Over-the-air firmware updates (FOTA) are all well and good, but manufacturers and carriers have been a little slow on the uptake, and even plain ol' PC-delivered upgrades are oddly difficult for the average user to come by.
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Lemann recommends that the first-time bug eater try house crickets, as they have a good, nutty taste even when eaten roasted and plain.
As Nokia has learned in spades, if you fall behind, you lose ground quickly and now even in developing countries, consumers are rejecting its plain vanilla devices.
And according to a story in The New York Times, even plain vanilla has people lining up to try liquid nitrogen ice cream.
But it's hard to match a plain woman, even if she's wealthy and charming.
Even though the sensitive information was hidden in the HTML and not visible in plain view, the Google crawler observed it and recorded the information to put into its search index.
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For those not in the know, the "Fancy Nancy" series of storybooks are about a little girl who likes to say "bonjour" instead of "hi, " is obsessed with extreme dress-up, and attempts to bedazzle the boring, plain world around her in a way that would make even Elton John go, 'Phh ... tacky.
Still, many of us prefer the Walton plain of 1653, before his advancing years brought with them garrulity and increasingly overt piety, even in his own later editions.
The Phone Port adapter plugs into a common electrical wall socket and then connects to any device on your phone line: a plain old phone, a fax machine or even a Caller ID box.
Considering that the entire futuristic Korean story is performed by its characters in plain English, and that we have no reason to believe that these later post-apocalyptic humans would even incorporate English into their own language, it feels less like a world-building method, and more like the writers being unnecessarily clever.
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