The most lavish of these involves the goblins and their underground lair teeming with hundreds of the creatures in a complicated labyrinth full of so much detail you could watch it several times and keep finding something new happening in some corner in the background.

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Then he turned to the head of the detail and handed him his watch, his badge, and the keys to the Carter motorcade.

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Yet Martel is someone to watch: she has a fantastic eye for detail and mood.

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Click here to watch a video of John Buckingham discussing in more detail what prompts him to sell winners, and to find out where he's redeploying some of the proceeds.

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As video-as-data becomes economically and technologically feasible, no human eye needs to watch a screen to know what happened and the level of detail (data) that can be taken away from video goes up exponentially.

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This makes it easy to browse the Web using Google Chrome without enlarging text, look at detail-rich pictures without having to zoom in, and watch a show without straining your eyes.

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And the over-riding doubt is the thinking behind a policy which results in tickets being sold (by methods too convoluted and arcane to detail here) to people who either do not care to or do not bother to watch the tennis, while outside the ground the queues of genuine fans accumulate patiently.

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The 790's projector was bright enough to see detail even in a sun-lit room, but we could even see using it to watch a movie (with an external speaker), assuming that we're able to set up shop in a pitch-black environment with a suitable surface.

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