If embarking on a self-guided tour of the city, start in picturesque North Vancouver where Mount Seymour provided settings for the movie Hot Tub Time Machine and the shows MacGyver and The X-Files.
So people who wanted to space out to a dopey comedy over the past few months had few choices besides Hot Tub Time Machine and The Bounty Hunter.
If that seems contradictory, it is not, because fuzzy set theory allows for the machine to be a machine and not a machine at the same time.
There aren't many ways to hop in the time machine and enjoy old-school hardware the way it was meant to be enjoyed, and that's what makes virgin unboxings of vintage equipment so very special.
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The proud studio that once put out films like Gone With the Wind and Doctor Zhivago has been reduced to middling hits like Hot Tub Time Machine and outright failures like the recent Fame remake.
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Mr. LINNELL: I can't believe that guy, like, invented the time machine and went backwards and stole our ideas.
We're going back in the time machine and I'm going a year ahead - or a couple of months ahead anyway.
By the time the machine finished downloading and installing, I had picked up a book.
"This is the first step in the creation of a virtual time machine, which our children and grandchildren will use to study the history of Rome and many other great cities around the world, " he said.
Back in October, we heard that Sean Anders and John Morris -- the comedy screenwriting duo behind "Hot Tub Time Machine" and "Mr. Popper's Penguins" -- were hard at work on a script.
The useless machine never hit the big time, although it popped up here and there.
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This is the first time that a CAT machine has been wholly designed, validated and built in China, for the Chinese market.
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Instead, the little machine just silently, relentlessly monitors and informs, all the time helping the consultant to build a detailed picture of what's going on and how best to tackle the problem.
As expected this update has a TON of fixes, including stuff in Active Directory, AirPort, BTMM, Dashboard, Dock, Finder, iCal, iChat, iSync, Mail, Preview, Safari, Time Machine, and more -- the choicer of we'll be publishing after the break.
Holiday time means lots of trips to the automated teller machine and lots of waving around of credit and debit cards.
These fingerprints look deep into the characteristics of the machine, logging such things as the time zone, keyboard language, operating-system version and other key identifiers.
And what better time of year to break out the ice cream machine than now, during peak tomato season?
Over time, Sony brought down the PS3's price and improved the machine's profit margins, but it still trails Nintendo's Wii and Microsoft's Xbox 360 in overall units shipped.
Set the programmable timer on the machine and it will be ready just in time for dinner.
For a time, Enron was a moneymaking machine, and Lay and Houston reveled in the company's success.
While IGT may have fallen behind in coming up with flashy new games, the company manages to keep its customers in line by dominating the back room with accounting software that keeps a real-time record of the money that's being won and lost on each slot machine.
But stop for the time it takes to make one machine - approximately four seconds - and a few things will become apparent that differ from factories past.
And the machine's apparent inability to run multiple applications at the same time was getting some negative comments.
The characters in 2010's "Hot Tub Time Machine" deliberately fiddle with their own pasts to improve their futures, and the movie leaves many of its strings untied.
One time, my mother was emptying out a load of laundry into the washing machine, and she heard this strange noise and looked and saw that my father had taken the clarinet apart piece by piece and hid it in the dirty laundry.
In the case quoted above, the CIO believed that his IT department had been on a storage buying binge and it was high time to in fact use more of the raw disk capacity on the machine room floor that was already powered-up and spinning.
Customers could buy Internet time on a card and check email on any number of computers, but most would play the slot machine-style games.
If two people have agreed on a private key ahead of time, they can use the service from a Web-connected machine anywhere in the world and start communicating securely, Kobeissi says.
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"It was like stepping into a time machine, everything was like out of the 1950s, including the music you heard and the hair styles of the stewardesses on the plane, " he said.
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