The current generation of virtual humans are laden with data but will look primitive a few years from now.
Recent experience in Afghanistan, for example, has shown how hard it is to operate the basic elements of even a primitive economy in a country which has been torn apart by war.
It was a primitive trip with a sophisticated goal: to understand how heavy use of digital devices and other technology changes how we think and behave, and how a retreat into nature might reverse those effects.
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You model objects in Amorphium by starting with a primitive shape such as a sphere or cylinder, or some text, then simply use the mouse to grab the shape and pull, push, or twist it into a new look.
The piracy is a symbol of the anarchy in Somalia and other failed states that has made even the smallest and most primitive lands a threat to the most powerful and sophisticated nations.
Flexcube's predecessor was a more primitive "bank in a box" that Citi coders developed.
It was a pretty primitive listening experience for a digital age.
And once it hits the Web, the game will take a primitive, but impressive, step into a brave new world where computers will watch and analyze your preferences and habits and reprogram themselves accordingly.
F-secure's researchers also report the software used to mimic Barclay's and Halifax's banking sites is a primitive phishing kit from 2004--a sign that Storm's innovative creators are renting out their real estate to less savvy cyber-criminals.
They hid a primitive computer in their shoes that could predict where a ball would land on a roulette wheel.
When computers were the province of corporate programmers and youthful tinkerers he saw their possibilities for illuminating the lives of all of us, seizing on the first gropings by Xerox researchers who developed a primitive mouse and graphical interface, and perceiving in a flash there the chance for an epochal extension of the capabilities of everyone.
In March 2006 Google acquired Upstartle, a four-person outfit with a primitive way of creating, accessing and sharing documents through a browser.
Without Saint-Nazaire, a primitive part of him was deprived of the imaginary care that had kept him sane as a child.
Though the display resembles a primitive computer game in its blockiness, Dexter Turner, the president of Op Technologies, a rival firm that is developing a similar system, points out that this is quite adequate.
"There are primitive features in the skeleton of floresiensis which for me suggests that it comes from quite a primitive form of human: one that may have been around two million years ago rather than one million years ago".
Then a ramshackle primitive port, San Juan has grown into a ramshackle party town whose waterfront is lined with several bars catering to young tourists.
He was also developing another interest: in 1982, he bought his first computer, a somewhat primitive Timex Sinclair that he hooked up to a black-and-white TV.
It's a very evolutionarily hard-wired response that comes from a primitive need to respond very quickly.
The revised constitution allows the introduction of a market economy, although at a primitive level.
They had to work in a primitive kitchen darkened by the absence of reliable electricity.
Bargmann of Rockefeller University studies a primitive worm, C. elegans, which has only 302 neurons in its brain.
This is not to suggest that the Metzger's life is a primitive one.
While a skydiving coach in the 1990s, he rigged up a primitive computer simulation of dives and dive formations.
He called it ZuckNet, and it was basically a primitive version of AOL Instant Messenger, which came out the following year.
On Oct. 4, 1957, a primitive, 100-pound metal ball was sent hurtling into orbit around Earth, beeping back radio signals like taunts.
We are not some primitive herd following a mystical light in a journey to a new realm of bliss, peace, and plenty.
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The lights are actually emitted by the larval stage of a primitive fly species, Arachnocampa flava, which is found only in Australia and New Zealand.
Splitting is a primitive psychological defense mechanism used to make difficult people in our lives seem all good, or all bad, as needed.
Some Masters of the Universe have such rotten hubris, such selfish, self-aggrandizing drives they act like primitive warriors from a more violent time.
Which brings us to Myth No. 3: The "social issues" are unwanted artifacts of a primitive religious past that will eventually just fade away.
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