We had to go back and forth from the conference center, where the meetings were held, to the hotel.

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Transactions take longer to complete consumers have to wait while transactions go back and forth from their device to the cloud.

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It ensures security but at the expense of having consumers wait while transactions go back and forth from their device to the cloud.

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The gamut of possible outcomes runs from a mild go-forth-and-sin-no-more to the truly Draconian stuff: forcing Microsoft to share its Windows source code with its competitors or carving it up into separate, independent companies, the so-called Baby Bills (see chart).

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Although the plant springing forth from that seed is healthy and can go about its business of producing grain, say, quite normally, the grain that it produces will not grow if planted, because the activated terminator gene has killed off the seed's reproductive bits.

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But rather they themselves also tend to go to morgues or hospitals and the police and so forth and get their figures from them.

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So whether you were using cartridges or downloading apps (priced from five to 25 bucks) from LeapFrog's store, all of that content can go back and forth between the devices.

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