Sentences with phrase «boffins did»

Much unlike what HP boffins did to the TouchPad, the PlayBook tablet from RIM has not been pushed into oblivion in spite of it also not faring too well in the market.

The boffins don't know what has caused the decline.

But the climate boffins don't really have much interest in testing their hypotheses in the real world anymore as nearly every time they do it disagrees with the alarmist narrative - science that pays the rent.

Not exact matches

It's pointless to seek a more profound truth here, as media boffins will insist on doing.

So far the company has done jack shit for business, aside from drum up a deal with Juno Therapeutics which gave them $ 25 million shekels for the boffins to run around and figure some shit out.

Sure, the grizzled old pro in a touchline windcheater, pulling into Newport Pagnell service station at 2 in the morning on his way back from Underhill still exists, but so do the Prozone boffin huddled over a computer and the budget airline fanatic.

Many boys agreed, saying it is OK to do well occasionally, but a boy who consistently earns high marks risks being called a «boffin,» a derisive word for studious.

No wonder the poor old boffin had all these calculations to do.

Do you know of any?I'm also afraid that no matter how I present myself, I'll be labelled as a «boffin» — even my own family refer to me as this (much to my irritation!)

Maybe the maths boffins could do some calculations for us?

Signing up and creating your profile is really easy, and you don't need to be a computer boffin, to be able to understand this site.

And now in «The Day After Tomorrow», there is yet more disaster and destruction on a truly massive scale all over America (and incidentally the rest of the world), only this time the enemy is global warming, the starring boffin is unable to do anything to defeat it, and the blame is placed squarely on the shoulders of Western consumerism and blinkered US governance.

But keeping in line with the lengths I must achieve with my present piece, let me put forward theories and thoughts that do not belong to me, and that would perhaps authenticate my present synopsis.Were you to ask a boffin about the reasons why learners respond better to teachers using humor in the class, I am sure (s) he would tell you that, «Humor in educational settings serves a variety of positive functions beyond simply making people laugh.

#gasp Don't worry — I'm not claiming to be a scientist, chemistry boffin or pharmacist.

Consider lowering your starting price to attract more attention; boffins at London Business School and Northwestern University in the US did some research on this topic, and found auctions with modest starting prices sparked more bidding and fetched higher final prices.

The climate boffin bandwagon told us the weather would be extreme in the direction we didn't want.

Do not take this: «Ignorant sycophants of these boffins are the new deniers.»

I know how to work out odds on a racecourse or a casino, but just wonder how you boffin types do it for things like this.

(In my heart of hearts I think it is really the «Son of Palm», because Palm used to do a lot of these neat little tasks, albeit with a stylus and not your fingertips, but it sort of was left behind while the creative boffins at Apple forged ahead with this integrated and attractive new generation toy).

It's kind of the same with Android, but Google doesn't do all of the work, so Razer boffins need to get involved.

Now with all due respect to the Treasury and Finance boffins who put Statement 6 together, these figures do look a little odd — in some years they are greater than the Department of Health Indigenous health sub-program and in some years less.

So is blood, but we don't want to ask the boffins where they get that from.

Well luckily for us, those clever boffins at Manchester MET University have solved the mystery of why toast always topples butter side down... and it's got nothing to do with the type of bread you use