He had been looking for a bubble machine for one of his grandchildren earlier this month when he became unwell and feared he was having another heart attack.
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Virginia, for example, only requires a minimum of one machine for every 750 voters.
He had been working on a program called SNDMSG, which, like that developed for CTSS, let all the users of one machine leave messages for each other.
This year in Ohio, election officials are trying to make sure that there's at least one machine for every 175 registered voters and additional machines placed in areas that experienced heavy turnout in the past.
Instead of sprawls of special-purpose computer servers--one for Internet applications, one for e-mail and so on--a virtualized system uses one machine to do all of these functions.
The thing is, the portal only opens once and then has to be rebuilt by killing all theKeywardens again except for the last one who drops the plans for the Infernal Machine which opens the portal.
Cern, the organisation which runs the LHC, has for some time been planning to shut down the machine in late 2011 for up to one year.
The Flip took off originally because of its sublime simplicity: it was a one-button machine that did one thing and had one port for both recharging and sharing data.
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She's a one-woman PR machine for Pigeon Forge, and through "Dollywood" is Sevier County's biggest employer.
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.
Plugging the proposals into a spreadsheet, he started listing the tools needed to produce each one: A CNC milling machine for an updated, open-source letterpress printer, a laser cutter for a sensor warning pilots of nearby planes.
"It's a lot of confidence-building, " said Mr. Durkin, who has skippered a machine for 28 years and also piloted one at the Salt Lake City Olympics.
Kasparov had beaten the machine one year earlier, and for the second event, IBM pulled out all the stops, hiring top grandmasters to improve their program, spending millions on splashy print and TV advertising.
The Nvidia supercomputer, for example, uses one-third the power of a comparable machine powered solely by x86 CPUs.
Dr Kalendar describes how, for seven years, his helpers have been moving parts from one machine to the other.
The biggest machine today is the one we've built for Lawrence Livermore, Bluegene, which is one third of a petaflop.
When it came to choosing a tabulating machine for the 1890 census, Hollerith's design was one of three contenders.
Analysts aren't yet guessing what Dell's profit margins will be on the spanking new product, but no one is counting on the Mini to be a profit machine for Dell.
For one, we could begin to eliminate college's role as a credentialing machine by allowing employers to give their own tests to prospective workers.
However, in one test when the throttle was applied, it took 13 minutes for a second machine to be infected, and half an hour for a third.
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The company innovates quickly: for instance, it has recently launched a tiny machine that washes little more than one change of clothing and was an instant hit in Shanghai, where living conditions are cramped but residents care about clean clothes.
One person is using a 30-year-old machine to make clamps for automobile silencers.
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And by dentists: up to 450 dental crowns, each tailored for an individual patient, can be manufactured in one go in a day by a single machine, says EOS. Some craft producers of crowns would do well to manage a dozen a day.
One reason for the decline, analysts believe: It's been years since a new game machine was released.
Everybody knows that Rage Against the Machine, one of the most socially conscious bands of its generation, is ideal for anything involving the weight room.
If each machine is one-third utilized, it takes 266W to perform your work (133W for each computer).
With the keyboard dock attached, the machine weighs 3.1 pounds, and it's quite manageable, even for carrying one-handed.
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They dropped again in the evening as Prof Randell had arranged for one of Colossus's creators, Allen "Doc" Coombs, to attend and answer questions about the machine and what it did.
Equipped with proprietary machine-learned automated translation technology, the browser considerably expands the browsing territory for those who speak only one language.
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When one machine gun became inoperable he directed the return to the rally point to switch to another gun truck for a third trip into the ambush area, where his accurate fire directly supported the remaining U.S. personnel and Afghan soldiers fighting their way out of the ambush.
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