"I recently visited the ancient Todaiji temple in Nara and noticed an extra roof tile set on its top, " recalls the Toshiba president.

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To answer your queries, loading time from the live tile menu to the top tweets page above is approximately three seconds, while scrolling is basically identical to the perfection available on WP7's own apps.

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Baseballs are woven throughout the plans, embedded in ironwork along the side of the facade, through terra-cotta balls adorning the top of the stadium, in stitches visible in the tile inlay on the rotunda floor and in its dangling baseball-and-bat chandelier.

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Then, rather than building polygons that are mostly invisible on top of each other, the engineers devised a way to render in each tile only graphic data that are actually visible at a given moment.

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