In fact, what we had to do was make the computer actually follow the brass band.
It was in learning how to program that Apple IIe that I realized that I can make the computer do what I want.
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"WarGames" director John Badham also worried that people would eventually tire of watching Matthew Broderick reading aloud from a screen, so he pushed Mr. Parkes and his co-screenwriter Lawrence Lasker to devise a way to make the computer talk, like HAL in "2001: A Space Odyssey, " even though no such technology existed at the time.
Recent Cisco efforts in home networking could make the personal computer little more than a dumb terminal, undercutting Microsoft.
They all use game play as a way to make the logic of computer programming accessible and relevant to kids in their formative years.
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We wanted to make sure that the computer memory, CPU power and the graphics card were sufficiently adequate to control the character and play the game as a reasonable level of performance.
IBM's services arm is keeping the hardware part of the company afloat: anyone can make a computer, but the ability to help a company use it is worth paying extra for.
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For example, if a consumer goes into the Gap to make a purchase and the First National Bank of Omaha's computer system is down, the Gap will be unable to make the sale.
In these, Jessen's troops sample e-mail, lecture employees to be circumspect about what they put into mail and install procedures and software programs to make sure that the files computer users dump in the trash are really gone from their hard drives.
It can be made a model of DNA, or a model of a whole city like this one is, and sometimes they can make the model exist in the silicon of a computer, so you've got a computer model, and other times, they actually use real silicon and sand, which they're doing it, in this case, like a giant hands-on model.
Profiles of leading high-tech bosses tend to be littered with these terms, signs of the traits that they seem to need to make it to the top of the computer industry and stay there.
Instead, Mr Gerstner opted for doggedly building on the strengths that had made IBM great in the first place (not least the exceptional quality of many of the people who worked for Big Blue) to make it a leader in the lucrative computer-services market.
Sensing a groundswell, Applecorps is likely to want a cut of the action that will only make it harder for Apple Computer to break even on the service.
Futurists predicted that the computer would make paper obsolete.
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The technology would make computer games more engaging, too.
By the end of the year Sun will make its cherished Solaris computer operating system free, too, opening it up much like the free Linux operating system that took business from Sun in recent years.
STRIVA-enabled headphones and in-ear monitors are the first products to make a direct connection to the Internet without dedicating a computer, smartphone, music player or tablet to the task of gathering and serving music to you.
The inventors speculate that eventually people will be identified to a computer by the gestures they make as well as by supplying the correct passwords.
Both of these surfaces would be created by photolithography, the process used to make computer chips.
Instead, I expect a wise manufacturer to combine the perfect tablet with the perfect laptop and make a computer no one can live without.
That means there's often much more to do than simply install the patch to both stop the worm and make sure other computer systems are not compromised.
Without being too pleased with ourselves and losing sight of our goal, going forward we will proceed with the system's deployment and, once complete, we look forward to contributing to the achievements that the K computer will make possible.
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Often this meant learning to exploit the latest laptop, cell phone, fax, Internet and other computer and communications technologies that make possible the mobile economy.
The agency plans to hold public hearings across the U.S. in the next two months on privacy and computer security issues before officials make a final decision on the fate of the Web site, Callahan said.
He said the Singapore project would be like an interactive computer experience in which people could make decisions about the island's ecology and habitat.
Multitasking is far more important on the personal computer -- whose windowed UI and raw horsepower make it not just a luxury but a necessity -- and one way the personal computer trumps the phone.
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Lots of researchers around the world are trying to make computer software that can hold a reasonable conversation with humans.
The trackpad, for instance, will be made to respond less sensitively, by software adjustments Google will make upstream that then show up in the computer the next time you sign on.
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