Sentences with phrase «on a new computer when»

Crapware refers to applications that come pre-installed on a new computer when you purchase a branded one.

Crapware refers to applications that come preinstalled on a new computer when you purchase a branded one.

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The excerpt draws on: Jean Jennings Bartik, Pioneer Programmer (Truman State); Jean Bartik oral history, conducted by Gardner Hendrie, Computer History Museum, July 1, 2008; Jean Bartik oral history, conducted by Janet Abbate, IEEE Global History Network, Aug. 3, 2001; Steve Lohr, «Jean Bartik, Software Pioneer, Dies at 86,» New York Times, Apr. 7, 2011; Jennifer Light, «When Computers Were Women,» Technology and Culture, July 1999.

Yesterday at the International CES, for example, home improvement giant Lowe's announced a new wave of products and services associated with Iris, the company's tool that allows you to customize and monitor your internet - connected home devices — like, say, a water shut - off valve that cuts supply when a leak is detected — from a single app on your smartphone or computer.

When a new passenger got on and bumped our table, the coffee flew at me — and in a split second, I slid both myself and computer out of harm's way.

Zuckerberg, who grew up in the New York suburb of Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., began writing computer code when he was 10 on an Atari computer, devising games and enlisting friends to do the graphics.

New York's highest court on Thursday refused to overturn former Goldman Sachs Group Inc programmer Sergey Aleynikov's criminal conviction of stealing computer code from the investment bank when he left for another job.

«Have you ever skipped the complicated instructions when setting up some new software on your computer, and then regretted it?

When Google unveiled its new tablet computer earlier this month, the company disclosed that it wouldn't be making much of a profit on the device.

When a computer is able to crack the algorithm, a block full of relatively recent transactions is added to the chain, a copy of the updated ledger that has the new block is broadcasted to the other nodes — any computer connected to the network — and the nodes update themselves on the networks transaction history.

When you buy a new computer, you open the box, and right on top is the manual.

They sit at my feet when I'm working on the computer, they keep my kitchen clean when I'm testing out new recipes and they seem to know when 6 PM rolls around because they wait anxiously by the back door for my husband to come home.

«This trip to New York, he was most excited when he walked around Times Square and bought a laptop computer on Fifth Avenue,» said Mensua, who communicates with Safin in Spanish.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP)-- An unknown number of students taking the statewide English assessment by computer encountered delays when a security feature in the system «inadvertently activated» and prevented them from logging in, New York education officials said on Thursday.

That level of self - awareness in computers, and the time when it might be achieved, was a common theme at the Singularity Summit held in New York City on the weekend of October 15 — 16, 2011.

While that would not be enough time to update computers to the new calendar, he said, the target for complete technical adoption could be January 1, 2017, when the Gregorian year again begins on a Sunday.

IBM developed a technique for making carbon nanotubes emit light, paving the way for new fiber optics; Harvard scientists figured out how to deposit tiny wires on glass or plastic, opening the door for the development of supercheap computers; and at the University of Central Florida, neuroscientist Beverly Rzigalinski discovered a nanomolecular fountain of youth effect: When Rzigalinski applied cerium oxide nanoparticles to rat neurons in a petri dish, the particles seemed to strip out the free radicals that make tissues age and kept the neurons alive and functioning up to six times their normal life span.

When faced with new, unfamiliar cases, the computer correctly identified suspects who did not go on to reoffend 90 percent of the time.

In the study, neuroscientist Jeffrey Schall of Vanderbilt University and grad student Doug Hanes trained monkeys to do a reaction - time task in which the animals fix their eyes on a dot in the middle of a blank computer screen and, when that dot disappears and another appears to the right or the left, shift their gaze to the new dot.

Lapenta foresees a day in the next decade when the increasing capabilities of new radars and satellites will be coupled with an evolving generation of finely detailed weather - prediction models running in real time on computers at speeds exceeding a quintillion computations a second.

When tested using computer simulations on a hypothetical crowd - sourced parcel company, this new method increased the company's revenue by 6.4 percent by reducing fuel and emission costs by 2.5 percent.

Hardware designers use the instruction sets when building new chips, and computer programmers rely on it when writing new software.

The authors of the new report, published in the journal Memory, wanted to see how likely it was that people would reach for a computer or smartphone when quizzed on different topics.

The one thing I want to change in firefox on my new computer is when I type a website in the address bar I would like it to show my...

I was without Photoshop on my new computer, which posed quite the issue when it came to compiling all these looks in one layout.

I wore this specific outfit last week, to go get my new PC tower (still working on my old computer when I'm writing these lines), and have a doctor's appointment downtown.

When I get my camera up and running on my computer in my NEW craft room we can pretend we live in the same place by talking (ACTUALLY!!!)

Who wants to hunt for your computer, prop up on some pillows, and open up a laptop in the morning when you can just roll over in bed and check for new matches from the phone on your nightstand?

When my family got a new computer for Christmas in 2001, I immediately called dibs on our old PC, which was a Windows98.

It's enough to make you scream, «Bah, humbug» and turn off both your computer and phone to unplug, but please don't do so on January 3rd, when you have the greater chance of connecting with someone new.

In this wild and outrageous computer - animated comedy - adventure, an odd assortment of animals from the New York Zoo — including a lion, a giraffe, an anaconda, a koala, and a squirrel — discover what a jungle the city can be when one of their own is mistakenly shipped to the wild and they embark on a dangerous mission to rescue him.

When the 2012 technology scan showed that most districts had the requisite technology platform, few realized that the minimum specs had been dumbed - down or that this meant the new tests would sacrifice most of the hoped - for features — turning them into little more than traditional paper - and - pencil tests taken on a computer.

When teaching the computer science strand there is a need to move from the concrete to the abstract, from making connections with what learners already know and understand, to what is new knowledge, and from actual robots and devices to virtual ones on the screen, and then onto to myriad other programming challenges.

(HealthDay)-- U.S. children entering kindergarten do worse on tests when they're from poorer families with lower expectations and less focus on reading, computer use and preschool attendance, new research suggests.

Today learners can get on their phones, tablets, and computers if they need information, which allows them to expand their understanding and develop their skills when it's most convenient for them and when they truly need to gather new, critical knowledge.

Gore said she decided to enroll her son at NACS when she learned RePublic planned to open a new middle school last fall with heavy emphasis on coding and computer science.

After trusting the always - at - the - ready torque (not to mention the computer - generated throttle and transmission modulations), we stopped overdriving the new truck as we often had to do with its predecessor and backed off to let it do more of the work — even when winking at three - digits on the odometer.

When the 1990 Rolls - Royce sedans are delivered to dealers late next month, they will still look the same, but under the skin they will have a new, more complicated suspension system and - surprise, surprise - a more expensive price tag.The Silver Spur II and The Silver Spirit II will have what Rolls - Royce calls an «automatic ride control suspension system» linked to a computer that adjusts the ride from soft to firm depending on driving conditions.

Even so, it should be obvious, and I tried this out on a 9 year old this week, new generations, those whose eyesight will not deteriorate for a long time to come, those people can read prints I can't even read with my reading glasses, thus they could care less about the size of the font available in a Kindle, leaving the Kindle sadly to the declining Boomers, who are spending $ 500 on the average when they buy a Kindle, while an entirely new computer generation is buying this new crop of Netbooks that are full computers in pretty much all senses, but are even smaller in size than the Kindles, and smaller in price.

I was reminded of my father's poor prognostication a few weeks ago, when my favorite comic shop owner shook his head while he rang up my floppies (the new Amazing Spider - Man, Fatale # s 1 and 2, and Action Comics # 7, if you're curious), saying, «No one wants this on their computer.

After a month of moderate reading while Kindle was getting an occasional small charge only when I connected it to the computer to sync new content battery indicators on both K2 and DX were showing roughly 75 % battery capacity.

When trying to convert Russian file which on computer to another file which is on computer also, it makes a new file but impossible to read.

Oprah Winfrey ignited a new wave of Kindle love when she devoted a show to the little eInk gadget in late October 2008, and Amazon further cemented its dominant role with new Kindle models in early 2009 and mid-2010 and free apps that allow readers to «buy once, read anywhere» on any computer, smartphone or handheld device.

When you can read this ebook successfully, you will find the new ebook by opening the below folder on computer.

When you don't pay your issuer back for a brand new computer you bought on their credit card, the bank theoretically has the ability to repossess the item and get some of the value back.

Have you noticed how, when you make a major purchase (say, the purchase of a new computer), you ask lots of hard questions up to the time you put money on the table.

I used to be a facebook adict, but the fact that i had to use my computer, when i am ALWAYS on my 360 turned me away from it, this new facebook application is really cool.

When you play your favorite Android games on your computer with the free BlueStacks 3 app, you can unlock a new world of features and decisions that can change your mobile gaming future forever.

The medium of modern computer systems became an important component in Holzer's work in 1982, when the artist installed her first large electronic sign on the Spectacolor board in New York's Times Square.

His new commission Pleasant Places #S006.201 is a computer - generated animation based on 3D - scanned natural scenery in southern France which pays homage to the tradition of landscape painting, while also alluding to a pivotal moment within its history when representation began to verge on abstraction.