When you use Silk - without thinking about it or doing anything explicit - you're calling on the raw computational horsepower of Amazon EC2 to accelerate your web browsing.

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And your facial expressions can also act as an implicit way of issuing commands to the TV without you even thinking about it.

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The Southeastern position, in effect, is that Michael Dell is acting out of simple economic self-interest and not out of his stated desire to hasten the transformation of the company without worrying about quarterly financial performance. (But, you are thinking, Gordon Gekko taught us that greed is good, right?) In short, Southeastern is saying that Michael Dell is seizing the day, buying back the company he founded on the cheap.

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You've probably always arranged your living room furniture around one fixture, without even thinking twice about it: the TV and TV outlet.

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