While the rest of the Web world touts the merits of homemade video and other user-generated content, AOL was busy touting the benefits of the expensive stuff made by pros--stuff that looks a lot like television.
At first glance, the four Japanese men at the booth could have been doing anything on their MacBook Pros -- there wasn't a musical instrument in sight -- but upon closer inspection, they each appeared to be holding identical loupe-like devices, connected to each laptop via USB.
The style divide between logo-laden pros and indie-loving amateurs isn't cut and dry.
Heroes of Might and Magic III, RATING PROS: 4 - Truly remarkable music, good graphics, very replayable, just plain fun.
But few of the overseas pros this week - the field largely comprises local Chinese players - will be familiar with Shanghai Silport GC.
Unlike the pros, college-basketball players can't shoot, rebound or execute 15 consecutive 360-degree reverse slam dunks that make the guy defending Blake Griffin really, really mad.
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In terms of changes, besides the new, high-test plastic casing (built in the same fashion as the aluminum MacBook Pros) the 13-incher boasts a LED-backlit display, new glass multitouch trackpad, and a built-in, "7 hour" battery.
World Team Tennis, which features a mix of young up-and-comers, former big-name pros, and a few current tour players who make time between tournaments, markets itself as a fan-friendly league that wants the crowd involved.
In particular, we wanted to ask how his products, including the new Street On-Ears and Street DJ Pros, stack against some better known rapper-endorsed audio technology -- namely Dr. Dre's gimmicky Beats and his tie-in with HTC.
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Some participants are full-time pros, but small investors are diving in as well.
While the top-ranked pros play on the two main courts, junior tennis players compete on a host of side courts.
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But there are many investments based on the advice of personal-finance pros that have succeeded, yet the book deliberately ignored such stories.
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In-the-know pros have been coming ever since to try their luck on some of the largest and most gratifying waves in the world.
McIlroy, Tiger Woods and possibly Phil Mickelson are almost certainly the only pros in the eight-figure range for equipment deals, according to an industry person who talked on the condition of anonymity.
Television has long portrayed damage-control pros.
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To bond market pros, the still-robust appetite for U.S. debt is either foolish ( Bill Gross may be on CNBC at this very moment saying that U.S. debt is less safe than Greek debt or somesuch) or too persistent to run from.
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The tennis season practically spans the entire calendar as well, keeping the top pros in the limelight year-round.
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King of Dragon Pass, RATING PROS: 3.5 - Rich storyline, appropriate graphics and sound, strong replayability, wonderful mythos.
Tennis pros change ends between odd-numbered games to provide commercial breaks.
For those of us obsessed with chasing the proverbial white ball, accurate stats are tough to come by -- unlike the pros who have every drive, chip and putt scoped to the nearest inch.
Chris McManus, a professor of psychology at University College London who has made a study of the pros and cons of left-handedness, said it was true that left-handers did have an advantage in a fight.
Then again, RIM has made no secret of its aspirations to push ever deeper into the consumer space -- a place where Apple shines -- and again, RIM's touch paradigm needs some serious tweaking, so maybe this guy is going to leave the Bolds and Niagaras of the world to the pros and attack the multimedia-hungry masses with an entirely different angle.
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Also new this year is RAW shooting -- a feature that could help position this mid-range model as a companion shooter for advanced amateurs and pros alike, for those occasions where a full-size rig wouldn't be practical.
One, he thinks of his technology as acomplement to modern medicine (some self-trackers believed they can do better than the pros) and it focuses on the next stage of self-tracking: the action behind the data using analytics, pattern learning and correlation.
The Energy and Climate Change Committee (at 9.15am) has a session on the pros and cons of a hydro-electric power barrage across the River Severn.
Fitness pros from elite coaches to beach-body bootcamps are upping intensity and shortening workouts to get clients better results, and Dr. Tabata himself is in talks to develop a fitness DVD series with Universal Studios.
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While it would be fun to watch the Rays complete the improbable comeback by winning it all, it would hardly be a bummer to watch one of the finest Yankee teams ever assembled, a mix of talented younger players like Brett Gardner and Russell Martin and seasoned pros like Mariano Rivera, A-Rod and El Capitain, Derek Jeter.
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The contrast between the IT pros of my past and their modern-day counterparts is striking.
Both Mickelson and Woods have reputations for being gregarious pro-am partners (the pros actually keep the group's score).
Kerrthana, 14, interviewed a school friend and a teacher about the pros and cons of children attending child-care provisions from a very early age, so their parents could continue working.
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