They chose a familiar environment to expedite their own development, but that same familiarity allowed those of us outside Cupertino to figure things out quickly.
Despite all this, Oswald's name doesn't trip off the tongue with the same familiarity of many of his contemporaries, such as Mark Ravenhill or Patrick Marber.
Before this tournament few people would have known Zvitova's name, but all of a sudden, just five games in, voices in the crowd were shouting it with the same familiarity with which they shouted her opponent's.
The SIP world has not fully matured yet to handle that kind of flux in traffic". Brandt also says that some companies might experience SIP interoperability problems simply because SIP is a relatively new technology for a lot of enterprises and that IT departments don't yet have the same familiarity with SIP-based systems as with TDM systems.
Visiting Vancouver once every two years, Houston doesn't have the same familiarity with BC Place's billiards slate as the Whitecaps' Western Conference rivals, perhaps explaining why the Dynamo could not keep their hosts from hitting their block with pace over the game's first half-hour.
But this view of robots could be changed if they were designed to appeal to us with the same familiarity and, indeed, personality that our childhood toys once possessed. .
Speaking of Hutchison's embattled international wireless telephony ventures, Li rattles off vernacular of the so-called high-speed 3G multimedia phones with the same familiarity he evinces on the debt levels of the various units.
Pushing a few buttons on a BlackBerry, the club's hosts can tell what people drank, where they sat and who their cocktail waitress was, so they can then treat occasional guests with the same familiarity as they would the regulars.
The solution for us as well as for these futuristic heroes is the same: familiarity with the unconscious memories and specialized training to stay in the present moment.
While it does take time to find and get that same familiarity with brands, the newfound arena has opened up a fun exploration into what's available.
