As the investments in both Blue Origin and the 10, 000-year clock show, it is the challenge of reaching for distant horizons that really makes Amazon's boss tick.
Gervais was one of the regular guest commentators on Channel 4's The 11 O'Clock Show, probably best remembered for creating Ali G, for which Gervais did not win particularly fond reviews.
The alarm clock could show a traffic report and reminders of items on a personal schedule for the day.
The demonstration appeared to be designed to show just how much clock speed Intel may be able to squeeze out of its new chip design.
The HP DreamScreen's built-in clock feature can show time in digital or analog format with dual time-zones and lets users choose tones or music for alarms.
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Her official race photos show her beneath a finish line clock that reads 4:09:29.
Only a leather chair and the mantle clock have appeared in every show since 1952.
Obama's communications gifts are powerful and poetic -- but round-the-clock campaigning on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, " "60 Minutes" and this press conference won't save bad policy.
This design philosophy gets to the heart of the fundamental difference between employees who punch a clock, and impassioned workers who really show up to make a difference each day.
Some agents, such as Lee, head to the Combine to show their clients that they are working around the clock to put their guys in the best position to succeed.
The first Centrino-branded chips are expected to show up sometime before the summer and debut at clock speeds of about 1.6 gigahertz--considerably slower than Intel's flagship Pentium chips, which now top out at about 3 GHz.
This means a huge amount of work often around the clock by teams of people with nothing to show for it for years at a time, if ever.
Minimum service means they show up most of the time, they may show up on time and they may not swear while on the clock or be excessively rude, sarcasm will remain.
Clock speed is also TBD, and the early silicon on demo at the show wasn't operating anywhere close to its top end.
Three large widgets show the time, date and weather, which can be used to launch the alarm clock, calendar and weather apps, respectively.
So show up a little early--8:00 p.m. for a 9 o'clock set (which usually starts late).
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