Sentences with phrase «by thumb»

The Mamba also features a larger padded area by the thumb and for the two outermost fingers, which helped me keep a better grip on the device.

The G600 features no less than 20 physical buttons — a panel of 12 on its left side, accessed by your thumb; three built into the «tilt» scroll wheel; two more mini-buttons on the very top; and three elongated keys (standard left and right mouse keys and a third «G - shift» key on the far right, directly under your ring finger).

The researchers used sensors in a smartphone to model which number had been pressed by its users, based on how the phone was tilted, and how much light is blocked by the thumb or fingers.

MLI: Going by the thumb rule you should have life cover of 10 - 12 times of your annual income.

When you open up the app on your phone, there's a big green button right by your thumb that takes you to the virtual card generator.

Publication The Past is a Foreign Country is accompanied by a monograph designed by Thumb / Luke Bulman with contributions by Emmanuel Iduma, Brendan Wattenberg and Susanna D. Wing.

The one drawback here is that you'll die some cheap deaths because you can't see some areas blocked by your thumb, but luckily the frustration level remains low due to the surplus of lives and free retries.

By holding it with the two triggers on top, with the face buttons also easily reachable by your thumb, you get a surprisingly solid control option.

Commercial clickers are small plastic boxes about the size of a domino, with a metal tongue depressed by the thumb.

Although these buttons are easily accessible by the thumb, it took us a day to get used to it.

The screen is relatively deeply inset, thanks to the optical touch recognition (the same tech, and the same inset, is present on the Nook Simple Touch), and the surrounding gray bezel is just wide enough to be comfortably braced by a thumb when in the Standard Reading Position.

It also has physical page turn keys that have haptic technology that is only discernible by your thumb.

If you find «joy» in «communicating» via something you typed by thumb or via some shallow site like Facebook, then there probably just isn't a

The motor embraces exceptional technology, and doesn't switches - off until the rider with his own physical push lets the scooter achieve minimum speed; here the speed is controlled by thumb - operated accelerator.

A pair of 12.3 - inch displays serve as the instrument cluster and infotainment display, both of which are controlled by the thumb slider pads on the AMG - specific steering wheel.

The jewel of the tech suite is the Virtual Cockpit, a 12.3 - inch digital instrument cluster that is controlled by thumb buttons on the steering wheel and can handle most navigation, audio, telephony and vehicle monitoring functions without taking a hand off of the wheel or an eye too far from the road.

Sure, that slider by your thumb on the steering wheel is fine, but there is something to be said for having a volume knob in the place your muscles have been trained to reach for.

In the largest experiment ever undertaken into the manipulative pressures experienced by the hand during stone tool production, biological anthropologist's analysed the manipulative forces and frequency of use experienced by the thumb and fingers on the non-dominant hand during a series of stone tool production sequences that replicated early tool forms.

Led by Dr Shivam Bhasin, NTU Senior Research Scientist at the Temasek Laboratories @ NTU, researchers used sensors in a smart phone to model which number had been pressed by its users, based on how the phone was tilted and how much light is blocked by the thumb or fingers.

In addition, whether a child's teeth are affected by thumb sucking depends on the type of sucking they do.

Hampered by thumb, shoulder and arm injuries, record - setting collegian never lived up to billing; cut by Cleveland in June» 04, he's out of football.

You will end up with wee gnocchi having 3 stripes on one side and on the other, a little cavity made by your thumb.

Krauthammer challenges his readers by asking if they would hesitate to hang a man by his thumbs if doing so were necessary to defuse a ticking bomb that would blow up New York City.

I thought the response on here to vardy joining was about fifty fifty judging by the thumbs up and down

People pretending they understand that by the thumbs.

Admin, judging by thumbs up I am not alone with this problem.

But by the thumbs down, I can tell that it ain't gonna work.

Surprised by the thumbs down.

Davidnz, seems like your ironic comment was completely mis - understood by the thumbs down.

See therein lies the problem — you say «spot on» and judging by the thumbs down presumably an equal number think Mr Mitov is spouting half - baked rubbish.

Judging by the thumbs it looks like most people believe it's sarcasm.

Well judging by the thumbs and your thumbs down its you who is the idiot what is so wrong that if he plays the way he is going he will have a great chance for selection for France You seem so negative in your posts you have to be a Spurs idiot CB

If this mosque is supposed to be about understanding and respect, you don't start out by thumbing your nose at those feelings, which I believe this mosque is doing.»

I also find inspiration by thumbing through a favorite cookbook each week, looking for new ideas.

Reflexology is the application of appropriate pressure by thumbs and fingers to specific acupressure points and areas on the feet or hands, in order to improve the recipient's health.

Gosnell should be hung by his thumbs, but because his filmography is the fertile loam from which prefab franchises sprout, he's given the keys to the kingdom instead.

For a film that tries to buck the gymnastics trend by thumbing its nose at the judges that count off points for any attempts at originality, the «movie judges», otherwise known as film critics, can thumb their noses right back and slam it, ironically, for not being nearly original enough.

I would prefer to have the cruise control switchgear on the spokes of the wheel, easily operated by the thumbs, without lifting a hand off the wheel.

While Track does allow for a good amount of rear - end lift - off oversteer before reining in the fun, if you want to get all drifty, the BRZ will now leave you to your own devices — you can fully extinguish all electronic safety aids by thumbing a button.

The speakers sit slightly below a natural holding position, which means they shouldn't be blocked by your thumbs and the sound they produce seemed good.

It has often struck me when talking about how we might green up our housing stock just how often the solutions can be found by thumbing through the history books.

Trump, by thumbing his nose at the rule of law, demonstrates how important it is.

Each one large enough to avoid any mishits Then you can have a finger permutation keyboard in the bottom half of each side of the front, with as few as 4 or less keys on each side for activation by your thumbs.

The speakers sit slightly below a natural holding position, which means they shouldn't be blocked by your thumbs and the sound they produce seemed good.

It may be that they think the hypotheticals are being endorsed / promoted; that the posters are suggesting doing things in a way disapproved of by the thumbs downers or that they pick up on some of the sarcasm and don't appreciate same.

Not exact matches

Retractable dog leashes are too thin to be detected by the door sensor, and if the dog and owner get caught on different sides of the door, the leash could strangle the dog or dislocate the thumb of its owner.

A rule of thumb I teach students to use is to multiply the number of respondents who say they will definitely use a service by 80 percent.

By offering lines of credit, the Cash Store believes it can put itself beyond the reach of provincial regulators and back under the federal thumb.

«Some of the processes tend to be centralized, and in effort to decentralize them while still retaining the integrity of an Iraqi permission [it] was tweaked by the Iraqi government, not by the strike cells, as to who's the Iraqi giving you the thumbs - up that the government has given permission,» Sofge told Business Insider.

As a general rule of thumb, if a company can't show a realistic path to $ 50 million in revenue by year three and $ 100 million by year five, the investment isn't going to fly.