The idea, Morin says, is that people do not want to push buttons all the time to check-in and may feel comfortable with their close friends and family knowing where they are.
"We had a big, stately old radio with green dials and lots of push buttons, and if she were alive I am sure she would be excited to see all the equipment we use now to produce radio".
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"We might as well bring back the ice and the elevator operators, " he added, referring to two symbols of the old days: daily deliveries of ice to every congressional office, and automated elevators so lawmakers wouldn't have to push buttons.
For most of us, no matter how old we get, our loved ones push our buttons.
"Caregiving for a parent can bring up a lot of emotion -- parents know how to push our buttons and that does not stop with dementia, " Morhardt said.
But if ten million monkeys sitting at typewriters can reproduce the works of Shakespeare, it stands to reason that three million bored iPhone owners would push enough buttons to find a backdoor this simple.
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Unless you share some of Railroad Earth's devotion to roots music, Elko probably won't push your pleasure buttons.
There are plenty of buttons to push, including one for one-touch interior lighting.
The new proposals include goals to reduce the amount of inputs required to operate a device - the number of buttons to push - and reducing unnecessary visual information.
And unless we understand what motivates and inspires the players, we have little chance of knowing what buttons to push to create changed behavior among those likely to commit NCAA infractions through their own choice.
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In fact, best as we can tell, there's only one game in the app library, which involves using the aforementioned big orange buttons to push streams of water upward in order to get a number of colored rings onto two shiny red swords.
Insoo doesn't even have to take the phone out of his pocket to send an SMS. He knows how to slide it open, which buttons to push how many times to reach the "Send SMS" menu option, compose the entire text message, and hit the send button -- all without even looking at the phone.
Think of a rat in a Skinner box, learning which buttons to push to get pellets of food, and you have a pretty good sense of the life of a congressman: a constant attention to what must be done to raise money, and to raise money not from all of us, but from the tiniest slice of the 1% of us.
Fusion creates live 3D models of both people and objects, while Interactions adds a whole variety of recognizable gestures to the Kinect for Windows SDK ("push-to-press buttons, grip-to-pan capabilities, and support for smart ways to accommodate multiple users and two-person interactions, " says Microsoft).
InterVideo has made it clear that it is issuing a legal player that won't push the DVD industry's buttons -- that is, one that licenses the Content Scrambling System (CSS) -- and the software thus cannot be open source.
The buttons are kept nearly flush with the chassis, protruding ever so slightly so you can push them without too much effort.
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