This is classic disruptive innovation where low end, good enough software and systems eat away at the functionality of existing high end scale-up architectures.
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Nor are there enough computers and software tripwires and human agents to deal with this level of complexity.
If you have peak demand, not enough supply, software can say to two million washing machines 'forget the extra rinse'.
Otherwise, unless you install Windows, the odds that your Mac could be successfully attacked are low enough that security software isn't needed.
Is a firewall or a suite of hackable security software enough?
Sure enough, the software giant came through this week with an announcement of a joint venture with Socket Communications to offer wireless modems for its Palm wannabe Windows CE, sometime this fall.
Anyone who is sophisticated enough to run some software will be able to get around controversial gene patents.
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And while DRAM is strong enough to handle complex software, it's slow: When the PC needs to crunch numbers, it must resort to far faster memory cache, also called SRAM (static random access memory).
Microsoft hopes to make its software more appealing for tablet users while still retaining enough features from previous versions of Windows to run software primarily used on desktop and laptop machines.
Free, Web-based software is good enough to achieve widespread use that will eventually convert into corporate approvals and big deals.
But Mr. Meighan disagrees, saying that tax software is sophisticated enough for the newly married to work out their returns on their own.
It is his proposition that if software is good enough, all those services in which people install products and hook them together are not necessary.
The problem with new IRS software requests, according to AICPA, is that small-business record-keeping software is flexible enough to bring in unrelated financial data that are fully integrated with the tax-preparation information.
Does anyone really think throwing money at this joint development (of two companies which both have a horrible history of working with partners) will create the products (hardware and software) fast enough to let either catch up with existing leaders?
Gartner - a tech consultancy - said the fact Windows RT offered Microsoft's Office software suite, would act in its favour, but might not be enough to compensate for other "missing" software.
The software is already smooth enough to show how the management of content across the screens will work.
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Its challenge is to provide open-source cloud software that is functional enough that no one will actually want to replace it.
We're still not sure whether it's good enough to hold private keys in software, whether today's smart cards are sufficiently secure and convenient, or whether we need new devices, such as mobile phones, to act as smart cards.
Though the new PCs have more processing power than older HP thin clients and are equipped with wireless connectivity, they have no hard drive and carry just enough flash memory to host the software necessary to wirelessly connect to a data center or to the Internet.
Modern desktop and even laptop computers have more than enough power these days to run virtualisation software.
But even software scans may not be enough to detect the Storm worm, according to Internet Security Systems' Corman.
The software interface is also familiar enough, offering piano-roll and block-style notations that most music production platforms have standardized around.
According to an IRS study, in 2000, taxpayers brave enough to tackle the AMT form without software spent 4.6 hours on it.
While these malicious programs are well known to security experts, hackers tweak them frequently enough to render them undetectable to antivirus software.
Just cutting down on the false positives won't be enough, says John Jack, a software industry veteran hired last year as Fortify's chief executive.
Take hope, my humanities-oriented friends, software is finally getting good enough to shift engineers to the back-office and unleash humanities-centric creative thinking at the front office, which will be transformative.
Take out hardware, software and bandwidth costs, and enough might be left to support two employees or so.
Despite some initial concerns about privacy, most Gmail users are savvy enough to know that it is the computer software, not a real person, which is reading their e-mails.
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Though it transcribes all of the speech pulled out of videos from its content partners, it only runs other videos through speech-recognition software when there isn't enough metadata with the files for the search engine to figure out what it contains.
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