This is the idea that a patentshould be given to a machine or something that creates a material change, like a chemical process.

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It's hard to answer questions and whatnot and you don't necessarily have access to the same tools unless you yourself go through the process of configuring your machine manually by following many long sequences of steps.

所以很难说会出现什么情况,你们不能,用同一台机器，除非你们自己按照一系列,冗长的步骤手工配置,你们自己的电脑。

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And inside of the machine, and things we'll talk about, there is a process that will allow that sequence to be executed as described in that recipe, so it can behave like any thing that I can describe in one of those recipes.

在机器里面，还有我们要说的，里面有一个我们允许的,在方法中描述的,将要被执行的序列的过程，因此它可以像我在方法之中,描述的任意一种那样来表现。

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I'm reminded of the confirmation screen here and that's not too bad, then we put in the card and we click confirm and then finally we see the swap Then finally literally nine steps later the ticket comes out of the machine and then, frankly, had to go through the process of where to put the ticket in the machines.

这里出现了确认画面,那还不是太坏，然后我们把卡插进去,点击确认，然后我们看到了那个,函数。，swap，function。,【笑声】然后最终经过9个步骤,票从机器中出来了，然后，需要找出从哪里,把票放到机器中去。

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