These countless words, listed with their many pronunciations and the regions where they were found, must persuade anyone like Johnson who imagines he knows his own language just how little of its surface he has in fact begun to scratch.
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Its surface is covered in exotic ices and has strong seasonal and global change effects that we know are already taking place.
Microsoft even has its own line of Surface tablets that blur the line between PC and laptop thanks to a clever snap-on keyboard cover.
Microsoft's recent release of its own tablet computer, called Surface, already has alienated some of the company's partners.
These have shown that Mars had vast oceans in the past, and went on to demonstrate, after this book went to press, that Mars still has lots of ice beneath its surface.
What at first glance appears to be a jumble of boulders was probably a workshop where expert stonecutters practiced their trade. (One chunk of granite has been carved into almost-finished steps.) Another large stone, known as Serpent Rock, has snakes etched into its top surface.
Moreover, we know that Earth, once a fiery ball, has cooled and gained life upon its surface with static, non-thinking plants and mobile, thinking animals.
Curiosity drilled a hole in Mars to collect a sample of its surface, which is the first time any rover has drilled such a hole on the Red Planet.
One reason for this change is that a tiny thing has a large surface area relative to its mass.
No celestial body has the same gravitational pull everywhere on its surface.
Meanwhile, in another part of the forest, Microsoft was launching the first computer it has ever made in the form of its Surface tablet.
This is a molecule or molecular combination that has different properties on different parts of its surface: in particular, one part prefers to dissolve in water whereas another part prefers oil.
Unlike Blu-ray, which has a much shallower (and therefore a more delicate) data layer, an HD DVD has its digital information etched deeper beneath the surface just like a conventional DVD and can therefore be stamped out on much the same sort of equipment as a DVD.
The asteroids hit the surface hard, over and over, and since the Moon has been a solid body for most of its history, their materials stay on or close to the surface.
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Now, in addition to Google, Microsoft (MSFT) has recently announced tablet plans of its own called Surface.
On the surface side, Joy has nearly twice the sales of its nearest competitor, Bucyrus International.
Microsoft has just begun its push with Windows Phone and the Surface Tablets.
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Its first computer, the Surface tablet, was released in October and has been followed up with the Surface Pro.
Likewise, that company has decided to enter the hardware market hoping that its Surface tablet can make a meaningful dent where its proud partners in Hewlett-Packard and Dell have failed speaks to just how committed Microsoft is in ensuring that its fate is in its own hands.
And water would be all the more exciting on Ganymede because it is the largest moon in the solar system (larger even than the planets Mercury and Pluto) and, like earth, it has a permanent magnetic field that protects part of its surface from bombardment by certain sorts of life-destroying radiation.
We commonly associate extreme secrecy around a product design with Apple, but it now looks to be in vogue with all the major technology companies: just days after Samsung revealed the Galaxy S III's secret sauce, Microsoft has explained to TechRadar that it developed its surprise new Surface tablets under a similarly tight watch.
Freeport has been ramping up operations at its underground mines amid declining surface production.
It will then be returned to its original golden brown colour and waxed so it has a protective weatherproof surface.
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Australia has some of the highest temperatures in its known near-surface rocks anywhere in the world and its geothermal potential is distributed over the entire country.
During the past 20 years the industry has striven to clean up its act, at least on the surface.
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"Mercury has a thin atmosphere created by the ejection of atoms from its surface, a process that also occurs on our Moon, " Mendillo explained.
On the surface it looks like the union has got what it wanted in its dispute with London Underground (LU) and common sense has prevailed.
Hewlett-Packard has yet to publicly comment on Surface, but Dell maintains its positive outlook on Windows 8 without providing any specific comments on the Microsoft-built tablet.
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