These are cold-hearted, weather-beaten, bug-experienced soldiers of the programming world who are hungry for the next opportunity.
After all, they are meant to measure the psychology of the masses and computers are cold, unemotional beasts.
But one year you are up one year you are down, one year you are hot, one year you are cold.
When you strip away motive, all that remains are cold, hard numbers.
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Data fades from memory much more slowly when chips are cold which allowed them to grab the encryption keys and speed up unscrambling the contents of a phone.
It seems that this old 4-inch phone has enough zip to easily run Android 4.0 without Samsung's TouchWiz skin (crust?), showing another reason why many critics are cold to it.
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And if anything good has happened, some golden national triumph, then we can't remember it, because we are cold and wet, and we have been wet for the entire summer so far.
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"I'm always worried about the sitter -- are they cold, are they hot, are they comfortable -- and photography today is so accurate and so good that it is really so much easier just to take photographs and work from that, " he said.
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The plates are icy cold, there are no other diners, and there is no radio music but only the clink of our cutlery as we try to separate parts of the stringy chicken.
We are also cold-eyed realists about the challenges that reaching such a deal are presented -- or present themselves.
Also, acquirers are getting cold feet as the possibility of a coming recession mounts.
My questions started with the basics: Are carriers cold war relics as critics charge?
People are paying cold hard cash on the spot to have their basements drained.
And then there are some cold cases that, once reexamined, turn out not to be murders at all.
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But a different interpretation may be that voters are going cold on the affable, yet less than electrifying, Mr Prodi.
Their formats are as cold and dry as the facts you input.
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In Russia, however, reactions to Obama's election victory have been muted at a time when relations between the two countries are near Cold War levels.
But even in summer, at an altitude of more than 3, 000 metres, the winds are fierce and frequent, the weather is changeable, and the nights are bitterly cold.
This is a passion project, and Bohemia are better positioned than many to support it, but there are some cold realities around returns on investment which will at some point kick in.
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One encouraging sign is NFIP recently won approval to raise premiums 25 percent a year over the next five years, but rising costs for consumers are certainly cold comfort, and critics say far more still needs to be done.
Just as they are being justified by the Cold War's end, they are surely shaping the character of the post-Cold War strategic environment.
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