Sentences with phrase «about ubiquity»

Last week on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we talked about the ubiquity of multitasking in the Digital Age and its contributions to our endlessly distractible, reliably forgetful, and attention - deficient modern world.

A couple of years ago I posted about Ubiquity, a Firefox add - on that let you summon up and execute a variety of useful browser commands with simple shortcuts.

I debate even calling them characters actually because their flatness is about an ubiquity of the body itself in our landscape and psychic consciousness.»

Tim then slipped into a tirade about the ubiquity of social media choices that went on for fifteen minutes and included a condemnation of current LEGO models that come practically pre-built, before coming back to the topic, «In my day, you had to use your IMAGINATION.

The Democratic candidate hoping to succeed Mr. Owens is Aaron Woolf, a filmmaker who directed the 2007 documentary «King Corn,» about the ubiquity of corn in the American food system.

Right now I'm trying not to get too depressed about the ubiquity of all things for baby made anywhere but the USA.

It is also clear, however, that Paul was concerned about the ubiquity of human pride.

What strikes one about the ubiquity of such religious artifacts is how rarely the devout are offended by what they should regard as blatantly obvious assaults on their devotion.

Think about the ubiquity and accessibility, the ease and speed of online marketing, fulfillment, financing, purchasing and transaction technologies.

Indeed, think about the ubiquity of certificates of participation — younger people have been rewarded for just showing up for things for decades.

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The beauty of bots in 2016 is that, thanks to the ubiquity of smartphone screens, consumers aren't fazed by chatting with a robot when picking out their Christmas shopping or asking about a product return the way they would have been even a few years ago.

My Songbook, for example, is about to grapple with what the ubiquity of love song in pop music, going back many many decades, has gradually done to us.

A moment's reflection makes clear the reason for this ubiquity of concern about human nature.

One of the things I love about Mexico City in particular is the ubiquity of at least two types of hot sauces — one green, one red — on the tables of each and every restaurant and even taco stand there.

Whilst the «colly» or common blackbird about sums up the growing ubiquity of the traditional players, Nigel Farage's outfit is more akin to a ruthless magpie; a cunning thief never short of a word or two.

In recent years the mushrooming power, functionality and ubiquity of computers and the Internet have outstripped early forecasts about technology's rate of advancement and usefulness in everyday life.

Blame mermaid hair, unicorn lattes, the ubiquity of millennial pink, or maybe just the fact that we're all ready for a kaleidoscopic blast of spring, but there's something undeniably now about a pastel makeup palette — especially when punched up to primary - color intensity.

That's all well and good, but does slightly fly in the face of the site's main advantage over Tinder and its ilk — that there's space for more than a tweet's worth of information on the profiles.Still, the full profiles and questions are available, and it's free - to - use (with a few irritating ads), making it a worthwhile option for anyone hoping to know a bit more about their dates before meeting up for the first time.Just like online dating before it, dating apps started out as a bit of a dirty secret — how many Tinder profiles joke that they'll want to lie about how you met?But time and ubiquity have meant that apps like Tinder and Grindr are no longer seen as a source of shame, and they're just another of the many ways people can try and meet each other in the modern digital age.It limits you to 12 or so potential matches per day (the exact amount depends on how many Facebook friends you have), giving it a bit more focus than the sprawl of Tinder or Happn.They also just introduced timed matches which give you 24 hours to send the first message otherwise it expires, encouraging users to make matches more quickly.

Award: The Assassin Least Sexy Movie: 50 Shades of Grey (Runner - up: A LEGO Brickumentary) Best Tolkien Reference: The Martian Best Gag Involving a Hammer: Avengers: Age of Ultron Best Joke About Naming Your Fists «Cagney and Lacey»: Spy Best Celebrity Cameo: LeBron James, Trainwreck Best Imaginary Friend: Bing Bong, Inside Out Most Awkward Interplay Between Real and Fictional Theme Parks: Tomorrowland (Runner - up: Jurassic World) Best Contact Lenses: Johnny Depp, Black Mass Best Eyeglasses: Sean Harris, Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation Best Glass Eye: Christian Bale, The Big Short Best Robot: Ava (Ex Machina) Worst Robot: Chappie (Chappie) The Cameron Crowe Award for a Soundtrack in Search of a Movie: Aloha Best Aerial Stunt: Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (Runner - up: Spectre) Worst Oven - Cleaning Method: The Visit Worst Misuse of a Juice Bottle: Sleeping with Other People Best Movie About Journalism: Spotlight Worst Movie About Journalism: Truth The Sudden Ubiquity Award: Domhnall Gleeson (Ex Machina, Brooklyn, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Revenant); Tom Hardy (Mad Max: Fury Road; Legend; The Revenant); Oscar Isaac (Ex Machina, Mojave, Star Wars: The Force Awakens) Best Dog - boy: Jack Bright, The Good Dinosaur Worst Dog - man: Channing Tatum, Jupiter Ascending Worst Implicit Historical Comparison: Moving the events of The Secret in Their Eyes from Argentina's Dirty War to post-9 / 11 America Best Backward - Looking Reboot: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Worst Backward - Looking Reboot: Terminator Genisys Best Home Movies: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Nicest Russian Spy: Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies Trends of the Year: Women ruling comedy (Trainwreck, Spy); an overdue pushback against CGI (Mad Max: Fury Road, Star Wars: The Force Awakens); sneakily feminist themes in summer sequels (Magic Mike XXL, Mad Max: Fury Road); spy spoofs (Spy, Kingsman: The Secret Service, The Man from U.N.C.L.E, the final third of Spectre)

With the ubiquity of cellphones, many schools are facing questions about what to do when students bring cellphones to school.

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With the increasing ubiquity of new technologies, many claims are being made about their potential to transform tertiary education.

Turbos are nearing the ubiquity that fuel injection reached in the 1980s, when the technology became a given rather than something special to brag about.

About a third (32 %) of e-book readers still say they sometimes read e-books on their cell phone, reflecting both the ubiquity of mobile phones and the convenience of these phones as supplementary reading devices.

Heck, I love myths — if we're talking about myths as «great poems, [that] point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of a presence or eternity that is whole and entire in each.»

Chitika is an ad firm which could play some role in the figures, but given the near - ubiquity of the importance of web browsing in tablet use I'd say this shows that the hype about competing tablets is just that: hype.

It's interesting too in the light of Pew's most recent data which found that «About a third (32 %) of e-book readers still say they sometimes read e-books on their cell phone, reflecting both the ubiquity of mobile phones and the convenience of these phones as supplementary reading devices ``:

The Mistaken Ubiquity of Lab Mixes: How DNA is Changing What We Thought We Knew About Shelter Dogs

But what Nintendo is talking about here is hardware ubiquity, and what that could bring to the platform.

Turbo's approach to game development, creating «cross-screen» games, Ishii says, is about «the ubiquity of having amazing connected game experiences when and whatever way suits you.»

The panel will explore the timeliness of this recent iteration of digital abstraction, with three artists who variously work through issues such as: how gesture, expression, and authenticity might continue to be possible in a contemporary image - based culture; whether our digital era truly produces an ahistorical condition in which images and marks have no specific reference and no relevant point of origin; how structures of and interfaces with digital technologies have necessitated new models for thinking about memory, distribution, and reproduction, as well as degradation, rupture, breakdown, and the void; and how the ubiquity of the screen in all aspects of life has given rise to a renewed interest in the relationship between two - dimensional and three - dimensional space, with a refreshed focus on tromp l'oeil and «topographical» painting.

From bio-ceramic works at Mother Dog Studios to artist collaborative response pieces at The Jung Center to clay and print at the Museum of Printing History — and just about everywhere in between — plus international exhibitions that include works from Mexico, India, and Korea, Houstonians and visitors can explore the ubiquity and variety of ceramic objects and indulge their curiosity about the medium.

The themes addressed in Soleil Double are not just about the proposed phenomena of two suns in axis around the earth but on a more symbolic level, about the concepts of duplicity and ubiquity, the idea that reality could be something other than what it appears to be at first glance, than what we take for granted as «true» and «right».

I see you making operational assumptions about your interlocutors (e.g., that which goes along with the identification of being an «outsider» as a description of your relationship to them), and acknowledging the ubiquity (in the abstract) of biases and delusions as an indirect way of not avoiding your own influences — but the rubber meets the road when you dig into the nitty gritty.

The EU layer of public service regulation further adds to this complexity as it interacts in many different ways with the national legal frameworks in this field: EU law may structure national legal norms, coordinate the provision of services between the Member States, bring about minimal or maximal standards (e.g. pertaining to quality, ubiquity or affordability of the services provided), comprise detailed regulation or even set prices for the provision of public services as in the case of mobile roaming tariffs.

Its ubiquity and feature set have made it the default for document creation just about everywhere, so chances are you've used it extensively and feel pretty comfortable navigating it.

I think it is a certain sign of my age that when thinking about the proliferation and ubiquity of social media my thinking has evolved from initially worrying about the creation of a permanent record of embarrassing personal choices to then becoming concerned that it may actually be more damning to have absolutely no record of any embarrassing activity, proceeding finally to the realization that I'm too «mature» to be a good judge of what, in 2016, is embarrassing.

I'm just a bit less confident in the general applicability of their forecast than I am about (say) predicting the coming ubiquity of self - driving cars.

The ubiquity and functionality of the Internet, artificial intelligence, and computer programming have outstripped initial forecasts about...

The ubiquity and functionality of the Internet, artificial intelligence, and computer programming have outstripped initial forecasts about the rate of usefulness and advancement in technology concerning everyday life.

Let's talk about the evolution of Google Assistant, because Google's ubiquity was a big part of what made this year's CES so exciting.

Despite Facebook's ubiquity in public life, there remain large gaps in the public understanding about what Facebook is, and how it works.