Fortunately, though, humans aren't computer-generated gray figurines projected on walls.
Despite the financial appeal, there aren't enough computer programmers entering the U.S. workforce to fill the estimated 150, 000 new computing jobs that will be produced every year for the next decade.
He says the most time-consuming part of their effort won't be computer programming in the classic sense as much as figuring out what statements about the real world users should be presented with, and how those contradict or confirm each other.
Within that group, 40% say they either don't have a computer or have one that's not up to the job, or say they don't know how to use it, or they think it's too expensive.
If you think this is an outlandish hypothesis, you don't know your computer history.
Yet looking at those numbers, Blinder can't find the computer's and Internet's contributions to productivity.
If the answers are cagey, if he won't show the computer to me, I'll walk away.
File-sharing networks haven't just given computer users a new way to find music and movies.
"I didn't take any computer classes, " said Ms. Trunk of her time in college.
Now, I speak of ignorance because, a, I don't know how - I don't have a computer.
If you don't keep your computer healthy, the worst thing that can happen is losing your hard drive.
Most people probably wouldn't want their computer to lead a double life as an agent in a seething, cybercriminal organization.
Similarly, the plunging price of computing power doesn't mean the computer industry is plagued with deflation or a scarcity of dollars.
The amazing thing is that the whole hand-off works perfectly--except for the part where concierge can't find the computer for an hour.
And if you don't use Microsoft Word 97 (or the prerelease version of Word 2000), breath a sigh of relief: Melissa can't infect your computer.
They couldn't follow the computer, so the computer had to follow them.
And this time you don't need a computer science or business degree.
The respondents' next-most common reasons were that they don't have a computer or that it's too expensive, too difficult, or a waste of time.
Couple this with the fact that you don't need a computer to enable the streaming of live TV to iPad 2, and the constraints of archaic TV watching are a thing of the past.
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And think about all those kids right now who are in overcrowded classrooms or don't have a computer science lab -- they're only going to be in third grade once, or juniors in high school once.
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Worse, I found that if DirecPC failed to update the site on my hard disk because of a glitch in its service, or I didn't leave my computer on, the news would be a day old.
Joel Klein, former Assistant Attorney General for antitrust, hired Boies to litigate the government's case against Microsoft--despite the fact that he doesn't use a computer, not even for e-mail--because he believed Boies to be the best litigator in the country.
We're guessing they figure that as long as they aren't loading OS X onto the computer themselves, they won't have any trouble from Apple, but that's where they go wrong.
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But you couldn't change or improve the search your computer was enabling, you couldn't get involved creatively.
When Mr Booker was elected, some police stations didn't even have a computer.
It doesn't hurt that Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) had a pretty darn good month.
Those who go in for Madge's sort of stuff haven't been howling that her newest installment of computer-generated thumping isn't up to snuff.
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