At the top, the computer makers control everything, managing customer relationships and farming out orders to their software subsidiaries in the second layer.
The computer can control the throttle and measure the engine speed.
The computer-control system can then apply the brake on the wheel concerned, and even adjust the amount of engine torque sent to that wheel, so that skidding is prevented.
The government also charged that Microsoft bullied computer makers into ceding control of the computer's desktop.
The five-metre-long missiles are supersonic within moments of leaving the launcher, having taken their initial course from the control computer, and accelerate to five times the speed of sound.
Hacking back across third party systems is more self help than self defense (rarely is the command and control computer linked directly to the system being attacked).
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By registering the amount of friction between the tyre and the road, the system warns the car's computer-control equipment if the car is in danger of aquaplaning on a large puddle or skidding on ice.
The difference between the Montrose rig-simulator and (say) a flight simulator is that it is not completely under the computer's control.
When the control computer has decided the best time to launch, it tells a launcher to fire a missile or missiles - typically two might be fired at a target in rapid succession because one alone does not guarantee a hit.
As we stand in the Thames Barrier control room, computer screens tracking the waves out in the North Sea, I ask him about the value of remembering the catastrophe of 1953.
Blackstone said it is open to keeping Michael Dell as chief executive of Dell under the private-equity firm's plan to gain control of the computer maker.
Even the simple act of replacing batteries in the TV remote control or mouse on the computer, or changing a light bulb can be impossible and incredibly frustrating for them.
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After all, they have already experienced for a few years the freedom and absolute control provided by the personal computer.
Down the hall was the control room, with several computer screens on which Gonzaga and Setrakian and their team of researchers observe their test subjects.
In contrast, Windows Live Mesh and SplashTop HD ran like a dream and made it easy to access and control the computer from a Windows laptop, Macbook Pro, HTC Flyer and various Android smartphones.
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Backdoor.breut attempts to give the hacker remote control of the victim's computer, according to the analysis.
Unlike past viruses that have hijacked armies of PCs, Storm doesn't place the command and control of the network in a single computer.
Twenty-four years ago, when Jobs left Apple the first time, Apple was battling with IBM for control of the nascent personal computer business.
It requires a bit of new plumbing and a few extra lines of code for the engine's control computer.
Upstairs, in the control room, computer screens display colored sine waves that represent movements from various stations on the blade.
Those included stored memory (the ability to hold both a stored program and data), conditional control transfer, which allowed the computer to stop and be resumed, and the central processing unit, which allowed all computer functions to be coordinated through one source.
Because the program is still in the early stages, much remains to be worked out, such as which computer control systems will be monitored and how the data will be collected.
You had full control of the whole computer...that is something you don't have with any modern PC.
In 2010, Microsoft introduced the Kinect, allowing computer gamers to control video games by moving their bodies.
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"We had to be able to use computer software to control the motor, to programme it to move the wings at particular intervals, " she said.
The Carnegie Mellon team have gone for the latter and have created a sophisticated computer program that enables just one person to control the robot.
Before joining Linear, he taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he used a surplus flight computer from an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile to research the control of fermentation for use in fields such as pharmaceutical production.
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More important is the computer system the company has designed to control the line.
Windows 7 users can change the size of text and icons using the Display control panel and can zoom in on text using a magnifier tool that can be activated in the Ease of Access control panel, which contains other options for making items on the computer easier to see.
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