Sentence examples for preference setting from inspiring English sources

(You: "Call Pete Seeger". Synthetic, slightly drunken voice: "Do you want to call Pete Seeger?" You: "Yes". Your brain: "Isn't that what I said, you half-wit?") You can eliminate that annoyance by changing a preference setting.

Under the system championed by the Liberal Democrats, voters would have ranked the candidates for a seat in order of preference, setting off a rolling recount until one candidate won more than 50 percent.

Under the proposed system, voters would rank the candidates for a seat in order of preference, setting off a rolling recount until one candidate wins more than 50 percent of the vote.

Under the A.V. process, seen by enthusiasts and detractors alike as a first step toward proportional representation, voters rank all candidates for a parliamentary seat in order of preference, setting off a rolling recount if no candidate gains 50 percent on the first count of first choices.

The system is based on the ideas of heuristic search and explicit preference setting.

In the latest version of Netscape (and its sister programs Chimera and Mozilla), for example, you can turn off a deeply buried preference setting called "Open unrequested windows" to stifle their appearance.

Preference sets as discussed so far have been portrayed as open to rational criticism only insofar as (i) they have been inconsistent, violating some of the rationally justifiable preference axioms, or (ii) they (in combination with beliefs) commit the agent to inferences that make the resulting preference sets inconsistent.

Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Senior Staff Technologist at the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), says that Pinterest and Twitter are both supporting Do Not Track in similar ways: by either a browser signal or a preference set by the site itself.

The sets of statements are varied across preference sets to elicit the role of each statement as an identified barrier against or in support of BRT and/or LRT.

In this way, the cluster preference sets the resolution of the algorithm.

While it is plausible to alter incentives to change the preference structure of Table 2 to remove this conflict, the fact that it occurred from a straightforward preference set attribution suggests that such conflicts will be ubiquitous.