Sentences with phrase «dropped onto»

But that excitement felt by millions when they tore open the wrapping paper on their newest gadget will quickly turn to devastation when it's dropped onto the floor, when it falls out of a pocket and into the toilet or when it's left in a pocket and goes through the washing machine.

I have always wondered, just how many Ontario MPPs sold their homes before The Land Speculation Tax Act and The Land Transfer Tax Act were dropped onto the Ontario people, on Friday, April 9, 1974, which caused the real estate market to collapse over night, and sold deals failed to close starting Monday.

We dropped it onto a Nokia wireless charging pad we had in the office (necessary as the S6 doesn't come with a wireless charger) and found it charged with no problems.

We take descriptions of the blockchain's emergent properties such as «immutability» and «decentralization,» and often seem to conclude these are magical passive properties of blockchain which can be dragged and dropped onto any application.

A smart watch dropped onto a peg instantly began to charge without needing to align any ports.

«[W] e can have a network of arbitrarily complicated transactions, such that they aren't on the blockchain (and thus are fast, cheap and extremely scalable), but at every point are ready to be dropped onto the blockchain for resolution if there's a problem,» said Russell.

But with a supposed piece of marketing dropped onto Weibo this week, we have to wonder if «a fifteen - minute charge will get your phone 100 % of battery» if our phone is the long - delayed OPPO Find 9.

At the same time, shortcuts are dropped onto the main home page, so you can scroll and tap what you want to access directly.

This can be used whether the console is docked or undocked — just be mindful of the distance between you and the console when docked, so it isn't accidentally pulled out and dropped onto the floor.

We picked one up this morning and have been toying with it for the last few hours and so far we're impressed (we also dropped it onto pavement, by accident).

Firms can create their own templates for whatever practice areas they handle using a variety of generic and practice - specific fields that can be dragged and dropped onto the template creator.

Any item can be dragged and dropped onto the form designer.

On a crowded Saturday evening, the group dropped onto patrons thousands of printed «dollar bills» bearing slogans criticizing the museum's complicity with abusive labor practices.

Edward Shalala, Untitled # 7, 2009, canvas dust dropped onto contact paper, 18 x 21 inches (image from the gallery website)

But the game tends to drop you back close to where you fell, and in sequences where the floor is rapidly collapsing, this can mean you get stuck out on an island, or you can get dropped onto empty space.

You start by painting your Rabbid one of the colors of the rainbow, and then you're dropped onto a game board with three other Rabbids, competing for trophies (ten or twenty) before making your way back to the center of the board to win.

One of the latter dropped onto the One just yesterday, on April 17th; the final in one of SEGA's most revered series, and my personal pick for best action shooter of all time, Panzer Dragoon Orta.

Up to 100 players will be dropped onto the map where they'll battle for supremacy while grabbing gear and doing their best to outgun their opponents.

100 gamers are dropped onto the island and should vie to be the final one standing.

You're dropped onto a platform in space with two pistols and waves of flying bots that need to be shot out of the starry sky.

The players are dropped onto a level that's like a maze with one goal in mind: get the most points possible by collecting frags.

The genre works on a premise of the movie Battle Royale where 100 people get dropped onto an island and have to find weapons and resources to fight it out between each other until only 1 player lives and wins the game.

What the developer couldn't mask are how the cars are practically dropped onto roads from a thin air, as well as police vehicles appearing out of nowhere on deserted roads during escape missions.

Called Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator, the game dropped onto...

I lost my hornet, so my buddy came over and air - dropped me onto the scarab where I earned the 50,000 th point.

All of the ones I saw looked like basic wooden forts dropped onto the landscape, with little to differentiate one from another apart from a bit of set - dressing.

Each level in Hyrule Warriors» story mode has the same basic setup: players will be dropped onto a battlefield and asked to help capture enemy keeps.

«It's a bunch of people being dropped onto a map and then having to fight for survival.»

However, several explosive goodies are dropped onto the big E3 stage.

April doesn't really match that, but there's still some great games being dropped onto the pile.

Wolfenstein The New Order surprised everyone when it dropped onto the scene back in 2014.

As a manager, you get dropped onto one of four randomized maps with the goal of building a prosperous village filled with Lings, who are basically just people with daft names who are near impossible to discern from each other at a distance, so you constantly have to refer back to your bulging list of Lings.

(Yes, my jaw actually dropped onto the floor).

This blood sample is dropped onto a type of well that contains certain proteins that is mixed with a blood typing fluid.

Be watchful of food that is dropped onto the floor.

Small pet owners are realizing that glass bottles can be a good value, because as long as they aren't dropped onto a hard surface, they practically last forever.

At the same time, shortcuts are dropped onto the main home page, so you can scroll and tap what you want to access directly.

Let's face it, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play didn't exactly make a huge splash when it dropped onto the market, and until now, it hasn't really gained any traction.

There are better ways to do that so that the honest reviews are ready to be dropped onto your sales page as soon as the book can be purchased (or soon after).

The S Note is also integrated with knowledge search engines so that content can be searched for and information obtained, and then easily drag and dropped onto S Notes without having to switch between screens.

Go back to your not - a-salesman and turn in your vehicle, which is ground up into the same little pellets it started out as, and is 3D - printed again and dropped onto your old chassis, or a new and improved chassis.

The large crowd emerged — seemingly from nowhere — the instant the cars were disgorged from the delivery trucks and dropped onto the concrete scrutineering apron of the Rockingham Motor Speedway, and now we're surrounded.

After first gaining «some small sense of the disconnection and confusion every English - language learner must feel upon being dropped onto a strange school site with no command of the native tongue,» Roger Phillips reflected on his day at Pittman Charter School in this Stockton Record article.

Students develop a FANTASY LANDSCAPE for their own paintings out of ink blobs dropped onto their paper and out of random scribbles.

Fully Illustrated's / Darkwind Media's historical brawler, Wulverblade, dropped onto the Nintendo Switch last Fall and allowed gamers everywhere to enjoy the couch co-op thanks to the system's portability.

Perhaps that's why that opening sequence, in which Aladar's egg is removed from its nest and dropped onto the lemur island, is Dinosaur's big highlight.

His time aboard that vessel is brief, though; after he stands up to the alcoholic Captain Davies (Stanley Fields), he gets dropped onto the ship of Dr. Moreau (Charles Laughton) with other deliveries.

What the developer couldn't mask are how the cars are practically dropped onto roads from a thin air, as well as police vehicles appearing out of nowhere on deserted roads during escape missions.

Netflix films have been released with comparatively little fanfare (the Grand Jury prize winner of Sundance, I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore dropped onto the platform in February and registered nary a blip, with Bong Joon - ho's Okja also not succeeding in moving the needle all that much), as they seemed content with simply putting it up on the service and setting up a few awards qualifying runs in New York and LA and leaving it at that.

These balls are then dropped onto a token field, which they are slowly pushed out of as more tokens build up.