These calculators are typical of the one-machine-one-job principle on which office mechanisation has so far proceeded, and it is a principle that some consider totally unsuited to electronic techniques.
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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Bars tie users to one machine -- the machine it has been downloaded into.
The innards of that one-time war machine now adorn one wall of his home, mounted like a work of art.
Home Dialysis Plus in Portland, Oregon has an all-in-one dialysis machine that is half the weight of NxStage's and uses ink-jet technology from Hewlett-Packard to continuously mix small amounts of dialysis solution on the fly.
Home Dialysis Plus in Portland, Ore. has an all-in-one dialysis machine that is half the weight of NxStage's and uses ink-jet technology from Hewlett-Packard to continuously mix small amounts of dialysis solution on the fly.
She's a one-woman PR machine for Pigeon Forge, and through "Dollywood" is Sevier County's biggest employer.
Voting will be electronic - one machine will identify voters' fingerprints, and a second will recognise identity card numbers and register the vote anonymously.
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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.
When Wessely started the business with one stitch-bonding machine in the shell of an old toweling factory in 1999, he found pretty good demand for "multiaxial reinforcements"--they're strong, stiff lightweight cloths used in boat hulls and construction materials.
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 voice acting and the script are by far the worst either has ever been in the series, and Cortana, alternating between malicious corrupted AI and a one-liner delivering sarcasm machine, grows tiresome.
If each machine is one-third utilized, it takes 266W to perform your work (133W for each computer).
In Davos, Picarro put one desktop-computer-size machine in the Swiss hamlet and another in the surrounding mountains.
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One example is speech-recognition and machine-translation technology.
"To be clear: No one's e-mails were opened and the contents of no one's e-mails were searched by human or machine, " they said.
The Nvidia supercomputer, for example, uses one-third the power of a comparable machine powered solely by x86 CPUs.
Of course, there are significant provisos to get through first -- it's only one machine, running on Apple's drivers, testing mostly Apple applications, and the two systems default to different versions of QuickTime -- but we can still glean some indication of where the two heavyweights are relative to one another.
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Ecclestone -- never one to kowtow to convention -- may have missed the Shia protesters carrying toy machine guns and wearing motor racing overalls.
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Unlike other recycling centers where you have to feed items into a machine one by one, self-contained Reimagine units accept bottles and cans in bulk.
And the difference between a machine-made hull and one shaped by Saito is significant: with the right curve, a boat will glide through the sea with less resistance and burn less fuel.
One major hurdle is that the language of machine-plus-human interaction has not yet begun to be developed.
One person is using a 30-year-old machine to make clamps for automobile silencers.
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With automation, the US equities market had evolved into a vast complex machine. one that was purposely well-tuned to the nuances of HFT scalping strategies.
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"They have a well-oiled machine, " said Patrick, one of the authors of the national study, said of the Knoxville hospital unit.
Also on view are four of his recent "Extrusion" benches, made without nuts and bolts by squeezing red-hot aluminum out of a machine as one might pinch toothpaste out of a plastic tube.
Given this impressive track record, one would likely assume that that company was a well-oiled machine, deeply disciplined and effectively managed from top to bottom.
This has a humanizing effect on the notion of how businesses have operated for over a century: replacing the assembly-line, a cog-in-the-machine view of the industrialized world, with one with a greater focus on people.
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