Some people lack empathy permanently, others switch it off when they are tired, stressed or impatient telling a child not to bother you because you are working, for example and experience regret for their harsh words when their empathy returns.
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It is not something that we can switch on and off whenever it suits us.
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Low cost improvements can include replacing incandescent lights with CFL or LED alternatives, master switches to make it easier to switch off appliances at night, energy monitoring to make it easier to identify waste, draft proofing, and using plants or shade-cloth to keep the summer sun off your home.
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If left to proceed unchecked, it could mean that growth is stunted as the body receives chemical signals telling it to switch off further height gain.
Cyprus' troubled banks have enough money until Monday after the European Central Bank said it will switch off its lifeline on Monday unless an international rescue is in place.
In addition, when the government publicised the switch-off in June it also linked the move to efforts to restrict fraud.
That means it cannot simply switch off generators when prices fall.
While Blackberries, pocket PCs and mobile phones have made it easier to stay in touch with the office, the danger is that workers find it difficult to switch off even when they are supposed to be away from the office.
It would be a slight improvement to add a curtain over the virtual porthole (rather than a switch to shut it on and off), so that guests can leave the video running and wake up with the sense that the sun is "virtually" peeking though their curtains.
Merck is using RNAi technology to switch off genes in lab animals it is using in drug discovery.
It has been designed to switch off as soon as a broadcasting ship comes within 1km of a whale.
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If this particular genre of music isn't working at this point in time, you can switch it up, and you can vibe off the people.
It encourages cities and individuals to switch off non-essential lights for an hour at 20:30 local time.
It has already said if the switch-off took place, the Grade II listed lighthouse would remain intact.
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Until the switch-off date Messenger would work as it always did, said Microsoft.
If it is boring, sleepy people just switch off, but don't do the same for exciting tasks.
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Keeping with the contextual phone skills, Samsung's Smart Stay feature makes the device detect (through the front-facing camera) whether a face is looking at it in order to switch the display on or off.
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Software might be able to offer a good on-screen volume control option and it might be able to mitigate the off switch problem a little, but not enough to keep either issues from being extremely annoying.
They can sustain those failures if they switch off the disruption button, or at least tone it down.
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Last year Hewlett-Packard, along with a team of scientists from UCLA, proved that it is possible to make a switch that can be turned off and on, like a transistor, out of a single organic molecule called a catenane.
Hard to believe, but it was 10 years ago today, October 25, 2001, that Microsoft introduced Windows XP, an operating system so successful that users today promise to switch away from it only when you pry their cold, dead fingers off their mouse.
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"It would be like someone asking you if you wanted to switch off your sight for 20 minutes, " he says.
It was almost as if there was an "off" switch for the self, buried deep in our minds, and the world's religions were a thousand different ways of pressing the switch.
"You run through a field and the paraglider wing catches the wind, it fills with air, blows you off the ground, you switch on the motor and off you go, you're flying, " he said.
In his latest book, tech pundit Nicholas Carr put a name on a trend that's transforming information technology: As the world becomes more networked, he points out, computing power is undergoing "the Big Switch, " moving off of desktops and into massive data centers, where it's cheaper and more efficient.
We're keen on the fbt, a phone designed for braille text messaging, and the Tap, which is shaped like a light switch and functions like one too -- when you tap it, the phone turns off so you can live once again in peace.
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The two controls on top are all you need to get the essential jobs done with this device, a button for switching it on and off (and taking stills) and the sliding record switch -- this set-up also means you can physically feel if it's recording, even when you can't see it.
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Intel had nearly 80% of the market share in the x86 microprocessor market that nearly all desktops, laptops and off-the shelf servers utilized, making it difficult for customers to switch to competitors.
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M3 growth took off earlier this year, the bank put it down to a portfolio switch from equities to cash: this was not spending money, it said, therefore there was no inflationary danger.
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