Turns out the couple needed all these skills to build their home, a 2, 600-square-foot, three-bedroom ultramodern residence that looks a little like a giant robot.
We look forward to exploring new operating systems and hunt for bugs and glitches like little gophers in a giant green field of code.
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Preliminary results from a vote by around 1, 000 of them seems to show they like the idea that a renegade crew of their fellow investors will get access to the ketchup and condiments giant and spice things up a little.
Depending on your attendant, this experience can be delicious (a little like being washed by a giant cat) or tumultuous (picture a tornado made of sandpaper).
It took me about five minutes of pounding keys, resetting display size and muttering obscenities to figure out that what I was looking at was a giant image laid atop my little LCD display.
In fact the innovation boom, particularly the ideation side of innovation, is in part a giant motivational game, offering employees a little extra kudos for showing more commitment.
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Their place is being taken by cyber-millionaires who want to live somewhere a little more sophisticated than Silicon Valley and giant armies of the homeless, who now number about 15, 000.
Bill Gates isn't yet officially gone from Microsoft, but the reign of Jeff Raikes, a little-known but key veteran executive, came to a close Thursday when the software giant announced that he is retiring.
But the chief executive, his workforce and their customers can at least rest a little more comfortably over the issue of energy security now that the British gas and electricity giant is set to build a massive 885-megawatt gas-fired plant in Langage, Devon.
To delve into this a little bit, I decided to go to SciVal Analytics, a consulting group at the giant publisher Elsevier that has access to a database called Scopus, which contains more than 18, 000 scientific journals just about the entire scientific publishing universe.
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As an economic giant with global ambitions it may have little choice as America learnt a century ago.
Little by little, though, it becomes clear that these silent streets, brooding buildings and a giant, groaning gas works across the way are landmarks of his mind, where the toxic past coexists with the tormented present.
Instead, the Korean electronics giant was dictating almost the entire device launch strategy to the carriers, which sounds a little familiar.
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Now, he has sold his family's controlling share of the company to German drug giant Merck KGaA. And one of biotech's most colorful characters may be a little less visible.
In the high-tech industry, when a giant company like Google makes its Android operating system for free, including the source code and with little or no contract obligations attached to it, it kills any innovation in this industry (country).
Usually internet rabble rousing has little effect on giant companies or conglomerates, but protestors have had unusual success with SOPA, and a number of brands have publically distanced themselves from the bill after threats of boycotts and having their names dragged through the mud.
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Aids activists say a deal to be signed on World Aids Day between the government and the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer to provide the drug Fluconazole free to the public health sector might be little more than a "public relations ceremony for World Aids Day".
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