Just over a year ago, my wife wrote a small check for an end-of-the-year school function of some sort.
As computers hollow out, value migrates to the search and sort function.
The photos at the top of each summary add colour, but they suggest an obligation to aesthetics more than the fulfilment of any sort of function.
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Land-based wind turbines are reasonably cheap but function best in the sort of windswept beauty spots that locals like to keep unblemished, so many have stalled in the planning process.
This includes a completely different propulsion system, larger solar panels, and also the orbital module (which is designed to function on its own, as a sort of space station, for six to eight months).
To be sure, innovation has thrived in these settings, but it has been the sort of process improvement innovation that makes existing industries function better rather than the type that creates new markets, caters to new consumers, or pioneers new business models.
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With new chip-based software, Nortel enables a cheaper semiconductor device to perform the function of a small Internet router, supplanting costly hardware of the sort Cisco sells.
But in the evolution of the business of what they do, which is keeping State Department people alive, is gone some sort of the Wild West to sort of the more organized - still chaotic, but more organized function.
Indeed, the report is seen by some as a sort of mini-manifesto on transport for Mr Brown, serving the same function that the Wanless and Stern reviews did to win support for health spending and measures to tackle climate change.
One part of Google is busy creating indexes of online information while at the same time filtering out "spam, " which in this context means Web sites whose only function is to make money off the fact you land on them, without providing any sort of "value-added" information in the process.
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