Упражнение 20. Переведите следующие предложения

1. A high-quality product will satisfy customers by functioning correctly and reliably, meeting needs and expectations, and being delivered on time with courtesy and respect. 2. The Internet is the world’s largest computer network, actually consisting of thousands of interconnected networks, all freely exchanging information. 3. Businesses are learning that by improving the flow of information within their organization, they can become more efficient and effective. 4. Overcoming resistance to change can be the hardest part of bringing information systems into a business. 5. Developing information systems to meet business needs is highly complex and difficult – so much so that it is common for information systems projects to overrun budgets and exceed scheduled completion dates. 6. Providing information to customers can also help companies increase revenues and profits. 7. In the early years of quality control, firms were concerned with meeting design specifications – that is, conformance to standards. 8. TQM involves developing a keen awareness of customer needs, adopting a strategic vision for quality, empowering employees, and rewarding employees and managers for producing high-quality products. 9. The network computer is a cheaper-to-buy and cheaper-to-run version of the personal computer that is used primarily for accessing the Internet and e-mail. 10. Computer systems can be upgraded by installing additional memory, additional processors (such as a math coprocessor), more hard disk storage, a memory card, or other devices. 11. A coprocessor speeds processing by executing specific types of instructions while the CPU works on another processing activity. 12. Secondary storage (permanent storage) devices are used for storing larger amounts of data, instructions, and information more permanently than allowed with main memory. 13. Conceptually, a synergy is the extra effect due to putting two or more features in combination that cannot be predicted by knowing the effects of the two features separately. 14. One of the main deterrents to deploying broadband to hotel guest rooms is the limitation of twisted-pair wiring used in most properties. 15. Depending on how you set your power management modes for Windows, place the laptop computer in hibernate mode by clicking the Start button, clicking Shut Down, and clicking Hibernate; or closing the display. 16. We conclude this chapter by introducing a continuous distribution, the exponential distribution, that has been found to be particularly useful in attacking waiting-line, or queuing, problems. 17. Building programs and applications using object-oriented programming languages is like constructing a building using prefabricated modules or parts. 18. Turning produces external cylindrical surfaces by removing material from a rotating workpiece; boring is this same process applied for finishing internal surfaces of revolution. 19. Since the number of independent control inputs is less than the number of the output variables in the case of flexible-link arms, the control problem is characterized as having reduced control effectiveness. 20. Special heat treatments enable operation at higher temperatures, with successful operation at temperatures as high as 200ºC (390ºF) having been achieved in cases involving low loads.