If that happens, you re-boot, and move onto something else.

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We needed a professional and creative re-boot.

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We're suckers for speedy, unrealistically optimized boot times.

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Both of them are less of a "boot" and more of a "wake from hibernation" sort of thing, but most of the issues are the same -- you still have to boot a kernel, whether or not you're gonna populate the system with a saved state when it's ready.

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Boot-up occurs fairly quickly, and you're up and running within the minute, with most applications performing adequately on a Pentium M CPU backed by 512MB of RAM.

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And then after boot camp, before they go to Iraq, they're trained in mock Iraqi villages with Iraqi role players and told how to deal with the situation, and again, to protect the innocents, and not to fire on them.

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The employees claim they should be paid to work while the boot-ups and shut-downs are happening, since during that time they're doing tasks like paperwork or "arranging their calendar, " while the companies counters that they're probably smoking, getting coffee, or talking to people.

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We're talking the best Microsoft's partners have to offer: twisting screens, dual screens, 8-second boot-up times.

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