It is not at all clear whether Dreamworks, the offspring of the affair between Hollywood and the computer industry, will eventually create its own distribution channels on the global digital network.
It is now a battery of machines and traders who read signs on order slips or computer screens but know nothing of the product that is traded.
They are not for poetry writing, as the family of expressive artificial languages are not for driving a computer or its peripherals.
Instead of manuals describing the many parameters and operations that military personnel need to consider, information is contained in computer programs.
A text on a computer screen is, in fact, an image, a visualization of the language generated not by a human hand in control of a quill, a piece of lead or graphite, a pencil or a pen.
Then it will probably disappear; first, because the computer can reside on the network and be used as needed, and second, the written message will no longer be appropriate in the new context.
This is not the place to rewrite the history of the computer or the history of the languages that computers process.
The USA has a complex about literacy to the extent that every subject is now qualified as literacy-cultural literacy, computer literacy, visual literacy, etc.
We now take these distinctions for granted, surprised when children ask for tighter qualifiers, or when computer programs fail because we input information with insufficient levels of distinction.
Computer science, as Dijkstra pointed out, deserves a better name, more in line with the fundamental change this practical experience brings about.
In addition to the complexity it embodies, the computer makes another distinction necessary.
It was the Computer Section, a large room filled with humming, clacking and buzzing machines of an ancient vintage, muttering to themselves as they worked, and newer machines which were smaller and more silent.
Beyond the basic room were other, smaller rooms, each assigned to a particular kind of computer work.
My trips will be electronic, using the computer on my desk, communications software, a modem, and a standard phone line.
I haven't "visited" Antarctica yet, but it is only a matter of time before a host computer becomes available there!
I had everything ready for you for your meeting with Bartlett, so nobody here has touched your computer this morning.
The reason was, she'd routinely made an updated copy on a ZIP disk and then copied it onto this computer here in the office.
However, what Bartlett doesn't know is that Van de Vliet has just finished a new computer simulation and he thinks he's finally figured out how to do a successful Beta procedure.
As they went through, Ally realized the room was lit only by the glow of a laptop computer screen.
The technology was state of the art, and the room flickered with computer screens, blue pages that gave the tan walls an eerie cast.
The intonations were bouncing around somewhere in the back of her brain, as though they were a computer file looking for a match.
She must have been keeping it on a computer somewhere.
He returned to the chair behind his desk and turned off the laptop computer he had been using.
He clicked off the computer and walked back to the OR.
He motioned for her to follow him to the computer cubicle in the back, past the head-high racks of solvent vials and the giant autoclave.
Then he glanced again at the computerscreen and decided to go back to the NIH files.
She noticed a heavy server computer at the back, presumably networked to all the terminals in the building, and then she remembered that Van de Vliet had once spoken of computer simulations.
He pushed her wheelchair into the section of the laboratory where a line of computer terminals was stationed.
Vee is in his office, probably running some last-minute computer simulations.
Around him came the clatter of computer keys and muted laughter from the direction of the water cooler.
The two steel cabinets which housed parts of the computer unit now appeared to be bolted to the ceiling.
Then he released the chair he was holding, braced both feet against the panels of the computer housings, and gave a good pull.
She was the first woman to be elected a member of the Astronomical Society of France, and the character of her work as an observer as well as a computer has given her an enviable position among the astronomers of the world.
This distinguished observer and computerhad a daughter in whom her grand-uncle was particularly interested.
Like the time the planetary computer for Buughabyta flipped its complete grain-futures series.
Biology, once thought too complicated to be engineered like a clock, computer or microwave oven, has proven to be open to manipulation at the genetic level.
Intellectual property rights, and the profit motive more generally, have a vital and beneficial role in moving innovations from lab bench to bedside, from computer simulation to actual flight.
Suddenly the patents are available at the very beginning of the process, even to people who are merely specifying--in the abstract--the idea of a computer running a particular series of algorithmic activities.
Since copyright adheres on fixation--since the computer programmer already has the legal power to exclude others--why would he or she choose to take the extra step of adopting a license that undermined that exclusion?
It would be as if, right at the beginning of the computer age, we had issued patents over formal logic in software--not over a particular computer design, but over the idea of a computer or a binary circuit itself.
Dobb's Journal of Computer Calisthenics & Orthodontia, he put the point clearly.
What did our Procrustean legal system do with computers and computer science?
And--to repeat the key point--unlike computer science, biotechnology is developing after the hypertrophy of our intellectual property system.
In the language of computer programmers, the issue here is "does it scale?
Thane twisted the manual computer for there was no time to wait for the automatic to warm up.
The assistant dropped this into the computer which began busily to eject tape.
The computer stopped and he crumpled up the tape and tossed it into a corner.
Even through his overwhelming sense of frustration at the ambiguous answer the computer had given to his question, John Bristol noticed with satisfaction the success of his Voder installation.
With the Solar Confederation being invaded, all this exasperating computer could offer for a defense was a ridiculous old proverb!
But as I have said, I am absolutely certain that the computer does know what it is talking about.
And since you're just a complex computer of general design, with the ability to use symbolic logic as well as mathematics, anybody should be able to understand you.
The computer appeared to examine Bristol's overturned chair for a moment in silent reproof before it answered.
You could remove my ideas," answered the computer without concern.
The computer had finally delivered a strip of paper on which was the answer he had demanded.
He paused for a moment as the computer did an extra-special burping chuckle, and slipped in an entire new case of memory cubes.
Because I can't synthesize anything as complex as the computer says is needed to control the molecular population that makes paras!
Calhoun went over his glass slides again while the computer stood motionless, apparently without life.
He paced restlessly while the computer consulted its memory with faint whirrings of cooling blowers, and occasional chucklings as memory cubes full of exceedingly complex stereomolecules of recorded information were searched.
It took time even for a computer to search all its microfilmed memories for a compound such as Calhoun had described.
I am not a rapid computer myself, and as I find my average time for doing any such question is about 20 seconds, I have little doubt that a rapid computer would not need 15.
This warranty shall be void if the computer case or cabinet is opened or if the unit is altered or modified.
Kleek glanced over the neatly-printed sheaf of papers that the computer had turned out, then handed them to me.
But the door didn't close tightly, and I heard Kleek's voice as he spoke to the computer tech.
The computer narrowed the list down quite a bit with that data.
He tapped the sheaf of papers from the computer with a firm forefinger.
Kleek and I were sitting at a desk drinking hot, black coffee when the computer technician came over and handed Kleek the results at ten fifteen.
A computer might forget to dress, but you'd never catch one without a full magazine pencil and a lot of blank paper," he grinned in reply and went on, writing as he talked.
Not that baby," returned the computer confidently.
We have been yelling, and yelling hard, for trained computers ever since they started riding us about every one centimeter change in acceleration, but I know that you're no more an I-P computer than I am a Digger Indian.
They checked in thirteen and eight-tenths seconds minus on the station, and a fiery dialogue ensued when the computer questioned the accuracy of the location of the station and refused point-blank to correct his course.
As no catalogue contains all stars, the computer must have recourse to several; and if he is obliged to use his judgment in the selection, it would be cruel to deny him any little advantage which might result from it.
The surface of an electronic device, as a television set or computer monitor, on which a visible image is formed.
A special value used in certain computer languages to mean "no value", to be distinguished from the value zero.
Computer programming) To change the value of (a program variable) by activating a toggle switch.
Computer programming) A mechanism for acquiring input from an operator, such that taking some action (such as pressing a function key on a keyboard) will cause a program variable to take a new value.
The advantage lay with MacMaine, for, while the computer could not logically fathom the intuitive processes of its human opponent, MacMaine could and did have an intuitive grasp of the machine's logic.
Does not a spaceship pilot, in a sense, take orders from the computer that gives him his orbits and courses?
The weak points were traps; the computer could see them and avoid them.
He fed it through his small office computer to make sure.
A computer was fine for working out the logical outcome of a battle if it was given the proper strategy, but it couldn't devise anything new.
A "computer program" is a set of statements or instructions to be used directly or indirectly in a computer in order to bring about a certain result.
Like how onecomputer company brought in Toshiba parts and sold them to the government despite the ban on Toshiba components because of their sale of precision lathes to the Soviets.
Using Byte, Personal Comput- ing, Popular Computing and the myriad computer magazines of the early 1980's, dGraph was made famous and used by all serious computer users.
Could he both malign computer nerds as sub-human and then expect to derive a decent story from one of them?
The LSM's are connected to a hospital wide computernetwork that connects all hospital functions in a central computer.
You are not the only person, and neither am I, the only person who has chosen to build viruses or destructive computer programs.
It took a couple of beeps from the small speaker in his computer for him to realize he was receiving a call.
To the occasional disappointment of Marasee, Miles would embroil himself in the computer Homosoto provided for the purpose.
By taking advantage of the features of the Operating System, many of them unknown and therefore undocumented by the original designers of the O/S, a computer programmer is able to extract additional performance from the equipment.
Upon reports that computer hackers have had access to First State's computers and records for some time, and can change their contents at will, the stock market reacted negatively by a sell-off.
He tied my computer to his so I could watch what he was doing.
Just as a computer needed DOS to function, it was viewed that you needed dGraph before you even loaded the first program.
He realized that if he took up Max on his offer he would be subjected to endless hours of computer war stories and technical esoterica he couldn't care less about.
Little Mr. Tanter beamed happily to himself as he recalled the words of an old directive The Computer itself had issued in the matter of public thought control.
After all he'd been sent to Computer City by the Information Department itself, and his credentials must have been checked in a hundred ways and places.
But the deaths were due to diverting that basic carbon shipment down here to Computer City for computer-building, weren't they?
All over Computer City the solenoids moved their contacts and the filaments turned cherry red.
They were in the topmost section of the topmost building of Computer City.
Devices to build the Computer bigger and bigger and bigger at the expense of ordinary workers.
You can see that the Computer System is quite under our control in spite of what these rebellious, underground groups say.
Computer Administration had its machine translate them into symbols.
Goil said, "No navigator-computer combination is good enough to plan a one-shot course like that.
But he sat down at the console of the computer and said: "I'll do the best I can, Sam.
Use thecomputer and just boost DNI's high-tech portfolio another .
As we worked our way past the computer terminals and stacks of printouts, retreating toward the center of the floor, she declared war.
I was particularly impressed by the Waseda University/Hitachi walking robot WHL-II, which uses advanced machine technology and computer control to move just as a human does, two-legged style.
Across one wall was a line of projection TVs, on which computer data was being scrolled.
He arrived, along with his Georgia Mafia computer expert, at 5:17, and Tam met them at the security doors.
MITI carefully made sure the kickoff funding from the Japan Development Bank got passed through a shell organization called the Japan Electronic Computer Company, hoping nobody would trace it back to the government.
About a dozen computer workstations had been installed on twelve to link up with the mainframe and data center on eleven.
Asano's death represents a significant blow to several vital sectors of MITI's computer race with America.
That last was DNI's special setup that caused the computer to automatically dial the home number for all members of the staff, giving special instructions.
They're going to use this research in artificial intelligence to come up with a computer more powerful than anything the world has yet imagined.
Any freshman in computer science could tell you he was one of the unofficial founders of the field known as artificial intelligence, now usually shortened to "AI.
Well, the computer and printer were both intact, cordless phone was there still, the little nine-inch Sony in the corner was untouched.
She glanced at the computerroom down at the other end of the floor.
Jack accepted this praise warily, then asked if he could maybe have a peek at the computer operation on the floor below, the analytical armory I'd told him about.
Nor did this kind of market manipulation require a building in midtown Manhattan and a computer setup to rival NORAD headquarters.
He, as computer owner, would receive the harshest punishment--for not taking pains to prevent the crime.
The next time his computer was networked, Central Licensing would find out.
Instead they were banned from the school computer systems, and would inevitably fail all their classes.
She might want the computer only to write her midterm.
It invites people to inform on their coworkers and friends; like the Clinton Administration, it advocates a policy of collective responsibility whereby computer owners must actively enforce copyright or be punished.
School policy was that any interference with their means of monitoring students' computeruse was grounds for disciplinary action.
Individuals using this computersystem without authority or in the excess of their authority are subject to having all their activities on this system monitored and recorded by system personnel.
The NSA wants to legislate that every computer manifactured in the U.
My computer is outdated by any standards of criteria.
He showed how he could telnet to his Los Angeles computer and he was very excited.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "computer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
