In Britain, homeopathy seems eccentric and harmless, used by the kind of people who might also think they have a spirit guardian watching over them, or keep a counter-top zen garden on their desk at work.
Similarly, Facebook is interested in the number of "likes" a page gets over time and keeps a counter for recommended URLs, to make sure it takes less than 30 s from a click to an update of the respective counter.
The bright yellow box that appears on your screen keeps a counter of the hours you spend online and an hourly equivalent of the money you could have made in that time.
The Die Hard section, for example, keeps a counter in the top right corner of the screen of how many terrorists you have to kill before the missions is complete.
We measure the short-term fairness horizon in our simulations using the following procedure: we keep a throughput counter for each node; this counter records the total throughput that the node has gained until the current time in the simulation.
Keep a calorie counter, such as a journal or just a piece of paper for each day.
The Russo brothers keep a camera under the counter just in case a celebrity happens to stumble in.
We keep a different co-occurrence counter for each website to address the issue #3 mentioned in the previous section.
The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter.
