Sentences with phrase «by poor design»

Unfortunately, it is hobbled by some poor design choices that make it very difficult to use.

Overall, Charlie Murder is a very good game but dragged down by poor design decisions which could have been avoided.

However, it was crushed by poor design choices, such as frustrating difficulty, braindead A.I, and a myriad of interface issues.

The PSP may be marred by a poor design decision, but it more than makes up with this with a plethora of fantastic games and I look back on it very fondly.

Square Enix launched its own digital manga service in 2010, but it was strangled by poor design and excessive DRM, as chronicled here and here.

With the exception of the Samsung Galaxy Tab, most Andoid tablets we've tested have been marred by poor design, a lack of apps, lackluster performance, or all of the above.

Plagued by poor design, an ugly washed - out screen, and a limited app offering, the Pandigital SuperNova can't hold a candle to the Kindle Fire.

«The challenge at Brook House was significantly compounded by poor design, which built in boredom.

Not exact matches

While there are credit cards and lending programs designed for individuals with poor credit, these options will typically charge a higher interest rate to compensate for the credit risk posed by a sub-prime borrower.

By the end of the semester, he'd raised another $ 5 million and was standing in front of the Digital Life Design conference in Munich, promising a world in which education was nearly free, available to poor people in the developing world, and better than anything that had come before it.

The best mortgage programs for applicants with poor credit scores are those designed to reduce the risk borne by the lender.

Does our legal system make criminals and poor people by design?

But for the past 8 decades they have welcomed the Hypocritical big businessmen, who profess faith yet stand vehemently against taxation designed to aid the poor, a cornerstone of almost all faiths, and have consistently forced people to LINK Church and State by means of creating policies with subliminal purposes.

So when parts of my life die, whether by design or by poor choices, I must remember that even in the dark despair of the moment, God is at work to bright forth light, love, joy, and hope.

If the human body were designed by an omniscient and omnipotent being surely it would not have made such a poor job of the laryngeal nerve in mammals, the spine not being optimal for bi-pedal gait, the blind spot caused by the optic nerve, etc. etc..

Even consumers with a poor memory for names will remember the award - winning bottle designed by Karim Rashid.

Early embossed hand blown mold pepper sauce bottles in the author's collection include: several spiral designed bottles patented by E. R. Durkee & Company; many varieties of colored spiral bottles with Stickney & Poor (S&P) embossed on the base; a multiple - paneled William Schotten & Co..

The oil I wipe away is a waste of money because of poor bottle design and choice by Nutiva.

LuMee was designed by a professional photographer who was fed up with poor lighting while Skyping with his daughter abroad.

You have to know that we are a society in which literacy and intelligence are inseparable and yet, by design, the intermingling demographic of poor and black receive the short end of the stick.

Triple prams, such as those that are designed in a 3 seater «side by side» format, are not just poor in manoeuvrability, they are also impractical, taking up too much space on the pavement, in a doorway or lift entrance.

The alert went on to say that «scheduled feedings designed by parents may put babies at risk for poor weight gain and dehydration.»

Scheduled feedings designed by parents may put babies at risk for poor weight gain and dehydration.»

AAP MEDIA ALERT titled «AAP Addresses Scheduled Feedings vs. Demand Feedings» affirmed the American Academy of Pediatrics» support for cue feeding and reiterated the AAP position that «scheduled feedings designed by parents may put babies at risk for poor weight gain and dehydration.»

The Health Inequalities Intervention Tool is designed to help local health services and councils identify areas affected by poor health and suggest simple steps to rectify it.

Other laws are designed to affect those who interpret them, such as the provision that takes effect Feb. 26 that creates a rotating schedule of courts to hold off - hours arraignments in counties outside of New York City to ensure that stakeholders — including judges, prosecutors and public defenders — are not strained by nighttime arrests and the poor, particularly in sparsely populated counties, have access to adequate representation.

As Public Advocate, she pledges to use the powers of her office to ensure that the NYPD conducts full and complete crash investigations and holds dangerous drivers accountable for their actions, and will champion the expansion of complete - street projects, especially to disadvantaged neighborhoods that are all too often plagued by poor road design.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

By bringing together a variety of disciplines and adapting commercial methods, they hope to come up with a set of safe and effective modern medicines designed to save the lives of the world's poorest people.

Gómez - Márquez aims to push this approach even further by encouraging physicians and scientists in poor countries to design their own devices.

New review demonstrates effectiveness of vitamin intake on pancreatic cancer risk A guest blog by Designs For Health Pancreatic cancer is the 12th most common cancer in the world and often has a poor prognosis, even if diagnosed early.

BlackSite is a decent game unfortunately held back by poor AI and a lack of variety amongst the poorly designed enemies.

Poor, unresponsive control and linear level design prevent this game from being enjoyable by anyone other than big fans of the animated series.

«Nightmare in North Point» tries to channel the supernatural for an outlandish side story but gets bogged down by repetitive combat and again, poor mission design.

The poster was design by a Columbia University MFA classmate, Brandon Zuck, highlighting the evil that's about to fall upon poor little Lucas (Cameron Ocasio) and his babysitter Helen (Cait Bliss).

There is a core idea here that is quite sound, and it's unfortunately undermined by a series of poor design choices.

Great game play mechanics and ideas, hindered by poor art design and middle of the road graphics.

It's hard to accomplish this, but it can be done by focusing your learning design to include interventions and activities successful at changing poor practices.

Directed by Patrick Creadon and produced by Christine O'Malley and Neal Baer, If You Build It tells the story of designer Emily Pilloton, architect Matt Miller, and the students in their in - school design and build class in Bertie County, the poorest county in North Carolina.

We can expect that, at least in the short - term, mobility into and out of these programs will be high (sometimes by design, other times because it was a poor fit).

She noted, «[Policy - makers] make schools in black and brown communities our poorest, most disadvantaged communities by design.

This view is «validated» mainly by anecdotal evidence of poor choices made as part of poorly designed voucher programs.

While Malloy has claimed that his plan was designed to take from the rich and give to the poor, the state's middle income communities are among the hardest hit by Malloy's funding scheme.

What part of the high rate of failure, however, was due to inadequate student knowledge in mathematics and what part of the failure was due to the poor quality of the questions asked and the convoluted and confusing test interface designed by the test makers.

And a poor value - added model design could attribute student outcomes (either positive or negative) to a teacher's performance that are actually caused by other factors not measured in the model.

In some poor, typically urban schools fewer than 10 % are proficient at reading and math by fourth grade, and yet these kids are pushed forward by the demand of a one - size - fits - all educational model to work within a curriculum that was designed for kids who are fully proficient in the learning content and skills that were «covered» in previous school years.

The Challenge called on cities to do more than merely introduce new technologies onto city streets, requiring them to boldly envision new solutions that would change the face of transportation in our cities by closing the gap between rich and poor; capturing the needs of both young and old; and bridging the digital divide through smart design so that the future of transportation meets the needs of all city residents.

While the Pininfarina design remained, the changes include reducing body weight by 30 kg (66 lb), increased power by output of 30 PS (22 kW; 30 hp) and 15 N ⋅ m (11 lbf ⋅ ft), acceleration time from 0 — 100 km / h (62 mph) reduced to 3.8 seconds, introduction of Handling Speciale package and elimination of manual transmission following poor sales.

If the reason for the poor showing by electric vehicles had some relationship to their inherent design, it might be forgivable.

To compensate for the poor aerodynamics, Norris and his team at GM's South Korea design studio by employing underbody paneling, spoiler, active grille shutters, and even adjusting the size of the A-pillar.