With the plummeting cost of storing and transmitting data, sharing information has become much more practical.
This certainly sounds like a much more practical requirement.
And yet, for all its imperfections, the Turtle King was so much more practical than sitting in a stopped taxi or crowding onto a Beijing bus that it had become what all new-energy technology is somehow supposed to be: cheap, simple, and unobtrusive enough so that using it is no longer a matter of sacrifice but one of self-interest.
Another reason for the bias against creativity may be the perception that something can either be creative or practical, but that much more rarely can it be both.
Moreover aspects such as mutual care within traditional gender roles and bringing up children as a form of old-age insurance had huge practical importance and were much more important than romantic love.
This would, as a practical matter, make it much more difficult to constrain the transfers of such technologies.
Taking cues from its Alpha A99, which was just announced today, Sony brought that camera's 24.3-megapixel full-frame sensor to a camcorder form factor, delivering shallow depth-of-field and much improved low-light sensitivity in a more practical package.
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The imbroglio may not have much practical effect, as Senate Republicans share power with a more liberal group of five self-described independent Democrats who largely support the governor's agenda.
The redesigned 300, introduced last year, dials back the goth froth in favor of a more practical, mature and aerodynamic design (the windshield is much more raked than before), and yet the car retains its from-a-mile-away profile: the big and bluff hood, the blingtastic grille, the pillbox roof, the chopped deck.
What is going on is more subtle and, for now, as much a signal as a demonstration of practical intent.
Maillechort is more practical in that it is far more resistant to corrosion, but it is also a much more demanding material to work with, as it scratches easily and stains even more so if mishandled during assembly.
"I believe that we have to keep in mind not only the sacrifice made by those who gave their lives in defence of the realm but the practical needs of those who have been bereaved in two world wars, in the Falklands and much more recently as a result of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, " he said.
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