Once I parked the machine, I glanced at the trip speed registered on the dashboard: 208 mph (335 kmph).
"The industry said I was a fool--looking at wood and thinking I could machine it like metal, " he says.
Before Macs, I had some random x86 machine that I only used for games and connecting to the Prodigy network.
I've seen it from the factory floor when I was working the graveyard shift and we'd have lunch there on the change of the shifts and I'd be ankle-deep in water at the Murray Ohio Bicycle plant where I was running a machine that was so loud I couldn't hear myself yell if I wanted to.
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Beyond their price and processor differences, I found each machine had its strengths and weaknesses.
Benchmark tests of speed used by the computer industry promised an impressive speed gain of around 25% over the 500 MHz machine I was used to.
For example, I started the machine, took my kid to the doctor and came back to perfectly cooked fluffy and delicious rice held at the perfect temperature.
She said she would help me to buy materials and the sewing machine I needed (to) create a small platform for myself, which made me so grateful.
You made the first machine I actually bought myself.
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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.
That instant coffee I was forced to buy out of a vending machine (see how I suffered?), also not deductible: you cannot deduct the cost of meals that are not part of inpatient care.
Preparing documents as part of the discovery-turnover to opposing lawyers, I mastered the copy machine.
And the ice machine was exciting -- and the vending machine, I was really excited about that.
Indeed, this dark-eyed woman seemed confused, and she kept her mouth shut while I operated the beverage machine.
But by spending hours with that copy machine, I was able to see how the process could be streamlined.
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At the ticket machine, I slid in my debit card, punched up the route and chose a day return.
The upgrade seemed to go well until I tried using the machine and discovered the track pad no longer worked.
We're going back in the time machine and I'm going a year ahead - or a couple of months ahead anyway.
It was the first mail search program I installed on my machine, and it did an incredibly good job searching for e-mail.
"I use a Windows machine at work" is a familiar refrain that is often followed by a shaking of heads or some other disapproving or incredulous gesture.
In keeping with this strategy, known as deliberate practice, I bought a drum machine and finally conquered (or at least came to terms with) my oldest nemesis, rhythm.
While there are many theories of how this was accomplished, from the influence of Rock and Roll, to the fax machine, I tend to give the most credence to the economic front.
Pretty much you bring in your check, show the clerk a valid ID, then on this little machine, I believe is also used for swiping credit and debit cards, the customer inputs their social security number.
In the short term, the stock market behaves like a voting machine, but in the long term it acts like a weighing machine (i.e. its true value will in the long run be reflected in its stock price).
The security line in which I waited for 15 minutes was urgently evacuated by a group of Polizei bearing machine guns, and I had to follow my line-colleauges through a beer garden and a duty-free shop to find another checkpoint with another 15-minute security line.
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You know, I went back in the Wayback Machine to find out what we were doing a year ago, and I went on the blog, and a year ago today, we were just having our little morning meetings and the YouTube debates were up.
Mr. SHIRO: There are two times I'm in the machine and the mechanic, they start the machine.
The last thing I want is for a machine to take the steering wheel out of my hands.
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