Sentences with phrase «ancient device for»

Not exact matches

Nonetheless it is remarkable to find these ancient authors employing all the modern devices of the literary craftsman, surprise and suspense, rapidity and delay, humor and solemnity, vividness, realism, untempered callousness, dramatic shift of scene — all permeated with their feeling for what is intrinsically interesting, what makes a good story.

«The 3.5 mm headphone jack is ancient, and Apple could reasonably claim that using the Lightning port improves audio fidelity,» said Avi Greengart, research director for consumer platforms and devices at Current Analysis.

And today, instead of supporting ancient devices (ancient here means 5 years old), we should build ebooks for modern devices and leave it to owners of the ancient devices to catch up.

Set in a land of war where the ancients have abandoned four nations to their own mortal devices, you must build your city, train troops, research technology, and expand your territory to conquer the land - for victory, and for survival.

For supernatural / Cthulhu mythos adventure game fans, Zoetrope Interactive «s release of Conarium adds an insightful and well - turned chapter to existing canon, taking players on a voyage of madness, ancient artifacts, and strange devices; I chatted with developer Onur Samli on the many development facets that brought the project to life.

When a goblin army attacks a settlement and steals the collections of relics, which are ancient devices that have been engineered to power everything in the daily lives of the humans, the human leaders call on the best and brightest to help defeat the Goblins once and for all.

The curator's accompanying essay describes the exhibition as «about everything that is happening right now», and named after the Ancient Greek and Roman mnemonic device using spatial memory, or «memory palace» as a method for efficient recall.

Kleros, whose name means «chance» in Greek and is related to the Kleroterion, which was a stone randomization device used in democratic processes in ancient Greece, has introduced a new decentralized autonomous organization built on the Ethereum blockchain that will act as a dispute resolution layer for virtually any product or service.

Probably not for long, but given how hard it must have been for GS8 owners to see ancient and modest devices from several competing brands already updated to the newest OS version, even the smallest additional delay can cause them great pain.