Beyond basic specs and a sporadic showering of images, we've never actually touched the thing.
Last year China did resume a sporadic and desultory dialogue with his representatives.
This is symptomatic of the problem with virtual manufacturing: it is still, despite its promise, a sporadic and haphazard phenomenon.
"Before its affiliation with Hollywood, Bebe was just a sporadic mall operator, " says Thomas Julian, trend analyst with ad agency Fallon McElligott.
Exports were still taking place on a sporadic basis, he said, with two shipments of 700, 000 barrels and another for one million loaded recently.
His 15-year-old son Brandon has a sporadic attendance at school.
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Her father, who supported the family as best he could in Haiti with sporadic work as a tailor, is unlikely to find jobs soon, if he is still alive, she said.
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Overleaf, we follow the fortunes of Homo sapiens sapiens around the Black and Mediterranean Seas through 30 000 years of a tumultuous history marked by sporadic earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions, as well as more insidious hazards tied to a changing climate, such as flooding from glacier melt, gradual sea-level rise or prolonged drought.
The police chief said a number of sporadic incidents followed which resulted in police being "very heavy-handed" with the Bolton fans, and he blamed senior officers for the problems.
Which is to say that while all these activities will certainly continue on a limited and sporadic (ie, unreliable) basis, the former days of their getting performed on-demand will no longer be possible.
Syrian government forces fired artillery shells into opposition areas of Homs as sporadic violence continued to test a fragile four-day-old cease-fire hours before the first U.N. peace monitors were due to arrive in Damascus.
Nadhan, also active with The Open Group, has been pondering the cloud ROI question for some time, and concludes that what once were sporadic IT costs have become a part of a continuous evaluation process which may make capturing ROI measurements a trickier proposition.
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Since the opt-out, the pace of negotiations towards a new CBA has been sporadic and inconsistent.
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Leung hopes that Celebrex may also combat with Sporadic Adenomatous Polyptosis (SAP), a much more common version of disease.
The conflict erupted after days of sporadic clashes between both sides led to a Georgian assault on South Ossetia's capital Tskhinvali on August 7, 2008.
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In a country where state education does not exist, except for the government setting a basic curriculum and giving sporadic funding, Santina's remaining children do not attend school.
The poor must put up with far more unhealthy conditions such as a lack of clean water and sporadic gunfire at night.
There has been sporadic violence in India at the beginning of a two-day strike called by the country's trade unions in protest against the government's economic reforms.
Meanwhile, the rest of us continue to struggle with the problems users face even in a Windows 7 world: sporadic freezing, the occasional printer that disappears from our network, the sudden shutdown of Word when in the middle of a document.
Gaza rocket fire on Israel has declined since a military campaign in November, but sporadic attacks persist.
After a hesitant start, combat troops contained sporadic rioting, including pitched battles between red shirts and residents.
Nor were behaviour patterns that did not appear to be sporadic (digging for termites, rather than using a stick to fish for them) classified as cultural.
Violent attacks are at an "all-time" low according to Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell, but there continue to be sporadic high-profile attacks by insurgents, including a blast that killed 62 people and injured 150 others at a Baghdad market on Wednesday.
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In truth, the Tories had entered a pattern of decline from a high point in the 1950s, with sporadic mini-revivals - although successive peaks mostly tended to be lower than the last.
Sporadic violence targeting the pipeline has been another concern, including a February explosion in northern Sinai.
The Italian admitted last week he had a spat with striker Craig Bellamy and it seems a growing number of players are unhappy with the sporadic nature of the training sessions.
Some big names like Harlan Krumholz and Bob Harrington are sporadic tweeters, providing behind the scene glimpses at events like a PCORI meeting or an ACC Board of Governors meeting.
The fire, which burned a home Wednesday, was 40 percent contained with only sporadic flames showing.
India and Pakistan share a long history of distrust and enmity, marked by sporadic military conflict.
Since then, a simmering stalemate has prevailed and both sides have reported sporadic breaches of the truce.
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