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Give your computer a break.
Giving your computer a break also saves you money (electrical bills).
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If you need to step away from your computer for a break and want to keep it powered on, lock your computer so it requires a password, preventing unauthorized access.
Think of spending hours bent over a computer without a break, or carrying a heavy purse on the same side of your body every day.
In another instance of disaster aversion, Ken Olsen, who founded the Digital Equipment Corporation, saved the Whirlwind computer, a ground-breaking machine built at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and completed in 1951, by keeping a truck from hauling the machine to a landfill.
The Altair 8800 computer was a break-even sale for MITS.
Indeed, many found the 24-hour respite from computers a welcome break.
In a recent Swedish national survey, 46% of professional computer users reported that they spend less than one hour at the computer before having a break of at least 10 minutes [ 2].
Experts say it is exceedingly difficult for a computer to break a sentence into parts, then translate and reassemble them.
He had with him a laptop computer, and during a break he showed me software that he was designing with his brother, a botany professor, which simulates the growth of cherry trees and will allow farmers to test pruning and fertilizing techniques on a computer, rather than in their orchards.
But computers are a double-edged sword, since bad guys can use the brute force of a computer to break a code, the way the Allies broke Enigma in World War II.
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