One Romanian was seen placing a grey object on the cashpoint, then taking a card from his wallet, putting it into the machine and operating the buttons.
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The operating room itself contained a maze of plastic piping that twisted though the air between the heart-and-lung machine and the operating table.
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.
In some fields, it is direct and obvious, like operating a tool or machine or creating something physical.
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OtherOS enabled the machine to run Linux, the alternative operating system to Microsoft Windows and Apple OS. Running Linux essentially turned the PS3 from a single-purpose gaming console into a desktop computer, which people could use to write programs.
"If you want Vista, you need a new machine, " says Michael Cherry, lead operating system analyst, Directions on Microsoft.
But experiments using EEG have allowed people to do simple things like pressing buttons on a computer screen by moving a cursor and clicking it, and operating the flippers on a pinball machine.
"Basically you're encapsulating an operating system and applications within a virtual machine instead of separate physical servers, " said Marks.
" David Bomberg, a brilliant graduate of London's Slade School, who was painting admirably adventurous pictures of his own, remembered decades later that "the tense figure operating the Drill as if it were a Machine Gun" amounted to "a Prophetic Symbol of the impending war.
This machine powered up instantly, was lightweight, and ran an operating system related to Symbian.
These fingerprints look deep into the characteristics of the machine, logging such things as the time zone, keyboard language, operating-system version and other key identifiers.
Designed to be used as a standalone machine or in clustered configurations, the X7A will run any x86-based Operating System, including Windows 8 and lower, Linux, UNIX, etc.
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CIOs are going to think twice: Do they want another architecture in terms of the operating system, or do they want to bring in a Windows machine so that all their legacy and security apps run?
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Mr. Chien estimates almost 100 companies are operating in the Bitcoin domain, including exchanges, payment processors and Bitcoin ATM machine operators.
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But others fear the machine is yet another example of a technological advance that gives doctors useless or ambiguous information in the operating room but can provide a treasure trove of evidence in the courtroom.
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