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magazine is a periodical publication containing a variety
of articles, generally financed by advertising, purchased
by readers, or both.
Magazine publication schedules can vary wildly. Typically,
magazines which focus primarily on current events, such
as Newsweek or Entertainment Weekly, are published weekly
or biweekly.
Magazines with a focus on specific interests, such as Life
Positive and Cat Fancy, may be published less frequently,
such as monthly, bimonthly or quarterly.
The magazine will usually have a date on the cover which
often times is later than the date it is actually published.
They are often printed in color on coated paper, and are
bound with a soft cover.
Current magazines are generally available at bookstores
and newsstands, while subscribers can receive them in the
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Magazines are also published on the internet. Many
magazines are available on both the internet and in hard copy, usually
in different versions, though some are only available in hard copy
or only via the internet; the latter are known as online magazines.
Most magazines are available in the whole of the
country in which they are published, although some are distributed
only in specific regions or cities. Others are available internationally,
often in different editions for each country or area of the world,
varying to some degree in editorial and advertising content but
not entirely dissimilar.
This is a list of magazines marketed primarily for computer and
technology enthusiasts or users. The majority of these magazines
cover general computer topics or several non-specific subject
areas, however a few are also specialized to a certain area of
computing and are listed separately.
computer is a machine for manipulating data according to a list
of instructions.
Computers take numerous physical forms. Early electronic computers
were the size of a large room, consuming as much power as several
hundred modern personal computers. Today, computers can be made
small enough to fit into a wrist watch and be powered from a watch
battery. Society has come to recognize personal computers and
their portable equivalent, the laptop computer, as icons of the
information age; they are what most people think of as "a
computer". However, the most common form of computer in use
today is by far the embedded computer. Embedded computers are
small, simple devices that are often used to control other devices—for
example, they may be found in machines ranging from fighter aircraft
to industrial robots, digital cameras, and even children's toys.
A computer in a wristwatch.The ability to store and execute programs
makes computers extremely versatile and distinguishes them from
calculators. The Church–Turing thesis is a mathematical
statement of this versatility: Any computer with a certain minimum
capability is, in principle, capable of performing the same tasks
that any other computer can perform. Therefore, computers with
capability and complexity ranging from that of a personal digital
assistant to a supercomputer are all able to perform the same
computational tasks as long as time and storage capacity are not
considerations.
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