He saw that the companies that made fourteen-inch drives for mainframe computers had been driven out of business by companies that made eight-inch drives for mini computers, and then the companies that made the eight-inch drives were driven out of business by companies that made 5.25-inch drives for PCs.
Clair are invaded by millions of inch-long fish flies that live only about two days and then die coating roads, sidewalks, yachts and cars in blankets of lifeless, crunchy bugs.
It may well be that using Newtonian physics mis-states the speed of a crashing car by some fraction of an inch per hour.
It dwarfs the washed out 8-by-10-inch inkjet prints of the FSA photographers' works provided by the Library of Congress.
The crowd of displays is headlined by a pair of 73-inch DLP sets, which both feature a host of marketing speak from Mitsubishi like Tru1080p (don't worry, it's 1080p for reals), TurboLight 180 (which claims to boost brightness by 10%), and the fairly meaningless NetCommand and ClearThought which manage connectivity.
The study estimates that roughly half of that 0.43 inch rise was caused by thermal expansion of the oceans (as water warms, it becomes less dense and expands), some from from runoff from melting glaciers, and the rest from melting of Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets.
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In sum, the FCC should publicly state that it has no interest in micromanaging or micro-regulating the wireless market to literally an inch of its life by applying nonsensical, Lilliputian-esque, net neutrality obligations on one-inch-range Near Field Communications that involve no wireless network at all.
All of these products work on the same principle as the TranCyte bioreactor, a 6-by-8-inch piece of plastic that opens like a purse.
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Among the other 186 lots at the auction is a 16-by-20-inch copy of Rosenthal's award-winning photograph that includes a handwritten inscription to de Weldon.
Leveling the platform is a particularly important step -- after all, if things are off by mere fractions of an inch, it can screw prints up completely.
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But only two of these super-size prints (a self-portrait by Mr. Close and Ms. Carey's abstraction) are seen here, and neither their placement nor the several examples of 20-by-24-inch rints adequately convey the increase in scale (and sharpness of detail) that excited so many artists in the 1980s.
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Pieces of slime mould, an amoeba-like organism, were enticed through a 30-square-centimetre (five-square-inch) maze by the prospect of food at the end of the puzzle.
The complaint is currently being scrutinized within an inch of its life by every Oatmeal fan and Redditor with any legal knowledge whatsoever, and analysis will doubtless start trickling out over the next few days.
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Yet I have often thought, If only the mole had burrowed down and clung on, he would have seen the land he had loathed and betrayed taken over by a woman who shared every inch of his frustration at its lassitude and pitiful want of pride.
Samsung managed to sell 10 million units of the flagship smartphone by the start of 2011, proving that 4-inch or larger phones could be popular.
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State officials released the trove of e-mail -- six 11-by-17-inch boxes worth -- on Friday, the result of Freedom of Information Act requests dating to her vice presidential nomination.
Mr Evans told how he was beaten to "within an inch" of his life by SS guards at Auschwitz when he refused to work.
Initially, 7-inch tablets were written off by most of the industry as too small to bother with, leaving the playing field wide open.
Some of the loveliest, most magical images plunge beneath the surface to reveal the myriad marine creatures separated from Pi by nothing more than an inch or two of wood.
Combined capacity of Fab 12 and Fab 14 currently exceeds 200, 000 12-inch wafers per month, and is scheduled to exceed 240, 000 12-inch wafers per month by the end of this year, underscoring our commitment to providing steadfast support to our customers.
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In other words, that one 3-inch by 3-inch picture on the computer screen is hogging no less than 6% of the entire Internet backbone capacity in North America.
But inch by inch, we started pulling the threads out of the regulatory fabric that keep the middle class strong, starting in the 80s, writes Andrews, and accelerating with the fall of Soviet communism in 1991.
The estimate comes from infrared scans of the cosmos by the 16-inch WISE telescope, which was launched in December 2009.
By combining the observational power of six 5-inch aperture telescopes spread over hundreds of feet, the NPOI is able to measure the size of stars down to one milliarcsecond on the sky.
Apple did increase the screen size of the iPhone 5 by half an inch over previous models, but it hasn't embraced the big-screen trend yet, and clearly doesn't think it needs to for now.
The technology comes by way of a tear-drop shaped 4-inch, web-enabled refrigerator magnet with an LED screen.
An easy-to-use, touch-sensitive, 3.0-inch high resolution LCD screen is powered by the touch of a finger to focus on subjects and activate the shutter.
Fabricating the approximately 6-by-3-by-2-inch, smooth-edged foot out of commercial-grade titanium (Ti64) took about forty hours on a system manufactured by German-based EOS GmbH, developer of DMLS technology.
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What makes traffic in Lagos a hair-raising experience, though, is the aggression and impatience from motorists looking to close up every inch of space on the road, accompanied by the perpetual soundtrack of car horns.
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