In commissioning its study about how businesses can take full advantage of this dynamic new world, Oracle sought to shed some light on the requirements for turning machine-to-machine raw data into actionable intelligence, along with an eye toward how those demands might shift over time.
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And to add complexity, a second button can disable the outer screen altogether, turning the expensive machine into a non-touch, standard notebook.
There is a useless machine battling another useless machine, turning each other on and off, over and over.
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For example, the Controller respond to a frequency disturbance by turning off the heating element of a drying machine, but keep the tumbler turning.
The old linear accelerator at Stanford was repurposed, turning it from the machine that co-discovered a particle known as the charm quark (thus winning its operators a Nobel prize) into a factory for making particles called B mesons.
This once innovative company is turning into a profit maximizing machine.
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The problem for the banks is that turning off the life support machine on distressed property could cause too many losses for their balance sheets to bear.
Instead of simply turning on the PR spin machine, however, CD Projekt CEO Marcin Iwinski wrote an open letter to fans, and dropped the legal actions altogether.
It will be good enough for enterprise apps, while just bad enough to discourage workers from turning it into their primary gaming machine.
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Mr Stilman said he planned to create software that first identified an object, then determined potential things that could be done with it, before turning it into "a simple machine" that could be used to complete an action.
We are heading into an instrumented world, in which intelligence is widely distributed across the physical landscape, turning everything into, in effect, a machine.
In several recent cases, hackers have infected hundreds of thousands of Web servers with software that performs "drive-by downloads" on any visitor's machine, installing password-stealing Trojans or turning the PC into a spam-spewing zombie.
Rather they are a nice incremental income flow that is turning out to be larger than he expected when he acquired the machine some seventeen months ago.
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