In the factory, where the buildings are still being assembled around the clock by DeLuxe Building Systems Inc.

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Moving, assembling and testing ordnance, purifying and storing fuel, organizing the flight deck, mission planning, safely navigating the ship, preparing food, training and performing maintenance on important ship and aircraft systems go on around the clock.

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Switchboards and call logging systems are synchronised using the speaking clock.

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The aptly named KryoTech firm uses refrigeration to supercool its systems' processors so that they outpace their rated clock speeds.

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One is to turn back the clock on financial integration: then pure-floating or semi-fixed systems might once again be used successfully.

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Intel has spent years and billions of dollars convincing consumers that megahertz matters, and today PC buyers are trained to look for systems with higher speed processors--even if the raw clock speed of the chip isn't the primary driver of performance.

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