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...ional problems by pooling together computer resources of thousands of home computers who volunteer for the project; Folding@home looks at how proteins are folde
...tten in 1957 and it occurs even earlier than that, long predating personal computers, so Lucy shouldn't even have one.
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...' is a video game released in 1991 which enjoyed popularity on the desktop computers of the time. In the game, you're a downhill skier who attempts to ski down
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...els against this misuse of mankind and trains himself to interact with the computers that run the world until, being "the One" mentioned by a prophecy, he can c
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...to James Zetlen, who helped make the word checker work on other people’s computers and not just mine.|[[Randall Munroe]], [https://blog.xkcd.com/2015/09/22/a-
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...o HTTP, {{w|Hypertext Transfer Protocol}}), used to transfer files between computers on a shared network, such as the internet. However, FTP servers are a touch
...is a program with a web-based GUI that automates file sharing between two computers on the internet. But this solution also has its issues, as it requires that
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...s that everything necessary to boot is present. Anyone who has built a few computers is probably familiar with less happy beep sequences.
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...point of this comic is that many tech-savvy people may not know much about computers (and certainly don’t automatically know how to do everything someone may
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...d movies pales in comparison to the current state of smartphones and other computers.
...an buy and read books. He should instead be amazed at the current state of computers and communication technology. She continues to say that she even interrupte
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...t users may see is the {{w|CAPTCHA}} (Completely Automated Program to Tell Computers and Humans Apart), which is often found on web site registration pages and
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...w it plays, so it chooses to play chess instead (at the time of the movie, computers could not yet beat the best human chess players, so it would be more intere
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...of the limited starting positions (Checkers) has already been calculated. Computers aren't so much playing as they are recalculating the list of ideal maneuver
...id. This game nearly always ends in a tie, regardless of whether humans or computers play it because the total number of positions is small. Randall posted a co
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...opedia that was often used in school settings for learning with the aid of computers. Arguably, with the advent of Wikipedia, programs like Encarta have become
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...ongitude can be used as x,y coordinates. This makes it especially easy for computers to graph data on top of it.
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...own as "I'm a Mac" or "Mac vs. PC") ad campaign for the {{w|Mac}} brand of computers. The ads personified the Mac and their competitors, the PC. The ads poked f
...ers to {{w|window management}}, which is software that controls windows on computers, and is in many ways similar to the more recent development of {{w|tab (GUI
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...packaged home computer system at Best Buy wouldn't know or care much about computers.
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...rating): Mrs. Roberts had two children. Her son, Bobby, was never much for computers, but her daughter Elaine took to them like a ring in a bell.
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...]] is his older sister. His full name is known to cause problems with some computers. When he was first enrolled in school in [[327: Exploits of a Mom]], it exp
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...ile from just one other computer but rather in many pieces from many other computers with the same file, makes it more difficult for record and movie industry g
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...'s top human Go player]. This was referenced three months later in [[1875: Computers vs Humans]].
...is that each of the statements the computer generates defends humans, not computers.
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...other hand, a password such as "correct horse battery staple" is hard for computers to guess due to having more entropy but quite easy for humans to remember.
...eryone to use passwords that are hard for humans to remember, but easy for computers to guess.
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...ical user interfaces (GUIs) and rich input device capability for networked computers.
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...d". May refer to the fact that inexpensive, easy-to-integrate single-board computers like the arduino, which have contributed to the rise of {{w|Maker culture}}
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...} stands for Distributed Denial of Service in which the attacker uses many computers to send traffic to a host and render it incapable of answering requests fro
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...panel 2. Being that Cueball (and Randall, for that matter) are quite into computers, the potential damage to a laptop screen either from the weight of its lowe
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|The Apple IIGS was a computer made in the 1980's. Even the slowest Pentium computers are hundreds of times faster than the Apple IIGS. Combined with the ineffic
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...to manipulate the ambient physical environment in elaborate ways to cause computers to do what they want, akin to performing {{w|trick shot}}s that accomplish
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...ave the website or externally mute the audio. Additionally, some Macintosh computers at the time had a bug that would automatically play MIDI files at the maxim
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::[Service Module (SM)]: Part that goes along to give people air, water, computers and stuff. It comes back home with them but burns up without landing.
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...CAA Division I college football champion from 1998 to 2013, literally used computers generating numbers and algorithms based on team performance as a heavy part
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...so most people take to building lots of nifty stuff, such as large cities, computers made from the game's built-in redstone (electricity) mechanics, massive sca
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...f the objects the mathematical formuli are contained in, such as paper and computers)
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...idespread use with the rise of smartphones and tablets, as of 2022 desktop computers that use mice are still fairly common. And while voice-to-text has greatly
...eens and trackpads, and keyboards remain the dominant method of writing on computers.
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...ommenters for browser addons, for people who could not simply reboot their computers for whatever reason. At the time, a commenter suggested DelaySites, but th
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...y. The "even WORSE" is possibly referring to how our increased reliance on computers means the bug could affect many more vital systems, but with Y2K passing by
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...a script of common problems and simple solutions (such as rebooting their computers). This is generally done because many customers call because of easily reso
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...le text refers to the complications that new software releases can have on computers, especially if either the release is an alpha or beta release, or if the co
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...s, they need to be given {{w|machine code}} — the actual "language" that computers "speak" and one that ''can'' be written directly with the correct tools, bu
...tand-alone and direct machine-readable code, suitable for a given range of computers. This process might involve several passes to check for 'obvious' errors i
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...owledge of one's own computer, as the cousin, who barely seems to know how computers work past very basic end-user functionality, has become extremely advanced
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...ber of levels of abstraction working together at any given time in today's computers.
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...ends required a great deal more effort, and even since the introduction of computers and connectivity to various forms of social media, for quite a while the co
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...ow-a-1265319.php lawsuit against Microsoft] about promoting not-so-capable computers as "Windows Vista Capable"; they could neither run Vista fully nor smoothly
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...y 27 being the 58th day of the year. This format may be easier to read for computers/programs in some contexts, but is difficult for humans to interpret.
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...n {{w|superintelligence}} emerges in computers, so that they can build new computers with ever increasing intelligence. It is seen as impossible to predict what
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...atch that allows support for processors with 4,096 cores, even though most computers have only 8 cores or fewer. He considers this to be more worthwhile an ende
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...about getting Linux to run on strange hardware, from toasters to esoteric computers. This is taken to the ridiculous extreme of tonsils.
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...games that are across an extreme variety of consoles, handhelds, and even computers (not all of them MMOs), but also the drama that is rumoured to happen in th
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...seem to care. Thus following this trend, in the future, things like laptop computers and "grok my jive" will seem just as historical and "old-timey" as a spear
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...It is used to route data packets from one computer to another, using other computers or even complete networks in between if needed. It is designed to use the f
...lling spree with a crossbow, instead of merely hacking the census bureau's computers. Such antics could only be used to ''increase'' the death rate; decreasing
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...complicated and elaborate way of working that people who don't understand computers can create. {{w|Disk partitioning|Partition}}s on a hard drive are separate
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...Systems}} software that delivers new versions of Adobe products to users' computers, such as ''Adobe Updater'' (which [http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/acroba
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...vel of security continues to this day, even in privately owned, or "home", computers.
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...n object or an action and being able to tell immediately what it is, while computers can't. The "no lying" instruction is ostensibly meant to patch that hole, b
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...mputer network or data network is a telecommunications network that allows computers to exchange data. In computer networks, networked computing devices exchang
...he data are called network nodes. Nodes can include hosts such as personal computers, phones, and servers as well as networking hardware. Two such devices can b
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...t would be easily found in an office building, since it is used to connect computers to a network. Its usefulness as a {{w|climbing harness}} is indeterminate.{
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...y, Randall makes a crack that users will try to nest their Turing-complete computers; after finishing his Turing-complete Dwarf Fortress computer, someone else
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...reensaver (in the {{w|After Dark (software)|After Dark}} package, made for computers but not for the NES). In the title text, [[Randall]] states that he is tryi
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...rmally and receive the signals necessary to operate as intended. Some Dell computers have these, but the privacy one needs to give up accepting the terms and co
....com/en/download/faq/whatis_java.xml Java] is a software that runs on most computers and mobile devices that is crucial to its security and stability. The reaso
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...n be written as a fraction, i.e. a quotient p/q). On the other hand, given computers cannot store data of unlimited length, it is impossible for '''any''' real
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...ea of ''reverse'' identity theft: An older person with little knowledge of computers involuntarily uses another person's {{w|email address}} because they suppos
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...tion}} which supports animation was released in 1990, so animated GIFs (or computers for that matter) didn't exist in 1929.
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...y. He is strangely vague about both the position ("someone to write on our computers") and the salary ("a bunch of paychecks"). Then he mentions ghosts, which i
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..., meaning that shows and movies can be consumed on on tablets, phones, and computers, making televisions less ubiquitous. Not owning a television no longer indi
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One of [[Cueball]]'s computers is [[:Category:Cueball Computer Problems|once again]] having a serious prob
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...noyed about this. Sometimes, these issues are minor and do not affect most computers using the operating system. Often other programs, not part of the operating
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...eing practically the same as the more {{w|Tablet_computer|minimal portable computers}}.
...or interlocking and stacking, such as {{w|Arduino}} and {{w|Raspberry Pi}} computers, which can have other boards attached to them (shields, hats) to add functi
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...s an acronym that stands for "What you see is what you get". In regards to computers, it refers to text editors in which the user can see exactly what will be p
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...thout much memory of it.) Megan responds that life was very boring without computers or mobile phones. This comic appears to be a parody of the common complaint
...the price of what it meant to be bored in the days before smartphones and computers that could go online. Even though the ponytail girl says that she still exp
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The off-screen character points out that computers were "just carefully organized sand". Modern computer chips are made largel
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...ry is on the other side of the desk with his own laptop computer. Both the
computers are connected through Ethernet cable. The two characters are typing on the
...<div class="mw-collapsible-content">[Hairy and Knit Cap are handling their
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...a computer bug, Heartbleed can only affect information which is stored on computers. Cueball concludes that information recorded in analog media, such as that
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...l," the implication is that it's a groundbreaking advancement, integrating computers and the internet into a market that has always involved these elements. How
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...this fact, due to a similarity of default settings between computers, most computers will display the page with a white background, black text, and the {{w|Time
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...ve already been around for a long time on desktop or {{w|laptop}}/notebook computers.
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...functionality. {{w|Case modding}} is the art of building machines (usually computers) into nicely shaped non-standard cases. The opinion about "niceness" of the
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...o Graphics Array): This a video connector (standard is blue) that connects computers and monitors or projectors. It has fifteen pins in a D-shell.
...is used for networking computers, and connecting audio/video equipment to computers.
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...s {{w|Moravec's paradox}} from the 1980s in a modern context. By the 1950s computers were useful for tasks like {{w|trajectory optimization}}, {{w|automated the
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...mputation, the project uses idle processing power of a network of personal computers in order to achieve massive computing power. Individuals can join the proje
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...be reversed, thereby preventing the {{w|heat death of the universe}}. The computers always answered "THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER"
...s as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer", mirroring the way his computers in the short story responded. Notes of this form are stereotypically writte
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...m exists on OS X, but not on Windows, which the majority of desktop/laptop computers are running at the time of this comic's release.
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...he built a flimsy {{w|Cloud computing|cloud}} services company using spare computers and parts. Included in the cloud hardware are (from left to right) a {{w|Ma
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...ing the user a question which is easy for humans but (supposedly) hard for computers. In this case, the CAPTCHA detects {{w|parahuman}} intelligence rather than
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...ting System): The default, command-line-based OS on most IBM PC-compatible computers. Early versions of {{w|Microsoft Windows}} operated as shells on top of MS-
...Mac OS}} (Macintosh Operating System): The OS of Apple's Macintosh line of computers. Randall's bar indicates that he stopped using Macs in 2001, after Mac OS
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...ence.com/49370-leap-second-added-2015.html] The last leap second disrupted computers at big companies such as {{w|Reddit}}, {{w|LinkedIn}}, {{w|Gizmodo}} and {{
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...ion is limited by the technology available. With the recent development of computers, this ability has grown far more than anyone could have suspected just 20 y
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...d otherwise be impossible or prohibitively expensive to manage with single computers. This may include large {{w|Bitcoin network}} mining operations, the {{w|Wo
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...ans. This is particularly true for intelligence gathered by or relating to computers, as they can generate data far faster than people can review it. It may als
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...nly leads to two question marks, and not to any of the other items. Modern computers have thousands of DLL files, the actual use of which is not often obvious e
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...such robots come to Cueball's vicinity, they will (physically) crash since computers around Cueball can't seem to ever work properly, and so hiding in Cueball's
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...an only capture two events at the same time; to anyone who understands how computers work this conclusion is absurd. She misunderstands how the specialized modu
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...se the human body is so many orders of magnitude more complicated than the computers we have running programs. White Hat is not persuaded, even though Megan poi
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::Second Cueball: That all makes sense and I ''definitely'' understand how computers work.
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...e been intercepted, they could have been shared or copied to several other computers or devices or even been printed. By finding them in the main computer they
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...100 or more (This might be a reference to different number systems used in computers, as 100 is read in binary as four.)
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...[[Megan]] suggests that the real advances in futuristic technology are in computers and electronics, rather than methods of flying.
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...t-if.xkcd.com/5/ Robot Apocalypse]'', nuclear weapons aren't any safer for computers than for human beings (the {{w|Nuclear electromagnetic pulse|EMP}} would de
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...c websites}}. Knowing that many information technologies, from printing to computers, are quickly adopted by porn producers and distributors, this is not a bad
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...Ruby on Rails, replacing Ruby with QBasic. QBasic no longer runs on modern computers, but there are a couple of {{w|free software|free}} implementations of QBas
...calculators and clocks. The most complex of these machines simulate simple computers, capable of storing several lines of code and performing basic mathematical
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...mazon Web Services|Amazon}} - in order to take advantage of their powerful computers and robust internet connection.
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...y sense) to, e.g., a compact vehicle vs. a normal-sized one, or how modern computers are/tend to be tinier (comparatively) than their predecessors, all other th
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Most users of computers today are used to simple, easy installation of programs. You just download
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...cal event in which {{w|artificial intelligence}} (for example, intelligent computers, computer networks, or robots) would be capable of recursive self-improveme
...as being identical to depictions of the Rapture, but only for technology: computers lifted up into heaven, those who aren't "true believers" being left behind,
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...lshit from programmers in the 90s and 2000s, you can break everyone else's computers, too.
...they spend all of their time adjusting and recompiling the kernel of their computers to match their current needs, instead of actually creating new programs.
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...t seem to realize this is because he's the one using them, not because the computers actually start off broken. (For similar themes see also these comics: [[349
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...rogram (Like the bees found without using -b.) Insects got into some early computers, causing them to malfunction, and hence computer malfunctions are often cal
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...e with several screens, buttons and unreadable text. They are talking. The computers reply is indicated to come from the console with a zigzag line, rather than
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...s significant, but it could swiftly result in damage to a lot of important computers, and ruin references in journals etc.
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...m all the operations needed to simulate a {{w|Turing machine}}. All modern computers are usually described as Turing complete, which would make this not very im
...ultaneous data. It was often used to connect printers and other devices to computers but was generally considered obsolete by the time smartphones began to appe
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...MP}} cannon". || Comic '''[[322: Pix Plz]]''' || || || Ray gun for melting computers
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...in the annual reports by counting Galileo's redundant systems as multiple computers, but they're falling behind badly either way.
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...s, are sitting on one legged stools on either side of a slim desk with two computers screens on top of it. Each are looking at their own screens while typing on
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...does not yet have sufficient data for a meaningful answer. Ultimately, the computers are all linked through hyperspace, outside the physical boundaries of the u
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...m with Megan and Hairy sitting on stools in front of an opposite desk with computers. Hairy has his arms in the air. Ponytail is standing between them with Cueb
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...enced in [[1210: I'm So Random]]) — back before scientists had access to computers that could easily generate random numbers, this book was very useful for st
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...l]] with an emp gun (that she also wielded in [[322: Pix Plz]] for melting computers of persons who make snide remarks at women, clearly a reference to {{w|Dona
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...hem propagate themselves through a network and install themselves on other computers, which at the end of the day would be a very inefficient method of creating
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...g pi. Those who do generally have access to tools (such as calculators and computers) that regurgitate/use more places of pi automatically. And, even in rare ca
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...EPROM/flash. Both Wi-Fi routers and guest's devices (smartphones, tablets, computers) have firmware. Modifying the firmware can have certain benefits, for examp
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...tion, [[Randall]] states that he himself tends to continually re-configure computers that he owns in weird ways, eventually rendering it unusable or at least un
...h the previous actions performed on the computer, as in moving through the computers past.
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...are meant to be stored. It could also be a reference to retinal-implanted computers. The retina storage is a slot at the bottom of the phone right of the charg
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|At some border crossings, government agents may search computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices. The usual advice for such situ
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...rything can be solved with an {{w|algorithm}}, or of the tendency to think computers are the answer to everything. In the first panel, [[Megan]] talks about how
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...ft}} and {{w|Hardware reset|hard reset}} operations used to restart broken computers or e.g. smartphones.
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...me, so this could seem alarming to a person concerned about competing with computers.
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...lume (which covers video, music, games and such). For comparison, personal computers tend to expose the user to a master sound volume control by default, which
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...e and open-source operating system designed to run on both older and newer computers which is compatible with programs written for MS-DOS.
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...rticularly those involving image classification, which are not solvable by computers, specifically {{w|reCAPTCHA}} v2's fallback puzzle, and hCaptcha's puzzle,
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...potential advantages for self-driving cars if this problem can be solved: computers don't tend to panic as much as humans, would have faster reaction times and
...easy to sense with radar and back-camera aide, are made more reliable with computers.
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:Cueball: Do we just suck at...computers?
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...be hard-pressed to explain how it works. Programs running on other virtual computers, or on the real computer, may be able to access information on a virtual co
...cally what the photo contains image-wise (something that's REALLY HARD for computers to do reliably), but would also require OCR (optical character recognition)
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..."multiple computers" are done in software, instead of literally gluing two computers together.
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...redicting astronomical positions. It is one of the earliest known analogue computers. While impressive for its time, by now it is obsolete by millennia.
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...l and geographic data, and by extension, the profession of experts who use computers to make maps and perform spatial analysis.
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This comic compares the repair of cars with that of computers or other similar electronic devices. The question ''Repair or Replace?'' c
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:These reminders make me uncomfortable, not because computers are getting too smart, but because it reminds me how often I fall short of
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...eated 20 years after the country was dissolved and personal/small business computers approximately 40 years after that.
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...d to orbit computed before launch, and piloting typically left entirely to computers given the precise timing required and typically alternate inertial tracking
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...inkable. Possibly a joke that the residents of Silicon Valley are actually computers that "drink" crypto (i.e. data). Might also reference the fact that it crea
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...could theoretically cause a problem in certain occasions, most notably in computers which might parse a bold space differently or incorrectly. This problem is
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* Over time, computers have gotten steadily smaller.
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...may never be stored if it is too dense -- it is instead processed live by computers to capture the information of interest, and the processed result is stored.
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Many personal computers provide a way to obtain a graphical breakdown of how their storage space is
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...d has many more keys than a usual Keyboard. Usual keyboards for stationary computers typically have a few of the rows with 21 keys, and then some with fewer. Th
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****The minutes change without refreshing the page, and follows this editors computers clock exactly, so it will end at 59 minutes, not at a full hour.
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...m other tasks that are routine for humans, but formerly more difficult for computers, such as driving cars, playing games like chess, go, and Jeopardy!, and com
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...all are sitting at a desk, facing each other, each working on their laptop computers.]
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...nt software similar to the type popularized in the 1980s when {{w|personal computers}} had just become mainstream. Although modern computing platforms might st
To compound the problem, computers of the era often lacked a {{w|real-time clock}} or would have an inability
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...e the only copy of the software is that which the vendor runs on their own computers, all customers use the one latest version of the software, which is upgrade
...rent aspect of cloud applications. Since they run "in the cloud" on remote computers, they are subject to the limitations of network speed to the servers. The t
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...s; these tasks are meant to be easy for humans but obscenely difficult for computers. [[:Category:CAPTCHA|CAPTCHAs]] are a recurring theme on xkcd.
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*The punchline of the "joke" is that computers are complicated. This relates to the general cultural stereotype (in the US
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...division wall between them. They are both working on their own respective computers.]
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...s, Ponytail asks her friends, "What's the worst that could happen?" If the computers they are discussing are privately owned, she may be concerned about losing
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A {{w|blockchain}} is a data storage structure shared between various computers. Each block is digitally signed and includes the digital signature of the
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...zed they were no longer confined to the traditional bell ringing sound, as computers became more and more involved with the telephone process, and variations of
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...tages right before loads. DC power is required for logic circuitry like in computers. Conversion between the two kinds of power everywhere would make for transf
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...n using vans. In reality, Git did not exist until 2005, long after digital computers and networked servers became widely accessible and the "early internet" was
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...ly scan images or documents into digital forms so that they can be used by computers. It can be seen as the reverse operation of the printer function.
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...uters while at the cafe. "Cyber" is a prefix meaning something relating to computers (as in Cyber Monday, the day the comic was posted), but this comic suggests
...try to feel like cafes. This would change the meaning from "a cafe where computers are available for use by patrons" to "a setting or activity in cyberspace t
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...the definitions of words). However, if the goal is to allow humans but not computers to pass (although, as the next paragraph will describe, it is not the goal)
...ty numbers (at least if they live or have lived in the United States), but computers are not. As the website does not already know the users' Social Security nu
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...text is a pun on Acer, ACER2, and ACE2. {{w|Acer Inc.|Acer}} is a brand of computers including laptops. The {{w|Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2|ACE2 receptor}},
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...ws 7 had otherwise ended in mid-January 2020, this means that people whose computers ran Windows 7 could have installed software updates for the first time sinc
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...ead of USB protocols to facilitate electronic communication between flight computers and the engines, for example.
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...un arbitrary programs on devices that were not intended as general purpose computers. With complex processors being installed in more and more devices, it's pl
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...r networks of computers by isolating them from the broader internet, since computers are often breached through the internet.
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...ties are hardly confined to any particular programming language, or indeed computers as a whole. Some of these complexities include time zones (and changes to t
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...lover, back to zero. 7-bit numbers are not common native values in today's computers. For the more usual integers of one byte (8 bits), while a signed byte woul
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...ir operation. It is used in the manufacture of quantum sensors and quantum computers. An emerging field, it is slowly growing alongside the current rise in quan
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...ckly by hand can create an impression of fast winds and thereby excite any computers that happen to be monitoring the data and enjoy extreme weather.
...acks, connected to each other by cables. A sound is coming from one of the computers:]
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...st fallen out of use in modern computing, prompting manufacturers of small computers such as {{w|laptop}}s or small {{w|Form factor (design)|form factor}} keybo
...in finding a Scroll Lock key or the equivalent combination on some modern computers. A few xkcd comics refer to the key: [[978: Citogenesis]], [[1465: xkcd Pho
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...include forgetting your own long-term passwords (especially if you changed computers after asking your computer to remember your passwords for you) which is fun
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...tried. There appear to be no official representatives of the {{w|Developer#Computers|'devs'}}, or any other knowledgeable users, providing actual workarounds or
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...irect current. It is commonly used in electronics applications, including computers. {{w|Alternating current}}, on the other hand, frequently reverses the dire
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...pical behavior of shut-ins, don't want to bother leaving their comfortable computers. [[Ponytail]] complains the outside 'is so sunny', which ironically would n
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...yone with a copy. That all makes sense and I ''definitely'' understand how computers work.
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