That's a pessimistic outlook for the big picture but it can be better for the small picture where things that individuals do make a difference.
Right now we're going to get the big picture on inflation and also the small picture, or a smaller picture anyway, what it means to your wallet.
The Camera application can now use both the front and rear cameras simultaneously, inserting a small picture of the user even as he's capturing the scene in front of him.
Taking up the point in the quest for world domination is Sony's XEL-1, which we admit puts out a great, albeit small, picture.
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That is, if this small but likable picture is allowed time to find its audience.
That small, hazy picture shows a ghostly climber (the effect of the long exposure required) slogging up a snow field on the Wetterhorn.
The numbers are a small part of the picture because they only include reported instances.
An aging brain can better tease out patterns and see the big picture, Small says.
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The key difference is that technological innovation is a very small part of the picture.
In an otherwise dim economic picture, small business stands out as a bright spot.
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Paul Scanlan, president and co-founder of MobiTV, saw the big picture of small screens way before most.
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The United States government has come to believe that the cash changing hands on the tables in Macau is only a small part of the picture.
By taking one small slice of the big picture one can argue that the entire picture looks the same.
To date, much of what I see in the Social Analytics space tends to cover only a small part of the overall picture.
It is a 1970 picture of a small tricycle, shot like the Ford truck from a low angle, with two lower-middle-class ranch-style houses in the background.
Sirtuins will, he says, probably be but a small part of a more complicated picture.
However, the Thoroughbred Racing Industry is a small fraction of the horse slaughter picture.
Responding to the information in the e-mails, the Department of Homeland Security said some of them are not consistent with the facts and give only a small glimpse of a much larger picture.
"More than 28, 000 flights take off each day in the United States, so if you look at the statistics, they're pretty small in relation to the big picture, " said Kees Rietsema, department chair of business administration at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
If there are any issues on the bus then the drivers... will be able to pick a picture (from a small screen in front of him) of any pupil who he feels is perhaps misbehaving and send a report through very quickly both to the school and to the local authorities.
In case it wasn't already clear how small the Android-powered console is, the folks at Ouya included the picture you see above to further illustrate that point -- the thing is really small.
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Many times, children are the ones offering a photo of themselves for a small sum of money, having learned from picture-hungry tourists that they can easily sell a snapshot.
When I was a small boy, I used to take the picture to bed with me every night, because for more than three years my father was deployed, unable to live with us full-time, serving overseas or in bases where there was no family housing.
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The fortunes of other small companies, however, offer a more mixed picture.
When you first turn on the screen on a Home-equipped phone, you see the time and a small circle at the bottom displaying your Facebook profile picture.
There's an array of new camera effects, such as one where you can superimpose for fun a small square image of your own face onto a picture you're taking, and another where you can create a "Drama" shot in which a single moving person appears multiple times in sequence.
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