Fifty years ago, Japanese electricity was generated by smaller, discrete coal- and oil-fired plants.
Online courses can be provided as part of regular degree programs or as discrete curriculum-independent products.
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The international view seems to be that only regions that are discrete ex-colonies should have the right to self-determination.
He knows that rescuing individual people, implementing short-term plans, fixing discrete processes can never have the long-term sustainable impact that comes from changing a culture for the better.
"We face the prospect of NHS services being placed in the middle of a costly bidding war with private companies, discrete services cherry-picked for profit while the NHS is left to run the more complex and expensive services but with less money, " the Labour peer added.
Available in three different configurations, customers can choose a Mac mini with the latest dual-core Intel Core i5 or Intel Core i7 processors, AMD Radeon HD 6630M discrete graphics, or a quad-core Intel Core i7 powered server configuration.
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The 27-incher has a discrete NVIDIA GT640M GPU with 2GB of video memory, however, while the 23-inch model is stuck with integrated Intel HD 4000 graphics.
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The Transformers: Dark of the Moon Blu-ray is presented in 1080p high definition with English 7.1 Dolby TrueHD and-in a first for Paramount Home Entertainment-English 5.1 Discrete Dolby Digital and English 2.0 Discrete Surround Dolby Digital tracks, each of which was individually mastered to ensure optimal sound for the home entertainment experience.
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Indeed, they are some of the most forward-thinking institutions when it comes to managing a patient holistically, versus compensating doctors operating in discrete silos on a fee-for-service basis.
All you need is all new equipment -- that may or may not be clearly advertised -- connected with either HDMI or discrete analog cables, then an hour or so to read the manual, and you're all set.
For years Rockwell and Siemens have trafficked in so-called discrete controllers.
It also implemented a design approach to enterprise infrastructure solutions, which consisted of creating open standards-based discrete software products that are easy to implement without dependence on proprietary software.
While AMD has been busy digesting ATI, Nvidia's share of the market for so-called discrete graphics chips has grown to 65% in the third quarter of this year, up from 50% two years ago, according to market tracker Jon Peddie Research.
We swung by the company's trailer to get some hands-on with the T430u -- the first such machine that we've seen packing discrete graphics from NVIDIA. At only 21mm thick and under four pounds, the first ThinkPad Ultrabook is certainly svelte and falls on the more portable end of the spectrum for 14-inch PCs.
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Naturally, the usefulness of the slicing and dicing of data depends on the availability of contextual information, even for a discrete current event like a 90-minute debate.
Each discrete data point was simple enough -- the status of a project, levels of need, locations of assets -- but in aggregate, the effect was transformative.
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.
Better still, battery life didn't seem to take a hit even with the extra performance, though high-end, high-res gaming was still a lesson in futility when working without a discrete graphics card.
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However, as the discrete GPU space is effectively a two-man battle between AMD and Nvidia, success often boils down to the image of being technologically superior.
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The BUG platform is a collection of discrete hardware modules, Verizon Wireless network-ready 3G modems, and associated software that can be easily combined and re-combined to create new, custom wireless devices.
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The RT-N12HP utilizes a custom hardware architecture that augments wireless transmission and signal quality with detachable 9dBi high-gain antennas and a discrete signal power amplifier.
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Second, we set an all-time record for mobile discrete revenue.
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And there are a whole host of individual issues -- education and energy and what we do in terms of our foreign policy -- a whole bunch of discrete issues that concern me.
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.
Anything more than a casual gaming device built into a TV currently is unfeasible, but with faster SoC processing and faster broadband connection, Xbox could be an installation on hardware-compatible devices rather than a discrete device.
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Dr Studdert-Kennedy maintains that speech moves in a fluid stream of sound that has little resemblance to the discrete tones used in Dr Merzenich's hearing tests, and that dyslexia probably stems from a high-level problem in the brain's language system that is simply not yet understood.
Vintage wallpaper, gilded mirrors, polka-dot ceilings and walls of books give a discrete charm to the perfectly lit Casa do Livro bar.
What set Facebook apart was its hyper-focus on college students, who naturally formed discrete communities in which having just a few hundred users of the service could constitute critical mass.
Even the touch-heavy 9850 Torch made room for a suite of discrete inputs, but not here.
While discrete graphics cards high performance appeals to gamers and professionals who require high-end computing, integrated graphics is aimed to support minimal graphics requirements of a PC.
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