Sentences with phrase «at my computer screen in»

In the back of my mind there were faint alarms going off, but I did hear them, and it caused me to think: That exactly is it that causes us to spend hours staring at a computer screen in the hopes that someone will post a supportive comment about the party we went to last Friday, or the fight we had Tuesday night with our girlfriend?

Staring intently at a computer screen in their Political Studies class, a combination English, economics, and government course at Sacramento New Technology High School, in Sacramento, California, seniors Nancy Vue, Sparkle Shamburger, and Christian Govea scroll through a «project charter.»

It contains a calligraphy of steel bars, a structure that supports photographs depicting solitary figures looking at computer screens in high - rise apartment buildings.

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In another, the researchers asked study participants to quickly assess how much a person weighed by looking at faces on a computer screen.

Unfortunately, the creations listed above are all hypothetical (for the time being), but hopefully the pictures will suffice in some small way for any Twinkie fans staring longingly at their computer screens.

However, by learning the ins and outs of your computer, you can help avoid some of these problems and make sure you aren't just staring at a loading screen all day.

And for those oh - so productive «in - between» moments, when you're spacing out at your desk, zombie - staring at your computer screen, like you're in deep thought or something.

three times in quick succession as he sits in an empty office staring at his computer screen.

At these travel hubs, in addition to laptop computers, all electronics larger than a cell phone — including e-readers and tablets — will be placed in a separate bin for additional screening.

Overused images of people in headsets staring at computer screens or suited men around a boardroom table are incredibly inauthentic.

So far, it's been wireless carriers giving customers discounts on the devices in exchange for multiyear data - plan commitments, but with most people using their tablets at home and on the couch as a sort of second TV or computer screen, it might make more sense for television or Internet service providers to offer the contracts.

«There was a sense of relief, just my wife and I in an empty bedroom looking at the computer screen,» he recalls.

As another officer presents the known details of the mission, a marine types the main points into a laptop computer running Microsoft PowerPoint presentation software, and that information is projected onto a screen at the front of the room and to a similar room in each of the two other ships in the MEU, where other officers are participating via videoconference in the meeting.

It flickers in your fluorescent and LED lights in your home, it is emitted from your digital television screen, you're exposing your eyes to it every time you check Facebook on your phone, and it's bombarding your eyes all day at work while you stare at your computer.

Instead of showing up in a window, Bob will be at the bottom of your computer screen, just like he's sitting across from you.

Question: Am I the only one who has had to explain to work colleagues who happened to glance at my computer screen why my in - box is loaded with notes from «Naked Pastor ``?

Just as those glued to their television sets for six or seven hours a night reasonably prefer sets with PIP (picture in picture) which let one see the action of more than one channel at once, to enhance surfing (at the loss of coherence, if you value that), so, too, do workers chained to computer monitors for eight or more hours a day naturally prefer to have a large screen with 16 million possible shades and hues of color, with a number of programs opened at once.

I look at a computer screen all day long, so it is refreshing in my opinion to look at a book for a few minutes a day.

I won't find it sitting in my basement staring at the computer screen, I know that by now.

And today I considered writing a post about racism in the South... which undoubtedly would have prompted some yelling at the computer screen.

The moment I realized I could write my own future, as I sat in an uncomfortable office chair, blinking at a bright computer screen full of numbers and symbols.

As I work in front of a computer all day, it's time for me to take a screen break at least one evening a week!

In a restaurant, at the front desk of a hotel, at the concierge desk of a cruise ship or behind a computer screen, employees enjoy Section 7 rights to discuss the terms and conditions of their employment, even when, to employers» dismay, these discussions occur in front of guestIn a restaurant, at the front desk of a hotel, at the concierge desk of a cruise ship or behind a computer screen, employees enjoy Section 7 rights to discuss the terms and conditions of their employment, even when, to employers» dismay, these discussions occur in front of guestin front of guests.

[Images flash through of two people at computers, a person lying down, a computer screen display, a female pouring liquid and a female operating a computer and then the camera zooms in on the liquid being poured and the female operating the computer screen]

Paige encountered a series of glitches that left city parents pacing in their home offices, screaming at computer screens and posting angry messages on Facebook.

She's not just sitting and observing, watching TV or staring at a computer screen, she's using her whole body and mind in her play.

And I'm squinting my eyes at the laptop screen trying to concentrate all my energy into copying down the words that the man on the computer is saying without taking the time to process what that means in the scope of the story.

Ten tips for keeping your school - age child happy in the kitchen instead of staring at the television or computer screen.

Our brains secrete melatonin at night to help us fall asleep, says Grams Haxby, and «LED light (from a computer screen or television) can cause a shift in circadian rhythms by suppressing melatonin release.»

A recent study conducted by researchers at the Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation looked at differences in brain activity comparing the times children spent on screens (TV, smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktop computers) versus reading a book.

In this case, I'm not too confident that the results are going to be satisfying — I can think of few things more excruciatingly boring than staring at a bunch of talking heads in suits for an hour in a tiny window on my computer screeIn this case, I'm not too confident that the results are going to be satisfying — I can think of few things more excruciatingly boring than staring at a bunch of talking heads in suits for an hour in a tiny window on my computer screein suits for an hour in a tiny window on my computer screein a tiny window on my computer screen.

With a «chief scientist» specializing in consumer behavior, an «analytics department» monitoring voter trends, and a squad of dozens huddled at computer screens editing video or writing code, the sprawling office complex inside One Prudential Plaza looks like a corporate research and development lab — Ping - Pong table and all.

As the sound of students coming back from lunch filled the hallways, Caroline Skahen, a fifth - grader at Jamesville - Dewitt Middle School and her classmates were in the computer lab, quietly focused on their screens.

In the study, patients were instructed to read a list of words — one at a time — from a computer screen.

«New Pap smear schedule led to fewer chlamydia tests, new study suggests: But adding reminder in clinic computers ensures young women get both recommended health screens at the right time.»

In their experiments, the Tübingen researchers placed test subjects at a computer screen and into a virtual maze, where they had to find hidden objects.

So in the case of this movie, well this movie winds up doing is actually asking a question, and the question it asks is what price do we pay for having all this wonderful technology that we are, you know, using — and you know, I love my computer, I love using e-mail and, you know, [Facebook and] Twitter and all these innovations, [they're] fantastic; and yet you can easily find yourself stuck into this and actually you're spending hours a day staring at a computer screen — and [yet] every moment that you spend doing that is a moment you are not with your family, with your friends, going out for a walk, doing something real in a real world.

For instance, researchers at IBM Research in Haifa, Israel, are developing a five - minute screening tool that uses voice recordings and computer analysis to identify people with mild cognitive impairment, a precursor to dementia.

But if the test ended artificially early, with their computer screens pointing at Wikipedia.org, about two thirds of the subjects who had planned to use IMDb overlooked the alternative right in front of them.

The new system, developed by neurologist Niels Birbaumer and his team at the University of Tübingen in Germany, consists of a computer screen in front of a locked - in patient and connected to electrodes that register the person's brain activity.

Consider how many of your most creative thoughts occur not in front of a computer screen or at the bench but while your are showering, golfing, lying in bed, or taking a jog in the park?

Steve: And there are people who are out there, instead of hacking into the actual electrons that are flowing, and reading what you are up to that way, they are in an office building a block away with the telescope looking through the office window of somebody else and just looking at the computer screen to read what they are up to.

At the same time, kids now spend an average of 44 hours a week sitting in front of a television, computer screen or other video monitor, according to a 2005 Kaiser Family Foundation study.

While computer owners in the industrialised countries can read news bulletins on their screens at home, in Cameroon, people still rely on broadcasters and newspapers to keep them informed.

De Winter plans to replicate the study using the exact same materials used by Hess and Polt — now stored at the Drs. Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Center for the History of Psychology at the University of Akron in Ohio — but will also repeat the experiment using computer screens and eye trackers, to check whether the results depend on the technology.

«We've conducted tracking tests in laboratories in which subjects follow moving images across computer screens,» says psychologist McBeath, «and we've found that until the velocity of the target changes by as much as 60 to 70 percent, people don't notice that it's speeding up or slowing down at all.»

The sets would appear on a computer screen, and the birds would have to peck at them in the correct, ascending sequence to get a reward of food.

Speaking at the Australian Vision Convention in Queensland on the weekend, Professor Read said it was not «near work» on computer and other screens causing myopia, but a lack of adequate outdoor light.

The Mylar sheet is similar to the screen protector that today comes on most new, out - of - the - box smartphones and tablet computers, says researcher Matthew White, a materials scientist at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria.

As medical writers, many of us spend at least 6 hours a day sitting at a desk, staring at the computer screen, working with statistical outputs (in the form of tables and graphs), literature, and slide presentations.