Sentences with phrase «other than novelty»

We were able to control an Ecobee thermostat, but other than the novelty of that, we didn't find it practical for checking the temperature in another room or tweaking the settings.

If not, then I see no real value in getting it other than novelty.

Whether through the refinements of game mechanics or simply a pioneering title slowly revealing its lack of anything other than its novelties, some games just age like milk.

Not exact matches

If a system were simply an «order» without any openness to novelty, it would be frozen into a single identity and would therefore be incapable of anything other than self - duplication.

There is in fact nothing more to be said about the novelty of these uniquely occurring occasions than that each occasion is novel, that it happens only once and is unrepeatable in relation to all other occasions to which, as such, it can stand in a real relation of connectedness.

In a recent issue of the journal Behavior there are two articles (Baker 1973; Dawkins 1973) making positive use of one feature of process philosophy, its concept of creative novelty transcending causal determinateness other than statistical.

I take Plato as on my side in this when he says that in God is both being and becoming, both permanence and novelty, a closed past and an open future, also that God cares about the creatures, thus siding in advance against Aristotle's unmoved mover, taken as the God of religion.14 What moves things is at least «self - moved,» and is soul, including the supreme and cosmic soul, God, whose body is all else than cosmic soul and other than forms.

The phoenix suns began the season as a nullity, quickly evolved into a novelty and wound up winning more games than any other NBA team.

At first, it can be cute to see how much your baby loves «blankie,» but the novelty of it all can wear off quickly when the toy becomes more important than you or other family members.

When the novelty wore off and that tactic stopped performing better than other ones, the campaign dropped it and moved on.

Rodriguez says the novelty - shaped pears are grown in China in an orchard that is no different than any other, and it's likely only a small portion of the trees are relegated to growing the novelty - shaped fruit.

Children with the mutation tend to be more restless than other youngsters and to score higher on tests of novelty - seeking and risk - taking, all traits that might have pushed those with the variant to explore new frontiers.

Higher responders to novelty (HR) had a higher corticosterone secretion which showed a quicker increase with age than did the others (LR); the differences in response to novelty observed in youth were no longer apparent in the old rats.

Baseline levels of dopamine are lowest during adolescence, but its ecstasy - triggering release in response to «sex, drugs, and rock and roll» and novelty, giggling, texting, chocolate cake, rugby, and risk, is higher than at any other stage of human development.

When the 4 Series BMW was released the motoring fraternity was immediately divided, many claiming it was a better than the 3 Series and others swearing it was just a new design and that the novelty would wear off soon.

At the other end of the performance spectrum is the 2014 smart fortwo Passion Convertible, a two - passenger city car that some would consider more of a novelty than a daily driver.

Other than that, the rest of the Jaguar XF's main controls are intuitive and easy to operate on the move — though, if we're being picky, having to wait for the gear lever to rise up from the transmission tunnel before you can select forward or reverse does get a tad annoying once the novelty has worn off.

The Virtual Cockpit is much more than a novelty in the TT Roadster, showing real innovation in how we interact with navigation and other onboard systems.

My husband and I bought our own book in paperback as a novelty item, but other than that, no.

We do NOT publish books longer than 400 pages (about 100,000 words), nor those with pop - ups, die - cuts, CD inserts, or other specialty - novelty requirements.

A bit pricey for a remaster although I would recommend checking it out if you never played the original, for those that did play the original and enjoyed it there's not much more to experience other than the Duke Nukem DLC which is only really a novelty.

Other characters will refer to Duke as Grayson — the original main character, and they try to jokingly make Duke question who that person is, but the novelty wears out fast and it seems more than apparent that they probably just couldn't hire the voice actors to redo the lines along with Jon St. John.

Teaming up and fighting with characters from other titles in the series is a nice touch but it's nothing more than a novelty.

The other elephant in the room is that the controller still feels like a novelty rather than a potentially dangerous gaming accessory.

Myself and other gamers I know are still to be convinced on the power of 3 - D as more than a novelty.

New LinkedIn users may get absorbed initially, but because there is not much to do on LinkedIn other than finding connections, the novelty wears off quickly.

It's still a novelty to find judges preparing orders on a laptop, and rarer still to find them keeping trial notes in anything other than standard - issue red notebooks.

«When you hold the remote it's rather difficult to reach the touch screen and some of the buttons with your thumb... The smart home buttons on the bottom of the remote are a nice touch, but I feel they're a bit more of a novelty than a necessity since there are plenty of other standalone switches & voice control devices that can do the same job.»

The Note Edge combines an innovative design with actual real - life usage, which means it could be more of a hit than Samsung's other novelties and now that LG's announced the G Flex 2 it really looks like curved screens could be here to stay.

As more devices ditch the headphone jack in favor of Bluetooth, NFC, or other near - field communications methods, wireless headphones have become less about novelty than necessity.

The other elephant in the room is that the controller still feels like a novelty rather than a potentially dangerous gaming accessory.

Since the concept of the smart home was introduced a few years ago, Wi - Fi - enabled devices such as lights, locks and other doodads, have been little more than fascinating novelties, despite the fact analysts continue to predict the internet of things (IoT) industry is poised for an inevitable surge in popularity.

The HTC One max offers the HTC experience on the big screen, but offers little novelty other than the size.

We the consumer are partly to blame, because we get way too hung up on «pretty» but the end result is NOT actually beneficial in any way other than the aesthetics novelty, which only lasts for the first 30 days or so and then it wears off or the phone gets scratched or broken or whatever.

This isn't something that isn't available in other smartphones, but it seems to work really well here and while it's not as quick as the fingerprint sensor at unlocking the phone it still seems to work faster than the fingerprint sensor on my Google Pixel, and that's a shame for the Pixel but great for anyone who likes the novelty and ease of use of the face unlock.

Moreover, the means of emotional creativity and components of novelty and preparedness of female gifted students and the means of components of effectiveness and authenticity of male gifted students were higher than other groups.

Other than the amount of maternal care, the consistency over time of that care and the exposure to novelty are also very important not only in rodents (23, 75) but also, monkey models (76).