Gone are the days when shop assistants might hover over a customer's shoulder to check that expensive volumes were not just being read and then put back on the shelf.
It would take a monumental effort to get me truly excited to play more of a game that I put back on my shelf a year ago, which is what Bethesda is trying to do by releasing Dragonborn.
Do we see ourselves as impoverished because we have some cans back home on the shelf?
It can do this by having built a suite of off-the-shelf tools and back-end structures that, for most of its new companies at least, it can deploy in a pick-and-mix way.
On the back end, one server shelf can serve up to 15 players an HD (read: 720p) feed simultaneously, and graphical artefacting is kept to a minimum because it streams over the operator's managed network.
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But while Golden Abyss had me locked into the world of the small screen in my hands Burning Skies had me casting my eyes back to the consoles on my shelf, wondering what might be going on over there.
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I'll tell you what I think that's a sign of a candidate who's deeply rattled as he has every right to be, I mean I'm sorry but you know policies, you can't just pull them off, off the shelf like library books and put them back a couple of weeks later.
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The issue is that Jones-Drew, who is only 27-years-old, has been informed about the short shelf life of an NFL player (particularly a running back), may be entering the best years of his career (from a production standpoint), and wants to take advantage of his limited opportunity to capitalize on his proven ability to rack up rushing yards (he had 1, 606 yards rushing in 2011).
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In the deep water, large swaths of Wilcox sediment slumped over the side of the continental shelf and were swallowed by a layer of salt that dates back to when the American continents pulled away from Europe and Africa.
The seemingly-opportunistic bids turned out to be an ill-timed move to gain top-shelf I-banking status, as the sector never got its footing back after the financial crisis that liquidated Lehman.
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