If ReRAM achieves dominance it promises faster running, more energy efficient, quicker-to-reboot PCs, tablets and handsets.
If Gates is to have any hope of achieving his laudable goals, he should do what we all do in the face of a software glitch--reboot.
But the Windows 8 release is the gutsier maneuver, a decisive infrastructure and front-end reboot that risks upending assumptions and inviting some degree of unhappiness.
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Then remove the floppy, reboot, write-protect the floppy, and store it in a safe place.
One of the key ingredients to the Spider-Man franchise reboot was a new team.
This usually means you don't want to have to launch the server and then each of the clients every time you log-in, reboot, or move a computer.
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If anything, the "Spider-Man" reboot, with its new cast and creative team, including Andrew Garfield in the title role, seems to have the most challenges of them all.
After all, I've never had to reboot my CD player--or a stack of snapshots.
When they decided to attempt a reboot of the Spider-Man franchise, they definitely had a tiger by the tail.
And the Toshiba came in last among the three in my tests of battery life, cold start-up time and reboot time.
It's also part of a trend in which generally lower-rated cable channels reboot themselves in order to boost ratings and revenue, Adgate said.
Some of SoundCloud's most active participants and best customers (premium members who spend hours each day on the site) will probably regard the commenting reboot as a mucked-up impairment of a crucial site feature.
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No matter what Hollywood comes up with next -- there are still rumors of an "Ant Man" film out there and a reboot of "Fantastic Four" -- fans know that after this summer the movie studios will keep trying to assemble the right elements for a superhero blockbuster.
The move comes on top of rumors that Apple will include VMWare-style virtualization capabilities in the next version of OS X, which could enable the Mac OS to run Windows apps without requiring a third-party emulator or a reboot.
And while the hype for the new Spider-Man film has been huge, there is almost no chance that this reboot (which looks like a rehash of the first Spider-Man film) will be as profitable as the Sam Raimi-directed trilogy.
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Gabe Gagliano predicts a March reboot of the Apple TV box-top set.
Do you wait for EA to finally get around to doing a Road Rash reboot themselves with an actual full-fledged budget?
The first successful reboot was Broadway's all-African-American "The Wiz" in 1975 (the basis for the 1978 movie, with Michael Jackson as the most sympathetic scarecrow since Ray Bolger in 1939).
With the movie getting a reboot for summer 2012 with The Amazing Spider-Man, developer Beenox has a new game set to launch in tandem.
Settled in 1682, Greenport has lived through eras as a whaling and fish-processing town and is now seeing an oyster reboot.
Mr. Greenblatt said that the budget reboot won't change the quality of the late-night production.
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Considering the PlayStation 4 will be released in late 2013, and games like the reboot of Thief are already in development for the soon-to-be-announced Xbox 720, it seems that Newell wants to get in on the new console action.
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But the makers of this particular reboot believe they have something different to offer the indifferent movie-goer.
We were at first having troubles getting the camera and our receiver (a fourth-gen iPod touch) to reliably connect, but a reboot of both devices quickly fixed that.
Sony heads Michael Lynton and Amy Pascal shocked Hollywood on Monday when they announced that the long anticipated fourth installment of the Spider-Man series was being torpedoed in favor of a franchise reboot.
Vendors need to make PCs easy to get out of the box, they must provide easy and clear setup instructions (with matching pictures), they should color-code cables, and they must eliminate the need to reboot during the initial setup because it scares new users, he says.
Kasdan worked on the scripts of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi - the second and third instalments of the first Star Wars trilogy while Kinberg is best known for his work on X-Men: The Last Stand and Guy Ritchie's hit reboot of Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr.
Also showing promise is Hawaii Five-0, which CBS and its producers have forcefully marketed as a reboot rather than a remake.
It appears that JJ Abrams and co. have decided to double-down on the action and villain heavy plot of the Star Trek reboot.
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