In one of those coincidences that look corny in novels but happen all the time in real life, the price of oil hit an all-time high this week just as President Bush was signing the new energy bill into law.
Consider all this is happening in real-time, as the music is being played and while trying to keep in rhythm with others.
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Galloping growth and low interest rates in Ireland have propelled the property market there to all-time highs in real terms.
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Instead of the pre-canned, static lights that we see on mobile games today, NVIDIA's new hardware will make it possible to create lighting that moves, fluctuates in intensity, and responds realistically to its environment -- all rendered in real time.
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Those who are most successful will be connected, across all media and functionality, in real-time.
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The airline industry aside, the bullet points above offer a broad strategic outline for just about any industry because the customer experience is becoming pre-eminent in each and there is simply no way to deliver world-class customer experiences unless a company can capture, manage, and analyze all of the relevant data in real-time.
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Essentially an iPhone app, it leverages recent developments in location awareness and social networking to keep tabs on both friends and enemies in the field, displaying positions on maps in real time -- all the while enabling secure communications between soldiers.
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You'd be able to create animation in 3-D using a Move motion controller all in real time.
And they need to do it in full public view, in real-time and all the time.
When gold was at its real all-time high in 1980, the ten-year Treasury-bond yield was 10.8%.
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"All the play-by-play action on the field now comes to life in real time on ConnecTV with a stream of deep stats, player bios, news and more, " said former Oakland Raider Tim Brown, who chats with fans on ConnecTV.
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Even the stock market, which recently hit new all-time highs, is not in real terms anywhere near where it was in the booming 1990s.
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All Argo data are freely and publically available in near real-time via the Global Data Assembly Centres (GDACs) in Brest, France and Monterey, California.
The growing demands of the U.S. military for the bandwidth necessary to transfer in a secure fashion immense quantities of video and other data in real-time to commanders and forces all over the world transform this fiber optic infrastructure being sold by Tyco into something else altogether - a force-multiplier of immeasurable value.
And then this is all enabled in particular by a new class of IT-centric real-time imaging called microseismic monitoring.
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What if you could perform fraud-detection analytics across all of your transactions in real time, instead of across just a random sampling of only a few percent of all those transactions?
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You can then replay the trip, with all its content and share it with family and friends, almost in real-time.
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New products, new ad campaigns, new government policies, all now trigger instant feedback, which allows you to make adjustments in real-time.
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Ship and plane captains all over the area get word of the whale location in near-real time through e-mail alerts, text messages, faxes and pager messages.
We go to Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond all the time, to make sure they get a real 21-gun salute.
Each Rich-lister got the exact same page, with proprietary data, real-time content and their social connections all neatly organized in three columns.
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The reset has, by this point in time, attracted media attention out of all proportion to its observable real-world impact.
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Using advanced Smart Surround and Equalization technology, the Philips Fidelio SoundBar analyzes and dynamically controls the sonic signals in real-time to provide a well-balanced surround experience from all speakers in the system.
"What will come out of this is a detailed, real-time sequence of what happens in a brain surgery through all the stages from preparation, to shaving the hair, to making the incision, to draping, " Dr. Kim says.
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Human beings have the unique ability, among all creatures, to custom-create our own tribes, in order to solve problems in real-time.
Managers can set goals for field organizers -- number of calls made, number of doors knocked -- and see, in real time, how people are doing against all kinds of metrics.
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With particular emphasis on the live game experience, a Live MatchHQ service features data-driven content, including real-time scores and stats, highlights, message boards and more, all in a single unified interface.
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As reported on the website Real Science, forty percent of weather stations in the Historical Climatology Network set their all-time record maximum temperature during the 1930s.
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Responsible governments provide expedited clearances and priority assistance based on need rather than participation in a government program, and relevant real-time threat information should be available to all companies.
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Because the Fitbit App adds Bluetooth 4.0 syncing, you can see your Fitbit dashboard updated in real-time, receive motivating notifications, and engage in fitness competitions with friends all on your Android device.
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