The discipline of logical thinking was forced on me by two things: running a business and operating a computer.
Who would have believed just 20 years ago that you could build a successful computer operating system using only volunteers, working without a plan or assigned tasks to produce a quality product that garners a 25 percent market share?
Residents of the South Carolina learned about the vulnerability of their state computer systems the hard way, after a hacker operating from a foreign IP address gained access to a computer that stored taxpayer information.
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Valley folk point out that Judge Jackson thinks that a computer operating system and Internet browsing software should be separate.
It was the first mass-market idiot-proof touch-to-get operating system that provided a computer experience to people without the experience or the inclination to use one.
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He's got a crush on his computer operating system, named Tammy, and has the great misfortune of getting stuck in a time loop.
And God forbid if you wanted to buy a new computer running a different version of the operating system than all the others in the office.
We cannot invent a stable money any more than we have ever invented a fully stable computer operating system.
Currently, Chrome follows standard industry practices to resolve Web addresses: Chrome sends a request to the underlying operating system which reaches out to another computer on the Internet known as a DNS server.
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That's in contrast to mainframe applications, or even versions of the "open" Unix operating system that were specific to a given computer manufacturer's hardware.
However, the advantages for consumers of a single operating standard in the complex computer-software market is such that nobody seriously suggests that Microsoft's monopoly should be broken up.
But experiments using EEG have allowed people to do simple things like pressing buttons on a computer screen by moving a cursor and clicking it, and operating the flippers on a pinball machine.
Google ( GOOG - news - people ) about incorporating Google's Android operating system into a slate or tablet-style computer later this year.
Tests were performed used a Macintosh computer running Apple's operating system (OSX Lion) and Web browser (Safari version 5.1.3) with the default settings enabled.
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Microsoft has shown off the next version of Windows 8 at its BUILD conference in California, giving 5, 000 developers a Samsung tablet running the operating system, Computer World reports.
Novell, which makes operating systems for corporate computer networks, seems destined to play a drawn-out match with Grandmaster Gates.
Yesterday Google unveiled Chromebook, a new kind of computer that uses the Chrome operating system and stores everything online.
By making Windows virtually the only operating-system choice available to computer manufacturers, Microsoft was a principal benefactor of the boom in desktop computing.
Since the accident, the transit authority has stopped using a computer system designed to avoid collisions and is operating the trains manually, leading to delays.
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Market gurus saw that as especially bad news, because Novell, which makes operating systems for corporate computer networks, seems destined to play a drawn-out match with Grandmaster Gates.
Virtualisation provides a way of hiding a computer's resources its central processor, operating system, internal memory, network controller, and storage devices behind a software curtain.
The data show that Microsoft has a clear edge over rivals Apple when it comes to computer operating systems, as most PCs are run on Windows operating system.
This new operating system isn't just a "Vista that works" program - it's a new operating system with improved productivity, functionality and creativity that uses less computer resources.
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Mr. Ballmer styled the new tablet device as a vehicle to exploit its forthcoming Windows 8 operating system, and a variant called Windows RT that relies on different kinds of computer chips.
The NOR type needs to be ultrafast because it is directly connected to the central processing unit of a computer and stores its basic input-output system (the operating system used by the microchip that lies beneath user-interface operating systems, such as Windows).
Not long ago, Google and a number of other American companies were targeted by computer hackers who were operating from within China.
So they optimized the Web site for the operating system and then looked at how people used the iPad compared to how they used a computer with a keyboard and designed the bank site for touch and swipe.
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Using a combination of HDD and flash memory in either a hybrid HDD or a dual storage notebook computer, where frequently used data (and possibly the operating system and application software) is kept in the flash memory, while the bulk of user content is kept on the HDD, has been shown to provide about 80% of the performance improvements of a pure SSD-based computer.
The computer runs on open-sourced operating system Linux and can be hooked up to a monitor, keyboard and mouse.
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It would now be following 12 "tenets to promote competition, " and let computer makers remove any Microsoft products when shipping a PC with the upcoming Vista operating system.
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