The Italian plumber, for example, started off perfectly, but began to degrade a bit as it went along, leading to a frayed bill of his cap and some messed up finger action -- nothing a few more tweaks to the calibration system couldn't help, no doubt.
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Launching a Safir-2 rocket looks very much like putting up a finger.
Use the grasper to pick up the finger-size appendix, fire the stapler across its base and across the vessels feeding it, drop the severed organ into a plastic bag, and pull it out.
Elle and Hailee did the rounds of fashion week shows and after parties but there were no reports of them throwing bottles at photographers or pictures of them holding up the finger like Lohan.
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At one point, our driver pulled up to the side of the path, holding up a warning finger for silence.
English umpire David Shepherd put his finger up but TV replays showed the ball had come off an inside edge.
The dimmer has a unique multi-touch capacitive interface that allows the light to be turned on or off by sliding a finger up or down on the glass switch front.
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Australia were grateful to England skipper Andrew Strauss after he allowed the tourists to make a late change to their line-up when wicketkeeper Brad Haddin injured his left index finger while warming up.
" Then, pointing a finger straight up, he adds: "Everything is left to Him, you see.
Jamison and Bryant hit back-to-back 3-pointers for the Lakers only to have Brian Roberts tie it up on a running finger roll.
These estimates feel a bit like a wet finger held up in a gale swirling in different directions - more hunch than exact science.
So while you won't buy much horsepower for half a grand these days, Everex's latest StepNote can get your feet wet with Vista without breaking the bank, but waiting on that CPU to catch up with your clicking finger just might negate any value that was here.
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With the case of the thumbs up or the raised middle finger, the gestures are taking the place of verbal communication.
It has allowed Mourinho to revel in his role as relative pauper while pointing the finger and cranking up the pressure on Ferguson.
Staff enforce the small details of behaviour ceaselessly, with meaningful looks, a warning finger briefly held up, or a word of praise every few seconds.
By visiting the website, people could choose which reward they wanted and then use their finger to swipe up and down on their touchscreen phone to move the paddle.
When you release your finger a box pops up with a choice of lists to add the message to.
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And as soon as it was over, I would just take my index finger, raise it up, hit the button, and it will play again.
Well, turns out this device can detect your finger's presence up to 20mm away from the screen, allowing users to highlight links, but only from within the browser.
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Master Lock sells a garage-door opener with a built-in fingerprint scanner, the Kwikset SmartScan Deadbolt will open up your front door with another finger swipe and Schlage's LiNK door locks allow owners to give anyone access to their home by punching a code into a computer keyboard or mobile phone's keypad.
With one touch of a finger this new application backs up or restores data on the CX480 in seconds.
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You had your feet on the ladder, a ring of promise on your finger and endless eggs cueing up to nest in your belly.
Instead, every time you want to move backwards, forwards, or input a new URL you have to swipe a finger downward to bring it up.
Ambitious finger-tip passing opened up space for Barry Davies, but Williams' pass off the floor ended up drifting harmlessly into touch, leaving Bowe grasping at thin air and the Blues' line intact.
During the trial the testimony of this second perpetrator (who cut a deal with the government for a lesser jail sentence if he pointed the finger at a higher-up like Tobin) was effectively impeached.
The timing for a primed, pumped, itchy-trigger-finger shoot-em-up leaves something to be desired, no doubt, but with Nicolas Cage unaccountably AWOL this January, Arnie has the knucklehead R-rated action field pretty much to himself.
During the trial the testimony of the key witness for the prosecution (who had cut a deal with the government for less jail time in return for pointing a finger at a higher-up like Tobin) was effectively impeached.
We didn't have to change our usual or "traditional" finger positioning, meaning we were able to keep our right thumb in the bottom left corner of the pad and use our index finger to navigate. (Even if our thumb moved slightly up on the pad it still worked.) Best of all, while using that finger positioning we rarely zoomed in on something by mistake.
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For example, rotating with two fingers turns the volume up or down, and a single-finger swipe changes channels.
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