The copy editor took 3 days to read and return the book, the graphic designer had the exact cover layout done in 5 days, and the formatter turned his Word doc into Kindle .

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And though each citizenM has a different layout and overall tone, they all use designer furniture by Swiss firm Vitra.

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"Users do not have to be a graphics designer -- the application handles all linking and layout automatically for you, " he said.

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When a designer is ready to test part of a new chip layout, his workstation uses NetBatch to find all the other machines on the network that are idle, whether they are in Ireland or China or the U.S., and feed the job to them.

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