Why is it that computer known to be the most high-tech equipment?
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May be becuz it has world wide reach & usage. That pretty much put the world at your finger tips.
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I love my computer; I can not do anything without it.
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Computers were expensive some time ago. Not any more. They cost the same as your hi-fi mobile phone or a nice music system. Price of computers is at par with any other electronic devices.
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A supercomputer is a computer that leads the world in terms of processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation, at the time of its introduction. (The term "Super Computing" was first used by New York World newspaper in 1929 to refer to a large custom built tabulators IBM had made for Columbia University.)\n\nSupercomputers introduced in the 1960s were designed primarily by Seymour Cray at Control Data Corporation (CDC), and led the market into the 1970s until Cray left to form his own company, Cray Research. He then took over the supercomputer market with his new designs, holding the top spot in supercomputing for 5 years (1985–1990). In the 1980s a large number of smaller competitors entered the market, in a parallel to the creation of the minicomputer market a decade earlier, but many of these disappeared in the mid-1990s "supercomputer market crash". Today, supercomputers are typically one-of-a-kind custom designs produced by "traditional" companies such as IBM and HP, who had purchased many of the 1980s companies to gain their experience, although Cray Inc. still specializes in building supercomputers
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Its what you just added in your additional comment....it doesnt have common sense, but we do. Well, some of us do anyway =) \n\nComputers are a man-made machine and it only does things that the human programs it to do, but in a more efficient and faster way. If we train it to do mathematical things, it will solve it for us faster. If we want it to store huge amount of data, it will do it for us.\n\nHowever, they do not have common sense. We cant teach it to think morally or ethically. It just does what we tell it to do. They will never experience human emotions or concepts...it will only provide us the foundation and software to allow us to enter them into its system, but they will not process it like humans do.\n\nIts limitations is how much data we put into it. How much memory it has. Its life expectancy is how long the hardware survives. They get replaced easily because as the years passes, the technology and components get better. \n\nTheir limitations is how we built them.
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Computers can manipulate large amount of data quickly so that things like medical testing can be done more completely and accurately.
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In the 1940's with ENIAC.  It was one of the first "high-speed" computational devices and is considered the first major milestone in the development of digital computers.  It was used mainly by the U.S. military during WWII for artillery trajectory calculations.\n\nHowever things really took off after the development of the silicon transistor (1954), which are still in use today.
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the evaluation of all computer ware as in any thing is important before you purchase an item.\nbut with a computer the final goals of what it is going to do before you go out there and purchase the hardware and software is particular importance
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# It is more powerful and much faster than any computer you've ever used.\n# It is large and in charge - so large that it fills the upper half of your head.\n# It looks like a soft, wrinkly gray sponge, and it's almost as heavy as\n    a carton of orange juice! By the time you're grown up, it will weigh\n    about 3 pounds.
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Technology is Physics put to good use.
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Actually a man named Ray Kurzweil (something of a big name in these circles) has been writing about this very topic for the past twenty years. Kurzweil is a researcher, inventor, and developer of computer electronics as well as the recipient of a couple presidential awards. Furthermore he is a published author of numerous books and articles regarding technology and human interactions with technology. \n\nOne of the things that he points out is that computers are becoming more and more sophisticated and capable of carrying out more and more computations at faster and faster rates with the passing of each year. That’s not to say that your machine is doing this, but that we’re creating computers that are faster and able to hold more information constantly. As a result we’re rapidly approaching a time when computers are going to be as capable of processing information as the human brain. According to some of his predictions we should be first seeing these advanced machines within the next ten to fifteen years. And with market demands in the US being what they are, the price on these machines will have a tendency to steadily decrease as the technology for making these computers becomes cheaper and more readily available. As a result we as a public may end up owning one of these smarter computers within the next twenty years. \n\nThere are two additional points that he makes though: It will also be likely that research into increasing computer speeds as well as processing, memory storage and retrieval probably wont stop at the point of having a computer that’s as ‘intelligent’ as the human mind. Also, with the aforementioned decline in prices in creating these smarter computers and technology making the production of these machines easier, we may find these computers cropping up in smaller and smaller packages and in more and more things. As a result, we could possibly find ourselves surrounded with this technology quite easily. \n\nI’m not trying to paint a Matrix looking future, but it is possible that we may find ourselves outnumbered by our machines, so we had better have a good idea of what we’re doing when we create them.
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You got to remember a Computer is a tool and only as good as the person sitting at it. I think a Computer in the wrong hands is a weapon and can be very deadly. In the right hands a very useful tool but that is all it is a tool.
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You will need to expand the question further and give us examples.\n\nare you referring to home or business equipment?
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Computer is a part of technology in general. Technology speeds up the learning process most successfully.
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Here is a huge engineering toplist...\nhttp://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy/Engineering-and-Technology.html\nHere is an engineering search engine...\nhttp://search.globalspec.com/Search/WebSearch\nHere is a list of computer engineering books on-line...\nhttp://freetechbooks.com/
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they send thousands of tons of old PCs overseas and nothing is done with that material. if you want to get into something worth while get into aluminum. the price of that is real high right now.
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A computer cannot think like a human being. That is the single most biggest limitation.\n\nHope that was quick enough.