Families feel helpless, they feel like failures, they think, 'How can we fix it when that person is choosing to do it'?
Further, the reduced accessibility can make it more difficult to fix outages when they do occur, often prolonging their duration.
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Programmable logic has come a long way from the days when it was a quick fix to a money-no-object problem.
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The seeds must be evenly spread out to cover the cancer fully, but at first doctors had no way of knowing whether they had all the seeds in the right place until afterward, when it was harder to fix mistakes.
"I was also utterly angry that we had to go through all of this when it was such a simple fix, " Reese says.
While the polymer's most obvious use would be for mobile devices whose entire surface areas can survive the keys in our pockets, Stanford also imagines wires that fix themselves and prosthetic limbs whose skin detects when it's bent out of shape.
It's gonna happen wrong, and the guy's gonna be late because his dog got run over, and he's going to fix the wrong pipe, and when he takes it apart he's gonna say, 'Oops, the whole plumbing system's gonna have to go and dah dah dah and etc. etc. etc.
" When asked why he didn't fix it, he replied, "The next day someone will fix it back.
When the core business goes wrong, companies fix it from within or lose customers and credibility.
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Moore allowed all of his actors to work together when bringing the voices of Ralph, Fix-It Felix, Jr.
It was one thing when our favorite HTPC app didn't get a single enhancement, but another when it didn't receive a single bug fix.
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When asked how long it might take the company to fix the problem, Marquard said it is difficult to provide a specific timeline.
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The business case for this technology: When something goes wrong, the person who knows best how to fix it is probably thousands of miles away.
Founding narratives often include these revelatory moments, when a founder is confronted with some glaring inefficiency and concocts an idea to fix it.
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It may instead have made people reckless, thinking that hospitals and doctors would fix them when they broke down.
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Like any good hacker, Richardson decided to come up with a fix: He developed a do-it-yourself TV remote control that will automatically mute the television when certain celebrity names are mentioned.
As with a faulty assembly line, when defects go unspotted until the end of the process it is usually too late to fix them.
Because what happens when you just allow the market to dictate is it becomes an after-the-fact fix.
There's no word yet on when it will be fully restored, but a message there says engineers are working on a fix.
The Republicans achieved a permanent fix to the Alternative Minimum Tax, something they were afraid to do when they were in the majority because it reduces projected revenues.
We'd like to see a setting to disable face detection (it's always on) and a fix for the gallery, which is stuck in landscape when accessed from within the shooter.
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While this new understanding takes away the illusory comfort of dramatic quick-fix diet-solutions because we now know it is an effort doomed to fail, we gain the comfort reality brings when reality offers viable alternatives.
"I think the acknowledgment of the imperfection when there clearly is an imperfection in a product or a brand, and showing the desire to fix it, actually becomes the second-best thing to perfection, " said Josh Rogers, creative director of London-based independent communications company Imagination.
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