• Set-top boxes don't have enough memory or fast-enough processors to deal with it.

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  • Many schools, including top-tier institutions, don't offer extra enticements to attract students and not all students are successful in negotiating better deals.

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  • "Councils know about local issues with shared homes and don't need top-down rules from Whitehall to deal with problems that don't exist, " he said.

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  • Messaging apps, known as "over-the-top" apps because consumers don't pay carriers directly for the services, typically go beyond plain-vanilla text messaging with features such as voice notes, camera applications, access to games and virtual stickers that are popular among teens and young adults.

    WSJ: The Messaging Apps Taking on Facebook, Apple

  • The average person probably thinks, yes, climate change, that's kind of a drag, but it's not one of my top priorities -- because you don't really see it or feel it, it doesn't hit your pocketbook, it doesn't have to do with your job directly.

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  • The shot went in the top left-hand corner but we don't know necessarily that it's where the striker was trying to put the ball.

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  • It would take a brave government to tell voters that it was making anything up to 50m television sets obsolete and a pretty silly one to spend billions on handing out free set-top boxes to people who don't feel like buying them.

    ECONOMIST: Digital broadcasting

  • But in the interest of transparency--we don't just promote our Top 100 Sites, we also actually read them and share them--we're including some insights from the readers of Corporette, as well.

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  • But until that happens--or his estate releases more footage--don't look for Carson to grace our list of top-earning dead celebrities.

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  • Facebook, Google and Microsoft clearly have their appeal as hot places to work, but they don't necessarily pay top dollar--at least when it comes to their salaries for tech marketing managers.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • In a statement Thursday night, the White House didn't address Thursday's House proceedings but referenced its top priority -- ensuring that 98% of Americans don't see their taxes rise in January.

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  • The news isn't expected to be great and it could cause some short-term indigestion if profits don't top expectations.

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  • The most profound changes, the most dynamic innovations, they don't happen from the top down -- they happen from the bottom up.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Addresses Business and Tourism Leaders

  • Time magazine chose him as a "European Hero" that year, saying he used "over-the-top humour to probe the serious social issues that leaders don't want to touch".

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  • Because the hotel was new, TripAdvisor's algorithm saw strong upward momentum and gave them a Top 10 spot (I'm guessing here -- I don't have access to their code).

    ENGADGET: This Is the Modem World: Review Sites Are Broken

  • But make no mistake - if Woods plays at the very top of his game I don't see anyone beating him.

    BBC: I reckon I'm going to wear out my four iron this week.

  • Obviously that would complicate -- be a very complicated situation to deal with because, again, you could have oil coming from a lot of different, or several different places that don't have blowout preventers on top of them -- right?

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • The capital is also stocked with the kinds of treats they don't cover in Social Studies classes top-rate farmers' markets, modern American restaurants, like chef Ris Lacoste's Ris, and nightclubs that attract more than that tiresome crop of 23-year-old congressional aides.

    WSJ: Journal Concierge: Insider's Guide to Washington, D.C.

  • Toyota's top hybrid engineers say they are all for plug-ins, but they don't think the lithium-ion batteries they depend on will be ready to meet their stringent quality standards for several years. (They cannot resist a polite titter about spontaneously combusting laptop batteries.) Toyota is therefore likely to stick with the heavy and range-limited nickel-metal hydride battery for the third-generation Prius, due in 2009.

    ECONOMIST: Hybrid cars: Beyond the Prius | The

  • And if instead what you do is you indulge in, I think, a complete distraction which is sort of creating a top ten hit list of the specific directives you don't particularly like - by the way the directives that I don't particularly like - you just kind of miss the big picture.

    BBC: Transcript of Nick Clegg interview

  • "We don't want the products to look over-the-top ridiculous, " said Nordby, 41, who also designs Bogey Pro, a popular line of irreverent golf gear.

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  • Though its career as a hit-maker dried up shortly after its 1986 debut, Crowded House continued to churn out glorious power-pop singles through the early '90s, following the Top 10 gems "Don't Dream It's Over" and "Something So Strong" with a sturdy string of tracks that deftly balance briskness and melancholy.

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  • In fact, you don't actually need a child at all to get into a top-tier nursery school.

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  • Don Southerton is a consultant, marketing strategist, and researcher for top Korean-based corporations with global business, along with major western firms that have ventures in Korea and Asia Pacific.

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  • "We felt that we probably underperformed a little bit on the first day and as a captain and a top-order batter the last thing I want to do is bat on a wicket that I don't think we can make any runs on, " he said.

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  • They don't want to be associated with over-paid stars who are earning top cash but not performing.

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  • "In the long-term I don't have any worries that I won't be continuing at the top level, " McNish said in a statement.

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  • Americans largely don't follow judo too closely, but we're told Tomoko Fukumi, the top-seed in the 48-kilogram class, is the Manny Pacquiao of her division before Mr. Pacquiao's upset by Timothy Bradley.

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