Shanghai babies are forced to come up with peculiar methods in order to lay their hands on desired new stuff.
"We've been working on new engine stuff for awhile, " Newell says.
Secondly, the foreign-owned companies were simply also better at coming up with new stuff on their own, in comparison to their domestic counterparts.
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"She's doing a lot of new, creative stuff, building on some of the things we did in New York, building on some ideas she's developed, and is working tirelessly to engage the community to build the support necessary for this kind of change, " said Mr. Klein, who was Ms. Anderson's boss as the New York City chancellor until 2010.
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Obviously there's a lot of other things to play with on the new iPhone, and things will get even more interesting as developers really start targeting their apps to the new hardware, but right out of the box there's a lot of new stuff going on.
"It's a spin on some of the stuff we did in New York, but it's actually quite different, " Ms. Anderson said in an interview before she spoke at Rutgers.
As a long time gamer, particularly one who hangs on to and from time to time plays older games on older consoles (in addition to the new stuff), one of my big concerns is LONG TERM access to the content that I buy.
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There is more good stuff on the way, like a new small pickup in another year.
There is more good stuff on the way, such as a new small pickup in a year.
And I can tell you, I am NOT a customer that they want to lose with the amount of money that I spend on this stuff, the vast majority of it being new.
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But the appeal of letting the Americans get on with what they know best, freeing himself to concentrate on the French stuff, while taking a stake in any new entity, might be hard to refuse.
In September, the network's U.K. affiliate plans to launch a new channel called MTV Flux, which will base its programming on stuff viewers submit.
Flawed data as we aggregate to new high levels is on the move sadly as well as the good stuff we get from all of it.
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If Capellas can pull all that off, he will get to do the geeky stuff that really turns him on: launch a slew of new Internet-driven services, from central spam filters to home networks that consumers can control from a PDA anywhere in the world.
The new Gates strategy seems to presuppose that they'll continue working on that stuff, too.
People can buy a new PC and use most of their stuff from the previous PC on it.
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But like any employee taking on a new assignment, a big part of the job is just learning where stuff is stowed.
It was forged on stronger stuff, by bold men and women who dared to invent something new or improve something old -- who took big chances on big ideas, who believed that in America all things are possible.
Like last year, when the new Mac operating system was front and center, this year's announcement focuses more on software (you know, the stuff developers actually work with) than teasing a new product.
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