So his firm, SoftWide, devised a kiosk-based system that can store thousands of pieces of software on a hard disk, burning a disk only when a customer wants to buy a particular title.
The two-disk package will only be sold for Xbox 360 versions of the game.
We created a simple disk image with only a few critical applications out of the box installed to provide choice.
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That means data can be lost in the event of only two or three simultaneous disk failures.
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Additionally the Durabook had to be off during the drop while the Toughbook was not only on but was running Disk Defragmenter.
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But when you get there and pop it into the little player on your desk, you hear a voice say, 'We're sorry, but you are only authorized to play this disk on up to two CD players.
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The software disk also includes disaster recovery software, but only for the PC platform and not the Mac.
But the chips made their way into so many products--Cisco routers, Seagate disk drives, Netgear wireless modems--only because of Dai's relentless salesmanship.
When the bottom disk is rotated the material between its holes exerts a tiny gravitational tug on the material between the holes of the top disk, causing it to rotate, albeit only by billionths of a degree.
The only limit to the total area of the disk, he says, is the area of the crystal slice that begins the process.
People in a much larger region of the world can anticipate seeing a partial solar eclipse, in which the moon blocks only a fraction of the sun's disk.
Eventually, the only course for Iomega will be to license its disk technology to third-party manufacturers, as it is already starting to do with its drives.
Only thing is, data stored on that relatively slow disk drive (instead of flash memory) resulted in "sluggish" screen-to-screen transitions.
So although the disk, likened to a cartoon bubble or Mickey Mouse ear, only amplifies sound by a maximum of 10 decibels, the intelligibility of that sound is enhanced.
During his 32nd solar eclipse observation, the Harvard-trained astronomer is to study the elusive coronal ring, the outer atmosphere of the sun, which can only be seen when the moon blots out the solar disk.
The research firm now sees PC units up 5% in 2012, down from a previous forecast of 10.1%, reflecting not only the weak economy but also the impact of tight disk-drive supply due to the floods in Thailand.
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Windows 1.0 only required a minimum of 256 kilobytes (KB), two double-sided floppy disk drives, and a graphics adapter card.
Interrupting the reboot process only long enough to change the initial boot device in BIOS from CD-ROM to disk, I impatiently watched Linux boot, waiting for the login prompt to appear.
It's supposed to work only in idle time, but what it thinks of as idle time (when the hard disk isn't working) usually doesn't jibe with how you see idle time (when you're not using the PC at all).
But the chips made their way into so many products-- Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) routers, Seagate disk drives, Netgear (nasdaq: NTGR - news - people ) wireless modems--only because of Dai's relentless salesmanship.
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