Sentences with phrase «rather odd»

Sony used a rather odd excuse for not enabling cross-play last year, and its position on Fortnite should now pave the way for future games to let any console gamers play against each other.

The Essential went for striking beauty but does have a rather odd pixel resolution.

Shortly after release, however, a rather odd bug was discovered by AndroidPolice wherein phantom touches would occur on the top causing the Home Mini to constantly trigger and incidentally record everything it heard.

Although it's a disappointment Sony hasn't increased the screen resolution along with its size, and the camera's quirks are rather odd, the Xperia Z3 Compact's improved design, vast amounts of power, decent battery life and waterproof body help it maintain its position as one of the best mini flagships around.

Meizu decided to ditch the rather odd 16:10 aspect ratio seen with its previous devices for the more standard 16:9, which is a very welcome change.

We faced some rather odd lags and crashes, with the screen going plain white from time to time — even launching the camera from the lock screen would see the display go white for a brief while before the camera actually launched.

We also found it rather odd that you could not register for the beta testing program of Android O from the device — after all, this is supposed to be part of the Google ecosystem.

In a rather odd turn of events, however, Google missed that window when it rolled out the November set of security patches without a fix for the KRACK vulnerability.

Carrier modifications in the US are rather odd this time around and your experience with things like the settings menu, battery stats and some other sections of the system options are going to be different depending on the carrier you buy the phone from.

As far as storage is concerned, 32 GB is available on - board, but rather odd and disappointing is the lack of expandable storage via microSD card.

Samsung is in a rather odd position.

Of course, the move also led to some significant pirating of the album being that you couldn't, you know, actually buy it anywhere — but you could stream it in some rather odd places.

While the population of Alaska is quite small and dispersed throughout the state, it does seem rather odd that Lafayette Life does not have a presence in the state of New York.

We recall an apartment community in Hyattsville, MD that was hit by a sudden and rather odd windstorm of a type generally not seen in the area.

It seems rather odd, I must say, when an organization's youtube channel is used exclusively for marketing fodder, and isn't made available to showcase a core product — like, say, a newly available free statistics collection.

David — you have jumped to the rather odd conclusion that ABS releases lawyers from responsibilities.

The company have also served us another rather odd set of circumstances.

It seems rather odd, I must say, when an organization's youtube channel... [more]

There are several problems with todays laws so why the government wants to add to them is rather odd.

In this day and age, it seemed a rather odd situation to me.

To determine the validity of a contract in a case like this, the Dutch Civil Code requires a rather odd test.

One does not need to live in Indiana for long to become familiar with the rather odd way the state of Indiana micro-manages beer sales.

Rather odd considering there was no immediate drop in the high malpractice insurance rates — which, supposedly, was the very reason doctors were leaving.

ii) Frankly, it does seem rather odd to be able to do indirectly what one can not do directly.

But I do have a rather odd recurring theme in my life with regard to the profession and working with the end product.

Tickell finds that current climate efforts like Kyoto have been «miserable failures», which is true, but makes it seem rather odd that he thinks much - more - of - the - same will suddenly be great policy.

You have a rather odd concept of «nobody».»

I find it rather odd that most put global cooling very far in the future or, perhaps, never happening at all.

Your attempts to get people to ignore science and cause - and - affect relationships is rather odd.

As far as oceans are concerned, the broad assertion made by many skeptics depends on a rather odd assumption — that temperature changes in the ocean or atmosphere will be linear — steady, regular rises that march in step with GHG increases.

But we have had cause to note the rather odd company Michael E Mann chooses to keep.

It would appear rather odd that Bhaskar et al. (2017) would wish to claim, for example, that methane gas has been a significant driver of warming, but at the same time reject water vapour and cloud cover changes as factors affecting global temperatures.

It's rather odd that you claim that I mistate your views, since I don't think I've attempted to state your views.

He drops from the page in a rather odd way.

That the Hawaiian spike looks, well, rather odd?

This is rather odd considering that, in most cases, the product is basically identical, and you would expect the Big Six to also be benefiting from economies of scale.

I know you've already got a lot to worry about as it is, but something rather odd is going on — on the Sun.

The characteristic of being entirely impervious to changes in the «most critical» weather station data is a rather odd result for a method that is supposed to better utilize the station data.

A rather odd result considering we still see no El Nino and almost every recent hottest year has been spurred on by this powerful atmospheric variability driver.

The La Nina that is active seems fairly normal, but what is happening around the entire NH is rather odd.

Looking back at the most popular posts on TreeHugger in the Design and Architecture category, one sees a rather odd mix, barely a normal bit of design and architecture in the bunch.

The notion that the response to Pinatubo can determine equilibrium climate sensitivity is rather odd, and is not supported by evidence.

[Response: M&M specifically disclaim that their work is a reconstruction (likely because it does predict rather odd things if you take it literally).

Be that as it may, whatever validity your criticisms may have, it would be rather odd if they somehow conjured the kinds of numbers we're seeing here.

Over the last few weeks I have encountered a rather odd collection of sculptural things: the postwar ceramic sculpture of Lucio Fontana and Fausto Melotti bursting with dynamically glazed and roughly handled surfaces, currently on view at the Nasher Sculpture Center; The Age of Innocence, a victorian bust in three different materials by the English sculptor Alfred Drury at the Henry Moore Institute; a visit to Henry Moore's house, studios, and now foundation at Perry Green, and most recently what I can only describe as a wonderfully insane lecture by the contemporary sculptor Thomas Houseago, which involved an increasingly drunk, cursing artist saying some surprisingly sincere, profound things about sculpture.

Moon carrot is an odd name for this rather odd - looking plant.

At the time I thought that was rather odd.

It's a rather odd place, which has been frequented by all kinds of personalities and riff - raff over the last century.

If you aren't part of that world, Change Management can seem a rather odd, byzantine place.

Kingsway looks like an old - school Windows desktop, which might seem rather odd — but you'll soon come to realize that this faux operating system is actually how you manage your fantasy hero's role - playing adventure.