Besides not having to deal with squalling siblings, scouring the web for hard to find items keeps the element of surprise for the big day.
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The thing that provides structure in open-water ecosystems is the food-web, which is hard to observe and malleable.
In particular, they say, those firms that depend on advertising on the Web will have a hard time convincing investors that they can be profitable.
Staffers used a high-speed scanner to quickly transform the 1, 275-page document from hard copy to Web pages.
Still, many small businesses that rely on Google for Web traffic are taking it hard and looking for ways to adapt.
Cookies (or browser cookies), Web Beacons, And Other Similar Technologies: Cookies are small bits of information that our web sites place on the hard drive of your computer.
That seeming conflict of interest might have riled journalists in the past, but the hard reality of Web losses makes some realize you can't stop the future.
If you are building a community or searching for one as you build a product or web service, it is hard to ignore Google and its core social moves and direction.
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When it comes to web advertising, it is equally hard to see how any charges of monopolistic abuse against Google can be made to stick.
First, though, some background: Google's Chromebooks are built on the promise of cloud computing, where your files live not on your hard drive but on Web servers.
And now, according to an article that appeared in the Washington Post today, the system has become a web so unwieldy it's hard to see if it is actually making us safer.
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France Telecom said slow data speeds on African mobile networks made it hard to support full blown web-browsing.
Since HFR video is hard to find on the web, we used a Canon 7D DSLR to capture 50 fps video (which is close enough to 48 fps), with a mix of action and people, and then downconverted to 25 fps.
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Rarely are leaks intentional: Somebody at work might post a file on a server to download at home, a wrongly configured server might make too much of a hard drive searchable or a Web site's password-protection might be flimsy enough to be accessible to search engines.
It's hard to watch those ubiquitous YouTube Web clips: They arrive as streaming video directly from the Web and aren't downloadable.
Within the FTC, Mr. Leibowitz over the fall told several parties that the Web-search case against Google would be hard to win, according to the people familiar with the probe.
How about eight-window simultaneous multi-display, an Opera-based web browser, DLNA, and a 3TB hard disk drive, 2TB for "time-shift" recording recording up to 26 hours of programs, up to eight channels simultaneously.
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If you'd rather not have some wet-behind-the-ears Victoria's Secret Webmaster pondering your camisole predilections, you can tell your browser to refuse cookies or to prompt you each time a Web site wants to write one to your hard disk.
Still, as with many of these systems, communities of die-hard gamers have found refuge on the web with other like-minded individuals, devoted to breathing some new life into their late, lamented handhelds.
Investors are going to have to think long and hard about investing their cash in unseasoned Web 2.0 companies like LinkedIn and Groupon when they can snap up deeply discounted shares of established and profitable players like Google, Apple and Microsoft.
It's hard to tell in this expansive world wide web of ours, but certain tipoffs can be telling: 1.
But with an inexperienced new CEO, a badly botched new privacy policy, a marked decline in public trust and a looming EU antitrust investigation, it is hard to see Google dominating today's Web 3.0 world from the same unchallenged position as it once controlled the Web 2.0 economy.
It's a unique experience that is hard to duplicate in a magazine or on a Web site with corporate ties.
Ciavarella, who presided over juvenile court, sent kids to juvenile detention for crimes such as possession of drug paraphernalia, stealing a jar of nutmeg and posting web page spoofs about an assistant principal (3 months of hard time).
Thanks to creative destruction, productivity has taken off in ways hard to measure but clear to anyone who surfs the Web for news or browses the global markets for merchandise from places that two generations ago were barely on the map.
The anti-trust investigation was kicked off by rivals such as Microsoft, as well as mapping firms and web retailers which said the way Google ran its search business made it hard for them to compete fairly.
Though the official Athens 2004 Web site urges fans to buy tickets early because "they are already hard to find, " a few more clicks shows that tickets were available for every sport on Monday except sailing and the evening swimming events.
Hard drive clean-up tools should be built in, and Web-based support should be standard.
Wireless telecom is letting both leapfrog a hard-wire era that they largely missed, and the social Web is responding.
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