The modified Piaggio Vespa has a built-in coffee machine like those in any coffee shop.
"The margins on a machine like that are pretty low, " Del Prete says.
One reason that a machine like the decTOP can meet the needs of so many users is that the basic functions that Sowah lists are increasingly rolled together into a single, online package.
The result sometimes feels less like a machine than like an organic whole, a huge, thick-skulled, powerful animal moving with equal menace and grace through its element.
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).
Built in Germany, the machine is like something from a Ridley Scott sci-fi movie.
There was a white machine, like a fat pup with a trunk, moving very slowly along the bottom.
"The industry said I was a fool--looking at wood and thinking I could machine it like metal, " he says.
It didn't make the Antares machine look like a good long-term investment.
Second, the big black machine works like a jukebox with space to store 300 discs, so you can put your books back where they belong.
The surfcentres have a fruit-machine-like appearance with 500mhz computers under an angled-screen front that allows easy access to the keyboard but is designed to prevent damage from beer spillages.
While Kasparov struggled and sweat, the machine played like a confident general looking over a complex battlefield, calmly redirecting troops here and there, no rushing, waiting for the critical moment.
The proud studio that once put out films like Gone With the Wind and Doctor Zhivago has been reduced to middling hits like Hot Tub Time Machine and outright failures like the recent Fame remake.
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Ms. McNally said her book machine occasionally jams, much like a copy machine, but her staff has become adept at maintaining it, by vacuuming and cleaning it with alcohol, so disruptions have become infrequent.
"It was like stepping into a time machine, everything was like out of the 1950s, including the music you heard and the hair styles of the stewardesses on the plane, " he said.
The human body is a biological machine, and like all machines can wear out.
We tried where possible to limit the list to handheld or easily portable objects, eliminating most heavy machine tools, like hydraulic jacks.
In judging the appropriate standard, however, the relevant test should not be the state of the art of Western machine tools and like technologies.
Foody stops near a machine that looks like a giant accordion.
When the customer has used up all 100 keys in the database, he goes to a secure ATM-like machine that takes more laser readings at different spots and transmits the keys to the database.
The version of the Misfits' Green Hell is quite possibly the fastest song ever, with James giving even Jello Biafra of Dead Kennedys fame a run for his money as the angry guitars spit out riffs like machine-gun fire.
"It looks like the machine hit is in the top of the DNS tree, " Hania said.
Her approach to questioning was to fire questions at her folks one after the other like verbal machine gun bullets.
While my dough did slow down the blade, I never felt like the machine was in any danger of burning out the motor.
Though still hooked up to a machine, she acted like any typical four-year old, rather than the sickly, constantly exhausted child she was until very recently.
But the design is smart, it pulses while animating the display, making you feel like the machine is an intelligent robot butler, making the soda perfect just for you.
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On his instructions, Steinway's chief technician shaved the piano's hammers so they would be even lighter, and rearranged some parts so that a single note could be repeated in an almost machine-gun-like fashion.
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