The developers did away with energy, the traditional method of constraining the amount of time players can spend with the game without paying for it.

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Mr. HITZ: Maybe it's a traditional kind of method of dealing with people that dates from a bygone era.

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The force was one of just three in England and Wales to use the traditional first-past-the-post method with just two candidates standing.

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Like his medium, his method combines the old and the new: he draws with a traditional Japanese brush dipped in ink, but adds occasional colour on a Mac.

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The traditional method of repair involves a gang of up to five people kitted out with shovels, buckets and wheelbarrows, and a lorry-load of asphalt.

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"One traditional method involves cutting large bundles at low tide and roughly tying them together with net or old rope, anchored on rocks, " Mr Walsh says.

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Today, customers who have credit cards embedded with that technology have the option of waving a card in front of a reader, instead of using a traditional swipe method.

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