And as we become more and more accustomed gestures, mice, and the single-point, two-dimensional actions they demand, make less and less sense.
Grid architectures are designed to work around single-point failures, but in the 1989 event there were 15 major failures in a few seconds across the regional grid, and that was more than the system could cope with.
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Williams hit 26 winners past the Belorussian, taking four of her five break-point chances and denying Azarenka's single break-point opportunity.
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The Bulls sent Miami to the line a season-high 41 times, and at times were so reliant on the 3-point shot that they went more than 16 minutes to open the second half without a single 2-point basket.
By contrast, the Wine Spectator didn't award a single 100-point score in 2012.
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That matters: a single percentage-point improvement in management scores correlated to a 6% fall in the death rate from heart attacks within 30 days.
He recently accused Renault of "robbing" him of the 2008 drivers' championship - which he lost be a single point - because of the race-fix plot in last year's Singapore race.
Nonetheless, the defense contractor will undoubtedly face single-digit percentage point declines in its sales and profits in 2013, compared to 2012.
Optimized for customers in oil and gas exploration and the defense industry, a single Tesla K10 accelerator board features two GK104 Kepler GPUs that deliver an aggregate performance of 4.58 teraflops of peak single-precision floating point and 320 GB per second memory bandwidth.
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The sixth-seeded American -- who had not won a Masters title on the ATP Tour for four years -- fired 13 ace and did not face a single set point in a 7-5 6-4 win.
Unlike other botnets, Storm has no single command-and-control point--it functions as a peer-to-peer system where any hijacked computer can give and receive commands.
The mirror-less camera, on the other hand is a macroevolution and will become a strapping competitor for the popular standards: the digital SLR (single-lens reflex) camera and the user-friendly point-and-shoot camera.
The force said the Wales Drug and Alcohol Helpline - 0800 6 33 55 88 - provided a single point of contact for anyone in Wales wanting further information or help relating to drugs or alcohol.
Moreover, and I want to emphasize this as Senator Lugar and Senator Biden have, for all of the examples that Senator Helms cited today -- for every single nominee who has been blocked at some point in the process -- when a majority of United States Senators, duly elected and sworn, have wanted to force an issue, it has been forced.
And the Scotland stand-off reduced the deficit further to a single point, again from a penalty, after Allan Jacobsen was sin-binned for an over-aggressive clear-out.
The former QPR boss led Swansea to a seventh-placed finish in the Championship last season, missing out on the play-offs by a single point.
The Bluebirds took just one point from the last 12 on offer last season to unbelievably miss out on the play-offs by a single point.
Reviewers agreed that its inclusion helped significantly improve single-threaded performance, to the point where the faster (in default clock speed) 3.4GHz Phenom II X4 965 was falling behind in benchmarks.
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Ms. WILLIAMS: It's a factor to the extent that the mother - and single mamas listen to me here when I say this - to the point where the mother makes it an issue.
Pre-loaded on Xperia Z, the "WALKMAN", Album and Movies apps, enable discovery of on-line and off-line content through a single access point with new ways to enjoy and share that content.
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Davies has a career tally of 23 points in the Solheim Cup, trailing Sweden's former world number one Annika Sorenstam by just a single point, with a win-loss-half record of 21-16-4.
However, the monks - who carried out "one-point" meditation, where they focus attention on a single object or thought - were able to focus on one image.
Single-lens reflex cameras take better pictures than point-and-shoots--just not as good as film.
Inside the ultraminimalist exterior lies a miraculous machine: The chassis hangs from a floating seismic platform with four-point spring suspension using a single piece of milled solid aluminum subassembly as its foundation.
In Serie A, Juventus' lead was cut to a single point after being held to a 1-1 draw by 10-man Lecce.
Users can lock-on to fast moving subjects throughout the frame using 3D tracking to create sharp images of fast action, or use one of the other modes including single point AF, Dynamic AF and Auto-Area AF.
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Anthony had 32 points and Raymond Felton added 18 for the Knicks, who have the longest current streak in the NBA. They built a 30-point lead that was reduced to single digits for the second game in a row.
By all accounts, hardly anybody scored a single point, including several members of the Omaha-Metro Table Tennis Club.
But defence barrister, Julian Goose QC, said it was not true Mr Piper's company had been engaged as the "single point of contact" for such a wide-ranging task.
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