But far more crucially, the key assumption that drives its strong conclusions is the mundane fact that a very low interest rate is postulated, with which distant-future benefits and costs are then discounted .
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Taub is also thinking about putting readers on key fobs, USB drives and PDAs, and dots on brochures, ads, security passes and compact disc cases (for samples of music).
Seagate said in an SEC filing this morning that it expects a huge gap between supply and demand for hard disk drives in the December quarter as a result of the recent severe flooding in Thailand, which has hampered production of both drives and key components.
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Finally, he notes that Apple gets 6% of sales from Japan, as well as key components such as hard drives and NAND flash memory chips.
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Sequoia also represents continued American leadership in high performance computing, key to the technology innovation that drives high-quality jobs and economic prosperity.
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And the key now is just to make sure that it drives forward in an effective way.
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Jelly Bean finally puts Android on a par with Apple's iOS operating system, which drives the iPhone and iPad, in two key respects: responsiveness (when the hardware is potent enough) and elimination of the constant need to resort to menus, which plagued most prior versions of Android.
Rare earth metals are a key component of products such as MRI scanners and computer hard drives.
Other key features include 3rd Generation Intel Core processors, solid state drives and up to 12 hours of battery life with second optional battery.
Key point here--it's not greed that drives successful societies.
With device volumetric efficiency a key concern for system makers, WD began shipping 7 mm height hard drives for thin-profile notebooks earlier this year (historically, standard notebook hard drives have been 9.5 mm).
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And while that's not true in every radio market, it suggests that, at least in most places, even a small amount of traditional advertising during key times of the day, such as the morning commute, would shorten fund drives considerably.
Other key patents IBM obtained last year were for predicting traffic problems by using GPS and communicating the delays to drives, finding patterns across disparate data sources and an invention for enabling analysis of medical data from multiple sources to improve the research, diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions.
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