Apart from the complete contrast in the weather, the most obvious change from Davos is the complete absence of anti-globalisation demonstrators.
An expert on urban transportation technology, Sperling says the most obvious change consumers can expect in future transportation is increased prevalence of hybrid and pure-electric vehicles.
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The most obvious change she's made since taking over is to squash the idea that HP should spin off its core PC business, which has been badly left behind in the move to mobile computing.
The three different sizes of live tiles on the start screen is the obvious change, but there are more subtle changes inside the core applications and in the underlying code that developers work with.
Another less-than-obvious hardware change is the addition of a feedback amplifier -- possibly something like this chip from NXP -- to the phone's loudspeaker.
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The trade-offs involved in using abstracted data in relational databases versus non-abstracted data in non-relational databases, relying on pre-abstraction versus self-abstraction of high-volume data streams, and so on are not obvious, will change as technology involves, and will depend on the company and the problem.
If the election of 2008 is indeed about the need for change, the easiest and most obvious option for voters is to change the party in the White House.
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Most obvious was the name change to Villeret to reflect the location of the company.
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The most obvious way is to change the US market for doctors from 50 separate markets into just one market.
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The most notable change is obvious, and very welcome: no more hump, chin, or lump used to accommodate the chunky internals.
For esteemed financial experts like Shiller, there is a special responsibility to press for the obvious top-priority change: transparency in derivatives trading.
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The obvious solution would be to change the Imperial House Law so that a female could accede to the throne.
Leave aside the obvious contradiction of a climate change crusader selling to a network largely financed by the petrodollar kingdom of Qatar.
In retrospect that change seems an obvious one: The pitchman can focus on what the shopper wants instead of pushing a high-commission flat-screen TV.
For grotesque subsidies, the direction of change should be obvious.
The folly of this switch by a group of activists who regularly claim their efforts are justified to fight global climate change is made obvious by the revelation late last year that US carbon emissions have plummeted to 1992 levels, largely as a result of widespread switching from coal to natural gas in the power generation sector.
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But it has long been obvious that the airports need radical change.
After taking ownership, Williams first order of business was to change the name to Obvious Corp, his second was to fire Noah Glass.
While the change is not immediately obvious outside of Yoyogi Station, the first stop past Shinjuku, concrete evidence lies a few blocks away, at Yoyogi Village.
Although rising ocean waters on average only a few centimeters during the past century may not be obvious, the effects of climate change are seen in other ways.
But the change underlines a gigantic, obvious omission in the index: Apple.
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Having already eliminated the most obvious inefficiencies that cost the least to change, Europeans will find it harder to reduce oil dependence though curbing consumption.
Big companies and old industries are notoriously bad at changing their ways and giving up control, even when obvious opportunities argue for embracing openness and change.
Market timing is for the birds, so while you constantly try to call the twists and turns, you only ever change your position if something obvious and awful appears on the horizon such as the credit crunch.
They choose to pretend like nothing can ever change, even when the trends are obvious.
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