When I saw the announcement of Gateway's new "FireAnt" notebook computer a couple of months ago, I had to try one out.
They left with the couple's valuables, including a laptop computer and some cash, according to an account the couple gave police.
Several brokerage houses and big accounting firms will likewise prepare plans for you, with the help of a computer for a couple of hundred dollars.
The new early-warning system brings this approach right up to date, by integrating many different climate-forecasting computer models that couple together information about how the atmosphere and the oceans combine to create the weather.
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Young engineer Nolan Bushnell sat down in the mid-1970s, looked at the falling prices of memory chips, extrapolated where they would be in a couple years and precisely predicted when computer games played on college computers would be cheap enough to operate in bars.
Before KeepShot, I had a hard time imagining doing any book editing without a computer mouse, but after a couple of days with the iPad app, my fingers' on-screen gestures were able to create a photo book with no problem.
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The long-term plan is to make a complete flexible computer in a laminated sandwich just a couple of millimetres thick.
As those with memories stretching back a couple of decades will recall the various forms of computer malware, the viruses, trojans and the like, were things that affected Microsoft Windows users.
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The dot faded to transparent over time, and would redden again only when the other half of the couple clicked on his or her own dot displayed on a computer screen hundreds of miles away.
Perched atop a pair of active shutter glasses are a couple of miniature LCD projectors, which bounce images from a connected computer onto a special reflective surface at a 120Hz refresh rate.
Couple this with the fact that you don't need a computer to enable the streaming of live TV to iPad 2, and the constraints of archaic TV watching are a thing of the past.
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Even so, the iPad proved to be another ground-breaking product with sales topping billions of dollars in the first couple of months, bringing new life to a segment of the computer market that had until then been essentially moribund.
In San Diego, former airline-shuttle operator Conan Cott, the husband of U.S. Navy computer-systems and organization specialist Michele Cott, has been caring for the couple's 4-year-old twins since they were born.
They said goodbye to the couple, and there were thanks and good wishes, and Bridey started to put away the computer.
Kathleen Mangan-Valle, 27, and the mother of the couple's 17-month old child, said she installed a tracking program on her computer after she had become suspicious last summer of what she described as her husband's erratic behavior and the long hours late at night that she said Mr. Valle was spending online.
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Despite the advent of GPS, radar technology and 3-D computer software, an exquisitely hand-drawn map and carefully collected data often can outdo what a couple of whiz kids can find on a laptop.
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"It's going to be a little bit different in a couple of years, waking up in the morning and sitting in a freshman English class rather than going to my computer workstation and hacking code all day, " Brockman said.
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