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  • Too much hardware, too much software, too many hostile bioforms, too many weapons of every kind.†   (source)
  • I work in software engineering.†   (source)
  • It has to be a software issue.†   (source)
  • There was software that listened for key words; if enough came up, they'd pull the conversation, and you could very well get in trouble.†   (source)
  • Only my medscanner and a few packets of anthropological software made useless by the destruction of my other equipment remained.†   (source)
  • The passing game looked like a booming software company: the more quarterbacks produced, the bigger their profit margins.†   (source)
  • Everyone in CE has to be on the same version of any given software, as you can imagine.†   (source)
  • There's only four things we do better than anyone else music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery The Deiverator used to make software.†   (source)
  • Americans now spend more money on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software, or new cars.†   (source)
  • At one point during the day, Jai sat down with me to ask questions about bringing software projects to UNC.†   (source)
  • Tables of contents of reference material are so structured, mechanical assemblies, computer software, all scientific and technical knowledge is so structured…so much so that in some fields such as biology, the hierarchy of kingdom phylum-class-order-family-genus-species is almost an icon.†   (source)
  • They each had a slender build and upright posture and dark skin, and though the feed lacked audio input it was of sufficient resolution that lip-reading software could identify their language as Tamil.†   (source)
  • What software does she use?†   (source)
  • During the restart a whole new software programme is installed.†   (source)
  • Especially computer-software guys.†   (source)
  • So far, Diana had used one of hers against a short, bald, quiet software developer.†   (source)
  • The capsule contains one or more strands of DNA or RNA, which are long molecules that contain the software program for making a copy of the virus.†   (source)
  • Jay said there's a problem with the computer or the software— everything keeps double printing.†   (source)
  • Whether it's a sweater or software, it takes some time for me to know if I want to keep something, one reason I always save receipts.†   (source)
  • As important as the computer was its programming software.†   (source)
  • I went along on one such trip with a chairman named McHenry, a sweet and decent man in fact who owned a number of software companies that had contracts with the government, And his grandsons were at the lake, a pair of white-browed boys in down vests, primed for blood sport.†   (source)
  • He composed at night using ACIDPlanet audio software and played his tracks on an endless loop during the day for his captive audience.†   (source)
  • All around our house were little piles of things that had once held her attention: aromatherapy kits, family tree software, stacks of Japanese cookbooks, an aquarium with four sides covered in algae and one sole survivor, a fat white fish who had eaten all the others.†   (source)
  • After, of course, I become a software designer and make my fortune.†   (source)
  • Software developer ANDY BLOWERS is studying for a graduate degree in technical management at George Mason University.†   (source)
  • Its computer-related holdings were all companies developing products, mostly software, for the medical and medical-research communities.†   (source)
  • Richard Fowler was faithful and meticulous with the ledgers of the church and BTEA, and even when the rest of the world started migrating to computers and accounting software methods in the 1980s, Uncle Dick continued to keep the books by hand—the long way—and my parents found it incredible that he never made a single mistake.†   (source)
  • A consortium of publishers, software companies, and academics, including Pearson, Microsoft, Sony, and the Universities of California, Colorado, and Pennsylvania, among many others, is now creating the American National Corpus.†   (source)
  • At one point he joined forces with someone who had invented a promising software product, but that didn't last very long.†   (source)
  • Vicky's marrying some computer software programmer whose family all comes from Minnesota or something, instead of the rich Texas oil baron her mom had all picked out for her.†   (source)
  • They tried to plant surveillance software inside her computer, but it proved resistant to all forms of assault.†   (source)
  • This had less to do with the super advanced chips they traded for enormous amounts of heavy metals or anything else that seemed of some worth than their software systems and implant technology.†   (source)
  • While he's doing that, he comes across a rather old folder with some transportation software in it.†   (source)
  • TRW desperately needed programmers familiar with the particular software the power station used.†   (source)
  • Martinez and Lewis stared at Johanssen as she brought up the intercept calculation software.†   (source)
  • You'll be happy to know I instructed the woman via my brand-new voice recognition software."†   (source)
  • Software companies have never accepted product liability like every other industry.†   (source)
  • The software was near-perfect, Francis said, and could be operated by any child.†   (source)
  • The software available astonished her even more.†   (source)
  • I told you it wasn't a software glitch."†   (source)
  • I mean you created a piece of software that can easily be abused.†   (source)
  • Let him install the software as if it were a perfectly natural part of the service.†   (source)
  • Shay was still too skinny, even after the morpho software had pulled her toward the average.†   (source)
  • Martinez entered the scenario into the software.†   (source)
  • "Run solar orbit computation software 'Three Body 1.†   (source)
  • The scràll, like any other visible thing in the Metaverse, is a piece of software.†   (source)
  • There's no incentive to make secure software, because there's no penalty.†   (source)
  • I got lucky in college and licensed some software I'd written."†   (source)
  • But she had somehow gotten hold of the software and was hooked.†   (source)
  • The software would order the food for me online and it would be delivered to my door.†   (source)
  • Steve Jobs: February 24, 1955 Another of the pioneers of the software revolution was Eric Schmidt.†   (source)
  • My software is no different than say …. a flight simulator program.†   (source)
  • The OASIS software took care of that, ensuring that students remained quiet and in their seats.†   (source)
  • This is the name of a piece of software he wrote, a power tool for a CIC stringer.†   (source)
  • I thought that was the most unrealistic aspect," the software company vice president said.†   (source)
  • "The bigger problem is that producers of software don't want consumers to be secure."†   (source)
  • A career software engineer, mornings were never her forte.†   (source)
  • The people are pieces of software called avatars.†   (source)
  • The software for doing the calculations will run on top of it.†   (source)
  • The NSA enhanced the image with the best software they have.†   (source)
  • The classroom conduct software filtered this out, so neither Ms.†   (source)
  • Through sheer brilliance and ambition and guts builds it into the giant of the software world.†   (source)
  • "Essentially, my software let them take America's temperature."†   (source)
  • So you end up with buggy software that has intentional security holes.†   (source)
  • Do you know of some software that would be good at piecing it back together?†   (source)
  • Then, we tell Watney exactly how to hack the rover software to add those twenty instructions.†   (source)
  • "Me too," the software company vice president said.†   (source)
  • In the tape, she's playing with a software program designed to teach algebra.†   (source)
  • All this time, she'd been using software to disguise it.†   (source)
  • And do you know who wrote much of the software that allows you to access the Internet?†   (source)
  • Install rover's comm software on the other rover's computer, try from there.†   (source)
  • So I made a snap decision and enabled the voluntary OASIS fitness lockout software on my rig.†   (source)
  • Their software-engineering techniques, while cruel and ugly, are very sophisticated.†   (source)
  • We have already written the software to allow a sophon to unfold itself into two dimensions.†   (source)
  • The software debugging process took another five thousand Trisolaran hours.†   (source)
  • Here's a new version of the system software," he says.†   (source)
  • "What's the point of this discussion if we can't update the rover's software?"†   (source)
  • I selected the mirror partner option on my dance software and began to do the same.†   (source)
  • Sensing the problem, the ascent software angled the ship into the wind to counteract it.†   (source)
  • Hiro has heard about this but never seen it It is a piece of CIC software called, simply, Earth.†   (source)
  • This world, based on the European High Middle Ages, was chosen by the software based on his ID.†   (source)
  • After about ten minutes of searching, the software highlighted a possible match.†   (source)
  • The ETO invested enormous effort to develop this massive piece of software.†   (source)
  • He ran a final test on the software he'd written.†   (source)
  • The largest, and yet the least efficient, producer of computer software in the world.†   (source)
  • They began selling the game on the software rack at their local computer store.†   (source)
  • Our software wasn't expecting us to have an engine there.†   (source)
  • Your card said you're into the three Ms of software.†   (source)
  • "You're calling black white and white black," the software company vice president said.†   (source)
  • The lockout software also monitored my dietary intake.†   (source)
  • Martinez and the ascent software kept it trim, though it was a constant battle.†   (source)
  • He turned to the software company vice president and the power company executive.†   (source)
  • It's the piece of software he wrote while he was killing time on the liferaft.†   (source)
  • I tapped it with my index finger, and the Mandarax software translated the text to English.†   (source)
  • Same software they use for enhancing spy satellite imagery.†   (source)
  • But The Black Sun is a much classier piece of software.†   (source)
  • It's a software, not a hardware, problem.†   (source)
  • "Vogel's got software for calculating course offsets caused by hull breaches, right?"†   (source)
  • Then we have Pathfinder broadcast new software to the rover.†   (source)
  • They would take their software out and race it in the black desert of the electronic night.†   (source)
  • As they grow up, they get programmed with different software-they learn different languages.†   (source)
  • "We've been looking through the old Pathfinder software.†   (source)
  • "No piece of software is ever bug free," Ng says.†   (source)
  • I have guys working on the rover software right now.†   (source)
  • High-gain radio so we can talk to it, and standard satellite navigational software.†   (source)
  • So we can change the software to anything we want.†   (source)
  • That requires a change to the rover's software."†   (source)
  • Problem is, to implement a new comm system, both ends of it need to have the right software running.†   (source)
  • ," Martinez said as he brought up the software.†   (source)
  • Why did SMP go to the trouble of developing its own software?†   (source)
  • Why bother remembering how to install software if your son, close at hand, can do it for you?†   (source)
  • JFCOM brought together hundreds of military analysts and specialists and software experts.†   (source)
  • God, I wish we had better modeling software.†   (source)
  • Software like that you can't exchange once it's contaminated.†   (source)
  • That needed to be corrected, so Cristian worked with Allan to reprogram the ROV's software.†   (source)
  • Some computer stuff, too-installing software, fixing glitches.†   (source)
  • The gun and targeting software either work or they don't.†   (source)
  • "I think Athelkau put some Turing code in the software," Tyler said.†   (source)
  • With enough processors and the right software you can overcome anything.†   (source)
  • "This software is off-the-shelf Glatun gray-control software," Tyler said.†   (source)
  • So I wrote a piece of software that let them process their data field in a second way …. pulling from it an additional intelligence product.†   (source)
  • Did she use any software?†   (source)
  • The idea of living creatures being numbered like software, being subject to updates and revisions, troubled Grant.†   (source)
  • The strongest engines of American economic growth in the 1990s — the computer, software, aerospace, and satellite industries — have been heavily subsidized by the Pentagon for decades.†   (source)
  • I'd like to think that's the story of Alice, the Carnegie Mellon software teaching tool I was lucky enough to help develop.†   (source)
  • Over the past two decades, King's College Research Institute in Systematic Theology had used optical character recognition software in unison with linguistic translation devices to digitize and catalog an enormous collection of texts—encyclopedias of religion, religious biographies, sacred scriptures in dozens of languages, histories, Vatican letters, diaries of clerics, anything at all that qualified as writings on human spirituality.†   (source)
  • Walt had in fact visited Fairbanks during the start-up of the receiving station and had written some of the software crucial to its operation.†   (source)
  • Transline ran ads throughout the datasphere, placed HTV commercials, transmitted software inserts, successfully solicited blurbs from best-selling authors, made sure it was reviewed in the New New York Times Book Section and the TC Review, and generally spent a fortune on advertising.†   (source)
  • Software issues usually came down to reinstallation, but that would turn the android into a blank slate.†   (source)
  • It is like software, in a way.†   (source)
  • I knew they would get into the working world and create terrific new software programs, animation projects and entertainment devices.†   (source)
  • Within an hour, I had come up with three—a piece of voice recognition software, another type of software that relied on the blinking of an eye, and, as my sister had mentioned, a tapping device that Will could wear on his head.†   (source)
  • The McDonald's Corporation has used Colorado Springs as a test site for other types of restaurant technology, for software and machines designed to cut labor costs and serve fast food even faster.†   (source)
  • Now, to test this software, I think we require an actual person who wants to find out more about an actual potential romantic interest.†   (source)
  • Connecting her own wiring with a foreign object had always felt hazardous, like if she wasn't careful, her own software could be overridden.†   (source)
  • She doubted a doctor would give this morpho a second glance, but it was fun to push the software to its limits.†   (source)
  • They'd been tiptoeing around each other since she'd returned home from the lab two days before, Adri trying to remind Cinder of her superiority by ordering her to defrag their apartment's entire mainframe and update all the software that they didn't even use anymore, while at the same time lurking around as if she were—almost, kind of—ashamed of what she'd done to Cinder.†   (source)
  • "And this way we can send you updates for the software, the apps, everything, and know you're current.†   (source)
  • So the first thing the morpho software did was take each side of your face and double it, like holding a mirror right down the middle, creating two examples of perfect symmetry.†   (source)
  • As one marketing publication observed, the software developed by Mc-Donald's permits businessmen to "spy on their customers with the same equipment once used to fight the cold war."†   (source)
  • He is famous in our industry for saying, among other great things: "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later."†   (source)
  • He was predictably sniffy about the head device, but he conceded that the voice recognition software might be useful, and within a week we managed, with Nathan's help, to install it on his computer, setting Will up so that with the computer tray fixed to his chair, he no longer needed someone else to type for him.†   (source)
  • The software took over: The eyes gradually grew, reducing the size of the nose between them, Shay's cheekbones moved upward, and her lips became a tiny bit fuller (they were already almost pretty-sized).†   (source)
  • And with the help of DNA and far better genealogical software, within the year we're hoping that anyone can quickly access every available piece of information about their family lineage, all images, all video and film, with one search request."†   (source)
  • She demonstrated that if it is presented as a storytelling activity, girls become perfectly willing to learn how to write software.†   (source)
  • He told me the new software brought the "just in time" production philosophy of Japanese automobile plants to the fast food business, a philosophy that McDonald's has renamed Made for You.†   (source)
  • And advanced computer software essentially ran the kitchen, assigning tasks to various workers for maximum efficiency, predicting future orders on the basis of ongoing customer flow.†   (source)
  • It was accurate, most of it, and while Gus and Francis hammed it up onstage, and the audience grew ever-more impressed with the software, Mae had first bidden behind her hands, then sunk to the lowest-possible place in her seat, and finally, when she felt that any moment she'd be asked to get onstage to confirm the great power of this new tool, she slipped out of her seat, across the aisle, out the auditorium's side door and into the flat white light of an overcast afternoon.†   (source)
  • There would be no more free lunch if software crashed and caused damage, if some security hole was exploited.†   (source)
  • As far as Nola was concerned, this CI software had proven more of a distraction than any real help—constant interruption software, she called it.†   (source)
  • "My software," Trish explained, "was designed to help government agencies better evaluate and respond appropriately to wide-scale crises—pandemic diseases, national tragedies, terrorism, that sort of thing."†   (source)
  • The advanced communications networks installed to serve those companies and the military have drawn computer chip manufacturers, telemarketers, and software companies to Colorado Springs.†   (source)
  • Perhaps more importantly, they were talking about changing regulations to make software companies more accountable.†   (source)
  • Despite all the talk in Colorado about aerospace, biotech, computer software, telecommunications, and other industries of the future, the largest private employer in the state today is the restaurant industry.†   (source)
  • After showing Sergeant Williams how to install the software, we'd asked him to get as many people as he could to start using it.†   (source)
  • Number four was that Gates just happened to find out about ISI, and ISI just happened to need someone to work on its payroll software.†   (source)
  • The Agency was currently running a new piece of "collaborative integration" software designed to provide real-time alerts to disparate CIA departments when they happened to be processing related data fields.†   (source)
  • In the end, a perfectly secure internet isn't in the interest of the general public or software producers."†   (source)
  • Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience.†   (source)
  • The workers are not told what to do by fancy computer software, there's take-out but no drive-through, and the food is only slightly more expensive than what's served in the half-empty Wendy's across the street.†   (source)
  • McDonald's later developed a computer software program called Quintillion that automated its site-selection process, combining satellite imagery with detailed maps, demographic information, CAD drawings, and sales information from existing stores.†   (source)
  • Eric Schmidt: April 27, 1955 I don't mean to suggest, of course, that every software tycoon in Silicon Valley was born in 1955.†   (source)
  • "They give us all that software for free specifically so that we aren't secure from them—so they can watch us, sell our information."†   (source)
  • They hardwire back doors to update and modify software remotely— it's a fundamental security risk they purposely create.†   (source)
  • Lucky breaks don't seem like the exception with software billionaires and rock bands and star athletes.†   (source)
  • To the readers of Popular Electronics, in those days the bible of the fledgling software and computer world, that headline was a revelation.†   (source)
  • "Some hackers in the East Village figured out a way to upload the mesh software wirelessly, and it's really gone viral now.†   (source)
  • 'FedEx and UPS have ground to a complete standstill today due to what they say is a virus in their logistics shipping software " "That's just great."†   (source)
  • He ran Novell, one of Silicon Valley's most important software firms, and in 2001, he became the chief executive officer of Google.†   (source)
  • The software quality is uncommonly high, and the amount of information contained in it even more unusual.†   (source)
  • I pulled up some image-analysis software and made a high-resolution scan of both sides of the wrapper.†   (source)
  • He offered his pilots what everyone from hockey players to software tycoons to takeover lawyers has been offered on the way to success: an opportunity to transform their relationship to their work.†   (source)
  • The customer courtesy software filtered my voice, altering its tone and inflection to ensure that I always sounded cheerful and upbeat.†   (source)
  • If your car crashes because of a faulty pedal, you sue the car company, but if you're hacked because of poorly built software?†   (source)
  • Your Imperial Majesty, this is the software for using numerical methods to solve those differential equations.†   (source)
  • The software that powered the simulation, Halliday's new OASIS Reality Engine, also represented a huge technological breakthrough.†   (source)
  • Would the Lakeside computer club, Rona wondered, like to test out the company's software programs on the weekends in exchange for free programming time?†   (source)
  • He started by explaining ways they could charge them, and then began taking out the memory chips from some of their phones to copy the mesh software onto them.†   (source)
  • The relationship between hardware and software is like that between the guqin zither and sheet music.†   (source)
  • The computer science knowledge she had was outdated, and she had to learn the software techniques from scratch.†   (source)
  • System agent software was highly configurable, with hundreds of preprogrammed personalities to choose from.†   (source)
  • Over the course of the chapters ahead, I'm going to introduce you to one kind of outlier after another: to geniuses, business tycoons, rock stars, and software programmers.†   (source)
  • "It's all the little loopholes, all the hooks and ways to track and get inside that are purposely put there by software companies—that's a lot of what hackers exploit."†   (source)
  • She was allowed to view the software source code, for example, but was forbidden from touching the database.†   (source)
  • The virus that had shut down FedEx and UPS had shifted gears to infect almost every other commercial shipping software, grinding the world's supply chain to a halt.†   (source)
  • He probably had certain emotions, like anger and rage, filtered out on his facial-recognition software.†   (source)
  • By the time Gates dropped out of Harvard after his sophomore year to try his hand at his own software company, he'd been programming practically nonstop for seven consecutive years.†   (source)
  • With a typical Fortune 500 company using thousands of individual software programs, the list of vulnerabilities often hovered in the tens of thousands at any given moment.†   (source)
  • Built-in safety software prevented my rig from actually causing me any physical harm, so a simulated gunshot actually felt more like a weak punch.†   (source)
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