Their destiny is to disappear, their functions invisibly embedded into the everyday world.
But for Steve, devices are more than just the sum of their functions.
In fact, they are a reconstitution of their functions in slightly different ways.
Once these components were installed and their functions understood, he was on his way to eliminating them with Egenera's software.
Now, Yasuda says, companies are learning to evaluate all their functions and operations based on how they add to shareholder value.
But the desktop PCs of yesteryear are increasingly anachronistic in a world where smartphones, tablets, ultra-light laptops and so on, are usurping their functions.
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The assumption that other types of roles can take over for the middle manager requires that these other roles should be able to cover all their functions.
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Deputy leader of Labour peers Lord Hunt of Kings Heath called on the government to delay abolishing SHAs until all their functions were being undertaken by another body.
Among those to be axed, sold off or to have had their functions transferred elsewhere include the Design Council, the Tote, the Renewables Advisory Board, the UK Film Council, Cycling England and England's eight regional development agencies.
It would bring biologists a step closer to being able to predict the final folded structure of proteins, which would help in working out their functions and thus make it easier to design drugs that are aimed at a particular protein.
And it contains a good selection of people with impeccable reformist credentials, while clearly dividing their functions from those of the siloviki, the men from military and intelligence backgrounds who run the ministries in charge of the country's order and security.
With the Facebook movies, viewers can still use all of their Facebook functions, like commenting on the movie and updating their statuses, while watching the film.
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Baseball players, race car drivers, skiers and lawyers all experience the same loss of a competitive edge when their physical functions decline to where they can no longer compete at the level necessary to compete and win at their peak.
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Drivers can mimic their key fob functions to control their car, track, locate, access, secure and monitor their vehicles anywhere at any time with a smartphone or browser.
More than 500 structures still stand throughout the city, and the guide details their different functions.
Both of those collections of malware altered pre-existing apps to hide their criminal functions.
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Conservatives wanted a less activist government that would let markets perform their disciplining functions.
Second, their brain functions, as measured by electrical activity and high-tech scanning, are dissimilar.
To understand this look at the many ways companies are externalizing their key functions.
One day, we might be able to firmly ground the forms of architecture in their mental functions.
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But she cautioned that any savings must not affect the ability of MPs to carry out their parliamentary functions.
"The options exchanges have, and thus ORSA has, audit trails with which to perform their regulatory functions, " she said.
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But apart from safety, the new traceability software should also allow packers and shippers to combine their tracking functions with marketing exercises.
Fashion critics long have charged that military fashions are a problem because they aestheticize war and divorce clothes from their true functions and origins.
We are aligning budget control to investment decisions, and Council leaders are accountable for the execution within their respective functions, and across the company.
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The charter of all remaining Councils and Boards should now be clearly in the scope of functional organizations, and will be absorbed into their respective functions.
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Their main functions were finance (93) and corporate management (81).
Willem Pennings, a Senior Consultant at BTS, told CNN that businesses approach BTS to request custom-made simulations that replicate the way their business functions or that teach specific skills.
But for computing to be bought and sold as a utility, firms must be able to switch vendors, to do it for all their computing functions, and with meter-based pricing.
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