use of discrete parts of an overall package--much the way IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ), HP and others talk about selling computing not by individual machines, but by how many processors a customer actually uses.

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That's right, instead we're told by NVIDIA that the discrete GeForce 201M GPU runs continuously and Intel's integrated chip is never used -- a configuration which sounds like it'll absolutely kill the battery life on this machine.

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And even on the table is discussion of a new discrete eurozone budget, to be funded by pan-eurozone taxation, which would be able to make transfers to member countries mired in recession.

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While it has dominated the discrete graphics industry along with AMD, Intel is by far the leader in integrated graphics.

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What are all the major discrete parts of producing a film that could be disrupted by technology?

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We expect PC shipments to continue to grow driven by growth in emerging markets, AMD to gain share in notebooks and servers and discrete GPU shipments to rebound in later half of 2012.

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