Mozilla thankfully has Nokia offering some support for the disconnected with its maps, but most "apps" (and Mozilla's insistence on calling them that is frustrating) will require an internet connection to function.
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It insults our common sense and dignity with excessive paperwork, disconnected visits with too many specialists, and by elaborately hiding from us any clear idea of what we are getting for our money.
In prison the unloved Erich Mielke was said to be cheered up when he was provided with a disconnected red telephone with which he could talk to imaginary agents.
Staff had failed to spot signs of her ruptured womb and tried to resuscitate her with a disconnected oxygen mask.
However, increasing industrialization, economic pressures and new media are leading to a decrease in collective participation with communities becoming disconnected from their roots.
Ours was a land mass of forests and rivers and deserts and plains, a tangled and disconnected tableau that disappeared from view with the blackness of night.
The EU's Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes recently suggested that mobile users who found themselves disconnected for using Skype should "vote with their feet" and change provider.
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However, the concept of a city within a city, one that appears disconnected from its surrounding environment, rests uneasily with some, who see it as the stuff of dystopic science fiction.
But for a historian, there are lots of disconnected facts you have to absorb before you can come up with something new.
Further, the rules governing many of these benefits have become increasingly more complex, with Congress drawing a zigzag line (sometimes a disconnected line) on which side of a potential benefit a taxpayer will fall.
But honestly, these stories are again somewhat disconnected from the other storylines, and they can be entirely skipped with no ill effects.
For example, the SIF grant-making intermediary Venture Philanthropy Partners is reaching thousands of disconnected teens in the lowest income neighborhoods of Washington, DC, with strategies that are resulting in success in high school, college admission, and success in college.
Many CEOs are disconnected from the realities of the front line, where their employees interact with customers every day.
Historically, western homes tended to be more fortress-like with a series of hearth-centric formal spaces like parlors and kitchens, disconnected from the outdoors.
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Humans would not survive in the wild alone -- imagine trying to fend off a wild beast with a stick by yourself -- so they feel a negative signal when they are disconnected from others, Cacioppo said.
This is a common occurrence with people who are so influenced by what others believe they should do in their careers that they become disconnected from themselves.
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