Sentences with phrase «end computers by»

CEO Dion Weisler said on a call with analysts that one reason HP's PC business was able to avoid a decline was strong demand for high - end computers by video game enthusiasts.

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Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh also agrees by saying «I think everyone should get a little exposure to computer science because it really forces you to think in a slightly different way, and it's a skill that you can apply in life in general, whether you end up in computer science or not.»

A computer model built by Reuters used historic trends and other data to predict that a Republican will take the White House when Obama's term ends.

Amsterdam - based design studio Heldergroen actually enforces the end of the work day by cranking desks up into the ceiling, along with computers, paper, and that cup of coffee you were going to finish.

The company also trumpets that the service had 155 million tweets daily by the end of the first quarter, a jump of 41 % over the prior quarter, but many tweets — news headlines, for example — are often churned out by computers, not humans visiting Twitter.com.

The department is filled with 70 high - end gaming computers and high - end gaming gear that were donated by companies like iBuyPower, Logitech, and Vertagear.

By the end of next week we are going on a family vacation to Tuscany (I know, we are traveling a lot at the moment), and we have decided to bring camera and computer.

They're a top 15 team in nearly every set of computer rankings and they dominated Conference USA at the end of the season, winning each of their final 10 league games by double digits.

The Noles aren't likely to have the computer advantage by the end of the year, so they'll have to win eyeballs.

Mary O`Connor, the cafeteria manager at Hoffman Estates High, said the main advantage is that the computer can generate a report at the end of each school day that gives a total of each item selected by students.

By the time I was done... and exported it to a word file on my computer, it was ten pages long... After I finished writing it, the long nights didn't end, the sleep deprivation was high and patience was getting even lower, so I would read his birth story over and over again on my Black berry at night.

Quote: «Recruited subjects were entered into the database at the end of every week» and then random allocation by computer software.

More than 196,700 testing sessions by computer were completed through the end of day Wednesday, the state Education Department said.

Construction of the Computer Chip Commercialization Center (Quad - C) is currently underway and is scheduled for completion by the end of 2014.

Those policies include a ten - year plan, $ 81 million to make computer science a requirement in city schools, and a $ 75 million annual commitment to hire reaching specialists to get all students up to reading on their grade level by the end of second grade.

Turing's paper was philosophical, not mathematical, and his answer non-rigorous: He believed that by century's end, computers would think, in the sense of being able to pass the test.

For now, D - Wave's device is slower than an inexpensive home computer, but Rose says a potentially faster 1,000 - qubit version should be available by the end of next year.

The search giant is testing a 20 - qubit processor, its most powerful quantum chip yet, and says it will be able to outperform ordinary computers by the end of the year

By the end of 2003, I had left my company to move away from Web design and pursue a career in computer animation.

Computer models peg ocean acidity at 7.8 to 7.7 by the end of the century at the current rate of greenhouse gas emissions.

Three computers control it all from a small room at the other end of the lab, which is sealed off by blast doors whenever the experiment runs.

In 1988, the NHS Information Management Centre in Birmingham set out to end such confusion by writing a data model to which all its computers could conform.

An example is NELL, the Never - Ending Language Learning project from Carnegie Mellon University, a computer system that not only reads facts by crawling through hundreds of millions of Web pages but attempts to improve its reading and understanding competence in the process in order to perform better in the future.

stories,» says Musselman, who used historical snowpack measurements and computer models to predict how the melting rate will change by the end of the century (Nature Climate Change, DOI: 10.1038 / NCLIMATE3225).

The U.S. computer industry has responded by adopting a voluntary program called Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) that is designed to provide standards for greener computers as well as to keep discarded electronics out of landfills, where the majority end up.

President Clinton's grand plan for national information «superhighways» has moved a step closer, with an alliance of top electronics companies and research institutes agreeing standards that will allow high - definition TV pictures to be displayed on computer screens by the end of the decade.

Problems would be organized so that they could be fed into the «computer» room, worked on by a team of people and the answer fed out at the other end.

The dead - end job leaves you indifferent to your surroundings, bleary - eyed at your computer, clocked out by lunch hour.

I will keep it short and just say I spent the last year getting jerked around by a guy who claimed «computer inadequacy», not knowing how to end the service...» his friends signed him up»... and most recently, after watching for a solid month and seeing him «online now» or «active within 24 hours» he lied to my face and told me he hadn't even been on the site in over three weeks.

Primarily I'm a technical computer engineer by trade but I've always ended up in a sales environment.

A teen girl receives several mind - body scans that involve simulations that are hallucinations provided by computer programming supplied through cables attached to the girl's back; we see screens in the air that show images of her brain and nervous system as the girl sees the ghost of her dead mother screaming among flames in a building with flaming windows as the building uproots itself and slowly flies through the air; the girl grabs cables, falls, runs across buildings as the flying building crashes into a skyscraper and chunks of concrete fall and fill the screen until she speaks with the ghost and the simulation ends.

That movie shows Wade in the Weapon X program with Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), and at the end, Wade is turned into a mutant monster bad guy with his mouth sewn shut and controlled by a computer.

Dirty Computer tweaks Brazil's controversial ending by first offering a tragic finale.

Tron ends up being a really good movie broken by one really, really, really stupid decision: computer generated Jeff Bridges is a crime against humanity.

Among the high - profile premieres this year are «Antz,» the new Dreamworks animated film; James Ivory's «A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries,» with Kris Kristofferson playing a character inspired by novelist James Jones; «Dancing at Lughnasa,» starring Meryl Streep in the film of Brian Friel's celebrated play; John Waters» «Pecker,» with Edward Furlong as a fast - food worker whose photos are embraced by the New York art world; Helena Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh in «The Theory of Flight,» about a work - release prisoner assigned to a woman with Lou Gehrig's disease; Ben Stiller as a drug - addicted TV writer in «Permanent Midnight»; Christina Ricci in «Desert Blue,» about slim prospects for a teenager in a town of 89 people; «The Imposters,» the new film by Stanley («Big Night») Tucci, starring Tucci and Oliver Platt as cruise - ship stowaways; «Rushmore,» with Jason Schwartzmann as a prep schooler who is a lousy student but hyperactive in campus activities; Cameron Diaz in «Very Bad Things,» about a bachelor party that ends in murder; Cate Blanchett as «Elizabeth,» the story of England's 16th century monarch, and «The Judas Kiss,» with FBI agent Emma Thompson on the trail of the kidnapper of a computer genius.

Professor Plummer was killed over a piece of software named G.H.O.S.T. (though not in the pantry with a candlestick) now believed to have been stashed somewhere in his home; when the snot - nosed kids — vain Zoe (Brittany Snow), surly Seth (Max Thieriot), precocious Lulu (Morgan York, also one of the Cheaper by the Dozen brats), and reaction - shot fodder Peter (Keegan & Logan Hoover) and Baby Tyler (Bo & Luke Vink (and with «The Dukes of Hazzard»'s impending renaissance, boy are those two in for a rude awakening at the start of school)-RRB--- grease the stairwell to take out Shane, they end up driving away their German nanny (a typically misused Carol Kane) instead, forcing Shane into a more maternal role and leaving him little time to search for the computer program.

This is the computer version of an art activity that used to involve colored crayons, black paint and drawing by scratching in the wet paint with the blunt end of a paint brush.

Tablets and apps Our «Future of tablets and apps in schools» research carried out in May revealed that schools now believe that by the end of 2013, more than 10 per cent of teaching computers (PC / Mac / tablet) in schools will be tablets.

This set of resource includes: • 6 attractive PowerPoint presentations which lead the class through each of the lessons • Fun and thought provoking activities and discussion starters, worksheets and questions to reinforce the learning • 6 differentiated homework tasks • A mark sheet which allows pupils to track their own progress • An end of unit test to prepare the students for exams or can be used as a form of assessment • A complete teacher's guide including easy to follow lesson plans • An answer booklet to help the teacher along The lessons are: Lesson 1 — Looking into ethical and moral dilemmas such as driverless cars and the impact of technology on modern life Lesson 2 — More ethical dilemmas including the ratings culture, medical apps, sharing personal data and cyber bullying Lesson 3 — Environmental issues with technology and how organisations and individuals can reduce these effects Lesson 4 — The Computer Misuse Act 1990 Lesson 5 — The Data Protection Act 1998 Lesson 6 — Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 For more high - quality resources written by this author visit www.nicholawilkin.com

Such programs are no longer appropriate or compatible with current skills expectations: automotive repair courses in high school where practice continued on components that had been replaced by sophisticated computers in current cars; cosmetology courses whose graduates didn't have the math skills to pass licensing requirements for hairdressers and ended up as hair shampooers; distributive education courses that taught «selling» but not the computer, computation, and communication skills needed for any but the lowest - level sales jobs.

BESA's Tablets and Connectivity research suggests that by the end of 2016, in primary schools 35.8 per cent of all pupil - facing computers will be tablets, with 31.1 per cent in secondary schools.

The Grimbles» Last Game - a sketch for teenage drama students Great to explore ensemble cast work with a number of speaking roles Mask work and «games» are included Physical theatre Challenging and creative A dark, surreal and comic tale For the PERILOUS TALES collection of surreal and slightly dark cautionary tales by Offbeat Theatre's Barbara Hockley An excellent opportunity to use bizarre costumes and masks A dance number is required at the end - anything you like... Dark, surreal and completely off the wall Ed and Molly Grimble play computer games all the time - in fact, they do little else.

Secondly, the decrease in numbers taking GCSE ICT, which ends this year, have not been compensated for by the increase in Computer Science entries.

Our «Future of tablets and apps in schools» research carried out in May revealed that schools now believe that by the end of 2013, more than 10 per cent of teaching computers (PC / Mac / tablet) in schools will be tablets.

The plan then focuses on training students to achieve computer literacy by the end of eighth grade.

Washington — A group of businessmen led by the former chief executive officer of Atari Inc. last week announced the start of an «Electronic University,» which they expect will enroll 1 million students in computer - based courses by the end of next year.

This spring, about 600 schools across the state will pilot parts of a new end - of - year exam developed by the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), a group of states working together to develop new computer - based assessments aligned to the new standards that they hope will test deeper understanding of concepts.

By the end of our time together you'll have a better understanding of how we all perceive things we see especially on a computer screen, how to build high quality graphics using PowerPoint, and have a few new techniques about visual design principles.

The tests, by SBAC and Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, will both be administered mostly on computers and will feature more open - ended questions than the traditional «fill in the bubble» exams to which students have grown accustomed.

Thus, it can be concluded that by the end of the project, all the beginning teachers recognized the importance of computer technologies for professional development purposes.