Sentence examples for computer acts as from inspiring English sources

The prototype is simple: A transparent touch screen sits atop a five-foot wide plasma monitor, while a notebook computer acts as a thin-client terminal connected to Web server.

In a peer-to-peer network each computer acts as both a server and a client supplying and receiving files with bandwidth and processing distributed among all members of the network.

The clip-on computer acts as a dive calculator, showing "how deep you've gone, what's the profile of your ascent, safety stops, time to fly, when can you do your next dive, how deep can you go, how long can you stay," Mr. Werdelin said.

A mobile device (typically the user's mobile phone, but it could also be another kind of wearable computer) acts as the central point of the system and the interface with the user.

The Presentation script running on the Presentation computer acts as a slave to the Spike2 'control' script receiving instructions and replying through the first bit of the COM port.

The hosts file on your computer acts as its own DNS, allowing you to manually assign IP addresses to domain names.

This computer acted as the source of all requests, i.e., as the client enterprise and was equipped with an Intel Core i7, 4 CPUs (2.8 GHz) and a 12 GB of RAM.

Mobiles, satnavs and computers act as our guides for everything from driving holidays to nipping to the shops.

In short, think of it as SETI@Home for server monitoring: small home computers act as watchdogs for bigger ones.

Bad intentions and sloppy controls may be enough, one day, to make super computers act as if they are independent.

Nicholas Lemann, dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, says computers act as "re-write men," retooling preexisting information without independent research.