Sleepy families return to bed, fans whirring and net curtains twitching in the breeze.
It fires up in a snap, no whirring disk drive sounds, no long-secret-handshake security software.
So is the space for that PC tower under the desk with a fan whirring away.
Despite all the sophistication, Mandel seems like an overgrown kid when pushing buttons and whirring his scopes around.
The helicopters whirring above this afternoon suggest that some may have already arrived.
We passed large, low buildings that had circular fans whirring on the sides.
The white noise coming from a TiVo device is hummed by the whirring discs of a hard drive, after all.
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Tax nerds were whirring away with programs over which gains could be taxed as capital gain rather than ordinary income.
To get the Orbit's blades whirring, users first need to set a pre-determined goal by adjusting a slider in the app.
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Pop in to watch artists rendering images, etching old limestone plates and sending their inked stones through massive, whirring antique presses to produce prints.
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The machine groaned a little, started whirring to life, and then within 30 seconds made a clicking noise and turned itself off.
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In one of the outtakes from Crude, an activist asks Donziger, with cameras whirring, whether anybody could subpoena the tapes of their conversation.
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There ought to be at least a nickel's width of clearance between the whirring blades and the bottom or sides of the blender jar.
At the same time, my brain was adjusting to the mildly surreal sight of an ordinary conference room repurposed for the season with whirring, sloshing stainless steel machinery.
"I always heard her whirring down the hall, " Bowden remembers.
Over the last 20 months, bulldozers and backhoes have been whirring in communities across the country, as construction crews from local companies repair roads and bridges, railways and ports.
The man dragged the bike away, straddled it, and tried to start it, bobbing up and down, pitching his weight onto the lever, the engine whirring but not catching.
It so happened that included in the Digital acquisition was a business making tape drives -- descendants of those huge boxes with whirring wheels that used to personify computing in the 1960s.
The result is a small car with impressive cabin tranquillity, a car able to keep the whirring of the 18-inch tires and sounds of minor engine trauma well out of the cabin.
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When she was woken by the sudden snap of lights turning on and the sound of her window fan whirring to life, she took off the necklace and placed it back in her dresser drawer.
In a case that seems to have had too many cameras whirring in the background, Borja took surreptitious video of conversations with the judge in Lago Agrio, Ecuador who was hearing the case against Chevron.
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There were security frogmen on boats in the Seine, there were helicopters whirring overhead, and the streets were lined with hundreds of police vans, in body armor and with riot shields and other riot gear.
Above the whirring of the jerry-rigged power supply, the minister of tourism assured the shaken competitors of a long-scheduled Miss Europe pageant that the show would go on and the proceeds would go to the rebuilding effort.
They take you inside through a tunnel that smells of ozone and let you look through glass windows at giant, whirring generators while the guide unfurls the mysteries of turbines and transformers for the rapt crowd.
Brian Grayek, vice president of security company CA, says that users can sometimes detect a slowdown in performance, hear their PC's hard drive whirring or see their Internet router's lights flashing when they're not using the computer, all signs that zombie software is at work.
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The loveable laptops have had a handful of problems since their debut, ranging from the random shutdown syndrome (which was later fixed), to the whirring moo problem (also fixed), to the discoloration issue (yep, fixed), to the plastic cracking crisis (no idea what's going on there).
Brian Grayek, vice president of security company CA (nyse: CA - news - people ), says that users can sometimes detect a slowdown in performance, hear their PC's hard drive whirring or see their Internet router's lights flashing when they're not using the computer, all signs that zombie software is at work.
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