Sentence examples for a computer down from inspiring English sources

The legislation used to single out and lock up these people is the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a flexible law that allows US courts to impose almost indefinite sentences against any crime committed with a computer, down to simple violation of terms of service.

A tired or full hard disk can slow a computer down.

Even for the diligent, there are times when a rebate merely brings the price of a camera, a video game or perhaps a computer down to the level of other good deals.

They've managed to jam a beast of a computer down into a itty-bitty chip and sink the power requirements down to less than one watt, all while keeping the thing cheap.

Initially, the syncing may slow your computer down a bit as it uploads your entire photo library.

As I hand wrote this essay on a yellow legal pad, all computers down, the house cold and the refrigerator starting to give off an alarming smell, my first concern was the immediate restoration of power.

But after several days of use, I noticed that the Voodoo5 raised the temperature of my motherboard, sometimes making it so hot that I had to shut my computer down for a few minutes.

Excessive heat on a CPU can shut the computer down, reduce the life-time of the CPU or even fry it to death.

There's also a risky reference to a computer's "Down's Syndrome software", which reflects the author's intermittent truculence about the polite sensitivities of English society.

He gives this example: A computer user holds down a key for an average of 100 milliseconds.

For example, he says, an angry assembly line worker can now sabotage a computer system, bringing down an entire line.