Some scientists have been experimenting with ways to use that code to store other kinds of information.
"It seems counter-intuitive that a USB-supported DVD Drive wouldn't work with a TV, but it has to do with the code that the devices use to communicate, " explains Kathy Huynh, Product Marketing Manager.
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While wandering the halls of Mobile World Congress, we came across NUIA (Natural User Inter Action), a German company whose software is designed to make it easier for developers to code apps that make use of eye tracking sensors, such as Tobii's.
Mr Blair implies that the Tories use a code to send racist messages to their members and to voters.
An important question is whether the two sides can reach an understanding on how to use the revenue that a tax-code rewrite could generate.
An important question is whether the two sides can reach an understanding on how to use the revenue that a tax-code rewrite would generate.
Their pitch is that you can use the tax code's breaks for charity both to do good for others and to do well for yourself.
In addition, because the middleware has been built to open standards, it means that anyone can use the underlying code to build their own user interface for a device to control networked appliances.
Senator Carl Levin has been running hearings into the way that various multinational companies use the tax code.
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Microsoft says that Google's code makes use of innovations it owns.
Lately, the search giant has also applied its moral code to real evildoers: Web sites that use shady software to exploit unwitting searchers.
The Audit Scotland report - which covered the period when Lothian waiting lists were being manipulated, between April and December 2011 - said there was "widespread use across Scotland" of the social unavailability patient code during that time.
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We're going to take the tax code and make it something that people find easy to use.
Soon after the Kinect's 2010 release, hardware hackers wrote code that let them control the device so they could use it for their own projects.
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That missing safeguard matters: All Apple products use Data Execution Prevention, or DEP, a feature that prevents malicious code from running its own commands.
While T-Mobile and Cingular use that standard, Verizon and Sprint operate on the CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) standard, which is popular in North America but not supported everywhere else.
It recently launched its new processor code-named Clover Trail (Atom Z2670) for use in tablets that feature Windows 8 OS. Additionally, it plans to launch more than 20 Atom-based tablets from leading OEMs in the current quarter.
Ubuntu is based on the Linux operating system and its development and use is governed by an open ethic that emphasises the sharing of core computer code.
In the coming months, we hope to release a new, "white label" theme for We the People that will make it easier for others to re-use the code and set up their own petitions systems.
Although there have been malicious bots around for some time instant messaging, security firm IMLogic believes that this is the first time someone has tried to use bot code to help spread a worm around an IM network by pretending to be a legitimate user.
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Before now anyone wanting to use the Kinect had to work via an official software toolkit that hid the underlying code.
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His proof-of-concept was crafted from 22 webcams and some custom code, but when Kinect came out, he realized that he could use the sensor bar instead.
Or have Human Resources use their own code or computer codes to glean certain buzz words, dates, phrases that enable them to focus on resumes of those under 40 for any job opening they may have.
The whole point of a QR code is that it's supposed to make it easier for people to use their phones to connect with information about things that they encounter in their environment.
Giving the consumer an option to scan a QR code which leads them to a website that is not optimized for the device they use to scan it is like sending someone with a broken arm in to get a full-body physical.
The fact that Google, the industry's new giant, sits on a foundation of open-source code buried the idea that it was not powerful or reliable enough for heavy-duty use.
While the main considerations of the charter are preventing the illegal use of robots and protecting the data that they acquire, the task force set to draft the code have not overlooked programming ethical standards into the automatons of the future.
Of course, quality means not just lower defects per KLOC ( Kilo Lines of Code), but it is also about features that the end users really care about and use.
That is the premise of Code for America, a budding national organization of software programmers who use public information from local governments to create better civic services.
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