The programmable directional thumb pad can be used either for movement or as modifier keys to access auxiliary commands.

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You'll then be asked about modifier keys -- just choose the default here, as well as "No compose key" on the next screen.

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Value comes from those using it and when those using it mutually assign no value, it disappears, becoming a quaint linguistic oddity or a neglected modifier.

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To understand what someone is talking about, you usually need a modifier, and private cloud is one of the most popular forms that the cloud has taken.

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Numenera itself sounds like my kind of tabletop game streamlined enough to make action and story the primary focus rather than spending all your time doing making elaborate modifier calculations.

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Quite was not a modifier, it was a superlative.

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In an online competitive game a brightness and color modifier could, in fact, give players using the mod a competitive advantage, especially if the modified visuals make it easier to see opponents.

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Obama placed a past tense modifier on Iranian sponsorship of terrorism even through just last week a US Navy ship intercepted an Iranian vessel smuggling arms to Hamas in Gaza in the Red Sea.

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In just 19 words, it provides an impressive selection of current widespread writing woes: dangling modifier ("vestiges" didn't walk in the front door), poor word choice ("vestiges, " "domesticity, " "regardless"), excessive prepositions (four in all) and an underappreciated but pervasive ill, a weak sentence-subject ("vestiges").

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