Home-based franchises are becoming popular as they are considered to be an easy way to start a business as they may provide a low barrier for entry into entrepreneurship.

* Caring for your diamond Home-based methods for cleaning and preserving diamonds.

Home-based manufacturing across the United States and Europe employed children in tedious work.

Home-based manufacturing operations were active year round.

Home-based operations and child labour in Australia, Britain, Austria and other parts of the world was common.

Home-based manufacturing started to emerge and the overproduction was commercialized.

Home-based manufacturing and Caxias do Sul evolved from having small home-based workshops to today's big factories, which are known internationally.

Home-based prostitution occurs in at least 17 municipalities and escort agencies exist in at least 28 municipalities.

Home-based cleaning methods include immersing the diamond in ammonia-based or ethyl alcohol-based solutions, or even a solution of mild grease dissolving detergent and warm water.

In the 1997 federal election, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's Liberals endured a bitter defeat to the PCs and NDP in many ridings as a result of unpopular cuts to unemployment benefits for seasonal workers, as well as closures of several Canadian Forces Bases, the refusal to honour a promise to rescind the Goods and Services Tax, cutbacks to provincial equalization payments, health care, post-secondary education and regional transportation infrastructure such as airports, fishing harbours, seaports, and railways.

Most Compaq products have been re-branded with the HP nameplate, such as the company's market leading ProLiant server line, while the Compaq brand remains on only some consumer-oriented and budget products, notably Compaq Presario PCs.

The game's extensive rules – which cover diverse subjects such as social interactions, magic use, combat, and the effect of the environment on PCs – help the DM to make these decisions.

The 80386 could correctly execute most code intended for earlier 16-bit x86 processors such as the 8088 and 80286 that were ubiquitous in early PCs.

Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM and Quake engine ports are ubiquitous to nearly all platforms capable of running games, such as hand-held PCs, iPods, the PSP, the Nintendo DS and more.

Typical PCI cards used in PCs include: network cards, sound cards, modems, extra ports such as USB or serial, TV tuner cards and disk controllers.

This left the PCs in disarray and scrambling to understand how to make toryism relevant in provinces such as Quebec, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia that had never had a strong tory tradition and political culture.

Fewer postmarks are used now than previously, with the advent of meter labels, which indicate the precise date and time of acceptance at the post office, some types of computer vended postage, and computerized postage that people can print from their own PCs ( called PC Postage in the United States, these services were offered by such companies as Stamps. com and Neopost, Inc .).

A system was then designed to enable common computing devices, such as server PCs, to make routing decisions.

All in one Mac desktops such as the 21. 5 inch iMac start at US $ 1, 199 and all in one PCs utilizing GNU / Linux start as low as US $ 239.

Online video material is encoded by a variety of codecs, and this has led to the availability of codec packs-a pre-assembled set of commonly used codecs combined with an installer available as a software package for PCs, such as K-Lite Codec Pack.

Glyphs "•", "◦" and their reversed variants "◘", "◙" became available in text mode since early IBM PCs with MDA – CGA – EGA graphic adapters, because built-in screen fonts contained such forms at code points 7 – 10.

The affordability of dial-up Internet ( and low-end PCs such as netbooks ) makes this one viable option for social networking in a recessionary economy.

The high expense usually came from using costlier components that ran faster than those found at the local computer store, as well as the inclusion of features not found in PCs of the time, such as high-speed networking and sophisticated graphics.

Even after PCs broke the 640 KB limit with the 80286, special programming techniques were required to address significant amounts of memory until the 80386, as opposed to other 32-bit processors such as SPARC which provided straightforward access to nearly their entire 4 GB memory address range.

Many of the components used in lower-end " workstations " are now the same as those used in the consumer market, and the price differential between the lower end workstation and consumer PCs can be narrower than it once was ( and in certain cases in the high-end consumer market, such as the " enthusiast " game market, it can be difficult to tell what qualifies as a " desktop PC " and a " workstation ").

Microsoft-compliant Pocket PCs can be used with many add-ons such as GPS receivers, barcode readers, RFID readers, and cameras.

Major companies such as Viewsonic and Toshiba stopped producing new Pocket PCs.

VoIP switches may run on commodity hardware, such as PCs or Linux systems.

Originally these were from specialist high-end computer manufacturers such as Concurrent, Encore, Harris, IBM, etc., but with the increasing power of the PC, arrays of high-end PCs are now also used as the primary computing medium in flight simulators.

Each has been released across a variety of gaming platforms, such as the Wii, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, personal computers ( PCs ), and mobile devices.

This high-speed wireless network, capable of a transfer rate of up to 11 megabits per second, enables NTU staff and students equipped with mobile devices such as notebooks, PCs and PDAs to access all networked services from practically anywhere on the campus without the need of a hardwired network connection.

Dell's price advantage was tied to its ultra-lean manufacturing for desktop PCs, however this became less important as the market shifted to laptops, and as rivals such as Hewlett-Packard and Acer made their PC operations more efficient.

In the late 2000s to early 2010s, a number of smartphone and portable media player platforms were provided with installable software applications which allow for the remote controlling of media centers and media players on home theater PCs and general-purpose personal computers over Wi-Fi, such as iTunes Remote on iOS.

TRS-DOS should not be confused with Tandy DOS a version of MS-DOS licensed from Microsoft for Tandy's x86 line of personal computers ( PCs ).

Although the initial PC ports would only run on Tandy's PCs ( such as the Tandy 1000 ), the introduction of the true PC-compatible computers such as the Tandy 3000 resulted in the software later being made available for other compatibles.

This was mainly due to the use of the function keys-as most non-Tandy PCs either did not come with an F12 button or with one that did not act in the same way as a Tandy F12 function key.

A year later, Sierra released versions for the Tandy 1000 and standard PCs, which at last made the game a success.

It is based on Electronic Arts ' Interchange File Format, introduced in 1985 on the Amiga 1000, the only difference being that multi-byte integers are in little-endian format, native to the 80x86 processor series used in IBM PCs, rather than the big-endian format native to the 68k processor series used in Amiga and Apple Macintosh computers, where IFF files were heavily used.

Firstly, prices of PCs quickly fell below $ 1000, making the competition very hard.

The " botnet " of infected computers included PCs inside more than half of the Fortune 1000 companies and more than 40 major banks, according to investigators.

PCs had improved graphics by this time, due to VGA video cards, and the protected / enhanced mode allowed Windows applications to use more memory in a more painless manner than their DOS counterparts could.

Because spreadsheets use large amounts of memory, 123 spurred the drive for greater RAM capacities in PCs and especially the event of " expanded memory " which allowed greater than 640k to be accessed.

MultiMate's greatest advantage — and its mandate from Connecticut Mutual — was that it allowed companies to easily replace dedicated Wang Word Processor workstations with PCs, with an order of magnitude reduction in cost.

The first manufacturer of a truecolor graphic card for PCs ( the TARGA ) was Truevision in 1987, but it was not until the arrival of the Video Graphics Array ( VGA ) in 1987 that RGB became popular, mainly due to the analog signals in the connection between the adapter and the monitor which allowed a very wide range of RGB colors.

Worldview allowed document sets created with Interleaf's technical publishing tools to be viewed on workstations, Macintoshes, and PCs, retaining page fidelity, and including hyperlinks among the pages.

These rendering compromises allowed the game to be played on most PCs contemporary with it, while better rendering techniques would have prevented it from being run on any but the most powerful gaming PCs in 1994.

Spending discipline and cuts in " low priority areas " allowed government spending to be constrained with the exception of health care, where government spending rose each year the PCs were in office ( from $ 17. 6B in 1994 / 95 to $ 27. 6B in 2003 / 04 ).

EMS was a specification available on all PCs, including the Intel 8086 and Intel 8088 which allowed add-on hardware to page small chunks of memory in and out of the " real mode " addressing space.

When the IBM PC emerged as the platform of choice for word processing, WordMARC allowed users to easily move documents from a minicomputer ( where they could be easily shared ) to PCs.

This coupled with a smart and aggressive engineering team allowed Apricot to be the first company in the world with several technical innovations including the first commercial shipment of an all-in-one system with a 3. 5-inch floppy drive ( ahead of Apple ), while in the early 1990s they manufactured one of the world ’ s most secure x86-based PCs, sold exclusively to the UK government.

In 1991 proprietary software was released for IBM PCs that allowed computer users to access the network.

Centram Systems product, called TOPS (" Transcendental Operating System "), allowed transparent file sharing among Macs, PCs, and Unix machines, using the AppleTalk protocol.

Later, Creative began creating customized PCs adapted for the Chinese language, including enhanced audio capabilities that allowed the devices to produce speech and melodies.

:* New features in the Remote Web Workplace, such as the ability to define default and allowed PCs for each user