Sentences with phrase «against the window meant»

But the night brought with it temperatures well below freezing, and being pressed up against the window meant that I felt every degree drop outside as the window and the condensation on it slowly froze.

Not exact matches

Until, of course, you remember the culture - induced myopia I described yesterday: Myerson still has the Ballmer-esque presumption that Microsoft controlled its own destiny and could have leveraged its assets (like Office) to win the smartphone market, ignoring that by virtue of being late Windows Phone was a product competing against ecosystems, which meant no consumer demand, which meant no developers, topped off by the arrogance to dictate to OEMs and carriers what they could and could not do to the phone, destroying any chance at leveraging distribution to get critical mass...

If the means through which the United States carries out its foreign policy are windows through which we can better see ourselves, then one can better understand why D'Escoto expressed concern about our wellbeing, the viability of our democracy, and the likelihood of widespread repression against U.S. citizens.

Arsene Wenger opted against signing a single outfield player during the summer transfer window and recent reports of Danny Welbeck being laid up with a long - term injury that could keep out of action for as much as six months means the North London club are very short on options in the final third.

However, Deportivo have strengthened since the transfer window closed by bringing in Modibo Diakite and Sidnei Rechel da Silva Junior, meaning they should put out a strong first XI against Eibar.

I don't mean to be unfair to the lad, but he just hasn't settled into the Premier League at all and the performance against Burnley summed up his time at Tottenham, and I wouldn't be surprised if he was offloaded somewhere else in the summer transfer window.

For example, if you have a 24 - day cycle and a period that lasts 6 days, the end of your period will run up against the beginning of your fertile window, meaning you could conceive as soon as your period ends.

Forget any detour to the showroom.That, of course, must mean rival vehicles from Japan - such as the Toyota 4Runner, Nissan Pathfinder and Isuzu Trooper - are gathering dust in some distant corner.You would think so, based on the fact that the rising value of the yen against the dollar has boosted Japanese vehicle prices to the point that it doesn't hurt to inhale deeply from the smelling salts before focusing on the window sticker.

What this means is that companies will now be required to pay just $ 15 for each Windows device they sell against the $ 50 that it used to be.

An Android 5.0 tablet meant to compete against Windows 8 tablets by offering a superior price and experience would make sense and do a lot to secure the future of the OS if implemented well.

As an optimist, I figured that this would mean a more comfortable journey, legs stretched into the aisle, head resting on my rolled - up coat as a pillow against the window.

It is basically a measure of the expected deviation of all the runs used against the reconstructed average: Take a running «window» average over a «straight» portion of the temperature reference, so that the local deviation against the local mean is calculated (for our temperature record one could simplify by detrending the record from 1940's to 2000's and calculating a deviation).

This week's Patch Tuesday release updates PCs running x86 versions of Windows 7 and 8.1 against Meltdown, meaning that all currently supported Windows releases now include defense against this vulnerability.

That's as Microsoft intends it; the two are meant to provide only minimal protection against malware, the idea being that anything will be better than nothing (which is what about 20 percent of Windows users choose for antivirus protection).

Until, of course, you remember the culture - induced myopia I described yesterday: Myerson still has the Ballmer-esque presumption that Microsoft controlled its own destiny and could have leveraged its assets (like Office) to win the smartphone market, ignoring that by virtue of being late Windows Phone was a product competing against ecosystems, which meant no consumer demand, which meant no developers, topped off by the arrogance to dictate to OEMs and carriers what they could and could not do to the phone, destroying any chance at leveraging distribution to get critical mass...

While Microsoft's New York event taking place on Tuesday was supposed to be about the Surface Mini — a 7 - inch to 8 - inch tablet meant to fight against similarly sized devices running iOS or Android — Computer World has learned that Microsoft will not actually unveil such a Windows tablet.

Upgrading to Windows 10 not only means decreased risk; it also means access to advanced, multi-layered defense against ransomware and other types of modern attacks.

FICO does allow for mortgage rate shopping within a 45 - day window, meaning you can seek preapproval from multiple lenders without having each credit inquiry count against you.

I thought it was a shame that the necessity of a walkway across the DR meant the table had to be so far from the window, and scrunched up against the wall.