Astrophysicists will also use it to try to re-create the conditions at the center of supernovas, to understand how the elements that make up our solar system--and our bodies--are created.
For example, it is unlikely that a start-up will succeed in taking on Wal-Mart (WMT) directly in the retailing business with an everyday low price strategy nor will a start-up office operating system maker make much headway against Microsoft (MSFT).
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We're still going to have to have much better financial regulation, we've got to get credit flowing again, we're going to have to deal with the troubled assets that many banks are still carrying and that make the -- that have locked up the credit system.
He missed the start after failing to properly program his car's launch-control system and then, pushing to make up lost time, he touched the back of Fernando Alonso's Renault and was forced into the pits to replace his nose wing before finally finishing 13th.
Blaming the fact that staff used Linux operating systems on their production machines for "not noticing sooner", it advised concerned users to load some up-to-date antivirus software and "make sure your system is clean".
But the fact is, we don't know what they're getting at, and while we don't appreciate this kind of vagueness, it's not too late for them to make the 360 a single switch-tripping light-up cable kind of system, otherwise totally wireless.
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Another change is also vital if young workers are to look forward to a decent retirement, for many of the corporate final-salary pension schemes, which did much to make up for the inadequacies of the state system, are now closed to new members.
Why make wine-shipping the decision of a judge or series of judges up and down the crowded court system?
In a decade's time, Bishop predicted an "electronic nose" would be able to detect the pheromones that make up individuals' scent, and could even be used as a "hacker-proof" security system, replacing pin numbers and passwords.
The next day, they met for smoothies in Palo Alto and came up with the idea that became PayPal: a system of electronic payment designed to make e-commerce easy, consistent, and secure.
He insists that the traditional system of floor-based traders who make markets in assigned stocks and step in and put up their own capital in times of extreme volatility, like Tuesday, will stick around.
The various sections that make up the Xbox experience now feature between nine and twelve tiles per category, each serving up a mish-mash of system functions, product advertisements and recommended content.
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