The 19-year-old had faced 73 balls for his 36 and showed the sort of application most of his team-mates lacked.

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Neither had been picked as a specialist batsman, but they produced the sort of grit and application that has characterised wearers of the baggy green for generations.

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Surely a Tesla-branded application store of some sort can't be far behind.

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Though this application had been filed before SPICE was proposed, and Mr Davidson both declared his interest and recused himself from discussions on SPICE team when advising EPSRC, Matt Watson of Bristol university, SPICE's principle investigator, was sufficiently concerned about both the application and wider issues of the sort considered by the stakeholder committee that, this week, he cancelled the balloon experiment.

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Although carbon dioxide is the more important greenhouse gas, methane measurements will be a more practical early application to test the market for this sort of data.

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Not that anyone should rely entirely upon a map of any sort of course, but mistakes in the Apple Maps application in iOS6 do seem to pose perhaps more danger than some other such mistakes.

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And rather than envision some sort of uber developer, who understands big data, web performance optimization, application middleware, and fault tolerance in a massively distributed environment, we need operations specialists on the development teams.

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