Sentences with phrase «around the computer as»

Decent computer skills — you have to know your way around a computer as we use a few applications specific to what we do.

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«The big challenge is that the level of computer power that one of these things needs is pretty high,» Wilcove says, adding that as the market evolves, he can imagine a communications app for far - flung business meetings «where you're all virtually sitting around the table in different locations with one of these headsets on, James Bond - style.»

Today, the genius hacker is a multimillionaire who continues his work as founder and CEO of Scorpion Computer Services, employing the brightest minds and best communicators around the globe.

As Cox administrators gathered around their computers, they watched No. 18 — Cox's rank in 2008 — go to New York University's Stern School of Business.

A public cloud, as exemplified by AWS, or Microsoft (msft) Azure is a stockpile of computer servers, storage, and networking running in massive data centers around the world.

If you're already sitting and watching TV or messing around on your computer, you might as well make some money while doing it.

As I looked around the room, I caught the eye of Google CEO Eric Schmidt, whose head had snapped out of his computer when I'd declared how many new customers had signed up in the past month.

As someone who's constantly playing around with new gadgets, he knows the value of a squeaky - clean, brand - new computer.

Fields sees the computer as the most powerful tool around for managing people.

However, computers in the workplace are becoming unnecessary as workers are now transitioning to tablets and smartphones, paper files are being replaced by virtual files, and coworkers are increasingly located around the country and the globe.

Just as email allowed messages to move around without going through a central postal service, the computer network maintaining Bitcoin records allows money to move around without going through any central authority.

The best way to explain how it's produced is to think about it as a network of computers around the world solving mathematical problems via a piece of software.

Anytime a user wants to execute a smart contract or send ether to another user on the network, there needs to be confirmation and recordation of such event — such task is not executed by a centralized server or company per se, but by thousands (and growing) of computers around the world — known as Proof - of - work (PoW).

Despite David Sedaris» praise of FitBit health trackers, it seems most of us aren't yet ready to shell out big money for a computer we can wear around, as most clearly evidenced by delays in Apple's big iWatch announcement.

As the son of a PhD EE, I grew up around computers and was a very early adopter of the Internet.

On the other hand, if he / she does exist, which I'm convinced he / she does (consider the exquisite mathematical formulas that help to explain the order of the universe — suggesting a higher level of intelligence in its design, or look into a new born's face), the last thing I want to do is go around telling everyone my brain is a computer and there is no such thing as Santa Klaus.

(Note that analog computers — thermostats, for example — have been around for a while; it's not as though this is an untried technology.)

Computers, while not a narrowcast medium, strictly speaking, nevertheless must be considered by local churches for use as a helpful tool in allowing special interests groups to aggregate around topics of interest, for news and information, and for financial accounting and transfer.

If I wasn't in the mood to romp around in the living room while his mother as in her bedroom (he lived with his mother, and brother, and the living room was his bedroom) he would jump on the computer to watch and j — erk himself off.

As a human race we have haven't been around very long (relatively speaking) but already we have the ability to build artificially intelligent computers and travel to other planets.

around the base of the computer so he can't get into the wires, or the masking tape that keeps the fireplace shut as he's realized that if you push it, it opens... and there is all kinds of dirty nasty «fun» stuff in there to play with — including the place in which you light it (it's gas).

And while most think of technology as being computers, smartphones, and tablets, there is plenty of technology around our homes as well.

He used to lay beside her and slowly got a little farther away, without any crying (if she cried, I would take it as a sign that it was too fast for her) and now I just leave her door open and she can see me on the computer or puckering around the house from her room and goes to sleep like that.

You probably don't have that many of them around the house, but if you're like us, you have one for your TV area as well as computers.

«This puts paid to the all - too - familiar portrayal of them as only being interested in hanging around on the streets or playing computer games.»

WHITE PLAINS, NY — County Executive Robert P. Astorino and FBI Special Agent in Charge Aristedes Mahairas are introducing Harley, only one of a few dogs around the country trained to detect electronic devices, such as computers, cellphones and USB - drives.

Percoco called Lacewell, who now serves as Cuomo's chief - of - staff, around 9 a.m. that morning, as agents seized paperwork and a computer from Percoco's house.

Small radio frequency (RF) coils strategically placed around a patient's head — the twisted copper wires shown in the image at right — act as antennas, detecting that hum and transmitting it to domino - sized green amplifiers, which read the signal and pass it on to an external computer.

As an electrical engineering graduate student at MIT, Shannon played around with a «differential analyzer,» a crude forerunner to computers.

As cybersecurity experts scramble to stop another wave of ransomware and malware scams that have infected computers around the world, computer science experts at the University of Houston are «phishing» for reasons why these types of attacks are so successful.

It represents the bugs around you as bright speckles — on doorknobs, people's hands, computer keyboards, and so on.

«One way to know is by understanding how electrons move around in these materials so we can develop new ways of manipulating them — for example, with light instead of electrical current as conventional computers do.»

Sapphire, also called Slammer, debuted at 9:30 p.m. Pacific time on 24 January and spread to more than 75,000 computers around the globe in a few minutes, knocking out 911 emergency services, automated teller machines, and airline online ticketing systems as well as denying Internet access to millions.

With the help of computer - generated scenery, scientists act as tour guides through exotic spacescapes — clambering around the surface of a comet, for instance, while describing the supersonic jets of ice that erupt from its surface.

As well as the information being transmitted, the packet also contains addressing details that routers — computers dedicated to moving data around — use to determine where the packets should gAs well as the information being transmitted, the packet also contains addressing details that routers — computers dedicated to moving data around — use to determine where the packets should gas the information being transmitted, the packet also contains addressing details that routers — computers dedicated to moving data around — use to determine where the packets should go.

SolarWorld employs around 100 chemists, physicists and engineers in its R&D centre in Freiberg, says Nitzschke, and similar - sized companies offer internships for those with backgrounds in these sciences, as well as computer science and economics.

Physicists around the world are building rudimentary quantum computers that exploit this and other quantum effects to do things that are provably impossible for ordinary computers, such as finding a target record in a database with too few queries.

Rooting around in the detritus on his desk, Robert Winglee finds a quarter - sized magnet and waves it inches from his computer monitor, sending ripples of color scattering as light particles are deflected back toward the screen.

The visionary computer scientist Jaron Lanier once said: «The internet perceives censorship as damage and routes around it».

With so many different areas of science and technology to choose from, Colan says the show opted to create episodes around hot - button issues including aviation, bionics and mobility and waste management as well as more obscure topics including regenerative medicine and brain - to - computer interfaces.

Steve: You wrote back in 1992: «I came to understand that there were thousands of people spread all around the world, mathematicians, physicists, philosophers, computer scientists, on and on, who thought of Martin Gardner's column not merely as a feature of Scientific American but as its very heart and soul.»

The premise behind Lifeblog is not a new one: A number of computer visionaries, including Gordon Bell of Microsoft, have proposed software interfaces organized fundamentally around time, as a way of augmenting memory.

Rather than deploying costly sensors all over a city, the maps are often created using computer models that predict how various sources of noise, such as airports and railway stations, affect the areas around them.

Computer model projections of future conditions analyzed by the Scripps team indicate that regions such as the Amazon, Central America, Indonesia, and all Mediterranean climate regions around the world will likely see the greatest increase in the number of «dry days» per year, going without rain for as many as 30 days more every year.

As a result, embedded systems — small computer systems built around microcontrollers — are becoming more common.

This process can be repeated over and over as the computer moves around.

While a rat scurried around mopping up chocolate treats, the researchers watched, perplexed, as the computer mapped the firings, and overlapping blobs appeared on the screen.

To find out if a computer can automate all or part of this process, Guillermo Sapiro, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos and colleagues have fitted the nursery with five Kinect depth - sensing camera rigs to monitor groups of around 10 children aged between 3 and 5 years old as they play.

In the past week Google used HTML5 to make it possible to drag files into its online email service as you would if moving them around on your own computer, and also announced that it would soon use HTML5 to make it possible for online documents to be accessed and edited even when not connected to the internet, by storing data locally and seamlessly syncing it as soon as when a connection is available.