While the idea of stringing Ethernet cables from our gas line sounds like something we wouldn't want to attempt on our own, the concept doesn't sound all that far-fetched after all.
Too often, says Paul Kocourek, a Booz Allen senior vice president, the concept isn't workable.
To Sean Trende, the senior elections analyst at RealClearPolitics, the concept doesn't violate democratic principles, but he called it a bad idea.
The concept isn't new, but Dr. Topol does an admirable job of laying out the ways in which it will help transform medical practice.
"We, the taxpayers appear to be taking all the risk on a project which the business behind the concept can't even begin to fund itself, " it said.
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Handel himself was receptive to singers and instrumentalists adding their own ornamentation and improvisation, and Mozart offered his own updated version of "Messiah, " so this concept didn't seem completely off the wall to me.
That concept isn't really compelling to the masses until one focuses on the "knee" of this exponential curve -- the point where the perpetual doubling of technological growth skyrockets and negates the linear models of progress that people like economists have relied on for so long.
"Reserves are a concept that doesn't exist in any other business, " he says.
Though most concept cars don't make it to reality, certain design aspects will often work their way into real models.
It was a concept that didn't totally work -- at least not with that OS -- and indeed, Lenovo's long since discontinued it.
Both devices bear a kind of child-like, simplistic look, which actually makes us wonder if these aren't some concept pieces geared toward the youth market.
Wong patented the concept but couldn't get venture capitalists interested.
The proof-of-concept computer won't give silicon circuits any threat when it's running at just 0.15Hz and takes up as much space as a mini fridge, but the hope is to dramatically speed up and shrink down future iterations to where there are advanced computers that occupy the same size as real muscles.
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Some of the spellers liked it, some didn't, and many were in-between, praising the concept but wondering why it wasn't announced at the beginning of the school year instead of seven weeks before the national bee.
Some of the spellers liked the change, some didn't, and many were in-between, praising the concept but wondering why it wasn't announced at the beginning of the school year instead of seven weeks before the national bee.
"A whole bunch of people jumped on the NC concept and it didn't work, " Cooper said.
"Dogs don't have a concept of identity the way we do, " says certified New York dog trainer Renee Payne.
If a question loomed over bike share on Sunday in New York, it wasn't whether the concept would be embraced by biking enthusiasts.
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In it, her father concluded that the concept of happiness can't apply to God and that, as long as pain and death are in the world, it can't apply to humans either.
But Grassley, the top Republican on the Finance Committee and the man Democrats call the key to any bipartisan compromise, says he won't accept the concept of health insurance co-ops if it involves too much government interference.
The interdependencies are many--from the fact that a student can't study one concept in one grade unless he or she mastered another one earlier to the mandates from the district and state that dictate how a teacher must teach.
Murtha now wants to axe big parts of military IO, even though he doesn't really understand the concept himself.
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It doesn't hurt that the concept also combines two of our greatest loves here at Engadget: toys and Arduino.
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Connecting home appliances to the internet isn't exactly a new concept.
Studio execs "didn't even understand the concept of gaming, " she says.
Mr. Murphy added that when he makes music, he tends to use a mood board of photographs, so the concept of the project isn't that foreign to him.
Of course, the computer system UPS uses to track this information and other data to optimize driver routes isn't cheap, but the concept is as basic as it gets: Using less fuel saves the company money while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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