Meantime, early customers will have to shuttle between the boob tube in the living room and the computer in the den.
But it was the era of flower power and free living, and entrepreneurship and computer design were not always at the forefront of his mind.
In theory it would let you yank the screen from the computer in the home office and use it to run that computer from the living room.
Finally, Apple announced a forthcoming device called iTV, available next year, that among other things, will be able to transmit video from a computer to a living room television screen.
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Boxee's software can be easily downloaded for free to any computer or embedded in living room devices.
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Plastic wrappings, scattered cash, and empty computer boxes covered the living room.
There are a million children living in homes without access to a computer, says Mr Knight, who intends to negotiate with providers.
While it is likely that getting such a computer to function inside a living cell remains some way off, the remarkably rapid progress of biological computers in controlled lab conditions means that that distant day looks to be getting closer.
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They provide mental health services, programs for people living with HIV, addiction recovery programs, computer training, wellness and nutrition classes.
Being a writer who makes his living off the writing of words which appear on computer screens, I would kind of like to see words stay for a while.
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We wonder as well, with our tongues halfway in our cheeks, whether seventeen-year-olds will want to spend four years, or three, or even two living with mom and dad and staring at a computer screen.
After running a computer distribution business, he spent ten years living in the vacation home of an employer who visited about once a month.
Samasource, her three year old San Francisco nonprofit, has found simple computer-based work for 1, 200 people living in poverty in Kenya, India, Pakistan, Haiti, Uganda and South Africa.
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He's 22 years old now, living in San Francisco not too far from the headquarters of Apple Computer, in fact.
Ms. Sayeg gets most of her design work done on her MacBook computer while lounging on a black leather couch in her living room.
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The rural living people were much better at such tests of concentration, even computer-based tasks, where they might have been expected to be less familiar with the technology.
The new theme park, which is like stepping right into a real-life version of the computer-generated Cars movies, features Route 66 and a living, breathing Radiator Springs.
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In 1997, many lovers of the game, myself included, were convinced that if the computer were to win, the great romance, mystery and living metaphor of chess would disappear and people would stop caring about the game.
Not since eBay opened its doors have so many been able to sit at their computer screens and make some money, or even make a whole living.
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According to the E-Learning Foundation this translates to a total of 750, 000 school age children living in households with no internet, and some 650, 000 without a computer.
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Technical skills that come from pursuing, say, a computer science or engineering degree certainly insure grads a good salary and standard of living.
"If there are a lot of people with a lot of computer skills but they do not have many chances to use those skills to make a living then they will start to find alternative uses for those skills, " he told the BBC News website.
More than anything, what Constance wished was that she would open her computer and it would sparkle like a treasure chest, perched here on the windowsill of the living room.
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