Sentence examples for commodity tools from inspiring English sources

Before you can even begin thinking about what the NSA is capable of, you need to understand that a group of amateurs, working with commodity tools, many of them a continent away, can locate a nameless woman from a private security video and produce positive identification, and they can do it in their spare time, in a few hours, for fun.

Given its large data-center profile, the company has the footprint to offer commodity tools at basement prices.

The semantic web is now reaching the high street and powerful commodity tools can be used for managing distributed linked data.

In Rwanda, technology empowers farmers by connecting them with valuable commodity tools.

I think we're starting to go back to the idea of software as an essential commodity tool to accomplish something else.

In addition, the availability of open-source parallel and distributed computing environments like Apache Hadoop (hadoop.apache.org) which can run on commodity computers make tools that can exploit parallel computation, like LDALR, very practical solutions to solving complex problems.

"The use of oil, gas, and other commodities as political tools and strategic assets," Bremmer writes, "can be an essential part of state capitalism," and he notes that three-quarters of the world's oil reserves are owned by national oil companies.

Kudlow is also eloquent on why gold and commodity indexes are vital tools for sound money.

Crucially, the assembly was created using free or open-source bioinformatics tools, on commodity computing hardware (16 cores; 64Gb RAM) using only a moderate amount of data.

But there is a form of money that's not a commodity and not a tool for the rich.

But there's a big difference between the micro-improvements of trainer design (which are now chiefly a tool of commodity fetishism) and the design of prosthetic limbs that define whether you feel partially or fully abled.