But considering how rare a disaster like this is, especially in comparison to car crashes, it raises the question, which mode of transportation is truly the safest?
The trouble is that we often do not understand which mode of sociality is in play until we get to know the person or recognize the scenario.
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This is actually a cluster of functions comprised of Best Scene Mode, which allows tagging of favorite scenes while recording or later on, Best Face Mode, which automatically picks out scenes containing registered faces, and Best Smile Mode which picks out just the scenes containing great smiles.
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From the great number of complaints which we have heard respecting the operation of the Income Tax as to the mode in which the profits of trades and professions under Schedule D are determined, we have reason to believe that a provision in the act, very important to the mercantile community, has been quite overlooked, or is little known.
Perhaps the most interesting part of this design is its dual-mode power system, which consists of the standard solar cell array as well as a nuclear power source, allowing the rover to operate continuously and in areas that go long periods without sunlight.
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The pilot must then change the pitch of his craft to let it enter a mode called autorotation, in which the rush of air as it descends keeps the blades whirling, thus providing lift that slows the fall.
The whole arrangement is actually designed for a particular mode of life, which, as you can see looking around us, is incredibly successful.
Under the shelter of strong government, humankind can enjoy "commodious living" - Hobbes' term for a civilised mode of life in which we can live and work together without fear.
You have shifted to a far more expensive mode of operation in which the really dramatic results are produced by machines or by drugs and benefit a relatively small fraction of the population.
Then he abandons that routine and goes into his more usual mode of loud recitation, which makes no pretense at singing.
It is a mode of atmospheric circulation in which the stratosphere is unusually warm and westerly winds, which normally bring warmth from the oceans to northern Europe, are unusually weak.
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The demo will also provide access to the cooperative multiplayer mode, which has been the source of considerable anxiety by devotees of the traditional BioWare single-player experience, but not until February 17.
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As for the performance freaks, you can enable Ultimate mode which is right at the bottom of the "ASUS customized setting" menu, but we didn't notice any performance gain during our benchmark tests.
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There is also a continuous mode, which will take a sequence of nine shots -- it took us a while to figure out that you've got to hold down the camera button to get it snapping.
Likewise, the whopping 60% of young voters who favored Obama are poised to shift into spending mode, which will benefit the retail home furnishings business, as many of these Millennials look to outfit new abodes, he said.
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On another note one should consider the game changing aspects of a dual mode FDD and TDD LTE radio chip, which is expected to be on a future iteration of the iPhone in 2013.
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Microsoft says to expect more Outlook.com features now that the service is out of preview mode, including Skype video calls and a calendar, both of which the company first promised when it announced the service last year.
Neither did Friendster, which is in the middle of massive reorganization mode.
Depending on which priority mode you pick, one or more of these dials will be greyed out and inaccessible, because it's under the camera's control.
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Earlier in the day, Froch had appeared confident and relaxed, and he was operating in the mode which he had for the past couple of days.
Gamers are gravitating to the new Connected Careers online mode, which allows players to take control of Hall of Famers like Marcus Allen (see video below).
Finally, the Razer Edge can be docked in the Docking Station as part of home console mode, which serves as a full desktop and charging resource with three USB 2.0 ports, an HDMI 1.4 port, mic-in and stereo-out.
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The microP2 card will ensure high-speed transfer, high reliability and the writing assurance of all P2 frame rates, formats and codecs, as well as Panasonic's newest compression platform, up to the AVC-Intra200 mode of AVC-ULTRA, which will be available within 2013.
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We also got an early glimpse of battery performance from Intel's incoming Haswell processor: you can expect to glean 10 hours of use in tablet mode, which is on par with many lower-powered tablets already on the market (think: Atom, ARM, et cetera).
He also gushed over the panorama mode, which admittedly churned out some pretty seamless results of the Icelandic countryside.
Forsyth previously worked alongside Joe Ludwig and Michael Abrash on Valve's Team Fortress 2, which has a VR mode specifically designed for the developer version of the Rift.
He provided his voice for WWE 13, which featured him as part of the Attitude Era story mode along with legends like Mick Foley and Stone Cold Steve Austin.
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The main controls are located on the left side of the screen, which displays the current mode, a dial for choosing a different mode, as well as onscreen triggers for movie recording and shutter release (which behaves identically to the physical shutter release but is sometimes more convenient).
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Being the filthy non-purists that we are, we're most excited by the camera's 720p video mode, which offers decently fast autofocus with a half press of the shutter button, and zero jelly vision to worry about.
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If you don't have a subscription, you can still enjoy Deezer's discovery mode, which offers unlimited access to Deezer's thousands of artist-based and themed radio channels, and allows music fans to browse the Deezer library and listen to 30-second clips of any of our 20 million tracks.
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