By contrast, few makers of single-purpose devices seem to understand that less is more.
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Bloggers began predicting the imminent demise of Flip, along with single-purpose video cameras in general.
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Three weeks from now this will become the largest city on earth, the largest single-purpose gathering of humanity in history.
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In fact, the era of the single-purpose radio is over, says Michael Ossmann, the founder of an Evergreen, Colorado company called Great Scott Gadgets.
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Trower's second stage of robotic development includes simple, single-purpose robotic devices like the Roomba or Looj, along with toy robots like WowWee's Robosapien or Lego Mindstorms, a set of programmable robot-building pieces.
Cheaper cell phone apps and bigger-screened, in-dash car navigation systems are posing a challenge to the single-purpose portable gadgets, even though prices have dropped by hundreds of dollars in the past several years.
OtherOS enabled the machine to run Linux, the alternative operating system to Microsoft Windows and Apple OS. Running Linux essentially turned the PS3 from a single-purpose gaming console into a desktop computer, which people could use to write programs.
In the not-too-distant future, the choice between multi- and single-purpose devices may be less stark than it has been, as some single-use devices have been adopting the technical features and approaches of the app-based devices in order to stay relevant.
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To find out just how well today's robots work, we tested six of the coolest personal bots currently available for sale in the U.S. ( Click here to see them.) They ranged in price from a couple hundred to a couple thousand dollars and fell into two broad categories: single-purpose robots, which are designed to accomplish a specific task, and entertainment robots, which exist for pleasure and play.
"This generation is very focused and they will achieve their goals with single-minded purpose, " says a leading psychoanalyst.
"We used it to our advantage then, with every worker cooperating and getting together for a single-minded purpose, " says economist Noguchi.
But the indictment paints another picture of Hall, one of a superintendent with "a single-minded purpose, and that is to cheat, " Howard told reporters last week.
Mr. Gingrich was recommended to West Georgia as a dynamic young academic "with a single-minded purpose in life: to become a fine teacher-scholar, " wrote Charles P.
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The presence of a single non-exempt purpose, if more than insubstantial in nature, will destroy the exemption of the organization regardless of the number or importance of truly exempt purposes that are present.
The rifles used in full bore competitions have a 7.62mm calibre, and are purpose-built single shot target rifles.
They grieved for a time when leadership was defined by a single-minded, straightforward sense of purpose and direction.
Its purpose is to incubate single-product firms and sell them to a larger medical-device company to get the product through FDA approval.
That pink, including the iconic little pink ribbon, has maintained its status as one of the most powerful branding apps of all time can be credited to the tenacity and single-mindedness of those who support this purpose, which happens to be everyone from football players to yogurt-eaters.
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That is why, rather than reacting to each thing in front of their nose in a random fashion, CEOs derive a single abstract strategy from an analysis of all the information available about the company, the market, the suppliers, and the competitive and economic environments, organized toward a single purpose: Maximization of long-term shareholder wealth.
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"While eBook readers have focused on static black-and white images in a single purpose device, we believe incremental content from magazines, newspapers, textbooks and other formats will lend themselves to a more colorful, immersive and interactive experience, more akin to what users have come to expect from the Internet, " Cross writes.
It hurts performance, locks people out of their own single-player game during maintenance, and serves no purpose that benefits consumers whatsoever.
The investment vehicle being created by Goldman is intended to pool investors' money to create the legal effect of a single new shareholder in Facebook, since each special-purpose vehicle counts as one shareholder of record.
The investment vehicle being created by Goldman is intended solely to pool investors' money to create the legal effect of a single new shareholder in Facebook, since each special-purpose vehicle counts as one shareholder of record.
Sometimes I get the feeling that this linear route was designed with a single purpose: to give the happy hiker a near-continuous view of the rocky African coast.
Mr Wladawsky-Berger's hospital would similarly crunch patient-data using the internet, or grid, as if it were a single, giant virtual microprocessor, but for a more earth-bound purpose.
The purpose of TanDEM is to build a world DEM that is single-source and has "no joins".
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