So, we had a problem, bank runs, brought on by the simple nature of fractional reserve banking.
The simple nature of the graphics seemed to make our Wii something we pull out at parties to interact with each other rather than sequester ourselves in some kind of first-person roll-playing game in an elaborate digital world.
Yet when he died in 1912, his grieving subjects honoured him with the simple wonders of nature.
By design, the Internet's power stems from its simple rules and communal nature.
Yes, we are all ultimately messy inside, but the truly interesting fact is that Jobs had tamed the messiness in ways that allowed him to act like a force of nature: simple, elemental and inexorable.
If nature always stuck to simple plans, it would be easier to track the paths of evolution, but nature does not have that luxury.
New York's Department of Transportation has incorporated into its project planning a simple computer tool developed by The Nature Conservancy to highlight areas where reconstruction will have the greatest benefit for wildlife.
To make simple what already is, the nature of startup companies means they account for a great deal of innovation that improves our lives, all the while creating jobs and great wealth.
FORBES: A Decline In U.S. Startups Through the Eyes of Bruce Bartlett
Former Labour PM Gordon Brown hired an ex-BBC producer to help ensure he wasn't photographed in a bad light, but it's not always that simple and press photographers are by nature a creative bunch.
The 19-year NBA veteran praised the "dummy-proof" nature of today's simple-to-use tablets and phones.
The tranquil oasis is fitting legacy for a modernizer, who was also known for his respect for nature and preference for the simple life.
The concept was simple: principles were ideas that because of their nature rarely if ever changed.
FORBES: How To Build A Healthy Economy: Q&A With Social Entrepreneur Ron Schultz
So even the apparently simple parable of Herr Puntila reveals the conflicting strands of human nature and the inability of fallen man to become whole again.
He had the grit to use the atomic bomb, the imagination to grasp the nature of the emerging cold war, and the simple eloquence needed to explain the strange new world to the Americans.
Human nature is complicated, and probably so is the answer to the simple question.
FORBES: Why Do We Love Sports? Last Night's Baseball Games Say It All
And it is to ask the question whether the global financial system, and the economies of developed countries like Britain, would be in such dire straights if banks had been subject to a simple leverage ceiling, limiting how much banks could lend in total, irrespective of the nature of their loans, as a multiple of their capital.
The classic example of a non-recourse loan is a simple mortgage (if you sign a personal guarantee in addition to the mortgage, that changes the nature of the loan).
FORBES: You Are Not Alone: R. Kelly Joins Taxpayers Who Have Lost Homes Due To Foreclosure
Market commentators will apply all manner of reasoning and faulty to logic to the stuck nature of stocks, but the answers necessary to explain the past and present are really quite simple: bad policy.
Windows users should have relatively simple control through an app if they just want to play, but where Fritz may shine is its open source nature: the code and hardware schematics will be available for extending support, changing the look or building a larger robot where Fritz is just one part.
ENGADGET: XYZbot's Fritz offers a cheaper robot head, free trips to the uncanny valley (video)
应用推荐