But the recent advances in technology have opened up more affordable and less space-consuming options for those looking to go retro.
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For example, funds were summarily redirected from vital work on space-based systems to less capable ground-based ones, and constraints were imposed that hamstrung realistic testing activities.
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But a different piece of space-related news inspired less laughter.
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Old-style cages only had 550 square centimetres of space for each bird - which is less than a sheet of A4 paper.
The amount of commercial building space rose about 25%, and total residential space (much less energy-intensive) grew about 50%.
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From April families deemed to have too much living space will get less benefit - a change dubbed the "bedroom tax".
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The jurisdiction-less SealsWithClubs, which competes in the poker space as a bitcoin-only site, is not concerned about the news from WinPoker.
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Owners of top-quality shopping centers, most of which are owned by real-estate investment trusts, generally have less trouble than owners of street-level retail space.
Promotional allowances between manufacturers and retailers--discounts in exchange for ads or shelf space--are common in the grocery business, and they occasionally veer off into less ethical incentives consisting of under-the-counter rewards to a retailer's employees.
Because the jamming was causing collateral damage to neighboring channels on Hotbird, the BBC reluctantly agreed to a request from a satellite-space middleman to move to another Eutelsat satellite, called W3A. It is less-watched, and the move initially cut BBC Persian's reach by at least half, the channel's director, Sadeq Saba, estimates.
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Nasa ground controllers have re-established contact with the International Space Station less than three hours after a computer failure briefly interrupted communication.
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Now he warns, human activity in the space of less than 200 years threatens to re-awaken extreme climate change of the sort never experienced in the era of recorded history.
SSTL, who is helping build Galileo (and is acutely aware of its cost, no doubt), views smartphones as a way to democratize access to space because they are far less expensive than purpose-built control systems.
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Many Americans recognize the unsurpassed science and inspiration that have come from the Hubble Space Telescope over the past two decades, as well as from its less famous sister satellites like the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Spitzer Space (Infrared) Telescope and the Fermi gamma-ray observatory.
Inevitably, even in a three-volume history, some elements get less space than they deserve.
Landlords often use their control of choice space to convince retailers also to sign leases in less-desirable locations.
Clearly online retailing requires a lot less retail property space compared to traditional brick-and-mortar format employed by big retail chains like Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Target and Costco.
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But the program also fuels a less universally welcome attitude about outdoor space that favors tricked-out park amenities over straightforward ones, and flashy attractions over continuing attention to maintenance.
Substantial improvements would be required to meet those criteria, and many lawmakers and other NASA critics argue a faster and less expensive path would be to rely on a space-shuttle derived alternative.
Many online backup services -- like Amazon's S3 -- are already available and are will only offer more space for less money in the future as the cost of data storage continues to fall.
The conventional logic has it that Li-ion offers greater storage in a more compact space compared to the less expensive NiMH.
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Simon said the company plans to add 115 new outlets that have less than 60, 000-square-feet of selling space this year.
And whereas Wi-Fi signals wimp out after 100 yards or less, the White Space signals could travel for miles.
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The reason is that they are spurring new ideas and pushing Apple to re-imagine hardware and software in a space that has been much more stable and less revolutionary over the past five years.
In the short run, that might restrict natural-gas use to vehicles such as lorries and buses, where space is at less of a premium (and which already run on a different fuel from most cars).
E-commerce, which dominates the MENA startup space, works best in these countries, less so in North Africa, particularly Egypt.
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The sea offers space, a view to a distant horizon, a physical perspective less oppressive than hard-edged close-up urban architecture.
As I have said in this space before, front-month options activity is especially speculative, given that these contracts expire in less than two weeks on Oct. 22.
However, attic space will become much less expensive in the 21st century, we will soon introduce a new fruit-recovery utility and version 3.0 will open the mailbox in under two minutes.
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