Title IX paved the way for more women to play sports, and their elevated interest level is manifesting itself in the stands, in the front office and in front of the computer — competing in the sports world's alternate universe, where genders are not assigned separate leagues.
In very simplified terms, when mining BTC, your computer competes with other users' computers to solve complex problems.
New Bitcoins have to be "mined", meaning users can acquire them by having their computers compete to solve complex mathematical problems (the winners get the virtual cash).
These computers compete to be the one to add the next block to the Blockchain.
In comp.os.linux.misc, y2k competes with year 2000, and boxen (as a plural of box, generalizing the jocular plural of Vaxen for the Vax brand of computers) competes with boxes, servers, computers, etc.
Clune et al. [20] explored the optimization of mutation rate using the Avida model, in which computer programs compete as digital organisms, with their success at performing certain computational operations serving as a measure of fitness.
In addition to the much-hyped Raspberry Pi, the new Android computer will compete with the FXI "Cotton Candy," another USB-sized offering.
Never settling, IBM management charged a taskforce with developing a personal computer to compete in the young, growing market for smaller, more versatile machines.
It was still a puzzling decision, given that the announcement conflicted with an event in Los Angeles held by Microsoft to unveil a tablet computer to compete against Apple's iPad.
British chip designer Imagination has produced a barebones computer to compete with the Raspberry Pi.
