Sentences with phrase «on ordinary computers»

Silicon Graphics, a computer manufacturer which specialises in graphics, says 2 - D simulations displayed on its ordinary computers need no conversion to run on the company's Reality - Engine virtual reality computer, which was launched two weeks ago.

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

These gates manipulate qubits, which, unlike classical bits, can represent both a 0 and 1 at the same time, making it theoretically possible to compute the answers to large problems much faster than on an ordinary computer.

Not exact matches

Now the company can identify computer locations based on those wireless signals and is offering free software that turns an ordinary Internet browser into one that knows where it is.

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).

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.

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.

Lidar is now conducting similar tests with the upgraded D - Wave Two, which has 503 qubits and so might perform better on larger problem that ordinary, or classical, computers struggle with.

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.

We will focus, especially, on careers spent protecting ordinary people against non-conventional weapons — terror bombings, biological and chemical agents, and attacks on computer and telecommunications networks.

Maybe, but questions remain over whether the new computer would beat ordinary ones in like - on - like tests.

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.

Properly disconnect your Kindle device from your computer (the same way that you disconnect an ordinary jump drive, or there may be a Disconnect button on your Kindle device).

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).

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.

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.

These are ordinary RGB cameras, custom made with boards in the enclosure to do some basic grunt computer vision work, presumably things like motion detection, basic object identification, and so on.

This isn't your ordinary progress bar: BootRacer's estimates are accurately based on your computer's previous startup events, so you'll know exactly how much time you have to wait before you can start working.

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.