The highly automated factory, to pick only one example, can out-compete any assembly line in the world that runs the old-fashioned way, even if its workers are plugging in widgets and tightening bolts for 30 cents an hour.
The built-in widgets Motorola is supplying look top-notch with a ton of spit and polish (seemingly without sacrificing speed or usability), so all told, we think Moto's been really cranking this year baking this platform to a golden crisp.
It's as if we're making plastic widgets in a factory, not dealing with pain and illness.
But say that widgets in general are dangerous, and widget-makers can do nothing about it.
Consider a manufacturing firm that is selling widgets in a global market.
Live Screenshot Widgets in arcplan can display important metrics with real-time data, similar to what Microsoft is doing with its live tiles, but with graphics.
And because timing is normally controlled by widgets installed in each light, rather than remotely managed, U-turns would be costly.
That's hardly stock Android, as you all know, but it is nice to see that you can set up the device with no additional widgets or in-your-face skinnings. (Sprint does bundle its so-called Sprint ID packs, but you can disable these easily enough.) Other than that, Sprint is quickest to emphasize Google Wallet as the biggest software draw.
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For example, traditional BI, and the skill set of people who have grown up with it and been trained on it, will tell you how many widgets you sold in a region compared to last year.
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In the first three months of this year, Japan's real global exports were 10% lower than during the same period a year earlier, according to Richard Katz of the Oriental Economist Report. (A "real export" measures units shipped, not the yen value.) Nominal exports, measured in yen instead of number of widgets, have not taken such a severe beating.
In iOS 5, Apple has revisited the idea of iPhone widgets -- differentiating them more from other iPhone apps -- in the drop-down notification center.
You can then swipe through galleries, play movies and interact with various other widgets that authors can drop in place.
The obvious inducement for profit-seeking executives is to sell as many widgets as possible, cashing in on the margin for each sale.
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Any organization (like EFF) or blog can use the free POPVOX widgets to let people weigh in using the POPVOX system without leaving their site.
The widgets are very much "in your face, " and they clearly suggest that Google intends to be your go-to destination for buying, renting and streaming digital media.
Companies use salaries and raises to retain their high performers, but measuring performance itself is difficult, especially in fields that defy simple metrics like widgets built or customer-service calls answered.
And, in a nice, slick touch, apps and widgets can be removed by flicking them off the screen.
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The widgets work with cookies that Facebook places in a Web browser when a user creates an account or logs in to its site.
The new version of Motoblur is much, much more attractive than before -- the widgets are sleeker, smaller, and less in your face.
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If you're not familiar with using the scripts menu, it lives at the upper right in the menu bar and contains lots of handy little widgets that help you automate and simplify processes.
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Oh, and it's also apparently patented pop-ups and widgets, as most anything that displays information "in an unobtrusive manner that occupies the peripheral attention of the user" is getting the same treatment.
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Dont need widgets.. but I would love to see folders in the future, and maybe custom short cuts on the lock screen.
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We imagine this will only come in handy if you prefer using most of your front screen space for widgets, but it's a nice touch regardless.
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Naturally Acer's taken to skinning Gingerbread a bit here -- there's an assortment of Acer widgets as well as that retooled homescreen you're seeing in the picture above.
In other words, if you want to use the web to sell widgets to the masses or to tie together far-flung corporate outposts, NetWare 5 should make your job somewhat easier.
Novice website creators can choose from a multitude of templates, complete with social media widgets and simple image tools to create a visually pleasing website in a short amount of time.
When your friend "likes" Wiggins Widgets' new TV advert, that is likely to pop up in your newsfeed.
But in these cases, the products of technological advances are not faster vehicles or better widgets.
We pay for volume and, as in any industry, people who are paid by the widget will seek to produce more widgets at ever increasing prices.
For a boxcar of widgets to make it across country, it typically has to stop and sit in rail yards waiting to get "humped, " or reshuffled, with other boxcars headed in the same direction five times.
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