The thing you have to remember is that the prior art that belonged to Samsung, or belonged to somebody else that they had the ability of using, they had not used for quite some time.
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Because of the spectacular ability of the internet to record the actions of everyone using it, when each of the aforementioned disciplines is applied to the internet, measurement is easier than it has ever been.
You gather up the usual suspects to see who is responsible for your failure: lack of innate ability, lack of effort, poor preparation, using the wrong strategy, bad luck, etc.
Deflation robs a central bank of its ability to stimulate spending using negative real interest rates.
The goal for many amputees is no longer to reach a "natural" level of ability but to exceed it, using whatever cutting-edge technology is available.
Resource pooling is the ability of a cloud to serve multiple customers using a multi-tenant model with different physical and virtual resources dynamically assigned and reassigned according to demand.
University of Maryland biologist Daphne De Freitas Soares and biology lecturer Hilary S. Bierman discovered the guppies' ability while using high-speed videography and digital imaging to analyze the jumping behavior of nine guppies from a wild Trinidadian species, Poecilia reticulata, related to the familiar pet-shop fish.
It will soon add the ability to make two versions of the same slide shows using different themes.
The team led by Dan Gibson and Craig Venter have exploited the ability of yeast to join together small pieces of DNA using enzymes.
That success has reflected the ability of India's companies to develop cheap software using Indian designers at home, where wages are far lower than in the U.S. But that makes it necessary, the industry says, to bring the Indian designers and experts "on site" to the U.S. where they are putting the systems into place.
Banks may be stripped of their proprietary trading activities (that is, the ability of traders to make large speculative bets on financial markets using their bank's money, rather than their clients).
"Mustang is an exciting next addition to the AppLink portfolio, giving Ford the ability to offer more of our customers a smarter solution to using apps while in the car, " said Doug VanDagens, director of Ford Connected Services.
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The sophisticated analysis comes into play when the pillow compares the previous night's movements to your regular sleep patterns (using its impressive ability to identify the bigger of two numbers), and if you had a more restless night than usual, it helpfully suggests that you try to squeeze in a nap or two during the day.
Other slick features include the ability to send an address to the device from a home PC using the "Send2Dash" feature and, of interest to a more technically adept crowd, the ability to subscribe to RSS feeds of locations.
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One major component of data science is the ability to extract insight from data using tools from math, statistics and computer science.
He sees a big future for what he called "virtual close" -- the ability of companies to assess their own financial health on a daily basis using Web-based applications.
It also noted that calls made between two devices using its software would be encrypted - limiting the ability of anyone to make sense of the data even if they could listen in.
To test whether aging reduces the ability of pedestrians to multitask, Neider and his colleagues created a simulated crosswalk using a self-powered treadmill, video screens depicting a busy street, and special goggles that create the illusion of virtual reality.
You also have the ability to bounce on pads using the rear touch-pad, take photos of the environment and walking around walls using conveniently positioned paper-glue.
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With HTC Connect, consumers can turn their phones into never-ending sources of entertainment, with the ability to control music playback and volume easily while simultaneously using the device for other functions, from making and receiving calls and taking pictures to downloading the latest apps and surfing the Web.
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Your success using social media has a direct correlation to your ability to manage the smallest of tiniest of nuanced details.
In theory, media companies that are already using the Flash format for their millions of video files will welcome the ability to put them directly onto users' hard drives.
Of course, users who have native Internet connectivity using IPv6 will still need the ability to access resources that today only support IPv4.
While many animals communicate using their sense of smell, it has long been assumed that humans lack this ability because we do not have the olfactory sensitivity of dogs for example.
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Worse, in the networked economy that we live in, a substantial part of a product's value derives from compatibility--the ability to seamlessly exchange data with others using the same system.
But Mr Clark, a legend in Silicon Valley for his ability to spot trends in emerging technology, maintains that research using stem cells is vital to the future of medicine.
That said, Mr Cable is urging employees of large companies to request that their businesses consult them on executive pay, by using the provisions of the 2004 Information and Consultation of Employees Regulations (apparently this gives employees the ability to force businesses to seek their views).
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