Matias says it spent more than two years working on a new type of key switch -- a modified ALPS switch it's dubbed Quiet Click -- and it has indeed come up with something unique.
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Streetlights have been turned back on at five of the 46 Buckinghamshire locations that were part of a three-year switch-off trial.
His century on Sunday was full of his usual swagger - the switch-hits, the ferocious swipes - his confidence seemingly undented by the recent turmoil.
As Moore's Law (computing power of a chip doubles every 18 months) continues to unfold and as bandwidth capacity continues to explode, just-turn-on-the-switch, easy-to-use high-tech appliances for specific functions will proliferate.
Along the top edge, you'll find the e-ink display and a two-way power switch -- slide it to the left and Ruby behaves like a secure hotspot, slide it to the right and it's a public access point.
Easy enough to do with your marketing materials, your web site and even your blogs, but if all else looks great and you show up for an appointment looking as if you put little thought into your appearance, all your marketing efforts might appear to be a bait-and-switch to a would-be lucrative prospect.
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As it happens, the poster child of this bait-and-switch may be former Senator-turned-lobbyist Trent Lott.
All the important switches in the passenger compartment-except for the hazard flasher switch-are soft-touch components that have a similar feel to using a touchscreen.
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At the core of the Fidelio SoundBar are high quality TI Class-D amplifiers - with a built-in DAC - powered by a compact SMPS (Switch-Mode-Power-Supply) to provide a full digital architecture, delivering highly efficient audio amplification and premium audio quality.
The earpiece has an on-off switch, a three-stage volume control and uses a rechargeable battery.
Much of the avoided energy consumption will come from the switch to carbon-neutral district heating (rural households will switch from oil, natural gas, and electric heating to heat pumps and biomass burners).
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Fidelity Growth Discovery (FDSVX) used to be Fidelity Discovery, a not particularly interesting offering until it got a new manager and shareholder-approved switch to a more growth-oriented posture in February.
Of special interest is a bait-and-switch ruse where (mostly older) investors are told to liquidate safe, low-yielding investments to buy annuities, which carry steep commissions and expenses and lock investors in for years.
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Apple released a statement today confirming this, but here's where it gets interesting: the company says that "the developer of this application added inappropriate content directly from their server after the application had been approved and distributed" -- in other words, the guy pulled a bait-and-switch on Apple by serving different content to his app after it had been approved using more PG-rated content.
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His replacement is left-arm seamer Phil Eaglestone, 26 - and the switch has now been rubber-stamped by the International Cricket Council.
Among the possibilities: Bait-and-switch heavy data users off the unlimited plans they signed up for.
This could include the Norfolk and Norwich Festival and the annual Christmas lights switch-on.
The switch-off is also expected to reduce the council's carbon emissions by around 8%.
In hindsight, her assurances and the guidance documents were the setup for a bait-and-fuel-switch.
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This switch-hitter wine pairs with so many dishes: salmon, tuna, chicken, pork and Thanksgiving turkey.
Last year's switch-on ceremony drew crowds of 20, 000 watching on big screens on the resort's promenade.
California's attorney general, whom we now call Gov. Jerry Brown, declined to investigate the bait-and-switch.
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The Loudoun County School Board is not the first to be subjected to the Gulen bait-and-switch.
It called on states with reactors burning high-enriched uranium to switch to the low-enriched sort.
Zeneca's switch-hitting maize plants are now being tested to see how useful they are for hybrid-seed production.
This may sound like reasonable advice, but it's actually a bait-and-switch strategy and hardly unique to Fidelity.
The street lights switch-off will be rolled out across the rest of Dorset in the next year.
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It has already said if the switch-off took place, the Grade II listed lighthouse would remain intact.
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The worst thing that can happen now is for the state of Wisconsin to employ its own bait-and-switch.
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