And as he grew up, the mystique of the Rube Goldberg machine didn't leave him.
What I wanted to see was something the gigahertz PC could do that my old machine couldn't.
The result: NVIDIA's marketing machine doesn't spend much time talking about transistor size.
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Its machine doesn't have nearly the specs of the PlayStation 3, but it does have a new control system.
My recollection is that the machine didn't come equipped with a passenger seat.
And, oh yeah, the machine can't weigh a lot or be too bulky.
But Apple product marketing manager Greg Joswiak said that particular machine won't include new features like Firewire 800 and integrated Bluetooth.
The machine hasn't been "ruggedized" like the super-sturdy models hawked by Panasonic.
"Having a Diet member has become a pro-fitable family business in Japan, which the family and the election machine won't let go, " says Miyagawa.
Happily, your machine won't suddenly conk out when the day arrives.
Now the contents of the Windows-based drives on a Mac machine are visible to Mac-only applications, and applications like Sherlock--used for searching hard drives and increasingly for Internet-related searches--can now search the contents of Windows drives even when the virtual Windows machine isn't running.
Though others have tried to combine the TV and the PC-- Gateway 's (nyse: GTW - news - people ) Destination PCs come to mind--this machine doesn't seem to be aimed at replacing the TV you already have in the living room.
What Judge Alito said, in this dissenting opinion, was that the possession of machine guns wasn't something that Congress could reach under the Commerce Clause.
He made these comments in private, was on his son's answering machine, wasn't in the workplace, and it didn't rise to the level of him losing his show.
Other than that, this isn't a machine for spec hunters: it will initially ship with a Core i5 Sandy Bridge processor (that's what was available when the product was being developed) and the screen resolution tops out at 1080p, which is fairly low considering those pixels will be distributed over a 55-inch panel.
You wouldn't take a machine out into the field without putting oil in it.
"You can't get a machine to pick one strawberry and not the one next to it, " he said.
In 1991 a boss decreed that Gruber couldn't buy a machine called an extruder, which turns plastic pellets into clear film.
Now she doesn't need the machine but meditates, more in tune with her nervous system, able to calm herself through concentrated thought.
The Betamax lost out because, unlike the VHS machine, it couldn't record for the full three hours needed to cover a baseball game.
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For a mere 20-pound machine, you wouldn't think a leaf blower could produce as much pollution as a one and half ton automobile.
It may appeal to your wallet, but if your arms are used to flinging around Ultrabooks for fun, this probably won't be the machine for you.
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Moore, a freestyle snowmobiler, was attempting a backflip at the Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado, when he couldn't rotate his machine enough to land properly.
Freestyle snowmobiler Caleb Moore, attempting a backflip with his snowmobile at the Winter X Games in Aspen, Colorado, couldn't rotate his machine enough to land the maneuver.
In other words, while you can install an app like Photoshop on a full Windows 8 machine, you can't do it here, nor any other Windows application written since the dawn of the OS. Additionally, we have our doubts about whether anyone going forward will bother to write desktop apps versus those more optimized for running in the de facto Live Tile interface.
"Using Rage Against the Machine to work out doesn't seem ridiculous, " said Levy.
Maybe because I'm a woman I was thinking of the sheets - we still don't have a washing machine.
The information isn't stuck on a machine over there, it's accessible instantly.
But in context, he isn't quite the peerless machine he may seem.
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