And the videogame business has seen its share of "unstoppable" systems--Trip Hawkin's ill-fated 3DO system leaps to mind--that faltered on market forces beyond their control.
We just had a never-mind moment on the most controversial public-policy issue relating to the Web: network neutrality.
It was on my mind throughout the weekend - in fact it has been on my mind for the last nine months.
Because he was a capable analyst, he wound up crunching numbers and doing some pretty sophisticated and mind-numbing analysis on every project.
They developed these mind-sets largely based on past experience with illness, and they use them as a starting point for weighing risks and benefits in their health care.
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One major concern is that crowdsourced labor risks creating what Harvard Law School professor Jonathan Zittrain has called "digital sweatshops, " where workers who may be underage work long hours on mind-numbing tasks for very little money -- or, if the work is structured as a game, for no money at all.
But today -- when stress might feel life-threatening but usually isn't -- this only means that you have a harder time focusing on work when your mind is on your visiting in-laws or a speech you have to give.
"The vision for this property relies on the game-changing real-estate mind-set that I believed in and acted on previously, " he said.
Despite the mind-numbing number of machines on the market, picking the best was surprisingly easy.
Most of Michigan's Republican voters had the same thing on their mind -- the economy, according to exit polling.
Its best-known customer (and majority-owner) is Tesco, a British supermarket with a Clubcard loyalty-card scheme that generates a mind-numbing flow of data on the purchases of 13m members across 55, 000 product lines.
As the mind-numbing tech rehearsal rolled on, from my perspective in the orchestra the proscenium blurred and became a kind of silent screen on which the players signalled their meaning through gesture and mime.
The worry is that if Mr Byers cannot make up his mind on relatively low-key issues like milk and ice cream, how will he be able to resist the far more serious pressures that will be exerted on him over car prices and supermarkets, both currently the subject of competition inquiries?
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Mr. BENNIE PETE (Tuba Player, Hot 8 Brass Band): We knew they were there because that's where they were housing the evacuees, and we just showed up and, you know, we were going there with - on our mind to kind of just show what we had, to share with each other that we were united.
You could tell DeAndre Brackensick was a shoo-in for the wild card before he'd even begun "Georgia On My Mind" -- pretty much because of his hair.
We got our first chance to go hands-on with the device this morning -- our first hands-on with any Tegra 4 device, mind you -- and came away impressed.
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The training is intensely boring, but it conditions every part of the body -- including the mind -- for the pummeling that 26.2 miles exerts on it.
An engineer pinned the name "MentalPlex" on our new mind-reading technology.
"We've used our expertise to create a high-quality e-book with today's on-the-go consumer in mind, " said Young Bae, director of display marketing, Samsung Information Technology Division.
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Even here, speaking down a link to soldiers in Afghanistan, his mind was on the home front - assuring them they would be looked after when they came home, given a heroes' welcome.
Churchill, who admitted that he had a virgin mind on the Middle East, relied on his creative, spin-doctoring adviser, T.
They're not quick, by any means -- keep in mind, that this is a pound of plastic on top of a low-end car.
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Like Cher in "Clueless, " my main thrill in life is a makeover, so Erika's new 'do combined with her right-on-pitch cover of "New York State of Mind" was one of my favorite performances of the night.
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Thanks to the ever more powerful microchip, these creations take on ever increasing and mind-boggling complexities.
According to the catalogue, the seats include a mind-boggling array of amenities, depending on the model you purchase.
Financial decisions should be examined based on your short, mind-range and long-term thinking.
Federal antitrust authorities, especially at the Federal Trade Commission, should keep that in mind as they focus increasingly on high-technology firms.
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Instead, critics respond with a non-sequitur: never mind the effects on government budgets, look instead at immigration's impact on the overall economy.
Bloom ended up at the University of Chicago and in 1987 published "The Closing of the American Mind, " his best-selling attack on the shortcomings of higher education.
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The prosecution's barraging of the jury with mind-numbing detail, and its focus on the defendants' greed and lavish lifestyles seemed to alienate many jurors, even some who thought the defendants were guilty.
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