Bruce Perens categorised software (or technology in general) into differentiating, and non differentiating.

It is now known that the feeder cells provide leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) and serum provides bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) that are necessary to prevent ES cells from differentiating.

On the other hand there exist non differentiating technologies

Perhaps 90 of the software in any business is non differentiating.

Differentiating technology is what makes your business more desirable to your customer than your competitor's business.

Much of it is referred to as infrastructure, the base upon which differentiating technology is built.

It wouldn't hurt your business for your competitor to understand how every bit of your non differentiating software works.

Differentiating Equation (3) and use of the ideal gas law, formula_22, yields formula_23Equation (4) is often expressed as formula_24because formula_25.

From a research perspective, scientists began differentiating alcohol consumption among the various classes of beverages wine, beer, and spirits.

It takes a radiologist years of specialty training to become expert in differentiating the normal anatomic detail from the worrisome finding.

Factor V (pronounced factor five) is a protein of the coagulation system, rarely referred to as proaccelerin or labile factor.

Any software that provides differentiating value to a non software company is built on top of one or more of those infrastructure components.

China s Xi Factor

The Competition Factor

The Fear Factor

The Phelps Factor

Total smoothing power if the Detail Factor sets the relative smoothing and the Anisotropy Factor the direction, the Smoothing Factor sets the overall effect.

The new notion, set out in the report, of differentiating between the reality and the perception of security for the minorities can be misleading.

Ms. Telalian (Greece) said that Greek laws were prevented by the Constitution from differentiating between citizens and non nationals in the exercise of rights.

The membership factor dominates, at 75 per cent the population factor increases to 10 per cent, and the contribution factor decreases to 15 per cent.

Embryonic stem cells have occupied center stage, chiefly because of their pluripotency that is their ease in differentiating into a variety of different cell types.

Latin America s Military Factor

The Palin Non Factor

The Steve Jobs Factor

Banking Reform s Fear Factor

That factor is time.

Finally, variant 5w places the dominant membership factor at 75 per cent, the population factor at 10 per cent and the contribution factor at 15 per cent.

(g) Any other relevant factor.

The Sarkozy factor is fundamental.

The Anarchy Factor in Syria

Global Markets u0027 Time Factor

Race, too, is a factor.

Vacancy factor (20 per cent)

Another factor is psychological damage.

However, the contribution factor is allotted the most weight, 70 per cent, the population factor stands at 5 per cent, and the membership factor is reduced to 25 per cent.