And yet they seem to be in a terrible fix about issues like Napster.
If there is a critical flaw in any OS, a fix should be able to reach the majority of customers in a short timescale and be easily installed.
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"It was designed to be a quick fix in an impossible and unprecedented set of circumstances, " he says.
At a briefing Monday, Assistant Treasury Secretary for Tax Policy Pamela Olson said President George W. Bush has asked the Treasury to study the AMT problem and come up with a permanent fix to be proposed in next year's budget.
But we are in a national, and perhaps global, Guy Disaster Mode that needs to be noticed and solutions advanced to fix a totally novel phenomenon, which will only increase in intensity and breadth without the concerted efforts of educators, gamemakers, parents, guys and gals.
What saved New York City was getting banks, pension funds and unions to cooperate--a model that could be used to fix the mess in our economy today.
Election officials will meet in coming days to fix a polling date - many expect the vote to be held in late April.
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Investment in coal appears to be primarily a short-term fix to address the state's energy demand, because other technologies are either not fully developed or not always reliable.
The recent pledge of Securities and Exchange Commission Chair nominee Mary Schapiro to be a "robust cop on the beat" is a good beginning to fix what has gone wrong in our financial markets.
Collins and mission specialist Charles Camarda carefully sidestepped any suggestion of divine intervention, but many in Nasa will be praying for a swift fix to the foam debris problem so that its fleet can begin flying again.
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The U.S., therefore, would not be in such a debt fix if Beijing had allowed the renminbi to float and honored its trade promises, thereby allowing a more balanced trade between the two nations.
"We're all used to jumping into projects and doing, doing, doing, but we can't fix everything in a month -- so we have to be teachers and introduce clients to new ways of thinking about business that they can use on their own, " says Jennifer Vickery, who lives in New York and edits IBM's employee intranet.
Sue Cook, the new director of children and young people's services in the county, said it would be "stupid" to say there was a quick fix.
But pressure from euro-zone finance ministers for stronger action is building: they will meet in February to approve a new Greek plan to fix its finances, which must be submitted to the European Commission this month.
In the last three years they have introduced four new devices that aim to provide a long-lasting fix for heartburn, using outpatient procedures that can be done in less than an hour, without general anesthesia or cutting.
As 2008 winds down, we need to fix in our minds the simple fact that military involvement in Afghanistan may well be something close to a permanent fact of life.
Lawyers for the alliance have claimed thousands of students missed out on the grades they needed because of a last-minute "statistical fix" and have argued for the June exams to be regraded in line with those taken in January when the boundaries were lower.
On July 8, tech heavyweights including Microsoft, Cisco Systems and Sun Microsystems teamed up to fix a fundamental flaw in the Internet, one that could allow any Web user to be invisibly redirected to fraudulent sites designed to steal banking passwords or install malicious software on users' PCs.
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