People will try to go do something other than sit at their computers.
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More than half thought it would be good to make new friends and a quarter wanted to use sport facilities and computers at the other school.
Using computers, turntables and other electronic gadgets at its disposal, the band's synth-pop landed it a deal with Columbia Records, which released Oracular Spectacular.
At the other extreme, scavenging spare computer power from personal computers on the internet is proving an increasingly effective approach for problems that can be split into a large number of small, independent parts.
Investigators retrieved computers and other evidence, but photos taken at the scene revealed a chaotic mess.
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One-dimensional, repetitive work is exactly what computers, robots and other machines are best at--and what human workers are poorly suited to and almost uniformly despise.
Skype can be downloaded onto computers, mobile phones and other connected devices for free at www.skype.com.
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But there is one deadline that cannot be put off: unless they are fixed in the meantime, millions of computers and other pieces of electronic equipment will go haywire at midnight on the last day of 1999.
The education minister, Letizia Moratti, has enacted a new plan to improve schools by, among other things, making children start at an earlier age and study English and computers from day one.
In the 1960s, while Don Draper was making a fortune at Sterling Cooper, John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nils Nilsson and other visionaries of Artificial Intelligence at Stanford and MIT were imagining a world where computers could think faster and better than people.
Prior to embarking on the Colossus rebuild, Mr Sale worked at the Science Museum and, with Doron Swade, drove the recreation of other pioneering computers and helped found the CCS. He was also involved in the campaign to save Bletchley Park and was one of the founders of the National Museum of Computing.
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The computing world is changing more than most of us see, as our phones, tablets and other devices increasingly interact with several huge computers, sometimes located around the globe, at the same time.
However, given the proliferation of computers, at least in developed Western countries, the researchers speculated that it would be challenging for other studies to produce similar results.
After wandering around for a few minutes within a huge big box retail electronics store, we waited patiently for at least twenty minutes by the notebook computers for a collection of men in red shirts to finish up with other patrons.
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MP3 (and other) file formats would combine with increasingly affordable home computers to gently, but definitively, chip away at the CD's monopoly, bringing us to the present day.
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