Credit card transactions are stored on a central computer which covers a four-day period.
Each vehicle would transmit its location back to a central computer, probably via the mobile phone network.
The lack of any central computer server makes it all but impossible to wipe out illegal copies.
Sensors installed throughout the network send data about local grid conditions to a central computer, 30 times a second.
If no message arrives, the central computer sends a text-message reminder to the patient, or to a family member or carer.
Unlike Napster, Gnutella is distributed for free by a loosely organized community of users, and it does not rely on any central computer.
PCs in networks served by a powerful central computer seemed splendid.
If the system detects that the ball has crossed the goal line a central computer transmits a signal to the referee via either a watch or earpiece.
According to local reports, the Austrian cash machine glitch occurred at 1415 GMT when a central computer was unable to cope with the unusually high volume of withdrawal requests.
SIMpill, a South African firm, makes a small device that clips on to a medication bottle and sends a text message to a central computer whenever the cap is removed.
Enough, that is, for a million companies, each making a million goods, and enough for a central computer to take in the product data and adjust pricing and other information in real time.
FedEx equips package sorters with scanners built into a ring on their finger, which communicate wirelessly with a computer on their waist, itself in contact with a central computer, keeping tracking information up-to-the-minute accurate.
NCs when it announced the Windows Terminal standard: this makes it easier to make cheap (and easy-to-maintain) desktop machines that simply display Windows software which is actually running on a central computer (much as mainframe terminals do).
As part of a legal settlement to regain control of 3322.org, founder Peng Yong has given assurances that he will work with Microsoft and China's central computer security agency to limit abuse of the site's domains.
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) that runs the facility has for a decade been fitting it with state-of-the-art digital electronics, a new central computer, and high-speed transmission lines to carry the data that the 25m, 200-tonne dishes gather.
Robosigning was just an acknowledgement that in a large, modern lending institution only the central computer registry of mortgages contains all the information about loans, and no lawyer at the periphery can possibly possess additional information beyond what is in that registry.
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Also, casinos used networks to monitor activity, but the networking didn't go two-way until 2006, when the Nevada Gaming Commission changed its rules to allow casino operators to use a central computer to change a game's theme, denominations or payout percentages with a few mouse clicks.
Connected by a series of electrodes and sensors woven into the fabric of the base layer, the cell wirelessly transmits more than 200 data records per second from each player to a central computer and then is displayed in a series of simplified insights and results on the coach's iPad.
The central tendency of computer models using input that pretty much mimics the observed changes in carbon dioxide is to produce a constant (not an increasing) rate of warming.
Those included stored memory (the ability to hold both a stored program and data), conditional control transfer, which allowed the computer to stop and be resumed, and the central processing unit, which allowed all computer functions to be coordinated through one source.
Apple has long been touting a digital-hub strategy in which the computer becomes a central device in a digital-entertainment universe.
The application is designed to stop using the computer's central processing unit (CPU) when it is left to run in the background.
The upgrade on the machine includes a boost to the system bus--the primary pathway between the central processing chip and the computer's memory, from 100 MHz to 133 MHz.
At lockups, news organizations have been required to plug their computers into a device called a "black box" tied to a central switch, which blocks computer transmissions until the embargo lifts.
The megahertz number so often cited in the marketing materials of computer companies refers to the computer's central processing unit chip as a partial measure of its ability to process data.
The NOR type needs to be ultrafast because it is directly connected to the central processing unit of a computer and stores its basic input-output system (the operating system used by the microchip that lies beneath user-interface operating systems, such as Windows).
When you think that this is as likely to be a central media hub as a primary computer, it's convenient to be able to walk by it and tap the screen without having to sit down in front of it.
Pragmatists say it is simply a computer architecture that uses a central server but with peers that are all independent.
S. in computer engineering from the University of Central Florida, and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Mark DuChadolier(ph) is a computer science major at North Carolina Central University.
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