But there are still areas of our lives where local processing is the only choice.
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Neither issue's a deal-breaker, but it's a little disappointing that something this physically big, not doing any serious local processing, can only manage half the battery life of something like Apple's iPad playing a game like Riptide GP.
Yesterday, we aired a report about how the town of Postville, Iowa, has been affected by an immigration raid at a local meat-processing plant.
Mr Lopez Veiga admits that ever fewer locals are taking jobs at sea, though he points out that catches landed at Vigo support thousands of local jobs in processing and distribution.
In the 1950s, more food was purchased directly off local farms without intermediate processing, packaging and mass distribution.
Back in the day we were asking our PCs to do the heavy lifting of running those resource intensive client-server applications that required lots of memory, local hard drive space and processing power.
If you buy one and end up hating the games, install Windows or Linux on it, and you've got enough processing power to do local weather forecasting.
The problem is that there was a previous plant there (processing material from the local tin ores) which left quite a bit of radioactive residue around the place.
About two years ago, he got a local technology contractor to install a payment processing system called PC Charge, made by VeriFone Systems Inc.
Van Bergen says the park will reduce carbon emissions by cutting down on food processing and transport costs, while stimulating local industry and social bonds.
Metals are mined and wood is cut, but they are usually exported for processing and manufacturing, leaving the krai bereft of local industry.
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There is no difference in quality or intelligibility, call processing is just as fast, and with a local data plan I am essentially paying nothing to stay in contact.
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Nomads in Kazakhstan exploit a centuries-old method of storing camel milk in places lacking electricity, processing fresh milk into fermented milk, Shubat, a local delicacy.
"It's important to note cities, counties and municipalities still have the ability to express their opposition to processing facilities by blocking their construction and operation at the local level, " the governor said.
Fallin said her administration will work with the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture to ensure that any horse meat processing plant in the state is run appropriately, follows state and local laws, and does not pose a hazard to the community.
Built five Akamil food processing plants in Jeremie and villages to make high protein foods out of local produce.
Britain, meanwhile, has started taxing landfills so heavily that local officials, desperate to find an alternative, are investing in all manner of unproven waste-processing technologies.
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"If nanotechnology maintains its current pace of development, it will give birth to a computer that has the information processing capacity equivalent to every human brain combined by 2060, " he was quoted as saying in a local newspaper.
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