Hard to believe, but it was 10 years ago today, October 25, 2001, that Microsoft introduced Windows XP, an operating system so successful that users today promise to switch away from it only when you pry their cold, dead fingers off their mouse.
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When rubbed between the fingers it gave off a warm, strong, piney smell, a bit like floor polish.
You probably already know that circular saws can lop off fingers.
Modified grape harvesters with rotating fingers then knock off the raisins.
Two teenagers whose fingers were cut off in a game of tug-of-war at a school in California are awake and alert after surgery, a medical official says.
Some lined up for more than an hour at schools and other voting centers, showing off fingers marked with ink to prevent multiple voting after they had finished.
With Sicko, Moore starts out telling the stories of a few people without health insurance, who can't afford to reattach cut-off fingers or who stitch up their own wounds.
In 2007, he allowed a chance to claim the title in China to slip through his fingers when he slid off coming into the pits.
The story goes that English soldiers waved their fingers at French soldiers who had threatened to cut off captured archers' first two fingers to prevent them shooting arrows.
When Jake rubbed his eye, a chunk of his eyelid would come off in his fingers.
"I pulled my hand out of the water and it had pretty much lopped off all four fingers, " he told local paper The Spokesman-Review.
That's because in some parts of the game, you'll be required to use as many as three fingers at once to pull off certain maneuvers.
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Ten years ago, he famously used a fretsaw to cut off the tips of his fingers on the same hand after they'd been damaged by frostbite.
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Little did they know, five broken fingers and a concussion came with me off the rugby field as well, but with more training I learned to land differently.
Objects can be moved on the screen by dragging them with a finger, made bigger or smaller by spreading or pinching them with two fingers, and discarded with a flick off the screen's edge.
Hamilton saw the title slip through his fingers at Interlagos last season when he ran off the road trying to pass his then McLaren team-mate Fernando Alonso on the first lap.
Fog fingers shove their way inland and blow tiny Cessnas off the runway.
He achieved his gorgeous tone and singing, swinging sense of melody by keeping his fingers near to the keys, not lifting them off and striking the poor ivories as some showier pianists do.
Frequently, my fingers would seek the touchpad below the keyboard before wandering off to the right.
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He took off a glove and extended his hand, fingers spread and flexing.
This spate of discoveries in Ireland sparked off the comprehensive investigation that has led to fingers being pointed in all and every direction.
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Credit power chords that cascade from the strings, sharp rhythmic patterns that ricochet off the uke's wooden body, fingers that fly faster than the eye can see.
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Before I learned that credit card trick (see Speck review above), I spent plenty of time trying to pry the case off, a rather unpleasant experience for my fingers.
But a woman right next to Amy had her leg torn off from the knee down, and lost all the fingers in her left hand.
Using two fingers can control multiple lights and using the familiar pinch-close gesture turns off all the lights in your home using machine-to-machine communication between multiple dimmers.
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The bipartisan support for testing (not to mention the many corporate special interests with fingers in the pot) means that any meaningful changes to our approach are a long ways off.
Nadal took a full four weeks off after Wimbledon and then battled through a tendon injury in his foot and his fingers being burned when he tried to move a scalding plate while in Cincinnati.
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But zinc fingers, because of their precision, could give Dow a significant leg up by cutting a year or two off the six to eight years it now takes to develop a modified plant and get it past regulators.
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