Sentence examples for the equivalent of a computer from inspiring English sources

"He was probably the equivalent of a computer nerd, but he was always pleasant -- jovial, self-effacing," he said.

These machines are collectively the equivalent of a computer operating at around ten million million calculations a second, about ten times faster than any conventional supercomputer.All of which has got a number of people thinking: why not harness the power of distributed computing for commercial gain?

Then those components need to be assembled into modules (the equivalent of a computer's logic gates).

Many of these schools purport to be on a mission to diversify the tech community by allowing those who traditionally wouldn't have had access to the equivalent of a computer science degree to get a quality education and, ideally, to get a job.

"I personally would like to see the equivalent of a Stanford computer science degree on the Web," Dr. Ng said.

Right now, scientists are still using the equivalents of giant, expensive mainframes, but they are so much cheaper that entrepreneurs can start to talk about the equivalent of a personal computer.

Inside my head, my brain was doing the equivalent of an Apple computer when that little beachball circles, and circles, and circles.

If the iPod were considered the equivalent of a $400 personal computer, he said, the view of Apple's overall business would change significantly.

The company says it is the equivalent of a $1,900 computer (€1,600).

Nicolas Maire, a researcher for the organization, estimates that this figure is the equivalent of a single desktop computer operating between 800 and 1,000 years.

Further weighing on the stock has been the increasing viability of telematics products, which promise to transform the car into the equivalent of a four-wheeled computer with wireless Internet access.