Sentences with phrase «on the computer screen makes»

Digital imges allow the viewer to alter the contrast on a computer screen making the images more readable than traditional film.

Having to scroll on the computer screen makes remembering more difficult.

Not exact matches

The company makes standalone digital games for playing online and on screens of various sizes; it created the solitaire game that's preinstalled on Windows computers.

So far, it's been wireless carriers giving customers discounts on the devices in exchange for multiyear data - plan commitments, but with most people using their tablets at home and on the couch as a sort of second TV or computer screen, it might make more sense for television or Internet service providers to offer the contracts.

Images of people — even spies — tapping away on computers make for boring movie footage, so Hollywood usually resorts to showing silly fake green display screen to make it more interesting.

Small screens and other technical challenges make the experience pale in comparison with browsing on a regular computer.

It's nice to put a face to the name and see who the human on the other side of the phone or computer screen actually is — just make sure that your employees understand that by using their personal accounts to share company content and interact professionally, they need to remember that everything they post is a reflection on the company.

The C - Suite today must add BIG insight to the equation of being informed about buyers and making sound decisions that will put them on their existing customer's and prospective buyer's computer or tablet screen consistently.

The roads are starting to wind through the mountains, making me feel slightly nauseous while I try to focus on the computer screen.

It does make you wonder, doesn't it, the huge increase in children on medication for ADHD, the children who have poor social skills and the children who have no impulse control, which we've seen increase dramatically over the past 20 years, since we have had more screens in the household — be they TV, DVD, computer, X-box etc — makes you wonder....

f. Abridge, modify, translate or create any derivative work based on the Licensed Materials, except as may be necessary to make it perceptible on a computer screen to Authorized Users;

Hence, the designers want to make sure that the car body on the screen looks exactly as the real vehicle will appear later,» explains Philipp Slusallek, professor of computer graphics at Saarland University, Scientific Director at the German Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and Director of Research at the Intel Visual Computing Institute at Saarland University.

From complex solutions used by well - known people — such as the late Christopher Reeve's use of a high - tech wheelchair — to simpler ones like screen magnifiers on our computers and speech recognition «voice commands» on our smartphones, technology makes some tasks easier.

The game will use principles derived from existing programmes used in adults with visual field loss, whereby patients have to search for hard - to - find objects on a computer screen (a «visual search» task), but the game will be modified to make the task more stimulating and fun for children and structured to maximise the efficiency of learning.

In the European Space Agency's (ESA's) control room in Darmstadt, Germany, the mood was anxious and all eyes were glued to the mission control computer screens as a spidery, three - legged lander named Philae detached from its parent spacecraft, Rosetta, and made its slow descent to the surface of a comet — and cheers and hugging broke out on 12 November when the control room received confirmation that the lander had arrived.

During the experiments, half of participants were presented with a subliminal or subtle «death prime»; either they saw the word «dead» flash briefly on a computer screen or they saw an image of a T - shirt featuring a skull made up of several iterations of the word «death.»

Considering that children average more than 40 hours of screen time a week, not counting time spent on a computer at school, even small changes can make a difference, researchers said.

«Watching our participants use this more robust system to type on a computer screen highlights the progress being made toward a clinically useful system,» said Dr. Leigh Hochberg, professor of engineering at Brown, director of the Center for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology at PVAMC, director of the Neurotechnology Trials Unit at MGH Neurology, and senior author of the paper.

«I would liken it to increasing the resolution on a computer screen by making the pixels smaller,» Jaspars says.

Simulations are normally made by forming a wireframe image of objects on a computer screen and then filling them in with computer graphics to make them look real.

Perhaps it is just splitting hairs but Ken Perlin, a computer science professor and founding director of the New York University Media Research Lab, makes a distinction between simply dropping digital characters onto a screen based on a player's location and integrating those characters into their surroundings so that they seem more real than virtual.

While undergoing fMRI scans, all participants responded to an executive decision test - so - called because decision making and task - appropriate response selection are required - displayed on a computer screen.

As I was making my way through the 1st season, I couldn't help reminiscing the 90s on screen — the cassette tapes, the huge CRT computer monitors, the cars, and the wardrobe.

Keep an eye on the photographers computer screen as the images pop up and assess how things look — if anything needs changing, make the changes then and there (saves regrets later!)

A way to make sure you are reading them properly is to print them out — we are more likely to skim read when information is on a computer screen.

If that sentence alone makes you want to punch your computer screen in a jealous rage, then maybe it's best you don't read on.

The DVD has a short feature on the making of the film, which was created with off - the - shelf software as a sort of low - rent counterpart to the computer animation applied in fellow nominees «Shrek» and «Monsters, Inc.» The disc also has two music videos, a dozen promotional TV spots, seven games playable on computer DVD - ROM drives and full - screen and widescreen versions of the film.

Armed with powerful computer algorithms that generate cartoonish eruptions of earth, fire, wind, and water, today's VFX supervisors have a mandate to make bad things happen on screen — all of the bad things, preferably at the same time.

Namely, that a signal transmitted on TV and computer screens makes every parent in town — and, according to news bulletins, America — hell - bent on killing their kids.

Other features: the Fox special «Mutant Watch», a fairly routine making - of structured around a Kelly hearing; Hugh Jackman's screen test (notable for unused conversation between Logan and Rogue); brief clips of Bryan Singer on «Charlie Rose» (more, please); Animatics (or, X-Men meets «Reboot» — computer - generated storyboards for a couple of action sequences); a very extensive gallery of costume and production designs; two trailers and three TV spots (none of them, disappointingly, the mock - campaign ad that ran on late night cable); a promo for the soundtrack CD; and two easy - to - spot Easter eggs (in one, an outtake, we're made privy to a hilarious, Marvel - centric practical joke) within underimagined animated menus.

Based on an ancient videogame whose origins date back to the computer dark ages of 1989, Prince of Persia is finally making its silver screen debut.

With a seemingly impenetrable computer program to hack, a man - made earthquake to generate and some highly secure diamonds to steal, there should be plenty of tension building on the screen.

Plus, after the first half hour, his presence is, more or less, just his face on a computer screen, as if he were Skyping in his performance (speaking of, can anyone explain, without making his scientist wife seem like a moron, why Caster's virtual avatar chooses to wear glasses?)

Some shots of bikini - clad women on a computer screen, a rude term for women's breasts and a scene where a married woman passionately kisses another man make up the sexual content.

The more anonymous heroes of «Shrek 2» are the teams of computer animators who make the story come alive on screen.

The noirish atmosphere makes a character of the darkness while prodding us to see the action on the big screen, and I missed something viewing it through a link on my computer.

The latest screen version in a long line that includes Mickey and the Beanstalk and efforts starring Abbott and Costello and the Three Stooges, the Bryan Singer (Valkyrie)- directed, Darren Lemke (Shrek Forever After), Christopher McQuarrie (Jack Reacher) and Dan Studney (TV's Phantom Investigators)- written offering (based on a story by Lemke and David Dobkin) makes the most of its written inspiration, with the expected aspects present amidst a cavalcade of computer generated imagery.

When teaching the computer science strand there is a need to move from the concrete to the abstract, from making connections with what learners already know and understand, to what is new knowledge, and from actual robots and devices to virtual ones on the screen, and then onto to myriad other programming challenges.

ReNEW Accelerated switched to CompassLearning Odyssey courses because the quizzes were tougher, but also because teachers could make changes to the material more easily and the lessons are presented in a much more engaging way on the computer screen.

Peer editing and teacher commenting can be done in real time; users can watch on separate computer screens while changes are actually being made.

View a photo slideshow documenting each day's events and watch daily video roundups that make the conference come alive on your computer screen.

But the challenges of training successful teachers online were made clear to me during a recent online chat, when the professor in my «Foundations of Education» course slapped on heavy - duty headphones, peered into her computer screen and asked students what they liked or disliked about her internet course at National University.

The debut of the iPad, Apple's tablet computer, in April 2010 brought this buzz to a crescendo: the iPad's screen is almost the same size as a comic book, making it arguably the best vehicle to date on which to view digital comics.

A title - forward book cover has some advantages: it could be inexpensive to design, it stands out, and it's easy to read even when the cover art is made smaller on computer screens and phones.

Screens for navigators, computer monitors, mobile phones and some models of electronic books are making on TFT - technology.

The iPhone, for example, is made from commodities such as silicon, iron, plastic, steel, and rare earth metals fashioned into computer chips, screens, and so on.

The screen on an e-reader is e-ink, making it more like reading from a printed page than a computer screen.

His comic is horizontal, so it fits into a computer screen without scrolling, and the panels, images, and word balloons are large relative to the page, making it easy to read on a computer without putting your nose to the screen.

It preserves user access to nearly all the same features you'd expect from a large browser on a desktop computer, making it easy for mobile users to browse and discover books without pining for a larger screen.»

Other features also make texting and messaging life a lot easier, including: being able to review your messaging history across all of your devices (which is especially nice on a larger screen for those with a lot to say), easily send items from your computer (potentially giving you access to all of your documents and images, not just those that happen to be on your smartphone or tablet), save attachments to your computer where they are most useful (while not losing them on your other devices as well), and my favourite — universal copy and paste (copy text from one device and paste it on a different one).