He bought his daughter a fifty-cent plastic prize from a gumball-type machine.
"It is in much the same way as you book a movie ticket by phone or online these days using your credit card and then when you get there you access your ticket through an ATM-type machine, " said Will, who is chairman of the World Cup ticketing sub-committee.
Postmaster General John Potter said use of that particular type of cleaning machine has been discontinued.
It also represented a broader goal of Nuance as a speech recognition company: creating personal dictionaries that better understand what we say and type to a machine, be it a smartphone, car or laptop.
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Instead they decoded cow DNA in a quick and dirty way on a new type of gene decoding machine made by a company called Solexa, with which Sonstegard had been working.
Since a federal appeals court affirmed the USPTO in In re Bilski, lower courts around the country have adopted the same logic, saying patents must involve a machine or a process that transforms some type of material substance.
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The other type would be network-based intrusion-detectors such as a machine running Marcus J.
The victim's card is apparently kept by the machine and the thief steps in and offers to help but asks the person to type in their Personal Identification Number (PIN).
But other big pistons in the economic machine--institutional stock traders--are now basing more decisions on a different type of Wal-Mart effect.
When you pop in a title the machine scans it for information and creates an on-screen catalog, searchable by the artist, title and type of disc.
At around 01:45 BST, a fork-lift type truck was driven into Wilkinson's Financial Services Office in High Street, Ruskington and the cash machine was stolen.
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