Credit Video stills from I.B.M. Players use this precious interval to figure out whether or not they have enough confidence in their answers to hazard hitting the buzzer.
When I was reading Walter Isaacson's biography on Steve Jobs it suddenly brought back memories of the FBI repeatedly hitting the buzzer for my apartment rather forcefully ten years ago.
I toyed with the idea of hitting the buzzer Yassine had provided me with should I want to end the treatment, but I decided to stay the course.
At every stop, Polat hit the buzzer and spoke just two words: "Hello, delivery".
To stand any chance of winning, contestants on "Jeopardy!" have to hit the buzzer with a correct answer within three seconds.
When he got onstage, the man whispered something to Moore, and it was uncertain whether he'd be able to hit the buzzer.
In blind auditions, judges sit with their backs turned to each performer, and when they hear something in the voice of the contestant that moves them, they turn around and hit the buzzer to vote.
Another one is that, while "Jeopardy!" contestants will hit the buzzer before they know the answer, and try to pull a correct response out of their posteriors before time sounds, Watson signals only when he knows the response.
FIVE years from now, when you're on "Jeopardy," the category is "Public Companies," and the answer is "Biggest I.P.O. of 2004," you'll be able to hit the buzzer with supreme confidence: Some readers may have missed the news.
Not much more than 20 minutes after I hit the buzzer at Phoebe Stephens's apartment on East 18th Street (after barging in on the upstairs neighbor, who took the intrusion in stride), Ms. Stephens and her sister, Annette, both jewelry designers, were talking about Loulou de la Falaise, a muse to many exotic creatures, who died on Nov. 5.
Watson, on the other hand, does not anticipate the light, but has a weighted scheme that allows it, when it is highly confident, to hit the buzzer in as little as 10 milliseconds, making it very hard for humans to beat.
