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All that is certainly known about the extent of the orbit traversed by the first comet of 1882 is that it came from, and is now retreating towards, vastly remote depths of space. An American computer found a period indicated for it of no less than 400,000 years; A. Thraen of Dingelstädt arrived at one of 3617. Both are perhaps equally insecure.
It is distributed at no charge on the Internet and other computer networks to 8,000 persons in 60 countries. The journal publishes papers on topics such as digital libraries, document delivery systems, electronic publishing, expert systems, hypermedia and multimedia systems, locally mounted databases, network-based information resources and tools, and on-line catalogs.
Corporate risk models measure the effect that simultaneous losses from different, unrelated, events would have on the well-being of the firm. Some risks and losses offset each others and are aptly termed "natural hedges". Enron pioneered the use of such computer applications in the late 1990's to little gain it would seem.
Boulder, after all, was commuting distance to computer jobs in Denver; it had a respectable university; it was beautiful in the winter and cute the year round; it felt at least a mile high until several days later, when Rama accused us of destroying it with our powerful Negative Energy Field. "Pack your things," he ordered, and we cut a path south toward Albuquerque along the Rockies' edge.
"But what we wanted was a computer that could learn by itself, a computer that could make the appropriate changes in its own circuits without outside physical manipulation. "It's really not as difficult as it sounds. You've all seen autoscribers, which can translate spoken words into printed symbols. An autoscriber is simply a machine which does what you tell it to literally.
His eyes went across the bridge to the computer console, and lingered a moment on the slender, dark figure there. Amazing, he thought. The dossier, the personal history, her own and all the others aboard, he had studied carefully before making a selection of the people who would be in his command for this time. Not that the decision had been totally his, but his influence had counted heavily.
He paced restlessly while the computer consulted its memory with faint whirrings of cooling blowers, and occasional chucklings as memory cubes full of exceedingly complex stereomolecules of recorded information were searched. "Maybe," Calhoun said, "this isn't so much a new disease as a modification of a very old one.
The concepts, the talk, the propaganda from Radio Moscow, these she heard, but they were not her main interests. Her main interests were two one, the fascination which the giant computer at Moscow University held for her; and two, the students around her.
Save yourself for me. An order. An implied promise. Another thrill ran through him. Oliver worked on the mailing list all week. He tried not to think about Jacky, although she came into his mind regularly, especially at night. Her big eyes held him before he fell asleep; her body was just out of reach. When he wasn't sitting in front of the computer, he worked on the walnut box.
Repeatedly during the '80s and early '90s, Rama slept with numerous women devotees, several of whom claim that he took no measures whatsoever to prevent the potential spread of AIDS. Also in the 80s, Rama encouraged followers to secure software contracts in ADA, a computer language used to control the United States' hardware of war.
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