Marry HP and Compaq, and you have a potential T. rex in the food chain of computer imaging, printing, security and storage.
Dairy farmers are now using computer systems to deliver different food to different cows as well as to monitor milk yields and health.
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Like the computer software and hardware industries, food and agriculture are highly proprietary industries.
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They offer food, water, computer access, blankets and overnight accommodations for those who cannot go home.
Their new home includes a computer-controlled feeding system, allowing the elephants to eat food over a 24-hour period.
Some industries such as banking are fairly well along in making computer systems year-2000 compliant, but others, including food processing, agriculture and farming, some government services, construction, law, and medical practice are lagging, Marcoccio said.
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No, the statement is not that access to a computer at home is a basic human right, along with food, shelter and clothing that the rest of us must stump up taxes to pay for.
If Bain wins, it has an internal group of some 70 consultants who take to the field to advise portfolio companies on everything from upgrading their computer systems to calculating the profitability of a two-for-one special on fast food.
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The trio argues in a paper that will be published in Science and Technology Ethics that the people who design the algorithms for computer-automated trading should take a lesson from the engineers and technicians who keep our food, medicines and airlines safe.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a device that combines a small video camera and a computer on a pair of eyeglasses and an artificial retina that is implanted inside the eye.
Meals-on-wheels delivered his food, a friend helped him with shopping and he finished writing his first and only novel on the computer that talked to him as he wrote.
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