Sentences with phrase «than a digital computer»

In a way, it is like answering questions about airplane design by studying a model airplane in a wind tunnel — solving problems with a physical simulation rather than a digital computer.

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The deployment of such technology is the latest move by a Canadian bank to beef up its digital capabilities as customers increasingly conduct their banking on mobile phones and computers, rather than over the phone or in a brick - and - mortar branch.

To create digital photography for the iPhone, Jobs drew on existing categories, namely «his experience with consumer electronic domains, his experience with mobile wireless, and his experience with building really great user interfaces for computer devices» to produce what, when all the parts were combined, added up to be a device that was so much larger than the sum of its parts, Sculley says.

The future of exchanging contact information — in a context where face - mounted computers shoot digital hallucinations directly into our eyeballs — is probably going to be much weirder than this video suggests.

A far bigger giveaway than the dots involved the digital traces that the suspected leaker left on work computers.

And we like the idea of them being somehow computer - generated rather than simply «digital copies,» which feels like a cheap imitation of physical collectibles.»

September 2017 has seen the return of my business, different products and new ideas I have been trying my best without much success, I've been to the Google Digital Garage for help using their services as a group and 1 to 1, I feel I have more underestanding but still only a handful of sales, I have started my own web site and feel that I'm on the computer more than actually making anything.

(Digital media included TV, computers, video games, tablets and smartphones, and other screen devices that were used by kids for something other than school work.)

The development of the long - promised «digital era governance» was mired in a series of mega contracts: huge in terms of cost, scope and timescale, bigger than any attempted by other governments worldwide, and to be delivered by the same handful of giant global computer consulting firms that rarely saw any challenge to their grip on public contracts.

He said the investigation was complicated by the fact that the firm kept most of its records in digital form, on more than 100 computer servers, and not on paper.

Captured by Kepler's digital sensors, transformed into bytes of data, and downloaded to computers at NASA's Ames Research Center near San Francisco, the processed starlight slowly revealed a remarkable story: A planet not much bigger than Earth was whipping around its native star at a blistering pace, completing an orbit — its version of a «year» — in just over 20 hours.

«By analyzing his digital records, his computer can understand and respond to his thoughts and needs much better than other humans,» Wu says, «including his long - term girlfriend and closest friends.»

Less than a year ago, augmented reality — digital effects laid on top of the real world as seen through a computer screen — burst into public consciousness with the release of the mobile game Pokémon GO, in which players see magical little monsters in the real world using their smartphones.

«Digital records are more like an oral tradition than traditional documents,» says Marc Weber of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

Traditional digital computers depend on millions of transistors opening and closing with near perfection, making an error less than once per 1 trillion times.

Cameron's digital filmmaking process encompassed more than 1,600 live - action and photorealistic computer - generated images.

Perhaps it is just splitting hairs but Ken Perlin, a computer science professor and founding director of the New York University Media Research Lab, makes a distinction between simply dropping digital characters onto a screen based on a player's location and integrating those characters into their surroundings so that they seem more real than virtual.

If you're like me and being away from your computer for long periods of time isn't really an option, you might want to plan more bite - size digital detoxes: an hour, an afternoon, a weekend day, when your mind, body, and spirit can focus on something other than inbox zero.

Because the film is intended to be fun for computer - illiterates as well as techno - geeks, it's more successful than other recent efforts to bring some digital - age updating to the familiar thriller formula.

Computer - generated creatures, tanks, boats and helicopters fill the screen, fake crashes and fake monsters climbing digital skyscrapers, all more impressive than convincing.

Despite taking place almost exclusively in the fictional landscape of a game world, what few special effects emerge are, in typical Cronenbergian fashion, physical rather than digital; the one major use of CGI is a two - headed lizard / frog hybrid, and its appearance is genuinely surprisingly more because we're so unaccustomed to seeing anything wholly computer - generated than because of how strange it actually looks — and that effect still holds up remarkably well.

Therein, Digital Domain's Kevin Mack demonstrates just how far computer graphics have come — and I assure you, it's a lot farther than Liquid Yoda.

It is expected that 90 per cent of all future jobs will require digital skills and it is estimated that the UK will need more than 1.2 million new technical and digitally skilled people by 2022 to satisfy future skills needs, computer science GCSE is one of the key pathways that young people can take.

Critics insisted that his lack of experience running a technology concern would leave him at a «huge disadvantage,» wrote Doug Garr in a 1999 book about Gerstner's tenure, because the computer business «moved at a faster pace than other industries; competition came from... fanatics who thrived in the often quirky and murky world of digital chaos.»

Computer - assisted learning can allow a handful of students to practice certain kinds of problems while teachers instruct their peers, and it's easier for digital resources to incorporate methods of interactive practice than for traditional, printed textbooks.

Boys, in fact, are better in digital reading (reading on computers) than in paper - based reading (though they still trail girls by a wide margin), probably because they are more comfortable in digital environments.

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In fact, many market studies show that people prefer accessing digital content more often on smartphones and tablets than desktop computers.

The inequalities of the national digital divide are well known — English language learners (ELLs) are far less likely to have computers and Internet access at home than their mainstream peers, and they are much less likely to have access to online technology beyond drill - and - skill testing programs in their schools.

CEO of Score Publishing, producer of Digital Book World 2018 Interview starts at 15:44 and ends at 43:43 «The Echo Show is an incredible glimpse into the future, because the future is going to be words come out of your mouth, and that's how you engage the computer rather than typing on a QWERTY keyboard -LSB-...]

Despite the prevalence of computer - based testing around the world, online or digital learning still leaves some administrators with more questions than answers.

Responsive Layout = Resizes for the iPad, iPhone, Kindle Fire etc With more and more people browsing your website on digital devices other than the computer, it's important to make sure it looks good at all sizes.

So why can't smartphones — generally more affordable than tablets and desktop computers — also house people's digital bookshelves of both borrowed and owned books?

And then there's the parallel present, maybe we should embrace the vision that is being set out and let the sophisticated computers on our desks and living in the clouds do more of the work for us rather than imprisoning ourselves in the laborious task of print thinking in a digital world.

From the early onset of recent digital publishing, critics and supporters alike agreed that ebooks should not just be computer file versions of a print book, arguing that the capabilities are so much greater than just transferring the words from one type of page to another.

Most ironically, the economics of selling digitized books (or eBooks) has taken longer to figure out than digital music (e.g. Apple's iTunes), despite the textual media being the primary language of navigation on a computer.

Prognostication II: Ben Gilbert, on the other hand, begs to differ; he buys the first issue of a comic digitally to sample it, then waits to buy the trade, and he doesn't see digital supplanting print anytime soon: «Frankly, I don't see anyone using ComiXology to download a month's worth of comics that they would normally buy at an LCS, mostly because that would take more memory than most people with Macs or personal computers would likely be willing to devote solely to comic storage and would destroy the idea of comics as collectibles, which is the lifeblood of the Direct Market and the convention industry.

In good news for booksellers, not only do many parents want to buy printed books to encourage their kids to look away from the computer, television or gaming unit screen, but many kids themselves prefer owning their favourite title in print, than in digital formats.

Applications such as computer display screens, digital signs or magazines made of «electronic paper» have been possibilities for more than a decade, but their full potential seems always just around the corner.

Principle 2: [Google owns and stores the actual digital content] The books themselves will be stored «in the cloud,» meaning out on some Google server, rather than on your computer hard drive or in a device you own.

Such statements reflect the current views of Barnes & Noble with respect to future events, the outcome of which is subject to certain risks, including, among others, the general economic environment and consumer spending patterns, decreased consumer demand for Barnes & Noble's products, low growth or declining sales and net income due to various factors, possible disruptions in Barnes & Noble's computer systems, telephone systems or supply chain, possible risks associated with data privacy, information security and intellectual property, possible work stoppages or increases in labor costs, possible increases in shipping rates or interruptions in shipping service, effects of competition, possible risks that inventory in channels of distribution may be larger than able to be sold, possible risks associated with changes in the strategic direction of the device business, including possible reduction in sales of content, accessories and other merchandise and other adverse financial impacts, possible risk that component parts will be rendered obsolete or otherwise not be able to be effectively utilized in devices to be sold, possible risk that financial and operational forecasts and projections are not achieved, possible risk that returns from consumers or channels of distribution may be greater than estimated, the risk that digital sales growth is less than expectations and the risk that it does not exceed the rate of investment spend, higher - than - anticipated store closing or relocation costs, higher interest rates, the performance of Barnes & Noble's online, digital and other initiatives, the success of Barnes & Noble's strategic investments, unanticipated increases in merchandise, component or occupancy costs, unanticipated adverse litigation results or effects, product and component shortages, the potential adverse impact on the Company's businesses resulting from the Company's prior reviews of strategic alternatives and the potential separation of the Company's businesses, the risk that the transactions with Microsoft and Pearson do not achieve the expected benefits for the parties or impose costs on the Company in excess of what the Company anticipates, including the risk that NOOK Media's applications are not commercially successful or that the expected distribution of those applications is not achieved, risks associated with the international expansion contemplated by the relationship with Microsoft, including that it is not successful or is delayed, the risk that NOOK Media is not able to perform its obligations under the Microsoft and Pearson commercial agreements and the consequences thereof, risks associated with the restatement contained in, the delayed filing of, and the material weakness in internal controls described in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, risks associated with the SEC investigation disclosed in the quarterly report on Form 10 - Q for the fiscal quarter ended October 26, 2013, risks associated with the ongoing efforts to rationalize the NOOK business and the expected costs and benefits of such efforts and associated risks and other factors which may be outside of Barnes & Noble's control, including those factors discussed in detail in Item 1A, «Risk Factors,» in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, and in Barnes & Noble's other filings made hereafter from time to time with the SEC.

So you are thinking of reading digital comics on a computer, rather than a tablet, which has a default vertical format?

Such statements reflect the current views of Barnes & Noble with respect to future events, the outcome of which is subject to certain risks, including, among others, the effect of the proposed separation of NOOK Media, the general economic environment and consumer spending patterns, decreased consumer demand for Barnes & Noble's products, low growth or declining sales and net income due to various factors, possible disruptions in Barnes & Noble's computer systems, telephone systems or supply chain, possible risks associated with data privacy, information security and intellectual property, possible work stoppages or increases in labor costs, possible increases in shipping rates or interruptions in shipping service, effects of competition, possible risks that inventory in channels of distribution may be larger than able to be sold, possible risks associated with changes in the strategic direction of the device business, including possible reduction in sales of content, accessories and other merchandise and other adverse financial impacts, possible risk that component parts will be rendered obsolete or otherwise not be able to be effectively utilized in devices to be sold, possible risk that financial and operational forecasts and projections are not achieved, possible risk that returns from consumers or channels of distribution may be greater than estimated, the risk that digital sales growth is less than expectations and the risk that it does not exceed the rate of investment spend, higher - than - anticipated store closing or relocation costs, higher interest rates, the performance of Barnes & Noble's online, digital and other initiatives, the success of Barnes & Noble's strategic investments, unanticipated increases in merchandise, component or occupancy costs, unanticipated adverse litigation results or effects, product and component shortages, risks associated with the commercial agreement with Samsung, the potential adverse impact on the Company's businesses resulting from the Company's prior reviews of strategic alternatives and the potential separation of the Company's businesses (including with respect to the timing of the completion thereof), the risk that the transactions with Pearson and Samsung do not achieve the expected benefits for the parties or impose costs on the Company in excess of what the Company anticipates, including the risk that NOOK Media's applications are not commercially successful or that the expected distribution of those applications is not achieved, risks associated with the international expansion previously undertaken, including any risks associated with a reduction of international operations following termination of the Microsoft commercial agreement, the risk that NOOK Media is not able to perform its obligations under the Pearson and Samsung commercial agreements and the consequences thereof, the risks associated with the termination of Microsoft commercial agreement, including potential customer losses, risks associated with the restatement contained in, the delayed filing of, and the material weakness in internal controls described in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 27, 2013, risks associated with the SEC investigation disclosed in the quarterly report on Form 10 - Q for the fiscal quarter ended October 26, 2013, risks associated with the ongoing efforts to rationalize the NOOK business and the expected costs and benefits of such efforts and associated risks and other factors which may be outside of Barnes & Noble's control, including those factors discussed in detail in Item 1A, «Risk Factors,» in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended May 3, 2014, and in Barnes & Noble's other filings made hereafter from time to time with the SEC.

Based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years — as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues — Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller - coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.

The deployment of such technology is the latest move by a Canadian bank to beef up its digital capabilities as customers increasingly conduct their banking on mobile phones and computers, rather than over the phone or in a brick - and - mortar branch.

Putting one's fortune into a computer rather than in the hands of an advisor is what millennials, comfortable with the digital world, may do more readily than older investors, Nugent says.

Digital radiology is the acquisition of radiographic images in a digital format that are displayed on a computer screen rather than being printed on radiographic film and viewed on a ligDigital radiology is the acquisition of radiographic images in a digital format that are displayed on a computer screen rather than being printed on radiographic film and viewed on a ligdigital format that are displayed on a computer screen rather than being printed on radiographic film and viewed on a light box.

Digital imges allow the viewer to alter the contrast on a computer screen making the images more readable than traditional film.

Whether it's a handheld device or a larger laptop computer, our digital backpacks are often far smaller than our travel backpacks, but they carry so much more.

A solo exhibition by Manfred Mohr, it featured the first display in a museum of works entirely calculated and drawn by a digital (rather than analog) computer.