Microsoft 's monopoly of the operating system market was hard earned and not illegal in itself.
When your computer boots up, it spends an interminable amount of time heaving some 30 million lines of operating code from the hard drive onto its main memory, DRAM (dynamic random access memory).
Residents of the South Carolina learned about the vulnerability of their state computer systems the hard way, after a hacker operating from a foreign IP address gained access to a computer that stored taxpayer information.
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Now comes the hard part: nabbing your child care operating license.
External hard drives are a good way of keeping transient data off your computer's core hard drive, which should give your operating system some extra room to do its job more efficiently.
Given his bitter complaints about journalistic rivals and his obvious affection for monopolistic joint-operating agreements, it's hard to believe he really wanted that.
The NMPH is now working hard to try and formalise a way of operating that will not fall foul of the Data Protection Act.
It has since tried hard to reinvent itself as a competitive political party operating in a democracy.
But if the GP practice is hidebound by oversight, and the competition body Monitor, which was originally designed to drive inefficient hospitals bust can no longer do so, it is hard to see the central argument of the reforms operating.
Community banks are particularly hard hit, as compliance costs as a share of operating expenses are two-and-a-half times greater for them than for large banks.
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"Now consumers can easily add the specific content they want to their hard drives, and still rest easily knowing their entire operating system is protected, " commented Charlene Murphy, executive vice president of sales and marketing, Rebit Inc.
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Driven by rising multimedia use, present PC configurations are seeing greater memory and hard drive capabilities, on top of which a new operating system could drive PC unit gains toward the 20% year to year level in each of the next two years.
We focused on 28-year-old Linus Torvalds, a Finn who in 1991 wrote the first version of Linux, operating system software that has become the darling of hard-core computer users.
David Parker, of Cranfield Business School, argues that bits of government are always hard to value, since they tend not to resemble any companies operating in the market.
Examples: selling solid-state hard drives on certain notebooks, or offering laptops preloaded with a Linux operating system called Ubuntu.
If you have an operating executive in the leadership role, you should try as hard as you can to keep the founder(s) close to the business and engaged and involved in the key strategic issues facing the company.
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Putting humans in a vehicle with millions of parts, atop thousands of pounds of explosives, and then operating it at high speeds while monitoring thousands of variables that rapidly change is hard stuff.
But failing that, as Arsenal learned the hard way last weekend, a team can't continue to step up when Bale is operating freely.
As we approach the general availability of ultrabooks with the Windows 8 operating system it looks like the largest sales for ultra-thin computers will include a hard disk drive as well as flash memory.
Under its shiny new skin, new hardware and software, such as a slimmed down version of Apple's OS X operating system and a flash memory drive, instead of the current iPod's mechanical hard drive, could keep the new device thin and light.
It is the only operating division whose profit contribution shrank in 2002 (see chart), and it has been hard to integrate its geekish internet culture, far removed from the Time Warner tradition.
But it's very hard to make a computer that's both a great laptop and a great tablet, even if the operating system contains elements of both.
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While focused on running the company, the team is also hard at work building a strategy and operational plan to deliver greater than 5 percent organic growth and 30 percent operating margins on a sustainable basis within the next two-to-three years.
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Perhaps the biggest gain may be in dual storage computers where a flash memory device is used for storing operating systems, software and frequently accessed content (and maybe even for write caching) while a hard disk drive provides much less expensive mass storage of user data.
The Toughbook SX2 is designed to withstand a highly mobile work environment, Its magnesium alloy case and shock-mounted flex-connect hard drive allow it to handle up to a 30-inch drop to the base of the unit while operating, as well as a 12-inch drop from all other angles.
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