If your Whirlpool washer, for instance, ran on a StrongARM platform and you replaced it with an i960-based Maytag, you'd be able to simply move over your washing-machine program.
Social media marketer Salorix has upgraded its analytics product, Amplify, which is a machine learning program that focuses on social networks.
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Skytree is a machine learning program intended to serve as a replacement for SQL databases, and has the ability to take even unstructured sets of data and crunch it faster than traditional methods.
In the same way, knowing the activity of every wire on every chip in my computer wouldn't tell me much if I didn't also know the program my machine was running.
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Since Frankenstein is designed to generate its algorithms from a different set of gadgets each time it infects a new machine, the resulting program will look different from any other version that has gone before it.
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The machine could prove difficult to program, but software developers from Activision to Hasbro have already expressed interest in the system.
In sync with the show's evocative look back, Martin Puris, the genius "Mad Man" behind the automotive company's tag line "The Ultimate Driving Machine, " introduced the program's opening ad, a superbly crafted vignette, complete with historical footage, that brings to life the story behind the car and how it came to stand for what it does in the minds of consumers.
But until Skype fixes it, Kayan suggests that cautious users run the program inside a virtual machine on their computers.
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And supercomputer programmers, like video-game designers, do not mind learning to program an entirely new machine provided it delivers the performance they are seeking.
While the models were first cast and the paint was first mixed in New Jersey, the actual balloon was manufactured in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, with the help of a 3-D scanning program and a special machine that seals urethane panels.
It was the first mail search program I installed on my machine, and it did an incredibly good job searching for e-mail.
That site would download a program onto the user's machine before sending them on to their destination site.
He could run a special decryption program in a different part of the machine, and make the key appear there.
The application, published Dec. 13, suggests Apple could adopt something similar to Microsoft 's widely criticized Windows Genuine Advantage copy protection program, which checks a user's machine to confirm that it is not running a pirated version of Microsoft's software in exchange for access to certain software updates.
The application, published Dec. 13, suggests Apple could adopt something similar to Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) widely criticized Windows Genuine Advantage copy protection program, which checks a user's machine to confirm that it is not running a pirated version of Microsoft's software in exchange for access to certain software updates.
The program would basically pretend to run like a Windows machine.
Ask Franz Josef Och the same question, though, and he says that even with a machine a thousand times more powerful than today's his program wouldn't run significantly better than it does right now, as far as most people could tell.
"Although the conditions to be checked may change over time, current experience suggests that such health checks should ensure that software patches are applied, a firewall is installed and configured correctly, an antivirus program with current signatures is running, and the machine is not currently infected with known malware, " he wrote in the accompanying paper.
Barack Obama works out early every morning and enjoys pick-up basketball games, Mitt Romney jogged daily and hit the elliptical machine, and Congressman Paul Ryan is devoted to an extreme fitness program called P90X.
Once launched, the virus is designed to install a Trojan horse or backdoor program, and allow investigators to record everything typed into that machine, thereby getting around encryption and passwords.
Like the OLPC laptop, the decTOP's innovations come out of a drive to bring computers and the Internet to rural Africa and Asia: Data Evolution acquired the machine's hardware from Advanced Micro Devices, whose "50x15" program seeks to take 50% of the world's population online by 2015.
Its most recent machine (Arnold's top revenue generator) is based on the animated television program Family Guy.
If you own a Samsung PC, you may want to search your hard drive for an unassuming program called StarLogger, a piece of commercial spyware capable of recording every keystroke on your machine and sending the data to a third party.
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He had been working on a program called SNDMSG, which, like that developed for CTSS, let all the users of one machine leave messages for each other.
Essentially, when it detects an intruding piece of malware, the program follows the virtual trail left behind back to the attack's source -- disabling every machine it encounters along the way.
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The machine does not allow modifications to its ROM (because it has an O in the middle), but the team was able to use a technique called return-oriented programming to modify how the machine executes existing code, taking the bits they want and, ultimately, devising a way to re-program its behavior by simply inserting a cartridge into a slot -- presumably after blowing on it for good luck.
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