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We are in the process of launching a major virtual opera house tour.

To be clear, I'm not opposed to apps; I just want them to be geared to my lifestyle. I don't need a virtual NASCAR racing app, but I'd certainly appreciate one that stopped my husband from plowing into the lawnmower every time he pulls into the garage.

We don't have a plan if a pandemic comes around, we can't turn 53 buildings, 32,000 students and 1,800 teachers into a kind of virtual school. We couldn't even do that in a year. We don't have a plan for sending curriculum by e-mail to students. We'll be doing whatever we can in the best interest of the community. . . . And we would do whatever kind of enrichment activities we could.

We worked closely with Ahern's management team to find practical solutions for both their systems installation, as well as their needs for secure network connectivity. Utilizing our Virtual Core technology enabled Ahern to implement very secure connections in a flexible and cost effective manner. Ahern is an excellent example of our unique ability to provide customized solutions.

The default view will be the physical storage space, and then you can create virtual folders on top of it.

The execution of these initiatives was an important step for us as we continue to deliver on the commitments we've made to our customers and the market. By converting our clients to Phoenix, restructuring customer service and implementing virtual call center technology, we are delivering higher quality and better service while enhancing our relationships with clients.

We passed a bill in 1997, signed by Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles, which created a pilot program for a novel experiment called Florida Virtual School. The notion of children using a computer for a classroom and reporting to virtual teachers wasn't exactly mainstream thinking in those days.

While stores continue to be a very important part of our business, there is no mistaking the fact that the customers' shopping preference, measured by both traffic and sales, continues to move to a virtual experience.

When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history buff, so our home was a virtual library, covering every author from Beverly Cleary to James Michener.

When I was evaluating VTL solutions, I certainly did try to gauge what adverse impact, if any, was the host processor experiencing while trying to keep up with the enormous appetite for data of the virtual library.

We rolled out the Sun Ray architecture in 2001 and have since lowered our desktop support costs and increased productivity considerably. We continue to support virtual display technology as a way to maximize efficiencies across our organization by improving user performance and decreasing the amount of support time required of IT.

This year we thought it would be interesting to discover what America has to say about the candidates, incorporating our fans and viewers as virtual judges.

We have seen no traction for CPU-aggregation technology such as Virtual Iron's within our customer base.

With the addition of these new options, our Virtual Dedicated and Dedicated server plans are tougher than ever to beat -- especially since we just lowered the price of all our Dedicated Server plans by $20/month, ... Of course, lower prices and more customization options doesn't change the fact that all plans are backed by unparalleled 24x7 service.

We are executing very well on the Niagara program. We would really like to show all the evidence we have, not just some virtual benchmarks.

When someone sees the game for the first time, their eyes are immediately drawn to the aircraft, virtual cockpits, visual effects, etc. Then after they sit down and spend some time playing the game, they get immersed into the whole air combat experience,

The Governments of the USA and Russia need to up their game and stem the tide of child pornography leaving their virtual shores because it is putting children across the world at risk.

Transitioning the data center to a more dynamic virtual model is essential to reducing the complexity and improving the responsiveness of today's IT organization. By supporting the Sun Fire x64 servers, we enable Sun users, for the first time, to leverage the full power of a dynamic data center infrastructure and the dramatic gains it offers in agility, performance and operating expense.

This website is not your usual 'read-some-copy, look-at-some-pictures' travel site. I don't know of any other travel Web site that focuses on virtual photographic tours. Travel planners and tourists can now take an online tour around San Diego with 360-degree virtual photography. After experiencing San Diego's sights and attractions online, visitors can decide where to go, what to do, and what to see when they visit

Through technology, travelers can integrate the physical travel and the virtual travel they do on the World Wide Web to stay connected to both their offices and to their customers and their clients 24 hours a day.

What this means is that Windows becomes the platform for virtualization. Customers will consolidate existing systems to Windows using virtual technology. This is very compelling to our customer base.

We're going to be a virtual network of companies existing primarily in cyberspace.

We think that the artists' sites could be virtual ticket outlets.

Videogames based on golf have often been viewed as, to mangle a phrase, a good walk through a virtual world spoiled. Connecting with your virtual golfers has often been as hard for gamers as understanding the sport itself.

East New Orleans is a virtual ghost town.

Crack the Safe is proving to be the smash hit we'd thought it would be. In this grand promotion, players try to guess the secret code on a virtual safe in effort to win one of hundreds of prizes.

During its first year of operation, Florida Virtual School had 77 students. The next year, it had 476 students; then 2,489 students the year after that.

Estimates are that in 2012, more than 32 million books were available - the explosion, thanks to the ease of self-publishing; 2013 could see even more titles grace our virtual bookstores! That means we are going to be awash in covers and titles, plot descriptions and characters.

During the Sanford administration, economic development has come to a virtual standstill, public jobs have been sold to big, out-of-state corporations, and now one of every 14 South Carolinians is jobless.

The world cannot live without the Arctic; it affects every living thing on Earth and acts as a virtual thermostat, reflecting sunlight and cooling the planet.

These startups are really just a virtual shelf. You have to wonder about their value. They don't even have a customer base.

The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates the virtual reality we experience. Such 'knowledge' is so thoroughly a part of our worldview that it simply would not occur to most people to question it. Yet underneath this reality is another, subinstitutional reality in which very different responses are simply acted out. This is the reality in which everyone, until very recently, lived.

school planners are experimenting with the concept of virtual schools.

Rather than say the virtual horse is out of the digital barn, we say there's an opportunity to talk to young Canadians, and help them regain their respect for individual and public property,

People don't want to trade ... They don't even want to hear ideas. They just want to know their books are hedged. If an event -- God forbid -- happened, the market could swing pretty hard. But this uncertainty doesn't create more activity; it (depresses) activity because no one wants to do anything. Things kind of grind to a virtual halt.

On-demand, virtual call centers are the way the market is headed, and we are constantly working to help educate people about this model. ALVA is an excellent example of how our on-demand call center service offers flexibility offers customers a flexible, profitable alternative to the traditional call center model and the ability to pursue new business opportunities.

On-demand, virtual call centers are the way the market is headed.

A point of emphasis with us right now is that we do not have a virtual returning starter at any position. That's the way we want to go into spring drills. As a staff, we are now evaluating our players on the field. We've had a chance to observe them through winter conditioning, but now let's see where we're at as a football team.

An overly expansive virtual 'toll' for the Internet that blocks consumers' and competitors' access to the e-commerce superhighway is not the right answer.

As long as we can access it, I'm perfectly happy. Everything is pretty virtual at the moment. If there is a consolidated exchange, it makes it easier for us and the brokers.

The mobile wireless network also gives clinicians a number of other tools, for example we have a virtual medical library on-line in partnership with Queen's University.

This is building on further deployment of virtualization software. Virtualization hardware will certainly offer more efficient, more robust use of virtual machines.

This is not using the Internet. The service itself sits on a private virtual network.

This debate I think is all about movies. What we're saying is that you can't provide dedicated line, virtual private network services for free.

This announcement addresses three major industry trends organizations' focus on cost reduction strategies, organizations' need to find measurable value for IT investments in a very short order, and organizations' need to allow their staff members to collaborate with one another from wherever they are, using whatever network enabled device they choose. Customers deploying open source software in a virtual machine can reduce their software and hardware costs, and simultaneously enhance their agility in addressing future computing needs.

A lot of us understood what that meant, that it was a different issue than a weather issue, that we were dealing with the virtual destruction of a major American city.

This move into the theft of virtual goods is hardly surprising when you consider the sums of money changing hands for virtual items in these virtual worlds.

There was a time when papal encyclicals were treated as virtual pronouncements of papal infallibility. There are still a small minority of Catholics who cite Pope Paul VI's 1968 document Humanae Vitae - which outlawed artificial birth control - as the word of God.

This is the truth, this is not virtual reality any more. This is straight up and down. It's a matter of fact. We're world champions.

At Bridgewater State College, we look for innovative technology to educate, engage and even entertain our students. All BSC students have laptops and we're wireless across our entire campus. Ruckus is a great next step for Bridgewater State College and our students, a cutting-edge service that offers excellent, legal digital music and movies, and enhances student life and virtual community.

The mosaic is an extraordinary addition to the TV marketplace and serves as a platform for DISH Network's advanced 25 virtual and enhanced ITV channels.

A call is developing to ban this out-of-control game of virtual economic extortion.

It's as complex a Web site as you'll find. I'm not aware of another site that builds the virtual geometry of a home.

It's a 24-hour operation. We've got a virtual army out there.

It was the less risky and economically sensible approach to take. Taking a phased approach was also useful in learning lessons from a virtual pilot.

It's a virtual reality fighting game. It's all weapons.

It's a virtual organization. Most of our employees work out of their home offices. That's our way of dealing with traffic in Los Angeles.

It's a virtual exercise designed to test how effectively we would all communicate with each other and how decisions would be taken,

It might be possible to host a whole operating environment and a complete stack of software that performs some needed function in a virtual machine that runs on another operating environment. While this is workable, it may not perform well, be reliable, or be supportable for some other reason.

For 17 years, EDS' technology has enabled millions of kids to experience firsthand the excitement of science and exploration by transforming the classroom into a virtual adventure.

It's the virtual equivalent of knocking on doors and shaking hands.

It's magic. He does it all through the cell phone. He sends me the pictures of the house, which I receive on my cell phone, or I go to a Web site and take a virtual tour. It eliminates a lot of time wasted.

It makes it clear to people what a virtual workspace is.

It's still disappointing, but considering BRAC, hurricane relief and the publicity generated by the Coalition (for Change), we feel we did the best we could. We knew reaching the goal was going to be a virtual impossibility given what we were seeing early on.

Education is the gateway to the American Dream. But today our immigration laws make higher education - a virtual requirement for financial security - out of reach for more than one million undocumented students.

The big news is the broad buy-in of virtual machine technology for server consolidation.

The body, by the place which at each moment it occupies in the universe, indicates the parts and the aspects of matter on which we can lay hold: our perception, which exactly measures our virtual action on things, thus limits itself to the objects which actually influence our organs and prepare our movements.

The addition of Hotspot advances Knight's ambition to become a virtual exchange for high-quality trade execution across multiple asset classes.

It turns out that the killer application for virtual reality is other human beings. Build a world that people want to inhabit, and the inhabitants will come.

They could have watched in virtual real time as the water flooded New Orleans. They would have been able to appreciate where the impact would have been greatest and first, so it's a time issue.

The World Health Organization had said, with the backing of almost every development and health agency in the world, that drug resistant TB was too expensive, too difficult and too cost ineffective to treat in poor countries, ... When Partners in Health started with this campaign, there were only several hundred patients in the world getting treatment. Now, there are many thousands in 26 countries who are receiving this treatment and are being saved from a virtual death sentence because of the engagement of Partners In Health with the World Health Organization.

They can't change the AMT tax consequences of that $55 that they made in virtual income when they exercised and they will pay taxes on that extra money if they still hold those shares on Dec. 31st of this year.

The NBC mosaic lets DISH Network customers quickly preview on a single screen what events are on each network and then watch on a full screen whichever competition interests them the most. The mosaic is an extraordinary addition to the TV marketplace and serves as a platform for DISH Network's advanced 25 virtual and enhanced ITV channels.

It's really nothing but the classic function of the extension service, which is to take research and interpret and apply it in the field. It's just using a new tool to do that ? a virtual or digital county agent.

The Internet has changed the way we live in so many positive ways; however, just as in the physical world, the virtual world has its nuisances and risks. We need to equip our children with the tools and education to navigate the online world more safely and securely, which is why Microsoft is excited to support i-SAFE in helping to educate teens on how they can better protect themselves online.

In a way, my role now is to shift into the next set of tool, which is virtual reality and interactivity. That to me is very enticing.

I like that in 'Caprica' the virtual world is a new thing. The parents didn't have that growing up. And it's the same thing about the Internet and all the current technology. It didn't exist like it does now for our parents' generation. Kids aren't relating to their parents anymore, and I just find that so honest.

I'm convinced that the main reason we've become so obsessed with restaurants is due to our basic need to get out of virtual space and into a real one. We're not going out to eat merely to share food; we're there to sit at the same table together, slow down, breathe the same air.

In this world, it should be very easy for me, the end user, to have a program that runs on my PC that tells my bank and my insurance company and my broker to all put their financial information about me in my virtual safety deposit box on the Web, and let me view my information under my control.

Intel Virtualization Technology provides a foundation for Virtual Iron to efficiently create new and better software capabilities that build upon Intel's platform innovation. By supporting Intel Virtualization Technology in its products, Virtual Iron is helping to increase flexibility and reduce total cost of ownership for its enterprise customers.

Integrity of financial transactions, confidentiality within a virtual enterprise, privacy of customer data and availability of critical infrastructure all depend on strong security mechanisms. IBM Research and Business Consulting Services work together to offer world-class solutions to everyday security threats that make sense for your business, whether you have 100 employees or 100,000.

In the physical world, many of those who look like beggars are actually crooks. In the virtual realm of the Internet, fraud is much easier.

In the next century, when art will be packaged as virtual reality software, realistic paintings will sell the way Shaker furniture does now. Shaker furniture will sell the way Van Gogh paintings do. And teddy bears owned by Elvis will come to auction only occasionally.

In the past 10 years, under the old rules, cable companies have been virtual monopolies and their rates have climbed unchecked.

In the olden days when you walked into the post office or the country store, there was a bulletin board there ... I think we're missing that these days. So my sense was to put it online and create a virtual community bulletin board.

In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.

It has long been Hayes' vision to create a company that could provide a wide range of high quality communications products to serve the rapidly evolving virtual workplace. By combining the two companies, we expect to achieve significant synergies,

By isolating the computer's protection in a virtual environment outside the main operating system, enterprises will have confidence that the security itself has not been compromised, that it is always on, and that they can trust the result that it gives. We believe this new approach will improve security and reduce the overall cost of administration.

How do you create a virtual network for three-quarters of an organization that doesn't have an office?

Because nothing else is happening in this virtual space, any compatibility issues go away. Administrators are going to be more confident in deploying updates quickly.

Chef Bruno will be integral in the development and growth of the Chef Bruno concept, and we also may tap his expertise from time to time to strengthen the other concepts in our portfolio. Tri-Star brings the infrastructure, industry contacts and business acumen; Chef Bruno brings a wealth of ideas, an internationally recognized brand name and virtual celebrity status in many of our targeted markets for expansion. We believe that by leveraging these collectively, we are positioning Chef Bruno for assured success.

By nature of its unlimited potential, Second Life has already attracted a large community of creative individuals from a wide range of disciplines. By creating the Linden Lab Fellowship, we hope that we will encourage students of the expressive arts to explore the potential of the virtual world, for the benefit of both the Second Life culture and the broader world of art.

If every country continues to exercise that right, we are going in the next 10 or 20 years to have 30 or 40 countries, in my estimation, who are virtual nuclear weapon states,

I'd really love to work with virtual reality at some point. You could make a killer adventure game with that.

I could manage my life so much better if an app could tell me exactly when my parcels will be delivered so I don't spend the day under virtual house arrest.

For the first time it establishes a common environment standard across the basin and puts in place a virtual prohibition against diversions from the Great Lakes. It puts in place a requirement to build conservation programs that would be implemented at the state and provincial level.

You can't truly hear your own voice until the shouting around you disappears. New ideas and possibilities - our own ideas, our own possibilities - will occur only when we step away from the Virtual Panopticon.

The true value of having Florida Virtual School in this mix is that it creates a gold standard for all providers to meet if they hope to compete for Florida students. This program raises the bar for everybody, even the traditional public schools. And that benefits all our children.

Alongside the gathering momentum evident in the euro zone economy, the virtual confirmation of a hike in March supports our view that ECB interest rates will rise further than markets are anticipating.

The idea is that your body, on this very deep, unconscious level, is controlling a virtual person. It's a much more complex, ambiguous type of interactivity, but it's very real interactivity.