Indeed it was, and now with the inclusion of the mode in the next God of War, it just might be the last bastion of single player games that has fallen to the lure of online play.
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The X-5 lets the user quickly and effortlessly select the desired shooting mode - from a total of 10 modes including the hands-off Auto Picture, Scene, Program, Manual, Landscape, and Handheld Night Snap - with a single turn of the mode dial, without having to access the on-screen menu.
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This time the game will be getting a King of the Hill mode with the charming necromancer Merasmus at the top of the pile lobbing spells and bombs at players.
From the great number of complaints which we have heard respecting the operation of the Income Tax as to the mode in which the profits of trades and professions under Schedule D are determined, we have reason to believe that a provision in the act, very important to the mercantile community, has been quite overlooked, or is little known.
Some of this rally is down to sheer relief that the market is out of crisis mode (the cost of borrowing in the money markets is back to near-normal levels, for example).
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The autopilot version is best for people without any pilot experience, with the instructor periodically handing over one or two of the controls, but guests who do have some training as amateur pilots can take advantage of the manual mode.
If the risk of economic contraction has increased and the governments are in the mode of spending cuts, can the banks refinance themselves with their shares under severe selling pressure?
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His swirl is one of the hallmarks of Mannerism a mode of expression whose exaggerations broke the classical perfection and balance of the High Renaissance, and started art on the road to the Baroque.
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With an executive coach, you are forced to step out of the reactionary mode and think.
Specifically, the competition ensures a much needed discussion of the proper mode of federal taxation.
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One promised update remains elusive however, PvP, and now Blizzard is being surprisingly frank about the state of the gameplay mode in a new blog post.
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The trouble is that this centres the fan chart on the mode of the distribution (the single likeliest outcome), and not necessarily on the median (the value that divides the outcomes, ranked by size, exactly in two) or the mean (the sum of the outcomes divided by the number of outcomes).
Futures are apprehended only in the prophetic mode of the inspired historian.
"For the last 20 years, the Chinese government has been saying they have to change the growth mode of the economy, " Mr. Yang notes.
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The second mode of the panel functions as a highly sensitive, multi-touch trackpad with intuitive gestures built-in, offering an alternative method of navigating games or PC desktops.
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Thought-leaders in Social Business gathered at this second of four worldwide events held by the Dachis group to consider and present our collective understanding of what it means to work in the mode of business that embraces networks of people to create business value.
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But crystal fibres push the range of single-mode wavelengths right into the visible part of the spectrum, opening up huge new tracts of wavelength for telecommunications.
One drawback was that in the teach-me mode, we didn't see all of the examples of compound kanji words that the reference mode gave us. (A kanji can have different readings and, depending on the character or characters it is combined with, different meanings.) App creator Rory Prior says he is considering adding a vocabulary-training feature to the teach-me mode to address that.
Microsoft is still stuck in the arrogant geek mode of the early days of computing.
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Here is one scenario where a clash of perspectives on what should be the mode of sociality emerges: gamification.
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The two effects brought on by the extreme negative mode of the AO thus could cancel each other out.
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The D-Pad can be flipped to the opposite side of the controller using the small mode key so that lefties can join in the fun, too.
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It's enough to leave a sweaty sheen on the brow of even the iciest Depeche Mode fan.
And as they improve, the machine-based tutoring technologies will become good enough for those who could or would have paid full price or changed up their schedule to connect with a human tutor, such that machine-based tutoring may well be the norm for many of us as a prime mode of learning in the future.
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The PURE mode processes audio in the truest of forms while the VQ (V-MODA eQualizer) mode adds a slight spatial 3D soundstage, tightened bass and increased treble attack that invigorates an all-around sensory experience.
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Not incidentally, with drugs now regarded as the preferred mode of treatment, the increase in diagnoses is a boon to pharmaceutical manufacturers.
The favored mode of exploration is the guided walk: Lemarti or his Samburu cohort Boniface, armed with only a spear, leads visitors on journeys that can last from two hours to five days.
In the second mode of working, the crystal fibre uses the regular array of holes to influence light in much the same way as the arrangement of atoms in a crystal can determine whether electrons are able to travel easily through it and hence whether the crystal is electrically conducting or not.
Speaking of the hinge, the act of folding the screen back into tablet mode feels controlled, but it isn't so tightly bound that you'll ever struggle to move the display this way and that.
If you've got a case of the bow legs, stop by Alamo Segcity to rent the impossibly cool modern mode of transport to explore the five miles of trails along the San Antonio River.
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