We hear computer manufacturers promoting laptops that can boot faster than ever, but they prudently avoid direct comparisons with smartphones.
When you ask people what's their first word association with Apple, Inc. you may hear computers, smartphones, tablets, or great design and products.
Try something along the lines of: "Oh, I hear computers glitch like that sometimes.
Jobless, he answers an I.B.M. ad for computer programmers ("He has heard of computer programming but has no clear idea of what it is") and, after taking an I.Q.
Surely Valbella!! has heard of computer printouts of daily specials.
I heard a computer scientist the other day refer to playing with the Kinect as "storytelling".
He has also been fascinated with Radiohead since 1997, when he heard "O.K. Computer," the band's third album.
In places like Las Vegas, which is growing so fast that it has new streets that even local residents haven't heard of, computer systems that give driving directions are especially popular with men, Ms. McGowan said.
My favourite example of creaking banking IT came a couple of years ago when, in a Treasury Select Committee hearing, the MP Mark Garnier let slip that he had heard the computer systems behind the 632 branches that Lloyds was trying to sell – and which later became TSB – contained software to convert pounds, shillings and pence into decimal currency.
I heard a computer teacher explain recently how many of his young students have known only iPads, and how when you show them a computer they are disoriented at first things can break, the commands are unwieldy, the screen cannot be touched.
