Sentences with phrase «put pointing stick»

The top PC makers still put pointing stick controllers on their mainstream business laptops to this day because so many businesses bought ThinkPads in the 1990s and the 2000s.

Not exact matches

But there are a few sticking points in iOS where Apple needs to know what its users are doing in order to finesse its features, and that presents a problem for a company that puts privacy first.

Mr. Mar's comments put him in the unfortunate position of appearing more supportive of the Americanization than even Wildrose leader Danielle Smith, who supports the introduction of private facilities, but sticks to finely - tuned talking points when talking about full - privatization.

This he continued until his hands and arms had become almost tremulous with the strain, and then he devised something else: two leather gloves; and he caused a brazier to fit them all over with sharp - pointed brass tacks, and he used to put them on at night, in order that if he should try while asleep to throw off the hair undergarment, or relieve himself from the gnawings of the vile insects, the tacks might then stick into his body.

-LSB-...] Naked pastors challenge to preachers One of my favourite bloggers, «Naked Pastor» has put a challenge out to preachers to stick to his list of 10 points.

The garlic, I trim off the pointy end of a smallish clove and put the cut end pointing into my ear (make sure the clove is too big to get stuck in the ear canal) and then place a piece of soft medical tape over it to hold it in place.

Put hot drained vegetables in a large bowl and use a stick blender to chop and blend the onions carrots and squash until they are the consistency of coarse baby food (in fact, if you have a baby, take some out at this point and reserve for baby).

No surprise here, sticking at # 2 is Team Maione, who with just 5 guys in the lineup put up 109 points on Team Schwartz in Week 7.

That could prove a sticking point for Gutierrez, who has never driven on an oval before, and put Davison in prime position to continue with the team.

No way we would have nicked that point playing so poorly for the majority of the match without him between the sticks... People put out these predictions earlier in the season.

The Red Devils walked away with all three points, which feels unfair when considering the display and performance that our boys put in, and had any other goalkeeper in the world been between the sticks, you would have to think that we would have at least levelled the game.

Despite the sportsbooks adjusting their lines to give the winless Colts an additional half point, nearly eight out of ten spread wagers are sticking with the streaking Pats to put a hurt on Indy and win by at least 22 points at Gillette Stadium.

Related to point # 2, in the Parenting as an Entrepreneur episode, Alicia Ybarbo said something that really stuck out to me — that women get very good at narrowing in on solutions and making split decisions because there is basically no time to labor endlessly over camp options or put up with working with someone crazy when there is a less crazy alternative.

The other big sticking point is over the nature of the question to be eventually put to Scottish voters.

Given the June 30 expiration date, if the wording of an arbitration extender seems to be a sticking point, the issue could be put off until separate action before the scheduled end of session in late June.

Pro tip: If you feel a sticking point or a knot in your legs, stop, put your toes on the ground, and curl your leg up to your butt a couple times to help massage the knot out.

I only put on one coat on the real pumpkins... no point in spending way too much time on something that won't stick around forever.

Stuck in a car on 2,200 mile road trip with one obnoxious person is more than enough, so while Peter Highman (Robert Downey Jr.) laments his misfortune of having to hitch a ride from Atlanta to Los Angeles with the trouble - causing, id - driven wannabe actor Ethan Tremblay (Zach Galifianakis), we have to put up with Ethan and the occasionally violent (in a rage to the point of blackout even), manic - depressive loose cannon that is Peter.

The teacher group Educators 4 Excellence wants «excessed» teachers who can't find a full - time job in two April - to - August hiring seasons to be put on unpaid leave, wading into a debate that's a key sticking point in contract negotiations between the city and the teachers union.

From your dog's point of view, all they need is an open window to stick their head out of, but the American Automobile Association (AAA) has put a bit more thought into compiling their list of the best canine - friendly vehicles.

In my small unique book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following it

The jewels in this RPG crown, however, is the Servans system and the incredibly sad story, so if you can put up with a few tedious romps getting from point A to point B, the story is definitely worth sticking around for.

At one point, Bernard puts a hamster in a freezer in the present so Laverne, who is stuck in the future, can retrieve the hamster and thaw it so it can power a machine.

The thermosteric sea level change plot is right on point, but would be nice if someone could put some actual temperature values to this, but it sure looks like a baby hockey stick — how cute.

Someone points out that instead of putting in supposed temperature related data if you put in randomly generated data series you STILL almost always get a hockey stick graph as output.

In your reply here, please stick to these points put to you here.

The problem is that the media, in the past, failed to clearly point out the «uncertainties» and it was the «Hockey Stick» graph that persuaded me that, as Al Gore put it, «the science is settled» and the «debate is over».

You mainly stick on criticizing other people's arguments for being «shrill» or «moralistic» without actually addressing there points, such as the one i put forth about The Environmental Agency acknowledging that a third runway at heathrow would bring increasing morbidity and mortality.

What I wish he would do - instead of making a priori assumptions about the value of ethanol for our energy policy - is put a task force together consisting of opponents and proponents - and let them document the pros and cons around all of the sticking points.

In recent blog posts discussed in Parts 1 and 2, Dr. Richard describes how to overcome those personality traits: seek buy - in (while avoiding sticks and carrots) and apply strategies at the outset, including: putting the request in terms of what motivates the partner, envisioning next steps, making the commitment public to the partner's peers, creating small partner groups to discuss how to proceed, explaining why the project has meaning, removing obstacles and pointing to role models, as well as recognizing success at milestones within the overall task, creating a spirit of friendly competition, showing success by others to leverage the «bandwagon effect,» circulating success stories and getting visible support from thought leaders.

They then put the hardware and software through their paces and point out sticking points that could cause frustration and friction among pro users.