If you use more than one computer on a regular basis, this is likely what you're doing anyway.

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Running these programs on a regular basis ensures that your computer operates more smoothly.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) rents computer infrastructure on a self-service basis.

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And how many devices do you interact with on a daily basis more than you interact with your computer, your tablet, your smartphone?

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Global Sources stores the software applications on its own computer servers, which users access on an as-needed basis through the Internet.

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During the investigation, Mr. Monsegur, who lived in and worked from a public-housing project in New York City, received information on a day-to-day basis of "upwards of two dozen vulnerabilities" in computer systems from a network of cybercriminals, Mr. Pastore said in court documents released Thursday.

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Since you are probably reading this on a computer, I suppose that I do not have to explain the conceit that forms the basis for the idea.

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Besides open source, Eazel is thus also riding the other big trend that is changing the computer industry: software will increasingly be delivered as an online service and on a subscription basis.

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They also look very similar to the simulations coming out of Piomas (Pan-Arctic Ice-Ocean Modelling and Assimilation System), an influential computer model that has been used to estimate Arctic sea-ice volume and which has been the basis for several predictions about when summer sea ice might disappear completely.

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