Admittedly, as astronomers spend more time in front of computers and less time peering through telescopes, some of the joy of their profession will have been lost.
Paper transistors, and circuits based on them, are not, it must be said, going to replace silicon chips as the microprocessors in computers any time soon if only because they are nowhere near as miniaturised.
"My job was enhanced and helped by the computers at the time, " he said.
"Therefore there have been no cases of misuse of social media by using DVLA computers in work time".
Many working poor don't have smartphones or computers or the time and know-how to bargain shop on the Internet.
Several versions instructed infected computers across myriad time zones to download a Trojan at the same single, synchronized moment.
That "unpaid time" is the minutes each day employees spend booting up and shutting down their computers (also their time-clocks), which they claim adds up to an astounding 15-30 per day.
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Today wrist watches have disappeared, replaced by smartphones, because these pocketable computers tell us the time and so much more.
Remarkably, Apollo 11 did so with onboard navigational equipment that was as bulky and primitive as computers were at the time.
Google's purchase of Motorola Mobility allows it to move into the manufacturing of phones and tablet computers for the first time.
Google's takeover of the business allows it to move into the manufacturing of phones and tablet computers for the first time.
In an essay, Clayton Christensen, a business prof at Harvard, says it's time for computers to change education in a radical way.
We are mere years, not decades, from getting intuitively useful answers from computers, in real time, that many of us will like.
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Moreover, at any given time WikiLeaks computers are feeding hundreds of thousands of fake submissions through these tunnels, obscuring the real documents.
For instance, if cars become much safer because of increased reaction time of computers, the safety benefits of big hulking SUVs will fall drastically.
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This almost makes me nostalgic for a time when computers didn't give a hoot whether their errors had discommoded you and made no apology whatsoever.
He began talking about a time when computers, smart TVs, videophones and other gadgets would link up via a worldwide network of information and entertainment services.
Whether it is productivity in the workplace, efficiency in travel, staying in touch or enjoyment in our leisure time, computers, smart phones and networked systems make it possible.
One way to have a major impact and help users break with the old will be in the workplace, the place where people spend most of their time on computers.
Facebook was the most popular mobile app across platforms in 2012 in the U.S. according to comScore, and in January more people were checking Facebook on their mobile devices than desktop computers for the first time.
These findings have now been complemented by Dr Knight's project, which made use of climateprediction.net, a network of personal computers on which processing time is volunteered by members of the public, to compile 57, 000 different runs of a global-climate model developed at the Hadley Centre.
At the time, Apple was having trouble with selling its computers, and Jobs spent most of his time trying to figure out ways to boost hardware sales.
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In the 1970s and early 1980s, for instance, firms stocked up on the new thing at the time, mainframe computers.
Yes, people are spending more time on their computers and smartphones.
Jon Simpson, a technician from Sundance Computers, a small-time computer store in northern California, said he was impressed by the vast array of fresh products on display.
When it came time to buy computers to test the search algorithms floating inside their high-IQ brains, Page and Brin did what any money strapped students would do.
Computers even have a hard time generating grammatically correct sentences.
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This is a reflection of the fact that the audience is now spending more time on their computers, mobile phones, iPads and other connected devices than on their TVs or reading print newspapers and magazines.
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