If you're familiar with the computer concept of "pipelining," you know that overlapping can speed up a set of actions that are supposed to be executed sequentially.

如果你熟悉“流水线技术”这个计算机术语的话，你就会理解交叠可以加速一系列按顺序进行的动作。

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If either Oracle or Sun had truly understood what it was they were trying to provide when they ventured out with the network computer concept, we might already be dealing with a whole different desktop experience -- and a new set of vendors to provide it.

CNN: The future of desktop PCs

The proof-of-concept computer won't give silicon circuits any threat when it's running at just 0.15Hz and takes up as much space as a mini fridge, but the hope is to dramatically speed up and shrink down future iterations to where there are advanced computers that occupy the same size as real muscles.

ENGADGET: Turing machine built from artificial muscles may lead to smart prosthetics

In computer science, the concept of computers built into everything is called ubiquitous computing, pervasive computing, ambient intelligence or, my favorite label: everyware.

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