A sleeping cat curled up on a warm, toasty computer monitor can be quite an adorable sight, but when Fluffy takes a stroll across your keyboard while the computer is on, bad things can happen.
Darned impressive list, too: There are terrorist-sponsored epidemics and dirty bombs, of course, plus AIDS, overpopulation, global warming and computers so talented that they ctrl-alt-delete their creators.
The award includes full tuition fees; an annual book and conference allowance; a monthly sustenance allowance; a monthly overseas allowance; annual return airfare; and computer, warm clothing, and settling-in allowances.
Accurate forming models to integrate warm forming in computer aided engineering (CAE) in production environment has been hampered by a lack of constitutive relations at elevated temperatures, forcing one to rely on experimental data for such integration.
You can also fight global warming when your computer is on, but unused or minimally used, by using its computing power to run climate models for scientists.
As the computer warms up, he gets the cup of coffee.
The rise in temperatures may explain why some areas are experiencing more winter warming than climate computer models had projected, the researchers said.
Three silent journeys into work, on tube trains of darting eyes asking, "Was it you?" Arguments as computers warm up about whether it's too soon to joke.
In a culture of frenetic multitasking and dread that seconds might be lost while a computer warms up, he's a figure of stoic patience and endurance.
Ordinary users fell for touches like the smiling Mac icon that came on as the computer warmed up, as if the machine was relating to you, promising to be along in a minute.
