Ironworkers, Taylor thought, were as dumb as dray horses, and ought to be dealt with accordingly.
The idea is to have lots of access points but make the access nodes as dumb as possible and move all processing activity to a central device.
Perhaps the mentality required to become a pro athlete is accompanied by a sense of invulnerability, or maybe those players are just as dumb as the 1.4 million Americans arrested for the crime in 2010.
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Proving once again that technology is getting more sophisticated while criminals remain as dumb as ever is a brazen woman who has robbed four Wachovia branches in Northern Virginia since October 12, each time entering the banks unmasked and chatting on her cellphone the entire time.
Could something as dumb and as mechanical as a robotic test tube compete with old-fashioned ingenuity?
But dividing workers into two tiers, those whom management pampers and those it treats as dumb labour, is another matter.
Conversations are a prototypical way of triggering the crossfire of ideas, but an exchange will not bear fruit if people fear that their ideas will be declared dead on arrival, swept aside as wild, or denounced as dumb.
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So they always begged me not to share their names publicly but wanted to support my efforts and supplied me with lots of inside stories of bureaucracy and what they saw as dumb decisions which they wanted me to bring to light.
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But elsewhere in the world, Elop said his cheapest device would appeal as either a failsafe that users can turn to when their smarter handsets are struck dumb by power outage or as a novelty stand-in for costlier, bigger devices.
Word on the street is that as the Dumb Money began plowing into gold this winter, the Crazy Money came hard into silver.
Nordby immediately set his sights on The Onion -- whose products include a fake atlas, Our Dumb World -- as a potential partner.
Who knew that Benioff, behind all his disparagements of SAP as being dumb and slow-moving and destined for the tar pits, would unveil such latent and profound respect?
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The twins deny a rumour that Brittany has become engaged, describing it as a "dumb joke".
But dumb meat cleaver cuts such as the looming sequestration could push our economy back into recession.
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The growth of smartphones as they overtake dumb phones is still going strong, and the iPhone only has a small share.
While it is truly a dumb idea to use credit cards as a source of start-up funding, given the ridiculously high interest rates the credit card companies charge, people still do it.
You can only trim shots and extract stills from that latter mode, but paired with the newer generation EasyShare functionality that lets you pre-assign photos and videos for upload to YouTube and Facebook, among other services, you can almost completely avoid using your computer as anything but a dumb pipe to the internet.
The corporations insist that US students are now too dumb for STEM, but there are as many good students as ever.
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"This idea joins the Gremlin as an all-time dumb idea, " he said.
It's dumb to think of the American consciousness as a finite commodity, where -- in order for one group to earn recognition -- another has to head to the back of the line.
They'd operate as the sum of many independent, relatively dumb processes--just like the autonomic functions of the human central nervous system, from which they take their name.
"Lost" papers, though, have a way of turning up, either as a result of assiduous detective work or pure dumb luck.
Winkler was ridiculed for his dyslexia as a child -- his parents called him Dumb Dog -- so it's no surprise that he's become an activist for others with dyslexia.
That means I can keep up with Facebook on the top half of the screen, as I send email from the bottom half about all the dumb things my friends are saying on Facebook.
The building efficiency revolution emerges now from the inter-related confluence of the collapsed cost of microprocessors, enabling embedded intelligence in offerings as simple as light bulbs (soon), as well as the development of standards and interfaces for the formerly "dumb" hardware, and the ubiquity of the Internet.
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