We were skeptical at first, but thanks to a built-in two-second delay between touch selections, we always got what we wanted -- and no, the delay isn't too noticeable.
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And we could say, yes, we wanted to go with this family, or no, we didn't.
No wonder we wanted a wall between the developers and the sysadmins, particularly since, in theory, the advent of the personal computer and desktop workstation meant that we could all be responsible for our own machines.
In particular, there were occasions when what we wanted to focus on jarred with what the cameraman actually focused on -- because the vista was often so wide and detailed that it seemed we could choose any subject we wanted, and there was no need for cutaways.
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For there would be no reallocation: every ticket has gone to the person who wanted it most and there we are, no further sorting will take place.
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Yet when going around the various companies (not just Groupon you understand) we found that no one really wanted to take on the offer.
We were typical of most startups of the era: we had no real customers yet, but were being offered more money than we realistically wanted or needed to raise.
We presented the manufacturers of these two no-nonsense notebooks with a bevy of durability tests that we wanted to try, and while Panasonic's representatives were game for just about anything we suggested (even coming back with a few more brutal things to try), our Durabook contacts were understandably a little less eager.
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"The FA Cup was a competition we wanted to have a go at and there is no excuse, " he told reporters.
We wanted them, and the Soviets, to have no doubt that if necessary we would use our strategic forces to defend Europe.
Part of the reason we wanted to make this meeting happen is because we have no stronger ally than the Netherlands.
The first candidate I interviewed was not a fit for various reasons, but he wanted to move ahead no matter how mismatched we were.
"We wanted something on the desktop that would be low maintenance - no hard drive and no floppy drive, " he said.
"The two points that changed his mind as we talked was, No. 1, the independence he wanted to gain, " his wife said.
But, well, such things happen: no one ever said the universe would do everything we wanted.
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"There's no question that the finish in Iowa was not what we wanted, but we've been working here and feel like we're really on the move, " Karen Hicks, Dean's New Hampshire state director, said Sunday.
And last, but by no means least, they knew what we, the press, wanted: A sneak peek at upcoming episodes.
He and his partners used no recruiters: "We went straight to the people we wanted to hire, " conducting interviews in coffee shops while seeking a headquarters.
This time no one wanted to take a chance on the bus, so we had to sit in the changing rooms.
No doubt we will all soon know much more about this than we ever wanted to know.
The gap that we saw was that there was no technology available for people like you and I who wanted to host events on our own, and not use a white label solution or use something more sophisticated than Excel spreadsheets and checks.
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This way, we could see if the fans really wanted this game or if the publishers were right and there was no market.
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That was the year I wanted and I was told by most of my committee members that there was no way we get it.
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No one would ever have to pay any taxes, and we could spend as much as we wanted.
"We made a promise to have a fair trial based on the law of the land and we wanted this historical trial to be just and fair in order to give the rights to its true owners, no matter what the sentence will be, " he said.
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