When the first day's doodle changed at midnight on the dot, she was captive in front of the computer to watch.
Some years ago, I paid a visit to a friend and found her elementary school-aged kids giggling in front of the computer screen.
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He broods in front of the computer most of the day, scanning chemical databases and holding his fire until he has a really good idea.
Today the average time taken to eat lunch - usually in front of the computer - is roughly 15 minutes, according to researchers at the University of Westminster.
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It's also about preserving a sense of home sweet home--or at least creating a healthy diversion, preferably something that doesn't involve yet more time in front of the computer screen.
Eating together provides structure that helps both children and adults develop sound eating patterns, resulting in regular mealtimes and less solitary munching in front of the computer or the TV.
"Radio on demand, in one's home, in front of the computer, which is what MySpace actually is, is not a sexy alternative to owning what you want and taking it to the beach, to the party, to your workout, " he said.
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"The good news is that people who stay up late in front of the television and computer may be able to undo some of the harmful effects just by going back to a regular light-dark cycle and minimizing their exposure to artificial light at night, " Bedrosian says.
If ever the need arises for a large keyboard and some earnest typing, they sit down in front of the nearest available computer anywhere in the world, open its web browser and access all their documents online.
Alan Wells attacked the "daily grunt" culture, in which parents no longer talk to their children and instead just let them sit in front of the television or computer for hours.
It might seem like common sense that inactive people have a greater risk for heart disease than active people, but a new study has measured the risk in terms of time spent in front of a computer, according to the Deccan Herald.
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Her first big idea: she proposed measuring the time each developer spent in front of his or her computer, and dividing it by the revenue brought in by the products that person created.
The real problem for most of the print industry is that their customers now spend all day sitting in front of computer screens and get all the information they need by doing so.
In front of each computer in the Emergency Operations Center is a placard: Ethics, Immunization, Mental Health, Security, and dozens more.
Children also reported how much they enjoyed sports and outside activities - but again in the UK this was under pressure from the amount of time spent in front of television and computer screens.
Call it revenge upon the nerds, the unhappy result of sitting in front of a computer all day long, fizzy drinks at the ready.
Mr Rajaratnam sat in front of six computer screens during the day.
At the Nasdaq OMX Group, a single technician sits in front of eight flat-panel computer screens in a quiet operations center, 51 stories above the World Trade Center construction site.
Real estate agents have used it to show off properties - potential buyers sitting at home in front of a computer screen can use the mouse to look at every corner of a room or to see what the view is like over the balcony.
That means you can't spend hours sitting in front of the TV and video games and the computer.
At laboratories at the American Sports Medicine Institute in Alabama and the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, orthopedists and biomechanists place dozens of sensors on pitchers and have them throw in front of a series of infrared cameras that measure their motions and turn the windup into a three-dimensional computer graphic.
Much of the work is mind-numbing document review, my source says, sitting in a Midtown office in front of a computer, searching for highlighted words or phrases and quickly assessing their value as evidence in the case.
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Nor is it for any denizen of the web who spends her days in front of a computer monitor.
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The MREAL System for Mixed Reality (that's the full name -- or, if you want to drill down even further: the headset is the HM-A1 and the software platform is MP-100) generates video of one's surroundings using a pair of cameras positioned in front of the wearer's eyes, which is combined with computer-generated graphics.
What are the downsides of spending so much time in front of a computer?
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The prospect of sitting at a desk (probably in front of a computer), with only a thin partition separating you from a sea colleagues is sometimes too much to bear.
If they succeed, the computer will move a cursor up or down a screen placed in front of their eyes.
The study, out of the University College London, confirms that time spent at a computer is as damaging to the heart as time spent lounging in front of a television screen.
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In some cases, the GPS also let spouses view the vehicle's location live on a computer or smartphone, or take pictures of who's riding in the front seat.
The fact that ILOVEYOU was seemingly unaffected by most companies' front-line defenses should serve as a wake-up call to businesses that in the ever-mutating world of computer viruses, security software must constantly be updated with the latest technology.
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