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  • And AgigA Tech makes so-called non-volatile Random Access Memory RAM that helps people store and retrieve rapidly changing data far more quickly than the slow-poke disk drive technology that keeps data centers humming.

    unknown title 2011

  • Flash memory is a form of non-volatile memory that can be electrically erased and rewrite, which means that it does not need power to maintain the data stored in the chip.

    SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 64 2009

  • Maintaining tempers and temperatures in a condition of non-volatile equilibrium is not taught in any chemistry class.

    Jeffrey Shaffer: Guests Are Coming --Time to Bear Up Jeffrey Shaffer 2011

  • Possible restrictions include the inability to save an unencrypted digital program to a hard disk or other non-volatile storage, inability to make secondary copies of recorded content (in order to share or archive), forceful reduction of quality when recording (such as reducing high-definition video to the resolution of standard TVs), and inability to skip over commercials.

    ‘I’ve lost a dog named Justice’ 2009

  • Maintaining tempers and temperatures in a condition of non-volatile equilibrium is not taught in any chemistry class.

    Jeffrey Shaffer: Guests Are Coming --Time to Bear Up Jeffrey Shaffer 2011

  • Designed as a "green" prototype, the cottage is constructed with sustainable lumber, recycled metal roofing, well-insulated walls, non-volatile paint and a gas on-demand water heater.

    Berkeley tests concept of backyard cottage Roger K. Lewis 2011

  • In addition to many low or non-volatile organic compound sealers and paints, the Matson & Associates Eco-Building features passive solar design, tongue and grove maple from a local mill, and concrete slab floor which functions as a temperature regulator and also contains an in-floor radiant heating system.

    Doing Business in a Green Office Building 2008

  • Aerosols, small particles suspended in air with a lifetime of at least minutes, are either emitted as primary aerosols (dust or particle emissions of diesel cars) or formed by the conversion of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, ammonia and organic compounds in atmospheric chemical reactions to sulfates, nitrates and ammonium compounds, and non-volatile organics (secondary aerosol).

    Aerosols 2010

  • Roach said "rebalancing" is needed to create sustainable, relatively non-volatile, economic growth.

    Diane Francis: Geithner doesn't get it again 2009

  • Yeah, the highly politically motivated, numerically preponderant, and non-volatile "18 to 31" demographic.

    Dem Polling Firm: Younger Voters Set To Realign American Politics 2009

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