The other waste of space is the Office Startup applet (called OSA.exe), which helps Office apps start a tiny bit faster, but not so much that it's worth the RAM it consumes.
Tiny start-ups are ramping up their recruiting efforts, too, though it is far from a fair fight.
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LEDs have evolved from their start as the tiny indicator lights on devices like coffeemakers to illuminating cellphone screens and billboards in Times Square.
But while creating titles for social networks and mobile phones that anyone can play, the law of large numbers means that tiny start-ups can thrive on results that just can't move the needle at more mature gaming companies anymore.
But Big Oil, Big Ethanol and tiny start-ups like Verenium have all failed to meet federal mandates for so-called advanced biofuels, fuels produced with agricultural waste or dedicated fuel crops like switchgrass instead of from edible grains like corn.
In August 2006, Durkee mortgaged his home, and he and a partner invested their retirement funds to start Enki, a tiny firm in Mountain View, Calif.
Nokia said that to date it has sold more than 1 million of its new Windows Phone-based Lumia phones, a good start, but still tiny compared to the 37 million iPhones Apple sold in the fourth quarter.
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All of the new start-up reactors are tiny compared to the 104 old ones, each of which was custom designed for and constructed at the site of its utility power plant.
At the newly christened Rocky Rapids we took a stop-start, bumpy slide down a tiny rocky waterfall, while at the section of the river called Lake Balboa Ledge, we had to get out and walk among huge boulders.
Little tiny lights and they all start flashing at different times, and then there's strobe.
He hopes to jump-start the efforts of a coterie of tiny biotech firms developing high-speed gene-scanners, in the same way that his work at Celera Genomics forced the government's Genome Project to accelerate its efforts.
Two car lengths before a nasty collision, and just before panic sets in, the two Caddies start talking to each other, sharing status reports over tiny radio chips in their trunks.
MicroCHIPS, an American start-up, is developing smart, implantable microchips which have reservoirs to hold drugs or tiny monitoring devices.
They didn't start in a garage, but almost: One of Strategic Intelligence's first offices was in a tiny building on Amoy Street, in the heart of Singapore's Chinatown.
Others start kicking the desk, or tug on their pigtails, or stroke the marshmallow as if it were a tiny stuffed animal.
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