Admittedly, this unusual memory requires an internal light source, but the amount of illumination required is tiny and consumes less power than the logic circuits that are used to read data in and out.
Petroleum caught on early as the main fuel source for internal combustion engines because it was plentiful and cheap to refine.
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Last week the FDIC filed suit against Colonial Bank auditor PwC, and internal audit co-source vendor Crowe Horwath, for professional malpractice and breach of contract.
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According to a source who is an expert in internal audit services to public companies, internal controls are not very effective when executives collude and conceal information.
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On the other hand, this conflation makes far more sense in the long term, as our electrical grid becomes more sophisticated, and as electric vehicles begin the inevitable switch from internal combustion engines to electric motors or some other renewable source of power.
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As part of their investigation, Japanese and U.S. experts want to determine if an internal battery failure, or defective lithium-ion cell, was the ignition source in either of the two incidents.
Apart from a criminal investigation by an internal Vatican tribunal, the pope has ordered a separate administrative enquiry to try to determine the source of the leaks.
BBC: Vatican launches criminal probe into unauthorised leaks
On Thursday Germany's Handlesblatt newspaper quoted an anonymous industry source as saying the two banks were examining each other's balance sheets and exchanging internal information.
At internal companies meetings, Steve Jobs has been quoted as complaining that Flash software is slow and buggy and the source of an exceptionally high number of Mac computers crashes.
Wired News is claiming in an article that Microsoft's internal management have been wringing their hands anxiously at the droves of iPod users who work there their source estimates somewhere in the range of 64% of all MSFT employees own one (which might explain why it's been selling so well lately).
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