Reading a book on what is essentially a portable computer changes consumer behavior in subtle and not so subtle ways.
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That is what happens when a computer gets too hot, or is bombarded with certain kinds of radiation: the electrons pick up enough energy to breach the dam that has been carefully constructed to contain them.
Superposition is, nevertheless, crucial to the idea of building what is known as a quantum computer.
What this means is that a computer equipped with this type of material could change its own circuitry to adapt to whatever is needed at the time.
Ask a computer what location is my next meeting, or when is my next meeting, and the computer will respond. 9 languages.
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What is a boon to us consumers is a death knell for computer companies.
Rosetta brings two technologies to bear on sluggish drug development: chips that have been covered with a series of genes using what is essentially a modified inkjet printing process, and powerful computer algorithms that use pattern recognition technology to show how whole sets of genes are being turned on and off.
For him, the pocket-sized device is to 3Com what the Java programming language is to Sun, a Silicon Valley computer firm: the crown jewels.
That is what Hewlett-Packard, a computer company, wants to achieve with its e-speak software, which it intends to ship next year.
As a society, Africa is learning what it means to spend money on content delivered via a mobile device and computer screens, especially content that is designed for the continent.
It's perhaps the token example of how consumers at large are moving away from needing a full-fledged machine at their fingertips, and the redefining of what a "computer" is for the newest generations.
This week Intel accelerated its promotion of what it is touting as a new category of computer: the Ultrabook.
What makes the iWatch idea interesting is not a computer on your wrist but a new kind of watch, a new interface to time.
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The basic technology behind what he thinks of as a computer is obscure and this course was all about lifting the lid on that box and looking at what goes on inside.
Given Apple's early lead in wireless networking using the Wi-Fi standard, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to see Apple creating what is essentially a touch-sensitive screen that can display the contents of any computer it is connected to.
Instead of a physical computer dictating how you do what you do, the Chromebook Pixel is offering you a way to work and connect that requires only your username and password.
At this level, a computer understands something for what it is.
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And with its growth, companies will find ways, subtle or otherwise, of getting their share of what is currently the most valuable yet untapped real estate on a computer screen.
By calculating the catalytic properties of materials on a computer, the group is learning what it is that makes other materials, such as copper zeolites, more effective under these conditions.
Who decides what a reasonable wage is, and where God stands in the choice between leaving a field under wheat and building a computer plant on it?
But what is possible is to build many smaller dishes spaced a long way from one another, and to link them with clever computer algorithms so that they behave as if they were a single giant telescope.
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She uses a computer program to log in advance what she is going to eat.
If a computer halves but a haircut doubles, what is inflation?
If you use more than one computer on a regular basis, this is likely what you're doing anyway.
What was once chemical and mechanical is now electronic and computer-rendered: a series of JPEGs being riffled through a drive.
What makes me think that Apple has a serious problem about computer malware is that I think that much more of it is to do with explanation two.
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But, says Dr Hamlen, because the blueprint is not itself computer code merely a description of what the generated code needs to do it can be safely hidden from defensive programs with traditional encryption.
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"Radio on demand, in one's home, in front of the computer, which is what MySpace actually is, is not a sexy alternative to owning what you want and taking it to the beach, to the party, to your workout, " he said.
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So what good is a version of Windows that can record TV, if you take the computer with you when your shows are on?
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This instructs a web-browser how to lay out the contents of a page, but does not tell the computer what the page is describing.
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