But the switchover can take long enough for some computers to crash, and when powering up the computer, the device frequently delivers power in misshapen waves that add noise to audio and video signals.
Or that these working moms went home and had to start a second shift of taking care of the kids while later powering up the computer to finish work at night.
The computer system is set up such that the training software automatically starts after powering up the computer.
You don't even need to leave your home, just power up your computer and take part!
The site, at www.ellisislandrecords.org, is not expected to be available to most users for weeks as the foundation tries to beef up the computer power behind it.
I was no longer able to fit the battery into the computer, meaning that I had to hook up the computer to its power cord every time I used it.
Reattach the battery and power cord attached to an outlet, then start up the computer.
We have all been blithely turning on the lights, powering up the computers, putting the key in the ignition, without a thought to where that amazing, wonderful, life-enhancing power comes from -- much less what it might be doing.
Intriguingly, the people who seem most taken by the iPad are not hard-core techies, but rather casual gadget fans who want a "living room computer" that they can use to check emails or buy songs without having to trek in to the home office and power up the desktop computer every time.
She fired up the computer.
Processing this vast amount of data is an on-board supercomputer with 40 times the power of the computer Tesla has used up to this point.
