Because consumers must walk back and forth from the computer to the television set to drag and drop files onto the TakeTV, SanDisk Vice President Eric Bone says TakeTV relies on the old-fashioned "SneakerNet"--the tried and true technique of marching across the living room with stored data, an operation that dates back to the days of floppy disks, burnable CDs and DVDs.

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If you find all that a little disappointing then you can always employ the debating technique favoured by UFO true believers - the deployment of questions designed to expose the lack of absolute certainty in almost all human affairs.

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When it comes to layering couples, however, the longstanding technique of placing the taller of the two in the back tends to hold true for basic principles of composition.

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