It took a while to figure out the proper siting, anchoring, and operating parameters required to run a fish farm so far from shore, but Brian, like any dedicated entrepreneur, was persistent.

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Techniques such as extracting operating parameters, comparing application profiles across VMs (to look for signs that one has been successfully attacked), and analyzing application behavior in memory (as opposed to just code stored on disk) are far easier in a virtual environment and provide a huge advantage for stopping the most sophisticated threats.

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In the many years between construction and operating licenses, parameters changed dramatically, leading to the need for expensive, time-consuming retrofits.

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Mr. PAUL GOLDBERGER (Author, "Up From Zero"): Things in the rebuilding process began very differently with a lot of high ideals and high hopes that we would be operating in a whole different set of values and parameters.

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Multiple operating modes will allow the driver to tailor various performance parameters to accentuate maximum fuel economy or a sportier response as desired.

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Microsoft sets parameters for all the hardware companies that utilize its operating system, including Nokia.

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