The early adopters were not the people in the glass houses, the data center managers.
Visually and conceptually it's an elegant strategy, for these crystal closets suggest not just the glass slipper of Cinderella (the show includes a glass pump from 2009 by Maison Martin Margiela) but also the phone booth in which Clark Kent changes into Superman.
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And because of the way it is served (the ice meaning all the cider does not fit into the glass at once) the bottle generally sits on the table next to the drinker, making the brand highly visible, which Mr Breen admits "definitely helps".
Layton and I used to climb Bald Man's Gap, the exact apex of the divide he taking care not to spill the glass of water clutched in between his hands, while I minded a rudimentary pinhole camera that I had fashioned from a shoe box.
The scratch-resistant mineral coating (read: not Gorilla Glass) laid atop the display does a fine job protecting the glass from in-pocket abrasions -- not that we Engadget staffers are in the habit of abusing precious mobile kit.
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Or the needed dose may be high enough that it would require pills, not just the occasional glass of wine.
But I really want to focus on the half-full part of the glass tonight, not the half-empty.
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According to Avivah Wittenberg-Cox and Alison Maitland, two of the most prominent exponents of this position, it is not enough to smash the glass ceiling.
Interestingly, initial reaction to the Samsung interview is that it brings competition to the unlaunched iWatch not to the more visible Google Glass (excuse the pun).
The screen and bezel work well with each other (and the UI does require a touch of bezel to work well with all the swiping fingers from the side), although the glass does not reach right up to the top and bottom of the Z10, this is occupied by two strips of plastic.
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But the surprise may not be anything as ground-breaking as Google Glass, perhaps not even much in the way of hardware at all.
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The main problem was broken glass from shopfronts but not all the shops had been targeted.
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Was this not what the artists of stained glass in the Gothic cathedrals strove to achieve, only in a different way?
In the over three decades since women entered the business world in large numbers, the glass has not gotten as full as we thought it would be.
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The F-35 is by far the most advanced Lockheed jet to date, with updated radar, all-internal weapons, improved tracking systems, 360-degree infrared coverage with a visor readout, and a full-stealth design, not to mention the incredibly capable glass cockpit powered by more than 9.3 million lines of software code, and an overall smoother experience for pilots that could end up spending shifts of 12 hours or longer in flight.
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While the build quality of our review unit is generally top-notch, the bottom-left corner of that glass surface is not perfectly flush with the body.
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Mr Philpott told the court he eventually smashed the glass with a wrench but could not get in because the hole was no bigger than his head.
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Based in London, the Stop The Cyborgs campaign began at the end of February, he said, and the group did not expect much to happen before the launch of Google Glass in 2014.
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This sparks off yet more excitement among the press outside, who press their varied equipment up against the glass, like hungry party-goers not invited to the banquet.
Unfortunately, apparently due to privacy concerns, a post tonight by the Project Glass team says that it will not approve any app using the tech for release -- at least until it has some privacy protections in place.
Why are we so quick to point our finger at the men around us for the glass ceiling when a lot of us are not doing ourselves the service of crashing through it?
Jewelry is out in the open, not enclosed under glass, yet robberies are minimal.
The symptoms of bacterial meningitis are a very high temperature, stiff neck, and a blotchy red or purple rash which does not fade when the side of a glass is pressed against it.
As people filled the empty units, I was intrigued not only by the implied stories within the frame of the glass but also by the play of light upon the subjects, the shadows, the framing of the structure.
Under cross-examination by Mr Simon Laws, QC, Mr Dupree repeatedly said he could not remember picking up or holding a glass and insisted he had not "glassed" the victim.
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The idea that Apple was playing with glass-screen tablets before the iPhone is not new.
Until the FAA announces a policy revision, we all have no choice but to reluctantly comply with the ban, but with devices like Google Glass on the horizon, updated restrictions could not come too soon.
Socializing is not something recreational, and it is not an optional glass of Chardonnay in the power lunch of life.
The sea was not fifty feet below us, looking like shattered glass, great cracks of wind-lashed spray cutting diagonally across the jagged surface.
The eerie light probably came not from the substance itself, but from the boundary between it and the glass layer below.
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