Ten years ago you needed fairly decent computer skills to get a blog off the ground.
Mr. Knaur's mother, however, will have to own a fairly new computer.
Snyder and I sat in her office, which was fairly spare: computer, speakers, family photographs, a couple of Peabodys.
I remember Colecovision emulators for PCs in the late 1990s that let you play ancient games on a fairly new computer with a screaming Intel 486 processor.
Today, much new architecture is slick and polished, erected by teams of highly competent contractors and engineers working to designs fed through fairly reliable computer programs.
Part of the problem is that it takes a fairly powerful computer to complete the download, he said, and with this in mind, retailers and virtual stores will be selling software on physical discs for the near future, he said.
Dr. Neal Lane, a physicist who is the presidential science adviser, said in an interview that it was important not to overplay the study, which relied on a fairly simple computer model and estimated variations in the sun's power that were, at best, rough approximations.
Successfully linking the vast reservoir of online digital information to the watershed model was complicated, he said, primarily because most geological survey data these days is designed for use with a fairly new computer technology usually called G.I.S., for geographical information systems.
For those who are fairly proficient computer users and don't mind fine-tuning the filter's parameters, more than a dozen products are available.
Using fairly standard computer algorithms, the duo predicted the first five digits of Social Security numbers for people born after 1989 44% of the time on the very first try.
