They frequently harass their victims by contacting their friends, colleagues, online contacts, etc., to either defame them or to gain pertinent information about their personal and professional lives.
This officer's personality allowed him to take provocation and insults without feeling it personally and to therefore follow his training in the situation.
Once computers at the new pharmacy electronically receive medication orders from UCSF physicians and pharmacists, the robotics pick, package, and dispense individual doses of pills.
As far as Microsoft was concerned, the robotics industry-like the PC industry before it-would not take off until most of the basic standards and tools for developing applications were in place.