Sadly for the hard core gold bugs, there will never be a new gold standard.
He's beefed up the NFL's social media presence and now has 3.5 million Facebook friends and 2.1 million Twitter followers, helping turn off-season events that were once only for the hard core--like the draft combine and the draft itself--into huge spectacles.
Or online-shopping sites with real-time inventory synchronization, or real-time banking and investment systems, or thousands of other examples of the new face of the new data warehouse: always on, open to as many as possible, blindingly fast, and increasingly designed for the consumer as much as for the hard-core data junkie.
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Other exotic elements can be added for the more hard-core spa enthusiast.
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Gatorade is the drink of choice for hard-core athletes, both professional and week-end variety, because it solves the hydration problem.
"I think it's a correct call for Kiri to finger the hard-core of unemployed and that's a clarion call to politicians, to policymakers to come up with some solutions to that problem to get people off welfare dependency, " he said.
Yes, some things have been lost in the shuffle of modernization it's hard not to long for the Kenmore Square of yore, when seminal music venue the Rathskeller, a mecca for Boston's hard-core scene, and Deli Haus, a late-night favorite for Guinness floats and potato pancakes, were the biggest draws.
While Apple claims the device gets up to five hours of battery life--just about enough for a cross-country flight, provided you're not delayed--the inability to replace the battery on the go could be a problem for hard-core road warriors, who pop batteries into their machines the way a long-distance trucker gobbles amphetamines.
In the interview, Ghazi denied government allegations that he was holding some of the young students as hostages and also rejected that he was only acting as a front man for hard-core militants within the mosque.
The Taliban are hard-core militants who have no respect for either the religion of Islam or humanity.
The developer, which most recently worked on the multiplayer gameplay for "Tomb Raider, " promises this game will have mainstream appeal while offering new challenges for hard-core fans of the franchise.
Dunaway, known for her sunny demeanor, had the unenviable task of serving as an apologist for the casual gaming-oriented Wii console to hard-core gamers.
The Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO) is for hard-core troublemakers who also dabble in outright crime.
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Hard-core Islamists despise Ataturk for abolishing the caliphate in 1924 and expunging piety from the public space.
The wide availability of broadband has clearly made it easier for the South Korean firms to attract more than just hard-core gamers.
The Microsoft strategy sounds more like a niche strategy for hard-core gamers, in which case it's investment in a console strategy should be smaller and more targeted.
Further, as welcome as the declines in mainstream Muslim opinion may be, there still remains a solid, hard-core base of support for al Qaeda that the movement still effectively plays to.
In assessing the value of a senior health-service manager or council chief, for example, the line between core competence and bonus-worthy brilliance might be hard to define.
It turns out that our three major user groups (families with young kids, retired couples, and hard-core outdoors enthusiasts) all had a strong affinity for the Facebook model.
Hard-core users, on the other hand, may be interested in Plus for the higher quality and file conversion capabilities.
The newest iPhone from Apple boasts cool new features and hard core Apple enthusiasts lined up for days to get one.
In order to succeed in Asia, and in the global business, Hanson believe game companies will need to embrace the cross-platform model to deliver games for all levels of gamers, from newbies to hard-core users playing more than 22 hours per week.
In the hard-core rap community hip-hop artists who move into movies are routinely berated for losing their edge.
He acknowledged that Nintendo is making a concerted effort to attract fans of hard-core games, and to generally offer more mature titles for its console than in the past.
The rest are licensed and adapted for the local market from Chinese and Korean gaming companies--with some misses, such as introducing hard-core, martial arts features to Vietnam's less advanced gaming market.
"I think people are going to look back at this Paralympic Games and for the first time really, truly believe that Paralympic sport is not just inspirational, it's hard-core sport, " said Pistorius.
Many have "jumped into the sea" (xiahai) and taken more financially rewarding jobs outside teaching, leaving only a hard core of the most dedicated - backed by the least able - to educate China for the next millennium.
The protest -- which started with several thousand people but dwindled to a hard core of several hundred as trouble broke out -- was intended to show support and solidarity for the people of Reyhanli in the wake of the deadly bombings.
So far as we can tell, the memory and hard drive stay pretty consistent as you move up in configurations, though you can opt for a Core i5 or i7 CPU. The highest-end confg also steps up from integrated graphics to a 2GB NVIDIA GeForce GT630M GPU. Curious?
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