The pool occupies the onetime machine room, an inspired stroke of aquatic architecture that trades industry for indolence.
At Pakhuis, tucking in to oven-roasted Bresse chicken beneath industrial trusses felt like picnicking in the machine room of the Eiffel Tower.
On a clear December afternoon, Roger Thomas was completing a four-month renovation of the high-limit slot-machine room at the Wynn Las Vegas resort.
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.
"Sneakernet" is an old jargon term used to describe the act of having to carry a computer file on a floppy disk or other media from a machine in one room to another.
He had a credit card machine in his dorm room.
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Throwing caution to the wind, I became a whirlwind killing machine, blowing through each room with deadly force.
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These vines will grow straight out of the ground, leaving enough room for a machine to come through the rows.
If you run a machine shop or have a waiting room full of patients, this is not feasible.
There were meat cleavers, knives, wooden chopping blocks, a commercial sausage making machine, a commercial meat mincing machine and weighing scales in the room as well, it said.
After recuperating with sleep and espresso (every room has a Nespresso machine), the first stop was Wolgan Valley Resort in the Blue Mountains, a three hour drive away (including the last half hour on a spine rattling, studded dirt road).
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What did you do? 10.39.29 April We were in the room when they turned off the machine.
Sega marketed its 16-bit system to an older, more sophisticated (and wealthier) audience and by the early 1990s the Genesis machine was a fixture of every discerning dorm room.
By now we treat the place like we own it: we eat the yogurt her mom makes in glass cups on a warming machine, we lie on the living-room couch with our sock feet on the armrests.
By the time the machine has programmed your personal RFID keycard, your room is waiting for you to enter.
What we have here is a 55-inch Windows 8 machine -- far larger than you probably have room for on your desk -- and it's intended specifically for classrooms, conference spaces and office lobbies.
Cancer prevention information comes through various media: TV, pamphlets in the waiting room, and, of course, that rumor machine the Internet.
Using eyeshades or room darkening curtains or blinds and a white noise machine may help you sleep better when you want to.
We'll look forward to the friendlier machine assistants that result... and keep in mind the room for deception when the robots invariably plot to take over the world.
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Plus, unlike most coffee machines that are banned from college campuses, the Piccolo heats within the machine, eliminating the dangerous exterior burners that have caused so many dorm room fires.
The result was a machine that fills 16 ounces in about five seconds if the water is at room temperature, or about seven seconds if it has to meander through refrigeration pipes on the way out.
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So Microsoft turned the Xbox 360 into the dominant games console, not by making a better gaming machine, but by giving people a platform for getting more out of their living room.
That will leave plenty of room for future arguments about software patents, which by definition involve a machine called a computer but also may consist entirely of ideas set down in computer code.
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X-ray machine for the use of the last emperor which was only recently discovered in a storage room in the Forbidden City.
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"I feel a device like Wii U, with its ability to continue to offer new features and that network connection and the connection to the TV and the interface, really makes it feel that it's more than just a game machine, but something that offers a lot of practical use and practical purpose in the living room, " he said.
Though others have tried to combine the TV and the PC-- Gateway 's (nyse: GTW - news - people ) Destination PCs come to mind--this machine doesn't seem to be aimed at replacing the TV you already have in the living room.
But others fear the machine is yet another example of a technological advance that gives doctors useless or ambiguous information in the operating room but can provide a treasure trove of evidence in the courtroom.
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.
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