On some of California's more demanding freeways, I imagine the GL might feel a little pokey.
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When we adjusted for the pokey rate of oceanic warming being observed, that figure dropped by half.
To stay out of the pokey and hold on to their goods, collectors have to meet difficult legal standards.
But they also suffer from cramped keyboards, dinky screens and relatively pokey processors.
Waterstone's poses a particular threat to traditional, pokey bookshops cutting a dash with its fashionable black-ash shelving and bright red carpets.
We're obviously more civilized today--the most you can lose is your reputation, your money and the time spent in the pokey.
Running at 542GHz, a rate that makes 60GHz ultra wideband look pokey, the scientists are sending data through the ether at about 3Gbps.
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Early on, some industry analysts predicted trouble for Nintendo : The Wii had a relatively pokey processor, it lacked a hard drive, its controls were unusual.
Down a narrow alley not far from the sparkling city centrepiece of Federation Square is dark, pokey Rutledge Lane, where a wild riot of colour spills over every surface and stretches storeys high.
"Whereas a pure sailing yacht is very sleek out of necessity, with pokey cabins and minimal deck-space, the gulet has lots of space below-decks for roomy cabins with proper bathrooms, " said Edward Granville, COO of Red Savannah.
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The tiny machine joins Dell's Inspiron Mini 9, the Asus Eee PC 900, the HP Mini-Note 2133 and the Intel Classmate PC among the new class of machines offering cramped keyboards, dinky screens and relatively pokey processors.
Downsides include a relatively pokey 200MHz core, poor battery life (though nothing BlackJack owners can't relate to, we reckon), and -- yeah, we're starting to nitpick here -- the lack of a mirror next to the camera.
Part Mongol, Roman, Arab, Spaniard, Mexican, '49er, the man who throws diamonds on the high trail is ready to sit in his saddle and settle in to the pokey, grunting, clopping rhythm of a pack train on the move.
All-in-all, if you don't mind the relatively pokey processor and integrated graphics, and are fairly adept at navigating a computer using just the pointing nub, then the nc2400 seems like a pretty good way to shave some pounds from your travel gear.
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The 9300i is exactly the same as the 9300 in every way save for the addition of WiFi, which turns out to be a mixed blessing because the pokey 150MHz processor can't render pages as fast as the 802.11 can pull them down.
None of you should be surprised if your lack of support for one of your own and Jana Winter is one of your own comes back to bite you in the nose sometime in the future when it is your reporter facing a few months in the pokey.
When people do buy toys they often shun the large toy retailers and head for discounters, notably Wal-Mart, which now dominates much of American retailing and has just launched a price war in some of the most popular toys, such as this year's must-buy, Hokey Pokey Elmo.
Sure, it won't help you love your pokey PC or Mac any more (though Apple's doing its own work on this problem with its misnomered "instant on" feature on the MacBook Air, which wakes the computer from hibernation in a few seconds), but it's a nice glimpse of what's to come.
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