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...on in ways to connect us to each other and to the Web. This was not the first time Steve Jobs had launched a revolution. Thirty years earlier, at the F... ...ines of those innovations, and if they can be saved, they will offer more. As time passes, the brand names on each side will change. But the core battl... ...tworks would develop in the same way that the separate phone networks—at one time requiring differently colored phones on each person’s desk—had conver... ...the data automatically, and over the next sev- eral years he spent his spare time devising a punch card system for sur- veyors to use. The U.S. govern... ... to common household appliances to make it a complete PC. For example, a $99 Timex/Sinclair Z-1000 or a $199 Texas Instruments TI-99/4A could use a t... ...o erase their own hard drives at the stroke of midnight, adjusting for time zones to make sure the col- lective crash takes place at the same time ar... ...like contraption to some PVC After the Stall 86 Figure 4.3 Eric von Hippel’s zones of innovation pipes to create a portable center-pivot irrigation s...

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... The west coast of North America, for example, is 2,400 miles (3,900 kilometers) from Honolulu, and Japan is 3,800 miles (6,100 kilometers) away. Six time zones separate Hawai'i from the eastern United States. This means that 9:00 A.M. (eastern standard time) in Washington, D.C. and New York City is 6:00 a.m. in Los Angeles and 4:00 a.m. in Hawai'i....

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...Opportunity Many times we ask ourselves why so and so is able to amass a fortune, when at one point they were in the same situation as us? He wanted to succeed, that is why he made it. Follow me. It is not only the matter luck, and I’m not e...

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...ave to go to interview after interview being rejected. In this book you are going to meet the secret sauce of the big and successful companies of our time and the underdogs who persisted until they made it. You will also discover the rich opportunities of business, the mindset of the dreamers and the millionaires, what makes the two different and the chemical combination ...

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... bloodbath of unusual proportions has taken place in the last few months. Time Warner's iPublish and MightyWords (partly owned by Barnes and Noble) ... .... directly to end-users and consumers. This is a return to pre-industrial times when artisans ruled the economic scene. Work stability will suffer a... ...dressbooks" of clients (stores, consumers, media, etc.). This reduces the time to market and increases efficiency. It alters revenue models very sub... ...creators) for their services. This is especially true in an age of just-in-time inventory and digital distribution. Network effects mean that content... ...rt objects and transforms it into a catalyst of human interactions across time and space. In other words, it returns the book to its origins: a time ... ... structure of the database - the way Germany is divided to 1860 reporting zones - protected in any way? In essence, copyright is a temporary monopol... ...can spring up and dissipate as needed without regard to geography or time zones. Indeed, as bandwidth continues to increase in availability and plum...

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...des hence. There is no effective method of cost/benefit analysis applicable to such time horizons. How are consumer choices influenced by advertisi... ...tal state of a human subject can be (theoretically) fully known. But the passage of time and, sometimes, the experiment itself, influence the subjec... ...ect and alter his or her mental state - a problem known in economic literature as "time inconsistencies". The very processes of measurement and obs... ...economic teaching, human wants are limited - only so many people exist at any given time and not all them desire everything all the time. But, even ... ...h additional copy. An original software retains its quality even if copied numerous times. The very distinction between "original" and "copy" become... ...ision of such services a part of their economic life or are about to do so. Free zones, off shore havens, off shore banking and transshipment por... ...means that workers can collaborate not only across continents but also across time zones. They can leave their work for someone else to continue in... ... unhindered exchange of goods, services, and capital (tax holidays, free processing zones, no red tape, double taxation treaties and free trade agr...

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...xpense? Does one have the right to use other people's bodies, their property, their time, their resources and to deprive them of pleasure, comfort, ... ...re discussed in terms normally reserved to natural catastrophes (force majeure). At times, the embryo is compared to cancer, a thief, or an invader:... ... contract can be annulled this way – the consent of both parties is required. Many times we realize that we have entered a bad contract, but there ... ... child. Why not extend the woman's ownership of her body and right to it further in time and space to the post-natal period? Contracts to provide g... ... provision") is a violation of the contract and should be penalized. Admittedly, at times we have a right to choose to do the immoral (because it ha... ...in Fiji, the Andaman and Cook islands) and is still the case in godforsaken battle zones such as Congo (formerly Zaire), or among the defeated Japa... ...means that workers can collaborate not only across continents but also across time zones. They can leave their work for someone else to continue in... ...opean (and Western) structures and seek their fortunes in the geopolitical twilight zones of the world. The USA is unlikely to be of much help to Eu...

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...xpense? Does one have the right to use other people's bodies, their property, their time, their resources and to deprive them of pleasure, comfort, ... ...re discussed in terms normally reserved to natural catastrophes (force majeure). At times, the embryo is compared to cancer, a thief, or an invader:... ... contract can be annulled this way – the consent of both parties is required. Many times we realize that we have entered a bad contract, but there ... ... child. Why not extend the woman's ownership of her body and right to it further in time and space to the post-natal period? Contracts to provide g... ... provision") is a violation of the contract and should be penalized. Admittedly, at times we have a right to choose to do the immoral (because it ha... ...in Fiji, the Andaman and Cook islands) and is still the case in godforsaken battle zones such as Congo (formerly Zaire), or among the defeated Japa... ...means that workers can collaborate not only across continents but also across time zones. They can leave their work for someone else to continue in... ...opean (and Western) structures and seek their fortunes in the geopolitical twilight zones of the world. The USA is unlikely to be of much help to Eu...

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...rp deterioration in the global economy which contracted in 2009, the first time since World War II. There is not a single country in the world which h... ... million more people will fall into extreme poverty in 2010. Although real-time data is still not available, a recent World Bank Report estimated that... ... the international aid to the poor and developing countries will fall at a time when it is needed badly. Since the financial crisis began in the devel... ... of foreign banks in the domestic financial system. Within a short span of time, foreign banks acquired majority stakes in the domestic banking market... ...r-Bank Overnight Rate (LIBOR), compared to 10 to 30 basis points in normal times. In some countries (for example, Chile), markets for trade finance pr... ...s badly. In particular, small and medium-sized exporters located in export zones such as Tirupur, Ludhiana, Panipat and Karur began to lose their comp...

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...the business of running the Vatican, the spiritual responsibility of guiding over one-billion Catholics in the area of faith and morals. This was his time to commune with his own spirituality, to harmonize his soul with the peace of his Father in Heaven. He rolled the rosary beads, one by one, through his fingers as he chanted the Ave Maria. His voice rose into a caden...

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...ding over one-billion Catholics in the area of faith and morals. This was his time to commune with his own spirituality, to harmonize his soul with ... ...e said, quizzically to himself, “it seems, I am only to be told a little at a time.” Now, at least, he had a direction. His mind immediately turned t... ...is Chief of Staff, Walter Baker, walked into the office. "Senator, it's almost time for your committee meeting." "I'll be ready in a minute," he sa... ...onio Salvi had arrived at the Vatican Embassy the night before. For the first time in his life he felt important. Just a few days before, he was drea... ...rayed. Antonio had no idea how long he prayed as he held the sobbing Artemis. Time was irrelevant. Finally, the sobs began to subside as Artemis sl... ...ope to keep the bombing to a minimum, and our troops restricted to the target zones. But, as you know, there are always innocent people who are unfor...

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...equipped processes to deliver results. Why not every Organization goes for Maturity Level 5 is a question which is there in our mind for quite some time. It becomes difficult simply because the understanding on High Maturity concepts are low in many organizations, advanced quality practices, better competent project managers, statistical usage, longer cycles to see resul...

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... without knowing it, but often at the cost of the scarcest of all resources: time. Amidst a brilliant group of re- search assistants, Jordi Weinstock ... ... Commons.” 2 For several years now I have been a columnist for the Financial Times’s “New Economy Policy Forum.” Portions of Chapter 5 and Chapter 9 h... ...ient sandwich without an outer crust which can be stored for long periods of time without a central filling from leaking outwardly. The sandwich includ... ...fer it to some government funding body or coterie of art mavens. At the same time as you are developing your culture, you want a flourishing economy—an... ...ctly what innovation or even what types of innovation you want. Given scarce time and resources, should we try to improve typewriters or render them o... ...r better and for worse. Large areas of creativity operated as copyright-free zones. Even where copy- rights were properly registered, permission fees ...

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...butions of experience display the sentient subjects themselves at the same time and by the same stroke with the nearest pos sible approach to a desir... ...t, speak for its connexion with something in the book, and yet at the same time speak enough for its odd or interesting self. It will be noticed that ... ... to do in those prizes of cu riosity for which the London lover is at any time ready to “back” the prodigious city. It was n’t always that I straight... ... superstitions as to what it might really have been had x The Golden Bowl time to grow up and flourish. Not least among these rioted doubtless the fon... ...re complications might await me. I am afraid I had at stray moments wasted time in wondering what discrimination against the freedom of the needle and... ...ed human appeal, represented by gradations of tint, diminishing concentric zones of intensity, of importunity, really faded to the impersonal whitenes...

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...the proper shad- ows on the portrait. It is from one side only that he has time to represent his subject. The side selected will either be the one mos... ...ith; and hence there are for the dramatist many resultant limita- tions in time and space. These limitations in some sort ap- proximate towards those ... ...e had not understood that the nature of the landscape or the spirit of the times could be for anything in a story; and so, naturally and rightly, he s... ...nd after the facts have been thus viv- idly brought before us and have had time to settle and ar- range themselves in our minds, some day there will b... ..., he would have been very incredulous and not a little scandalised. At the time when he wrote, the real drift of this new manner 20 Robert Louis Stev... ...stance that for years, and after he had begun to mount himself into higher zones, he continued to have that family to dinner on the anniversary of the...

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...ation for fighter robots and combat drones. Base 18 on planet DN-DU-144/5 was in principle a bleak place. Though at that moment it was officially day-time at the location of base 18, there was actually just a little twilight. The far sun, going by the less-than-poetic name of DN-DU-144, illuminated only the abundant clouds enfolding the planet decently. Little light ever m...

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...rican people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation?s capital at a time of great partisan division--have come together to present this report without dissent....

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...eporting structure, Northeast Air Defense Sector p. 32–33 Flight paths and timelines p. 49 Usama Bin Ladin p. 64 Map of Afghanistan p. 148 Khalid Shei... ...nd five Democrats chosen by elected leaders from our nation’s capital at a time of great partisan division—have come together to present this report w... ...ttack terror- ists and prevent their ranks from swelling while at the same time protecting our country against future attacks.We have been forced to t... ... for us.We thank officials, past and present, who were generous with their time and provided us with insight. The PENTTBOM team at the FBI, the Direct... ...subject to special security measures. Under security rules in place at the time, the only consequence of Atta’s selection by CAPPS was that his checke... ...CIA ran a final, graded rehearsal of the operation, spread over three time zones, even bringing in personnel from the region.The FBI also participated... ...nt’s magnitude. 16 The NYPD precincts were divided into 35 different radio zones, with a cen- tral radio dispatcher assigned to each. In addition, the... ...n limited firefighting for the purpose of cutting exit routes through fire zones. 108 Many units were simply instructed to ascend toward the impact zo... ...ked or were supposed to attend a meeting at or above the respective impact zones of the T win T owers; only 110, or 5.36 percent of those who died, wo...

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...e invis ible. Lastly, that he shall appear to the said John Faustus, at all times, in what shape and form soever he please. I, John Faustus, of Witte... ...estion; why are not conjunctions, oppositions, aspects, eclipses, all at one time, but in some years we have more, in some less? MEPHIST. Per inoequal... ... dragons’ necks, He views the clouds, the planets, and the stars, The tropic zones, and quarters of the sky, From the bright circle of the horned moon... ...roof’d aloft with curious work in gold. Thus hitherto hath Faustus spent his time: But tell me now, what resting place is this? Hast thou, as erst I d... ...thy window, and see it, then? BENVOLIO. Ay, an I fall not asleep i’ the mean time. MARTINO. The Emperor is at hand, who comes to see What wonders by b... ...e joining near these woods; And thither we’ll repair, and live obscure, Till time shall alter these our brutish shapes: Sith black disgrace hath thus ...

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...uld feel each one below his feet as another sure foundation in the flux of time and chance; each should be another proof that in the torrent of the ye... ...nd the whole world of leaves is swinging tempest-tossed among the winds of time. Look now for your shadows. O man of formulae, is this a place for you... ...ne; that never truly was; and you yourself are altered beyond recognition. Times and men and circumstances change about your changing character, with ... ...t other lads more diligent than himself, who followed the plough in summer-time to pay their col- lege fees in winter; and this inequality struck him ... ... and insa- tiably curious in the aspects of life; and he spent much of his time scraping acquaintance with all classes of man- and woman-kind. In this... ...lumsy and the servile, the other born to beauty. She thought of the golden zones in which gentlemen were bred, and figured with so excellent a grace; ...