Sentences with phrase «ordinary computers even»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

He says that it is even possible for a virtual computer in the cloud to become infected by an ordinary botnet, because cloud users don't normally run anti-virus software.

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.

As it spreads from desktops and back - offices to pockets, cameras, cars, and door locks, the affection people have with computers transfers onto other, even more ordinary objects.»