Sentences with phrase «of ordinary computer»

The crack in WPA2 encryption also put millions of ordinary computer users at risk, negating the security of their home Wi - Fi routers and leaving them vulnerable to a series of frightening attacks.

threatens to turn millions of ordinary computer users into criminals,» said EFF Staff Attorney Jamie Williams.

«This ruling threatens to turn millions of ordinary computer users into criminals,» said EFF Staff Attorney Jamie Williams.

Although the program's graphics were no more sophisticated than those of an ordinary computer game, the simulated violence seemed much more intense and confusing because I couldn't see everything at once.

Google is making quantum chips from superconductors, and claims it will have built the first quantum computer capable of surpassing some abilities of ordinary computers later this year.

I doubt that a disclosure of further particulars of the 1 - click (epi) phenomenon will reveal anything more than a perfectly conventional (albeit original for copyright purposes) use of ordinary computers, but that remains to be seen.

Not exact matches

It hasn't been worth mining bitcoin using standard consumer computer hardware for years because of the kind of processing power involved; the overwhelming majority of ordinary members of public pools will have bought hardware from companies like KnCMiner.

From a janitor who left behind an $ 8,000,000 fortune to a reclusive computer programmer who amassed $ 18,000,000; a lawyer who quietly built a stock portfolio worth $ 188,000,000 to a retired IRS agent who turned her $ 5,000 savings into a portfolio valued in the tens of millions of dollars from her apartment in New York, ordinary Americans have been using the stealth wealth strategy to grow rich for a long time.»

I sat down at the computer again to try to find a few words to say how I find God in this daily place and in this work, how I only learned to pray when I began to pray with my hands and my attention on purpose and how most of prayer to me now is listening and abiding, how I believe it would be nice to have a lovely housekeeper and a clean house and to create amazing soaring art with all of the white space of an uncluttered life and glorious heights of transcendent spirituality, I guess, but I need the God who sits in the mud and in the cold wind, in the laundry pile and in the city park, who embodies grief and joy, wisdom and patience, loneliness as companionship, renewal with simplicity and a good deep breath, and who even now shows up in the unlikeliest and homeliest of lives too, as a sacrament of and blessing for the ordinary things.

It is focusing on a problem that is fiendishly difficult for ordinary computers but that a quantum computer will do naturally: simulating the behaviour of a random arrangement of quantum circuits.

By setting out this clear test, Google hopes to avoid the problems that have plagued previous claims of quantum computers outperforming ordinary ones — including some made by Google.

But another key piece has been the acceleration of handling large datasets and being able to visualize them on ordinary computers.

Computer - enhanced science testing is becoming more popular as a way to assess knowledge and skills that ordinary paper and pencil tests can not measure, but research on the actual effectiveness of online testing is limited.

Because their goal was to simulate social phenomena on ordinary desktop computers, they pared agent - based modeling down to its essence: a set of simple agents that moved around a grid in search of «sugar» — a foodlike resource that was abundant in some places and scarce in others.

The paper's lead author — Marcus Yip, who completed his PhD at MIT last fall — and his colleagues Rui Jin and Nathan Ickes, both in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, will also exhibit a prototype charger that plugs into an ordinary cell phone and can recharge the signal - processing chip in roughly two minutes.

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

Traditional botnets are built over time by taking control of ordinary people's computers without their knowledge, but a cloud botnet — or botcloud — can be put together in a couple of minutes just by purchasing space in the cloud with stolen credit card details.

The first head - to - head speed test of the D - Wave Two, the commercial quantum computer recently purchased by Google, suggests that the machine performs no better than an ordinary PC.

The team's work, however, shows that propagation time grows as a power of its size, meaning that while quantum computers may be able to solve problems that ordinary computers find devilishly complex, their processors will not be speed demons.

Created by essentially strapping a hacked Kinect to an iRobot Create (a sort of blank Roomba platform used by robotics developers) along with a gutted Intel Atom computer, the KinectBot uses the Kinect bar's 3D sensors in ways that'd make an ordinary Roomba hopelessly jealous.

Ordinary computers use the presence or absence of electrons to represent 1s and 0s to encode information.

These reactions take place without interfering with the cells» ordinary functions, allowing them to speak the binary language of computers while continuing to work as normal cells.

Qubits are to quantum computers what bits are to ordinary computers: both a basic unit of information and the basic piece of equipment that stores that information.

Instead of flipping ordinary bits that can be set to either 0 or 1, a so - called universal quantum computer would manipulate quantum bits, or «qubits,» that can be 0, 1, or, thanks to the weirdness of quantum mechanics, 0 and 1 at the same time.

It can range from ordinary personal computers controlled by a mouse where house buyers can «walk» through a property on an estate agent's computer, to supercomputers simulating total immersion in an imaginary world, with every move of the participant's body picked up by sensors, and with sound and tactile effects to enhance the experience.

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.

The Internet of Things (IoT), built from inexpensive microsensors and microprocessors paired with tiny power supplies and wireless antennas, is rapidly expanding the online universe from computers and mobile gadgets to ordinary pieces of the physical world: thermostats, cars, door locks, even pet trackers.

A computer made of a handful of qubits can perform many calculations simultaneously, and can complete certain tasks exponentially faster than an ordinary computer.

Designers on opposite sides of the world will soon be able to work on the same 3 - D computer model using ordinary personal computers linked by ordinary phone lines, rather than powerful graphics workstations.

«The first step is to see the effect is there, but the next step is to implement quantum gates based on diamond,» says Benson, referring to the quantum analogue of the logic gates that form the integrated circuits in ordinary computer chips.

In another, the D - Wave Two solved some problems 3600 times faster, but this might have been because the ordinary computer was using algorithms that had not been optimised for the task, says Scott Aaronson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In our email exchange, Van der Kleij cautioned against making any computer - to - human leaps of logic and applying these lessons to ordinary classrooms.

Sub-pixel rendering, rather than ordinary pixel rendering, will significantly improve the visual sharpness of any display, especially for computer generated text and graphics, so that is the most efficient approach to improving sharpness.

It starts with an ordinary paper book, then an e-book read from Daddy's tablet computer, then holo - projected images of a book, and a mention of the possibility of translating the story into an anime on the fly (although the characters choose not to).

For example, the cost of sophisticated computer software is an ordinary and necessary expense for a freelance graphic designer.

The ordinary use of arithmetic formulas, and sorting of data by type, does not require «specialized knowledge»; just because a computer can do it faster does not change its categorization as evidence.

Finally, applicants may consider drafting claims to focus on an improvement to the functionality of the computer itself, and not on generic computer tasks for which a computer is used in its ordinary capacity.

Second, the offence includes in its scope articles that may also have a benign use — possessing an ordinary computer for use in fraud is within the ambit of the offence.

Some of the frequencies will be too high for ordinary computer speakers to produce.

One of the first cutbacks in the recession was companies started to no longer print corporate stationery, but rather electing to print computer generated very ordinary nondescript peel and stick on labels, often with ink lacking in their printer.

Here at REM, it's difficult to ignore the trend of mobile devices replacing desktop computers for ordinary, every - day tasks.

«For tentative buyers, first - hand experience like test drives, short - term leasing or daily rentals will be crucial when making future purchasing decisions,» says Brauer, who notes that ordinary consumers were more open to the idea of handing control over to a computer once they'd had experience with cars that have some level of autonomy.