Look, you're not going to see the President pound on a desk for the sake of political theater.
While technically it might able to sit on a desk, we wouldn't exactly call it a desktop printer.
Karl, a faceless, putty-colored model Dr. Xu created 20 years ago, still sits on a desk in his lab.
If any elements of your file are missing, you can expect that file to sit on a desk and collect dust.
NYSE, transacts around a fifth of all retail-trading volume in Nasdaq shares such as Amazon.com with software that runs on a desk-top computer.
When he arrived, he spent 10 minutes alone there, reading a note left for him on a desk by outgoing President George W. Bush.
Like its convertible rivals, it is, at best, a standard laptop that can be occasionally used in tablet mode, preferably on a desk or table.
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Set the company's iPhone-sized speaker on a desk, coffee table or even a surfboard and it transfers sound waves into that material -- creating an on-the-fly subwoofer.
Hotz tossed a wad of cash from his pocket to the ground and sat with his legs crossed on a desk chair before three giant computer monitors.
It also needs to solve problems of manufacturing computers that don't just sit on a desk but can stand up to being worn all day, every day.
The elegant Aspire 5600U is the thinnest AIO available and makes a stylish addition to any room in the house, whether on a desk or wall mounted.
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End users would come into the office and work on a PC, which sat on a desk and was connected by a wire to a port on the wall.
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But the process is slow and cumbersome, on account of the neurobiological irony that thinking about something--like visualizing tapping your finger on a desk--is often harder than doing it.
Equally, if you leave the stylus on a desk somewhere and try to walk off, the phone -- courtesy of its accelerometer -- alerts you to the fact that it's being moved without its buddy.
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Even after adjusting the gamma and blackness controls, transitions from scene to scene often resulted in blinding brightness or darkness so intense that, when I turned away, I couldn't make out individual items on a desk.
When used on a desk, table, or airplane seat tray, with the kickstand holding the screen upright and the keyboard cover with movable keys, the Pro is a serviceable laptop, especially since, unlike on an iPad or Android tablet, you can use full-fledged PC programs.
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An internal report, obtained by the Los Angeles Times, showed the LA County District Attorney alleged the image was leaked after a stack of photos of the singer's injuries was left lying on a desk at the Wilshire police station, and Ms Reyes took a picture of one with her phone.
Computers started out as discrete objects to be placed on top of furniture a PC on the desk, a laptop on the dining room table.
Sitting on a trading desk, if you issued a security on Jan. 5 and on Jan. 11 you suddenly start to see more sellers than buyers, you better find out if something is wrong.
One reporter knew details about the log-in times of multiple traders on a single desk and called daily to ask about potential layoffs, the person said.
The particles are large enough that the risk of contracting polio in the air is momentary, and on a surface like a desk or a chair, it can last an hour or two.
But in spite of Arduino's near ubiquity these days, we'll admit that we were a bit taken aback when the familiar blue microcontroller made an appearance on a lab desk during our conversation with NASA "lighting guy, " Dr. Eirik Holbert.
Rather than just tack-on a games desk or hire an occasional developer on contract, we contend that news-games will offer valuable contributions only when they are embraced as a viable method of practicing journalism albeit a different kind of journalism than newspapers, television and Web pages offer.
It was one of those cubicle classrooms, surrounded by three just like it, with a small whiteboard on one end and the teacher sitting at a desk on the other.
Last month, a paramilitary leader ended a meeting with Australia's foreign minister, Alexander Downer, by placing a letter on his desk which contained a threat to kill Australian journalists and diplomats because of their perceived support for independence.
One French-born but London-based entrepreneur says he has a letter on his desk from the French government, offering a cap on his taxes if he brings his business back home.
Plank's son Roger, 42, who serves as chief financial officer, keeps a reminder of those days on his desk: a small vial of foul-looking water with a thin layer of crude oil on the top.
Obama wants a bill on his desk by mid-February, putting negotiations on a fast track.
And I would refrain from heading to the Safeway to buy A-1 because the President has very clearly vowed to veto a bill if such a bill were to arrive on his desk because it is a draconian measure that in terms of its impact on dramatic cuts in Social Security, Medicare, would make the Ryan budget plan pale by comparison.
The other display on hand was monochrome with a backlight that flickered on and off as a generic desk lamp shone directly onto it.
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