But then you want to have backward compatibility so you can play your used games forever.
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One neat trick: The right-side passenger door can hinge conventionally or backward, so people getting into the back of the car have easier access.
How can the EU claim to be a political model for the 21st-century superstate when it remains so backward-looking on this key point?
The Fed has it entirely backward and dangerously so.
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But many of these so-called backward sectors are actually servicing the advanced economic sectors and their high-income employees.
So every step backward for CAPTCHA is a step forward for AI.
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Ishmael is, of course, Abraham's illegitimate son, and mother and child were expelled from the family after the birth of Sarah's son, Isaac, so the chronology was backward.
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When the trunk was opened he leapt out and tagged Mr. Tombari, whose wife was so startled she fell backward off the curb and tore a ligament in her knee.
The choice between going backward and moving forward has never been so clear.
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The man falls over backward and his head hits the sidewalk so hard it can be heard on the video.
We are not going to let this country fall backward -- not now, not with so much at stake.
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We'd also caution you that when the tablet is docked inside the keyboard the weight distribution becomes lopsided -- so much so that unless you angle the display just so the whole thing might tumble backward off your lap.
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Last September when Apple ditched its Google Maps iPhone app and replaced it with its amazingly inept home-built Maps app, the move was so roundly denounced as a step backward and a weakening of the iPhone environment that chief executive Tim Cook had to release a public apology.
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Bug-for-bug compatibility is a problem, but breaking backward compatibility would be a much bigger problem, so even as the lowest layers of the operating system are revised and rewritten, the layers that applictions talk to (the application programming interface, or API) are carefully tested to ensure that no changes are visible to the application.
Dumb watches don't need to be charged or wound, so smart replacements start by taking a step backward in that regard.
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Persistence in the direction of house-price changes suggests that expectations are set by looking backward: prices are expected to rise because they have done so in the recent past.
Well the, the, the US Federal Reserve certainly has, is moving aggressively, maybe going for an overkill and the European Central Bank is firmly backward looking and is not moving until inflation has come down so the, there is room to criticise the policy of the European Central Bank.
So some might be forgiven for thinking they were taking a backward step bringing their hour-long show, entitled Chase the Dream, Not The Competition, to Edinburgh's Udderbelly, which holds just 410 people.
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