The economy is not a machine that is ailing from a dead battery.
Despite that price, show attendees were quick to point out that the MacBook Air is not a machine that can do it all.
If that seems contradictory, it is not, because fuzzy set theory allows for the machine to be a machine and not a machine at the same time.
Numbers that are on neither list will be verified by going through a CAPTCHA routine that to verify that a human, not a machine, is making the call.
"It's not a primary machine, " said Apple fan Steve Werner, a partner at Summit Communications.
"Part of having your journalists on these platforms is giving them the freedom to be a normal human being, not a robot, a PR machine or a slave to the wire, " he blogged.
He recalled that most MPs did not possess a fax machine at that time.
The Fed is the lender of last resort, not a wholesale tinkering machine.
The company does have weaknesses and it is not a huge growth machine, but there is certainly something to be said for consistency.
She would not leave me a message on my answering machine because she did not want to be charged for a phone call.
"We continue to believe that investor anxiety on Monsanto is misplaced as the company is not a cyclical stock but a technology growth machine that should keep rolling in 2009 and beyond, fueled by strong current product demand as well as an unrivaled pipeline, " said Robert Koort, an analyst at Goldman Sachs.
This occurrence would be similar to throwing a rock into a running washing machine -- clearly not a good idea.
Mr Covey taught that employees were not merely cogs in a machine powered by rewards and punishments, but individuals.
So, we just need to sort of set people's expectations based on what we're trying to do, not compete against a kid machine.
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Just as taking money out of a cash machine does not make you richer, nor does extracting cash from a firm you own.
For if a new wrapping machine did not operate as efficiently as anticipated, or if a slogan failed to capture the imagination of shoppers, there would be no escape from shuttered houses and despair in the suburbs of nearby Verviers.
In the AI optimist camp, futurist and Google director of engineering Ray Kurzweil also sees intelligent machines precipitating human extinction, of a sort, only in Kurzweil's telling, humanity is not exterminated but subsumed into a superintelligent machine.
But if things got worse they would not put her on a breathing machine.
"In retail, it's not like you can get a machine to replace someone on the floor, " he says.
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The project was ambitious: This machine was not a knockoff of a Dell or an Apple but a complete rethink, from the motherboard to the escape key.
Although the machine is not a technical tour de force, its compactness, glowing green transparent shell, absence of conventional cables and simplicity appeal to both traditional Macophiles and computer virgins.
So Microsoft turned the Xbox 360 into the dominant games console, not by making a better gaming machine, but by giving people a platform for getting more out of their living room.
We just got it unboxed and toyed around with it a little -- it's not the smallest 15.5-inch machine we've ever seen, but it's not a clunker, either.
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.
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