Stern passed away on May 24th, 2012, but just this week, The Los Angeles Times has published a laudable look back at a man that had an enormous impact on the technology that we rely on -- and, quite frankly, take for granted -- each and every day.
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Such a wake-up call will bring a greater understanding of what it means to be Cuban-American and what it means to be American -- and a much-needed appreciation for the freedoms we often take for granted in this country.
Fifteen years ago, when most people still had slow, dial-up connections, many of the broadband uses we now take for granted would have seemed far-fetched.
It reconceives many words we take for granted -- such as power or defense.
In their urban cocoons, city-dwellers take for granted the abundance and availability of the economic goods that they consume.
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"What the web has taught us is that you can take nothing for granted - those who sit back and hope it goes away will lose, " he said.
The 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act will make it easier for people who are deaf, blind or live with a visual impairment to do what many of us take for granted -- from navigating a TV or DVD menu to sending an email on a smart phone.
For us, people sort of take it for granted -- hey, you do phones, and set-tops, and IPTV and all these things so it's easier for us now that that's part of the message for people to say, of course Microsoft's is going to make Messenger work on the Xbox.
But the thing we have come to take for granted -- the ease and endlessness with which the face and voice, the very movements, of a president are delivered to even the most remote outposts of the world -- may, in the end, turn out to be a more profound development than many of the political decisions our presidents make.
Portfolio workers lack a lot of the things that full-time employees take for granted, ranging from secretarial assistance to office parties.
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The price of our freedom has been far too high for any of us to ever take it for granted, and the consequence of non-participation in our right to vote is far too great for any of us to ignore.
People of all walks were coming to take a basic stability and state of well-being for granted.
Not, in this case, whisky - although we may take for granted that he is well aware of the intrinsic worth of the water of life as far as the Scottish economy is concerned.
But I don't think you would take -- we certainly don't take anything for granted given the fact that this will be the fourth vote on extending unemployment benefits, when if you look, I think, at the past this has tended not to be a confrontational -- or controversial thing to do.
These are basic movements many of us take for granted: a tri-pod grip to pick up a pen, or hand-shake grip for business meetings, said Miguelez, who has fitted hundreds of amputees with prosthetic devices.
What about our poorer and distant neighbors, the folk elsewhere in Africa and India, for example, scouring nearly around the clock for the means of basic survival such as finding relative safety, drinkable water, and food of any kind that we, with our self-induced complicated lives, take for granted as a basic given?
That starts with creating a consumer-credit culture in the first place, plus many of the things lenders take for granted in North America, like individual credit histories, and finely tuned risk-based pricing where the riskiest customers pay the highest interest rates, to cover expected losses.
Goh and Vickers can find other strategic partners or try another merger proposal -- but they shouldn't take minority shareholders for granted.
Londoners do seem to have a close connection with the Underground - but most of the time they take it for granted.
Or perhaps some governments deliberately keep wages low because they take it for granted that customs inspectors and driving-licence clerks will supplement their official pay.
"They can perform activities of daily living -- the simple things you and I take for granted such as personal hygiene, brushing our teeth, combing our hair, " Lee said.
We may well be cockroach-ish, but we shouldn't take that for granted.
"Whenever I talk about someone in hip-hop, I kind of have to take for granted that they're going to see it, " he says.
"I think partly what we foreigners are good at is looking at America, not in a judgmental way, but wide-eyed, and seeing the things you take for granted and presenting them in a new way, " he added.
To them, the security practices we engineers take for granted are difficult, fragmented, and non-intuitive.
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"I take nothing for granted, " Bush said in a rough-and-ready maiden speech on Saturday.
Despite New York City virtually revolving around its mass transit system, local subway riders haven't had a way to check the next arrival in real-time, even though some smaller cities already take live transit details for granted.
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So many things we take for granted came about because of the union movement -- minimum wage, 40-hour workweek, child labor laws -- you name it -- weekends -- a lot of these things came about because people were fighting for them.
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But it is also the case that one cannot take for granted that even parks in the best neighborhoods will be well-maintained.
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