Until recently, incompatible legacy systems made it very hard to use common computer systems across different countries.
Deep bogs and narrow channels had formed on several wet areas of the route making it increasingly hard to use.
And we either had problems because they were so hard to use or they sometimes gave incorrect results or unreliable results.
Organizations are rapidly shifting away from hard to use, one-size-fits-all (at very high cost) enterprise software applications and large data centers.
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So far, most have found it hard to use it effectively: one recent survey found that about two-thirds of customer-relationship-management projects fail.
In secret, maybe, we love it when things are hard to use.
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"Most websites include a long laundry list of written driving directions or picture of a map that are static and hard to use, " continued Wong.
Also, the center Select button, in the middle of the directional arrows, is a bit hard to use, as the circle button is quite small.
The impact of consumerization of IT can be summed up in a simple statement: IT departments must now explain why the solutions they offer are hard to use.
Content-management programs are hard to use and rarely fully implemented.
Pebble is part of what may be a nascent revival for the idea of a wrist computer, something that has failed many times in the past, because older attempts have looked clunky and have been hard to use.
Buy-side firms are asking for more information on where trades are executed but the data from brokers is hard to use, not standardized and filled with gaps such as how long the broker held a trade to try executing it in its own dark pool before sending it on.
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But, that Act is riddled with exceptions and loopholes that make it very hard to successfully use.
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The improved audio and video playback performance is due to IBM researchers having found a way to partially disengage the error-correcting feature that most hard drives use to regulate the transfer of text-based files, which can interfere with video downloading, the company said.
He hopes Seagate will be able to expand beyond its technology-savvy demographic into a user base currently afraid of incompatible or hard-to-use devices.
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Did Monsanto push too hard convincing farmers to use these products?
Panels agreed that while Salesforce has done well on the SaaS platform, it is getting a reputation in larger corporate accounts of being hard to customize and use.
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You would be hard pressed to ever use a whole teaspoon of salt on a single serving of food or to get that many grams of fat onto your salad.
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The only infrastructure project in the region announced so far is additional government funding to allow use of the hard shoulder to increase capacity on the M3 (between J2-3) in Surrey.
Several panelists compared social media today to early stages of the Internet when companies had a hard time figuring out how to use it, much less try to measure ROI.
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Mr Roberts speculates that "gg" sounds like a Japanese word but as none of the domains has been renewed then it's hard to find out what use they might have been put to.
Defending the publication, Sun newspaper managing editor David Dinsmore told the BBC the paper had "thought long and hard" about whether to use the pictures and argued it was an issue of freedom of the press.
And the early versions of Internet-capable TVs were hard to navigate and harder to use.
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Emphasize results: Use hard data to demonstrate how your saying "no" will advance your manager's agenda.
And sometimes its hard that first time through to use all your pitches.
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