"I've found the universal pain point of computer administrators, " he says.
As the computer was used, its chips got hot, expanded slightly, and slowly worked their way out of their sockets, at which point the computer simply died.
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Apple proves the point that a computer company can become a high-mobility company.
"Up until that point, every computer was one of a kind, " says George Gray, a systems programming supervisor at the Georgia Department of Administrative Services, who also writes a Univac newsletter.
From the computer's point of view, the smartest human will be the last one standing after the computer has surpassed all the others.
And we have the Power Point Triangle of Death, where the speaker moves to the screen to point out some illegible word, drifts back to his computer, while mumbling something about the next slide, only to come to the third point of the triangle floating somewhere uneasily in between his screen position and his computer position.
Say "nail guns" and a computer screen would point to the right aisle.
Lindgren acknowledges that the two companies are on the verge of the next great leap or inflection point, to borrow from the computer industry lexicon.
It would be another bit of sweet vindication for Xerox PARC, which was maligned for years as the lab that invented great stuff--the computer mouse, the point-and-click interface, Ethernet networking--but did little to let Xerox shareholders cash in on it.
The point being that the vast majority of computer users simply leave their machines on the default settings.
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Environmental groups, like Greenpeace, point to surveys ranking Apple below other computer makers, such as Dell and Hewlett-Packard Co.
We are now at the point where the source code to whatever computer programs were used needs to be made available as well.
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Valley folk point out that Judge Jackson thinks that a computer operating system and Internet browsing software should be separate.
He got his first job writing software at the age of 12, and by 1993, at the age of 24, he formed the Internet security company Check Point with two business partners and a borrowed computer in his associate's grandmother's apartment in Tel Aviv.
On January 9, 2007, Jobs announced that Apple Computer, Inc. would from that point on be known as Apple Inc.
When the latest version of Mozilla's Firefox was released in June, bugs that allowed a site to install malicious programs on a visitor's computer were reported to security vendor Tipping Point within hours.
They would rather rely on a general-purpose and, from a copyright holder's point of view, highly untrustworthy device: the personal computer.
At that point, the virus installs a program that renders the computer unable to launch any "executable" applications, such as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.
Attackers can still conceal their point of origin by looping or leap-frogging several computer systems in several countries before finally going into the system that is being attacked as well as those pursuing them.
And to share news about products agencies are looking for, such as the search for computer desks by the military academy at West Point, or advice about how to make your road to a government contract easier from staff at the government agencies.
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This last point led me to rethink my experience with Ron, the computer salesperson extraordinaire.
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The point of this pie-charting is that Microsoft's computer OS footprint is a mighty 92 percent across all Windows versions.
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"While the ice is disappearing faster than the computer models indicate, both observations and the models point in the same direction: the Arctic is losing ice at an increasingly rapid pace and the impact of greenhouse gases is growing, " said co-author Marika Holland of NCAR.
At some point during waking hours, turn off all of the televisions and computer screens.
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Thirty years ago Alan Kay oversaw the creation of many of the personal computer's clever innovations, among them windows, point-and-click file opening and networks.
Most of these have been point solutions that lump music in with photos and videos for delivery from computer "A" to television "B".
Taking full control of the device, effectively jail-breaking the computer to run any ARM-compatible software, after that point is an exercise left to the user.
David Glass ran a day-trading operation called Jasper Capital out of Assent's New York office, and at some point paid an Assent employee to give him access to Tavdy's computer so he could monitor his trading.
From the envelope emerges the MacBook Air--the thinnest notebook computer on the planet, measuring .16 inches at its narrowest point.
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