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Powerful applications require lots of Random Access Memory (RAM). Minimum requirements for most operating systems plus applications are at least 16 megabytes of RAM. Presumably, a dumb computer on a network using modularized applications will mean the demise of RAM-hungry applications. Assuming this is true and that a dumb PC only requires about 8 megabytes of RAM, this is still about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: tecTALK | 12/13/1995 | See Source »

...widely in the three NAFTA countries. Truckers in the U.S. are limited to 10 hours of driving time each day; Canada has a limit of 13; Mexico has no limit. Canada and the U.S. require front brakes, while Mexico does not. The U.S. is the only one that requires random drug testing. Even if uniform rules are agreed on, enforcement will remain a problem. As part of its safety program, the Texas department of public safety conducts periodic raids on the customs yard at Laredo, Higgerson says. But Richard Sparks, a former customs agent, recalls that whenever a raid begins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURNING UP THE ROAD | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

...regained custody of her two older children; she seemed to have effected a miraculous recovery. In December 1990 social workers signed an affidavit stating that she had given up drugs, married a man named Carlos Lopez and settled at a permanent address. "Both [Lopezes] are willing to go for random drug tests," the affidavit read. "They never miss appointments with the agency, and they are always on time. Mr. Lopez is supportive...He appears to be gentle and understanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELISA IZQUIERDO: ABANDONED TO HER FATE | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

...termed the crime "somewhat random and sporadic...

Author: By Justin D. Lerer, | Title: Cops Nab Armed Robbery Suspect | 12/9/1995 | See Source »

...limited) contacts in the final club world are generally good guys. The clubs seem to have roughly the same jerk/student ratio of any random sampling of Harvard undergrads. However, like any other college fraternity, the clubs build pride in membership by limiting selection and humiliating inductees...

Author: By Steven A. Engel, | Title: Members Only, In Drag | 12/6/1995 | See Source »

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