By contrast, convergence products, such as smart phones and media-centre PCs, have either flopped or finished up occupying niches.The danger in developing a gadget that tries to be a phone, internet appliance and iPod all in one is that it can fail to accomplish each as well as it might.
About half are finished and occupied.
The retail part, which defines the basic form of the street, is largely finished and occupied.
But complaints have had little effect on the financial success of Kensington Woods, where 26 of the houses are finished and occupied, and only 5 remain unspoken for.
Although some work remains to be done inside, most of the new offices are finished and occupied, said David Kersey, vice president of AMEC Construction Management, who has overseen the rebuilding project.
The finished product occupies a place somewhere in the overlap between Dante's Inferno, The 120 Days of Sodom, and the map from Ghosts and Goblins as run through the fucked-up brain of your average pubescent male.
This particular plaza bonus was controversial from the start, but criticisms faded when the office and condominium complex was finished in 1989, occupying an entire block at the northwest corner of 49th Street and Eighth Avenue.
This was the outer fringes of the notorious "ghost estates," tens of thousands of structures, half-built and abandoned, or finished but never occupied and swiftly falling apart, which colonized the island in beige clusters during the Irish housing madness.
Like a small-scale version of "The Arcades Project," it is the placeholder for a book he could never finish, a ruin occupying the site where he planned a monument, and, as such, it has to be carefully interpreted.
Georgia's Mark Richt occupies a pretty hot seat, what with 2009's disappointment, last year's sub-.500 finish and a 0-2 stort to 2011.
