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Composing and solving them remain popular, even with high-speed chess computers.
But for the most part, the ancient tool has been replaced with electronic calculators and computers--even though an experienced abacus user can often compute sums more quickly than your average Joe with a calculator.
Even worse, many of the computers with this bug are the mainframes used primarily by big corporations and governments--just think what could happen to social security and medicare.
He saw a much bigger world opening, where nobody had to program or tinker but people could do things far beyond anything they had done with computers before, or even thought of doing.
Even with the advent of virtual realities and talking computers, the solution is sometimes a little more basic.
Prosecutors said Albert Gonzalez, perhaps the most renowned hacker, perpetrated his biggest theft with help from computers in Eastern Europe even though he lived in Miami.
Now that some PC OEMs are offering computers with Linux preinstalled (or even just selling units without Windows installed), Linux saves you money on every client you buy.
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"In our more deprived communities pupils are less likely to have computers at home, so access to computers with fast broadband at school is even more important in improving IT literacy, " she said.
Even with the growth of thin client mobile devices such as tablet computers and smart phones and the use of content only borrowed from the web rather than copied our total storage requirements are growing.
We might think of manufacturing computers here, or smartphones, or even Henry Ford with the mass production line for automobiles.
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They have not grown up with smart phones, usernames, passwords, email, or even computers.
They may see 3G handsets not as expensive phones, but as cheap computers, with which they can call up scores, prices and even crime reports.
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Even Google Glass, which actually does appear to be a dramatic leap forward in the way we interact with computers, is bound to be a tough sell that could take years for the population to acclimate to.
Electronic returns don't have to be entered into the system by hand, and the IRS's computers reject any returns with incorrect basic information such as Social Security numbers, birth dates (even of a child) and married names (they must match what is in Social Security records).
Thanks to computers, oddly enough, the ability to get on well with other people is going to be even more valuable in future than it has been up to now.
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