Sentences with phrase «because early computers»

That's because early computers used the Intel 8086 chip.

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«One was entrepreneurship, and the second is we got access to computers really early because they got a computer for the business.»

This was mainly because it was easier for most journalists of the early 1990s to envision and get personally excited about the potential of educational software, or of managing their personal finances, or organizing their recipes in the «digital» kitchen, or imagining how amateur architects could design funky homes right on their home computers.

Because beyond his typically bombastic proclamation that «it's already too late» for most women to become programmers is a much more important message: Computer science ought to be a basic part of school curriculum, giving both male and female students early exposure to an increasingly important skill set in today's economy.

«Perhaps because IBM faced the grim reaper in the early 1990s, it has had the best strategy among the large computer vendors in the last decade,» he wrote in a note.

This is because all of the stolen moments that hubby and I count on to get us through the day (nap time, computer time while boys are at school and baby plays quietly in baby - proofed area, early bedtime for kids, hot bath and wine after kids go to bed) never happen because there is a flurry of fun activities that keep us from sticking to our schedule.

An irony: amid all this highfalutin braggadocio of how close we are to computers taking over the world and emulating human thought, I had to give my talk on the «social singularity» (progress in political, economic and social systems over the past 10,000 years) early because Rice University computer scientist James McLurkin could not get his small swarm of robots to work.

Earlier this year, engineers temporarily switched to my backup computer because of a memory problem I was having.

Earlier guidance systems relied on radio links to ground computers and were vulnerable because atmospheric explosions during a nuclear war would have disrupted radio transmissions.

Dr Marcus Neumann, author of the computer program GRACE for crystal structure prediction, which predicted eight out of nine targets correctly in this blind test and eight out of ten targets in the previous two blind tests, said: «Obviously, we are delighted with these results, in particular because unlike in earlier blind tests they have been obtained by a fully automated procedure that can be used as a black box in industrial working environments.»

Let's just say, early on in my career, I had a few too many days of being uncomfortable and spending money on pieces that only got worn once because they looked great when I was standing up, but ended up not working out for my meeting filled / working at a computer career.

In early February, according to a Reuters report, 127 Internet cafes in Shanghai were forced to close and their computers were confiscated because, said the Shanghai News, the cafes had failed to obtain licenses.

Her father, an engineer, encouraged her to participate in the program because she had read several of his HTML books at an early age and had taken all of the computer design and graphics courses at her high school.

Technological elements, of course, come much earlier in the data analytics, because if all is production, or if all the work done by an employee is on a computer, it will be easier to extract the information.

Even so, in an early case, an appellate court in Florida upheld the revocation of a teacher's certification at least in part because he inappropriately accessed pornographic sites on a school computer (Stueber v. Gallagher, 2002).

Most of them do leave early, because they have their own computers at home, along with high - speed access to the Web.

Conversely a shorter or lower final drive (higher numerically) is the performance choice to increase acceleration but worse fuel consumption Finite Element Analysis: Computer data and design analysis to come up with the most rigid structure in the given budget or ultimate performance possible Fly - off brake: A throwback to the early days of the sports cars when the brake lever would be pulled up to engage and then the handle dropped down yet remained engaged Forged Alloy Wheels: Alloy wheels are one application of forging but very costly and with limited designs because of the complexity of the casting dies needed to squeeze the hot alloy Forging: Sometimes referred to squeeze - process.

Earlier, we mentioned that index fund investing is also called passive investing, because all the fund does is buy and sell whatever underlies the index — computers do all the heavy lifting.

Lode Runner is a game that's managed to avoid the retro arcade craze for a while, probably because it began as an early computer game and only later made a rare and brief appearance in arcades.

Early on we stumbled through victories, essentially beating the computer because we could afford a faster vehicle.

Power moves worked so well in the earlier games because it made story adversaries stand out and made players feel especially powerful when using them against computer - controlled foes.

The Swedish professor tells the BAZ that he became a skeptic of alarmist climate science early on because «the [UN] IPCC always depicted the facts on the subject falsely» and «grossly exaggerated the risks of sea level rise» and that the IPCC «excessively relied on shaky computer models instead of field research.»

«We all thought early on that computers were going to solve all our problems in litigation because the answer to everything would be at our fingertips with the simple press of a button,» said Nova Scotia Justice John Scanlan, «but in many ways just the opposite has happened.»

Despite the evidence base for the effectiveness of CBT for adolescent depression, 10, 14, 15 adolescents often avoid face - to - face therapy because of stigma.16 Given their affinity with computers, treatment accessibility may be improved by the availability of computer - administered CBT (CCBT) which could be provided at an earlier stage of illness, 17 particularly for those with a high degree of familiarity with technology.18 CCBT represents an autonomous form of therapy delivery with the potential to provide a realistic alternative, or potentially preventative, intervention.