Sentences with phrase «if ordinary computers»

But the strategy is limited in scope — if ordinary computers were designed like this, you'd need a different laptop for every app you wanted to run.

Not exact matches

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).

Even if the computer were to work as advertised, it still would be nearly 1,000 times too small to solve problems that stump ordinary computers.

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.

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.