For example, The Now Network doesn't lift a proverbial finger when a phone is ordered -- UPS takes care of plucking the right handset from its inventory and shipping it off to a customer.
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Unfortunately, this eliminates any hope you might've had for installing Hanging with Friends on that N9 you've pre-ordered -- unless OpenMobile's able to convince the folks in Espoo with a mighty good sales pitch, anyway.
Dr Farley believes that if fed data on the number of members of a network who have been apprehended, an ordered-set model can give the authorities an estimate of the probability that the network has been disrupted.
Residents of several communities, including the city of San Diego, were allowed to return home Wednesday and Thursday, but more evacuations were ordered -- the latest covering the communities of Lake Henshaw and Mesa Grande and the La Jolla Indian Reservation in San Diego County.
CNN: Firefighters gain ground in California, but death toll rises
According to a handful of tips we've received this morning, Best Buy has been sending out emails to users who pre-ordered the new tablet for delivery this week, informing them that shipments have been "back-ordered, " and delayed by one to two weeks.
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Recently, Syria has attempted to get some of its Mi-24 attack helicopters refurbished by Russia -- a move which prompted an international outcry -- and has ordered Yak-130 advanced training jets and MiG-29 fighter jets that have yet to be delivered.
It gives a graphic representation to the idea that, rather than being at a different end of a spectrum from a structured state, disorder is at the very center of things, with ordered and un-ordered states around it.
When the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms wanted to stop the tax-free online sale of cigarettes by enterprising Native Americans, it ordered credit-card companies not to process the transactions, threatening fines.
First, court-ordered DNA tests of crime-scene evidence revealed specimens found on the wife and one daughter that matched no one in the MacDonald family, thus pointing to unknown outside assailants.
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It ordered one-third of the city's 3 million cars off the streets, which significantly reduced pollution.
Soon after the arrest, "Ally McBeal" executives ordered last-minute re-writes and re-shoots to rid Downey from the series.
The next morning Sorrel persuaded doctors to let Josie drink, but then one doc ordered heavy-duty narcotics against another's instructions.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick ordered non-emergency state workers to stay home Friday and urged private employers to do the same.
Stripped of these defenses, Genger lost the case and Strine ordered Trans-Resources turned over to the Trumps in July 2010.
President Bush ordered al-Marri confined in military custody, and his Justice Department had been filing the appeals opposing his legal claims.
However, one employee said that anybody who hadn't pre-ordered a unit would be hard-pressed to find one at any shop before Christmas.
The forestry department ordered pre-production to stop in November for an environmental impact study, but ruled last month any damage would be repairable.
Last month, it ordered al-Arabiya to shut its Baghdad office.
France's president, Nicolas Sarkozy, ordered Djibouti-based French commandos into action.
Those 76 pyrotechnics going off in perfect succession and the 500, 000 lines of code working exactly the way you guys had ordered them -- so it's really mind-boggling what you've been able to accomplish.
Tom Swozzi, mayor of the city of Glen Cove on Long Island, New York, ordered high-speed ferries put to use to transport paramedics, emergency medical technicians, nurses and doctors to relieve New York doctors.
In the fall, residents held raffles to pay for a new state-ordered science laboratory and approved a property-tax increase that had failed twice before.
F-16 fighter aircraft that were ordered and part-paid for before 1990.
So imagine what went through the minds of the panic-stricken security teams when she suddenly ordered her bomb-proof Jaguar to stop so that she could plunge into the crowds thronging the pavements around Donegal Square.
On the other hand, there's also been some reports of Apple canceling orders for being "over the limit" -- even from folks that have just ordered one iPad -- although those seem to be few and far between at the moment.
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Google just hit our inbox with an email inviting folks who pre-ordered the Explorer Edition of Project Glass to two-day hackathons in San Francisco and New York, where they'll be the first group of developers -- not being paid by Page and Co.
ENGADGET: Google invites Glass pre-order holders to hackathons in New York, San Francisco
The firm added that the new system also needed to be installed while cars were being built in the factory - meaning it would have to be ordered up front - and it would be limited to seven out of 11 models in the company's current line-up.
The show re-launched with direct-to-DVD movies, which were run on Comedy Central as a fifth season in 2009-2010 and a subsequent sixth season was ordered for 2010-2011.
Mr Oettinger was outlining plans for the tests - ordered in the wake of Japan's Fukushima disaster - which are designed to see how Europe's nuclear facilities are able to withstand natural or man-made disasters.
The report - ordered by Rochdale's safeguarding children's board - reviews the work of local agencies, including the council, police and the Crown Prosecution Service between 2007 and 2012 in safeguarding children at risk of sexual exploitation.
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