By placing your tablet or computer on a tray table or desk propped up at an angle toward eye level may ease neck strain and discomfort.

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NYSE, transacts around a fifth of all retail-trading volume in Nasdaq shares such as Amazon.com with software that runs on a desk-top computer.

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Hotz tossed a wad of cash from his pocket to the ground and sat with his legs crossed on a desk chair before three giant computer monitors.

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He has no computer at his desk, just an Etch A Sketch on which co-workers can leave friendly messages.

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He also has a nice computer with two flat-panel monitors on his desk, which sits in the middle of the small trading floor where he and his team of 20 analysts work.

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At any given moment, there are groups of traders who are scratching their heads, punching their computer monitors or vomiting on their desk because what they thought was a golden ticket turns out to be anything but.

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Both groups of Tetris players, for example, only described seeing blocks, falling and rotating, and evidently did not see a desk, room, or computer screen, or feel their fingers on the keyboard.

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Your computer once it finally shrunk down from the size of a room had to stay on your desk unless you had a side career as a body builder.

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At night he worked at the computer desk in the bedroom, before getting into bed and reading a few pages of the book on his nightstand.

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