He then proceeded to tell me that a problem had been detected with my Windows computer.
My computer hummed with searches including why the United States is really committed to stay in Afghanistan until 2014.
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My month with the Pixel thoroughly changed my thinking on how a computer should behave while handling my files.
This last point led me to rethink my experience with Ron, the computer salesperson extraordinaire.
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Instead this was a web dialogue with animations masquerading as the Windows My Computer screen and an AV dialogue.
Perhaps the reason I feel quite so liberated from the present while more and more attached, not to individually-recalled "good old days", but to a collectively attested and ever-present past, is because the hard drive of my computer is overloaded with digital images of the places I've been and the people I've met, all of them time-coded to a 10th of a second.
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Recently, when my Dell computer running Windows 7 had a problem with Google Chrome I was pretty much on my own.
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Until I come up with a solution, I'm unplugging my computer and my blow dryer.
By letting me control the information delivered to my computer, my love affair with the vast array of apps on the net has been reignited with a passion.
We all fall prey to this, I write about it all the time and have few readers who are mathematicians who read my blog and agree that today with using computer algorithms to spin numbers that math is not 100% reliable any more on proving accuracy.
Even more impressively, I could sit in my passenger seat holding a computer with 500, 000 times more processing power than computers that used to fill room and wirelessly access over 250 million computer networks around the world, whose content is indexed and can be searched at sites like Google in less than a fraction of a second.
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As for dealing with the jealously that can crop up while cruising Facebook, my friends recommended stepping away from the computer and soaking in some sunshine or a spending time with nonvirtual people, to keep things in perspective.
Mostly, though, I just let my local pictures directory randomly throw a slide show up on my idle computer screen, surprising myself with digital snaps, downloaded art, and carefully scanned prints from yesteryore (memories nearly lost).
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I've always felt more comfortable with my head buried in a book than awash in a computer's glow.
"It's a little bit like loading software onto a computer, trying to fill my mind with all the information I need in order to be an effective Chief Constable, " he said.
By this point, I was quite frustrated, muttering to myself and talking back to the computer with greater and greater frequency (this perplexed my friends no end).
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Most days my grandfather sits at his computer, playing chess online with old friends.
When traveling with family, I often allow others to access their email on my computer.
Ford also used the keynote to announce My Ford Mobile, a smartphone application that links up with the computer in Focus Electric, providing a information like how far the car will drive on its current charge, individual driving trends, and the location of nearby charging stations.
Instead I would just buy a kindle book which I can access on a computer or phone with one purchase and when I upgrade my phone, I just uninstall the app on the old one and install it on the new one unlike apps like Skyscape.
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In the early 1990s, my work focused on combining the rigid vocabulary of computer programming with the playful possibilities of art and design.
Unfortunately, I've grown increasingly hesitant about relying on BB Maps as my sole navigation option for my trip to Spain, so I've been playing with two other options: an older APK of Google Maps sideloaded from my computer -- it's sluggish, but usable -- and Nokia Here on the BB10 browser.
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"Just sit at her computer and type for her, " my boss advised me with my first client, a private-high-school student.
Well, my computer troubles can be compared to those people who head into retirement with, seemingly, all their ducks in a row.
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Indeed, the computer was surprisingly quiet while working to keep up with the graphical demands of my games.
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However, the theories underpinning software programming were extremely dense, and the difficulty I had with learning and understanding code led to my first moment of realization: perhaps the world of computer science was not for me.
Before KeepShot, I had a hard time imagining doing any book editing without a computer mouse, but after a couple of days with the iPad app, my fingers' on-screen gestures were able to create a photo book with no problem.
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All we needed to do was a small amount of Active Directory integration in the background, and like magic, staff could access the application from any computer and my IT team was relieved from managing a sometimes flaky application with all too frequent updates.
Also, during my time on this job, my vehicle was stolen, along with all of the sensitive patient information I carried in the form of hard copies and on my computer.
Read on past the break and you can begin this potentially short, hopefully sweet journey with me, starting with a quick rundown of my test rig (which also happens to be my mission critical work computer) and an anti-climactic revelation about whether, in the end, I ever found the software box I was looking for.
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