With new chip-based software, Nortel enables a cheaper semiconductor device to perform the function of a small Internet router, supplanting costly hardware of the sort Cisco sells.
Although more complicated to use than Napster, they perform the same function of allowing people to exchange music and other files with each other over the internet.
It will turn them into essentially passive middlemen, who no longer appraise and control risk, but who merely perform the administrative function of doling out health care benefits.
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The ideal result is that more and more people can meet their own needs and perform the all-important function of playing with the data, but when it comes time to get serious or to scale, use the same techniques.
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Sometimes they perform their old function of smoothing the path from subjection to independence, as in Namibia and East Timor.
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Favoritism at work can be demonstrated in hiring, advancements, pay increases or awarding contracts and are particularly troubling when two or more employees perform the same function to vastly different levels of recognition.
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Injecting sulfur dioxide, or particles that perform a similar function, would rapidly lower the temperature of the earth, at relatively little expense most estimates put the cost at less than ten billion dollars a year.
BP, which had been leasing the rig from Transocean, says the safety device that was supposed to cut oil flow on the ocean floor in the event of a well blowout did not perform its function.
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Buehler says he saw evidence of that same concern for the average person when the head of a local chamber of commerce asked Guthrie to perform at a function.
The organisation said it had discovered that four other categories of outflows - for example at pumping stations or waterworks - perform the same function, bringing the total figure to an estimated 31, 000.
The return of his salary should remind us that we do indeed pay him to perform a function, one that he expands with every chummy photo op.
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As a result, the Council appeared not to perform its essential function as an "honest broker" in space policy-making and acted on the basis of a highly partisan and flawed study.
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This allows a quantum computer to perform a single mathematical function on many numbers at once, answering many different versions of one question at the same time.
"Its mandate, or at least the committee's interpretation of its mandate, requires it to perform little more than a proof-reading function, " Ms Crowe said.
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