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).
They discovered that, depending on the amount of traffic in the network, devices in power-saving modes spend 60 to 80 percent of their time in idle listening.
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In the meantime, the sales force Bristol developed to market Taxol, a wonder drug in its time, may be idle.
He said life in space was extremely busy, with no spare time to be idle.
It is rather as though a household with lots of cash sitting idle in a low-interest bank account was at the same time paying a much higher interest rate on its debts.
What is the value of the loss of leisure time if some of the new spending results in the employment of previously idle resources?
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The researchers have found that this kind of energy-taxing "idle listening" is occurring during a large portion of the time phones spend in power-saving mode---as much as 80 percent on busy networks.
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Idle time had fallen to 24% of total rig days, from 34% in 2007.
For the first time on Facebook, Idle Worship provides players with synchronous play: the ability to interact with other players in real time, as opposed to the old chess-by-email systems employed by the majority of social games.
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Along with cutting full-time firefighter posts, other recommendations include closing Haworth fire station in Bradford and merging Shipley and Idle fire stations to a new site.
Started in late 1998, the space-alien hunt has recruited the owners of 2.5 million PCs, tapping their machines' idle processing time to search small chunks of radio telescope data for patterns that might signal intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos.
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