When computer memory and processor speed goes up the BLS assumes that the price of the computer goes down because you are getting a better machine even if that computer is still used for browsing on the internet and the machine that it replaced was perfectly fine for the job.

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It makes better rice than people because even if it is a simulated person, it is a machine.

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We wondered if that was because the PowerMac G3 machine there was running a Farallon Skyline wireless PC card and Mac OS9, which the card demands, while the rest of the Macs on the network run OS X.

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They used a laser machine to trace the mice to see if perhaps the weight loss was because they moved around more while on the drug.

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If that seems contradictory, it is not, because fuzzy set theory allows for the machine to be a machine and not a machine at the same time.

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If the British machine is sceptical about Euro-dreams of bestriding a multipolar world, that is because it has a jump-seat view of American might and of the money and unity of purpose required to make it work.

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