We don't need a situation where we have to question the validity of every website and video we click on.
Instead of curling photographs and yellowing newspapers, we are possessed of a shiny and permanent now, one we flit-click about and so delude ourselves as to our own eternal youth - until, that is, we look down at the wrinkled and liver-spotted hands that rest on the keyboard.
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We have attempted to email them and correct them that we actually did click the tell a friend button over 500 times (with more than one email in it every time) but they have refused to answer.
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Now, whenever we want to indulge a whim and explore the visual evidence of our quarter century on this earth, one click and we have thousands of pictures to scroll through, thousands of recollections blurring past our eyes.
On Click, we like to put theories to the test, no matter how persuasive they appear at face value.
However, if we wish to combine your personal and cookie or click stream information in this manner, we will obtain your express affirmative consent.
We'll admit: we would have preferred to just tap the home button instead of click on it, especially when we were ready to switch apps, but nonetheless, Android makes for an intuitive-enough desktop operating system, what with the home screen full of shortcuts.
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We get paid for that click way more than you would get paid for a banner ad.
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These days we can avoid long waits in line, on hold and get the exact flight or room we want with a mouse click or two.
Click through to see what we mean.
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We eventually got to the Facebook Java app hidden inside the Applications folder -- apparently right-click on the D-pad should launch it but we had no luck with that.
What's worse, the Storm2's implementation requires a surprising amount of effort to actuate, meaning that long messages were a chore to type out -- not only do they wear out your fingers, but it gets old hearing the screen's loud "thunk" each and every time you type a letter, which we find considerably more noticeable than the traditional click of a physical QWERTY keyboard.
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Thanks to some impressive Click-style crowd-sourcing, we have a slightly better idea of whether or not we really are all living in the filter bubble.
Today, huge volumes of data, touching almost every aspect of the world in which we live in, are available at virtually the click of a mouse.
The press conference at Xintiandi in Shanghai last Friday where we unveiled our 2012 Forbes China Rich List (click here for the new list) included a long discussion about some of the most important Chinese wealth trends of the past decade.
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Click here to see a sampling of letters we received in response to this story.
We probably have this risk capacity in our genes (click here for more " Blessed Are the Hypomanic" ).
We expect that marketers will focus less on CTR (click through rate), and instead find really creative ways to get through to consumers.
Click here for 15 of the most laughable we could find, thanks in part to Dorigo Jones, author of Remove Child Before Folding: The 101 Stupidest, Silliest and Wackiest Warning Labels Ever.
When we put these initial results to Eli Pariser on our Click programme a few weeks ago, he suggested that the apparent lack of personalisation may have been down to the word we chose.
But in 2012, at a time when anyone with a cell phone can spread offensive views around the world with the click of a button, the notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete.
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We chose the name FirstGov to signify the citizens' first click to electronic government.
We carry our virtual friends with us always, just a click away tucked in our purses and pockets.
You can click water settings with various positions and pressures (we had fun just watching everything it can do).
"The way that neurons communicate with each other is by how fast they fire pulses, it's a little bit akin to listening to a Geiger counter click, and it's that property that we lock onto, " said Professor Andrew Schwartz from the University of Pittsburgh.
We covered that drama on our blog and in our podcasts, click here and here.
We added many convenient features to provide Chinese users with one-click access to popular online activities such as gaming, shopping, banking, and microblogging, etc.
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For instance, if you search for a friend in Foursquare, we show their full name in the results, but when you click through to their profile page you don't see their last name.
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