Those independent claims are clearly focused on general computer interfaces, though, not specific implementations.
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With the growing popularity of social media devices, computer games, and general computer use, it will be important to focus on ways to reduce sitting time while engaging in these activities.
Whoever can get their recordable drives into a general market computer will...well...win.
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The company has just launched a general election computer game that gives the people the chance to show party politicians how it should be done.
There was, however, an even bigger conceptual breakthrough: the mobile device as general purpose computer, open to the world of software, powered by the resources of the cloud.
It involved moving mountains and eradicating disease and inventing and constructing by far the hugest locks and lock gates ever conceived at the time and even a 1914 General Electric computer system to run it all.
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Therefore, any patent that claims a method of solving a problem by programming a general-purpose computer is, like the patent the high court struck down 40 years ago, effectively a patent on a mathematical algorithm.
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On top of that, the description of the Apple TV as the "next-generation Mac Mini" strikes us as a little odd, since the Mini was never sold as a media extender (even though you can use it that way) and the Apple TV was never sold as a general-purpose computer (even though you can use it that way).
Clark, a Merck lifer who previously headed the company's manufacturing division, has focused initially on improving the efficiency of the company's production plants. (Under his plan, many of the job cuts will come from manufacturing, and five of Merck's 31 plants will be closed.) The goal, outlined on today's call, is to increase manufacturing efficiency, much as automakers like General Motors or computer makers like Dell have in the past.
Jung is also on the boards of Apple Computer and General Electric.
You can also deduct the cost of your computer and other general office expenses.
The graveyard of once-high-flying stocks includes Digital Equipment, Apollo Computer, Data General and Silicon Graphics (now SGI).
Unlike regular degree programs, which provide a macro education on a general topic (say, Computer Science), badges certify micro-based competency in a very specific skill (say, JavaScript).
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Several months ago, Northrop Grumman became the fourth big military contractor to locate its headquarters in the office park where General Dynamics, DynCorp and Computer Sciences were already ensconced, having departed the Los Angeles Basin where Northrop was founded in 1939.
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One fundamental flaw, he said, is the relative anonymity provided by the Internet's system of IP addresses, which only identify a user's general location, not a specific computer.
Writing skills, general management experience, technical and computer skills, people smarts, and international experience or language skills are examples of skills with what we call high option value -- that is, they are transferable to a wide range of possible options.
It took a prolonged war of words and a nasty public fight at the annual general meeting of Atos Origin, a computer-services firm, for Pardus Capital and a London-based hedge fund, Centaurus Capital, to win board seats at the end of May (Atos's chairman was also ousted).
This year, more than 50, 000 shoppers were surveyed, with answers entered directly on the tablet computer and immediately uploaded into a database saving General Growth the expense of having to pay a data-entry firm to put the results into a computer.
By comparison, the Duke device represents the "first cut" at making gigapixel cameras for general use, said Shree Nayar, a computer-vision researcher at Columbia University in New York, who has seen the camera at work but wasn't involved in the project.
Unlike the more powerful general purpose computing device such as the personal computer or, more recently, the smartphone, embedded devices are typically things like cars or thermostats which are only given a limited amount of computing power and memory to accomplish specific tasks.
With free online courses in Computer Science, Programming, Mathematics, General Science and Entrepreneurship, Udacity has over 700, 000 users and an innovative revenue model that includes both certification for completed courses as well as a job referral services.
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Additionally, backers of Xi3's Kickstarter project who place a pre-order Pledge for the X7A or X3A will receive their new Xi3 Modular Computer up to two weeks prior to General Availability and will also earn the right to pre-order future Xi3 products for early delivery as well.
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The computer Brownell came up with was built using general-purpose Intel chips and Windows and Linux operating systems.
The general election game plays out the polling battle on a computer controlled board that is part-Monopoly, part-Trivial Pursuit.
These new interfaces will lead to fundamental changes in the way that computer systems are controlled using operating system and general software.
Unfortunately for most health insurance companies other than Aetna, their behavior is reminiscent of DEC, Data General, Wang and a host of once-successful computer makers that are in the dustbin of history.
Recognising that a number of climate models were predicting sea level rises of tens of centimetres by 2100, the scientist said some of the assumptions that underpinned the computer work and the global warming hypothesis in general would almost certainly need to be reviewed.
In fact, Apple's net margin of 3.9% is more comparable to metal-benders like General Motors (4% last quarter) than to the computer industry.
But being that chances are your next computer might not be running Vista, for the general consumer, the Vista Capable badge only means it'll support the baseline version, Home Basic Edition -- which we'll be promptly ignoring, thankyouverymuch -- and may not do fun things like run Aero or be able to use more "advanced" Vista features like HDCP.
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