Sentences with phrase «obsolete computer»

They make the decisions of what costs are incurred and accept the business risks of maintaining unused office space, obsolete computer systems, etc..

These obsolete computer models are not data sources.

For example: «The Giant Lucky Clover Bug has been carefully fabricated from discarded and obsolete computer circuit board components.

After decades of mystery and investigation, after the recovery of gigabyte after gigabyte of data stored in obsolete computer formats, the whatdunit surrounding Pioneers 10 and 11 has finally reached its conclusion.

But ethicists already worry about a day when implants are so effective that even healthy people elect to upgrade, lest they fall behind like some obsolete computer.

Open Senate was developed as part of an overall Information Technology modernization project in the Senate, initiated with the election of a new Senate Majority in January 2009, which has yielded in excess of $ 500,000 in annual net savings to date; savings have derived primarily from increasing the Senate's ability to create and maintain technology in - house, including using a combination of free open - source software and low - cost Software - As - A Service (SaaS) solutions whenever possible, thus enabling the Senate to cancel unnecessary maintenance and service contracts, and decommission expensive obsolete computer systems.

But Gordon Bell, an early employee of the computer maker Digital Equipment Corporation, hated to see obsolete computers sent to the scrap heap.

Sometimes you don't need Math; you don't need to crunch the numbers; you don't need to study obsolete computers nor understand the mystery of writing code.

Those requirements were perceived as a set of obligations to take into account dying browsers, obsolete computers, extra narrow screens, and some other minor annoyances about coding more legible HTML.

Not exact matches

But in the span of just a few years, physical papers have become borderline obsolete, replaced by tablets and computer screens.

A post-PC world, therefore, isn't one where computers are made obsolete — it's one where the majority of computing is done on mobile devices.

It was never possible that the 3G - enabled tablet was going to make the laptop computer obsolete, save the publishing world, upend traditional marketing and buy everyone a Coke like the evangelizers claimed.

«DNA won't degrade over time like cassette tapes and CDs, and it won't become obsolete,» Columbia University computer scientist Yaniv Erlich told the publication.

We are now at a tipping point where the power of computer chips, sensors, Internet broadband and cloud storage is creating a platform for powerful work technologies that will make the traditional office obsolete.

Science fiction that features wires connecting brains to computers might now be obsolete.

(Computers are making him obsolete — except that the partners» punitive restrictions on him have already done the job.)

Electronic waste, or «e-waste» as it's called, is a growing problem in the United States and abroad, as obsolete or broken computers and other electronic equipment are taking up increasingly precious amounts of landfill space and potentially leaking hazardous substances into surrounding ecosystems.

Soon computers will get so big and fast and the Net so rich with information that we will be obsolete, either left behind or subsumed into some cyber-superhuman something.

The possibility of quantum computers on the horizon would make current encryption obsolete.

«DNA won't degrade over time like cassette tapes and CDs, and it won't become obsolete — if it does, we have bigger problems,» said study coauthor Yaniv Erlich, a computer science professor at Columbia Engineering, a member of Columbia's Data Science Institute, and a core member of the NYGC.

Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, believes that humans will be obsolete within fifty years if the current pace of computer development continues.

By Sam Lemonick / c & en January 3, 2018 Computer simulations predict a new light - activated catalyst could make the Haber - Bosch process obsolete The world relies on the Haber - Bosch process to reduce atmospheric nitrogen to ammonia to -LSB-...]

You might also assume that the endless bounty of knowledge computers can store would render the limited ability of the human mind somewhat obsolete.

Computers and cyborgs aren't about to render the American worker obsolete.

Unfortunately, Vukela says, his is not the only computer lab in the Pittsburgh city schools sporting grossly obsolete machines.

The new system, which requires test - takers to sit at computer terminals and answer questions electronically, is likely to revolutionize the whole standardized - testing field, making current paper - and - pencil methods obsolete, those working on the idea believe.

Digital book licensing slashes the cost of computer books and leaves school districts with fewer obsolete books.

I'd love a world where our mathmatics instruction focused more holistically on mathematically modeling and less on the kinds of computational tasks that make up much of standardized testing, but have been rendered obsolete in the real world by computers.

Instead of forcing companies to buy new computers when its machines become obsolete, Velocity Micro offers a lifetime upgrade plan.

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;) You do have a good point about expenses though, since we are looking into a new mattress for our bed, and a new computer once my current one becomes too obsolete.

Started in the late 90's by a small handful of intrepid programmers, chipmusic involves the practice of creating and performing music using the sound chips found in obsolete videogame and computer hardware.

A title such as «10 MB (RGB: Magenta / Yellow)» (2013) indicates that the work's printed striations correspond in length to the - obsolete - computer magnetic tape needed to contain 10 megabytes of information.

These odd artifacts draw meaning from echoes of Op art's dizzying patterns, from their use of arbitrary ready - made surfaces and from references - at which their titles hint - to obsolete or enduring computer technology.

Leading to the project room, a ladder made of Fanfold, the already obsolete perforated computer paper, grows upward and downward from two dimensions to three - dimensional space in a symbiosis of hardware and software.

I bypassed the 286 unlike everyone else in my office that went cheap and bought an obsolete 16 bit system (though it was the biggest selling computer worldwide that year) and my boss paid for the separate math co-processor, about $ 400 or so back then, that plugged into the available socket on the mother - board / main - board.

My career as a computer programmer fizzles as the programming languages and computers I work with become obsolete, I'm not going to be able to enter the field of brain surgery at the same level of competency on the argument that they're just two different types of thinking machines.

With the exponential increase in consumer products built around high - technology in the U.S., societies the world over need to address the collection and reconditioning of obsolete or broken computers, cell phones, etc..

By «making many junior lawyers obsolete» I mean that a lot of tasks traditionally done by junior lawyers will be replaced with computers.

The announcement renewed three exemptions granted in prior rulemakings: computer programs protected by obsolete dongles; computer programs and video games distributed in obsolete formats; and eBooks with disabled read - aloud functions.

However, the $ 800 computer system that you purchased two years ago may now be considered obsolete.

ClassicBitcoin implements a Highly Secure ASIC resistant PoW algorithm, Equihash, Expensive and Centralized Mining Technology designed for BitCoin mining (ASICs) is obsolete for mining ClassicBitcoins, giving ordinary computer users the opportunity to mine Bitcoins Profitably with a CPU or GPU.

Special computer hardware designed for BTC mining is obsolete for mining BTG, giving ordinary users a chance to mine with GPUs».

Old hardware - based, proprietary private branch exchange telephone systems are rapidly becoming obsolete thanks to a new generation of software - based «computer telephony» systems.

The computer is practically obsolete.

We know, we know... students today do the vast majority of their work on computers but surely that doesn't mean that actual writing instruments are obsolete!