But from sad experience, I learned not to try this in a round that meant anything.
In terms of sophistication, this is about the same as Pong, from the early days of videogames, but Natal's experience of interactivity more than makes up for this "early days" feel.
But this latest bad experience changed my thought process from Apple tablets to what's wrong with the whole PC landscape and today's operating systems.
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But the question moving forward is whether Facebook will have learned from this experience and start to manage its hype and greed to protect its brand.
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But the lesson from recent experience in America and Britain seems to be this: if you want to get the better of your unions, it helps to be on your knees from the start.
It's always tricky to extrapolate seats from polls, but people with a lot more experience than me say this is definitely overall majority territory and it's hard to disagree.
Much of this thinking is drawn from the British experience in Malaya, but conditions today are vastly different.
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You can't get a truly hot-rodded box from this outfit, but you can get a special Doom 3 PC to fully experience the hit game.
Don't worry, we'll keep you apprised of the highlights from this year's show, but for the full in-your-face Computex experience, chinese.engadget.com is the place to be.
We know you can't experience it from wherever you're tuning in, but take our word that this is some seriously impressive stuff -- even if other companies have achieved similar 2D to 3D conversion magic within TVs before.
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Just viewing the game from multiple viewpoints could make for a fairly dry reading experience, but Kettmann manages to pull this off in fine fashion by imparting a bit of history to the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry, and by giving the reader a chance to know some of the subjects as real people.
Mr Lansley said he couldn't speak from personal experience of Mr Roddick but thanks to his wife he did have "some knowledge of this matter".
Compare this to a restaurant startup, say from a talented chef who knows her food but has only limited business experience.
This offers tremendous gains in convenience, but something crucial is lost when you remove the human element from the shopping experience.
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Facebook does have a privacy safeguard in place in that you have to approve the content before it shows up on your profile page, but this is yet another step away from being a closed social network where your choices about who you friend determine your experience there.
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