Sentences with phrase «ordinary computers use»

Ordinary computers use the presence or absence of electrons to represent 1s and 0s to encode information.

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It hasn't been worth mining bitcoin using standard consumer computer hardware for years because of the kind of processing power involved; the overwhelming majority of ordinary members of public pools will have bought hardware from companies like KnCMiner.

If a businessperson wanted to display a VisiCalc program simultaneously on his Apple computer and on a salesperson's Apple in an office 3,000 miles away, he could use ordinary telephone wires with Reflexive VC software published by Arrow Micro Software ($ 45; 11 Kingsford Crescent, Kanata, Ontario K2K 1T5, Canada) and the appropriate hardware (a modem).

From a janitor who left behind an $ 8,000,000 fortune to a reclusive computer programmer who amassed $ 18,000,000; a lawyer who quietly built a stock portfolio worth $ 188,000,000 to a retired IRS agent who turned her $ 5,000 savings into a portfolio valued in the tens of millions of dollars from her apartment in New York, ordinary Americans have been using the stealth wealth strategy to grow rich for a long time.»

Steve invented the first personal computer that could be used by any ordinary person.

Computers using D - Wave's devices will always differ from gate - based quantum computers in one key way: D - Wave's devices do not lead to universal computers that can be programmed with any algorithm, as an ordinary compComputers using D - Wave's devices will always differ from gate - based quantum computers in one key way: D - Wave's devices do not lead to universal computers that can be programmed with any algorithm, as an ordinary compcomputers in one key way: D - Wave's devices do not lead to universal computers that can be programmed with any algorithm, as an ordinary compcomputers that can be programmed with any algorithm, as an ordinary computer can.

Created by essentially strapping a hacked Kinect to an iRobot Create (a sort of blank Roomba platform used by robotics developers) along with a gutted Intel Atom computer, the KinectBot uses the Kinect bar's 3D sensors in ways that'd make an ordinary Roomba hopelessly jealous.

Whereas an ordinary computer flips bits that can be set to either zero or one, a quantum computer uses qubits that can be set to zero, one, or, bizarrely, zero and one at the same time — potentially enabling huge boosts in speed.

Since the images from ISAAC are djgital, they can be stored as computer files and printed using an ordinary laser printer.

Quantum computers, for example, can do computations that we do not know how to perform using ordinary computers even if we had billions of years of computing time — the famous example being code cracking through the prime factorization of large numbers.

Designers on opposite sides of the world will soon be able to work on the same 3 - D computer model using ordinary personal computers linked by ordinary phone lines, rather than powerful graphics workstations.

In another, the D - Wave Two solved some problems 3600 times faster, but this might have been because the ordinary computer was using algorithms that had not been optimised for the task, says Scott Aaronson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

«It reflects light like ordinary paper and uses no backlight, eliminating the eyestrain and glare associated with other electronic displays such as computer monitors or PDA screens,» Amazon boasted.

It reflects light like ordinary paper and uses no backlight, designed to eliminate the glare associated with electronic displays such as computer monitors or PDA (personal digital assistant) screens.

«It reflects light like ordinary paper and uses no backlight, eliminating the eyestrain and glare associated with other electronic displays such as computer monitors or PDA screens.»

A true believer in technology's aesthetic potential, he is intent on reinventing traditional pictorial methods — specifically, painting and drawing — by using the computer's capabilities and limitations to turn ordinary, Pop - inspired objects (video games and their characters, computer cables, screens, Apple Quick - Take cameras, etc.) into motifs but also stylistic models, painting them as if seen on - screen.

The ordinary use of arithmetic formulas, and sorting of data by type, does not require «specialized knowledge»; just because a computer can do it faster does not change its categorization as evidence.

Finally, applicants may consider drafting claims to focus on an improvement to the functionality of the computer itself, and not on generic computer tasks for which a computer is used in its ordinary capacity.

I doubt that a disclosure of further particulars of the 1 - click (epi) phenomenon will reveal anything more than a perfectly conventional (albeit original for copyright purposes) use of ordinary computers, but that remains to be seen.

Second, the offence includes in its scope articles that may also have a benign use — possessing an ordinary computer for use in fraud is within the ambit of the offence.

There's no doubt that the 1 - click epiphenomenon can be created, in various ways, using just software and ordinary computers.