Sentences with phrase «nights at a computer»

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On the night of June 25, 1974, a team from the National Cash Register installed new scanners and computers at the Marsh Supermarket in the small town of Troy, Ohio.

On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea.

At the Vita's launch party in Los Angeles on Wednesday night, I chatted with Jack Tretton, president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America, about the Vita, PlayStation and game trends in general.

I let a friend come over and set up my computer at home so that I could get some work done at night after the kids went to bed.

What's cool: Many employees don't shut down their computers at night, which wastes energy and runs up the electric bill.

That means consumers may have more opportunities to snag a good deal, and they may be able to pick whether they want to be a night owl, and stake out retailers opening at midnight on Black Friday; or an early bird, and awake before dawn; or eschew the entire thing, and go shopping in their pajamas from their computer at home.

And one night I was at a computer club at a library, and I met a man named John Freeman who was an oil engineer and executive.

Every night he was streaming — at night I want to spend time with my fiancée — but every night I was sitting at my computer watching this four - hour webcast, kind of preparing, like, «OK, he just said this; how am I going to spin that in his favor?»

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.

Does your mommy know you're using her computer, or is she still in bed with your new «uncle» she picked up at the bar last night?

Briefly, then: Ginsberg, in flight from the computer and from Stan Rizzo's manly shoulders, visits Peggy late at night with an urgent request: «Peggy, we got ta reproduce.

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?

The company also says all unnecessary lighting in its facilities has been removed, and all office equipment is turned off at night, including computers, monitors and even electronics that have standby and sleep modes.

I do try to limit computer time at night and if I can't then I always have f.lux on my screen to cast off the blue light.

I really need to have a computer shut off time at night.

At first I thought it was just an issue on my phone but had it happen on my computer the other night.

As always, the blog exchange deteriorated into insult and abuse — and I suspect he is still paying a private detective to find me — when a timely intervention by my wife brought me back from the brink of insanity and a 12 hour night shift at the computer face.

Friends we will always be, but it's time for me to put my computer away at night because I need to sleep.

By night you can find her at her computer, drafting up her next blog post about parenting with chronic illnesses.

In my years as lead parent, I have gotten the kids out of the house in the morning; enforced bedtimes at night; monitored computer and TV use; attempted to ensure that homework got done right; encouraged involvement in sports and music; attended the baseball games, piano lessons, plays, and concerts that resulted; and kept tabs on social lives.

So the more that you use your tablets, computers, televisions, phones, lamps at night, the more your circadian rhythm will be off kilter.

At night, lights of television or computer screens should be kept down.

By night you can find her at her computer, drafting up her next great blog post about parenting with chronic illnesses.

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.»

The adorable Eye Pillows and Slippers are great for chilly nights when you are sitting on the couch watching your favorite shows or sitting at the computer reading this blog!

Doctors often encourage teens who have sleep problems to make lifestyle changes — like turning off the cellphone or computer before bed, cutting down on caffeine, or avoiding violent video games or movies at night — to promote good sleeping habits.

I was able, very soon after starting the plan, to sit at my computer at night and work for four - hour stretches.

At night, when I shut off the computer, I am often just so exhausted that quality time with my kids has turned into The Minions movie and popcorn.

By the time I was done... and exported it to a word file on my computer, it was ten pages long... After I finished writing it, the long nights didn't end, the sleep deprivation was high and patience was getting even lower, so I would read his birth story over and over again on my Black berry at night.

Make sure your tween is getting the recommended amount of sleep per night (even on weekends), and remove any devices from your child's room, such as a TV or a computer, that might be responsible for keeping your tween up at night.

Keep televisions, computers, cell phones off while your baby is sleeping in his room at night.

Watching television or using a computer, tablet or a phone at night can stimulate the brain rather than relax it.

It was reported last night that a member of Hizb - ut - Tahrir is working as a computer technician at the Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND)'s offices in Croydon.

Go ahead and lobby your county legislator and / or state legislator to finance this and put into place all the necessary procedures to accomplish this if you must, along with all the other financing and procedures (you'll need extra computers at each polling location, people to transport same to each polling place, internet connections established at least for election night at each location, and additional procedures in place to ensure the process is both secure and honest, and likely buchu poll watchers (many more than commonly appear as of now).

I came to Wall Street in 1982 as a computer consultant and went for an MBA in finance at night.

Traffic's history (and future) comes alive as Tom Vanderbilt joins a traffic archaeologist on the well - worn streets of Pompeii and, later on, seats us at the helm of the most sophisticated traffic computer network in the United States: the Los Angeles Department of Transportation's Automated Traffic Surveillance and Control, where a single engineer attempts to keep L.A. gridlock at bay on Oscar night.

Our small class of 8 spent many late nights in the computer lab or at our drawing tables and we became close friends.

Oded Goldreich, a professor of computer science at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, commented that even if it had only been a moderate improvement over existing methods, it would have justified a «night - long party.»

He tells Amanda Gefter about his favourite multiverse, why we might be living in a computer simulation and the questions that keep him awake at night

It is an unreal feeling, if you are a theorist like me, to imagine that nature might actually obey the delicate theories and fanciful ideas you develop at your desk late at night on scraps of paper or at a computer screen.

But at night, as I sleep soundly in the other room, my computer works steadily in the darkness, trying to find a cure for smallpox.

One key improvement to allow for longer - distance flight will be a form of computer monitoring, so that the human pilot will be able to rest during the at least five - day and five - night Pacific Ocean overflight while the autopilot keeps the airplane stable.

Orange sunglasses, which block most blue light, are another option for avoiding blue light at night and this addresses room lighting as well as phone, computer and tablet exposure.

I've also found that when I do have to work at night on the computer, using blue blocking orange sunglasses can help keep proper melatonin levels and cortisol patterns.

Are you in the habit of watching TV or working on your computer till late at night?

If this isn't practical for you, install F.lux on your computer to automatically dim your screens at night and consider getting a cheap pair of Blue Blocker sunglasses.

I even use computers late at night when I'm supposed to be avoiding blue light and relaxing.

Turning off the TV at a set time, or removing the TV and computer from your child's bedroom, should be another first on your list if you want to ensure a good night's sleep.

Have you ever felt like too much light or computer work can keep you awake at night?

Using computers and smart devices we expose ourselves to blue light even at night, which keeps us awake longer and reduces deep sleep at night.