"The bad sign is for them coming to you guys and picking you up automatically, " he said.
Intelligence is dynamic: you can't stop collecting for a day, a week, a month or more and then figure you are picking up right where you left off.
Sometime between today and Wednesday, the QD will hit your local game store and Cingular outlets and believe it or not, you should really consider picking one up if you've been thinking about a new phone, especially if you've been dreaming about a smartphone.
Don't let these future upgrades keep you from picking up the first version, though, as they will be retrofittable to early adopters (for a fee, of course).
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You should, of course, be aware of each system's connectivity before making a purchase, but don't let that previous-gen plug dissuade you from picking up an otherwise awesome setup.
Dear friends, dear lawgivers, dear parliamentarians, you are picking up a thread of pride and self-esteem that has been almost but not quite, oh no not quite, not ever broken or forgotten.
You never knew who you were picking up.
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For example you run a two week digital campaign, you begin to identify the segments that are picking up on your messaging, you insert questions for those customers who are going down your conversion route and you poll them.
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Not only do you start to make a mint off of old titles most people were picking up at Gamestop, you also build excitement for new installments.
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If you've somehow held back from picking up a copy of your own, you'll be glad to know that pretty much everyone in existence agrees that this film rocks.
"If you think by closing loopholes and deductions for the well-to-do somehow you will not end up picking up the tab, then Governor Romney's plan may work for you, " he said.
If you can't find a Wii this holiday season, you may consider picking up a XaviXPort device.
Your brain is really engaged, and you're picking up all of this information.
"You're picking up a flavor of these street kids' life, " said Mac McKean, senior vice president of digital media for AMC.
"What's particularly frightening is that if you're picking up a hundred on the beach, there could be very many more which have died and been lost at sea, " he said.
It also allows you to buy specialisations (through books) that you may have missed picking up playing Origins.
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Rather than, you know, just picking up a shovel and starting to dig.
Asked the secrets of his own youthful appearance by 20-year-old Ilana Lassman, he replied "people like you", before picking up the English student.
All told, however, it's not much to write home about -- if you were thinking of picking up the T1, this guy is certainly an improvement.
The director of "The Interpreter, " Sydney Pollack, pays his respects to several Hitchcock movies with visual cues that you'll enjoy picking up on your own, while one specific link to the Zinnemann film is forged of tubular steel.
Picking up on that theme, you were unable to cold it to death, but what about trying heat?
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Each time picking up a little extra nugget you may have missed before.
Above all, it seems to mean picking up good ideas from countries you admire and trying to apply them to Britain.
"If you are psychologically aware, you will realize you are feeling anxious and picking up rejection cues, " says Hal Shorey, a psychologist and assistant professor for the Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology at Widener University in Chester, Pa.
You can throw up your hands and have a mutual fund do the picking for you.
She had sometimes looked for sea glass on the beach in San Clemente, and her housekeeper Fina had cautioned her about picking it up, because the edges could cut you even when the rest had been worn smooth.
Problems included a penchant for picking up dirt and fingerprints (the price you pay for a beautiful glossy face, we suppose), a cramped nav key layout with the tricky touch-sensitive Navi Wheel front and center, audio performance that wasn't bad but was expected to be far better in light of the dedicated DSP, and a "shovel"-like feel in the hand, a symptom of the phone's generous dimensions.
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"I just didn't want anyone picking on him and if you have friend who will stand up for you, it makes a big difference, " Norton said.
If you knew the market was headed up, picking the best funds to buy would be as simple as picking the riskiest ones--since funds buying high-risk growth stocks do the best during bull markets.
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