Also likely in 1999: drives that use predictive failure analysis to warn you of hardware problems that could hasten a crash.
Beyond the always quixotic Nintendo, both the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 launched to a suite of hardware and software problems.
Worse, if multiple companies standardise on the same hardware, you get problems like the Juniper BGP routering vulnerability that nailed Blackberry maker RIM and a number of ISPs.
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Fortunately, Hardware.info reports no problems with SLI whatsoever, but it also concludes that the GTX 680 doesn't scale quite as well as AMD's Radeon HD 7970 in this type of niche setup.
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Whether it could have stolen a march on the big boys of mobile, or whether (more probably) it would have had the same hardware, marketing and distribution problems that befouled its larger cousin will never be known: the TouchPad Go was cancelled in utero and almost all existing models were destroyed.
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In short, Apple and its partners can solve the problems of software and hardware to make this go.
But when technical problems occur with a key hardware or software component all business can indeed grind to a halt.
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This has cost benefits, simplicity for IT departments (in some cases) and can help avoid compatibility problems that arise from different hardware platforms.
He had brought Richard Timmins, vice president of sales finance at Cisco Systems, in on a successful hardware investment, and in return Timmins let Grady spend two unpaid months studying the problems Cisco had making its disparate internal Web applications work together.
The problems can be caused by power failures, inadvertent severing of telecommunications links, corrupted software, bad hardware or human error.
So Minkoff jumped in and joined discussions about problems with certain styles, usinge feedback to guide refinements and modifications of components like pockets, buckles and hardware, Uri Minkoff said.
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