If Sega were launching Dreamcast tomorrow, or even this year, it would be a good bet that the machine would be a smash hit.
Chess was never likely to be a good yardstick for measuring machine intelligence as its strictly formal nature, devoid of fuzziness and chance, is exactly the opposite of the kind of task where the human brain excels.
The size and weight of the iPad mini make it a very good choice as a gaming machine.
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Machine stitching is becoming good enough to produce better-quality balls, threatening Pakistan's industry at its strongest point.
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Illumina rival Life Technologies is betting heavily on a smaller, less expensive to buy machine that might be good for smaller projects.
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It didn't make the Antares machine look like a good long-term investment.
Veteran Malawian journalist Felix Mponda, who now strings for the French News agency (AFP), says that although the internet is comparatively cheap he is still nostalgic for the good old days of the telex machine.
"Tony Sale would expect to see good research and the understanding of the machine as well as a working replica built in either software or hardware, " he said.
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Shutting off and on several times a day is a good way to quickly wear out your machine --and considering the nasty, ecologically unfriendly PC manufacturing process, the green thing to do is keep the one you have as long as possible.
This occurrence would be similar to throwing a rock into a running washing machine -- clearly not a good idea.
Pretty good reason to spring for the Ultimate Driving Machine.
Irving John Good famously described the development of an ultraintelligent machine as the "last invention that man need ever make, " for after that, humanity would cede innovation and technological development to its smarter progeny.
The NHS now sees many more patients with diseases that come in older age, and with less money available, so Jeremy Hunt, his ministers and the professions now have to find a way of fixing the "overworked machine" in order to provide good, high-quality care.
It was the first mail search program I installed on my machine, and it did an incredibly good job searching for e-mail.
The machine itself ships with a couple of good games, the AppleWorks (formerly ClarisWorks) word-processing and spreadsheet package, some graphics software, both the Microsoft and Netscape Web browsers, and a good e-mail program.
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It is hard not to think that anyone who writes more books (70-plus) than many people have read, as well as numberless articles and essays, must be at the controls of a sausage machine, yet the sausages were usually good.
And as they improve, the machine-based tutoring technologies will become good enough for those who could or would have paid full price or changed up their schedule to connect with a human tutor, such that machine-based tutoring may well be the norm for many of us as a prime mode of learning in the future.
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" Indeed, when each machine is completed, a plaque is affixed with the name of the worker who did the scoring: "I've made this machine to the utmost of my abilities and good faith.
While prior governance and risk control (GRC) systems for IT were essentially large spreadsheets that required a good deal of manual entry, Brinqa actively listens to machine data and other low-level outputs from IT systems, then lets users assign and customize risk indicators for their particular organization.
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With all the news about the lost or stolen iPhone 4g, I thought it might be a good time to take a ride in the Cell Phone Time Machine.
The recognition isn't quite as good as CalliGrapher, but running CalliGrapher means using a Windows CE machine, an operating system that is far too complex for a mere electronic organizer.
Brown's classic singles include "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag, " "(Get Up I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine, " "I Got You (I Feel Good)" and "Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud, " a landmark 1968 statement of racial pride.
Logic would tell me that it created fewer jobs than it replaced, otherwise the cost of the machine would exceed the cost of the attendants and not be a good investment for the parking lot owner.
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After Ken Kutaragi straight up told his rivals that he " didn't care" about the so-called competition they were trying to provide, and those very rivals laughed in his face over Sony's countless delays in producing its miracle machine, it seems that we're finally getting a bit of good ole honesty from Sony's "worldwide studios boss, " Phil Harrison.
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The fruits of Chavez's legacy, for good or bad, have not changed the course of Venezuela as dramatically as his public relations machine portrays.
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.
And respond he does, spending an hour each morning firing off a good 150 brief, typo-laden missives from his BlackBerry while working out on an elliptical machine in the basement of his home office, a restored Victorian in one of San Francisco's tony residential neighborhoods.
The PlayStation was technologically impressive, with its ability to splash over 300, 000 polygons on a television screen in a single second. (Nearly all videogame graphics are composed of polygons so "polygons per second" is a rough and ready measure of a machine's power.) Perhaps more important, Sony carefully forged and nurtured good relationships with third-party software developers, ensuring a steady supply of great games for its system.
Sometimes a good technician can retrieve data from a hard drive by physically taking it apart and loading it into another machine.
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